Maleficent stared down at the iPhones that contained her powers belonging to her eldest daughter and her friends. She was also extremely glad of the bonus; the magic wand belonging to Fairy Godmother. She had not thought it necessary to search Amy and did not find the rose gem. "Your mother will be so disappointed." She commented to Jane. She looked to the rest of the Auradon teens. "Of course all of your parents will have more than disappointment on their minds when I leave this place and present them with your bodies." She sneered at Evie. "And let's not forget your precious little Snow White."
"They won't let you get that far." Ben vowed. He wished he could summon his sword and shield right now.
Maleficent laughed. "I bet right now no one else knows you're here except for the 'fairy godmother' and she couldn't do anything to help you anyway." She waved the wand a bit. "With this no on in Auradon can save you now." She stepped forward to her daughters. "Mal, you need to be eliminated with the rest of your pathetic little team." She glanced at Amy. "And you're such a waste, there's no point to sparing you."
Despite everything Amy couldn't help but flinch a little at the remark. Mal felt for her, as it seemed Amy was not aware that her older sister had already been disowned.
Maleficent pulled back to look at them. "In one hour I will have you all killed. Think of your parents," She looked at Ben and Audrey, referring to Adam, Belle, Phillip and Aurora. Her glance slid over Lonnie as she thought of Mulan and Shen. "Your siblings." She looked to Evie again referring to Snow White while Will thought of his mother Wendy and his younger sister Whitney. Ally thought of Alice as Aziz thought of Aladdin and Jasmine. Jordan thought about Genie and Eden. "Mourn while you can because soon you won't even have that."
"The invasion beings in two hours." Maleficent added to the Heartless. "Paradias and the generals will meet us there. Auradon will be ours by daybreak. With no power rangers active in Auradon nothing will stop us at all."
Maleficent already had some Heartless gathering at the gates to that would lead to Auradon. When the evil fairy queen showed and took possession of the remote for the bridge they would meet Paradias and his minions to overtake Auradon.
By nature the Heartless were little more than unfeeling creatures, almost like puppets. They could not love nor hate, feel pain nor sadness. They maintained some curiosity and initiative but not enough worth worrying about leaving unattended.
Still a couple of Heartless heard the rustling in the wooded areas around them but paid them no mind, figuring it had to be a wild animal. They were oblivious as over two dozen shapes headed past them and toward the town.
Not twenty minutes after her daughter and her friends had left for the Isle of the Lost Fairy Godmother felt powerless. A spell had been strong enough to even affect her and now they were putting themselves at tremendous risk to fix everything and she could do nothing to help.
She stayed in the command center trying to find some way she could lend a hand with no luck and her frustration level grew. She was starting to question her decision to let them go and was just about ready to take this matter to the former king when a console beeped, startling her. The last thing they needed was a monster attack.
But she saw it wasn't from the sensors, it was from the communications system. At first she thought somehow Jane had found a way to contact her from the island. Instead she found herself looking onto something else but then it occurred to her that this would be much more welcome…
In the small room they had been placed in Ben had his arms around Mal's waist even as Amy had her head on Mal's lap, crying just a little. Jay and Audrey, Will and Lonnie, and Ally and Aziz were in the same position. Jane and Carlos sat by each other while Jordan paced restlessly.
When the door opened she was ready to spring but stopped herself. She couldn't get by Maleficent on her own, let alone the four Heartless that accompanied her as well as the two outside. That was what they could see.
"There's been a few changes in plans here." Maleficent said casually. She looked to Ally. "Seems someone wants to spend some alone time with you." She announced. A Heartless reached for Ally. Aziz tried to stop it but was slammed in the chest hard. She looked to Audrey and the brunette princess had a horrible feeling she knew what was coming. "You're no longer scheduled to die. We'll take you with us and present you to General Chad as a gift." Jay glared with hatred at her. She then looked at Amy. "And there's no point in waiting for you, you get to die right now." Two Heartless grabbed her and Ben was barely able to restrain Mal so she didn't get hurt in the process. "Later." She said with a laugh.
"Who would want Ally?" Jane wondered.
Aziz already knew. "Gaston Jr. He was all but claiming her when we got here." He stated.
"Amy." Mal whispered softly and then started to cry as she imagined her sister's death.
Ally was dragged to the streets where they had first run into Gaston Jr. and tossed to the ground hard. She saw him leaning up against a support pillar for a building. He seemed rather proud of this turn of events. "You should have accepted me when you had the chance to do so willingly." He said, sounding so calm and logical.
"I didn't want you. I still don't." Ally said as she stood shakily. She knew what Chad had done to Audrey and what he still wanted to do to her and she didn't want that same fate if she could avoid it. "I will resist you with everything I have."
Gaston Jr. let out a laugh. "I look forward to that." He leapt at Ally and she barely moved out of the way. He shot his foot out and tripped her up. She hit the ground hard. Then he was on top of her, giving a leerful grin. She brought the palms of her hands into his chest and struck but it almost felt like hitting concrete, he was definitely well muscled she had to admit.
He pinned her wrists together above her head with his right hand while his left hand stroked Ally's cheek. "This is going to be so much fun, I promise." He leaned toward her. "You might get to enjoy some of this."
"That's no way to treat a lady." They heard from the shadows. He jumped off of her shocked, no one was supposed to be here. Most people were indoors contributing to the Heartless's presence, no matter how much they knew that.
"Show yourself." Gaston Jr. demanded.
From the shadows came a figure. Ally recognized the outfit as that of a Power Ranger but she didn't know from where. The figure wore red though he had a golden shield across his chest with golden arm bands. "I suggest you get out of here, right now." He said.
Gaston Jr. looked shocked. "Maleficent said there were no more power rangers here." He mused. "This must be a trick." He pulled a long dagger from his boots. "This was meant to slice into something more delicate." He glanced at Ally. "But I'll make the exception here and take you out imposter."
The red clad figure laughed. "Imposter, huh?" He questioned. "I guess it's time to re-evaluate that opinion." He held his hands and called out, "Power sword." It was then that Ally was able to place this man. He was the original red ranger.
Amy could tell that her mother Maleficent seemed to get a certain amount of joy at the prospect of seeing her youngest daughter executed. She had all but shown that she had been a disgrace to the evil fairy.
Then Maleficent laughed. "You know as much of a disgrace as Mal turned out to be, she seemed to so such potential." She reflected. "The truth is I can blame the brat king for luring her to the light and the prospect of true love for her downfall." She now looked hard at Amy. "But really, it all started with you. You were so weak and pathetic from a young age that the truth is you lead Mal down the path of good. I should have gotten rid of you long ago."
Amy was determined not to show how much hearing her mother's words hurt. She may have known that Maleficent didn't really care for her but to think it and hear it were two different things. She still felt her lower lip quiver just a bit despite herself.
Maleficent raised the magic wand she had stolen off of Jane. "I'm going to right that wrong. I am going to finish you myself." She started to gather energy into the magic wand when from out of nowhere several Heartless around Amy were shot down. Then two Heartless next to Maleficent were struck down. She turned only to have the wand kicked out of her hand, then she was kicked back.
Amy saw a girl in purple catch the wand her mother had stolen. Beside her was a red clad guy and a blue clad guy. Coming in closer was a pink clad figure, a yellow clad figure, and a black clad figure. She remembered seeing them during her visions; they were six of the seven Space Rangers.
"Who are you?" Maleficent demanded to know. "There are no more Auradon Rangers."
"We're not from Auradon." Amber said to her as she came up to Amy's side. "I won't let you hurt Mal." She thought it odd the girl had changed her hair color but said nothing. "Or the others. You mess with one team of rangers you might just mess with them all."
More Heartless showed up but she saw the other five rangers moving in to take care of them as Amber seemed ready to take on Maleficent herself.
Gaston Jr. swiped at the red ranger and he blocked it with the sword. Ally saw several Heartless start to emerge from the shadows but before she could worry about how to deal with them they were blasted with lasers. She turned to see a black ranger, a blue ranger, a yellow ranger and a pink ranger gathering around her. Another Heartless was taken out by a white ranger.
"Who are you guys?" Ally asked them.
The pink ranger touched her shoulder reassuringly. "We're friends. I'm Kimberly, that's Aisha," She indicated the yellow ranger. "That's Billy," To the blue ranger. "That's Zack." To the black ranger. "That's Tommy." She indicated the red ranger and then she indicated the red ranger. "And that's Jason."
Jason easily disarmed his adversary and kicked him hard in the chest. He went flying and some of the wooden pallets crashed down on him. He then turned to Ally. "We have to get to the square." He stated.
"Wait no." Ally protested. "We have to get the rest of my friends out of captivity."
"Don't worry about it." Zack said to her. "We have it covered."
Ally hesitated only a moment before nodding. "Then we need to get to the square indeed, which is where our iPhones and Ben's weapons are being held." She frowned a bit. "But Maleficent has the magic wand which also serves as the white ranger powers."
"First things first." Kimberly said. "Let's get the iPhones."
Mal had stopped crying but she was still trembling a little. She hated the feeling but her little sister was about to be killed if she hadn't already and for the first time in her life she couldn't protect her.
Aziz was no better off, panicking about Ally's safety.
Jordan stopped as she heard a scuffle. "What is that?"
For a moment they heard nothing. Then they heard a feminine Australian voice call out, "Zeo One Power punch." Then they heard the sound of something flying and then dissipating.
There was another call for, "Zeo IV power kick." From a guy this time and then another sound of crashing and dissipation.
Then another female voice called out. "I think they're in here." A moment later the door opened and five figures came into the room. They were clad as power rangers, Jane remembered them as the Zeo Rangers. The one in pink had to be Katherine Hillard, the one in yellow had to be Tanya Sloane, the one in blue had to be Rocky DeSantos, the one in green had to be Adam Park, and the one in red had to be Tommy Oliver.
Then the red ranger spoke and the voice was feminine. "We have to go to the square and get your iPhones back guys." She said.
"No, we have to go and find my sister Amy." Mal protested. "My mother is going to kill her."
"It's alright." Kat told her. "Amber and the Space Rangers were going to distract Maleficent." She placed hand on Mal's shoulder reassuringly. "She'll be alright."
If there was one person Mal thought she could trust as much as she trusted Ben or her surrogate siblings it was the purple space ranger. "Then let's make this quick. The sooner we get to her the better."
"Wait, Ally…" Aziz started.
"It's alright." The red ranger said. "I just heard from Jason, they have your friend and she's unharmed."
Jane wanted to know who she was. Last she knew there were no female red rangers outside of Audrey and the second red samurai ranger Lauren.
Maleficent unleashed an stream of energy at Amber and Amy but she protected the young girl. Then another ranger, looking like Zhane except in white, attacked Maleficent. Amber looked to Amy. "We've got your back Mal." She promised.
Amy shook her head. "I'm not Mal. My name is Amy, I'm her twin sister." She revealed. For a moment she was worried that might make them turn her back on her.
"My best friend's name is Amy." Amber said with a small smile in her voice. "Well, we have your back too Amy. We always look out for our friends, that's why we're here. I contacted the command center to see how things were going and it's a good thing I did. Fairy Godmother told me what had happened."
She recalled the reluctance she had displayed to do so and Amber understood it once she had heard what had happened. The spell had wiped out the memories of everyone in Auradon, effectively erasing the Auradon Rangers from history and separating the team. It had been discovered the spell had one more flaw; it didn't cover other universes and so the Space Rangers remembered their encounter with the Auradon Rangers very well and hadn't hesitated to offer assistance. When Fairy Godmother told them where they had had to go she decided they needed to bring some old friends with them to help out and had recruited her friends from the original ranger team and the zeo team, one of her personal favorite powers.
"I'm glad that my sister has other good friends." Amy said with a small smile.
"I'd be glad to count you as one too. I'm sure we all would." Amber told her. "My name is Amber." She looked to the white ranger that was doing a good job fighting Maleficent. "That's Karone, and the red ranger is her older brother Andros." She motioned to the yellow ranger. "His wife Ashley Hammond." She motioned to the pink ranger. "Cassie Chan." She indicated the blue and black ranger. "TJ Johnson and Carlos Vallerta."
"You rotten little brat." Maleficent spat and swung at Karone. "You would know nothing about what I'm trying to do here for the sake of all evil."
"I don't know." Karone agreed. "But I know it's wrong. I spent too many years as Astronema not too know which side of the coin is the better one." She had blocked it and then was joined by her brother and her brand new team mates, as the white space ranger powers had just been given to her by her old Galaxy ranger team mate Maya after they had been discovered on Mirinoi.
"You may have saved my pathetic little daughter." Maleficent said. "But the real problems are nice and contained." With that she vanished, unaware that the Zeo rangers had helped rescue the rest of the team.
"Mal." Amy gasped. "We have to help them."
"Easy." Andros said to her. "They're taken care of."
"Andros, we have to get to town's square center and get the iPhones back." Ashley reminded them.
"It'll be fine, trust me." Amber said to Amy. Without Mal and her friends around, Amy didn't see any other options and she nodded in agreement. With that, Amber took Amy's hand and they started off toward the square.
The original rangers were the closest to the square. Kimberly hung back to protect Ally, though she had her power bow ready to go and was helping to take out Heartless from afar. The rest of them were being taken out by his team mates and their power weapons, and Tommy used Saba.
"I see the iPhones and stuff from here." Zack said. "We're going to have to cut through a lot of them though."
"Then that's what we're going to do." Jason announced. "Everyone keep it together, we're in for a long fight."
"Right." Tommy and Kim acknowledged.
"I can help." Ally said. "Just give me a weapon."
Kimberly nodded. "Okay." She agreed. She took out her power blaster and converted it to the dagger and then handed it to Ally. "Here we go." With that the blonde normally crystal ranger dove into the group of Heartless.
From another angle in the square they saw the Space Rangers show up with Amy. Cassie and Ashley hung back to protect the rose haired girl while Amber, Karone and the guys started in on their Heartless.
Then Amy heard a very welcome voice shout, "You're alive." She turned and ran straight into Mal's arms. The two girls hugged each other tightly. When Amy went to hug Evie Mal ran up to Amber. "Thank you so much for saving my sister and keeping her safe." She said. She would have hugged the other girl if they weren't getting into a fight right now.
"Anytime Mal." Amber said. "Like I said before, we rangers stick together." She handed Mal one of her Solar Sais. "Now let's get your iPhones back."
The Zeo Rangers were diving into action now as well. Together the four ranger teams started to fight toward the podium where the powers were being kept.
Then Mal glanced at Amber. "We have to get rid of that spell that my mother put on Auradon." She said. "Or else we're going to have a hard time going back to the school."
Amber nodded. "Alright, I think if we destroy whatever is that conducted the spell we can end it." She said. "What do you think that would be?"
It was Amy who answered that. "I would bet anything that it's mom's staff." She said.
Mal nodded. "I bet anything Amy's right." She confirmed.
As if on cue Maleficent appeared by the podium that held the iPhones. She grimaced when she saw that Amy was not the only daughter that had been saved and the two couldn't help but give her a smug look in return. Then Maleficent understood what happened. There were not one but three outside ranger teams. "You may have come this far but there's no way you can take these. To do so you have to get by the Heartless, and by me."
Mal grinned wickedly as an idea crossed her mind. "Amy, Audrey, Evie, we need to get those powers." She said. Then she turned and called, "Jane! Got a present for you." She tossed the girl the magic wand and the white ranger practically beamed in relief.
"Gladly, but we have to get by these Heartless things first." Audrey said with a small roll of her eyes.
"Don't worry about that Audrey, you know I have it covered." Mal said with a wink at her second in command. Audrey rolled her eyes good naturedly and Amy couldn't help but giggle at how the two of them seemed to feed off of each other. She thought maybe she could learn to like Audrey in time. Mal looked to Amber. "I think it's time for a storm."
"I think you're right." Amber agreed. With that she unleashed her own signature lighting strikes. Several of them sent Heartless back to where they came and it was so strong that even Maleficent stumbled back and fell.
Mal waved her hand and the four girls ran toward the podium, each of them jumping onto the stage and grabbing all of the iPhones between them.
"Even with our iPhones back we can't use our powers here." Jay said. He had gotten Billy's dagger and was fighting with them. Likewise Will, Lonnie and Aziz were fighting with the same borrowed weapons.
"What about one time charge?" Amy asked. "From a new burst of power?"
"That might work." Billy agreed.
"Totally agree with that." Evie stated but then frowned. "But where do we get one of those?" She asked.
"Maybe from this?" Amy suggested shyly and pulled out the rose gem she had found in the old tree what seemed like a lifetime ago now.
"You did fine something up there, you rotten little sneak." Carlos mock scolded her with a laugh.
Jay stroked Audrey's hand. "You were so right about the power search criteria." He praised.
"Jason, Andros, Emily, we need all of you to keep them these things off our backs." The red power ranger, red space ranger and the red zeo ranger (which answered one of Jane's questions on who the ranger was) nodded in understanding and the teams moved out to do so. "Bring your iPhones and the wand in together." Billy instructed the Auradon Rangers. They did as instructed and then the blue ranger looked to Amy. "Put the gem in the middle." She nodded and placed the rose gem in the center. The iPhones and the wand glowed and a stream of energy shot into each of the teams arms before transforming.
"I have so missed this." Jay stated happily. "So glad to be back in black."
"I missed this, I missed all of us." Audrey said happily. "This is what's meant to be."
Mal looked to Ben. "Keep Amy safe for me please." She requested. Ben nodded and placed an arm around her shoulder after Amy had picked up the rose gem and held it tightly in her hand. She could feel that the energy had been drained from it but could also feel it recharging. She looked to her team. "I don't know how much time we have, we need a plan."
"Don't worry, I have one." Jason said. Mal nodded, understanding that while she was the leader of the Auradon Rangers that Jason was the first ever and arguably the most experience leader of the power ranger's line, she had no problem acquiescing to him though reluctantly, old habits died hard after all. "Let's bring all of our strongest weapons out."
"Good luck with that." Amber said to them as she rotated her solar sais in her hands. "I have something to deal with quickly."
Mal smiled at her friends in delight. "Time for the Auradon blaster." She announced. She laid out her dragon's eye staff, then Audrey placed her elemental bow, Evie placed her mirror force shield, then Jay placed his soul scimitar on top, then Lonnie placed her hurricane tessen's on either side followed by Carlos's earthquake claw daggers.
"Time for the lamp cannon." Jordan said with as much delight. She would never admit but she missed the ranger thing as much as anyone else had. She raised what was normally her own home but was a weapon as a power ranger, and Ally placed her crystal cards in the tip as Aziz placed his spiral spear around the weapon as Jane placed the magic wand on top.
Zack and Billy stood next to each other, then Kimberly and Aisha moved in behind them. The four of them got on their knees as Jason and Tommy stood behind them and together they formed the Power Cannon.
Kat, Tanya, Adam, Rocky and Emily formed the Zeo Cannon and energized it.
Andros combined his spiral saber with his blaster to form the booster mode. Karone combined the sword she had used to battle Maleficent with along with a crossbow that no one had seen her use in that battle to form her own boosted blaster. Carlos, TJ, Ashley and Cassie combined their weapons to form the Quadroblaster.
Maleficent glared at them all. "Stand your ground Heartless, weather the storm out." She commanded. She was then kicked to the ground and she turned to glare at Amber. "How dare you girl?" She demanded.
"Do you know how many times I've heard one?" Amber asked rhetorically. She unleashed a solar stream for her sais and Maleficent was barely able to block the attack. That gave the purple space ranger the opening she needed as she brought her weapons down on the end of the evil fairy's staff shattering it.
Maleficent didn't even know what had happened until the pieces hit the ground. "No!" She gasped. "My spell." She glowered at Amber. Between her and Mal, she was starting to hate purple rangers.
There were several radiant blasts. All but one of them was from each of the ranger team's combined weapons that either destroyed the Heartless or sent them all scattering. The last originated around the Isle of the Lost and acted as a shockwave over the entire worlds of Auradon as the spell's destruction returned everyone's memories.
"This can't be." Maleficent growled. She turned to glare at the purple space ranger to find that she was instead confronted by all of the power rangers, as well as Ben and Amy.
"You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us." Jason warned her.
"This is true friendship…true family, mother." Mal said coldly. "Not what you, Jafar, Grimholde and Cruella tried to teach us." She raised her hands to indicate the other rangers, to indicate her chosen siblings and her real sister and her boyfriend. "This is something you and yours could never understand. Being able to rely on each other when really needed, to know that there are people that have your backs through thick and thin. We're leaving, and this time, you won't make us leave Amy behind."
Maleficent glared at them before seeming to vanish with, "This is far from over, rangers of any worlds."
A moment passed before Jay tapped Mal's shoulder. "Hey, you're getting good at the leader thing." He praised and then added jokingly, "You're even getting those patronizing speeches down." Carlos and Aziz laughed at that one with him.
"Yeah, yeah." Mal said with a wave of her hand as she powered down. She went over and kissed Ben on the cheek before taking Amy's hand. "Come on Amy, it's time for all of us to go home." She turned to the three teams of rangers. "And no running off this time, you're coming with us. You did a great thing."
"Not just for us, but for our entire world." Ben agreed. "And you should get some kind of acknowledgement for that."
They were clearly uncomfortable with the idea but they couldn't leave yet anyway. "Until we get your powers back to the command center and resynched up we can't leave anyway." Andros said. "We can't risk Paradias striking you guys while you're down."
"I don't think anyone's coming out for the moment." Mal said. "I think it's safe to power down, not that we have much of a choice anyway." They all powered down as they walked toward the gates. Mal wrapped an arm around Amber's shoulders. "Again, thank you so much for saving my sister's life."
Amber smiled and hugged her back. "Anytime, we take care of our own." She said.
"Next stop; home. To those we love." Evie said with a small laugh. She couldn't wait to see Doug and Snow White again.
They found the car half demolished. They were willing to bet it was the work of the Heartless at some point, probably just in case they had gotten out. Thankfully Jane had stashed the remote under the seat just in case they did end up captured and was able to retrieve it. They activated the bridge for the walk home. It wouldn't be the quickest but it would home.
"I can't wait to show you Auradon." Mal said to Amy. "Unlike the four us, I don't think you'll have any problems fitting in." She gently tousled her sister's hair. "You were always far too sweet for the Isle anyway."
Sometimes Amy didn't know if Mal intended to sound so condescending or not, then she realized that it wasn't condescending at all. She had been offered a compliment on anyplace that wasn't the Isle of the Lost. Still she had to point out, "You know we are basically the same age despite what it may look like."
"Meat on bones little sister, meat on bones." Mal said with a laugh. Amy shoved her gently and then laughed with her as they started on the magical bridge that would take them all back to Auradon. No one saw the slight rosy glow in Amy's pocket.