Summary: Donatella experiments with mutagen in an attempt to find a cure for mutated mystics.
In the Crete Fortress on the bright sunny morning, Ellie was watching a new show on TV in the living room. Lee, Ella, and Donna walked out of their bedrooms from upstairs and entered into the living room with loud yawns. The girls are wearing their night clothing: Lee wore a midnight blue elegant nightgown, Ella wore a red night tank top and shorts, Donna wore a purple nightgown, and Ellie wore an orange jersey and orange track pants.
"Ellie, what are you doing up so early in the morning?" Ella groaned tiredly. "And what the heck is this nonsense?"
Donna yawned so loud with her hand covering her mouth that she can't open up her eyes from her sleep.
"Casey's dad gave me a box of cool anime DVDs yesterday." Ellie smiled, showing her older sisters the DVD cover of the anime sci-fi superhero in a box. "It's called Ace Crown, one of the best anime show in history!"
"But this show is lame." Lee yawned. "And you girls complained about Battlestar Matrix."
"Whatever." Ella snapped, rolling her eyes. "There's no way I could stand watching this show."
Few seconds later, Ellie's three older sisters stared at the anime show on the TV screen with wide eyes and their mouths wide open in surprise.
"So, each robot is the princess of her entire planet? Wicked!" Ella smiled.
"I know, right?" Ellie beamed. "The purple robot girl is the scientist and the inventor of the cool weapons."
"This story is so accurate." Donna grinned. "This show should have four stars rating."
But Donna spoke too soon. She watched the part where a female purple robot was trying to ask a human boy of the team to hang out with her, but a human boy was unaware of her affection and told her he'll go with her as a friend. That caused Lee, Ella, and Ellie to gasp in a pretend shock.
"Dude, that's so you and Casey." Ellie smiled at Donna.
"Whatever." Donna said, rolling her eyes in annoyance. She got up from the floor and walked out of the living room. "I'll be in my lab if you need me."
In the lab, Donna looked at her photo wall of the Lotus Ninjas from kids to teenagers with a smile. But her eyes gazed on a photo of her skating at the skateboarding park on her purple roller skates with Casey on his skates as the two were looking at each other with excitement. The frame itself was purple with black hearts around it.
"I've noticed that Casey is failing his grades pretty bad no matter how many times I've tutored him." Donna sighed as she held the picture close in her hand. "It doesn't matter anyway. I guess I better ask my best friend to help him out instead."
Donna turned her face straight to the glass circular sphere containing the mutated form of her mystic friend Sandra. She casted a spell to feed the ultraviolet mystic mutant some food flakes and sat down on her seat to continue her research as she doesn't notice that Sandra was staring intently at the photo of Casey. Then, Phantom walked into the lab to check on her purple mystic creator and found Donna feeling completely dizzy and nauseous before getting started on her scientific work.
"Something troubling you, Donna?" Phantom asked, running towards the purple mystic kunoichi with concern.
"Oh, fine, Phantom." Donna replied as she was sitting up straight on her seat. She gazed at the beaker with purple potion and grabbed a beaker of mutagen in her hand. "I'm just working on a cure for all of the mystic mutants on the city called the retromutagen."
Donna slowly dropped a small purple liquid into the mutagen beaker very carefully, hoping that the chemical results success perfectly. But the mixture froze the entire beaker and broke into smaller pieces on the desk.
"Frozen?!" Donna exclaimed in frustration as she slammed her fist on the table. "Are you kidding me?!"
"Donna, you have to calm down." Phantom said calmly, placing her hands on Donna's shoulders and looked down at her with worry. "You and your sisters only have a few minutes to get school or you'll be late."
"Okay." Donna said as she was calming herself down with slow, deep breaths. "But I swear, if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to find a cure for Sandra and those other lost mystics."
Phantom watched Donna leaving out the lab, but something caught her attention. She saw a bright purple clover shape mark glowing on Donna's head when Donna was struggling to walk her feet.
"Donna, let me you on your feet." Phantom said, scooping Donna in her arms and carried the purple mystic kunoichi out of the lab.
Now completely alone, Sandra's eyes glowed in bright green as she was now staring at the mutagen and formed a small smile on her face.
At Roosevelt High School, the Lotus Ninjas arrived just in time for class. They are now standing in front of their lockers as they are getting ready to begin the new school year. The girls began taking their books for their first classes. But Lee, Ella, and Ellie noticed that Donna was still looking a little pale from this morning. They remembered that their intelligent sister wasn't picking up the pace with them, making Ella carrying Donna on her back like a child on the way to school. Donna knew something's wrong with her, but she chose to ignore it and stay strong because she doesn't want to head back home to rest.
Donna finally took out her textbooks and turned to see her best friend April taking out her books from her locker. She could tell that her redhead friend was feeling different and went over to check on her. Lee, Ella, and Ellie didn't bother to follow and they walked onward to their class, leaving their sister alone with her friend.
"Hi, April." Donna smiled weakly.
"Oh, hey, Donna." April smiled back. She then stared at Donna's skin for a minute. "Um, Donna, are you alright? You look kinda pale. Are you sick or something?"
"No, I'm fine." Donna replied quickly. "Just tired, that's all."
Before April can sympathize her friend, she got tripped and fell on her back to ground. She and Donna spotted a hockey puck on the ground next to the redhead, noticing that it was the one that made her drop to the floor.
"Are you serious?!" April scoffed.
"Oh, I've recognized that puck anywhere." Donna giggled slightly.
That's when Casey approached towards the girls to retrieve his puck with his hockey stick.
"Nice job stopping my puck like that." Casey spoke in a flirty tone. "You've got some moves, Red."
"Hey, Casey." Donna greeted as she helped April off the floor.
"Hey, D." Casey greeted back.
"Um, you could start with sorry." April said, holding her books to her chest.
"Sorry you got in the way. What were you and Donna doing blocking the hall like that anyway?" Casey asked, moving around April and Donna with his eyes still glued on the hockey puck.
"Blocking the...! Exactly who do you think you are?" April demanded.
"You signed up for extra cred, right? Well, rejoice, 'cause I'm the guy you're gonna tutor." Casey grinned as he stood in front of April and leaned on his hockey stick.
"Great." April muttered as she wasn't happy to hear it.
"Look, if I don't pass trig, They'll kick me off the hockey team." Casey explained in a serious tone. "Nobody else wants to tutor me."
"Ask Donna." April said.
"Love to, but I'm booked this week." Donna said. "I have to tutor seven students today and I need someone to tutor him for me."
"Because she's intimidated by my supreme awesomeness just like everyone else." Casey smiled cockily.
"Yeah, in your dreams." Donna smirked.
"So this is you asking me for help? Charming." April scoffed.
April held onto her book tight as she was beginning to feel uncomfortable under Casey's pleading gaze and finally agreed to help him.
"Fine. Meet me at the park at 7:00. Don't be late." April sighed.
"It's a date, then. Nice." Casey smiled.
"Date?" Donna muttered with a hint of jealously.
Donna's voice was so low that neither April or Casey heard what she just said. Then, Casey swung his hockey stick to hit the puck to the water fountain that send it flying into a random girl's face by accident. He noticed it and quickly shrugged off as he began to walk away from April and Donna.
"What's your name anyway?" April asked.
Casey stopped his tracks and turned to stare at April with a cool smile.
"Casey Jones." Casey replied with a wink.
Casey continued to walk off to his class, leaving April and Donna alone.
"Well, get better, Donna." April smiled.
"Okay, thanks." Donna smiled back.
As April walked off to her class, Donna took a deep breath and ran to her class, hoping that she won't be late.
Later on, Ellie was skating across the city rooftops. She spotted a lone pizza box sitting unattended on the rooftop ground with one hot slice inside of it, making her skid to a complete stop.
"Hello? Anyone want this pizza?" Ellie called out suspiciously. Then, she let out a bright smile after she heard no coming response in the air. "Oh well! It's mine!"
Unaware that she was being stalked from the shadows, Ellie moved forward to reach out for the last pizza slice until she got herself pinned down under Lee's foot.
"Yo! What the heck was that?" Ellie yelled.
"A stealth attack, of course" Lee grinned, finishing the pizza slice and taking Ellie's hand to lift her up from the ground. "And that's what we're practicing in today's training session."
"No fair! I didn't see you coming!" Ellie snapped.
"That's why they call it stealth, idiot!" Ellie retorted.
"Besides, why would you eat some random pizza you found on a roof anyway?" Donna asked.
"Because it's my weakness, duh." Ellie sassed.
"Okay, girls, listen up!" Lee instructed. "The two keys to stealth: Misdirection and camouflage. Ella and Ellie, you're up."
"Forget it. I don't wanna do this anymore!" Ellie whined.
Ellie was surprised to see that her older sisters have already vanished from her sight. As she searched around for them, her skates rolled up to her feet that distracted her long enough for Ella to sneak up and jump on her with a wrestle attack.
"Got ya!" Ella smiled.
"Not fair!" Ellie shouted. "Stealth attacks are super lame!"
Donna chuckled as she heard a familiar voice and walked away to the sound of the voice. She looked down to see April studying her textbook on the swing with Casey at the nearby park.
Looks like April's still tutoring Casey. Donna thought. I wonder how the progress is going.
Donna quickly crouched down on the rooftop and quietly listened the conversation on the edge of the rooftop.
"Okay, show me how you solve for x." April said.
"You just dig, right?" Casey replied, not really paying attention and still swinging on the swing. "Cause X marks the spot."
"Have you ever opened this book?" April asked annoyingly, holding the geometry book in her hands.
"School isn't really my thing. When I graduate, I'm becoming either a pro hockey player or an international bounty hunter." Casey explained.
"Those are quite the options." April admitted.
"Who wants a normal life anyway, right?" Casey said.
April silently brushed one strand of hair behind her ear when she heard the word "normal" coming out of Casey.
"Hold still, red. You got a smudge on your face." Casey said with a caring smile.
As Casey began to wipe his thumb across April's cheek, the spying Donna felt her mind completely shattered into broken pieces. She remembered hearing Casey mention the tutor is a date, but she didn't think he meant it. This can't be true!
"He's on a date? I can't believe it! With my friend April." Donna hissed angrily. "This is so not fair!"
Donna leaned in over the side of the roof to listen the conservation clearly, but she suddenly lost her balance on the rooftop and fell straight down into the dumpster. That had alerted April and Casey, who were looking around to find the source of that loud sound.
"Man, this sucks!" Donna snarled, peeking at her two friends from the dumpster.
Back at the Crete Fortress, Donna huddled at her desk in the lab in frustration. Phantom moved over towards the purple mystic kunoichi to notice that she was venting her jealousy over Casey and April.
"They were swinging together! Swinging!" Donna shouted frustratingly. "April was supposed to be tutoring Casey and now they are dating! Why did I make a huge mistake of Casey liking her? Because she's cool, that's why. So what!"
"Donna, you need to relax." Phantom said calmly as she touched her head on Donna's left shoulder. "I think you're just overthinking it too much. April is your best friend. You can't be sure that they're dating."
"Maybe you're right." Donna sighed. "I still need to find a cure."
Phantom took her creator's latest invention and attached a neck collar to Sandra's neck.
"Alright, let's try it out." Phantom said.
Phantom pressed a button on the collar and the device was activated.
"Sandra, can you hear me?" Donna asked, leaning closer to the glass sphere.
"Loud and clear, Donna." Sandra spoke in a deep feminine tone. "Also, I like Casey too. He sounds like a really cool guy."
"Yeah, you and me both." Donna smiled with a chuckle.
Donna then took out three empty glass beakers and a green canister of mutagen to work on the retro-mutagen, but Saldana stood from the opening lab door.
"Donatella, I wish to speak with you." Saldana called.
"Oh, sure." Donna said.
Donna got up from her seat and began to walk out of the lab. Then suddenly, Donna's legs wobbled and the same clover symbol had reappeared on Donna's forehead that caught Phantom's attention. Sandra caught her eye on the mutagen sample that Donna left out on the desk and punched the capsule glass as she began to absorb the canister into her. Before Phantom turned back on her creator's studies, she saw Sandra finished absorbing the canister that increased her powers. But Sandra unleashed a beam of bright green ultraviolet energy from her eyes, sending Phantom crashing through the wall before making her escape out of the fortress.
In the dojo, Donna walked inside the room and sat on the bamboo floor as Saldana did the same thing.
"Tell me, Donatella. Haven't you feel dizzy or sick by any chance?" Saldana asked.
"Did the girls told you?" Donna groaned.
"No, Phantom did." Saldana said. "I felt cautious about your birthmark, Donatella. I may not have any explanation for your condition, but it may have something to do with your new powers."
"My new powers?" Donna echoed. "What about my...?"
That's when Donna realized what her mother was talking about. She remembered Lee was the first kunoichi to gain a new power, but she has a hard time controlling it and lost her control of it about what happened to the power play game and her encounter with Kage. Because of that, Lee can only use her aura sense and water vision instead of manipulating water at will. And now, Donna will gain a new power of her own that will seal her earth powers for use. But she wonders how she will be able to face it while suffering the strange illness.
All of a sudden, Phantom barged herself to the dojo completely damaged.
"Donna, Sandra has escaped!" Phantom informed. "She absorbed the mutagen canister and now she was on the loose in the city!"
"Oh no!" Donna gasped sharply. "Tell the girls! I'll catch up!"
Donna ran back into her lab and researched on her computer to pinpoint the location of the ultraviolet mystic mutant and delivered it to the compact that Phantom gave Leona to carry for the mission. Before she can head out of the lab and into the city, Donna found herself frozen in place. She clapped both hands to her forehead and stumbled backward on the floor.
"What's...happening...to me?" Donna groaned in pain as she fell to her knees.
Donna rolled back and forth on the floor until her eyes popped open. Her eyes turned into bright blazed purple and her entire body had transformed into strong organic steel. She rose up from the floor and slowly exited the Crete Fortress to the city.
Meanwhile, Casey was racing up on his bike with April sitting behind him onto the streets.
"Whoo! Yeah!" April cheered.
"Yes! We did it!" Casey smiled with triumph. He looked back at April. "Is that the crazy stuff you were talking about?"
"You have no idea." April grinned.
Suddenly, Casey skidded his bike to a stop when he and April saw a strange figure flying down towards them from the sky. It was the ultraviolet mystic mutant Sandra! Casey quickly took out a broken piece of pipe and held it tightly as he found themselves face to face with Sandra.
"Casey." Sandra spoke.
"Donna's pet?" Casey gasped. Then, he let out a smirk. "This should be fun."
Casey turned to see April holding out a black tessen in her hand.
"Care to dance?" Casey said with a cocky grin.
"Gladly." April grinned.
Sandra charged forward and fired a green ultraviolet energy blast at the two human teenagers, knocking April and Casey to either side of the street. April got up and swung the tessen blade against Sandra's body, but the attack had no effect and Sandra quickly threw a medium-sized green ultraviolet energy bolt to hit the redhead teenager that send April flying few feet away from the ultraviolet mystic mutant, leaving April dazed to the ground.
"Now, I shall finish you." Sandra said in a threatening tone.
As Sandra moved to finish April off, she got hit in the face by Casey's broken piece of pipe.
"Leave her alone, freak!" Casey yelled.
Casey went on hitting the ultraviolet mystic mutant with the pipe, making Sandra stumble back as she doesn't want to hurt him. April was recovered from the hit and looked at the fight between Casey and Sandra.
"Wow. For a hockey boy, he can fight." April muttered.
"Wait a minute! You shouldn't be fighting me! I just want to be your friend!" Sandra begged.
"Really? Because a real friend wouldn't show up and attack us for their own crazy desires!" Casey countered.
Together, Casey and April joined forces to take on Sandra successfully that forced the ultraviolet mystic mutant to the ground. But when Sandra started to face up at the charging April, she took the opportunity to punch the redhead teenager with a green ultraviolet fist that send April flying down the road. Casey went over to attack Sandra from behind, but the ultraviolet mystic mutant instantly snared the human boy with a long green ultraviolet energy tentacle from her right hand. Sandra slowly moved forward to approach the downed Casey, who was struggling to break free.
Just as Sandra loomed over Casey, April came running up with her tessen to slice the tentacle and grabbed Casey to his bike. Casey and April raced to the bike as they took off back onto the streets. Unfortunately, Sandra was unexpectedly fast and came flying after the teenagers as she was able to catch up to them.
"I can't pick up the pace! She's fast!" Casey noted.
"Not fast for this!" April said.
April threw her tessen straight at Sandra's face before flying back to its owner's hand, causing Sandra to stumble over herself and crashed herself to the nearby street light pole.
"Alright! Yeah!" Casey cheered.
"Yeah! Yes!" April smiled.
With that, Casey and April made their escape from Sandra's wrath.
After Casey and April are gone, Sandra got back on her feet and levitated herself in midair.
"No!" Sandra hissed. "Casey's mine!"
"Not on our watch, greenie!" A familiar voice said.
Sandra looked around for the source of that voice and found two mystic kunoichis appearing towards her.
"Wow, Phantom's right. Sandra has been absorbing mutagen." Ella said. "You're not going anywhere!"
"Don't try and stop me!" Sandra snapped.
Sandra was about to chase after Casey, but Ellie got in her way.
"What happened to you, Sandra? You're starting to act like Ultrafire." Ellie said.
Sandra, now currently named as Ultrafire, hissed in frustration and blasted out a large green ultraviolet energy beam that send two mystic kunoichis flying few inches away from her. Ultrafire then slammed her foot into Ella's chest while knocking Ellie into the store window.
"Ellie!" Ella cried.
But unfortunately, Ella found herself trapped in the enemy's wrath as Ultrafire aimed her hand in front of the red mystic kunoichi's face to finish her off. Lucky for Ella, Lee came to the rescue and kicked Ultrafire away from her younger sister. Lee helped Ella back on her feet and Ellie went to join them after recovery as they are forced to back away when Ultrafire hovered above them with a dangerous look on her face.
Before three mystic kunoichis are ready to fight the ultraviolet mystic mutant, a giant metal hand landed between the fight as if it was protecting Ultrafire. Everyone turned to the source of that loud screech and saw Donna walking slowly towards them. But she looked completely different. Donna's entire skin was replaced by strong organic steel, her eyes are blazing bright purple, and her face looked completely dangerous as if she was numbed from any emotions. On the top of her forehead was a glowing purple clover birthmark.
"Is that what I think it is?" Lee asked her younger sisters.
"No way." Ellie muttered in surprise.
Lee, Ella, Ellie, and Ultrafire watch Donna lifting the metal hand away from them in the air.
"Let me talk to her." Donna spoke in a monotone tone.
"Are you crazy?!" Ella yelled in disbelief. "You have no idea what that thing is capable of."
"She's right, Donna!" Ultrafire yelled. "Casey is my friend and no one else! You all hurt me for turning me into this! Now, you will pay!"
But before Ultrafire could attack, Donna waved her hand to control the giant metal hand at her will. The giant metal hand grabbed Ultrafire tightly as every metal that Donna summoned were floating in the air and shaped themselves into a large number of metal fists. With a snap of Donna's fingers, all of the metal fists fired towards Ultrafire multiple times in rapid succession. Donna smiled viciously down at Ultrafire, who was dealing massive damage in pain.
"Donna, stop!" Lee shouted.
Donna's vicious smile grew, but her eyes returned back to normal in a snap and she gasped sharply. Donna stared at her metallic body for a second and collapsed onto the ground with a thud. Then, Ultrafire couldn't gain enough strength to walk over and pound her as she collapsed hard onto the ground. Lee, Ella, and Ellie ran over to help Donna on her feet.
"Are you okay?" Ellie asked in concern.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Donna replied with heavy breaths.
"What just happened to Ultrafire?" Lee asked.
"She's out of mutagen as her energy source." Donna explained. "Let's get her into the Sonicruiser."
In the Sonicruiser, Lee drove through the streets on the way back to the Crete Fortress.
"Okay, remind me one more time why we're bringing green light here back to the fortress?" Ella asked.
"Because all my Casey talk made her want a friend, Ella." Donna said. "It's all because she was lonely in her lab."
"That still doesn't explain why you went all metal crazy on her back there." Lee said.
"What happened to you after you fought Ultrafire?" Ellie asked.
Before Donna could explain everything, her eyes caught Sandra waking up from her consciousness and watched the mystic mutant drinking up on the mutagen in the vehicle. The Lotus Ninjas didn't have time to react as the powered up Ultrafire crashed through the back of the Sonicruiser in search of Casey.
"Here we go again!" Ella groaned.
"Let's split up and find her!" Lee ordered.
"No need for that." Donna stated. "We already know where she's heading."
Meanwhile, Casey was riding his bike back home after delivering April to her home apartment. Ultrafire spotted him from the rooftops and trying to catch up to him, but a sudden bolt of ice hit her at the back that made her fall to the ground as if it was meant to prevent her from getting to Casey.
"Don't even think about going to Casey's home." Ella grinned. "Because he's totally unavailable."
"Keep her on the rooftop." Lee ordered her sisters.
The Lotus Ninjas charged forward to fight against Ultrafire, who has proved to be stronger than the four mystic combine. But that's when Donna has an idea as she had signaled the plan to her sisters, who understood it real quick. The girls casted a spell that completely turned them invisible from naked eye, forcing Ultrafire to search for them.
"Where are you, cowards?!" Ultrafire demanded.
Ella charged forward to attack Ultrafire's face with a blast of fire, Lee came up from behind to send out several ice covered kicks into Ultrafire's back, and Ellie delivered an impressive sonic scream that knocked Ultrafire to the ground, leaving Donna out in the open for Ultrafire to confront. Donna was holding a mutagen canister in her hand, but she started to lose control of her will when she turned her entire skin into metal once more. Ultrafire charged forward to snatch the mutagen out of Donna's hands, but Donna unleashed endless array of metal spears that send Ultrafire flying away from her. Donna smiled for the control of her powers and tossed the canister to hit the ground near the mystic mutant, popping it open in the process. Ultrafire let out a delighted smile and drank up the ooze only for her to realize something was wrong with herself.
"Donna, what did you do to me?" Ultrafire demanded worryingly.
Ultrafire knew that it was too late for her fate as her entire body began to freeze in front of the girls' eyes.
"I'm sorry, Sandra." Donna said sadly. "One day, I will find a cure for you."
"It's okay, you guys." Ella grinned as her hands are rested on Donna's shoulder. "But for now, let's go home."
Back at the Crete Fortress, the Lotus Ninjas are watching an episode of Ace Crown. Well, all except Donna of course. Donna was sleeping on the couch with Phantom examining her creator with her x-ray vision.
"How is she?" Saldana asked with concern.
"She's fine. She just need some rest." Phantom explained. "She told me that she'll never control herself again."
"Controlling her new power is the choice Donna must choose to accept." Saldana stated. "We must let her control it in her own time."
"But what if she doesn't?" Phantom asked.
"Never lose hope, Phantom." Saldana responded. "She never lost hope when she created you. So, she expects you do the same."
Phantom looked up to the TV and watched the male human character kisses the purple female robot nerd for having hopes for him after saving him from the evil alien ship.
"Yeah, there's always hope." Phantom smiled.