And I'm back again, with a new chapter to boot. HOWEVER, this one is NOT a direct adaption of the MMPR episode *Wheel of Misfortune*, it's an original based one with some mild story elements and all its fight footage coming FROM *Wheel of Misfortune*, and also some minor story elements coming from it's Zyuranger source, the episode *Ep.34: Live, Burai!*.
This chapter will put Stanley into the spotlight, and I'm also going to give Lady some spotlight time too. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out, and I hope you all enjoy it too.
N/A: And again… Power Rangers belongs to Saban Brands, and Thomas belongs to HIT Entertainment. While Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs belongs to Disney. Okay? Good.
Chapter 37: The Sleeping Beauty
MMPR Episode Basis: Wheel of Misfortune (mild)
Thomas Episode Basis: N/A
It was still halfway in November on the Island of Sodor. The high school was still being repaired from all of the damage it took caused by a hostile take over by the forces of evil lead by Rita Repulsa and PT Boomer earlier in the month, but classes were still going on, and there was also some very exciting news from Sir Topham Hatt: The school play was going to happen, and students were both excited, and for parts of the play.
Inside Sodor High's auditorium one cool morning, many different students (both male and female) were all inside, auditioning for various roles for the play *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, based on the famous Walt Disney animated classic. With it all being directed by the island of Sodor's own Alicia Botti, a famous Italian singer, and part time play director.
"Now then, the first role will be for the role of the princess herself." she announced. "Could I please see all the girls who want to try out now."
All the girls present in the gym included Emily, Lady, Rosie, Mavis, Nellie, Flora, Molly, Daisy, Millie, Caitlin, Emma, and Pip. All of them did a brief reading from the part where the princess Snow White first meets the dwarves inside their forest cottage, as well as acting out the part where the princess meets the disguised evil queen, and then taking a bite out of the poisoned apple, and then falling into a deep sleep.
After almost two hours of the audition, it was time for the boys to audition for the role of the prince. The boys present for this was Thomas, Percy, James, Toby, Gordon, Stanley, Duck, Luke, Connor, Hank, Murdoch, and Diesel. They all did a reading of the part where the prince speaks before giving the sleeping Snow White a kiss to wake her up, then they did scenes where the prince would wake the princess from her sleep.
The boys and girls were put into pairs to see which one had the best chemistry. These are the pairings that Miss Botti thought would work best:
1. Thomas and Rosie
2. Stanley and Lady
3. Gordon and Caitlin
4. Percy and Nellie
5. James and Molly
6. Toby and Mavis
7. Diesel and Daisy
8. Duck and Flora
9. Luke and Millie
10. Hank and Emma
11. Murdoch and Pip
12. Connor and Emily
While groups some did exceptionally well (Groups 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 12), some took it a little too far (Group 10 and 11), and one even started flat out making out (Group 7, much to all of the students auditioning, and Miss Botti's disgust). However, one group had caught Miss Botti's attention in a very good way, and that was Stanley and Lady's chemistry (Group 2).
Once auditions were finished for the day, the students all left the auditorium to head out and catch their buses. At the bus stop, many of them couldn't stop talking about the play.
"I hope it does very well." said Stanley.
"Me too." James agreed. "But with Miss Alicia Botti directing, it's bound to be a success."
"Uh-huh." Emily nodded. "She may be a world famous singer, but she's also a highly talented play director, too."
"I wonder who's going to be casted as the stars?" Lady wondered.
"I know Molly and I are a shoe in for the roles of Snow White, and the Prince!" boasted James.
"No way!" snorted Gordon. "Caitlin and I are guaranteed to earn those roles."
"Gordon!" Caitlin scolded. "I just wanted to audition for the fun of it. I'm not aiming to win an important role or something."
"Me neither." Molly nodded. "I actually hope that I DON'T win the role as Snow White, because I get stage fright easily."
Emily shook her head while chuckling.
"How about you, Lady?" she asked. "Excited for the play?"
"Oh, certainly, Emily." Lady said with a smile. "Even if I don't win a role, I'm still coming to watch it."
"Me too." agreed Rosie.
As everyone chatted, the buses arrived and everyone got on their respective bus, and went home.
High up on one of the Lunar Palace's towers. Inside, in one chamber, Baboo, Squatt, and Finster were busy building something for their Empress.
"Rita will love this wheel we're making!" commented Squatt, while swing around his hammer.
"It will be the nastiest Birthday present we've ever given her!" added Baboo, while holding up a wrench in his right hand.
"Yes it will be." agreed Finster thoughtfully. "Once I've finished adding it the power to put anyone to sleep if a person were to touch it."
"Hey, that sounds like that sewing wheel from the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty." Squatt said, again while swing around his hammer.
"Of course." nodded Finster, before turning around and walking over to his work desk to get something. "Her Evilness can definitely use it against the Power Rangers."
As the three Evil Space Aliens worked on the wheel, Goldar walked inside the chamber.
"Is it ready yet?" he asked.
The three looked up and saw Goldar.
"We're just finishing putting the finishing touches on it." Baboo replied.
"Well get it done now! Our Empress is starting lose her patience." Goldar said, while motioning left hand up, pointing twice, and then gesturing fist twice.
"Oh, yes." Finster whimpered, while clutching his forehead with both hands, and shaking his head.
A little later on, in another part of the Lunar Palace, a bunch of Putties played on their trumpets in celebration as Squatt, Baboo, Scorpina, Goldar, Rita, and Finster cease toasting their drinks and start sipping at a banquet table. There was a two layer moon cake with three large numbered candles on the table.
"Happy Birthday to Empress Rita! Happy Birthday to you!" sang Baboo, Squatt, and Finster.
Rita took a sip of her own drink, and smiled wickedly.
"Thank you, my wonderfully evil band." she said gratefully, before turning face her minions. "And your present is just what I've always wanted too."
She gestured over to the large sewing wheel that Finster, Baboo, and Squatt had built.
"This Wheel of Misfortune is just what I need to put those Power brats out of commission for good!"
"Might I offer a small suggestion on how to use it, my Queen?" asked Goldar, as he held his glass up high.
Rita turned to her left to face Goldar, an evil grin slowly creeping upon her face, Squatt was visible in the background.
"We can use this wheel to put anyone to sleep, including that Enchantress." Goldar explained, nodding slightly. "If she's asleep, we can capture her, and use her as bait to lure those Power Rangers out."
"He's right." agreed Scorpina, bringing a hand to the left side of her face. "We can use her to get the Rangers to stand down."
"Or better yet, bring that traitorous Stanley here." put in Goldar. "So we can punish him for joining those goody-good Rangers."
Rita was so pleased with that plan, that she began to let out a shriek of an evil laugh. Something tells me that Stanley and Lady are both going to be in for some huge trouble in this one, folks.
The next day inside Sodor High's auditorium, Alicia Botti had just finished thinking over who the cast will be for the Snow White play. She typed up a notice on the various roles, and whole will play them, then she went into the hallway to hang the notice outside Sir Topham Hatt's office.
Later on, a large crowd had gathered to look over the notice. This is what it had to say:
Snow White: Lady Stone
The Prince: Stanley Hudswell
The Evil Queen: Daisy Cammell
Huntsman: Gordon Gresley
Doc: Thomas Billinton
Grumpy: James Hughes
Happy: Edward Stewart
Sleepy: Duck Collet
Bashful: Henry Stanier
Sneezy: Oliver Collet
Dopey: Percy Avonside
"Oh my." Lady gasped with honest surprise. "I've been picked for the role of Snow White."
"Congratulations, Lady!" Emily, Rosie, Mavis, and Jules all said at once to their friend.
"You and Stanley are the stars of the play." came from Murdoch, Hank, Duck, and Oliver at once.
"You mean I have the role of the prince?" Stanley was surprised too.
Millie, Molly, Flora, Percy, Henry, Edward, James, Gordon, and Toby congratulated him for winning the role. Thomas, however, felt a little disappointed because he was Lady's boyfriend and wanted to be a lead with her. He suddenly became scared that Stanley might try to steal her away due to them playing each other's love interest. Thankfully, Stanley had noticed that, and he shot him a quick look of reassurance.
"Don't worry, Thomas." he said. "It's just a play, and all acting."
Thomas hoped that he was right.
Later on after school, Stanley and Lady were both walking through Knapford Park, talking to each other about their roles in the school play.
"So, how's Thomas handling not getting the role of the prince?" Lady asked.
"He's fine with not earning it." Stanley explained. "But the thing he IS worried about is me getting to kiss you in the ending."
Lady laughed. "Well you can tell him that it's just acting, and that he has nothing to worry about."
"I did, but he still feels unsure."
Lady was just about to say something about it, but never got a chance to. Suddenly, a flying spinning wheel started to fly in, showering sparks from its sides. The evil wheel sailed past both Stanley and Lady, just barely missing them while catching their attention.
"Bust my Buttons!" exclaimed Stanley.
"Oh dear!" gasped Lady. "What was that?"
"That would be our Empress's Birthday present!" laughed a familiar voice.
Three Putty Patrollers jump flipped into the area. Five Putties marched up, and they were being lead by Goldar, who dropped in from the sky.
"Goldar!" Lady cried.
"What do you want, now?!" demanded Stanley.
Goldar visibly laughed, motioning with his sword thrice.
"It's easy, I want the Enchantress!"
Lady took a step back in fright, but Stanley stepped in front of her, defending her.
"You'll have to get through me first!" he declared boldly.
Goldar visibly laughed, motioning with his sword thrice, before pointing it forth.
"Oh, I aim to do just that! Go, my Putties!"
Seven Putty Patrollers rushed forth, and Stanley started to battle them while Lady watched. Despite being outnumbered seven to one, Stanley didn't have any problems with defeating any of them. But unknown to him, this battle was all a distraction so that Goldar could use the Wheel of Misfortune to try and successfully strike Lady and put her into a deep sleep.
And indeed it was the plan, because Lady saw something that really scared her. It was the evil wheel coming right at her.
"Stanley!" she cried.
Stanley foot-swept a Putty, before turning and reaching out in protest.
"Lady, no!"
He was too late to try to make a rescue attempt, but the wheel actually did miss hitting her completely. One needle, however, still hit and cut her across her left cheek slightly, drawing some slight blood, nothing too serious. It was then the deadly effect of the spinning wheel began to start up, and Lady soon fell down onto the ground. From there, the beautiful blonde-haired girl fell into a deep sleep.
Stanley watched in horror, while Goldar only stood nearby and howled with laughter.
"Nice try, Green Ranger!" he proclaimed. "But you've failed to protect her! Now she belongs to us!"
Some Putties approached and picked up the sleeping Lady before they teleported away. Goldar laughed at Stanley some more before he teleported away too (in a burst of fire that is), leaving the gray-haired boy alone in the park.
"I'm sorry, Thomas." he muttered quietly to himself. "I've let you down."
But rather than stand there feeling sorry for himself, he went and activated his communicator.
"Zordon, come in, we've got a situation."
Later on at the Command Center, Thomas's furious voice could be heard coming from inside the building.
"How could you let Goldar capture Lady, Stanley?!"
Inside the interior, the remaining Tidmouth Teens were all present, along with Stanley. Thomas was very angry with Stanley for letting Goldar kidnap Lady, and was busy berating him.
"Rita might now have Lady inside her palace on the Moon, and we may never see her again!" he snapped. "And it's all your fault!"
As Thomas continued to verbally assault Stanley, the other Tidmouth Teens watched on sadly. At last, Zordon spoke up.
"That's enough, Thomas." he boomed. "It's obvious that Rita has used a new weapon to capture her."
"New weapon?" Rosie blinked.
Zordon nodded. "Observe the Viewing Globe."
The Tidmouth Teens all turned around to face the globe. It was showing some images of Baboo, Squatt, and Finster putting the Wheel of Misfortune together, and then it showed images of the wheel striking Lady and putting her to sleep.
"It's called the Wheel of Misfortune." Zordon explained. "It has the power to put anyone into a deep sleep with a touch."
The teens all looked on, just when Rosie thought of something.
"It sort of looks like the spinning wheel from the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, right?"
"Sleeping Beauty?" Emily quizzed.
"Yes." Rosie nodded, and she went onto explaining much of the tale. "A beautiful princess pricks her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel caused by a curse casted upon her by an evil witch when she was just a baby, and fell into a deep slumber. A trio of good fairies placed the whole kingdom into a deep sleep too until the princess could be awoken by true love's kiss."
"Wow." said James. "That's deep."
"Really deep." Percy agreed.
"So, basically, all I have to give Lady a kiss to wake her up from her slumber?" Thomas asked. "But how can I if she isn't even here on Earth anymore?"
The Tidmouth Teens all looked at each other direly, realizing that this is true…well, it would have been if Zordon hadn't spoken up.
"Lady is not located inside Rita's palace on the Moon. She is being held captive here on Earth, inside a cavern somewhere around Muffle Mountain."
"Then find me a good location there to teleport, and then I'm off." Thomas stated.
"Right away, Thomas." Alpha obeyed.
He started typing away on the console. Soon, the Viewing Globe began showing images of the area around Muffle Mountain.
"Ay-yi-yi! I've found a good spot to teleport you to." Alpha proclaimed.
Thomas nodded. "Then I'm off to save Lady."
"Prepare to teleport." said Zordon.
But just before Alpha press a button on the console to send Thomas to that spot, the alarm started blaring loudly.
"Now what?" groaned Gordon.
The Viewing Globe began showing images of both Goldar and Scorpina in the Muffle Mountain area, laughing.
"Goldar and Scorpina are there!" Toby exclaimed.
"Then I'm afraid there's a change in plans." Zordon said grimly. "Thomas, you will join Percy, Emily, Rosie, and Toby in battling them, I will send Stanley to the mountain cavern instead."
"What?!" Thomas couldn't believe his ears. "But Zordon-"
"I'm sorry, but there isn't any other choice."
Thomas looked down in defeat. This caused Stanley to lay a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, Thomas, I'll save Lady." he said seriously. "That's a promise."
Thomas didn't say anything, but Stanley could tell that Thomas was worried that he might be trying to steal Lady away from him, so the gray-haired boy decided to clear things all up and reveal a secret.
"Listen to me, Thomas. I know that you're still thinking that just because Lady and I are the leads in the school play and that we have to share a kiss we might also fall for each other, but you need to understand that that is not going to happen."
This caused Thomas to finally look up…somewhat bitterly.
"What do you mean?"
So Stanley decided to explain. "It's because it's all just acting. It isn't real, and-" He bit his tongue on the last part before admitting. "-also because Rosie and I are together now."
This caused some startling gasps from everyone (except from Zordon, and Rosie herself).
"You and Rosie are dating now?" asked James in amazement.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Emily added.
Now it was Rosie's turn to speak up. "Because we didn't feel ready to reveal our relationship yet."
"Well, I would go and say congratulations, but right now, there's no time." said Edward firmly. "You guys need to morph and stop Goldar and Scorpina, while Stanley needs to teleport to the cavern entrance and find Lady."
"Edward is correct, Rangers, you must hurry." Zordon agreed. "Good luck, and may the power protect you."
Thomas finally stood ready, as he, Percy, Emily, Rosie, and Toby held up their Power Morphers.
"It's Morphin Time!"
A stylized lightning bolt strikes in front of a purple circle, behind was a black background; crackling around the lightning bolt and circle were blue energy bolts (with some yellow and pink also present). The morphing sequence was as followed; each teen is seen holding out his/her open Power Morpher inside the image of a giant open Power Morpher, with the teen being surrounded by Ranger-colored electricity shown within what would have been the Morpher's red inside area.
Percy: "Mastodon!"
Rosie: "Pterodactyl!"
Toby: "Triceratops!"
Emily: "Sabertooth Tiger!"
Thomas: "Tyrannosaurus!"
After the morphing calls ended, the shot then zoomed in onto Thomas' face, over which appeared to be a fiery red grid; the grid split vertically to reveal the Red Ranger helmet, then it faded into white with a negative color effect.
Upon finishing morphing, the Rangers had already went and teleported out of the Command Center, leaving Stanley, Edward, James, Henry, Gordon, Alpha, and Zordon behind.
"We've pinpointed the location of the cavern, Stanley." Alpha pointed out.
"While Thomas and the others keep Goldar and Scorpina busy, you must go into that cavern and rescue Lady." added Zordon.
"Okay." Stanley nodded.
"Good luck." said Henry encouragingly.
"We're counting on you." added James, as Gordon and Edward both nodded in agreement.
Stanley nodded back, and Alpha pressed some buttons on the console, and Stanley turned into a beam of coloured light (Stanley: Green) and it descended right out of the Command Center.
With the Rangers, they've appeared in the Muffle Mountain area, and they posed with their Blade Blasters in Sword mode.
"POWER RANGERS!" They battle cried.
And just as quickly, Scorpina, standing beside Goldar, motioned her left hand out (while Goldar motioned his right hand out), and the evil couple went and they fired out bluish-white energy blasts. The Rangers get caught in the sparkily blasts near their feet, but they rolled through the smoke while posing with their Blade Blasters, and then charged ahead together.
Goldar blocked Red Ranger and Black Ranger's Blade strikes, and then he sparkily slashed Yellow Ranger, turned around, and ducked under Black Ranger's kick, sword-blocking Red Ranger's kick, and then sparkily slashing him, then he sparkily ran through Black Ranger with his sword.
Scorpina battled Blue Ranger and Pink Ranger nearby, and she was winning. She sparkily slashed Pink Ranger in the chest with her boomerang-like sword. She fell and rolled along the ground, with her front smoking from the blow, just as her team regrouped around her, Blue Ranger and Yellow Ranger both stood defensive.
"Rosie!" exclaimed Thomas.
"I'm okay, Thomas." Rosie assured.
While the battle was going on, Stanley had arrived at the hidden cavern entrance at the back end of Muffle Mountain.
"I'm here." he said to himself.
With a deep breath, Stanley walked inside the cave. Inside, all was quiet. No deathtraps, no ambushes, no nothing. It was as if Rita wasn't planning on even making an ambush of some sort. But as he went deeper into the cavern, he heard a familiar voice calling out to him.
"Welcome, Stanley! I've been expecting you!"
Stanley stopped, and began looking around, for he knew who that voice belonged too.
"Rita!" he called.
"Correct!" laughed Rita's voice. "You're here to find Lady, aren't you?"
"I am." Stanley acknowledged. "Now tell me where she is!"
"Like I'd ever tell you!" Rita mocked. "Find her yourself! …before my beautiful Wheel of Misfortune comes for you, next!"
Rita's laughter echoed through the cave before it became silent.
"I have to find Lady before it's too late." Stanley thought to himself.
With that, he continued his search through the cavern.
Back outside, Rita suddenly appeared up on a nearby cliff.
"Power Rangers!" she called out.
Down below, the Rangers, Goldar, and Scorpina all looked up at her.
"It's Rita!" exclaimed Percy.
"Empress!" Goldar and Scorpina both called out.
Back up on the cliff, Rita gestured her right arm out, and then crossed her scepter horizontally between both hands, pulling it over right shoulder.
"All right, Rangers, you've had your fun." she said. "Now watch as Goldar and Scorpina both grow!"
She flung her scepter off the cliff. Soon it passed through the atmosphere. The scepter then staked into dirt from the side. It proceeded to unleash energy from its center orb. The scepter energy rippled into the ground beneath, thus causing a quake. Smoke bellowed from the big fault in ground. Fire spewed up within the Earth until it smouldered, smoke flowing skyward through the ridge at the top.
Goldar was covered in the rising growth smoke. He then proceeded to stand up from the smoke while growing, growling viciously also.
Scorpina spread her arms out as she was overcome with growth smoke and let out a loud shriek. Suddenly, she mutated into a new form and grew giant as the mist subsided.
As before, Scorpina's mutant form was completely monstrous: She now had a claw hand. She was still equipped with her boomerang-like sword. She also now had a stinger-like tail. In her mouth was a sharp set of fangs.
"Attack!" commanded Mutant-Scorpina.
Giant Goldar's giant foot smashed down nearby, sending the tiny Rangers in the distance leaping out of the way. They all to the right, getting right back up, before they reached to the skies and summoned.
"Come forth! Mighty Dinozords!"
From the middle of nowhere, a crack in the ground spreads open, releasing a fireball from within. The head of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord slowly rose from the molten red ground. This was followed by its upper body. Then it was followed by its lower body. Finally, the Tyrannosaurus rose up from above the fiery molten pit before straightening up amid flames and smoke.
The Mastodon Dinozord surfaced from its icy domain. It exhaled an icy breath from its trunk. The Mastodon then started to stomp through the snow. It was then shown fully walking through the snowy fields of the arctic.
The Triceratops Dinozord appeared within the sands of the desert. Its wheels passed through the desert sands. Soon, the Triceratops raised its head and opened its mouth while driving through the dusty desert.
The Sabertooth Tiger Dinozord was shown sprinting through the jungle. It then opened its mouth and let out a mighty roar. The Sabertooth Tiger then leaped out of the greenery.
A nearby volcano started to erupt. Inside, the Pterodactyl Dinozord soared upwards amid lava lights. It finally flew away from the smoking volcano and headed towards the trees.
The Tyrannosaurus and his fellow Dinozords all raced alongside the horizon. Down below, the Rangers all looked upward before leaping up together.
"Let's do it!" said Thomas bravely.
Red Ranger leaped up into the sky, followed by Blue Ranger and Black Ranger both leaping up into the sky, and followed by Yellow Ranger and Pink Ranger both leaping up into the sky.
Red Ranger dropped into the cockpit of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord. Upon entering, he very quickly raised his right fist to his chest, then he made another fist with left hand, and then grabbed the controls with both hands.
"Get ready to create Power Crystals, guys!" Thomas called out.
On the cliff, Rita grinned while gesturing her right hand out in a taunting matter.
"Sorry, but that's not going to work." she snickered. "Do it, Goldar!"
With that order, Goldar threw a large net outward. It went and snagged the Tyrannosaurus just before it could go and join the other Dinozords in forming the Megazord. After finishing the deed, Goldar aimed and fired golden electricity from one hand at the netted Tyrannosaurus, causing it to crackle with blue lightning. In the Tyrannosaurus cockpit, lights flash in the whole cockpit as Red Ranger clutched the windows and writhed in pain. Inside the Mastodon cockpit, Black Ranger overheard his best friend's cries of agony, and turned to the left side in worry.
"Oh no, Thomas!" cried Percy.
After the attacking the trapped Dinozord with electricity, Goldar jerked his head up, stepped forward, and raised his sword. This was followed by Mutant-Scorpina raising her boomerang and rushing forth. Goldar sparkily slashed the netted Tyrannosaurus, and then Mutant-Scorpina did the same. Then Goldar tried to do it again, but the Tyrannosaurus managed to duck under it, but this prompted him to kick it sparkily. Mutant-Scorpina then raced by with her boomerang blade, sparkily slashing the Dinozord, and so the Tyrannosaurus toppled over. The mighty Dinozord fell onto the ground, still netted, quaking the ground upon landing. In the Sabertooth Tiger cockpit, Yellow Ranger gestured both arms in thumbs up.
"Hang in there, Thomas!"
The Sabertooth Tiger fired a yellow beam from its folded up tail. The ground in front of Goldar and Mutant-Scorpina burst with bright sparks and smoke, but were both unharmed. Mutant-Scorpina quickly stepped through it, charged up her claw, and then fired several balls of yellow light to the right. The Mastodon, the Triceratops, and the Sabertooth Tiger were running along the horizon together when each of them got struck by a blue-electricity bolt, before they all exploded with sparks, bursts, and smoke. In the Mastodon cockpit, Black Ranger began to shield his face, as his cockpit shook and then burst brightly with a flash of sparks. In the Triceratops cockpit, Blue Ranger began to shield his face, as his cockpit shook and then burst brightly with a flash of sparks. In the Sabetooth Tiger cockpit, Yellow Ranger began to shield her face, as her cockpit shook and then burst brightly with a flash of sparks.
The Tyrannosaurus laid on its front, still ensnarled by the net, with its body smoking. Inside the Tyrannosaurus cockpit, tilted to the left, Red Ranger raised his head above the dashboard, wearily talking around, before looking to the left.
"This is out of control." said Thomas. "Unless Stanley gets here soon, we're toast!"
Back inside the cavern, Stanley had been searching around for the last hour, but still couldn't find Lady anywhere.
"Darn it!" groaned Stanley. "Where on earth is she?"
But as he asked himself that question, the cavern walls were slowly becoming tiled like a castle. Soon, Stanley reached a large white door.
"Where does this-"
The doors then suddenly opened themselves up. From there, Stanley found himself inside a beautiful bedroom. And laying on the nearby bed was the still asleep Lady.
"Lady!" cried Stanley.
He ran over to the bed. Once Stanley reached the bed, he saw something…wonderful about Lady. The sleeping girl looked so peaceful and beautiful in her sleep that even Stanley felt his heart skip somewhat. Suddenly, he then remembered the promise that he made to Thomas before setting off on this rescue mission.
"Okay… here goes." he sighed deeply.
He leaned over… and kissed Lady passionately on the lips. After he did what he did, Stanley stood back. In no time, Lady began to stir. Her eyes opened slowly… and Lady sat up on the bed.
"W-where am I?" she asked wearily.
"Lady!" Stanley exclaimed as he ran over to her.
"Stanley?" she looked at her gray-haired friend. "What happened? Where am I?"
"We're inside a cavern somewhere in Muffle Mountain." he explained. "You were put to sleep by that spinning wheel, and then Rita kidnapped you…but I've managed to save you."
Lady felt grateful. "Well, thank you very much, Stanley." she smiled.
Stanley helped Lady off the bed. When suddenly, they both heard a rumbling sound of some sort.
"What was that?" asked Lady nervously, as she stood close to Stanley.
They listened careful. But to their shock, the noise turned out to be Rita's arriving Wheel of Misfortune.
"Uh-oh!" gulped Stanley.
"Let's get out of here!" cried Lady.
The two teens began to make a run for it out of the white bedroom. The evil wheel quickly gave chase, sparkingly striking the walls of every corner. At last, they've reached the exit of the cavern. They made it outside of the cave before tripping and falling flat onto their fronts, just as the Wheel of Misfortune flew right past them. The evil wheel then flew into the distance.
"Whew! We're safe…" Stanley said in relief.
"Hmm hmm." agreed Lady.
But then they remembered something important and dire.
"The others!" They both said at the same time, realizing that the Zords were no doubt getting overwhelmed by Goldar and Scorpina.
"I have to go help them." Stanley stated. "You stay here where it's safe."
Lady nodded and quickly ran to hide in some bushes, while Stanley ran off to find his other friends.
Back at the battle, Goldar lifted his right leg up and stomped his foot down quickly. He kicked the downed, netted Tyrannosaurus sparkily, turning it over. Down below, Stanley ran up until he was at the edge of the cliff.
"Hang on, guys!" he called. "I'm coming to help now!"
A stylized lightning bolt strikes in front of a purple circle, behind was a black background; crackling around the lightning bolt and circle were blue energy bolts (with some yellow and pink also present). The morphing sequence was as followed; Stanley is seen holding out his open Power Morpher inside the image of a giant open Power Morpher, with Stanley being surrounded by Ranger-colored electricity shown within what would have been the Morpher's red inside area.
Stanley: "Dragonzord!"
Upon morphing, Green Ranger pulled out his Dragon Dagger from its holster.
"Come forth, Dragonzord!" he called, before he started to play on the dagger.
Down in the ocean, the head of the Dragonzord arose from beneath the waves. Now fully submerged, it reached up while leaning back and roaring loudly, spraying water everywhere in the process.
As soon as the Dragonzord walked onto land, missiles popped out of its fingertips. The Dragonzord then went and fired those missiles from its fingertips. Goldar and Mutant-Scorpina were stalking toward the downed, netted Tyrannosaurus, with the intention of finishing it off, when a pair of spark bursts hit and knock them back down. They hit the ground and rolled away together, quaking the place. The Tyrannosaurus had used this distraction to try and get back up, just as the Dragonzord approached and yanked the net off it, while Green Ranger stood on the edge of cliff watching triumphantly.
"Let's finish them here and now, guys!" Stanley declared, as he lowered his Dragon Dagger and made a fist eagerly.
But Rita was not really about to give up without a huge battle. Because out of the blue, her Wheel of Misfortune had just popped in for seconds, rising up above the mountains, spinning around like a helicopter, and soaring forth. The Tyrannosaurus, and the Dragonzord both stood ready. Meanwhile, the Wheel of Misfortune went and approached the two Zords while spraying sparks from its trend area. It twirled between the Tyrannosaurus, and the Dragonzord, and slashed them sparkily with its sharp edges. The wheel flew away…but quickly doubled back, still spitting sparks from its circular edges. It once again flew between the Tyrannosaurus and the Dragonzord, slashing them sparkingly with its edges again.
The Dragonzord and the Tyrannosaurus both stumbled back some, with their chests smoking from both of the blows, but they recovered quickly. Inside the Tyrannosaurus cockpit, Red Ranger covered his face as a bright burst of sparks and smoke erupts outside the window. As the smoke faded, he crossed his right fist forward in front of him.
"Power up Megazord, guys!" he commanded.
With that said, he inserted his Power Crystal into his control slot with red energy results. Four square combo of each Ranger in their cockpits, each raising their respective Power Crystal and preparing to insert them.
"Right!"
They each insert their Power Crystal into their control slots with coloured energy results. In the Tyrannosaurus cockpit, Red Ranger moved the controls forth.
"Let's power up!"
The Tyrannosaurus and his fellow Dinozords all raced alongside the horizon, and then they began to combine together.
The Sabertooth Tiger roared out. Suddenly, it went and locked itself into Leg Mode. The Triceratops opened its mouth while in the desert. Just then, it went and folded up its tail. The Tyrannosaurus then went and connected with the Triceratops and the Sabertooth Tiger legs electrically. The Mastodon exhaled an icy breath from its trunk. Just as quickly though, it floated through the air in its component form. Soon, it went and connected with the Tyrannosaurus, causing a pulse of energy throughout.
In the Megazord cockpit, the lights all came on as the Rangers were all seated inside at their stations. The Triceratops wheels passed through the desert sands. The Megazord Tank continued to rumble forth into battle. In the Megazord cockpit, Red Ranger looked at his teammates quickly, and then the whole team raised fists in union.
"Let's switch to Megazord Battle mode!" declared Thomas.
A circle symbol of all five dinosaurs together glowed brightly with Ranger colors.
"Megazord sequence has been initiated." A computer aboard the Megazord spoke.
Fists began folding out from the Mastodon part of the Megazord Tank. The bottom back of the Megazord Tank then began to rise up. The Rangers in the Megazord cockpit watched as they rose higher and higher. And soon the Megazord Tank folded up into the body of the standing Megazord. Just then, the Pterodactyl soared downward through the sky. It then folded into the chest component as it headed towards the Megazord's body below. The Tyrannosaurus head then folded down, revealing the Megazord's head as the Pterodactyl connected as the chest plate. Horns folded out of the new head, its eyes glowed, and a bright flash occurred.
"Megazord activated!" The computer said.
And the Megazord posed fully formed amid lightning.
Inside the Megazord cockpit, Red Ranger looked up to the heavens.
"We're going to need the Power Sword."
A sword plummet from the dark and stormy skies. The Wheel of Misfortune continued spinning and flying around. The Megazord, with Power Sword, managed to dodge the passing flying wheel as it went by, twice. But the wheel wasn't about to give up, and then made a u-turn and approaching. The Megazord quickly got sparkily slashed by it, but kept out of its way as it circled around.
The Dragonzord fought both Goldar and Mutant-Scorpina alone, getting itself sparkily slashed by the former, before turning around and blocking Mutant-Scorpina's kick, but then it got sparkily slashed by her boomerang sword. On a dirt hill, Rita watched and grew impatient, before turning to her right. Down near the cavern entrance, she saw that Lady was watching the whole battle. Rita got a very evil idea and turned her attention to her evil wheel and called out to it.
"I've got a better idea, my wheel!" she shouted with a wicked grin on her face, looking to the slight right and holding her scepter in between her hands.
The Megazord and the Dragonzord both regrouped, and they looked upward. In the Megazord cockpit, all five Rangers sat up and looked to the left.
"Huh?"
With Green Ranger, high on the cliff, he was looking upward in confusion.
"What?"
"Aim for their Enchantress friend down there!" Rita continued, looking from straight on to the left as she pointed her right hand up that way.
The Wheel of Misfortune turned around and started heading downward. It was flying towards the row of bushes down on the ground level…towards Lady! In the Megazord cockpit, Red Ranger quickly realized what Rita was up to.
"Oh no, she's having the wheel go straight for Lady!"
He was right too, Lady began to look up and gasp. She had noticed that the wheel was aimed and flying right for her. Seeing this, Lady got frightened as she quickly got out of the bushes, and began running for her life. The Wheel of Misfortune merely gave chase. Rita watched this up on the hill excitedly, punches to the right and laughed maniacally.
Up on the cliff, Green Ranger reached upward with his left hand in protest.
"STOP IT!" he screamed.
The Dragonzord, and the Megazord tried to step forth and stop the Wheel of Misfortune, only to have Goldar and Mutant-Scorpina rush up to get in their way, aiming to prevent the heroes from going to save Lady this time. In the Megazord cockpit, the five Rangers continued to look to the left in distress, thinking that all was lost. But then, Red Ranger made a fist in bitter determination.
"I've had enough of this, guys!" he growled, and then turned to the left and reached to the sky. "I call upon the power of Titanus, and the Ultrazord!"
Titanus rolled its way through a misty marsh towards the battle. In the Megazord cockpit, the five Rangers raised and crossed their fists at the wrists, and then placed their fists into left palms, giving left thumbs up in unison.
"Ultrazord, power up!" cried the Rangers in union.
Titanus began folding down its front section, lowering its neck forward, and raising its side cannons. The Mega Dragonzord descended right into Titanus' open back cavity, releasing a rapid flash of bright light during contact. The newly formed Ultrazord stood completed in front of a massive fireball explosion.
Lady continued running from the Wheel of Misfortune. However, she eventually tripped over a rock. This caused Lady to fall down onto her front. She slowly got up and looked up slightly… seeing to her horror the evil wheel was fast approaching her. In the Megazord cockpit, the Rangers looked to the left, Red Ranger was standing up and touching the dashboard in complete worry.
"Look out!"
The Wheel of Misfortune got closer and closer to Lady. The poor girl screamed and shut her eyes, bracing herself for death. In the Megazord cockpit, Red Ranger sat back down, as he lead the team in raising their arms, and then raising right hand in Nazi salute.
"LOCK-ON, AND FIRE ALL WEAPONS!" ordered Thomas loudly.
The Ultrazord moved slowly forward while firing hundreds of rockets and missiles. The attack struck and destroyed the Wheel of Misfortune in a bright white flash, turning into a fading rain of sparks and smoke in the blue skies.
Up on the cliff, Rita had witnessed the destruction of her beloved Birthday present, and thus screamed in defeat.
"AWWWW, nuts!" she wailed, before covering her face and disappearing.
Meanwhile, Mutant-Scorpina reached out in anger. While Goldar, who was beside her, lowered his sword.
"Fools!" shouted Mutant-Scorpina. "You've destroyed our wheel!"
They both faded out.
The Mega Dragonzord lowered its Titanus-feet arms, as Titanus raised its neck back and roared victoriously.
High up on one of the Lunar Palace's towers. Inside, Goldar was alone and talking to himself.
"Those Power geeks think they've beaten us again, but we'll be back, and they'll be sorry!" he said, while making a fist and gesturing it about three times, before finally pointing index finger forth.
But Goldar, you know you'll just lose again. So, just give it up already, geez…
Three weeks later, after a hectic schedule (with both school work and the play), it was finally opening night for the play. Everyone who was in it was wearing their costumes. Some looked awesome, some were frightening looking, and even silly and goofy. Miss Botti was speaking to the cast one last time before going to talk to the audience.
"Now then, I know we've been working really hard the last few days, but I know you'll all do a great job out there."
The cast all agreed in union, before Miss Botti left to go on stage to talk to the audience.
"Good evening citizens of Ffraquhar, and Knapford!" she announced. "We of Sodor High School's drama production welcome you to the Walt Disney version of the classic tale; *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*! We all hope that you enjoy it."
The audience burst into applause, just as Miss Botti went back backstage. The curtain soon rose up, and the play began.
PART One: Snow White is a princess living with her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen. The Queen fears that Snow White's beauty surpasses her own, so she forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid, and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all". For several years the mirror always answered that the Queen was, pleasing her. But eventually, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now the fairest in the land. The jealous Queen orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. She further demands that the Huntsman return with Snow White's heart in a jeweled box as proof of the deed.
PART Two: However, the Huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White. He tearfully begs for her forgiveness, revealing the Queen wants her dead, and urges her to flee into the woods and never come back. She escaped into the dark woods before getting so frightened that she burst into tears, but then she met the local forest animals, and they lead her to a cottage. Finding seven small chairs in the cottage's dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is the untidy home of seven orphaned children. In reality, the cottage belongs to seven adult dwarfs, named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who work in a nearby mine. Returning home, they are alarmed to find their cottage clean and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home. The dwarfs find Snow White upstairs, asleep across three of their beds. Snow White awakes to find the dwarfs at her bedside and introduces herself, and all of the dwarfs eventually welcome her into their home after they learn she can cook and clean beautifully. Snow White keeps house for the dwarfs while they mine for jewels during the day, and at night they all sing, play music and dance.
PART Three: The Queen discovers that Snow White is still alive when the mirror again answers that Snow White is the fairest in the land and reveals that the heart in the jeweled box is actually that of a pig. Using magic to disguise herself as an old hag, the Queen creates a poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into the "Sleeping Death", a curse that can only be broken by "love's first kiss". The Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away, but the animals are wary of her and rush off to find the dwarfs. The Queen tricks Snow White into biting into the poisoned apple. As Snow White falls asleep the Queen proclaims that she will be the fairest of the land. The dwarfs return as the Queen leaves the cottage and give chase, trapping her on a cliff. She tries to roll a boulder over them but before she can do so, lightning strikes the cliff, causing her to fall to her death.
PART Four: The dwarfs return to their cottage and find Snow White seemingly dead, being kept in a deathlike slumber by the potion. Unwilling to bury her out of sight in the ground, they instead place her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a clearing in the forest. Together with the woodland creatures, they keep watch over her. After some time, a Prince, who had previously met and fallen in love with Snow White, learns of her eternal sleep and visits her coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and awakens her. The dwarfs and animals all rejoice as the Prince takes Snow White to his castle.
In the end, the play was a grand success. The whole cast took a bow on the stage as the audience gave them a standing ovation.
The End?
I'm not that good with writing plays for fanfics, so I just described the plot the best I could in four different acts, and let you imagine the play. Either way, Read and Review please, but NO flames and/or mean comments.