Just a reminder that both Will and Gregory are original characters and not owned by Disney like the rest of Descendants.
"He was helping his sister and some of the younger students here." Lonnie said as they sat around the command center. "He was doing good, kind of like Robin Hood or something."
"That may well be in this case, but not in several others." Fairy Godmother said as she looked to the young Asian princess. "There were basically two reasons that we accepted transfers right now, one was the matter of more challenging classes, as was the case with Gregory." She frowned a little. "The other were those who needed to be brought here for behavioral reasons. I'm sorry to say Will is one of those."
"What do you mean?" Evie asked.
"He's gotten into trouble at his last school for multiple fights and even some arguments with teachers." Fairy Godmother explained.
"Hate to say it but it could be possible he was playing you." Jay said to Lonnie. "Conning you with the bad boy routine."
Audrey looked over to Jay now. "Are you sure about that one?" She asked sincerely. "Conned with the bad boy routine, like Chad said I was conned by your bad boy routine?" He knew it was a good point as Audrey said it, he had charmed her with honesty and loyalty.
"And it wasn't Mal's bad girl routine that I fell for." Ben added. "At least not entirely." He would have taken Mal's hand if she had been there, but she had asked to go see Belle. "It's what I saw inside of her, even that first time, which attracted me to her."
Jane thought about what Audrey and Ben were saying. "Mom, maybe it's time to take another look at those school records." She suggested softly. "And maybe not just his."
Fairy Godmother looked at her daughter, Audrey and Jay and then nodded. "Alright, I'll do another check and see if we're missing something." She conceded.
Belle sat in a chair in the library as she watched Mal pace. "I don't know how to deal with this." The purple haired girl confessed. "How do I reconcile my feelings about my mother now with everything I've known since I was a child?"
"In some ways you already have." Belle reminded her softly. "By rejecting the evil she tried to teach you."
"I know." Mal confirmed as she sat down on the couch across from the chair though Belle was sure the young leader of the power rangers would not stay still for long. "And I'd be lying if I said that she was the most loving parent in the world." She crossed her arms over her chest. "But there were still times that it felt like she did love me."
"She shrunk to the size of the love in her heart when she attacked my son's coronation. It resulted in a small lizard but she was still there." Belle allowed as she leaned forward a bit. Truth be told a conversation that more or less supported one of their biggest enemies was a bit weird to her. "It would nice to think that meant all of that was for you."
"It would be." Mal agreed. "But then I come back to the idea that she still basically declared me dead." She flumped back on the couch. "How do I reconcile between the idea that she loves me but she disowns me?" She asked, sounding kind of desperate.
Belle came over and sat down next to Mal, taking her hand gently into her own. "I don't exactly know how." She admitted softly. "I don't even know if there is any way to reconcile between the two." She reached up and stroked Mal's hair gently. "What does your heart tell you?"
Mal sighed a bit. "It tells me that I have no idea what to do. That the likelihood of mom not fighting me to the death is pretty unlikely, and even if we both survive she'll never forgive me for what she sees as my betrayal." She replied softly. "But just like Ben, Audrey and Jay couldn't kill Chad in the end I don't think I can kill her, no matter how much I…that I hate what she's become….what she could make me become."
"There are other ways of stopping both your mother and Chad without killing them." Belle assured her. "If we can capture them we can place them on the island of course."
"Will that really held Cinderella? Or the rest of his family?" Mal questioned.
"Honey, nothing will truly help them now when it comes to what happened to Chad." Belle revealed gently. "All they can do is move on with their lives."
"I guess not everyone can have a happy ending." Mal relented reluctantly. "It just makes it so much harder when personal feelings are involved." She wondered if they should be considering talking to Cinderella too as she was the one who lost a son just as much as she lost her mother, and then there was his younger sister Callie who presumably lost a brother if he was any kind of sibling at all.
Belle frowned a bit. "Is it that late already?" She wondered and Mal turned to realize that the sky was getting darker. She squinted her eyes a bit and realized it wasn't pure darkness. It was a foggy darkness. "Oh, come on." She whispered exasperatedly.
That was exactly what Jay had said when the alarm went off and they saw the view screen. "Didn't we kill this thing already?" Carlos asked. "I mean the fog even went away."
"Here's the problem." Doug reported. They saw a green light in the forested area and then Dark Mist returned in giant form. "We have an unwelcome return visitor."
"Jane, text Mal and let her know what's going on." Fairy Godmother instructed her daughter. She looked to Audrey, Jay, Lonnie, Carlos, Evie and Ben. "Go to the forest and hope that Mal meets you soon." She looked to Doug. "Let's see if we can find other zords, we might need them."
Doug nodded as the five rangers and the young king headed up the stairs and out of the school into the forest. They had no way to know that Jane's text had gone unread because Mal had already pieced it together and was out the door herself into the forest. "Let's get to work." Audrey said to her friends and the six teens input their numbers and transformed as Ben combined his sword and shield to transform.
"We need Auradon Megazord power!" Audrey called out to draw out their battle zord. Ben didn't possess any magic save one, the ability to draw his horse zord out without Mal around. He did so by tossing the crystallized horse up and calling, "I need you to help us out."
Doug did his best to seal off the command center before trying to find any sign of new zords. Ally, Aziz and Jordan paced restlessly as Jane tried to help in the search. She feared it would get them nowhere but the alternative was to stand around anyway. All around they could see people falling unconscious from the same mist that had struck only hours before.
"Everyone's powers seem to be active." Doug noted. "Including Mal so she must have gotten Jane's text or otherwise found out about it. But so far the only zord not activated is Mal's dragon…never mind, there it goes." He reported.
"I'm trying to scan for any other power signatures similar to our other zords." Jane reported. "But so far nothing."
"This might be a really good time for our zords to appear." Ally commented softly.
"It's so nice to see all of you again." Dark Mist said, seemingly happily, as the Auradon Megazord and the horse zord appeared. "There's some unfinished business going around here." He laughed. "Although that goes beyond us."
"What does he mean by that?" Lonnie wondered as she placed her iPhone into the appropriate port, her four team mate's right behind her.
"He's probably talking about Chad again." Audrey said. "I'm getting so sick of him." Jay noticed her voice didn't seem as angry as fearful, proving how much he was getting to her even without having shown up.
"Shall we see what our upgraded weapons do for the Auradon Megazord?" Carlos suggested. Evie, Jay and Lonnie nodded in agreement. Evie placed her mirror force shield in its appropriate slot while Jay laid his soul scimitar on either side of Lonnie's hurricane tessens. The result was a shield that folded out for more protection while the sword didn't seem any different, but until it was used in combat it was hard to tell.
Ben's horse zord came up beside the Auradon Megazord. "I'm right with you guys." He said.
"Let's see how much that means for you then." Dark Mist stated and unleashed a stream of dark energy at the two zords, sending them backwards. The horse zord crashed to the ground as the Auradon Megazord was blown back despite the enhanced shield.
With a roar Dark Mist leapt up and slammed into the Auradon Megazord, using the now massive claws to disarm the battle zord of sword and shield. He then slashed it hard and forced it to land beside the horse zord. "I think it's time to bring them together." Ben suggested.
"You won't have the time too." Dark Mist threatened as he started toward the recovering zords, but then he was blasted back and as he glanced up in front of him was Mal's dragon zord.
"Sorry I'm late to the party guys." Mal said.
"Glad you made it all." Ben replied.
"Time to form the Auradon Defender Megazord." Audrey declared. As the horse zord recovered the Auradon Megazord got on the back and the sword reshaped to be more like a spear. The Auradon Defender Megazord now came to stand beside the dragon zord.
"Mind if I cut in?" They heard from around them and then the dragon zord was slashed to the ground hard, where a fully grown Reviveslime had just shown up. "These odds hardly seem fair after all."
"Like these guys know fair." Aziz commented from the command center. Then he turned to Doug and Jane. "Come on you guys, we have to do something to help. How do we find these zord or zords we're supposed to have?" Ally placed her hand on his arm to try to calm him down.
"We're working on it." Jane promised firmly. "Just be patient."
"I don't know how patient we can really afford to be." Jordan pointed out as she indicated the view screen. "The odds aren't looking good out there." They watched as Reviveslime and Dark Mist combined their energies to shoot out at the dragon zord and the Auradon Defender.
Doug didn't want to point out that even the Auradon Champion Defender Megazord could defeat them both. He glanced around, saw Jordan's anxious look as she watched helpless. He saw Jane doing everything she could to focus on finding something because to do anything else would devastate her. He saw Aziz brimming with energy to help his friends that he had no way to release and he saw Ally, eyes brimming with tears as she considered the possibility that their friends would be killed and there was nothing she could about it.
One of the radars on the console beeped and Doug moved to check out the alert only to discover something amazing. "I'm reading more power signatures." Doug reported. "Of the zord kind. From the Badlands."
Deep in the Badlands, had anyone been around to see it, one of the many sandy areas that dominated the region started to glow as the sand underneath seemed to turn to something very similar to glass. Then it shattered as a large silver mechanical falcon emerged from the hole in the sand followed immediately by a zord that looked very similar to the red battle zord except that it sparkled in in shades of gold and iridescent color and lacked the gauntlet guns on the wrists.
"Head outside." Doug said to them. "I'd bet anything that your zords on their way."
Fairy Godmother let the seal on the door go for the four teens and they headed to the gate, but before they got out the gate they were jumped by a dozen soldiers. "We don't have time for this." Aziz stated.
They pretty much tried to bypass Aziz, Jordan and Jane to try to go at Ally. "Hey, get away from her." Aziz growled as he tossed one of them away. Two of them easily subdued Jane since she had not transformed and several of them cornered Jordan in a fight.
Two others got their hands on Ally and started to drag her away. "Ally!" Aziz yelled as he tried to break free of another hold.
"Hey." One of the soldiers turned and got clocked in the face hard. Ally was grateful to see her rescuer was Will, who smiled at them grimly. "Try picking on someone your own size."
One of them holding Jane received an elbow to the back of the head and that allowed Jane to slam her arm hard into the stomach of the other. She found Gregory over her as she got up.
The soldiers seemed ready to fight as even as they realized the odds were a little worse in their favor but then chose to vanish.
"What was that about?" Will wondered.
"I wish we could tell you." Aziz answered truthfully as he came over to Ally. "Are you okay?" He asked the blonde.
Ally nodded. "Yes." She said softly and then looked to Will. "Thanks to you."
"Hey guys, we have to go." Jordan reminded Aziz and the two girls. "We got a bird to catch."
"You guys can't go out there." Gregory reminded them. "It's dangerous out there. There's a monster attack going on out there and that inky mist is back."
"We have to go out there." Jane said. "Our friends are out there."
For some reason that statement made Will think of Lonnie. The idea that she might be in danger worried him more than he thought it should have. "At least be careful." Will said to them. The four teens ran out the entrance and Will had to stop Gregory from trying to go after them.
As soon as they were clear Jane used the magic wand to transform while Ally, Aziz and Jordan pulled out their iPhones, input their numbers and transformed. They weren't exactly sure what to do but soon found out what was going to happen.
"Where'd this guy come from?" Carlos asked. "And who invited him anyway?"
"I'm sure his invitation just got lost in the mail." Evie answered sarcastically.
Reviveslime moved in and attacked the Defender Megazord. The shield was moved to block the attack but then Dark Mist came in from behind and latched onto the back of the Auradon Megazord, flooding it with dark energy and forcing the two zords to separate.
Mal didn't' know what Doug's readings had shown and she wouldn't have believed them anyway. "Time to form the Auradon Champion Defender Megazord." She proclaimed.
"Oh, no." Dark Mist said. "We can't have that happen." He then forced his claws deeper into the battle zord, causing massive internal damage and then sending another spray of dark energy into the zord, leaving the five rangers with no choice but to allow it to return to the its mountain spot to regenerate. It didn't stop the long fall the five rangers took on the way down.
"Last time I took a fall like that I broke my arm." Lonnie mused as she stood up and helped Evie to her feet. Jay was helping Audrey as Carlos got up.
"What we going to do now?" Evie asked them. She hated to admit, they all did, but the focal point of their zord offenses was the Auradon Megazord and it was now out of commission.
Reviveslime had the same impression. "With the Auradon Megazord down taking down the two of you will be piece of cake." He stated.
"Don't count on slime breath." Mal retorted though in truth she had a horrid feeling about it because she and Ben knew as strong as their zords were the ability to take out monsters singlehandedly was not part of that.
The two monsters unleashed another stream of dark energy and the two zords were unable to escape the blast on time. They fell to the ground hard and both of them highly suspected that the zords would lose what remained of their power on the next hit.
Then several energy like missiles impacted around them and sent the two monsters falling back. From the sky they could just make out one large silver falcon. "Hang on guys, the cavalry has arrived." Aziz announced from the cockpit of the falcon, his iPhone in a slot on the console.
"Another zord?" Reviveslime growled. Dark Mist unleashed an attack at the falcon zord but Aziz was able to dodge the attacks, making them explode behind him.
Then from behind them came the sounds of something else. Both monsters turned in enough time to get punched by another new zord. "Hey guys," Jordan said though rather she was talking to friend or foe was hard to guess. "Meet the Auradon Battlezord." On either side of her were Jane and Ally, all three girls had their iPhones in slots on a large console.
Then the Auradon Falconzord cruised right on by and hit both of the monsters with the wings, striking them and sending them rolling backwards. The Falconzord hovered by the Auradon Battlezord.
"Just what do you think you can accomplish with those toys?" Dark Mist asked tauntingly.
"You know what every good toy seems to have, especially these days?" Jordan asked rhetorically. "Accessories." She set her lamp cannon on a slot on her part of the console just as Evie, Jay or Lonnie would and the Battlezord was now holding a large version of her weapon.
"Is that supposed to scare us?" Reviveslime taunted.
"I guess we'll just have to find out." Jordan said and then they unleashed a stream of energy from the enlarged lamp cannon that struck both monsters head on. Dark Mist rose moments later though and Reviveslime was starting to recover as well.
Now Jane said, "I think I have a way to finish this off guys. We can combine our zords." She sent a transmission to Aziz on the Falconzord and then said to Jordan, "Time to bring them together."
"Right." Jordan agreed. "Coming in." Aziz said. He angled the falcon to move in and then to descend onto the back of the battlezord. The talons hooked into the either side and the body laid on the back, the underside of the head giving him a place into the main cockpit, right between Jordan and Ally. The lamp weapon dissipated and Jane placed the magic wand into her slot, but on the megazord it didn't stay long as the tail of the falconzord combined with that to make a spear. "Auradon Megawing Megazord online." Jane announced happily.
"You're still vastly outnumbered." Reviveslime pointed out.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that one." Mal interrupted as the dragon zord rose up and slammed hard into the blue slime monster, then wrapped its tail around the general, doing its best to squeeze hard.
Dark Slime jumped up to bring his claws down on the newest megazord and much like Jane's wings, the falcon wings were brought down to block the attack and then they lashed the spear out at the monster.
He fell back hard only to receive a second strike from the spear. "Let's finish this." Jordan declared. This time they charged energy into the weapon as the zord kneeled down and then took off in glide. Dark Mist recovered just in enough time to see the impact coming, and then the dove right through the monster. He fell and was gone in a huge explosion.
Reviveslime slipped out of Mal's dragon zord and then immediately vanished.
"The falcon zord can be released into the wild." Jane said to Aziz. "Just as Mal and Ben sometimes do with their zords." She looked to Jordan and Ally. "As for our zord, right now I'm going to direct it to the mountains, we'll have to figure out a more permanent solution later." The three rangers whose powers came from Wonderland nodded in agreement.
Mal and Ben released their zords for the time being, to let them get exercise and then they met their friends on the ground. "Nice work guys." The purple haired girl said with a smile as they all powered down.
"I am so glad we don't have to stay on the sidelines for that kind of stuff anymore." Aziz said happily as he unintentionally wrapped an arm around Ally, though the blonde didn't seem to have any objections to it.
"Hey, when we get back you might want to seek Will out." Jordan said to Lonnie. "He seemed rather concerned when we hinted that you were out here with the monster attack going on."
Lonnie seemed a bit surprised but nodded. "Okay, I'll do that." She promised.
"Where did those zords come from anyway?" Carlos asked as they started back to the school.
"As far as Doug could tell they came from the Badlands." Jane answered. "Pretty deep inside underground, probably in some caves."
"I'll have to redouble my appeals for getting explorers into those underground caves." Ben noted. "We might find other stuff that might be helpful to us." He didn't want to point out something could also be harmful down there, that went without saying.
They got back to Auradon Prep but Lonnie didn't have to look far as Will had been hanging out waiting for her. "Lonnie, are you okay?" He asked her, sounding worried.
"I am." She promised, feeling oddly comforted by his presence. She had had a few dates in recent years but she had never felt the kind of connection she felt now. "The, the fog…I mean mist…whatever it was didn't make it to the school this time?" She asked.
"No." Will answered her steadily. "It came from the forests this time and never quite made it to the school, though I've heard some reports that the marketplace and some of the other places that were effected had their people recovering."
"Where'd your friend go?" Jordan asked.
"Who?" Will asked and then realized what he meant. "Oh, Gregory. We're not friends." He said simply. "He wanted to find the headmistress and find out more of what was going on but by now he probably heard about the results."
Mal noticed that Will had basically just said to them what Gregory had said to them the day before, that they weren't friends. She knew of course that not everyone had friendships around here, she suspected that she and Audrey wouldn't really be as close as they were without the ranger business. Still, she wondered if she should be reading anything more into the statement the two men had basically said about the other.
Then Will did something none of them expected. He extended his arm to Lonnie and asked, "Care to join me for a milkshake?" That brought some smiles on the faces of the other girls and a look of slight astonishment from Jay, Carlos and Aziz.
Lonnie looked shocked for just a moment but then smiled back at him. "It would be my pleasure." She said and placed her hands around his arm and then let him escort her to one of the lunch rooms. Then she thought about her recent wound and the potion. "Oh, Ben." She called out. "Maybe you should take his lead here, take Mal for a strawberry milkshake."
Ben smiled. "Sounds great to me." He took Mal's hand. "Shall we?"
Mal gave a curtsy though on her it seemed wrong somehow. "We shall." She replied. Together the two of them took off.
The rest of the group looked at each other a bit surprised. Jane, Carlos and Evie quickly decided to head to the command center. Jordan went off to do her own thing.
"How about a milkshake ourselves?" Aziz asked Ally.
"Sounds like a great idea." The blonde said and the two of them went off, leaving Jay and Audrey.
"They really should just start dating." Jay noted with some amusement. Then he looked to the brunette princess. "So…you want…" He started to ask.
Audrey interrupted him. "I don't think so." She answered and took his hand. "How about we just take a stroll around campus instead?" She suggested. Jay squeezed her hand lightly and the two took off themselves, Audrey laying her head on his shoulder comfortably as they walked.