At the docks on the dark night, two mage mercenaries known as the Dennis Twins got out of the car and waited impatiently to meet with their mage mutant business partner. The twins are named as Pamela and Harley. They both have short orange curly hair and blue eyes. They wore black strapless tops, white shorts, and black go-go boots.
Suddenly, their business partner had arrived at the dock through the black swirly portal. It was Tigress! She was holding a suitcase in her hands for a trade with the twins.
"The Dennis twins, punctual as ever." Tigress said.
"Hiya, Tigress." Harley greeted playfully.
"This had better be worth the price." Pamela said sternly.
Tigress tossed the suitcase to Pamela, who opened it up to see a case of money. Harley then tossed the suitcase to Tigress that has the final ingredient for Shade's mind control serum.
"Trust me, you don't want to disappoint her." Tigress warned.
Out of nowhere, sudden pillars of lightning rushed towards the Dennis Twins and Tigress that shocked only the twins. The tiger mage mutant moved out of the way and stared at the source of the attack. It was Samara!
But she wasn't alone. Mala, Whitman, Silver, and Amber surrounded their leader in their offensive stances.
"So, you're the infamous Samara." Tigress hissed. "You're not very stealthy for a kunoichi."
"What I lack in stealth, I make up for in friends." Samara smirked. "Amazons, attack!"
The Amazons charged forward as Harley and Pamela launched many large balls of mystical energy at them, but Amber's large rabbit ears delivered brutally fast powerful punches at the twins that made them feeling dizzy. Mala ran forward to wrap her long tail around the twins' neck and slammed them to the ground multiple times before tossing the twins flying over their black car. Samara concentrated on her powers through her claws and released a violent lightning-charged tornado to swirl around Tigress while Whitman turned herself nearly invisible and lifted her pair of wrist bracelets to fire dark green laser beams at Tigress. But Tigress jumped up high in the air and landed on the ground, dodging both attacks from cat mage mutant and chameleon mutant. Her left eye powered up and she fired a powerful beam of burnt orange energy at Samara before doing the same attack on Whitman. Tigress turned around to see two mutants charging at her direction and lifted her hands up to fire a hail of strong burnt orange energy bolts at them, sending Mala and Amber flying into the ocean water. Silver snuck up behind Tigress and froze her feet in place, unfortunately Tigress was too strong to break herself free. Silver gulped and Tigress quickly hit his pressure point to knock him down and threw him in the ocean water. Tigress then turned around to see the Dennis Twins regaining consciousness.
"Secure those two mutants." Tigress ordered the Dennis Twins. "They'll be great use to the mistress."
Silver swam up and hid under the wooden bridge.
"That's gotta be Lady Shade." Silver gasped.
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In the Crete Fortress, the K-5 were relaxing themselves in the living room. Kirana was reading her Japanese magazine, Camilla was doing punches at the training dummy that has a photo of Lady Shade on the face, Ariana was doing something in her lab, Talia was watching the Fujita Des Cartes anime show, and Ezra was working on a page in his scrapbook.
"You know, I'm starting to notice that all the cartoons we watch are similar to our previous missions." Talia pointed out.
"You don't say? You're watching cartoon shows way too much, Talia." Kirana grinned, looking up from her magazine.
"And you've had that idea for how long?" Ezra joked.
"Speaking of missions, I know what our next one should be: Lady Shade." Camilla said as she kept punching the training dummy. "Why don't we take her down once and for all?"
Kirana, Talia, and Ezra shot each other a wary glance and then they grinned together.
"Because of that impulsive overemotional attitude you're wowing out." Kirana responded teasingly.
Camilla scowled slightly at her older sister's teasing response as she moved away from the training dummy and zoomed quickly into Kirana's face.
"And what makes you think that I'm that impulsive and overemotional?!" Camilla barked angrily.
"Honestly, I'd go more with hotheaded if you ask me." Talia commented mockingly.
"Uh oh, now you've done it." Ezra warned.
That fueled Camilla's hot temper even further. She summoned her gauntlets from her palms and angrily pounced on Talia, leaving Kirana and Ezra to watch the fight.
Inside the lab, Ariana could hear her older sister's outrageous scream was disturbing her as she was repairing the Sonicruiser in her lab.
"Great, Camilla's going off again. I'm staying there until she cool off." Ariana groaned, using her wrench to finish repairing the black vehicle. "Phew, there. The Sonicruiser is finally fixed."
Suddenly, a loud crash was heard outside of the lab that quickly drawn Ariana from her work. She came out of her lab and watched the red mage kunoichi grabbed the orange mage kunoichi upside down by the leg with her fist ready to punch in the air, while the teal mage ninja was grabbing her arm to stop his older sister from hurting Talia.
"Did Camilla finally blow a gasket?" Cause I got a few sleeping darts." Ariana said.
"Yo, mages!"
Suddenly, the whole commotion stopped as the four mage siblings heard Silver's voice along with a loud exhausted breathing from the Crete Fortress entrance. It was Mala! For a second, she collapsed herself at the foot of the entrance. Silver was at her side to help her up. Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, and Ezra ran up to the mutant fox.
"K-5." Mala said, struggling to get up from the floor.
"Oh my gosh! Mala, are you okay?" Talia cried, helping her mutant fox friend up off the floor.
"I'm fine, but I bring terrible news. Samara and Whitman have been captured by Tigress." Mala informed.
"What? Why?" Ezra asked.
"She said they'll be great use to the mistress." Mala responded.
"I'll give you one guess who that mistress is." Camilla said firmly.
Just then, Amber skillfully entered into the living room and landed to the floor.
"And we need your help to bring them back." Amber said, looking around the living room in amazement. "Wow. Now, this is a secret fortress."
"Plus, Tigress was collecting an ingredient for an experiment." Silver added.
"Then it's settled, we have to get inside Lady Shade's lair." Ezra concurred.
"And since we know where Samara and Whitman are, we're gonna rescue them." Kirana said to her siblings and her three allies.
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At Viral's lab, Lady Shade was checking on Kuro in his cage as Kuro snarled angrily at her until Tigress walked quietly in the lab.
"You found the chemical?" Lady Shade asked the tiger mage mutant.
"As promised, Shade." Tigress replied, opening up the suitcase that obtained the blue chemical serum.
"Everything's ready, mistress." Viral informed, taking the chemical serum out of the suitcase. "This is the last ingredient I needed to finish the formula that will give you complete control over him."
"Before you give it to Kuro, test it on the mage mutants." Lady Shade said.
"Also, if I may, Viral should test it on my traitorous allies as well, mother." Amora said as she walked into the lab towards Lady Shade. "The Shadow Droids have managed to track them down and locked them back to the dungeon."
"As you wish, but let's see if the research will work those two mutants." Lady Shade agreed.
"Brilliant, mistress, in case there are possible side effects." Viral agreed.
Viral slithered up to the dark experimental room with lights shining down on Samara and Whitman, who are tied on the operation tables in tight steel chains.
"Prepare yourselves, my test subjects." Viral said.
"What are you gonna do to us?" Samara demanded.
"I'd just like to clarify that we're not your subjects, not at all." Whitman snarled.
"The serum must be administered directly to your brains, and I have just the collars to perform the task." Viral informed.
"Collars?" Samara and Whitman echoed in slight confusion.
Viral placed a black case on the small table between Samara and Whitman as she slowly opened it up to reveal two simple smooth silver chain design collars with a circular black gem at the center. Samara and Whitman watched as Viral used the chemical serum formula to infuse the gem, turning it from black to blue. Viral smiled slyly as she held two collars in her hands.
"Let us go! Right now!" Samara yelled.
But it was too late. Viral planted each collar on both Samara and Whitman's heads that made them scream in resistance.
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Outside, the K-5 and three Amazons reached at the Shadow Clan building on the rooftop from the opposite side. Camilla summoned her gauntlets from her palms and stepped forward over the edge of the building, but Kirana stopped the red mage kunoichi with her tessen from her chest birthmark.
"What are you doing, Camilla?" Kirana barked.
"Going in all flames blazing like we should have done weeks ago." Camilla replied.
"We don't even know exactly where they are. We need a plan." Kirana said.
"Um guys? Look." Amber said, pointing her finger down to the street.
Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Mala, and Silver followed the mutant rabbit's finger and collectively saw Samara and Whitman running out of the lair. Then, they saw a bunch of Shadow Droids following behind Samara and Whitman out of the building.
"Huh?" Silver said, in confusion.
"Samara and Whitman?" Ezra questioned.
"They escaped on their own?" Ariana said surprisingly.
"And they've got a crowd behind them. Let's go." Ezra said.
As the eight heroes followed their two mutant allies, they saw Samara and Whitman being cornered by the army of Shadow Droids and quickly jumped down to save them. The fight was over in nanoseconds when they took all of the Shadow Droids down easily.
"Samara, are you okay?" Camilla asked, running up to her feline mystic mutant friend.
"Camilla." Samara said weakly as she was on her knees to catch her breath.
"What did Shade did to you?" Ezra asked his friends.
"They don't look so good." Ariana said. "We've got to get them back to the fortress."
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Back in the Crete Fortress, Mala and Amber were playing one of the fun arcade games while Silver was watching in delight. Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, and Ezra were sitting on the couch as Sage walked in the living room with a tray of warm tea in her hands.
"Your escape was very fortuitous." Sage said, setting down the tray on the stool in front of Samara and Whitman. "Shade is not one easily eluded."
"Well, we're just glad you two are okay." Camilla said with a smile.
"Are you sure? Because something seems off about you two." Talia wondered.
"They did do something to us. We're being experimented upon by Shade." Whitman said as she looked at her reflection on the tea.
"Experimented on?" Ariana asked.
"For what?" Silver wondered.
"She had these strange collars on your neck, and then...and then..." Samara explained as her index finger pointed to the collar chained tight on her neck before letting out a groan of pain as she gripped her head with her hands.
"Let me get you some water." Sage said.
As soon as Sage went her way to the kitchen, Samara's gold cat eyes suddenly turned pitch black and attacked Sage with her electric claws, making the white mage hit hard on the ground and the four mage kunoichis and one mage ninja shocked by that attack.
"Mother!" Camilla cried shockingly.
Ezra quickly ran towards his mother to check on her and Samara brought out her weapons.
"No! Samara, don't!" Ezra pleaded.
Samara hissed as she held her electric claws high above the air to end Ezra and Sage's life, but Kirana and Camilla sped up to block her attack with their weapons.
"This can't be happening!" Mala said surprisingly.
"How could you, Samara?!" Camilla asked to her feline mystic mutant friend.
"Sage...must be...destroyed!" Samara replied as she swung her claws up again.
"You'll never hurt mother again!" Kirana said, blocking Samara's claws with her twin tessen.
Kirana and Camilla were locked in combat with the mind controlled Samara, making Talia join the fight by jumping onto Samara's head and gripped her face with her whip.
"Kirana, check on mother!" Camilla said.
As Ariana and Kirana ran towards Ezra and Sage, Whitman gripped her head in pain until her eyes went pitch black for a moment.
"Ezra, is mother-?" Kirana asked.
But then, Whitman used her camouflage skills to lift Ariana and Kirana away from Ezra and the barely conscious Sage with her tail that sent them towards an approaching Mala that knocked them down.
"Guys!" Ezra cried.
Suddenly, Whitman used her tail to wrap Ezra in a tight squeeze and covered his mouth. The teal mage ninja struggled to break free, but he cannot find a way out.
"Whitman's gone crazy too!" Ezra said.
Samara released Talia off of her face and pinned her to the ground. Camilla saw Talia under attack and went to attack Samara, but the feline mage mutant grabbed the orange mage kunoichi and threw her towards Camilla, knocking them down to the ground. Mala then sped towards Samara and pinned her down to the floor.
"Don't make me hurt you, Samara!" Mala growled.
"Don't make me laugh, fox." Samara snapped.
Samara kicked Mala and began fighting her second-in-command with her electric claws.
"I don't know what's come over you Doc, but you have to snap out of it!" Amber said to her brainwashed mutant chameleon friend.
Whitman aimed her wrist bracelets to blast out miniature dark green missiles at Amber, sending her fall straight to the arcade machine. Silver ran to Whitman and they clashed fists at each other.
"This isn't who you are!" Silver said.
Whitman ignored the snow leopard hybrid and knocked him back a couple feet. Ezra managed to get Whitman's tail away from his mouth and breathed.
"Whitman, why are you doing this?" Ezra demanded.
"It is the will of the mistress." Whitman said flatly as she aimed her wrist bracelets to the heroes and squeezed Ezra tighter, making him groan in pain.
The mutant chameleon's monotone voice made Ariana realize something off about them as her eyes stared at the collars.
"Whitman and Samara are mind controlled!" Ariana shouted.
Whitman then unleashed many dark green energy blasts at each one of the K-5 that made them ducked down to the floor. Ezra thought of an idea and quickly focused his magic to teleport him out of Whitman's tail and reappear in front of the tv. Ezra took deep breaths and coughed from recovery.
"Shade desires one of the mages." Samara said as she stood up from the ground.
"I volunteer to go kick her butt right after I kick yours." Camilla snapped.
Camilla summoned her gauntlets from her palms and paced straight towards Samara and Whitman, but Samara threw a smoke bomb right at Camilla's face. Camilla coughed and then collapsed unconscious to the ground at Samara's feet.
"Whitman, fall back!" Samara said, picking up the unconscious Camilla in her arms.
Whitman nodded as she and Samara both ran into Ariana's lab to lock the doors shut.
"Ella!" Kirana cried as she ran towards the lab doors.
"You must save your sister. I will be fine." Sage said, lifting herself up from the floor with her little amount of strength. "Now go!"
Everyone nodded to Sage's order. Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, and Silver were trying to pull the doors open with all of their strengths. Then, Mala bashed through the doors, breaking them open. They dashed inside the lab and saw Samara and Whitman driving away in the blue and purple Magnolia Cycles with Camilla on Samara's back. They chased after the two brainwashed mutants, but they escaped the Crete Fortress and headed their way to the exit.
"They stole two Magnolia Cycles!" Ezra exclaimed.
"The Sonicruiser's fully operational. Let's go!" Ariana said.
As Ariana, Kirana, Ezra, Talia, Silver, Mala, and Amber ran into the Sonicruiser, they got into their seated positions as Kirana started the engine and then drove out of the fortress.
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Outside, the high speed chase was on for the K-5 to rescue Camilla from the two brainwashed mutants. Talia activated the laser cannon and fired a powerful white energy beam at the Magnolia Cycles, but Samara and Whitman swiftly dodged the beams that were coming at them. Samara picked up speed while Whitman had activated oil slick on the ground, causing the Sonicruiser to lose control and crash itself to the building wall.
"They're gone!" Ezra exclaimed.
"And they got away with Camilla!" Talia added.
"At least, we know where they're going." Ariana said.
"Looks like we're gonna do what Camilla wanted after all." Kirana said. "Take the fight to Shade."
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Meanwhile, Camilla slowly opened her eyes and looked around in the lab until she found herself strapped to the operation tables in tight steel chains. But she wasn't alone. She looked to her left and right as she noticed that both Leia and Kale are strapped to the operation tables in chains as well.
"Leia! Kale! Where am I?" Camilla said as she was struggling to free herself from the chains.
"We're at Viral's lab as experimental guinea pigs." Leia responded.
"She's gonna turn us just like them." Kale said, pointing his eyes up above.
Camilla looked up and noticed both Samara and Whitman standing above them with their pitch black eyes staring forward.
"Samara, Whitman, snap out of it!" Camilla barked.
Viral approached her strapped enemies and raised the operation tables to a twelve o'clock angle.
"It's no use, ladies." Viral said evilly. "With my mind control serum coursing through their brains from the collars, resistance is futile!"
"I'm not really proud at taking orders from anyone!" Camilla barked.
"She's not lying!" Leia and Kale agreed with nods.
"We'll see about that." Viral laughed.
Viral snapped her fingers, making Samara gripped Camilla and Kale's heads with her hands while Whitman gripped Leia's head with her tail. As the three friends are trying to turn away, Viral walked closer to the girls and placed the mind controlled collars on their necks. Camilla, Leia, and Kale released out loud screams of resistance.
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Meanwhile, the K-5 and three normal Amazons made their way to Lady Shade's lair for their effort to rescue Camilla.
"I just realized that we don't have a strategy." Ariana said. "Um, shouldn't we make a plan?"
"Forget the plan." Kirana said as she summoned her twin tessen from her chest. "Mala, get ready to make a door."
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Back at Lady Shade's lair, the Shadow Droids threw Camilla, Leia, and Kale down on the ground in a secret chamber underneath the dungeon with Tigress, Viral, and Amora were walking inside from behind. As Camilla, Leia, and Kale woke up, they examined the secret chamber that has lavish Ancient Japanese culture with white marble walls and ornate imposingly large statues of every mystical creatures. Camilla, Leia, and Kale's eyes widened in shock as Lady Shade rose from the ground in a kneeling position.
"Welcome to your new life, my soldiers." Lady Shade said.
"Mother!" Leia and Kale gasped.
"Finally, I don't know how long I've been waiting for this!" Camilla cried.
Camilla summoned her gauntlets and sped up to deliver a quick punch right towards Lady Shade.
"Stop." Lady Shade said.
Suddenly, Leia and Kale gasped as Camilla's gauntlet fist stopped in position. Camilla used all of her strength and power to make her arm move, but it was no use. Lady Shade stood up and watched the red mage kunoichi struggling to make her arm move in amusement.
"Mother, please!" Kale begged.
"Leave her alone!" Leia yelled.
Lady Shade ignored her two children and stared down at Camilla.
"Now, bow to me." Lady Shade ordered.
Camilla did everything she could to fight, but she finally closed her eyes of giving up and her eyes were pitch black as she kneeled down in front of Lady Shade. Lady Shade narrowed her eyes as she looked at her children.
"My children, bow to me." Lady Shade ordered.
Leia and Kale are fighting their resistance to the collars on their necks until they gave in and their eyes turned pitch black, kneeling down to their mother.
"Attack me with no mercy!" Shade demanded.
Camilla, Leia, and Kale got up on their feet and did what Lady Shade told them to do as the black mage mistress was dodging their attacks like she was training them.
"Harder! Excellent!" Lady Shade barked.
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Kirana and Ariana jumped down from the lair's window and attacked two guarding Shadow Droids with their weapons. Talia, Ezra, Mala, Amber, and Silver jumped down from behind to huddle with them. They quietly went to the possible place where the mind controlled Samara and Whitman might keep Camilla captive: the dungeon. After Kirana took out two guarding Shadow Droids, everyone looked around each separate cell in the dungeon, but there was no trace of Camilla.
"Camilla's not here." Kirana said.
"But where can she be?" Amber asked.
Ariana walked in the center of the dungeon and stomped her right foot on the ground, picking up any vibration activities through the lair to locate her older sister.
"Found her! She's in a secret room above here!" Ariana exclaimed.
Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Mala, Amber, and Silver arrived in the secret chamber room, where they found Camilla holding up her left fist with her right foot pressing Lady Shade down to the floor as Leia and Kale did the same thing Camilla was doing.
"It's Camilla!" Ezra shouted. "And Leia and Kale!"
"Guys, do it! End this!" Kirana yelled.
Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Mala, Amber, and Silver watched Camilla, Leia, and Kale finishing Lady Shade once and for all, but they just stood still with no movement.
"What are they waiting for?" Talia asked her siblings.
Lady Shade laughed maniacally as Camilla, Leia, and Kale stood up to stare at their now enemies.
"Camilla and my children are mine to control now." Lady Shade told the heroes.
The chamber entrance doors slammed itself shut behind the heroines and heroes. Samara, Whitman, Tigress, Viral, Amora, Leia, Kale, and Camilla slowly grouped together with Lady Shade in the middle.
"As are your other mutant friends, there's no escape for you." Lady Shade continued. "Now, let us welcome you properly."
Kirana's eyes narrowed and charged forward to attack Lady Shade with her twin tessen in her hands, but Camilla quickly caught her sister's weapons and pushed her away from the evil group. Kirana swiftly landed in front of Ariana and Talia.
"Camilla, snap out of it, man! Shade is your enemy!" Kirana shouted.
"No, you are my enemy!" Camilla shouted back.
"Let us see what my new servants can do." Lady Shade said, leaping high in the air and landed on the statue of a large dragon with her arms crossed. "Attack!"
Samara, Whitman, Tigress, Viral, Amora, Leia, Kale, and Camilla charged forward as Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Mala, Amber, and Silver charged forward until they clashed each other. Amber launched herself into the air to hold Viral by the legs with her giant rabbit ear and then rapidly punched the techno mage mutant multiple times before slammed Viral onto the ground with her other rabbit ear. Viral sped up to Amber with her fingers extended into sharp claws and delivered a flurry of slashes at the rabbit mutant. Whitman aimed her wrist bracelets in front of her face and fired dark green energy laser beams while Kale extended his arms to both sides and performed a 360-degree twirl, throwing off a wave of dark energy to Ariana, who skillfully dodged each one and summoned her spear to deliver a series of purple energy slashes at the mutant chameleon. But Whitman dodged each one out of the way and fired a hail of dark green missiles at the purple mage kunoichi from her wrist bracelets as Kale leaped high off the floor and delivered a flurry of rapid kicks at the purple mage kunoichi, causing Ariana to backflip each one out. Amora sprinted at Mala with a jumping spin kick and then fired a volley of dark energy bolts at the mutant fox's face. Mala hissed and delivered a hard punch at the dark mage kunoichi to the wall. Samara dashed forward and fired arrow-like blasts of yellow energy at Mala, who was soaring in the air and landed hard on the ground. Talia summoned her whips and rapidly curled herself into a ball with her whips covering her in sharp orange energy spikes to roll forward straight at Tigress, who was sent to the wall by that attack. Leia dashed forward and unleashed a machine-gun barrage of dark energy blasts directly at Talia, who quickly dodged and sent out giant waves of orange energy with her whips to create a powerful explosion at Leia, sending her to the wall next to Tigress. Tigress quickly got up and fired a barrage of dark orange energy bolts at Talia, who quickly dodged each one in quick speed. Lady Shade summoned her dark energy magic and engulfed it into fists at Ezra, who used his shield to bounce away the blows. Silver jumped in and fired two icicles at the dark mage mistress, who avoided the blast and kicked off the snow leopard hybrid. Ezra went to his friends aid and blasted an energy ball at Lady Shade.
Then, Kirana drew her twin tessen and charged forward to slash Camilla multiple times. But Camilla dodged her older sister's attack one at a time and launched herself forward to deliver a long flurry of powerful brutal punches at Kirana, who was dodging each punch and flipped on top of the golem statue above her younger sister.
"Camilla, this isn't you!" Kirana shouted, looking down at her brainwashed sister. "You have to use you crazy temper to break Shade's control!"
"Don't be a fool, Kirana." Camilla said, looking up at her older sister. "My mind has been set to serve Lady Shade's orders."
"Fight Shade's control, you nitwit!" Kirana yelled.
Camilla paused for a second and halted her fists in stillness as if Kirana's yell was releasing a bit of her emotions out. Kirana caught her younger sister's confused expression and figured out the collar's limitation as she watched Camilla brushed her confusion away and focused on her fight.
"I think I get it!" Kirana whispered to herself before facing back at Camilla in a teasing tone in her voice. "You can't feel emotion because you're Shade's puppet! As a matter of fact, I'll bet you like doing whatever Shade tells you! You totally love it!"
Camilla felt the emotions of anger and rage growling inside her core. She released a loud angry scream and began charging at her older sister, but she stopped herself when the collar on her neck started to malfunction and broke itself into tiny pieces. Camilla fell to the floor as Kirana ran up to her.
"Camilla, are you okay?" Kirana asked.
"I'm fine, sister." Camilla responded with a smile.
"That's it!" Ezra gasped.
Ezra smirked and unleashed a powerful clap of teal magic that sent Lady Shade to the ceiling and she fell to the floor. Ezra and Silver got up and went to the others to help.
"Viral, what's going on?" Lady Shade demanded, looking up at the techno mage mutant.
"I don't know, mistress." Viral replied with a shrug.
"Kirana, you're a genius!" Ariana said. She then faced the brainwashed Whitman, who was firing miniature dark green missiles at her. "So you can shoot missiles at me! If you had a brain to go with your weapon, you might actually be smarter than a dimwitted lizard!"
Ariana grinned as she noticed that the anger inside the mutant chameleon was growing faster equal to Camilla.
"What? How dare you? I'll show you that I'm...!" Whitman yelled.
Whitman's eyes twitched as the collar on her neck started to malfunction and broke itself into tiny pieces, making the chameleon mutant to take deep breaths.
"You girls alright?" Ezra asked as he ran to them.
"We're good. Sorry about the insults, Doc." Ariana apologized.
"No, they were necessary to break me free from mind control." Whitman said with a shrug.
"Good." Ariana said. "Now blast that collar out of Samara!"
Whitman detected Samara slashing her electric claws towards Mala. Silver used his ice magic to freeze Samara's legs.
"Hurry, Whitman!" Silver shouted.
Whitman aimed her wrist bracelets at the collar on Samara's neck and fired a miniature dark green missile to the collar, causing it to explode into pieces and restoring Samara's mind. Silver then unfreezed Samara's legs to free her.
"Samara, get the collars out of Leia and Kale!" Ariana shouted to the feline mage mutant.
Samara hurried towards Leia and Kale as she jumped in the air and sliced the collars into shreds off of Leia and Kale's necks, restoring them back to normal.
Lady Shade caught the sight of Tigress, Viral, and Amora have fallen on the floor in their unconscious state that made her get up from the floor and stood in the center of the chamber room.
"It's time for me to end this experiment." Lady Shade said.
The K-5 and the Amazons ringed around Lady Shade in righteous fury with their weapons and magic ready in their fighting stances.
"Mages, Amazons, get her!" Kirana commanded.
In quick speed, the K-5 and the Amazons attacked Lady Shade what every moves they got. But Lady Shade has proven to be much faster and stronger than all of her opponent, even though she got hit by Whitman's dark green energy grenades from her wrist bracelets and Camilla's gauntlet rockets. The fight was over when Ezra swung Silver to kick Lady Shade off her feet and Samara used her great strength to push the dragon statue, making it crashing down onto Lady Shade. Ezra and Silver smirked at each other and high fived.
Unfortunately, there was no time to celebrate their victory when several Shadow Droids charged in the chamber room with weapons ready.
"There's always another time." Kirana said.
Camilla and Ariana threw out a smoke bomb to the ground and everyone disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Tigress, Viral, and Amora got up from the ground and went to help their black mage from the dragon statue. They found that Lady Shade had protected herself with a black energy shield. Knowing that the K-5 and the Amazons are gone, Lady Shade released a loud angry scream in the room for her defeat.
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Back in the Crete Fortress, everyone stood behind Samara and Whitman as they were handing a cup of green tea to the Sage, who was sitting down on the couch.
"I'm sorry, Sage." Samara apologized with shame in her voice. "When I attacked, I could see everything that was happening, but I couldn't control my actions. Please, forgive me."
"There is nothing to forgive, my friend." Sage said calmly. "This was Shade's doing. Your mind was not your own."
"Those collars must have programmed you two like sleeper agents." Ariana said.
"Indeed, it was horrible. We're grateful all of you for saving us." Whitman agreed.
"All I know is that it's awesome to have you guys back." Talia smiled, putting her left arm around Camilla's shoulder.
"Thanks, little sis, but we owe it all to Kirana." Camilla smiled back before looking at her older sister.
Ezra rolled his eyes in jealousy.
"Okay, and Ezra too." Camilla added. "He and Silver did amazing at fighting Shade."
Ezra and Silver smiled at that.
"Well, what would we do without you? Every team needs an impulsive, loudmouthed, super-violent hothead, right?" Kirana grinned.
"Oh, no." Ezra said, with a facepalm.
Camilla groaned as she stomped her feet towards Kirana, who stood still and ready to face the wrath of her sister's anger. But Camilla did something that she never done before.
"You're the best, sis." Camilla smiled, hugging her older sister tightly with her arms.
"Okay, okay. Let me go." Kirana said, struggling to break free from her younger sister's tight hug.
Ezra and Silver were trying hard not to laugh, but they failed as they laughed out so loud.