The rangers’ fame continued to soar, as they became more well-known all over Mystic Island. Fan-clubs, websites, billboards, and even merchandise-- Coffee mugs, T-shirts, caps, and even toys.

These items became really popular among fans of the rangers, especially four girls that attended Canterlot-High, from the Elementary Division.

Applejack’s younger sister: Applebloom. Rarity’s younger sister: Sweetie Belle. Their friend: Scootaloo, and finally Buddy Rose’s young cousin, Daphne Dill, simply referred to as DD.

Together, they formed a club; “The Cutiemark Crusaders” they called themselves, though it was rather a bizarre name for a club.

…Especially considering that unlike Equestrian Ponies from the dimensional universe, humans did not earn Cutiemarks.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle also got a little bit distraught at times, what with their sisters, Rarity and Applejack, being in the hospital after that accident.

They and their friends visited the hospital every other day or so when they had spare to time to give their blessings to the sisters and their friends, and pray for them to get well soon.

Still, the girls were the best of friends, which was part of their club, and another part of their club was helping people out, but most importantly; they all wished to find what their true destinies were in life… what they were made to do.

Their teacher, Ms. Cheerilee was most pleased to see them getting along so well, especially that day when all four girls did a lovely, large drawing of the Power Rangers, their favorite heroes… second to actual Starfleet fighters.

“We drew it because we admire the rangers so much, and are thankful for all the protection that they provide.” said Sweetie Belle.

“And that’s not all…” added Scootaloo “Because they also teach us to hold our heads up high and continue to stay strong, even in the darkest of times.”

Cheerilee was most impressed, and pleased with the girls. “Very wonderful, girls.” she then spoke to the rest of her students “You see, everyone? Attitudes like this are usually the key step towards finding courage and determination, and once you master things like this, you’ll find that nothing is impossible.”

Many of the students found that amazing, but it was the Crusaders whom truly appreciated it.

On beautiful days, the Elementary students had lunch and stayed within their own boundaries of the yard on the other side of the school, which was marked by a tall brick wall with a gate leading into the area. High School Students were permitted nowhere near the area, and the minors were not permitted to leave their territory without an escort.

Still, heir area was fairly wide enough for all as the Elementary division was small. Why Cheerilee’s class was practically the only one in the entire school for that. There was even a little playground for the children all to play and get exercise.

The crusaders had already finished their lunches, and were playing about on the monkey bars with their Power Ranger figurines, which was one of their favorite ways to play as they admired the rangers that much.

DD had a Green Ranger, since it was her cousin who was the real thing after all.

Scootaloo had a Blue Ranger, since she admired Rainbow Dash for a long time, even before she became a fighter.

Sweetie Belle had two rangers-- Yellow and Pink-- she knew Rhymey and Fluttershy were a happy couple, and though Sweetie was still a little young, she understood how happy they were being together, like a Prince and a Princess out of a fairy-tale.

Finally, Applebloom had Red Ranger.

“Hey… y’all.” she shouted, trying imitate Sunset’s voice while playing with her ranger “…There’s a trouble brewin’ in town.”

“She’s right!” hollered Scootaloo as she held up her ranger “Vulcan’s sent another monster. You know what that means…”

The others all nodded together, and held their rangers together shouted “It’s Morphin’ Time!!”

And they hollered about as they ran all over the yard with their figurines in hand…

…much to the annoyance of two of their classmates, Diamond Tiara and her stooge Silver Spoon.

“Ugh! Will you girls, like, zip it already!” thundered Diamond.

“What? We’re just playing.” said DD.

“Yeah, you heard of “play” haven’t you?” sneered Sweetie.

“Ha!” scoffed Scootaloo “You call that playing; we call it acting like preschoolers.”

She and Diamond laughed, but the Crusaders were far from impressed.

Then, two more classmates, Snails and Snips, showed up wearing goofy bowties and jackets, like butlers and brought Diamond and Silver sodas.

“Here you are Mistresses.” they said in rather sulky voices. The girls grabbed their sodas and snickered. “Care to play Butler some more boys?” Diamond asked.

“Um… sure…” Snips responded.

“Uh… what do we do now?” asked Snails.

The girls sarcastically thought about it, and Diamond said “You can start by giving us your cookies.”

The boys did as they were told, and then Silver told them “…Now go wallow in the mud like you were pigs.”

The boys almost did as they were told.

“No, don’t!” snapped Applebloom, and she and Scootaloo rushed to stop the boys from getting really dirty, while Sweetie and DD took back the cookies from their naughty classmates.

“Hey!” snapped Diamond!

The boys were confused, “But we have to do as they say.” said Snips. “Yeah, it’s the rules.” added Snails.

“Well, here’s some new rules…” said Sweetie as she passed the boys their cookies “Go and play in peace, and stop listening to these two divas! They’re just taking advantage of you.”

The boys gasped, and though they usually weren’t very bright, they knew what taking advantage of someone meant, and they did not like it one bit. They scoffed at Diamond and Silver, returned their bad butler costumes and stormed off.

Diamond and Silver were furious! “Why can’t you geeks mind your own business?!” sneered Daimond.

“Why can’t you stop being so mean all the time?” protested Scootaloo.

“Oh, you want mean…?” sneered Silver. Both she and Diamond were looking ready to get really nasty…

“Ahem!”

The girls turned and saw Cheerilee standing behind them, with her hands on her hips and tapping her foot. “Is there a problem, ladies?”

The girls acted sheepish and then zipped away, leaving Cheerilee to sigh in dismay and resume her duties to watch over her students and keep them out of trouble.

As for the Crusaders, they felt really pleased with themselves for helping their friends; just they always did in their club, but today however…!

“Wow, I don’t know about you girls, but I feel pumped up.” said Applebloom.

DD could barely contain herself, “I feel it too. Helping those guys and the many others we’ve helped… it’s like… we can do just about anything.”

“It’s like… we can do so much more!” added Sweetie.

They all looked down at their Power Ranger toys “…Are you girls thinking what I’m thinking?” asked Scootaloo, and the girls all nodded while gazing down at their toys.

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.

Even the Crusaders could barely continue to watch from where they stood. “I can’t believe this is happenin’!” cried Applebloom. “Someone’s gotta help ‘em somehow.”

Sweetie Belle then looked behind her, and saw Red Ranger’s star scepter lying on the sidewalk, and she picked it up. “And that someone is us.”

The girls all saw her holding the scepter.

“Wait a minute! Us, go up there, and face those creeps?” asked Scootaloo “That’s nuts, we’ll get killed!”

DD agreed and pointed out, “Besides, we can’t use that thing. Only the red ranger can activate it.”

"Um... maybe I can help?" The girls turned and saw Sapphire riding on Snowflake. "Woah...!" Applebloom exclaimed.

"Who are you?" Scootaloo said.

"A friend. But no time for intros." Sapphire said. "I can get you to the roof. Climb on." The four girls climbed onto Snowflake and Snowflake flew up to the roof.

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, but suddenly, Celesto dashed into the room. “Twilight, here…” he said tossing her a hard-drive disc, “The lab boys have just finished this program. Quickly, run it into the system.”

Not wasting time, Twilight booted up the disc and realized what it was; a program that would reroute unused computer data at the base straight to the rangers’ morphers, to re-energize the powers a little and give the ranger’s energy a bit of a boost.

Celesto explained, “I always anticipated the rangers would get themselves into a fix, that they’d need a little extra boost of power. Who knew my hunch would be correct.”

“This is incredible!” said Twilight “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 lab boys warned me about this. It was their one slight flaw-- 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!

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 the crusaders, in their ranger suits, masks donned and all and all standing together, holding Sunset’s scepter.

“Girls!” cried Sunset.

“What are you doing here?” called Buddy.

Marla and Devila gawked at one another and then turned back to face the girls. They couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. “A pack of ranger wannabe brats? This is just too rich.” laughed Marla.

Devila’s eyes flashed red, “You believe you little runts are match for us? Puh-Lease… we’ve beaten the real rangers, and if you value your lives we’ll give you one chance to leave!”

The girls were growing a bit nervous and starting to sweat behind their masks, but they refused to go anywhere. “No, we’ll give you one chance.” sneered Applebloom “Let them rangers go, or else!”

“Girls what are you doing?!” cried Fluttershy.

“Please, everyone!
…Just run!” Rhymey called to the girls, but still the crusaders would not run, and just continued to stand where they were holding the scepter out.

“You had your chance…” hissed Devila, and her eyes began to glow “You were fools to come up here, and now you’ll regret it!”

“Girls… Run!!” shouted Rainbow “You can’t help us! Just go!”

The girls still did not move.

“Everyone get ready…” Sweetie Belle whispered. The girls softly nodded.

“Let’s toast ‘em.” hissed Devil.

“Yeah…” agreed Marla, and the both lunged straight for the girls to strike them when Snowflake came flying in and blasted the girls sending them flying back. "Gah!"

"Sapphire! Snowflake?!" Sunset cried. Marla and Devila got up, "Who are you?!" Marla snapped.

"A friend." Sapphire said. "Let my friends go, now!"

"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.