Atticus, Cherry, Lionel, Mo, Sabrina, and Thor could tell they were going to have their hands full for a while. There were going to be a lot of changes in school as well as their social lives which would be coming up very soon. Sabrina still felt rusty, but the others assured her that she would be fine as long as she was with them as they were all friends after all, but of course, with a new teammate, there would come new problems, both within and outside of the team. The group soon decided to visit the local mall.
"Thanks for coming, guys!" Sabrina beamed. "I know that Aunt Hilda will appreciate this."
"Yeah, sure," Cherry replied. "...Just as long as I don't have to drink anything too strong or flavorless."
"Never did like that coffee stuff," Lionel stuck out his tongue. "Too hot~!"
"Well, maybe there's some pocky or other desserts." Sabrina suggested.
The group shrugged as they went to the coffeehouse of the Mall where Hilda was working as, while she did look happy, she also felt a little bored with her job as it was the same thing every time.
"Kon'nichiwa, Miss Hilda," Atticus bowed. "How's your new job treating you?"
"Oh, it's pretty nice to have young people visit, especially you all," Hilda smiled. "We just added a lounge for people to come in, sit down, and read with their drinks."
"That sounds nice." Cherry replied.
"Yeah!" Thor agreed. "Not to mention it'd be neat for people so they can listen to other people's poetry."
Cherry's eyes lit up a bit. "...Are you guys gonna do nights like that?" she then asked.
"I thought it would help draw in a younger crowd, yes," Hilda nodded. "That was mostly Zelda's idea. She's always been the artsy one in the family."
"...I just might come to that." Cherry replied.
"Oh, please do," Hilda smiled. "Also, I'm thinking of a new name for the place. What do you say to... 'Bean There, Brewed That'?"
The group looked a bit sheepish from the punny name as they forced themselves to grin so they wouldn't hurt Hilda's feelings.
"Well... I've heard worse." Lionel shrugged.
"Good spot too," Cherry said to Hilda. "Right across from the bookstore."
"I thought that would be good too." Hilda smiled.
"Gives me a chance to catch up on my manga." Sabrina smirked slyly.
"Definitely what you'd consider convenient." Lionel agreed before the area began to tremble around him.
The group felt jumpy from that.
"Oh, my!" Hilda gasped.
"Please tell me that was just my stomach." Thor said nervously.
"I doubt it, big guy," Lionel replied. "It felt like it was coming from underneath us!"
"Children! Get down!" Hilda warned as she ushered them into the coffee shop and soon came out with her hands glowing with magic. "I better check this out..." she then said, a bit seriously as this seemed severe.
The group looked at each other as Hilda wandered out to make sure this wasn't a magical emergency, but if it was, she would fight back for them as she was an adult witch and they were only students of magic, especially Sabrina.
"This earthquake seems a bit... Out of season..." Mo stated. "I get the feeling it's not a naturally-occurring sort of quake!"
"Out of season?" Cherry replied. "It's an earthquake! Does it need a season to come and go?"
"Use your brain!" Mo retorted. "Earthquakes don't just happen randomly, they occur at specific times!"
"My bad!" Cherry replied.
"This work can't be from Vosblanc... At least, I hope it isn't..." Hilda said, a bit worried.
"All right, you cowards, come on out," Thor glared before he took out a random mug that said "World's Greatest Detective" on it. "I'm armed and dangerous."
"...How would they come out if they're underneath us?" Lionel groaned, clutching the bridge of his nose.
"I dunno, I just thought they'd break through the floor and lunge out at us." Thor shrugged.
"Children, you should probably check this out," Hilda said to the teenagers. "This seems like it's your territory."
"Very well, then," Atticus replied. "Let's go check it out!"
And so, the group headed off to investigate. Hilda came out with them just to make sure they would be okay, putting a sign on her coffee shop.
"If it's that crazy lady again, I'm gonna go Medival on her, lady or not." Atticus glared severely.
Turns out the cause of the tremors was a mole-like monster that was digging around the town, leaving massive holes in his wake.
"A giant mole?" Cherry asked.
"Well, nobody said the day was gonna be normal," Atticus replied. "Might as well get to work."
"But I'm not experienced like you guys!" Sabrina piped up.
"Look, all you hafta do is morph, and the suit will make you more powerful!" Lionel explained, before raising his Morpher. "MASTODON!"
"Tyrannosaur!" Atticus proclaimed.
"Triceratops!" Thor added.
"Sabertooth!" Mo added.
"Pterodactyl!" Cherry added.
The others looked at Sabrina and nodded at her to get her to join in.
"Oh, very well," Sabrina sighed as she took her turn. "Dragon!"
In a flash of light, the group was zapped into their battle armor.
"Beast Rangers!" they exclaimed.
The mole monster roared as it tried to drill right through them with its sharp nose.
"Close, but no cigar!" Thor glared.
The mole monster growled at them.
"I say we charge!" Thor yelled out before he charged, butting his Triceratops head against the mole monster to knock it down.
The monster mole snarled before it made a dive for it and began tunneling into the ground.
"Get back here!" Thor glared.
Mo's form charged after the mole monster and tried to dig through the ground while also attempting to grab the mole monster.
Once they got further underground, Mo saw Cringe and Craven placing explosives around the area.
"Alright, once we blow this place sky-high, should be a cinch for the boss to come and start mining for the new clay!" Craven exclaimed as he finished setting up his supply.
"Those foolish brats have no idea what they're in for!" Cringe added.
Mo let out a small gasp once she saw what the horrible foes were up to.
"Now get going, Mogura (the Japanese word for 'mole')!" Craven declared. "Leave no pebble unturned, and drill deeper, so that way we get a better boom range!"
The mole nodded and went to carry out the chores.
Mo soon brought her Sabertooth back out of the hole.
"Mo! What happened?!" Atticus cried out.
"Guys, we got bad company and a bad future for the city going on down there!" Mo alerted her friends.
"Care to explain what'cha mean?" asked Thor.
"Della's lackeys have that mole monster digging around underground," Mo explained. "They're also setting up bombs to blow the mall away so Della can get this new clay!"
"Gah!" Atticus gasped before glaring. "Those fiends!"
"We gotta stop them!" Sabrina cried out. "...But how?"
"Well, hopefully, the mall has been evacuated by now," Lionel stated. "I'm thinking a few of us stay to fight the mole-monster, while the others go to get rid of the bombs if they can't disable them."
"Good enough for me," Atticus replied. "I'm down for getting the mole-monster from Sensei Goku's training."
"Same here." Thor added.
"Alrighty then: three of us, including you, can fight with mole man here," Lionel said. "The rest of us will handle the bombs."
"Right!" The group replied as they split up.
"Eat my dust, Mole Man!" Thor glared as he grabbed his controls. "I'm gonna kick you where the sun don't shine at all for you!"
Mogura just let out a roar as it went to drill mode and lunged again, like a torpedo.
"Come on, boys, get ready!" Thor glared as he braced himself.
"Ready!" Atticus replied. "You ready, Lionel?"
"As I'll ever be," Lionel replied. "Time to whack this mole!"
"LET'S DO IT TO IT!" The boys yelled out before they soon lunged out at the mole.
The mole growled as it soon attempted to drill them as the girls went off to take care of other business.
"Okay, so how exactly do we get rid of these bombs?" asked Sabrina. "They don't exactly teach that kinda stuff in Charm School..."
"Easy, we have to defuse them before they go off." Mo replied.
"Yeah, and how do we do that?" Sabrina asked. "That's another thing about Charm School."
"Leave that to me," Mo said. "I can't say how or why, but I've been down this road before."
"That just raises so many questions," Cherry replied. "I guess if we're too late for some of them, we could just shoot them into space."
"We could do that too, just get rid of them and fast!" Mo then exclaimed as she got started.
Cherry and Sabrina got to work on removing the bombs, while Mo got to work defusing the other ones.
"Let's hope we can get rid of these things in time," Sabrina panicked. "There's so many of them!"
"Don't give up hope, Brina!" Mo replied. "We got this!"
"Alright, I got these last two," Cherry said as she removed the last two. "Now we just need to ditch them before they go off!"
"If only we could throw them out into space or something." Sabrina frowned.
"Well... Did they teach you how to make portals?" asked Cherry.
"...Well, yes..." Sabrina admitted.
"Then get cracking into making one!" Cherry replied. "I hate to rush and force you, Sabrina, but we're on a tight schedule!"
"Right! Right! Sorry!" Sabrina replied before she soon used her magic with a deep breath and soon made magic fly from her fingertips and some magic dust came out.
This made a wide portal soon appear.
"Okay, Mo, let's ditch these bombs!" Cherry then said.
"Aye-Aye!" Mo saluted as they both tossed the bombs into the portals together as quickly as possible.
Sabrina quickly sealed the portal up as soon as the bombs were disposed of.
"Well... That went better than I expected..." Mo sighed. "At least we stopped the bombs."
"Yeah..." Cherry panted. "I thought for sure that'd be a chore to do."
"Don't get too eager, Cherry," Mo replied. "I also hope that the boys are having just as much good luck as we are now."
"Knowing them, we are," Cherry nodded. "They're pretty strong altogether while Atticus and Thor are strong overall... Lionel too, but those two are mostly strength-focused."
"We can at least go back up and see how they're handling things." Sabrina told her gal-pals.
"All right, let's get out of the dirt," Cherry smirked slyly. "I think Mo's been in her natural territory enough as it is."
"Oh! You wanna go?" Mo glared. "Let's go!"
"Please don't fight." Sabrina begged.
"Relax, Mo, I was just kidding," Cherry smirked at the tomboy. "You could probably shower a little more though."
Mo rolled her eyes. "Har-har, funny." she replied before she used her plant power to sprout a way out.
Meanwhile, the boys kept going at it against the mole, not holding back, especially Atticus and Thor.
"And here I thought moles couldn't stand bright light, let alone daylight..." Atticus remarked.
"Well, this one's handling it just fine," Thor replied. "Maybe it's because of those protective lenses he's wearing."
"Could be," Lionel nodded. "Alright, our other objective is to get those shades off his face."
"Heheh..." Thor chuckled darkly with devil horns on his head suddenly. "Maybe I oughta buck him like a horsey."
"If you think that'll work, big guy, I say go for it," Lionel replied. "We'll keep him distracted."
"Gotcha." Thor nodded as he stealthed away a bit.
"Hey, you, giant balloon rat!" Atticus called out to get the mole's attention.
"Balloon rat?" Lionel deadpanned.
"My insults need more work." Atticus said sheepishly.
"Yes. Yes, they do." Lionel replied with a curt nod. "Hey, dirt breath! Are those dead worms on your face, or did you dig into somebody's compost bin?" he shouted at Mogura.
Mogura growled from that as he turned right at them.
"Ooh, I think you provoked him." Atticus smirked playfully.
"Course I did, now stand back and watch the master work," Lionel smirked back. "Yeah, you heard me! Personally, I think that big ol' drill on the end of your sniffer is compensating for something. What's wrong, your best just not good enough for Miss Mole?" he continued.
Mogura let out a loud roar from that, shaking the earth a bit.
"Ooh, Mr. Big Scary Rat with his loud growling," Atticus smirked, though he felt nervous on the inside. 'Come on, Thor, where'd you go?' he then thought to himself.
"Ooh, yeah, rawr, growl; I'm quaking in my spandex," Lionel remarked. "Should be back in 3... 2... Now!"
Before Mogura could get a running start, he fell over, and his sunglasses flew off of his face. Turns out it was thanks to Thor, who had grabbed him by his legs.
"Phew..." Atticus sighed in relief from that.
"Gotcha!" Thor grinned at Mogura.
Mogura growled and tried to get up before looking towards the sunlight which made him hiss like a snake.
"Aww... Is someone afwaid of the wight?" Thor cooed mockingly.
Mogura screeched in agony as Lionel snatched his sunglasses so he couldn't grab them again.
"Alright, we got him on the ropes!" the pint-sized warrior declared. "Time to finish him off!"
"Get ready for a load of Terror-Tops and Tyransa-Wrecker!" Thor added.
"And that means us!" Atticus remarked, cracking his knuckles a bit.
Mogura roared out as Thor and Atticus lunged out at him.
"And that goes ditto for Mega Mastodon!" Lionel added. "Lights out, mole man!"
"TRIPLE GUY ATTACK!" Thor proclaimed.
Mogura cried out as Atticus, Thor, and Lionel all soon pounced on Mogura and began to beat him down to get him clear out of Greendale as Hilda looked relieved that the kids were all safe and that meant that the town was safe too. Soon, the monstrous mole was properly disposed of, and with the bombs gone, the mall would remain unharmed.
The group then regrouped after the mole was taken care of.
"So, where are the bombs?" Atticus asked.
"We put them in a portal Sabrina made somewhere." Cherry replied.
"Do you know where that portal leads?" Atticus then asked.
"...Does it matter?" Cherry shrugged.
"It went to space," Mo replied. "...At least, I think it did."
"Well, hopefully, it did," Atticus said. "Good work though, girls."
"You too," Cherry replied. "Thor, I gotta say, nice work at knocking off the mole's shades."
"Hey, no problem," Thor chuckled. "I was glad to do it and also the boys were a great help so I could buck 'em off."
"Oh, shucks," Lionel blushed. "Tweren't nothing."
"Good job, kids!" Hilda called out.
"Thanks, Hilda!/Aunt Hilda!" The group called back.
And so, the kids continued to enjoy their mall time without any further interruptions.
"So, back to school pretty soon," Sabrina said to the others. "And yet I still have one major problem."
"Balancing Charm School at night and Mortal School in the day?" Cherry asked.
"...Well, that, but speaking of which..." Sabrina said. "...It's about the Harvey and Shinji situation."
"Oh, I have a solution," Cherry smirked. "Go out with Harvey and don't even think about Shinji that way whenever you see him in Charm School. There, problem solved. Who's the world's best best friend? It's me. It's me~"
"Kinda hard to do that since he's in my class." Sabrina replied.
"Wait... What?" Cherry asked. "Did I miss something?"
"You didn't hear?" Sabrina replied. "Shinji goes to Mortal School now."
"How did I miss that?!" Cherry gasped. "...Why is he going to Mortal School then?"
"He says he's doing a project on how mortals live without magic," Sabrina replied. "Now my Harvey/Shinji situation has increased by like 86%."
"That is a problem," Lionel replied. "Well, Shinji IS in a relationship, so try to keep that in your mind whenever you actually feel romantically around him. Just remember, he's only a friend, and nothing else."
"...I guess..." Sabrina shrugged.
"I'm sure it'll be okay," Atticus smiled. "I wouldn't worry about it too much."
"Mostly cuz if you do, it'll throw you off your game." Thor added.
"I'll try it out, guys..." Sabrina sighed. "I just hope it's easier said as it is done."
"It will be if you relax," Mo advised. "You're a smart girl, no matter what anybody says."
"Yeah! Also you're kind, loyal, trustworthy, and cool!" Lionel added. "You have this in the bag!"
"Aww... Thanks, guys!" Sabrina beamed. "You're real pals! Next to Llandra of course."
"Oh, you know it," Cherry replied. "Just remember if Amy Reinhardt says a word, she's dead."
"YEAH!" The others agreed, before having a good laugh.
They soon clinked their glasses of soda together and had a good drink as they hung out after saving the day again.
"Enjoy your celebrations while you can," Della said as she watched through a screen. "It won't last very long... Especially with the future of the Magic Realm which will soon be in my hands," She then turned to Cringe and Craven, who were both covered with purple bruises. "As for you two twits, I think I rely on you both a bit too much," she scoffed, before bringing up her video screens showing Gem, Cassandra, Slugloafe, and Cath. "After all... I already have agents of my own out there as well." she chuckled sinisterly.
"You wouldn't get rid of us though, would you?" Cringe asked nervously.
"...I'll think about it..." Della replied as she went back to her throne room.
Cringe and Craven looked bashful.
"Just wait 'til Drell and the rest of the Magic Council see what I'm made of," Della grinned darkly to herself. "Starting tonight, our missions and disasters throughout that mortal cesspool of Greendale will intensify~..." Her chuckling increased to a fiendish cackle as it seemed to echo throughout The Moon Palace's chambers.
Drell shook chills down his spine from where he sat, though shrugged it off as he decided to get himself some sleep as he currently lived alone with Skippy, though he often tried to have dinner at the Spellman house, though Sabrina felt uncomfortable about that most of the time. However, she couldn't shake the feeling that having Drell over at her house would be the least of her worries.