Episode 2
"Loose Cannon"
After the events of the first monster attack the team asks Silver the history about the power rings. After all, he seems to have a history with these things and they have no clue about what these rings are. Time for a little history lesson, shall we?
And then some thieves decided to knock on his door. Again.
[Beginning of Episode]
It was the week after the initial attack, ten days after it happened. Team Sonic is hanging out at a local building called North Emerald City Youth Center. It is a popular place among the youth and athletes to hang out after school is over and their training sessions are over. Mostly the youths.
Miles twirled his ring around his finger, then tosses and catches it. He takes in several more angles. "So, Silver," Miles began to ask. "You said that you had a history with these rings, don't you?"
"Like I said," Silver began to explain. "They are the power rings. Long ago, they were created in the heart of the Middle East, where a very clever craftsman once lived. He was the most celebrated and praised of all craftsmen. He was even commissioned by the ruler of the land to construct several statues. Then, a war happened over the rings, and the craftsman was forced to leave his home."
"And then what happened to him?" Sonic asks, playing with a pencil.
Silver continued to explain the story behind the rings. "As he had left his home, he was never caught in the middle of the conflict and thus, he survived. But now he has a angry mob of greedy people chasing after him."
Manic slammed his hands on the table. "Why do they want those rings so badly?" he asks. "Did he do something to them or what?"
Espio looked aside and let out a breath of air at Manic.
Silver continued onward. "He went to modern day Spagonia and told the royalty there that he was being chased by some greedy people. He told them that during the forging process he added in some magical dust and it granted these rings a mighty power. He demonstrated the abilities of the rings to the civilians and they were impressed by them. However, this attracted the attention of some...greedy thieves who wanted the power all to themselves, thus starting the war."
That's when Espio spoke up. "Uh, I don't think that this is a safe place to discuss some magical topic about a very powerful artifact," he said. The other members of Team Sonic looked around the building. Nope, everyone there seems to be busy. Some are talking to each other, others are on the weight-lifting section.
"Okay..." Amy said. "Why are you so worried about this?"
"We could be attracting some...pestering thieves," Espio explains his concerns. "Looking at you, Manic."
Manic sheepishly looked at his friends, trying to act casual.
"Oh, don't worry about it, Espio," Silver reassures. "The legend is all but forgotten by most people. Not me, at least."
"Why?" Knuckles asks.
"Well, we can continue this back at my home," Silver said. "You guys want to come with me?" The others are giving Silver a weird look. "Okay, meet you guys there!" Silver then exits the building, leaving the rest of the team behind.
Sonic watches Silver as he exits the building. Then he makes his decision. "You know what?" he said. "I'm coming to his place. I'm interested in what this thing is all about." Sonic picks up his stuff and gets ready to leave. "Any of you want to join me?"
Everyone stared at Sonic, waiting for you to make a move.
"Okay," Sonic said. "Meet you guys at Silver's place." Sonic then exits the building, going after Silver to get an explanation.
Sliver's house is part of a neighborhood of mansions. His house is a two-story marble building with pillars around the front porch. There is a hammer plaque on the walls to the side of the front door. Silver walks to the front door and is about to knock it.
"Silver!" Sonic called out.
"Huh?" Silver stopped what he's doing and looked to his friend. Sonic opened the gates to the front yard and runs up to Silver. "What is it? What do you want? Are you interested in what have to say about the rings?"
"You guessed correctly," Sonic replied.
"Good!" Silver said. "You've come to the right place! Here, let me introduce to someone who takes care of this home. Alright? Okay, here it goes." Silver knocked on the door of his house. "Dmitri! I'm home!"
The front door was soon opened and in it was an elderly man. He was in his 60's, had gray skin and white ruffed up hair.
"Ah Silver!" Dmitri said. "You came back after school!" Then he looks towards the friend next to him. "Who's this person that you've brought along?"
"This is Sonic," Silver explained. "He's a fellow friend of mine. Oh, and we're part of the same team. Here, watch this." Silver grabbed Sonic's arm that was holding the ring device. Then he presents his own. "See?"
"Getting around to giving your father's creations to the right people, I see," Dmitri comments. "You're a really kind boy." He moves out of the way as if asking him to come in. "Go on now, blue boy. Your friend has something to show you."
The boys are standing a a foyer. It's quite a small room, taking a few steps to get from the stairs on one side to the stairs on the other side. At the rear of the foyer are some doors to other parts of the mansion. This room is rather quite beautifully decorated. The walls are lined with reflective lining and the floor tiles are made out of tinted marbles.
"Wow," Sonic comments. "You own a mansion? That's some crazy talk if you ask me."
"What can I say about this?" Silver asks. "My family has made a fortune out of a...hidden industry."
"What did you say?" Sonic asks.
"Nothing!" Silver replied. "It's nothing to worry about."
Sonic stares at Silver suspiciously before resuming his tour of the mansion.
Silver eventually led Sonic to the garden. It is a beautiful sight to be behold. It has a fountain, flowers, hedges, and trimmed hedges. It is surrounded in a high fence keeping everything contained. At the rear of the garden is a mysterious out of place shed.
"Welcome to my garden!" Silver announces. "Or rather, the family garden."
Sonic walked around the garden admiring all the flowers. "Ah," he breathes out. "There's nothing more satisfying to me than a bunch of flowers."
"Thank you for the complement," Silver replied. "Now wait just here for a moment. I'm going to check on something." Silver ran back in the mansion, laving Sonic all alone.
Sonic later turned his attention to the out of place shed. "What is this shed doing here?" he asked. He walked towards the shed holding his arms out reaching for the handle. "Huh. Wonder what's inside this." Sonic grabs the doorknob and turns it, expecting to be able to open the door. What the doorknob actually did was activate a trap door disguised as a large stone path. Sonic yelped as he was dumped into the slide below. The trapdoor closes right on top of him.
It was dark in the slide tunnel. Has anyone bothered to install lights in this thing? The walls are made out of dirt and pipes lined the walls. This experience did not last very long, as Sonic collided with a door and was dumped into a room.
"Ow..." Sonic groaned as he got up. "Where...where am I now?"
Sonic looked at the room that he was dumped into. The walls, ceiling, and floor are all made of stone. The room appears to be carved in. It has the appearance of a blacksmith's workshop, with a furnace, a workshop table, hammers, and a self full of bins containing metals. On one of the shelf is a glass dome, in it is a light gray cylindrical gem. The walls of the room are covered in many diagrams with pictures showing various different things One of which is a concept drawing that looks like the device Sonic is wearing on his wrist.
Sonic stood in awe in this room. "What is this place?" he asked himself.
Suddenly, the door to his right opened up. He heard Silver's voice coming out of it. "What's going on down there? I swear that I sealed that place-" He stopped as soon as he saw Sonic there. "Oh. hey there, Sonic," he greeted. "Didn't expect to see you coming here via that slide. Boy, that was impratical."
Sonic was confused. "So, Silver," he began. "What is this place?"
Silver got himself prepared for a long talk. "Well, Sonic," he began. "Welcome to my family's workshop. My family is a traveling family of blacksmiths who like to sell to people various hand made tools of high quality. In fact, remember that story that I told you and your friends earlier? I'm an decendent of the very blacksmith that created these rings."
"What?" Sonic gasped. "Are you crazy? Are you seriously related to the very person that made these rings?"
Silver nodded. "Yep. Though...there was something that kept on bothering me when I first heard about that story. i was wondering...could I go back in time and stop the turmoil my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather had to suffer all his life?"
"Whoa whoa, whoa!" Sonic interupted. "Are you crazy? Are you thinking about going back to the past and prevent all that from happening?"
"Yeah," Silver answered. "Think of how much better the present is going to be! I mean, I might not be here today, but think about how much better off everyone else is going to be because of my actions!"
Sonic glared suspiciously at Silver.
"What?" asked Silver.
"I really don't see how well that'll turn out," Sonic remarks. He then takes a look at the gem in the dome. "What's that over there?"
"That's my family treasure, the gem," Silver answered. "My ancestor found got it from digging around. It has been kept into our warm embrase ever since. It is said that this valuable gem can grant the user, if used with a certain object, some great power."
"Kind of like the rings?" Sonic asked as he pulls out his red ring from his pocket.
"Kind of like the powers granted by the rings," Silver replied.
Suddenly, alarm bell began to ring and the room tinted red every few seconds.
"Arg!" Silver grunted. "Not this again! I thought that I have enough with those thiefs, already!"
"Wait, what?" Sonic asks.
"No time to explain, Sonic," Silver told him." We must get up there and investigate what's going on. Come on!'
Silver makes a break for the door, going upstairs back into ground level. Sonic looks around te room one final time before going upstairs after Silver.
Outside Silver's house, Silver opens the door to his front yard and the street. He saw that three of his new friends-Miles, Knuckles, and Manic-have been cornered into the yard being percuded by a person in a dark outfit. Surrounding them are a small army of people that are competly covered, no sign of identifacation.
"How did they get here?" Silver asks. "I thought that we've left them at the youth center."
"Well, we've got no time to waste," Sonic said. Then, he starts to shout at his friends. "Hey! Guys!"
"Huh?" Miles looks back as Knuckles tripped. "Oh, hey there, Sonic and Silver. Didn't expect us to be here, now did you?"
"These guys showed up near the youth center while you were gone," Manic explained. "We chased them down, and they've led us here to this mansion...village. What's going on here?"
Sonic jumped from the porch and landed next to his friends, while Silver walked up to Knuckles to help him get back up.
Sonic reached into his coat pocket and pulled out his red ring. "We've got this, remember?" he asks his fellow friends.
"Yeah, but..." Miles reached into his pocket and pulled out his yellow ring. "...I don't know how these things function. I've been studying them for the past few days and I've still gotten nothing out of them."
"Place them into your wrist device and spin the ring around!" Silver instructed. "It'll transform you into some sort of...ranger mode or something."
"Ranger mode?" Sonic asks, looking very surprised. "That's what it's called? Well, now we know what these things are. Come on, everyone. Let's try our new powers out. For real this time."
Silver patted Knuckles on the back as the boys went into formation. They stand in a line in front of the mansion, watching over the group of thieves who still did not think of using each other as steps to get over those fence. Who trained these things, nobody wants to know, but the boys are going to fight them anyway, just to the street is safe once more.
"Follow my lead," Sonic said. "Power rings, engaged!"
The new rangers take out their ring and presented them in front of themselves. Then, they placed it into their ring braces. After that, they placed their hand and thumb under their wrist and spin the ring around like a disk, as they yell, "Ranger Spin!".
The spinning of the ring formed a colored circle with a diameter about as large as them. Then they went into various poses. Sonic went into a standing pose with his fist clutched and placed on the sides of his body. Silver had his left arm, the one with the morpher, extended outward as his body leans to where his left arm is. Miles extended both of his arms, Manic puts his fists near his shoulders, and Knuckles extends his arms forward forming a diamond with his fingers and thumbs. Then, the circle approached them and passes right through their body, putting on a suit. The last part was their helmets. The ethereal rings moved to be in front of the ranger's faces, before disappearing into a sparkle of light leaving behind the helmets.
While Sonic and Silver had the same visors the first time they morphed into this form, the other rangers got a different, yet familiar, visor. Miles' visor is a oblong, Manic's is a V, and Knuckles' is a heart of all things. As stated before, there was something about the visors that seemed a familiar to them.
After they were finished morphing, the remaining rangers take a look at their new forms.
"What...is this?" Miles said as he looked into his own hands, which are covered in gloves.
"Hey, why is my visor shaped like a 'V'?" Manic asked as he looked around his own helmet. "My name does not have a V in it!"
"Aww, Pink?" Knuckles groaned. "Why do I have to get the pink ring? That should've gone to Amy!" Then, he heard some smashing noises coming from the street. "What is that?"
Miles take a look at what's going on. "Oh, right," he said. "We still have these idiots to deal with. Whoops."
Sonic jumps and lands on the fool's head, while Silver is at an angle firing off arrows. He seems to be struggling to get the arrows place into the correct area, however. Meanwhile, in the crowd, Sonic is spinning and kicking the thieves away, as if he's trying to drive them off.
As the fight rages on, Knuckles looks at Miles for a moment. "Shall we jump in?" he asks.
"There's no reason to stand aside," Miles answered. "Time to jump in!" He then runs into the fight ready to kick some thief's butt. Knuckles is helpless to stop his friend, but it doesn't matter. Miles is already proving himself to be a sufficient fighter in the battlefield.
Manic was just about to run to join the fight, when he looks back on Knuckles. "You joining?" he asks.
This caused Knuckles to snap. "Oh, yeah I'm joining!" Knuckles leaps into the crowd of fighting thieves, crushing some of them with his own weight and proceeding to punch them out with his large, meaty fists. Manic soon followed and all the rangers of the team is now fighting the thieves.
Sonic continued to pummel the thieves with his fists. Miles smacked the fools faces with his arms. Silver stood away from the fight to support his team. Not being a great fighter in hand-to-hand, Silver hangs out far from the action to pick off additional targets. Knuckles crushed the poor guys into a pile of bones, while Manic threw them up into the air, knocking them out cold.
All was looking very well for the rangers. The thief's numbers seem to be going down, and the streets are looking safer now that thieves aren't roaming the street. Then came someone else. The figure clears his throat and as soon as he does that, the rangers stopped fighting and looked at the figure.
Sonic dropped the thief that he was punching. "Who are you?" he asked the mysterious figure.
The figure moved up to the boys, who stopped fighting the thieves. "I am the Cloaked Bandit," the man introduced himself. "I have sent this mob of thieves to attempt to raid this home because it held a 'very valuable treasure'."
Silver smiled nervously after he'd heard that. He knows that his person is talking about after having his home raided several times.
The Cloaked Bandit looked at the street he sent the thieves to. He noticed that not one of them was standing. All of them are piled up in front of Silver's house.
Sonic took one look at the Cloaked Bandit. "What?" he said. "What are you staring at us for?"
The Clocked Bandit pointed at Sonic. "You! The one in the red suit!" he said. "That color means trouble for me and my allies. For the past 40 years, that color marked the sign of the leader. And for being the red ranger, I'm going to ram into you!" The Cloaked Bandit charged towards Sonic and rammed right into him. Sonic didn't exactly saw this coming, considering that this was his first time getting into this ranger business.
The others look at Sonic as he was being attacked. "Sonic!" Miles yelled. Sonic was pinned to the ground trying to get the Cloaked Bandit off him. They can hear him grumble as he continued to wrestle with his enemy.
"Hey!" he grunted out. "Get off me!"
Miles tried to charge him and maybe try to kick the body off of his friend. He tries a roundhouse kick, only for it to do nothing except hurt his feet.
As Miles hopped away wailing at a damaged foot, the Cloaked Bandit stood up and looked at Miles. "Ha!" he laughs. "That won't do anything to stop me!" And then Silver fires an arrow straight to the face. "Gahh!" the Cloaked Bandit screamed. He got off of Sonic and charged toward Silver. "I'll get you got this, you owner of that precious gem!"
"Oh crud," Silver muttered before he was rammed by the Cloaked Bandit and was pinned to the ground.
"Why won't you give that to me?" the Cloaked Bandit demanded. "I want it so badly!"
As Silver and the Cloaked Bandit continued to fight, Manic runs up to Sonic to check on him. Sonic was inspecting his chest to make sure that everything is all right. "You okay, brother?" Manic asked.
"Feels like a weight had just pressed on my legs," Sonic replied.
Knuckles then pummeled the Cloaked Bandit with his own bare hands. Joining is Miles, who is pinning their enemy's arms together. The remaining team members soon joined in on the act. Knuckles then threw him upward towards Sonic, who leaped up and kicked him to the ground.
"Ugg..." The Cloaked Bandit twitched. "You're...you're really good at this." He stands up as he says that, legs shaking as he gets up. The others watch as their enemy gets back up. "I underestimated how protective you people are for their precious things. No matter. This will not be the last time you'll see me." He then turns around and began to disappear.
"Wait!" Sonic yells as he ran up to the disappearing Cloaked Bandit. "Come back! We're not done with you yet! This fight still isn't finished yet! Come back!"
"Just ignore him," Silver told him. "At least my home has not been invaded by intruders once again."
The team then enters Silver's house and into the basement area.
"So...it was your father who used the dimensions of these rings to create these Ring Braces?" Miles asks, inspecting his own Ring Brace.
Silver cleaned up his workplace. "My family has a special connection with these rings," he stated. "It was the work of my ancestor that made these things. My father is the one who designed these Ring Braces. He was inspired by..." Silver pauses for a moment, trying figure out what ranger team inspired his father to make these changers. "You know...I don't really know what ranger team inspired my father to make these. But what I do know is that it's defiantly inspired by older rangers like us."
Sonic takes one look as the ring he owns. It is red, yes, but there was something about the other rings that reminds him of something. The colors, as the resulting rangers' visor shape. He remembers that the colors of the rings are red, blue, yellow, green, and pink. One of the most common color combinations found in ranger teams, regardless of when they are active.
"...Just like the very first ranger team..." Sonic says.
"What did you say?" Miles asks. Sonic snapped back to reality and noticed that everyone in the room is looking at him.
Sonic's eyes darted from friend to friend as he tries to figure out why they are staring at him. "Did I say that out loud?" he asks.
[End of Episode]
From the Author:
Don't you guys think that this series in the beginning is a bit more boring to read than my main series? Anyone?
I mean, this is the beginning of the boy's journey as rangers. What do you expect? Though, they don't really have any weapons outside of their fists. That could be a main source of the problem.
Alright. Next episode, the rangers will get themselves some weapons to help them deal with the monsters they will come across. Okay? This is all I have to say about this, so see you there!
Written by TheAPPStore
Sonic the Hedgehog characters property of Sega
Series inspired by Super Sentai by Toei Company
