It was night in the human world. In the Tortuga HQ, the team was deep asleep.

In the Varmitech Building, Zach wandered around. He observed his inventions for a while, then sat on the couch and watched and re-watched his confronts with the Wild Kratts. It seemed like… they WERE all his fault.

"Wow… I never realized how I was… inconsequent..." he observed, as he ate popcorn and changed the videos with his remote. But, deep within his mind, someone observed Zach's acting with a sinister smile.

"Hm… guess my time to arise has come… AT LAST!" a dark voice affirmed.

Zach let go of the remote, feeling a huge pain on his head. The remote shattered when it hit the floor.

Hermia gasped, waking up on her bed. Luna entered quickly.

"Hermia, is everything alright?" she asked.

"Chaos..." Hermia whispered. "He's… here..." This statement made Luna gulp.

By morning, the Kratt Brothers were ready to explore around the forest. The only is… they couldn't decide which Creature Power to use.

"Come on, bro! Draco Lizard power is the best to use here in Indonesian rainforest," Chris insisted. "I don't even think Ven tried it!"

"Oh, come on! Tarsier powers are also cool! Remember the pain in the neck it was getting this power?" Martin protested.

"But it's DAYTIME!"

"Why do they always have to fight for my fault?" Ventus sighed as he observed his little brothers arguing.

"Ventus… have you seen Aviva?" Mina asked.

"Last time I saw her, mom had requested her for something. Guess it was about that Zach Varmitech guy. First things first though..." Ventus picked up one of the disks. "I call for peregrine falcon."

"Peregrine falcon?" the two younger brothers complained.

"Well, one thing I learned 10,000 years ago with A&T: if you can't decide, you're out."

"Come on, Ven! What about the Draco?"

"I still say the tarsier!"

"What did I just say, bros?" Ven questioned in a calm yet stern tone. The little bros froze. "*giggle* I'm joking, dudes. You pick whatever power you want. I say we have a race between the three powers. It'll be fun."

The brothers agreed, now even more excited.

Suddenly, they heard a noise in the Tortuga's shell. Koki and Jimmy also heard it. Sam, who was taking a nap nearby after breakfast, woke up from the noise.

As they climbed up to see what happened, they saw… Aviva! Her hoverbike was broken and she was breathing hard.

"Querida!" Ventus gasped. "What happened?"

"Zach… Chaos… he's here!" it was all she could say before she fainted in Ventus' arms.

"Chaos?" Martin gasped at this name. "Eris's apprentice?"

"The one responsible for my transformation into Black Storm," Ventus gulped. "But how?"

"I believe he was never really gone." Hermia appeared through a portal.

Inside the HQ the crew heard Mother Nature's story.

"You remember well from your visions that Chaos was defeated by Aqua, Terra and Ventus… but instead of vanishing, he became a dark smoke cloud and was carried away to the underworld. However, I believe he somehow escaped and found a host to live and recover."

"And this host was..." Koki asked, and Bites shivered.

"The Earth Gem. Deep within it, his smoke form was locked. One more reason to protect it.

As years passed, then generations, never Chaos showed his face again, for his strength wasn't enough. But apparently he finally gained power when he started living in Zach's subconscience.

"You remember that Zach first appeared as Chaos thanks to his attempt of stealing the Earth Gem, right?"

"How could we forget?" Martin asked. "It was in this day we met Mina. But we sure didn't get what happened to him."

"In his attempt, he freed Chaos' spirit, and when you defeated him, he was locked inside Zach's subconscience. For a long time, perhaps, but not forever.

"All this time, he has been feeding himself of Zach's hatred for you all, and when Zach apparently gave up his attitude, he decided to finally take over his "weakened host"'s body and mind."

The team was shocked. It was all happening under their noses, and they didn't even notice.

"Now he's free… and he'll hurt more than just the ecosystems." Hermia observed through the Tortuga's window. The Wild Kratts held their medallions firmly.

"Hey, can we wait a second, mom?" Elsa asked. "I thought this Chaos was Zach's past life. I mean, you guys all say that they look alike."

"He is Zach's past life. However, unlike normal reincarnation, he was just of body. Zach wasn't born with Chaos' powers or mind originally. Guess you could say that Chaos had "reclaimed what's rightfully his"."

"Oh. Got it."

"Oh, no..." Mina mumbled. "If he's back… he'll go after the Earth Gem again. Or worse, other elemental items of great power!"

"Would this include… our medallions?" David asked. "We all know they're powerful."

"Or worse, David... The Elemental Crystals," Koki added, holding her Magma Crown with half of the Trinity Topaz.

The team agreed. They were powerful as well, maybe even more powerful, and needed to be protected.

Meanwhile, at the frog pond, Gavin was training his fishing again. Suddenly, he looked up to see dark clouds arriving.

"Whoa… is it going to rain?"

In another part of the park, Aidan was with Nolan, and saw the dark clouds as well. Laura and Tania also saw the clouds from where they were.

"Impossible. The weatherman affirmed there wasn't a chance of raining today."

"Uh… I don't think those are rain clouds, Tawny..." Laura saw someone in the middle of the clouds.

"This is like when... Oh no..." They gulped.

The team reunited at Athena's temple. David, Clarissa and Sam remained in the HQ.

"If that's the case, we must alert all gods to keep their weapons and elemental power protected, pronto," Athena decided. "Luna, call Hermes and all the messengers you can reach."

"On it," Luna said. Without another second to lose, she was off. Mina looked really worried. She was their guardian… wasn't she supposed to protect her family with all she could? Was all she had not enough?

"Mina, are you okay?" Aviva asked.

"Uh… yes. Sure," Mina assured. However, she wasn't buying it and neither were the bros.

"Wilhelmina," Chris lightly scolded. "You look upset. You know you don't need to hide anything from us. Come on." He gently asked.

Before Mina could explain, David called on the Creaturepod.

"Guys! We have a major crisis here!"

"Why thank you for being a "gentleman", you brat," another voice said sarcastically.

"GAH!" David gasped. "Please, get over here!" he shrieked, before turning off the communication. The team gasped.

"David needs help!" Elsa declared.

Back in the human world, David hid in the Invention Garage. Clarissa carried Sam there, trying not to make noise. The mutant Guardian was restless.

"Come on, be a good kid and give me that Crystal..." Chaos threatened, entering the room. Laura and Tania, along with their children were trapped inside energy spheres.

"I will never give Apollo's Pearl to a psycho like you," David retorted silently, his hand gripping his Temporal Crown. "Clarissa, get the pack. We need all the help we can get."

Clarissa nodded, leaving Sam in a hammock nearby. She wondered for a minute how there's one in the garage, but of course, returned to her mission.

"Come out wherever you are. Though I hate hide-and-seek."

The Time Guardian made eye contact with his friend. Sam nodded in approval. David's medallion transformed into the crossbow.

"Just a friendly call… I would stay right here if I were you."

The crew arrived just in time.

"Laura!" Martin gasped, seeing his girl and his brother's girl, along with their little friends trapped. "Tania! Boys!"

"Martin! Chris! Help!" Aidan pleaded.

"Chaos! Leave them alone!" Mina proclaimed, holding the Gaia Scepter.

"So… we meet again, plant girl," Chaos mocked. "And you too, rats!"

"Still calling us rats, huh?" Ventus growled. "You haven't changed a bit since last tme, Chaos."

"Well, if it isn't Mama Nature's little boy. Did you like the "present" I gave you?" the Demi-god of Discord teased.

"No. NOT. A. BIT." the Kratt in white growled in fury, his eyes glowing silver.

"Good. And by the way, thank you for dealing with your pesty brothers for me and my mom. Makes us have less dirty work to do."

"You fiend… I will make you wish you were never reborn," he growled, struggling to not shatter his brothers' ears.

"Not without us, bro," Chris proclaimed. "We defeated you once, twice… we can defeat you thrice!"

"Agreed. You are not welcome here!" Mina lift up the Gaia Scepter, ready to attack. With the help of the Guardians, she powered up the scepter, shooting a powerful beam of light on the Demi-god's direction. But, to their shock, he simply stopped the attack, absorving the magic.

"You fools! Did you really think your old trick can defeat me again? I've powered myself enough deep within my actual reincarnation to repel you spell!" He shot a dark beam in the hybrid's direction, but she defended the team with a forcefield.

"I… I can't believe it..." Mina was even more shocked than the team.

"You cretin!" Chris attacked with his bow, but Chaos broke all the arrows he shot. David tried his crosssbow, but the same thing happened.

"And don't even think of using your new… what you call them? Oh, right. Crown Froms," Chaos mocked. "That power won't be enough to defeat me. NO POWER WILL BE ENOUGH TO DEFEAT ME!" Chaos escaped through the Tortuga's shell, laughing as crazy, and taking the Kratts' companions and little friends with him.

"Gee… you want some fries with that ego?" Jimmy commented.

"Jimmy! Get the Tortuga out of here!" Koki said. "If he wants to pick a fight, let's at least find an empty place. It'll be dangerous if any creature or human is nearby. He can make new victims."

"Koki's right," Aviva decided. "Let's take off."

As the Tortuga started flying, Chaos noticed the turtle ship following him.

"UGH! Don't they know the meaning of "resistance is futile"?" he complained, flying out of their sight.

"Hey! Where did he go?" Jimmy looked over.

"Jimmy! On your left!" Chris warned. Jimmy immediately turned the HQ to the left, not even leaving enough time for the crew to fasten their seatbelts.

"Ugh… I think I'm gonna be sick," Sam complained.

"Mina?" Elsa noticed a frightened expression on her face. "Are you okay?"

"He… he's too strong..." It was all Mina could say. The time nymph could see... dismay and fear in her eyes. What was happening?

Suddenly, the lights started turning on and off.

"Jimmy… what's going on?" Ventus wanted to know.

"Oh, this isn't good!" the redhead Fire Guardian gulped. "Our power is… failing!"

"Huh?" Koki asked, confused.

"Yoo-hoo!" Chaos called from the window. "Maybe your turtle can follow me, BUT it doesn't run without these..." They looked over to see a cloud minion carrying...

"The tellurium crystals!" Martin gasped. "You coward!"

"It's so me! Au revoir!" Chaos left their sight, as the team saw the HQ shut down and fall.

"Hang on!" Jimmy tried to land somewehre safe. Eventually, they tumbled into the Sonoran desert.

"Ugh… is everybody ok?" Ventus asked.

"Ow... Landed on my patootie, but I'll be fine," Koki replied.

"That snake!" Chris snapped. "Not meaning to offend snakes, of course."

"Luckily, he didn't take all of the crystals." Koki placed one Crystal left behind back where it belonged. "But it isn't enough for us to go after him."

"Luckily we landed in the Sonoran desert. In the Rattlesnake Crystal adventure, it said that Tellurium can be found in the rattlesnakes' lair." Bites analyzed the Wild Kratts Diary. "However, it won't be enough to get us out of here. Only to keep the Tortuga alive."

"Well, we'll see if we can go to that rattlesnake hibernaculum to get more tellurium," Martin said, grabbing his rattlesnake disk.

Mina sighed. Once again, when the threat was right in front of her family, she wasn't able to do anything.

"What's eating ya, sis?" Ven asked.

"Nothin', Ven. Nothin' at all." Mina didn't want to worry them more. "I'm just… not so good as from when I started to be a part of the team."

"What's makes you think that?"

"This whole thing with Chaos... I couldn't do a thing to help. And the others can't do anything with their medallions or they'll lose them to him... we're pratically doomed!"

Mina felt pain in her chest from the mere speech of that word.

"Sis?"

"I-I'm okay." Mina stood up quickly.

"No, you're not," Martin argued. "Hm… you look pale. Maybe you just need some rest." Mina agreed. She DID felt a little more tired than usual.

Chaos sent his minion clouds to cause destruction anywhere he stepped. Children cried, people ran away, animals hid where they believed it was safe…

The demi-god himself laughed evilly as he watched all the discord his clouds were causing.

"I am king of the world! King of the world! WOO-HOO!"

"Aw, quit it. I'm sure that the Wild Kratts will stop you," Laura commented.

"You tell him, Mom," Ronan said.

"That's what we'll see." Chaos smiled evilly to them.

"Sheesh, I prefer Zach's ego," Tania stated.

"Agreed, sister," Laura replied.

"That cheap reincarnation?" Chaos snapped.

"Yes," they responded firmly. Chaos growled, but decided to ignore them for now.

"Well, the Tortuga's on again. All we need now is fixing the propolsors and we'll be on our way," Aviva warned. "Oh, that reminds me… how's Mina?"

"Not that good, I fear," Ventus admitted. He touched her forehead. "She's not hot… she's COLD. Really cold."

"What?" Chris and Martin gasped. Martin touched her face. It was true: Mina was getting cold.

"But how? It's not even night yet in the Sonoran desert. She can't be that cold already."

"Tell me Ven… you were with her. Did you notice something… different?" Elsa asked.

"Well… she told me she was feeling… less of what she was before," Ventus admitted. "Plus, after a short resume of the crisis we're into, she said we're… DOOMED."

"WHAT?! Doomed? But she never said that word before! Ever!" Koki added.

"I think I know what's wrong." Luna touched her forehead. "Hermia and Athena told me to keep it a secret, but..."

"But what, Luna?" Jimmy asked.

"Do you know what kind of nymph Mina is?"

"Hmm... Now that you mention it... She never told us," Chris responded.

"Because she didn't know herself. She's a rare light nymph kind… a Hope Nymph."

"There are light nymphs?" Martin asked.

"Of course! Why didn't I notice that?!" David exclaimed, as if scolding himself. "Her behavior… her glowing eyes filled with love and care… even her not-giving-up attitude. Those are key personality traits of light nymphs."

"Hope Nymphs are normally born in times of despair or suffering."

"Hm… Flora suffered due to her so-close family's fall… and Mina was born millenniums after that," Aviva thought.

"However, there's several risks to light nymphs," David added. "If they start giving in to despair themselves... they get weaker and weaker… perhaps even die."

"Mina's… DYING?!" Sam gasped. The team looked at Mina. Her skin looked even more pale.

In Athena's temple, Mina was on a short pedestal with a blanket over her.

"Oh, my Muses… she looks even worse than last time we saw her," Ventus gulped.

"Chaos..." Chris growled with such venom in his voice. "He won't get away with this..."

"She's getting even weaker. Her Hope might be fading away due to the unfortunate events you faced today," Athena analyzed.

"Well… first, Aviva was wounded by Chaos, then our friends were captured, and our attack didn't work," David summarized.

"She felt worried about us, but kept saying everything was okay," Elsa remembered. "Like she… didn't want us to worry even more."

"But eventually… she said we were… well... doomed," Ventus added. "That wasn't like her at all."

"Hm… It seems she tried as much as she could to keep you all hopeful… but in her attempt… she forgot to keep HERSELF hopeful."

"So... WE did this to her too..." Koki said.

The team looked down, ashamed. It was their fault as well. How could they save her now?

Chaos observed the doom caused by his minion clouds.

"More pollution in the ponds, boys," Chaos ordered some minions. Meanwhile, in the energy spheres, Laura looked around the skies.

"Oh… I only hope Martin, Chris and the rest of the Wild Kratts are okay."

"So do I, fella. So do I," Tania admitted. The kids looked down, worried.

The team wandered around the temple. Luna and Athena kept taking care of the agonized Mina, as her skin got colder, and her colors seemed to vanish.

"Mina...what have we done to you?" Chris lamented. "We're so sorry..."

"Okay! I say enough pouting and looking glum!" Martin seemed to yell.

"Aqua?" The Water Guardian at his medallion. It was glowing intensely with the snowflake appearing.

"Come on, are you Guardians or not?!" came Koki's voice from her medallion.

"Yeah, guys! Come on!"

"Rose?"

"Pyce?"

All the subconscience past lives materialized themselves via the medallions.

"Wow..." Ventus observed. "How long did you know you could do that?"

"Long time, no see, Ven," Flora greeted.

"Guys, we've seen you overcome worse crisises than this one. You never gave up once," Terra said. "Did you give up when the Tortuga first started to run out of power?"

"N-no..." Aviva replied.

"Did you give up when Martin was captured by that Donita lady along with Draco Lizards?"

"Definitely not."

"And thank goodness," Martin commented. "I do not want to be her model again. EVER."

"See? You did overcome the worst of situations together. We're confident you can overcome this one too. You just need to stop pouting and put your heads to work with full energy. Try keeping up at least a teeny, tiny, bit of Hope that you can do it."

Luna thought for a moment. Energy, huh? Then, an idea came to her. Without any of them looking, she bookmarked some pages in the Wild Kratts Diary.

"Hope this helps." She left the temple, winknig at Athena. The goddess looked at the book before catching on to her idea.

"Are we glad to have you as past lives," Aviva complimented with a smile. "We really needed that."

"Sure did," Chris agreed. Then, Athena called their attention.

"I believe THIS can help you." She showed them the Wild Kratts Diary, leaving them a bit confused.

"UGH! I can't take it anymore!" Tania growled. "We need to get out of here!" Laura wanted this too, but for them all to escape, Chaos needed to be distracted.

"Let us handle this," Gavin decided. "Uh… Chaos, what are you doing?"

"Causing destruction to all parts of the world, twerp.'"

"And why are you doing that?" Ronan asked.

"Because it's fun."

"More like deranged," Aidan commented. "Didn't your mama teach you any manners?"

"She taught me how to use magic, how to manipulate and how to destroy."

"But destroying isn't right," Ronan pointed out. "We like constructed things."

"Do you like constructed things?" Aidan teased.

"AH! I can't take you twerps anymore!" Chaos growled, popping the two energy spheres, making them all fall. Luckily, they weren't THAT high in the sky.

"Easy as pie," Gavin commented.

"Same old Zachary," Aidan joked. "No matter the mind." Nolan chuckled in Tania's arms.

"They take after us," Laura and Tania observed.

"Hm… that's interesting." Chris read the Wild Kratts Diary. "Luna bookmarked some sessions of the Wild Kratts Diary. All about the Crown Form adventures. And they all have something in common."

"What is it, Chris?" Aviva asked.

"Well, in all situations, we faced challenges where standing up for the inner strength we represent wasn't easy. Me, for example. It was hard for me to show Mercy due to my frustration. But even though I did mean the things I said, just because I felt bad, the others didn't had to." He looked at Martin. "Bro, remember how afraid you were after that wave nearly drowned you?"

"How can I not? But seeing Pearl get over her fear helped me understand mine."

"Koki, Jimmy, your siblings, in different ways, made you remember how grateful you should be and how you should never let anyone take advantage of your generosity."

"Generosity comes in many forms, I must say," Koki admitted.

"And Aviva… even Zach made you realize-"

"The importance of being kind even to your enemies when in times of need," she finished for him. "A reality shock, but one I really needed."

"And I learned the importance of at least, TRYING to be patient. In baby steps, I'm getting there," David admitted.

"Through all of these situations, you never gave up," Flora pointed out.

"And it was that hope and lesson that called the Crystals to you like when you first found the Elemental Gems," Rose added. "Therefore, you gained your Crown Forms."

"It seems that the Crystals were weakened by your lack of hope when you faced Chaos," a spectrum of David, Beowulf, informed. "That's why it didn't work at first. Not only Mina needed more hope, YOU did as well… but you haven't noticed that, did you?"

"No..." The team admitted.

"Beowulf!" Pyce hushed him. The Scandinavian warrior raised his hands in guilt with a nervous smile. Then, he turned to his reincarnation.

"Sorry I haven't showed up at first, David. Guess I was a little shocked and confused about your timeline to say anything."

"Apology accepted." David smiled.

"Guess we know what to do now," Chris decided, looking at the Gaia Scepter and the Crowns.

Far away from Chaos' sight, the two mothers and the kids talked.

"Good, now we're free. But how can we warn the Wild Kratts? We don't know if their Creaturepods are working." Tania asked.

"Guys?" Bite-Size's voice called for them.

"Bite-Size? We thought you were with the team." Gavin recognized the bat.

"Nah, I was in the forest, visiting an old friend." Bite-Size looked over, seeing a female bat waving at him. It was no other than Chirpelle. "Had to cut my visit short cause I heard about this Chaos guy. What happened, and where are the Wild Kratts?"

"We're not sure..." Laura admitted. But then, she saw the Tortuga HQ coming down in the park. Sam was piloting, being the only one around there, while the others were in Athena's temple.

"This, I can answer," he said, once he came out of the turtle ship.

The team reunited around the Gaia Scepter, showing their Elemental Crystals.

"These Crystals once belonged to the Gaia Scepter," Chris affirmed. "Guess it's time for them to return to their rightful place."

"We all know it's only the first step. The next one will only be possible if we believe," Martin affirmed. "We must keep our hope up, even though it's the smallest of hope. We must do it for us… for Mina… for Gaia's treasure, and all the ones living on it."

"Wow… that was really good, bro," Ventus said. "Why aren't you the leader?"

"Well, me and Chris are the leaders, but HE's better qualified than me," The Kratt in blue admitted. Chris grinned in embarrassment.

The team placed each of the Crystals in the right place, following Athena's instructions. But unseen to them, Mina started to be floated away.

"The Gaia Scepter is fixed… but remember: as much powerful it is, it won't work right if we don't believe," Chris reminded.

"Mina?!" Elsa gasped, seeing her sister missing. "Guys, Mina disappeared!"

The team gasped, seeing the pedestal empty. Then, they looked up to see a minion cloud, and got what happened.

"Okay, okay, to the part where Chaos is Zach's past life, everything fine, but the rest… wow, totally mind blowing," Laura admitted, as Sam told what was going on, trying to make it simple.

"I got Mina's nearly dying," Gavin said, worried. "But can't we do anything to help?"

"Well… unless the team found a way to solve the situation… all we can do is pray… or fight back with all we have," Sam decided.

"Don't start without us," Chris's voice called their attention. The team appeared throguh a portal. "Chaos got Mina!"

"WHAT?!" Bites gasped.

"No way!" Gavin gulped.

"That poor little thing..." Laura lamented.

"Yoo-hoo… Wild Rats..." Chaos's voice called for them. "I have something you might want back..."

The team felt menaced enough to go out of the Tortuga and face the Demi-god.

"Mina!" Aviva gasped, seeing her little sister floating in an energy sphere.

"Put her down, Chaos!" Chris yelled, entering Forest Crown, with the scepter's help.

"Hmm... First, give me that shiny crown you got there. And the blue boy's too."

"No can do," Martin pointed out. "They're part of the Gaia Scepter again. This means we ALL can use it to face you!" He entered Sea Crown at that. The rest of the Guardians entered their Crown Forms by touching the Scpeter.

The light of them called Mina's weakened yet still alive attention.

They all attacked with all they had, but eventually Chaos absorved all power he could, throwing back at them.

"Ugh... This is not even tickling him. Something's missing."

"Or someone," Aviva reminded. "We need Mina to fight with full power."

"Oh, yeah… Forgot about that," Chaos taunted. "Let's do this way: give me the Crystals… or else," he threatened, pointing to Mina with his hand about to attack with another dark beam.

The two brothers stared death glares at the Demi-God, who wasn't intimidated at all. But Mina needed them, and she was just as important.

"Fine… just promise she'll not get hurt."

Quietly, the bros and the others removed the Crystals from the Scepter, changing back to normal. Chaos held his hand out.

"First, Mina," Martin demanded.

"Fine. She's useless anyway."

"What did you say?" Chris questioned, his tone being dark.

Mina coughed inside the energy bubble. Luna tried to free her, but Chaos trapped her in a cage of clouds.

"Mina… don't listen him," Aviva warned. "We're sorry. You already felt bad and we only made it worse. It's not your fault we all got in this situation… it's ours."

"No... I gave up hope so easily," she mumbled weakly. "It wasn't you at all..."

"NO! It WAS our fault! We all showed lack of hope at first… but you're the one that reminded us to keep on believing we can do anything."

"You're our Light, Mina," Koki added. "If there was a Light Gem, and I'm not kidding here, you'd be the first choice to be the Light Guardian."

"Light Gem..." Aviva mumbled. "Wait! I know!" She grabbed the Gaia Scepter and removed the main jewel, a crystal that was like a crystal ball. It started glowing when she touched it. "Whoa! All this power… came from Mina?"

"And from Flora too, don't forget. And Terra, Aqua, Rose, Pyce… you know, as you say, the gang's all here," Luna affirmed.

"No!" Chaos gasped. In his distraction, he popped Mina's trap bubble, making her fall. Ventus quickly caught her. Martin and Chris hurried to them, but then...

"Hey! A deal's a deal!" Chaos lashed out at them with a whip of darkness. The blond and brunette got hit on the head, but stood their ground.

"You already broke it, thank you very much. You said she would not get hurt, but you didn't say thanks to who," Chris said.

Chaos gasped. He was tricked!

"You may be evil, but your weakness is just like Zach's… As smart as you might be, you can be easily fooled," Martin stated.

"Huh?" Chaos gulped. Ventus kicked him to the floor, freeing Luna from the cage, and making him drop the Crowns he already stole.

"That's for 10,000 years ago," he said, feeling vindicated.

Mina was held calmly by Aviva, as she put the energy ball in her weakened hands. A bright light exploded in the room, making everyone shield their eyes.

*BG music: Titanium - David Guetta ft. Sia*

"I… I feel your energy… your hope… you do believe in me… you really do..." Mina started to smile, as her colors started to return. An orb of light came out of the crystal. It was medallion shaped, yet it went right to her head, assuming the shape of a small crown.

"Mina?" Aviva called. The nymph's eyes opened. There were like an electric blue. Immediately, her energy carried the crowns to the team, like a signal for them to use them.

As they activated their own Crown Forms, the crowns reacted to Mina's new crown, giving her a Crown Form of her own: her dress became pure white with only a few pink details, her hair got wavy, and the flower on her dress multiplied into one more flower and with them white with pink crystals for the center.

All powered up, the team lifted up to face Chaos. As much as he tried, the forcefield around them seemed indestructible.

"N-no! Impossible!"

"No, Chaos! It isn't as long as we believe. Believe in ourselves… in our planet... in the power of nature!" She lifted up her energy ball, and the scepter's last part returned. The crystals also returned to the scepter, and Mina held it firmly with a much powerful attack.

All Chaos could do was yell, as he was surrounded by the rainbow-colored lights. After this, the lights spread around the world, fixing all the damage his cloud minions caused.

While all of this was happening, Mina swore she heard the sound of shattering glass.

The light attracted Laura, Tania, the boys, Bite-Size and Sam to outside the Tortuga. Mina came to, her tiara laying beside her.

"Sis?" Aviva knelt next to her.

"I'm okay… and this time, it's true," Mina admitted. "Oh, dear..." She pointed to the medallions: they were in pieces… and so was the Gaia Scepter. It looked like they were used to their limit.

"It was worth it." Martin pointed to Zach. Once back to normal, he managed to run away.

"Maybe he finally learned his lesson," Koki said.

"More like Chaos did," Elsa pointed out. "Zach had nothing to do with this… this time."

"Let's wait to see this for sure." Aviva assured. "And Mina… again, we're sorry."

"I forgive you… if you can forgive me too," the hybrid asked. The team embraced her in response, happy that their Guardian was okay again. Clarissa then arrived, panting.

"I'm so sorry I haven't got here sooner! Me and my fellow wolves were battling some dark clouds that were attacking, and then came this light out of nowhere and..." She saw that everyone was looking at her. "I missed the party, right?"

"Yeah. Sorry, darling." David was honest.

Suddenly, the shards reacted to Mina's tiara, forming new and better medallions. They floated over their owners and came around their necks.

"Hmm... I think I'll call it the Aurora Crown," Martin observed the tiara.

"Perfecto," Mina agreed. "As Aviva would say."

"But where did the Light Gem come from?" David asked. Hermia appeared by their side.

"I don't know myself. But Gaia once told me it was here before even she was around."

"A power before even grandma?" Elsa gasped. "Leaping Lotus…"

"So Mina IS a Nature Guardian now?" Koki asked.

"Deep inside, she ALWAYS had been one," Chris affirmed. "Because she ALWAYS kept her hope up. But even the most hopeful needs a wakeup call." Mina blushed.

Laura and Tania rushed to their boyfriends' sides, while the boys reunited around Mina, happy she was okay. In the middle of this happy scene, Ventus noticed something.

"Uh… you guys?"

"Huh? Something wrong?" Martin asked.

"Uh…. nothing. Nothing." Ventus thought it could only be mere impression, due to all they faced before. However, unseen to the team, a small black stripe appeared secretly in Martin and Chris's hair.

The team was received as heroes in Hermia's temple. Their friends, creatures and humans, and loved ones have been gathered from all over the world. The team wore their Crown Forms, glad that they could keep the uniforms and weapons.

"My dearest ones… we all faced the consequences of Chaos's newest attack… but, with sacrificial courage and strength, once again, the Nature Guardians brought peace to our dear Earth, preventing damage on Gaia's treasure. And we also bring to attention the newest Guardian: our Guardian of Light, Wilhelmina Meredith Kratt!"

Mina started walking from the door to meet her friends, using her new pink and white dress. As she stood up in front of them all, Luna lift up the curtains to reveal the newest stained glass, showing Chaos's second defeat by the hands of the Nature Guardians.

For the Wild Kratts, it meant the end of another chapter of their adventure as Nature Guardians. But they all knew the adventure wasn't THAT close to end.