(Que Intro)

Sunset found herself standing in a strange place, a kind of special void with stars, comets and planet dancing all around her. “Um… Oooo-kay…” she said to no one in particular.

Suddenly, there came a flash of white light, and there before her appeared someone she knew from long ago, “Flash…!” she cried “…Flash Sentry!”

“Hello, Sunset.”

It was him, but in his normal human shape. He didn’t appear to her in his Crystallite Alien form. “What’s happening? I thought you were dead?” asked Sunset.

“I am indeed…” replied Flash “But this is the only way I am able to communicate with you, for I wish to give you something special that will no doubt help you and your friends battle your enemies.”

“Help us?” Sunset asked with great interest. Flash nodded and explained to her, “Sometime ago, I had hidden a small portion of my alien powers within a secret place. I had never told anyone this not wishing for unscrupulous people to get their hands on it, but I feel it shall serve you and your friends well.”

Sunset asked almost excitedly, “Well, tell me where to find it.”

Flash shook his head, “I haven’t time to reveal the entire puzzle, but I can tell you where to find the first clue: Look behind my old locker at Canterlot High.”

He began to fade off. “Wait, don’t go!” Sunset called to him, but everything suddenly faded out to white…

…And she woke up! She rubbed her head as she came to her senses, yet that dream felt so incredibly real. She almost didn’t know whether to believe it or not.

She rounded up the other rangers and Twilight, and they met at the outdoor café for a quick breakfast. She told them all about her dream…

“You’re sure about this?” asked Twilight. “I’m positive.” replied Sunset. A moment of silence followed, and Rainbow broke the silence saying, “I believe you…”

“So do I.” added Buddy.

Sunset felt a little flattered, “You do?”

Rhymey nodded and explained,

“For three years we’ve had strange powers and fought evil beasts,
After all that’s happened, nothing seems impossible to say the least.”

"Plus he helped me find my Animal Scepter." Sapphire added.

Fluttershy agreed, “How can we not believe you, Sunset. Besides, if it’ll help us beat The Sirens, who are we to question?”

Sunset smiled warmly was most thankful for her friends, but neither she nor the others realized that Keto was hiding behind the corner and listening to everything they said. “Wait until I tell The Sirens this!”

Meanwhile, the rangers contacted Celesto and asked for him to unlock the school. When he was told of Sunset’s dream, he, too, was rather enthusiastic of seeking this power Flash had left for them.

It was rather dark inside the school; then again Summer Vacation had only started a week and a half ago. All the lights were out, and all the windows were covered with shade flaps to keep the sunlight out of the building and heating things up over the holidays. Sapphire used her night vision to help her see. It was still bright enough to see where to go anyway, and everyone took a moment to pass Flash’s memorial plaque in the school entrance hall. It read…

“Dedicated to the memory of Flash Sentry.
A strong-minded individual who showed us all the true meaning of honour, and that sometimes, life and people’s actions are not actually carved in stone, but you can choose how to shape it.”

The rangers and Celesto held their heads low, taking a moment to remember him, and though Twilight didn’t know him that well and Sapphire didn't know him at all, they bowed too.

Spike poked his head out from Twilight’s knapsack, “Um, remind me what happened again?” he asked. “I’m not trying to be disrespectful.”

Rhymey filled in everything with his rhymes.

“The real human called Flash had died long ago
And this Flash took his place, this we did not know,
Until he and his mother revealed who they were,
…Evil aliens or wickedness and power!

They sought to control our world as it was,
And Lightning Dawn came to stop their cause
It was there that we first gain our powers and might,
And we confronted they aliens and engaged in a fight.

In the end, Flash’s mother had been destroyed,
While her son was attacked, turned humanoid,
His evil power had gone, they were no longer there
But Flash lost his memories, and his mind was bare.

So he lived the life of a normal Earth boy
There were many things that he did enjoy.
Then, a while back, while we were all at camp
The Sirens and the Demonites did tramp,

These evildoers reawakened Flash’s mind,
The memories of his evil ways he had left behind.
His powers crept forth, and while he became very strong,
He chose not to be evil, he knew that was wrong.

He could never betray the goodness he had come to great terms
So he fights on our side against the evil worms!
The battle was won, and victory was claimed
But Flash had been struck, he was badly maimed.

He died right there, he had met with his end.
We were all heartbroken to have lost our dear friend.
So we made this plaque to honor his memory.
And that brings me to the end of this summary.”

Rhymey clutched his chest, feeling deeply moved by his own poetry. The others all felt deeply moved. “That was beautiful, Rhymey.” said Celesto “Very moving.”

Fluttershy held her boyfriend’s hand to calm him, and Rhymey caught hold of himself.

“Okay, what was it that Flash told you, Sunset?” Rainbow asked. “He told me to look behind his old locker.” replied Sunset.

Flash had had several lockers in his time at Canterlot High, like most students would get a new locker every year. So the team decided to visit the locker he had from his first year when he was still originally evil.

There was no lock on the door, but the locker was completely empty inside. “Great! Nothing at all.” groaned Spike, “Maybe it was just a dream after all.”

Sunset shook her head; “Flash said to look BEHIND the locker, which may mean…” she reached out for the coat-hook on the back of the locker and just as she thought, it was a fake wall that fell forward revealing a hole in the solid school wall.

“Incredible.” said Celesto. He examined the hole, “This alcove has been carved out of this solid concrete, and yet it was here all the time and no one noticed.”

“Can you see anything?” asked Fluttershy.

Celesto switched on the built-in flashlight in his walking-stick to see. The alcove was very small, but there was a small metal box inside it.

“What is that?” asked Buddy.

Nobody could tell, but Celesto opened it, and inside was nothing more than an ordinary white stone with a hint of blue.

Twilight scanned it with her alien-tracker, “It’s definitely magical alright, but I can't figure out what it is.”

“I know what it is.” Sunset said as she took the stone, “I used to study these things back in my world. This is a location stone. It acts like a sort of radar whenever you’re near something magically linked to it. Flash must’ve hidden his power away and enchanted this stone to help him find it.”

“Well that’s fine and all, but how do we use it to find the power?” asked Rainbow.

Sunset said nothing, but instead she just held the stone out in front of her and began to walk down the hall. “Sunset…?” Fluttershy called. The team followed her to the front-doors and out of the building. That’s when the stone gave of a dim pulse of light. “It’s flickering…” said Twilight. Sunset nodded, “As we get closer to the power, it’ll glow brighter and faster. Let’s go.”

The team began to wander off following Sunset, unaware that their enemies were peeking around the corner of the building.

“They’re off!” said Keto “Let’s get them and take that stone.” He began to rush, but Bronc held him back sneering “Not yet, idiot! First we’ll let them lead us to the power, and then we take it right from them and use it to destroy them.” By there side was a monster that looked almost like Prospector, except it was about Keto's height but his powers were still as strong. he was Prospector's brother. Name: Digger.

“We can conquer the world for all I care,” Marla sneered, “Just as long as I don’t have to stand next to this ugly guy much longer.” she hinted at Digger. “Well, you ain’t no pleasant company yourself, missy!” he scoffed at her.

The two glared at one another growling fiercely. “Stop bickering!” snapped Bronc “Let’s go!” and off they went to pursue the rangers.

Meanwhile, the rangers had been walking a lot, following the stone’s guidance. They were now all walking in the park and the stone was blinking very fast and very brightly. “I think we’re almost there.” said Sunset.

“I hope so! The suspense it killing me!” said Rainbow.

Suddenly, the stone was no longer pulsing but rather glowing very brightly. “This is it!” cried Sunset “This must be the place.”

Everyone looked down by their feet and deduced the hidden power had been buried under the ground. “I guess we start digging.” said Buddy “Um… did anyone bring a shovel?”

A moment of silence followed as the others all felt very silly. “We were so wrapped up in excitement, we forgot to bring any tools.” said Fluttershy.

"Let me dig it up with my dog powers!" Sapphire exclaimed with joy.

"You're not covering us in dirt, again, missy." Rainbow said.

"Awww."

Rhymey suggested,

“Maybe morphing will do.
We can blast our way through.”

“You leave the blastin’ to me!” shouted a voice. Everyone turned just in time to see lit sticks of dynamite flying straight at them. “Look out!” shouted Celesto, and everyone ducked down hard as the sticks flew past them, exploding as they hit the ground.

That’s when everyone looked and saw the minions and the monster. “Ah, shucks, I missed.” said Digger . “Well just don’t miss again!” grumbled Marla.

“What are you colds doing here?!” Sunset sneered. “Duh…We came to take the power, and you just led us straight to It.” replied Keto.

“Your choices are simple, Rangers.” hissed Bronc “Either hand over the power, or we’ll plow right through you and take it!”

The rangers all nodded at one another, knowing their answer and Celesto and Twilight ran aside and out of the way.

“It’s Morphin’ Time!” shouted Sunset.

*Morphing Sequence, Ready!”

“STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”

Spike poked his head out from Twilight’s backpack hollering, “Go get ‘em, guys!” only for Twilight to shove him back inside where he’d be safer. "Uh, Hey!"

“Alright, let’s rumble!” said Sunset, and the others agreed with her while the villains snickered and Bronc instructed the monster, “Digger, leave the rangers to us. You just get that power.”

“You got it.” said Digger, and he grabbed his pick and his shovel.

“Go!” Sunset shouted, and she and the rangers charged forth, while the minions rushed in as well, giving Digger his opening to run through to the spot.

“Don’t let him dig it up!” shouted Buddy.

“I’ll get him!” said Rainbow, and she grabbed her Sonic Cannon and was ready to shoot at the monster, but suddenly, Bronc fired his eye-beams at her, blasting her over, “Looks like I got you!” he sneered and he leapt straight at her to brawl with her.

Marla battled with Buddy and Sunset, punching and kicked them hard, and while they blocked her attacks with their arms and legs, she tripped them up with her long hair. “Have a nice trip?” she teased, and then she launched her nails at them. The two rangers barely managed to roll out of the way, but as they looked ahead, they could see Prospector…!

“Well ol’ girls…” he said to his pick and shovel “…Let’s dig in!” and he began to hack and plow at the ground, quite skillfully for an elderly looking monster.

“Rangers, stop him!” Celesto thundered from the bushes.

Rhymey and Fluttershy saw the monster and dashed for him, “Oh, no you don’t!” Keto sneered, and he raised his staff shouting, “Surge Song!” casting his mugic upon himself, his comrades and Prospector, increasing their strengths and speed.

“Nice!” hissed Marla, and she punched Buddy and Sunset hard in their chests making sparks fly. Bronc blasted Rainbow hard and Keto took one swing of his staff, like a bat, and sent Rhymey and Fluttershy soaring off and crashing onto the ground.

“Oh…!” Celesto groaned with his hand against his head. “This is so not good!” cried Twilight.

The minions were now stronger than ever, and Prospector was able to dig harder and faster. “We can’t let them get the power!” cried Fluttershy

“Let’s go Able Boost!” suggested Buddy.

“Good idea.” said Sunset “Activate!”

“Able Boost Mode… Engage!”

The minions grunted and stood strong and tall, as they and the rangers lunged at each other. With their enhanced speeds and strengths, their attacks flew more furiously than ever, and the sparks turned into small explosions; the attacks were so forceful! "Let me at them!" Sapphire said. She glowed brightly and changed into a Phoenix and rushed right towards them. "Here birdy." Marla tuanted and she launched her nails at her, but she skillfully did barrel rolls to avoid them and she bashed into Marla sending her flying. Bronc and Keto charged her and she changed into a Musk Ox.

She snorted and charged the two boys and rammed them into the air, sending them crashing to the ground.

While they brawled, Digger continued to dig, and he was now up to his waist in a deep hole, and he suddenly found something, “YE-HAW!! I’ve struck it rich now!” he shouted, and he pulled out was appeared to be another metal box like the one found in Flash’s locker.

“Oh, no!” cried Rhymey.

“He’s found it!” said Fluttershy, and at that moment the rangers’ able boost ran out, leaving them rather exhausted, and the minions gave them all a strong shove sending them all tumbling into a big pile on top of one another.

“Rangers…!” Twilight called.

Sapphire cried out in concern. She quickly bashed Marla away and went over to her friends.

The effects of Keto’s mugic wore off too, but unlike the rangers, Keto and his comrades were not exhausted. “Too bad, rangers…” Keto mocked, “Looks like our little plan worked out after all. Yeah…!”

Bronc and Marla snickered, and then they and Keto regrouped with their monster. “Open the box, Digger.” said Bronc. “I’d be obliged to.” replied the monster, and he did as he was told.

As soon as the lid was flicked open, the inside of the box began to glow brightly. “What is that?” wondered Rainbow.

Out from the box came a small glowing ball of light. This was obviously that small bit of power Flash had buried away, and now the villains had it, and they were all snickering wickedly. “All together now…” Marla said, and she and her comrades all lay their hands on the orb of light. All at once, they were all enveloped in the light and began to take on bigger, stronger and fiercer shapes!”

Marla’s muscles were bulging, and her eyes glowed red. Her teeth became sharp fangs while her pink hair turned dark red. Her voice was now raspier and more sinister than ever.

Bronc’s huge arms were glowing with a dark light, and his armor and robe had changed in color, from blue, silver and white, to black, red and purple, and our from his helmet spring a pair of bullhorns.

Keto has actually grown taller, and was now the same height as Marla. His troll-like appearance had changed, he now seemed much more handsome, but wicker as well, and his staff was now covered in spikes with a large mace atop the point.

Digger had also changed. He now appeared to be more youthful, and his beard was gone. His clothes had all changed as well. He looked more like a dashing young cowhand, rather than a crusty, chubby prospector. “Well I’ll be gall darned.” he hissed “I feel like a fresh gold nugget dipped in polish!”

The villains all snickered and gazed at the rangers. Though they were starting to gain their strength back and stood to their feet, “I think we’re in big trouble.” said Buddy.

“Really…? I didn’t notice!” whimpered Sunset.

The four, super-powered villains stared the rangers down. “Take a look at us now, Power Pests…!” hissed Marla. “This time you won’t escape!” added Bronc. Keto and Prospector snickered. Sapphire stood in front of her friends and spread her wings, giving an angry cry. "Shut your trap, bird brain!" Digger snarled. Sapphire growled and flew right at the villians. "Sapphire, don't!" Sunset cried.

"They're too strong for you!" Rainbow added.

But Sapphire didn't care the villains fired at her but she swerved left and right dodging the blasts and blasted them with her own fire power. The blast struck but it hardly did any damage. But she wouldn't give up.

The rangers, though still a little pooped from their Able-Boost giving out, knew they couldn’t give up or leave Sapphire to fight alone. “Let’s get ‘em!” shouted Sunset. The Rangers agreed, and everyone got out their weapons.

“Summon Weapons.”

Sunset: “Star Scepter!”

Buddy: “Plasma Whip!”

Rainbow: “Sonic Cannon!”

Rhymey: “Raid Blade!”

Fluttershy: “Strong Shield!”

The villains only snickered, and rushed forth. Their newly acquired powers gave them great speed, allowing them to rush right past the rangers, knocking them all down as sparks flew all over. Sapphire growled and glowed again, changing into a jaguin. She roared and flew into the air, diving towards Digger. "Eat this!" He launched two of his dynamite sticks at her. They made contact and Sapphire roared in pain and fell to the ground.

“Call that the quick-draw.” he teased.

Twilight, Spike and Celesto, still watching from shrubs, didn’t like the look of this.

The rangers bolted up onto their feet as well as Sapphire. “Come on…!” shouted Buddy, and he and the others lunged forth, attacking like crazy, only to get punched, kicked, and slashed at really hard by the villains new super strengths.

Fluttershy raised her shield, but Keto took one swing with his mace staff, hitting the shield and making a huge explosion, and then he kicked her back hard.

Rhymey then jumped in to fight for what happened to his girlfriend, swinging and slashing his sword while Keto countered with his staff, like a skilled warrior, and actually getting the best of Rhymey.

He struck the sword hard and then blasted him with magical blast, without even shouting out a mugic spell.

“Take this!” Rainbow shouted as she fired a huge blast from her cannon at Bronc, but Bronc merely stuck out his huge hands actually intercepted the blast and sent it back at her, hitting her hard.

Buddy gave a shout as he tried to whip at Marla, only for her to effortlessly catch the whip in her hands and yanked him towards her, “Heee-eeey…” she hissed in his face, and then slashed at him and his whip with her super sharp claws.

Finally, Sunset and Digger battled. She swung her scepter, but Digger, thanks to his newly restored youth, he swerved and dodged her every attack with ease. “That the best you can do, Lil’ Lady?” he taunted her, and then he swiftly grabbed his pick and slashed hard, hitting Sunset and knocking her back hard!

“Sunset!” cried Rainbow as she and the others rushed over to her side and helped her up, “You okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.” replied Sunset, but when she looked at her Scepter “Whoa! Look!” she cried. It was all dented, chipped and charred. All the rangers’ weapons were in the same state.

“Our weapons!” cried Buddy.

“They’re all busted,
Charred and rusted!”

“This is SO not good!” grumbled Rainbow.

“What do we do now?” cried Fluttershy. Sapphire growled and roared at the villains. "Take this, you pesky kitty!" Bronc blasted his laser eyes at them all but Sapphire blocked and shield everyone with her wings. The force of the blast was burning her wings, but she didn't give in. "Sapphire!" Twilight cried. Sapphire managed to deflect the beam away but she winced in pain from the burn on her wing.

The villains snickered and Digger called to them as he lit up two sticks of dynamite, “That’s easy, just sit back and be blown sky high!” and he tossed the two sticks.

“Look out!” cried Sunset, but as the sticks flew in closer, Spike leapt out of Twilight’s backpack. He jumped up high and snatched the two sticks in his teeth like fetching.

“Whoa did you see that?” cried Rainbow.

“Hey, ya little mutt…!” snarled Keto, and before anything else, Spike hurled the sticks back towards the villains, and the exploded right at them, making a cloud of dust.

“Good boy, Spike!” said Twilight.

“Rangers… come! Hurry…!” Celesto shouted. Even he could see that the battle could not be won, and it was best they all retreated.

“Let’s go, guys!” snapped Sunset, and she and the rangers began to retreat.

“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Bronc, and he began to fire multiple super laser blasts from his helmet in random spots through the smoke, and Keto helped by using his staff to fire more shots.

“Hold it! Wait!!” snapped Marla. Her comrades stopped firing, and when the smoke finally cleared, the rangers were nowhere to be seen. “Dag-Nabit!” grumbled Digger, “Them varmints made a clean getaway!”

As outraged as the villains were, they actually didn’t mind all that much. “We’ve already toasted their weapons.” said Keto “And we didn’t even break much of a sweat doing it.”

“Precisely.” said Bronc “With these new powers we can quite literally flatten this whole city, and the rangers won’t have anything strong enough to battle us this time!”

Marla snickered, “It sure feels nice to be on the winning side for once!” The men all looked at her with strict expressions. “What?”

The rangers made it safely back to base, but their weapons were complete wrecks. “My poor cannon.” cried Rainbow, “When I get my hands on those creeps, I’ll break them limb-from-limb.”

“Unless they broke us first.” said Buddy.

Sapphire changed back into her normal self but she had a burn mark on her side. The doctors in the sickbay bandages her up, saying her was lucky the burns were only first degree.

Professor Brain examined the weapons and assured everyone, “Your weapons will be online again very soon. I must set to work now.” And he went off with his team of scientists to fix the busted weapons, but the rangers didn’t feel too optimistic.

“Even if our weapons get fixed, they’ll just get busted again.” said Sunset “Now that those creeps have Flash’s power there’s no telling what they’re capable of.”

Rhymey stomped his foot in frustration,

“If we’d had only gotten the power sooner,
Things could’ve been great,
But we didn’t…
… We were too late.”

“Is there anything we can do at all?” asked Fluttershy.

Celesto thought it all over, “Much as we can repair the weapons, I really don’t know it’ll do any good. As you said, we don’t know what the aliens are really capable of with that power now.”

A long moment of silence fell. They all needed a plan, or even a miracle! Twilight tried inputting so many computer simulations of many ways to stand up to the villains and their super powers, but not one of them would succeed; every single scenario was a guaranteed failure and would only result in the rangers being destroyed.. except for Sapphire cause each scenario had her using either her magic or her elements as protection. “Ugh!” she groaned and began to bang her head against the keyboard, “Come on! There’s… got… to… be… an… answer!”

Spike stopped her banging, “Well breaking your skull isn’t going to help much.”

Twilight sighed and patted her dog’s head, but this didn’t help anyone come up with any ideas.

“Man!” groaned Buddy “This should be easy. I mean, it’s Flash Sentry’s powers, and Rhymey, you and I faced them before.”

This made Rhymey suddenly realize,

“Yes, we did face it before,
But now I’m thinking of something more.”

He and Buddy both thought back and remembered that Flash was a Crystallite, and his alien form-- Crystal Armor, strong sword-- didn’t look a thing like how the villains looked now.

“Hey, they’re right.” said Fluttershy “I remember Flash didn’t look a thing like those creeps did. Of course I was almost too scared to look at Flash in his alien form.”

Rainbow remembered as well, but now she felt her head spinning, “What are we trying to think here?” she asked “We saw them… they absorbed the power. They have it now.”

"Maybe not." Sapphire said. "Maybe your jumping to conclusions too quickly."

Sunset thought really deeply and even remembered a lesson she once learned as Celestia’s student back in Pony World, “Remember one rule of Magic and Friendship, Sunset: Things are not always what they seem.”

“Things are not always what they seem.”

She was so lost in her thoughts; Rainbow was calling to her and waving her hand in front of her face. “Sunset…? Yo’…! Earth to Sunset…! Are you okay?”

Sunset bolted up out of her chair, making everyone jump. “I want to go back to the digging spot.” she said “I think there may be something we overlooked.”

Before anyone could reply, the alarm sounded. “Whoa! Mega trouble!” cried Twilight, and everyone could see for themselves; the villains were causing much havoc in the city-- breaking up the streets, blowing up buildings, and all kinds of wickedness!

“But, our weapons aren’t ready yet!” cried Fluttershy.

“Oh, yes they are…” said Professor Brain as he came from the lab, pushing a small trolley cart with all the weapons lying on top, fully repaired.

The team was astonished that he got them fixed in such a short time, “Well, I always had anticipated they would need fixing, and I did always work best under pressure. I’ve even given them… eh… er… a special formulated coating so they shan’t burn too easily, but I must say, we haven’t had a chance to test it.”

“Never mind, we’ll have to do what we can.” said Rainbow.

“Come on, let’s go!” cried Buddy, and the rangers all dashed for the jump-tubes, but Sunset stopped at the last few feet and asked Celesto, “Please sir… just check out that spot again. I’m sure there may be something there.” then she was off.

Celesto thought it over, and while it was crazy to leave at a time like this, “Twilight, takeover. Spike, you come with me.”

“Huh?” asked Spike.

“But sir…” said Twilight. “Just come!” Celesto said to Spike, and he told Twilight, “Monitor the fight and keep me updated.”

Spike complied with his wishes, and the two left Twilight alone at the monitors.

KABOOM!! Digger blew up a brick wall that lead straight into a bank in town, exposing all the gold inside. “YE-HAW!” he shouted “My first mother-load! Now I feel even younger!”

Several citizens gawked at what he had just done. “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN’ AT?!” he thundered at the people, and the trio of minions began to terrorizing them all and the city more, forcing the people to run away.

“Who’s next…?” shouted Marla.

“You’re next!” snapped Sunset, and she and the rangers all leapt onto the scene.

“You again!” snarled Bronc “Don’t you rangers get it?! We’ve won this time!”

“You guys will never win!” said Rainbow. “Not as long as we’re still around!” added Buddy.

“Well, we can fix that!” shouted Keto, and he fired a blast from his staff, forcing the rangers to dodge. “Get’ em!” shouted Sunset, and the rangers all lunged into battle!

“Let’s ride!” hissed Digger, and he got out his shovel and pick and charged with his comrades.

The rangers fought valiantly as best they could. Their weapons proved to be much stronger, like Professor Brain promised, but even still, the villains fought more fiercely than ever, still having the upper-hand.

“We were just toying with you before.” hissed Marla “Now have a taste of our full-powers!” and with that, she slashed hard at Fluttershy, knocking her shield away again. She didn’t break it, but now Fluttershy was left exposed, and got slashed at hard by Marla’s claws.

“Hey…!
You’ll pay!” shouted Rhymey and he lunged at Marla, swinging his sword like crazy! Marla parried his attacks with her claws swiftly, but Rhymey actually managed to hit her hard in the face, making sparks fly!

“A’RGH!!” Marla groaned. She couldn’t believe he actually hit her, but she was completely outraged, and kicked him hard in his chest, and knocking him back hard.

Buddy lashed his whip catching hold of Keto’s staff. “Got’cha!” he thundered. “Who has whom?” Keto sneered, and his staff began to glow as he sent a wave of magical energy from the staff, along the whip and right up to Buddy, shocking him hard and making small explosions go all over, and poor Buddy was knocked off his feet and sent skidding along the ground.

“This isn’t working!” cried Rainbow, and she fired her cannon straight at Bronc. The explosions did hit him and he did growl as he brushed the smoke off him, “Now I’m mad!” and he lunged straight at her, tackling her to the ground and knocking her cannon away. Sapphire came charging in and bashed Bronc away. "Ooohh, you're gonna get it now, pest!" Bronc tackled her and just like with Marla they made a large cloud of dust with their arms, claws and legs poking out at sometimes. Sapphire grabbed a lamp post and slammed Bronc on the head with it. Bronc grabbed a bench and did the same to Sapphire!

How she was able to deal with the force and impact? Who know?

“Hang on, Sapphire!” cried Sunset and she ran her way over and jumped up high for a high-jump kick. “Oh, no ya don’t!” shouted Digger, and he threw two sticks of dynamite at her, blowing her down.

Sunset landed with a crash and then bolted upright as the monster came at her with his shovel and pick. Sunset defended herself by parrying his moves with her scepter, and blasted his shovel out of his hand away, but he struck her hard with his pick, making sparks fly and sending Sunset rolling on the ground.

“Sunset!” cried Rainbow, Bronc and Sapphire separated, snarling at each other. Bronc blasted at Sapphire but she leaped into the air and back towards her friends.

“What’s wrong, Rangers? Can’t take the power!” taunted Bronc.

“Well, let us put you out of your misery!” shouted Keto, and he and the others all stood together and unleashed beams of energy through their eyes, making a big explosion and sent the rangers soaring all about and crashing down hard. Sapphire used her magic to create a shield around herself, protecting her from the blast. "Guys!"

Twilight couldn’t bear to watch this on the monitors too much longer. “Rangers, are you alright?” she called into the radio.

“Yeah, in a matter of speaking.” replied Sunset.

“These guys just won’t go down.” said Buddy, “Our weapons are holding out, but I don’t think we can handle them like this much longer.”

“Try to stay strong.” said Twilight. “Use your Able Boost if you have to, but not all at once; just one of you at a time.” She just hoped she had suggested the right thing, wondering what happened to Celesto and Spike. Celesto and Spike had revisited the digging scene. The hole was still there and so was the empty box the villains got their powers from. “Okay, remind me… what are we doing here again?” Spike asked. “We’re going to test Sunset’s theory.” replied Celesto “Maybe we did miss something. So you go in the hole and sniff around a bit for anything unusual.”

Spike sighed, “The things I do for the team.” but he complied and slid his way down into the hole where the box had once been buried.

No sooner had he gone in did Twilight contact Celesto via his cane-radio. “What is it, Twilight?”

“The rangers are in trouble. They can’t hold against the villains much longer.”

“Keep monitoring the fight, and if things get serious tell the rangers to retreat. Out…” Now he was deeply concerned, and was actually hoping Sunset’s theory was correct and that they would find something useful. Meanwhile back in the city, the other rangers weren’t faring so well. Four of the rangers were on the ground, looking weak and beaten up, and Sunset was fighting with the villains until her Able-Boost wore out leaving her feeling weak and tired as well, which gave the villains the opening they needed to blast her hard and send her to the ground with the others.

“Sunset!” cried Rainbow.

Sapphire was the only one left standing with the strain of the battle not affecting her yet. The villains all laughed, “Face it city-slickers,” said Digger “Whoever has the gold and the power makes all the rules.”

The others looked confused, “How does that ever work in this situation?” asked Keto. “Who cares?” said Marla “Finally, after all this time, these little freaks are going to be destroyed.”

Bronc snickered, “And with no more power rangers, conquering this world will be a snap!”

The villains all laughed with the thought of their victory, while the rangers barely managed to sit up right. “It’s no use! They’re just too strong!” cried Sunset.

“Our suits are almost out of power.” cried Fluttershy “What are we going to do?”

Marla suddenly bound all the rangers up in her long red hair, and held them all together. “Take a deep breath, Rangers. It’ll be your last!” she laughed at them, and she began to put pressure on them, holding them tighter.

“What might!
So tight!” groaned Rhymey.

“Can… hardly… breathe!” cried Buddy.

The others villains chuckled, and prepared to finish the job once and for all! "Hey, let them go!" Sapphire demanded.

"Oh yeah, try and make us." Bronc taunted. Sapphire growled angrily at the villains and all at once her elements glowed brightly and bathed her in the light. "What the-...?"

In the bright light, they could all see Sapphire changing. She turned into what looked like Snowflake, except her had black spines running down her back, black tipped feet and appendages and her white wings had a black stripe in the middle. When the light diminished it was revealed that Sapphire had changed into a dragon. She gave a loud roar like Midnights' at the villains.

Spike was still looking in the hole, and Celesto shone a flashlight down inside so the dog could see well. “Do you see anything?” Celesto called to him.

“Nope, nothing but dirt.” replied Spike, and then…! “Wait…! I smell something, something metallic!” and he began to dig with his little paws and he unearthed a second box, identical to the one the villains had stolen.

“Heads up…!” Spike called and he tossed the box way up where Celesto caught it. Celesto then looked at the box closely wondering what could be inside it.

“Um, hello…” Spike called “Still down here. Need help up!” but Celesto was too memorized by the box to hear him, and seeing as the box wasn’t locked, he lifted up the latch and inside was another large glowing orb of light. The light leapt up, up, and then split into six smaller pieces. Five of the lights flew off in the same direction-- towards the city, while the sixth one headed up, up into the sky, and flew off far to the East-- bound for Africa

“What was that?” he wondered.

“What was what?!” Spike called “Help me out of here!”

Marla continued to tightening he grip round the rangers, while her comrades stood ready to fire and destroy them forever. “Farewell, Power Rangers!” hissed Bronc. “It was fun while it lasted.” added Keto.

“Draw!” shouted Prospector! Sapphire suddenly leaped in front of her friends and blasted the villains with a plasma blast combined with the power of her elements. The blast struck Digger and he was sent flying! "What in tarnation!" he cried.

Sapphire growled and rushed towards Marla and blasted her hair, freeing the rangers. Suddenly, there was a bright flash, and the villains all looked up and saw five glowing orbs of light fly in out of nowhere. “What are those?” asked Keto, and before anyone could answer, the lights began to swirl and dart at the villains like pesky mosquitoes.

The villains swatted at the lights as they all flew by, and they all began to spin in circles and crash all over one-another. All of them looked at the lights. “What are those lights?” asked Buddy. None of the others could tell… until the lights swirled around each ranger, and sank into their morpher badges, which made their suits glow brightly.

“What’s going on?” asked Rainbow “I can feel my strength growing again.”

The villains couldn’t believe what was happening either, and everyone, they and the rangers, heard a voice calling to them.

“Rangers…! It’s me, Flash!”

“Flash?” cried Sunset “What’s going on?”

“No time to explain, just listen carefully.” said Flash “I have merged my special power into your suits. Whenever you need, call upon the “Crystal Battle Armor.”

The glowing stopped, and Flash said no more, leaving the rangers astonished and anxious to try this new gift out.

“But how is this possible?” asked Fluttershy.

“Is it even probable?” rhymed Rhymey.

“Never mind, I say we try it out, now.” said Buddy

Sunset agreed, “You bad guys are in for it now.” she sneered at the snarling villains.

The villains growled.

“Ready, guys…?” Sunset asked the others. “READY!!” they replied, and all together they shouted, “CRYSTAL BATTLE ARMOR!!”

Somehow, their morphers had been reprogrammed as even the automated voice called out, “Crystal Armor, Engage!”

The rangers all began to glow brightly as shimmering sparkles flickered around their suits, followed by a wild and dramatic effect scene-- in which each ranger was encased in a crystal spike that emerged from the grounds beneath them. The tips of the spikes then opened up like blooming flowers, as each ranger stood before an exploding background.

The villains glared at the rangers in extreme shock; each of their suits were coated in a light powdered-blue crystal-like armor-- shoulder pads, torso armor, armored samurai like skirts, even their helmets were replaced with silvery guards with visors, and spikes atop the heads, and each ranger was armed with a special crystallite saber, sheathed on their backs.

Twilight witnessed the whole thing on the monitors, and was amazed, almost beyond words. “The power levels are going crazy!” she said with glee. “It’s even stronger than the Able Boost!”

“It worked!” cried Sunset.

“Whoa! This feels so neat!” exclaimed Rainbow.

“I almost feel like I’ve got my Starfleet powers back.” added Buddy.

Rhymey clenched his fists feeling so much power coursing through him.

“Now that we’re back at our best,
Let’s put these new powers to the test!”

“Yeah!!” shouted Fluttershy. For the first time in a while, she never felt so brave, willing and able.

Bronc clenched his fists, “I don’t care how fancy you look in those costumes! We’ll still take you all down.”

“YEAH!!” the others agreed. Sapphire snarled at the villains. “We’ll just see about that!” said Sunset, and she drew out her sword. “Let’s go, guys!” The others drew their swords and cried out like ready warriors!

“Get ‘em!” shouted Marla.

The villains all rushed forth and the rangers lunged too.

Marla swung her claws at Fluttershy, striking her armor hard making sparks fly, but Fluttershy didn’t feel a thing, nor did she even flinch.

“What?!” snapped Marla. Fluttershy snickered, and then gave one slash with her sword, knocking Marla back hard.

Bronc went after Buddy and Rhymey, ceaselessly swinging his fists and shooting at them, but now only did this new armor make the rangers stronger, it made them swifter as well; making it easier to dodge all the attacks. “You can’t dodge me forever!” Bronc growled.

“We don’t plan to!” said Buddy.

Rhymey agreed and rhymed “Take this, you!” and they both punched him hard in the chest and back with their free hands, making small explosions, and severely damaging Bronc hard. The two rangers slapped each other a high five that make sparks upon impact.

Keto and Rainbow stood starring each other down, ready for the fast draw. “Think you’re so cool with that fancy armor?” Keto scoffed. “Sure I think, unlike you!” Rainbow sneered.

Keto growled and unleashed a huge magical burst from his staff straight at her, but Rainbow held out her sword and the blade actually absorbed the power right inside it, and reflected it right back at Keto, knocking him back really hard.

“Wow! Super-Cool…!” Rainbow exclaimed.

Then finally, Sunset was battling with Digger, her sword and his pick and shovel. “No yella belly varmint’s a’gonna me from my gold…!” Prospector growled.

“One, it’s not your gold!” snapped Sunset, “And two…” she paused and gave her sword a huge swing, breaking the shovel and pick to pieces, “…I don’t have a yellow belly. I’m the red ranger.”

Digger found himself surrounded by all five rangers. He was unarmed and had no time to light up any dynamite he had. “Oh, Nellie… I’m in for it now!” he cried. Sapphire came in and powered up and plasma blast and the colors of her elements transmitted from the energy. She fired full power at Digger and he cried out as he exploded and was imprisoned in a sphere.

The minions couldn’t believe what just happened. “Forget this! Let’s split!” shouted Keto.

“Never!” shouted Bronc, Marla agreed with him, until Sapphire and the rangers all turned to face them, still glowing brightly, “Um… on second-thought…” Marla cried. Even Bronc couldn’t deny it now. “We still have our new powers rangers, and we’ll see you again! Mark my words!”

Then they vanished and were gone!

“We’ll be here waiting for you creeps!” thundered Sunset.

The rangers looked all around at the damages the villains had done, and the tips of their swords began to glow. “Now what’s happening?” asked Fluttershy.

Sunset took a good look at the light. “I wonder…” and she held her sword out over a few cracks in the road, and all at once, the cracks were fixed in a glow of bright light. “It’s restoration magic!”

The others stared at their swords in awe and then they unleashed their magic about the town, restoring all the damages done, and while the magic could not heal physical human injuries, at least the city was back to normal.

With all this settled, Sunset picked up the sphere containing the newly captured monster, and made it official. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete.”

Meanwhile, the villains made it back to the tower, and The Sirens stood where they were they were, staring sourly at them with their arms folded, and tapping their toes. “Let me see if we get this right.” said Adagio “You had all this power, and yet you still got whooped by the rangers?” The minions, nervously stammered, and tried to come up with their excuses, “Oh, shut up already!” said Aria “We forgive you.” The minions gawked at their leaders with confusion and shock. “You actually forgive us?” asked Marla.

“Duh!” said Sonata “You may not have a beat the rangers, yet, but you still got these wicked powers, just as we’re perfecting some powerful moves of our own.”

Adagio nodded, “Once we have things perfected, and YOU THREE learn to control your new powers… we’ll destroy those rangers.”

The minions, ever so grateful, got down by the girl’s feet, groveling and kissing their hands. “Thank you, mistresses!” said Bronc.

“We’re truly grateful to you all!” added Keto.

The Sirens only felt awkward.

The Rangers made it back to base where Twilight, the professor and all the rest of the team would have a field day wanting to study the new Crystal Powers infused into The Ranger’s suits.

“This is extraordinary.” said Twilight “I’ve never seen anything like it, but until we understand more about it, it’d probably be best to save this armor-mode as last-minute resorts.”

“Still, I’m glad we managed to fix all that damage.” said Fluttershy “Now Mr. Grandruller doesn’t have to pay for all the repairs.”

Even Celesto had to a agree, “While I am relieved that everyone is safe for now, the villains are still at large, with their new powers after all.”

“He’s right.” said Rainbow “They’ll be back, and they might be stronger than ever.”

“Maybe…” said Buddy “But they know that we have the crystal armor, and it can easily stand up to them, for now.”

"Plus did you not see what Sapphire just changed into?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "She was like a hybrid of Snowflake and Midnight with the Elements of Harmony included!"

"I scanned that form. It's very powerful. Stronger than any other of her animal forms!" Twilight said with her eyes sparkling with glee.

"But how did she turn into that?" Fluttershy asked.

"She looked really made when you all were getting crushed. I think the Elements responded to her heart and feelings which changed her into her dragon form." Twilight suggested. "Either way, it also saved the day along with the second box."

Rhymey agreed, but he thought deeply of something and asked,

“There were two boxes down hidden from view.
Sunset, why did Flash not tell this to you…?”

Sunset shook her head, “I don’t know…” but she was about to get her answer when there was a flash of bright light shining in the room, and Flash’s spirit appeared before them all once again.

“It’s because you woke up too fast, I didn’t have time to tell you in your dream.” he answered “All I could give you was the clues of where to find it.”

Sunset felt a little silly.

Then Spike asked sternly, “The why didn’t you just come to us now and tell us everything?”

“Because my spirit wasn’t free enough without my full power being unleashed.” replied Flash, and he immediately told everyone his story.

“I remember, while still originally evil, I had hidden not one, but two special boxes containing essences of my alien powers. One box contained small powers of my evil magic, and that was the power the villains had dug up. I suspected that they would try and steal the power if they knew you were searching for it.”

The rangers all had sour looks on their faces. “He knew we’d get into this trouble.” Rainbow whispered.

Flash went on and explained, “The second box contained more magical essence of my strength and crystal armor. I knew the villains would never find it, but you would, despite the lack of evidence, because I knew Sunset would understand things.

I knew her for… quite a while, remember?”

He referred to the time how they used to date, which made Sunset fell a little embarrassed, and ashamed as it reminded her of her mean-girl days. “Still, now that you’ve all taken my power, it helps my spirit to rest even more knowing it is being used for good, and with it your enemies won’t stand a chance! Not even with the powers they still have.”

Celesto bowed gratefully to him, “Thank you, Flash. This is truly a remarkable gift you have given us. I only wish there were some way to repay you.”

Flash shook his head, “Think nothing of it. Besides, spirits don’t need that much anyway.”

Everyone held in a laugh, but it still saddened them that he was… dead after all, but Flash didn’t seem to mind one bit. Flash looked over at Sapphire “Sapphire."

"Yes?"

"Now that you've uncovered your new ability. You must take great care of it. Your dragon form cannot be used excessively. You must only use it when you truly need it. As you gain more Elements of Harmony the stronger the form will become."

Sapphire nodded, "Right Flash."

Flash then turned to everyone else. "Farewell, my friends… and good luck ahead.” Then he vanished, and was gone. He wouldn’t be able to help them much anymore, but everyone felt satisfied that he had helped them a great deal.