Summary: When the Shadow Ninjas attack the Crete Fortress in force, the Lotus Ninjas fight against overwhelming odds to get Lee – who is wounded – to safety.
Saldana, Ella, Donna, and Ellie all gasped in a mix of shock and disbelief as they watched Lee knocked out unconscious. Phantom, Ryoko, and Ekron came into the room just in time to see an unconscious Lee lying on the floor as they all went up to check on her.
"What…did she just say?" Ellie exclaimed in fear. "Did she say…Lady Shade's back?!"
"But how?" Donna said. "We all were there that night on the roof. Mom took her down with everything she got. No way she could've survived that."
"This is Lady Shade we're talking about. We should've known she was gonna make it out of that." Ella said with a glare.
"If there's one thing I learn from comic books, the bad guy always comes back." Ellie said.
"We need to get Leona out of here." Saldana said firmly. "We must leave now."
Ellie walked to the opening hole. She knelt on her knees and looked straight through the hole.
"Uh, guys! I hate to be the one with more bad news, but we got company!" Ellie cried out.
Several Shadow Ninjas appeared around the blimp across the flying fortress.
"Normally, Lee is the one with a plan! So, let me ask! What's the plan?!" Ellie said in a panic.
Three Shadow Ninjas crashed through the walls with glowing tessen. Ellie quickly backed away back to her family. Then, more Shadow Ninjas bursted through the wall coming from the kitchen and the dining room.
"Phantom, grab Lee! You, Ekron, and Ryoko get her out of here! We got you covered!" Donna said to Saldana.
Donna, Ellie, Ella, and Saldana charged forward as they began fighting off against every Shadow Ninjas coming to them with their magic. Phantom hurriedly carried Lee in her arms as Ekron and Ryoko surrounded the marionette robot in protective stances. Four mystics fought every Shadow Ninjas coming from different direction until more of them continued to swarm around the fortress.
"Time to finish this." Saldana said.
Saldana rose in the air and charged her hands with powerful volts of white electricity. She lifted her hands forward and released it to shock the entire Shadow Ninjas all around the fortress without harming her daughters and her allies.
Saldana, Donna, Ellie, and Ella turned their heads to Lee, who started to groan in Phantom's arms.
"What…what's going on?" Lee asked croakily.
"Rest, Leona. We're getting you somewhere safe." Saldana said.
Just then, four Shadow Elite appeared out of black smoke. They all had glowing tessen in their hands and stood in their fighting stances.
"Cool hats." Ellie, Ella, and Donna commented.
One Shadow Elite threw her tessen at an unconscious Lee, but Saldana blasted the flying tessen back to the Shadow Elie's hand with a white energy blast.
"They are Lady Shade's elite guard. Not only they're very lethal assassins, but they are the deadliest warriors." Saldana said. "We cannot stay here any longer."
The Shadow Elite charged as Donna, Ellie, and Ella raced into action. Donna, Ellie, and Ella fought off the Shadow Elite with their magical combat, but the Shadow Elite kept gaining an opportunity to strike them back with brutal assaults.
Saldana got into a defensive stance to protect Phantom, Ekron, Ryoko, and an unconscious Lee. Little do they know is that Sienna and Mira sneaking up behind Phantom. Sienna's black energy blast attacked Phantom squarely in the back, causing the marionette robot to collapse to the floor. Sienna then blasted Ekron and Ryoko away with two black energy bolts. Saldana turned around and backed away just as Mira levitated Lee up in the air.
"Put my daughter down!" Saldana said with a glare.
"Fine by me." Mira answered.
Mira simply threw Lee into the other side of the room. Lee crashed into the wall and laid onto the hole unconsciously.
"Lee!" Ella exclaimed.
Ella spun around and ran over towards Lee. The Shadow Elite tossed her tessen horizontally at Ella in a boomerang fashion, but Ella ducked in a full split and bended backwards to blast the Shadow Elite with a large fireball. As Ella got up and stood protectively over her older sister, Saldana surrounded Sienna and Mira with white energy sensation that disabled them from moving or using their magic. She then telekinetically levitated the frozen Sienna and Mira together in front of her and unleashed her full-scale attack that blasted them away to the ground with a snap of her fingers.
Saldana, Donna, Ellie, Phantom, Ekron, and Ryoko turtles raced over to the groaning Lee. They turned around to see the Shadow Elite gathering around together.
Suddenly, the wall exploded open and Lady Shade floated inside the room.
"Oh snap." Ella muttered.
"Lee was so not kidding." Ellie said.
Lady Shade glided into the room. Behind her, the flying blimp revealed more Shadow Ninjas waiting outside.
"No one opposes Lady Shade, especially you thorning witches. And now I will have my revenge for our last encounter!" Lady Shade declared. She turned to her Shadow Elite. "Finish the brats off. The mother witch is mine."
"Let's pound her down once and for all, girls. You with me?" Ella stated.
"For Lee!" Donna agreed.
"For Lee!" Ellie nodded.
The Shadow Elite jumped towards the Lotus Ninjas, leaving Lady Shade charge towards Saldana with her dark magic. Lady Shade and Saldana shot magical energy blasts while blocking each other's attacks at the same time. As Saldana kicked Lady Shade away, three Shadow Ninjas come charging after her. Saldana easily knocked the Shadow Ninjas with swift kicks before turning back to Lady Shade, who was coming up behind her. Lady Shade charged and fired black energy blast at Saldana, but Saldana dodged each energy blast and then delivered another kick that threw the Shadow Clan leader back against the wall.
The Shadow Elite surrounded the Lotus Ninjas, who are protecting an unconscious Lee. Before the Shadow Elite prepare to strike, Phantom suddenly came in front of the Shadow Elite and grabbed the Shadow Clan assassins by the arms as she fried them with purples surges of electricity and threw them hard to the wall.
"Nice one, Phantom!" Donna smiled.
Lady Shade growled for her elite assassins' defeat.
"Obliterate them!" Lady Shade ordered her Shadow Ninjas.
More Shadow Ninjas flooded the room. Donna, Ella, Ellie, Saldana, and Phantom charged forward as the two forces clashed into battle.
During the fight, Sienna and Mira awoken from being knocked out. Before they can to join the quarrel, they turned their heads to see Ryoko and Ekron shielding around Lee. Sienna and Mira exchanged advantageous smiles as they stalked over the trio. Ryoko and Ekron looked up at Sienna and Mira, still shielding Lee from them with angry glares.
"Oh, isn't this cute, Sienna?" Mira said. "They're gonna protect her from us."
"They can try." Sienna said. "They're too weak against us anyway."
Sienna and Mira drew dark magic from her hands. They aimed their glowing hands at Ryoko and Ekron, but a X-shaped white energy was suddenly fired out of nowhere and hit Mira away into the defeated Shadow Elite.
Sienna turned to the source of that attack, which revealed to be Aaliyah. But she wasn't alone. Irma also joined the fight. This time, she carried a large white parasol with pastel purple beaded ribbon petal hanfu around the edges.
"You mess with them; you mess with us!" Aaliyah declared.
Irma opened her parasol and gathered a large ball of reddish-orange fire at the tip before launching it at Sienna that sent her crashing down into half-dozen Shadow Ninjas, who were also caught into the fireball.
Ryoko and Ekron exclaimed with glee as they soared around Aaliyah and Irma in a mix of happiness and relief.
"Don't worry, guys. Donna sent us a text and we came as fast as we can." Irma stated.
Aaliyah turned her attention to Lee.
"Oh my…Lee!" Aaliyah exclaimed.
Aaliyah and Irma ran up to check on Lee, who was working to stand up.
"I have…my family…they need my help." Lee said as she was struggling to stand up.
"You can't, Lee." Aaliyah said.
"She's right. You're in no condition to fight." Irma agreed.
Lady Shade walked up to Aaliyah, Irma, and Lee. She aimed her glowing hands at the trio and fired a large black energy beam, but Irma lifted her parasol in front of her and created a purple force field that protected herself and her friends from the energy beam.
Saldana caught the sight of it and leaped at Lady Shade, releasing a massive beam of white magical energy that knocked the Shadow Clan leader down away from the trio. Saldana then looked back to see her other daughters being heavily overwhelmed by the sheer odds against the Shadow Ninjas.
"My daughter, retreat!" Saldana shouted.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Ellie shouted back.
Ellie, Ella, Donna, and Phantom moved away from the Shadow Ninjas. As they gathered together with their allies, Saldana extended her arms out and enveloped herself in surging white magic aura.
"Watashinoie o watashi no jigen ni hozon suru." Saldana casted.
A massive white portal appeared on the ceiling that caught everyone's attention. The portal started expanding itself around the walls and engulfed everything as if it was sinking all the rooms into itself. Donna, Ella, Ellie, Aaliyah, Irma, Lee, Ryoko, and Ekron watched as the portal kept engulfing everything else from top to bottom until there was nothing left, except for them and the Shadow Clan.
Saldana dropped her arms down and took deep breaths before giving Donna a knowing nod.
"Phantom, get us out of here!" Donna ordered her robot.
Phantom nodded. Her eyes glowed and generated a purple orb of magical energy around herself and everyone else. With that, she instantly teleported herself and the family out of the fortress.
After that, the Shadow Ninjas recovered from the battle along with the Shadow Elite, Sienna, and Mira. Lady Shade, on the other hand, narrowed her eyes at the disappearance of her enemies.
"Shadow Ninjas, vanish." Lady Shade ordered.
The Shadow Ninjas, the Shadow Elite, Sienna, and Mira obeyed as they sped through the opening hole and sprang back onto the flying blimp under the heavy rain.
Lady Shade pulled out a firebomb device in her hand and pressed the button at the center before dropping it on the floor and enlarging it with her magic.
"My enemies may be gone, but they can't hide from me forever." Lady Shade said. "Without a home of their own, they will soon reveal themselves as warriors and not cowards."
Lady Shade then floated through the opening hole.
Then, the firebomb exploded and promptly bursted the entire fortress into flames. The Crete Fortress became visible from the cloaking spell and began descending from the sky until the flames engulfed the entire airship into nothingness.
Meanwhile, the yokai observed the scene on a building rooftop from the distance. He opened the pale grey scallop and contracted the three female mystics.
"Mistress, I'm afraid we are too late. The mystic kunoichis are destroyed. Lady Shade have reign victorious." The yokai reported.
"This is very unfortunate." The young mystic said.
"Indeed. Our enemy is becoming too powerful for our common allies." The adult mystic agreed.
"We have no choice. We must accelerate our plan at once." The elderly mystic ordered.
"Understood." The yokai nodded. He ended the call and looked back at the sky. "That mystic…Leona. She was my ally. Today…is, indeed, a great loss."
To Be Continued?
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Watashinoie o watashi no jigen ni hozon suru – Japanese for Store My Home into My Dimension
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