Season 1, Episode 26

"Tough Ride"

Dr. Drake has made discoveries about a treasure that is high in the mountains. It tells of a mountable cloud that is said to have been created by the ancients for future people to use. Some of the rangers took this as an opportunity to gain a new tool to be used in their tool belt.

Dr. Drake has also sent in blueprints about how the team's four bikes could be combined to form one giant vehicle. As these belonged to the team's strongest and most competent fighters, they will not be around for when the others are scaling the mountain.

The rangers are sitting at the command hall wondering what to do next. Ideas as to how they'll like to spend their time in between missions have slipped off their minds.

Suddenly, Median spoke up about a message he just got. "Incoming message from Dr. Drake," he announces, accompanied by a ring tone.

"Mr. Drake again?" Sonic asks. "Back to his old days of adventuring, isn't he?"

As soon as the idea of adventuring popped up, Rainbow perked up. "Man, wouldn't it be cool to meet this guy in person?" she asks. "I mean, he's one of your teachers!"

"Please be quiet, Rainbow," Median reminded. "Your friend is about to open the message."

"Message? What message?" Tails asked as he tired to tap his device. "I don't see how we could view this thing." He stopped tapping his device and tried to access it from the table computer. "At least from our devices." He later gave up. "Where did we keep that computer? The lab?"

"Oh," Median realizes. "I thought that your devices are able to open up files. My bad. I thought that you and your friends have come up with the idea of opening files on your own devices. Anyway, get to the lab. We have some analyzing to do."

Some of the rangers have traveled to the lab to see this message. Tails tapped on the buttons accessing the base's electronic inbox. "Let's see here..." he said as he moved the mouse around. "Opening up file attached to message and boom!" The attached file is a photo of a dirty drawing. It looks very old. It is an map of the Columbia region with only the land features such as lakes drawn on the map. Attached to the map is a painting of a cloud, with an arrow coming out of it pointing towards the large mountain in the southern half of the central mountain range. Below the photo is a paragraph explaining what's going on.

"What does it say, Tails?" Twilight asks. Then she takes a peek at the photo. "What's this a cloud? What does a cloud have to do with all of this?"

Tails scrolled further down the message, ignoring the little wall of text detailing about the above picture. At the bottom of the message is a chicken-scratch drawing of the teams four bikes with an arrow pointing to each other. It's a little crude, but at least some minor details can be read. "Not just a cloud. There are also some blueprints attached. Take a look!"

Twilight takes a closer peek at the blueprints. "Oh, my goodness. Look at what we have here."

Sonic, Rainbow, and Thunder are called to the lab to take a look at the photo and blueprints, which have been printed out for their convenience.

"According to these blueprints," Miles read, "it appears that the four bikes have the ability to combine into one single vehicle. A Quad-Bike, if you would like to call it."

"Four bikes that have the ability to combine into one?" Thunder asks. "Look, I know that we have a main mecha that we use every time a monster grows giant. This...I think we're taking the concept of combining several smaller things into one greater thing is getting a little too out of hand. Don't you think we'd had enough?"

"First of all," Rainbow began, "We've only had one mecha. We don't have more in our arsenal. Secondly, we do have our double-bike, but it is only made up of two components, so can you even consider it as using the combining concept?"

"That's not all," Tails continued. "He has also uncovered some legend about a mountable cloud. Apparently, according to legend, it can only be accessed by the chosen rangers of the land."

"Is it just me?" Sonic asks. "Or are the ancients are using this 'only usable by the chosen ones' lock a little to frequently? Is this the work of the ancients again?"

Twilight lets out a sigh. "I don't know, but it appears that the ancients are taking a huge fondness of this lock in their creations. Did they saw many great civilizations fall because of some magical artifact that is powerful, but it fell into the wrong hands thus causing the downfall of said civilizations?"

"Well I don't recall them existing at the time that I once lived," Median spoke from the devices.

Twilight snapped her attention to her device. "What is it Median?" she asked.

Median told his little story about the time he once lived in. "Last time I checked, my memories went a little foggy during the Great Cataclysm of Ancient Columbia. I blacked out during this time, and it was only recently that I gained conscience and some of my original powers. Thanks a lot, dumb old scientist who thought creating an inter-dimensional portal was a great idea."

"Wait, what exactly are you talking about?" Thunder asked.

"Never mind," Median said. "Get back to your work."

The rangers returned back to the command center to tell their friends about their plans.

"Alright," Tails announced. "So, according to these findings, we can find the location of this cloud at...46.84 degrees north and 121.61 degrees west." Tails reaches for a button on the table and placed a beacon on the map. "Pack some warm clothes. We're heading off to the most famous mountain in the Columbia region. Except for the following. The two eggheads, the two speedsters, and our dark rangers."

Sonic lifted himself up to ask a question. "So...everyone except you, me, Twilight, Rainbow, Sunset, and Shadow. Why us, of all people?"

Twilight pulled out some research papers. "Well, we still have to do the research on the Quad-Bike combination," she explains. "And if we are done, we don't want their owners absent, away from their personal vehicles. Alright everyone, let's pack up. Time to go to the mountains." She turns to where Median is. "Oh, and Median? Would you mind if you send out the zords?"

"What? Why?" Median asks.

"Just in case some monster showed their faces," Twilight replied. "And just in case they decided to grow giant."

"Okay, here you go rangers."

All of the rangers except for Sonic, Rainbow, Tails, Twilight, Shadow, and Sunset leave the building.

Sonic walked up to Shadow and placed his arm around his neck. "So, how about we continue with those driving lessons? I'm sure that you'll be done with them quickly."

Meanwhile, the remaining rangers are piloting the Grand Six zords dressed in warm clothing. Parka, thick jackets, scarfs, gloves, anything that could keep them warm. Whlie it is some snow patches covering the ground in some places, these rangers are about to travel to an even colder location: the mountain. Everyone is in their respective vehicles, except for Thunder, Espio, and Manic. Two of the boys are driving the Alpha Carrier while Manic has moved to the Delta Knight.

Thunder looks around the cockpit of the Alpha Carrier. "It feels very strange being in here without the six who are piloting this," he remarks. "Also, it feels very empty without them."

"And all that shifting around just to compensate for the fact that six of us aren't joining in this mission," Espio replied.

Thunder replied back. "Hey, at least everyone is mostly where they should be, right?" He chuckles a bit. "Okay everyone, here we go."

The six zords rolled out of the garage heading to their destination. Meanwhile, the four bike riders stood at the cliff watching their friends head off into the mountains.

Somewhere in the villain's base, Rita and Fuhrer are trying to figure out what their next plan should be.

"I just can't believe this," Rita said, tapping her head with her finger trying to get out some ideas. "It seems that we can't defeat those rangers for very long.

"It's okay," Fuhrer reassures. "We managed to defeat them. A few times, actually." He then points out the times where they managed to defeat at least one ranger. "None of them lasted very long and was quickly followed by another defeat."

"Speaking of rangers," Rita thought. "What are they doing that we can sabotage? Are they even doing anything?"

"Incoming news!" A minion spoke from below.

Rite rushed to the edge of the balcony and leans down on her tracking minions. "What is it minion?" she asks.

"The rangers are heading to Mt. Cascadia!" the minion reported. "The highest mountain in the Columbia region. They're probably sent there because they found a secret treasure. Or maybe they want to climb a mountain, I don't know."

"They're heading towards a mountain?" Fuhrer asks. "And it's probably to search for a treasure? Well, it's a good thing that we have this is reserve." He reaches for a nearby lever and pulls it down. "Meet Snow Titan!"

In the summoning area, are large, human sized, walking snowman appeared in the circle. "Hey guys!" he said. "How are you doing? Having a chilly cold day in the underground?"

Rita looks at Fuhrer with an angry look to her face. "Seriously?" she asks. "Out of all the monsters you could've summoned, you picked this? A snowman?"

"Well, they are heading towards a mountain which typically has a lot of snow," Fuhrer explains his actions. "Also, it is winter, even though there are only patches of snow on the ground. Point is, seasons are closely related to temperatures and weather pat-"

"Oh, enough talk," Rita interrupts. "Let's send this snowman anyway. He looks like the perfect monster for the job!" Rita then formulates her plan. "So the rangers are climbing up a mountain to search for some treasure that is located there. I want you to go up there and make those rangers' mission harder! And make sure to claim the treasure for us. We don't need it, we just want to keep that thing out of those pesky rangers' hands."

A few hours later, the rangers have made it to Mt. Cascadia. Snow covers the peak of he mountain, the air is cold at this altitude and time of year, and brisk winds blew through the hikers. They looked up at the towering mountain, feeling a little dizzy from having to lean so far back.

"So, this is it. Mt. Cascadia," Thunder introduces to his friends. "The highest mountain in the region and its mountain range. Towering in at over 14,000 feet, this mountain is a local climber's dream. Also home to a hidden shrine only accessible by the rangers." After staring at the mountain for a while, Thunder looks back on his friends. "Well, bundle up, everyone. This expedition is going to take a while." And then he approached the mountain top.

Fluttershy continued to look up at the mountain. "My goodness," she gasped. "This mountain is scarily tall! I almost felt dizzy just from looking at it."

Amy stopped to look back at one of her friends. "It's actually not that bad," she reassures. "This mountain isn't that steep. It's quite a long walk to here." She then continues on with the mountain trail.

Rarity starts to feel a little sweaty from all the layers. "Man. I feel hot in here," she said, fanning her head. "Should I take my scarf off just for a moment?"

"We're scaling a high mountain, remember?" Silver replies. "Keep yourself as warm as possible. We don't want to have frostbite during the scaling."

Rarity scoffs. "Okay. If you insist, darling." She and Silver continue on with the mountain path, catching up to the rest of their friends.

Back at the base, Rainbow is busy teaching Sunset on how to ride her bike.

"You sure you're getting the hang of it?" Rainbow asks, standing by.

Sunset wobbles on her bike as she slows to a stop. "Man, those people who went though driving school makes it seem like driving is a difficult skill to master," she comments. "It's not. All you really need are some good hand-eye coordination, attention, and the ability to keep your distance from the other motorists. I think I'm getting the hang of this."

"That's the spirit!" Rainbow cheers.

Then Sonic coms along to check on the girls. "Hey girls! How are you doing?" he asks as walks in.

"Rainbow's been teaching me for quite some time," Sunset explains. "She thinks I've got the hang of it. Knowing the basics and what not."

"Yeah," Rainbow agrees. "Oh, and stay off the highways until we can get you a driver's license," she tells Sunset. "Like many people, you're going to be learning for a few more days until we are able to trust you in your driving capabilities."

Sonic looks off to the side, towards the lab building. "I wonder how our lab workers been doing on that sweet new combo," he ponders.

Meanwhile, back in the lap, Twilight is studying the blueprints she printed off earlier. She then looks at the workshop area, watch Tails install the new attachment nodes to the back of both Sonic's bike and Rainbow's bike. "You got this, Tails?" she asks.

"Almost there!" Tails said as he turns off his welder and holds up his protective masks. "Just need to attach these attachment nodes and test them and then we're all set!" Then he looks towards the door and saw that the the four bike riders have entered the lab. "Oh, hey you four. How was your driving tests?"

"They're doing very good," Rainbow answers. "They seem to be getting the hang of it. Might need to teach them for a bit longer though."

"That's great new," Twilight replied. "I'm sure that you learn these things quite fast."

"Hey, how was our friends' progress on getting that cloud?" Sonic brings up.

"Well..." Twilight begins. "I hope that they are doing well."

In the background, Tails lets his protective mask fall on his face so that he can get back to work. Don't want a bare face near something as hot as a welder.

Back at the mountain, the others struggle to make progress. The trails are rocky and narrow. Harsh winds blew snow onto the climber's faces and clothing. At one point in their journey, Pinkie slipped on a patch of ice and nearly fell on her face. Luckily, Manic caught her just in time. She looks up to Manic with a smile.

As they ascended higher and higher, the winds grew stronger and the snowstorm grew harsher. "Ugg," Rarity groans. "This blizzard is getting too strong! We need to go back, it's much too dangerous!"

Espio stopped and looks back while Thunder continues on without them. "Are you kidding me?"" he asks. "We traveled all this way to find a cloud. It might be a potential new tool to add to our arsenal. We must not stop now! We've made so much progress!"

Suddenly, Pinkie began to feel exhausted. "Ugg. This air is too cold for me to handle," she said, feeling dizzy. "I think I'm getting...frostbite. Ugg." She then fell down to the ground. Manic tried to catch her once again, but the ice gave way under their feet. "Whoa!"

"Ahh!"

The loud snap echoed throughout the mountain. Espio looks back past all of the others and saw that both Pinkie and Manic have fallen. Manic is clinging on to a piece of the intact trail, holding Pinkie with his other hand. "What happened here?

The ground broke down below our feet!" Manic explains.

Espio looks around the trail and noticed that someone is absent. "Where's Thunder" he asks. Then he ran up the trail, as it is the only possible direction his friend could've gone. "Thunder! Where are you?"

Applejack then reached out her hand down to Manic. "Come on, you two!" she cries. "We'll pull you right back up!"

As Applejack struggles to grab Manic's arm, Pinkie looks up behind her and noticed a moving figure in the shape of a stacked large snowballs.

"Oh, lookie here! A snowman!" she said, excitedly. Then, as the snowman approaches and more of it's face is visible, the more...sinister it looks. "Wait...uh oh."

The others look up to see the monster of the week: Snow Titan. The Sinister Snowman.

"You thought you could get away with getting that cloud?" Snow Titan said. "Well, I might not need it. My masters won't need it."

"So, what are you here for?" Knuckles asks.

"To keep your meddling hands off that cloud" Snow Titan answers. Then, he leaped over the gap, landed on Applejack, then shoved Knuckles off to the side. The remaining rangers back off trying to fend off their opponent.

"Oh, coming to this place was a bad idea!" Fluttershy said. "I want to go back to the base, where I can feel safe!"

Amy then raised her eyebrows wondering how an ally of all things shifted from one end of the assertive spectrum to the other.

"Hey! Send an alarm already!" Espio yelled.

"Oh! Right!" Amy scampered, trying to make a call to her allies back at the base.

The rangers at the base are busy making the final touches to the four bikes. Twilight and Tails are checking the new modifications they made to the bikes, while the remaining four are finishing up their lessons of the day. Then, all at once, their devices began to blare out an alarm.

"What the-" Tails said, turning his attention to the loud noise. "Hey! What's going on?"

Twilight taps her device to read the alerts. "Our allies are in danger!" she reads. "They are under attack!" Judging from where they're heading off to, she knew where the danger is at. She rushes to the front door and yells to the others. "Quickly! Get to Mt. Cascadia as soon as possible!" he ordered.

Sonic looks back at Twilight. "Wait, have you put your finishing touches yet?" he asks.

"We are done with adding in the attachment nodes," Twilight answers. "But we haven't fully checked them yet!"

"Rolling out the motorcycles now!" Tails announces as he pulls the motorcycles he is working on out. "Now hop on!"

Sonic, Rainbow, Sunset, and Shadow hopped on their respective bikes. Sonic has the blue cabin, Rainbow has the cyan, Sunset got the orange phoenix, and Shadow got a wolf lean-back bike. The four activated their bike's flight mode and takes off. Sonic and Rainbow's lift went smoothly, but Sunset's and Shadow's lift upwards is rocky. Together, zipped south towards Mt. Cascadia, where their friends are.

As they flew their bikes through the air in formation, but separated,, they hear a suspicious buzzing noise. Then, it was accompanied by a familiar voice. "You're not getting away, pesky rangers!" they heard.

Sonic's ears perked up as soon as he heard that. "It's Dr. Eggman!" he correctly guesses.

"What is he going here at a time like this?" Rainbow asks. Then, the four rangers looked behind them...and saw a giant flying beetle with equally massive pincers. It is piloted by none other than Dr. Eggman, because he is the one who designed it. Introducing, the Egg Beetle.

"Ohohoho!" Eggman chuckles.

"Oh, give us a break!" Rainbow groans.

The four rangers continued to flew high in the sky. Chasing them is the Egg Beetle, who closes its pincers as it chases its targets down.

Meanwhile, back at Mt. Cascadia, Thunder is approaching the location where the cloud he and his friends were looking for. The walkable area of the trail gives way to a circular, snow covered shrine it seems surrounded by the mountain on one side and steep drops in the other. And by steep drops, we mean that the cliffs are not suited to be walked on...or climbed on. The peak of the mountain lays far above the area, just thousands of feet above where the shrine is located. The air grew bitter cold, the clouds making the sky look dark, despite it being near midday.

As scaling the mountain for quite some time, Thunder notices the shrine in front of him. At the center of the shrine is a glowing object. "There it is!" he said. He then ran up to the center of the shrine. Words are scrawled on the shrine walls, but Thunder did not take notice. He only cares for the...the...

"The...cloud?" He enters the shrine and only found a medallion with a picture of a cloud engraved on it. "What is this thing?" he asks himself as he inspects the medallion. "I came all this way for this? I was expecting a cloud! Not a stupid medallion!" Then he looks at the words engraved on the walls of the shrine. "Unless..." he ponders as he reads the text.

"Hey!" Thunder heard someone said. He turns around and saw a large, sinister snowman just waiting for him at the entrance to the shrine.

"What?" Thunder blurts out.

"Give that thing to me!" Snow Titan demanded.

Thunder gulped as he realized that he was all on his own. No one is here with him on this shrine. No one, but that Snow Titan, who seems to be after this...medallion that he is holding.

The four bikes and their riders flew through the air towards where their friends are fighting. Sonic is communicating to Tails via his device to get information on the vehicle combination.

"You should be able to attach your bikes together at this moment," Tails pointed out. "Go ahead, give it a shot!"

"Well, this is the perfect opportunity," Sonic remarks as he turns his head to look back, "since we need a few extra hands to do the desired task."

Behind Sonic, Shadow and Sunset are struggling to both steer their bikes and target the Egg Beetle at the same time. Shadow is busy blasting away with his shotgun, while Sunset throws fireballs to drive away the metallic beetle. Too bad for them that they're constantly drifting and tilting, so they both have to repeatedly stop their firing to readjust their bikes so that they won't fall off and crash into the ground.

"Ugg!" Shadow grunts. "Why can't this thing remain still?"

Sonic returns his gaze to ahead of him. "Well then, time to test out this new formation." Sonic grips on the handles tighter and prepares to slow down to dock. "Cobalt Comet formation!"

As soon as Sonic said that, the front of Sunset's bike rotated itself to reveal a attachment node. "Huh? Why did my phoenix head turned into an attachment node?" Then she looks up ahead and saw that Sonic's bike, with the corresponding attachment node placed behind the rear wheel, in approaching her. "Ahh!" Sunset screamed as she tried to protect herself. Sonic's bike attaches itself to Sunset's bike, creating a slight jolt in the process. When the jolting ended, Sunset sit up straight and yelled at Sonic. "Hey! Tone it down with the combining!" she yells. "It's jolting my bike."

Sonic looks back. "Sorry about that!" Sonic apologizes. "We'll be gentler next time!"

Now, it's Rainbow and Shadow's turn to combine. "Here it comes!" Rainbow announces as she pounds her fists together. "The Prism Wolf!"

Rainbow slows her bike down as the attachment node at the front of Shadow's bike reveals itself. The two bikes attach to each other, forming the Prism Wolf bike combination.

But they were not done yet. With them just barely out of reach of the Egg Beetle's pincers, Sonic and Rainbow made one final announcement of the new bike combination. "And now...Quad-Bike formation!"

The Cobalt Comet and the Prism Wolf both joined together via the attachment nodes found in the under carriage of their bikes, with the Cobalt Comet on the left, and the Prism Wolf on the right. With the combining of these two bike combinations, the Quad-Bike has been formed.

With two pairs of hands free, we should be able to drive away Eggman before he drives away us. "Come on you two!" Rainbow yelled as she looks back. "Give it all you got."

"Ugg." Shadow groans. "Alright." He pulls out his shotgun and gets ready to fire laser bolts. "Hands off us!" He fires off several rounds of lasers, bombarding the Egg Beetle. Sunset soon joins in by lobbing fireballs towards Eggman.

"Ah!" Eggman screams as his cockpit is shaking from all the hits. "How dare you do this to my Egg Beetle? I'll crush you in a second." The Egg Beetle then widens its pincers erady to clasps down on the four rangers.

Just before the pincers slam down on them, Sonic and Rainbow both increased the speed of the Quad-Bike by using their own boost energy. The Quad-Bike got out of the way of the pincers just before it clamps shut.

"Grr! I missed!" Eggman exclaims as he saw that his attack did not make contact. "Hold still please!"

"Relative to you, Egghead," Sonic taunted. Then he looks back at his friends. "Keep it up, everyone! We're almost at Mt. Cascadia!"

The Quad-Bike zooms off into the distance as the Egg Beetle continues to chase them down.

Back at the mountain shrine, Thunder is being threatened by Snow Titan to give up the medallion. The one that Thunder and his friends had walked all this way for. "Hand me that cloud before I crush you," Snow Titan demanded. Thunder held onto the medallion tighter while leaning back, not willing to give it up to this freak.

Just then, Espio came to the shrine and saw Thunder being threatened by Snow Titan. "There you are, Thunder!" Espio said. "We were so worried about you when you went on ahead without us." He then takes a look at Snow Titan, who steps closer and closer to Thunder. Espio's eyes grew angry. "Why you pile of evil snow!" He pulls a shrunken from his coat pocket and threw it at Snow Titan. It digs itself deep into the monster. Good news: It stopped him in his tracks. Bad news: Now his attention is turned towards him.

Snow Titan let out an evil grin. "So...you are brave enough to join your friend in this dangerous situation, hmm?" he said. Espio then flinched in fear. "Well then," Snow Titan continues. "This is what happens when you mess with me!" He screams with a loud noise that echoes across the mountains. The resulting sound is enough to let a massive pile of snow tumble down the mountains.

The shrine shakes under their feet as piles and piles of snow approaches. "It's an avalanche!" Thunder yells. "Quick! We must-"

Thunder and Espio are hit with a pile on snow, pushing them down into the mountain slopes. They can be heard screaming as they tumbled down the mountain riding a huge snow sheet. Snow Titan was unfazed by the snow, as it passed right through him. He seems to be visibly larger after the snow as passed, though. He then leans down on the slopes looking at his enemies, and he grew a sinister grin.

"Hope you like having your tombstone in the snow," he taunts the two rangers.

As Espio and Thunder tumbled down the mountain while on a massive sheet of snow, Espio screams for his life while Thunder tries to figure out a way to summon a mountable cloud

"Come on!" Thunder yells as he shakes the medallion. Nothing happened. He continued to shake it. "Work! Work please!"

Snow Titan leans down on the cliff, laughing evilly. "Ha ha ha!" he laughs out. "That's what you get for not following my orders!" He continues to look down at the mountain, until a bright spark of light flashes from where he sent those rangers tumbling down. "What? Impossible!" Snow Titan said. "How did he..."he stopped himself as he saw something unbelievable. Those two rangers he sent tumbling down the mountains? They were now riding on a cloud, with one of them hanging on to the cloud kickinh his legs. "...do that?"

Thunder looks down at the cloud he is riding. His medallion lets out a faint glow. "Whoa!" he says in awe. "So this is the cloud that we are looking for! It acts just like a hoverboard!"

Espio, while amazed, is more concerned about keeping his grip on the cloud. "Umm, can I hop in with you?" he asks.

Thunder looks behind him and down, seeing that his friend is clinging on to the cloud he is riding. He then leans down and helps his friend on his cloud. The cloud expands to accommodate the two of them. "Can't leave my friends hanging for their dear life, can they?" he says to his friend.

Snow Titan was outraged by this revelation. "Urg!" he screams out. "You make me so angry that I'll have to turn giant!" He then leaps off the mountain and into the slopes, going after the avalanche that he caused.

"He's getting away!" Espio reported.

"Time to go after him!" Thunder replied. "Hold on tight!" He zips down the mountain on his cloud while Espio screams from the extreme speed. Meanwhile, the snow of the mountain begins to fall.

Further down the trail, the other rangers are about to regroup and continue their journey, when suddenly, the ground beneath them began to shake. Fluttershy shrieks and clings on to Amy as the others. Chunks of ice began to tumble down the mountains as the shaking intensifies.

"That can't be a good sign," Silver said to them. "Quick! Let's get out of here before-"

Too late. They were soon being pushed by the snow down the mountains.

Somewhere in the sky, the rangers in the Quad-Bike are continuing firing blasts into the Egg Beetle. They then approached Mt. Cascadia, when suddenly, they hear a booming voice coming from below.

"Ah aha ha ha!" they heard someone laugh. "I've become giant!"

The four rangers look down and saw a giant snowman hanging around a big pile of snow at the base of the mountain near the zords.

"Oh dear..." Sonic remarks. "That can't be-"

Watch out!" Shadow yelled.

Sonic looked back and saw that the Egg Beetle is about to crush them with its pincers. Reacting to this, Sonic lifted the Quad-Bike up, avoiding the attack.

Down at the snow pile, the others dig themselves out. They lifted several chunks of snow off the ground and help the others get back on the surface. While they're doing that, Thunder and Espio descended down to them on their cloud.

Rarity spits snow out of her mouth and gasped at the cloud that the two of them are on. "My goodness!" she gasped in awe. "That is a beautiful-"

"Not our biggest priority," Thunder reminds, looked at Snow Titan who towers over them. "We have a giant monster to finish off!"

Espio turned his gaze away from Snow Titan and looked towards where the zords are. Then, he got an idea. "Hey look! Out zords are here!" he points out. And everyone turned their attention towards them. "You know what that means..."

The rangers soon hopped in their respective zords and combined them into the Grand Six Megazord once again. They are ready to face off against the towering Snow Titan head on. Just one problem: Their joints are stiff due to the snow!

"What the-" Thunder blurted out as he moved the stick around. "Why can't we move this thing?"

"It's no use!" Silver realized as he pressed the buttons. "Our joints have been frozen over!"

"Aww cursed spheres!" Manic said. "How can defeat this monstrous snowman if we can't even move?"

Meanwhile, high in the sky, the Quad-Bike is just about to finish off the Egg Beetle. Smoke spews out of the Egg Beetle as it continues to accumulate damage. Finally, Shadow makes one final blast of pellets, causing the Egg Beetle to break down and fall from the air. "Grr!" Eggman growled. "Pesky rangers destroyed yet another one of my creations. Time to bail out!" Eggman ejected his cockpit and flew away just as the Egg Beetle exploded.

Rainbow haven't thought about doing this until now, but she feels the need to check on her friends down below. She bring her device up to her mouth and makes a call directed at Thunder. "Sorry if I didn't call," she makes an excuse. "We have that Eggman chase us down with another one o his creations. Now it's been dealt with. So, did you and your friends managed to find that cloud?"

"Yes!" Thunder replies. "Though, not in the form that we are expecting. It's more like a summoning medallion that summons a cloud."

Rainbow pumps her fist after hearing that. "Sweet!" she cheers.

"There's just one problem," Thunder continues. "And it's not related to the cloud."

"What's that?" Rainbow asks. And then everyone looks down to the ground. They noticed that Snow Titan is wearing with their Grand Six Megazord, except that their mecha is not resisting. This sends everyone in a panic. Something must be wrong with their giant robot.

"The snow has jammed our joints!" Espio explains. "This thing can't move properly!"

Then, Show Titan proceeds to shove the Grand Six down into the ground. He then places his foot on the chest. "Your time is up, rangers," he said as he clutches his fist ready for an attack.

The Quad-Bike then makes its way down towards the ground and glided towards one of Show Titan's fist. Sunset holds a fireball in her hands as they soar through the cold air. "Not today," she says. Sunset then throws a fireball at Snow Titan's arms while the Quad-Bike smashes through the fist, turning it into a puff of snow. The area hit by the fireball has melted, leaving a hole with water at the impact site.

"Urg!" Snow Titan growls. "You're not getting away with this!" He steps off of the megazord and travels to the pile of snow. Snow then travels up his body into where his fist once was.

Sunset looked down on the Grand Six Megazord that is laying there on the ground. It is covered in snow and ice, unable to gat back up due to how stiff the joints are. With that in mind, she makes a plan with her friends. "All right, guys," she started. "I'll get down there and thaw out the joints. You three focus on keeping that giant snowman busy. Sound good?"

Sonic gave a thumbs up in agreement. "You've got this, Sunset," he replies. Sunset smiled. The Quad-Bike then descended to over the Grand Six, where Sunset hopped off, before rising again. She then rushes towards the right arm, where she is closest.

Having their back on the rear wall is getting to both Thunder and Espio. They start to feel stiff from having their back on a hard surface.

"You know what?" Thunder decides. "Enough of sitting around here unable to do anything! Let get out of this place and help our friends!" He lifts up his medallion. "Okay then...so what's the magic words?" He then closes his eyes and begins to mutter some phrases. "Go, magical cloud," he mutters. "Magical cloud, I call you here! Magical cloud, I summon you!"

Outside, Sunset is checking on the fist to make sure that it was able to move. The fist rotated, then Sunset looked back and give a thumbs up to the arms' pilot. Then, from the chest cockpit, a cloud emerges, with both Thunder and Espio riding it once again. Espio is clinging on to the cloud once again, kicking his legs as he stugggles to get back up.

"Ha ha! I got it!" cheered Thunder as he rides on his cloud. "Time to help out some friends!" He then guides his cloud towards Snow Titan as Espio continued to cling on for his life. "Time to help out some friends," he said.

Snow Titan continues to focus its attention to the Quad-Bike and its riders. What he did not realize is that someone else is coming towards him. As Thunder approaches Snow Titan's face, he transform into ranger mode and pulls out his hammer.

"Hey, buddy!" Thunder cates Snow Titan's attention. Snow Titan heard the voice and turned his head around. He didn't expect to see a cloud coming towards his face. Thunder then smashes his hammer towards Snow Titan's face, knocking off a bit of snow out of the monster's face.

Sunset was just about finished with warming up the arms. They were now able to move around. Now Sunset travels to the legs to thaw out the joints there.

As the cloud continues to glide through the air, Espio loses his grip and lets go of the cloud. He lets himself fall towards the snowy ground below, before landing on a passing Quad-Bike on one of the back seats. Upon coming back to his senses, he noticed this.

"Got you!" Sonic says, looking back.

Espio then got an idea his head. He adjusts himself on the seat and pulls out some shuriken, but he was stopped by Shadow before he could throw any.

"I don't think that's going to work," Shadow pointed out. "This monster is a walking snowman. Slicing objects will not do."

"Shadow's right," Rainbow added. "Instead, we'll knock some snow out of him! Like this!" Rainbow increased the speed of the Quad-Bike and guided it towards one of Snow Titan's legs. Snow Titan was too busy trying to swat Thunder and his cloud away, so he didn't noticed that his leg had been knocked out until it was a fraction of a second too late.

Snow Titan toppled over from having one of his legs missing. He fell back on a bed of snow. But he is not moaning in pain. Instead, he was annoyed. "Grr!" he growls. "You dare to knock some of my material out? I can still win this!" Snow Titan gathers up some snow to place them on where his body parts are.

"How about no?" he heard someone said.

Snow Titan looks up and saw that the Grand Six Megazord is up and running, having its joints thawed out. Sunset is inside the chest cockpit, feeling exhausted.

"What?" Snow Titan flinched. "How did you recover from the cold?"

"Bit of a thawing work," Sunset answers, heavily breathing.

"Time to hop in," Sonic announces. The Quad-Bike moves to the chest cockpit of the Grand Six.

"Don't forget me!" Thunder calls out. He glides towards the chest cockpit after the Quad-Bike.

The chest cockpit is now full, with Sunset at the back recovering from using her fire powers.

"Bring out our blaster," Sonic ordered.

The left leg decuples a box and fires it up to the left arm, transforming into a gun. The Grand Six then points it's weapon towards Snow Titan.

Snow Titan looks up so the that the Grand Six is pointing its gun at him. "No! Wait!" he yelps. "I'm not done yet! Give me more-"

"Fire away!" Everyone yells, except for Sunset and Shadow. On cue, the Grand Six first a big blast straight at Snow Titan, turning him into nothing more than a head and a pile of snow.

Snow Titan looks at his surroundings. "Ah aha ha!" he laughs. "You though you could finish me off, but I'm still alive!" His head moves upwards to reveal that the rest of his body is reforming.

"He's rebuilding himself!" Thunder points out.

"This calls for another round," Sonic decided. He then pointed his finger forward, making the Grand Six fire another blast at Snow Titan. This time, it turns him into nothing more than a pile of snow. The Grand Six then turns its gun back into a box and places it back to the left leg.

Thunder turns to his friends. "Well, we've got what we came for," he said. "Now let's get out of here before he comes back!" The other rangers nod in agreement.

And so the Grand Six sprints off away from the battle site, heading back to the ranger's base.

"Wee Hee!" Thunder said as he soars across the skies in his cloud above the base. The other rangers are recording what they've done for the day.

"One new combination and one new vehicle," Sonic checks off. "Our arsenal is growing pretty constantly. Wonder what's next? Are we even done yet?"

"Sonic," Median began. "You and your team still have a long way to go, just like every other ranger team. It's just that, your path is way longer than any team seen before."

"What did you say?" Rainbow asks, questioning the length of their journey.

"Never mind," Median sets aside.

The others looked at each other, muttering about the length of their journey as rangers. As they're doing this, Thunder descended from the sky, hopped off his cloud, then pulled the cloud back into his medallion. "Hey guys," he says. "Did I miss anything?"

[End of Episode]

From the Author:

Phew! That was a rather wordy episode. And by wordy, I mean that there is a lot of non-dialogue words in this episode. There are about 2,000-2,400 words of dialogue per episode.

You know, I could focus more on the ranger's trek on climbing up the mountain, but the path will probably be a long, treacherous trail where the only obstacle is the harsh snow and winds. Seriously, couldn't these rangers have chosen a better time to scale a mountain? It's winter when this episode takes place!

If you've haven't known already, the Columbia region, where the series takes place, is based on the area surrounding the Columbia River in the United States. Why I chose this place? Probably animation studio and some of the voices behind the My Little Pony franchise and some Transformers series are located within this region. And also because of one of the major city's nickname being "The Emerald City". I mention this because Mt. Cascadia is based on Mt. Rainier in Washington, the highest mountain of the Cascades mountain range. Hence, Cascadia. Why I say highest instead of tallest? Technical reasons.

You know who I am. This is TheAPPstore. I'll see you later.

Written by TheAPPstore

Sonic the Hedgehog characters belong to Sega

My Little Pony characters belong to Hasbro

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