"I'll get you guys out in no time." April said as she leaned down toward the pyramid looking devices that held force fields around her friends Casey, Jennifer, Karai and the Mutanimals. She tried to smash it but had no luck.
Angel, decked out as she was in the Nightwatcher armor, had better luck as she freed the lithe blonde from her confinement. A moment later April was able to free Casey. "Thanks April, you rule." He said even as Jennifer hugged Angel.
"Incoming Triceraton." Candy said to the four of them from behind her force field prison.
Rockwell could already feel it. "There's no time." He said to them.
"Just go guys." Slash told the four freed humans.
Casey really didn't want to leave Karai trapped there but the shots fired by the incoming Triceraton soldiers made it so that they had very few options available to them.
Jennifer noticed that Splinter was fighting with the Foot Clan against the Triceratons. Tiger Claw had blasted one of the Triceratons with his ice blaster and then ordered them to run. "You're going to have to tell me how that happened." Jennifer said to her red headed friend.
"Father." Casey heard Karai gasp. It was kind of a mystery to some whom the kunoichi was addressing as Splinter was her biological father but Shredder had raised her. It didn't really matter at that point.
"End those meddlesome freaks already!" Mozar shouted out as the Triceraton admiral raised his blaster and shot at Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Donnie swung his bo staff and tried to hit one of the Triceraton soldiers. He raised one massive arm and blocked it, shattering his staff. "Looks like you need a bigger stick." He said to the purple masked turtle mockingly.
"Like this?" They both heard the question. Then the tip of the dragon's eye staff slammed into the forehead of the Triceraton, right between the horns, and he fell to the ground with a loud crash. Donnie turned in astonishment as he saw Mal standing beside him now.
Evie unleashed a storming mirror force attack from her shield that started to push some of the Triceratons away and give their friends a bit of breathing room. "Princess Evie of Auradon at your service." She said teasingly, which got some laughter from her friends.
"You are going to let that go to your head aren't you?" Lonnie teased her as she kicked another soldier away from the trapped Mutanimals and their human friends.
"Sir, power rangers." One of the Triceraton scientists stated the obvious as he looked from the black hole generator to Mozar and then to the seeming flood of twenty teens that had just shown up from seemingly out of nowhere; in this case Renet's time door had brought them down safely and quietly as if something knew they needed that.
"Impossible." Mozar growled. "We were told there would be no rangers to stand in the way of our attempt to eliminate the Kraang."
"Mikey!" Renet said happily as she hugged the orange masked turtle. He didn't quite understand where the rush of affection was coming from as he didn't know that she had basically seen him and the entire world destroyed, but he wasn't about to argue it either.
"Nice to see you too." Mikey said to her.
Whatever they were told didn't change the results as Audrey drew her elemental bow and unleashed several electrical arrows straight into the tips of some Triceraton lasers. They imploded moments later. Before they could react further Jay, Aziz, and Will kicked them in the chest hard, making them stumble back. "They sure are solidly built." Aziz said.
"Let's get some more help on the scene." Ally said as she took out her crystal cards and tossed them at the pyramid objects, shattering them and dissolving the force fields. The Mutanimals hit the ground with a cry of joy.
"Let's hit it guys." Slash said as he picked up his giant mace and clocked one of the Triceraton soldiers with it as he started toward them.
"Right with ya boss." Mondo Gecko said as he dove for his skateboard.
"I must say you have nice timing." Rockwell noted to Jane. "But we're still running out of time. The black hole generator is only moments away from being activated."
Jane held back a small gasp. They had seen from Renet what would happen if the Triceratons successfully activated the weapon. And this time they would die right along with the planet. "We have to stop that thing then."
"What we need is more time." The brown fox mutant Ninjara stated as she dodged out of the way of a Triceraton and then kicked it as hard as she could in the face. It didn't seem to have much effect and Ben was sure only their powers were giving them the added power they needed to do the damage they were doing.
"You're time has run out." Mozar barked. "Rangers or no rangers you can't stop the clock now."
"Don't count us out yet." Aaliyah warned him as she dodged a laser blast from a Triceraton soldier that was tripped up by Venus and Ally moments later. "Our friends have given us more time and together we're going to save the Earth."
"Stop the clock." Jordan said and though no one could see it she had rolled her eyes. "Why didn't any of us brilliant magic users think about that?" She looked to the ones closest to her, in this case Grant, Leatherhead and Ellie. "Cover me, I know how to help us out here." The three nodded and the gold ranger genie girl raised her lamp cannon.
Splinter still wasn't sure if that would accomplish the desired results. He used powder to blind a Triceraton before knocking it out. His arm hit the ninja master on his way down but he quickly recovered and then called out, "Hurry Saki, we have no time." He then started toward the black hole generator.
Jennifer glanced back at the dimming counter. She made out Splinter as he got up and Shredder turning as well. The blonde then had a very horrible feeling in her stomach as if she had the flu or food poisoning, but this had nothing to do with a virus. "No, wait." She started.
Splinter ran toward the black hole machine with Shredder behind him. Deciding he wanted to see Splinter die first he thrust his left arm out and extended the blade. Then there was a flash of pink and he felt a grip on his arm. Then he watched as the blade thrust right through Splinter but not pierce him as he had intended.
That was enough to draw his attention as he turned to see what had happened; Amy had gotten a hold of Shredder's wrist and turned herself and him intangible. The moment passed and with a curse of, "You little brat." The leader of the Foot clan pulled away from the rose ranger and slashed her back. It was strong enough that if Amy had not been transformed it would most likely have killed her.
But the moment was lost. "Saki." Splinter growled and then started to fight his arch nemesis.
Mal's eyes flashed green in anger as she saw the attack but could do nothing about it as she took out one Triceraton soldier with a kick to the chest, backed with the strength of the neon armor, and was immediately beset upon by two more. Then she realized it just didn't matter; her sister was already starting to stand and Splinter would make Shredder pay for it, something she knew she couldn't do without using magic and maybe not even then.
A Triceraton was about to step on Amy when Angel slammed into the soldier hard and sent him sprawling backwards. The armored warrior then looked to her. "Great job, I think you saved his life." She remarked. She held her hand out to the rose ranger.
"I did." Amy replied as she accepted the help up. "Thank you for saving me."
Angel had never met the Auradon rangers as she had not been part of the team at that point but she had heard about them all, except for the newest ranger because Ruby had not had powers the last time the turtle team had been in Auradon. "That's what family is for." She said.
Jordan unleashed a blast from her lamp cannon, but instead of destroying something as was the norm she instead had combined her own magic to hit the black hole generator and enveloped it in a time freezing spell. " I don't know how long we have here." She told them all.
Leo called out, "Donnie, Rockwell, Jane, Carlos, Evie. We need to stop that thing." It was only natural that the smartest ones had to try to figure out the solution. "The rest of us will find a way to keep the Triceratons busy."
"I don't think we need should forget about the peanut gallery." Raphael pointed out as he was about ready to go sai to knife with his longtime adversary Fishface.
The large lizard mutant looked to Jennifer with a horrid leer that reminded Audrey of the looks she had gotten from Chad as of late. "I think it's time that we get reacquainted." Hector said lustily as he started toward her.
Then he was kicked back by Miranda. "I think she'd rather avoid that particular reunion." She replied as she twirled her grizzly blades in her hand.
"Careful he can change shape." Jennifer said to the Highlands ranger.
Even as she had said that he had formed a scorpion tail and tried to stab Miranda in the chest with it, but she rolled to the side and slashed the tail with her blades, making him growl in pain and recoil as he turned to face her.
Splinter dodged an attack from Shredder and jabbed his adversary in the chest hard several times, followed by a kick to his face that knocked off his helmet the Kuro Kabuto and sent it flying. With a growl he swiped at Splinter who did a matrix style dodge before taking his arm and flipping him over onto the ground. As Shredder went to rise the rat master struck him on the side of the neck and knocked him out.
Tiger Claw was there immediately. Splinter got ready to fight even as he felt Melody and Aquiella step up on either side of him.
"What do we do guys?" Carlos asked. He didn't know Triceraton tech or whatever this was at all.
"I don't know." Donnie said. "We were kind of going with damaging it until it shut down."
Evie came over with Doug and the two took a look at it now. "I don't think anything we have can destroy it." Doug revealed automatically. "It would require something like a combination of dark matter and fusion energy."
"Where do we get that?" Carlos asked.
"We don't I'm afraid." Rockwell answered simply. He didn't want to get into the fact that technically dark matter was only widely theoretical. There was no concrete proof that it actually existed.
"Wait a second." Evie said as she remembered some of the conversations she had had with Andros and TJ. "I remember something about a dark matter nebula outside of the milky way that was just discovered, at least according to TJ."
"Grand, but how does that help us?" Donnie wondered.
"Incoming." They heard Jay shout out and even as they turned to see a Triceraton soldier approaching Lonnie and Will intercepted, the green ranger chopping the blaster in half and then the two rangers double kicked the soldier in the chest hard.
"It won't destroy the pieces." Evie said after her glance confirmed they were still safe. "But it should damage it enough to stop this for now. If we separate the pieces before we send them then it'll make it even harder to reassemble and use."
"Between myself, Jennifer and April we might be able to psychically disassemble the black hole generator, but how will we get it to this 'dark matter nebula'?" Rockwell asked now. To him the idea still seemed like a fantasy but right now if it would save Earth that was what mattered.
"Magic." Jane now replied simply. "At least as long as this thing isn't magic proof."
"Well if we want to try this we better hurry." Carlos said now. "I just saw the timer blink down again. We're losing the spell."
Rockwell closed his eyes and for a moment Jane was tempted to ask why but then noticed April and Jennifer turn to them now and realized he was calling them over telepathically.
Miranda noticed it too out of the corner of her eye as she dodged a nasty claw swipe from Hector. "Go on, I've got him." She told the lovely blonde. So far the shape shifting mutant hadn't managed to lay a hand on the Highlands ranger.
A Triceraton stepped in April's way and raised his blaster. As she got ready to try to dodge Ruby whipped out her hair and slapped the blaster hard, knocking it to the ground and shattering it. As he turned toward the newest ranger she pulled back and then around so her hair whip slammed against him hard, which she followed up on with a kick to the chest for the takedown.
"Thanks um, whoever you are." April said though she thought she might know who the newest Auradon ranger was after all.
"Anytime." Ruby said and then clarified, "And yes it is me; Ruby. New addition, we'll explain later. Now go see what our resident geniuses have cooked up while we still have time."
April nodded and joined Jennifer, Donnie, Rockwell, Doug and the three rangers. "Focus girls." Rockwell said to them. "We need to separate the three pieces of this weapon." The two nodded and they all focused on the generator.
"You might need a bit more magical assistance." Jordan said as she came up to Evie and Carlos's side. "Do you want me to grab Mal and Amy too?"
Evie glanced back. Mal was on a roll, taking out each and every Triceraton she was going up against. The blue haired girl suspected that her chosen sister was determined to make sure Earth and their friends wouldn't be lost, especially after all they had done for Auradon. Amy meanwhile was working with Ally to stop them as well. "No, we can do this on our own." She decided.
Carlos snickered. "We? I'm not magical, you don't practice yours. How do we do this without Mal and Amy?" He questioned.
"We can channel Evie's inherent magic into our magic." Jordan answered for the blue ranger. She frowned. "But yeah, we might need some back up. Let's get Amy and Melody to help us out then."
Mozar noticed what they were doing and bellowed out, "Stop them, they must not disassemble the black hole generator."
Mal glanced back. "Everyone fall back to the generator." She heard Leo call out before she could make the same call herself. "We have to protect them at all costs." She looked to Amy now. "Help them out." She saw that Tiger Claw approached Splinter and the mermaid girls.
Aquiella got her boomerangs ready as Melody pointed the trident at the mutant tiger assassin. But all he did was pick up the helmet and Shredder's unconscious form. "If this day is won, do not think that you have heard the last of the Foot clan." He warned Splinter. "Foot vanish." Rahzar, Fishface, Bebop and Rocksteady had no problems with the order.
Hector glared angrily at Miranda but when Angel also stepped up to help he fell back as well. Then Angel looked to Miranda. "Let's help our team out." She declared. Miranda nodded and the two headed toward the black hole generator.
Splinter looked toward the mermaid girls. "I appreciate the assistance." He said sincerely and then looked to Melody. "I believe the others need you." She nodded and went over while the other two moved to defend them.
Karai landed in front of a Triceraton and kicked him as hard as she could, but his immense size only made him look at the small kunoichi oddly. "Oh for…" She started with an eye roll. "Fine then." With that she shifted into her mutant snake form and hissed at him. She lashed out her snake arms and slapped him in the shoulders.
"I think it requires a bit more than that." Mal said to her friend as she kicked him in the chest hard and laughed a little. "Though that's a wicked look for you Karai."
"I'm glad that you guys showed up when you did." Karai said, with only a slight hiss to her voice because of her current form. "Sadly you're right, this is more than we anticipated." The kunoichi turned to another of the approaching Triceratons. "I hope whatever your chosen sister and the others have planned they get it done quickly."
Mozar couldn't help but let anger overcome as he saw their perfectly crafted plan to stop the Kraang from taking this world as their own falling apart in front of him. He had been promised that there would be no power rangers to stop their plan and he hadn't known about the mutants. "I will make you all pay!" He roared and swiped a massive arm at Raph and Lonnie.
"Wow." Lonnie gasped even as she and Raph ducked out of the way. "Talk about a short fuse."
Raph delivered a kick to Mozar, though his size made the impact very minimal. Will was the one who followed up with a leg sweep and then a shoulder ram as the Triceraton admiral fell. "Whatever the plan is, we need to make it happen pretty much now." Will said as they were all working to keep the Triceratons at bay, but that also meant they were very much on the verge of being surrounded.
"Its…almost…done." Rockwell promised them. Both monkey mutant and teenage girls were sweating with exhaustion but they were forcing the pieces apart. The loud clang as the black hole generator fell into three pieces was very audible despite the battle.
"Looks like endgame for you pointy." Mal gloated a bit coldly to the recovering Triceraton as she twirled her staff and started to approach him.
"The heart of darkness." Mozar growled. "Retrieve the pieces!" He ordered.
"Get going on the second part you guys." Carlos called out even as he used his earthquake claw daggers to shake up a few Triceratons coming toward them. It wasn't quite as effective as it would have been on creatures half their sizes.
"Let's see if this slows them down any." Ellie said and raised her arms, her hands still grasping her ice chakrams, and unleashed a huge wall of ice in front of several Triceratons. It seemed to hold them at bay for a moment until they could make out a mix of blaster firing and large fist pounding against the ice, and it was starting to splinter. "Not by much." The Arendelle princess lamented.
"We want to send these things to the dark matter nebula that TJ was talking about the last time they were in Auradon." Evie said to Amy. "And hope inertia does the rest, at least for the moment." Amy nodded in understanding.
Amy took Melody's free hand, the other being used to hold the trident. Her other hand reached out to clasp Jane's hand. Jane had her other hand held by Jordan. The rose ranger hoped that she could make a spell as effective as her sister's.
A couple Triceratons started toward the young rose ranger and the genie gold ranger. Grant and Alex moved in. The gray ranger chopped the blaster in half with his axe and then delivered two back to back roundhouse kicks against his opponent. Alex meanwhile all but melted half of the blaster and then brought his fists as hard as he could into the soldier's chest, which at least caused him to fall back a little.
"These pieces three; destroyers of the Earth be; take them to the embrace, of the dark nebula's grace." Amy recited as loudly as she could, which was a bit of a challenge since she was soft spoken more often than not. She began to repeat that spell.
Just to cut it off any comment Audrey snapped at Carlos, "Not one word." Even as she used her elemental bow to barely block an incoming fist from a Triceraton. She was surprised, albeit a pleasant one, that her weapon held up to the impact.
"I wasn't going to say anything." Carlos protested halfheartedly though in truth it was on his tongue to again mock the structure of the spell, something he in theory should have known better than to do but it never seemed end.
"Yeah I bet." Raph remarked as he jumped over a Triceraton and kicked him in the head as hard as he could, which wasn't nearly as much as the red masked turtle was used too. Little did he know he had simply beaten Jay to that exact same remark.
Whatever Carlos or anyone could say about the words of the spell, it seemed to do at least the first part of the job as the three pieces of the black hole generator/heart of darkness had small portals appear behind them and then were sucked into them, where the portals closed moments later. It was anyone's guess where they went.
"It's over Mozar." Leo said to the admiral of the Triceraton Empire as he pointed his katana at him. "The black hole generator is gone and you've lost."
"We will find those pieces." Mozar vowed. "After we destroy you and all of your little friends."
"You think we're the only ones?" Mal now said as she stepped up next to the leader of the Turtles. "Whatever plan you had cooked up with…with whoever to stop the power rangers from helping has failed and the others are on their way to help us take you down."
"Um, Mal…" Ally started uncertainly. The only other ones who could potentially help were their parents. If Mozar called their bluff they might be in a bit of a jam.
Mozar seemed uncertain for a moment and Audrey was afraid that the Triceratons might just call the purple haired girl on her bluff. But it seemed as if it would not happen. "This is not over. We will return and we will be victorious. For the Empire!" With that the Triceratons teleported off the planet. Had they been able to do so they would have seen the departure of the Triceraton fleet from Earth's atmosphere and back into the stars.
"Father!" Leo said as he came to Splinter. "Are you alright? I saw what…the Shredder almost…"
"I am fine my sons." Splinter said his other three children approached him. "And my daughter." That was still kind of new to him as he spent a long time thinking she had died with her mother Tang Shen in that fire so long ago. He placed his hand gently on Karai's shoulder. Then he looked to Amy. "Thanks to you young one."
"And thank you for handing that razor armored creep a beat down after struck down my sister." Mal said to Splinter. If not for the Triceraton threat Audrey was sure that either the purple haired girl or Alex would have made Shredder pay for attacking Amy.
"Yeah." Karai said as she looked to Amy. "It's…not easy for me to say it but…you saved my father's life." The kunoichi mused how odd it was to realize her biological father had almost been killed by the man she had spent well over a decade thinking of as her father. "So, thank you Amy."
Mal placed her arm around Amy in a hug. "That was so brave of you sis. Pretty sure you saved his life there." She said affectionately. All of this attention was making Amy blush almost as deeply as her ranger suit color though no one could see that.
Aaliyah gasped. "Sis…oh my gosh Adelita is probably waiting for us in the lair." She said with alarm. "We have to make sure she knows everything is okay."
"You're right." Leo agreed simply. He looked to the Auradon rangers. "Let us show you are home, and then we can discuss why you guys are here." He shook his head. "I mean not that we're not grateful, it's just…"
"You figured we wouldn't be the ranger team to be here." Ben said diplomatically. They all got it, they all understood. The young king sighed just a bit. "You're right, we have much to discuss."
None of the Auradon team were all that thrilled to discover the turtles lived in the sewers and were not too reassured to hear from April, Casey and Jennifer that they would get used to the smell and such. Still despite it not being up to Auradon standards it was hard for the team not to be impressed by the lair itself.
"Aaliyah!" A brunette girl gasped as she got from the couch and ran over to give her white masked sister a hug. "I'm so glad you're okay. I had this horrible feeling that the world was going to be destroyed, that I'd never see you again."
Aaliyah hugged her back. "We won, thanks to our friends." She motioned toward the Auradon Rangers, who had not powered down but had removed their helmets upon entering the lair. Angel had removed her helmet as well and Adelita smiled at her softly.
"Their relationship was strained for a lot of years." Jennifer told them all softly. "But Adelita recently came to New York to find her and tell her that their parents were….were murdered. They're all they have left, as far as blood family goes."
"We do kind of know the feeling." Mal said with a small frown as she stroked Amy's hair. In many ways with Maleficent having disowned the two of them and no clue who their father was, the two twins were the only blood family they had. As much as they loved all of their chosen siblings and even in some cases their parents as well, it wasn't the same thing.
Amy even thought it kind of ironic that she and Mal could easily sympathize with the thoughts and feelings that Karai must have had though hit pretty well when it came to Shredder and Splinter. She was almost sure the kunoichi would never talk about it though.
"So what are all of you doing here?" Slash asked as he placed his large black mace down on the turnstile entrance in front of the lair. "I mean Leonardo is right I would have thought it would have been someone of the others, like the Zeo or Space rangers."
"Wait, what did that Triceraton guy mean when he said that there were supposed to be no power rangers?" The white foxed mutant Alopex questioned now. "What deal?"
"We don't know what kind of deal they were talking about either." Ben told them all. "But as for the other rangers well…" Ben bit his lip and Mal gently patted Amy's shoulder before going over to take her boyfriend's hand. "Well, coming here to help with the Triceratons was only a part of it."
"Are the others okay?" Donnie asked as he and April sat on the couch. The red head curled her legs under her and leaned her head against the purple masked turtle.
"No, no they're not." Jordan replied simply. "We have a lot to share with you and I don't know how much time we have to work now that," The genie girl cut herself off, realizing that they did not know the world would have been destroyed. So instead she placed her hand on Ruby's shoulder and then said, "So sit back and relax while we fill in all the blanks."