Episode 35

"Too Fast for You"

Speed is key for the next major mission, and Sonic and Rainbow are challanged by Rita and Fuhrer to defeat all the monsters they're throwing at them within a time limit. Their goal is to break Sonic and Rainbow's spirit and conficence by showing them they even with super speed, they're too slow. They both accapt the challange, however, none of their friends can help them out, as they are currently distracted by anohter attack courtsey of Eggman.

Sonic and Rainbow are confident that they are able to defeat the monsters in time, as they both have super speed and experince backing them up. Unfortunately for them, several wrinkles in this challange will be making this a lot harder for both of them, to the point where they have only seconds to spare.

[Beginning of Episode]

Rita and Fuhrer don't exactly have the highest opinion about their ability to make plans since the last attempt to defeat the rangers. They got defeated by a pacifist of all things.

"Man, we need to step things up a notch from our previous attempt," Fuhfer said as he slumps on is table. "We got defeated by someone who does not engage in combat. Also, we should've read the fine print on that fog we used to blind the rangers." Prior to making this plan, Fuhrer ordered some black fog to use in his next attempt, however the one who made it didn't exactly trust Fuhrer fully. "This is just embarassing. We're a disgrace compared to our prime selves."

Rita shuffles through the list of ideas as sge walks around. "Well, we better come up with another plan to defeat these rangers," she said. Then she looks at her list and reads the topmost unmarked item. "And it looks like I've got the thing. We need to get to the root of the rangers in order to defeat them."

Fuhrer got confused by what Rita meant. "What do you mean?" he asks, curious about the latest plan. "Your enemies?"

Rita shook her head rapidly. "No! Not them!" she responded. "We need to target the leaders of the rangers we're fighting against. Sonic and Rainbow Dash."

Fuhfer recalls these two rangers and remembers one thing about them. "Don't they have some sort of super speed?" he asks.

"Well, judging from their last names, they certainly do," Rita replies. "In fact, these two escape our first monsters unleashed onto this world by using their super speed."

Fuhrer pondered about Rita's plan to defeat the rangers for a moment. "How do you design a plan around those with super speed?" he asks, feeling concerned about the viability of the plan. "They just move too fast! You need to catch them off guard if you want to have a chance of getting them."

Rita remembers the monster chamber. "Well, we have several monsters in store that we've accumulated over our days of inactivity," she brings up. "What do we do about those?"

Rita and Fuhrer pondered about the plan for a moment. They are targeting the leaders now and they have several monsters just waiting to be used in one of their plots.

Then, Fuher got an idea. "Wait! I got it!" he said, snapping his fingers.

Rita looked at Fuhrer, curious about his plan. "What is it?" she asks.

"Why don't we challenge these two into defeating all of these monsters at once?" Fuhrer suggested. "We'll place them around the town they're at, spread out, then challenge these two to try and defeat all of them on their own. All within their ranger time limit."

Rtia got interested in this idea. This has to be brilliant. A genius idea. This has to work. "Well, that certainly is an interesting plan," she said. Then she wanted more out of this plan. "Tell me, is there any wrinkles we can add such as mind games? Can we kidnap someone to give them the motivation to do it? Oh! We can also use-"

"Nope!" Fuhrer responded to all of these suggestions. "None of that! No kidnapping required. No mind games." He shook his head at every ideas. "The concept itself would be enough to defeat them. They might be fast, but I'm sure that they're not quite fast enough to prevent this. We'll break their confidence in themselves by making them fail this challange!"

Rita found herself more interested in this idea. "Well, if that means breaking their confidence by mocking their ability then I'm in," she said, grinning with confidence.

Fuhrer clapped his hands together. "Perfect!" he said, concluding the planning phase. "Let's set this into motion!"

Sonic and Rainbow spends five minutes practicing their ranger skills. They were a bit out of practice for some of their more unused skills. Several dummies were placed on the field for them to knock around, and these two spends a lot of their time pulling off some of their skills.

Sonic uses his jetpack to launch himself up in the air. Then, he curls up into the ball before slamming down on one of the dummies. He then jumps off it and proceeds to run around it, creating a tornado that picks up the dummy for him to pummel for a moment.

Rainbow is on the other side of the field practicing her skills. She rushes in and knocks the dummy into the air before slamming into it multiple times while it is still in the air. She uses her wind powers to keep the dummy in the air. Once she thinks she's done, she then slams the dummy into the ground and lands on it.

Watching them and recording their movements is Tails and Twilight. They're gathering data about the abilities of the rangers other than their main ones.

Once their training is over, Sonic and Rainbow landed right in front of Tails and Twilight.

"Wow!" Tails said in awe. "That's awesome!"

Sonic and Rainbow reverted back into their civilian forms.

Sonic does a few stretches as he talks. "Got to practice this somehow," he said. "I'm pretty out of practice for my current skills since I've not been using them as of late. I wonder if I can encounter situations where my wind abilities would be considered viable. Or maybe my flight abilities. I nearly forgot that I had them."

"Yeah. Me too," Rainbow admitted. "I really need to get these wings of mine worked up."

Twilight glared at Rainbow. "You do realize that it's been ten days since that mission of Eggman's airship," she reminded.

Rainbow suddenly remembers that mission. "Oh..." she replies.

Sonic stretches out again, this time yawning. "I'm kind of bored right now.," he said. "I've been doing nothing but studying and practicing complex math equations, reading the Arabian Nights, doing sports activities, and playing video games. Isn't there something else we can do?"

Before any of them could answer, alarms began to wail across the base.

"Warning!" Median yells. "There is an enemy attack approaching the village!"

"What?" the four gasps.

"Get to the command center," Median orders. "This is not a typical monster attack. Come quick! It's urgent!"

Several of their friends are seen bursting out of the residential building, running towards the command center. Seeing this, Sonic, Rainbow, Tails, and Twilight decided to come along as well. This is urgent news that everyone has to hear. So they followed along and entered the command center.

What they found was something they did not expect to see coming.

"Oh my gosh…" Rainbow muttered upon seeing the danger signals. "Are you kidding me? Six monster attacks coming at us at once?"

The map is zoom so that it shows the nearby town and the surrounding area. There are six dot coming at them all at once, as well as a collection of dots coming in from the south towards their base. However, none of them notice this as the dots representing the monsters are way bigger than the dots representing...whatever that is.

"Well, it's a good thing that we have sixteen rangers instead of the usual five," Twilight said, assuring everyone. "Let's split up into pairs and tackle them all at once."

"With pleasure," Sonic replied. Then, he and the rest of the team ran out of the command room, getting ready to defeat the monsters. However, Sonic stopped when he sees a handheld radio just sitting there on the grass. "Huh? What is this?"

Sonic picked up the radio as the others surround him to look at it. Coming out of the radio is a message.

"Tehehe," a familiar voice said in a sinister tone. "Hello there, rangers!"

"Fuhrer?" Thunder gasps. "What's he doing sending this message to us?"

"You may notice that there are six monsters heading towards that village you're near and your base," Fuhrer said. "But those aren't for all of you to deal with. I'm challenging the leaders, Sonic and Rainbow, to take them all on without the help of any of their friends."

This causes everyone to gasp.

"What?" Tails said in disbelief. "They'll have to do this alone?"

Sonic and Rainbow looked at each other, still having their jaw dropped upon hearing that this next mission will involve them and only them. They might like challenges, but only the ones they impose on themselves based on their skill. This is getting into questionable levels.

"And there's one caveat that I have to add here," Fuhrer added, worrying the team. "You'll have to try to defeat them all within the time limit imposed on your morphers. Thirty minutes before you inexplicably turned back into your civilian mode. Then, it won't be long before you are crushed."

Sonic realized that he and Rainbow have practiced using their abilities at the worst possible time. "Shoot!" he screams, stomping his foot on the ground. "He says that Rainbow and I have thirty minutes, but we really only have twenty-five minutes to do this! Why do we perform our ranger training now?"

Rainbow smacks herself in the face for not knowing better about this day.

"And the others," Fuhrer added, grabbing the attention of the rest of the team. "If you think that you can help them out, I have a surprise for you. Eggman is sending a swarm of robots straight towards your base. Good luck getting through all of them."

The team looks off into the distance and spotted a swarm of robots coming in their direction. Hovering in the air next to them are two Egg Mobiles.

"We're back!" Eggman announced in a singing tone.

"To prevent you from helping out your leaders, that is," Trixie finished.

The team could only help but gawk at the terrible day that lies ahead of them. This is not going to be a pleasent day they could tell.

"And one more thing," Fuhrer concluded. "This message will explode in five seconds."

Suddenly the radio starts to beep. Panicking, Sonic tosses the radio up into the air, hoping that it'll expolde in the air. He and Rainbow then sprints out towards the village, leaving the rest of the team to stay behind and defend the base from Eggman's forces.

Unfortunately, it appears that the radio is remote acitvated, as it took more than five seconds since the beeping started before it exploded. It lands on the ground near their feet before creating a massive explosion that knocks them out.

"...What a way to start of the day guys," Tails remarks as the dust settles. "With an explosion."

Annoyingly, it seems that the mysterious Dynaman music came back after being unused for several episodes, much to the dismay of everyone.

"Not this music again..." Pinkie groans.

While laying on the ground, Manic pulls out his pistol and fires a laser pellet at the stereo that's playing it, destroying it and stopping the music.

Watchers saw the monsters coming in on them, and as soon as they realize that they have a lot of trouble in their hands, they notified everyone about the danger. People start to panic and run to their homes.

"Everyone! Get to your bunkers!" Mayor Fink ordered. "Several monsters have been spotted near our town. Please! Don't ignore this message!"

Sonic and Rainbow soon entered the town, where the streets have gone empty due to the imminent monster threat.

"Why do these villains have to be this cruel?" Rainbow asks, gritting her teeth.

"This is taking things to the next level," Sonic comments. "I mean, six monsters at once? Come on! It's too much too fast! Give us a break already!"

Rainbow groans, shaking her head. She is disgusted by the actions her enemies are taking. "Let's split up," she suggests to Sonic. "Then, we can deal with the monster threat at double the rate."

Sonic and Rainbow soon diverge and ran off in opposite directions, heading towards one of the monsters in the distance.

First up, a colorful being with a sinister undertone. Clown Titan has arrived. He used to be a great idea to fool the rangers into a trap, but now no one is fooled since a suspicious clown usually means that something terrible is going to happen. Also, he is larger than most humans, about as large as most of the major monsters sent out by Rita and Fuhrer, making him even more obvious.

For now, he is being used as one of the six monsters that's going to challenge the two leaders for the greater challenge of defeating all of them within the time limit. He waits around in the valley, waiting for someone to come.

Finally, Rainbow arrive in the scene, ready to fight him. Clown Titan takes notice of them. "Ah. There's the challenger," he said. "So, you're one of the leaders of that ranger team, are you?"

The grating sound of Clown Titan's voice made it pretty clear that he should not be trusted despite his looks. Since this is part of a challenge she's going to face, Rainbow confronts the colorful but sinister clown with a confident deminor.

"That's true!" Rainbow said with a grin on her face. "And today, I'm going to smash you up, just like all of your allies who are invited to this party!"

Clown Titan takes a closer look at his opponent and notices that she's not in her ranger form yet. "What's this?" he asks. "You're not in your ranger form? What kind of ranger would not do such an essential thing?"

"I'm just saving a little bit of extra time," Rainbow told her opponent. "I can only morph once in this entire challenge."

"Well, suit yourself," Clown Titan said. "Literally! Ah hahaha!"

Rainbow was surprised to hear a pun she didn't see coming. But there's no time to laugh along. She has a challenge to complete. "Okay, no more joking," she said. "Just try to keep up with this!" Rainbow then activates her ranger form and puts on her suit. Shortly afterwards, she disappears into a breeze.

Clown Titan couldn't help but laugh at his own joke. That is, until he sees where Rainbow is and notices that she is now gone. "What? Hey!" he yells. "Where are you right now?"

Rainbow stood behind Clown Titan with her sword out. Without him realizing it, Rainbow swung her sword up, sending Clown Titan skyward. Then she jumps up and pummels him several times by using her speed to ram into him. After several slams, Rainbow appears above Clown Titan and sends him flying towards the ground. She then lands near Clown Titan and begins to run around him, creating a tornado with him at the center.

Clown Titan gets up, feeling dizzy from being hit so many times. He then finds himself in a tornado, blinded by the dust being kicked up. At the bottom, there is a rainbow blur that races past him.

"Go ahead," Rainbow told Clown Titan. "Stick your hand in it. I'm sure that you'll catch me."

Clown Titan growled as he gets ready to punch Rainbow. "Curse you-" he began to say, but a sharp pain went up his arm as Rainbow slices his wrist. "Ahh! My hand!" he screams.

Rainbow had anticipated her enemy attempting to attack her as she is creating the tornado. She has her hand grasping her sword as she runs around Clown Titan, and when here time is right, she draws it out and slices right where his hand is.

The second monster is in construction clothing, toping it off with a helmet. He looks at the town ahead, wondering which buildings need to be demolished. He has several miniature construction vehicles in his toolbelt, most of them for destruction.

Sonic runs up to the monster to challenge him. He notices that the monster he's facing resembles a construction worker. But he doesn't remember hearing that the village or the base needs some rebuilding as of now, so he gets suspicious. "Hey! What's your business here?" he asks. "Got a permit to do some construction?"

Architect Titan notices that his opponent is hear. "Oh, hello challenger," he greets. "I'm here to demolish some unwanted buildings."

Sonic was puzzled when the monster said that. "Unwanted buildings?" he asks. Then he looks behind him towards the village, then back at the monster. "All the buildings in this town is needed for the residents to live. And answer me, did you receive a permit?"

"Why yes of course!" Architect Titan answers. He then pulls out a piece of paper. "I got it from the Fuhrer General Construct-"

Sonic can clearly tell that it's a fabricated permit. After all, what kind of construction agency would have a name like that? Not wanting to waste any more time bantering about, Sonic places his fingers over his watch. "Okay, that's it," he declares. Then he transforms into his ranger form. "Time to demolish you!" Sonic then curls up into a ball before slamming into Architect Titan

"Ahh! The irony!" Architect Titan screams as he gets hit. With each hit, his parts get dented and deformed, potentially to the point where he can no longer support himself.

After a few minutes of slamming her body repeatedly into Clown Titan, he collapses, leaving him open to a final attack. Rainbow lands on her feet as she looks at her target with her sword out.

"That wasn't so hard to pull off," Rainbow said. "What are you? Some sort of shoddy monster? You are a disgrace to your peers."

Clown Titan struggled to get up due to the sharp pain going down his body. He is getting exhausted from being hit so many times. "How?" he coughs out. "I had weeks of training, just to destroy you."

"Well, that didn't pay out so well," Rainbow told. "You seem to be a little slow to catch me. I fooled you when I ran around you, didn't I?"

Clown Titan was on his arms and yet he is still shaking. He did not have the strength to even lift himself up and remain stable. He turn towards Rainbow and spits out a few more words. "You'll never defeat me alone, girl," he said.

"Oh yeah?" Rainbow asks while she smirks. "I see that as a challenge!" Then she jumps into the air, twirling in the air before holding her sword above her head. Then, as she lands, Rainbow slams down her sword through the torso of Clown Titan, expecting a victory. She leaps off of Clown Titan, only to discover that he's still alive. Though, his life is hanging on a thread at this point. Rainbow is surprised to see that the monster still alive. "What?"

"Oh, the pain!" Clown Titan screams while on the ground. "That was so painful! Please, make it stop! I can't take it any longer!" Clown Titan was so weakened at this point that he cannot move. It pains to even move a muscle.

Rainbow was bewildered when that move did not finish off Clown Titan. "Huh?" she said. "That should've finished that monster off. Why is that?" She then takes a look at her sword, which appears to be working just fine judging from how it was doing during that fight. Rainbow does not know why it didn't defeat the monster. "Stupid sword..." he grumbled as taps on her sword.

Median was not happy to see that one of the best out of the team is unable to realize why she's unable to finish off the monster. So he decides to break his silence. "Rainbow!" he yells out. "Your sword may be powerful, but it's not going to finish off a monster by itself anytime soon. Remember the times where you had to finish off a monster?"

Rainbow looked at her sword before it came to her. "Every time Sonic is with me when a monster strikes, we would combine our swords into one," she realizes. "The Blade of Deities. Sure, we may have the Dynamic Crossbow in our arsenal, but that requires eight people for it to form. This one requires just two people."

"Correct, Rainbow," Median replies. "You'd better meet up with Sonic again. You need his help just as he needs yours."

Upon hearing this, Rainbow realizes something. If she can't finish off a monster on her own, then surely Sonic would have just as much trouble doing the same. So she does the one thing to solve both problems. "Here I come, Sonic!" she yells as she sprints off in the direction of Sonic, leaving Clown Titan laying there on the ground nearly defeated.

Clown Titan tries to lift himself back to his feet, but the pain won't let him do it. "Ahh, the pain!" he screams. "It's so sharp, I can't get up!"

Architect Titan was a bit more durable, and thus took longer to defeat than the monster Rainbow decided to deal with first. Sonic gained a few bruises during his bout with Architect Titan.

Sonic stands there in front of the downed Architect Titan, breathing heavily as he holds his sword. His grip is a little shaky, as small vibrations are visible when looking at his sword.

"Twenty minutes left," Sonic said to himself as he looks at his watch, "and there's still five more monsters left to defeat within the time limit." According to his watch, it has taken him about five minutes to defeat Architect Titan. "I'm sure that we'll have four should Rainbow defeat the monster she's targeting."

"Sonic!" Rainbow called from above.

"Huh?" Sonic said as he turned around. Behind him, he saw Rainbow flying down to his location. He runs up to her. "Rainbow? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be dealing with some other monsters?"

Rainbow got up, looking at Sonic. "I did that," she told him, "and I got him in the brink of defeat. However, we cannot fully destroy a monster unless we use one of our ultimate weapons to finish them off. There may be some exceptions, but the beasts we're dealing with almost require an ultimate weapon to finish off."

Sonic remembers that he has the other component of the Blade of Deities, the ultimate weapon of him and Rainbow. He holds it up a little higher, looking at it. "Oh," he realizes. "I see why these other ranger teams need to pull out that ultimate weapon."

Architect Titan has found himself stuck in the ground unable to move due to Sonic breaking his legs with a sword during that battle. He yells to the rangers, waving his hands in the air. "Hey!" he yells. "I'm kind of stuck over here! Thanks to that boy."

Sonic and Rainbow turn their attention towards Architect Titan. "Yeah, we'll get to that," Sonic told the monster.

Sonic and Rainbow soon slam their swords together, creating their ultimate weapon once again.

"Here it comes!" Sonic yells. "Blade of Deities, Chaos Mode!"

The Blade of Deities glows yellow as Sonic and Rainbow brought it down towards Architect Titan. The blade then extends, piercing Architect Titan in a beam of light.

"Gah!" Architect Titan screams as pieces of himself fall down. "It's so painful, but I'm glad that it's overrrr!"

Soon, Architect Titan was nothing more than a pile of rubble commonly found in construction sites where a building once stood. Seeing their work is done for one of the monsters, Sonic and Rainbow separates their swords.

"That monster seems a little too happy to be destroyed," Rainbow comments as she stares at the pile of rubble. Then she remembers something. "Oh! And I need your help in defeating the other monster I'm dealing it."

Sonic turns to Rainbow, wondering what she needs. "What do you need?" he asks.

"Just need to finish him off," Rainbow answers.

"Okay," Sonic replies. "Show me the way."

Rainbow soon flies out towards he direction of the monster she's dealing with, with Sonic following not to far behind. He flies along as well, catching up to Rainbow.

Meanwhile, Clown Titan is wondering how much longer he has to live considering that he is unable to move at the moment.

"Man. When will the others come to my location?" Clown Titan wonders. "I've been stuck in here, waiting to be destroyed. Or being helped up. How long will this take?" Then, he hears the sound of rushing wind coming from nearby. He looks in the direction of the sound, when he spotted two people holding swords. "What?"

"You asked to be destroyed, we'll give you what you asked for," Rainbow said.

Sonic and Rainbow formed the Blade of Deities once again. The blade glows yellow as they pointed it towards Clown Titan. The blade turns into a beam that pierces Clown Titan, turning him into a fireball and then nothing more than a pile of ashes. It was so swift that he did not even scream.

Sonic and Rainbow landed and separated their swords before sheathing them. "Two down, four more to go," Sonic said. Then he looks at his watch. "And we've have...oh dear. Nineteen minutes?"

"I'm sure that the two of us together will be enough to defeat four monsters within that time limit," Rainbow said with confidence. "If we can defeat these remaining four monsters within five minutes, then we should be fine."

"Sounds good to me," Sonic replies. "Now let's not banter any longer. We've got a challenge to complete."

"Right."

Sonic and Rainbow then ran around the town, looking for one of the six monsters that are part of the challenge.

Hahaha! You'll never get to that town to help our your friends. Oh, this is so satisfying.

How much longer do our leaders have?

Eighteen minutes before their ranger timer runs out.

Why is that rule in place?

Less talking, more KEEPING THESE ROBOTS AWAY FROM US!

Frosting covers the streets of Transition Outpost as one of the monsters covered in frosting walks around. The viscous fluid sticks on everything it touches, leaving a mess in its wake.

It took much longer to find this monster than before, as Sonic and Rainbow do not expect to see that a monster has entered the town while they're dealing with the others. They confront the monster head on.

"I'm Cupcake Titan!" the monster introduces herself. "Ready to cover the entire town in sweet-Ahh!"

Wanting to get this done as quickly as possible, Sonic and Rainbow use their current skills to turn Cupcake Titan into a pile of mush.

"Sorry," Rainbow said. "I'm not hungry for sweets right now."

Sonic and Rainbow landed on the ground to take a brief break. But when they try to move, they discovered that lifting their feet off the ground took much more effort than normal.

"Hey! What is this?" Sonic asks as he struggles to move.

Rainbow picks up a sample of the frosting before trying to shake it off. It took a lot of shaking before the frosting got off. And that's when she realizes something. "This isn't cupcake frosting!" she announces. "It's a sticky, inedible foam of some sorts."

Sonic looks around, disgusted by the sticky mess the town is in. "Yuck!" he exclaims. "That sucks for the inhabitants. Well, we can't just stay here and clean up this mess. We have a time limit. And when you're under a strict time limit, the only thing on your mind is gotta go fast like your life hinges on it!"

Before heading off to face off against another monster, Rainbow turns to the spectators who hid inside their houses. "We'll clean this up later," she told them. "Bye!" And then she and Sonic race off to search for another one of the six monsters. They have defeated three monsters so far, and they still have plenty of time remaining. Only twelve more minutes!

A monster with blades everywhere on his body walks the hills just outside of the town. From his vantage point, he can see both the town and the ranger's base. At the ranger's base, there seems to be something going on. He would like to go there and take advantage of this, but another monster is coming their way and he does not want to make it easier for the target rangers to complete the challenge by standing next to another. So he decides to stay here and wait for the two rangers to come to him.

"Ahh. There you are," the monster said as the two rangers arrived at his place. "I was waiting for you to come while I was approaching your base. Well, prepared to fall in the hands of me. Blade Titan! I will chop you up like you're some sort of-"

"What did you do that for?" Sonic spits out, interrupting Blade Titan. "Wasting our time?"

"What? You're wasting your time by doing that!" Blade Titan yells back. "Grr!"

As Blade Titan approaches them, Sonic and Rainbow grabbed on to their swords. Then, just as when the monster was about to strike them, they draw out their swords and performs several swift strikes. Sounds of metallic clangs ripple through the air as blades clashes with each other as well as sound of metal hitting metal.

Minutes later, the unthinkable happens. Blade Titan's left arm has been cut off, as well as his right leg. He fell to the ground with both of lost limbs besides him. He flops as he wails. "No!" he screams. "My arm! My leg! You sliced them off!"

At this point, Sonic and Rainbow are pretty exhausted. They're not sure of their tired because of the stress, how much energy went into attacking the monsters, or how much time they spent speeding through looking for the six monsters. Either way, they're pretty tired and could use a break after this.

"How much time do we have remaining?" Rainbow asks, breathing heavily. Her watch seems to be glowing faintly.

Sonic takes a look at his watch. It too is also glowing faintly, to the point of being unnoticeable. He looks at the time ans remembers when he and Rainbow started this challenge. "Oh dear," he says. "Nine minutes left to defeat two monsters."

Rainbow calculates how much time they should take to defeat the monsters. "Eh. We can do that," she says, seeing that there should be more than enough time to defeat the remaining monsters. "Let's go!"

Before either of them could run off, Sonic looks at the downed Blade Titan. "What about this guy?" he asks.

Rainbow looks at the downed Blade Titan. "Forget him," she says. "Using the Blade of Deities is quite draining and wastes a few seconds. We'll defeat him later. For now, let's move!"

Sonic isn't sure that there's enough time to use the ultimate weapon as a finisher, but until the remaining monsters is finished off, he'll just have to leave Blade Titan for now. Besides, should he and Rainbow find that, by the time they defeat the sixth monster of the challenge, they still have plenty of time, they will go back and finish off Blade Titan for once. So he joins Rainbow in speeding off, finding one of the two remaining monsters.

Blade Titan clutched his remaining first against the two rangers. "I will get you, leaders," he declares.

Fuhrer got into a panic once he saw that the two rangers he's targeting has gone through four monsters and still have plenty of time remaining to defeat the remaining two monsters. It appears that Sonic and Rainbow are way faster than they thought.

"Gah!" Fuhfer screams as he watches Sonic and Rainbow made quick work of the monsters. "They're too fast! It looks like they might complete this challenge! What do we do?"

Rita patted Fuhrer on the shoulder, assuring him that the plan will be sucessful. "Don't worry. I have a solution," she said, "You remember that stopwatch that we insert into one of our minions, do you?"

Fuhrer was bewildered. Since when did he say that slowing down time is allowed?

"Excuse me?" Fuhrer asks.

Rita pulls out a button and puts her thumb on it. "Well, I'm going to activate it now," she said. "It'll be active for a few moments, but it'll be enough for them to fail the challenge."

And with that, Rita presses the button.

Sonic and Rainbow ran up to the monster on the part of the town furthest from their base. It is a monster sitting on a tornado.

"Here it is," Rainbow said. "The fifth monster."

The monster's name is Gale Titan.

"Hey there, speedsters," Gale Titan greeted. Then he pulls out what appears to be a stopwatch. "I have a present for you." And then he presses the stopwatch, covering the area in a sphere.

Sonic and Rainbow felt a weird feeling as the walls of the sphere pass through them. "Whoa!" Sonic gasps. "What is happening now?"

"You'll see soon," Gale Titan says. "Now, shall we have a fight?"

Sonic and Rainbow did what they usually do to the other monsters of the challenge. They strike it. To their surprise, all of their attacks pass through Gale Titan. The monster did not feel anything and the rangers did not get blown away. This seems like a stalemate.

"Hahaha!" Gale Titan laughs as Sonic and Rainbow attempted to attack him. "No matter how hard you swing, you'll never hit me. Bwahahaha!"

Sonic and Rainbow stopped to look at the monster they're facing.

"This monster is made of the wind" Sonic observes. "He's using a tornado to sustain him."

Rainbow turns towards Sonic, wondering is he has an answer. "So?" she asks.

Sonic turns to Rainbow. "We reverse it," he answers.

Rainbow remembers that she and Sonic have wind powers. "Oh right!" she realizes. "We have that! Let's do it, Sonic!"

So instead of using their swords or bodies to defeat Gale Titan, they use their wind powers to defeat him.

"What?" Gale Titan asks as the two rangers speed around him in circles. "Hey! What are you doing?" Moments later, he began to shrink. "No! My wind power! I'm shrinking!"

While shrinking, Gale Titan dropped the stopwatch he's been holding. Sonic smashes it with his foot without seeing it, causing the sphere to disappear.

Sonic and Rainbow went into a complete stop. "We don't even need the Blade of Deities to defeat this one," Sonic said. "Just something clever."

Then, they receive a call from their base. "Umm, guys?" Median sas.

Rainbow brought her watch up to her mouth. "What is it?" she asks.

"We have a monster on our doorsteps," Median answers in a worried tone.

Rainbow jumps when she hears this. "What?" she gasps. "How?"

"Hold on a second," Sonic said. "My watch is recalibrating." It appears that his watch realized that it did not have the correct time, so a recalibration is needed. When it is recalibrated to display the correct time, that's when it hits him. "What? Two minutes?" he yells.

Rainbow turns to Sonic with a shocked look. "What?"

"I swear!" Sonic continues to yell. "That fight took only one minute. How did so much time has passed?"

"Let's try to find an explanation later," Rainbow told Sonic. "For now, what about that monster near our base?"

Sonic and Rainbow stared off in the direction of their base. They're nearing the end of their timer, exhaustion catching up to them, and it looks like they could get knocked out of their ranger mode at any time. How are they supposed to finish the challenge now?"

Meanwhile, back at the ranger base, the others are still fighting the horde of robots Eggman is throwing at them.

"When will this end?" Tails asks.

"We've been fighting for so long, it's exhausting," Silver said, gasping for air at this point.

"They won't stop coming!" Fluttershy screams, huddling in fear.

"Hang on, darlings!" Rarity yells, holding up a protective barrier.

As the other rangers continue to fight, the last of the monsters gets up the cliff. The other rangers are in his sights. His name is Crush Titan, armed with hammers strong enough to knock out a ranger. He grins upon seeing the rangers occupied with fighting the horde. "At long last, I have come up to these ranger's base.," he said. "These two leaders will not be here for when I attack them. Mwahaha." And then he slowly makes his way towards the rangers.

Rainbow was in a panic now. There is only ninety seconds remaining before their ranger powers run out, and defeating that monster over there is going to take a lot longer than ninety seconds. "This is bad!" she yells. "How can we defeat another monster before our time runs out?"

As Sonic looked for a solution, he noticed something. Rainbow's morpher is glowing. He looks at his, and found that it is glowing as well. "Hmm, I think I have an idea," he said. "Rainbow, look at your wrist."

Rainbow stopped panicking and looked at her morpher and saw that it's glowing. She then looks at Sonic's morpher and found that it is doing the same. "W-what's your idea?" she asks.

Sonic stared at his wrist for a while, watching it pulse every few seconds. "Our bond is very strong, right?" he asks. "This might sound crazy, but what if we combine our powers into something greater?" He thinks about it for a while, and comes up with something. What if two morphers whose welders held a strong bond with each other were to make contact with each other? Using the arm with his morpher, Sonic offers his fist to Rainbow.

Rainbow looks at her right wrist for a moment, closing her hand. Unsure about what is about to happen, Rainbow bumps her first with Sonic's.

Suddenly, their morphers creates a powerful flash. A surge of power coursing through them. With the power boost, Rainbow flies into the air while carrying Sonic, sprouting huge wings in the process. Then, her wings flap and accelerated her and Sonic past the sound barrier, creating a Sonic Rainboom in her wake. The two fly over the town, carrying a shockwave in the process.

Piles of robot parts surrounded the rangers back at base. The team huddles behind Rarity as Crush Titan approaches them, getting ready to smash them into pieces.

"I've got you now, rangers," Crush Titan says as he polishes up his hammer. "Your leaders won't be around to stop this." He then lifts his hammer up, reeling it far behind him. Rarity gets ready to form a protective barrier that would hopefully protect her and her friends from harm.

Just as when Crush Titan was about to bring his hammer down, a roar echoes from the distance. Crush Titan got distracted by the sound for a moment. In the distance, there is a rainbow colored shockwave.

Suddenly, coming from the direction of the shockwave, a ball slams right into Crush Titan.

"Gah!" Crush Titan screams as he is sent flying above the ranger's heads.

The other friends duck down as Crush Titan gets send over their heads.

Crush Titan crashes down on the ground. He has experienced some serious damage. The ball then landed in front of the friends' eyes, revealing it to be Sonic and Rainbow. They both gasp for air after going so fast.

"Whoa!" Rainbow exclaims. "That was fast!"

"What just happened?" Sonic asks, feeling like he could fall at any moment. "I didn't expect that to work."

Crush Titan got up, holding on to his lower back. "Oh, that hurts real bad," he moans. "How? How did you get here so fast?"

Break time will just have to wait a little longer. Sonic and Rainbow draw out their swords, getting ready to finish off Crush Titan and end the challange. Before they could react, someone yells at them from behind.

"Wait!" they heard Sunset say. The two turned around to find Sunset holding the Dynamic Crossbow, with the only pieces missing being their swords. Sunset tosses the weapon towards them. "Use this!"

Sonic catches the Dynamic Crossbow, with Rainbow helping him hold it. "Well," Sonic said, looking at the Dynamic Crossbow. "What a perfect weapon to finish off the last monster of the day."

Sonic and Rainbow then added their swords to the weapon, making it fully completed. They then hold the weapon, pointing it directly at the downed Crush Titan.

"Sorry Fuhrer and Rita," Rainbow apologizes. "Looks like we'll have to declare this challenge completed."

The trigger gets pushed in, causing a colorful stream of lasers and orbs to get fired out of the Dynamic Crossbow. The stream hits Crush Titan and destroys him in a screaming fireball.

The last of the six monsters gets defeated just as Sonic and Rainbow's ranger powers run out. It's over. The challenge set by their enemies has been completed.

"Yeah! Wahoo!" the team cheers in celebration. Pinkie fired off confetti to empathize the celebration.

"Mission successful!" Sonic declares.

Meanwhile, Eggman and Trixie sees that the rangers have won again. "Oh dear," Eggman realizes. "Well, back to our base!" And then the two leave on their Egg Mobile.

Rainbow can't wait to express how satisfied she is about the outcome of the mission. "That was awesome!" she shouted.

Sonic looked at Rainbow and wondered if awesome is enough of a word to describe this moment. So he decides to correct his friend. "Way past awesome!" he replies.

Rainbow couldn't help but giggle at Sonic's suggestion for the description of this moment.

After the celebration is over, the team heads off to where Blade Titan was left in for the remainder of the challenge. However, he was not there. The only thing that was left was the limbs that was cut off during the fight.

"Huh? Where did that monster go?" Sonic asks, looking around.

"I swear. We left him there to rot a moment ago," Rainbow added.

Tails kneeled down to the ground, looking for why that monster disappeared. "There's nothing here that indicates that whoever's there dragged themselves out of it," he observes.

Twilight picked up the limbs for inspection.

"He must've been teleported," Rainbow concluded. "That's our only conclusion."

Sonic is a bit worried. Blade Titan was not defeated, so they technically failed the challenge. However, they'd imagine that their master won't be very happy about the monster's defeat. So, they technically won like they thought? It's a bit confusing.

"So, will that Blade Titan return sometime soon?" Sonic asks.

"I don't know," Rainbow answers. "It was a rather costly operation." She then hears a small laugh coming from somewhere. "And don't even think about laughing. I meant our enemies! Not this poor monster!"

Soon, several members of the team laughed at the accidental joke that Rainbow made, except for Sonic, Tails, and Twilight. Sonic facepalms and shook his head, Tails stared at the others wondering what they were thinking, and Twilight stares disapprovingly at Rainbow.

"You just had to say that," Twilight remarks.

Blade Titan was back in his master's base, though the masters weren't to pleased with the outcome of the operation.

"I've built you into powerful fighting machines," Fuhrer told Blade Titan. "You guys were designed to defeat these rangers, especially the leaders. I even sent six of you at once and challenged the leaders into defeating all of them within a time limit. And yet, you guys still failed me."

Blade Titan lets his head down in sadness and shame. "I'm sorry, mister," he said. "They were just too fast."

Fuhrer facepalms and shook his head.

"This operation is not only costly for us, but it's costly for you," Rita told Blade Titan. "You lost your arm and your leg to these pests."

"I have a design flaw in my joints!" Blade Titan complained. "You've built me last and fast!"

Fuhrer and Rita realize their mistake. "Now I know why that monster lost two of his limbs," Fuhrer grumbles. "You know what, Blade Titan? How about you pay us an arm and a leg for us to repair you?"

Blade Titan was shocked to see that the price is his remaining limbs. "What?" he exclaims. "But I have only two limbs remaining! You can't charge me that!"

Fuhrer shook his head about the misinterpretation of what he is saying. "I'm not talking about your limbs," he said. "I'm talking about getting someone else's arm and leg as payment. Then, we'll build you into a more powerful fighting machine than ever before. Deal?"

Blade Titan thought about it for a moment before making his move. "It's a deal," he answers.

[End of Episode]

From the Author:

To be continued? It's implied that Blade Titan, the only one out of the six monsters who got spared, is going to return in a future episode to see revenge on the rangers. However, I don't see this theme of plans to be given up sometime soon. Maybe after several attempts will this plan of trying to break the ranger's spirit will our enemies finally give up this strategy.

You won't have to wait long before Blade Titan returns, however.

Off the Rails

"Time Over"

Thirty seconds remaining. Sonic can see the end from here. He leaps from platform to platform as he makes his way towards the end of the stage.

Fifteen seconds remaining. He can beat it. If he can make it through this obstacle, he might just make it by a hair.

Ten seconds. Sonic is almost at the top. Seven seconds. Just a few more jumps and he's out of here. Five, four, three, two, one. Sonic almost touches the goal, but before he can even touch it he is send out of the stage by a hidden spring.

Time out, Sonic. Ten minutes have passed since he began running through this stage. Now he's going to do the entire stage all over again.

"Oh, come on!" Sonic whined at the bottom. "Why do you have to yank the rug from right under my feet?"

Written by TheAPPstore

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