The five Pony Rangers were sitting at the kitchen table of the Carousel Boutique. Rarity, whose designation was Pony Ranger I—Pink, was hosting an elegant tea party for her four friends. She transported the teapot toward each of her friends to serve her some tea, asking her, “What’s the magic word?” Everypony answered, “Please!” While filling the teacups with tea one by one, Rarity praised her friends, “What darling manners you have!”

“There’s nothing magic about the word please!” sneered Nightmare Moon. “Besides,” she continued, “why give mere requests when you can give orders instead?!” The Shadowbolts had finished Shadow Bot, which now had an all-new ability. “Shadowbolts, send the robot back to Ponyville!” she ordered. The Shadowbolts split into two teams—one to dispatch the robot and the other to attack the Pony Rangers.

“Can I have some sugar in my tea, please?” asked Rainbow Dash. “Ask properly, please,” insisted Rarity, withholding the sugar bowl from the pegasus. “OK—may I have some sugar in my tea, please?” asked Rainbow, correcting herself. “Of course, you may,” answered Rarity, and transported some sugar into Rainbow’s teacup. “Thank you very much, Rarity,” the pegasus told the unicorn. “I really like this flavor of tea, Rarity—especially with sugar,” said Fluttershy after taking a hearty sip of her tea. “I’m glad you like it, darling,” answered Rarity. Suddenly, everypony heard Twilight Sparkle’s voice on her communicator. “Rangers, teleport to the Power Chamber at once!” said the unicorn. The Pony Rangers obeyed Twilight immediately.

“Rangers, watch the monitor!” commanded Twilight Sparkle, and the Pony Rangers turned to look at the monitor that was on. On that monitor was the new and improved Shadow Bot. “You won’t be able to destroy it hoof to hoof this time,” warned Spike. “I tested your Ponyzords,” reported Twilight, “and they’re fully operational!” With that, she teleported the Rangers to Shadow Bot’s location.

“Pony Ranger I—Pink!” called out Rarity. “Pony Ranger II—Yellow!” called out Fluttershy. “Pony Ranger III—Blue!” called out Pinkie Pie. “Pony Ranger IV—Green!” called out Applejack. “Pony Ranger V—Red!” called out Rainbow Dash. “Pony Rangers—come be my new toys!” ordered Shadow Bot, and made its eyes flash. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy blindly obeyed the robot, but its order did not affect Rarity. “Shadow Bot, my friends do not want to be toys,” she told it, trying to reason with it. Shadow Bot would not listen to her, so she used her horn to restrain the robot. “Leave my friends alone—please!” she begged it, but her effort was futile.

Spike, seeing Rarity struggling in vain to break her fellow Rangers free from Shadow Bot’s hypnotism, broke into tears and cried, “Oh, no! Rarity! She needs help!” “It looks as though it’s time to bring out the Ponyzords!” announced Twilight Sparkle. “Rarity, summon the Ponyzords immediately!” she commanded the Pink Ranger. Rarity summoned the Zords, and then, they appeared before the Pony Rangers. Rainbow Dash’s Zord, Ponyzord V, was red; Applejack’s, Ponyzord IV, was green; Pinkie Pie’s, Ponyzord III, was blue; Fluttershy’s, Ponyzord II, was yellow; and Rarity’s, Ponyzord I, was pink.

“I order you to halt!” blared Shadow Bot to Rarity as she galloped to her Ponyzord to climb up it and get inside it. Once she was inside her Zord, she immediately gripped a pair of joysticks in its cockpit. “Whoever said that robots were for colts and not for fillies was lying!” she announced proudly. Operating the joysticks with skill, she made her Zord gallop straight toward the robot and crash into it. Upon destroying Shadow Bot, she celebrated the Pony Rangers’ victory by cheering, “We won—and now, we have some toys of our own!”

The destruction of Shadow Bot freed Rarity’s friends from the robot’s hypnotic influence. Just then, the Shadowbolts appeared and attacked the Pony Rangers. Rarity exited Ponyzord I to help her friends defeat the hoof soldiers, calling out, “Hurry to your Ponyzords, everypony!” On the way to their Zords, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash fought their ways through the Shadowbolts, punching, bucking, grabbing, and throwing them everywhere they found them. Finally, the Rangers reached their respective Zords—Ponyzord II for Fluttershy, Ponyzord III for Pinkie Pie, Ponyzord IV for Applejack, and Ponyzord V for Rainbow Dash.

The Pony Rangers entered their respective Ponyzords, and then, they heard Twilight Sparkle’s voice on their respective communicators. “Congratulations on receiving your new Zords, everypony!” she applauded the Rangers. “Now, it’s time to park them in their stable!” she continued. “Yes, ma’am!” answered the Rangers. At last, they made their Zords gallop into a gargantuan garage under the streets of Canterlot.

Up in her base in the sky, Nightmare Moon was fuming with fury. “How dare those Pony Rangers destroy my robot with theirs!” she screamed. The Shadowbolts, who had brought her all the pieces of Shadow Bot, showed her how the robot came apart. “Such clean ruptures and cuts,” she noted. She thought aloud, “I just might create a brand-new robot to destroy the Ponyzords!”

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