My Brave Pony: Power Rangers Starfleet
Chapter 4: Episode 4: New Ranger Appereance
Previous Chapter Next ChapterIt was another day at Canterlot High and all the students were in walking to class. The rangers and Twilight were walking to their history class aka Lightning's class.
“I can't wait for history class!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Ugh. You are such an egghead, Twilight." Rainbow dash complained.
"I'm not an egghead." Twilight countered. Everybody else rolled their eyes. They walked into their history class and Lightning took his seat at his teacher's desk while his friends took to their normal seats.
Just when Lightning was about to start talking, Principal Celestia came with a new girl; she had peach skin with aquamarine hair with a pink streak in it. She wore a dirty white t-shirt with a old, faded jean jacket over top and jeans. There were small patches of dirt on her face and her hair seemed a little messy. Also, the girl had small scratches on her arms and face too, but they were hardly noticed by the class.
"Hello Lightning, this is Sapphire Sunlight, she’s going to be a new student in your class.” she said.
Sapphire tried to his behind Principal Celestia. “She’s really shy, for some reason.”
“Alright. Sapphire, you can take your seat next to Twilight, okay?” Sapphire nodded and quickly walked over to her seat, avoiding eye contact with anybody.
And so Lightning began to teach his class. Today’s topic was World War I. As usual, Twilight answered most of the questions, but when Lightning asked for Sapphire to answer on, she just stayed quiet and looked away from him. “Sapphire? Are you okay?”
Sapphire just nodded still not saying a word. Twilight and the others could sense something was bothering Sapphire.
On the other side of the classroom, there was girl about a foot taller than Sapphire was, with long blonde hair, wearing a tilted pink beret with a matching pink sweater and white windbreaker.
This was Nikki Trent, a popular girl at the school, but definitely a Queen Bee, who liked to insult other students she regarded as nerdy.
With her were her two underlings, Amber and Dionne. Amber had long red hair and wore a black shirt with tan pants, and Dione had long black hair and she wore a white T-shirt with matching white pants.
Together, they were called “The Jazzies” a rather odd name, but Nikki picked it and no one dared question her about it for fear of her wrath. Trent, a popular girl at the school, but definitely a Queen Bee who liked to insult other students she regarded as nerdy and so far Sapphire fit that description.
Soon, class ended and the student were going to their next class. “Sapphire, can I talk to you for a moment?”
Sapphire stopped walking and turned towards Lightning, not making eye contact. “Sapphire, is there something bothering you?”
Sapphire shook her head. “Then why wouldn’t you answer when I called on you?”
Sapphire still didn’t reply. Lightning could see he wasn’t going to get an answer out of Sapphire yet so he decided to let it go… for now.
At the end of the school day, Sapphire was walking by herself through downtown when the gang came beside her. “Hey Sapphire, where are you going?” Rainbow asked.
“H-Home.” Sapphire replied, surprising the gang as to that was the first word she’s said all day.
“So where’s your home?” Buddy asked. Sapphire shrugged and quickly walked away from the gang. “Well that was weird.” Lightning commented.
Sunset was starting to become suspicious of Sapphire. “Let’s follow her.”
The others agreed and they all quietly followed Sapphire. Eventually, the came to an ally with trash cans to the mouth.
Peeking into the ally, they could see Sapphire crawling into what looked to be a makeshift shelter; a cardboard box with old blanket inside. “What is she doing in a cardboard box?” Fluttershy whispered.
They saw Sapphire take off her jean jacket and could see she was profoundly thin for her age she even had a few ribs showing. Sapphire wrapped herself in the old blanket she fell asleep.
“What’s going on?” Lightning asked. “Sleeping in a cardboard box, really thin and dirty.”
“Guys… I think she’s… homeless.” Sunset said. Everybody gasped softly.
“Homeless!” Rainbow exclaimed.
“Oh my goodness!” Fluttershy cried.
“So what do we do?” Buddy asked.
“Let’s quietly take her to Mr. Grandruler. He’ll know what to do with her.” Sunset suggested. The friends agreed and Lightning and Rainbow silently tiptoed to the box Sapphire was sleeping in and slowly lifted Sapphire out of the box and Lightning cradled her in his arms..
“Okay let’s go.” Rainbow whispered.
Soon, they arrived at the mansion and Sapphire was sleeping soundly in the living room couch with a fresh, clean blanket wrapped around her.
They told Mr. Grandruler, his wife, Principal Celestia and her younger sister, Vice Principal Luna, what they found out about Sapphire.
“My goodness.” Celestia said. “And you all just found this out?”
“Yes.” Sunset replied.
“Poor dear. No wonder she looked a little… unhealthy.” Luna said.
Fluttershy looked over at Sapphire peacefully sleeping. “So what do we do with her?”
“We’ll keep her here for a while and see how’s she’s doing.” Celesto suggested. The others nodded and all went off to do their activities, leaving Sapphire in the Grandrulers’ care.
Celesto and Celestia looked at Sapphire. “Wonder what happened to her.” Celestia wondered.
“Hopefully we’ll find out soon.” Celesto replied.
Meanwhile, Marla was walking down the round walkways, passing by each cell and inspecting the prisoners on their looks.
“Ugh! Too dark!
Too hairy!
Ew, gross! I think I’m going to gag!”
The three creatures did not take kindly to her scoffing at them and would have loved nothing more than to teach her some respect as they hammered at their cells, snarling at her.
Marla just blew them a raspberry, “Tough bricks, boys!”
She got out her compact mirror and gazed at her beautiful face “It’s so hard to be ravishing in a world of ugly creatures.”
More creatures overhearing felt very offended and Marla then heard one of them speak out from a cell behind her, “Beauty isn’t the only thing you know…!”
Marla felt so shocked, not just by that outburst, that she nearly dropped her mirror. “That voice! Oh, no… it can’t be!” she turned and looked in the cell behind her, and inside was a female humanoid, devil-like creature with red skin, and white horns on her red. She even had a devil’s tail.
“Devila!” sneered Marla.
“It’s been a while hasn’t it, old friend!” Devila hissed.
“Ha! You and I were never anything more than partners in crime…”
Marla recalled how she and Devila were once the greatest notorious of intergalactic jewel heisters in the entire Dimensional Galaxy from their world.
With Marla’s incredible charm that could stun just about anyone, and with Devila’s cunning… as well as a super special trick she could perform… they robbed whole star-systems of their precious jewels, ores and refinery materials.
…But then, one day, while during a heist in trying to take a set of crown jewels being donated to a museum on a planet. Things went horribly wrong, Marla and Devila were about to capture the crown jewels, when Marla realized she had horrible split ends in her hair, and a hangnail, which made her scream out in shock… giving both crooks away and alerted the guards.
It also turned out that the crown jewels they tried to steal belonged to Grand Ruler Celesto, the commander-in-chief of Starfleet, and ruler of the planet Unicornicopia, whom was donating his crown jewels for a charity cause.
The ladies were caught and arrested, and from that moment on they become such bickering ninnies, that the guards threw them in separate cells in the tower.
“Why Vulcan lets an overbearing diva like you serve him directly, I’ll never know.”
Marla was losing her temper and protested, “At least I’m not trapped in a cell anymore!”
The bickering was getting so annoying, many of the prisoners hid under their mattresses to drown out the sound.
“QUIET!!!” Vulcan shouted as he appeared before the bickering ladies.
The ladies trembled before him and his look of fury and annoyance, and he unlocked Devila’s cell, turning her loose. “Since you both claimed to be old accomplishes, you can both get out there and find a way to crush those rangers.”
“WHAT?!” the ladies whined, not looking forward to the idea of working with each other again, but Vulcan flared up and thundered “…GET GOING!!”
The ladies freaked out and left the tower in the blink of an eye.
Bronc saw the whole thing, “Very well done sir.”
Vulcan snuffed “At least it stops them nagging. Now they’re the rangers’ problem.”
It was in the afternoon when the rangers returned to Celesto’s mansion to check on Sapphire. Entering the living room, they found her sitting up eating some bacon and eggs. “Sapphire.” Fluttershy called. Sapphire looked at them and waved, “Hi.”
“Feeling better?” Lightning called. Sapphire nodded. “M-Mr. Grandruler and P-Principal Celestia are very nice.”
The rangers smiled a little. “Um… Sapphire can we ask you something?” Buddy asked.
“Umm… okay.”
“How did you end up in the alleyway?”
Sapphire sighed sadly, “It’s something I guess I have to tell you.” Unknown by any of them Mr. Grandruler and his wife came into the room. Sapphire explained,
“It all began in a hidden lab where I was created. The people who made me gave my the DNA of every single animal that ever lived on the Earth.”
“Even dinosaurs?” Lightning questioned.
“Yes. Even dinosaurs. They put me through tests to see how efficient I was with my powers; from shapeshifting to communicating with animals.
Then one day I broke free from the lab and escaped. I found the alley and hid in there, being too scared to show myself in public.” The rangers and the Grandrulers’ were amazed and shocked at Sapphire’s story. “So you’ve been living in the streets for two years!” Rainbow exclaimed with concern, “How come we never noticed you?”
“I used come out at night to avoid people, but since I’m attending school I guess I’ll have to change that."
“So why were you avoiding eye contact with everybody?” Sunset asked.
“I was scared and I didn’t have much social interaction in isolation.” The rangers and Grandrulers’ felt pity for Sapphire.
“Well that changes today.” Rainbow said. “From now on, you’ll be with us. We’ll teach you everything you need to know about being a normal teenager.”
“Normal teenagers don’t have magic or are Power Rangers.” Sunset pointed out, giving Rainbow a look of disdain. Rainbow shrugged, “Whatever.” Sunset rolled her eyes and looked back at Sapphire. “Like we said, we’ll help you.” Sapphire smiled and hugged Sunset. “Thank you.” Sunset hugged Sapphire back as the others watched with happy faces. It looked like a bright future for Sapphire. The moment was ruined by the jewel on Celesto’s cane going off, meaning there was trouble a foot! “What’s that?” Sapphire asked.
“The red-alert. There’s trouble in town. We’d better get going guys.” Sunset replied. The rangers nodded and dashed off.
“Come on Let’s go to the base.” Twilight said and she took Sapphire’s hand, “You can come too.”
The four of them arrived in the underground base. Twilight went it the monitors and saw what was wrong. There was a hold up at the First National Bank. The goons in the suits, the hostage-- but no signs of any dangerous alien activity. Just as they saw it, it seemed to be nothing more than a simple bank holdup.
But Twilight was rather concerned about the looks of those goons on the roof. “What are you thinking?” asked Spike.
Twilight didn’t answer and began to type on her keyboard, and the scanned showed what was really going on. “Oh, no!” she cried softly.
Even Spike growled angrily at what he saw.
“I’ve got to warn them.” said Celesto, and he ran off to the radio!
At the bank roof, Marla was growing impatient as well as uncomfortable in hiding, “What’s taking those rangers so long?” she wondered.
Before long the people in the crowd began to holler…
“The Power Rangers…!”
“They’re here!”
The rangers came leaping in from out of nowhere and onto the bank roof, and they just stood where they were, not saying a word.
The goons all turned and gazed at them, even turning their hostage towards to face them, and that’s when Sunset whipped out her Star Scepter and fired at the hostage and the goons holding her.
Much to the horror of everyone in the crowd below, even the Crusaders were shocked and livid. “They… they shot the hostage?!” cried Sweetie.
“What in tarnation are they thinkin’?” snapped Applebloom.
DD looked closer, “Wait a minute… Look!”
The goons that got shot got up, revealing to be Lingos in disguise, just like all the others.
“We’re not fooled by your little trick!” sneered Sunset.
“Good thing, Twilight warned us in time.” said Buddy.
The hostage woman angrily got up, and her eyes glowed furiously red as she transformed into her true form-- Devila. “You rangers got lucky, but it won’t save you this time…
…GET THEM!!”
All the Lingos threw off their disguises and attacked the rangers.
“Let’s go, guys!” said Sunset.
It was quite brawl as the rangers fought their way through the swarm of Lingos. Then they stood to face Devila, and though she didn’t seem like it, she was rather strong and swift, which she demonstrated by blocking their every attack, and hitting them back with strong punches and kicks. She even head butt them hard in the chests with her horns, and swatted them with her long devil’s tail.
…even knocking Sunset’s scepter out of her hand, sending flying far, far off the roof and way down into the streets. “No!!” she cried.
The scepter soared far, landing far up the street. Devila laughed, “Too bad, Red Ranger. What’cha gonna do now?”
Sunset clenched her fists furiously, but before she could answer, the other rangers were suddenly grabbed by long threads of familiar pink hair.
“Marla!” shouted Sunset.
“Surprise!” Marla teased…
…That’s when Devila extended her long tail and ensnared Sunset, binding her tightly.
The rangers struggled all they could, but they couldn’t’ seem break free from bondage.
“Looks like our little trap worked out after all.” said Marla.
“Our… trap?” sneered Devila “It was MY idea.”
“Yeah, but without my help you wouldn’t have caught all the rangers, would you?”
“Shesh, you two sound like sisters fighting over a doll.” teased Rainbow. That only angered the ladies, and made Marla tighten her grip around the five rangers she had. “Take it easy, we’re not melons!” cried Buddy.
“You think that’s rough?” teased Marla “Just you wait until we take you to Vulcan. I’m sure he’ll enjoy breaking you all limb from limb as we would have.”
“But first we’re going to have a little fun of our own.” hissed Devila “Sorta… soften you up a bit!”
With that, Devila sent a wave of burning energy through her tail, harming Sunset greatly, sparks flew all around as she groaned in pain, while Marla bashed and crashed the other rangers into one another, making more sparks fly, and each slam was more harder than the last.
“We’ve… got to… get out… somehow!” screamed Fluttershy.
“Yes… OW!
But how…?” cried Rhymey.
“Wow, this is so incredible!” cried Marla “Serves you rangers right anyway for causing us so much trouble.”
Devila laughed and continued to burn at Sunset.
Down below the crowds watched in horror, but were ultimately powerless to do anything about it.
Sapphire, Twilight and Spike watched everything on the monitors, and the power levels for the suits were reading critical! “They’re getting their cans kicked.” said Spike “We’ve got to try and help them.”
“I… I don’t know what to do!” cried Twilight.
“Try activating their Able-Boost.” Celesto ordered.
“Right.” Twilight said. “Hang on guys, help is on the way.” She hit the send command, but the computers showed a flashing sign saying “Error: Cannot Transmit”
Celesto grunted in frustration, “The evil energy from the monsters is blocking the signals. The rangers need to break free first, or we can’t help them.”
Twilight and Spike whimpered in fear, and turned back to see the thrashing! Unknown by any of them, Sapphire slipped out of the main room and secretly took on of the jump tubes to the bank. When she arrived she saw Sunset’s scepter on the ground. She knew what she had to do. She just hoped it would work.
Grabbing it, she raced into the bank which was unharmed due to everybody, including the guards, busy staring up at the battle.
”Hang on guys, I’m coming.”
The rangers were already beginning to look really beat up, and the all felt very woozy.
“Can’t… defeat… us!” groaned Sunset.
Devila snickered “Oh, really… and she slammed her down hard on the ground, and Marla did the same.
“Okay, that one really hurt!” groaned Rainbow.
Marla laughed, “I think that’s about enough punishment. Time to take you rangers for a ride…”
“…To meet your end!” hissed Devila.
The rangers grunted and growled, but still were hardly able to do a thing to stop them. Suddenly, someone called out to the evil ladies, “Drop those rangers!”
“Huh?”
“What?”
The rangers looked up, and even through their weariness, they could see Sapphire, holding Sunset’s scepter.
"Sapphire!" cried Sunset.
"What are you doing here?" Lightning asked.
Marla and Devila looked at each other and burst into laughter. "Look at who's trying to be a hero." Marla taunted. Devila's eyes glowed red. "You've made a big mistake. We'll give you one last chance, leave or else it'll get ugly." Sapphire was starting to sweat nervously, but she kept her brave face. "No! I'll give you one last chance! Let them go! Sapphire threatened.
"Sapphire! Get out of here!" Lightning cried.
"You can't save us! Just go!" Rainbow added.
Sapphire was staring down Marla and Devila, waiting for one of them to make a move. "We gave you a chance, now you'll regret it." Devila snarled. Marla and Devila launched themselves at Sapphire but at the last second, she quickly turned around and flipped over them and slashed them with the scepter.
Everybody was shocked!
Marla and Devila charged at Sapphire again, but she swiftly dodged and kicked the two. "Let my friends go, now!" she demanded.
"No! And if you take one more step." Marla added. Marla and Devila placed the rangers over the edge of the roof, if they let go the rangers will fall to their deaths! “They’re done for.”
"*Gasp* No!" Comet cried. Something inside her snapped! Clouds began to form near the area and the wind began blowing. "What's happening?" Marla asked. Even the rangers didn't know what was going on.
"Let.. them.. GO!" As soon as she yelled' go' the clouds behind her turned into roaring lions.
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Seeing this shocked everybody in the crowd, the monster, the rangers and the base. Marla and Devila were so shocked they moved the rangers back on the roof and dropped them. Sapphire roared again and stared intensely at Marla and the Devila.
The girls in fear retreated away. The people cheered down below. The rangers de-morphed and looked at Sapphire in amazement.
At the base, the rangers, Celesto, Twilight, Spike and Krysta all had the same question. "HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"
Sapphire, recovering from the yelling, replied, "I don't know. Something just.. snapped inside of me when Marla and that other monster threatened to drop you guys."
"Well that wasn't natural, that's for sure." Lightning said.
"And according to my reading on it, that roar is very powerful." Twilight informed.
"How powerful?" Rainbow asked.
"Strong enough to destroy and entire forest." The rangers were taken aback by that reply. "Woah, that is powerful." Spike added. Everybody else agreed.
"Looks like those experiments gave you a lot more than what you said." Sunset claimed.
The friends nodded, "For now, let's all get some rest." Celesto said. The rangers agreed and they went to the mansion to get some well-deserved rest.
At the Prison Tower, the Devila reported to Vulcan and the boys. "So there's a new Power Ranger with powerful magic, huh?"
"Yes Master."
"Well then, how about we give this new ranger a test of our own." Vulcan chuckled evilly and the minions chuckled along wit him.
The next morning, Sapphire woke up and went downstairs to have some breakfast. When she entered the living room she noticed the ominous silence. “Mr. Grandruler! Principal Celestia!” she called.
No response.
"Where is everybody?" She thought. She looked all around the house and found no sign of them. That’s when Twilight’s talking dog, Spike and Krysta, Lightning's talking pet robin came up to them.
"Spike, Krysta, have you guys seen Lightning and the others?" Spike and Krysta shook their heads.
"They weren’t there when we woke up either. This isn't like them. Where could they have gone?" Krysta asked.
Just then, a big screen appeared in front of Canterlot High and everybody could see and hear it. Nacluv appeared on the screen. Sapphire shivered at the sight of him while Spike growled. “What does he want?” He snarled.
"Greetings people of Mystic Island. We have your little rangers and their team mentor." Vulcan began. The screen changed to see Twilight, Lightning, Sunset Shimmer and the rest of the team, including Mr. Grandruler and Principal Celestia! They were all tied to the outside of the rocket with thick chains.
“Lightning!” Krysta cried.
“Twilight!“ Spike added.
"If you ever want to see them again, meet me in the cave at the Hawaiian Island.....if you dare!" The video ended. The people were in a mass panic! Spike, Krysta and Sapphire knew this was bad without the rangers, Mystic Island is defenseless. "Not good!" Spike said, How did they even kidnapped them?"
"They must have snuck into their homes and the mansion then nabbed them while they were asleep." Krysta said, "Now what?"
"Don't worry, they have their morphers, so they should be fine." Spike reassured.
"Uh, you mean the morphers I found on the mansion floor,right?" Sapphire asked.
"Oh no! They don't have their powers. That's so not good." Krysta said.
"What do we do now?" Spike asked in panic.
"We'll have to rescue them." Krysta said.
"How? We don't have the powers we need to rescue them or fight those monsters!" While Spike and Krysta argued, they suddenly heard Sapphire speak up, "I'll do it"
"Huh?" they both asked.
"I'll go to the Hawaiian Island and rescue my friends." she added.
"WHAT?! Sapphire you can't! You almost got creamed the last time if you didn’t call your raptors. It too dangerous!" Krysta objected.
"I know, but it’s a risk I’ll just have to take. If we don’t do something our friends are goners." Spike and Krysta saw that there was no way to talk her out of this.
"Then we're going with you." Spike said.
"Us too." A voice added. Krysta, Spike and Comet turned and see Vice Principal Luna, Celestia's sister and Celesto's sister-in-law, Cadence and Shining Armor, Celestia and Celesto's niece and nephew. "We wanna help too. No creep is going to threaten my family." Luna said. Cadence and Shining Armor agreed.
"Right! Let's go!" Krysta said.
Soon, the friends all arrived at Hawaiian Island, by flying Celesto's limo that turned into a rocket. Luna landed the rocket-car and they all exited. Looking at the ominously, quiet environment. "Creepy” Cadence complimented.
"Come on let's go find the cave and rescue our friends!" Spike announced. The friends all cheered and dashed off. Racing down the beach they saw the cave Vulcan was talking about. They also heard some voices and entered, tracking the voices lead them to a large cavern, the group saw their friends and the monsters. They peeked in and listened.
"Finally, we'll get rid of these pests for good!" Marla declared.
"You won't get away with this!" Mr. Grandruler sneered.
"We've already have, nobody's coming to save you. They won't even know what happened to you..... once we launch you into space!" Vulcan exclaimed.
Cadence, Luna, Shining Armor, Spike, Kyrsta and Sapphire gasped in horror.
Marla pressed a button on the control panel and a timer appeared starting at five minutes and counting down. "Once this timer reaches zero, you'll be blasted into space with no way to come back. HAHAHA!" Vulcan added. Marla, Keto and Bronc all laughed.
"We've got to stop them." Luna said.
"You think?!" Shining snapped.
"We have to get to that rocket and free our friends." Cadence said.
"Spike, Krysta, You two will hide while me, Cadence and Shining Armor distract the minions. Comet, you try to free the others." Luna ordered. Everybody nodded. Luna stepped into the cavern.
"HEY!" she called.
Marla and Keto looked, "What are you doing here?" Marla snarled.
"We're here to rescue of friends." Shining added, stepping forward.
"Well you'll be too late. Lingoes… Attack!" Lingos came out and attacked the friends. Comet managed to sneak pass all of the fighting and made her way to her captured friends.
"Sunset, Lightning, Everyone!" She whispered.
"Sapphire?!" Lightning said.
“What are you going here?!” Sunset asked. “You shouldn’t be here!”
“Just be glad she came, Sunset.” Rainbow added.
"Don't worry. I'll get you out!" Sapphire was about to untie them when. “Oh no you don’t!” Vulcan came in and rammed her, sending her into into the wall.
"No! Sapphire!" Mr.Grandruler cried. She slowly got back up onto her feet and saw, to her horror, that the Lingoes overpowered Luna, Cadence and Shining Armor and tied them to the rocket as well!
Vulcan charged Sapphire, but she dodged making him hit the wall. However, Keto blasted her with his staff, sending her to the ground. "Ooh. Too bad you couldn't save your friends, huh? Now you'll never see them again." Bronc taunted.
Sapphire couldn't stand this at all! Her friends were in trouble and she was powerless to help them.
She wasn't about to give up. "I won't give up!" She yelled. She began to glow a light magenta color.
"What's happening to Sapphire?" Sunset asked. Krysta and Spike peeked out from their hiding place and saw her glowing as well. She glowed brighter and brighter, until it was too bright for anybody to see. The light dimmed and everybody saw Sapphire had transformed; her hair grew longer and was in a ponytail and gained magenta, yellow and red highlight strips. Also, a tail sprouted from her lower back. Her ears turned into pony ears and
"I WILL SAVE MY FRIENDS! NO MATTER WHAT!” Sapphire shouted. Lingoes charged her and she blasted them all with a pulse of magic turning them all into dust. She dashed at the minions and knocked them all over, causing great damage. “Awesome!” Rainbow cried.
Sapphire fired a beam at Vulcan and the minions but they teleported away at the last second. Breathing heavily, Sapphire glowed again and she changed back into her normal self. Krysta and Spike came out of their hiding spot and ran to her. "That...was...awesome, Sapphire!" Spike cried.
"Incredible!" Krysta added.
"Umm... hate to break this up, but we're about to be BLASTED INTO SPACE!" Lightning cried.
Sapphire and the pets looked at the timer and gasped only five seconds were left! There wasn’t any time for her to deactivate the timer. It reached zero and the rocket’s engines started up and blasted through the cavern’s roof and into outer space.
"AHHHHHHH!" The gang cried.
The pets and Sapphire raced outside and saw the rocket zooming up though the sky. "We have to go after them!" Spike cried.
"How?" Sapphire asked.
"Celesto's rocket." Krysta suggested.
"That's not fast enough to catch up with that rocket!" Spike added.
"So now what?" Sapphire said desperately.
Sapphire, Spike and Krysta saw no way to save their friends. Just then, Sapphire’s chest began flashing a white light. “Huh? What’s going on with my chest?” Suddenly, a line of white magic appeared and lead towards a mountain.
“What does it mean?” Kyrsta asked.
“I don’t know, but we should follow it.” They all dashed off towards a mountain. The group followed it and saw it enter a tunnel. Still following it, the stone led them to a enormous, mechanical jaguin (hybrid of a Jaguar and macaw)
The body was light yellow with black spots and the wings were also yellow but with black highlights. “Woah, a Zord!” Spike exclaimed. The Zord seems to have heard them because it’s eyes shot open and it stared down at the trio.
Lowering its head, it examined Sapphire while growling at her. “Easy boy, it’s okay. I’m a friend.” Sapphire cooed. Sensing the kindness and sincerity in her voice the Zord nodded and opened it's mouth. “Let’s go, you guys.” Sapphire and the pets walked inside. In the zord was a cockpit with a control panel, complete with handlebars and special buttons and weapons. "Awesome!" Sapphire complimented. She sat in the seat behind the handlebars and grabbed them. "Now....how do I drive this?" she asked.
"Figure that out later, we have to save our friends!" Spike said.
"But we don't know how far they are. They could be in space by now." Krysta added.
Just then, the radar destroyed something in the Thermosphere. “That must be the rocket!” Spike identified.
"Oh no! They're almost to space. We have to catch them!" Krysta cried. Sapphire grabbed the control and pushed them forward. “Hold on!” The zord flapped it's massive wings and soared out of the mountain.
"WOOOOHOOOOO!" she cried. Spike and Krysta grabbed onto her clothes, trying not to get thrown into the back wall. In minutes, the zord was in the Thermosphere.
"There they are!" She cried.
"Let's go!" Spike added.
"Right!"
Lightning and the gang were in extreme panic. "What are we gonna do?" Fluttershy asked.
"There's nothing we can do." Buddy replied.
"If help doesn't come soon,
We will meet our doom!" Rhymey said.
"That's supportive." Rainbow grumbled.
It looked hopeless, until Mr. Grandruler spotted something big and metal coming towards them. "What's that?" Everybody saw it and as it got closer they realized what it was and who the pilot was. "Is that a… Jaguin zord!?” Sunset asked.
“With Sapphire.... driving!?” Celestia added. Sapphire drove the zord over top of the rocket. “Don’t worry, guys, I got you.” Sapphire was about to grab it with the Zord’s powerful claws when the rocket jerked to the right. “Huh?” She tried again and it moved to the left. Then the rocket flew away from the Zord. "What's going on?" She asked, totally confused.
"I bet Vulcan is controlling it!" Spike said. Sapphire steered the zord, following the rocket.
Meanwhile, back on earth, Keto was busy controlling the rocket with a remote control. "Hehehehe. That weakling will never be able to catch my rocket." He declared.
"Hey! I built it!" Bronc declared, insulted.
"Oh suck it up!" Marla snapped. Bronc and Marla began getting in each other faces and began pushing each other.
Soon they knocked into Keto, making him drop the control on the ground. The remote broke into a million pieces. "Now look at what you've done!" Vulcan thundered.
Back in the sky, the rocket's engine began stuttering,
"What's going on?" Rainbow asked. That's where the rockets gave out! "The engines must have died!" Grandruler cried.
"If the engines died that means we're gonna....!" Lightning started.
".......FREEFALL!" Everybody cried. The rocket began dropping like a rock. The people all over Mystic Island saw the rocket falling and were deeply afraid. "WE ARE DOOMED!" Mr. Grandruler and Celestia screamed.
"Roar!"
Just then, they saw the Jaguin Zord diving towards them in a powerful dive. Sapphire lined up with the rocket and extended the claws. The claws gripped the rocket “Gotcha!” she pulled up on the handlebars. The zord began pulling up, slowing down with the rocket. Soon, the zord and rocket gently floated down to the ground. The civilians all rejoiced and went to untie the gang.
Sapphire landed the zord and it lowered its head. She and the pets climbed out of the zord and raced towards their friends.
"Lightning! Guys! Are you all okay?! Krysta asked.
"Yeah, We're okay. Thanks to you guys." Grandruler replied.
"Actually, you should thank Sapphire. She's the one who really saved you guys." Spike said.
Sapphire blushed and said "Oh. I didn't do that much." The gang was shocked.
"Not much?, Sapphire you saved our lives! Without you, we would have been goners." Sunset replied. The civilians all cheered and rejoiced for Sapphire. Sunset and Lightning lifted her up onto their shoulders and walked into the crowd, where Sapphire was cheered for, because of her heroic rescue.
Meanwhile, the villains were watching the whole thing from the tower monitors. “You win today, rangers. Next time won’t be so easy.” Vulcan sneered and his minions agreed.
That night, a party was held at the Mr. Grandruler's mansion in honor of Sapphire. Everybody was dancing and having all kinds of fun. The rangers all gathered around and listened to Grandruler's speech.
"Sapphire Sunlight, today you've shown great bravery in the face of danger. Even when you were against all odds, you never gave up and succeeded in rescuing us from certain doom. We are ever so grateful to you." Her friends all cheer and clapped for her, making her embarrassed again. "And now, we have a gift for you."
Principal Celestia came in front of Sapphire with a red box with a pink morpher, like her friends, "Sapphire, on behalf of all of us, you are the newest Power Ranger. The Animal Ranger!" Grandruler concluded.
Sapphire gasped softly, "R-Really?!"
"Really. You’ve earned it.” Grandruler approved.
"Thank you. This is the best day ever!" she exclaimed. She took the morpher and placed it on her shirt. They both shined in the moonlight. Sunset and the rest of her friends were proud of their new teammate.
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