Episode 1: Part 1: New Girl

One cold night, Mr. Grandruler and his wife Principal Celestia were riding back to their grand-manor on near a side of the island, overlooking the sea, and away from all the hustling-bustling noises and crowdedness of the city. Celesto is a millionaire, business-man, ex-astronaut. He flew on many space missions, was one of the last men to walk on the moon, and served aboard the international space station. A tall man wearing a white suit, and a black tie, a red cape and holding a walking stick. His hair was dyed a very darkish blue. Celestia was six months pregnant with fraternal twins.

Suddenly, something rushed across with road, making the driver hit the brakes. "What happened?" snapped Celesto.

"Something just leaped across the road, sir." the driver replied. The pair looked out the window and saw very strange creature. This one was 22 feet long and it had a wingspan of 42 feet long. It was sleek with lighter coloring and glimmering textures that include white, cream, and pink. It had a long, single spine running down the center of their back and light blue eyes. It also have two pairs of ear-like appendages on the top of their heads and a pink-colored nose.

The creature looked back for a moment before rushing off.

"What...was.... that?" Celestia asked.

"That definitely was not a deer." Celesto added. Just then, her opened the door and got out, "Honey, where are you going?"

"Something's telling there something going on with that creature." He began to walk away, trailing the creature from a distance. "Hey, wait!" Celestia called as she opened her door and followed him.

The creature was walking towards an alleyway. It looked back and the couple hid out of sight. When the creature turned back around, they came out and trailed her to the mouth of the alleyway. They peeked around the corner and saw the creature curling up around something. The two squinted their eyes a little and gasped.

The 'something' was a teenage girl! She was light skinned with aquamarine hair with a single purple streak in it. Her clothes looked really tattered and had holes in it. Even with the creature curled around her, the girl still shivered in the cold air. "Oh dear." Celestia gasped.

Mr. Grandruler started to walk down the alleyway. "Honey, what are you doing?" Celestia whispered.

Her husband didn't reply. He carefully walked down the alleyway. The creature saw him and hissed at him. "Easy girl, easy." he cooed. "I'm not here to hurt you. I just wanna help your friends there." The creature was still tensed until the girl coughed and sneezed. The creature calmed down and looked at Mr. Grandruler. He nodded and the creature allowed him access to the girl. He bent down and felt the girls' head. "She's got a high fever."

Mr. Grandruler picked her up in his arms, "Come on." he said to the creature.

The creature nodded and followed him out the alleyway and back to the white limo along with his wife.

The girl slowly began opening her eyes and she saw Mr. Grandruler and Celestia. She flinched a little and looked around in shock, seeing that she was in a large living room and she had a blanket on her. "Easy little one, we won't hurt you." Celestia cooed.

The girl whined a little, "I'm Celesto Grandruler and this is my wife, Celestia. What's your name?"

"S-Sapphire S-Sunlight." the girl said in a soft voice, like Fluttershys'. “W-Where's Snowflake?"

"Snowflake?" Celestia asked.

"My Light Fury Dragon. Snowflake?" The Light Fury warbled and came to her side. "Snowflake, are you okay?" Snowflake nodded and nuzzled Sapphire. The pair could instantly see the two shared a strong bond with each other. "Sapphire... what were you and Snowflake doing in the alleyway?"

Sapphire twittled her fingers, "I-I don't really don't want to talk about it." she said nervously.

The couple respected her wishes and Celesto asked, "Tell me, have you ever been to school before?"

Sapphire shook her head, "No." Grandruler told Sapphire that he's planning to enroll him in high-school, to help set her back on the right track. Sapphire looked really nervous now. "It's alright, we know some people who we can have look out for you." Celestia stated.

"O-Okay."

"Now come on, let's go to bed." Mr. Grandruler said.

The pair had Sapphire sleep in a guest bedroom and Snowflake slept on the floor, next to the bed. "Goodnight, Sapphire." Celestia said.

"Goodnight." Sapphire said and she fell asleep.

It 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 Sapphire Sunlight. "Hello Lightning, this is Sapphire Sunlight, she’s going to be a new student in your class.” she said.

Sapphire tried to hid 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.

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.

After class, Sapphire was walking towards her next class: Biology. A trio of burly male students suddenly blocked her path. They all looked like they were in a gang; biker jackets and chains on their necks and etc. The leader had black hair and had a small scar on his cheek. "Um... pardon me." Sapphire said shyly. She tried to walk around them, but two of them blocked her path again. "So you're the new girl at the school, huh? You know what I call newbies around here; Fresh meat!” the leader said.

Sapphire shuddered a little, "Please, I'm just trying to get to class."

The boys approached her in a threatening manner. Sapphire's heart started racing and her blood started pumping, "Boys, let's show her what we do to newbies around here." the leader said. They were about to lunge at her when... "Leave... me... ALONE!!!!"

When she screamed alone what came out was a loud male lion roar that sent the trio flying down the hall and frightened the other students in the area. Sapphire stopped roaring and looked at the minor damage. "What happened here?" a voice asked. She turned and saw a tall woman with voluminous purple, sparkling hair coming onto the scene followed by Celesto and Celestia. The trio of boys groaned while Sapphire was quickly walked away to her Biology Class. Lightning Dawn and the others saw the whole thing and were totally shocked.

They were excused from their next class so they could speak to the three adults.

"She roared like a lion?!" the three adults exclaimed.

"Yeah. The boys were threatening her, she screamed at them. Her scream turned into a lions' roar and she sent to boys flying down the hall!" Buddy exclaimed. "I've never seen anyone do that in my life!"

"Oh my. This is a first for me." Lightning said.

"I sensed something was different about her, but I never thought she was that different." Celesto added. "Where is she now?"

"We don't know. She walked away when you three showed up and we haven't seen her since." Rainbow said.

"Umm.. excuse me?" Everyone turned and saw Fluttershy coming in. "Umm.. Sapphire's.. um... crying near my locker."

"Crying?" Celestia asked with worry. Fluttershy nodded and she led the others over to her locker where they found Sapphire sniffling. "Sapphire... are you okay?" Sunset asked.

Sapphire sniffled and shook her head. "Oh, you poor thing." Fluttershy cooed as she hugged Sapphire. Celestia came up to her, "Sapphire?" Sapphire looked at her. "Do you wanna go home?"

Sapphire nodded, "Okay, I'll take you home." Celestia lead Sapphire away while her husband and the others watched. "Poor kid." Rainbow said. The other felt pity for her.

Meanwhile, 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, 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. Vulcan was a humanoid like alien, the same height and Marla. He seemed rather muscular. He wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes. His hands were crimson red and scaly and had sharp claws, like a dragon. His head seemed human shaped, but was red, scaly, his hair was fiery orange with red highlights and stuck up all over like a flame. Yet his facial features were humanoid, and he wore a solid mask like shades across his eyes.

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, a big muscular armored creature, 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, and Keto was a mage, though shorter than the others, about up to Marla’s upper-body. His 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, saw the whole thing, “Very well done sir.”

Vulcan snuffed “At least it stops them nagging. Now they’re the rangers’ problem.”

The bickering ladies appeared on Mystic Island, deep within the city, but remained out of sight.

Devila stretched out and took in a huge breath, “Ah, it feels so good to be free again.”

Marla was still being sulky. “Glad you’re enjoying yourself, but just what are we supposed to do now?”

“What do you mean “What do we do?”

“I mean… how are we supposed to get the rangers without a plan?”

“I was asking metaphorically! Gosh you are such a whiner! I already have a plan…and it involves and old trick of mine.”

She demonstrated her little trick before Marla, revealing she still had it in her. “Hmm, somewhat impressive.” said Marla, but she then grinned wickedly realizing what a dastardly trap they could set. “The rangers will never know what hit them.”

After school was let out, the rangers decided to check on Sapphire. They entered Celesto's mansion and were surprised to see Snowflake next to her. Snowflake hissed at them, "No, no, it's alright. They're my, sniffle, friends." Sapphire said. Snowflake calmed down.

"So she's your..." Rainbow trailed.

"Light Fury dragon, Snowflake." Sapphire replied.

“Feeling better?” Lightning called. Sapphire nodded. “M-Mr. Grandruler, V-Vice Principal L-Luna a-and P-Principal Celestia are v-very nice.”

Fluttershy sat next to her and Snowflake warbled, "She's very beautiful." she said.

"Thank you." Sapphire said.

"Where'd you find her?"

"Umm.... I d-don't really want to talk about it." Fluttershy and the others could tell that something bad must have happened to Sapphire. She didn't want to discuss her past with anyone, which was strange and concerning. Anyway, Fluttershy and the others decided to introduce themselves to Sapphire. They told her their respective names and that they were the Power Rangers, which confused her a little, but they explained everything.

"Don't worry about school, we'll be there for you." Rainbow said.

"Really?" Sapphire asked.

"You bet."

"We won't let anyone hurt you." Buddy stated.

Sapphire grinned at the gang, "Thank you." Sunset and the others hugged her while Celesto, Luna and Celestia watched her proud smiles. It looked like a bright future for Sapphire. The moment was ruined by the jewel on Celesto’s cane and the rangers' morphers flashing red, 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.”

"O-Okay."

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.

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. Snowflake followed her as well. 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 mounted Snowflake and flew up to the roof of the bank.

”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, on Snowflake, holding Sunset’s scepter. Snowflake was hovering over the roof, growling at the ladies.

"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. Snowflake landed on the roof and growled at the ladies.

"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, Snowflake blasted the girls with a plasma blast, sending them back a few feet.

Everybody was shocked!

Marla and Devila charged at Sapphire again, but Snowflake rammed the two of them. "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.” Sapphire grunted in anger and clenched her fists. "I wish I didn't have to do this, but I have no choice."

She dismounted Snowflake, placed the scepter on the ground and concentrated, closing her eyes. She began to glow brightly, surprising the ladies and the rangers, "What's going on with Sapphire?" Lightning asked.

Sapphire suddenly got on all fours and the light vanished and everyone looked shocked.

"Oh..." Sunset said.

"My." Twilight added.

"God." Celesto added.

Sapphire had changed into a jaguar with large eagle like wings! She roared at the ladies, wrapped the scepter in her tail and flew right at them, slashing Marla's hair. The rangers began to fall to the ground until Sapphire caught them all on her back and she flew back up to the roof, snarling at the ladies. "You think you're pretty tricky don't you." Marla snarled. Sapphire snarled and Sunset blasted the duo with her scepter. Knowing they were beaten they decided to retreat. "We'll be back, rangers!" Marla declared and they both vanished. The crowds below cheered loudly in joy.

The rangers de-morphed and Sapphire changed back into her normal self. She looked at her friends and they all had strange expressions on their faces. Sapphire sighed. "Time to come clean."

Back at the base, everyone had the same question. "HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!"

Sapphire sighed. "I guess I have to tell you...

It all began in a hidden lab where I was created.”

“CREATED?!” Everyone exclaimed. Sapphire nodded, “The people who made me gave my the DNA of every single animal that ever lived on the Earth.”

“Every animal?! 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. They treated me like... well... an animal. They put me in a cage for most of my life, they rarely let me have breaks, they would abuse me whenever I didn’t follow their rules and sometimes they didn’t feed me at all.”

Everyone was no doubt disgusted by this information. “That awful.” Fluttershy said, trying not to burst into tears.

“Then one day when I was ten years old, one of the scientists broke me out of the lab and I escaped, met Snowflake and eventually I found the alley and his there with Snowflake, too afriad to show myself until I became eighteen and Mr. Grandruler and his wife found me. And I guess you all know the rest.” The rangers and the Grandrulers’ were amazed and shocked at Sapphire’s story. “So you’ve been living in the streets for eight years!” Rainbow exclaimed with concern, “How come we never noticed you?”

“I always came out at night to avoid people. And with Snowflake's cloaking ability, she can stay hidden in the darkness, so no one would notice her."

"Cloaking ability?" Celesto echoed.

"Snowflake can cloak herself in her plasma blasts." Sapphire explained.

“So that explains why you were so afraid of us." Celestia said.

Sapphire nodded, “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.”

At the Prison Tower, the Marla and Devila reported to Vulcan and the boys. "So there's a new girl with extraordinary powers, huh?"

"Yes Master."

"Well then, how about we give this girl a test of our own." Vulcan chuckled evilly and the minions chuckled along with him.

Episode 2: Part 2: New Ranger Made

The next morning, Sapphire and Snowflake woke up and went downstairs to have some breakfast. When they entered the living room they all 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. She only found their morphers on the ground. "Huh? Why would they leave these?" Sapphire asked herself. Snowflake didn't know wither. 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.

"We were about to ask you the same thing. 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. Vulcan appeared on the screen. Sapphire shivered at the sight of him, "Whose that?"

"Vulcan. An evil planet broker." Krysta replied 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 holding the morphers in her hands.

"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 don't have any powers, except for animal powers. 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 and this was a completely different Sapphire than yesterday. "Then we're going with you." Spike said.

"Us too." A voice added. Krysta, Spike and Comet turned and see Vice Principal Luna, 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, Sapphire flew on Snowflake while the others took Celesto's limo that turned into a rocket. The dragons landed on the island followed by Luna landing 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, they all quietly followed them and it 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. Sapphire, you try to free the others." Luna ordered.

"What about Snowflake?"

"She can help too."

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. Luna, Cadence and Shining Armor punched and kicked the Lingoes. Snowflake smacked a few with her tail and blasted them with her plasma blast. During all the chaos, Sapphire 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. The light caught everyone's attention.

"What's happening to Sapphire?" Sunset asked. Krysta and Spike peeked out from their hiding place and saw her glowing again. She glowed brighter and brighter, until it was too bright for anybody to see. The light dimmed and everybody saw Sapphire had transformed and this one was completely different than before; she grew peach colored wings and a peach colored horn. Her hair grew longer and was in a ponytail and gained light purple, yellow, orange, white and light blue and pink highlight strips. Also, a tail sprouted from her lower back. Her ears turned into pony ears.

"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. She fell to her knees as Snowflake flew over to her while 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. Snowflake, 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.

"Snowflake?" Krysta added.

"She's fast but I don't think she'll be able to catch it either." Spike stated.

"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 on the ground 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, Snowflake and pets walked inside. In the zord was a large 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 detected 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 everyone else 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. Snowflake roared proudly for her rider and friend.

Episode 3: Elements in the Making

Thursday Morning, Twilight and Professor Brain were working hard in the laboratory, within the rangers’ base.

“Right, are we ready, Twilight?”

“Ready, Professor!”

“All right then… power on!”

Twilight switched on the controls, and Spike ducked down behind her leg nervous shaking as powerful beams of energy fired at a monster dummy at the end of the room, imprisoning it in a sphere within a split second.

“Oh, wow!” Twilight cried, “IT WORKS!!”

“Satisfactory! Most-Most-Most Satisfactory!” added Brain.

Spike howled in joy, but then he stopped and asked “Um… what did you just do again.”

"We’ll explain when the others get here.” replied Twilight. After that, all she, the professor and the lab technicians did was ogle proudly at their success.

Later that day, the rangers were all summoned to the base for the announcement of their new success.

First, Twilight made them all view footage of past battles, at the precise moments when the rangers used the Star Slammer to finish the monsters off the first time. “You called us here just to show us all that?” Rainbow asked.

“No, there’s more.” said Twilight “Now you all know what usually happens at this point.”

Sunset nodded, “Just before the monster is captured and imprisoned, it grows.”

Surely enough, the next bit of footage showed just that-- Keto’s Fortissimo mugic working its magic and making the monster grow, thus sparing the creature from capture.

“So what’s all this about?” asked Buddy.

“Well, that’s just it…” Celesto cut in, “Professor Brain has…” he stopped when Twilight cleared her throat and gave him a straight look, “Ahem, Professor Brain and Twilight…” Twilight nodded at him “…Have increased the capturing power.”

“So, we’ll be able to capture the monsters much faster then?” asked Fluttershy.

“Correct…” replied Celesto, and he typed into the controls and showed every one the blue prints. “Once we transfer the upgrade to your weapons. As I just answered Fluttershy, you’ll be able to capture the monsters much quicker before Nacluv can order that they be grown.

So, I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you all the leave your morphers here for a while so we can make the transfer.”

Now the rangers all felt concerned,

“But what if a monster should appear?
We’d be in such trouble. That is clear.” said Rhymey.

“Well, let’s just hope that doesn’t happen.” said Lightning, “We could use this upgrade after all.” With that, he and the others turned in their morphers, promised to have them back soon.

“We better go or we’ll be late for first period.” said Sunset.

“Oh, joy!” groaned Rainbow.

'Yeah! School!" Sapphire squealed as she dashed off.

".....I swear she like another Twilight." Sunset commented.

"Hey!" Twilight cried, insulted. The rangers chuckled and they all walked off together, and Twilight had to go with them. She couldn’t be excused with exams coming up, and the technicians could easily perform the upgrade without her being there. She took Spike with her, stuffing him into her knapsack. She was allowed to bring him to school, leaving him in the care of her Principal Cadance, sister-in-law, Celesto sighed as he watched the rangers head through the jump-tubes, “You do so much for us, rangers. It makes me proud to know and help all of you.”

That day, the six rangers and Twilight all shared the same Home Cooking class and the class was taught by the Cafeteria workers, Cupcake and Carrot Cake.

“All right everyone…” said Mr. Cake “Today, we have a very special guest joining us. Please, Welcome Cookie Dough, Mr. Grandruler and Principal Celestia’s personal home chef.” The rangers knew Cookie Dough very well, having had many meals at Celesto’s mansion cooked by him, while the other students seemed honored and amazed he was there, and they whispered about to one another…

“That guy’s a world-renowned chef!”

“I heard he once cooked for the Queen of England.”

Cookie Dough cleared his throat, “Now, everyone, your teachers have asked me to take part in this special assignment of yours. All of you are going to use whatever foods are provided for you, and try to create the best kind of dish that you can, and I personally shall sample your dishes.”

Rainbow raised her hand “You mean this is some kind of cook-off?”

“That’s correct…” said Cookie Dough “And I’m a master chef, so I have great expectations, but try not to let that get to you.”

Fluttershy already was shuddering nervously as the pressure got to her.

“There’s one other thing…” Cookie continued “If you manage to score more than 90 points with me… you’ll be excused from your written exams and have passed this course.”

Many faces light up with joy, while Twilight seemed shocked of the thought of skipping the written portion, and she raised her hand, “Um… why should we not have to do our written exam?”

Cookie chuckled, “Because, Cooking isn’t really just something you learn on paper. It’s all about making it real. Knowing all the types of food and tools is just part of it, but actually using them is the real task. So, if you get it right… then you already have proven you’ve learned all you need.”

With that said, everyone got straight to work, but they didn’t have to rush as the project would last for a few days, in case other people had to prepare meals that required a waiting period, and at least students were allowed to work in groups of two or three.

Rhymey and Fluttershy worked together, naturally being distracted by one-another, and blushing, but they managed to work well together.

Twilight was working with Sunset, and they had so many different kinds of foods that Twilight literally calculated how many different kinds of dishes they could make and then how they could be prepared.

“Come on, Twilight… let’s just pick a dish and get to work.” said Sunset.

“We will, I just need to calculate how much time we need to spend working on it.”

Sunset sighed, “This could take a while.”

Sapphire was looking through a cookbook Celesto bought her, thinking it would be a start on helping her learn how to cook, in addition to the class itself. She decided to make some cookies. "These are going to be great. Hehe." she said to herself in happiness.

Meanwhile, Rainbow and Buddy were already hard at work creating their own meal, while noticing that Nikki and the Jazzies weren’t doing a thing. They were just standing at their stations looking grimly at the tools and foods as if they had never cooked in their lives, which Nikki suddenly confirmed…

“Why am I even doing this?” Nikki complained “As if theses skimpy aprons and these gross bandannas didn’t already make me want to puke.”

“I don’t touch knives!” whined Amber.

Dionne simply turned on the stove, and the soft pilot light from the element surprised her. “Okay, this is really freaking me out.”

“What’s wrong Girls; you never cooked before?” Rainbow teased.

Nikki didn’t take kind to that and marched over to their station and sneered, “I don’t cook, I eat, and I’ve eaten finer things than you dweebs ever could cook.”

She then noticed a bowl of tomato sauce Buddy had made, and put her pinky in it “So there…” and she proceeded to lick her finger clean.

Buddy quickly tried to warn her, “Uh… Nikki I wouldn’t do that! That sauce has…” but Nikki had already taken a lick, and at once, she gasped, and he face went bright red as steam shot through her ears, and she took off round the room gagging and screaming!

“…Ghost peppers in it.”

Nikki dashed back to her station panicking, “Water…!! WATER!!!”

Panicking themselves, Amber and Dionne grabbed the faucet nozzle, switched on the water and sprayed Nikki hard, drenching her from head to toe.

The entire class laughed at her, but the teachers and Cookie Dough were from impressed. “That’ll be enough mischief ladies.” snapped Mr. Cake, “Your grade as well as part of your future depends on how well you can cook.” added Mrs. Cake.

The girls felt humiliated and in disgrace, while Nikki was infuriated, especially with Buddy and Rainbow, “I’ll fix those two, and pass this course at the same time!”

Amber and Dionne had a good feeling it was time for a Jazzie revenge.

Meanwhile, Keto was demonstrating her new idea to Vulcan and the others. “Behold, Fryer Chuck!”

The creature seemed to resemble that of a large cooking cauldron, with a passive frying pan shape for his head, and his special ability was creating vast amounts of heat that cooked anything it touched, as well as summoning large cauldrons to cook his victims.

“The heat is on.” he hissed “Do you like your rangers charred, or well done?”

“Hmm…” Vulcan said “How about… extra-crispy?”

Marla and Keto snickered along with their master at the joke, "Get out there, Fryer, and cook those rangers good for us. And bring me that Animal Ranger.” Vulcan said.

“You got it!” Fryer hissed, and he prepared to teleport off.

Meanwhile, Vice Principal Luna was out walking Spike, since Principal Cadance was far too busy. “I still find it amazing how intelligent you are, that you still require a walk to do your… business."

“…It’s a dog’s life.” retorted Spike.

Krysta came flying along while out on her patrol, “Hiya guys, what’s new?” she asked.

“More as in what is old.” Luna groaned as she pointed down at Spike. She really wished he would hurry up and do his business, but suddenly, her perked up his head and sniffed the air deeply. Then he growled angrily!

“What’s wrong?” asked Krysta.

“I smell something foul, and it isn’t what I want to do!” replied Spike. Then he took off, yanking his leash out of Luna’s hand. “Spike… Stop…!” Luna shouted as she chased after him.

“Oh, boy…!” Krysta groaned as she pursued after them both.

They arrived in the park, and all three of them halted when they saw Fryer Chuck, with a massive cauldron pot, and a whole gaggle of civilians he had captured, bound by chains and dangling over the pot.

He turned round and looked right at the trio, “Well what have we here?”

“RUN!!” shouted Luna, but as she and the pets turned to flee, they were suddenly surrounded by a swarm of Lingos.

The pets managed to slip past them, being small and swift, but Luna was unable to overcome the swarm and was taken hostage.

Soon, she was dangling over the hot cauldron as well, and the heat was just sweltering, making it almost hard to breathe.

“This ought to get the rangers attention.” Fryer hissed, “And once they get here we’ll have a real cook-off!”

The pets saw everything behind the shrub. “We’ve gotta go get the rangers!” cried Krysta. “But wait… they still don’t have their morphers.” Spike pointed out, “We can’t just ask them to rush into battle without their powers.”

Krysta would have agreed, except seeing all the poor people suffering and fearing for their safety… even Spike suddenly agreed, “You’re right… let’s go!”

Back at school, the period had ended, and all the students decided to finish their food project the next day.

“I hope Cookie Dough likes our dishes.” said Sunset.

“So do I.” added Rainbow “It’ll be nice to have less exam to worry about.”

Fluttershy was still rather nervous about the project. “What if I make some sort of mistake? What if Cookie dough doesn’t like the dish Rhymey and I make? What if he fails us so badly he’ll never let us cook again!!”

She was really starting to panic.

“Calm down, Fluttershy, nothing will go wrong.
Not as long as we work together, things will go right along.” said Rhymey.

The others agreed and gave Fluttershy more confidence. “It’s just a test, Fluttershy. You don’t need to be super perfect. Just pass it…” said Buddy.

Fluttershy smiled, but suddenly Lightning came running down the hall while the period had changed. “Lightning, what’s up?” asked Twilight.

“There’s trouble… Krysta and Spike called me form outside my window. There’s a monster in the park and he’s got hostages!”

“HOSTAGES?!” the others cried softly.

“Yes, including Vice Principal Luna.”

“Come on, let’s go!” cried Sunset, and the six of them dashed off.

While the classroom was totally empty the Jazzies snuck in and crept to the refrigerators where the rangers had stored what little bits of concoctions for their projects to use the next day.

Nikki then held her hand out to her friends, and they each passed her two shakers full of extremely hot pepper flakes. “Let’s spice it up a bit.” Nikki hissed as she began to sabotage the rangers’ foods but sprinkling large amounts of flakes into the foods which would soon melt away, but leave the foods super spicy.

Amber and Dionne snickered.

Later on, the monster was growing impatient. “Where are they? I’m getting a heatstroke waiting for those rangers to show up.” The rangers and Twilight hid behind a bush with the two pets. “Oh, those poor people!” cried Fluttershy.

“We can’t just sit here. We have to do something.” said Rainbow.

Twilight called Celesto on her cellphone and informed him of the situation.

“I was afraid of this…” Celesto said, but unfortunately he could not get the morphers to the rangers yet, “The upgrade isn’t fully finished yet. If we disrupt the process, the morphers could get damaged, possibly beyond repair. We just can’t risk it. The second it’s done I’ll get them straight to you.”

With that, he hung up. The rangers continued to watch the hostages suffering, and finally decided that powers or not, they to help the people somehow. “Let’s go.” said Sunset, and she and the rangers leaped through the bush. Sapphire was about to do the same thing when, "No Sapphire, you have to stay here." Sunset said.

"Stay? Why?"

"We can't let you be left vulnerable without your morpher."

"What about my animal powers?"

"Formable, but they may not be enough and we can't take the rise."

Sapphire sighed, "Okay." and watched as the rangers went to the scene, leaving Twilight to look after the pets.

“You there…!” Sunset shouted.

Fryer turned round, “Ha! There you are. Like moths to the flame.” then he noticed something. "Hey! Where's your Animal Ranger? I have to bring her to Vulcan."

“You let those people go right now!” shouted Lightning.

"Yeah and you're not getting Sapphire." Rainbow added, but the monster only laughed, “Someone’s hot-tempered, and speaking of heat…” he demonstrated another specialty of his by unleashing a heat blast from his very face… as it was a frying pan after all.

KAPOW… there were big explosions that struck the ground, just barely missing the rangers, and still knocked them all back.

Fryer laughed at them, “What’s the matter, not hot enough for you?”

Infuriated, the rangers jumped back onto their feet and charged! “So that’s how it’s going to be, huh?” snapped Fryer “Lingos…!” and at his command, his swarm of followers rose and charged at the rangers.

Even un-morphed, the rangers fought valiantly against them.

“Take this!” Rainbow shouted as she gave a Lingo a good kick in the chest.

Fluttershy was ambushed by two more, “Couldn’t we talk about this?” she asked, but her enemies charged her, forcing her to attack and knock them both down with one swing of her fist, “I guess not.”

Buddy leapt in the air over a swarm of Lingos taunting, “Ever play leapfrog?” He landed right behind them and then gave a swift spinning kick, tripping them all over. “STIIII-RIKE!”

Rhymey was faring well too, as he punched, kicked and tackled the Lingos to the ground.

“You’re going down,
You sick clowns!” he shouted. He almost didn’t make a legit enough rhyme, but it didn’t bother him much. At least the Lingos were down!

Lightning and Sunset managed to break-through the ambush and attack Fryer, but even with their combined efforts, he was much stronger than the Lingos were; skillfully blocking their every attack, and then proceeding to attack them back.

Lightning and sunset managed to avoid getting hit and rolled away from him, regrouping with the others.

“This guy’s tough!” Sunset groaned.

“How are we going to beat him?” Lightning wondered.

“You’re not…!” snarled Fryer, and he used his powers it make another huge cauldron appear from under the rangers.

“Hey!” snapped Rainbow.

The monster chuckled, “And, for an extra bit flavor…” he created a large barrier of flames around the pot so the rangers couldn’t jump out. “The heat is on!”

“It’s getting hot,
Here in this pot!” cried Rhymey.

“Tell me something I don’t know.” snapped Buddy.

“If we don’t get out of here, we’ll be cooked!” cried Rainbow.

“That’s what you get for not having your powers.” chuckled Fryer, and with that, he intensified the heat, “Coming up, rangers stew!”

The rangers were suffering horribly. It was getting so hot it was hard to breath, and all they were sweating so hard it was horrible to watch. Twilight and the pets could only watch helplessly from the bush. “Lightning…! Guys…!” cried Krysta “Oh, I can’t watch this!” and she hid her face behind her wings.

“We’ve got to help them somehow!” cried Spike.

“Yeah, but what can we possibly do!” cried Twilight. She was right. They had no way to beat that monster, or stop his cooking powers. "You three can't do anything but I can." Sapphire said. She was about to step out, but Twilight said. "Sapphire, NO! You don't have your morpher."

"But I have my shapeshifting. That's enough for me."

"But that may not be enough." Spike said.

"I don't care. I'm not leaving my friends." When Sapphire said that, her wrist began glowing and a bracelet appeared. It was golden with a red ruby lighting bolt in the center. Krysta peeked at the bracelet. "Woah, what's that?"

"No time." Sapphire dashed out of the bush and towards the scene.

The rangers were starting to lose consciousness from the heat.

“Some…body… help!” groaned Fluttershy.

“So… hot!” cried Lightning “So very… very hot!”

Fryer laughed “Your goose it cooked rangers! MORE HEAT!” and he increased the heat even more!

"Not so fast!" Fryer turned and saw Sapphire. "So the Animal Ranger has showed up."

"Let my friends go now!" Sapphire said as she clenched her fists, which began to glow.

"Fryer laughed. "And what are going to do about it?" Clouds started to form above her. "This." she unleashed a powerful roar and the clouds behind her turned into roaring lions as well! The wind from the roar blew the monster back and she crashed into the ground. His cooking powers stopped and the people and the rangers were freed, through weary from the heat.

"Alright, Sapphire!" Rainbow cried.

Fryer was not amused. “That does it! Now I’m really getting boiled!” snarled Fryer “I’ll just have to finish you off the old fashioned way!” Sapphire growled and pounced on Fryer cooked. "Pesky cat!" he cried as Sapphire clawed him repeatedly while he tried to get her off.

Suddenly Celesto showed up. “Rangers…!” he called to them, “Here…!” and he tossed to them their morphers, now fully energized.

“Thank you, sir!” Sunset called to him.

“Insolent human!” shouted Fryer, and he launched a blast at Celesto, but he ran for cover.

The rangers clipped their morphers back on, and Sunset shouted, “…It’s Morphin’ Time!”

“Morphing Sequence… Ready!”

The first five rangers morphed, “STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”

Then Lightning morphed, “Cosmic Comet… Power On!!”

The rangers then summoned their nearly supped up weapons. They all looked exactly the same as before, but the rangers trusted Celesto when he promised they had been upgraded. “All right! Time see what these new babies can do.” said Sunset. Fryer threw Sapphire off and she landed on the ground, “I’ll roast ya!” shouted Fryer, and he charged forth, as did the rangers.

Sapphire got up again and she shook off the pain from the throw. This time transformed into a leopard. She pounced on Fryer, slashing him with his claws. "Agh! Get off of me!"

While the six rangers dealt the monster, Lightning leapt over to the hostages. They were all passed out a little from the heat, so they hadn’t seen Celesto giving the rangers their morphers back. So secrecy was safe. “Hang on, folks. I’ll get you down.” Then he blasted at the chains with his comet gauntlets, breaking the metal, and all the people fell with a thud, but it wasn’t that bad. They began to come to their senses and were delighted to be freed.

Celesto and Twilight dashed over, and Celesto said “We’ll take care of them. Go help the others!”

“Right…!”

Meanwhile, the others were fighting hard against the monster.

Rhymey slashed at him hard with his sword, and the monster blocked his attacks with his strong arms, but as an expert fencer, Rhymey found his way around and slashed the monster hard. Sparks flew and the creature backed away a bit.

“My turn…!” shouted Buddy and he lassoed his whip round the monster’s leg. “Here, let me take you for a spin!” and he whirled the monster around and around like a hammer-throw.

“PULL!!” shouted Rainbow, and with that, Buddy let the monster fly, letting Rainbow and Sunset shoot at him with their weapons, hitting him in midair.

“That does it!” shouted Fryer, “Take this!” and he fired the biggest and strongest heat-blast he could muster up, which headed straight for the girls. “No…!!” Fluttershy shouted as she leapt in the way with her shield armed, intercepting the blast and sending it right back at Fryer.

KAPOW!!

“That burns!” he groaned. Sapphire came in and slashed him a few more times.

Lightning rejoined the group just in time, “Did I miss anything?” he asked casually. “No, you’re just in time for lunch; monster soup.” said Sunset “Bring ‘em together guys!”

“Weapons combine!”

“Star Slammer… Ready!”

“Let me boost it up.” Lightning said.

“Comet Gauntlets, Engage!”

“Comet Trail… Fire!” He charged up the Star-Slammer, and the others aimed it at the monster. “STAR-SLAMMER… ULTRA-STRIKE!!”

The monster roared as he watched the rangers slam him hard, enveloping his body in sparks and flames, “WHOA!! TOO HOT TO HANDLE…!!”

KAPOW!! He exploded, and thanks to the weapons upgrade he was already imprisoned in a sphere!

Vulcan was furious, and he thundered at Keto, “Don’t just stand there! Make him grow!”

“I can’t! He’s already been captured! My spell won’t work!” cried Keto.

Vulcan flared up in anger, ready to roast the little mugician. “Yikes…!” Marla cried as she ducked behind a counter, not wanting to watch.

“I got this." Bronc said, he pressed on a remote control he held, and at once a beam of light shot out of the tower, and flew over the sea heading straight for Mystic Island…!

Meanwhile, the rangers rejoiced in their victory. “They really worked!” cried Rainbow. Sapphire joined them and changed back into her human self, “Now Vulcan won’t be able to make the monster grow.” added Buddy. With that, Sunset picked up the monster in his sphere and decided to call it, “Monster Captured… Mission--!”

Suddenly, there was a loud crash, and something huge appeared! “What’s that?!” cried Sapphire.

“It’s a giant robot!
That is what!” cried Rhymey.

The Robotic Knight stomped its huge feet and raised his sword to strike.

“Look out!” cried Sunset, and she and the rangers all jumped away just in time before the huge blade could hit them. Sunset then contacted the base, “Launch Star-Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

The Jets were launched and came to the rangers’ aid.

“GIGANTIFY!” Lightning shouted, and he pressed on his morpher.

“Giant-Mode, ready!”

With that, he grew into a giant, and at the same time, the other rangers combined their zords.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

Sapphire called her "Jaguin Zord, I choose you!" The Zord heard her call and burst out of it's hiding spot. It flew onto the scene and she was beamed into the cockpit. "Hehe, my first Zord fight." she squealed herself.

“Let’s take this creep!” said Sunset.

“RIGHT!!” the others agreed.

The Knight glared at the zord and lunged forth, while Lightning leapt up and began to attack the robot’s metal plating, only to then get slashed at with his sword. “Whoa! This guy’s strong!” Sunset said. The megazord then grabbed the knight by his right arm, only for the robot to saw it with his left arm, creating a shower of sparks. “Veer off!” cried Rainbow, and she pulled on the controls getting the megazord away before its arm was sawed off.

Back at the tower, Bronc laughed, “Thanks to special ore I fused, not only is my Robotic Knight gigantic, but his power is increased immensely. The rangers have finally met their match!”

“Hmm… well done, Bronc.” said Vulcan “Perhaps I’ve underestimated your talents.”

Bronc snickered thankfully.

The Knight slashed at the megazord, bashing it hard back, and kicked at Lightning hard with his strong legs sending him rolling along. "Hey nobody messes with my friends!" Sapphire drove Jaguin Zord hard into the Robotic Knight and made the zord bite it actually piercing the coated armor!

The Zord then tossed the Robotic Knight high into the air. "Woah!" the rangers cried. "Alright boy, let's finish it!"

Jaguin Zord roared, FINAL THUNDER!"

(It works like this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilWP5o7E3Q

The robot sparked, and small explosion erupted from its body, and it fell over and really exploded… nothing fake. Since it was not a monster, and could not be captured, it was really blown to scrap-metal.

The rangers all rejoiced, and as the monster had already been defeated earlier, sunset merely called, “…Mission Complete!”

At the Tower, the minions and Vulcan were speechless. "Such power!" Vulan exclaimed softly. The minions were also impressed with the Zord.

Bronc was upset, "She destroyed my robot with one attack!" Marla and Keto chuckled to themselves. "This will give you another chance to come up with something better, next time, Bronc." Vulcan scoffed as he walked away.

"There's more to that human than meets the eye. Let's see what she does the next time." Vulcan said to himself.

Back at the base, Sapphire showed the rangers her new bracelet. "Awesome, but what is it?" Lightning asked.

"It looks like one of the Elements of Harmony." Sunset said.

"Elements of Harmony?" Celesto questioned.

"They are magical and powerful artifacts that exist on United Equestria; Loyalty, Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter and Magic." she looked at the bracelet. "and it looks like Sapphire got the Loyalty element."

"But how?" Sapphire asked.

"You didn't want to leave your friends, even though they were in extreme peril." Krysta said. "Maybe that triggered the element."

"So will she gained more in the future?" Flutershy asked.

"That I don't know." Sunset said

"If it is true,
We must keep and eye on you." Rhyemy said, looking at Sapphire.

Rainbow agreed, "He's right, Vulcan may want to capture you for your power."

"But look on the bright side. With her power, we'll be able to defeat him faster." Fluttershy reassured.

Rainbow smiled a little. "I guess."

"In the meantime, we should keep this Element bracelet hidden." Celesto suggested. "if they are as powerful as Sunset says, we can't risk them falling into Vulcan's hands."

The rangers agreed and decided they would keep the bracelet in the base in a secure room. Still, one question was one everyone's mind. First, dragons and now a powerful roar "What will come next for you, Sapphire?"

The next day at school, the rangers all got back to their cooking class, still unaware of Nikki’s sabotaging their foods, and Nikki actually came in with a terrine containing an actual dish she seemingly made.

“Good luck dorks.” she teased at them.

“We don’t need luck, Nikki.” Sunset sneered at her.

“Ah, just ignore her.” said Twilight “Let’s concentrate.”

She and Sunset made a special chili, with beans, ground meat, and some of Buddy’s hot sauce to spice it up.

Rainbow and Buddy blended up some vegetables to make a special vegetarian drink for an athlete, promising that one glass would have the nutritious equivalent of a full steak meal.

Rhymey and Fluttershy made spaghetti, with a few vegetable mixed into the noodles, and topped it off with a golden mushroom cream sauce.

All of them used food they had prepared the previous day that Nikki had spiked with hot-pepper, and Nikki couldn’t wait to see the looks on Chef Cookie Dough’s face when he tried their dishes.

“Okay class… let’s taste those foods.” Cookie announced.

He started with Nikki’s meal. “Hope you like it sir. We spent hours making it.”

She pulled off the lid of her terrine, revealing a delightful casserole made with rice, pork slices, and melted butter.

Cookie tasted it, “Mmm… this is fantastic ladies.” he didn’t rate it just yet, he had to wait until had tasted everyone’s dishes.

He tried other students’ cooking. Some were good, some were not, but he gave them all confidence and encouragement.

Then it came to the rangers.

He tasted the chili, “And it was pretty spicy, but not insanely spicy, just enough to make Cookie fan his tongue. “Fantastic! Just like chili should be!”

Then he came to Sapphire's Snickerdoodle cookies. "Ahh, nice flavor, Sapphire." Sapphire smiled.

He sipped Buddy and Rainbow’s drink, “Oh, my! The vegetables combined with the ground up spices; it’s like an entire meal in one drink!”

Rainbow and Buddy slapped each other a high-five.

And then he tried Rhymey and Fluttershy’s pasta, “Oh… Oh, my! This is… exquisite!” he shouted “The mushroom sauce spiced with the pepper, the way it mixes with the noodles and the flavors of the vegetable to reduce spice and sweetness!”

Rhymey and Fluttershy were confused by what he meant about spiciness, since they never added anything spicy. “You… really like it?” asked Fluttershy.

“Like it… I LOVE IT!!” cried Cookie. “That also goes for you all.” He said to the other rangers, “All of you definitely get the passing requirements, and are excused from the written exam!”

The rangers and Twilight rejoiced, but the Jazzies were outraged “How can this be!” cried Nikki.

Amber wasn’t so sure, “I think maybe when they cooked up and prepared their foods, the spices got mixed in too well!”

“No way!” said Dionne “I think I have a book that can totally confirm that.” she reached into her knapsack to pull out a book, but something fell out.

“What is that?” Cookie asked.

Nikki gasped and stood in front of the object. “What’s what sir?” she asked trying to play innocent, but Sapphire picked up the object, which was an empty plastic food tray with a price tag on it. She read the label aloud…

“Chinese Pork and Rice, with melted butter: Simply heat in microwave and serve. Your local grocery store: $12.95.... what's Chinese pork and rice?”

Some of the students laughed, and Cookie tapped his foot in front of the Jazzies. The girls tried to cover up their deceit, but Cookie said to them, “You get A for effort, ladies, but I suggest you study hard if you want to actually cook.”

The girls sighed in humiliation, knowing they would have to take the written exam now.

“I am, like, so embarrassed!” Nikki groaned, and she picked a small bean out of a salad bowl near her, forgetting she had spiked, and unlike the other cooked foods… she got blasted by the spice hard, and took off at a fiery pace!”

“Nikki, here!” Sapphire cried and she offered her a pitcher of water. Nikki grabbed it and splashed it over her face, washing her hat off her head, and soaking herself in the process, making everyone laugh at her more.

Episode 4: Find the Music in You

Sapphire suddenly found herself in a light blue void with white, sparkling stars all around. "Where am I?" she asked.

"Hello Sapphire Sunlight." a majestic voice said.

She turned around and saw a sparkling purple Alicorn with a blue mane with purple and pink streaks in it.

"W-Who are you?" Sapphire asked.

"There's no need to be afraid. I am simply the messenger." the pony said. "I am here to tell you something."

"What?"

"You will discover more about yourself as time goes on and you'll discover more elements as well. Use their powers wisely. I will be keeping a eye on your progress." the pony explained. Suddenly the pony, burst into white light and Sapphire woke up in a shock. She caught her breath and she looked out the window at the afternoon sun. "Who was that?"

It was Tuesday evening in Mystic Island and the rangers were at Grandruler's manor having a nice dinner. "Hey Sunset, What are you going to do on the talent show on Thursday?" Lightning asked.

"Hmmm, I don't know." Sunset replied.

"Well, I'm gonna play my awesome guitar skills." Rainbow bragged. The rangers rolled their eyes at Rainbow's bragging.

"Sapphire, what are you gonna do?" Rainbow asked. Sapphire looked up from her plate with a sad expression. "Ummm. I.....don't think I'll enter." she replied.

The friends gasped in shock and confusion, "Not enter, why not?" Buddy asked.

"I don't have a talent to show." Sapphire replied.

"That can't be true! Sapphire, everybody has a talent." Lightning reassured.

"Everyone has a talent to show,
There are many things that you know." Rhymey added.

"Yea, you're good with your raptors. Maybe she could use that in the talent show." Rainbow suggested.

"She can't, Fluttershy is already good with animals. If she does that, it won't be that good or entertaining." Lightning objected.

"What about her magic?" Sunset wondered.

"Sunset, she still needs to train more with her magic." Celesto pointed out. Sunset sighed. "Well is she can't do that, then what can she do?"

Sapphire sighed. "I'm gonna go to bed, guys. Night." Sapphire walked upstairs, leaving her friends, feeling a little sad, for their friend.

Marla, Bronc and Keto were walking down the hallway of the Prison tower looking at all of the creatures inside.

"Too ugly."

"Too bulky."

"Ugh, Too lame."

"None of these monsters are useful!" Keto cried.

"They couldn't even beat the rangers' grandmothers." Bronc added.

"ENOUGH!" Vulcan yelled, scaring the minions into gaining their attention. They found him standing in the end of the hall. "I've found a monster that's sure to crush those pesky rangers." He opened the cell and a monster came out.

The creature resembled a large music book with a music note for a head. It's special ability was making loud, irritating music that would render its victims powerless. It's name was Singer.

"I'm at your service, Master Vulcan ." Singer said.

"Good. Now make those rangers pay for all the trouble they've caused me!" he ordered. "You've got it." Singer replied and teleported away.

The next morning, Sapphire and Sunset were in history class, their last class of the day. Lightning passed out a test to everybody and by the end of the class, everybody was done. "Pass your tests to the front please." Lightning called.

After the school bell rung, Sapphire was walking by herself when Nikki and the Jazzies came up to her. "Hey Sapphire, word is, that you're not participating in the talent show. Too bad, a nobody like you could never outshine me at anything." Nikki taunted. Amber and Dionne laughed at her. She tried her hardest not to cry, even with tears forming in her eye. "HEY!" The girls turned and saw Sunset and the rest of her friends walking behind Sapphire. "You leave her alone." Sunset said.

"And just so you know Sapphire is entering the talent show and she will win!" Buddy said.

Nikki scoffed and walked off with Amber and Dionne following. Sapphire turned to her friends, "But guys, I don't have a talent.”

"Sapphire, you do have a talent. You've just haven't found it yet." Sunset replied.

"Yeah. One day you'll find your talent." Rainbow added. Sapphire smiled. Suddenly, the rangers coms began beeping.

"Rangers there's a monster terrorizing downtown. Check it out!" Celesto said.

"Let's go!" Lightning said. The rangers dashed off to downtown and sported the monster. "Hey!" Sunset yelled.

"Ah. Looks like I've found an audience." Singer said. "And now for my owning act...Lingos attack!" Singer made Lingos appear and they charged the rangers.

"STARFLEET MAGIC....POWER ON!!!"

"Cosmic Comet....Power On!!!"

The rangers charged through the Lingos and attacked Singer. Singer blocked every attack they threw and blasted them.

"Time to sing." Singer declared.

Singer blasted out sound waves and the rangers stopped and dropped to the floor in pain.

"Ahhh! My ears!" Lightning cried.

"This....is...torture!" Rainbow added.

Sapphire's Element of Loyalty glowed and covered her in a red magic shield, protecting her from the music's affects. Singer laughed and blasted near the rangers sending them flying. “No! Guys!” she cried.

“Hey! How come you're not on the floor, ranger? No matter, I’ll just destroy you the old fashion way.” Before Singer could do anything, Sapphire turned into a falcon and launched flaming energy rings at Singer, blasting him away from the rangers. She swooped down, grabbed them and flew off. "No!” Singer cried in frustration. “Well they'll be back."

Back at the base, the rangers were resting their eardrums. "Man, his music is awful!" Lightning declared.

"It's like nails on a chalkboard." Buddy added.

"Ugh, Agreed." Sunset said.

“How come Sapphire wasn’t affected by his music?” Rainbow asked.

Twilight replayed the footage of the battle, "It looks like her Element somehow protected her from the monsters' music."

"How are we gonna beat him?" Sunset asked. Twilight came in with a scanned of the monster. "Guys. I found that the only weakness this monster has in smooth, gentle music."

"So, we have to sing something smooth and gentle to render his attack powerless!" Rainbow concluded. “Easy!”

"Only one problem....if you guys are fighting, who's going to be singing?" Spike asked. The rangers realized he was right. They can't sing and fight at the same time. That shot down Rainbow's enthusiasm. "Then what do we do?" Fluttershy asked. The rangers thought hard until Spike's ears perked up. "Spike what is it?" Krysta asked.

"I heard some....singing." Spike replied.

"Singing?!" The rangers repeated. Following Spike, the rangers traced the singing to the lab. The lab workers were absent. Inside they found an unlikely and amazing sight....

.....It was Sapphire singing a beautiful song:

As she was singing, everyone could see a string of magic coming out her chest. The string moved along the floor, creating flowers and plants, surprising everybody.

When she stopped singing, she heard clapping behind and quickly turned around and found her friends and Celesto looking at her. She immediately blushed with embarrassment.

"H-How long have you all been standing there?" she asked.

"Oh, just long enough to hear what a. amazing voice you have." Krysta complimented.

"Where did you learn that?" Lightning asked.

"One of the scientist sang it to me every night when I was younger. It helped me go to sleep." Sapphire replied.

"How'd make flowers grow with you singing?" Buddy asked.

"That's a new one for me." Sapphire replied.

"Maybe it's another power you unlocked?" Sunset suggested.

"That does make the most sense." Krysta agreed.

"Well, you've got a voice is smooth and gentle." Spike said.

Hearing that, Twilight suddenly cried, "THAT'S IT!" Her sudden shout frightened the rangers for a second. "What's it?" Sunset asked.

"If Sapphire sings while you guys are battling them, the monster will be powerless.” Everybody was on board with the plan, expect for Sapphire. "M-Me! Sing! Oh....I don't know. I-I never sang in front anyone before." she said. Sunset could tell that she was letting her shyness take hold. "Sapphire, you can do, you just have to close your eyes and sing." she added.

"That's it?" Sapphire asked and Sunset nodded.

"Okay. I'll do it!" Sapphire declared. The rangers cheered for joy. Now they had a new plan to take down Singer.

Meanwhile, in town, Singer was using his power to hurt people. They all fell to the ground, holding their ears.

He sighed irritably. "Ugh! What's taking them so long?"

"HEY!" a voice shouted. Singer turned and saw all the rangers running towards him fully-morphed.

"Ah, finally! Now, let's finish what we started." Singer said.

"Bring it!" Sunset countered. The rangers all charged Singer. Rhymey tired slashing him with his sword, but Singer blocked every attempt.

Buddy tried his whip, but Singer grabbed it and pulled Buddy towards him and punched Buddy, sending him flying back.

Sunset tried her scepter, but Singer blocked that attack as well. Sunset regrouped with the others.

"This guy's tough." Sunset groaned.

"Now, let's add some music to this show." Singer activated his sound waves and once again, the rangers fell to the ground in pain. Vulcan and his minions were watching via the monitors. "Finally, we'll get rid of the rangers for good!" Marla cried.

Singer approached the rangers, preparing for the final move. "Time to end you rangers." he said.

Suddenly,

"Hush little one and say good night,
Dream of two hearts side by side~"

"Huh, what is that horrible sound?" Singer asked. Singer turned and saw Sapphire walking towards her friends while singing. Her voice began to corrupt his soundwaves, freeing the rangers.

"No! You ruined my plan!" Singer cried.

Sapphire continued to sing, much to Singer’s annoyance.

"Hush little one and say good night,
Two stars shine as one tonight,
So make a wish and close your eyes,
And may your wish come true tonight~"

Singer tried to attack her, but the rangers blasted him with their weapons, "This isn't sounding good at all!" Singer said.

"Bring them together!" Sunset called.

"Hush little one,
Goodnight-"

“Weapons Combine…!”

“Star Slammer… Ready!”

Singer whimpered.

“STAR SLAMMER, ULTRA-STRIKE!” The blast hit Singer and he went up in a huge explosion. The rangers all rejoiced.

"Keto!" Vulcan called.

"On it! FORTISSIMO!!” Keto launched his magical Mugic out and off to Singer's aid…

.....Singer turned into a giant! "Time for an encore!" he thundered. The rangers all gawked. Sunset contacted the base, “Launch Star Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

As the base, the jets were already well prepped up and launched at once through the tunnel.

The jets arrived near the beach in almost no time, and the rangers beamed into their cockpits. “Okay, let's end this creep's music career!” said Sunset.

“Zords Combine!”

“Comet Striker, Armor up!” Lightning shouted as he grew big and his armor encased him.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Comet Striker… Ready!”

Once the megazords was fully mobilized, it was time to brawl. Singer charged at the rangers and the megazord tried slashing him but Singer blocked the attack and bashed the megazord. Lightning tried attacking from behind but Singer turned around and dodged him then kicked him, sending him rolling across the ground. Singer then punched the megazord again, rocking the rangers inside.

"This isn't working!" Sunset cried.

Lightning help the megazord to it's feet. "Keep trying!" Lightning replied. All the while, Sapphire watched from the ground. "I've got to help them, but how?"

Just then, she heard something coming towards her. Turning around, Sapphire was a large wolf Zord. It was green with white paws and a white tip at it's tail. "Woah, a Dire Wolf Zord." she gasped. The Zord howled and beamed Sapphire into the cockpit. "Alright big boy, let's fight!"

Lightning and the megazord were looking really beat up. Now they were laying on the ground to damaged and exhausted to fight back.

"What are we gonna do?" cried Fluttershy. Singer snickered wickedly, "Time to end your careers, rangers." Singer rushed towards the megazords, ready for the kill.

"Watch out!" Rainbow cried.

Suddenly, a blur bashed into Singer, knocking him away from the rangers. The rangers and Lightning looked and saw Dire Wolf Zord. "Leave my friends alone!" Sapphire yelled.

"Sapphire?!" the rangers exclaimed. Singer got back onto his feet, furious! "Your little dog's got nothing on me!" he sneered. Singer charged the Zord but it howled and leaped high into the sky, The Zord spun around and lasers came out of it's tail and hit Singer, exploding on impact. The Zord growled at Singer,

"HOWL PULSE!!!"

The Zord howled and a stream of rings came out of it's mouth, damaging Singer even more.

"Alright Sapphire!" Lightning cried.

“That’s the way!” Buddy added.

The Zord snarled and rushed at Singer, it leaped up and bit him with it's powerful, sharp teeth. Singer struggled to free himself, but it was in vain. Sapphire was getting rocked inside with all the shaking and turning. "Finish him you guys! Hurry!" she called, struggling to keep a tight grip.

“Tractor-beams, capture-mode, ready!” Sunset said.

“Tractor-beam Engage!”

“FIRE!!”

The megazord launched their beams at the weakened monster, at the last second the Zord released it's hold on Singer and leaped out of the way. It beam blasted him hard and actually shrinking him down. Singer was imprisoned and beamed into Sunset’s cockpit. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”

The rangers cheered and the Zord howled in victory.

At the tower, Vulacn was not happy with the minions. "You three never succeed in beating the rangers!" he thundered.

"It's not our fault, it's the prisoners and the pesky Animal Ranger!" Marla replied. Vulcan flared up, looking ready to fry them, when he suddenly calmed down, much to the minions relief. "Well, then... I'll just have to make an adjustment to the Animal Ranger then." The minions didn't know what he was talking about, but judging by the way he was laughing it would be bad new for Sapphire.

Back at the base, Sapphire spoke to the gang, “Guys, I think I’m gonna enter the talent show.”

“Really?” Rainbow said. "What made you change your mind?"

"I just thought I should a least try to sing for the talent show. If I can sing in front of my friends, then I can sing in front of a crowd of people." The rangers were happy Sapphire was going to enter the Talent Show.

That night, the talent show was in full swing! Lightning was in audience along with Celesto, Celestia and their babies.

As planned, Rainbow played her guitar, Buddy painted one marvelous painting and Rhymey and Fluttershy both did a small tap dance.

It was Nikki's turn now. She was wearing high heel shoes with a blue dress with sparkles and had a necklace around her neck.

Nikki sang a song about....well....herself.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IeL_pctMMc

The crowd clapped for her and she went backstage where Sapphire was; she was wearing a white dress with pink and purple striped on it. "Beat that." Nikki taunted.

Sapphire gulped and took a deep breath.

"And now for our final performance give it up for Sapphire!" Twilight announced. Sapphire came out on stage and remembered what Twilight said and she started to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcOrOBEdGg

Just like in the lab, a string of magic came out of Sapphire's chest and once again made flowers appear. The crowd gazed in awe as Sapphire continued.

She ended the song and the flowers disappeared. The crowd stood up and roared with applause, the rangers even shed some tears. All the competitors stood on stage, "And now the winner of the Canterlot High Talent Show is... Sapphire Sunlight!" Twilight announced. The crowd burst into applause and Sapphire was shocked that she won. Twilight came in front of Comet with a trophy reading "First place winner!" The other rangers came on stage and hugged Sapphire. “Way to go, Sapphire! You won!” Sunset cheered.

Sapphire blushed. “Yeah… I guess I did.”

Nikki, on the other hand, was far from happy, "What how could she have beaten me?" she asked.

"Well it could be that I'm not a self-absorbed diva..... like you." Sapphire replied.

Nikki gasped and nearly felt like fainting, and she did, right into Amber and Dionne’s arms.

“Oh, you are so going to rue the day you said that to us!” growled Amber.

“Totally.” added Dionne, and then she and Amber dragged their miserable leader away, much to the gang’s humor, and they shared a good laugh.