On a tiny rocky island, a few hundred miles from Mystic Island, the prison tower still stood undiscovered, and still house so many different monsters and villains from the dimensional universe.

On the shores of the island, three despicable creatures, Vulcan’s former minions, wearily climbed up out of the waters where they had been swimming for weeks since falling from the sky.

Marla: A very beautiful humanoid lady. She had pale grey skin, pointy ears, long, flowing light pink hair that ran all the way near the ground. She wore a red, sparkling, armored vest with a black skirt attached and matching black boots on her feet, and long fingerless black gloves. If her ability to create more Lingos was as skillful as her diva-attitude… who knows what she’d be capable of.

Bronc: A big muscular armored creature, and the computer and technological expert of the group. He was much taller and muscular than the others. Very little of his actual body was scene as he was covered in head to toe in white and blue armor, complete with a helmet hiding his features. He almost looked robotic, but he wasn’t.

Keto: A mage, though shorter than the others, about up to Marla’s upper-body. He skin was gold colored, he wore a black witch hat, a red cape, a green robe, and he carried a long metal staff with an upside-down crescent-moon with a large red ruby in the center at the top.

All three of them were soaked to the bone and panting stressfully, “I never thought we’d make it!” cried Keto “I’ll never swim again for the rest of my life!”

Marla tweaked her nose in attempt to clear her sinuses from all that salt water. “My hair, my clothes, by nose…!” she whined “You two are going to pay for this! I MEAN IT!! It’ll take a miracle to make me beautiful again!”

Keto sighed, “How can you be thinking about all that at a time like this!”

“I think about my looks all the time.” sneered Marla.

Bronc could only grumble to himself, “I should’ve let the rangers destroy me when I had the chance than put up with this!”

They all entered the tower, and all the prisoners were roaring and groaning loudly.

“We’re starving!”

“We haven’t been fed in weeks!”

“Let us out of here!”

The minions ignored the whining and retreated to the top of the tower where they used to meet with Vulcan in the lab.

“What are we supposed to do now?” asked Keto.

“I don’t know!” sneered Bronc “With Vulcan gone, we need a new plan!”

“…I couldn’t agree more.” said a voice from across the room. The minions looked towards the entrance of Vulcan’s private lab and saw someone standing in the shadows.

“Who are you supposed to be?” Marla rudely asked.

The creature stepped forth, and much to the minions’ surprise, he looked exactly like Vulcan; humanoid like alien, and he wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes.

Only he was half Vulcan’s size, his scaly skin and his fiery hair were blue instead of red.

“…Vulcan?” Bronc asked in disbelief.

The creature snickered and said, “Not really. The name is Nacluv, and I’m your new boss.”

Marla raised an eyebrow, “Nacluv?”

“It’s “Vulcan” spelled backwards.” said Keto.

“That’s correct.” hissed Nacluv “Your leader, Vulcan, created me in his image and gave me his very thought patterns. His reasons were that I would continue his legacy, if in the unlikely event he’d fall. So here I am.”

“Uh, yeah… like I’m going to take orders from a shrimp.” Marla teased, “Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to hit the hot-tub.”

Nacluv didn’t take kindly to her insults, and demonstrated, by blasting a blaze of fire at, just missing her, but making a huge hole in the wall, frightening her and her comrades.

“Did I forget to mention Vulcan gave me his powers as well… and they’re JUST as lethal? So maybe you ought to show a little more respect next time!”

Marla fearfully turned round, and as for Keto and Bronc, they also gave in and bowed their heads to their new master.

“That’s more like it.” hissed Nacluv. “Now, go and feed the prisoners and report back here! We’ve got a lot of work to do…”

“YES SIR!!” the three shouted, and they dashed off to get to their duties, while Nacluv sat himself in the big chair by the computers, “I think I’m going like being in charge, and my first directive: Destroy the rangers, and then conquer the world!”

He laughed wickedly, but then his voice cracked, “I think I need time to work on that.”

(Que Intro)

Sapphire Sunlight... Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Buddy Rose, William Stirskewer-- also known as Rhymey, his tight girlfriend, Fluttershy, and their ally and part-time History teacher, Lightning Dawn…

The former Power Rangers… we’re in a deep dry spell.

It had been three weeks since their victory over the evil planet broker, Vulcan, and ever since then, there hadn’t been any new monsters sent to attack Mystic Island; not even a single Lingo.

It meant the rangers could catch up on their normal lives.

Lightning continued to teach his history classes at Canterlot High, while being constantly annoyed by the local school diva, Nikki Trent, trying to flirt with him!

Of course, the other rangers had their own part-time jobs and major hobbies as well.

Sapphire helped out at an animla shelter with Fluttershy, whom continued her work-study, to be a vet, at the animal shelter. Even the most ferocious of ill-tempered animals seemed to melt by her gentle attitude… that or if she gave them a strong STARE every so.

Rhymey gave poetry-readings at the town Library, to teach children more about it and to like it; sort of like a poet-laureate.

Some of the children even began to adopt his style of talking in rhyme.

Buddy did loads of work at the community garden, and took time to work at the Farmer’s Market selling flowers and vegetables he grew.

Meanwhile, Sunset decided to do some volunteer work at the hospital. This way, not only could she help other people, as well as the hospital staff, but she could also be close to her other friends.

Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Starla Shine, Dyno and Myte, and of course, Artie, her really tight boyfriend; all of them still lying in coma’s which they had been for two months ever since being hit by that big explosion caused by Vulcan and his minions.

Dr. Penny Sillion assured her, “They’re getting stronger every day, they won’t be out of it forever, you’ll see.”

Sunset really hoped so. She missed her friends dearly, especially Artie. She stood by his side and held his cold hand. “I’m here for you, Artie.” and she looked at all her other friends “I’m here for all of you.”

Suddenly, she felt Artie give her hand a tiny squeeze, even though Dr. Penny told her they were just soft muscle reflexes that would occur every now and then, each and every time she felt one, Sunset’s hopes grew brighter, feeling that Artie and the others would wake up soon.

As for Rainbow Dash, when she wasn’t busy practicing her guitar or her mad soccer-skills, she worked as a part-time Pizza Delivery girl. With her speed and efficiency, she got loads of tips, and every now and then, she’d run into a little problem…

Today, she was delivering two pizzas to a nearby neighborhood, when she spotted a bunch of punks stealing from the outdoor food stands.

“Hey!” the grocer shouted, which alerted the punks to scram, and dash up the streets. “Stop those kids!” the grocer begged.

Rainbow put down the pizzas on the steps towards the apartment house, and ran off after the punks cutting them off by taking a short cut through the allies.

“Hold it right there!” she yelled at them. The punks stopped, and turned round. “Hey, who are you? The cops?” the leader joked. “Nope, I’m a pizza delivery girl.”

The punks laughed hysterically at her, thinking this was a joke, but Rainbow could see this was going to get ugly.

“You just delivered yourself a death-wish, girl!” the leader snapped, and he lunged forth to punch her, but Rainbow skillfully swerved, and kicked the guy hard in the gut, making his other four punk friends jump at her.

Rainbow narrowed her eyes, and cracked her knuckles, “Go ahead… Make my day.” she hissed.

The fight was on, but even though the punks were much bigger than she was, Rainbow evaded all their attacks, and easily punched, kicked and knocked them all down like bowling pins until they were all lying flat in the street, “Did I also mention I’m the blue ranger?”

The police came and apprehended the punks, but Rainbow didn’t have time to stick around and endure the praise she would get. She had pizza routes to get on.

Little did she realize, she was being watched by Nacluv and the minions as the hid within the shadows of another alley.

“I say we go for her now!” said Keto.

“Not, yet!” snapped Nacluv "From what you've told me about the rangers. That Animal one sounds like the most pwoerful. We'll target her first and then lure the others right into our trap.” He turned and asked, “You think you can handle that, Vinery?”

A green planet like creature, covered in green bark like skin, and a vine-line tentacles hissed, “No problem, boss. Once those rangers are bound by my vines, I’ll suck the energy and the power right out of them!”

The rangers all met up for lunch in the park that day; all seven of them. Snowflake and Midnight, Sapphire's Light and Night Fury Dragons were present as well. “And this is supposed to be a Saturday?” groaned Buddy “I’ve never worked so hard, either that or it’s just the boredom talking.”

“I don’t mind working on Saturday…” said Fluttershy “I just love taking care of all the animals at the shelter. The doctor says I’ll make a fine vet someday.”

“If it’s something you like to do,
No one has the right to question you.” said Rhymey.

“I couldn’t go a day without my poetry,
Without it or my rhymes… it just isn’t me.”

Rainbow sighed boringly, “Well, pretty much trashing those punks in the alley were the most exciting thing that happened to me all weak, and they were lightweights.”

“Hmm…!” Lightning said “I guess we all miss a little of the action, but then again it’s not like we should wish for the world to be in danger again.”

All the rangers agreed, especially Sunset. She had just finished writing a letter in the magic journal to Commander Lightning Dawn in the Dimensional Universe to see how he and Starfleet were going on.

“How’s it going back there with them?” Buddy asked.

“Not very good.” replied Sunset “Up until now they’ve only captured barely half of all the escaped prisoners, but their galaxy is still in grave danger. On top of that, they’re still nowhere nearer to fixing the portal in their world, so we still won’t get our energizers back for some time.”

Everyone sighed, still feeling the rut they were in sink into them.

Fluttershy then turned her head and saw a familiar couple walking down the street. Celesto Grand Ruler, their team mentor and his wife, Principal Celestia taking their infant children on a stroll.

The gang waved over at them, and the couple waved back and then strolled over and joined their friends.

The babies, Castor and Leilani, cooed from their double carriage. “Aw, aren’t you two cute.” Fluttershy cooed as she playfully tickled their little chins.

“Trust me, they aren’t so cute when they’re spitting up on you all the time.” Celestia joked.

"They just playfully spit their food on me." Sapphire deadpanned with a straight face. "i don't do baby saliva!"

“At least it gives you something to do.” said Buddy.

Celesto sighed, he was well aware of the rangers’ boredom, “If only you all understood and were as into work as I am, you’d be so busy you wouldn’t have time to complain, and speaking of which…”

He reached into his pocket and passed them each their respective morpher-badges, which had been upgraded for stronger powers.

“Funny, they don’t look any different.” said Rainbow. “I assure you, we’ve managed to update most of the ranger technology and equipment.” said Celesto "Except for Sapphire's scepter."

Sapphire's weapon in battle was the Animal Scepter, a powerful magical artifact that she gained from an ancient temple. She could summon nature and animal spirits to attack from the orb, but she alone had to unlock all the scepters' powers so the lab boys and Twilight could study it. “Twilight’s been working non-stop, even after I tell her to have a break. I practically was willing to pay her to stop and have a rest.”

Everyone chuckled, and Rhymey said,

“That’s our Twilight, a worker so tight,
And she never stops working, ‘til things are all right.”

Back at the rangers’ secret base, located deep under the island, Twilight Sparkle was working harder than ever with Celestos team of scientists to keep all the ranger technology updated, much to the chagrin of her pet talking dog, Spike.

“Twilight, when are you going to stop…? It’s been weeks since a monster attacked.” Spike groaned.

“Spike it’s more than just keeping the tech up-to-date,” said Twilight “I’m doing what I enjoy, and I’m expanding my own mind by improving things. Just imagine what I could do for the world someday, I could be the greatest female science-engineer in history!”

With that, she got right back to work, while Spike groaned and went back to sleep.

While back in the park, the babies looked sleepy themselves. “Uh, oh; I think we should get you two home for your nap.” their mother cooed.

“Yes, we should go.” agreed Celesto “We’ll see you all later.”

“Say bye-bye, babies…” Celestia cooed, as she playfully made the kids wave their tiny hands. Soon they were gone, except for Sapphire and her dragons who she wanted to play fetch with. Vinery peered round a tree and snickered, “Master Nacluv will be pleased.”

"You want the ball? You want it?" she cooed to the two dragons. She threw the ball at the energetic dragons. "Go get it!" The dragons rushed after the ball as Sapphire laughed. Snowflake got the ball and they both headed back to Sapphire when vines came out of nowhere and grabbed her. "Wha- GAH!"

Midnight gasped and rushed after her. Midnight roared at Snowflake, telling her to go get the others. Snowflake nodded and flew away. The rangers were not that far away when they heard and saw Snowflake flying in. She landed and started nudging them towards the school. "Snowflake? What's wrong?" Sunset asked.

Snowflake warbled in concern and nodded towards the school forest. "Something's wrong. It's Sapphire. Come on." Sunset snapped. The rangers looked at each other and followed Sunset.

In the forest, Vinery and Nacluv along with the minions approached Sapphire. She struggled in the vines, bounding her to the tree. "And who are you?" she asked.

"The name's Nacluv and I'm your worst nightmare." he snarled. Sapphire looked at Nacluv up and down, ".... Not impressed." she replied bluntly.

"What?" Nacluv exclaimed. "How dare you!"

"Boy... you are a shrimp!" Sapphire exclaimed with a smile.

"No, I'm not!" Nacluv replied.

"Boy... Keto is taller than you and that's just sad. No offense, Keto." Sapphire replied.

"None taken." Keto replied. Nacluv growled and set his fist a flame. "Well I have Vulcan's powers and they're just as lethal. So you better show me more respect."

"I'n not one of you minions." Sapphire responded. "No offense."

"None taken." The minions replied.

Nacluv was losing his patience. "Oh forget! I'll just destroy you right here and now!"

"I would do that, if I were you." Sapphire stated.

"Oh, yeah, why not?" Nacluv challenged.

"Because my Night Fury Midnight will blow you to pieces."

"What?"

KAPOW!" A plasma blast came and blasted Nacluv and Vinery away from Sapphire. The Night Fury landed in front of her and snarled at the villains. "You imbeciles didn't tell me she had dragons!" Nacluv thundered at the minions.

"You never asked." Marla squeaked.

"SAPPHIRE!" a chorus of voices came. The minions, Nacluv and Vinery turned and saw the rangers and Snowflake. "Who the heck are you?" Lightning asked, spotting Nacluv.

"I'm your worst nightmare, Nacluv."

"Nacluv?" Rainbow asked.

"Vulcan spelled backwards." Bronc deadpanned.

"Oh."

"Anyway." Sunset cut in. "Let out friend go!" Snowflake roared at them in agreement. "You'll have to take her from us." Marla taunted.

"With pleasure." Rainbow stated. The five rangers stood together, and Rainbow made the call. “It’s Morphin’ Time!”

“Morphing Sequence… Ready!” said the automated voice, and all together the rangers shouted, “STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!” and pressing their badges, they morphed into their ranger outfits.

“Yeah, we’re back!” cried Sunset “And ready to shine!”

Nacluv growled angrily, “I’ve gotten what I need to know. Let’s get out of here!” he called to Vinery, and he teleported away thanks to the new devices Bronc whipped up.

“He’s gone!” cried Fluttershy. Snowflake glided over and helped Midnight blast the vines off of Sapphire. "Thanks you two." she praised. Her dragons nuzzled her and licked her face. "Hehe, alright you two. I have a battle to join now. STARFLEET MAGIC... POWER ON!"

Vinery, on the other hand refused to leave, “I’m not leaving so easily! I said I’d destroy you, and that’s what I’ll do!” he launched his vines at the rangers, forcing them to evade, and he then proceeded to whirl them around like whips, hitting each of the rangers, making sparks fly.

“That does it!” snapped Buddy, and he summoned his own weapon, “Plasma Whip…!”

Gripping his whip tightly, he skillfully lassoed the vines all together.

“Hey, let go of me!” shouted the monster.

“Sorry, you didn’t say “please!” Buddy teased, and he gave his whip a huge yank sending the monster soaring, and then crashing on the ground hard. The other rangers then summoned their weapons.

Sapphire: "Animal Scepter!"

Rainbow: “Sonic Cannon!”

Rhymey: “Raid Blade!”

Fluttershy: “Strong Shield!”

“You think I’m scared of those puny toys of yours?!” shouted Vinery, “Time for you to get under tight wraps!”

“We’ll see about that.” snapped Sunset, “Go, guys!”

The rangers all lunged forth, and while Vinery put up a valiant effort, the rangers managed to strike, slash, and blast at him hard.

“This isn’t going how I planned!”

“You should’ve run while you had the chance!” shouted Sunset, “Okay, guys… bring ‘em together!”

“RIGHT…!!” the others agreed, and the merged their weapons together.

“Weapons Combine!”

“Star-Slammer… Ready!”

It had been quite some time since they last used their faithful Star-Slammer, but they all stood together as Sunset held the mighty weapon, and she whirled it round and round over her head like a lasso, that began to glow brightly.

Sapphire powered up the her scepter to full strength and the orb glowed brightly as well. "WOLF CHARGE!" The power shot out of the orb in the form of a wolf and it rammed right through Vinery. Altogether, the five rangers shouted, “STAR-SLAMMER… ULTRA-STRIKE!!” and Sunset gave the weapon a huge slam, hitting the monster hard over his head. Vinery screamed and roared as his body was enveloped in multi-colored lightning bolts, and he exploded… KAPOW!!

The rangers rejoiced in their victory.

Back at the tower, Nacluv saw the whole thing on the screens, and as if he were outraged enough that Vinery didn’t listen and retreat when he told him to, “Keto… do your thing!” Nacluv shouted into the new radio system.

Keto acknowledged, “Time to grow up,” he teased and then held his staff up shouting, “FORTISSIMO!” and he launched his most often used mugic, which brought Vinery back from the explosive waves and grew him to gigantic proportions.

“Now this is what I call feelin’ Vine!” the huge monster joked!

“Ah, man!” cried Lightning.

Sunset contacted the base, via her morpher-com, “Launch Star-Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

From their secret base under the island, the five mega jets soared through a long launch tunnel and flew out over the sea, then made a huge turn heading back towards the danger site.

"Phoenix Zord, I choose you!" The phoenix rose from the volcano and cried proudly. Spreading it's wings, it took to the skies and headed towards the battle. Once there, it beamed Sapphire into the cockpit.

Once the jets were in view, the automatically beamed the rangers into their respective cockpits, ready for battle. “Okay guys, let’s bring ‘em in.” said Sunset.

“WHOO-HOO! This is going to feel awesome!” cried Rainbow.

The other three all shook their heads playfully at her giddiness, but really they also felt as eager as she did deep down.

“Zords Combine!”

For the first time in a while, their zords combined once again.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Go get him, guys!” Lightning called up to the megazord.

Vinery on the other hand was not impressed, “Bring it on!” he snarled as he charged forth, striking the megazord hard with his vine-whips, but the megazord just stood there taking every hit and not even flinching.

“Oh, you think you’re so tough, huh?”

“We don’t think; we know!” barked Sunset.

Rhymey then pulled on his controls, making the Megazord raise its arm and sock the creature hard in the chest, and Fluttershy made the other arm punch him again!

“Our turn…!” Buddy said to Rainbow, and they both made the megazord jump and give the monster a good flying kick, that sent him rolling along the ground.

“Good shot, but not good enough!” shouted Vinery, and he unleashed his vines, ensnaring the zord tightly.

“He’s got us! We can’t move!” cried Fluttershy.

The rangers pounded at the controls, but their megazord couldn’t move an inch.

“Here, let me give you a lift!” sneered Vinery, and he rasied the megazord up high and slammed it hard on the ground, rocking the rangers about inside! "Hey!" Sapphire cried. "FLAME CHARGE!" The Phoenix covered itself in fire energy and rammed the vine, spilliting them apart and freeing the megazord.

“Thanks, Sapphire…!” Sunset called “Now let’s finish this creep!”

With that, the megazord drew it’s sword from behind.

“Uh, oh! This isn’t good.” cried Vinery.

"Let's do it, Pheonix Zord! ULTIMATE FIRE!"

“Charge it up…” shouted Sunset.

“Star Saber… Engage!”

The saber began to glow, and the megazord whirled it once in a big circle, creating a large star in front. Phoenix Zord squawked and covered itself in fire energy and charged Vinery.

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“STAR SLASH… GO!!” shouted the rangers, and the megazord gave a huge slash, sending the star soaring. Phoenix Zord combined it with it's own finished and rushed at the monster, hitting him hard.

Once again, Vinery began to flare and jolt! “THAT’S A WRAP!” he shouted as he exploded once again-- actually, the explosion was just a powerful transformation; the flames were not real at all. The monster was magically shrunk down and imprisoned in a clear sphere which was beamed aboard the cockpit.

“Way to go guys!” Lightning cheered. The other rangers all rejoiced as well, and Sunset called it for the first time in a while, “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”

Back at the Tower, the minions were all outraged!

“I can’t believe it!” Bronc thundered at Nacluv, “We almost had them, and you told us to retreat?!”

“Looks like you’re not all like Vulcan as you claimed.” Marla teased, but this only earned her an angry blast from her boss, burning the ends of her long hair. “Hey!” she shrieked.

“Next time, I’ll aim straight at your face!” Nacluv hissed, “Today was just a test. Obviously those rangers aren’t as out of practice as I thought. And you After all, you shouldn’t underestimate your enemy.”

“I get it…” said Keto “At least I think I do.”

Nacluv sighed, but he knew this was just the beginning, and he vowed that he wouldn’t quit until the rangers were beaten for good!

Meanwhile, the rangers rode the zords back to base where Celesto, Twilight, Spike, and all the gang were waiting for them, and Rainbow immediately asked, “How come the alarms didn’t sound when that monster attacked?” to which Twilight embarrassingly admitted “Would you believe we were working on the console then…?”

The rangers all sighed irritably.

“Okay, okay, settle down now.” said Celesto “Things still worked out alright in the end, since all the other controls were working.”

Snowflake warbled and Sapphire rubbed her. "Yes, you helped, Snowflake."

Buddy then clenched his fists, “Just the same, it was close. That Nacluv almost actually got you, Sapphire.”

Flutterhy agreed, “He’s just as cruel and as nasty as Vulcan ever was.”

"Except the boy is a complete shrimp." Sapphire laughed. "Y'all should have heard what I said to him. He blew up!"

“And don’t forget the minions, too,
So it’s obvious what we have to do.” said Rhymey.

The others all agreed, and Sunset said, “Looks like our dry-spell is over. The Power Rangers are back and ready for action.”

The others all agreed, and now there wasn’t much to do, but prepare for the long war ahead.