Summary: Ella becomes friends with a new sparring partner and has to keep it a secret from her sisters, who were unaware of the girl.
In the Crete Fortress, Lee was reading her fashion magazine while Donna watched Ellie skating on the ramp.
Then suddenly, something shook the entire living room that knocked all three mystic kunoichis down to the floor.
"What the heck?!" Ellie exclaimed in surprise.
"It's coming from the garage!" Donna cried as she quickly lifted her head up. "Which is impossible. Because I know I designed the Sonicruiser to be at one hundred percent perfect."
Lee, Donna, and Ellie heard another crash coming from the garage. They stood right in front of the closed garage door just as Lee started knocking on it.
"Yo, Ella, what are you doing in there?" Ellie asked curiously.
"Uh, one sec!" Ella said quickly.
The garage door immediately opened that revealed Ella leaning against the entrance with a calm smile on her face.
"Hey, girls! What's sup?" Ella greeted.
"What was all that noise?" Lee asked.
"What noise?" Ella questioned. She pointed her thumb behind her. "I'm just setting up our sparring session."
Lee, Donna, and Ellie stepped into the room, where they saw four practice dummies around the room and the Sonicruiser was perfectly fine. All four practice dummies matched the likeness of the Lotus Ninjas, except for Ella's.
"Sweet!" Ellie smiled. "I'm always up for a game of Splatfest."
"You know the rules. First to keep one or more people covered in ink the most wins." Donna grinned.
"Donna versus Ella!" Ellie shouted. She then blew an airhorn in her hand. "Go!"
Ella and Donna quickly faced each other as they snapped their fingers to summon black steampunk-style shooters that contained colored ink in their hands. Donna let out a smirk and started rushing towards Ella.
"Taste my ink fury!" Donna declared.
Donna fired large globs of purple ink that hit Ella with an explosion.
"Nice shot, Donna!" Ella said with a feign face as she got out of the ink glob. "I didn't know you had that in you."
Donna stared at Ella with a confuse look on her face as she noticed that her older sister wasn't even trying to take her down like she always does.
"Uh, thanks." Donna said slowly.
"Wait a minute! That's it?" Ellie asked in deep confusion.
"That's so uneven for Ella to let Donna win like that." Lee muttered.
"Well, that was fun." Ella said as she began pushing her sisters out of the door. "Good game, girls. Bye."
Ella quickly closed the door, leaving her younger sisters exchange confused faces.
"Finally, I thought they never leave." Ella said with a heavy sigh. She walked her way to the cabinet closet and opened it with a grin on her face. "So, I could get back to my favorite sparring partner!"
A feminine teenage girl stepped out of the secret hidden cabinet closet. She has fair cream skin, long and wavy peach blonde hair with multi-colored streaks, and bright yellow eyes. She wore a short black cheongsam with green cherry blossom patterns along the right side, black shorts with green lining, and black knee-length laced-up boots.
"Whoever thought using a magic materialism spell on my old doll before Glenda was a great idea!" Ella grinned.
Ella delivered a roundhouse kick at the life-size doll, who blocked the attack with one hand. Ella moved away with a backflip and constructed her bulky gauntlets made of psychic energy to deliver rapid punches, but the life-size doll was able to block incoming punches with her impressive agility.
"Whoa, wicked agility." Ella said. "Plus, I never give a name. How about...Alice?"
The life-size doll smiled fondly at her new name.
"But let's see if you have some magical abilities." Ella said with a grin.
Ella sprang herself into the air with a twisting reverse back flip and launched a large red psychic energy sphere flying towards Alice's direction. But Alice swiftly produced green energized combat whips from her hands and latched them to strike the large sphere into nothingness. Alice then rushed towards Ella and tackled her to the wall with her boot.
"I win! I win! I win, I win, I win!" Alice said with a singsong smile.
"Yeah, I gonna admit you're even a better sparring partner than my sisters." Ella admitted.
"Hey, Ella, we're heading out to get some grub!" Lee called out.
"I'm coming!" Ella shouted. She looked back at Alice. "Gotta go. I'll take you to the big city someday. Let's tussle again tomorrow."
Ella twisted her hand into a fist and opened her magic in the air to push Alice towards the cabinet closet. But Alice opened the door slightly as she watched Ella walking out of the garage. Alice then opened the door and jumped out of the garage to sneak out the fortress undetected from the Lotus Ninjas, who were discussing which pizza topping they wanna eat.
In the warehouse apartment, Luna was copying Ophelia Vuitton's moves that was playing on TV inside the living room until Shadow Recruit sat on the couch with a black scallop in his hand.
"You know, if you're bored, you can treat yourself with one of these fabulous dessert shops around the city." Luna said.
"Actually, I found something much more interesting." Shadow Recruit answered. "I have spotted four Dragonesses out in the city."
"Is that so? But what they can possibly be out on this fine night?" Luna wondered.
"Beats me." Shadow Quartet replied as he began performing few tricks with his yoyos. "I say let's take them on. I'm in the mood for some fun tonight."
"Fine, let's go. But it better not take too long cause I don't wanna miss Ophelia's legendary secrets." Luna said.
With that, Luna waved her tessen around to create a large green mystical portal and ran through the vortex as Shadow Recruit swiftly followed her through the portal.
Outside, the Lotus Ninjas sprinted across the building rooftops until they finally arrived on the rooftop that was across from Bro's Pizza restaurant.
"Alright, ladies! Let's get our night on!" Ella smiled.
"Yeah!" Ellie and Lee cheered.
"Hold on, girls. Pizza's gonna have to wait." Donna said as she stood towards the edge of the rooftop with her high-tech sunglasses on her face. "We've got a supernatural newcomer."
Ellie, Lee, and Ella rushed over to see Alice sprinting from one rooftop to another with her lightning fast speed while giggling happily at the same time.
"That girl got some lightning speed!" Ellie exclaimed in shock.
"And she's no one we've ever seen before." Lee said with a confuse eyebrow. "Funny, she looks like your old doll back home, Ella."
Ella's mouth dropped as she should have known that Alive would escape the fortress because she wanted to explore the city.
"Who cares! I call dibs on kicking her butt!" Ellie cheered.
"Oh, no! You don't!" Lee protested as she watched Ellie jumping over the edge. "The only things we call dibs are pizza, skate ramps, fashion, and Donna's gadgets."
"Say what?!" Donna called out.
Lee and Donna jumped after Ellie, leaving Ella follow them from behind.
"You know, girls, I don't think we should kick her butt at all. That seems fair, am I right?" Ella asked innocently.
"Well, in that case, Ella's out of the game!" Ellie said. "I'm dibbing her share on Donna's gadgets."
"Oh, come on!" Donna shouted annoyingly.
The Lotus Ninjas finally landed on the rooftop just in time to see Alice breaking inside an empty Doughnuttery shop. They quietly snuck inside and saw Alice eating the mini doughnuts through the trays. Lee, Ellie, and Donna immediately summoned their magic that caught Alice's attention from eating more mini doughnuts.
"Booyakasha!" Ellie cheered.
"Wait a minute!" Ella called out as she stood in front of her sisters.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Donna asked.
"Hi, Ella!" Alice said as she was waving her hand childishly in the air.
"How does she know your name?" Ellie asked with a confuse eyebrow.
"An excellent question."
The Lotus Ninjas and Alice looked up to Luna and Shadow Recruit standing at the opening doors.
"Now, be good girls and stay out of our way. The doll is coming with us." Shadow Recruit demanded.
"Yeah, that's not gonna happen." Donna replied. She quickly constructed her spear composed of raw psychic energy from her hands. "Target's about to be exterminate!"
Donna charged forward towards Alice while spinning her weapon in circles, but Ella quickly jumped into the air and landed in front of the frightening Alice that made her sister stop running.
"I won't let you hurt her!" Ella shouted angrily.
"What?" Donna asked in confusion.
"Okay, it's official!" Lee called out. "Ella, you have gone from weird to insane!"
"Look, the truth is I did created Alice." Ella said. "I casted a magic materialism spell on my old doll way before the Glenda doll showed up. We've spent weeks of sparring and playing Splatfest, which is why I let Donna win, so my sisters won't find out about her."
"Say whaaaaa?!" Ellie said.
"So, you did let Donna beat you!" Lee replied knowingly.
"That kinda make sense." Donna said with a shrug.
"And if anyone wants Alice for evil purposes, they gotta go through me." Ella said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
Alice gasped at Ella's heartfelt words.
"Thanks, Ella." Alice said as she wrapped her arms around Ella and hugged her with a huge smile on her face.
"How touching." Shadow Recruit said dryly as he rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Heh, whatever. Shred the Dragonesses, Recruit!" Luna ordered.
"With pleasure." Shadow Recruit said with an evil grin.
Shadow Recruit sprinted his way over to Ella and thrusted his kinetic energized yoyos at Alice, but Lee stepped in front of the Shadow Recruit and kicked him away with her blue psychic energized leg.
"Back off, yoyo boy!" Lee said. "She's our friend."
"Really?" Alice asked.
"That's right! You're one of us now!" Ellie smiled as she and her three older sisters surrounded Alice with their readied magic. "We got your back."
Luna growled and waved on her mystical tessen fan to create several clones of herself. All the Luna clones have lifeless eyes, dull skin, and duller attire. Lee twirled her upside-down body to attack three Luna clones with her blue psychic energized legs like helicopter blades. Shadow Recruit then began lashing out his kinetic energized yoyos at Lee, who was dodging them with swift speed. More Luna clones ran past Shadow Recruit and Lee to attack Ella, Ellie, and Donna as they began blasting their psychic energy magic to hit the Luna clones one by one.
"There's too many of them! Get out of here, Alice!" Ella shouted.
"No! This is my fight too!" Alice said with a bold face.
Alice sprang high above the Luna clones in the air and spun around to release green butterfly-shaped blasts of energy at every Luna clones in sight. Ella, Ellie, and Donna looked up at Alice in shock for her amazing attack. As Lee and Shadow Recruit continue attacking swiftly at each other, Shadow Recruit was able to grapple Lee with one yoyo and smashed her onto Ella, Ellie, and Donna before wrapping them up together with both yoyos.
"Girls!" Alice cried out.
"Let's finish them and claim the doll!" Luna ordered Shadow Recruit.
Luna and Shadow Recruit rushed to the tied Lotus Ninjas with their mystical weapons, but Alice landed on the ground in front of the Lotus Ninjas and unleashed a barrage of green energized hurricane kicks to hit Luna and Shadow Recruit while spinning in a horizontal straight line across the room. Alice slowly started engulfing her right hand with blazing green energy just as Luna and Shadow Recruit got back up on their feet.
"They grow up and turn against you so fast." Luna said in awe.
Alice then released a large green energy explosion from her hand as a close-range attack that sent Shadow Recruit and Luna flying into the sky and disappearing into the distance with a twinkle.
The Lotus Ninjas gasped in shock as Alice broke them free from the kinetic energized yoyos.
"Thanks, Alice. You were awesome." Ella grinned.
"You got that right." Lee agreed as she crossed her arms with a smug grin. "Hey, Alice, how about another round of Splatfest?"
"Target objective: Ella!" Alice cheered.
Ella's eyes widened with a fearful look on her face as Alice, Lee, Ellie, and Donna magically pulled out their black steampunk-style shooters in their hands. Just before Ella could run away, her sisters and her friend began fired large globs of blue, orange, purple, and green ink that hit the red mystic kunoichi with an explosion. Alice, Lee, Ellie, Donna, and Ella started laughing in enjoyment.