My Brave Pony: Power Rangers Starfleet (Rewrite)
Chapter 8: Episode 8: The Grandrulers' Zippleback
Previous Chapter Next ChapterOne day Sapphire and Snowflake were playing with the babies, Castor and Leliani. The babies were cooing as Snowflake nuzzled them on their tummies. Sapphire kept cooing, "Who are good babies? You are, yes you are."
The babies laughed as their parents looked on with happy faces. "They've really grown on Sapphire and her dragons." Celestia stated.
"They sure have." Celesto agreed. Luna came in and stated, "Maybe you two should get a dragon?"
They froze for a moment "Luna!" Celestia said.
"What, I'm just saying think about it first. Having your own dragon could be good for you." Luna replied and she walked off.
The two of them looked at each other. The two of them had been thinking about getting a dragon of their own, but they both decided that their lives were too busy for them to care for a dragon of their own.
"Come on, honey, wanna take a walk?" Celestia suggested.
"Of course dear." Celesto replied. The two of them walked out of the apartment while Luna stayed, "Awwww, their so cute together." she cooed.
(Que Intro)
Celestia and Celesto were in the park, watching as children played and adult relaxed on the benches. The two of them just stood in the park gazebo. It pleased them to see everyone so peaceful.
Just then, the two of them were a strange noise. "What was that?" Celesto said.
Everybody in the park heard it too, but they immediately ran away, fearing it was another one of Vulcan's monsters. But Celestia and Celesto didn't think this was a monster. It sounded like a roar of some sort. "Let's investigate." Celesto suggested. His wife agreed and the two of them explored the area where they heard the roar.
They traced it to a bush. They pulled back the bush and gasped. One the ground, roaring in pain was a dragon!
It was a Hideous Zippleback and a rather large Zippleback at that. It was blue with green spots.
The dragon spotted the two humans and roared in fear. "Woah, woah, woah, easy." Celestia said with her hands raised. "We're not gonna hurt you."
The dragon tried to fly away but it roared in pain and stared at it's right wing, which Celestia and Celesto saw was swollen and red! "Oh dear, you're hurt." Celesto said. The dragon warbled as the two humans approached it. Celesto got close enough to examine the swollen wing. "Looks like it's just a sprain." he declared.
"What should we do?" Celestia asked.
"Let's get them back to the mansion."
"Right."
The two of them ushered the dragon to stand and walked all the way back to the mansion. Meanwhile at the mansion, Twilight was scanning Sapphire's Element of Loyalty. "Got anything Twilight?" Lightning asked.
"According to the scans, Sapphire's Element of Loyalty has fire powers. Which explains why she turned red the last time she used it and why the shield was red as well." Twilight explained.
"Okay.. so anything else?" Rainbow asked.
"It doesn't look like it, but something tells me that Sapphire needs the other elements to unlock more powers." Twilight added.
"Ummm, rangers!" Luna called. "You might want to come and see this!"
The rangers looked at each other confused and went inside the mansion. They froze when they saw Celestia and Mr. Grandruler with a large two-headed dragon. "Woah!" Rainbow cried. "What the heck is that?!" Sapphire's eyes sparkled and widened in amazement, "Woah, you two found a Titan Wing Zippleback!"
"A what Zippleback?" Lightning asked.
"A Titan Wing Zippleback. Titan WIng's are a very rare type of dragon. They are larger than their counterparts." Sapphire explained and then spotted it's injured wing. "And by the looks of this one, it sprained it's wing."
"We were hoping Fluttershy could help it." Celesto offered.
"Oh! Um, alright." Fluttershy approached the large dragon. The large dragon warbled nervously. "It's alright, I won't hurt you." Fluttershy cooed. Fluttershy placed a simple ice pack on the dragon's wing. "This should bring down the swelling and it should be able to fly soon."
Celesto and Celestia grinned, "That's wonderful." The Titan Wing looked at them and nuzzled them. "Your welcome." Celestia stated.
The rangers, Luna an Twilight all smiled at them.
At the Prison Tower, Vulcan had called his minions before him.
"So what's the plan, Master?" Marla questioned.
Vulcan snuffed, “The last few battles have given me an idea.”
Vulcan went over to the computers and showed everyone an image of Celestia and Celesto, much to everyone confusion. “But sir… they aren't rangers.” Bronc pointed out.
“I’m aware of that!” sneered Vulcan “However, they are tied to the rangers, which leads me to assume they may be in lead with those behind the secrets of the rangers, and if there is one thing business has taught me… “Know more about your enemy than they know of themselves.”
Everyone was starting to catch on to the plan, and Vulcan snickered wickedly as he gazed at the picture of Celestia and Celesto.
Soon, the Titan Wing Zippleback's wing was healed and it could hover without the pain in it's wing. "You're fully healed." Fluttershy praised. The Zippleback warbled and nudged Celesto and Celestia. "Hehehe, awww, your welcome boys. Now run along." Celestia stated.
The Zippleback walked out of the door and flew into the air. The rangers waved goodbye to it. "You wanna take that walk again, honey?" Celestia cooed. Celesto rolled his eyes, but he couldn't say no to his wife, "Alright darling, excuse us." The two of them walked off to the park while the rangers, Twilight and Luna all cooed, "Awwwww."
"Stop it!" Celesto exclaimed.
The two of them were walking through the city by themselves. "So do you think that dragon will be alright?" Celestia questioned.
"I believe so." Celesto replied. Just then, people started screaming and running in a panic. "What's going on?" Celestia asked. The jewel on Celesto's cane began blinking. "A monster!"
"Hahaha!" The two of them turned and saw Marla and her swarm of Lingos. "You two are coming with us." she hissed.
The Grandruler's tried to run away but they were blocked by Keto and Bronc. "You two aren't getting away!" Keto added. The three minions were about ready to take them when...
"Leave them alone!" a voice shouted.
Everyone turned and saw the rangers appear. The Grandrulers' were glad to see them. "Let them go!" Lightning cried.
"Not a chance, Lingos get them!" Marla ordered. The Lingos lunged forth and the rangers charged them. Lightning and Sunset gave them all roundhouse kicks. Buddy did a spinning kick, sending multiple Lingos flying. Rainbow easily socked them. And Fluttershy and Rhymey kicked them. Sapphire changed into a jaguar and easily clawed them with her claws.
While the rangers were busy, Marla grabbed the Grandrulers' with her long pink hair. "Hey!" Celesto cried.
"You're coming with us." Keto hissed. The minions were about to escape when Sapphire leaped in front of them and snarled at them. "Agh! This one again!" Bronc whined. Sapphire roared at the three villains. Bronc blasted the ground in front of her with their laser eyes, creating a cloud of dust. Sapphire roared in discomfort.
With that opportunity, the minions vanished.
"NO!" Sunset cried. The others were just as distraught. "Let's get to the base." Sunset snapped.
Sapphire turned back into her normal self and followed the rangers to the nearest jump-tube unaware that there was a pair of eyes staring at them from afar.... scratch that two pairs of eyes were watching them.
Meanwhile, several blocks from the school near a forest edge, Celestia and Celesto were bounded to a tree by thick chains. "What do you want with us?" Celestia questioned.
"Tell us what you two know about the rangers." Marla ordered.
The two of them bit their tongues. They couldn't let the minions discover that Celesto was the ranger's boss or else they would be all sorts of danger. "Tell us now!" Keto snarled.
"Never!" Celestia shouted. "You let us go!"
"Why so you can call your friends?" Keto taunted.
Bronc was losing his patience, and would have struck her, but Keto stopped him, “Bronc… as much as I would like to pound them myself, we need them."
"Besides I may have a way to convince them to talk." Marla hissed.
The Granderulers' didn't like the sound of that.
Meanwhile, as soon as the rangers got to their base, informed Twilight of the situation and asked for his advice. “If they had been kidnapped by Vulcan’s forces, the computer should help you track them.”
With Professor Brain’s help, he located signs of alien DNA. “They are a few miles from here, near the forest edge, south east from Canterlot High.”
“Right, let’s go!” said Sunset.
“I just hope we’re not too late!” cried Fluttershy.
With the jumps already programmed, they jumped in and were off.
“Good luck, Rangers.” muttered Brain.
Marla had her Lingos go and capture Vice Principal Luna and the babies from the mansion. The babies were crying their lungs out so Keto placed them in a sound proof force field while the Lingos held Luna captive. "Let our family go!" Celesto demanded.
"Not until you tell us about the rangers, humans." Bronc taunted. The two of them were flustered. They could see no easy way out of this predicament.
Suddenly, green smoke started crawling onto the scene. "What the-? What's with this green smoke?" Marla asked.
Suddenly, it was ignited and KAPOW! It sent Marla, Bronc and Keto flying.
The Titan Wing Zippleback burst from the brush and bashed the Lingos holding Luna. "You again?!" she exclaimed. Following the Zippleback were four more dragons. One was similar to Snowflake but it was 2 feet bigger with a wingspan 3 feet longer than the other. It had lots of ear appendages around it's head. It was jet black with lighter spots. Name: Night Fury.
The second one had two heads and was purple with blue spots. It also had two long split tails. It was 66 feet long with a 38 feet long wingspan. It had two horns on each of their heads. Name: Hideous Zippleback.
The third creature was purple and yellow and 61 feet long with a 68 feet long wingspan. Double-clawed wings with two pairs of long horns. Sharp spines and snake-like neck along with snake-like tail with frills. Also, it had barbels along with a nasal horn and it had flammable gel on skin. Name: Monstrous Nightmare.
The last was 30 feet long with a 42 feet long wingspan it is bipedal, possessed winged forelimbs, and is about the same size as medium-sized theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus. Its small yet keen eyes, equipped with poor binocular vision, are one of the tools it uses to stalk its targets. Its body is purple and yellow, with a light beige underbelly, while its wings are mottled, darker shades and purple and yellow. In front of its eyes is its curved nasal horn, which is often used to batter opponents; its lower jaw is shorter and wider than its upper, giving it an overbite. Ringing its skull is a crown of spikes. Coating the tail is a series of spines that can inject venom into a target. When relaxed, its head spikes and venomous tail spines lay flat, and when alarmed, they shoot upward to intimidate its foe. The tail spikes can also be used to make a rattling noise which it makes right before it attacks, similar to a rattlesnake's. Name: Deadly Nadder.
The Titan Wing roared softly and nuzzled her. It walked over to the chained couple. "How you find us?" Celestia asked.
"Not so fast, dragon!" Marla said. She launched her nails at the Titan Wing but it blasted the nails away with Ammonium nitrate mixed with anhydrous hydrazine. The Titan Wing blasted the force field around the babies, breaking it so Luna could grabbed the babies and hide. Bronc and Keto were about to fire on Celestia and Celesto. The Titan Wing stood in front of Celestia and Celesto and roared at them. Suddenly the villains were bombarded by powerful blasts, and sent flying back again.
There stood the rangers, morphed and holding their weapons, and Sunset called to the villains, “Party’s over, you creeps!”
Celestia, Celesto and Luna grinned at the sight of them
The villains were not pleased. The Monstrous Nightmare and Deadly Nadder combined their fire and blasted the villains
BOOM!
The three minions fell to the ground, smoking from the fire. "That's we're done!" Marla declared. The boys grunted and vanished along with her. The rangers rushed over to Celestia and Celesto and untied them. "Are you alright?" Buddy asked.
"Yeah, we're alright. Thanks to them" Celesto replied. The Titan Wing warbled and licked the two of them. "Hehehe, we're okay boys." Celestia reassured.
Sapphire walked over to the four dragons. "Hey Midnight, Smoke, Fire, Flamestripe and Skystorm." The four dragons warbled happily at the sight of their old friend. "You know them?" Sunset said.
"Yeah, they were more friends I made after Snowflake." Sapphire explained.
The Titan Wing Zippleback licked Celestia and Celesto. "Looks like you two have a new dragon friend." Lightning said.
"Us? Really?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah, we saved you and from the looks of it, he wants to stay with you both." Sunset said.
Celestia and Celesto saw the Titan Wing smiling at them. "Don't worry, I'll teach you how to care for him." Sapphire encouraged.
The two of them sighed, "We have no choice do we?" they grumbled.
"Nope!" Everybody replied with a laughed.
The two of them groaned. Their live just got more complicated.
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