Mirinoi: Galactic Union Police Headquarters:

“Well, took you long enough…” Robert snarked sarcastically as Shining drew his sword. “And just in the nick of time as well! Here me and Sunbutt are, about to get shot full of holes and you only arrive just five seconds before it happens!”

“You’re so ungrateful…” Twilight muttered.

“Tell me,” Bard asked her. “Is he always like this? Snarky, irritating, and a pain in the ass?”

“Yes…” Twilight said flatly, as the Plesiozord unleashed a energy shockwave that knocked all the enemy soldiers flat and into unconsciousness. Way Galaxy figured it, and from what he’d just seen, those soldiers were innocent in this. Just following orders. Weeval, and this robotic Space Sheriff on the other hand, not so much.

“Tell me,” Retsu asked. “Where’s the real Weeval? I’ve heard the rumors, you shipping people off to prison planets without even so much as a trial. The Weeval I know, he believes in justice, and innocent until proven guilty. You can be nothing but a imposter.”

“Well…” ‘Weeval’ chuckled to himself lowly. “Isn’t someone feeling smart today I guess even your minuscule brain cells finally put together the dots! Oh, must have been like a lowly ape figuring out how to use tools for the first time, or a neanderthal learning how to make fire!”

With that, the Weeval disguise faded away, revealing something that could be described as nothing short of a monster. Chains were attached to his legs, and he bore two massive conch shells used as shoulder armor, with buzzsaws embedded in them.

“Galaxy, get out of here!” Sunset ordered. “We’ll handle this creep!”

“And leave you dealing with… that and not get in the action myself? No thank you!” Galaxy shouted from over the comms system.

“Listen, you and that new Zord are one of the only ways we can get back to Earth, we can’t run the risk of it being damaged, so get out of here and move it to a safe location!” Sunset barked, leaving no room in her tone for argument of any kind. Galaxy took the hint, and flew the Plesiozord out of harm’s way back into the planet’s atmosphere.

“Who are you?” Celestia asked, eyes narrowing in fury as she went for her Solar Cell Morpher, and Robert his Amulet. But the creature saw this motion, and knocked everyone back with a wave of blood red energy.

The creature laughed. “Guess you can call me the Chief of Makuu Prison, Ashurada and descendent of Don Horror!”

Retsu’s eyes widened under his helmet. “Don Horror… I should have guessed that old bastard would have seen fit to continue his legacy if he and his syndicate were ever brought down…”

Groaning as she picked herself up off the ground, only to be hit by another shockwave that seemingly increased the gravity in the room, Sunset strained herself and asked: “Who’s… Who’s Don Horror?”

“A old enemy of mine, similar to your Thrax, except he ran a criminal syndicate out of his own personal dimension, the Makuu Space. I, and this was before Bard came about,” Retsu explained as he groaned out in pain. “Eventually managed to bring him and his whole syndicate down, but it seems he had thought of this, and had someone continue his bloodline, namely Ashurada here…”

“Correct!” Ashurada laughed. “Your chief, Weeval, he’s in the Makuu Prison right now, under armed guard. Amazing how stupid you lot can be, never once figuring out that a imposter was right under your very noses… Worked out well for me, dealing with my enemies with no-one the wiser. Course, I knew eventually you’d figure this entire thing out, even as stupid as you are, so I contacted a old friend of mine, Bunglay. Remember the name?” he asked. “Turns out you Rangers was on his back and keeping him from getting his booty as he put it, and so we made a deal. He gets footage of one of you committing a crime, or at least fakes the footage with memory clones, and I send Bard and Retsu here after them. Works out quite well for both of us. He gets at least one Ranger off his back, and you two come right to my doorstep so I can finally exact my revenge for you destroying my father’s hard work!”

“Well then…” Robert growled out (HIs anger and fury at being played by Bunglay and caught up in one of his games once more reaching a boiling point) as he crawled along the floor, the gravity continuing to increase. “Lemme tell you something… No, let us tell you all something.”

“Oh, and what’s that?” Ashurada asked, laughing at the sheer futility of the situation. “You can’t even pick yourselves up off the floor, much less challenge me! Now, keep this up and I’ll be giving you even sterner lessons in disobeying me. Now stay down!”

“Really?” Lightning challenged. “Shut up, idiot!”

“You’ll be the one in for a stern lesson,” Robert snarled as he joined his fellow rangers in morphed form.

“I’m afraid we have no intention of listening to anything you have to say,” Vapor added.

“Yeah, we hate guys like you!” Sunburst put in.

“Do you have any idea who’re you’re dealing wi-” Ashurada asked before he was cut off.

“No, and we don’t care. When we see somebody we don’t like… We blow him or her up!” Sunset finished pointing her Phoenix Blade at him before all the Rangers shouted: “Lights of Orion, activate!”

A golden glow covered the Rangers, and when it faded, they were covered in the adornments the Lights had given them, with their Crystal Sabers now in Crystal Sword form. Finally, Ashurada’s control over the gravity shattered like glass as the Rangers stood tall and proud.

“Now… Much better.” Shining nodded as Celestia punched a card on her Solar Cell Morpher and threw it allowing it to enlarge itself like a doorway and cover her in her Solaris Knight armor.

“Power of the Sun, Solaris Knight!” Celestia shouted once her morph completed, before she drew Feather Edge, summoning it from a pocket dimension.

“Now, to repeat a phrase Shining so generously borrowed…” Robert smirked under his helmet as he leveled his blade. “Dohade ni ikuze!”

Equestria:

Meanwhile, back on Equestria, a figure overlooked the small town of Ponyville from atop the clocktower, clad in white spandex, with black detailing and fairly impressive chest armor and as if to top things all off, a blood red visor.

“Oh, look at all of this…” Trixie thought to herself. “So much potential, and yet they wasted it, squandered it on parties, when all of that power could be used for so much more… Conquering nations would be a breeze if Equestria set their mind to it really… Hell, militarize the Rangers and they could have a good fighting force. I think it’s time they got their wake-up call that there’s a new power on the block…”

Trixie leaped down, or more accurately turned into a pure white streak of light and flashed downwards into the street and drew some golden energy arrows with her dagger, and sent them flying into various storefronts, and causing the insides to explode, fireballs sending shards of glass into the street as ponies fled for their lives.

“Power Rangers!” Trixie shouted, her voice distorted by both the power of the White Dino Gem and the Alicorn Amulet. “You’re cowards! You’d let this whole town burn, not doing a thing to stop moi? Come out, come out wherever you are. Time to play!” she taunted.

A purple-clad figure, the same one Sunset, and Galaxy had met up with in Canterlot stepped out of an alleyway, Dino Saber in hand.

“I’m afraid the Rangers are away on other business. So, you’ll have to settle with me I’m afraid…” the Ranger commented. “That’s not a problem… is it?” she asked, somewhat coldly in a sarcastic tone enjoying the look of rage that surely had to be under her opponent's helmet.

Trixie growled, and her horn glowed a bright red, before she fired red energy blasts at the new Ranger, who simply swatted them aside with her sword, before pulling out another sword, her katana which seemingly had a disk on it. The disk was spun, and a purple arc of energy was sent towards the White Ranger, who only had just enough time to throw up an energy shield to deflect the arc.

Trixie rushed forwards, her blade extending itself and metal met metal.

“Who are you? I wanted the Wild Force Rangers, and instead, I get… you!” Trixie hissed out.

“Like I said, the other Rangers are busy. So I get to fill in for them for the time being…” the purple Ranger commented. “They have more important things to do than deal with a knock-off like you.”

“Knock-off? Knock-off!?!” Trixie screeched, four red tendrils sprouting from her back like a spider’s legs, ready to impale this newcomer. “I’ll show you a knock-off!” she roared.

The purple ranger pointed her blade towards the ground, watching Trixie closely. “You most certainly will. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were copying that Drakkon fellow I heard about.”

Trixie let her tendrils fly towards the purple Ranger, who leaped backwards as each implanted itself into a spot on the street. However, next thing she knew, Trixie was a bright flash of white light and was behind her, slashing through her, catching her in the side, and drawing blood, with the ranger clutching her side in pain.

“Okay… so maybe she’s better than I give her credit for… If not completely insane right now. That Dino Gem, forces itself on anyone, and if the user doesn’t have a strong enough willpower to fight it off… controls them almost completely and turns them into a threat to anyone around them…” she thought to herself.

Acting on instinct, the purple ranger rolled forwards, kicking back at Trixie’s legs. Rising into a crouch, she held her blade downwards, ignoring her side. Rushing forwards, she met Trixie’s dagger once more, and spun around slashing the white ranger across the chest making her stumble back. Trixie turned into a white flash once more, but this time the Purple Ranger was ready, and she inserted a Dino Blaze Charger into her saber, igniting it, before she tossed it towards Trixie. As the ranger predicted, Trixie had to come out of her superspeed ability and duck below the flying sword. She spun on her heel, soundly kicking Trixie in the head, sending her tumbling into a wall. Trixie growled, and pulled out her dagger once more, and extended it again while the purple ranger went for her katana.

As she did so, the ranger repeated a part of the Samurai Code of Honor, or Bushido as it was known to herself.

“Be acutely honest throughout your dealings with all people. Believe in justice, not from other people, but from yourself. To the true warrior, all points of view are deeply considered regarding honesty, justice and integrity. Warriors make a full commitment to their decisions,” She thought as she engaged her fellow warrior. Another part of the code went through her head. “True warriors have no reason to be cruel. They do not need to prove their strength. Warriors are not only respected for their strength in battle, but also by their dealings with others. The true strength of a warrior becomes apparent during difficult times.”

And then, blades met as the Ranger attached a black box with a golden kanji for ‘truth’ on it. “Super Samurai Mode!” the Ranger shouted, intent on finishing this fight quickly as she gained a pure white coat with the kanji for earth on the back of it.

Grasping the hilt with both hands, the ranger leveled the blade ahead of her. “If you still wish to proceed, then do so. I will oblige you anyway you wish.” she said, in a cold, almost emotionless tone.

Trixie let out an animalistic snarl. “Do your worst. There’s only room for one Dino Ranger in this world, and it isn’t you…”

And then the purple ranger dashed forwards, blade glowing with a sharp gold tone before she dealt out a series of devastating slashes. Trixie stumbled backwards, an oily black ichor dripping from her wounds. Evidently, the Alicorn Amulet had corrupted her more than Retinax had anticipated, and with every passing day, Trixie lost a little part of herself. In but a month, there’d be nothing of her left. She let out a hiss and teleported away in a white flash.

“Good riddance.” the purple ranger muttered, before resting her sword on her shoulder and walking forwards to retrieve her Dino Saber, before vanishing into the mist…

Mirinoi:

Meanwhile, the Rangers, Twilight, and the Space Sheriffs engaged Ashurada, with an array of energy beams, and to their surprise, his two arms changed into six like his namesake Ashura himself and grabbed these energy beams and threw them right back at them.

“Feel the power of the blood of Don Horror flow through me!” Ashurada roared, before creating a massive energy ball and firing it at the heroes, and Twilight quickly sliced her cutting blade once before kicking the energy ball back towards Ashurada with a Squash attack used in it’s Cavaliend manner, AKA Baron’s version of the classic Rider Kick.

“Galaxy, get us out of here! We need to take this battle away from the cities!” Sunset shouted into her comms.

“Bunglay!” Ashurada shouted. “Time to make good on your end of the deal!”

As X-Borgs and Bruisers teleported in in blue flashes of light, along with two Royal Guards just to make things even worse, Galaxy soon saw Bunglay’s personal ship warp in, with bay doors opening for starfighters to pour out of.

“Ooh, this is going to be crackin’ interesting!” Bunglay laughed from his seat on the bridge.

“Sunset, picking you and the others up may take us a little bit. Kinda under heavy fire here…” Galaxy replied from inside the Plesiozord’s cockpit, and felt it shake as a high-powered blast hit the Zord’s side.

Then, he heard a roar and saw a blue serpentine form rush by the cockpit windows and engage Bunglay’s forces and began firing blasts of hot blue flame. Galaxy smirked, luck was on his side after all.

“Alright you bastards, come and get some!” Galaxy snarled, as the Plesiozord fired yellow eye beams taking out a few Armada starfighters. He then saw a flashing symbol on the console in front of him, resembling a warrior of some sort.

“I wonder…”

Galaxy engaged the thrusters and rocketed away from the main battlefield, several starfighters in hot pursuit. Once he was what he figured a sufficient distance away from the city, and over a large lake, he sent the Zord into a dive into its waters before rocketing out of the lake and going skywards amidst a hail of lasers and assorted missiles.

“Activate, Plesio Charge Megazord!” Galaxy shouted out.

Parts, including the long neck and wings of the Zord detached, and two legs folded down, with the wings becoming feet. The neck became the left arm, a powerful laser cannon, while two other parts formed the right arm, and the head. A gold mouthplated face came into view, with two stoic green eyes staring down the oncoming fighter craft as the now completed Megazord let off hisses of steam. Galaxy meanwhile, suddenly found himself covered in added torso armor and an extra shoulder pad had been grafted to his costume as well. His chest armor seemed to have a giant golden Dino Charger built into it, to replace the sash that lay under it.

“Dino Drive activated!” a computerized voice exclaimed from the console. “Battle mode ready.”

“Dinosaur might, ready to fight indeed…” Galaxy mused as he readied himself for his first real Megazord battle…

Back inside the Galactic Union Police Headquarters, the two Royal Guards had lined up their staves, and were about to fire off a projection of the Armada’s logo when Twilight changed Lockseeds on everyone.

“Lock On! Mango!” the belt seemingly shouted, as a zipper opened up and a metal mango slowly floated down towards Twilight, before opening up and transforming her into a crimson and yellow European knight-like warrior. This arms was slightly different, with a different torso plate showing a six-pack and less unwieldy shoulder pads. It also bore a flowing yellow cape and a massive and devastating looking mace of the same color. “Come on! Mango Arms: Fight of Ham~mer!”the belt shouted, with the sound of trumpets accompanying it.

“Mango Au Lait!” her Sengoku Driver cried out as Twilight swung the aptly named Mango Punisher around several times and sent a manifestation of it’s head towards the Royal Guards, knocking them off their feet and towards both Bard and Shining, who cut them down with their swords.

Nearby, she saw the Rangers, while dodging Ashurada’s many arms, and energy balls, were making quick work of the X-Borgs and Bruisers with Lights of Orion enhanced attacks, sword slices and powerful punches being the most effective. Celestia created a bombardment of miniature suns to deal with the foot soldiers in her own way, and ones left standing swiftly cut down by Feather Edge.

But if anyone was having trouble, it was Retsu who’d been backed into a corner by his mechanical copy. Said copy turned into a ball of red energy and blasted Retsu off his feet, before turning back into a humanoid form, and grabbing him with an energy whip. He was released with a swift kick to the back by his doppelganger. They both pulled out their laser blades and clashed several times, each meeting the other’s blows masterfully. The Gavan copy fired off energy beams from his right hand, which the real deal blocked with an energy barrier, before they once again went into sword to sword combat.

Shining and Bard rushed to help him, but were soon cornered by two more Royal Guards.

“Looks like everyone wants to play!” Bard commented, before shouting “Jouchaku!” and transforming himself into a energy ball to take down the first guard while Shining blasted the other with his Riot Blaster. The false Gavan turned to look at them, and next thing they knew, they were falling into a dimensional gap of red energy.

“Shining!” Twilight shouted in fear before she sent off another Au Lait at Ashurada, who side-stepped out of the way. “Where’d you send my brother?”

“He’s in Makuu Space now, inside Don Horror’s personal prison! No way out!” Ashurada laughed at her, before firing off a energy ball that sent Twilight flying backwards, and knocking the Lockseed out of her belt and demorphing her. Ashurada then looked towards the false Gavan.

“Take care of your human basis! I’ve got Rangers to deal with!” he ordered.

The false Gavan nodded, before marching towards Retsu, Laser Blade in hand.

Retsu was quick to react and fired a series of beams from his fingertips at his copy, sending him staggering back, before he shouted out “Gavan Hyper Dynamic!” and charged up his Laser Blade. Now, you would think he was about to finish his copy off, but instead he sent the x-shaped slashes to where the hole in space had been opened, and ripped it open once more. He sent a look towards the Rangers and Twilight, who broke off and leaped into the hole only to find themselves on a barren lifeless land. Rocks and dust surrounded them as far as the eye could see, and a warped red sky, multiple moons orbiting this strange world. And atop a mountain, was a colossal prison.

“Where the hell are we…?” Sunset thought as she and her group walked up towards the prison, with Twilight going back into Banana Arms just for safety. Strange sounds echoed from all around them.

“I really wouldn’t want to be out here once the sun sets…” Sunburst muttered nervously. “That is, if this planet or wherever we are even has a sun…”

“Course it does, every world has a sun. Basic science! If it didn’t, we’d all be freezing to death right now!” Twilight pointed out as they walked up to the prison doors, and quickly hid behind a boulder when they saw some Bruisers on patrol, each holding a halberd style axe. If it wasn’t for their blue armor, they could have been easily mistaken for the Royal Guards.

Lowering his voice, Sunburst replied with: “Well, look around you, this isn’t even a world, just a pocket dimension. The sky’s red, no planet I know of has that, and there’s three moons up there as well! Plus, if what I observed about this prison’s warden is correct, he seems to be connected to this place… I don’t want to think about what would happen if he was destroyed with us in here…”

“If he can be destroyed…” Twilight muttered, remembering how her strongest attacks basically just bounced off of him.

“No-one’s unbeatable, we’ve learned that by now. Besides, Retsu and Celestia can handle him. Our only concern is finding Bard and your brother, and getting out,” Robert replied before looking at the prison doors. “Anyone know how to break a lock?” he asked.

“Allow me.” Lightning smirked confidently going for her Crystal Saber, before striding forwards, with Sunset and Twilight having to pull her back.

“...Without getting busted in the process?” Robert sighed, rubbing his temples. Sunburst smiled.

“Allow me,” he said, before picking up a small pebble and tossing it past the guards, who shared a look and rushed off to see what had just happened. “Simple distractions generally are the best, aren’t they?”

Robert ran up to the lock that held the door. It was surprisingly mundane, no fancy electronics of the sort like touch sensors, keypads or retinal scanners. “Guess they figure nobody’s bleeding stupid enough to try and break into this place…” he chuckled. The bloody idiots.

With a bit of fiddling around with a lockpick he kept in his pocket, Sunburst managed to jimmy it open. Everyone stared at him.

“How do you…?” Sunset trailed off. Sunburst looked rather sheepish.

“...Galaxy?” he laughed nervously before pushing the door open with a light shove. “Let’s just save Shining and Bard, shall we?”

“Right… Priorities.” Sunset reminded herself. Sometimes that thestral was a bad influence on Sunburst…

Elsewhere, Galaxy had quickly taken to his new Megazord and was shooting starfighters out of the sky right and left. The Megazord's arm cannon pumped itself a few times, priming itself before unleashing a stream of purple energy slicing through a swath of starfighters as he cried: “Galactic Blast!”

Dol grabbed a starfighter in his jaws, before tossing it towards Galaxy who blasted it. The process began to repeat, the two in perfect sync, with Dol throwing in a few fireballs for good measure. One starfighter blasted right at Galaxy, and he made the Plesio Charge Megazord leap to the left, before firing off its arm cannon at the starfighter, hitting the engines and making it spiral out of control.

Another starfighter came at him in a seemingly kamikaze maneuver, and the Megazord simply swatted it out of the way with its arm cannon, sending it careening into a nearby forest, and going up in a fireball. Dol grabbed another starfighter and tossed it right into the path of another fighter’s laser blasts, and the resulting explosion destroyed them both. Dol roared in triumph, before reaching out with his claws and crushing another fighter with them, and tossing what remained into yet another starfighter.

“Now,” Galaxy commented, as he gripped his Dino Saber which seemed to be the control stick for this Megazord, which readied its arm cannon for another Galactic Blast. “Who else wants some?”

“I want those serpents trashed, are you listening to me?” Bunglay roared from his bridge, slamming his hand on a console. He growled, if you wanted something done right, you had to do it yourself it seemed. He spun the wheel on his ship and growled. “All hands to portside vulcan cannons, blast those two out of the sky or you’ll be fired out of them, I’ll see to it personally!” he roared.

Galaxy swallowed as he saw Bunglay’s personal ship turn towards him, and wondered if he’d tempted fate. He then regained his composure, and readied the Megazord’s weapons. “Well Galaxy, you wanted a challenge, you got one.” he thought.

Back with Retsu and Celestia, they’d driven Ashurada out of the main building and were fighting him and Gavan’s double. Retsu had managed to separate the two, and had led his doppelganger to an old parking garage.

The sun was beginning to set over Mirinoi by now, making the Gavan copy’s red highlights and robotic eyes look absolutely devilish in the darkened garage. His Laser Blade was no exception.

Retsu’s own blue toned blade on the other hand, looked to be the exact opposite, with his less aggressive and more comforting looking armor seeming somewhat angelic and shining in the setting sun.

“So, this is what it comes down to huh?” Retsu asked, as he gripped his Laser Blade in hand, staring down his doppelganger in the eyes. In all accuracy, the closest thing his weapon could be compared to, aside from a poor man’s lightsaber was what was called a bastard sword, or a hand and a half sword.

Retsu’s doppelganger leaped forwards, sword in hand and slashed downwards aiming to cleave his counterpart in half, only for the true Gavan to elbow him in the chestplate.

Gavan slashed his counterpart across the chest, sparks flying, but the robotic duplicate turned into a ball of energy and smacked Retsu into a nearby car before in midair, changing back to its humanoid form and slashing downwards. Retsu rolled out of the way just in time, before he was cleaved in half by the sword, with the car taking that instead. The car, it had been sliced completely in half down the middle, with the parts of it the laser blade had touched now just molten slag, dripping hot orange liquid. Retsu swallowed, that could have been him.

Gavan tried to put up an energy barrier to block a copy of his laser Z-beam attack, but wasn’t fast enough and was hit by the attack, staggering backwards before his doppelganger's blade turned into a whip and grabbed him by the chest. The Gavan copy fired a red energy beam sending Retsu to the floor, and he clutched his chest in pain as he struggled to pick himself up. Meanwhile, the false Gavan strode towards him, eyes glowing ominously and blade raised ready to execute Retsu.

But Retsu wasn’t ready to give up so easily, and slowly, but surely, picked himself up off the floor. “There’s only room for one of me,” Retsu said, a tone of determination filling his voice. “And it sure as Hell isn’t you!” he said, before kicking the fake backwards. “You’re a robot, so you never tire, I get that! But you don’t have a human heart, nor a human soul! You’re just a cold machine, running on logic alone, and I will never, ever let someone who doesn’t have a fire in his chest replace me!”

Gavan ran forwards, as the robot showed a look of actual fear and summoned X-Borgs to his aid, only for Retsu to shout: “Dimension Bomber!” and dived through the squadron, leaving only the fake Gavan standing. Glaring his counterpart down, Gavan pulled out his Laser Blade once more and metal met metal as blades clashed. The blades hummed each time they met, further increasing the lightsaber comparison by that much more. A right slash, a left slash and then another right slash. Each time, they were blocked by the other’s blade. Neither foe seemed intent on giving the other any room to get in any more blows. This was a duel between masters of the craft. One human, the other machine.

Retsu broke away from his counterpart and then quickly reengaged leaving his opponent no time to put up any form of defense. He slashed the Gavan copy across the chest in a vertical motion, and fired an energy beam from his gauntlet at it. The copy’s face showed a look of complete shock, even as it tried to adapt to this new found force his basis had found. But for some reason, he couldn’t.

With that, the Space Sheriff stepped forward and the two warrior's blades met as the sun began to set ever lower in the background, just barely above the trees by now. They traded blows with each other, neither one getting the upper hand.

“You, you can’t adapt, can you?” Retsu smirked underneath his helmet. “Like I said, you don’t have that fire in your chest, that human soul that makes us so special!” he shouted, rolling to the left as his copy pulled out a small laser pistol and fired. Another shot went off, only this time it was met by a pistol blast from Retsu. The copy rushed forwards with surprising speed.

A kick was thrown, and a kick was blocked by a metal gauntlet. Both Retsu and his counterpart turned into energy orbs, one red and one blue and smashed against each other again and again before once he was above his duplicate, Retsu changed back into human form and smashed down on him with a powerful axe kick.

Amazingly, despite all the damage he’d been dealt, the Gavan fake was still functional. Sure, parts of his body were sparking, and one of his optics had been smashed to bits by a powerful right cross dealt sometime during the fight, but he was still in it.

He threw a punch at Retsu, aiming to gut-check the human. But Retsu was faster, much faster. He knocked the blow off track with his free hand and lowered his shoulder to shove his doppelganger away.

“You’ll never be one of us, never be a Space Sheriff. This blade?” Retsu asked, charging up his Laser Blade once more, making it glow with a brilliant blue hue. “It’s our life and soul, and you have no understanding of that. And again, that’s why you’ll never be one of us!” Retsu shouted before slashing forwards yelling out: “Gavan Dynamic!” and striking his opponent across the chest one final time.

“I hate cheap knockoffs…” Retsu muttered as he turned to walk away from his counterpart, who fell forwards sparking a bit and exploded.

Meanwhile, Celestia, unaware that Retsu had destroyed his counterpart, was facing off against Ashurada at a geothermal refinery somewhere outside the city, and had created six golden energy arms of her own to block and counter Ashurada’s attacks, and when he created a massive energy orb with his own arms, Celestia created six, one in each palm and thrust them into the orb making Ashurada stagger back. She then hit him with a flurry of punches at almost lightning speed.

“Impossible, no-one has the power to counter Makuu Space energy!” he roared out in both indignation and rage. Celestia smirked under her helmet and chuckled at Ashurada’s naivete and arrogance. In all honesty, Celestia had to admit to herself he reminded her of herself once, along with a certain flame-haired student. Only this one, it seemed, would never learn from any of his mistakes and grow from it. He was too far gone for that.

“You’ll learn, I think, that no-one’s unbeatable. Let me tell you a funny story, a while back, I thought I was unbeatable, till that doppelganger of mine Bunglay faked was destroyed. Proved me quite wrong, and knocked a lot of arrogance out of me in the process.” Celestia replied, only to find Ashurada laughing his head off.

“Solar Flare? That being on the tape, you think her one of Bunglay’s infamous memory clones? That’s where you’re quite wrong!” Ashurada laughed, and laughed even harder at Celestia’s shocked look. “Oh yes, that was the real deal, on her last gasps begging for mercy. Bunglay saw fit to inform me that. Robert in that tape may have been a fake, but Solar Flare was decidedly not!”

“W-What?” Celestia asked, as she staggered back. A mistake, as all six of Ashurada’s arms struck her in the chest sending her flying back.

“Trust me, seeing the infamous Solar Tyrant and the Exterminator of Humanity beg for mercy?” Ashurada asked. “Was quite a treat to see!”

Suddenly, before Celestia could hit a wall, a pink aura of magic caught her, as Twilight, the Rangers, Shining and Bard along with the real Weeval leaped out of an exploding crack in space.

“No more tears right?” Retsu commented, having been the accidental source of the explosion. Little did he know it, but the Gavan clone was connected to Makuu space far more than he ever could have realized. By destroying it, he destroyed what was left of the dimension. “Now stand up tall Celestia! Take this guy out!”

Celestia nodded, before she felt a metal hand on her shoulder. “You’re not alone in this, we’ve got a score to settle with this guy…” Bard growled out as he drew his own Laser Blade.

“Gavan/Estevan Dynamic!” Both Space Sheriffs shouted, before their blades glowed and they unleashed slashes of energy at Ashurada, who was then hit by a blast from Shining’s Riot Blaster before he changed it to it’s blade form and sliced Ashurada across the chest a few times. Ashurada tried to strike with his six arms, but Shining leaped away just in time for Twilight to toss a Mango Au Lait at him.

“That’s enough out of those arms of yours!” Sunburst shouted, before he and the others sprouted energy whips from their claw gauntlets, and pulled off an arm piece by piece (Twilight contributing the last whip from her horn) as purple blood and gore sprayed everywhere and Ashurada roared out in rage and pain.

“No… I will not be defeated like this!” He shouted.

“Newsflash, you can and you will!” Celestia responded, before she sent a spiraling prism of energy towards him to finish off the last of Don Horror’s bloodline. A cube of energy formed around him, before with a bright white flash, there was nothing left of Ashurada.

“Good… Good riddance…” Celestia panted out, experiencing a form of magical exhaustion from using so many high tier spells.

“You’re telling me, I thought he’d never shut up…” Gavan agreed. Just then, they heard an explosion which rumbled the ground beneath their feet. They looked up, and saw the Plesio Charge Megazord being hit in the chest by cannon blasts from Bunglay’s ship.

“Not over yet… Still got him to deal with,” Celestia muttered, before she patched into the comms. “Hang on Galaxy, help’s on the way!”

Then, to everyone’s shock, she punched the Solar Streak Megazord’s ticket, and threw it, just in time for the massive gold and blue train to emerge from it like a doorway. Robert stared, he knew the train could travel across dimensional barriers, but light-years to another planet entirely?

He, and the others, watched as it transformed to Megazord mode, and leaped atop Dol. The Solar Streak’s legs opened up, and launched the remote train cars inside, wrapping the massive pirate ship up in golden energy rails. Next the Megazord’s chest opened up, hitting Bunglay’s ship with a powerful furnace blast. Gavan leaped atop his steed, as it were, and Celestia teleported down beside him, blades both glowing.

“Heavenly Gavan Hyper Dynamic!” they both called, before sending out two powerful slashes of energy towards Bunglay’s ship, slicing it down the middle. As flames burst out in the bridge, with X-Borgs racing to put them out, and similar occurrences happened all over the ship, Bunglay growled and slammed his hand down on the center console.

“Another day, another day!” he growled out, before warping out.

It was very late at night before everyone got everything sorted out, and outside the GUPH, dropships filled with prisoners falsely accused by Ashurada while he’d been masquerading as Weeval had been landing throughout the past few hours.

Weeval suspected it would take even longer to rebuild his reputation, and GUP’s as a whole and undo the damage Ashurada had done, but he knew it could be done in time.

Outside the main building, Robert and the others were loading themselves up into the Plesio Charge Megazord. As Robert walked up the ramp leading up to the Zord, he turned back to look at Retsu.

“Sure you don’t need a ride home? I mean, it’ll be an awfully tight fit inside that ship…” Retsu offered.

“No offense intended, but I think I’ve had enough of riding about in giant saucers for a while…”

Retsu could only chuckle at that. “Fair enough,” he remarked. “Still, if you ever need a little bit of helping dealing with any of the problems on your world…”

“Yeah, I’ll call.” Robert replied, and was in for a shock when Retsu saluted him, with Robert quickly saluting back, before he waved and headed inside the Zord, the door closing with a small hiss behind him.

“Any major damage?” Sunset asked Galaxy, in the pilot’s seat.

“None that can be repaired. Can’t believe this was hiding in a lake, in Scotland, for Mystic Mother knows how long…” Galaxy muttered.

“Who knows, there might be many more secrets hidden away around Equestria we’ve yet to uncover,” Sunset guessed. “I’m still surprised there’s a Purple Dino Charge Ranger out there, and we never knew about her…”

“Must have found her Energem only recently.” Lightning commented.

“I’d be inclined to believe that, except… Well, let’s just say me and Galaxy have our reasons that make us think otherwise,” Sunset replied before she turned to Robert. They looked at each other for a few moments, an awkward silence filling the air before Sunset took Robert’s hand and shook it.

“Good job.” Sunset said simply as Robert sighed and sunk down into his seat.

“Yeah… This is going to be a thing now isn’t it?” he thought to himself as he buckled himself in, and just in time too as the Plesio Zord’s engines fired up, before it rocketed off into the atmosphere.

Author's Notes:

By God, you have no idea how many names this chapter went through in post-production. First, it was Breakout!, then something else with Clint Eastwood in the title till I finally settled on Face of the Enemy. Wanted to do a whole tribute to Gavan, without ripping off the Gokaigers Gavan move completely, which is why you didn't see the prison break scene, and Bunglay's ship was the one fought during the Megazord fight instead of a giant monster.

Also, huge thanks to Shagohad12 for help with the Trixie VS Purple Ranger fight scene. Not the Gavan VS Gavan fake scene as you might have expected, but Trixie's first bout with a real enemy. Now, take note of the Purple Ranger's use of Super Samurai mode, that alone should offer you a clue as to who's behind the mask.

Next time... White Thunder!