Raph brought his sais up to block the scimitar that descended toward his head. He then pushed it to the side and delivered a kick to his midsection. His cloaked opponent stumbled backwards but as the red masked turtle tried to follow up his opponent further flipped out of the way before delivering a kick to Raph.
The red masked turtle stumbled backwards from the strike. The opponent moved to jab him with the scimitar but Raph moved to the side. Twirling one of his sais point up, he hooked his sais onto the hilt of the scimitar, kneeled down under the weapon and then tossed his opponent. He hit the ground hard and then had Raph over him with his sai pointed at his throat. "Old age may have slowed you down." He said neutrally.
The man removed the cloak and laughed a little. "You may be right Raph." Aladdin agreed as his old friend sheathed his weapons and allowed his turtle friend to help him up. "Either that or being Sultan has taken the edge off." He added with a laugh.
The two of them looked around at the clearing they had in the forest. Raphael's very human girlfriend sat across from Queen Jasmine as the two girls talked. The lithe young blonde was more than eager to learn more about Raphael's past.
Donnie, Jane, Carlos and Doug were talking about something technological that Raph knew was over his head and was sure Aladdin thought the same thing. He might have been clever but he wasn't a book techy genius.
Leo held one of his katana as he lead Will and Jay through some katas with their own bladed weapons, the Praeleanthor sword and the soul scimitar respectively.
Mikey had conned Jordan into letting him help with the pizza, at least as much as he could since Jordan was using magic to make the pizzas. It was a great relief to see that for what it was worth magic had indeed returned to Auradon upon the protection of Block Number M.
April paced Lonnie as the two of them measured each other up. Though both the red head and the Asian princess knew that Mia the pink samurai ranger too used a weapon similar to theirs neither had had the chance to square off against her. They were taking the chance to do that now. April had the ninja training courtesy of Master Splinter on top of experience, while Lonnie just on the job training sort to speak.
April was the first to strike by throwing one of her tessen. Lonnie's were in fact a bit larger than the red head's and she deflected the throw away. She moved in to attack April but she jumped over the Asian princess to recover her own tessen. She moved into attack but Lonnie blocked the strike and then tried to flip April. Being a trained kunoichi she used the flip and rolled with it, rising to her knees.
"That was neat." Lonnie said with a small laugh.
"Thanks." April said. "You're pretty good. I usually don't get this kind of practice from someone with the same weapon."
"She's really good with those." Jasmine said to Jennifer as they glanced at the two girls in combat.
"She is." Jennifer agreed. "You know, originally Master Splinter was going to pass them onto Karai when she was old enough until he thought she died in that fire at their home in Japan." She sighed a bit. "He gave them to April, saying that he believed that Miwa would be as good as April was."
"Is there problems between Splinter and Karai?" Jasmine asked.
Jennifer shook her head. "Not really. It's just taken time for Karai to disregard all the lessons Shredder gave her in her life. She still doesn't really go by the name Miwa though, something Master Splinter has accepted, though I think reluctantly." She answered. They both turned to see the former foot kunoichi herself was reading a book by one of the trees. Perhaps somewhat ironically Amy was sitting not too far away reading a book she had borrowed from Belle.
Ben was laying against another tree with Mal behind him, her head on his chest. She was staring down at the dragon's eye jewel on her staff as he stroked her hair softly. "I'm so glad that we finished those two off." Mal said to Ben. "I may not use magic quite as often as people would expect, but I do miss the feeling of it."
"What's it like?" Ben asked as he gave a small twirl of her hair in his rhythm.
As much as she might hate to admit it the little movement made her giggle as a shiver of delight went up her back. "It's like...it's kind of like the tingly feeling you get when you sit on a body part too long and it's getting circulation again but without the numbness associated with it." She replied though in truth she struggled to describe it because there was no one hundred percent way to describe it to someone who wasn't a magic user.
"Is it better than this?" Ben inquired jokingly as he kissed the top of her head and pressed his leg up against hers.
"No." Mal answered honestly as she smiled and leaned up to look at him, where they shared a kiss on the lips. "But it's still a great feeling. Right behind how you make me feel and how it feels to have a sister like Amy."
Ben pulled back just a little to look into her eyes. Then he kissed her softly on her lips again. "I kind of you about that." He admitted softly.
"The magic?" Mal asked in some shock. Then she waved if off. "Oh, don't worry about that. It's nice but magic isn't the biggest deal in the world." She said to him as she shifted her body to look directly at him now.
"No, not that." Ben replied to her. "The sibling bond. What you have with Amy is amazing." He stroked her cheek softly. "What I see with the turtles, it's pretty amazing. Mikey annoys them all and yet they all care about him so much."
"Are you saying Amy is as annoying as Mikey?" Mal teased Ben as she poked him in the chest lightly and winked at him. She knew that he was not saying that but she had to get her wicked spikes where she could.
"No." Ben said as he laughed lightly. "I just…I love my parents a lot, you know that." Mal nodded knowingly. The truth was she thought she loved Belle more than she loved her own mother, perhaps understandably. At least Belle cared about her and Amy. "But to have a sibling, someone more my age who could understand me in a way that I can only seem to find sometimes with my friends."
"You and Audrey are like brother and sister." Mal pointed out simply. She felt no negative emotion to that, it was better as far as she was concerned. She kind of saw Audrey that way too, though they were both too opposite to be as close as Amy and Mal were.
Ben nodded. "Yeah." He agreed. "But it's not the same." He squeezed her hands softly. "Audrey has always wanted a little sister though, someone who could share her interests in fashion and stuff." Mal knew that made sense. Growing up Mal had wished Amy had shown some interest in evil so they had more in common.
"And what have you always wanted?" Mal asked him. There was no teasing quality to her voice as the purple haired girl could feel this was a real serious conversation, something that she thought they never had the opportunity to have with all of the dangers they faced.
"Just a sibling." Ben said with a shrug. "Rather a brother or a sister isn't important to me."
Mal reached out and stroked his cheek now. "Oh, Ben." She leaned forward and kissed him gently on the lips. "I wish I knew what to do for that."
Ben smiled. "It's fine Mal." He said after pulling away. "I know you can't do anything about it, it's just nice to…to have a real talk now and again."
"Hey people, pizza is on!" Mikey called out. They all looked to see Jordan had formed a large picnic table for them all to eat at. They all sheathed their weapons or returned them to the morphing grid as they began to the table. It still seemed just a bit odd to see three human girls sitting close to the three turtles but at the same time it seemed so natural.
"You'll never see something like that often." Mikey said jokingly as Raph took a plate and placed a couple pieces of pepperoni pizza on it to give to Jennifer. Upon hearing the comment however he did take a moment to toss an empty water bottle at his youngest brother.
Mal laughed. "Yeah, you can definitely feel the love." She joked sweetly to Ben.
"I have noticed that in general the love between brothers is different than the love between sisters, or brothers and sisters." Venus said to Mal and Ben. "They do not act that way with me, probably because I am not the same as they are."
"I guess we should know about that." Mal said with small laughter as she saw Jay and Carlos wrestling past each other to be the first to get a piece of the meat lover's pizza. That became moot when Miranda easily walked by them to add one slice to her plate.
"So can you two eat pizza without making it charcoal or an ice cube?" Karai asked Alex and Ellie teasingly as she handed them each a plate. Ellie gave a slightly annoyed glare at the question while Alex just laughed and said, "I like my crust extra crispy." Behind him Amy giggled at his comment.
"I can eat pizza or anything else just fine, thank you." Ellie said in a very forced diplomatic way. The question did kind of strike her the wrong way. "I however can also do this." She reached for a bottle water and very nearly make the water outside turn to ice. She tossed it to Karai and she opened it to find the water further in the bottle still liquid. "It makes for a nice drink." She added.
The kunoichi took a small sip and nodded approvingly. "Nice." She said simply.
"Hey, can you do that with soda?" Mikey asked excitedly.
"Mikey, she's not a refrigeration unit." Donnie said to his brother with a small eye roll. Ellie laughed just a little and did the same trick for Mikey before tossing it to him. The purple masked turtle looked to her. "You must have amazing control of your powers." He noted.
"Not especially." Ellie said. "My control is actually very limited right now. But since water bottles and soda cans are pretty small objects it's easy enough to do."
"Magic class is paying off well I see." Fairy Godmother said as she took some salad, one of the few food options they had that wasn't some form of pizza.
"I'm actually surprised that we don't see more magic use here in Auradon." April noted as she reached over for some cheese pizza. "I mean this is the origin of all magical fairy tales and everything."
"It's a bit complicated." Fairy Godmother started.
"It is, huh?" Raph questioned dubiously as he looked to Aladdin and Jasmine, hooking up a slice of pizza in the blade of one of his sais. "Kind of weird in a world with genies and evil fairies and what not."
"Hey, bros." Mikey said suddenly. "How about a Statue of Liberty play?" He asked.
"We've got the room for it." Donnie said enthusiastically.
"What is a statue of liberty play?" Audrey asked now. She remembered it being vaguely mentioned by the Space Rangers the first time they had been at the castle for a banquet.
"It's a trick play that is used in a sport called Football." Casey explained to her. "It's named after a landmark in our home of New York called the Statue of Liberty. Don't you all play football here?" He asked.
"Maybe somewhere." Aziz said to him. "Here we play a game called Tourney." He laughed a little. "Actually I think you'd like it Jones."
"Yeah, you get to hit people." Jay added with a laugh.
"Dude, I am so in." Casey replied.
Their respective girlfriends were the only reason the turtles ended up not doing the play there in the field. "So how are you guys going to protect Ben, Jane and Melody from any more attempts like what we just stopped?" Leo asked.
"We're going to work a spell into the gems." Mal answered. "It'll be self-containing so even if somehow they block magic again the spell should hold."
"I hate to say this, but the idea itself was rather effective." Donnie admitted as he picked up a slice of his own pizza. "I'm surprised Lord Zedd or some of the other villains never tried to implement that."
Mal couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Great, leave it up to my mother to be the one evil enough to actually use an idea like that." She said with annoyance in her voice.
Jennifer couldn't help but wonder why it was that Mal would refer to Maleficent as her mother but Amy, when she even acknowledged talk about the evil fairy, never referred to her as her mother. She was sure part of it was because their relationship was strained since Amy didn't seem like the long live evil type. Then again, neither was she and yet she had stuck by her father for most of her life until he started becoming a gang leader and raising demons.
"You don't much care for your mother, do you?" Karai asked Amy, ever the blunt one. Sometimes even more so than Raph.
Amy had to avoid choking on the pepperoni pizza she was eating, even taking a quick drink of her strawberry soda. In that time she saw April give the unperturbed kunoichi a glare and even try to reprimand her for the question. Mal didn't seem all the pleased about the question being asked either. "I, I don't know." Amy finally replied, surprising them all. "I mean she is my mom and all, but…she never really acted like it."
"Amy never fit in on the Isle of the Lost." Jay said, ignoring the slight look of annoyance now being directed at him from Mal. "She was always more like a good kid than a bad kid, so Maleficent all but shunned her. Mal was the one who took care of her most of her life."
"In between doing her best to be the mean and nasty child that Maleficent wanted her to be." Evie added. Mal sighed softly, knowing she would never get her friends to stop talking. And in some ways that was a good thing she supposed. "But even then I don't think she ever appreciated that Mal tried hard to live up to her expectations."
"I understand how you feel." Jennifer said softly to Amy. "After my mom died my dad…well, I don't know if he became cruel then or if he just showed his true colors then, but either way it was never the same between us. By the time I ran away it didn't feel like I was leaving any family behind." She hesitated only a moment before adding, "In the short time I've known him, Master Splinter has been more of a father to me."
Amy smiled just a little. "I know what you mean." She said. "Mal was the closest thing I seemed to have to a mom, though of course she's my twin sister. Ben's mom Belle has seemed to me more like a mom than my own mom was."
"Well that would be because you simply refused to learn the right things." They heard from all around them right before Maleficent appeared with dozens of soldiers. Everyone started to rise to their feet and Maleficent waved her staff, green beams of energy rising from the ground to clamp them all by their wrists and ankles. "No, don't bother getting up." She said to them.
"What do you want now mother?" Mal demanded.
"You know, the usual things a person wants in their lives." Maleficent answered casually. "Their children's undying loyalties, power beyond all measure." She leaned down and picked up the Praeleanthor sword. "Oh, if only we could find a way to corrupt this weapon." She tossed it to one of the soldiers. "Take that, we'll hand it over to Doctor Malcolm and he can cast this thing into the underworld for all I care."
"You have someone else working for you and Paradias now?" Ben demanded.
"How are you in contact with them?" Leo now asked. The turtle team knew exactly who Maleficent was referring too. The scientist Doctor Malcolm and a military sergeant was working with some horned looking man named Null and Jennifer's father to raise the demons to Earth.
"Oh don't be naïve." Maleficent said to the blue masked turtle. "You and your little Earth rangers have your contacts here in the form of my 'precious' daughters and their little teams, why would you not think we wouldn't have our contacts there?"
Renet was glad that the time scepter had fallen into a larger patch of grass. That was one item that Maleficent didn't need. Not that it mattered much since she had heard what Ben had said. "It doesn't hurt matters for you guys that Paradias isn't from around here either, I bet."
"What do you mean?" Audrey now asked the apprentice time mistress.
"Paradias is from the same universe as we and the rest of the rangers are." Renet revealed. "He came from our world to yours to invade Auradon." She glared at Maleficent now, or what passed for a glare from her. "But history doesn't always often record the more personal aspects; like why he would do that?"
Maleficent clearly either did not know she was a time mistress or didn't care. "Why he wants to help us take over this land is hardly my concern. What matters is that he is willing to." She retorted.
"We will stop you." Mal promised her mother. "So again what do you want?"
Maleficent leaned over and smelled some of the pizza, making a disgusted face. "How do you eat this stuff?" She questioned and then turned back to them. "It's time to come home Mal." She now replied. "Time to return to your mother and learn the ways of evil."
Mal almost burst out laughing even as she felt Ben tense next to her. "You have got to be kidding me." She replied. "What in the last few months have I done that would possibly make you think that I would leave my friends and give up being a power ranger to return to being your evil child?"
"You know, like all parents I've made my mistakes when it comes to raising my children." Maleficent said conversationally. She glanced at the bound Sultan and Queen of Agrabah. "Surely you two know what I'm talking about. Things you would have done differently with Aziz if you had the chance." She snapped her fingers. "Maybe you would have taught him not to get involved in other people's business, lest it cost him his life."
"Something tells me the last thing they should do is take child raising tips from you." Raph said to the evil fairy with a glare even as he struggled in vain to break free of the magical chains. He was already cursing himself for being caught unaware.
Maleficent looked down at Amy with contempt. "I should never have let you wander on your own, picking up your own little morals and beliefs. There are other ways to get children to accept their parent's lessons." Amy tried to glare up at her mother but found as usual she was a little afraid of her.
"If you touch one hair on her head." Audrey started, which surprised the rose haired girl just a moment though perhaps it shouldn't have.
Maleficent glanced at Audrey. "Speaking of parents who made one mistake after another." She commented rudely. "But Chad keeps saying he wants to make you see reason." The brunette princess couldn't help but flinch at the comment. "You'll be about the only one who survives what's coming, though you may wish you hadn't."
"Would you get to the point already?" Mal asked exasperated. She wished she knew what spell her mother had used to bind them so that she could break it and send her away.
"And you." Maleficent said angrily. "You tried so hard to be like me, and yet some little shred of…of decency," She decided with an angry growl. "Kept you from being who you were meant to be. And rather than help you to see past it I made the mistake of letting you work it out for yourself."
"There was nothing else you could have done anyway." Mal pointed out.
"There is always something you can do if you're willing to be ruthless enough." Maleficent said, sounding entirely reasonable. "Always some angle to pursue." With that she reached over and cracked her knuckle across Amy's face hard.
"How dare you?!" Mal yelled as her eyes glowed green. For a fraction of a second she felt the restraints slipping away until her mother faced her with equally burning green eyes. After a moment of staring Mal found herself in the humiliating position of having lost again.
"Amy!" Melody gasped and wanted to go to her friend, who's lip was now split. She felt Aquiella struggling next to her, both to no avail. Both girls knew their mothers would never hit them.
Alex tried to channel his fire into the restraints holding him but found they had to be enchanted with something as it dissipated upon contact. Alex likewise knew his mother Anna and or his Aunt Elsa would never hit him or Ellie.
Jennifer and April glanced at each other and then combined their telekinetic energies to launch a heavy log right at the evil fairy. Maleficent turned as the energy built and used her wand to blast it apart. "Ah, the two telekinetics." She mused. "You know Paradias would love nothing more than to dissect you two. One granted power by the Kraang and one granted power by Maledict himself."
"Just wait until we're free." April threatened Maleficent. "I'll show you what my powers can really do to you."
The evil fairy queen laughed. "You do have a temper on you girl, I'll give you that." She said with amusement. She looked then at her purple haired child, who was still proverbially shooting daggers at her for hitting Amy. "Imagine how different things could have been if I had shown you how weak your little twin made you." She said. "Every time you did something I didn't approve of, she would pay the price."
"Don't you dare touch her again." Mal said to her mother. "Or I will find a way out of these chains and then find a way to take you down."
Maleficent laughed. "You always did have a short temper Mal." She said, though she sounded as if she approved of that. "You just could never focus it the way you needed to." She then looked to Amy, who glared with hatred at Maleficent through tears. "You've been nothing more than a tool and it's time for you to be treated as such." She said to Amy and started to approach her.
Several shurikens flew from the forest and connected with several of the soldiers, including the one holding the Praeleanthor sword. They disappeared soundlessly but the sword hitting the ground did not do so noiselessly. "That is enough." A stern voice said from the forest as the speaker started to emerge.
"Father." Karai said.
"Master Splinter." Mikey said.
Maleficent didn't seem that impressed. "A giant rat?" She asked. "Is this really the last resort of the desperate?" She looked to some of the soldiers. "Kill it."
One soldier tried to bring his blade down on Splinter but he dodged it effortlessly and slammed his staff into the creature's face, defeating it. Another tried to come in from behind the rat master only to be tripped up by the tail and have a leg slammed into the chest, defeating that one.
Splinter then leapt over the charging form of another and then looked to his bound children and their friends. He tossed his walking stick and it slammed into Mal's bindings, disrupting them enough for her to pull herself free.
"You throw away your weapon?" Maleficent asked, unaware her eldest daughter was free. "Fool. And I thought a ninja never threw away their weapon. Now you're defenseless."
"A ninja is never defenseless." Splinter replied even as he blocked the attack of another soldier and then delivered a devastating attack to the throat that would have killed a person. He then jumped over the two that tried to stab him and brought his feet down hard, also taking them out. Jay thought it was rather impressive. "And as for being a fool."
"Mother!" Mal shouted out angrily. She looked to her daughter, vaguely surprised to see she had gotten free. "You can try to attack Auradon, you'll fail. You can try to intimidate me, but you taught me too well for that to work. But don't you ever hit my sister again!" With that she pulled out her iPhone and input her number 6319 and transformed into the purple ranger.
"So devoted to the little brat aren't you?" Maleficent questioned with disgust. "It makes you weaker than I ever thought. Even worse than you falling for prince Bennie over there."
"Love doesn't make anyone weak. It makes them strong." Mal retorted. "But I've come to realize how little you recognize that concept. I'm starting to think you've never loved anyone except yourself." Part of her wanted to think otherwise as she had seen her mother shrink to a small lizard during the coronation and had hoped that small part had been for her and Amy, but now she just wasn't sure she could believe that.
"So you've tried to say already." Maleficent said sounding bored. Mal tried to move to attack her mother but several soldiers got in the way. The purple ranger summoned her dragon's eye staff and started to fight her way through them.
But by the soldiers attacking Mal she made one mistake. "You call yourself a parent and yet look at how you treat your own daughters." Splinter said disapprovingly.
Maleficent looked at Splinter with annoyance. "What would you know of parenting rat?" She questioned.
The ninja rat master had no desire to tell her that he had raised Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey their whole lives, or that he had practically become a father to Jennifer, and even to an extent April and Aaliyah. That even after all of the time apart he still felt a paternal bond with Karai. "More than you could ever understand." Splinter said instead.
"Well isn't that just good for you?" Maleficent asked rhetorically and shot at him with her wand. One moment though he was there, the next he was not. She was only just able to dodge the kick aimed at her midsection and she was all but face to face with Splinter. "Impossible." She growled.
"With the right training, nothing is impossible." Splinter replied simply.
Maleficent swung at him and he blocked it, then took a hold of her staff and jammed it right into her shoulder hard before lashing out with his tail and tripping her up. An attempt to bring his fist down on the evil fairy fell flat as she rolled out of the way.
"Your father is so cool." Lonnie had to admit. She had never seen anyone move that fast, the closest she had ever seen like that was Mulan.
"Totally awesome." Mikey replied proudly.
Maleficent's exhausting combat with Splinter started to weaken the magic of the bindings and Jordan used her own magic to dissipate it. Her first instinct was to go in and help Mal but stopped herself from doing so. Instead she unleashed her own magic to free Amy, Melody and Aquiella. The three girls fell to the ground, the two mermaid girls already going to check on Amy. She then turned and unleashed another wave of energy freeing Audrey, Leo and Aaliyah.
Audrey automatically took our her iPhone and transformed, going to help Mal fight the soldiers.
Maleficent lashed out and struck Splinter hard in the side of the head with her staff and he fell to the ground. "Foolish rat." She spat. "You're still defenseless."
"Master Splinter!" Ben called out. "My sword."
Almost as if waiting for that invitation the Praeleanthor sword suddenly levitated off the ground and flew right into the hands of the ninja rat master. He twirled it expertly and then swung at the evil fairy. She blocked it but he moved to the side and slammed her in the chest hard. She let out a growl of frustration and tried to attack with her staff only to have it chopped in half by the rat master wielding the ancient blade.
"Yes." Casey said triumphantly as the bindings fell apart as a result of Maleficent's wand being destroyed. They all reached to recover their weapons or to transform. The evil fairy noticed that and let out another growl of annoyance.
"You've ruined it." Maleficent said with a glare. "You and your kind just can't stay out of affairs that don't concern you. It's disgusting." With that she and the soldiers vanished.
Mal powered down instantly and made her way to her sister. "Amy." She said softly and wrapped her arms around her sister. "Are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine." Amy said softly. Mal was almost sure on some level she was lying. She took a cool cloth offered by Ellie to take care of her twins split lip. Physically it was clear she would be fine but Mal could almost feel turmoil inside of her sister. Granted she had never had a good relationship with her mother somehow this seemed to be crossing a line neither of them thought would ever be crossed.
"I can't believe the nerve of that b…witch." April said, correcting herself automatically as she didn't want to risk upsetting anyone. The red watched as both Melody and Aquiella sat by Amy, Alex coming up from behind and placing his hands on her shoulders softly.
"I believe this is yours, young king." Splinter said as he presented the Praeleanthor sword to Ben. "Thank you for allowing me to wield it."
"Thank you for helping us." Ben said. "And for training those who helped us ourselves."
"Master Splinter." Jane said as she came over to him. "I hope you can stay for a little while. I think my mother would like to talk to you." She glanced over at Fairy Godmother who was now checking on Amy, the rose haired girl still trying to insist she was okay. She personally thought that the only one she would open up to would be Belle. "Particularly about Zordon."
Splinter nodded as if he understood. He had had many great conversations with the sage who had started the legacy of the Power Rangers. "I believe that to be a good idea." He said to her. "We should return to our home this evening."
"You're always welcome here though Master Splinter." Ben said to him. "You and all of your students."
The next few hours passed as they hung out, though Amy seemed to be a bit more glum. Mal and Ben quickly agreed they needed to see Belle the next day. Splinter spoke at great length with Fairy Godmother about Zordon, which as Jane predicted seemed to make her mother happy. Finally though as the sun started to set the New York gang gathered together to leave.
"Thank you again for all of your help." Ben said. He handed Mikey the leftover pizza. "Please, feel free to take that. You'll probably finish it before we will."
"Awesome, thanks man…I mean your highness." Mikey said.
Jennifer went over and wrapped her arms around Amy gently. In a way Mal was surprised that she let the blonde girl do so, but then again they seemed so similar that the purple haired girl decided maybe she shouldn't be surprised. They might have more in common than Mal even knew.
"I hope to see you again bro." Raph said to Aladdin as the two high fived each other.
"You're welcome to come to Agrabah at any time." Aladdin said to him. "Your brothers, your girlfriend, your friends. If you trust them then I trust them."
"Goodbye Raphael." Jasmine said and hugged Raph. She then hugged Jennifer. "Goodbye Jennifer. You two take care of yourselves."
"When we get married I'll make sure to invite you two to the wedding." Jennifer said to them and then giggled softly when she saw Raph blush. They both knew marriage was a long way off, if it were even going to happen.
"Remember that if you need help, do not hesitate to contact any of us." Splinter said to them.
"The same thing with you guys." Amy was the one to say, surprising everyone a little though she wasn't wrong. Of course she hadn't told them about the vision she had of Shredder stabbing Splinter from behind. "If you ever need anything that we can help you with, please don't hesitate to ask."
"Farewell Auradon Rangers." Renet said as she opened up a time door with her time scepter. "We'll see you in time." She of all people knew this wouldn't be the last time any of them would need the others. They and all of the rangers had too many enemies for that. In fact, she knew if they had powers even six months earlier they would have been asked to help with the fight against the Armada.
"Don't you get us lost in time again." Raph said to Renet as they all stepped through the time portal, the only other way to get to Auradon that they knew of beside the Iconian gateways. Whatever response the apprentice time mistress gave them was lost as the door disappeared.
"Come on." Mal said as she wrapped an arm around Amy gently. "It's time to go home too."
"We can repair this." Paradias said as he looked down at Maleficent's wand.
"Good." She said angrily. "In the meantime I will find a way to make those rangers pay."