As the two slime creatures double teamed the Auradon Falcon Megazord, they were caught off guard as the Auradon Battlezord moved in and punched both of them backwards where the rolled to a stop.

The Horse zord moved in and gave a hard rear kick to Reviveslime and he rolled back as well. Then he rose up and laughed. "Look, the other two zords have shown up to the fight." He laughed happily. "I can't wait to see how you try to change up this fight now kiddies."

"He is so condescending." Jordan noted with disgust. "We've beaten him more times than he can possibly count."

Mal meanwhile was trying to figure out the best way to stop Reviveslime and his slimy little creatures. The fact that he could easily create more was a problem she wasn't even sure how they could deal with. "Switch up time guys. Go for the Auradon Defender Megazord and the Auradon Falcon Battlezord." She instructed.

The Falconzord disconnected from the Auradon Megazord, taking Aziz with it. Jane had already joined the other two girls on the battlezord. That didn't last long as the two zords combined, making the room in the cockpit for the four ranger and forming the Auradon Falcon Battlezord.

The Auradon Megazord came around and got onto the horse zord's back, the two connecting to form the Auradon Defender Megazord. A new space was made in the Auradon Megazord cockpit for Ben. Mal's Dragon zord still stayed solo.

"How unexpected. And by that I mean completely expected." Reviveslime taunted. It did however still mean there was one extra zord, making the numbers even. Reviveslime launched himself at the Auradon Defender Megazord while the two slime minions went after the Dragon zord and the Auradon Falcon Battlezord.

"I've seen how these things do on the ground." Aziz said. He had been in the Auradon Falcon Megazord when it had been struck by the first slime creature to have been summoned. "Let's see how this thing takes to the skies." With that the Auradon Falcon Battlezord took to the skies. The slime creature attempted to shoot slime balls after them but were deflected by the wings of the zord.

"That's hardly fair." Chad groused. "They've taken to the skies. Soon Ben's little girlfriend will do the same thing, and if she combines with the Auradon Megazord then none of them will be able to reach."

"Maleficent said she had a plan for this." Nerissa reminded them and looked to Paradias. "Is it ready?"

"Maleficent." He called. A holographic image of the evil fairy appeared in front of him. "Your surprise for the first trip, is it ready for action?"

"It is." Maleficent answered with a laugh. "Those rangers can take to the skies all they want; the distance won't protect them from this."

The Auradon Falcon Battlezord began to move downward to deliver a fatal punch to the slime creature when some dark clouds parted and slammed right into the zord. Ally gasped. "It can't be."

"Oh, but it is." Replied Jabberwock, the mechanical insectoid like creature the rangers had fought and barely won against in Wonderland weeks ago. "You may have killed Red Queen and 'saved' Wonderland but Maleficent has guaranteed me a chance for revenge." With that he released his hold on the battle zord and unleashed a stream of fire from its mouth, sending it straight down to the ground with a harsh crash.

Jordan pieced it together immediately. This was why they had tried to kidnap Ally not so long ago, probably so Jabberwock could kill her, thereby finishing the revenge plan against her mother Alice Liddell.

"Oh my gosh." Evie whispered as the newest addition to the Paradias's team landed. "Jabberwock, somehow he's back."

"I'm sure my mother is to thank for this." Mal noted with distaste. She had not been close enough to hear Jabberwock confirm as much to Aziz and the three girls.

"Looks like the odds are right where we want them to be." Reviveslime noted with amusement. "Firmly on our side."

"Will and Gregory better get here soon." Lonnie noted. "Otherwise it may not matter."

"Mal, I suggest you and the Auradon Falcon Battlezord deal with the slime things like we did the first time." Audrey suggested. "We'll keep Reviveslime and Jabberwock busy."

"Good plan Audrey." Mal said. "Jay, ladies. You heard her. Let's get to work." The dragon zord surged forward and before raising its tail up and slamming it into the ground. It separate the four villains, though putting one of them on a side with Reviveslime and the other with Jabberwock.

"Let's give them a hand bringing them together." Ben said.

"Good idea." Audrey agreed. The Auradon Defender Megazord raised its shield and charged the other slime creature, knocking it over against both Jabberwock and the other slime creature.

The Dragon zord repeated the process, slamming the tail in between the two creatures and Jabberwock and then immediately raising it up to slap Jabberwock hard.

"Quick, while they're separated." Jay said. The Auradon Defender Megazord's sword turned into a spear as they charged the two generals. "I just hope they don't take too long, we can't take those two on our own."

The Dragon zord unleashed another meteoric storm, but Mal realized that this attack wasn't as strong as the last one. She had a feeling that for some reason the more it was used in a single fight the less power it would have over time. That meant she had to make sure she didn't use it too often.

Luckily the Auradon Falcon Battlezord was more powerful than the Auradon Falcon Megazord as it soared up and narrowed the wings in its back to again unleash a flurry of feather missiles straight at the two slime things, again destroying them.

"Quick, lets focus on Reviveslime so he doesn't have the chance to replicate more of those things." Lonnie suggested. The others agreed and they moved in to strike at the slime general. The other two battle zords moved in to deal with Jabberwock.

"You just don't know when to quit." Reviveslime said with amusement. "I guess that's a good thing. Not that it will help you all out now." With that Jabberwock unleashed a strong gust of power from his wings and blew the two battle zords into the Dragon zord.

Then they saw the large warzord coming up to them. "Are you guys okay?" Will called out to them.

"We could be doing a lot worse." Lonnie answered, glad that they were here; especially Will. "But Jabberwock definitely wasn't in the plans."

"I'll say." Will agreed.

Reviveslime and Jabberwock combined their attack and struck again the fallen zords, also managing to strike the warzord.

"I think the four of us can take these guys on." Mal said. "Let's move in and get these guys to retreat."

Evie gasped as she saw on a hill three figures. Maleficent, Paradias and Nerissa. "The time has come to bring you power rangers to your knees." Paradias stated with what Audrey thought was a load of melodrama, very ironic considering.

The Dragon Zord, Auradon Defender Megazord and the Auradon Falcon Battlezord moved in toward the two standing generals. The warzord retracted its arms and legs to become blades and then seemed to crouch down as it prepared to cut a swath toward the generals.

Then it leapt, but instead it swerved and slashed all three of the ranger's zords. "What are you doing Will? Gregory?" Ben demanded.

"Surprise." Gregory said with a laugh.

The warzord landed between the two generals and then combined their fire powers, the overwhelming force causing the zord's to forcefully retreat. The Ben and the rangers landed hard on the ground, the Auradon Knight and the purple ranger landing finding their zords beside them miniaturized and crystallized.

"No, Will…" Lonnie said softly. She could barely stand up as Audrey and Ally helped her.

Then Evie happened to glance around and see a flash of green on the ground. "Guys, look!" She gasped. They turned to see the green ranger lying on his back on the ground as well. He seemed to be unconscious but breathing. They ran to Will's side.

Then on the top of the warzord they saw Gregory, along with Marcellus and Chad. "One of them must have forced him out." Jordan said to them all.

"Gregory, what are you doing?" Ben asked, sounding a little upset. Mal was beside him with her hand on her shoulder. The purple haired girl knew her boyfriend was thinking about Chad's betrayal. She looked to Evie as she was by Lonnie, checking on Will.

Mal thought then about Chad betraying them. How he had not only upset Ben and Audrey, but his mother Cinderella and his father, to say nothing about his sister Callie. "Gregory, don't do this. Think about your parents, any of your siblings." She called out.

"Oh, I think my family would be rather proud of me for this." Gregory said. His voice didn't seem nearly as cultured and understanding as it had beforehand. "I think my father Gaston would be happy to see one of his sons with a stolen ranger power and a powerful warzord."

"Gaston?" Audrey repeated in shock.

Of course the name resonated within Ben. He was the one who tried to kill Adam when he was the Beast; he was the one who wanted Belle while she was possibly the only girl in that village who wasn't impressed by him. It seemed to him that it was all some joke for the son of Gaston to form a friendship with his son of his father's rivals.

Jay and Aziz had that same thought and glanced at each other, realizing that it wouldn't have taken much for them to find themselves in the same position.

"You." Mal said as she looked to her mother. "You did this…somehow."

Maleficent laughed. "Indeed I did Mal." She confirmed. "You should have already realized that we're steps ahead of you and your little band of 'heroes' after our encounter at Wonderland."

"We did win that one you know." Jay pointed out.

"Did you?" Maleficent questioned as she pointed her staff further up, to where the enlarged Jabberwock stood with the enlarged Reviveslime and the warzord. "From here it seems like we broke even. You got three rangers and we got a new fighter." She laughed evilly. "And now we have one of your ranger powers on one of our people and one of your zords under our command."

"And in case you haven't figured this out yet, I have no intention of returning my gray ranger powers to you." Gregory informed them snidely. "T hanks for the container though Janey." He added to the white ranger with a laugh. "I've already blocked it from your network, so don't even think about a technological solution."

"Then we'll get those powers back another way." Jay declared. He and Aziz started toward them, ready to jump up and attack when Marcellus released a stream of energy and struck the two rangers down hard. Audrey and Ally were already at their sides. Seeing the red ranger's concern for the black ranger pissed Chad off, as Mal could easily see.

"It's time to end the reign of the Auradon Rangers." Paradias said. "Destroy them." The generals got ready to move in on them but Jordan used her magic to cause them all to disappear.

"Run all you want children." Paradias called out for what it was worth. "Your end is only a matter of time."

This time Jordan's magic was spot on and they arrived in the command center. Doug was already working on the consoles to see if there was anything they could do to stop the warzord from being taken from them or to take the gray ranger powers from Gregory. The look on his face made the others think he wasn't being successful. The team powered down, then Jane and Carlos moved over to try to help though they too suspected that it was too late, especially since a redundancy had not seemed necessary. Until now.

Jay and Aziz settled Will down on a small cot. Lonnie took off Will's helmet as he was not able to power down at that point. "What's wrong with him?" She asked.

"I think he's just unconscious." Evie said to her. "He's still breathing and if there was any internal damage we would see evidence of damage on the suit too."

"How did a son of a villain slip through?" Audrey wanted to know. She knew how Mal, Jay, Evie and Carlos were here obviously, but they didn't slip through either. They had literally been invited by Ben after all.

"However it happened, it doesn't reflect in our school records." Fairy Godmother said. "There is no mention of Gaston in his transcripts. "Only his mother is noted here anyway, a Linda LeGurne Woolverton."

"That has to be an alias of some kind." Jay said to them all. "Gaston's last name is LeGurne. We went to classes with his two sons Gaston Jr. and Gaston the Third."

"And people call me egotistical." Audrey noted as she sat down and wrapped her arms around herself. "I always thought I'd name my daughter Jennifer. I always thought it was such a pretty name."

"Actually I think it is too." Mal noted with a small smile. "But where did Gregory come from and how did Gaston even get him on this island?"

"I'm afraid the only thing I can think of is that we have sympathizers or even traitors in Auradon." Ben answered.

"Hey, that's not fair." Evie warned him. "Remember that Snow White wasn't entirely okay about this and she even supported what you wanted to do with us before most others, including your own parents, understood." She didn't want her step-sister to get into any trouble because she had never shown Evie any disgust or anger.

Surprisingly to most of them Audrey looked to Ben. "She's right." She supported the blue haired girl. "We can't blame any sympathizers there might be without concrete evidence." She did indeed know that there were some who considered the isle too harsh, especially if they were minions or minor trouble makers. She wasn't exactly in that camp but she was willing to give others a chance if they ended up like Jay and the others.

"Remember if there are any sympathizers responsible for this that crosses the line into treachery." Mal reminded her team. She looked to Ben. "But honey we can't assume that that is what happened. We could be looking at something else set up by Paradias that there is no way anyone in Auradon could be prepared for."

"Right now whatever blame that may exist is not relevant." Fairy Godmother said to them all. "We have to concentrate on getting the warzord and the gray ranger powers back from him."

"The warzord is as much Will's as Gregory's." Lonnie said. "Doesn't that mean something? Can't he take it back?"

"Not if Chad and Marcellus are going to start piloting that with him." Jordan answered simply. "Neither of them have zords, but we all do. We can't change that."

Lonnie was still by Will's side as Mal and Ben sat together, each seeking comfort in the other. Audrey was sitting down though Jay couldn't sit, he contended himself with rubbing his hands up and down her arms. Ally sat on Aziz's lap.

After about twenty minutes of silence Doug and Jane sighed while Carlos couldn't help but slam a fist against the console. "It's hopeless." Doug said.

Jane elaborated. "I don't know if Gregory is as technically advanced as we are or if Paradias as yet another unknown genius in his employ, but either way we're locked out of the gray ranger iPhone and the zord." She explained.

"In fact the warzord's station was moved to the moon." Carlos revealed. "We can't get even try to get to it."

"How long until we have the zord's repaired and regenerated?" Mal asked them.

"I'd have to analyze your crystallized zords to be sure about you and Ben." Jane told the two of them as she looked up from a console. "But the Auradon Megazord and the Auradon Battlezord will take at least three days to get up and running, with the Falconzord ready in almost two days."

"Too long if they decide to capitalize on the power of the warzord." Jay noted grimly. Audrey placed a hand over his to try to reassure him, but was sure it was about as successful for him as it was for her.

Will stirred with a moan and Lonnie took his hand. "Will, can you hear me?" She asked softly.

"Yeah." Will answered. "I can." He sat up, wincing a little in pain. Lonnie was a bit shocked when he gently pulled his hand away from hers.

"Gregory, Marcellus and Chad took control of the warzord." Mal told him.

Will stood and powered down. He paced a little bit and everyone thought he was merely trying to absorb the news. Then he looked back at them and replied, "Yeah. I know." He said. "That was supposed to be the plan all along."

They all stared at him in shock. Finally Ally got out with, "Wait? How do you know that?"

"I don't understand." Lonnie said in a near whisper.

Will looked down at his iPhone and the power gem in it. "Two weeks ago Gregory came to the school in my village. Not long afterwards he came to me and told me that I had to help him with a task; to help sabotage the power rangers." He revealed as, not meeting their eyes. "I didn't know what he meant by that but I refused. But he wasn't alone, he had Maleficent with him. She threatened Whitney and my mother."

"You mean she was going to have them killed." Mal said. She felt for him but the betrayal was definitely a slap in the face, sort to speak.

Will shook his head. "No, she told me there were worse things that could happen to them that would make them wish she had killed them. Unless I agreed to do as she ordered." He sighed a bit. "I don't expect you guys to believe me, but I didn't have a choice."

"So what changed?" Ben asked him. His voice sounded like Mal's and Will couldn't figure out what either of them were thinking.

"Maleficent didn't count on three things; the first was Sermaya's invasion of the village. That made us transfer before she wanted that to happen. The second was getting the powers in the Cave of Wonders but as you saw she had no problems working with that one."

"And why did you get left behind?" Fairy Godmother asked him. "If you were partnered with them, why did they leave you behind?"

"Because the third thing they didn't count on was that I would come to like all of you. That I would especially come to like you Lonnie." Will added. He glanced in her direction but she couldn't seem to meet his eyes. He couldn't say he was surprised. "I wasn't going to go through with it and I hoped with both my sister and mother here in Auradon, Maleficent wouldn't be able to go carry out her threat. But they must have known what I was planning. Before I could get Gregory out of the warzord Marcellus and Chad appeared and shot me out so they could take over it."

For a moment silence dominated the command center as they all processed the story they had just heard combined with the feelings of betrayal they all felt on some level. Then Will took a deep breath. "Lonnie." He started.

Abruptly the Asian princess stood up. "No." She said softly but firmly. "I…I can't hear this…I can't…" No one expected her to dash up the stairs and out of the command center. It made them all feel even worse about what happened.

Another tense moment passed before Will tossed Mal the green iPhone. "I expect that you would want to replace me. You can't have someone on your team that don't trust." He stated and started toward the stairs himself. "I can't just leave the school, all I can promise is that I'll keep your secret though if you send Jordan to erase my memories I'd understand that too. I'll see you all around, or maybe not." With that Will started up the steps himself, sure that Lonnie would be long gone and he wouldn't run into her.

More silence followed for a moment as they were each lost in their own thoughts. Audrey looked up at Jay a moment before lying her head on his arm.

"What do you want to do M?" Evie asked her chosen sister gently as she came to stand beside her.

Mal looked down at the iPhone and then looked to Ben. A look seemed to pass between them and then they turned to face the rest of their friends. "I know what needs to be done." She said to them all.