Ellie sat by the window reading a book, though she couldn't help but glance outside. It was getting darker and it was getting later and it was really quiet around her. Melody had not come back to their room. When she had checked out the room belonging to Mal and Amy she found it empty. She got the same results when she checked out Evie and Miranda's room. When she had contacted Alex he had told her that Ben had not come in, and that Jay and Carlos were not around. She was trying not to feel like something was wrong, after all she was a practical stranger in a school where so many students had grown up together and knew each other well.
She had never been all that social in her school back in Arendelle, a trait she suspected she might have picked up from her mother. She sometimes wondered how her mother had found someone to marry and have a family with.
It was far different from her aunt Anna and her cousin Alex. Her aunt was one of the most outgoing and spontaneous person she had ever known though Alex was a close second. Except when it came to girls, then he was a bit more like his aunt and herself. Of course the chance that he might accidently incinerate any girl he liked did lead to some uncertainty.
Ellie understood that perfectly. Once her powers had bloomed her mother told her everything that she could. How she had almost injured Anna with her ice powers and later on very nearly killed her by accident with those same powers. Even today her mother struggled to control her own ice powers.
She remembered protesting when her mother had told her she and Alex were being sent to Auradon Prep in hopes it would help them learn to control their abilities. She had argued that if anyone could help her control her powers it would be her, the only other one she knew that could do such the same things.
Her mother seemed to grant her that one, but then had told her, "It's more than about learning to control your powers. It's about the desire to do so." She had reached out and touched her daughter's cheek. Some had said the Queen's hands felt cold all the time because of the power; she could not feel it, possibly because of her own. "You may have the wish to learn that control but to get the desire for it you need to be somewhere that isn't here, where you know it's safe."
That line confused her when she had left Arendelle with Alex but she had a bit of a better understanding of it now. They had met Mal, Amy and her friends. Both of them sparked something with the rose haired girl though she suspected it was a different spark between her and Amy and Alex and Amy. They had all been friendly enough and Ellie had to remind herself that five of them actually were villain kids. She had later gotten to feel more comfortable around Melody.
And then just that afternoon when Ellie and Alex had been going to pick up a few books they were told they would need for their Social Studies classes they had seen the boy who had been trying to sneak through the halls. And he had mentioned Amy. That drew both their attentions.
He had tried to lie to them but to Ellie it was it was as transparent as looking into a clear piece of ice. Alex had also clearly seen it. Mal and Amy's appearance clinched that feeling and she had been disgusted to hear that he thought he could force himself on Amy. That had also brought an emotion to Alex she had never seen in him, anger. On top of that he had something that didn't belong to him, she didn't know what it was but they had been unable to get it back from him before he ran.
"Probably the only smart thing he's done all year." She murmured to herself with a small cold smile. She was startled by a knock at the door and she stood up uncertain. She was pretty sure Melody would not be knocking. She wasn't sure about the other girls. She strolled to the door and opened it.
Doug stood there. "You have to come with me." He said to her grimly. "We need your help." She was surprised to see him here as it was past the time boys could come to the girl's dorms, and even then that was kind of frowned upon. That was what the commons was supposed to be for.
Ellie slipped out of her room. She sure had nothing to fear. "What's going on?" She asked him.
"Follow me downstairs." Doug said and started toward the stairs. "Alex is waiting for us." The mention of her cousin startled her a little bit more but she followed him downstairs.
Alex was in fact waiting, leaning casually against a post and idly summoning fire in between his thumb and middle finger. "So what's going on?" He asked when Doug came down with his blonde haired cousin.
"Follow me." Doug said and they reluctantly fell into step behind him. "As I told you both, we need your help. The others are in trouble."
"Did that Gregory guy come back again?" Alex asked, sounding a bit more anxious at the thought.
"No, something worse." Doug said. Neither could imagine anything worse and they both about to be proven wrong. Just after entering the classroom he turned them with an intensity they hadn't seen before for what that was worth. "What you see here cannot leave this room."
Ellie nodded. "It won't." Alex nodded too. "I promise as well."
Doug exposed the staircase and lead them down the stairs into the command center. They both let out startled gasps. They were even more startled to find Fairy Godmother in the center, and the final shock was seeing the power rangers bound on screen.
"Who are they?" Alex asked.
Ellie shook her head. "Mal, Amy and their friends." She answered for her cousin. She was sure of it.
"You are correct Princess Ellie." Mal said. "Mal, Amy, my daughter Jane and all of their friends are the power rangers." She looked to the screen. "And the knight is our king Ben."
"It looks like they're in trouble." Alex noted softly as he looked at the rose ranger. He knew that was Amy as she tried to burn through the bindings holding them.
"How can we help?" Ellie asked immediately.
"We'll go right now." Alex added with a look of fire in his eyes.
"No you will not." Fairy Godmother said to them sternly and they both turned their eyes to the head mistress. "I will not allow civilians to go out there and risk getting hurt, not even for my daughter." She headed toward one of the consoles. "Will very nearly got hurt defending Lonnie without any powers to protect him."
"You brought us here to watch them die then?" Alex asked indignantly. Ellie placed her hand on his shoulder to calm him, as she had always done in dire circumstances.
"No." Fairy Godmother replied evenly. "When your mother's contacted me it was with the intent of helping you to control your powers. This I can do. But it will take more." She took out two iPhones and started toward them. "Your powers need mental focus, which you can learn and I will be happy to provide. But it needs a physical outlet as well." She placed one in Ellie's hand, which had a symbol of a snowflake. The other was placed into Alex's hands, which had a vague emblem of fire.
"You're making us rangers?" Alex asked.
"No." Fairy Godmother said and he rolled his eyes in frustration before she could elaborate. "These are special powers that will not make you rangers, they will make you defenders of justice though; knights. Just like the King."
"Knights?" Ellie asked. "Isn't that what guys are?"
She looked to the ice princess. "In your case the traditionally accepted name for your position would be a Dame. But that isn't necessarily relevant here, especially considering the team you are on." Fairy Godmother answered with a smile. "This may be obvious but you are the Knight or Dame if you prefer, of ice. Your weapon will be the ice chakrams and they will work off of your inner magic, meaning they will not melt without intense flame. Your access code is 9898." It took Ellie a moment to realize what that was, but she remembered it was like a round throwing disc that might have various designs or variations on it. She wondered what that would be.
She looked to Alex. "You are obviously the Knight of Fire." She said and Alex laughed a little at the given reference. "Your weapons are the flame tonfa's or batons. Your access code is 9921" She said to him.
She took a step up to the center again. "As I said, be aware of the fact that your powers are linked to your abilities to control your emotions. If something happens and you lose too much control this can be dangerous to you as well." She cautioned them.
Ellie and Alex exchanged glances and understood. It was as much of a challenge to themselves as it was meant to help them. But that was fine, Ellie rose to challenges and Alex could easily handle them too. "We're on it." Alex said.
Doug downloaded the coordinates onto their iPhone's. "There you go." He said. "Follow it and quickly before Reviveslime kills the rangers."
The two nodded and ran out.
Amy tried to fade through the tentacles but found she could only get a small way before they adapted to it. Reviveslime noticed and laughed. "Every ability can be countered little girl." The slime general said to her. "Just as you slipped through our gladiator's otherwise solid walls, these bindings were made with transphasic energy that adapts to that sort of power." He then turned back to Melody.
Amy felt a slight bit of annoyance but let it go. Despite the fact she was hoping to completely by pass the bindings, it didn't matter. She had gotten what she wanted. She was able to get her hand on her blaster. She aimed it and fired at Reviveslime, striking him. He took a step back and growled at her.
"Don't you even think about it Reviveslime." Mal warned him with a slight green glow to her eyes.
Reviveslime laughed. "You're nothing girl, don't even try it." With that he started toward Amy. "If you insist on getting in my way then you will be the first to be absorbed." Before Amy could respond he lashed out a beam from his sword to make her blaster fall to the ground.
He was close to approaching Amy when a blast of fire appeared in front of him. He turned to growl at the intruders only to see two lightly armored figures approaching. One that looked a whitish blue and the other a mix of colors like a fire.
"What is this?" Reviveslime questioned as he drew his sword.
"We've already seen that fire doesn't damage those tentacles, but let's see about ice." The one in whitish blue stated. Amy realized it was Ellie and had a good idea who was in the fiery get up. With that Ellie raised her hand and shot out an ice beam straight at the bindings. It encompassed the entire thing and the team slipped through the bindings to land on their feet. They saw that it was already starting to phase through the ice but at that point it didn't matter.
With a literal blaze of his tonfa's he attacked Reviveslime, swinging at him. The general grinned and tried to get a grip on Alex but he quickly slipped back.
"Don't come into contact with him." Mal said to them. "He'll try to absorb your powers and it will kill you." Like Amy she had realized who the two were behind the armor.
Ellie unleashed a huge burst of a blizzard at Reviveslime and froze him. Then Alex swung the tonfa's and shattered Reviveslime.
"No way it's that easy." Carlos noted. No one could deny that. They were right as he started to reform but he didn't say anything to them, just glared at them. It took a moment for them to realize the reformation drained him.
"I think we know what we need to do." Mal said.
Jordan nodded and gave an almost wicked grin that Mal was proud of. "Oh yeah." She said.
Alex and Ellie fired another blast at Reviveslime and forced him backwards with a hard landing.
"Let's bring them together." Mal said. She placed her dragon's eye staff, followed by Audrey placing her elemental bow. Evie placed her mirror force shield behind and the compact unfolded. Jay placed his soul scimitar in the middle. On either side Lonnie placed her hurricane tessens, Carlos placed his earthquake claw daggers and Amy placed her rose lance. They had the Auradon Blaster formed.
Jordan held up her lamp cannon. Inside of spout went Ally's crystal cards. On the top went the magic wand that Jane used. Aziz placed his spiral spear underneath. They had the Lamp Blaster.
Will and Miranda stood side by side with Melody. Miranda extended her grizzly blades. One the left side Will placed his recursive sword on one side while Melody placed the trident on the other side. They didn't really have a name for it but it was still effective.
It seemed as if Reviveslime would have said something but speech had obviously not been reformed with the body.
"You go first Miranda." Mal said.
Miranda gathered the energy into her grizzly blades and shot it out at Reviveslime as he got ready to charge them. It caused him to explode yet again. And he reformed yet again.
Before he could fully reform Jordan fired the Lamp Blaster now and struck the half formed general full force, causing yet another explosion of slime. He again started to reform.
"Our time now." Jay said with laughter. They unleashed the Auradon blaster at him and he exploded in yet another burst of slime. And was forming again.
"Any other ideas?" Alex asked them.
"The Launcher." Melody said.
"Right." She then asked into the helmet intercom, "Can we get Ellie and Alex to help us?"
"They can." Doug answered. "The cannon has several extensions we can add as we get new rangers to help us in these fights."
"Launcher formation guys." Mal announced as she took a step back. Audrey and Jay were in front of her, followed by Evie and Carlos, Jane and Ben, Amy and Melody, Will and Lonnie, Jordan and Miranda, Ally and Aziz, and last was Ellie and Alex. The blaster formed under them and they each channeled their powers into the blaster. Alex and Ellie were shocked at the extra burst they felt that the others recognized came from the Praeleanthor sword. They unleashed the energy right at Reviveslime who again exploded.
The launcher vanished. "Did we finally get him?" Ally asked.
It took a moment and then Evie sighed. "I think Reviveslime is gone for good. He must not have had the energy to reform."
Then a green light descended down and surrounded the sight where Reviveslime had been destroyed and then a huge slime shape object showed up that was as tall as a mountain. It was what was left of Reviveslime.
"How do we stop that?" Alex asked.
"I can summon my bear zord." Miranda said. "But the problem is that I can't take the thing out on my own."
"My dragon zord might be okay." Mal said. "But that still won't be enough."
"We don't have a choice." Audrey decided. "It's time to summon the Auradon Megazord and hope for the best."
Aziz nodded. "We're right with you." He looked to Jordan, Ally and Jane. "Time for the Auradon Battlezord and the Auradon Falcon zord."
"And the horse zord." Ben added. "I think it's more than ready to go after the Praeleanthor boost."
Melody, Will and Amy stepped over next to Ellie and Alex. "Go get him." Melody said. "End this creepy slime ball once and for all."
The Auradon Megazord landed on the ground across from what used to be Reviveslime. Next to it was the Auradon Battlezord. They saw the Auradon dragon zord and the Auradon Falcon zord descend from the sky as the horse zord showed up right behind the zords. The rangers jumped into their zords and placed their iPhones into the appropriate slots.
"You have to be careful." Doug warned them over the intercom helmets. "If the zords are lost here we may never be able to recover them."
"We'll be careful." Mal promised. "The best thing we can do is use as many formations as we can against that slime ball." She declared. "Let's start with the Auradon Champion Megazord." First the dragon zord unleashed a stream of energy at the slime. Then the Auradon Megazord got onto the dragon zord and the two combined. It charged the slime monster and struck it hard.
"Let's make the Auradon Falconbattlezord." Aziz called out. His falcon zord dived toward the Battlezord and the arms and the wings spread to link up the back. As the Champion Megazord angled away and the Auradon Falconbattlezord brought its fists down on the monster hard.
The Auradon Megazord separated as the sword formed. The Megazord moved in and struck the slime monster even as the Horse zord moved in and slammed its hooves right into the monster now.
The Bear zord formed into the Battle bearzord and moved in to attack as the Auradon Megazord combined with the Horse Zord to form the Auradon Defender Megazord. They charged toward it with the shield raised and slammed into the slime monster again.
"Time for our newest formation, wouldn't ye say so Mal?" Miranda asked.
"Yep." Mal agreed. "Time for the Battlebear Megazord." They formed the megazord and gave it a massive claw crush.
"We have to be doing a number even on this thing." Jane said to them from the Auradon Falconbattlezord. "I think we might be able to finish this thing off finally."
"Let's do it." Mal agreed. "A good combination of the Auradon Champion Defender Megazord should do it."
"Just in case I'll give a shot of me own." Miranda said.
"We will too." Aziz added.
Mal nodded. "Okay, let's do it." The reformed the Auradon Champion Megazord and then combined itself under the running horse zord to form the Defender Megazord. With its upper body bowed down, holding the spear, they charged the monster with the Auradon Falconbattlezord right behind them and the Battle Bearzord right next to it.
The three zords struck the slime thing at the same time and it fell back, and a moment later it exploded. Unlike the last times, this time it did not reform back. "We did it." Mal said. "We've put down Reviveslime."
From the throne on the bridge of the ship Paradias watched as the three megazords ended one of generals after long months of attempting to do so. His eyes glowed, annoyed at the fact that Reviveslime was no more, on top of the fact that all signs indicated that Nerissa was gone as well, rather she was dead or otherwise in hiding she was not around to consult.
"They're cutting down our forces." Chad said with annoyance. "One at a time. First Nerissa and now Reviveslime."
"Indeed they are." Paradias said. He looked to Gregory and Chad. "I suggest you two do your best not to get cut down as well, your ends will not be nearly so neat as Reviveslime's was." He glared at the screen again. "They have had a few victories but this war is mine."
The team merged together on the ground. "You guys did it." Amy said as she hugged Mal tightly. "You took down Reviveslime." Mal embraced her sister with a laugh of her own.
"And you guys controlled your powers." Jane said to Ellie and Alex. "Just as mom must have been hoping for when she had me design those iPhones."
"You knew about those?" Aziz asked the white ranger.
"I knew about them in theory of course." Jane said. "I make these specialized iPhones. But I don't think mom intended right this minute to give them out. Not until we could get a better idea of the control you had."
"I guess nothing is more motivating than danger." Alex said with a laugh.
"I guess not." Melody agreed with a smile.
Amy looked over at Alex and Ellie. "Thank you for saving me. Another minute and Reviveslime would have absorbed me." She said softly.
"Anytime." Ellie said with a laugh.
The team powered down and started back to the command center. Ellie looked over at Mal. "So now that we're in the know, I have to know, what is it that Gregory has that belongs to you?" She asked the purple haired girl.
"He doesn't have anything that belongs to me personally." Mal elaborated. "What he does have is the gray ranger powers. He received them back when we thought we could trust him but he betrayed us when the warzord was discovered and delivered it to Paradias and my mother on the proverbial silver platter." She explained.
"Shouldn't that be a gray platter?" Alex asked. "After all, the silver ranger is right here." Amy giggled a bit at that even as others gave eye rolls.
"Can't you just deactivate his powers?" Ellie asked now, obviously used to her cousin's sometimes bizarre and not so funny jokes.
"No." Jane answered now. "Whatever unflattering things we can say about him," She knew there were at least a few; a liar, a thief, cruel, to say the least. "The thing I can give him credit for is a technical knowledge that rivals mine and Carlos's. He somehow was able to isolate his iPhone from our system so we can't track it and we can't shut him down."
"Which in theory could happen to all of ours?" Alex asked.
"In theory." Lonnie said now. "We use these powers for good but if they ever fell into the wrong hands, unless they're like Gregory, we have the option of shorting them out. It was Fairy Godmother's contingency plan."
"That might be a good thing." Ellie mused softly. "When Fairy Godmother gave us these powers she did note the possibility we were getting them too soon. I'd rather lose my powers than harm you guys or anyone else."
"She's right." Alex agreed simply. "Being superheroes isn't good enough of a reason to justify that kind of damage."
"You won't get to that point, I promise." Melody said.
"Melody is right." Amy said too. She threw an arm around Alex, an impulsive move that made her blush a little though he didn't seem to notice. "We'll make sure you have your powers as focused as possible so losing your powers won't become an issue."
They returned to the command center where Doug was just telling Fairy Godmother he was wrong and that they could likely handle their powers. Although she accepted the apology gracefully she still reserved the final judgment until time proved it right or wrong.
"I just wish we could have helped with the zord battle in that situation." Will said as they came in holding Lonnie's hand in his own. "It makes me feel kind of useless not to be able to participate in that when needed."
"That will change." Fairy Godmother promised them all. They all looked to her in surprise. She had an earnest but serious look on her face. "Will, Amy, Melody, Ellie, Alex." She said as she looked at each of them in turn. "Despite the apparent ends of Nerissa and Reviveslime, Paradias still wields and incredible amount of power. With the five of you though we can strip him of some of that power."
Mal perked up a little as she placed her hands on her sister's shoulders reassuringly. "You mean…" She started.
Fairy Godmother nodded as she again looked at the five she had to appoint responsible for this task. "With the rest of our zord's in running condition, it's time for the five you to prepare to take back the warzord. And with luck the gray ranger powers."