I don't own the Aqua ranger, I'm just borrowing the charrie from the movie. If you know then you're well informed, if not then I guess it doesn't make much of a difference.
Audrey was not happy with how things were looking at that point. On one side she had her elemental bow drawn back with an electrical arrow, along with Lonnie ready to toss her hurricane fans, at the large sea serpent like creature that was supposed to be named Daedalus who had just won a narrow fight with Mal's dragon zord. It was only waiting for a simple command before trying to turn the rangers into a light snack, something that it could probably do to all of them with one chomp of its massive jaws.
On the other side Evie, Ally and Jordan were trying to be prepared to deal with the three shark monsters and their mistress. Undine, the daughter of Ursula had shown up and nearly cost them their attempt to get a new sword for Ben. She had the cannon wielding Nightmare Shark and the oily armored blade wielding Shark Drake. Underneath the three was perhaps the ugliest of them all, a shark creature with six spider like appendages. Its bladed arms were also extended. They were trapped between the proverbial rock and hard place.
Ben was no better off as he was clashing with Chad. Ben could feel the history there, not just between the two former friends now turned enemies over their views on Mal and the other isle kids and even their changing but now completely conflicting views over Audrey, but the history between ancient civilization that had made the Praeleanthor sword and the demons that had made Maledict's blade.
"It's been fun, rangers." Undine said with an evil laugh. "I think I'll miss you most of all Jay." She channeled her energies into the shark monsters and they started to unleash their combined attack against the power rangers. Evie was prepared to try to reflect that but before she could even try it a large clam shell appeared in front of them from nowhere and absorbed the attack.
"What?" Lonnie gasped.
"Who did that?" Carlos asked.
"That was me." They heard a girl say. They turned to see from the other side of the beach a young brunette teenage girl. She wore a gold locket and a small gold ring on her right pinkie. They didn't know who she was precisely but everyone knew what she held in her hands. The Auradon rangers knew it from there classes in history while Undine knew it because it was her mother's obsession; the trident of King Triton the ruler of Atlantica and the father to seven daughters, one of whom was Ariel who had become human to be with her prince. "I won't let you and your little friends win."
It was then that Jane also noticed something, imbedded in the handle of the trident. "That's…she has an gem like ours. I think it's the aqua one I detected a couple of days ago." She realized. She thought it was kind of nice to see someone else not need an iPhone to transform into a ranger.
"Give me that trident." Undine demanded, wishing to take what her mother had not been able to keep.
"No." She said simply. "I made that mistake once a few years ago and I won't do it again."
The sharks and Daedalus kept the other rangers cornered as she turned to face the girl. "Who are you anyway?" She hissed.
"My name is Melody." She answered as she brought the trident in front of her body. "I've heard about your mother from my mother and my grandfather. I won't let you do whatever it is you want to do." She could still remember her mother Ariel taking her down to the beach over two weeks ago where they met with Ariel's father and her grandfather Triton, the king of Atlantica. There he had done something neither girl had expected; he had handed his trident to Melody along with a round aqua gem. He had told them that guardians in Atlantica had guarded that gem for centuries until it needed to be activated. At one point he had even considered that the gem was meant to belong to Ariel herself. Then Maleficent had cast her spell and disrupted everything, including the stability on the Isle of the Lost and Triton knew he had to help restore the balance. Melody had even questioned that since the only way to know that was for the spell to have been broken, but there was more damage done than just the spell.
And she was looking at one of them now. Undine had left the isle. And no one knew who else had left as well.
Aqua energy surrounded the trident and she raised it to the sky, transforming into the aqua ranger. She however had a smaller version of the clam shield that was used to protect them from the combined shark blasts across her chest.
"Just what we needed, another pathetic princess." Undine said disdainfully. She saw that the rangers were watching this turn of events as much as the shark monsters and Daedalus were waiting for her orders. She felt a sudden rush of hatred for the daughter of her mother's enemy. She summoned more soldiers. "Get her, bring her and that trident to me."
Will exchanged glances with Aziz and Jay. They were about to go ahead and make an attack against the waiting shark creatures but they lost that train of thought as they saw the soldiers heading toward the aqua ranger only for her to simply bring the trident down to the ground. From out of nowhere multiple little bubbles appeared for a moment before popping to reveal sharp edged shurikens that looked like starfish, they were then sent zipping forward at rapid speed, taking out soldiers in very much the same fashion as Miranda had done only without the time manipulation effect.
"That was nice." Miranda said.
"Totally." Carlos agreed.
Undine was not so pleased. She growled and called out, "Shark Drake, destroy her and bring me that trident." She then snapped at the other two. "Finish them off."
That was what both sides had been waiting for. Spear Spider Shark again blasted at the rangers but Evie moved in and reflected the attack right back at the two. Then Jay and Will leapt over her shoulder and struck Nightmare Shark with their bladed weapons.
A roar resounded from Daedalus and he started toward the shore. Audrey pulled back the string on her elemental bow and released her lighting arrow even as Lonnie tossed her hurricane tessens. They smacked the large sea serpent in the face. That only annoyed him but the lighting arrow hit directly in its eye and it let out an ear splitting scream.
Mal raised her dragon's eye staff. "Time to see what we can do to turn the tide." She announced. The rangers charged toward the two remaining shark monsters.
Shark Drake leapt out and tried to bring his blades down on Melody. She blocked it with the trident and then kicked him backwards from her. She slashed him with the trident, and that attack hit. She tried to follow up with another only for the Nightmare Shark to block it. Then Amy lashed out with her rose lance and struck that monster. She was just glad to be able to get away from the spider looking one.
Mal moved in from behind and tripped up Shark Drake. She looked to Melody. "We can handle these shark things okay, but Daedalus is another matter. Our best shot just went down." She felt some remorse at that as she wondered if whatever had affected her despite being in the zord had contributed to that. "If you have any sway over that, it'd be really good time to use it."
"I don't have any sway over that thing." Melody said to her regretfully. Then she cocked her head. "But I have an idea that might help with that." With that she unleashed a burst of blue energy into the waters.
Undine laughed. "What was that little girl?" She questioned rudely. "You don't even know how to use that thing do you?" She then raised her tentacles and shot out the same inky sludge at the three girls sending them back hard.
"I think she knows exactly what she's doing." Mal said with more confidence than she wanted to admit she felt. She swung her staff at Undine's head but the sea witch blocked it and then flipped Mal hard onto the ground, where her back hit the sand hard.
Melody noticed that Amy seemed to flinch as she placed her hand over lower back now. Then she grabbed Amy's arm and pulled her away from the approaching Shark Drake so that he could not hurt her and then she slammed the trident into the monster hard.
"We have to get control of this situation somehow." Audrey said. Three different monster battles going on, plus Undine attacking Mal, Chad attacking Ben, and the giant sea monster waiting in the wings was just a bit too much to chaos to manage.
Then there was another huge surge of water as something else came from the depths. Carlos saw it too and was tempted to let out a scream of frustration himself. What emerged was a whale like creature with two long pectoral fins on either side of its body, each having four white like nails on either end of the fins. On the top of its head were two small yellow eyes.]
Undine looked unhappy. "No, not that." She protested.
Melody looked impressed. "It worked." She said in surprise.
Though Daedalus looked to be more agile when it leapt at the new sea creature it expertly dodged the attack before releasing a massive water pulse at the monster. It hit it and then followed up with a body slam. The two creatures were submerged into the waves.
"No." Udine growled and turned to Melody. "You stupid little girl." With that statement she rushed past Mal, not even bothering this time to give her old nemesis a parting shot. She leapt right at Melody who let the attack roll and then came up to face her.
Lonnie caught her tessens. "I don't know where that other one came from or what it is, but something tells me Daedalus won't be a problem for the time being." She said.
"I agree with you." Audrey said. "So let's cull the herd."
"What's the plan?" Carlos asked her.
"Cannon boy is first." Audrey answered him. "Lonnie, Carlos, Ally, Jane. It's time for the triangle spark attack." She knew Jay and Aziz would keep that Nightmare Shark distracted. As the two guys did just that Carlos, Lonnie and Jane lined up together. Then Audrey and Ally jumped onto their shoulders. "Jay, Aziz, incoming!" Ally called as the five of them drew their blasters and unleashed the Auradon Triangle Spark.
The two guys flipped around Nightmare Shark and then kicked it closer to the blast before dodging to the sides themselves. The triangle spark took out the Nightmare Shark in an explosion.
"One down." Lonnie said happily.
"Ye guys deal with the Spear Spider Shark." Miranda said to them. "I'm going to go free up some help by dealing with the Shark Drake."
"I'll come with." Will said to her as he touched Lonnie's shoulder softly. The others nodded in agreement and the two rangers ran to help their newest ranger and to help Mal and Amy.
Undine swiped at Melody and she took a step back. Then Mal was in front of her and her staff connected with the sea witch's jaw. She lashed out and slashed Mal across the chest. Amy, who had been going to help her sister, flinched in the sudden pain in her chest and fell to the ground.
That was when Miranda came out and kicked Undine in the face hard. She fell back only to find Will was with the Highlands ranger as well. "Shark Drake, finish off these five." She ordered.
Mal was by Amy's side and was ready to fight though her little sister didn't seem quite as quick to recover. It didn't matter. Will, Melody and Miranda stood ready to fight the Shark Drake monster.
He leapt out and tried to attack Will, who raised his recursive sword to block the attack. Melody moved in and kicked the monster straight in the chest. He stumbled backwards with a growl just as Miranda moved in and brought her swords straight down on the shark monster's wrists, snapping the blades off of the arms.
Undine's anger grew as she watched the three rangers overcoming yet another of her shark mutants. She found herself blaming Melody for ruining her entire plan despite the fact the daughter of Ariel had not been there when Mal used her magic to take the sword from her and return it to Ben.
Speaking of the newly powered Auradon Knight he was clashing with Chad. Both boys could feel some extra power working through them as if the demons and the ancient civilization were indeed continuing their war through the two of them. Mal could even feel both of their essences, and the demon one made her worry for Auradon in a way that Paradias hadn't. But at least her beloved was holding his own.
Miranda now came in between Will and Melody. "I think it's time we finish this shark off." She announced as she placed her blades point out toward Shark Drake "Are ye two with me?"
Will placed his recursive sword on her left blade. "I'm with you." he answered.
Melody wasn't sure what to expect for a minute but decided they had nothing to lose. "Let's do it." She agreed. She placed the trident on her other blade.
Energy channeled from the trident and even to a degree the recursive sword. Both channels of energy were unleashed from the tips of the blades and struck the Shark Drake. Even as the weapons were separated and the aqua, green, and highlands ranger turned their backs on the monster to check on Mal and Amy the monster exploded in an explosive burst.
Undine watched in anger and even a little horror as she realized how quickly the tide had turned. It left her, Chad, and the Spear Spider Shark standing. Again she found herself irrationally pinning it all on Melody. "You little brat." She said with a glare and charged Melody, knocking her to the ground hard. "You've ruined everything."
Miranda reacted, kicking the sea witch in the face hard. "Now that's hardly fair." She said. "It's not her fault that you were destined to fail because ye chose the wrong side." Will was now by her side to help her fight.
Amy helped Melody stand up even as Undine backed up to watch Miranda, waiting for the next move from the two rangers. Mal was on her other side. "If she this is her fault then I'd say it's something worth taking pride in." The purple ranger stated. "You've made no small amount of effort to try to take us out."
Except it wasn't over yet as the Spider Spear Shark kneeled again on two appendages as the other six were brought up with its appendages to unleash a massive stream of energy at the other rangers and sending them flying backwards hard.
The five rangers came over and joined them. Will helped Lonnie to stand. "Are you alright?" He asked her.
"I think so." She said and sighed a bit. "He hits really hard."
"Let's see if fourteen rangers can put this thing down." Mal declared. Then she looked at Jane. "Hey, is that a record?" She asked.
"I do believe so." Jane answered with a smirk.
Undine headed toward the water. "This isn't over rangers. Melody." She said with a venomous tone to her voice. The aqua ranger realized that she was destined to continue the rivalry that her grandfather and her mother had been involved with. "You haven't seen the last of me." With that she dove into the water, and a splash from behind them confirmed that the Spear Spider Shark had taken a dive too, leaving Chad and the team alone.
"Let's go help Ben." Mal said to them. She was worried about the energies coming off of Chad now that the Praeleanthor sword had come into their position.
The two boys clashed, neither gaining an edge over the other. Their supernatural blades and their powers made them equal matches to each other though none of them liked that turn of events. Chad started to back off though as the other rangers approached. He'd been so busy with Ben that he didn't even realize an aqua ranger was now part of the team.
"This isn't over Ben." Chad said. "Our war is only heating up." Ben noted he no longer said it was starting. He had bonded with Maledict's blade just as much as Ben had bonded with the Praeleanthor sword. His former friend vanished.
"Ben?" Mal asked wearily as she took a step toward him. She had a brief fear that she had lost him.
But Ben turned back to her and sheathed his sword. "Looks like we did it." He said and came over to her, wrapping her in a hug. When he set Mal down they all powered down. Now it was Amy and Audrey's turn to hug Ben. Jay and Will exchanged high fives with the young king.
"Thank you for coming to help us." Jane said to Melody. She knew her mother would run a check on her as well but had a feeling she would turn out to be fine. The fact that she was King Triton's granddaughter would help too. He had been around as long as her mother had.
They saw that Melody willed the trident to turn into an object no smaller than a charm, which she clipped onto the necklace she wore. "I'm glad I got here in enough time. Everything I was hearing from my granddad made it seem like I might not get here soon enough."
"One could argue that you didn't." Carlos said jokingly and Jane smacked him in the arm playfully. "But what matters is that you did get here."
"Undine is here now." Amy said softly. "That's bad. She was so cruel and ruthless." She looked to the Auradon teens. "She'll stop at nothing to get what she wants. She knows no boundaries or restrictions. All that matters to her is her agendas."
"It doesn't matter, we can deal with her." Mal promised her sister and looked to the team. "Together."
"How did Undine even get off the island?" Evie asked.
"My granddad said it was a spell that was cast that tried to change the world." Melody volunteered. "And that Undine might not have been the only one to have their fates changed."
Mal let out an irritated sigh. "Again our mother doing what she does best; being evil." She placed her hand gently on her twin sister's shoulder. "When she cast that spell to try to eliminate the Auradon Rangers she probably found a way to get some of the villains off the Isle of the Lost."
"Um, my question would be if that's true then who else is out there that we have to worry about?" Audrey wondered.
"Don't suppose you took population counts from the Isle of the Lost?" Carlos questioned, only half seriously.
"No way." Ben said. "We wouldn't send people in there if we didn't have to and technology doesn't work on the isle, not even from the air like satellite technology."
"So the only way to know if there are others like Undine is when they show up to make our lives miserable." Aziz concluded with an eye roll. "Just swell." Ally wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him.
Evie looked back at the beach. "Undine is out there, that spider shark thing is still out there, and so are those two sea creatures." The blue haired girl shuddered a bit. "I don't think I can ever look at the beach the same way again."
"That Daedalus is quite a fearsome sight." Melody agreed as she stepped closer to the water. "My mom told me stories about it and the fact that it was supposed to be extinct." She leaned down and ran her hand gently through the cold water.
"Um, excuse me but I think the thing that took down the fearsome creature is even more of a concern." Carlos said to her.
Melody laughed. "No, that one isn't. It's also a legendary creature but it's a friend. A powerful one." She sighed a bit. "My grandfather told me that a long time ago something happened that dried out nearly all of the water on the entire planet. That creature showed up and revitalized the oceans that we now have on the planet."
"Do you know a lot about the sea?" Amy asked her curiously.
"Kind of late, but yes." Melody answered. "See when I was born I wasn't allowed near the ocean though it would take years before I would learn why that was. When that was finally settled and my mom started to tell me everything about what she was and my grandfather started telling me about the ocean's history…well I was like a sponge, wanting to know everything that I could." She explained as she stood up.
"Are you a mermaid?" Ally asked now.
"I wasn't born one, and I'm not a permanent one now." Melody answered. She held up her hand which held the ring. "This is something that my grandfather made for me. As long as I wear this ring I can control whether I want to be a mermaid or not. Sometimes I go swimming as one."
"Really? That sounds so cool." Amy said with a smile.
"How did your grandfather make that ring?" Jane asked now. She had never heard of anything like that before and when one added the fact magic seemed to be officially forbidden in Auradon it left some interesting questions.
Melody shrugged. "I don't know. He just presented it to me one day." She replied.
"We better go back to the castle so that mom and the other rangers know I got my powers back." Ben said to them. "We can talk more on the way."
"And I know exactly what we're going to talk about." Melody interjected. "What other rangers? Where are they? Why aren't they here?" She joined her new team.
"Don't worry about that." Amy said to her with a wide smile. She thought she could get to like this girl. "We'll explain everything on the way."
And so they took turns doing just that. They explained that they were the only team in Auradon but that their powers had come from a wizard named Zordon who resided in another world where the rest of the rangers came from. They told her everything they knew about the rangers of Earth, speaking very highly of the Power Rangers, Zeo Rangers, and Space Rangers. It was Amy who told her that despite everything they said and everything they did to help out the newest rangers in the legacy line that all it seemed all was not as calm in their world as it seemed.
They arrived in the castle and went to the library where they found Belle working with Snow White and Aurora to get her library organized again. Belle embraced her son as well as Mal and Amy. She smiled widely as Ben told her he was a knight again and eagerly examined the Praeleanthor sword when he summoned it.
Snow White was happy to see her step-sister, greeting her with a warm hug. Audrey was happy to see her mother and the two embraced. Aurora gave Jay a warm smile as well and reached out to squeeze his hand. The three women greeted the newest ranger with open arms as well though none of them had really met Ariel or Eric.
As Jane worked to establish the connection to the Earth rangers Amy slipped over to the table to pick up the book she was reading that morning. She was glad to get off her feet, the battle on the beach had been murder as far as she was concerned. She flipped open the book and the made a quite hiss of pain as she got a paper cut across the palm of her right hand from the page, one of the few things she hated about reading.
Meanwhile on nearly the other side of the room Mal felt a bit hungry and picked up an apple. She was about to take a bite when she felt a stinging on her palm. She gritted her teeth and looked down to see a very thin but quite painful cut on her palm that reminded her of a paper cut.
In a bubble Maleficent's head floated in front of Undine. "We failed to get that sword like we had hoped but I was able to get one thing done." The sea witch told the evil fairy with the last remaining shark warrior floating behind her. "I slipped your daughters what you wanted me to give them. This should prove to be very interesting."
"Indeed it shall." Maleficent agreed with a laugh. "Let's see how long my ungrateful little daughters can keep quiet about this."
A/N: I'm curious to see if anyone can correctly tell me what it was that Melody asked to come help them against Daedalus. Let me know what you think.