Doug and Fairy Godmother were certainly surprised to see the six turtle team that showed up with everyone else but they had already seen what they could do, and Amber herself had sent them. The first thing Mal did was give the gray iPhone to Doug. "Somehow that thing worked despite my mother's power drain. We need to find out how." She said to him.
"Mal, how did you get that away from Gregory without your powers?" Fairy Godmother questioned with some amazement.
"You can save the amazement on my part." Mal said to their headmistress. "I didn't do it, Raphael did." She pointed to the red masked turtle.
"It was my pleasure." Raph said a bit happily. "He threatens my girl; I take away the powers that don't belong to him in the first place." He placed an arm around Jennifer, who smiled up at him happily. That actually seemed to surprise Doug a little to see that.
"It's so weird to think all of the fairy tales I grew up hearing about and reading were really true, and then some." April said with some amazement in her voice as she looked around the command center. "And this place is so cool."
"Totally." Donnie agreed as he stepped up to the command center stage. "This looks so much like the original command center bros."
"Doug, let Donnie help you." Evie advised. "He's like the genius of their group I think."
"Nah, that is so me." Mikey tried to gloat.
"Don't listen to him." Raph said dismissively. "That table over there is smarter than Mikey."
"Oh, that is cold." Jay said, voice full of amusement.
Doug motioned for Donnie to help him take a look at the iPhone, plus it would give them a good idea of how their particular powers would work.
"So how did you guys come to be anyway?" Evie now asked as she looked at the turtles. "How does this family of yours work?" She knew they were still trying to figure out how the dynamics of their family worked.
"And how do you know my father?" Aziz asked Raph.
"You know Aladdin?" Fairy Godmother now asked with surprise.
"And Jasmine." Raph added. "It's all a long story."
"But one that they deserve to hear." Leo filled in for his oldest younger brother. "If Amber and the rangers trust them, then we will trust them. Just as Zordon trusted Master Splinter and ourselves so long ago."
"Splinter." Audrey echoed. "Is that the name of the father your mentioned?"
Amy looked to the blue masked turtle and she had a sudden vision. She could see a rat man in a kimono running toward something. Behind him was a man in metal who reached out and she saw two small points extend out of his chest as if he had been stabbed.
"Yes." Leo said. "His name was Hamato Yoshi originally but we nicknamed him Splinter when the four of us were younger."
"Is he still alive?" Amy asked softly as she recalled the horrible vision she saw. Mal looked at her twin and wondered what she had just seen.
"Of course he is." Mikey said happily. "Nothing could ever take sensei down."
"Why don't you start at the beginning?" Fairy Godmother suggested to Leo.
Leonardo nodded. "Of course, ma'am. Sorry." He replied with a small nod of apology. Mal saw Raph roll his eyes and snickered a little. "Originally our father Hamato Yoshi was part of a ninja clan called the Hamato clan. He grew up with a man named Oroku Saki, who was the last of the Foot Clan but was adopted at a young age. As they grew up they both fell in love with a woman named Tang Shen. She got together with Hamato Yoshi."
"Guessing Saki didn't like that." Audrey said as she thought of herself, Chad, and Jay.
"He wasn't happy at all." Leo agreed. "But through that connection came the birth of a daughter, Miwa."
"So you have three sisters then?" Carlos asked as he looked between Karai and Venus and then to Leo. "Dude, you have a big family."
"Not quite that big." Karai said to him. "When Oroku Saki found out the truth he attacked his rival, but accidently killed Tang Shen instead as the fire consumed their house. Before he slunk away to leave them behind he kidnapped that baby girl to raise as his own…and he changed her name from Miwa to Karai."
"That baby was you." Miranda concluded. The kunoichi nodded.
"Hamato Yoshi survived and moved to New York where he adopted five baby turtles." Leo continued on. "But as he left the pet shop he ran into several beings that thought he had heard too much and tried to kill him, in the process he stepped on a rat's tail. He fought back, and in the process got covered by stuff they had. The result was his mutation into a humanoid rat and my brothers and Venus being mutated into humanoid turtles, though he lost track of her and was found by another man, a master of chi, who raised her as his own daughter."
"But wait, there are six turtles here." Jordan said.
"We'll get to that." Leo promised her. "So while Venus was raised by the chi master Chung Il, we were raised by Master Splinter in the ways of ninjitsu. For fifteen years we pretty much stayed underground, learning and honing our skills."
"Pretty much?" Mal asked, knowing there had to be a lot more exceptions to that rule than they probably wanted to admit.
"Raph." Leo said to his red masked brother.
"I was out on my own in the sewers one day." Raph said to them all now. "And something weird happened. Still not sure how to describe it even to this day, that's not area of expertise." He looked to Aziz. "Whatever happened swept me into Agrabah where I met your father and helped me to deal with Jafar, which is also where I met your mother too at the end."
"What was that like?" Jennifer asked her boyfriend now. She was familiar with the tale and had certainly seen the movie, but to be there was something she would have loved to experience.
Raph laughed. "Kind of freaky sometimes. Riding that magic carpet out of the Cave of Wonders to try to avoid the lava." He shook his head, not aware that Will could easily attest to that experience too. "Meeting the Genie, weird blue guy in harem pants and Mikey's sense of humor."
"Hey, that man happens to be my father." Jordan informed him.
Raph laughed a bit. "Wow, never would have guessed. Good for him then." He replied.
"What did you do when my dad wished to be a prince?" Aziz asked him.
"Let's just say it's a good thing that most princes have royal guards, and that being around a genie means no one really knows who you are." Raph answered him. "Unfortunately Jafar could see through it and had Razoul and some of the guards try to lock me up when he tried to assassinate him, and then we got banished to the arctic after Jafar got a hold of the lamp."
"And then you helped our parents beat Jafar after you, Aladdin and Carpet came back." Jordan surmised.
Raph nodded. "Yep. Grew to dislike magic as a general rule after that fact." He said with a laugh. "After Jafar made himself into a genie, trapping himself in that lamp, Genie gave me a lift home before he went off to see the world."
"Wow." Jennifer said. "You actually helped with that? You got to ride a magic carpet?" She seemed very fascinated with it.
"Maybe someday you two can take a carpet ride." Aziz said. "I bet my dad would let you."
"So you know who I am then?" Jay asked Raph.
The red masked turtle nodded. "Yeah, the son of Jafar. We going to have a problem here?" He asked.
Jay shook his head. "Nah. I get it. It's in the past." He indicated his team, placing a hand on Audrey's shoulders. "This is my life now dude." The two exchanged nods of understanding. "Besides, I do owe you. You've already helped me."
"Um, I think we all get credit for that man." Casey pointed out.
"Not what happened up there." Jay replied. He looked to Raph. "You were there when Zordon upgraded my weapon. I doubt you were aware of it and I don't how that works, but you were there."
"You and your brother Mikey were also there when Carlos and I had our weapons upgraded by Zordon." Lonnie said now. "I recognize your voices, and your bickering."
"You guys knew Zordon?" Jane asked them now.
"We did." Leo answered. "We were sad to hear he was dead, but only Andros was there for it."
"We started working with the rangers not long after our fifteenth birthday and we first went to the surface where we met April, our first human friend." Leo explained. "We started to learn the mysteries of our creation."
"What was that?" Doug asked, fascinated despite the situation. Luckily Donnie knew the story already and was working on the iPhone mystery.
"An alien substance created by a race called the Kraang." April said to them. "They want to terraform Earth for their own purposes. They messed with my families genetics for decades for that reason and my powers are a result of that tampering."
"And this Oroku Saki, whatever happened to him?" Audrey asked now.
"He rebuilt his clan and turned it into a criminal organization." Leo said. "When we got into a fight with the Kraang one of our shuriken, throwing stars, were left behind with the Hamato symbol and he came after us. He now calls himself the Shredder."
Was it Shredder that stabbed their master Splinter? Amy couldn't help but wonder sadly. She wondered why they didn't seem to know anything about it. Unless she was seeing the future.
"We've been fighting a war between the Shredder and the Foot Clan, along with a new gang recently." Raph said to them all. "That gang is led by Jennifer's father. He wanted to engineer his own mutants to fight against us."
"Is that when you were…changed?" Evie asked Aaliyah.
The white masked turtle nodded. "Yes. The common term is mutated I think. He abducted me from a martial arts tournament and mutated me into what you see now. He also mutated a girl off the streets named Candy into an Axolotl."
"Axey what?" Alex asked.
"I've never heard of that either." Evie said.
"An animal that exists in our world, like a salamander that never gets the ability to breathe outside of water. They live only in one place in a place called Mexico." Donnie informed them all in between iPhone checks.
"So you're part of the Foot Clan then?" Jay asked Karai.
"I was." Karai answered. "I was raised to believe Splinter and his disciples were my enemies, that he had killed my mother. But I eventually found out the truth and left the Foot Clan to live with my father and my family."
Somehow they could tell there was more to that story than that but was sure Karai was not one to want to reveal the details if she didn't have too. They decided to let the kunoichi keep her story for the time being.
"Not to interrupt, I know there are still some questions that need to be addressed," Donnie said as he looked up. "But is this part of the typical iPhone lineup?" He held up the exclusion chip that Gregory had made just before Maleficent's monsters had attacked.
Jane reached out and gently took it from the purple masked turtle. "No, it's not." She answered. She walked over to another console to do another scan of her own.
Jennifer looked to Ben. "Your majesty, may I please see your sword a minute?" She requested softly.
Ben was surprised at how soft spoken and vulnerable the blonde seemed to be. She reminded the young king a lot of Amy now that he thought about it. "Sure, of course." He answered and handed her the Praeleanthor sword.
It was almost a surprise she could even hold the sword in her hands. She turned it a little bit. "It doesn't react against me." She noted softly, seemingly relieved.
"Why would it?" Mal questioned. "You're not the enemy and you're not a demon."
"But you said your powers were demonic in origin." Ally recalled.
"My father experimented on me, giving me demon blood." She told them all softly. "When I realized he was evil I ran away from home, in California. Made it all the way across the United States before nearly being caught, where I met the Turtles and their friends."
"My father followed, though not just for me. He wanted to start a gang war against the Foot Clan and two other clans, the Triangles and the Golden Stars. But his allegiance is more than that. He serves a demonic source of power." Jennifer explained. "And he wanted me to be a weapon for them."
"You don't think the same demons that your father is allied with is the same ones that made Maledicts blade, do you?" Carlos asked.
"No way." Mal said. "That would be just way too coincidental."
"Actually I'm sorry to tell you that they are the same demons." Renet said to them, sounding much more serious that she had since they met her. This was the same girl who mistook the term cool for cold after all. "They've been fighting to retake Earth for years, though I don't know why all of a sudden their interested in Auradon, unless they've decided not to put all of their eggs in one nest."
"I think you mean basket." April now provided. "They don't want all of their eggs in one basket."
"That make sense actually." Ben agreed. "If they think they're encountering too much resistance on Earth they might try for here, though they'll find just as much resistance there too."
"They probably didn't expect to be facing that much elsewhere, or to think that the two worlds could be related to each other." Renet said.
"Who are you anyway?" Jordan asked. "I mean, you just act so…so contrary sometimes."
"Oh, my name is Renet. I'm the apprentice time mistress to Time lord Simultaneous." She said with a small bow. "And I've started to do what I can to help the turtle warriors of legends with their problems if I can."
No one else seemed to be exactly impressed, although Jordan was hard to read she understood what Renet meant. Her father had spent some time working with Lord Simultaneous before he had been sealed away in the lamp that Aladdin would later find. That made her respect this girl far more than she wanted to admit.
"So where's your friend then?" Evie asked Aaliyah. "The girl you said became an axolotl."
"Candy joined another group of mutant heroes called the Mighty Mutanimals." Aaliyah explained to her. They launched into quick explanations about Slash; the former turtle pet of Raph's who became mutated and briefly lost his mind before going good again. Leatherhead; the mutant alligator mutated in Dimension X, home of the Kraang and a good friend of Mikey's. Tyler Rockwell, a scientist mutated into a monkey that had developed psychic powers and often rivaled Donnie. Pidgeon Pete; a mutated pigeon. Mondo Gecko; a mutated skateboarder originally named Jason who Mikey and Casey befriended and Muckman; a garbage mutant that had been accidently created by two of Shredder's minions.
It amazed Mal to realize that as she learned more about the turtles and all their friends that she was forgetting that they were mutated animals because she was starting to see the caring, human side of them. It was a feeling all of the Auradon team could identify with, proving that real friendship could go beyond the outer shell.
Jane was working to produce chips like Gregory's so they could start to restore their powers though she feared they couldn't make enough of them to restore them all. She was glad then that the turtles and their allies were here to help. And she found she genuinely liked them, especially Donnie and April who seemed to be very intelligent and learned quickly.
"So you've worked with the rangers for a long time then." Amy said softly. "You've been around them all."
"We've met them all." Leo confirmed. "But our closest times were with the Power Rangers, The Zeo Rangers, the Turbo Rangers and the Space Rangers."
"Except for our brainwashed attempt to steal the megaship." Venus noted. "You see, back when Karone was Astronema she brainwashed us and tried to get us to steal their ship and bring it to her, thereby stripping the rangers of their most powerful weapon the Astro Megazord."
"Yeah, it's a good thing we learned the truth of who she was later on and that she redeemed herself." Raph noted. "Otherwise there would have been trouble."
"Yeah, I know the feeling." Jay agreed as he thought about Will. Though he was their good friend and did have genuine feelings for Lonnie he had also come within a hair's breadth of stealing the Auradon Warzord with Gregory. It was something that took them a little bit of time to work around, especially Lonnie. Mal hadn't given up on him though, she felt she couldn't after their scheme to try to steal Fairy Godmother's wand came to light with a near success. "But those of us who choose to truly redeem ourselves have the right to try."
"And Karone's done a good job of that too." Casey replied.
"We've heard you guys have had some close calls here." Leo said diplomatically. "It can be tough sometimes."
"Yeah, what about it?" Jay couldn't help but ask testily. Audrey placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him.
"Jay, calm down." Mal said. "I'm sure Leo didn't mean anything by that."
"Not at all." Leo said. "You've kept a hold of Auradon. Believe it or not, that's a big plus. We lost New York a while back."
"What is New York?" Amy asked him.
"It's the city where we live in our world." April explained to her. "The Kraang perfected the mutagen and invaded. They started transforming everything and everyone, including my father." She looked sad at that. "It wasn't the first time he had been mutated either."
Evie noticed the turtles exchanging guilty looks and wondered if they had had something to do with it. "So the Kraang invaded?" The blue haired girl prodded.
"For the second time." Raph added darkly. "The first time they invaded they brought forth a huge object called the Technodrome and were abducting people. We barely stopped it and…and we thought we lost Leo in the process." Jennifer rubbed his arm gently.
"The second time," Leo said. "They used a Kraang spy named Kraang Subprime to find out lair so they could deliver our father to Shredder. We split up and I got ambushed by the Shredder and his henchman. They left me in a coma for three months."
"We thought we lost Master Splinter when Shredder tossed him into a storm drain." Mikey added sadly. Amy bit her lip as she thought again of her vision; she now assumed the man stabbing Splinter was their arch enemy the Shredder, but she wondered what would lead to that.
"And we had to flee New York, go up to my grandparent's farm." April added with a small shake of her head. "We had to leave my father, Master Splinter behind. We had to leave Casey's father and sister behind. We had to leave Karai behind."
"What?" Lonnie asked now. "Why is that?"
"Because Shredder, the man I thought was my father, tried to lure my family into a trap that would make the turtles mindless automatons, but it was screwed up and I became a mutant snake instead." Karai now answered. "I was staying away from everyone as I was losing my mind." She sighed. "One of his henchmen restored my mind but used a worm on me that controlled my mind, intending to do that to the city. That production never got that far and," She looked to April and Jennifer. "They then brought me back."
"I take it you guys took back the city though." Miranda guessed.
"We did." Leo replied. "We've seen signs that the Kraang are still around but not as active after failing to invade. Now we're dealing with the Foot and the demons, along with their human allies."
"But when we found out what was happening, we had to come lend a hand." Leo said. "The rangers tried to help us take back New York before one of their enemies ruined everything for them too."
"They still have enemies?" Lonnie asked in shock.
Leo and Raph seemed to exchange glances, as if they knew something the rangers did not. Mikey seemed oblivious as he started to say, "Yeah of course. I'm surprised you don't already know what we're talking about considering that as a pink ranger you…" Then Casey hit him in the side to shut him up.
Mal was almost sure they were missing something but wanted to assume it wasn't anything they needed to worry about if they weren't told about it.
"Hey, I've got it." Doug announced to them. "I figured out what's going on with those monsters."
"You mean the drainers, yeah we got that figured out." Mikey said dismissively.
The others ignored Mikey, which was a relatively common thing. "What's going on with them?" Jennifer asked him.
"They take the powers, regardless of magical or ranger, and they channel them through the ground and into other points in Auradon." Doug explained as he brought one of them up in the all too present Badlands. "That way even destroying the monster doesn't free the energy. We have to destroy these 'routers' and then destroy the monsters."
"How do we restore your powers though once the routers and monsters are destroyed?" Casey asked him.
"Destroying the monster should dissipate the field that Maleficent's monster has over Auradon." Doug said. "The challenge comes at actually destroying the monster without powers, at least that was her intent before you guys showed up and Renet gave you the cyber samurai armor."
"Which is totally cool by the way." Carlos added happily. "I wish we could get something like that."
Renet knew it was best not to tell them that the cyber samurai armor was made by Donatello in the very far future, after the death of their current friends and the polar ice caps had melted, causing global warming around the Earth. "Let's just say it's not exactly something that can easily be popped out of nowhere. In fact once this is done I'll have to return the cyber armor back to where it belongs." She said.
"Bummer." Mikey drawled.
"Well we'll make the best of them now." Leo declared. He looked to his purple masked brother and Jane. "Where do we stand on getting those chips into the other iPhones?" He asked them.
"So far we've replicated a few chips. I've put them in Mal's, Audrey's and Evie's iPhones." Jane said to him. "It takes about two minutes to do it each time, plus another two for replication."
"Can it work for all of us?" Mal asked now.
Donnie shook his head. "I don't think so. It should do it for most of you with the iPhones, but I know that Melody and Jane use items with the gems in them to transform and there's no way to make that accommodation." He looked to Ben. "Same thing with you your majesty. Since you transform with your shield and sword, and a sword that any of us barely understand at that, there's no way to get around needing to lower the field the monster has over Auradon."
"If mom knew about the chip being in the gray ranger iPhone and if she knows that Gregory isn't coming back," Amy started and Karai snickered just a little at how she had stopped him from escaping. "Then she might have some kind of plan to prepare for it."
"It's possible." Mal agreed with her twin sister. "But it's a chance we're just going to have to take."
"How long until she decides to retaliate for our defense of the school anyway?" April asked. "I mean she has to know her bat monster was killed and most of her soldiers defeated."
"It'll happen sooner rather than later." Will said.
A little more time passed. They managed to get the chips into Carlos, Lonnie, Jay, Amy and Will's iPhone when the alarms went off again. "The two monsters are on the move toward Auradon Prep." Doug announced now. "And they have Jabberwock with them."
"That sounds familiar." Jennifer murmured and then made the connection. "Alice in Wonderland."
"I'm sorry to say it's become much worse than the creature that is in any of the books you know of." Ally told her.
"We have seven rangers and all of you." Fairy Godmother announced as she took the working iPhones and handing them to the teens and then looked to the six turtles and their friends. "This is the last stand here. If we can win, we can return everything to normal. If we fail, then Paradias and Maleficent win."
"We need to confront the monsters, Jabberwock and the soldiers." Mal decided as she looked at her team mates and the turtle team. "If we have to the six of you can use your cyber samurai armor and fly to the router things, Doug can guide you."
"We'll see what we can do about getting everyone else up and going to provide back up or go after the routers themselves." Jane said. "Everyone has to be careful though, we are all looking at a pretty bad hand here."
"Then it's time to play the cards we're dealt and see what happens." Leo said to his team. "There's no time for hesitation." He twirled his katana's as he quoted Captain Ryan from one of his favorite shows Space Heroes, which drew groans from April, Donnie and Raph.
"Around here we use the expression let's get to work." Lonnie provided.
Mal and Leo exchanged looks and then they both nodded and announced, "Let's get to work."