7 years ago:
"Zsa-Zsa, Jack can you come here please." Charles said.
The 11 year old girl and the 12 year old sat down opposite Charles and waited to hear about what he had to say.
"As, you know you two and Danny and Annaka are very special. You have powers that no defender has ever seen. As you know I also have a power, the same power Annaka has telepathic." Charles said, "I wanted to tell you about something, it's not to frighten you just warn you."
"Warn us about what?" Zsa-Zsa asked.
"There will be a time when you will have to use your powers and I'm worrying that you may lose control of your powers and your powers might control you." Charles said, "in case that happens I want you two to start training with me about how to use your powers."
"No thanks we can control our powers already." Jack said.
"But what if they control you?" Charles asked.
"We won't let anything control us. Never, you should know that." Jack replied.
Back to modern times:
The defenders were shocked when they heard that Charles had found the jewels and hid them somewhere safe. Danny was still looking through the boxes and seeing if they could find anything.
"Jack, why did you have to put so many boxes in here?" Danny asked.
"I only wanted an attic." Jack replied.
"You know this stuff kind of reminds me of Charles." Danny said.
"That's it." Annaka said, "Charles put this stuff in here, everything leads up to him. The video, the outfits, so the gems must be in here somewhere."
"Great." Zsa-Zsa said.
They looked everywhere but they couldn't find the gems. They searched in every place and checked everywhere in case they missed something. Annaka shut her eyes and simultaneously put her hand her hand on her fake stone. Suddenly she saw images. The stone being broken up into the 4 gems, Charles in the forest and them being in the forest. Annaka opened her eyes and told the rest of the Jr defenders what she saw. They all looked down at the stones in their outfits.
"You don't think these are the gems?" Danny asked.
"They must be." Annaka said, "Charles found the gems so he must have placed them in these outfits."
Meanwhile back in the main room the defenders were trying to untie themselves and find the Jr defenders but the rope was tied to tightly for them to escape.
"Come on Charles explain, what's the Lionheart?" Kook asked.
"The Lionheart is a force that could destroy everything in its path. If the holders of the Lionheart are evil then it could do all sorts of evil but if it belongs to the good side then it balances out the good and evil." Charles explained.
"The legend goes that the Lionheart was in a stone that was split into four gems." Harvey explained.
"That's a lie." Charles said.
"How do you know?" Luke asked.
"Because I made that legend up. The Lionheart is a force grown in its holders." Charles explained.
"I do know but I can't tell you because Arthur could be listening in. All I can say was when the Jr defenders were old enough to use their powers, they had so much power that they could do anything, so I did what I had to do. I blocked half of their powers up in their heads so when they get older the powers wouldn't take over them." Charles said.
"Very interesting." Arthur said.
"I knew he was listening in." Charles said.
"So the legend is a lie, so the force could be anywhere." Arthur said, "Looks like I'm safe for a little bit longer. Oh by the way keep talking."
"As I was about to say, since the Jr defenders turned into teenagers, their powers are getting stronger." Charles explained.
"What has this got to do with the Lionheart force?" Gildar asked.
"Yeah, the prophecy said that there will be 4 defenders who will have powers etc and a Lionheart force that would kill Arthur." Shaiden said.
"Look, it doesn't matter." Charles said.
"Do you remember, when our children were little we used to call them our little gems." Crocness said.
"I remember." Ballista said.
7 years ago:
"What did Charles want?" Danny asked.
"To talk to us about controlling our powers." Zsa-Zsa explained.
"But we can do that already." Annaka said, lifting some leaves of the ice.
The Jr defenders were ice skating down by a lake near the castle, everything around them was defrosting except the lake.
"Come on lets go." Jack said.
The Jr defenders left the lake and went back inside the castle.
Back to reality:
"What about the prophecy Charles. The prophecy says that the powers are the Lionheart force." Arthur asked.
"My great-grandfather could see the future. He told my father that one day he saw 4 people who all had special powers and the next image he saw was a lion which was created from fire and power and in the centre of it was 4 people. My great- grandfather was an old man and probably got confused by this." Charles explained.
"So you're telling me that, the prophecy might not be true." Arthur said.
Meanwhile the Jr defenders were still in the attic, planning what to do next. They decided to go down and find Charles and ask them about the gems. Annaka stopped everyone while she listened into Charles and Arthur's conversation. She heard about the gems and the prophecy. Then she told the news to the other defenders.
"So, you're telling me that these are fake gems and we're still no closer to finding out where the Lionheart is." Danny said.
"Come on let's just go along with the plan anyway." Jack said.
The defenders went to the main room, where they saw Emerald and Arthur suddenly like before Zsa-Zsa and Jack flew against the wall opposite the other defenders except this time they had chains to keep them there and the other two couldn't escape. Emerald was trying to do the same to Annaka and Danny but Annaka was using her telekinesis powers to keep her and Danny to the floor. It was working. They all heard and impact call repeating itself, Arthur went to check what it was. It was fire balls heading straight for the castle.
Annaka tried to move Emerald back off her. She gave in all her strength and pushed her against a wall. The fire balls were still heading for the castle. Everyone was shouting at Charles to do something but it was Danny that did something. He blocked out all of the noise and concentrated on the fire balls, quickly the all spun around and changed direction and landed in the moat around the castle.
It wasn't until the alarms stopped and Danny opened his eyes and nearly fell over that they realised he stopped the fire balls. Everyone was amazed at Danny's power. Kook kept repeating, my boy saved us. Charles however was concerned as over the years Danny could do a lot of things with fire but controlling it was not one of them and he was concerned for Annaka as well she could only move and stop small object, not herself or Danny and especially not Emerald at the same time. Now Charles had to put Zsa-Zsa and Jack to the test and see if they are just as powerful as their friends.
