Aquiella slipped off her moon ring and then let herself fall into the flow of the waterways under Auradon. At least this was natural to her, far more natural than walking was to her even if she had adapted quickly. The rapids itself took a moment to get used to as the ocean was not usually this tumult, and If it was her mother often told her to stay in.
She thought it would take longer but sooner than she expected she heard Raph call out, "Hey Venus, how's it going over there? We're not slowing down over here." She could hear the blasts from the gauntlets of their borrowed cyber samurai armor.
"It is almost down." Venus said to her brothers. "Then we can destroy the receptor preventing magic from being used in Auradon." She was sure that the soldiers were all but swarming the three turtles, though the brothers must have been doing their best to keep their sister safe.
Now came the hard part for Aquiella. She had to angle herself into the ocean and make sure that she didn't land in such a way that would hurt her. She saw the angle coming and braced her arms against her body for the landing.
April and Jennifer used their telekinetic abilities to toss the soldiers around so that Casey, Karai and the rest of the team could do their best to take them out. It was made harder by Block Number M, Block Number P and Jabberwock also in the way.
Jabberwock tried to intercept Evie but Will got in the way. He slashed with his recursive sword and knocked him backwards, glad that his weapon was coated with the vorpal dust all of their weapons needed in order to damage this monster of Wonderland.
The two Block monsters stood side to side and again released a powerful burst of energy of both types. It struck the seven rangers and their four human allies hard, sending them sprawling to the ground and rolling back up. Jennifer felt throbbing in her right side, when she looked down though she was okay and she figured it was just the stab wound from her first night in New York nagging her.
"Those guys hit harder together then they do on their own." Carlos said.
"Okay, we can't use our battleizers." Audrey said to Mal. "I think we should try combining our weapons .Even if we defeat one of them it's better than both of them."
"Even weakening them would be a good thing." Carlos added.
The soldiers were already trying to swarm them again. "Don't these freaks know when to quit?" Casey wondered as he slap shot one of them with his hockey stick.
"Will, help them keep these soldiers off of us then." Mal said and she looked to her five team mates. Amy was still at the command center, the purple haired girl could feel her twin's worry for Alex being sent into the Badlands. "We'll try the Auradon Blaster."
Mal brought out her dragon's eye staff, Audrey placing her elemental bow underneath it. Evie placed her mirror shield behind it, the compacts folding outward. Jay placed his soul scimitar in the middle on top and that was followed by Lonnie's hurricane tessens and Carlos's earthquake claw daggers. They aimed the weapon at the monsters.
"Dude, that is so metal." Casey declared happily. "Hopefully it puts a dent in those demented batteries."
April dodged under one of the soldiers and then kicked it in the back of the legs, bringing her own tessens down onto the head where it vanished. "I hope it does too, I don't know how much longer we can do this and we still have to get those receptors destroyed." She said.
The six rangers unleashed a blast at the two monsters and it struck them back a little, but it clearly lacked the normal power of the blaster because of the power drain. The two again combined their energies and reflected the blast at the six of them, striking them back and forcing their blaster to revert back to their pieces.
"Man, half power just isn't cutting it, at least against these two." Jay said with annoyance.
"Maybe we should try the neon armor?" Carlos said.
"I don't even think we can access it." Lonnie told them. "And even if we could it would be a watered down version like the rest of our powers."
The two monsters jumped at the rangers and the six of them scattered to avoid being landed on. Mal tried to hit one of them, she wasn't sure which one it was, with her dragon's eye staff but he caught and tossed her hard, right into Karai.
Jabberwock unleashed a burst of fire and struck the rangers hard, sending them flying backwards. Lonnie was almost sure that would have broken her left arm and possibly a rib or two if not for the protection of the powers.
More soldiers were spawning out of nowhere and the they realized they were starting to become surrounded yet again, and this time there were no turtles in Cyber Samurai armor to help clear the field.
"You know this might sound kind of childish, but honestly I always hated zombies." Aaliyah revealed to her boyfriend and Mikey as she landed in the sand and blasted at a few of the Mamluk's. "My sister Adelita and I made the mistake of watching a zombie move with a couple other kids and we never got over it, even though that was over a decade ago."
"Totally get it." Mikey told her as he tried to fly over to the receptor that blocked powers only to get a Mamluk launched at him. He struck it in the face to stop it but it was enough to throw off his aim. They also seemed to have no compunction about stepping on each other to protect the receptor. "Be glad you haven't seen the Squirrlanoids. Total creeps."
"They do remind me of those aliens from the movie." Leo said to them and then rolled his eyes. "You know, called Alien." He landed on the sand and started to punch his way through some of the Mamluk's. "At least these things don't seem to inclined to try to take a chunk out of us."
"Not that they could." Mikey added as he knocked his metal hand against his metal protected head. Then he shook his head. "Ooh, echo dude." Leo sighed at that.
They saw the familiar glow of the time door and Alex came out of it. The Mamluk's all glanced at him and he shook his head. "I hate showing up late to a party." The prince of Arendelle noted dryly as he pulled out his iPhone. "Let's see if I can heat things up." He pulled out his iPhone and input his number 9921 and transformed into the Fire Knight.
"Wow, wonder if he can make his own micro wave pizzas." Mikey mused.
"Oh, now is not the time for that Mikey." Leo said to his youngest brother.
"Unless that cyber armor protects you from the fire you might want to take to the skies." Alex advised the three armored turtles. The three of them hesitated only a second before lifting themselves into the sky while still firing on the Mamluk's. "Whereas down here on the sands I'm going to see what I can do turn the heat up here." His innate fire powers were still down just as much as any other magic users but he had fire power as a knight and he hoped it was enough to take out the Mamluk's.
"This is either going to be so epic or so bad." Mikey noted, eager to see what it would be.
Alex summoned his tonfa's and drew as much fire energy as he could from his powers into his weapons before unleashing a rounded fire storm that traveled among the sands and engulfing the undead minions, who didn't let out a single sound or shriek and in fact still tried to approach the fire knight and the armored turtles as they otherwise burned to nothing.
"Glad these things don't smell like burning undead." Mikey said.
"How do you know what that smells like?" Alex asked him.
"He doesn't, he just thinks he does based on his comics." Leo answered dismissively. "Now we have to destroy that receptor so that we restore the powers to your friends."
"Hold up a sec." Alex said to Leo. "Venus discovered some magical guards on their receptor."
Leo understood. "We need to make sure that we don't have the same problem here." He said.
Aaliyah used her cyber samurai equipment to conduct a scan on the receptor. "Sensors don't detect anything protecting it." She said to Leo. "I think they expected the Mamluk's and the harsh environment to be enough protection."
"And without you guys and your armor it might have been enough." Alex said to them. Granted he had cleared out the Mamluk's but none of them would have made it out to the Badlands if not for the turtles showing up to help them. "So let's take this thing out."
With the combined powers of their gauntlet lasers and Alex's fire power the receptor never stood a chance. It blew to pieces.
"Come on fire prince." Mikey said to Alex. "Let me give you a lift back to the school."
"Sounds good." Alex agreed.
"I believe I have gotten past the magical defenses." Venus said to her brothers.
"Yeah, great." Raph called out as he blasted two of the soldiers only to have a third try to jump him. He caught the soldier and tossed it away. "Then finish it off."
Venus aimed her gauntlet hands at the receptor and prepared to fire when several soldiers materialized and jumped up, latching onto her legs and her shell, the weight of them pulling her down. "Donatello! Raphael!" She called out.
The two turtles turned only for a second as their sister called out to them and it was long enough for the soldiers to grasp the two brothers and start pulling them down as well. They then heard Maleficent's voice. "Nice try reptiles, but futile. You've failed."
Thunder crashed and lightning flashed in the sky. Donnie sadly thought it was appropriate to symbolize their defeat. Then it started to rain heavily and they saw a sea creature rise from the sea. The three turtles let out gasps of shock even as they heard Maleficent let out a cry of annoyance. Then they saw on the top of its head was Aquiella.
"Time to wash away the last thing holding my friends and even this world at knifepoint." The mermaid stated. "Let the water flow." The sea creature she was on unleashed a huge water spout from the top of its head, just behind Aquiella, and the huge burst of water struck the magical receptor, heavily damaging it on impact. The other good thing was that it struck the soldiers and flushed them away.
The three turtles took that opportunity to use their gauntlet hands to blow the magical receptor into multiple small pieces. They saw the sea creature slide close enough to the precipice for Aquiella to land on the ground. She placed her moon ring on her fingers her legs didn't return.
"Is that supposed to happen?" Raph asked her.
"It'll take a bit of time before the magic kicks in and brings back my legs." Aquiella said to them.
Venus lifted the mermaid girl into her arms. "Then I will fly you back to Auradon with us." She said to her. Aquiella nodded and the three turtles took off.
"Evie, it's done!" The blue haired blue ranger heard Doug say excitedly over the intercom set. "The turtles have destroyed the receptors!"
"Great." Evie replied. "Do we have our full range of powers back? Is our team up to par?" She wondered as she saw Block Number M try to drive his fists down on Lonnie only for Will to block with his recursive sword. She had to give the green ranger credit; he really was very strong. "We're not doing so good out here."
"We're playing it safe and getting these chips into the rest of the iPhones and we'll have to figure out what to do for Ben and Melody later." Doug said to her. "As for the rest of your powers, give it a few minutes more and then give it all you've got."
"Thanks, sweetie." Evie said absently, though she could actually see Doug blushing in her mind. "Guys, we have to give it a few minutes but then we can try this again." She said to them.
"Well that's just dandy." Jay said a little sarcastically as he dodged an attack from Block Number P. On the other side Mal struck him with her dragon's eye staff to little effect. "Because a few minutes might just be all that we have left to give."
"Don't forget we still have more company over here." April said as she slashed down a soldier and then dodged under the blade attack of another, only for Jennifer to slam her batons as hard as she could against either side of its head. It was enough to cause it to dissipate as well.
"Worry about the monsters." Karai said to the rangers as she dodged under one of the soldiers bulky forms, at least compared to her small and lithe frame, before turning and jumping up to carve her tonta halfway through the soldier and making it dissipate. "We get rid of those battery freaks and the soldiers will go back to their masters with their tails between their legs."
"They don't have tails." Carlos pointed out as he dodged a soldier of his own and then kicked it in the face.
"She's talking proverbially." Mal reminded her friend as she back flipped out of the way of Block Number P's attempt to lash at her now that Jay was out of range for the moment.
"What about this clown?" Casey asked as he roller bladed past the fireball onslaught that Jabberwock was trying to bombard the vigilante with.
Karai hesitated as she glanced over at her boyfriend. "Um, he might be a different matter." The kunoichi reluctantly conceded.
"We can overwhelm him with numbers if we just get rid of everything else." Audrey replied as she dodged under Block Number M only to come up with the edge of her elemental bow against a soldier, almost losing her balance when it abruptly vanished. "Sometimes I wish these things would just stay on the ground." She mused.
Block Number P tried to bring his fists down on Evie but Mal blocked it with her dragon's eye staff and then kicked him away from her first chosen sister. He tried to ram Mal but she slammed the gemmed end of the staff into the monster and sent him flying backwards further than they had been able to do to date. "What is this?" He demanded to know.
"It might be the effect of the receptor's destruction." Evie said to her friend. "We're gaining back our powers."
She could almost see the wicked smile that crossed the purple haired purple ranger's face. "And they're losing their powers." She finished. As if to confirm that Block Number P unleashed a stream of energy at them. Evie blocked it and reflected it with her mirror force shield and it struck him back again, just the way it should.
"Now that's music to my ears." Audrey agreed as she raised her elemental bow and unleashed a hail of arrows down on several of the soldiers to help clear them out.
"Our powers seem to be coming back." Will noted happily. "But what about magic?"
"We'll test that out later." Mal said to him. She didn't know of any spells right off that would help them here and furthermore the monster's destructions were more important. They could still draw upon the energies even if they were no longer being stored.
"Hey, I think it's time to try that blaster thing again." Casey said to them even as he flipped over a fire ball from Jabberwock.
"Good idea." Mal agreed.
"Let us help you out with that." April said as she moved closer to Jennifer. She took the blonde's hand and together they focused their telekinetic abilities to fling Block Number M into Block Number P. They crashed together with a satisfying screeching sound.
Mal placed her dragon's eye staff first, followed by Audrey's elemental bow underneath it. Evie placed her mirror force shield behind it and the compact extended out. Jay's soul scimitar went in the middle and then on either side was Lonnie's hurricane tessens and Carlos's earthquake claw daggers. They brought the Auradon blaster level with the two monsters and then fired at the two monsters, which exploded in a burst of fire.
"I never thought I'd miss that sight." Jay said happily.
"And that was so metal." Casey said with laughter. As Karai figured the soldiers vanished. Jabberwock did not though and unleashed a stream of fiery energy at them all. Mal leaned over to protect Jennifer, Jay leaned over to protect Karai, and Evie leaned over to protect April even as the attack sent them all flying.
"We have to get rid of this freak now somehow." Karai said with some annoyance. "Why didn't he leave anyway?"
"Oh, no." Audrey gasped in shock. "That might be why." They followed her gaze to see that there were still parts of the Block monsters. They reassembled themselves into one monster. "Nice try Rangers." They could hear both of the monsters voices. "We're not out of tricks yet."
"I'd say you're out of luck though." They heard from the skies. They looked up to see Aquiella bring her boomerangs now coated with water, signifying she was gradually getting control over her magic again, on the monsters hard. The orange ranger rolled out of the way even as Jabberwock and the new monster were bombarded with multiple energy burst from the gauntlets of the six cyber armored turtles and streams of fire from Alex.
"This is your last stand Block Number P/M." Mikey said to him. "You're almost done son."
"Block Number P/M?" Venus asked her orange masked brother.
"You know, he's based off of the two Block Numbers. They were called P and M. He combined into one." He tried to explain.
"We get it." Raph said to his youngest brother irritably. "It's still not good."
"Cyber turtles, let's deal with Jabberwock so the rangers can finish that monster." Leo ordered his brothers, sister and girlfriend.
"They can't do that." Carlos said. "They don't have the proper material."
"Actually they do." Doug told him from the intercom. "Whoever designed these things knew what they were doing. Vorpal energy is in their power streams and their armor has a light coating on them." Renet smiled. Only she knew how long the alliances between the turtles, the power rangers, and their other friends would really last.
"So do we try the Auradon blaster again?" Carlos asked Mal.
Mal shook her head. "No." She answered and then looked to Will. "Take the others in and keep Block Number P/M distracted." She had no idea why she was using Mikey's name for it, maybe because soon it wouldn't matter if she had her way. "Audrey, you and I are going to try our battleizer armor again."
"I like that idea." Audrey said.
"Why don't we see if our powers are working again?" Lonnie said to Will. "The five of us can try to activate our neon armor."
"Good idea Lonnie." Will said to her. The green, pink, blue, black and yellow rangers took a deep breath and moved to activate the armor. They braced themselves for the worst but were more than happy to accept the fact that it worked and they were now in their neon armor.
"Ooh, shiny." April couldn't help but say. She could feel the power radiating off of them.
The five rangers moved rapidly and with their weapons out Jay and Carlos slashed the Block Number P/M and they stumbled back. Lonnie and Will used their weapons to jump out and attack from the side, sending them sprawling to the ground. When he rose Evie unleashed her storming mirror force attack on him.
"Ready?" Mal asked the brunette princess.
"Let's do it." She responded to the purple haired girl.
The two girls took out their iPhones and pressed the half sun icons on top of their screens. They were both immensely happy to feel the power that flowed through their bodies as their battelizers became active. Armor assembled all over her body as the claws grew up over the armored hands and thin tendrils that extended from her helmet like a Chinese dragon. "Now that is wicked." Karai stated.
Audrey glowed with a mixture of red and pinks as the earrings slipped out of her helmet. Long elegant silk like ribbons emerged from over her shoulders. The same colored crystals that resembled her earring grew around her waist and then moving all around it like a skirt. "Wow, that's so pretty." Jennifer said in awe.
With the speed of a dragon, Mal was on the move as she rammed the clawed hands right into Block Number P/M. She delivered multiple quick slashes against his armored body though this time the claw impacts were more than just minor scratches.
Audrey took out the earrings and tossed them. They proved to be small but lethal as they slashed the monster multiple times and he flew hard several feet from where he had been originally.
"It's time to send this guy back to the scrap heap." Mal said as she raised her dragon's eye staff.
"I couldn't agree with you more." Audrey replied as the crystalline pieces around her waist detached and levitated up. She also gathered up energy that surrounded her. Beside her Mal raised her staff high. Together they unleashed a combination of the draco meteor and the attack Audrey was thinking of as a moonblast. Together the two attacks struck the combo monster in a fiery explosion. This time there were no pieces left to reassemble.
Jabberwock had seen that and knew that it was a lost cause now. With that he took off into the skies. Raph was about to try pursue him when Leo stopped him. "It's over Raphael." He said with his best voice of authority. "We've won." The six turtles instead descended to the ground with the rangers and their friends.
As soon as the armor reverted Jennifer ran over and hugged her boyfriend against her tightly. April went over and hugged Donnie, giving him a soft kiss on the cheek that made Mal think the two of them might have been together as well. Together they returned to the command center.
"You're okay." Amy said happily as she and Aquiella exchanged hugs. Then she hugged Alex as Melody hugged her cousin. He seemed a bit startled but had no problem with hugging Amy back. Ellie smiled as she ruffled her own cousin's hair gently.
Renet hugged Mikey tightly and then looked at the six turtles. "Sorry guys, but it's time to return the cyber samurai armor back to where it belongs." She said regretfully.
"Man, that's a bummer." Mikey noted as he slipped off the piece that allowed them to summon the armor. The others followed suit.
"I suspect that we will be seeing these again though." Venus replied. She had already put two and two together; at some point Donatello would make these for the six of them to use. It also did answer an unspoken question; Aaliyah's mutation had given her the long life usually enjoyed by turtles.
Once the six pieces were placed on the table Renet used her time scepter to return them to where they needed to be.
Amy made her way to Mal and hugged her. "I'm glad you're okay Mal." She looked at the other six rangers that had been out on the field. "I'm glad that you're all okay."
Ben came up behind Mal and wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her on the top of the head. "You did great out there." He said to them all even as his touch was meant for his girlfriend.
Evie threw an arm around Doug's arm as she leaned down next to him. "How's it coming?" She asked him.
Doug kept his eyes on the iPhone's as he struggled to minimize how much he was blushing. "Jane and I have almost all the other iPhones chipped in case Maleficent or someone else tries this again." He said to her. "We'll have to figure out an alternative for Ben, Jane and Melody since their power sources aren't linked to the iPhones."
"Awesome." Evie said as she lightly kissed his cheek.
They heard a grumbling and realized it was Mikey's stomach. "Man, this was sure a lot of work." The orange masked turtle said. "I sure could go for some pizza right about now."
Fairy Godmother laughed lightly. "It's ironic that you say that." She said to him. "Amber mentioned something about that when she said you would be coming to help us. As soon as the iPhones are up to date we'll be heading into the forest for a thank you meal."
"It's the least we could do for those who help us out." Ben said. "Especially those who are honorary citizens of Auradon."
"Us? Really?" Jennifer asked in shock. She had of course heard that the ranger's had been considered honorary citizens of Auradon but she wasn't sure it would extend to them, especially since the turtles weren't exactly well known even in their own worlds.
"Really." Audrey said with a small giggle. "There is more to family than just blood at and all. It's something that has become abundantly clear since becoming power rangers."
"It's probably better we don't have anything too formal though." Leo said with a small smile. "I'm not sure turtles look good in tuxes and dresses."
Karai gave a snicker. "You'd never catch me in a dress anyway." She reminded her oldest younger brother simply.
"Let me give you two a hand." Donnie said to Jane and Doug as he stepped up to the command center consoles. "The sooner that's done the sooner we can move onto an actual light portion to this visit."
"And we all know to enjoy those when we can." Mal said as she leaned back against her boyfriend. "Because they really are few and far in between."