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.

When the school day was done, the gang went to check on Sapphire who was on the couch with Snowflake near her. "Sapphire, are you alright?"

Sapphire sniffled and nodded. The team could see her eyes were still red from her crying. "Don't worry, the first day is always hard." Rainbow said. "You'll be fine."

Sapphire sniffled again and nodded. Rainbow and the others gave her a group hug while Celesto, Celestia and Luna watched with proud smiles.

Vulcan was doing some basic warmups to help him get into better shape and even out all the cramps and stiffness he had suffered from being locked up for five centuries. Every other single monster in the prison, not even Marla, Bronc nor Keto had been locked up as long as he had.

He even used the monitors to hack into TV-satellites and watch workout shows to help him keep up a good routine.

“You’re doing it!” the TV instructor said “You’re becoming mighty. Pump those guns.”

Vulcan stretched out, and twisted about as the people on the show did. “Yes… Yes!!” he shouted “I can feel the burn!” he literally could feel it as his hair burned a bright yellow, and his scaly skin sweat.

He was really starting to believe he felt ready for a challenge, when something went pop inside him, and he held his aching back. “A’RGH!! My back!” he groaned.

Keto heard him and rushed in, “Master Vulcan. Hang on sir…” he waved his cane and produced a new Mugic, “Song of Resurgense.”

The power of the melody magically took away the pain from Vulcan’s back, but that was about all it could do. “Thank you…” Vulcan said, rather gruffly “Say, what else can your Mugics do?”

“Nothing really much.” replied Keto “They can make creatures grow, heal them slightly or even power them up, but I can only use so many Mugics at a time. Besides, it’s been a long time since I’ve used most of them; ever since Starfleet locked me up for fifty years. I’m still a little out of touch.”

Despite those warnings, Vulcan already had an idea, an idea so wicked that he snickered softly which grew into a maniacal laugh.”

“Sir…?” Keto called to him “Are you alright?”

Vulcan stopped laughed and glared down at him wickedly “I’m more than alright… but the rangers soon won’t be.”

The Next Day

The rangers and their fellow students were in P.E that day, doing track and field events to help work on their physical efforts. The rangers thought this an excellent chance to beef up their training and to keep fit for when they had to rush into action.

There was lap running, hurdle jumping, and even shotput throwing and high jumping.

Most of the rangers did excel at the events with ease,even Fluttershy and especially Rainbow Dash. Running the laps and jumping the hurdles were her favorite kind of events.

Sapphire, however… she didn’t really do so well. She often got really nervous when in P.E class, despite her Friendship abilities and Ranger powers, and all she had been through… it wasn’t quite the same.

She didn’t run as fast in the racing events. She got the worst timing. She tripped over the hurdles. She could barely find the strength to even pick the shotput put and just drop it in front of her, let alone throw it far, much to the other students’ humor as they laughed at her.

Easily, the most embarrassing was the high-jump. The other rangers managed to leap gracefully and successfully over the bar set at high points, but Sapphire, her nerves got to her again with everyone watching her. She ran as fast as she could, but all she could hear were people making fun of her, even though no one was saying anything, and she crashed into the bar instead of jumping over it, and it was set the lowest possible level so pretty much ANYONE could jump over it too, while

The rangers sighed and groaned at her fumble, while the rest of the class laughed at her. The gym coach blew his whistle at everyone, “Alright, alright! That’s enough! Everyone hit the showers. Class is up for the day.” As the students all headed for the locker rooms, the other rangers helped Sapphire up, giving her sympathy.

“Don’t let them get to you, Sapphire. You tried hard…” said Sunset.

Sapphire didn’t feel any better and just grabbed her new backpack and walked away.

It was lunchtime now and all the students were in the cafeteria eating their lunch... well... almost everyone. Sapphire was alone in the soccer field with her lunch. She was really down. The first two days of school have been a bust. She started to think she'll never get through this. She started to shed a tear and she sniffled.

Then..

"Oshawott?" "Snivy?"

"Huh?" Sapphire turned and saw two Pokemon walking towards her. Oshawott: a bipedal sea otter-like Pokémon. It has a spherical white head with small, triangular dark-blue ears on the sides. Oshawott's eyes are dark and its dark orange nose is shaped like a horizontal oval. Several freckles cover its cheeks which may be premature whiskers, and two pointed teeth can be seen when it opens its mouth. The light blue fur on its body forms bubble shapes around its neck. Its arms are white and rounded, while its feet are dark blue with three toes each. It also possesses a rudder-like dark blue tail. It carries a pale yellow seashell called a scalchop on its belly.

And Snivy: a bipedal, reptilian Pokémon with a slender build. Most of its body is green with a cream underside. A yellow stripe runs down the length of its back and tail, and it has yellow markings around its large eyes. Two curved yellow structures that resemble leaves or small wings protrude from its shoulders and bend backwards. Its slender arms have three fingers, while its tiny feet have no digits whatsoever. It has a large, palmate leaf with three prongs on the end of its tail.

"Oh... hey." Sapphire said as she ate her lunch. Oshawott came near her, "Osha?"

"I'm alright Oshawott.. just... sigh... having some bad school days."

"Snivy Snivy." Snivy said to her.

"Don't worry, girl. I'll be alright." Sapphire said. Oshawott and Snivy came to her side and hugged her as Sapphire smiled at her two Pokemon friends.