Episode 2

"New Team, New Powers"


Friendship. It is a thing that all humans do. People interact, share stories, and most of all, create lasting relationships. It is an amazing thing to have.

However, is it powerful enough to save a life? Can one kind act change a person's day?


[Beginning of Episode]

When we last left our heroes, they are being confronted by a monster who is holding them hostage. It has eight tentacles, each holding a girl, a friend, and a colored crystal. They scream as they were flung around by the thing that is binding them.

Rainbow Dash is angry. This the first day of school, and this thing just had to happen to her. Each of her friends, who she only knew today, are stuck and she doesn't know why. The anger stuck to her head like a very clingy person. There was something about these girls that made her feel this way. She understands why she cares about Fluttershy so much; she's one of her childhood friends. But all these other girls? She has no clue.

"My name is Tentagirl," the monster said with a motherly voice. She walks forward slowly towards both Rainbow and Thunderlane. "I came to this building in search of five crystals similar to the one you're holding. I attacked the woman who kept these in her office, but she grabbed one of them before I could escape. Oh well. Time to take these girls, just to make your day miserable."

As the monster approached them, Thunder and Rainbow stepped backwards, keeping their distance from the monster.

"Well girl?" Tentagirl said. "Let's have a deal. You give me that crystal and I'll give you back your friends. Then we could avoid this drama and leave this place untouched. What you you think? Sound like a fair deal?

The heroes bumped their backs on the statue depicting a rearing horse. There is little they could do now.

Thunder turned to Rainbow. "Don't give this freak your crystal," he told. "I don't want to trust her into handling that."

With the advice of her friend in mind, Rainbow makes her decision. "No, I won't give you my crystal," she said. "I can find another way to save my new friends."

"Well then," the monster said. "The decision has been made." Tentagirl grows another tentacle from her back. "You two will face the consequence." The tentacal lunged towards both Thunder and Rainbow.

"Thunder! Brace yourself!" Rainbow yelled as she shoves her friend out of the way of the attack.

As Thunder skid to a complete stop, an explosion occurred where Rainbow once stood. He gets up and sees that a cloud of dust where his childhood friend was. The cloud of dust obscures everything, making it impossible to tell what was going on. The other students looked out of the windows seeing that a student had been recently attacked.

The other girls stared in shock at the sight of what was happening. They ignored their pain that they were experiencing and stared directed at the cloud of dust and debris.

"Oh Rainbow..." Fluttershy mumbled. "Please be safe. I want you to get me...out of this...place!" Her voice grew angry at the last few words.

Suddenly, a red glow emerges from the cloud of dust. Everyone stared in awe at what was happening. Even the friends. And the enemy.

"What?" Tentagirl said. "How did she-impossible! How could she survive an attack like that?" Tentagirl was furious.

When the cloud cleared up, it was revealed that Rainbow was fine all alone. She held one of her arms out, protecting her face from any potential attack. She is surrounded by a shield which dissipated seconds later. Feeling something strange in her hand, Rainbow stood up straight and opened her hand. On the palm of her hand, there was no longer a typical crystal. It's a crystal in the shape of a lighting bolt. A red lighting bolt resting on her hand.

Something else appeared in her other hand. She held the new object to her eyes. It is a round object that is opened. It has a purple coating, with the inside holding a slot for the crystal. On the top half, there is a button under a display.

"Wha..." Tentagirl scampered. "How did you..."

Rainbow stopped looking at her new toys and stared at Tentagirl. Suddenly, and idea popped into her head. Inserting the red lighting bolt into the slot, she closes the capsule and holds the device up to her right ear. Then, she says the following lines. "Magical Power." Rainbow moved the device to the opposite side and pressed the button located under it, making the display glow. Then she pulls the device behind her on the left side. "Friendship Power!" she finishes as she lunges the device right in front of her.

Upon activation, the device summons an outlined colored symbol in front of it. That symbol then travels to the welder's feet and goes around the body. It travels up the body making more and more of the suit viable. The suit stops at the neck, which the symbol floats down to in front of the user's face before dissipating, forming the helmet and finishing the suit.

Rainbow's suit has red armor with black leggings. The suit has white gloves and boots, with a gold bracelet or anklet at the end. The visor of the helmet takes on the shape of a cloud with two lightning bolts coming from below the cloud.

"Gah! What in the world is this?" Tentagirl asked.

Rainbow took some time to inspect her new form. "What is this power I'm given?" she asks. "It's almost like I feel more powerful." She takes a look at her hands, before clutching them. "Well lady, you'd better brace yourself. I've got some friends to save."

"And how are you going to do that?" Tentagirl asks again.

Rainbow stares at her target thinking about what to do next. Upon getting an idea, she sprints forward and begins to attack Tentagirl with her own fist.

"Hey! Keep your hands off me!" Tentagirl yelled.

Rainbow threw several punches and attacks directed towards her enemy, dodging Tentagirl's attacks as she goes. Pain runs down Tentagirl's torso, but her anger for this one girl makes her want to continue on.

While that is happening, the other girls are busy reaching out for the mysterious gems that are conveniently close to them, but are just out of reach. They are being swung wildly as Tentagirl moves around.

"Getting there yet?" Applejack asks as she struggles to pull the tentacle holding her away.

"I'm. Trying!" Rarity replied, reaching out for the blue crystal. "But I can't seem to reach it!"

The fight seems to be going well for Rainbow. She deal a lot of damage to Tentagirl and is dodging her every attack with ease. Angered by this, Tentagirl grows some more tentacles and wrapped them around Rainbow. Rainbow yelps as she is caught in the tentacles, arms trapped next to her torso unable to move out. She struggles to move herself out, but the grip just gets tighter and tighter as she goes.

"Oh no!" Fluttershy said after seeing her friend getting trapped. "Rainbow has been captured! Who will save us now?"

Meanwhile, Rarity is determined to get that crystal. She reaches out harder and harder desperate to get this crystal.

"Ha ha ha!" Tentagirl taunted, holding all the girls high above her head. "I've finally got those girls in my hands! And those powerful crystals are mine now! No one can stand up against me! Not even those girls!"

Just as all hope was lost and there was no one who can even stand up to Tentagirl, Rarity has finally managed to grab a hold of the crystal. And hard. Even though they are moving wildly though the air, she sill manages to get a hold of it. Mostly due to dumb luck.

"Got it!" Rarity said after several attempts and many seconds of being flung around in the air with a tentacle strapped tightly around her. Moments after she got a hold of the crystal, it glows in her hand as if it is reacting to her. "Huh. Interesting." she remarks.

"What?" Tentagirl yells. She turns to where she is keeping Rarity. "Get your hands off that crystal! It's mine! It belongs to me!"

Thunderlane, who is standing pretty far from where the action is happening, notices several more glows near the girls who are being held captive. "What is happening now?" he said.

Tentagirl notices a strange vibration coming down several of her limbs. She looks at the sources of the vibrations, and got glowing ends of her tentacles. "Wha-How did...How did you do that?"

Rainbow was too distracted to pay attention to the pain she is going under. She notices that the girls are slowing getting engulfed by the light, with them looking at each other confused as to what is going on. It didn't take long before they were all engulfed by the light.


The rest of the girls got suits that are similar to the ones that Rainbow has. Only difference being the color of the suit and the visors.

Rarity got the power of the blue crystal, the one that she got. As wielder of the blue crystal, most of her suit is colored blue. Her visor is a diamond. Applejack gained the powers of the yellow crystal, getting a yellow suit and a apple shaped visor, a fitting shape for a apple harvester like her. Fluttershy got the green crystal, getting a green suit and a butterfly shaped visor. Finally, Pinkie got the pink crystal because of course she gets the pink powers. She gets a pink suit and her visor is in the shape of a balloon.


As soon as the girls finished their morphing sequence, they exploded, breaking up the tentacles that were holding them. They were dropped to the ground next to Tentagirl.

"Ahh!" Tentagirl screamed. "How is is possible? Nothing about this makes any sense!"

Rarity takes a good look at her new suit. She thinks it looks really nice on her. "It seems like we have a special connection with these crystals," she said. "Time to try these powers out!"

Applejack went in first to test her powers out. Charging up kick, she says to Tentagirl, "This is for trapping us in your grasp!" before kicking the monster in the legs. Tentagirl reeled back from the impact, covering the place that she got it. She growls at Applejack for the thing that she just did. Applejack takes a look at her legs. "All that work at the farm really have paid off. This is amazing!"

"Grr!" Tentagirl growled. "I'll get you for this!" She walks towards Applejack, but is interrupted by Pinkie.

"Hey there!" Pinkie said.

"I'll get you too!" Tentagirl threatened. She approached where Pinkie is, but she ran off into somewhere before she could get caught. "What? Where did you go?"

"Over here!" Pinkie called out. She caught the attention of Tentagirl, who proceed to attempt to chase her down before she disappeared somewhere. "Missed me!" she taunted before disappearing. Then she does it multiple times, just to annoy Tentagirl. "Try harder next time. Nope. I'm over here! Are you even trying?"

"Stay still, pink girl!" Tentagirl yelled.

Out into the distance, Thunder was watch the girls fighting this monster who decided to attack the school. He beings to wonder who he should help. "These girls look like they can do the task by themselves," he said. "Though, I wonder how I could help out with them. They might need a little extra help."

"Hey buddy!" he heard a boy said. Thunder takes a look at where the voice came from. It seems to be coming from a door to the gym. In the doorway, there appears to be a boy who is holding a bat in hand. "Use this!" The boy tosses the bat towards Thunder, which hits him in the face before landing in his hands. Thunder takes a look at the bat, before looking at the boy.

"How am I supposed to use this?" Thunder asks. "It's too dangerous to go out there! I might be shredded by that thing!"

"Then toss it to one of the girls!" the boy said.

"Okay," Thunder replied. "If you insist." Thunder then tosses the bat to one of the girls.

Meanwhile, Rarity is carrying Fluttershy up to Rainbow, attempting to save her from the tentacle. "Hang on there, Rainbow!" Rarity yells from below. "We're coming to save you."

"Yeah," Rainbow replied. "After I attempted to save you!" She then gets hit in the head by a bat, which bounced off of her head and into her hands. "Ow...who did that?" She look to where the bat came from, and saw that Thunder was waving to her, cheering her on. Getting an idea in her head, she turns back to the girls. "Alright girls. I have a plan to save myself. Fluttershy, hold me."

"Why?" Fluttershy asks.

"For safety reasons," Rainbow explained.

Fluttershy nervously clutched on to Rainbow as she prepares to execute the plain. With a bat in hand, she makes her move. "Alright. Here goes nothing!" She raised the bat high into the air, before slamming it down on the tentacle. When she does it, the tentacle releases her in pain, dropping Rainbow down as well as taking Fluttershy with her. They fell to the ground in a small thud.

"Ahh!" Tentagirl screams in pain. "This is all starting to get too much! It's too much for me to handle! You girls are so annoying to deal with! How could you possibly do this to me?"

Rainbow got back to her feet. "You know what?" she said. "I'm done with you trying to attack this school. Time for you to say goodbye to this world!"

Tentagirl nervously stepped back. "I...I only attacked this school to steal some crystals and those girls."

"Big mistake," Rainbow said. "You plan looks like it was going to fail from the very beginning. And for attacking this school, here's your punishment." Picking up the bat and tossing it up in the air, she holds the bat above her shoulder in a swing ready stance. "Here's what I like to call, the Home Run." Bat in hand, Rainbow charges towards Tentagirl. Applejack only watches her new friend charge foolishly towards the monster.

"A Home Run?" Tentagirl said. "Don't make me laugh." As she is saying that, Rainbow's bat charges, glowing from the power it obtained. "How can a mundane object ever deal serious damage to a monster like-" Just as Tentagirl was about to finish, Rainbow got within striking distance of her target and swings her bat. The bat releases all the energy it had built up, sending Tentagirl flying and screaming. "Meeee..." She disappears off into the distance as the girls reverted back into their normal form.


The fight is over. They can't believe it. These five girls together have managed to defeat a monster. Well, send it off away to somewhere, but the school is saved nonetheless. After Tentagirl disappeared beyond view, Rainbow proceeded to head back to school.

"Yeah! Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow's father yelled before slamming into his daughter. Holding her tightly within his arms, Rainbow's dad hugs her in celebration of her victory. "Oh, my daughter. I can't believe that you have save this school from that monster. I'm so proud of you!"

"Ha ha ha!" Rainbow laughs. "Thanks, dad. You seem to be so proud of me after this. You did convince me that I was the best at everything, after all."

"Aww," Fluttershy said. "How sweet. A teacher and his child student, together."

Feeling something in her pocket, Rarity reached out into her pocket and pulled out two things. One of which was a blue crystal, which was no longer hexagonal but was now a rhombus shape, almost like a diamond. The second is a device which looks like the one that Rainbow owned. She holds them in front of her eyes. Admiring the beauty of her crystal but also bewildered about how the device appeared in her hand at all. It was as if, she was chosen.


Well, chosen along with four others. The girls have found themselves back in Celestia's office, with the five crystals along with the five devices placed down on the desk. The crystals are the red lighting bolt, the blue diamond, the yellow apple, the green butterfly, and the pink balloon. Below them are their respective devices with shaped holes in which they could be placed in.

"Well," Celestia observed. "Looks like we have a few chosen heroes walking around campus. And it happened to be you girls."

Rainbow looked back at Celestia. "So, what's your history with these crystals?" she asks.

"I got them from an expedition at a temple. I don't recall when exactly I discovered these things, but I remembered finding these at a temple around here somewhere." The girls watched as they hear their principal's history with these crystal. Then Celestia purposed an idea. "Hey, since you girls used these crystals to defeat whatever is attacking us, how about I entrust you five with these? You are becoming rangers after all so, welcome to the club."

The idea of them becoming rangers just sticks with Rainbow. An idea pops up in her head. "This. Is. Amazing!"

"What?" Applejack asks. "What was amazing? We are captured by a monster, you know?"

Rainbow spoke excitedly to her friends. "Don't you see? We get to be part of the team what defends the world from monsters every week. I've heard stories about their success across the years. And since we are about to become the next ranger team, how about we call ourselves The Rainbooms!" Rainbow pumped both of her arms up into the air in excitement, before looking to her friends who gave her a confused look. "What? Was there something wrong with that?"

"Acting a little egotistical, aren't you?" Rarity said.

"Did you dream yourself going so fast that you've created a rainboom behind you?" Pinkie asks. "Please tell me where'd you get the inspiration."

"Cut her some slack, girls," Fluttershy said. "She's the leader of this team after all. Let her decide what the team name should be."

Outside the office area, Thunder was laying his back against the wall listening to everything that the girls are saying. "Well, it looks like we have a new team popping up," he remarks. Wonder what I could do the help."

And they all went about the rest of the day as normal, never forgetting that faithful encounter. They all wonder when their next mission will happen. Hopefully it will not occur within the next week. Hopefully.


Somewhere beyond the borders of Canterlot City, in a forested area, Tentagirl was laying there, defeated. She lifts herself up after having a hard landing.

"Curse you girls," she mutters. "You took what I really wanted: those crystals! They are said to be the most powerful thing that are not locked. And now they've been denied to me by those girls!" She slams her fist into a root, before pulling out a piece of paper with hastily drawn text. "Well, time to go for the net best thing."

On her paper is a list of two things. One of which is the power crystals, which was crossed out. The next thing on her list are the power rings. And Tentagirl is now aiming to get those as well.

[End of Episode]


From the Author:

So, the Equinger have finished with their first mission, and they succeeded. Time to celebrate, right? Well, no so fast. As it turns out, the first monster of this squad, Tentagirl, is not quite dead yet. She will be returning, but not to these girls. She's going to take her grudge to another ranger team not very far from where the Equingers are operating.

Oh, she's looking to get the rings? Oh, you know what that means...


Written by TheAPPstore

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Inspired by Super Sentai, property of Toei Compony.