On a dark starry night, Lee stood on the top of a white airplane flying towards its destination to New York City. She looked at the illuminating lights up ahead with a smile as she was glad to finally return home.
As Lee sprang off the plane, she then unfolded a pair of blue energized bat wings on her back. She soared high up above and around the clouds with a playful smile.
Then, Lee dove down and landed on top of the Crete Fortress. Her bat wings vanished into nothingness from her back. She jumped down with a backflip and walked right into the fortress entrance.
Inside the Crete Fortress, Lee stood in the hallway to stare two darkened bedrooms in front of her. Ellie was covered with various plush animals in her bed as she held onto a plush turtle animal in her arms while Donna was covered with a fashion magazine in her bed while snoring softly in an upside-down position.
Lee smiled affectionately as she watched her younger sisters sleeping peacefully. She then took a glance at Saldana's room and walked towards the doors. As Lee opened the doors slightly, Saldana was mediating silently as she began to sense her eldest daughter standing outside of the room.
"Come and kneel, my daughter." Saldana spoke.
Lee walked forward in front of Saldana and knelt down on her knees to the floor.
"I have returned home, mother." Lee said as she looked down to the floor in shame. "I'm sorry that I failed on my team. I was so caught up in my own world that I forgot about the family and friends I cared about."
Saldana stood up from the floor and slowly conjured a golden medal in her hand. The medal was in the shape of an eight-pointed gold star with an orange octagon in the center.
"But now you are much stronger since your journey has finally ended." Saldana said.
Lee looked up at her mother and got up on her feet as Saldana levitated forward in the air to place the medal around Lee's neck once she landed her feet on the floor in front of her daughter.
"Your strength is now needed here now for your sisters." Saldana said sadly. "Your absence has been very difficult for them, especially for Rafaela. Even after you two have worked things out and repaired your bond, I do sense a strange embodiment within her and I know she will never expose it on her own."
"Not to worry, mother. This team will be back in shape once again. I promise." Lee said determinedly.
"Good." Saldana said with a nod. "Remember what I've taught you. Act as one to strengthen your battles."
Lee and Saldana hugged each other.
"I've missed you, Leona." Saldana said with a smile.
"I've missed you too, mother." Lee smiled back.
Saldana and Lee broke their hug. Saldana then sensed Ella's prescene.
"Rafaela, your sister is finally home." Saldana called.
Ella opened the door and stepped into the room with a yawn. She wore a red night tank top and a pair of dark red shorts.
"Hey." Lee greeted.
"Hey, sis." Ella responded. She walked forward and hugged Lee. "Welcome back home."
"Trust me, it's good to be home." Lee smiled as she hugged back.
"Well, let me get the girls." Ella grinned.
Ella snapped her fingers to summon two dark red portals that send the sleeping Donna and Ellie hard to the floor, making them groan in pain. Donna wore a purple t-shirt and a pair of dark purple shorts. Ellie wore an orange t-shirt and dark orange sweatpants.
"What the heck, Ella?" Ellie groaned in annoyance.
"Lee's back." Ella said, pointing her finger to Lee.
"Huh?" Donna mumbled. She shook her head and knocked the magazine off her face to look around thro om until she spotted Lee. "Lee!"
"Hey, Donna." Lee grinned as she hugged Donna.
"Lee? OMG! It's really you!" Ellie beamed happily as she looked up at Leona from the floor and hugged her oldest sister. "I miss you, sis!"
"Yeah, I miss you too, little sister." Lee giggled.
Ella, Donna, Ellie, and Lee hugged together tightly as Saldana watched the sisterly reunion with a happy smile.
The next night, the Lotus Ninjas stood on the rooftop of a building.
"Alright, Lee. I give up. Remind me what are we doing exactly?" Ella asked.
"I promise our mother that I will get this team back in shape again." Lee replied.
"Well, ever since you left, my speed and agility training has been upgraded into extreme big time." Ellie smiled.
"That's impressive, little sister." Lee said with a hardcore face as she turned around to face the illuminating city. "Especially when we are up against this Night Star and her vigilante reputation. But her job will end."
"Hey, no offense, Lee." Ella said. "But Night Star was the only one who will able to fight crime while the rest of us did nothing after you left."
"Plus, she's so wicked cool." Ellie grinned.
"Oh please. I'm with Lee in this one." Donna scoffed. "I mean, have you seen how armed and dangerous that girl acts...?"
Lee gasped sharply. She placed her hands on her head while twitching and flailing uncontrollably in agonizing pain. She started to fall, but Ella caught her in his arms. Donna and Ellie quickly gathered around their oldest sister. Images of four Ninjutsu mystics combating their enemies with powerful magic and encountering the warrior king Yoatl were vivid in her mind.
Then, Lee awoke with a sudden jolt. Her heart was racing and a sheen of cold sweat covered her face. When she looked at her younger sisters, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Lee, are you okay?" Ellie asked in worry.
"What happened?" Ella asked with concern.
"I…I don't know." Lee said. "It's the same dream I had back in Japan."
"A dream? What dream?" Donna asked.
"Four mystics with great magic just like us. And they were also kunoichis like us too." Lee answered.
Ella, Donna, and Ellie exchanged surprised faces.
"Wait, did all of you have the same dream as mine?" Lee asked.
"Yeah." Ella replied. "We all have."
Suddenly, the Lotus Ninjas heard a loud, unknown noise. As Ella helped Lee on her feet, they all rushed off to investigate the sound on the edge of the building. Another loud roar came from the warehouse halfway towards them.
"Looks like someone's cranky tonight." Ellie said with a playful smile.
"What do we do?" Ella asked Lee.
"Like we always do. We go and fight. Let's roll." Lee replied.
The Lotus Ninjas sprang off the building and landed on the rooftop of the warehouse. They started opening up the skylight window and their faces went bewilderment.
"Oh my god." Ella muttered.
The Lotus Ninjas watched a whole army of the Shadow Clan fighting against a huge cycloptic muscular monster only to be easily beaten. The monster was a hybrid of the centaur and the cyclops. The monster flinged them away as if they are a bunch of pesky insects. The Lotus Ninjas gathered together around behind the tall crate.
"This is seriously sad." Ellie said with an amused smile. "The Shadow Clan are definitely getting their butts kicked."
"Can't say I agree with you on that." Donna said.
"So what? I'd rather enjoy the show." Ella smirked.
"I don't know why the Shadow Clan are fighting this freak, but let's take it down Lotus style." Lee said decisively.
The Lotus Ninjas jumped out from the crate and charged forward to attack the cycloptic monster with their magic. Ellie, Ella, and Donna proceed to split up in different direction as they fired multiple spheres of magical energy continuously at the cycloptic monster from their hands.
As Lee and Kage charged forward, they spotted each other.
"I'll have some fun with you instead." Kage said with a smile.
Kage lunged at Lee with his dark magic, setting off a rapid series of black energy blasts. But Lee dodged each bolt effortlessly.
"Listen, I'm not trying to pick up a fight with you." Lee said as she blocked the energy blasts with blue energized shield with both hands. "We wanted to help you."
"Alling with enemies isn't my idea of fun, Leona." Kage smirked. He backflipped few feet away from Leona and turned to his Shadow Ninjas. "Team, retreat."
The Shadow Ninjas understood and sprang themselves up to the skylight, leaving the Lotus Ninjas to handle the monster by themselves.
"Kage, if Lady Shade is dead, then who are you working for?" Lee called.
"Worry too much about my business, Leona, and you'll lose your edge." Kage grinned.
Within seconds, Kage sprang himself up to the skylight and disappeared out of sight.
"Hey, Lee! We can really use some help here!" Ella yelled.
Lee shook her head and went back to help her sisters against the cycloptic monster. Ella somersaulted herself through the air and attacked the monster with red magical energy stemming from her boots multiple times. Ellie dashed forward and performed an orange backflipping wide-arced energized kick at the monster five times. Donna moved forward and performed five spinning kicks from an upside-down position that attacked the monster with both purple energized legs. Lee leaped upwards and delivered blue energized kicks at the monster while spinning repeatedly.
But the cycloptic monster hit the Lotus Ninjas all at once with one single punch. The Lotus Ninjas were thrown against the wall. Donna, Ella, and Lee hit the wall on their backs while Ellie hit the wall on her face.
As the four mystics slumped on the floor, Ella clenched her fists and heaved with fury. She could feel the blood rushing in her body. She rose to her feet and then looked back up at the cycloptic monster with glowing dark red eyes. Lee woke up from her dazed state as she looked up to see Ella glaring dangerously at the cycloptic monster. Lee's eyes widened in shock when Ella slowly channeled her magical energy around herself in the shape of a dark red giant dragon. Ella then unleashed the dragon forward that exploded the cycloptic monster on impact, but that left the red mystic kunoichi too fatigued to continue her fight as she collapsed herself to the ground just when Lee, Donna, and Ellie helped her on her feet.
The cycloptic monster had proved to be too tough for the mystics to defeat with their magic ninjutsu arts. Not even Ella's sudden anger can't take it down. The monster roared the Lotus Ninjas, who summoned their magic in a fighting stance while standing in a row. As the monster moved closer, the Lotus Ninjas backed away until they stopped against the wall behind them.
"Oh boy." Lee and Ella muttered.
"Okay, if anyone else have any bright ideas, now's the time!" Donna said in a panic.
"Just this idea." Ellie replied.
Ellie and Donna hugged each other while screaming at the top of their lungs. Ellie started hopping onto Donna's arms as Donna kept screaming in terror.
Then suddenly, the warehouse door blew up into pieces.
A bright light started to shine from behind the monster, causing it to turn around at the sound of heavy footsteps. The four statue generals started marching their way. One stone general was the leader on the far right, another stone general with a jaguar skin slouch next to him, a female stone general was next to him, and the biggest stone general was carrying a big hammer at the very end of the row. The devices on their stone bodies glowed red.
As the four stone generals moved closer to the monster, it started to walk towards them as well. The monster let out a mighty roar and charged forward to attack the biggest general, but he swung his hammer to hit it to the nearby wall. As the monster laid on the floor, the stone generals gathered around the monster to look down upon the creature.
The Lotus Ninjas immediately rushed over to the nearby crates and watched the stone generals successfully capturing the monster.
"Who the heck are those guys?" Donna whispered in confusion. "This doesn't make any sense at all."
Then, the Lotus Ninjas heard loud familiar sirens outside the warehouse.
"Oh snap. It's the cops. We gotta go." Ellie said quietly to her older sisters.
The Lotus Ninjas combined their magic to the wall behind them and created a yellow swirly portal opening up in front of them. Ellie had jumped into the portal. Donna was next to jump into the portal. Lee then jumped into the portal after her younger sisters. Ella looked at the portal and paused for a bit as she turned around to watch the stone generals carrying the unconscious creature to a big black dump truck. Part of her wants to find out about both the monster and the stone generals, but she sighed heavily and jumped into the portal as it closed itself.