Summary: The Lotus journey through a ghostly planet of space.


Lee and Saldana are meditating in the dojo on the bamboo floor.

"What troubles you so, my daughter?" Saldana asked.

"Mother, we've always managed to fight back and overcome defeat." Lee said. "But this is different. We've got one chance to save the Earth. If we don't get the second talisman of the Cosmo Escalation, we've lost everything and it can't let that happen or it'll all be on me."

"You must not give in to despair, Leona." Saldana said calmly. "You all must remain diligent to save the Earth."

"But what if we can't?" Lee asked sadly.

"You must hold on to hope and lead by example." Saldana said wisely. "You all have become true worthy heroes. And no matter what may come, you have all made me very proud."

"Hai, mother." Lee said with a smile.

Saldana smiled back as she was pixeled into nothingness, causing the dojo to change into a holographic training room. Lee looked up at the room and sighed heavily.


In the ship's main room, three mystics and two aliens were minding their own business. Donna sat in her station to check on the star maps with Ella standing next to her with crossed arms. Ellie sat in her station with boredom. Rosetta was maintaining the ship's control. The Levians were examining the ship's functions on the screen. And Galaxina was gazing at the stars from the large view screen, but she looked around the room to notice that Lee isn't with the crew.

"Hey, where's Lee?" Galaxina asked.

"In the holo-room. She's been talking to the simulator...again." Donna replied.

"I think it's not healthy for her talking to a hologram of Saldana all the time." Ella said.

"Look, we miss her too, but Lee just needs her more than the rest of us right now." Ellie said softly. "She'll be okay."

"Even though the simulator contains only the memories of the real Saldana, the psychic reading will allow her to at least talk to her." Rosetta explained.

"But it's not the same thing, Rosetta." Ella said firmly.

Suddenly, the door went open automatically and Lee came in the main control room with a calm look on her face. She walked past Galaxina and Ella without even noticing their worried looks, but she noticed that no one hasn't say one word when she walked in the room. Rosetta was the first one to break the silence.

"Leona, you're just in time." Rosetta said with a smile.

"For what?" Lee asked.

"My friends, welcome to the planet Gaean!" Rosetta announced.

Everyone looked at the view screen and saw a large spherical planet straight ahead. The planet itself was midnight blue with black star-like dots scattered around with amazed eyes. But only Donna and Ellie's eyes were widened wide open in astonishment.

"Incredible." Galaxina said in awe.

"According to the database, Gaean was a home for vast omnipotent beings." Rosetta clarified. "The second talisman of the Cosmo Escalation will lie within that planet."

"So, let's do this." Lee said to the Levians.

The Levians understood and typed their hands on the touchscreen to set the starship down on a nearby planet.

Unknown to everyone on the Nexus, a red spherical ship caught up to the ship from behind.

"So, this is the ship my comrades told me about." A female alien spoke. "They have defeated my teammates, but now they will deal with the leader."


As the Nexus passed through the planet's atmosphere, the Lotus Ninjas and Galaxina looked at the view window to see modern steam-punkish landmass down below. They saw numerous spherical towering buildings with static force-fields that contained special portals that allowed its inhabitants to enter and exit.

"Here we are." Rosetta said. "Gaean is the home of the Sotorans, who have been entrusted to protect the second Cosmo Escalation talisman."

"Wow! It's like a stream punk world!" Donna exclaimed with a huge smile.

"And it looks like we got company." Galaxina said, pointing her finger upward at the view screen.

Everyone looked at the view screen and saw two female humanoid aliens coming in their way. They both have slender blue translucent ghostly bodies constructed with pure energy. They have four sharp fingers on each hand and long flowing bright bluish green hair tendrils. They wore a black armored one-piece swimsuit-like dress. The Sotorans phased through the ship's main room and observed the crew cautiously.

"Greetings! This is the sigil of the Utrom!" Rosetta said, holding a small metallic sphere with a symbol of the Utroms to the Sotorans.

The female Sotorans widened their eyes in surprise and bowed with respect to the visitors that carried the Utrom symbol, escorting the crew to the castle to meet their leader. The Xerosic landed on the landmass ground and the crew followed the Sotorans to the dark spacial castle at the center of the spherical towering buildings that resembled as a brooding, crown-shaped fortress. The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta walked into the throne room to see a male Sotoran king sitting on his throne seat. He has a tall, lithe body with silver-golden yellow eyes, dull pale-gray skin, and glossy black hair that is styled to come out as slick spikes from the back of his head. He wore a long, black robe with a V-neck line that obscured his entire body like a ghostly shadow.

"Welcome to Gaean, outworlders." The Sotoran King greeted with a kind, friendly smile. "I'm King Avian, Ruler of the Sotorans."

"Greetings, King Avian." Lee said. She bowed at the king's presence as her sisters and her alien friends did the same. "My name is Leona and these are my companions."

"Hello." Ellie said with a sweet smile.

"We come bearing the sigil of the Utrom!" Rosetta said, holding a small metallic sphere in her hands. "We seek the talisman of the Cosmo Escalation weapon that you have in your possession."

"You all may rise." King Avian said.

"Thank you, your Majesty." Galaxina said as she and her friends rose from the ground.

"The Utrom entrusted the talisman to me, so that the wrong hands will never claim it. But if you are truly worthy, which one of you is leader?" King Avian wondered.

Lee stepped forward from the team with a determined look on her face.

"And how are you worth, child?" King Avian questioned.

"Because my team and I have fought huge battles, saved whole planets, and on top of everything else, we saw the destruction of our world." Lee explained. "We've been given a second chance to save Earth and we're gonna use the Cosmo Escalation to help our planet for good."

"Hmm, indeed." King Avian said. "But if you really desire the talisman, you must face the challenge to receive it. You all must work together to get it. But if you fail the task, then you won't be worthy enough to take it freely."

"We accept the challenge." Lee said boldly. She turned around to face her team. "Let's do this!"


The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta had arrived their way to the second talisman's location at the vast alien temple. The temple itself looked like a huge pyramid surrounded by gigantic thorn vines. Four mystics and two aliens approached inside the temple as they made it inside quietly and walked into the dark hallway until they arrived in a huge room that has large vines and many statues scattered around with a pool of warm water flowing in the background. The team stood around, trying to figure out what to do next. But Lee looked at the dark hallway carefully with narrow eyes and Galaxina seemed to notice it.

"Lee, what's wrong?" Galaxina asked.

"I don't know." Lee replied firmly. "But I'm starting to get the feeling that someone is following us."

"What makes you think that?" Galaxina asked again.

To answer Galaxina's question, a sudden bolt of red energy came charging towards Lee and Galaxina from the dark hallway. Lee's eyes widened wide and she quickly moved Galaxina out of the way, causing the attack to hit the statue into bits. Everyone took a quick look at the dark hallway and watched a squad of robotic dragons walked forward with a female alien stepping out of the dark. The female alien has a slender, athletic build and a curvaceous body. She has pure red skin, cyan shoulder-length hair tied off into two loose ponytails, and piercing purple eyes. She wore a black-collared, red bodysuit with a black utility belt marking the red star logo goes around her waist. Also, she has black combat boots and black fingerless gloves.

"So, you must be the goody two shoes that my team had failed to eliminate." The female alien greeted with a sinister laugh. "It's nice to meet you all. I'm Scarlet, the leader of the Witches Six. And I will be the one to end your lives and collect those two talismans with me!"

The heroines braced themselves for battle as Scarlet snapped her fingers and the dragon robots shot a spreadshot of fireballs at them from their mouths. The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta moved out of the way before huddling back together. The heroines charged forward to give a full-on attack. Lee dashed forward to release fast blasts of blue psychic energy to destroy toward the dragon robots. Ellie created a small bolt made of orange psychic energy appeared above her palm and flung out her hand to send it flying at the dragon robots at her sight. Donna spun around and sent clover-shaped blasts of purple psychic energy at the dragon robots in her way. Ella summoned a red psychic energized arrow between her hands and then shot it toward the incoming dragon robots. Galaxina collected energy in her right index finger and released it in the form of a pale blue energy beam that split into multiple beams to shoot forward toward the dragon robots.

Unfortunately for the heroines, more robotic dragons stood around their master for any further instruction. Rosetta quickly created a light blue energy ball between her hands and tossed it in the air, creating the fireworks to land around Scarlett and the dragon robots. Scarlett started to dodge them while every robotic dragons got blown up one by one.

"Quickly, run, follow me!" Rosetta called out.

Lee, Ella, Donna, Ellie, and Galaxina quickly followed Rosetta down into the giant skull wall tunnel. They rushed through the tunnel with Rosetta's left fist to light the others into the darkness as they are doing their best to escape the female witch alien chasing after them. Scarlett and two last robotic dragons headed to the center tunnel in hopes to get to the heroines. The girls continued to rush through the tunnel, knowing that Scarlet and her robots are still behind them to try gain up to them fast.

Then, the heroines rushed into a cave and found a little river that has a fallen log over it.

"It's a drawbridge!" Galaxina said.

"Oh great! What now?" Ellie exclaimed.

"We have to keep going!" Rosetta exclaimed.

Ella turned around and saw Scarlet gaining onto the others with her robots fast.

"She's coming!" Ella screamed.

"Then, let's move!" Lee exclaimed.

The heroines began making their way across the log, trying their best to be careful and not falling into the river. Lee, Ellie, Galaxina, Ella, and Rosetta made it across the log as they arrived at the other side. They looked up to see Scarlet and her robots arriving at the opening almost upon them.

"She's heading this way!" Galaxina exclaimed in alarm.

But Donna was the last one to get across the log bridge with her very best. The others had to urge the purple mystic to keep moving.

"Hurry, Donna!" Galaxina exclaimed.

"Come on, Donna! Put your back into it!" Ellie exclaimed in concern.

"Let's go, come on!" Rosetta exclaimed in worry.

Suddenly, Donna stopped in the middle of the log bridge as if she had an idea on her mind.

"Donna, what are you doing?" Lee asked in alarm. "Come on!"

"Hang on! I got an idea!" Donna exclaimed with a smirk. "A goo trap spell!"

"A goo trap spell? Are you crazy?" Lee and Ella yelled in disbelief.

Donna grinned as she twirled her index finger around with light purple magic and pointed her magic at the log from behind, creating a black goo to appear right onto the bridge as she continued to move straight across. The others cheered her on, encouraging the purple mystic kunoichi to move on.

Soon, Scarlet arrived with her dragon robots emitting light energy from their mouths.

"Hey, ladies! We have some unfinished business to take care of!" Scarlet smiled sinisterly.

Once Donna made it across the log bridge, the team made a run for it. Scarlet snapped her fingers and her robotic dragons fired off light blue energy lasers at the heroines. But each laser missed the four mystics and two aliens. Galaxina protected the group with a pale blue energy force field, allowing the heroines to escape from the witch alien and her robots once again.

The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta had ended up in another cave as they stopped to get some deep breaths and knew that they won't be safe for long as long as Donna's spell will be able to slow them down.

"Man, that was close." Ellie said.

Everyone recovered their strengths and looked around the area. The place was small with ancient, hieroglyphic writing on the floor shaped like a circle. There was also a cave in front of us. The heroines walked towards the circle.

"We made it to the final trial." Rosetta said as she looked down at the circle.

"What does it say?" Donna asked.

"Defeat the Vulpin. Don't lose." Rosetta read.

"Wait, what?" Ellie said shockingly.

Suddenly, the heroines heard a noise coming from the cave and saw a giant black dog-like alien creature came out with a somewhat apelike posture. He has no eyes, ears, nose, or tail as if he relied on his sense of smell and hearing. He has three gill-like nostrils located on each side of his neck. His teeth are very defined and stick out of his mouth. He released a fearsome roar at the heroines.

"We're supposed to fight that?" Lee said.

"Oh, I'll gladly take him on." Ella agreed as she cracked her knuckles in preparation.

"What? You against that thing? But he has twice the strength than you!" Galaxina said.

"I've taken a lot of big, tough guys back on Earth." Ella scoffed. "So, this is nothing. But don't worry, I can definitely take him."

"Well, good luck." Ellie cheered.

Ella walked up to the Vulpin as they both got ready for her match.

"Alright, big boy. Bring it on." Ella said with a grin.

Vulpin growled at Ella as he and the red mystic got into a fighting stance. Ella slowly warmed up red psychic energy from her left clenched fist and charged forward to punch the creature right in the kisser that sent him tumbling. The creature got back up and gave the red mystic a furious growl. Ella unloaded a machine-gun barrage of red psychic energy bolts, but Vulpin ran through them without getting damage and grabbed Ella by the arms. Ella was struggling to break free and Vulpin threw her to the wall. Donna, Lee, Ellie, Rosetta, and Galaxina gasped at that sight. But luckily, Ella got back up and dashed forward to unleash a series of rapid red psychic energized punches to the fierce creature. Vulpin got Ella by the throat and threw a punch that propelled her far across the floor before launching into a leap that crushed the red mystic kunoichi on the gut.

"Oh no! She's not gonna make it!" Rosetta said.

"Wait, look." Galaxina pointed out.

Surprisingly, Ella lifted Vulpin with her great strength and threw him away from her to the ground.

"You're good, big boy. But this is a fight you cannot win." Ella said with a small smile.

Vulpin growled at Ella again and bounced off a far wall to deliver a series of high-speed blows at her, but Ella dodged each blow in a rapid speed and charged her psychic energy to perform a powerful one-inch punch that knocked the creature away. Vulpin fell on his stomach and groaned in defeat, making Ella the winner of the match. The others cheered on Ella's victory.

"Wow, Ella! That was amazing!" Galaxina said.

"Yeah, that was incredible!" Rosetta said.

"It was no trouble." Ella grinned.

"Uh, guys. He's getting up again." Ellie said in alarm.

Lee, Donna, Ella, Ellie, Galaxina, and Rosetta looked to see Vulpin getting back up once again. But this time, he didn't attack. He lifted his finger and pointed to the pathway as if he wanted them to proceed.

"I think he wants us to go in." Donna said.

"Let's move." Lee said.

Lee ran through the dark pathway. Donna, Ellie, Galaxina, and Rosetta followed. Before Ella can follow them, Vulpin moved to her face and gave her a big lick as if he likes her. Ella giggled with a smile and winked at the creature before following after her three sisters and two aliens.


Meanwhile, Scarlet and her robots are trying to get across the log bridge as they were unaware of the slime on it. They can't let the heroines get away. They began crossing the log with slow balance, heading to the same spot where Donna has casted goo on earlier.

Suddenly, Scarlett's legs got stuck on the goo and was unable to move on.

"Help me!" Scarlet commanded her robots.

The two robotic dragons walked onto the bridge to help their master, but Donna's goo got them stuck as well that made Scarlet groan in frustration. As Scarlet and her robots are now trapped on the log, her eyes caught the water raising very fast in her direction and screamed frantically as the huge wave of water splashed onto her and her robots.


The Lotus Ninjas finally made it into a room where they saw the second talisman glowing throughout the center of the room. The talisman looked like a hand mirror. The mirror itself has a golden handle and frame with the back colored deep aqua green.

"Finally. The second talisman." Lee said.

"The Wisdom Mirror." Rosetta said.

"Let's grab and head back to the kingdom pronto." Galaxina said as she and the others began walking towards the talisman.

"Not so fast." A familiar voice said.

Everyone stopped walking for a minute and saw the soaking wet Scarlet standing behind them at the cave opening, making them gasp in shock.

"I suggest you ladies get out of my way!" Scarlet warned. "This talisman is mine."

Scarlet warmed up a red energy bolt in her hands, but a sudden solid invisible force field trapped the red witch alien that caught her attention surprisingly. Lee, Ella, Donna, Ellie, Galaxina, and Rosetta turned to look toward the source of that force field. The Sotorans had arrived to subdue and arrest Scarlet.

"The Sotorans? But how?" Galaxina asked in confusion.

"After being chased by Scarlet, I was able to send out a distress call with my cosmic powers." Rosetta explained. "I knew that the honorable Sotorans would come to our aid."

Lee looked back at the mirror and managed to grab the talisman before following after the others to leave the temple.


Back in the kingdom, everyone went back into the throne room to confront the king.

"A witch fatale will not allow to desecrate my home planet! Scarlet, you will pay for your obsession on stealing the talisman that I was guarded for greed invaders!" King Avian yelled. His eyes moved to the Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta. "You have all passed. The talisman is now yours."

"Thank you, your Majesty." Lee said with a smile.

"You all are idiots!" Scarlet shouted. "Did you really think I will surrender to the likes of you? You brought reinforcements, so I've brought mine."

The door to the throne room blew up into pieces and the rest of the Witches Six came in with smirks on their faces.

"Hiya!" Chiffon greeted in a cutesy manner.

"Miss us?" Rose asked, cracking her knuckles in preparation.

"Oh, no. The Witches Six." Donna exclaimed.

Scarlet broke free from the clutches of the Sotorans and leaped high into the air to land in front of her team.

"Looks like we gave you all a welcoming committee." Scarlet said. "Now hand over the talisman or we'll face the fury of the Witches Six!"

"You will have to face me first, witch!" King Avian yelled.

"You're gonna have to go through us too!" Lee shouted to Scarlet.

"Have it your way! Witches Six, attack!" Scarlet ordered her team.

"Take 'em down!" Lee ordered her team.

"Sotorans, to battle!" King Avian ordered his Sotoran warriors.

With that, the Witches Six began to charge after the Lotus Ninjas and the Sotorans. Four mystics and two aliens split away from each witch alien that was coming in their way as they began to dodge their attacks in quick speed.

Rose began to shoot many pink energy balls towards Ella, who had managed to dodge the energy balls coming in her way. Ella jumped into the air and thrusted herself forward to deliver a flying red psychic energized kick that hit the pink witch alien's face, causing Rose to drop on her knee and rubbed her face in pain. Rose quickly came back up and shot out many pink energy tacks at the red mystic kunoichi, who blocked the attack with her red psychic energy shield. Ella released a red psychic energy beam from her hands at the pink witch alien, sending her flying to the wall and dropped hard to the kingdom floor unconsciously. Chiffon began to spin herself around rapidly and shot multiple fast orange energy balls flying from her body towards Ellie, who ducked out of the way from each energy ball and moved forward to hit Chiffon right in the face with an orange psychic energized punch that send the orange witch alien flying away from her. Chiffon hissed in anger and fired several orange star-shaped energy orbs at the orange mystic kunoichi, who dodged them in fast speed and released a bright orange psychic energy from her body to hit the orange witch alien that sent Chiffon flying into an unconscious Rose. Aqua shot out large balls of blue energy at Donna, who swiftly dodged all of them and jumped high over her to release two small purple psychic energy ball that exploded the light blue witch alien on impact. Aqua glared and fired multiple light blue energy blasts towards the purple mystic kunoichi. Donna quickly gathered psychic energy that formed into an orb of purple psychic energy between her hands and fired it at Aqua, who got hit by the wall and dropped down to the ground onto two unconscious witch aliens. Jade jumped high in the air and produced her green energy combat-like whips down at Galaxina, who went out flying around while trying to avoid the lashing whips as quick as possible. Galaxina immediately surrounded herself in pale blue energy and moved quick in a direction at the green witch alien, who went flying to her three other unconscious witch aliens. Azura began firing many blue energy bolts down at Rosetta in an accurate speed, but the cosmic alien performed a few agile flips to avoid the bolts and jumped into the air to fire cosmic energy blasts in a 360-degree fashion that knocked the blue witch alien to the other aliens. The five Sotoran warriors formed invisible force fields to trap the five unconscious witch aliens after their defeat against three mystics and two aliens.

Scarlet focused her attention to King Avian as she shot out giant fireballs from her palm at him. King Avian dodged them in a flash and channeled her invisible energies into the ground to release a series of powerful pale grey energy columns that knocked the red witch alien away from him with great force. Scarlet glared angrily at the Sotoran king and shot a powerful wave of fire that had snaked around Avian, trapping him in the powerful vortex with no chance of escaping. Avian tried to release invisible energy onto the fire, hoping that it would get rid of the flames. But it didn't work.

"Did you really think that you can defeat me that easily?" Saldana said. "I won't be defeated by you! I am far superior than all of you Sotorans. You're finished!"

Before Scarlet could finish the Sotoran king off, Lee released a blue crescent-like blade of psychic energy from her palms at the red witch alien. Scarlet got hit by that attack and sent flying to the wall hard before becoming trapped in the force field by the Sotoran warriors. Lee took out the hand mirror and felt the power erupting from it as they clung into the talisman. Avian watched in awe as Lee appeared before them with the glowing mirror. Lee jumped high in the air and held onto the mirror to send a beam of light from its surface toward the fire, putting out the flames and saving Avian's life at the same time.

"Are you hurt, your Highness?" Lee asked.

"I'm fine, thanks to you." Avian replied.

Avian snapped his fingers and Vulpin came in through the throne room to grab the force field that contained the defeated Witches Six in his hands. He went over to help Ella from the floor with one leg and Ella petted him on the head, causing him to give a huge lick on the giggling red mystic's cheek again and left out of the throne room.

"Good boy." Ella muttered with a grin.

"You all fought to protect our kingdom. For that you have my gratitude, including my people." Avian said to the heroines with a proud smile. His eyes moved to Lee. "Leona, your superior bravery was able to activate the talisman. The Utrom entrusted us with its safety and now I entrust it to you. Be sure to use to save my beloved planet."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lee smiled.


The Lotus Ninjas, Galaxina, and Rosetta had waved King Avian and the Sotorans good-bye as the Nexus departed the planet to head back in space.

"Two talismans down. One to go!" Ellie cheered.

"So, can you really combine them to save any planet, Rosetta?" Galaxina asked.

"That's the plan." Rosetta said. "I just need to figure out how to do the combination."

"I really am gonna miss planet Gaean." Donna said. "Hope we get a vacation there after the Earth is saved."

"Well, I am gonna miss the Vulpin, but I will not miss the Witches Scums. That's for sure." Ella said.


Back at the planet Gaean, Vulpin was quietly slumbering on the ground with the six force fields hanging above him. He heard a faint sound of stomping that made him look up to see Aqua's robotic comrades coming into the cave. Before Vulpin could attack at full force, the Nanobots launched dozens of light blue energy lasers into the dog-like alien creature. One of the Nanobots shot a light blue energy blast at the force fields, causing them to disintegrate into nothingness and the Witches Six came tumbling down to the ground. The weakened Vulpin slowly glared up to see the Witches Six taking their leave with the Nanobots following behind before collapsing his head unconsciously to the floor.

"Excellent, Aqua." Scarlet said with a sly grin on her face. "And now we have a bone to pick with those pests."

Chiffon, Jade, Aqua, Azura, and Rosa giggled victoriously as they knew that they must catch up the Lotus Ninjas to contain the three talismans.


Sorry I took so long. Studying for a big test coming up and I can't get distracted, but I've finished the chapters. Enjoy!