Episode 3

"Immediate Danger"

Wake up, go to school, travel to the base, save the day. That's the lifestyle the Skyrangers were expecting to have during their service as rangers. While impractical due to their base being far out from their homes, at least they can tolerate the travel times.

Then someone in the Decepticons has the bright idea of directly attacking the schools in which these rangers are going to, reigniting fears of another school destruction just weeks after Emerald and Canterlot High has been destroyed. As a result, their mentors realized that this lifestyle is not optimal like the other ranger teams made it look, so they are forced to repeat what was done for the Gemrangers/Sonic Rainbooms: move their homes into the base.

[Beginning of Episode]

"The first planes of war were rolled out during the First World War at the beginning of the twentieth century," Mr. Wright said, going through another slideshow. "They were...primitive to say the least. They were powered by piston engines, and we all know how reliable they can be. They frequently failed during battles, which brought down many planes in a lot of battles. Piston engine failures were common back in the early days of aviation. Jet engines are so much more reliable than those piston engines. For every jet engine failure, there are over a hundred piston engine failures. Those early planes were notorious for their unreliability back in the day."

Soarin suddenly hears a faint noise coming from outside. It sounds like an airplane. "What was that?" he asks.

Suddenly, explosions go off on top of the building. Students shriek and hides under the table as the room shakes and debris begins to fall from the ceiling.

Mr. Wright realizes that this is happening again. "Oh no, not this again!" he yells. "I thought we had it bad enough when we lost two schools on the same day! All because the rangers attend these schools. I smell rangers in this room."

Spitfire got panicked when she hears this from her teacher. "Whoa there, Mr. Wright!" she yells. "Are you sure that you yourself is a monster? Are you...out to get us?"

"No, Miss Spitfire," Mr. Wright said, looking at Spitfire. "I am no monster. I'm pretty sure that whoever is attacking his school is out for you. Now go! Evacuate this building now!"

Spitfire opened her mouth to speak. "But Mr. Wright-" she began.

"Don't you dare interrupt me!" Mr. Wright shouted again. "Go! Get out of here! As fast as you can!"

Spitfire, Soarin, and Fleetfoot got out of their hiding place. Suddenly, the building shook again as explosions to off. Debris falls once again and the lights are going out. Everyone in the room shrieks once again.

Up above the school, several planes made several flybys, dropping bombs to the school below in an attempt to defeat the rangers.

"Hahaha!" one of them, the largest out of all of them, laughs. "Where are you, rangers?" he asks. "You know you can't hide from me forever!"

Spitfire then realizes that should they stay here, Pegasus High would be demolished, just like Emerald High School and Canterlot High School from just one month ago. This would reignite fears of another school containing rangers being attacked again, as the event itself was very recent and fresh in the public's eye. To prevent further damage, Spitfire looked at her friends. "Let's go!" she yells. Then, the three members of the Skyrangers evacuated the building.

Suddenly, the fire alarm goes off, startling everyone even more.

"Ignore the fire alarm, everyone," Mr. Wright reminded. "It's too dangerous to evacuate the building."

"But didn't you allow three of your students to get out?" one of the students asks.

"If they escape, the attacks will follow them," Mr. Wright explains, "thus leaving this building safe. Right now, it's too dangerous to get out. We'll have to wait until we get the call to leave from the principal."

In Diamond Secondary School, Jet and his friends were taking notes for an upcoming assessment when suddenly, the teacher's phone began to go off.

The teacher went up to answer it. "Hello?" she calls. Then she gets a horrifying response. "What? Mr. Wright from Pegasus High? What the-your school is under attack?"

Suddenly, the fire alarm goes off in the building, prompting everyone to get up.

"What now?" Wave asks. "Did somebody in the kitchen burnt something?"

Jet looks out the window and sees several approaching planes. They look dangerously close to the ground. "Uhh, I think the fire alarm was for a different reason," he said with wide, shocked eyes.

Wave and Storm turned towards the windows and sees what Jet is seeing.

"Oh no..." Wave gasps, covering her mouth with her hands. "Why?"

They witness a bomb being dropped from the passing plane, coming towards them. Several students run away from the window, but for some it was too late. The bomb impacted the window and exploded, shattering the nearby windows and creating a hole in the wall. Jet and his friends braced themselves for the resulting wind and dust.

Everyone shrieks and ducks under a desk, grapping onto the legs. Except for Jet, Wave, and Storm.

"Okay, this is getting dangerous real quickly," Storm admits.

"We're not even two weeks into being a ranger," Wave complained. "And already, this is happening?!"

Jet got furious that things escalated this quickly. They were expecting a normal life with these ranger missions sprinkled in between. Now, even staying in school might be too dangerous. In a fit of rage, he stomps his feet on the ground. "Forget this! I'm outta here!" he yells in a shrill voice. Then he starts running towards the hole in the wall before jumping out of it.

Wave reached out to her friends. "Jet!" she cries. Then she and Storm went after Jet, also jumping out of the resulting hole.

The room shakes again as explosions go off in another part of the school.

"Now stay calm, everyone," the teacher attacks will go away. "The rangers have escaped, so the attacks will surely follow them."

"Why?" a student asks.

"Whoever's attacking this school must be after the rangers," the teacher answers.

"What?" another student gasped, shocked to hear this happening again. "Those bloodthirsty enemies!"

Jet and his friends ran down the grounds of Diamond Secondary School. They look behind them at the planes as they continue to drop bombs at te school.

Wave breathes rapidly as she gasps for air. "Where should we go, Jet?" she asks.

Jet looked at his friends. "Our airbase is the safest place we can hide," he said in between breaths. "Let's hop on a train station and get to Sapphire Shores!"

"On it!" Storm replies.

The trio then heads off towards the nearest station.

One of the planes noticed that their targets are escaping.

"Hey! They're getting away!" one of the planes alerted.

"After them!" the other ordered.

The planes then head off towards the station.

The Sonic Rainbooms, also known as the Gemrangers, are perhaps the most well known ranger team in Columbia, possibly being the most famous ranger team in the entire Prism World. The huge size of the team coupled with their actions with and without their ranger powers have made this team very well known. This comes from the fact that this was once two teams that merged together.

The team consists of sixteen members, each paired up on what the two members have in common. There's the Speedy Leaders, the Smart Co-leaders, the Strong Muscles, the Wacky Duo, the Rose-Haired Girls, the White Supporters, the Gold-Eyed Boys, and the Dark Rangers. The Dark Rangers, consisting of Sunset and Shadow, are the most recent addition to the team. Shortly after their arrival, however, their schools are destroyed and they are escorted to a base in the mountains next to a village.

It's been a while since Firefly and Chuck has seen their children in person. They wish they can go and visit them, but their job is getting in their way. However, they don't have to wait very long until they see them again.

Morning transitions into noon as alarms blare off at the Columbian Ranger Base, where the Gemrangers are currently residing.

"Rangers!" Median, the team's mentor, notified. "We've gotten two attacks near Canterlot City and Diamond City!"

Sonic and Rainbow went into the command center, seeing two alerts blinking near two major cities. One is to the northwest of their current location, the other is to the southwest.

"Well, this is something I'd like to see," Sonic remarks. "Two attacks in two different places at the same time. And it's near our homes! How perfect..."

Rainbow clutched her fist. She's gotten a call from her mom earlier this week that their new allies reside in these two cities. "If that new ranger team that just showed up is under attack-" she began. Then she snaps out of it and decides to take immediate action. "Fine, let's help them out!"

The two ran off and got to the small garage, where their bikes are in, to their relief. They combine together, hop on, then speeded off westward towards the warning signals.

"Sonic!" Rainbow yelled. "You go south! I'll head north!"

"Deal!" Sonic agrees. "Let's split up!"

Their bikes then separate into individual bikes, where they speed off in different directions. Rainbow heads northwest to help out Spitfire and her friends, while Sonic heads southwest to deal with the enemies attacking Jet and his friends.

In a record smashing moment, this is the fastest time between a ranger team's establishment and an older team jumping in to help them out. Though only two members of the older team jumps into help and the newer team has performed only a few missions, this is still a record.

Spitfire, Soarin, and Fleetfoot are in a panic. Their school has been recently attacked and they're in a rush to catch the next train. They enter Pegasus Hill Station, the closest one to their homes.

Spitfire saw the lights blinking as the doors were about to close. She holds her arm out. "Hold the train!" she yells.

The train doors remain open for a few more moments, allowing Spitfire and her friends to hop in. Shortly after arrival, the doors close and the train departs southward.

One office worker who was on the train noticed that there are three teenagers who are having a seat, breathing heavily from running here. "Aren't you supposed to be at school?" he asks.

"The day was...canceled early...because some planes decided...to attack the school...we were attending," Soarin said, gasping for air.

The office worker is stunned to hear this, almost to the point of nearly falling down. "What?" he gasped as everyone around the rangers turn to look at them. "That's horrible! It's a month since Emerald and Canterlot High School has been destroyed. Is...is this happening again?"

Everyone in the train starts to develop worried and panicked looks.

To make sure they're clear, Fleetfoot decides to take a look outside. From the window, she can see those exact same planes heading towards them. "Oh dear," she said. "We've got company."

Spitfire and Soarin turn around to look outside the train. "What did you say?"

"There!" one of the planes pointed out. "They're getting away! Blast that train!"

The planes fly over the train and resumes dropping bombs on the train. They explode around the train, shaking the cars up and frightening everyone inside.

People are getting really concerned about of they are able to make it. Spitfire stands up to assure everyone. "Don't worry!" she said. "It'll be a while between attacks. In order to hit us, they have to drop bombs on us. And since they're faster than us, they have to loop around to get another chance."

This does not help is keeping everyone calm.

"I don't like the idea of being attacked once a minute from the same two guys," a woman cried.

Suddenly, a girl with prismatic hair riding on a flying bike showed up right next to the rangers.

"Hey Spitfire!" the girl called, catching everyone's attention. "Long time no see!"

Everyone was surprised to see one of the other rangers coming in to help out an ally.

Spitfire couldn't believe her eyes. "Rainbow?" she asks.

"She's here!" Soarin said, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

Rainbow smiled at her new allies. "So, I've heard that you've got trouble heading your way, right?" she asks. Before Spitfire could answer, Rainbow spotted the same planes flying overhead. "Don't worry. I can deal with them!" She then lifts her bike up to the speeding planes.

Spitfire, Soarin, and Fleetfoot watched as Rainbow tackled the attacking planes head on. Then they look at each other.

"You think she can handle this all by herself?" Fleetfoot asks.

One of the planes noticed one of the more experienced rangers and starts panicking. "Uh oh. We've got company!" he screams.

Rainbow transforms into her ranger form and pulls her sword out. "Hey! Get your hands off my friends down there!" she yells. Then she speeds up her bike to catch up with the planes and then begins to attack them.

Jet and his friends have reached Knothole Station, their next destination. Another train is leaving from here going northbound to Sapphire Shores shortly. As soon as the doors open, the trio runs off the train, pushing everyone they gets in their way aside.

"If this is what being a ranger looks like, then I regret accepting to be a part of this team," Jet said.

As they run, an explosion goes off at the roof of the station, sending debris crashing down into the ground below. People shrieked as the roof begins to fall apart. However, the trio did not flinch at the sound of the explosion. They managed to get on the train without much problems, except that they're sweating and in a panic despite them looking calm.

The train leaves with several passengers stranded outside due to the explosion interrupting them. They arrived a few seconds too late.

"Okay. I'll admit it," Wave said. "Being a ranger is way tougher than we thought. Maybe because we've never experienced what being a ranger is like until now."

Outside, Storm catches a glimpse of a blue blur speeding pass them. Then the blur returns, only to be replaced with a boy with spiky blue hair riding on a bike. Almost immediately, he recognized who that is. "Look! Over there!" he points out. "It's-"

Sonic smiles as he saluted to his allies. "Hey, Jet!" he said. "Long time no see!"

Jet pressed is face against the window as he saw a familiar face coming back, this time to help him and his teammates in a ranger situation. "Sonic?" he asks.

"He's here?" Wave asks.

Sonic opened his mouth, but then he catches several planes going over the train. Knowing that they are enemies (because what kind of military trooper would commit acts of terrorism on the people they're supposed to protect and serve?) he places his attention on them. "Hold on, you three!" he told them. "Let me deal with those planes that are attacking you!" He then lifted his bike up and transformed into his ranger mode. Then he speeds up, catching up to the attacking planes.

As Sonic flies near the planes. one of the robots looks over and sees an older ranger right there. "What?" he gasped. "But I thought more experienced rangers wouldn't be bothered to help out newer ones! What's up with rangers these days?"

Meanwhile, Sonic got a bit distracted over the fact that no one is piloting them. "No pilots?" he asks. "So you must be robots then." He then smirks as he prepares his arm. "Well, I've dealt with robots plenty of times before in the past few months." He then pulls out his sword. "Let me show you what I'm made of!"

One of the other planes looks over and sees his ally under attack by a more experienced ranger. "What the-?" he gasps.

The planes shakes as it gets hit. "Hey! Hands off!" he cries.

Jet clutched his fist as he saw a battle taking place above his head. "I really hope he succeeds," he said. "If it didn't that would suck for both him and us."

"Breaking news this morning," a reporter announced. "Minutes ago, two schools have been attacked by a group of mysterious planes that flew over the two schools and dropped bombs on them. Several sections of the school has been damaged an up in flames. In the wake of the destruction of two schools one month ago, this has people terrified about the dangers rangers bring into their everyday lives. Attacks on them could come in anytime and from anywhere. We'll update you with the latest information as soon as school officials contacted us. See you in a few minutes."

The radio is then turned off.

Firefly and Chuck were listening to the news on the radio, as they've gotten reports from several agents that something terrible has happened to the schools the rangers attend.

Firefly was shocked. "Oh my goodness," she said. "And I thought my daughter and her friends had it bad when Canterlot High was demolished."

"Me too," Chuck replies. "Except it effects my son and his friends."

One of the agents stepped up to the two founders. "Just what are the two schools that got attacked?" he asked.

Firefly wonders of this agent has gotten the memo from the other agents. She recalls the addresses of the houses she sent an invitation to. "I think there are Pegasus High, where some of Canterlot High's student were transferred to, and Diamond Secondary School," she answers. "Spitfire was one of those transferred students, right? If these two schools are the ones that got attacked, they might've escaped and are on their way here."

"Why don't you check?" Chuck asks.

Firefly nodded and she grabs her communicator. She holds it near her mouth and speaks to it. "Skyrangers! Do you copy?" she asks. "Respond to me if you hear this message."

No response.

"So?" Chuck asks.

Disappointed, Firefly sets her communicator down. "I think they're a bit to scared to respond," she said.

Inside the southbound train heading from Canterlot City to Sapphire Shores, Spitfire and her friends are frying very hard to keep everyone calm. Several explosions have happened around the train, almost derailing it. Now everyone is in a bit of an uproar in response to these threatening attacks. Everyone is running around, pounding on the doors, begging the train to stop, and holding on to their lives.

"Okay!" Spitfire roars. "Just calm down, okay? They are targeting us!"

"Yeah, but we're in their way!" a passenger complained. "We'll get hurt in their attempts of getting you."

"Besides," another added, "there's a high chance of this train being derailed because of the explosions going on around us. You're much better off hopping on a personal vehicle and hitting the road."

"It's a long drive from Canterlot City to Sapphire Shores," Soarin complained. "It'll be nearly an hour before we arrive there. Do you guys really expect us to keep our cool for an hour straight?"

"Don't forget traffic," Fleetfoot added. "If we slowed down even once, we're doomed. At least on the train, we are assured that there's plenty of space between the trains. they are schedule in a way that avoids time conflicts and collisions."

While everyone in the train is arguing with the rangers over their decision to use the train, Rainbow continues to fight the enemy planes, slicing at the wings in hopes of bringing them down.

One of the planes got infuriated when he saw his minions being brought down by a single girl who's completely exposed. "Would you stop it, girl?" he asks.

Rainbow grunted as she slices the plane with her sword. "No!" she yelled. "I will not! Let you! Take down! My! Allies!" With each pause, she slashes and raises her voice higher. Upon dealing the final strike, the left wing comes apart and the plane begins to veer left.

"Ahh! I'm going down!" the robot screams. Then it crashes down at the fields next to the tracks.

After downing one enemy planes, Rainbow turns to the other planes. "Who's next?" she asks, smirking at the other planes she's about to down.

One of the planes got frustrated over this veteran ranger coming in and defeating one of his minions with ease. "Forget those new rangers," he said. "After that veteran!"

The planes diverted their attention to Rainbow. Seeing that they are after new now, Rainbow lures them away from the train, still going south.

Just outside the city of Sapphire Shores, the northbound train from Emerald City comes speeding in. It won't be long before the rangers arrive at their destination.

"How much further until we reach Sapphire Shores?" Jet asks.

Wave looks outside to try to find a good reference point to calculate the distance remaining.

Suddenly, the voice in the train announces to its passengers, "Next stop: Sapphire Shores Station. Doors opening to the left. Arrive in two minutes."

Jet lets out a sigh of relief after he heard that. "Good," he said. "We just need to hold on a little bit longer."

Storm looks outside to the left and spotted the enemy planes going away from them, chasing after Sonic towards the airbase in the distance. "Wait, what are they doing?" he asks.

The planes flare up their circuits as they try to catch up with Sonic. "You're not getting away, ranger!"

Sonic looks back and taunted the planes going after him. "Try to catch me now!" he said. "Go ahead. Just try!"

The train continued onwards to Sapphire Shores Station as the enemy planes go after Sonic, as he is getting in their way.

Radar Chief Blackbird watched the radars and spotted several incoming signals.

"Guys, we have some unauthorized traffic going on near our airspace," Blackbird said.

Firefly looks at Blackbird for more information. "Where's it coming from?" she asks,

"Two directions," Blackbird answers. "One group from the south, the another from the north."

"What are they?" Chuck asks.

Blackbird has a peek outside the north windows. He can see planes heading their direction. "Planes," he answers. "They're planes that are dropping bombs on the ground. They're near the rangers."

Firefly recognized them as the same planes that attacked the two schools. Speaking of which, she gets this back into her mind. "Hold on," she said, reaching for the radio. "What does the news say now?"

Turning on the radio, she finds that the news has resumed their coverage of the incident of two schools.

"-have been seriously damaged from the bombings," the reporter continues. "Students are evacuating for their lives as the buildings burn down. Six students have been reported missing, though many say that the missing six are the newest rangers. They're not the same people as the large team that was relocated after their schools got destroyed. This is a recently emerged ranger team."

Firefly turns off the radio.

Chuck looks at Firefly. "So, are they talking about the Skyrangers?" he asks. "Our rangers?"

Firefly and Chuck exchanged looks for a moment.

"One more thing," Blackbird said in a worried tone. "Those planes...they're heading towards us!"

Firefly freaks out. "Oh no!" she exclaims. Then she grabs her communicator. "Activating defense turrets! Somebody take control of them!"

The airbase deploys turrets to deal with the trespassers.

Rainbow looks ahead and saw an airbase near the waters. She remembers from an earlier call from her mother that this is the airbase she decided to set up in and where nearly all operations of her new allies will take place. Seeing that this must be the destination her allies are after, she is initially excited. That is, until she saw some turrets pointing at the planes behind her.

"Uh oh," Rainbow said. "Better get lower." She then makes a descent into the runway below.

The planes watched as Rainbow moved down. "What is she doing?" one of them asks.

Another hears sounds of laser blasts coming from ahead. They look ahead and freak out. "Look out!" another plane screams. And then several of them gets hit several times.

As the turrets continue to fire at the trespassers, Firefly spotted out the window a rainbow haired girl riding on a bike. She recognized who that is almost immediately. "Rainbow...have you really..." she began. Then she grabs her communicator and yells at it. "Don't fire at that dot in the sky!"

The turret operators got confused at first. "What? Why?" they ask.

Firefly pointed at Rainbow as she comes in to make a landing. "That's my daughter," she explains. "She's riding on her flying bike, a gift I gave her."

Chuck looks outside to the south and spotted a familiar blue blur making a landing. "Oh, and here comes my son as well," he said. Then he spotted several more enemy planes. "And more trespassers."

Firefly turns to the south as she speaks into her communicator. "Turrets operators!" she yelled. "Turn around and fire at these approaching trespassers! But whatever you do, don't target Sonic! He's the blue one hovering just near them!"

"Yes ma'am!" the turret operators responded.

The turrets turn around and fire at the other planes just as the enemy planes crashes down into the ground.

Several laser blasts are fired at the enemy planes, and one by one, they are fallen.

"Useless minions," the last remaining plane grumbles. "They keep on missing and they drop down to a few laser blasts to the wings. Looks like their weapons are a lot different than the ones we're used to. I have no choice but to do this. Activating embiggening pumps!"

Sonic landed his bike like he would an airplane. he touches down rear wheel first then brings the front down. He puts on the brakes to accelerate his slowdown. After a while, he comes to a complete stop. At the same time, he reunites with his friend Rainbow.

Rainbow was surprised to see Sonic arrive at this exact location at the exact same time. "Whoa! Sonic!" she said, breathing for air. "I can't believe that we came here at the same time."

"Yeah. What a surprise," Sonic replies. Then he and Rainbow got off their bikes, looking around the airbase. "So, this is where our parents are at? Is this their base?"

"Umm...we have a problem guys!" Median warns.

Firefly and her coworkers watched as a giant robot touches down at their base. "That robot dares to turn giant before anyone transforms?" she asks. "Someone did not study the basics of being a ranger, both good and evil. Someone violated the one rule of battling: never escalate the battle too soon."

"Whoa!" Sonic gasps as he and Rainbow saw a giant robot appearing over them. "Giant transforming robots!"

Rainbow frowns at the sight of the robot. "I've got a bad feeling about this," she mumbles.

"Fear the might of Demolisher!" the robot announces.

Rainbow checks her remaining time she can spend in her ranger mode before having to recharge. She has a handful of minutes remaining. "Aww, come on!" she groans. "We just spend nearly all of our allotted ranger time only for this to show up?"

Sonic doesn't know how long they can survive against this. Who knows how long it'll take to defeat this giant robot, let alone defeat it. Their remaining ranger time might not be enough to stop this. Wanting to preserve their remaining ranger time for another moment, they transform back into civilian mode, hop on their bikes, combine them, then flies off away from the robot.

The two trains arrive at the station at conveniently the same time. The six rangers departed the trains they were riding on then meet up outside the station.

Spitfire looks ahead, relieved to see the streets of her destination city. "Phew!" she said. "We're finally here in Sapphire Shores!"

Jet holds on to his head, feeling the pain from inside. "That felt like it lasted longer than it really is," he said. "The stress is slowing my perception of time!"

Spitfire turns to her friends and ally. "Well, we have no time to waste!" she told them. "We'd better get to the airbase now!"

The rangers then run down the path that will lead them to the airbase.

On the way there, they got a call from the airbase.

"Rangers! We're under attack!" Firefly notified them. "There's a giant robot monster stomping around near our grounds."

"What? That fast?" Soarin gasped. "But we've not even morphed in our-ahhh!" He screams as he grabs his head. "This is hurting my head!"

"You need to get there as fast as you can!" Firefly told them.

"But how?" Wave asks, speaking into her morpher. "We've got no other modes of transportation other than running!"

"There is a way to get there faster," Firefly answers, "and that's is by using your ranger forms. Remember what I said about this being the upgraded version of Jetman? Well, since that team has the ability to fly and glide, you should be able to do it as well! There are wings attacked under your armpit. Just spread your arms out and fly."

"She said it," Spitfire told her friends. "Let's do this, everyone!"

Holding their right arm in front of them, they swing their arm so that it makes contact with the bottom of the morpher, where the button is.

"Go! Skyranger!" they shouted.

They press the button and the wings unfurl themselves as well as the head popping out. A light comes out of the pentagon, putting them in their ranger suits. As soon as they are in their ranger form, they soon find themselves off the ground, gliding.

"Whoa!" Storm said, flapping his arms and kicking his legs as he finds himself lifted off the ground with his ranger powers. "Wha-whoa!"

Fleetfoot is a bit freaked out about flying above the ground with her own powers. "This is getting weird!" she said.

"Ahh!" everyone screams as they glide their way to their destination.

Demolisher runs after Sonic and Rainbow as they fly away from them on their bikes.

"Get back here, you veteran rangers!" Demolisher said as he chases after the two rangers, swatting his hand in an attempt to knock them out of the sky.

Firefly looks at the clock and wonders how much longer it would take before the Skyrangers would arrive. She is starting to lose her patience when it comes to emergency. With each passing second that she uses watching her daughter and her friend's son in danger, her tolerance for waiting waned. Not much long after, she snaps. "I can't wait any longer," she said, covering her face. "If we won't stop this from progressing, then our base will be demolished!"

Chuck gritted his teeth. "I can't believe I'm doing this," he said. He then took desperate measures and grabs Firefly's communicator, speaking into it. "We need Sky Icarus power, now!"

Suddenly, the doors of the hangar opens up, revealing six planes with the heads of birds. Each of which is colored in either a primary color or a secondary color.

"What's that?" Sonic said, pointing at the planes as they roll out into the runway.

"Are those...planes?" Rainbow asks.

Meanwhile, the Skyrangers are approaching the airbase up ahead. They needed to travel just a little more to reach their destination.

"There it is!" Soarin pointed. "It's just up ahead!"

Spitfire grew a determined look on her face. "Okay. Just a little bit farther and-" she began, then she stopped herself upon seeing the giant robot that' stomping around nearby. "Uh..."

"Is that one of the planes that targeted us?" Jet asks.

Demolisher hears some voices coming from behind him. "Huh? What is behind me?" he asks. Then he turns around and finds several rangers that are approaching him. "Oh, it's those rangers who I tried to hunt down. And they're right there. Nice."

Spitfire panicked. She and her team needs to turn now. But, she also spotted the Sky Machines at the distance.

"Rangers!" Firefly said. "Get ready to be teleported to your Sky Machines!"

"Got it," Spitfire replies.

Demolisher held his arms wide, getting ready to crush the rangers between his hands. "I'm going to get you, rangers!" he declares. Then he clapped his hands together. "Ha! That was easier than I thought." Then he opened his hands and finds no bodies. "What? Where'd you go?"

The Sky Machines form the Sky Icarus again. The Red Eagle forms the chest, the Green Hawk forms the waist and upper legs, the Blue Falcon and the Purple Swallow form the right and left arms respectively, and the Cyan Swan and Yellow Albatross form the right and left legs respectively. The wings of the Blue Falcon and the Purple Swallow detach from the main body, forming a shield that goes at the back of the Sky Icarus.

With everything in place, the Sky Icarus is ready for action.

The Skyrangers find themselves in the head of the Sky Icarus again in their usual seats.

"Whoa!" Storm gasps, nearly jumping from his seat. "We're in the cockpit again!"

"How'd did this happen?" Fleetfoot wondered.

"Thank Babylonian technology for this!" Jet answers.

"Alright team," Spitfire said, getting the grips on her controls. "Let's take our revenge against this transforming plane robot!"

Demolisher then finds the rangers piloting the Sky Icarus.

"Trying to hide in your giant robot won't be enough to save you!" Demolisher told them. Then he charges in, attacking them in their giant robot.

As the fight between two giant robots continue right in front of their eyes, Sonic and Rainbow has the urge to help these new rangers out.

"Man, just looking at this fight makes me want to help them out, even if they're not a part of our team," Rainbow said.

"Question is, how?" Sonic asks. "We can't just bring our Megazord over here. That's a little far for that giant thing to travel."

Rainbow pondered a little more. "Even if we were to morph, we used so much of the alloted time that we may return to civilian mode before we got a chance to do anything," she said. "There has to be something else we can do."

Sonic looks into the hangar and spotted something. "Wait? What's that?" he asks.

This got Rainbow's attention. She runs up to Sonic, looking into the hangar. There, she sees the same thing. "Are those...planes?" she asks.

Inside the hangar there are two additional planes. One is a red and white biplane. The other is a blue and yellow fet fighter.

Meanwhile, Demolisher is wrecking the Sky Icarus, knocking it down to the ground with a powerful punch. The Skyrangers scream as their robot fell on its back.

"It's no use," Demolisher told them. "You're useless against me. Now, prepare to fall in the hands of me! Demolisher! Haha!"

"Is there any way our allies can help us now?" Spitfire asks.

Jet pulls hard on his control stick. "We have to get back up," he said, his voice sounding a little strained. "We have to keep on fighting! We can't lose to this beast!"

Back at the hangar, Sonic and Rainbow got on the two planes, with Sonic getting on the red and white biplane, while Rainbow got on the blue and yellow jet fighter.

"Okay," Sonic said, rubbing his hands. "Let's see what these things can do."

Rainbow recalls her days of playing with a flight control stick the last time she went on a tour of a museum. "If I remember correctly, we throttle up our engines until we reach an optimal speed-" she began.

Suddenly, the planes start to move by themselves, much to the surprise of their pilots.

"Wait, is this thing moving by itself?" Sonic asks.

Rainbow looks around at her surroundings. "Uhh...how can a machine move by itself without any input from me?" she asks.

Back at the control tower, traffic controllers report in the latest takeoffs.

"SR-01 Tornado and SR-02 Hurricane have taken off," a traffic controller reported. "And we've gotten a pilot on board to perform the actions."

Firefly and Chuck watch as the two planes take off into the air.

"Perfect!" Firefly responded. "Let's hope that this helps the Skyrangers out."

Back at the fight scene, the Sky Icarus was having difficulties fighting against its opponent, Demolisher. They had a wrestling match near the airfield of the airbase.

"I'm going to turn you into a pile of rubble!" Demolisher declares.

"Not...in this...fight..." Spitfire said, strained from pushing on the control wheel hard.

"We could use some help here!" Soarin said, panicking about the current situation.

"But what kind of help?" Wave asks. "From our allies?"

Suddenly, the Tornado and Hurricane planes slide onto the shoulders of the Sky Icarus, giving it two new components.

Demolisher spotted that the Sky Icarus has gained two new Zords. "Wait, what are those on your shoulders?" he asks.

The others looked around.

"What?" Jet exclaims. "Since when are there more planes added in this air fleet?"

Soarin takes a peek at the plane on the right shoulder. "I think I can see someone in there," he said.

"Who is it?" Fleetfoot asks.

"I can't tell," Soarin replies. He then squints, and that's when the picture gets clearer. "Hold on...is that...Sonic?"

Jet was shocked to hear that Sonic is with them on the Sky Icarus. "Wait, so he's here?" he exclaims, holding his jaw down. "The one who helped us out?"

Wave looks over the left shoulder and finds a prismatic haired girl at the pilot's heat. "That must be Rainbow Dash," she said. "She's here as well!"

"Can we talk to her?" Fleetfoot asks.

Wave watches her team's allies, seeing if they are responding. They seem to be talking, but they can't hear each other from here. "I don't think we can talk with them," she answers. "I doubt that they're using the same channels as us."

"Watch out, rangers," Firefly warns.

The rangers look ahead and spotted Demolisher punching them in the chest. They get knocked back, causing all of the cockpits to shake.

"Hahaha!" Demolisher mockingly laughs. "Oh, you silly rangers. Do you think additional bits to your giant robot will save you? Like the other dozen times?"

"Oh yeah?" Jet asks as he types in the code. "How do you like this? Stratos Sword! Unleash!"

Suddenly, the Sky Icarus gains a sword, along with equipping its shield.

Sonic and Rainbow gawk in awe as they find that their allies are not so different when it comes to the giant robots they piloted. Sure, it is made out of six parts like their own, but they use the exact same type of weapon?

"Whoa! They have a sword as well?" Sonic asks.

"It's just like our Megazord," Rainbow remarks. "Only, its not a part of the Megazord itself. It's just summoned out of thin air!"

"Weird," Sonic replies.

The Sky Icarus takes a slash at Demolisher across the chest. It then delivers a few more swings and jabs, each targeting the chest. The two giants stomp around the battlefield as it progresses.

Whlie is allies were busy commanding their robot, Sonic looks around the control panel he's been provided. "Okay, what do these buttons do?" he asks. Then he starts tapping away, trying to figure out the functions of the buttons. He then, unknowingly, presses a large, red, and white button.

Suddenly, the propeller on the Tornado opens up, revealing a Gatling gun. It shoots out laser pellets at Demolisher, who stumbles away in reaction to these hits.

"Ahh!" Demolisher screams. "Since when do they hide miniguns in a plane?!"

"Sonic! Cut it out!" Median ordered. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Is it really nessarely to have all these near useless buttons laying around?" Rainbow asks as she presses random buttons around her. One of them is a large, blue, and yellow button.

Suddenly, missile silos appear out of the sides of the Hurricane.

Spitfire watches as her allies fool around with their controls and buttons. "They don't know what they're doing at this point," she remarks.

Demolisher sees the missiles pop out of the Hurricane. "Huh? Missiles?" he asks.

The missiles fire out of the Hurricane, hitting Demolisher and sending him stumbling and screaming.

Rainbow is baffled at what she had done. "Okay, something strange is going on in these planes," she said. "What's up with them?"

Demolisher growls at the rangers. "You sneaky rangers," he growls. "You're pulling tricks out left and right. How dare you?"

"Oh yeah?" Sonic asks. "How about this again?" He presses on the red and white button he pressed before.

The Tornado and Hurricane planes fire pellets and missiles at Demolisher, sending him back screaming and yelling. The damaages have got to him and he collaspes on the ground, covering his severly damaged chest.

"Well, they did most of the work for us," Spitfire said. "Time for the finisher!"

"Go! Sky Strike!" everyone shouted.

The Stratos Sword glows, indicating a surge of power ready to be unleshed. Seeing as this is a bad sign, Demolisher panics.

"Uh oh..." Demolisher uttered. Then he transformed into plane mode and tries to lift himself off the ground in an attempt to get away. He found himself unable to move. "Come on, engines!" he whined. "Get me moving! Don't tell me that I'm so damaged that I can't escape! Why?"

The Sky Icarus steps up to the helpless Demolisher.

"Time's up, you destructive plane," Jet declares. "Hope you enjoy those dying gasps for air."

The Sky Icarus points its Statos Sword down and slams it through Demolisher. Demolisher gives out a final scream in pain before going silent. The plane soon goes up in flames.

The rangers cheered for the success of their mission.

"They did it!" Rainbow said happily.

"I knew our allies can pull it off," Sonic replies.

"Yes!" Soarin cheers. "We made it here and defeated our chaser."

"And it's thanks to our allies that we are able to make it here," Jet added.

"They're so helpful today, aren't they?" Spitfire asks her friends in a relaxed tone. "Let's congratulate them on the way to boss' office."

The Sky Icarus stands victorious over its defeated enemy.

The Skyrangers plus two of their allies walk down the hallway towards the office of the founder.

"So, brother," Soarin said, looking at Sonic. "How was our Sky Icarus? Was it fun to be the shoulder mounted weapons?"

"I don't know what's going on," Sonic replies. "All I did was hop on the plane and it flew itself into your Megazord's shoulder."

"Same goes with me," Rainbow added. "It was as if those plane shad a mind of their own."

The others laughed and Spitfire patted Rainbow on the shoulder.

"Well, congratulations, Sonic and Rainbow," Spitfire said. "You're now a Skyranger."

"Wait, what?" Sonic and Rainbow reacted.

The Skyrangers entered the office expecting to have a word with Firefly and Chuck. Instead, they found that these two are standing in front of the doors waiting for their loved ones.

Firefly had her eyes sparkling when she saw her daughter there. "Rainbow!" she calls, running up to her.

Rainbow was amazed to see her mother there. "Mom!" she called back.

Firefly then gave Rainbow a big hug. It's been a while since they last saw each other. Even after going through several potentially life threatening missions, Firefly is relieved to see that her Rainbow Dash is still alive and well.

Sonic approached Chuck, who is smiling at him. Chuck brushes his hands against his son's hair. "Good to see you, son," he welcomed back. "I really miss you."

Sonic smiles at his father. "Miss you too, dad," he replies.

Chuck then gave Sonic a tight hug. Sonic was a bit uncomfortable at first, but then accepted the hug as it came from a family member. After a few seconds, he tries to free himself from his father's manly hug.

The Skyrangers watched as they saw two families reunited after over a month of being apart.

"Aww...," Fleetfoot said, her heart touched warmly by the sight of the two founders of this agency welcoming back the two leaders of an allied ranger team.

Spitfire then remembered her family, and how supportive they are as she grows up. She remembers them being pilots. "This makes me wish my dad was an employee of this agency," she observes.

Moments later, the Skyrangers along with their allies waited for the latest updates from both Pegasus High and Diamond Secondary School. To pass the time, Sonic and Rainbow performed interviews on each of the six members, asking them about their life before being caught into this, what Pegasus High School is like, and see what other friends these six have got.

Spitfire reveals that the culture of Pegasus High is not very different from Canterlot High, due to the two schools being a part of the same school district. While the attitude is familiar, the layout is not, creating a weird feeling where it's familiar and foreign at the same time. Spitfire admits that she got lost wandering the halls several times. She also mentions that she hasn't made a lot of close friends lately. The only ones she really hangs out with regularly are Soarin and Fleetfoot, both of which are her current teammates.

Jet has stated that since breaking their schools losing streak, the morale of Diamond Secondary School has changed drastically. In a few months after the last Columbia Games, this school has proven itself as a competent school with competent students. It is now no longer the laughing stock that it once was just a few years ago. Now, other schools are terrified about this joke, now seeing it as the competent school that once stood a few decades ago. However, while respected for saving the school from becoming a laughing stock, finding new friends is still a challenge for Jet, Wave, and Storm. They haven't made a lot of friends lately, or any friends, aside from their teammates.

After several minutes of waiting and interviews, Firefly has gotten the updates from the two attacked schools.

"Okay, Skyrangers," Firefly said. "Listen up. We evaluated the damages done to your schools, and we've concluded that keeping you here is far safer to civilians than keeping you in your homes."

"What?" everyone reacted.

"This again?" Sonic and Rainbow exclaims.

"Diamond Secondary School and Pegasus High School have stated that the damaged parts of the schools will be closed for reparations," Firefly said. "In addition, we wanted to keep both you and your fellow civilians safe."

"Things are getting too risky when there's so many things that can strike on any given day," Chuck noted. "The enemy will target the rangers, along with anyone who happens to be in their way. And with so many people around you, that's a lot of injuries and potential deaths. As a result, you'll no longer attend your schools. Instead, you will be taught by our tutors on this base."

"Rooms will be provided for you in the dormitory," Firefly stated. "They're used by agents and pilots from distant places. However in this case, we'll make an exception for you six Skyrangers. From now on, you'll be staying in those rooms." Then she turns to the agents in the room. "Guys, show these rangers the way to the dormitory. Except those two. They already had a place to stay...somewhere else."

The agents saluted. "Yes ma'am!" they said. Then they guided the Skyrangers the way to the dorm rooms. Sonic and Rainbow watched as their allies leave.

"Rainbow M. Dash," Firefly called.

Rainbow turns to her mother. "What is it mom?" she asks.

"I've been thinking," Firefly said, pondering about what she should do. "Ever since you and Sonic saved our rangers from harm, I've been thinking about including you two as extra Skyrangers. Are you in?"

"What?" Rainbow asks. Then she and Sonic exchanged looks before going back to Firefly. "No!"

"Even with pretty long times between attacks, I'm don't think I'm joining anytime soon," Sonic stated.

Chuck leans closer to his son, wondering why he would refuse to hang out with his father for a little longer. "Oh really?" he asks.

Sonic opened one eye, looking at his father. "Yeah," he answers. "Being a member of one team is fine enough. But being a leader of one team and a member of another? Nope! Sign me out!"

Chuck was pretty sure that Sonic is trying to find reasons why he shouldn't be included. "Really?" he asks. "I swear you got addicted to those flight simulator games with the included flight control stick. Surely, with those built in piloting skills, would you mind of you join?"

Sonic then remembers that he played flight simulators...with replicas of the cockpit. He turns to his father. "What?" he asks.

[End of Episode]

From the Author:

Ladies and gentlemen, the fastest time between a ranger team's foundation and a team up with another ranger team. Three episodes! Try to beat that! Though, admittedly, it isn't a full team up since only two members out of the sixteen members of the Gemrangers got to help out the Skyrangers, and that was during the travel between their schools and the Sapphire Shores Airbase. An actual team up might not happen until later, if at all. With a total of twenty-two active rangers, it can get complicated really fast.

Two heroic families reunited for the first time in weeks, though that's because the founder's children decided to go ahead an intercept the two attacks from near their home cities. Lucky them.

This one took a long time for me to publish, but not for the reasons you might expect. This one's written through a major storm, and since the two auxiliary planes are named after wind storms, it might be a little insensitive to casually refer to them. Due to this (and their pilots not visiting their allies very often), the Tornado and Hurricane will not make future appearances.

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)