Episode 2

"Battle in the Skies"

It's the second day for the Skyrangers, and this time they're taking the battle to the skies for the first time. They were introduced to their planes, the components for their team robot: The Sky Icarus. The upgraded version of the original Jet Icarus.

Their first mission in the sky is to fight off against a suspicious group of jets that have been recently spotted. This will be the first time that the main planes, as well as the robots that they form, gets used and tested.

[Beginning of Episode]

It's the third week of January. A full week has passed since getting their Skyranger powers, and it doesn't look like they're returning to the airbase anytime soon. Unless they've gotten word from the founders of the agency behind defending the skies, they're stuck in school doing things a teenager their age would typically do.

In Pegasus High School, Spitfire and her classmates find themselves subjected to a history lesson on flight. This is not even a class dedicated to the history of flight. This is a class that dedicates itself into giving out information on the major events that happened over the last two hundred years. Coincidentally, their teacher happens to be Mr. Wright.

Mr. Wright scroll through several slides detailing the beginnings of aviation.

"So uh, in the late nineteenth century," Mr. Wright began, presenting a archived clipping of a newspaper with said article, "a writer working for New London Daily claimed that a flight capable machine would be possible in about a million years." He went into another slide. "Years later, during the first years entering into the twentieth century, two brothers who call themselves the Flight Brothers successfully built a flight capable machine in their workshop near Little Eagle. The did this by studying the studying the wing structure of birds. Of course, plans can't flap their wings, so they mostly study how gliding works." More slides are scrolled through. "After months of working, the tested their creation on a field near Little Eagle. The flight lasted ten seconds and their plane flew just twenty meters. This was the start of aviation. Over the years more tests have been conducted, each studying the physics of..."

While trying to pay attention and jot down notes, Soarin caught in the corner of his vision Spitfire going on a tangent and start sketching. Worried that she might get busted, he leans toward her. "Hey! Hey, Spitfire!" he whispers. "What are you doing? You're supposed to be listening!"

Spitfire put her pencil down and leans at Soarin. "After we formed that ranger team centered around planes, I started to get a little bit obsessed with planes," she answers. "Specifically, how they're built." She then shows him her first few sketches of things related to planes. They're all studying the structure of a plane. "See here? I drawn up a cross section of a wing."

Soarin is amazed at the diagrams Spitfire has drawn. "Whoa!" he said in awe. "You're thinking about designing planes? That's so cool! You'll live up to your name if you did that."

Spitfire smiles and giggles as she puts the paper down. "Thanks," she replies.

Mr. Wright notices that one of his students is not paying attention. "Miss, what are you doing?" he said, looking at Spitfire. He gets up from his desk and walks towards her.

Soarin and Fleetfoot gave Spitfire the look of disapproval. They knew that with Spitfire going on a tangent, she would get busted eventually. Spitfire tries hard to keep a casual look.

"Oh! I was...uh...doodling," Spitfire answers. "Uh...wings! Cross-section of wings. You know, since this part of the semester is about planes, might be a good idea to get a grips on how they are buil-."

"Okay, Miss Spitfire," Mr. Wright said, interrupting her rambling. "You seem to know a lot about planes and how they work. Really fitting, considering that you are named after one of the most famous aircraft ever used. Now tell us: How do planes fly and remain afloat?"

Spitfire gets surprised upon hearing his. Soarin and Fleetfoot as well, as they were not expecting this. Spitfire sweats as she hears what she is being told. "Do I really have to do this?" she asks.

Mr. Wright looks at the sketches Spitfire has made on her paper. He then looks back at her, seeing that she knows a lot about planes that the other classmates may not know about or have forgotten. "You seem very knowledgeable on the subject," he told her. "Please. Share us your knowledge."

Spitfire looks left and right, to her best friends sitting next to her. They seem to look conflicted on what to do, and so leaves the decision to herself. Spitfire, not wanting to disappoint her teacher, accepts the odder. "Fine," she said. She gets up, takes the paper with the sketches and walks towards the camera. Mr. Wright then switches to show the view of the camera, which is pointing right at the table. Spitfire places her paper down and explains to the audience how planes stay afloat in the air.

"Planes fly by generating lift in their wings," Spitfire opened the topic. "To do this, they must take advantage of physics in the fluid dynamics department. Air is a fluid, a substance that flows under an applied stress. To produce lift, the wings of an aircraft must be shaped in a way that deflects the air downward as it flows past it. This is where the areo-sorry about that." She feels a little embarassed when she nearly thinks she's in her mother's origin country. "Uh...this is where the airfoil comes in."

Everyone had a little giggle as they get the feeling that Spitfire speaks in the same language as them, but it's clear that she comes from somewhere else. Except for her friends.

"This is where the airfoil comes in," Spitfire continues. "It works by deflecting air downward to produce an upward force, thanks to the laws of physics. How much lift depends on the density of the surrounding air and the angle the wing is positioned reletive to the passing air. When the air passes through a wing, it gets split into two. One goes above and one that goes below. The air that goes above moves much faster than the air at the bottom."

Mr. Wright then looks at Spitfire, slowing nodding as he notes on how well she is doing. "Okay, but you just taught us how wings work and how lift is generated," he told her. "There is a lot more to planes than just that. Can you get to that part, Miss Spitfire?"

"Sure thing," Spitfire answers, giving an salute. "I've got you covered." She returns her focus into the audience and her paper. "Now there are four forces acting on the plane at once while in flight: Gravity, Lift, Thrust, and Drag. Lift counteracts gravity, so to remain afloat, there must be a net force of zero when it comes to these two forces. To do this, a plane must generate enough lift to counteract gravity. Now, planes going through air generate lift my means of creating a pressure difference. The lift increases when you increase the rate of air going though the wing. In this case, going faster will generate more lift. At a curtain point, the plane can't go any faster, so they can't generate more lift. At the same time, the drag and gravity forces have been canceled out, meaning that the plane will not accelerate."

A student scratches her head. "Wait, so how does a plane continue to fly so fast if it cannot accelerate?" she asks.

This nets her a nasty eye from Soarin, as he knows that his brother is a speedster and knows the difference between speed and accelerations. So does Fleetfoot, as she has a feeling that this girl misinterpreted something.

"You're mistaking acceleration for speed, miss," Spitfire reminded the student. "There is no net force acting on the plane at this point, so the plane will not accelerate in any direction, yet it is still going fast. So the plane will maintain mostly the same speed and velocity unless something happens that alters the forces. The power of physics, people."

The entire classroom then gives Spitfire an applaud, including Mr. Wright who is impressed at how much Spitfire knows when it comes to planes.

"Great job, Spitfire," Mr. Wright congratulated. "You are very knowledgeable about planes. Is your parents pilots by any chance?"

"Oh yeah," Spitfire answers. "My mum taught be all about planes when I was young."

"Good," Mr. Wright said as he wrote down notes. "Say, why don't you take over my role as a teacher for a day? Spread your knowledge and train yourself in the field of lecturing?"

Spitfire then had a shock when she realized that she is stuck continuing this lecture for the whole class period. She was not planning on doing this.

Diamond City is a city located to the east of Emerald City, across Columbia Lake and situated north of Sparkling Lake. Mirroring the country of Sierra to the south, Diamond City is the hub of software development. Many software companies base their headquarters on this city, including the studio that produces those frantic microgame compilations.

Diamond Secondary School is the primarily education institute of the city, being one of the first to be established. Unlike many high schools, this one focuses more on the second half of standard education, serving grades 7-12. This is due to the relatively small population of Diamond City compared to the rest of the major cities of Columbia, as it is about the same size as Emerald High School.

Until recently, this school has been known to be performing the worst when it comes to events involving other schools. They seem to lose all the time. That changed during most recent Columbia Games Juniors League, when three students managed to beat their greatest rival, Crystal Prep Academy. This was followed months later by those same three students joining forces with three other students from another school to from the latest ranger team.

Jet, Wave, and Storm were the ones who turned this school infamous for its constant losses into a decent institution.

Afternoon rolls around Diamond City, and students are pouring out of the doors. Among them are three students identified by their recently acquired uniforms.

Jet walks with his pals to the nearest park to hang out. As they walk, Jet has questions regarding his friends. "So, what job are you planning to get when you grow up?" he asks, looking at Wave. "Before joining Skyranger, I mean. I don't want to hear about planes now that we're a squadron centered around planes."

Wave groans, as the day felt like it dragged on for her. "I plan to be an engineer," she answers.

Jet sighs in relief. "Oh, thank goodness you didn't mention-" he began to say.

"For planes," Wave finishes, much to the chagrin of Jet. "An engineer and mechanic for planes. Just like my parents."

Jet looks at Wave and starts to notice a pattern developing among the current Skyrangers. "Oh," he said, hearing that Wave's parents happen to be flight mechanics. "Well, I'm planning to be a professional skateboarder when I grow up. That is, if those plane missions didn't keep on getting in my way."

"And I plan to be a wrestler!" Storm says, bringing his fists together.

Jet rolled his eyes. "Well, we're pilots now," he said. "I really hope that we are given time between missions to do our hobbies. I know it's been one week since we joined, but I felt like I didn't have enough time to do the hobbies I enjoyed."

"Maybe it's your fault that you keep finding that you do not have enough time," Wave theorizes.

Jet responds with a scoff.

Unexpectedly, their morphers on their wrist began to ring.

"Huh?" the trio said at the same time.

"Well, that was unexpected," Jet remarks. "It's been a week since that last rang."

The trio then presses the respond button on their morphers, answering the call.

"Hello?" they all spoke.

"Welcome back, Skyrangers," a man's voice said. "I hope you have a great time in school today. How's it like? My son must've really missed it during his stay in his base."

Jet looks at his friends. "It's Chuck," he said. "I can tell because the first person I can think of when he mentions his son is Sonic."

Wave leans closer to the speaker. "What do you want for us, Chuck?" she asks.

"Head over to Sapphire Shoes Air Base," Chuck ordered. "You have work to do today. And I want you there as soon as possible."

The call then ends, prompting Wave to stand up straight and gaze at her friends. "Heads up, boys," she said. "We're heading off to a train station."

Jet groans as he sees what's coming. "Great," he said. "Now we've got to head up to a ticket counter and purchase a ticket with the destination-"

"No need to do that, Jet," Wave reminded, going into her pockets in her uniform. "Instead, we can use these." She pulls out three cards and showed them off to her friends."

It's a train network subscriber card, just like the ones the Gemrangers and every subscribed citizen in the country owns.

Jet was baffled when he sees the cards. "What?"

"I found these in the mailbox yesterday, and look!" Wave explains. Then she points to the names on the cards. They correspond to their names. Jet Hawk, Wave Swallow, and Storm Tross. "They registered us as a subscriber to the train network. Now, we don't have to go on the painfully long process of buying a ticket and head straight towards the train station. Here's yours." She then hands them out to their respective owners.

Jet looks at this train card, his eyes sparking as he admires the gleam and usefulness. "Really?" he asks. "That's perfect for us if we were to travel this often for the duration of our service as rangers." He then puts it in his pocket, along with the other two. "Let's go! We have a train to catch!" He then runs off to the nearest station: Diamond Secondary School Station. Wave and Storm to off after him, hoping to get on the westbound train to a crossover station.

Meanwhile, at the same time near Pegasus High, the second half of the Skyrangers got their train cards and took a train bound for Sapphire Shores Station.

Jet and his friends have arrived at the gates of the nearby airbase first. Unlike last time, they aren't forcefully shoved in by a group of agents. This time, they're going to do this on their own. However, they still have to wait for Spitfire and the others to arrive, as they are currently not present. Wave attempted to hack her way in, while the boys lounged around doing nothing as they wait. They should've brought something along to keep them occupied.

Then, Jet saw Spitfire and her two friends, running towards them at a brisk pace. He then stands up. "There you are!" he said as they arrive. "We've been waiting for you."

Wave stopped trying to hack her way in and turns towards the arrived half of the ranger team she's currently in. Storm, meanwhile, snapped out of snoozing.

Spitfire and her friends pant for air. "Sorry about me not timing it right," she apologizes. "Sapphire Shoes is a bit closer to Diamond City than it is to Canterlot City. The distance to travel is a bit longer compared to over there." Then she got her breath and stoop up straight. "Well, second day of work, everyone. Let's head inside and see what's inside."

Spitfire took a few steps, only to encounter a locked gate. It's a bit tall and there's a scanner, but it doesn't look like the type of door that would budge when pushing on it. She turns to her friends and allies. "Uh, how do we get in?" she asks.

"Hack out way in?" Wave asks.

Soarin shot a shocked look at Wave. "What?" he gasps. "Are you saying that we should infiltrate our own base? What are you trying to do? Disrespect this team, yourself, and our mentors?"

Wave looked at the scanner once again and develops some second thoughts about hacking into a organization that she's a part of.

"The gate was open the last time we exited the grounds for this base," Jet said, pushing on it. "It's closed now, so how do we open it?"

The rangers thought about this for a moment.

"Rangers!" Firefly said, startling them and causing them to jump. "I've been expecting you to arrive here. Fine winter afternoon today. How was school?"

Spitfire pulled her communicator to her mouth. "Look, you don't need to ask them right now," she said. "Just let us in as we'll explain later. For now," she said as she turns toward the door, "how do we open the door?"

"Oh! Access is only allowed to authorized personnel," Firefly explains. "You know, employees and people who received special permission to access this place. This is a military base after all."

"Yeah, but how to we open this door?" Jet asks.

"See your morphers?" Firefly asks. "I included your personnel cards in that. Just let the scanner scan your morphers and it'll let you in."

Wave covers her face with her hand in embarrassment. "Aww, man..." she groans after hearing that. "All I have to do is scan my morpher and then we're in? Why did I bother trying to hack?"

Firefly was puzzled when one of the rangers tried to do something nefarious in order to get into her own base. "Excuse me, Wave?" she asks.

Jet shook her head, covering his face. "Okay," he said, grumbling. "Let's try it out." He walks up to the scanner next to the door and presented his morpher to the scanner. The scanner reads his morpher, stops, then lights up a green light.

"Access accepted," the computer said as the doors are unlocked and creek open. "Welcome, rangers."

The rangers saw a road leading up to the main entrance.

"So not only do she allow us teenagers access to a military base, there is also a line associated with this," Wave remarks.

Jet is starting to wonder why this would be implemented. "Weird," he said.

The Skyrangers then walk into the grounds of the base, with the door closing shut as soon as everyone was within the walls of the base.

The Skyrangers were then inside Firefly's office. Firefly was in her office as usual along with Chuck.

"Okay, rangers," Firefly began. "Welcome to your second visit to this place. You've been introduced to the basic stuff the last time you came here. Now it's time to get into the special rooms included in this airbase." She then gets to an idea that's been bugging her ever since this ranger team was founded. "Wanna tour?"

Spitfire nodded. "Yes, ma'am," she replies. "We would love a full tour of the place."

Jet looked at the mentors, crossing his arms. "Got anything for us rangers?" he asks.

Chuck went through the list of the features of this base, including layout and the various types of rooms and their locations. "There's a lot of standard military stuff in this base. There's the training room, an exercise room, living quarters-"

Suddenly, alarms began to ring off around the base, surprising and startling everyone.

Chuck groans when he hears the alarms go off at a bad time. "Oh, really?" he said.

Firefly pulls up a communicator at her office table and contacted some staff members. She contacted the radar operations, seeing what they've found. "Radar chief, what has been found?"

Radar Chief Blackbird contacted back to Firefly. "A group of planes is heading in our direction!" he said.

The rangers heard it all from the other side of the desk. "Oh, things are really escalating from our last visit," Spitfire remarks.

"They're not normal planes, ma'am," Blackbird added. "They're giants. Radar teams estimate that these planes are two times larger than normal fighter jets. No normal plane can stand up against them. We've got no choice."

Firefly placed down the communicator and looked at Chuck. They looked at each other and nodded in a agreement. It's time to put these to the test.

"What is it, Chuck?" Jet asks.

Chuck and Firefly looked at the rangers. "Skyrangers, get to the Zord Hanger" Chuck commanded. "Hurry! We've got little time to spare."

"What? This quickly?" Soarin complained. "But we've just got here!"

Spitfire rolled her eyes. "So this is what being a ranger is like," she aid. "Huh. Well, team. Let's see what our Zords are like!"

"The hangar is to your right," Firefly said, pointing to her left. Then the rangers started to run to their left. Firefly watched as they nearly entered the wrong corridor. "Your right!" The rangers then turned around and bolted to the doors on the opposite side.

The six rangers then find themselves in a room with six slides going out of it. Above them are color coded symbols, each depicting a different type of bird.

The team looks around the room hteir in, expecting to see some planes in there.

"Whoa!" Jet gasps, looking around. "Where are we now?"

Wave looks around and sees that it's nothing like she imagine it to be. "This doesn't look like a hanger to me," she said. "It's much too small."

"This is only the entrance," Firefly explains. "In front of you are slides that lead into the cockpit. They won't open unless you're in your ranger form, so transform now!"

"She called it, guys," Spitfire said. Then, the team gets to the proper stance. "It's morphing time!"

They then pressed a button located at the rear of their morphers, unfurling the wings and letting the head pop out. Then, swirling wings blow around them as the floor disappears. They glide around the air for a short period before the light breaks apart, revealing them in their ranger suits. A bird's head pops up from behind their head, opening its mouth as it disappears. Their helmets are then equipped, completing their ranger suit. Each helmet is designed after a type of bird.

The doors open and the rangers get ready to go into action.

"Alright!" Spitfire said. "Let's go, guys!"

Before they jump down the slides, Firefly gives an explanation about which Zord they are piloting. "Spitfire, you'll command the Red Eagle," she said. "Jet, you'll be piloting the Green Hawk. Soarin, the Blue Falcon. Wave, the Purple Swallow. Fleetfoot, the Cyan Swan. And finally Storm, you'll get the Yellow Albatross. Each of your Zords corresponds to your associate bird group."

Curious, Storm touches his helmet to see if that's true. Meanwhile, the others are getting pumped to jump into a Zord.

"Okay," Spitfire said, rubbing her hands. "Time to see what our new toys are like!"

The rangers then go into their respective slides, with the color of the symbol matching the color of their suit. They slide down a bit before going into the cockpit of the Zords.

According to many sources, the Red Eagle is a modified replica of the Red Hark. It's nearly identical, aside from the head being modeled after an eagle. The Green Hark is a miniatured version of the Red Eagle, except sporting two turbo engines on the bottom. They don't seem to be fully attached, as there's a gab between it and the main body.

Both the Blue Falcon and the Purple Swallow are the exact same size, only their wings look different and their heads are modeled after their respective birds. The same deal goes with the Cyan Swan and the Yellow Albatross. All four Zords are nearly identical to the original Jet Machines, except that the heads Blue Falcon and the Purple Swallow look around half the size of the main body.

The rangers slide down, entering the cockpit and landing squarely in the seats.

Jet nearly banged his head against the control wheel of his Zord. "Whoa!" he gasps. "That was a rough ride."

Storm hold on to his injured butt. "Oh, was that painful," hw whined. "You could've crushed my butt, you inconsiderate designers!"

Firefly and Chuck monitored the launch of the newly unveiled Sky Machines. "Here it goes," she said, pressing some buttons. "This will be their first test on the battlefield. I really hope this doesn't fail. We have over a hundred years of experience with dogfights." She adjusts her microphone and configures it to communicate with the rangers. "Well, rangers. I will you a safe travel, and battle. Good luck."

The shutters of the hangar open, shining light into the Sky Machines. One by one, each of the Sky Machines rolled out into the runway, and one by one they each speed up for takeoff.

The planes build up speed until they can take off.

"Entering V1 speed," the voice in the plane announced. "Takeoff can no longer be aborted."

"Yes, I know!" Spitfire yelled. "This isn't a passenger jet, this is a private battle jet! Stop acting like I have anyone else on board this plane!"

One by one, the Sky Machines got into the air, going into formation as they hovered a bit above the buildings.

Firefly contacted the rangers to give them brief instructions about controlling their Sky Machines. "Alright, rangers," she said. "You know the basic controls. The control wheel controls pitch and roll. Push it forward to pitch down, back to pitch up. Turn it like a steering wheel to control roll. And lastly, the foot panels control yaw. Push one foot forward, and your plane will turn in the corresponding direction. For example, push your right foot in to alter your yaw direction to your left. Oh, and those buttons on your control stick? That controls your weapons. As long as you hold on to them, you'll keep on firing. Now, got that?"

The entire team responded by talking to the helmet's included microphones while giving a salute. "Yes, ma'am," they said.

Spitfire then looks ahead and spotted several planes heading towards them. "Look out!" she warns. "Enemy planes ahead!"

The Sky Machines break formation as they go in various directions. The enemy planes responded by going after them.

Jet peeked over the rear view mirror and spotted an enemy plane tailing him. "There's a plane behind me!" he warns the others.

"Got your back!" Wave assures as she presses the buttons, firing off a string of ray pellets.

Many ray pellets flew right by the enemy planes. However, some managed to land a hit on the outer plating. One of the more massive planes take notice. "They DARE to fight us?" he asks. "What a bunch of brats. Don't let these rangers slow you down, my minions. Return fire!"

The enemy plane responded by firing back at Jet.

Jet watches as laser rays flew past his plane. His plane also shook when it got hit. "So you're doing this the hard way?" he said, lifting himself up. "Fine. Let's see how you do against a group of amateur pilots!" He then pitched his plane up, to the point where he's going in the opposite direction of where he was once going before rolling around with the bottom down. Then, he retaliated by firing back at the enemy plane that was chasing him. This brought down the enemy plane, sending it crashing into the ground below.

"One down!" Spitfire reported. "Nice job, Jet."

"Appreciate it," Jet responded and thanked. Then he notices a plane that is heading straight for hers. "Look out, Spitfire!"

Spitfire turned her head to her right and saw a plane that is heading towards her. Panicking, she tried to steer away, only for the cockpit to be shaken because she slammed her massive plane into the small enemy plane.

"Fool!" the massive plane berated his minion. "Why did you fly straight toward her?"

Meanwhile, everyone else is enjoying taking down the enemy planes.

"Hahaha!" Fleetfoot said happily as she saw herself shooting down another enemy plane. "This is fun!"

"You got that right," Soarin said. "I'm really enjoying being a ranger!"

"This shall be an easy victory for us!" Storm declares.

"Yeah!" Wave agrees. "For a group who has fought for thousands of years, they sure pale against us!"

The massive plane watched as his entire squad of minions was shot down by a bunch of rookies. "Grr!" he growls. "What a bunch of useless clumps. Fine! If you insist! Activating embiggening fuel pumps!"

In the robot's internal systems, there was a tank filled of an embiggening substance. Whenever ingested, they turn the consumer into a giant, towering over everyone including the rangers. This appears to be similar to jet fuel, only activating once the substance reaches the correct location. It seems that these robots were modified to take advantage of this. Once the embiggening substance reaches the proper system, the robot got out of his plane mode and went into humanoid robot mode.

Firefly and everyone inside the building watched as they witness a giant robot right there next to their base. "What the-?" Firefly gasps. "He's getting bigger?"

Spitfire watched from her cockpit the massive robot standing below her. "What is that?" she asks.

"It looks like it grew itself!" Jet exclaims.

"Try to bring me down, rangers!" the robot shouted as he swings his arms to try to slap them off the sky.

The team spent several moments trying to set close to fire off some ray pellets. But every time they do, the robot would just try and slap them away. They're a bit big compared to him, almost the size of a limb.

Spitfire got a bit worried. Everything she and her team tries is failing. She needs another option. She contacts the nearby airbase to find answers. "Firefly, what do we do?" she asks.

Firefly is stunned to see the giant robot stomping around trying to slap the Sky Machines out of the sky. She can't believe that this is happening. Once she starts receiving calls from the rangers, she snaps and contacts them back. "Activate Sky Icarus Mode now."

The entire team was surprised to hear this. "What? Sky Icarus?"

Chuck leans towards the microphone and speaks to it. "It's your team's Megazord, alright?" he answers. "Just locate the combine button and you're all set."

Jet looks around, trying to find the button he was looking for. "Where is it?" he asks, looking around his control panel. Among the sea of buttons is a large button with a humanoid robot on it. "This one?" he asks as he, along with the rest of the team, presses it. Then he grips the control wheel with both of his hands. "Okay, so what happens now?"

That's when something came into Firefly's mind. "Oh! I forgot to tell you!" she said. "These machines implement an ancient technology. Babylonian Technology."

The entire team, Jet, Wave, and Storm especially, were stunned to hear that this incorporates technology invented by the ancients. For Jet, Wave, and Storm, that refers to their ancestor's technology. "Wait, what?" they all ask.

Suddenly, a light flashes above them as they felt as if they're whisked away into another place. "Whoa!" they scream as they disappears from their seats.

The robot watches as these seemingly large planes fly around him, coming into come form of formation. "What are you doing here, anyway?" he asks. "Fly around me like some freakishly large flies?"

The Red Eagle Zord retracts its wings. The head and back open up via a panel. The head flips over to under the panel, and a head gets taken out. Then the panel closes, leaving the head outside. The Green Hawk Zord did a similar thing, moving its head to above the main body as it retracts its wings. Two tunnels then turn downward, forming the upper legs. It then attaches to the bottom of the Red Eagle, where the chest is shown.

The Blue Falcon and the Purple Swallow detach themselves from their wings, which combine together to form a shield. The shield then flies away, leaving the two planes to move the cockpit into the front half of the plane. As it rotates, it also reveals a fist. A small separation happens at the middle, revealing the elbow. The two newly formed arms then attach themselves to the sides of the Red Eagle where the shoulders would be.

Finally, the Cyan Swan and the Yellow Albatross fold their wings in and move the cockpit into the body. The front half then moves so that the rest of the body is laying on top of it. The rudder folds down and it rotates. The lower thigh then appears from behind, and they attach to the upper thigh that the Green Hawk has created.

With everything assembled, the team's combining robot is completed. This is the Sky Icarus Megazord, the next version of the original Jet Icarus. Its shield attaches itself to the back of the robot, in case the rangers needed it.

The rangers materializes into seats, with some nearly slamming their heads onto the control wheel.

Storm bonks his head onto one, however. He gets up, holding his bruised forehead. "Oh..." he groans.

Spitfire is surprised to find herself outside of her cockpit and into a shared one. "Whoa!" she gasps. Then she looks around at her fellow rangers. "Where are we?"

Soarin leans over to get a better look outside the window. The ground looks pretty far from here. "Looks like we're in the head," he answers.

"The head?" Jet asks as he leans over. He also saw that the ground looks lower than usual even though they are not flying. "Well, that explains the nice view, even when we're not moving."

The giant robot was startled when he saw six machines transforming and combining to create a robot that matches him in size. He remembers this from his training. "Oh dear...I see where this is going," he said. Then he sees that this robot has no visible weapons compared to the usual combining robots. "Hey, where's your sword?" he asks. "Or your blaster? Or anything for that matter. Hey, got anything in store over there?"

Spitfire takes some time to adjust herself to the new controls. "Okay team," she said. "Let's get used to the controls." She pulls on the wheel.

Shy Icarus responds by moving up to the robot and delivering a punch.

The robot stumbles back from the impact. "Oh, so this is a fist fight?" he asks. "Fine. You do you. No weapons allowed!" He then rushes at the Sky Icarus.

"How about some kicks?" Soarin asks as he jiggles his control stick.

The Sky Icarus lifted its right knee and hits the robot with that. It then followed it up with a foot stamped onto the chest. The robot is sent stumbling as he got hit. Not giving up, the robot decides to ram the Sky Icarus.

"Ahh!" the entire team yelps as the Sky Icarus stumbles backwards as it got hit.

Spitfire panted as she regains her grounding. "Okay guys. Stay calm!" she told them. "We can't lose our guard when the cockpit shakes."

Angered, Jet pushes and pulls on the control wheel. "And this is retaliation for hitting us in the chest!' he yells. The Sky Icarus then slaps the robot in the head, sending it spinning.

"Ahh!" the robot screams. "My head rotational joint!" He then grabs it, readjusts it so that it is facing forward, then shoves the Sky Icarus closer to the airbase.

Firefly watches as the Sky Icarus gets closer to the base. She yells through her communicator. "You're getting dangerously close to the base," she warns. "Lure the enemy away to minimize damage."

"Obviously!" Jet yelled back.

The Sky Icarus pushed the robot back then runs past him away from the base.

"Come over here!" Jet yelled, moving the robot so that it performs the appropriate gesture.

"No, you come over here!" the robot insisted. "Get over hear and fight me like the little rangers that you are and not the cowards that you are not."

"No, you get over here!" Jet yells again. "If you want a fight, then come where the fight is."

The robot huffs and growls as he felt taunted to come to the Sky Icarus. "Fine. If you insist," he said before pointing his arm at the rangers. "And it looks like I'll have to bend the rules a bit because of this!" He then fires off several laser blasts at the Sky Icarus, knocking them back a little.

The cockpit shakes as the Sky Icarus gets hit.

"No fair!" Spitfire complained. "He promised no weapons other our body parts are permitted!"

The Sky Icarus sidesteps away from another barrage of attacks.

"If he bends the rules, we'd better do the same!" Fleetfoot said.

"But how?" Storm asks. "We've got nothing else!"

Spitfire looks at the keypad in front of her. It sounds like it has the key to solve their problem. She gets an idea in her head. "Hmm...are the designers really that clever?" she asks herself. Then she taps the code into the keypad. 1591.

Suddenly, it gets a sword and shield.

"Whoa!" Everyone else gasped in surprise.

"We've got a sword!" Jet exclaims.

"Is this the result of Babylonian technology?" Wave asks.

The Sky Icarus spins its sword around between its fingers.

"Hey, is that a sword?" the robot asks, pointing to the new weapon the Sky Icarus now holds. "If you're seriously thinking of using that, then I'm sorry, but this match is settled. You brought a sword to a gunfight. Take this as punishment!" He fire off another string of laser blasts.

"Look out!" Firefly warned.

Reacting to this, the Sky Icarus blocked the attack with its sword. All of the laser blasts were dissipated by the sword.

"What? The sword negated my blasts?" the robot gasps in shock.

The rangers take a moment to see what they did. Then, they look at the robot.

Spitfire spins her arm around, grabbing on to her shoulder with her other hand. "Looks like we're got ourselves a winning shot," she said. Then she resumes gripping on her control wheel. "Let's do this, everyone!" Then, she pushes it forward.

The Sky Icarus steps up to the robot and slashes away, knocking it away from the base. It then continues on. The robot tries to counter by shooting at it, but it negated those shots by holding up its shield. Then it gets up to the robot and gets back to work. A slice at the neck, a shield bump at the chest, and a kick to the legs.

Eventually, the robot stumbled back with his outer coating destroyed. He looks at his exposed circuits. "Now look at what you've done!" he yells. "You're going to pay for this!"

The Sky Icarus prepares for another strike, only to notice that its sword is glowing.

"Whoa!" Spitfire gasps. "The sword is getting a huge power surge!"

"Wha-? No!" the robot shrieks. "That doesn't look good! Abort! Abort! Activate shrinkage juice pumps now!" Then he gets a response from his master. "What do you mean that doesn't exist?"

"Alright," Jet said, growing a smirk as he grips on his control sticks tighter. "Time for the finisher!"

"Sky Icarus Sword!" everyone shouted. "Sky Strike!"

The Sky Icarus raised its sword skyward, gathering energy from the air, then charges forward holding the strike.

The robot looks ahead at his impending doom. "Huh?"

The Sky Icarus passes by the robot, slicing it in the process.

"Gahhhh!" the robot screams as explosions go all around him. "Megatron! You've prepared poorly!" He then fell to the ground, shrinking into a wrecked enemy plane in a giant explosion.

"Yeah!" everyone cheers.

"Alright! We did it!" Soarin cheered.

Firefly, Chuck, and the rest of the employees applauded the rangers for their work. "Great job, rangers," Firefly congratulated. "First robot defeated in your Megazord! Good thing that that robot didn't crash land in a populated area."

The Sky Icarus flexes in its position, showing off its impressive power.

"Marvelous work there, rangers," Firefly congratulated. "You know, I'm starting to think that this could be a possible part time job since you're just going around defending our people from these dangerous threats. Sure, this country has my daughter's team."

"And my son's," Chuck added. "But, that team of sixteen over there simply won't be enough. This new threat might be considered too much for them."

Firefly looks in the direction of where the rangers were sent off to after the destruction of their schools. She sighs as she looks to the mountains to the northeast. "They already have two major groups fighting against them. What, do you really think a third would be enough for a team like that?"

"They have sixteen rangers!" Wave pointed out. "Wouldn't three evil teams be fitting?"

"Considering the frequency of these attacks, I think another team might be needed to take care of these threats," Soarin said. "After all, these rangers have enough on their plate. They don't need more villains."

"Hey, just because they're large doesn't mean that three evil teams would be fitting for them," Fleetfoot said.

"I guess that means we're here to spread the load," Jet remarks. "Right?"

Spitfire pounded on her palm with her fist, empathizing every point she made. "Twenty-two total rangers," she said, brining her fist down on her palm. "Three evil teams. And one attack every few days. Yeah, we're really needed to give those guys a break."

"Alright, Skyrangers," Firefly declares. "Enough talking. You may return home now. Have a break for now. I will contact you for when there's another danger in the way. See you next time."

The rangers then wave goodbye.

"Bye, Firefly!" everyone said as they head out the door. "Bye, Chuck!"

Firefly and Chuck waved goodbye to everyone as well.

"Bye, Skyrangers," Chuck said. "Goodbye, Soarin. May we meet again!"

Megatron got furious when he heard that his soldier who he most recently sent out was defeated by a group of six teenagers who have barely any piloting experience.

"We have thousands of years worth of fighting experience," Megatron told everyone in the room. "We have developed powerful weaponry that proved effective against the Autobots. We even have an army ready to invade this planet. And yet, we're taken down by a team of measly kids."

Starscream, the advisor and second in command who Megatron always keeps a close eye on, leans closer to him. "I told you that going into this world was a bad idea," he said.

Megatron suddenly shot a intimidating glare at Starscream. "Silence, Starscream!" he shouted. "I've got my eye on you." Then he turns back to the soldiers who are there. "If this is what fighting in this world is like, then I must eliminate the rangers now! As soon as we can! Then, I will have no opposition when it comes to expanding my empire!"

"But, what about the others?" Starscream asks.

"As long as we form a stable alliance, we should be fine," Megatron assures everyone. Then he gazes at Starscream. "I'd better not have any backstabbers in my team."

Starscream pretended that he did not know what Megatron is talking about. "What?" he asks in a confused tone.

One of the robots stepped forward, expressing concern of the plan. "So. if we're going to attack the rangers, which team should we go for?" he asks.

Megatron smirks as he knew which of the two ranger teams is the easier target. "Heh," he said. "The less experienced one."

[End of Episode]

From the Author:

You can tell that this is a spiritual successor to Jetman, as nearly every aspect aside from the villains is based on something from that season. From the suits to the morpher to the main robot, these are one of many ties to Jetman featured on this series.

This series has got to be one of the hardest series for me to produce. While I am knowledgeable on characters from Sonic the Hedgehog and My Little Pony, I do not know the Transformers characters very well. I know Megatron is a charismatic leader and Starscream always has his comrades watching him carefully, but beyond these two most iconic of the Decepticons, that's it out of all of this faction. Considering that Transformers characters do not act the same across continuities, you may find that the Decepticons used are a bit different from their portrayal from their source material.

Notice that I only mentioned Decepticons. I know plenty about the Autobots and that they won't be joining along to fight their enemies.

Written by TheAPPstore

Sonic the Hedgehog characters property of Sega

My Little Pony and Transformers characters property of Hasbro

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

Spiritual successor of Jetman (Super Sentai Season 15)