Season 1, Episode 11 (Rewrite)

"Team Assembly"


This is the first conference The Sonic Rainbooms/Gemrangers had in months. After going through a lot of change in relationship after their team up, these formally two teams have come together as one. And thanks to recent events, all current members of this team have come together to discuss the events during their team up and the member's current positions as of late.


[Beginning of Episode]

"Look Twilight," Miles began. "We know that we survived an entire week without either a monster attack or an attack by that darn egghead who refuses to stop attacking us. Why did you sent us all the way to here?"

Twilight walked down the platform. "We are coming here for our first ranger conference for this current team," she answered.

This answer sends Applejack into shaking her head. "Ranger conference?" she asked. "Don't yah mean second? Cause we did have one conference after that...embarrassing defeat during the team up." She adjusts her hat as everyone save her a strange look. "Sorry. I can't resist."

The rangers have arrived at Shale Coast Station to attend a conference there. A conference that was meant for them and them only. Out of all the places that they could've chosen, it had to be that one to minimize the amount of time spent traveling. They're still students, after all, so they would like to have as much time to do some schoolwork as possible. Barring any monster attacks, of course.

Bizarrely enough, the two fastest rangers have yet to appear. They're supposed to be there first via whatever mode of transport they could get their hands on, but they're not here. Miles looks at his ranger device to look at the time. "Strange. They are supposed to meet us here at this time," he said. "Wonder what's taking them so long?"

The sound of turbines cutting though the air fills the platform. They looked up to the source of the noise, and saw that both Sonic and Rainbow have finally arrived on their motorcycles. "Oh," Twilight said. "Here they come!"

"Hey everyone!" Sonic yelled from above as he and Rainbow landed the double motorcycle on the ground in front of the platform.

Pinkie leaped off the platform and sprinted towards Rainbow just as she took off her helmet. Pinkie hugged Rainbow tightly, smiling as she goes. Rainbow chuckles for a short time. "That's quite nice of you," she said. "Took me and Sonic long enough to get to this place, didn't it?" Rainbow then notices that Pinkie was still hugging her tightly. "Umm, Pinkie? Wouldn't it hurt if you just...let go of me for a while? You're making this more awkward than needed." Pinkie realizes this and lets go of Rainbow, having hugged her for long enough. "Thank you," Rainbow responded.

As Sonic prepares to put his motorcycle in a safe place, he takes the time to check his ranger device. Looks like the meeting will be starting in a few minutes. "Perfect timing," he remarks. "Meeting is starting in ten minutes. And our meeting place is just a brisk walk away." He looks toward the building, which is just a street away from the station that they're in. Sonic looks back at his friends and offered them to follow him. "Come on, everyone. Let's get going. We don't have much time to waste."


The meeting room is a rather bland room for a meeting. There was no projector, a white board to project on, and very little decorations besides a vase of roses in the middle of the table. This place is a terrible place to host business plans. Not that it matters, as that was not the intended purpose of this room and many others within the building. This was a place to host discussions on various topics without any distractions.

All that the team needs is a table large enough for all fourteen current members to sit at. And sure enough, the table that they're provided has enough space to suit a meeting between up to twenty people. How lucky! Or not.

Sonic walks around the table holding the badge he got from their most recent mission together, the mission that saw the official hiring of the remaining rangers of the team. While everyone else sits around the table watching Sonic walk around. Except for Pinkie and Manic, who seem to be more focused on Rock, Paper, Scissors than anything else. "So. This is our team," Sonic said as he inspects the badge even more. "The Sonic Rainbooms. Thought that it was a joke name for our team given that how fitting combing the two names of our former team seems. But now, the name has stuck." Sonic sighs as he tries to read the engraving below. "Our alternative team name, if I could remember my father's homeland native language..." Sonic tries his best to read the Romanized Japanese Text. But all he could get was, "Gemranger?"

"Here Sonic," Espio offered. "Could you give that thing to me? I can read Japanese quite fluently. It kind of runs in the family for me."

"Sure," Sonic agreed. "Here you go, KakuPurple."

The others chucked at Espio's given ranger name. "Really Sonic?" Epio said as he glared towards his blue friend. Sonic hands the badge to him and Espio reads the engraving. Everyone turns their attention to Espio, including Pinkie and Manic who dropped what they're doing and decided that listening will bring more interest to them than not paying attention. Espio let in a deep breath. "Okay, here we go. Our alternative team name is...Ni-chi Sentai Gemranger?" He said the title in confusion. "What?"

"That's quite a strange name for a title," Rainbow remarks.

"Well, that was quite strange, even for me to say it," Espio said. "Makes me wonder how those sentai team members even nail their team name every single time."

Manic jumps in to give his own thoughts. "Maybe because they're actors," he suggested. "Or they know the team very well. Or it took several tries before they nailed that name. Or whoever chose the name was really fluent in Japanese, unlike that guy." He points to the glass wall and door at the other end of the table, away from where are the rangers are sitting.

"Er..." Thunder makes a noise. "Who are you talking to?"

"Probably the writers," Pinkie answers. "Err. Writer and creator."

"Okay, enough of this nonsense," Rainbow decided. "Let's move on. So we know that saying the Japanese version of the name is quite awkward for us given that most of us aren't even fluent in the language. How about we stick to calling ourselves The Sonic Rainbooms and call it a day."

"Can we insert Power Rangers in front?" Pinkie asked. Everyone looked at her with a strange look. Again. Pinkie looks at the faces of her friends. "What?"

Then something just came to Rarity's mind. "Oh! That reminds me!" She dugs into the bag that she brought in. "Earlier this week, Twilight commissioned me to design a symbol to represent the team."

"Well, I tried a star inside a gold ring for Sonic's side of the team," Knuckles said. "That was thrown out when our old powers got knocked out and the teams merged."

"What about our old horseshoe outlining a heart?" Pinkie suggested. "Here! I even had a sample of it." She reaches into her hair and pulls out a small piece of paper with said horseshoe. "See?"

"Well...it's quite fitting...then." Twilight awkwardly comments. "But I don't think-"

"That's not going to fly, at least for this team," Sonic said. "Besides. Our symbol must represent us in the most fitting way possible. Our symbol should represent us, two teams combining into one. The symbol should represent unity after a fall, being ready to fight back after we failed once. It will show the world that, with the fourteen of us here in this room, we shall overcome every challenge that gets sent in our way."

"Or," Rarity added, "we could represent this team in the most literal way possible. And by that, I mean having our team symbol be a literal Sonic Rainboom. Here. Have a look at this." She pulls out a large roll of fabric and places it on the table and rolls it out, revealing not only the team symbol, but also the team flag. The flag consists of a black background with two rainbow shockwaves on the right side. There is a white circular saw that is spinning and traveling away from the shockwaves. Surrounding the circle and trail are fourteen stars, with two of them being a little larger than the rest.

"Wow," Silver commented.

"That looks awesome," Rainbow added. "Even if it did not live to my expectations, it still looks pretty awesome."

"So, what does this team symbol mean?" Manic asks. "What does each part represents?"

The other rangers began to bombard Rarity with questions about the tesm symbol. She hushes everyone to be quite a few seconds later.

"Settle down," Rarity told everyone. "I can explain this symbol in detail." She points to each feature of the team flag as she explains each part. "These two rainbow shockwaves represent the two teams combining into one. That speeding object that's producing these shock waves? That represents us blasting though any obstacle that comes in our way. No matter how difficult the challenge is to overcome, we will find a way to finish that challenge. These fourteen stars represent each and every one of us, with two large stars representing our leaders. And that, is the full summary of this design. Looks quite fitting on a flag. Any questions?"

"Why did you make that?" Silver asks.

"Twilight asked for it," Rarity explained. "She needed something to represent us, now that we are a full team. There's not a symbol that fits us more than this, am I right?"

The time where Rainbow had to save Sonic from his fall was a pretty harrowing experience. The sonic rainboom that she generated during that rescue was most likely the inspiration behind this flag.


Time passed, and the rangers exchanged a lot of stories between each other. Then, Sonic decided that it was time for him and Rainbow to have a little bit of alone time, just to they could talk to each other about the time that they've spent together ever since they murged the teams together as one.

"Rainbow...there's just..." Sonic began, but he just couldn't find the right words.

"What is it Sonic?" Rainbow asked, looking up to him.

Sonic sighs. "It's just that...we've been though a lot ever since we've become rangers," he explains. "Not just this team, but when we started to kick the enemy's butt a year ago. The day that our lives would change forever."

Some memories cam back to Rainbow. "Oh yeah," she said. "When I started becoming a ranger as an Equinger, I had to assemble a team full of the girls that I met during the first day of school. One of them was my own best friend. Yeah, the old powers might be long gone, but I kept holding on to this, just to remind me of that time." Rainbow reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a cracked, dark purple device. She places it on the table.

"The Equine Morpher!" Sonic said, recognizing the device. Then he looks back at Rainbow. "You...brought this along the journey?"

"Yep," Rainbow nodded.

"Well, I brought in a memento from my previous ranger team, the Ringranger," Sonic said as he reached into his own coat pocket. "The Ring Brace." He pulls a black, cracked device that looks like it was meant to be worn on one's wrist. He places it on the table.

"You brought this too?" Rainbow gasped.

"Yeah," Sonic answered. Then he sighs. "Man, I just cannot forget the time when our teams met. The time that we faced off a monster that broke these morphers."

Rainbow let out a nervous laughter. "Yeah..." she said. "That time."

It was the fight during the time where the former Ringrangers and Equingers first meet each other in full.

Knuckles crashed down to the ground, knocked out of his ranger state. "No!" Sonic yelled to his fallen friend.

Applejack ran up to Knuckles to check on him. "Knuckles! Are you alright?" she asked as she shook him.

"Ha ha ha!" The monster laughed. "You thought that you could succeed in this team up. But you thought wrong! This is not your usual team up. I'm going to turn this into the most disastrous team up between two ranger teams in ranger history!"

Rainbow growled at the monster. "Oh. We'll see," she said. "We'll see about that."

The other rangers continued to fight the monster, but it proved fruitless. It took them a lot of time just to take down one single monster. So long, that they are getting tired. Eventually, all of them are knocked out of their ranger forms with disastrous results.

"Ha ha ha!" The monster laughed again. "Even with another ranger team by your side, you still cannot defeat me! Now, I'm going to eliminate all of you and-"

The rangers soon made a mad dash away from the monster, leaving him stuck on the land that he resides in.

"No! Wait! Come back!" the monster screams. "I'm not done with you yet!"

The former rangers soon found themselves staring at the realm of the monster that defeated them.

Silver pounded on the ground. "Oh, if only I could go back in time and prevent all of this from happening!"

"Give up Silver!" Sonic yelled. "There was no way we could've win against that monster. Even if you gave out past selves the information, we would still lose because...no matter how hard we tried, we still couldn't make a dent in that guy's health. It's...hopeless!"

"Cheer up, brother," Manic said. "It's only a loss."

This caused Rainbow to freak out. "Only a loss?" she shrieked. "Yeah right. What if that guy had the power to destroy the world? If we failed against that guy, then we failed the world!"

Back to current times, the two leaders are still there, thinking about the day that the two teams clashed with each other.

"That...did not go as well as we expected," Sonic remarked.

"All because six of us, three on each team, could not resist to fight each other to see who is better," Rainbow added. "Just like us when we first met."

A few seconds of silence fills the room as Sonic and Rainbow began to talk about their feelings for each other.

Sonic spoke up. "I was thinking..." he began, "we've really gone though a lot in this team. Ever since we first met, we have really gone though a lot of intense moments."

"Yeah," Rainbow agreed. "Like that time where I have to recuse you from your fall and I had to perform the legendary Sonic Rainboom just to save you in time. I feel like I've done that move before."

"And all those initial missions of our friends," Sonic brought up. "They did gone though plenty of death-defying moments. Even though we only did a couple of missions, there is still a lot of awesomeness packed in these few missions." Then, he changes the subject. "So...about our initial powers."

Rainbow chuckled. "Oh yeah, that," she said. "First time me and my friends tried them on, we had no clue about what is happening."

"Just like the some of the ranger teams from the past where they are not aware of the powers that they're about to get and they accidentally stumbled upon them," Sonic commented, thinking about the ranger teams that came before them. "Or, the powers find them. Either way, when you're not aware of the powers that you're getting, things will get confusing for you."

Unless you have strong ties to these powers...

"Shame that our old powers had to end so soon," Rainbow said. "We were just about to unlock the full potential of our powers. And it was during our team up mission. Oh, if only we didn't fight like we did the first time around." Rainbow grumbled during that last part, feeling guilty about not sharing information about them before.

Sonic stood up and approached Rainbow. He offered his hand to her. "Here Rainbow. How about a hug to calm those nerves?"

Rainbow looked up to Sonic and smiled at him, letting out a small tear. She takes his hand and stands up. "Love you, Sonic," she said. And they hugged each other.

Sonic patted on Rainbow's back. "Love you, too," he replied.


Amy watched as Sonic was having an...embrace with Rainbow. She takes her eyes away from the window and walked away. "Looks like Sonic has finally found a girl that he actually enjoys spending time around," Amy said. "Now I can't get into his personal bubble."

"Blame it on the fact that he has found a girl who shares so much in common with him," Thunder said. "Not down to the exact interest, but close enough. There are still a lot of things that they don't have in common." He then tried to come up with examples. "Like...the books that they've read."

The something came into Rarity's head that she'd completely forgot about until now. "Oh! I almost forgot!" she said. "I was commissioned to create these for us to wear." She reaches out and grabbed a clothing rack and pulled it next to her. "See?"

Amy inspected the clothes. "What are these?" she asked.

Rarity took a look at the clothes that are next to her. Then, she looks back at her friends. "Ranger uniforms!" she explained. "Highly personalized garments!"

Applejack scratched her head wondering what they need these for. "Uh...do we need them right now?" she asked.

"Oh please!" she said. "They're main purpose is for identification. So that it is made even easier to tell each other apart even in civilian form! Go ahead, try them on! It'll work out."

The rangers looked at each other, thinking if getting new uniforms would be a great idea. Naturally, not wanting to disappoint their clothes designer...

Soon, nearly everyone got a new suit. Miles got a yellow pilot's jacket, Twilight got a deep purple and magenta jacket and shirt, Applejack got a cowgirl's outfit to match her hat, Knuckles got a red shirt with a white swoosh near the collar, Pinkie and Manic kept their current suit (apparently, Rarity thinks they look fine enough in their current outfits), Fluttershy got a green sweeter (despite green not suiting her-wait, what?), Thunder got a jacket with yellow stripes across, and Espio got a more ninja-like outfit.

In short, Pinkie, Manic, Amy, Rarity, and Silver did not receive a ranger uniform.

"Wow!" Twilight said as she got out of the bathroom. "We look distinctive."

"Yeah," Miles replied. "As if our haircuts and natural colors didn't make it easier to tell us apart."

"I think I have the same haircut as Rainbow," Applejack recalls as she checks her hair. "Almost."

"Well, my friends," Rarity said, "At least we can see each other even from a distance because we are now very distinctive from everyone else."

"As well as making it easier for casual observers to tell what ranger colors we are," Pinkie said.

Rarity looked at Pinkie wondering what is she talking about. "What causal viewers?" she asked.

"You know?" Pinkie answered. "The ones who are looking at us right now."

Miles looked though the room looking for these causal viewers. "Where? I don't see anyone else in here but us."

Pinkie jumped back to this reality. "Never mind," she said. "Must've taken a peek out there."

The meeting room door opened up and out comes Sonic and Rainbow, who are finished with their conversation. "Hey guys!" Sonic greeted. "How are you-" The came to a stop as soon as they saw the new outfits their friends are wearing. "Whoa! All of you look different. Did you get new uniforms, by any chance?"

"You can thank me for that one," Rarity said.

Rainbow looked at Rarity. "You?" she asked.

"Sure," Rarity replied. "I was commissioned to make them."

"Huh. Strange," Sonic coughed out. "Well, at least you are sensible about these uniforms. They do look like causal clothes. I'm pretty sure no one will guess what our ranger colors are from now on. Seriously! Color-coded clothing has become standard. Well...most of the time."

The rangers went back to the meeting room for one final discussion.

Sonic sat at one end of the table delivering his speech towards his friends. "We, as the Sonic Rainbooms team-that name feels a bit awkward to say-have been working as rangers for quite some time. We had out original powers, and we enjoyed them for when the monsters attacked our home. We once thought that this will last for an entire year, after spending several missions with these powers. But we were wrong. As you all know, during that time where we had our original powers, both of the teams accidentally met up. During this faithful meeting, more than half of the original teams decided to fight each other while the remaining four just stands off to the side wondering about their friend's thinking process."

Espio had his hand over his head, disgusted at the actions his allies decided to take. "I have no clue what each of our friends except the leaders are thinking."

"I agree," Thunder said. "I mean, what made our friends think that fighting each other upon first meeting is a good idea?"

"That was old us, Rainbow told them. "We are not them. We have learned from that experience."

Sonic continued on with his speech. "As some of you know, that ended in a tie, so what's the point of that fight? Well, that fight made some of us realized that fighting each other is not the best option, especially when there's a much bigger threat that both of you are fighting."

"It's like a battle between the right hand and left hand," Manic said, then proceeded to demonstrate by bashing his two hands together. "You're fighting each other, even though the two of you are part of the exact same body."

"And after that, a monster showed up to ruin our day," Sonic continued.

"Oh! Ha ha!" Pinkie laughed. "And you thought that this will end just like every other team up missions involving two or more ranger teams. Both of us joining forces fighting the monster and coming from the battle victorious. Ha ha ha! Oh, we thought so wrong."

"Yeah...Pinkie's right," Rainbow said. "We did expect to come out on top. But instead of getting that ending, we got our butts kicked a lot by this monster."

Sonic reached the end of his speech. "I don't know what's going on with that monster, but that thing is so powerful that not only did it knock us all from our ranger forms, but it also broke our morphers, changers, whatever you would like to call them, to the point where we can no longer use them."

Twilight then brings up the most recent significant event before they got their most resent powers. "Which brings all of you to-" She lets out a sigh to clar her thoughts. "-the Columbia Games junior league."

"Just forget about that disastrous sporting event," Rainbow tells Twilight. "There were so many things wrong with that year's games that it ended your former school's fifteen-year-long win streak."

"I really hope next year's big event went a lot better than last time," Miles said. "If there was a next game."

Sonic pinched his nose and slammed his hand down on the table. "Look, guys," he said. "If there wasn't going to be a Columbia Games hosted in the junior league, then we will make it happen again. We're a team of friends. We've saved the day several times since we've started. If we can save the planet from certain doom, then we can make it happen again. And if we fail, we should try again, because as rangers, we won't give up until the task is complete. No setback, no matter how big, will let us down."

Rainbow looked at her wrist device with the gem still attached to it. "Probably why we decided to go for these new powers the moment we heard about them," she theorizes. "We are unsatisfied with our defeat against that monster, so we go for the new powers to get back into the fights."

"Speaking on that monster that destroyed our old powers," Knuckles brought up, "what happened to that thing that defeated us and destroyed our old powers?"

"That thing's probably still around, waiting to attack us," Espio guessed. "Or, some other ranger team has dealt with it. I don't know."

Shortly after this, everyone's device went off with seconds of each other. "Oh look!" Twilight pointed out. "Our time here is almost up!"

Sonic stood up from his seat. "Well, friends," he said, "Looks like we'll have to end this meeting." The other rangers make a break for the exit. "See you all in our next mission," he concluded, and he exited the room, leaving a empty table.

Somewhere in Columbia, a team of veteran rangers stood in front of the corpse of a monster, the same one that has defeated two ranger teams nearly a year ago.

"Well..." an adult agent said. "After all that hard work, we've finally managed to defeat the thing which knocked out two ranger teams at the same time. Just as it was about to strike again."

A women walked up to the man and grabbed on to his arms. "Speaking of the two teams, do you think they've came back?" she asked,

The man looked up to the sky. "After all that time that have passed since their defeat, they may be back considering some of the damage that was left behind on the nearby park that wasn't there before," the man answered, then he began to step back. "Now let's go rangers. Time to head back to the Human World. Our world. Everyone's waiting for us in there."

The group of rangers began to walk away from the site of incident.

As they are about to leave, the man wrote a mission report telling the events.

"We defeated the monster, the beast that defeated two ranger teams at once," he recorded. "However, we did not catch the perpetrator behind this. We also gotten reports that our old enemies Rita and Fuhrer might be released again. We'll leave the task of defeating those up to the rangers of this area. We have much more important things to worry about back home."

[End of Episode]


From the Author:

Oh, so that's how they got here! Now we know the history behind the Gemrangers. Once known as the Ringrangers and the Equingers, these two teams have been utterly defeated by a monster that dominated them both. The monster that defeated them both also appears to have been defeated by a team of veteran rangers, albeit it took them a really long time. They're really pushing the time limit on how long their ranger powers can last.

It seems like the veteran rangers can't be bothered to defeat their two most powerful enemies. Mostly because they don't know where their base is. They decided that they'll be much better off lending the task to them instead of doing it themselves. After all, they can't remain in worlds other than their own for long.

Edit: The events in the flashback were altered to match up with the events that happened during the episode where the events happened. Some dialogue was altered as well.


Written by TheAPPstore

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Series inspired by Super Sentai/Power Rangers by Toei Company/Saban Brands