Summary: The Lotus are captured and thrown into Aqua's starship laboratory.


In the main room of the Shadow Clan, Lady Shade sat quietly in her throne chair. Tigress pixeled herself on the floor in the room and released a loud roar in the air. The Lotus Ninjas stood on the left side of the room while leaning against the wall as if they are down to test some new upgrades to the hologram simulation.

"Oh, yeah, baby!" Ellie cheered.

"You got this, Lee!" Donna cheered.

"Hit her hard, sis!" Ella cheered.

"Let's hope the upgrades Rosetta promised are good to our improvement." Lee smiled as she stretched her arms and legs.

Lee walked forward from the wall to the fighting battle and released a playful smirk at Tigress on her face before getting into her fighting stance. Tigress hissed angrily and got into her fighting stance.

"FIGHT!" Lady Shade hollered.

Lee charged forward to attack first as she stood on one leg to the floor and quickly extended her other leg at Tigress's face with incredible speed and power. Tigress growled and ran towards Lee to slash her rapidly with her burnt orange energy claws repeatedly, but Lee blocked the attack with a medium-sized blue psychic energy shield. Lee jumped up with her feet in the air and twirled her upside-down body to attack Tigress with her legs like helicopter blades. Tigress became dizzy for the moment, making Lee smile for the perfect opportunity to strike.

"Haaaaaahh...!" Lee cried. She gathered the full force of her psychic energy in her palms and then released an omni-directional sphere of blue psychic energy that hit Tigress with full force. "Kikosho!"

That powerful attack defeated Tigress and she got herself pixeled into nothingness. For her outstanding victory, Lee performed a flip and crossed her arms with a winking pose and a victorious grin.

"Substitution: Michelle." Lady Shade spoke.

Lee walked back to her younger sisters, who were cheering for her outstanding victory.

"Totally wrong game for kikosho, sis." Ellie chided.

Ellie walked forward to the fighting battle and got into her fighting stance with a firm look on her face when Galva pixeled herself on the floor in the room and released a loud shriek before getting into her fighting stance.

"FIGHT!" Lady Shade hollered.

Ellie winked at Galva with a grin and dashed forward to unleash a flurry of fast berserker punches and kicks before finally kicking the goo mystic mutant away. That incredibly fast attack made Galva dizzy for a minute, giving Ellie the chance to finish the battle. Ellie had charged forward and relentlessly knocked Galva around the battlefield with a series of powerful blows delivered in different poses until she immediately defeated Galva with a final kick blow. For her outstanding victory, Ellie breakdanced on the floor and did a pose with her two finger salute.

"KO! Michelle wins!" Lady Shade announced.

"Oh, yeah! That's how I roll." Ellie smiled proudly.

Ellie walked back to her older sisters as Donna and Ella stepped past her with smiles on their faces.

"Oh please, that was nothing compared to the best." Ella scoffed.

"Now, watch and learn." Donna said.

Ella and Donna stepped forward to the fighting battle to fight against Jinx and Crystallia, who were suddenly pixeled into nothingness. The entire Shadow Clan main room stage has changed into a holographic training room with blue grids in the floor and green grids in the walls.

"No fair!" Donna and Ella groaned.

"I'm sorry, girls. But Galaxina and I need you four in the main room immediately." Rosetta spoke from the intercom.


The Lotus Ninjas immediately exited out the hologram simulation room and entered into the ship's main room.

"What is it, Captain?" Lee asked.

"I have received a message from the Cristallum mothership." Rosetta explained. "Erin told me that one of the Witches Six had stolen the first talisman from them and we must retrieve it back."

Rosetta placed a button on the control panel and a holographic image popped up in the center of the room. The image showed a light blue spherical ship sitting at the center of a giant black star-shaped spaceship. A profile information of the spaceship had popped up on the screen that caught everyone's attention.

"This is Aqua's spaceship. She's known as a scientific researcher with the power over ice and nano robots on her victims." Rosetta stated.

"So, I believe our best point is the ship's air lock." Lee said. "We can take the Galaxy Boards to sneak aboard."

"Also, I'm certain that the first talisman of the Cosmo Escalation weapon is being stored in Aqua's main storage." Rosetta added calmly. "Galaxina will remain on the ship with me and monitor your progress."

"Sure, I'm on it." Galaxina said with a nod.

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie gathered together in a huddle circle.

"Alright, girls, Operation Infiltrate Witch Ship is a go." Lee said to her sisters.


The Lotus Ninjas exited out of the Nexus and headed over to the giant spaceship in their jetboard vehicles. They had managed to get to the ship with no problem at all.

"We're at the air lock, Rosetta." Lee said to her space visor.

"It's somehow unguarded, but you four must remain cautious." Rosetta said from the girls' space visors.

"Relax, Rosetta. We're kunoichis. Trust me, we can handle this." Ellie said reassuringly.

The Lotus Ninjas carefully leaned backwards to decelerate their boards for landing in an act of camouflage and they hopped off their boards to sneak inside the ship.


Inside the spaceship, the Lotus Ninjas took a peek around the ship interior and walked down a winding hallway in stealth mode.

"Okay, we're in, Captain." Lee said through her space visor. "Which way should we go?"

"You four should lead down that hallway and you'll find the armory." Rosetta instructed.

"You know, this will be much easier than encountering more crazy aliens." Ellie said with a smile.

But Ellie spoke too soon when she and her older sisters are suddenly confronted by two tall robots, who are standing emotionlessly in front of them. They have blue metal skin with ten steel blue removable speaker-like components attached to their bodies, longer arms and legs, and stumped feet.

"Aw, dang." Ella groaned.

"Heh, spoke too soon." Ellie chuckled nervously.

The robots released the disks from their bodies and the disks were levitating in front of the four mystics in a circle.

"Can I be the first to say retreat?" Rosetta asked from the girls' space visors.

"Agreed! Back to the air lock, girls!" Lee cried.

The Lotus Ninjas turned around and took off running while the robots sprinted themselves fast behind them. The robots fired powerful sonic blasts at the mystics, causing them to scream at the top of their lungs while running away as fast as they could. Lee, Donna, Ella, and Ellie raised their hands to unleash many psychic energy blasts at the robots, but the disks formed force fields out of sonic waves that are strong enough to deflect the blasts from harming the robots.

Then, the robots projected powerful sonic blasts within the disks that knocked the Lotus Ninjas to the floor unconsciously.

Before the robots can finish the girls off, a hologram of their creator's face appeared in front of them.

"Nanobots, status report." The light blue witch alien demanded.

"These lifeforms were trying to infiltrate the ship." One of the Nanobots reported.

"We'll dispose them." The other Nanobots said.

"That won't be necessary." The light blue witch alien said calmly. "It certainly amuse me that neither Azura, Rosa, Chiffon, nor Jade couldn't defeat them. Take these four ladies to the Mosaic Lab."

The Nanobots used their disks to trap the girls in a transparent steel blue sound energy sphere. They raised the sphere up with one hand and began to teleport out of the hallway to the laboratory.


The Nanobots arrived inside the Mosaic Lab and stepped forward into the laboratory along with the sphere that carried the girls. Ellie slowly woke up first and her eyes widened in shock as she pressed her hands on the sphere and looked around the lab. The entire laboratory has many advanced computer terminals and heavy machinery. Lee, Ella, and Donna started to wake up from their unconscious state and they observed around the lab in awe.

"Let us out of here, you tin cans!" Ella yelled.

"Don't waste your time, Ella." Donna said. "This sphere is made out of sound waves that can't be broken nor destroyed."

"If only I have my sound maic, I'll get us out of here with a snap." Ellie added.

"Don't worry, girls." Lee said reassuringly. "I'm sure Rosetta and Galaxina are working on a rescue plan right about now."


Back on the Nexus, Rosetta and Galaxina realized that they couldn't track the Lotus Ninjas from the spaceship.

"So, you're saying that we can't find them?" Galaxina questioned firmly. "Something must be wrong when they went in that ship."

A blue Levian flew up towards Rosetta and reported the mystics' current location within the ship in a non-understandable language.

"The Levians have found them." Rosetta said to Galaxina.

Two green Levians touched their hands on the screen and two female aliens stared out at the pinpoint image from the view screen that was coming from Aqua's spaceship.

"Oh, my, it seems the Lotus are taken inside the Mosaic Laboratory." Rosetta said. "There's no telling what that alien can do to them."

"Well, we can't just sit here." Galaxina said determinedly. "We have to go get them."

"The Levians could control the ship." Rosetta said. "The two of us can sneak aboard and find the talisman while the Nanos are distracted. I just hope the Lotus are alright."


Back in the Mosaic Laboratory, the Nanobots made their way closer into the darkness. The Lotus Ninjas could see the entire battlefield with their own eyes, except it was more of an icicle-filled room. As the Nanobots reached to the center of the battlefield, the light blue witch alien entered the room and smiled at the four mystics as she made her way closer towards them.

"My Nanobots picked up intruders in my ship, but I didn't expect it to be you mystic Lotus." Aqua said.

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie briefly looked at each other before looking back at Aqua with glares. The Nanobots released the mystics from the sound energy sphere and then moved away into the darkness. The Lotus Ninjas were about to raise their hands up into their offensive stances, but Aqua was already anticipating their move.

"I don't think so!" Aqua said with a cruel smile.

As Aqua snapped her fingers, four Nanobots appeared beside their creator and aimed their disks automatically at the mystics.

"Fire!" Aqua ordered her Nanobots.

The Nanobots began firing a round of sound energy blasts at the Lotus Ninjas that easily knocked them out. The four mystics collapsed onto the ground while groaning in pain.

"Perfect shot." Aqua smiled. She leaped over to the balcony up above the battlefield and sat on her throne chair. "Let's see if you four can handle against my Nanobots."

"You won't get away with this!" Lee shouted. "We have a score to settle with you because you took the talisman from the Cristallums!"

"Thanks to my Nanobots." Aqua said. "They obeyed my every command at my will. I will use them to steal the other two talismans that those Cristallums will ever need to complete their precious mission. But in the meantime, my Nanobots shall take care of you. Nanobots, make them suffer!"

The Nanobots obeyed and began firing several sound blasts after the Lotus Ninjas, who were frozen in shock. Aqua watched the battle with amusement from her throne seat.


Meanwhile, Galaxina and Rosetta quietly snuck inside Aqua's spaceship and managed to get past the Nanobot security forces with stealth and cunning. They have already ran around several hallways and finally found the armory as they approached to the closed door.

"The talisman is in there." Rosetta said.

"I'm on it." Galaxina said with a nod.

Galaxina concentrated on her powers to walk through the door of the armory and phased back out with talisman in her hands.

"Well, we got the first talisman of the cosmo escalation weapon." Galaxina said. "Now we need to find the girls."

"Let's go." Rosetta said.

Rosetta and Galaxina ran through the halls to search their friends during this time of crisis.


Back to the Mosaic Lab, the Lotus Ninjas stood in place when several sound blasts began to race after them. Before the four mystics could defend themselves against the attack, one Nanobot stepped in front of the girls and used his disks to protect them with a sound force field. The Nanobot has red metal skin contrasted to the rest of the Nanobots.

Then, the Nanobot waved his arms up in the air and created a storm of sound waves from his disks. The four mystics stared in awe as they watched many powerful omnidirectional sound energy waves flying across the large battlefield, destroying the Nanobots at once in a wide area. The rest of the Nanobots were damaged and deactivated on the ground.

"Thank you." Lee said. "What's your name?"

"I'm Vol." The red Nanobot replied.

"But why are you helping us, Vol?" Ellie asked.

"I was once a respected Nanobot in Aqua's command, but I became a traitor when I had developed a will of my own and refused to take any more orders." Vol explained.

"Vol!" Aqua hissed from her throne. "How dare you return after your demise?"

"After you so-called destroyed me, I have managed to download what was left into one Nanobot's body and rebuilt myself in the progress." Vol responded.

"Then, allow me to finish you off and this time permanently!" Aqua shouted. "Fire!"

The Nanobots fired another round of sound energy blasts at Vol, who didn't even have a chance to guard the attack that time. He took the attack on at full force and cried in pain as his body was broken and damaged by the bullets, making him collapse on his knees while trying to fight his pain.

"See what betrayal get you?" Aqua said. "You have grown too much free will and now I will extinguish that forever."

As Vol continued to cry in pain, the Lotus Ninjas charged forward and delivered several fast psychic energy blasts at the Nanobots one by one.

The double doors swung open again with the Galaxina and Rosetta entering the scene in time. Aqua was prepared for them as well and launched orbs of light blue energy, but the two alien heroines protected themselves from the attack with force fields.

Vol managed to pick his head up and saw how the Lotus Ninjas are fighting against the controlled Nanobots to save him. He broke free from the sound energy blasts and got up from the ground to fight back with the others. Galaxina and Rosetta hurled balls of energy at Aqua, who got blasted instantly by the attacks and threw back to her defeated Nanobots.

"Everyone, follow me! I know a way out of here!" Rosetta shouted.

With Aqua and the rest of the Nanobots defeated, the Lotus Ninjas and Galaxina ran out of the Mosaic Lab to follow Rosetta into the hallway and straight back into the airlock exit. Vol looked back at his creator with a glare on his face before following the others. Galaxina opened the airlock and the seven heroes were sucked out into space. Vol raised his arms apart and used his disks to protect the heroines with a sound energy force field, floating them to the waiting stealth starship in a short distance. Rosetta used his powers to levitate the four Galaxy Boards back to the Nexus.

But Vol flew out of the Nexus that caught the heroines' attention.

"What are you doing, Vol?" Ellie asked with a shout.

"You have to find the other two talismans before the Witches Six does!" Vol shouted back. "I already made my alliance with the Cristallums after I rebuilt my body! But don't worry we'll see each other again soon!"

With that, Vol waved his hand at the heroines and flew forward into the deep part of space.

The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta got into the ship's main room and Rosetta commanded the Levians to escape the witch starship before Aqua can sent her Nanobots after them. The Nexus had warped away safely from Aqua's ship.


Back at the Nexus, everyone took a breather inside the main room.

"Now, that was a close call." Donna said as she took a deep breath.

"I still can't believe we fought against Aqua's Nanobots and ran out her starship!" Ella said excitedly.

"I'm just excited to get your battle right on time." Galaxina said with a smile as she stood between Donna and Ella.

"Well, we wouldn't have made it without Vol." Ellie said.

"One talisman down and two more to go." Lee said to Rosetta. "Where will we find the next one, Captain?"

"I know just the certain person who can help us find the rest." Rosetta said. "Levians, full speed ahead!"

The Levians obeyed Rosetta's command and the Nexus soared itself into the next area of outer space.