The team returned to Auradon at about two thirty in the afternoon and received a pleasant surprise as they saw Belle, Adam, Aurora, Fairy Godmother, Snow White, Mulan and Alice waiting for them at the docks with a coach.
"Mom." Jane said and ran over to hug her. Carlos was right behind her, not really having anyone really important waiting at the docks.
"Hey mom, dad." Ben said as he came over to them with Mal right beside him. The two elders embraced the young couple, who returned the gesture.
"I didn't expect you to be here." Evie said to Snow White as she approached her older half-sister.
"I wanted to properly welcome you back to Auradon." Snow White said to Evie as she reached out to take the younger girl's hands. "Something I feel as if I should have done the first time you came here."
Evie shook her head. "It wouldn't have been welcome back then." She told her with a squeeze of her hands before releasing them and wrapping Snow White in a tight hug. "But this is now, and I am glad to see you here."
Audrey shared a hug with her mother. Aurora reached out and gently took Jay's hand, giving it a gentle squeeze.
Ally went over and hugged her mother for a moment before pulling back and saying, "Mom you remember Aziz, my new boyfriend."
Alice seemed to take a moment to process that but then laughed. "It's nice to meet you again Aziz." She said. "Though this time as something more."
Aziz laughed a little at that. "Yeah, I guess you're right there." He agreed.
Lonnie came over with Will and hugged Mulan for a moment and then looked up at her. "Mom, this is Will, the guy I was telling you about."
Will offered his hand and said, "It's nice to meet you."
Mulan shook it and gave a smile. "It's nice to meet you to Will." She used her other hand to gently stroke Lonnie's hair. "You must be quite a guy to get my daughter's affections; it's not something she gives out easily."
Lonnie rolled her eyes slightly embarrassed. "A trait I no doubt inherited from my parents." She commented and that drew a laugh from Mulan.
Jordan rolled her eyes and pretended to look disgusted as she commented, "This is so sweet I feel like I'm getting a cavity." Though in fairness it just made her miss her father and mother more. She hadn't even been able to see her mother because she had been out of the town.
"I can second that one." Gregory said as he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "Shall we move on then?"
"Very well." Fairy Godmother relented as each parent released their child. Belle also released Mal, who had become surrogate family to each other. "I hear that you and Will received powers as well."
"We did." Will replied. "We're going to have to tell my mother I assume." He hesitated a moment. "And what of my sister?"
"She should be told mom." Jane said to her.
Fairy Godmother nodded. "I agree. The more she knows the easier it will be to understand if something happens, good or bad." She replied.
The party walked to the carriage as they talked. "Is there anyone that needs to know about this Gregory?" Belle asked him.
"Not just yet." He answered.
Everyone talked about their trip to Agrabah as they journeyed back to Auradon. Since they were riding a royal coach it took a bit longer than going through the Badlands but was more pleasant. Conversation went pleasantly enough and it even made Jay miss being around Aladdin and Jasmine a bit himself as they had shown him the kindness that Belle and Adam had shown Mal despite their parents past, in this case it meant a bit more since his father had tried to destroy them.
Then Ben asked his father, "So did you guys get Marcellus onto the Isle of the Lost okay? Did we end up putting that magic glove of his in the museum?"
"With someone's mother's spinning wheel?" Carlos added with a chuckle. That drew a bit of a venomous glare from Audrey at the mention of the object that cursed her mother, though in truth she was more offended by the mention of it than Aurora herself was. He then gasped, "Ow." As Jay smacked him upside the head.
"You are such a nerd Carlos." Mal said to him with a mock shake of her head which got a second or two of laughter from the teens before they saw the looks of confusion on the adult's faces. "Um, did I say something wrong?"
"Mal, Ben." Adam said as he looked toward them and then looked at the other rangers. "We had received a note saying that the guards had chosen to escort him to the isle in person to avoid any problems during the transfer."
They each exchanged looks of confusion. "That isn't what was supposed to happen." Audrey noted.
"No it wasn't." Fairy Godmother agreed. "But in the note you seemed so insistent that we thought it was well in hand." She looked to Mal.
Mal sighed softly as the most likely scenario kicked into place. "Oh, mother." She stated with a roll of her eyes. "She must have sent that note so you wouldn't get suspicious when she freed Marcellus from the guards." She shook her head. "I'm thinking some very unlady like things right now."
Aziz checked in with his parents only to receive confirmation on what Mal had suspected. The guards had been ambushed by Reviveslime and the soldiers after running across an old woman in the desert who they thought might've needed help. Mal was willing to bet anything that it was Maleficent magically disguised, and Evie herself pointed out that her mother had tricked Snow White into taking a bite of that poison apple as an old woman, though it was anyone's guess if that was a coincidence or not.
"One more lunatic fringe in Paradias's grasp." Jordan said with a sigh. "It's about the last thing we needed."
"I wonder if he'll know how to restore Chad's powers to him." Audrey said a little fearfully.
"It won't make a difference." Jay promised as he squeezed the brunette princesses' hand.
They arrived back at Auradon Prep, many of the teens planning to meet with their families that evening. They only had enough time to drop their duffels off at their rooms before getting an incoming call. They found Fairy Godmother on screen. "Let me guess, Paradias couldn't wait to throw us a welcome home party. Or is it Sermaya?" Mal asked sarcastically.
"None of them this time." Fairy Godmother responded "Actually your welcome home entourage comes in the form of an energy reading."
From the speakers they heard Ally questioned, "Energy reading?"
"Yes." She answered. "From a new zord." She hesitated for a moment before adding, "The readings are far stronger than anything we've seen before. This zord is stronger than even the Auradon Champion Defender Megazord."
Again from the speakers they heard Lonnie gasp, "Will, Gregory, that could be your zord."
"That'd be great." Gregory said.
"It would indeed." Will said.
"Meet me in the command center, all of you." Fairy Godmother said to the team. "We must locate it and acquire it before Paradias tries anything."
"What could he try?" Will asked confused. "Won't they run on our iPhones and gems?"
"Yes." Jane answered from the speaker of her own iPhone. "These, by the way, will be waiting for you when we reach the command center. The problem is when we first discovered the Auradon Megazord we learned that some of Paradias's soldiers had these objects that matched up with the group color scheme, except for Mal's. They planned on taking control of the megazord with that."
"Is that even possible anymore?" Audrey asked from over the iPhone. It became unnecessary for Mal and Evie as they saw her coming around the corner now. "Those same objects held the Psycho Rangers and they're gone now. Plus there was no Psycho Green or Gray."
"Actually, interesting aside here; Psycho Black could coordinate with either green or black." Doug intervened and as Evie giggled little at this Mal and Audrey had to share an eye roll. Technically this wasn't the time for a side bar. "When Psycho's were brought back to attack the Galaxy Rangers there was no black ranger, just a green one."
"Come to think of it." Jane now added. "We're only the third instance in history where we've even had a black and green ranger on the same team. The first was Zordon's original team and the second one was in another parallel world where a group called the RPM Rangers live. This doesn't count the spirit rangers." They didn't know about the Dino Charge rangers or she would have included them in as well.
"And that first occurrence had the green ranger not be part of the core five." Doug added.
"That is kind of interesting." Evie noted. "I wonder what the correlation is between black and green. I also noted the Jungle Fury team lacked not only one of those rangers but a pink ranger too. It'd be interesting to chart that out, do you suppose…"
"Okay, E, guys no offense but think this could be discussed at a later point?" Mal interrupted them.
"Sorry, M." Evie said a little sheepishly as she heard Jane and Doug agree on their ends. There was also amused laughter over the speakers from Lonnie, Aziz, Jay and Ally. They found their way to the command center. Jane and Doug made their way to the consoles to help Fairy Godmother pinpoint the new zord.
"Anyone else find it just a bit curious that we just happen to find the new zord now?" Audrey asked.
"Why would we?" Carlos wondered.
"She might be right." Jordan said in thought. "I mean it usually took a little bit of time before the zords were found, and except for the Auradon Megazord it basically required the zords to show up on their own."
"Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth." Jay suggested. "We need all the advantages we can get, especially if Maleficent does have Marcellus on their side."
Jane wandered over to one of the panels and lifted out two iPhones. She handed one to Will and one to Gregory. "Put the
"Where is it?" Gregory asked them. "Do we have any ideas?"
"I've got the energy signatures narrowed down." Doug announced as he looked up. "They're in the countryside, not far from where Queen Belle grew up at."
"We need to be prepared for the idea that they'll find out about this." Mal said. She looked to Ben, Jordan and Ally. "We're all going to try for this together, but if they show up the three of you have to help Will and Gregory get to this zord while the rest of us deal with them." Her boyfriend and the two girls nodded in understanding.
"Be careful." Fairy Godmother warned them. Jane kissed her mother on cheek before the team wandered out of the command center. It took a bit of time to even reach the countryside area and they were all kind of surprised that they didn't have company already waiting for them.
"We're getting closer, everyone stay on guard.' Jay said.
"Good idea there." They heard Reviveslime say as he seemed to form out of nowhere, which was entirely possible for a big pile of slime. "You never know what could try to attack you from behind." Then from around him appeared several warriors.
"Just as we discussed everyone." Mal said as she looked at the group and then announced. "Let's get to work." Ben formed his sword and shield, Jane took out the magic wand, while the rest of the team pulled out their iPhones and input their numbers, and the entire group transformed.
"Be careful." Aziz said to Ally as he saw her and Jordan preparing to make a run for it.
"You too love." Ally said and Jordan was sure Aziz was blushing at that one but now wasn't the time for a laugh at her old friend's expense.
"You be careful too." Ben said to Mal.
"You too Bennie-Boo, keep your guard up. We may be taking this front but that doesn't mean we won't have problems elsewhere." Mal said. He nodded and then minus they split in two, Ben leading the four rangers away while the rest engaged against Reviveslime and the soldiers.
"All is going according to plan." Nerissa said to Paradias. "Maleficent's daughter is leading the fight against Reviveslime with the bulk of the team while the young king has lead the others, including the new rangers, off to find the warzord."
Paradias snickered. "Excellent." He looked to Chad. "It's a shame your powers aren't up yet but don't worry, you still have your role to play in this. It's just later than we anticipated." He looked to Nerissa. "And we must play our part as well; send some soldiers to attack knight and the four rangers." He rose to his feet. "Soon the time will come for Reviveslime to rise to greater heights."
Jordan pulled out her iPhone again to follow the energy signatures that had been detected by the command center. Ben and Gregory were at the rear of the party while Ally and Will stayed in the middle.
It was Will who first saw the first soldier to appear, which he immediately carved into oblivion. He was however followed by several more soldiers to appear.
Ben started to battle them with his own sword and shield. "We've to take these things out as quickly as possible." He said to the others.
"We're working on it, I assure you." Gregory said as he took out his axe and took out another.
It kind of made Ally glad that Chad wasn't able to fight right now, though she suspected if that were the case he would be dealing with other half of the team. She was sure that Jay wouldn't mind that though.
Reviveslime clashed with Mal and Aziz as the rest of the team dealt with the soldiers. He noticed that it wouldn't be long before the team took down the soldiers and it would just be them and him. He lashed out and struck Mal and Aziz had, forcing them to roll backwards. The rest of the team came up to check on them.
"Last man standing Reviveslime." Lonnie reminded him.
"So it would seem." He agreed and laughed. "But don't forget that you can't beat me. I will always reform."
"We have to find a spell to remedy that." Jane noted. "If we can."
Then a familiar green glow surrounded Reviveslime and when it passed he had grown to enormous size. "Looks like the tone of our fight has changed again power rangers." He said mockingly.
"Let's do it guys." Audrey said to Jay, Carlos, Lonnie and Evie. "We need Auradon Megazord power." The five of them were in the cockpit of their zord and inserted their iPhones into their appropriate spots.
"Auradon Falconzord, let's go." Aziz called out. He and Jane boarded the falconzord with the silver ranger inserting his iPhone into the proper slot.
Mal summoned her dragon zord. It came soaring through the skies, where she had left it to roam while they had journeyed to Agrabah. She jumped on top of the head where it took on its alternate form, like a Chinese dragon, and Mal was inside the formed cockpit, placing her iPhone in the right place. "Glad to be back in action?" She asked rhetorically as she pat the console softly.
Reviveslime laughed. "Three against one odds, now somehow this just doesn't seem fair." He noted and then brought his hands together before sending them out again and releasing two similar colored blobs. They formed into slightly smaller versions of himself. "Meet my new slime doubles. Together we'll make sure to take you all out of the game."
"I guess we aren't the only one learning to change it up." Evie commented.
"Any ideas?" Carlos asked.
"I think I have one." Jane replied. She used her iPhone to send something over to the Auradon Megazord. "I was working on this configuration after seeing the Auradon Falocon Battlezord." She revealed. "Except this one is for us."
The schematic appeared for the five rangers. It actually looked very similar in look to the aforementioned battlezord but this one had the wings right in between the arms, similar to the Shogun Falconzord used by the original team of Power Rangers. "What about Mal?" Audrey asked.
"My dragon zord and I are just fine on our own, no worries." Mal told her second in command. "Go ahead and try out this new formation."
"Alright, let's do it." Audrey agreed
The Falconzord descended into the sky and then around, repositioning its wings to fold parallel to each other. The Auradon Megazord's arms separated and enclosed around the wings as the body pressed into the back of the Auradon Megazord's back. Jane and Aziz then got space within the cockpit of the zord.
Meanwhile Mal's dragon zord circled as if it were ready to take out the slime creatures on its own.
"Nice wings." Reviveslime said to the rangers. "Let's see what you've got."
"They have their zords out." Ally noted. "We're running low on time."
Ben looked to Will and Gregory. "You two go on ahead and get your zord. We're going to deal with these things and then go help Mal and everyone out." He said. The two boys nodded and headed inside with Gregory leading the way.
"I hope we can get rid of these things and get to them in time." Ally noted as she unleashed her crystal cards. It took out a fair amount of them but the soldiers seemed to be never ending.
Despite the new wings Jay and Lonnie were able to combine their weapons into the slots to make their sword while Evie was able to place her mirror shield into her slot to make the shield.
One of the slime monsters rammed right into the Auradon though the shield took most of the impact. They brought the sword down on it only to find that, much as the general who spawned them, they reformed just after impact. "Oh, just great. They're like Reviveslime." Audrey groused. "How are we supposed to stop these things?"
The dragon zord lashed out its tail and slammed it into the slime being that was heading toward it. The thing flew right into its counterpart and then the dragon zord raised its head high and unleashed the meteoric barrage right on them.
"Quick, let's launch the feather missiles." Jane said.
"Feather missiles?" Jay questioned.
"Must be a new feature because of our combination." Aziz surmised.
The arms of the Auradon Falcon Megazord were swung wide and a barrage of missiles that looked like feathers were unleashed from the tips of the wings. Unlike feathers these did not fly as if on light breeze but rather like they were launched by the same devices that were used to launch balls on the Tourney field. Combining them with the meteoric descent it turned the two slime creatures into nothing.
"Two down and one to go." Audrey said excitedly.
"Don't think that your neat little trick will work so well against me." Reviveslime cautioned them. "And speaking of…" He repeated the same procedure, replicating two more slime minions. This time though as the two charged the Auradon Falcon Megazord the slime general himself went after the Dragon zord.
Another barrage of feather missiles were released but without the additional power of the meteoric barrage the missiles only caused damage that rapidly healed. Both of them rammed straight into the Auradon Falcon Megazord and the combined weight sent the zord sprawling.
Meanwhile Reviveslime brought his sword down on the Dragon zord and Mal swore she could hear her zord give out a roar of pain. It responded by trying to slam its tail into the slime general but he caught it and then brought it overhead, smashing it into the ground hard.
The soldier seemed to back up now. It was just as well because Ben and the two girls could see that the rest of their friends needed the help.
"Jane, Ally and I are on our way with the Auradon Battlezord." Jordan said from the helmet intercom. "Get ready to join us."
"Acknowledged." Jane replied.
Ben summoned his horse zord, which like Mal's dragon zord, had been released to its own devices for the trip to Agrabah. The two zords charged toward the battle.
As the two descended into the caves Will couldn't help worrying about what was to come. Things were only going to get worse for them as the days progressed and he could only hope Lonnie and the rest of the team could endure what was to come.
The path seemed to be winding but it was very narrow. Will wondered rather or not it was supposed to be that way. It was so much easier compared to how Lonnie had described how the other zords were found.
The winding path ended with a huge upward strip that contained the warzord. It stood as tall as any zord ever did of course. There were no visible weapons but the scanner app on the iPhone revealed gauntlets that extended from the hands as well as blade that would replace the hands and legs. It also had hidden shoulder mounted missile launchers. "This is definitely a warzord alright." Will noted dryly.
Gregory looked at him. "It's time now." He said to the green ranger. "Time for everything to change."
Will nodded grimly. "Yeah, it is." He agreed solemnly. Together the two of them headed up toward the zord's cockpit.
