At Zuzzana's Steps, Mahi was looking for a new pair of ballet slippers. That's when Peggy came in. "Hey, Lass," Peggy greeted. "What are you doing here?"

"If you ask me," answered Mahi, "I'm looking for a new pair of ballet slippers for the dance contest."

"A dance contest?" asked Peggy.

Mahi showed her the flier for the dance contest.

Hartfeld Teen Dance Off

"It's that ridiculous dance competition the town hold every year," Mahi explained. "Every year, the mayor gives away 1,000 to the grand prize winners. Runner-ups get a gift box of Hartfeld goodies."

Peggy began to wonder why Mahi would care about a contest. Esme was doing twirls when she spotted Peggy with Mahi. "Who's your new boyfriend?" asked Esme.

"I'm Mahi," Mahi greeted as she tried to fist bump Esme

"Your a lass!" Esme exclaimed.

"I know," Mahi replied. "I've been going by the boyish hairstyle since I was 13."

Peggy suddenly got a text from Isadora about the Hartfeld Teen Dance Off on who's competiting. Within the list she saw who's in the contest.

Peggy O'Donovan and Mahi Chakavarti

"You let us compete in the Dance Off?" Peggy asked. "I thought you were running an errand for one of the competitors."

"I forgot to mention that is usually a partner dance-off," Mahi replied.

"I like it," Peggy smiled.

"You do?" Mahi asked in a surprise.

"Duh," replied Peggy. "That way we can get to know each other better."

As they were blushing, Peggy's parents noticed them, "You know Brody," said Mrs. O'Donovan. "I think Mahi and Peggy look cute together."

"Your right, Alanna," Mr. O'Donovan replied.

XxoxX

Meanwhile in the Jeivian Empire, King Jeiva was watching some dancers perform the Jeivan Jump. Madrid was delight to see them dance in the king's way. "I hoped that Isadora would feel the same for me."

"You and Isadora?" Bipon laughed. "Hey, guys, Madrid still has a crush on Isadora."

"Isadora and Madrid sitting in a tree!" shouted his cohorts. "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

Madrid got completely annoyed by their antics. This gave King Jeiva an idea to summon the dancers at once. He told them to go to earth and "take care" of PRIMA.

XxoxX

Later in the human world, City Hall was having their annual dance contest. The mayor, Tallulah Hansen, of the town came up to make the announcement. She was a middle-aged woman who looked like a secretary from the 1940s. "Welcome, good citizens of Hartfeld, to the Hartfeld Teen Dance Off - HTDO for short," she greeted. "As mayor and a person who came up with the idea 20 years ago, it is my pleasure to show that teenagers can express themselves through dancing."

First a pair of Russian dancers came up, then a pair of contemporary dancers, and finally a pair of disco dancers came up. While Mahi and Peggy were looking at the dancers, a familiar face laughed at them. Rochelle was competing in the contest just for the money. Her dance partner was a ballet club member, Kieran, who was biracially Black/Native American. They were going to do a salsa routine in the competition. "Next on our list is a dynamic duo from the Hartfeld High's ballet club," Mayor Hansen said, "Margaret O'Donovan and Mahi Chakavarti."

Rochelle didn't know what they meant. "Margaret is my real name," Peggy replied as she took off into the audience.

Onstage, Peggy started doing some Irish ballet her grandmother taught her as a child, then Mahi did a little hip hop routine she learned from her fellow street performers. Peggy was amazed by her moves, so they decided to switch things up a notch. They ended with Mahi carrying Peggy and the audience applauded. Rayne, Isadora, and Addison were sitting near an elderly Vietnamese couple. They were Addison's paternal grandparents.

"Did you see them onstage?" Isadora smiled. "It took them nearly three days to rehearse the dance routine. If it weren't for the word 'rehearsal', they would get a little out of hand, and I mean a lot. They would get confused and get stage fright at the same time. Mahi and Peggy knew each other for a few weeks, and believe me, they're starting to get along just fine."

"Take it easy, Isadora," said Grandma Bach. "It is good that their ballet/hip-hop fusion is going well. Maybe Mahi and Peggy could learn a few acting skills."

"Are you saying that they should get free acting lessons from you?" asked Dr. Bach. "Because I was going to show them what to do if you see a dehydrated bystander."

Backstage, Peggy and Mahi congradulated themselves while they told a pair of Scottish dancers to "break a leg."

"Normally," Mahi replied, "whenever Vinod tells actors or other performers that, he really means it."

"Esme thought it was real once," Peggy replied. "But luckily I saved her before Mom and Dad could ground her for staging an injury. What about your parents?"

Mahi took a deep breath, "They disowned me and my brother," she explained. "Back in India, they were always too busy working for us. That's when Vinod decided to go into a life of crime. Me, on the other hand, I started to develop romantic feelings for women. Our parents disowned us for that. That's when they recruited his stupid friends Ragoba, Jyoti, Kareena, and Dhraya on the street and called themselves 'the Ferociars'. I only joined so I could stand guard while they committed their lame crimes."

"That's okay," Peggy replied. "Grandma Zuzzana was a ballerina dancer at The Abbey Theater. She was a hardworking single mother. Grandpa Alan died from a terminal illness before my mom was born. It was hard for her, to bring in money to raise her five kids. My mom was the youngest. She has been to India and Ireland, but she wanted to share her passion for dancing to America. It was her dying wish: for my family to go to the USA. In honor of her memory, my mom named the store after her."

"Well," Mahi replied, "single parenting isn't easy."

"Speaking of single parents," greeted Will from the distance, "I know how you feel."

Will and Alexa came in thanks to their backstage passes they bought. "I had to join a single parent club in order to help raise Alexa."

"What happened to your ex-boyfriend?" asked Peggy.

"I had to leave him," Will explained. "With him and his job and the Quintessence power carrying on, I knew it would be dangerous to let him know about Alexa's existence."

"Wait," asked Mahi. "He doesn't know Alexa's existence?"

"I'm afraid not," Will answered.

Suddenly, Mahi and Peggy's rings started to glow. "There's trouble by Zuzzana's Steps," Peggy growled. "Nobody messes with the O'Garvey name."

In the audience, Rayne, Isadora, and Addison looked at their rings and saw trouble by the new dance shop. "We're going to get some snacks at the concession stand, Grandma," Addison exaggerated.

"Please bring me back some yogurt chips," Grandma Bach requested. "You know how much I love those."

They caught up with Peggy and Mahi by the founder's statue. "Are we really going to the snack bar," whispered Rayne.

"Yes," replied Addison in a whisper, "because we don't anyone to find out about the Jeivan Empire and the Hearts of Kandrakar."

"To me, lasses," Peggy whispered, "it's time for a serving of PRIMA POWER!"

Guardians Unite

XxoxX

At Zuzzana's Steps, they saw the Jeivan dancers, causing havoc around the place. They needed to stop them fast. *Mahi should really think of something right now*, thought Peggy.

*Hey*, thought Mahi. *I'm trying to think here*.

Suddenly, they realized that they had telepathy. They looked into each other's eyes and decided to dance their way to solve their problem. Both Mahi and Peggy decided to dance the same routine they did at the Dance Off. As they were dancing, they teleported from place to place. Rayne was impressed that they also got teleportation too. "Girls," Addison said, "care to do a little trio Dance of the Little Swans?"

"No prob," Isadora said. "Mostly this is a quartet thing, but since Mahi and Peggy are doing their hip-hop/ballet routine. We should do it too. I mean, we better take care of these dancers before Mr. and Mrs. O'Donovan catches us."

After they took down the last dancer, they all decided to retreat to the Jeivan Empire. Now the only problem was, how were they going to clean the place before Peggy's parents found out? From the window, Billy Shears, Ms. Lizzy, Mr. Mustard, Maggie May, and Rita started cleaning up the place and in 10 seconds. They were impressed. "Guys," Addison said, "we better get back to our seats. My grandma is going to be worried sick."

With a quick teleport, they went back to city hall and back to their positions. Not before Addison, Isadora, and Rayne stopped by the snack bar to get some food.

XxoxX

Back in their seats, Grandpa Bach was looking at his pocket-watch to see what's taking them so long. As he was about to leave, the three girls made it back. "Sorry we're late," Addison said to her grandmother. "We ran into a couple of dancers along the way."

"With your sister at her friend's slumber party," Mrs. Bach said. "I can finally eat my yogurt chips without her sneaking into them."

All the competitors gathered around to see who won the contest. Rochelle was determined to win, so she could have the money to herself. "And the winner is-" the mayor announced as she opened the letter, "-Margaret O'Donovan and Mahi Chakavarti for their ballet/hip-hop fusion duet. I never seen anything like this in my life."

"Really?" asked Peggy.

"Normally," the mayor said, "I would see it on TV, but seeing it live makes it feel better."

The mayor gave Peggy and Mahi a 1,000-dollar check, sashes for the dance contest winners, and a trophy. "We can share the prize money together," Peggy suggested, "and give the other half to our ballet club."

"This is why I wanted to enter the contest," replied Mahi, "so I can help the ballet club."

"That's good," Will said as she and Alexa came up, "because we're in desperate need of some new costumes for the spring show."

"You two picked out the theme for the spring show?" Mahi asked.

"Yes," Alexa replied. "But I won't tell until the day of the winter show."

"This is your fault!" shouted Rochelle to Kieran. "I won some stupid souviners instead of the 1,000 money!"

"Hey," Kieran replied. "You need to learn to keep it cool and not to squander all your money on expensive clothes."

Rochelle took off in rage.

"Sounds like someone has danced out of their brain," joked Rayne as everyone laughed.

The End.