Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything, except for Prue's kids.
Author's Note: Just so everyone knows, just like with the previous seasons, I will be writing all of the Season 10 scripts before proofreading and posting the chapters. It will probably take me just as long to finish Season 10 as Season 9, for the same reason. So please be patient, and put me on your Author Alert if you are interested in Season 10.
The Power of 400
[Scene: Outside of the Nexus of the All. Darryl is fighting the soldiers from the dome with energy beams. He is wearing a headpiece.]
Darryl: Call in the winged air support! Leo can't cover the skies alone!
[Cut to Leo, who's also wearing a headpiece. He's flying through the air with the soldiers on his tail.]
Leo: Get ready, Prue! I'm leading them your way!
[Cut to Prue and Cole on the ground. Prue's also wearing a headpiece. She's blowing up the soldiers while Cole fights using a magical weapon.]
Prue: You set them up and I'll take them down!
[Cut to Coop and Richard, who are fighting the soldiers with magical weapons.]
Coop: These soldiers keep coming.
Richard: It's a lot easier hitting targets that don't move.
[Cut to Knox and Bailey. They are fighting the soldiers with magical weapons.]
Knox: When I decided to be a Headmaster of a school for the magically gifted, I imagined a much more peaceful life.
Bailey: Really? This is exactly what I dreamed of when I became a librarian.
[Cut to Elise and Tyler. Tyler is fighting the soldiers with a magical flamethrower.]
Elise: It's in here somewhere. I shouldn't have brought so many seed packs.
Tyler: Leo says ninety percent of magic is preparation. The other ten percent is being organized.
Elise: Got it! (Elise throws seeds into the air.) Eat plants! You'd think a newspaper editor would be able to think of a better catchphrase than "Eat plants".
(The seeds turn into a huge plant that attacks the soldiers.)
Tyler: Who cares what you say when you can do that?
(Leo flies by.)
Leo: Nice job, Elise!
(Everyone is fighting the soldiers while Piper, Phoebe, and Paige approach the dome.)
[Cut to Piper, Phoebe, and Paige. Paige attempts to orb through the dome but just bounces around on it in different spots.]
Phoebe: As much fun as I'm having playing orb-ball with Paige, it's time to accept that she can't get through.
Piper: There has to be a way in.
(Paige rematerialized next to them.)
Paige: I really thought that would work. Just standing next to this thing makes me feel more powerful.
Phoebe: I guess it's just stronger than us.
Piper: Maybe we're doing this wrong. Stop fighting against the magic and channel it. Don't try to orb through the dome, Paige, orb into it.
(They join hands and Paige orbs them into the dome by walking into it.)
Paige: It worked. (They release each other's hands. Inside of the dome it seems as if they are in space, but with gravity and an endless black-and-white checkered floor stretching out before them.) Wow. The strength of the magic out there is nothing compared to in here.
(Piper realizes Phoebe is gone.)
Piper: Phoebe! Where are you?!
Phoebe: Up here!
(Piper and Paige look up to see Phoebe levitating in the air.)
Phoebe: There's so much magic here, it's bursting to come out of me. Can't you feel it?
Piper: Yes, but some of us are managing to control ourselves.
Phoebe: Spoil sport. Does this place seem bigger on the inside than the outside?
Paige: It was already plenty big outside.
Piper: I don't like this. It's too quiet.
(Numerous soldiers appear before them.)
Phoebe: That's about to change. We've got company.
Piper: Looks like we're going to see just how much stronger our power is inside this dome.
Phoebe: Let's kick some ass.
(Paige points her hands at one of the beings and his body splits apart.)
Paige: Gonna be hard to get back together when I scatter your orbs around the world.
(Phoebe tries to use her Psychic Reflection power on one of the beings but it doesn't work.)
Phoebe: They don't have any memories or emotions to turn back on them. My magic's useless. Can't I ever catch a break? Oh, well, use what you got!
(Phoebe starts fighting the soldiers physically.)
Piper: You want a taste of our power? Try this!
(Piper blows up all of the soldiers at once.)
Paige: Piper smash.
Piper: I've never blown up so many bad guys at once before. I wonder what Prue can do in here.
(The checkered floor turns into a forest.)
Phoebe: Look. The place is changing around us. Maybe we're having some kind of effect. Come on. I saw something during the fight. (Phoebe grabs Piper and Paige's hands and flies them off. They eventually come to a pentagram. The Grimoire is inside of it, pierced by the Empyreal Sword.) There it is. Leo's sword.
(Phoebe puts down Piper and Paige before flying for the sword and Grimoire.)
Piper: Phoebe, wait!
Paige: Rennek wouldn't leave it unguarded!
(Phoebe reaches the sword and is shocked by some kind of barrier and blasted back into Piper and Paige. Rennek appears.)
Rennek: Nice try, but the combined power of the Empyreal Sword and Grimoire repels all magic that isn't under my control. There's no way the three of you can even get close to it.
[Cut to Prue, Cole, and Darryl.]
Darryl: Squad A, break off and find a way inside the dome. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige may need reinforcements. Squad B, prepare to launch the counter offensive.
Prue: Looks like someone's found his calling.
Darryl: Not a chance. As soon as this is over, I'm going back to my family and normal police work.
(Leo flies over to them.)
Leo: Prue! Cole! Darryl! I need some help up there. (Some of the soldiers fuse into one giant-sized one.) I don't think my little sword can take this guy on.
Glynnis: Leo, clear the way!
(Leo flies out of the way and Glynnis shoots a magical cannon at the giant.)
Prue: Nice job, Glynnis. You got him… er… it.
Glynnis: I'm pretty good at wielding a charmed cannon, if I do say so myself.
Darryl: It's falling!
Prue: And coming this way!
(They all run off.)
Glynnis: Oops.
(The giant hits the ground and blows up, knocking them all back. The blast makes an opening into the dome.)
Darryl: You two get in there before it closes. We'll hold things down out here.
[Cut to inside the dome. Prue, Cole, and Leo come inside the dome. It's still a forest.]
Prue: Piper! Phoebe! Paige!
Cole: I don't think they'll hear you unless Rennek wants them to hear you.
Prue: Why would he put a forest in the middle of the desert?
Leo: After all this time, even after getting all of my memories of him back, I still don't understand how his mind works.
Cole: Maybe he hopes we'll get lost in the woods.
Leo: If Rennek wants that to happen, we could be lost forever.
Prue: Then we'd better start looking. Because I'm not giving up till we find the source of Rennek's magic.
[Cut to Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Rennek. Rennek has the girls tied to separate posts.]
Rennek: You may be stronger here, but you'll never win against me while I control the very environment around you. Your friends and family fight valiantly, but they'll never win as long as I can create an endless supply of soldiers.
Piper: You won't win, Rennek. I've figured it out. You can control the magic. You can send an army to attack us. But you can't control us. Or our friends. That's why you need an army of mindless automatons. But there's a flaw in your plan. Your army has nothing to fight for.
Rennek: They fight for me! With the magic I control, that's enough.
Piper: After all these years, you still haven't learned that magic isn't about having the most power.
Rennek: Oh, hush.
(Rennek waves a hand and gags all three of them.)
Piper: (telepathically) It's how you use that power. It's about finesse.
[Cut to Coop and Richard. The soldiers they're fighting turn into plants.]
[Cut to Elise and Tyler. The soldiers they're fighting turn into flowers.]
Elise: You can turn down your flame. These flowers aren't all that threatening.
(She picks some.)
[Cut to Bailey and Knox. The soldiers they're fighting turn into water and sand.]
Knox: Now, this is more my kind of fight.
Bailey: It takes all the fun out of it if their bodies turn into water and sand.
[Cut to inside a vehicle. Darryl is there, sitting and looking at a TV. He's speaking into a headpiece.]
Darryl: The soldiers seem to be reverting back to their natural forms. One last sweep should finish them off. (He sees something on the TV and jumps out of his chair before leaving the vehicle quickly.) Cancel that! Here comes another wave!
[Cut back to Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Rennek. Rennek is holding the hilt of the Empyreal Sword as he creates more soldiers.]
Rennek: Impressive, Piper. But I bet I can create new soldiers faster than you can turn their molecules back.
Phoebe: (telepathically) Piper? Paige? Can you hear me?
Piper/Paige: (telepathically) Phoebe?
Piper: (telepathically) How are you talking to us?
Phoebe: (telepathically) I have no idea. I think we can read each other's minds now.
Paige: (telepathically) Maybe it's an evolution of our power. One day we might be able to communicate like this without Rennek's magical boost.
Paige: (telepathically) Great. Just what I need. You guys in my head whenever you want.
Phoebe: (telepathically) While we got it, might as well use it.
Piper: (telepathically) We don't have Prue for the Power of Four.
Phoebe: (telepathically) But we do have the Power of Three. Shall we?
Piper/Phoebe/Paige: (telepathically) "The Power of Three will set us free. The Power of Three will set us free. The Power of Three will set us free."
(They are released from Rennek's binds and gags.)
Piper: What I said earlier, Rennek? Sometimes magic is about power. (telepathically) We need a spell. Fast.
Phoebe: (telepathically) I've got part of one.
Paige: (telepathically) I've got something, too. Let's put them together and see what we can do.
(They all join hands.)
Piper/Phoebe/Paige: "We call on the forces of matter, time, and space/On the elements of the circle that bind our worlds/On the magic of the Halliwell line through generations/On the powers of our family and friends with us now/Unite this magic in the Power of Three/Unite this magic with our solemn decree/To end Rennek's influence over us all/Reconnect the worlds, make the barriers fall."
Rennek: Nice attempt. But like I said, your magic is useless against me here. But it's quite useful for me to turn against you.
(Rennek blast Piper, Phoebe, and Paige back and they yell out in pain. Leo suddenly flies over.)
Leo: It ends today, once and for all. I don't want to destroy you, brother. But if I can't save you, I will vanquish you if I have to.
Rennek: Sorry, Leo. Even your little bit of magic can't get through. (Rennek blasts Leo back and he yells out in pain.) And 'brother'? So you remember now, do you? Well, it's far too late now. It was a long time ago, Leo. And I already ended it. The forces of good and evil are no longer at war. I was even kind enough to let you live, let your family live. Why couldn't you let it go? Why couldn't you let the people of this world choose their own destiny?
Leo: They did choose, Rennek. They chose to fight back. Both the powerful and the powerless. Even without supernatural guidance.
(Prue and Cole watch everything from behind a tree.)
Rennek: You mean your pitifully small band of soldiers? It's not enough. There's a whole new magical world outside this dome.
Leo: Give it time, Rennek. It's only the beginning. The meek can still inherit the Earth. You can still return to the light.
Rennek: No, I can't. And the meek are useless. Haven't I proven that yet? Even when the meek are as powerful as your three little Halliwell sisters.
Prue: Four sisters, Rennek! Four! (Prue runs over and grabs the Empyreal Sword from the Grimoire.) Your reign ends now!
Leo: Prue, don't kill him! Please!
Prue: "The realms of light takes the magic back as I claim these artifacts and all they do/(Prue absorbs the Grimoire and the sword into herself. As she does, markings appear on her body and her clothing changes.) Return the magic to its rightful place/Reconnect the realms in this hallowed space/Alter the history of recent times/To cover up all of humanity's crimes/Those touched by magic will not remember/But they'll never be allowed to forget."
(Rennek black orbs away.)
[Scene: The Nexus of the All. It now looks like a copy of the Halliwell Manor. Parlor. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe are there, while Paige speaks to Coop, Richard, Darryl, and a wingless Leo in the living room. The front door is left open. Phoebe is flying in the air above Prue and Piper.]
Prue/Piper: Phoebe, get down.
Phoebe: Are you kidding? I can fly! Not jump, not leap, fly. I'm never coming down. (Phoebe suddenly descends towards the ground.) Or I'm coming down right now. Guess I can only fly for brief amounts of time.
Prue: The dome magic allowed you to tap into the point your powers will grow to. It's going to take some time for you to reach that level naturally.
(Paige, Leo, Coop, Richard, and Darryl come over to them.)
Darryl: I've got to get back to my family.
Paige: Oh, let me, let me! I want to try something!
Darryl: Wait, Paige, I have to-
(Darryl orbs away.)
Prue: You could have let him say goodbye to everyone.
Paige: Sorry. I got excited. I've never orbed a person halfway round the world without touching them or calling out to them.
Prue: Why do I expect a call any minute from Darryl telling us he's in Siberia?
(Piper hugs Leo.)
Piper: Are you sure those wings won't be coming back?
Leo: When the Empyreal Sword became part of Prue, it broke the spell over me. Good thing, too. I'm sick of going sleeveless. It gets chilly.
Prue: I'm glad some good came out of this. Almost makes up for the fact that an evil book of magic is now in me as well.
Leo: A lot of good came from it. You saved the world and got a brand new control over magic.
Prue: Which definitely has its drawbacks.
Paige: At least you didn't disintegrate. No telling what could have happened to you when you pulled that sword.
Piper: I think Dad's probably tired of the kids by now. Maybe you could orb the guys to relieve him of the babysitting duty.
Leo: (to Piper) Love you.
Coop: (to Phoebe) See you at home.
Richard: (to Paige) Don't stay out too late.
(Paige orbs them all away. Cole smoke-fades in with Phoenix, Persephone, and Pagan.)
Prue: Cole! You're back! (Prue and Cole kiss and hug.) And so are my little ones. Hi, kids.
(Prue hugs all of her kids, who hug her back.)
Cole: Guess what? I'm now not just part of the Ryu Clan, but I'm also a messenger for the Heavens as well. The Elders were impressed by your spell so everyone touched by Rennek's magic won't remember the past six months but can't forget it, either.
Prue: It would have been too easy. People had magic and they misused it. They need to remember that in case magic is revealed to the world again. For most people the past few months will be kind of a dream, just outside the grasp of their memories.
Cole: Like I said, nice touch. The Elders also want me to fill you in on your new role in the universe. When your body absorbed the Empyreal Sword and Grimoire, you became the conduit that holds the realms together. You are now effectively the caretaker to the connection between the realms. You can never leave this place.
Prue: So I've discovered. But what about you and the kids?
Cole: We're not going to leave you alone. We'll be moving in here with you. I'm supposed to be your messenger anyway. We can all teleport, and come and go as we please, so it's not as if the kids can't still go to school and wherever else they need or want to go.
Piper: Being stuck here isn't so bad. It does have all the comforts of home.
Phoebe: And if you get bored, you can always change it to look like something else. You always did want to live in a loft.
Prue: No, I like this place. It's just like home. Right down to Phoebe forgetting to close the front door.
Phoebe: It's a nice day. It's not like you're going to have any nosy neighbors stopping by all the way out here.
(Prue closes the front door using telekinesis.)