"What are they doing?" Evie couldn't help but wonder as she looked at her two older step-sisters. She knew Snow was tougher than she looked and knew for sure that Rose was a fighter, but the blue haired girl feared they could be biting off more than they could chew. She suspected Grant shared those feelings.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Audrey wondered. Jay touched her arm softly.
"If you wish for your children or whoever to watch you die, then by all means, do your very best." Sermaya said to Mulan and the others. "Because that is all that you will accomplish by coming out here."
"We can barely manage this sometimes." Amy said to Mal. "What are they thinking?"
"I don't know." Mal admitted.
"Like my older adopted daughter would say," Belle started as she looked to her friends and the three younger ones. "Let's get to work."
The Auradon rangers had no idea what she was referring too. Then they all raised their wrists and they saw watches, similar in size to the communicators they had noticed on the Power Rangers and Zeo Rangers. They flipped up the top and seemed to press down on something inside. Then to their shock they all transformed.
Callie the daughter of Cinderella was now in purple, her mother was in white which was somewhat appropriate considering the dress she had worn to the ball the night she had first danced with her future husband.
Rose wore red, which seemed somewhat ironic to Evie given her name. Snow meanwhile wore blue just as her younger half-sister did, which brought a smile to her face.
Audrey saw her father in the black, the same color as her boyfriend wore. Her mother Aurora meanwhile wore the same rose color as Amy.
Amy meanwhile saw that Belle wore yellow, which was very appropriate since that was what they all usually saw her in. Adam was 'following' in his son's footsteps, looking like a knight similar to Ben.
Lonnie saw her mother Mulan in pink, just as she wore. Will saw his sister Whitney wore green just like he did, his mother Wendy meanwhile wore orange.
Miranda saw that her mother Merida wore a suit very similar to hers.
Aziz saw that his father Aladdin was in gold like Jordan did while his mother wore silver just as he wore himself. Alice meanwhile wore crystal like her daughter Allie did. Likewise Ariel wore aqua like her daughter; Elsa looked to be decked in ice armor like her daughter Ellie and Anna was decked in fire armor like her son Alex.
Mal then noticed one other detail. They looked similar on the surface to her team but their colors were much lighter, almost like a pastel color. Not that she had much experience using pastel colors in her artwork but she sure knew what they looked like.
Then Genie popped up beside the twin daughters of Maleficent. "You two get over there and help your team finish off that mean lion thing. I'll take over here and we'll make sure those beast freaks don't make it back into our world." He said to them.
"Dad?" Jordan wondered. "What is going on here? What's going on?"
"We're here to help you put this little chapter of your lives behind you." Genie said to his daughter with a smile. "So let's make some magic."
"I don't care how many rangers there are." Sermaya declared. "I will wipe all of you off the face of this planet and reclaim my empire." He pointed to them all. "Destroy them!"
Adam raised the sword he had, though it wasn't nearly as unique as the Praeleanthor sword his son used. "It's time to finish this." He said.
"Once and for all." Mal agreed as she and Amy joined their friends. "And the first one to go is the lion sphinx."
Thenien growled at them and started to approach them. Even as Audrey drew back on her bow to unleash some arrows but before she could do that Mal raised her hands. The red ranger didn't quite know what was going to happen and she doubted that even the purple haired purple ranger knew what to expect either.
Instead what looked to be fire shot out of Mal's hands and struck Thenien hard. He rolled back and started to stand with an angry growl in his throat. The brunette princess looked to their leader and commented, "You have fire power now?"
Amy shook her head. "I didn't feel any fire in that attack." She revealed. "I felt dark energy."
"Dark energy?" Lonnie asked. "Does that mean what I think it means?"
The rose ranger shook her head. "No, not as in evil energy." She replied. "I…I don't know how to describe it exactly."
"We can classify it later." Mal said to her sister gently yet firmly. "Right now let's take this thing out and then show Sermaya whose boss." Audrey, Evie, Carlos, Jay, Will, Lonnie and Am stood beside the purple ranger. "Let's remind these clowns who we are."
Thenien watched the rangers more closely as he recovered. This time when Mal tried to use her new found power on him he leapt above the attack and unleashed an attack of his own from the wings that sent them sprawling onto their backs. He then landed and charged right at them.
Will, Lonnie and Carlos rolled one way. Jay, Audrey and Evie rolled the other way. Amy quickly grabbed a hold of Mal's arm and she made the two of them go intangible as Thenien approached, which was the only thing that stopped them from being rammed into by the giant lion sphinx monster.
"Quick, while it's trying to recover." Jay said. He motioned for the others to join Mal and Amy at the center. "Let's bring our weapons together."
"Good call." Mal replied. "Let's do it."
Mal placed her dragon's eye staff, followed by Audrey's elemental bow underneath it though it didn't stay that way as Will's recursive sword was placed underneath the bow, the four blades extended outwards. Evie placed her mirror force shield behind and the compacts expanded outwards. Then on the top Jay placed his soul scimitar and on either side of that weapon went Carlos's earthquake claw daggers, Lonnie's hurricane fans and Amy's rose lances.
"We did it." Carlos said. "We made the Auradon blaster 3.0." He laughed just a bit. It was sort of an inside joke as the original blaster required the first six rangers, adding Amy's lance had been called 1.5. The original blaster with the recursive sword had been called 2.0. After that the yellow ranger had made the joke about a 3.0 version, which had just been pulled off.
Together the rangers fired the blaster at Thenien. It struck him and he fell back, they could already see the beginning of the explosion that usually follows the destruction of a monster. "No!" Sermaya shouted out and ran toward the explosion himself.
"Is he nuts?" Audrey couldn't help but wonder.
"Who cares, two for one." Carlos replied.
Amy suddenly had a horrible feeling about it and was about to say something to the others but the point became moot as the smoke cleared enough for them all to see Sermaya merging with the remnants of the lion sphinx monster.
"Like I heard Raph say when they were here, 'ah shell.'" Jay muttered.
"This is it rangers." Sermaya said. "Now is the time to end the reign of humans on this planet." Then to their horror as the merging was finishing up the new monster started to grow until he was as tall as the temple.
"I think it's time for the zords." Will commented.
"Jordan, you guys need to go." Genie said to his gold ranger daughter. "Take down Sermaya once and for all. I've got this."
"Are you sure dad?" Jordan asked him.
"Yeah, no offense but the five of us barely contained this." Jane added.
"It'll be fine." Genie promised her. "I've got more magical experience in my hand than all of you combined."
"Well when you put it that way." Jordan said with a roll of her eyes that was classic of teenagers and their parents. "Then let's get going guys."
"But…" Melody started.
"Go." Jasmine said to her, with Ariel at her side. It was a little weird to see pastel silver and pastel aqua. "We'll be backing him up as well."
"Just be careful of the bird mom." Melody said to Ariel. "He seems to have culinary taste for mermaids."
"I'll be fine sweetie." Ariel promised her. "Just go help you friends and let's put these monsters down."
During the fight with the oxen warriors Ben had noticed that Krona had disappeared. That would have to be a problem for later though because the young king was sure they would need all of the zords to stop this newest beast monstrosity.
Audrey summoned the Auradon Megazord, Mal summoned her dragon zord, Ben summoned his stallion zord, Jordan summoned the Auradon Battlezord, Jay summoned the Auradon Falcon zord, Will summoned the Auradon Warzord, and Miranda summoned the Auradon Battle Bear.
"Ben, combine with the Auradon Megazord." Mal said to her beloved. "Jay, combine with the girls. Miranda and I are going to combine our zords."
"Right." Both boys acknowledged.
"I've never seen these things in action before." Anna commented. "This should be very interesting."
"Yeah, but don't lose focus Anna." Elsa said to her little sister as she used an ice beam very much like her daughter's to take out an oxen warrior. "We still have our own problems down here."
Aladdin hated to admit it but that was almost putting it mildly. The oxen warriors seemed to have no end in sight and he could just see Jasmine taking out her blaster and shooting back the clawed hand of a strange bird monster as it swiped at Ariel.
"This could be going better." Aurora said to him as she fought alongside Snow and Rose.
"They can do it." Snow commented. "I know they can. All we have to do is hold the fort until they do."
On the surface it appeared to be four zords against one monster. But they all had the distinctly uncomfortable feeling that appearances would be very deceiving. Sermaya the Great Sphinx flapped the large wings and summoned a huge gust of wind that sent the zords crashing back.
"Wow." Alice gasped.
"That's some gust of wind." Merida had to grant as she dodged under an oxen warrior. "Are they going to be alright?" She asked as she thought of her daughter in her zord, she had never actually seen Miranda use it.
"They should be fine." Mulan assured her. She had seen them fight in their zords…once in Atlantica, from very far away. The reassurance lacked some confidence.
"They'll be alright." Doug promised as he blocked an attack and then slashed his attacker down. "They and their zords can handle much more punishment than that." He didn't voice the fact that he suspected they would have to before this fight was done.
"You really think you and your pathetic zords can take me down?" Sermaya asked in a voice far deeper than they had ever heard him before. Ben suspected it had to do with him fusing with the almost destroyed Thenien. "Then try and take me rangers."
The Auradon Defender Megazord moved in with Jay trying to jab the spear at the beast king. Sermaya caught the tip in between his hands and then shoved the back of the spear into the chest of the zord. Then the wings lashed out and slashed the zord back.
"Let's see what he thinks about this." Aziz declared and took the Auradon Falcon Battlezord into the skies and unleashed a burst of missiles from the tip of the wings. Sermaya took the air and allowed the missiles to hit the ground. Then he flew up and rammed his body as hard as he could into the zord before taking a hold of the arms and body slamming it to the ground.
Will moved in with the Auradon Warzord as Melody and Aquiella extended the blades on the arms. They moved in to try to attack Sermaya but he looked up and unleashed a roar that caused a quick disruption of the systems, long enough to then slash the warzord with his hands hard.
"Don't suppose that means we have a good chance?" Miranda questioned her fellow purple ranger somewhat dubiously.
"Not likely." Mal conceded. "But we have to try anyway."
"Or you could just stay down." Sermaya said and then unleashed a blast of energy that struck their zord hard, causing it to crash to the ground. "You can't beat our combined powers."
"What if he's right?" Jane couldn't help but wonder. "What do we do now?"
"We could summon the clam zord and try to destroy him with the Auradon Ultrazord." Lonnie suggested. "But…if that fails I don't know what we do then. That's our trump card."
From the command center Fairy Godmother and Ruby monitored the battle, which was not going as well as they would have liked. "Even if we could contact the others I'm afraid it wouldn't do us much good." The head mistress said to Ruby.
"Why is that?" The daughter of Rapunzel demanded to know. For what it was worth it was times like this she wished she could be out there on the field with them.
Fairy Godmother sighed just a little. "Because so far neither they nor we have figured out how to get their zords through the Iconian gateways they use to travel here." She answered.
"We have to do something." Ruby sighed softly. "We're losing out there."
"I know that child." Fairy Godmother reassured her. "We have no choice. Send them the clamzord…and pray for the best."
Ruby nodded. "Alright." She agreed and pressed the button to make it happen. Then she started a scan for anything that would help them turn the tide, as fruitless as it might seem to be.
The four battlezords were starting to rise again. Sermaya unleashed a stream of energy that he was certain would destroy the zords once and for all when the heavily armored clamzord appeared in front of them. The beams hit, luckily it barely scratched it. "Lucky for all of you." He grunted.
"I guess mom agrees this is our only option." Jane said.
Mal bit her lip and then called out, "Auradon Ultrazord online." The clamzord opened up its shell and the four battlezords jumped into the shell, which then closed around them. Cannons and lasers then emerged from all around.
"Give me your best rangers." Sermaya taunted.
"Oh we will." Mal promised him. She looked at all of her team mates. At that moment she didn't need to possess the empathic abilities that her twin sister, Aquiella, or their earthen friends Jennifer and April to know they were all nervous. It was either do or die now. "Lock on and fire." She declared.
All of the weapons unleashed their strongest attacks on the Sermaya and a huge explosion followed, but when the smoke cleared they saw him reforming in front of them. He let out a harsh laugh. "If that's your best shot then this fight will soon be over." He declared.
"Oh my pink." Amy moaned softly. "What do we now Mal?"
"I…I…" Mal stuttered as she stared in shock. Then she softly answered, "I don't know."
"You guys can do it." Belle tried to encourage her son, adopted daughters and friends as she took out an oxen warrior. "I know you can."
"I don't know how much longer I can keep them down Jaz." Genie called out to the Queen of Agrabah as the barrier holding back the monsters flared again. "The opposing forces behind it are just too strong."
"Do the best you can." Jasmine said as she took out an oxen warrior.
Simorgh started to push through. "Let's see if wine and mermaids have something in common." He said as he looked to Ariel.
"And what does that mean?" She wondered as she aimed her blaster at him.
Whitney was in front of her now and slammed a blade about half the size of the weapon that her older brother Will used with an uppercut to the face and then kicked him back in. "I heard someone once say that wine tasted better with age." The girl filled in. "I think he was saying mermaids might taste better that way too."
"Not that he'll ever know." Mulan added.
"Come on, let's blast him again." Jay stated. "Second time might be the charm."
"And it might not be." Lonnie replied. "We don't have an infinite amount of energy to use here."
"We have to try something." Audrey said.
"Like what?" Carlos asked now.
"I don't know." The brunette princess admitted in exasperation. "But stopping isn't an option."
"If only we could get more power." Jane mused. "Or direct it somewhere else or something."
From their intercom helmets they heard Ruby exclaim, "Jane, did you just hear yourself? That's a great idea, hang on a second."
"Where are we going to get more power?" Ally asked.
"Maybe from Auradon's electrical plants." Jordan suggested. "It'd short out everything but it's better than the world as we all know it ending." She shrugged. "We'd have power restored eventually."
"Nope that's not the plan at all." Ruby said. Jane, who had started out working with her mother in the command center when it had been under the room the isle kids had taken Remedial Goodness 101 in before becoming the white ranger, could imagine the longest haired blonde pressing buttons as she spoke. "Remember when he commented on combined powers?" She asked.
"Yeah." Evie replied.
"What about it?" Jordan questioned.
Jane's mind ran through it and she said it at the same time as Ruby did. "His powers coming from the temple that Chiron summoned from the ground." The two girls said.
"So if we attack the temple then we can destroy Sermaya's source of power and send them all back where they belong." Miranda said. "I like it."
"If it works that way." Jordan cautioned.
"I think it should." Ruby said. "Besides, what do we have to lose?"
It was a rhetorical questioned but their leader answered it anyway. "Nothing." Mal stated bluntly. "Let's get everyone away from the temple and then give it our best shot."
"I don't suppose everyone down there has intercoms built in?" Amy wondered.
"Doesn't matter." Aquiella said. She closed her eyes and called out Aunt Ariel! Get everyone away from the temple entrance; don't worry about whatever tries to come through that doorway.
The statement surprised the pastel aqua ranger but she wasn't going to question it. "Everyone fall back!" She yelled out. "Forget about the monsters."
"Go! Go! Move it!" Genie called out in case they hadn't heard Ariel yell out. He formed a hat on his head that had a large red siren like what was found on emergency vehicles and it started to flash as he opened his mouth and the sound of a siren wailed.
"I'm coming for you, and your little girls too." Simorgh stated as he started to push through.
"Not if we can help it." Belle said. "Not if they can help it."
Mal only hoped they could, but Ruby was right; they had nothing to lose. "Once more with feeling." Mal declared, which drew a brief small giggle from Amy. "Auradon Ultrazord, lock on and fire!"
Sermaya laughed. "Waste your energy all you like fools." He taunted. "You'll never defeat me."
The Auradon Ultrazord unleashed its destructive barrage again but this time it was aimed right where Ruby suggested; at the base of the temple. By the time Sermaya realized where it was directed at there was no way he could have intercepted the attack, even with his increased size and large wingspan.
To the surprise of everyone, friend and foe alike, the temple started to implode, collapsing in upon itself. Even as Simorgh tried to break through some unknown force started to pull him in again, along with all of the oxen warriors that had been causing so much trouble since the temple had first risen to the surface.
Husband grabbed onto wives, friends grabbed onto friends, sister grabbed onto sister as they all did their best to make sure that no one on the ground was taken, accidently or otherwise, into the growing maelstrom before them.
"This isn't over." Sermaya threatened even as he was fighting the maelstrom that was taking in all of the oxen that had been causing problems. "We will have our revenge, you will all pay for this."
"Yeah yeah." Mal said with a roll of her eyes. "You and your friends have worn out your welcome. Don't let the door hit you on the way out." She gave a wicked grin. "In fact, let us show you the way out." As the temple had basically imploded, the maelstrom sucking in the oxens, the Auradon Ultrazord released a final blast on Sermaya, who lost his footing and was absorbed along with his brood. Then it closed behind him, leaving the rangers and their zords.
The pastel colored rangers powered down even as the Auradon rangers returned to the ground themselves. "You did it!" Snow exclaimed and ran over to hug Evie. Behind her was Rose, who hugged her step-sister before going to her son. Doug was right behind them
Belle picked up Amy with one arm even as she reached out to hug Ben. Adam approached Mal and hugged her softly. "You did great Mal. As usual." He said to her.
"Thank you." Mal said a bit uncertainly. She and Amy had never known their father and this was completely new territory for them all.
Will picked up Whitney and kissed her on the forehead. "You did great sis. Really great." He praised and then smiled as their mother Wendy came over to them. "You both did."
"Are they really gone?" Mulan wondered as she released Lonnie from the embrace they had been sharing.
Jasmine released the embrace she had surprisingly had on Jay even as Aladdin released the embrace he had on Aziz, clapping him on the shoulder lightly. Genie set Jordan down from his embrace as well and answered, "Well it's hard to say for sure. This kind of thing is WAY too common to be written off, but I think we've got a breather from them for a long while if nothing else."
They all came to the command center where Doug started to collect the watches that they had used. "So, are they like power rangers now?" Mal asked Fairy Godmother.
She shook her head. "No. At least not on a permanent basis." She answered. "With all the power losses and overwhelming problems like we just had, with no guaranteed way to contact the other rangers or their allies, I thought it prudent to develop back up powers."
"The pastel powers." Audrey said with a small smile. "Kind of pretty."
"It's linked into the backup generators of the command center." Doug commented.
"They take a while to charge and piggyback, for lack of better terms, off of your own powers. They're only temporary solutions." Fairy Godmother continued on. "Without your powers they cannot exist."
"Just as well." Aurora noted. "I don't think I'd want to do that on a long term basis." She stroked Audrey's back gently. "It makes me respect all of you even more for what you guys normally do."
"Well, at least if we need you we know we can rely on you to help." Audrey said with a smile at her mother and father.
"How did ye get here so fast anyway?" Miranda asked her mother. Her homeland was not exactly close to Auradon.
"Fairy Godmother activated the teleporter system that she said Billy installed when they were here." Merida explained. "It was an emergency, and my daughter needed me. Anything else just didnae matter."
Mal frowned. As much as motherly concern still shocked her, her real thought went to the reference of Billy. He and several others had shown up to help them rebuild their command center and then had to take off without saying goodbye over an emergency. She only hoped they were able to take care of whatever had happened.
Ben wrapped his arm around her arm softly. "Are you okay Mal?" He asked her
"Just worried for our friends." Mal answered. "When we get it cleared up again we need to contact Earth and make sure everything is okay." She looked around to see resounding nods of agreement from her team, all of whom had grown to care for the rangers they had met as well as the Ninja Turtles and their allies.
"That's another good reason for these." Fairy Godmother said, indicating the bracelet that Belle was giving to Doug. "If the rangers need you on their world, we aren't defenseless in ours."
"It's always good to have help from those we love, and to be able to help those we love in return." Evie said as she hugged both of her step-sisters.
What Ben didn't want to remind anyone was that Krona was still out there, he was sure of that despite the fact he had been created by Sermaya.
"Well this is just a drag." Krona muttered as he stood where the temple had been before its implosion and subsequent return to the ether. "I'll make sure Ben and those rangers pay for this."
"Something you can't possibly achieve alone." He heard from behind him. He turned to see Maleficent standing there with Chad, Marcellus, Undine and Jabberwock. "But something we can achieve together." Krona let out an evil laugh as he started toward the small group.