Episode 50

"My Little Plant Shop (of Horrors)"


Twilight was tasked with taking care of a gardener's plants while the owner goes away to perform some errands in her hometown. As a ranger, Twilight assures the owner that she'll do a great job in taking care of these plants, and that this will be a nice part time job between battles.

Meanwhile, Tails is approached by a farmer who wants some genetically modified plants to be tested as crops. While his requests are strange, Tails agrees to this. After all, he wants to do something other than lounging around and doing his hobbies all day.

Once these two jobs come together and create a horrifying monster, Tails realizes that there must be something suspicious going on with the one who tasked him with this.

Based on Sonic Boom episode, How to Succeed in Evil Without Even Trying (S1E16).


[Beginning of Episode]

With the recent job openings in Transition Outpost, the team members are hoping to make some money doing part time jobs to support their base and themselves. While the families of the rangers did pay for operational costs, it is time for the rangers to go independent, preparing them for the adult life they're about to get to.

Twilight is taking a brief job taking care of a garden for one of the residents. She stands in front of the doors while a woman is nearby talking to her.

"I'm so glad that you came here to help me," the woman said.

Twilight bowed to the woman. "No worries, Mrs. Walrus," she said. "I'll take good care of your indoor garden while you're away to do some errands."

Mrs. Walrus took one step towards the station, looking at Twilight. "I'm planning to move here soon," she told Twilight. "Even though this town experiences a lot of attacks, it's still a nice place to live in otherwise. In an age where everyone gets in their car to go to work, it's nice to see a town that embraces the design layout of densely populated places of days long gone. Like the big four major cities of Columbia."

Twilight recalled in her head the four major metropolitan areas of Columbia, and how they embrace the dense core layout and walkability of cities long ago. "Emerald City, Canterlot City, Coulee Banks, and Aqua River Plains," she said. "High populations, founded during the founding days of Columbia, and designed so that nearly everything is in a walkable distance. What's not to love about these four major cities?"

"I'll be gone to prepare for my new home here," Mrs. Walrus said. "I will be back in a few days. When I see that you've done a great job, I will reward you dearly."

Twilight bowed again. "Thanks," she said.

"Good luck," Mrs. Walrus replies. And then she walks away, heading towards the station. Now that it is repaired and a new train has been placed, the residents are finally connected to the rest of the network. Although, the cost of a ticket has been bumped up to repay the initial cost of a new train, but she doesn't mind.

Once Mrs. Walrus is gone, Twilight takes out her list of things to do in the garden. The species of each plant, their needs, how much water they need, and the humidity each garden should get. "Okay. First thing on my list," she said, going through the list. "Check the conditions of the plants. Okay. I can do that." With that in mind, she enters the garden house. In it, she sees flower pots all around the building. In each are flowers native to this climate area. On the walls are various gardening tools, such as a watering can, a scythe, some shears, and gloves. Why would Mrs. Walrus pack a scythe? It's for cutting grass, not small plants. Still, Twilight let these details slide as she got to work.


Last night, Tails didn't get enough sleep. He is working long an hard on a project that was started not long ago in the lab, and while working on it, he went asleep for the night. He lays on a bench, snoring away.

"Miles?" someone called from outside. They entered the door, revealing that Scootaloo has been looking round for a while. "Miles?" Then she looks at the bench, finding Tails there. Grumbling that he was there all this time, she decides to shake him awake. "Miles, wake up already!"

Tails catapults his body up with a surprised look. "Huh? What?" he said breathing heavily. He felt scared for a moment, then he looked at the one who woke him up. It's his friend, much to his relief. "Oh, it's you, Scooter. What are you doing in this lab?"

"I came in to check on you since I'm supposed to take over Twilight's role when she's not available," Scootaloo explains. "Since she is not here to do her of duty-" She stopped to correct herself. "Duties, sorry. I guess I'm stepping into her position until she comes back."

Tails felt a bit fuzzy. He had just woken up from a dream he was in the middle of and suddenly he's awake. He forgot what happened the last several seconds. "Uh...what are you here for again?" he asks.

Scootaloo got excited. "I came in here bopping to get some engineering lessons from you," she said. "I had a class in material science when I was your age."

"Huh," Tails replies. "Interesting. So we are not very different, aren't we?" He thought about all the things he and Scootaloo have in common, and thinking about how it parallels the big sibling that they idol so much.

Scootaloo thinks otherwise. "Oh we are so different!" she said, shocking Tails. "I nearly got myself flunked out of that class at the beginning of the semester." She looks at her hand, remembering how she gashed her hand while trying to cut a piece of soft wood. She was berated for not paying attention. "Oh, were those days just embarrassing. I'm hoping to improve my skills by performing sessions with you. Want to take a shot?"

Tails jumps off the bench and landed on his feet. Then he looks at Scootaloo with a enthusiastic look on his face. "Deal!" he said, feeling the energy inside him suddenly jump.

Then, there was a knock on the door. Tails opens it up, and he find Silver waiting for him. He is holding a cardboard box.

"I found this in the mail this morning," Silver said. Then he picks up the paper that came with the box. "It's a contract, but it's not for me. It's for you."

Tails' smile grew. "Oh, sweet!" he said. "Something to do in here for once! What's it say? What's it say?"

Silver hands Tails the box and contract, and almost immediately, Tails reads the contract.

"After reviewing your track record, we decided that you are the right person to be tasked with this," the contract reads. "Food is a precious commodity, and every creature that has ever existed needs it. Plants produce the energy, animals eat them to get their energy. One of the big issues facing humanity as we continue to increase our population is food supply. We use a lot of them, to feed us and to feed our livestock. Growing them fast enough to keep up with current demands while still using the same amount of land is the solution to this problem. For this reason, we're asking you to help us develop solutions to this looming crisis. You'll find a development kit included with this letter."

While Tails is reading the contract, Scootaloo is unpacking the box and taking out the contents.

"Don't ask me what these seeds are doing near our mailbox," Silver said. Then he closes the door and heads off to do his own business.

After hearing "seeds", Tails turns around and see the experiment he's about to work on.

Scootaloo picks up a glass container full of seeds. She reads the label. "Genetically modified seeds," she reads. "Engineered to grow faster and last longer." Remembering the contract, she makes her conclusion. "It doesn't look like it is finished completely."

Tails walks up to the workstation, where the seeds and the associated equipment are located. "But, why would they outsource the work to us?" he asks.

"Maybe to give us a first hand look at these seeds and what they can do?" Scootaloo assumes. "Maybe to teach the world about these fast growing crops? I mean, someone adverted a food crisis in one of the most populated places in the world by discovering a variant of rice that can be mass produced to feed the hungry. If it happened before, then it can happen again."

Tails shook his head. "I wouldn't count on it," he said. "These innovations in food production will take years before their effects are seen, and even then farmers are working on solutions to increase the upper supporting limit on our population. Maybe we don't need a crop like that, but it helps for decades down the line. If doing this means more food for the future then I'm in!"

"I don't know," Scootaloo said, barely containing her excitement, "but this will be a great project to work on!"

And with that, the two of them got to work.

Unbeknownst to them, or any of the rangers for that matter, there was a spy drone that is watching their actions.


"Perfect!" Trixie said after reviewing the captured footage. "They fell for the trap! It won't be a matter of time before they completed our work."

Eggman then walks in, brushing his mustache with his fingers. "Did they really expected a monster to be accidentally created by one of them?"

"They try and avoid it, but something like this is bound to happen," Fuhrer said. "It already happened once, without our influence, and without them knowing better. Now, we're making them create a monster. And best of all, they're not aware of it."

"Oh yeah," Eggman said, grinning. "Going diabolical as usual, I see."


Back at the garden and plant shop, Twilight was making meticulous observations about the status about every single plant in the building, from the moisture level of the soil, to the intensity to the shade of green on their leaves, to their general health. Anything she can practically measure, she can, and she compiled a table of the status of every plant.

"You're doing fine," Twilight said, filling in one of the grid rectangles. She moves on to another plant. "You can live without some water for at least a little bit longer. Some plant food is needed, need some water, humidity might need some adjustments...perfect!" She then hung the clipboard containing the graph on the wall and grabs the squirt bottle. "Now, all that's left is to tend this garden."

A little water here, some pruning down over there, and getting some insects that have found their way into the garden. Perfect! After putting in several minutes of work, Twilight is done with her job for now.

"Phew!" Twilight said, wiping the sweat off her head. "My job is done. Now, I'll have to return in a few more hours and check on them once again." She then sets the gardening equipment back where she found them, then exited the indoor garden.

"How was your time in that garden, Twilight?" Median asks.

"It went perfectly well, just as I planned," Twilight replies.

"You know that you're going to continue to go back to this, aren't you?" Median brings up.

"Until Mrs. Walrus come back, I'll continue to tend her garden for her," Twilight responded back.

"Good," Median replies. "Though, I think you might be overwatering the plants in the main garden. You know, the one that is physically on the ground."

Twilight stopped in her tracks for a moment. "What?" she asks.

"That soil has a limited thickness to absorb water," Median points out. "It might not look like it, but the soil only goes down a couple of feet, maybe a few centimeters at its shallowest. Drowning plants is a possibility."

"No worries," Twilight said. "The soil has a lot of volume to work with. I'm sure that they can handle plenty of water, even if I accidentally overwater them."

"You sure about that?" Applejack questioned. Twilight looks up and finds her friend standing there in front of her. "I'm pretty sure that even with a little bit of overwatering is enough to drown a plant. Take my word for it. I'm a farmer. And as a farmer, I know precisely how much water a plant needs."

"Clearly, the only thing you know is crops because these plants are different," Twilight responded.

Applejack didn't buy into that. "Did I tell you that I took biology in school?" she asks.

"Oh," Twilight reacts. "So you are smarter than you look. Just like all of us."

Applejack can hear her belly grumbling. She rubs her hand over her belly. "You know, I should be taking mah lunch break for now," she said. "How 'bout we head back to base to grab a bite? I'm sure I'll make a meal for us all." She then walks away.

"Yeah, thanks," Twilight said. Then she follows after Applejack. As she does so, she talks to Median once again. "Median, set a reminder this evening to go back and check on the plants. Got it?"

"Affirmative," Median responds. "I'll make sure you'll be back around 6:00 in the evening."


The team enjoys a nice apple themed meal, courtesy of Applejack. She bakes for the team some apple pie, as well as serving everyone apple juice, However, she notices that one person is missing.

"Okay, where is Tails?" Applejack asks. "It's lunch hour now, and we've haven't seen him in a while. Just what is that kid up to?"

Twilight notices that someone is absent. She looks at the clock on the wall. "He must be really hungry at this point," she said. "Surely, that would be enough to convince him to take a lunch break."

Hearing this, Scootaloo raises her hand. "Oh! I know!" she said. "I know where MIles is!"

Applejack sighs. "Man, keepin' track of two different namts for one person is getting really confusing," she said. Then she focues back on the topic at hand. "So, sugarcube. How do you know that?"

"I was working with him on a project," Scootaloo answers. "When lunch hour arrives, I decided to go. But he is refusing to go. I decided to let him continue on that project rather than trying to convince him. That project has a strict deadline, and it's not set by him."

"Well, he can't work with an empty stomach," Applejack said. "He's not going to do as well if he's hungry!"

"Hey guys!" Median said, stepping in. "You must be in the middle of an argument, so how about a compromise? Why don't we let Scootaloo finsih her lunch, and then let her continue with the project while Tails has his lunch? Then, they can achieve-"

"I'm not going to let Tails go hungry," Applejack said as she begins to storm out of the lunchroom. "I'm draggin' him in!"

"Applejack!" Scootaloo shouts as she stands up, leaving her meal behind. "Wait up!"

The rest of the team watches as Scootaloo goes after Applejack.

"Well, so much for me trying to find a compromise..." Median sighs.


As promised, Tails continued to work on the seeds he was commissioned to do. In the middle of modifying the DNA sequence like how the instructions told him, the door to the lab suddenly opened. Applejack storms into the lab, with Scootaloo entering soon after. She leans on the door frame as she catches her breath.

"Tails!" Applejack shouted.

"Wah!" Tails shrieked, tossing the veil containing the DNA altering agents in the air.

"What are you doing?" Applejack asks. "You're supposed to be having a lunch break."

Tails turns around, looking at Applejack. "Lunch?" he asks. "But this project has a strict deadline. I'm giving Scooter a break wihle I continue this project, and when she comes back I will have my break." Then he sees that Scootaloo is there as well. "Why is Scooter here? Has she eaten her lunch."

"Oh," Scootaloo begins to answer. "I was going to have my lunch when Applejack came in here to drag you into lunch." Then she remembers that she didn't finish her lunch. "Oh! And sorry for leaving my food behind for someone else to eat."

Applejack stares at Scootaloo with a disapproving look. She does not appreciate having her food wasted.

"Mind if you bring some food in?" Median asks

Tails jumps off his chair and walks out the door. "Not a chance," he answers. "I don't want any contaminates getting in my way." He then approaches Scootaloo. "Well, it's time for my lunch break now. Take over for me while I'm away, Scooter." Then he leaves the lab.

"There's only one slice of my apple pie left!" Applejack warns. "Make sure nobody takes it!" Then she goes after him.

Now alone in the lab, Scootaloo looks back at the workstation. As expected with the short amount of time when she was absent, Tails did not achieve much. However, the sudden unexpected opening of the door and subsequent shouting has startled him into making a mess, meaning this is what she has to do in his absence.


After Scootaloo cleaned up the mess, she resumed Tails' work until he came back. Tails returns to the lab, having finished his apple pie meal. He doesn't look to happy. Apparently, a fight broke out over the last slice of apple pie, and Tails threatened them all with the blades of his arms of all things. He did get the last slice, though he feels that he got it at the expense of his friends. Good thing that they forgive him, and with a hug from Scootaloo, he is back to work in a good mood.

Reading the instructions carefully, the two got into the genetics of the seeds and found the right places to modify them to get the desired results. With some a few letter changes, they created a huge outcome. First seed they tested, they spotted a sprout within fifteen minutes. But this wasn't enough according to the contract. Whoever sent them this demanded that they needed the seeds to grow faster. And so they pressed on, determined to get as much progress done in one day as possible.


Back at the residential building, and Twilight is watching the clock anticipating her evening shift. 6:00 arrives and Median tells him so.

"Ready for your evening shift?" Median asks. "It's six past noon, just like I promised."

"I've been preparing myself for this," Twilight answers. "Got to go, everyone! See you in a moment."

She then runs down the stairs and into the back end of the lab, hopping on a teleporter. A few minutes later, Twilight returns while talking to Median.

"Okay. Evening shift is done," she reported. "Plants are doing fine. I can finally go back to base to have my night's rest." She then walks up to the lab door, knocking on it."Hey, Tails," she asks as she enters. "How's the-?" Twilight then enters the building, only to find Tails asleep. Scootaloo is sitting next to him, poking him with a ruler.

Scootaloo then had her eye caught by the sight of Twilight. She turns towards her. "Oh hey, Twilight!" she greeted. "Uhh, Miles fell asleep in the middle of working. He must've gotten tired after all that working."

Median does not sound pleased towards Twilight. "I warned you," he said. "You should call him to wake him up, not enter the lab only to find him asleep."

Twilight then walks towards the workstation, taking the ruler away from Scootaloo. "Watch," she said. "This is how you wake up a coworker." She then raises the ruler high up while Scootaloo ducks. Then Twilight slams the ruler down on Tails' back, startling him awake with some pain on his back.

"Ow!' Tails shrieked. Then he rubs his back. "Who did that?"

"I caught you asleep in the middle of a project you're working on," Twilight answers.

"What?" Tails responded. "How much time has passed?"

Scootaloo points to the clock hung on the wall, staring at Tails with a disappointed look. "Not a whole lot," she answers.

"You two must've been working on this for nearly the entire day," Twilight observes. "You guys better take a break from this in preparing for our upcoming bedtime.

Tails looks at all the work he has done. "But I'm almost done with this," he complains. "The deadline is getting nearer. I can't afford to take a break."

Twilight takes the two young scientists and escorts them back to the residential building. "You two have tired yourself by working on this project," she said. "Time for you to take a rest. You can continue working tomorrow."

Before they enter the residential building for dinner and the eventual bed time, Median gives a warning to everyone. "Uh, fair warning," he said. "Experiments conducted on the seeds has made them sensitive to water. They are rapid growth seeds, and they will absorb any water they can find. It's going to drizzle tomorrow morning, so please do not expose them to the rain. Got it?"

Scootaloo looks at Tails. "Did we really turn these seeds into rapid growing, water sucking machines?" she asks.

"You know," Tails began to answer, "I'm kind of impressed. We turned seeds from sprouting in just minutes to sprouting in seconds. I wonder how fast these seeds can grow..."

Night then falls, but the two young scientists could not contain their excitement over their results. They were tempted to go back to the lab to continue their work, but games, friends, and tiredness made these planes unable to arise. The rangers sleep peacefully, unaware about the monster they just created.


Meanwhile, the ranger's enemies watch from afar as the rangers leave behind the monster they created unattended.

"Perfect," Eggman said. "We are ready to put this plan into action."

"These seeds plus some rainwater equals giant plant monsters created by them," Trixie said. "It's the perfect plan. And best of all, they aren't even aware of it."

Eggman and Trixie then laughs, anticipating the time when their plan goes into action.

Rita then leans over on the two of them. "Oh yeah!" she said, getting an idea. "How about we sprinkle in a little bit of paranoia by leaving them a note?"

Eggman and Trixie laughed harder. "Yes..." Eggman said. "Putting fear into their minds is the way to go."


The following day, Twilight, Tails, and Scootaloo walk outside in their raincoats, preparing to do their morning work.

"I'll be working at Mrs. Walrus's garden for a few minutes," Twilight told the two youngsters. "You two continue your work on those seeds until they are due. Which should be coming in a few hours, according to the contract. I'll see you in a bit!" She then runs off to take the teleporters.

"Bye!" Tails said as he and Scootaloo waved at Twilight. "See you in a few minutes."

Then, the two marched their way towards the lab, having a conversation about their work.

"Man, I can't believe that we modified the seeds to grow within seconds of being exposed to water," Scootaloo remarks. "Imagine how much water we'll save if we only needed a little for a sprout to pop up."

"Sure, this might take years or even decades before they're implemented," Tails added, "but still. Small steps are being taken to solve problems we'll surely be facing in the next decades."

Unbeknownst to them, sprouts have appeared at the ground. With the rain continuing to give them water, they grow bigger at every second.

Tails and Scootaloo entered the lab turning on the lights as they entered. Before they could even grab their lab clothing, they saw, to their horror, a ruined worktable. It is now a mess, with dirt and some seeds scattered all over the table.

"T-the seeds!' Scootaloo gasped.

Tails runs over to take a closer look at the ruined worktable. Something terrible has happened here. "Th-they're gone!" he gasps. "So many of them...gone!" He then activates his communicator. "Median, what happened to the seeds overnight? Why are they missing?"

"I detected someone trespassing onto this ground overnight," Median answers, "but some of you are a bit tried from yesterday. I couldn't push myself into warning you in fear of making you even more tired. Trust me, it's so rude to startle you guys awake in the middle of the night."

Tails looks off to the side and spotted a note. He picks it up and reads it. What he read was bone chilling. "Oh no..." he said.

"What?" Scootaloo asks, curious about the note. "Let me see!" She takes the note and reads it herself. She too was shocked at what she read. "Oh no! They place some in the garden?!"

Tails knew that someone was about to get into trouble. "Twilight..." he muttered. Then he taps Scootaloo. "Come on, Scooter! Let's warn Twilight before it's to late!"

The two then runs out of the lab. They opened the door and find that some plant monsters have sprouted from the ground. They attempted to bite at them.

Scootaloo clings on to Tails, shaking in fear. "Uh...is that our work?" she asks. "Did we create some monstrous plants without knowing?"

Tails gulped in nervousness. "Uh...I think so..." he answers. Then the two makes a run for the teleporters. "Median! Sound the alarm!" Tails commanded.

Alarms then begin to sound off across the base, notifying everyone to investigate outside.

"What in tarnation is-" Applejack began as she steps out of the door. Then she looks at the base grounds and sees that there are a lot of biting plants snapping at them. "Oh mother of nature...what are those?"

"Uh, remember that time where we accidentally created a bread monster by giving it the teleporter treatment over and over?" Median asks. "This is that...except our enemies let us do the hard work for them."

Applejack was infuriated to hear that the team's enemies are giving them the tools to create a monster disguised as something for the future. She angrily turns to Silver. "I knew we should've not accepted that contract!"

"Sorry," Silver apologizes. "But it's for the future. You guys want to solve problems before they get worse, right?"

Rarity shoves them both aside. "Quit arguing and exterminate these weeds!" she roars as she reaches for her morpher.


Twilight enters the garden and reaches for the watering can. She goes over to a row of flower pots and sprinkle some water on them. Midway through, however, Tails and Scootaloo burst in with panicked faces.

"Twilight!" Tails yelled. Stop!"

Twilight stops to look at the two kids. "What?" she asks. "What are you here for? Are you done? Why do you look like you're panicking?"

Tails and Scootaloo were a bit to tired and nervous to speak up, so Median fills them in. "Alert, Twilight!" he yells. "The garden might have some suspicious seeds planted!"

"Seeds?" Twilight asks. "What seeds?" Suddenly, she hears the sound of a pot breaking behind her. She turns around to investigate. At her feet are the remains of the pot, spilled dirt, and a standing plant. "Uh..."

The plant saw the watering can and immediately starts reaching towards it. Twilight shrieked and steps away from the freak plants that are now roaming about. Along thw way, several more sprouted and got to the ground.

"W-what are those?" Twilight asks.

"Somebody tricked us into making these monsterous plants for then," Tails answers.

"What?!" Twilight shouted, shocked to hear that this was the work of her friends. She doesn't look very happy to hear that a monster was created by one of them...again.

Then the communicator begins to ring. Twilight answers the call with a tap. "Hello?" she began.

"Guys!" Applejack yells. "Get back to base! A giant plant is attacking us!"

"Uh," Twilight answers, looking back at the plants. "We're kind of in the same situation here..."

"Just get to here as soon as you can!" Amy yells, sp hard that it's starting to hurt their ears.

"We can't allow these plants to get outside," Tails said. "They will grow if they get exposed to water."

Scootaloo looks around the walls of the garden and spotted something. "Hmm...a scythe," she said. "Not sure what that's doing in a garden but...I hope it helps." She gets the scythe and runs over to the plants. "Stand back!"

Tails and Twilght pressed against the door as Scootaloo griped the scythe. She swings it back and forth, bringing the blade through the plants. Some of them panicked and attempted to run away, but Scootaloo walks up to them and cuts them.

"Wow! That is really effective!" Scootaloo observes as she cuts the last of the plants in half. "I'm taking this with me. Don't worry. I will return it when we're done."

Tails lets out a sigh of relief. "Glad that's over for now," he said, "Now, to the base!"

The three exited the garden and into the streets. There, they find that the streets are covered in these monterous plants. They snap at them and at the nearby people.

"Oh no, the streets too?" Scootaloo gasps.

"Don't let them slow you guys down!" Tails shouted.

The three then ran up the streets towards where the teleporters are. Along the way, Scootaoo held the scythe so they as she passes by the monsterous plants, she will cut them in half. Everyone they pass by jumps out of the way of the incoming scythe.


Back at the base, the rangers are finding that fighting against the monster plants is difficult. Sunset tried to use fire, but the water extinguish her flames. Thunder attempted to summon lightning, only to find that the planes are unaffected. Amy tried to slam them to the ground with her hammer, but the plants bounced back up and snap at her. Fluttershy tired to talk them down, but they won't listen to her.

With all of their attempts resulting in failure, it seems that the only solution is to use swords. But that belongs to Sonic and Rainbow, who are both gone and are probably using the swords right now. So they can't use that. The only other one that did have a sword is Espio. He tried to slice them clean, but the vines got his hand before the blade made contact. Knuckles comes in to pull Espio out of the tight situation.

Finally, Tails, Twilight, and Scootaloo arrives.

Applejack notices that everyone is finally here. "Glad you can make it, guys," she told them. "We could use a little help here."

Tails sighed. "Hate to admit it," he began, "but that's my fault." Everyone else gasps in reaction to this. "Yeah, remember that contract telling me to develop rapid growing plants? Yeah, that was a trick made by our enemies. Sorry!"

"Save the apologies for later," Espio said, trying to pull his leg out of the vine's grasp. "For now, get rid of these plants!"

Scootaloo holds up the scythe she got. "No worries!" she said, assuring the others. "I've got a solution! Hold it right there!"

Scootaloo rushes in to the plant that's tying Espio down. She swings the scythe into the stem, severing it into two and defeating it. The vines loosen their grip on Espio's leg. Espio then lets out a sigh. "Thanks," he congratulated.

"Everyone!" Median orders. "Leave it to Scootaloo! Silver! Hold them in place!"

"No, problem!" Silver said as he uses telekinesis to hold one of the plants in place. "Scootaloo! Go for that plant!"

Scootaloo heads over to the plant that is held in place. She slices it in two. Silver then holds another plant in place.

"Now, go for that plant!" Silver said, watching Scootaloo making quick work with the plants. "Now this one! And this! And-" Suddenly, he hears the sound of glass breaking. He turns in the direction of where the sound came from. "Hey, who dropped a...glass...of..." He frowns upon seeing a giant plant towering over all of them.

Plant Titan roars out a nearly deafening sound. The rangers covered their ears as it screams at them. While everyone is distracted, a vine pops up out of the ground and grabs her scythe.

"Hey!" Scootaloo yells. "Give that back!" She pulls against the pull of the vine. Plant Titan responds by gripping the scythe with another vine, snapping it in two. "No!" Scootaloo yells as the scythe gets broken.

Tails watched as Scootaloo loses her scythe. Now the only bladed weapons they can use at the time are Espio's katana and the blades within the replacement limbs. Tails pulls up the sleeve of his left arm, looking at his replacement arm. Looking back at Plant Titan, he growls and tightens his fist. "You leave me with no choice," he told Plant Titan as he summons his arm blades. "I'm coming for you!" He then starts running towards Plant Titan.

Twilight watched as Tails runs foolishly into Plant Titan. "Wait! Tails!" she screams. "Watch out!"

Tails yelled as he swings his arm at Plant Titan. With his bladed arm, he expects to cut it cleanly. However, he has mad himself stuck in Plant Titan, stuck by his arm. "Huh?" he exclaims, looking at his stuck arm. He then begins to pull himself out. "Come on...pull out!"

Scootaloo watches as her friend got himself stuck in Plant Titan, as well as being attacked by whipping vines. "Hang on, Miles!" she said. "I'm coming to help you!"

Applejack's eyes widen as she saw another foolish attempt into defeating Plant Titan. "Scootaloo! Don't!" she warned.

Scootaloo grabs Tails by the arm and begins to pull him out. At the same time, she feels something tightening its grip on her legs. Before she can look down, she is suddenly lifted up. "Ahh!" she screams.

Tails found himself dangling in the air, with one arm being held by Scootaloo and the other being stuck to Plant Titan. "Scooter!" he yells. "Now look at what you've done! We've accidentally created this monstrosity without knowing and tried to clean up this mess we created ourselves."

Scootaloo sheds a tear. "Sorry!" she shouted.

Applejack growls at the two young heroes. "Stupid young ones..." she grumbles. "Knuckles!"

Knuckles jumps along side Applejack. "Yes, cowgirl?" he asks.

"Let's save these two young ones," Applejack declares, "who are probably more foolish than the siblings they admire." The two then rush in to save Tails and Scootaloo, with their friends helping them out.

As they approach Plant Titan, several vines pop up to try to either whip them or grab them. To make sure this doesn't happen, Shadow fired at the vines while Rarity provided them some protection with diamond shields. The two then grabs Tails and Scootaloo and pulls them out. Thanks to their super strength, they pulled them free.

The arm blades left a huge gash at the base of Plant Titan. The large plant looks at the scar on its stem and screams angrily at the rangers for harming it this badly.

"Ooh! That looks effective!" Pinkie observes. "Do it again! Maybe this time, you can cut through that plant!"

"No way I'm getting my arm stuck in that thing again," Tails responded. "How about instead, we bring out the really big one?" He then eyes Twilight.

Twilight nodded in agreement. "Oh, I know what you mean," she said. She then calls into her morpher. "Grand Six! We need your power now!"


The Grand Six Megazord comes together and the rangers get teleported inside. There, they face off against Plant Titan in their own yard.

"I hope you don't trample over your base," Median warns them. "It'll suck if you were the cause of your own base's destruction."

"I already made one mistake in helping out the enemy," Tails replies. "I don't need to do two in a single day."

The Delta Knight flings a box towards one of the hands, transforming into the Delta Blade. The right hand grabs it with a frim grip.

"Let's do this, guys!" Tails yelled as he pushed the control stick forward.

The Grand Six steps up to Plant Titan, making sure it doesn't step over the buildings. It slashes at the giant plant, while it snaps back. While its opponent was distracted cutting it in two, Plant Titan sends a few vines into the legs. The vines grip on the left leg, and it got suddenly yanked.

The cockpit tilts as the Grand Six gets knocked off balance.

"Ah! We're tied up, Miles!" Scootaloo screams.

"Don't worry, Scooter," Tails reassures his friend. "We'll make it through. I'm sure of it as always. We just have to get ourselves out of this!"

The Grand Six pulls against the vine with its left legs, eventually freeing itself from the vine's grasp. Shortly after that happened, another vine sprouted up and grabs the right leg. Then another comes out of the stem to grab it by the torso. Then another grabs the right arm.

"Gosh darn it!" Applejack yells. "Tails, how could you?"

"Like it said!" Tails shouted back. "I didn't know better!"

"Why did I accept that contract in the first place?" Silver pondered to himself.

Rarity is getting frustrated over not being able to free the right arm that she's piloting out of the vines. "Get off us!" she yells as she summons a giant diamond construct and brings it through the vine. It didn't cut it, but it did knock it back, loosening its grip on the arm.

"Alright, this is getting insufferable," Median remarks. "Finish it off now!"

Agreeing to this, everyone yells out, "Delta Sword! Ultra Slash!"

The Grand Six brings its sword back, charging it up for a powerful strike. It then swings it at Plant Titan, cutting through the step and splitting it in two. With its source of water now no longer available, it withers as it screams and falls. The remains of Plant Titan then smash into the ground. It shows no sign of it coming back.

Everyone in the cockpits celebrated in Plant Titan's defeat as the rain disappears and the first signs of light begins to emerge.

Tails relaxed on his chair. "Phew, glad that mess is cleaned up," he said.

Scootaloo leans near Tails. "Yeah," she agrees. "Who knew that our enemies would trick us into completing the work for them?"

The Grand Six then prepares for the disassembling phase for storage until future use.


Normal life resumes as daylight pierces through the clouds. While everyone is minding their own business, Tails, Scootaloo, and Twilight are at the streets pulling weeds out of the ground.

"Ugg..." Tails groans as he pulls on a weed. "Not only did those seeds summon a legion of monstrous plants, they're also weeds."

Twilight gets up and wipes some sweat, exhausted from todays' work. "I just wish Mrs. Walrus wouldn't figure out," she hoped.

Just now, Mrs. Walrus arrives on the scene.

"You just had to open your mouth Twilight," Scootaloo remarks.

Mrs. Walrus gasps when she sees the ruined state of her garden. "Oh my goodness!" she gasps as she runs towards the ruins. "What happened to my indoor garden?" She turns around and finds weeds covering the streets. "And why is there weeds everywhere?"

Tails got up and approached Mrs. Walrus, feeling embarrassed to admit it. "Yeah, so I thought I was helping out humanity by modifying some seeds," he begins to explain. "Turns out, our enemy has tricked me into helping them advance their plans of...taking over the world using monstrous plants. And since this is my fault for not knowing, I get to pull the weeds that are the result from that accidental enemy assistance. Sorry about that."

Mrs. Walrus gasps again. "Oh, what travesty!" she cried. "Self-imposed punishment, oh the cruelty is limitless! I'm just going to help you get these weeds out, okay?"

Feeling like this was not her problem, Tails and Scootaloo face faulted to the ground. Twilight, remembering the reward that she was supposed to get, looks at Mrs. Walrus.

"Uhh, can I get my payment, please?" Twilight asks, ending the question with a nervous smile.

[End of Episode]


From the Author:

Little Shop of Horrors is perhaps one of the most iconic musical comedies ever released, where feeding plants results in monstrous creations that try to eat people. This episode's plot loosely follows the same concept, except the deal is not known until too late. Basically, poor Tails succeeded in evil without even trying or knowing it was a lesson on being evil. Great job Tails...

Well, if there's one thing that Tails and Scootaloo has to take away from this experience, is that they're one step closer to reaching adulthood.


Off the Rails

"Singing Plant Shop (of Horrors)"

"Little shop, little shop!" the plants sang. "Welcome to the Little Shop of Horrors..."

Tails, Scootaloo, and Twilight watch as the plants sang out a song...strangely enough.

"Well, this is going to freak out Rainbow Dash," Scootaloo remarks in a deadpan tone.

Tails looks freaked out by the sight of singing plants. "If there's anyone who will be freaked out by singing plants, it's Sonic," he added.

Twilight, meanwhile, goes for her communicator. "Umm, Sunset?" she asks. "Can you please come here and torch these singing plants? They're...freaky!"

The plants heard this and suddenly went into am uproar. Freaked out by this, the three of them ran out of the plant shop as fast as possible. Hopefully, no one comes in here while the plants are in an uproar. Hopefully.


Written by TheAPPstore

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