It started out as a normal Tuesday. Sapphire was visiting Sunset and Artie in their dorm room. The two of them tied the knot and were now a married couple.They never went on a honeymoon, they hadn’t the money to pay for it all that much. They were far too busy anyway. Artie had clients to finish paintings for to earn his income so he and Sunset could pay for their dorm room, and hopefully get a place of their own soon.

Sunset was studying to be a doctor, which seemed to show great promise as she continued her work study with Dr. Penny at the hospital, and from what she learned in her medical courses at the campus. She and Artie just wanted to be together and be happy, and everyone fully understood this. "Hey Sunset, Hey Artie." Sapphire greeted.

"Hey Sapphire how are the minions?" Artie asked.

"They're doing okay, getting really good at their manners and politeness." Sapphire smiled.

"Good, keep an eye on them, alright." Sunset said. Sapphire rolled her eyes, "Sunset, relax. They're reformed now and they're my friends. Please have some faith in them." Sunset and her friends still didn't fully trust the minions yet, but Sapphire kept reassuring them not to worry about her. "Yes, yes, Sapphire." Sunset sighed.

"Anyway, how's your doctor studying coming along?" Sapphire asked.

"Excellent, check it out." Artie said. Sunset pointed at each bone and called its name, “…Sternum, Scapula, Clavicle, Mandible, Cranium.”

Artie looked up from the text-book and smiled, “Perfect. All two-hundred and six and you didn’t even look at the book.”

His wife smiled lovingly at him. “You’re going to be a great doctor, honey.” said Artie.

Sunset’s feature changed, “Yeah… if I can afford medical school.”

Artie sighed, “I keep telling you, we can all pitch in and help you there. Why I can just rent a few more paintings to the museums, that’ll cover a lot.”

His wife smiled, but informed him, again, “That’s sweet, but I’d rather do it myself…” and Artie began to speak in sync with her, “…So can really prove to be a real human and earn things for myself.”

They gawked at one another, and chuckled.

“Okay, okay…” said Artie “But, just asking, how exactly do you plan to do this? We can’t ask Grandruler, he’s made it clear he’s pulled enough strings for us. You’re already working part time at the hospital, but that doesn’t pay, and you know that our hunting down bad guys won’t cut it. We don’t save the world to be rewarded.”

“I know,” said Sunset “But I’ll think of a way. You guys always tell me there are ways.”

"Maybe, I cannn..."

"No Sapphire, you are not paying for everything with your savings account." Sunset stated.

"Oh, come on." Sapphire whined.

"Sapphire, I know you want to help, but I have to do this myself." Sunset insisted.

Sapphire sighed, "Alright."

Her husband nodded, “Well, if you ever change your mind, and if there’s anything I can do…”

His wife then shut the curtains over the dorm window, and turned out the lights so it was darker in the room, but not so much that they couldn’t see each other. "Sapphire, close your eyes." Sapphire did what she was told and covered her eyes. “Well… there’s one thing you can do for me now.” she said seductively as she walked over to him, pinning him against the wall by their bed, and moving closer so her breasts leaned against his chest.

Artie’s temperature wen way up, and his heart began to race, but he leaned forward and kissed her deeply, and she wrapped her arms around his neck and held the back of his head, pulling him even closer as their tongues met.

They softly fell down onto their shared bed and were really about to go for it… When there was a loud knock at the door which startled them both, and they both grunted in annoyance. "Whose that?" Sapphire asked.

“This is the FBI.” Someone called “Open this door, or we’ll break it down!”

“The FBI?” cried Artie.

The three friends were was confused and concerned.

Sapphire turned on the lights and opened the door to find three officers and with their guns out too.

“Sapphire Sunlight?” the captain asked.

“Yes.”

“You are under arrest!”

“What?!” cried Sapphire, and she cuffed right then and there, almost forcefully.

“Hey!!” snapped Artie as he and Sunset rushed to the door to try and help her, but was held back by the others officers, “What are you doing?!”

“What did I do?” cried Sapphire. The captain didn’t buy her so-called innocent act, “Let’s go!” and he began to drag her off.

“Sapphire!” cried Artie, and he would’ve have pounded the two officers holding him down, but that would only make things worse.

So instead Sunset wretched out of their grip and made her way to the dorm phone, “Get me Celesto Grandruler, this is an emergency!”

---

“Sapphire Sunlight…?”

“She’s been arrested!”

“I can’t believe it!”

Many students on campus poked their out from their dorms or gawked with shock and confusion as Sapphire was marched down the halls to the front doors on the ground floor.

The rest of the gang heard the news or saw and protested to the officers, but the men just brushed them off, “This is none of your concerns.” said the captain “This is matter of national security.”

“Anything that has to do with our friend IS our business!” snapped Buddy.

“My thoughts exactly!” called another voice. It was Celesto, just stepping through the door.

“Mr. Grandruler!” cried Sapphire.

The others were all relieved to see him as well.

“He sure is fast.” said Rainbow.

Celesto agreed, though he was in the middle of a meeting for his company, when he got Artie’s message of Sapphire's arrest he quickly dashed over. “Now what is all this about?” The captain spoke to Celesto, realizing he had to explain now, “We received a report that this young lady attempted to rob The Bank of England.”

“What?!” snapped Sapphire.

“The Bank of England?” said Twilight.

Artie was very angry “That’s insane and impossible. Our friend would never such thing! You release her right now.”

The others agreed as well, but the captain shouted at them, “QUIET!!” and everyone fell silent “We have obtained positive proof from the English authorities from the bank containing positive proof and identification it was her.” He held up his phone, where he actually stored a recorded copy of the footage from the robbery.

“This was taken a week ago, Sunday night at twenty minutes after midnight.”

All the footage was from the security cameras in the bank. None had been disabled, and didn’t have to as it appeared the perpetrator didn’t get caught on camera, but unusual things did happen-- the guards being paralyzed by a strange ray of light, doors being opened without anyone being seen, and even vault opened wide with seemingly no one visible at all.

The captain then explained, “Our guess was the perpetrator’s suit was specially designed so that she couldn’t be viewed on camera. This was proven correct about… here…!”

The next shot was the battle on the roof, when the guard had tackled the perp to the ground and removed her mask revealing her face, and it showed on camera whereas the rest of her body was still invisible because of her suit.

Sapphire gasped!

The others all gawked in shock and disbelief!

Pinkie Pie looked up at Sapphire, then back at the video, over and over until she got dizzy. “Okay, this hurts!” she groaned as she fell on the floor.

Sapphire and her friends gawked at one another.

“We have more proof as well.” said the captain. He snapped his fingers and one of his men held up a tiny plastic bag that had a view threads of red and yellow stripped hair that were found on the guard the perp had brawled with, which the agents did DNA tests with. The results: “Sapphire Sunlight.” Even Twilight was baffled by this.

“So, all the proof checks out,” said the captain, and he glared at Sapphire “You got away then, but we managed to track you down. You’re coming with us!”

Sapphire gulped nervously. "Not so fast." another voice came and pink hair came out of nowhere and grabbed Sapphire, "Woah!" and brought her over to, "Marla! Bronc! Keto? What are you doing here?" Sapphire asked.

"Hey, give us back the suspect." the captain demanded.

"Why should we, you have the wrong girl anyway." Keto said.

"What?" the captain snarled.

Bronc walked over to them, "Can I see the footage?"

"Uhh... Sure." one of the men, handed the phone over to Bronc and he scanned the video and he made a large screen appear with what appears to be Sapphire on the screen. "Oooh, sparkly." Pinkie cooed.

"What is this, a light show?" the captain snarled with his patience wearing thin. "Relax, this will show that our Sapphire is not the one you're looking for." Bronc said.

"How?" Rainbow asked.

"First of all, why would Sapphire be in England on the other side of the world at night and not have at least one of her dragons following her?" Keto asked. "Her dragons follow her everywhere, even if she stays put."

"Also, since when did Sapphire get a scar over her left eye?!" Marla exclaimed. Everyone looked at the screen and saw for themselves, the Sapphire who robbed the bank had a scar over her left eye while their Sapphire doesn't. "How did you three see that?!" Buddy asked.

"We've been with this goody-two shoes long enough to know she wouldn't do something that stupid." Marla said. She left go of Sapphire while the captain and his men were flabbergasted.

“May I see those hairs please?” asked Twilight.

The men complied and let her have it, and Twilight reached into her backpack and pulled out a handheld device she had made-- a DNA tracker and scanner that could read DNA or lock onto signals from said subject.

“Place the thread of hair here on the green panel.”

The man did as he was asked and placed the hair down for Twilight to scan it, and then she compared it to a file containing Sunset’s DNA.

The Results: “Mismatch!”

“What?!” snapped the captain, but everyone just gawked at him with stern expressions.

The reason it mismatched was because of Sapphire's magical qualities, accelerated metabolisms, animal DNA and super strength.

“Like you said,” sneered Sunset “…All the proof checks out.”

The captain knew he was beat as he stammered, “That is what I guess said. I guess I said that, and if I did say that, indeed… I said it.”

Bronc blasted the cuffs off of Sapphire. “Well, um… no harm done.” The captain chuckled nervously, but Celesto demanded they leave campus immediately, “You’ll be lucky if don’t file a complaint to your superiors about this.”

The officers panicked and left the campus grounds in a heartbeat.

Fluttershy sighed in relief, “That was a close one.” While Sapphire was relieved to be free, she looked really upset and nervous, as did many of the others. “What’s with everyone?” asked Pinkie Pie “Sapphire’s free, isn’t that cool?”

“Pinkie Pie, don’t realize any of this?” asked Buddy.

Rarity contemplated the situation, “Either that person in the video is a master of makeup-- not likely, or…” she stopped and didn’t have to go on as everyone already had the same ideal. "Someone made another clone of Sapphire." Marla whispered.

“A Clone!” said Sapphire “This is-- I can’t believe…” she softly began to hyperventilate in shock.

“Sapphire!” cried Artie as he and Rainbow tried to clam her down

Rarity passed her a paper-bag, “Breathe slowly now.”

Sapphire took a few breaths into the bag and calmed down, but still, she and the others could hardly believe this. Nobody could think that Sapphire could be created... again. Still.. now knowing that she had a clone was rather shocking! Especially since the clone tried to frame her for a bank robbery. Rhymey looked round at everyone and said,

“I think that we,
…have a mystery.”

Celesto agreed, and went straight to the campus intercom phone to contact the dean and cancel the team’s classes until further notice.

“Right, let’s get to the base.”

The team agreed, and off they went.

---

Meanwhile, somewhere in Africa, near Mount Kilimanjaro, inside a small cave...

"Excellent work, Cara." a voice said. Clone Sapphire, named Cara was standing in front of her creators.... Leo and his team!

"Thank you Master." Cara said. Cara looked exactly like Sapphire except her lacked a horn and she had a scar over her eye. Her hair was black as night while she herself was light skinned. She wore a blue jean jacket with jeans and white sneakers.

"Though they managed to prove your innocents, the next time, it will require a more direct approach to complete our ultimate goal." Leo stated.

"Yes Masters." Cara stated in a monotone voice.

"Good, now go get your rest."

Cara nodded and exited the room. Leo chuckled, "Soon we'll have our previous creation back, boys."

His men grinned and nodded in agreement.

---

Meanwhile,

Celesto’s secret research lair was still in operation, deep under the ground of his estate, and connected by transport sliding tubes honeycombed all over the island.

The Power Rangers were no more, as they were not needed, but were kept ready an in wait if ever they were needed again, and the base itself was still ideal for the Starfleet team to hold meetings without being spied on, as well continuing and furthering research with the magic and powers, and how to stay one step ahead in protecting the world from evil doers.

Lightning was notified of the situation and came to the base last, with Krysta on his shoulder. The entire team was at the base, while Celestia and Luna were on video call from the mansion while babysitting Castor and Leliani-- both in their terrible twos.

The two children were running about like crazy and screaming like wild things, like most children their age would. Dusk and Dawn, the Grandruler's Titan Wing Zippleback was trying to catch them, while trying not to accidentally break anything. Striker, the Triple Styrke just watched from the sidelines.

“Quiet, kids!” said Celestia “Mommy’s trying to talk to Daddy.”

The children settled down and called over the video, “HI DADDY!” Celesto waved back at them “Hello, my children. You behave yourselves now or you won’t get dessert tonight.” The children pipped down instantly, and their Aunt Luna and Striker took them off to put them down for their nap.

Many of the team thought the kids were just cute, and funny. “Trust me,” said Celestia as she straightened her frazzled hair “They aren’t so funny when they’re always running about and could break things.”

Celesto cleared his throat to continue the meeting, “Twilight, have you any updates?”

Twilight had hacked into the security system of The Bank of England to obtain footage of the brawl between the guard and the girl resembling Sapphire.

She then ran as many diagnostic-scans as she could, “I’ve got good news-- or rather it’s not really good news, more like strange news, and bad news too.”

“Well come on then.” said Rainbow.

Twilight explained that her scans showed the girl in the images was no wearing makeup of any kind, “It really is a clone of Sapphire. The same DNA codes and everything, except the looks and lack of dragons.”

This was very strange news to hear indeed, and Sapphire gawked deeply at the image of her clone, “I see her but I can hardly believe it.”

“But why would she want to rob a bank and frame our Sapphire for it?” Rainbow asked.

“That’s another thing, which is also the bad news.” replied Twilight “I can’t seem to find any information about her. No birth record, no school files, or even previous criminal records-- if she even had any.”

Spike looked up at the pictures, “Gosh, it’s almost as if she doesn’t even exist.”

"Hey!" Sapphire exclaimed.

"Oh... right..." Spike winced, he remembered that Sapphire was created the same way. "Heheh, sorry Sapphire."

Sapphire frowned.

Twilight then punched up more images of when the guards were frozen on the spot. “According to the scans, they were hit with a focused paralysis beam that neutralizes their voluntary muscles, leaving them unable to move or be aware of what’s happening around them.”

Applejack felt dizzy and shook herself awake. Twilight’s fancy science talk often made her feel that way. “Um… sure, but how does she do that, even our Sapphire can't paralysis people with her lightning magic.”

“It must be by technology then.” suggested Sunset “After all, there’s many ways other than magic to accomplish said tasks.”

The team agreed, but there was still the matter of why Clone Sapphire wanted to frame their Sapphire.

“What should we do about it?” asked Dyno.

Myte then asked Twilight “Can’t you use your DNA Scan to track the other Sapphire or something.”

“I’ve been trying,” replied Twilight “I’ve put the scan I copied from the hairs to the master worldwide search to find the other Sapphire, but she seems to have found some way to shield herself from it.”

“You mean more technology to hide herself?” asked Fluttershy “Where is she getting it all from?”

“I don’t know,” said Twilight “I don’t even know what other kinds of weapons or tools she has or how they work. Who’s knows what she’s capable of doing?”

Celestia had a thought, “Maybe she’s working with someone-- someone who provided her with all these weapons and gizmos.”

“You could be right, dear.” said Celesto “But the only way we’d be able to know for sure is confront the other Sapphire, and at the moment she’s covering her tracks too well.”

The team started to lose hope. Trying to find Clone Sapphire would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack at this point.

“Well, the solution is obvious.” said Celesto “…We wait for her to make the next move.”

The others all gawked at him, and he explained “That Clone Sapphire tried to get our Sapphire thrown in jail, but her plan has failed thanks to our proving her innocent. So, the other Sapphire will most likely try something else, she may even try to confront our Sapphire in person.”

The others saw where this was going,

“We sit by and do our biding,
And force the girl out from her hiding.” said Rhymey.

“Exactly.” said Celesto “So, here’s what we’ll do. You all go about your normal lives as nothing has happened.”

Pinkie Pie saluted “Oki-doki-loki, I have no problem with that.”

The others however were waiting for the catch, and Celesto hated to admit this, “Sapphire... I know this may seem a bit harsh, but I’m going to have electronic eyes watching your every move.”

“Every move?” Sapphire asked.

“Every move!” replied Celesto “Now, I understand how you’ll feel about this invasion of privacy, but it’s the only to ensure your safety and might help us to trap your clone should she make a move and confront you.”

As expected, Sapphire felt very awkward about this, but they reluctantly accepted it, seeing as there was no other way.

"Okay." Sapphire said.

"Don't worry, we'll keep an eye out for your clone too." Marla said. Sapphire smiled.

"Yeah, that's reassuring." Rainbow deadpanned with an eye roll.

"Rainbow." Sunset warned.

Rainbow sighed, "Alright, alright, I'll be nice."

A little roar was heard and little Eclipse, the baby Night Light that was hatched from an egg, flew into the base and latched onto Sapphire's head, nuzzling her head. "Hehehe, hi little Eclipse." Sapphire gabbed the little baby held him in her arms. Eclipse playfully chirped and reached it's little claws out to her. "Looks like someone wants you to play." Starla teased.

"Alright." Sapphire said. "Let's go play, little fella." Sapphire and Eclipse walked up the stairs that would take them to the garden in the yard. Everyone stared at the minions. "... OH! Right, uh, wait for us!" Bronc called and he and the three rushed up the stairs. "Remind me why are they here again?" Buddy groaned.

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