In the main room of the Shadow Clan, Kuro bowed down to the floor as Lady Shade had appeared on a holographic image screen though the Nanocat's eyes. Even though she's at Japan for her dark objectives, she heard all about her son's latest schemes.
"I should have known, Kuro." Lady Shade said condescendingly. "You disobey my orders on attacking against the K-5 and failed your own mission as well."
"It's those stupid Shadow Droids." Kuro argued. "They couldn't keep up with the girls. But I did have the Kraang improve them with their advanced technology, so I can..."
"No more, Kuro." Lady Shade interrupted. "You won't make any more plans with the K-5 until I return or you will face unfortunate consequences."
"Understood, mother." Kuro said in a low tone.
As Lady Shade signed off the transmission from the Nanocat, Kuro's eyes narrowed in effort to control his emotions.
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Kuro and Leia marched straight into the Kraang facility, where he watched the aliens creating their latest invention. The robot has a slender, curvaceous body that has striking appearance to Scarlett's mystic appearance and wore a black and silver armored kunoichi outfit similar to what the Shadow Sirens are wearing.
"Wicked robot." Leia commented.
"How long until it's fully online?" Kuro asked calmly.
"According to the Kraang, the progress will take nine hours." The Kraang droid reported.
"What?! No way!" Kuro shouted. "I want to test this thing now. And now, the perfect target for it too. Casey Jones."
"Translation: work fast or I'll show you a lot of pain by myself." Leia said with a cruel grin.
"Kraang seeks no problem for the one called Kuro." The Kraang droid said.
"Good." Kuro smirked. "Let's speed up the progress. Leia, you're coming with me. We don't want to keep Lady Shade waiting much longer."
Unknowingly to the enemies, a pair of yellow eyes were watching them from below and quietly snuck back into the darkness before anyone could see them.
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In the Crete Fortress, the K-5 were watching a brand new episode of the Ace Crown in the living room. Kirana was smiling at the TV screen on the couch, Ezra sat on the left side of the group, Camilla and Talia were eating popcorn in between Kirana, and Ariana sat next to Talia with a soda can in her hands. They watched as the human boy and the four female robots delivered their own fighting styles against a squad of evil warriors that threatens to destroy them from their evil plans.
"Whoa." Talia remarked. "This show definitely parallels our lives right now."
"Oh please. It doesn't." Ariana said. "It's just some anime cartoon."
"I agree with Talia." Camilla said. Then, her eyes widened in surprise. "Whoa. Did I say that?"
"Shockingly yes." Ezra said.
Kirana giggled and Talia glared at her older sister.
Then suddenly, the mages heard a strange noise that made Ariana jump off the couch and ran into her lab. She was surprised to find the Kraang communication orb being active for who knows how long.
"Hey, guys, we have a problem!" Ariana yelled.
Suddenly, Ezra felt a little dizzy and his vision became blurry. Norbit looked over at his friend and noticed his condition.
"Ezra?" Norbit asked.
Ezra's eyes started to doze off and he was about to hit the ground. Ariana quickly raced to catch him but Ezra teleported away. The older sisters were shocked of their younger brother's disappearance.
"Where'd he go?!" Ariana asked, in shock.
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On a building rooftop, Ezra laid on the floor and an unknown figure went over to his aid. The figure revealed to be the leopard mutant that Ezra rescued from Donna. The leopard mutant quickly pulled out a bottle of a healing potion and poured it on Ezra. The teal mage ninja opened his eyes and got up with a painful groan.
"Oh, man." Ezra said. "What happened to me? And how did I get here?"
Ezra looked around and widen his eyes in surprise to face the leopard mutant he rescued.
"It's you..." Ezra breathed.
The leopard mutant nodded and smiled at Ezra.
"Hello." Ezra greeted. "Do you recognize me? From that evil mage who kidnapped you?"
"Yes." The leopard mutant simply answered.
Ezra was surprised again after the leopard spoke.
"Uh...yeah." Ezra said, unsure. "Well, I'm Ezra. What's your name?"
"Silver Osborn." The leopard mutant introduced.
Ezra and Silver smiled as they shook hands.
"What brings you here, Silver?" Ezra asked.
"The Kraang are targeting one of your friends." Silver answered. "And the target's name is Casey Jones."
"Casey?" Ezra said. "I gotta warn him, but I don't know how long they'll be here. Can you fight, Silver?"
"I sure can." Silver smiled. "Go on and help Casey."
"Alright." Ezra nodded. "Be careful, though."
"You too, Ezra." Silver nodded.
With that, Ezra made his way into the hockey rink. But, he quickly sent a text message to his sisters and his robot friend that he was all right.
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Outside, the Sonicruiser raced through the city streets as Talia was carefully navigating the road from the advanced high-tech map.
"According to the translation from the Kraang orb, I believe that the Kraang are building some kind of advanced weapon." Ariana reported. "Maybe that's what was used to take Ezra."
"Any ideas where it is?" Kirana asked.
"Maybe it could be a heavy-armed blaster or a plasma based weapon with a teleportation device." Talia guessed. "It totally makes sense."
"It does make sense if you gained knowledge from a comic book." Camilla smirked.
Talia glared at Camilla with a growl coming from her voice.
"Stay focus, girls." Kirana ordered. "We find the weapon and destroy it. With or without Casey and we're gonna save Ezra."
"Where's Casey anyway?" Talia wondered.
"I'll give you one guess where." Camilla remarked.
Suddenly, the K-5 felt their phones vibrate and checked them.
"Girls, did you get a message from Ezra?" Ariana asked.
The sisters answered a yes.
"Well, does it also say that we need to stop the Kraang without him?" Ariana asked again.
"Sure does." Kirana, Camilla, and Talia said.
"Should we go without him?" Ariana asked, in slight worry.
"We have to." Kirana said. "I don't like it either, but we have to complete our mission."
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In the Midtown ice rink, Casey was practicing his hockey skills and made a slap shot on the puck with her hockey stick until he found his redhead friend watching the whole thing from the other side of the rink.
"Red? Is this a study session again?" Casey asked with a sigh as he leaned forward against his hockey stick.
"No, I'm just...here to hang out." April said.
"With the infamous Casey Jones?" Casey asked cockily as he was skating around in a small circle.
"Unless you only like me for my trigonometry." April quipped.
"So what's your deal? Never see you hanging with anybody besides Ariana and her siblings. Antisocial much?" Casey asked with a smile.
"Not really. I had five really close friends...I don't talk to them anymore." April replied, closing her eyes and lowering her head in sadness.
"It happens." Casey said sympathetically. "Me and my best friend Nick were up against Tromatown in last years playoffs, right?" He dropped a hockey puck on the solid ice and hit it into the goal. "He came up behind me just as I was about to sink the winning goal and wham! Smacked his helmet straight off. Swollen face, split lip...my best friend since second grade. Never spoke to me again."
"But...it's not like you meant it." April argued.
"Right. Some stuff is just beyond our control." Casey said. He walked out of the hockey ice and strolled past April with a smile. "I'm going to go change and then we can grab something to eat. Pizza."
Casey went to the locker room and grabbed his hockey gear bag.
"Casey!"
Casey looked down a hallway and saw Ezra.
"Ezra?" Casey said, in confusion. "What's going on?"
"There's no time to explain." Ezra responded. "We gotta go, now!"
"We gotta get April then if it's dangerous." Casey said. "Come on!"
Casey and Ezra quickly raced to ice rink and saw a group of black robotic ninjas skating towards April. Ezra quickly hid while Casey jumped in the ice rink.
"Yo!" Casey called out. His voice caught April's and the robot ninjas' attention. "If there's one thing Casey Jones has, it's cracker-jack timing."
"Casey, run!" April cried with concern.
"What? So you can have all the fun?" Casey smirked as he jumped over the wall on his skates.
Casey dropped a puck on the icy floor and hit two robotic ninjas right in the forehead. April hit one of the robotic ninjas with her tessen fan. The two teenagers were capable of handling themselves as they were quite impressed with each other's moves. When one of the robots tripped Casey onto his back and pulled him down, April threw her weapon at it and saved Casey at the same time.
"You got some rink rage, Red." Casey smiled.
"You should see me play Ping-Pong." April quipped confidently as she helped Casey to his feet.
"So you owe these guys money or something?" Casey asked.
Then suddenly, four more robotic ninjas arrived in the hockey rink.
"Or something. Casey, just go. I didn't mean to get you into this." April said.
"Are you kidding?" Casey scoffed. "Do you know what this is? This Casey Jones vs. Evil Robo-Ninjas. Coolest freaking thing in the universe."
Casey jumped at the four robotic ninjas with his hockey stick above his head and bravely fought them on his own while April raced out into the street. After April was gone, Ezra quickly joined Casey.
On the rooftop, Kuro used his shadow powers to see Ezra and Casey fighting against the robotic ninjas from above in a magnified scale watching him with sly grin on his face. Leia and the Shadow Ninjas were standing behind the dark mage ninjas, waiting for his orders.
"He's inside the hockey rink and Ezra is with him. Let's move." Kuro ordered.
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Meanwhile, the K-5 and Norbit stood on a rooftop and looked down to see four Kraang droids guarding a hidden Kraang facility out front.
"There's the place." Kirana said. "We need a distraction to get in."
"I'm on it." Talia said cheerfully.
Talia waved her fingers with a spark of magic and a swarm of orange artificial bats hovered down around the Kraang droids. Before any of the Kraang droids can react, Talia snapped her fingers and the bomb bats destroyed the alien robots with many hits. The K-5 and Norbit jumped down and landed over the broken alien robots.
"Nice on the spell, Talia." Ariana smiled.
"Like a mage do." Talia said proudly.
The K-5 and Norbit quickly and silently made their way into the lab through the hallway, where they spotted the Kraang still working on the robot for Kuro.
"That is the weapon." Norbit said in a quiet voice.
"Okay, Ariana, we need you to shut that thing down pronto." Kirana whispered.
"You got it." Ariana whispered back with a confident nod.
Before Ariana can sneak past the Kraang to take over computers in stealth mode, her cell phones began to vibrate for only the girls could hear.
"Who is it?" Talia asked.
"It's Casey." Ariana replied as she pulled out her phone and answered it right away. "Um, Casey, we're quite busy here."
"Yeah! We both are!" Ezra shouted from the phone.
"Ezra?" Ariana asked. "You're with Casey?"
"Look, normally I don't ask help from anyone, but this time we could really use your help right now!" Casey said over the phone as the Shadow Droids arrived to attack him after he finished with the other broken robotic ninjas. "Big time!"
"We're ambushed by Shadow Droids!" Ezra explained. "We need backup in the ice rink! Hurry!"
"They need me." Ariana said to her sisters and robot friend. "I have to go."
"Go. We'll handle things here." Kirana said.
Ariana nodded her head and raced out of the building.
"Forget stealth mode. Let's do our thing here." Camilla said with a smirk.
"Let's move!" Kirana ordered.
Kirana, Camilla, Talia, and Norbit charged forward to attack the Kraang with everything they got.
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Back at the hockey rink, Casey continued to fight off against the Shadow Droids with his hockey stick and Ezra continued to attack with his shield until the Droids got them surrounded in a circle. But before they can make a move, the Shadow Droids pinned Casey and Ezra to the icy ground.
"Let us go!" Ezra struggled.
Casey looked up in fear as one Shadow Droid moved in to finish him with a blade on its left arm, but the droid stopped its tracks suddenly as a bright teal light pushed the Shadow Droids back. Casey looked at the source and saw Ezra beginning to change his powers. His lightning powers suddenly turned into light powers. Ezra's eyes glow blazing teal and his hands begin to form light energy balls.
"Don't worry." Ezra said to Casey, confidently. "My new powers will help."
Ezra used his light powers to attack the Shadow Droids, but more keep coming.
"Ugh. It's endless." Casey groaned.
Suddenly, a metal blade stabbed a Shadow Droid as it stopped. The droid fell down to reveal Ariana.
"Ariana!" Casey cried with a relief smile.
With a sly smile, Ariana made a quick work to the Shadow Droids as she stabbed each one with her metal arms and finished the last one that came behind Ezra.
"What took you so long, Ariana?" Casey smirked as he got up from the icy ground.
"I'm sorry, Case." Ariana explained. "I couldn't figure out this location through my K-Phone."
"At least my new powers gave them a beating." Ezra remarked. "My new powers are light."
"Light?" Ariana repeated.
Out of nowhere, a dark energy bolt came contact with Ariana and Casey, who Ezra quickly blocked it with a light shield in a nick of speed. They turned to face the source of that attack. It was none other than Kuro. But he wasn't alone. Leia and another squad of Shadow Ninjas stood behind him.
"Kuro and Leia." Ariana said surprisingly.
"Well, well, well, what do have we here? Didn't expect two mages to come to save Casey from me themselves. I thought the whole team would save him instead." Kuro smirked. His voice then became serious with hate. "Your mother took someone I cared about, Ariana and Ezra. So, I'm making this even."
"This outta cure my boredom." Leia grinned.
Ezra spotted something on the window and smirked.
"That's cool, Kuro." Ezra said, innocently. But smirked playfully. "But, your Shadow Droids might need night vision."
"Night vision?" Leia asked.
Suddenly, Silver jumped down from the window and bounced on the enemies to the ground before jumping to Ezra's side.
"Whoa! Who's he?" Casey asked.
"This is Silver." Ezra answered. "He's a friend of mine."
"Nice to meet you." Silver said, before he looked back at the fight. "But we're not done yet."
Ariana, Ezra, Casey, and Silver got into their fighting stances as they were ready to fight against Kuro and his Shadow Clan squad.
"Let's do this." Ezra said.
The team members charged to fight the Shadow Droids.
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Back at the Kraang facility, the K-5 defeated the Kraang in mere seconds until the aliens' newest creation was fully charged and released from its station.
"Uh, guys, the robot is done charging!" Kirana said cautiously.
"My scan indicates that it does not like us." Norbit said.
"Oh please. This thing doesn't look so tough!" Talia said.
Talia charged forward jumped high in the air to attack the robot, who shot out a strong pink energy beam that knocked the orange mage kunoichi painfully into a wall. Camilla's anger went fury as she charged forward and unleashed a sudden barrage of fire waves in low and high directions to hit the robot on impact, but the robot shot three large balls of pink energy that can't be avoided by the red mage kunoichi as that attack send Camilla painfully into the ground. Kirana ran up from behind and attempted to attack the invincible robot with her ice magic on impact, but the robot spun around and threw nine pink energy lightning bolts with enough power to damage the blue mage kunoichi, who landed on the ground near her sisters. Norbit went over to check on the kunoichis for aid.
Then suddenly, the robot froze in place as if it was rebooting itself on its regular programming.
"Subroutine program taking over. Target: Casey Jones located." The female robot spoke.
The robot abandoned the fight against the team members and took off to the sky.
"It's going after Casey!" Camilla cried as she, Talia, and Norbit helped Kirana. "Come on!"
The K-5 and Norbit ran quickly the facility and went back to the Sonicruiser.
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Ariana, Ezra, Casey, and Silver were fighting the whole Shadow Clan squad with their fighting skills.
"Come on! Entertain us!" Ariana cried.
"Leia, you and the Shadow Droids keep the mage girl busy." Kuro ordered.
"Gladly." Leia said with a sly smile.
Leia and the Shadow Droids charged forward after Ariana as Kuro went straight for Ezra and Casey with a dark energized spear in his hands.
"Let's get this battle started." Kuro said. "I'm in the mode for some fun."
"Silver, help Ariana." Ezra said to the leopard mutant.
Silver nodded and went over to help Ariana. Kuro swung his spear at Casey's head, but Casey used his hockey stick to block the deadly attack. The two teenaged boys kept swinging their weapon at each other at high speed while focusing on the timing all of each other's attacks at the same time.
"You still got a lot to learn, Casey." Kuro taunted. "It took sixteen years of my training."
"Do you always fight like this while you talk?" Casey smirked.
Kuro's eyes narrowed about that comment and unleashed waves of dark energy from his spear at Casey, who was knocked away from the dark mage ninja and fell on the icy ground. Before Kuro could finish Casey off with a final blow, Ezra quickly summoned a light shield to block Kuro's attack and pushed him back. Ezra charged at Kuro and threw his light shield at the dark mage ninja, who caught the shield but got knocked down by Ezra's kick to the face. Kuro managed to get back up and knock the teal mage ninja down. Kuro then summoned a dark energized spear and charged at Ezra, but Ariana came to the rescue and used her metal jagged blades to block Kuro's attack, causing the spear to vanish out of thin air after she and Silver destroyed all of the Shadow Droids and knocked out Leia to the ground. Ariana swiftly delivered a number of quick and powerful metallic blows before sending out a final blow that knocked Kuro down to the ground.
Suddenly, the arrival of the female kunoichi robot had shocked the mages, human, and mutant. Kuro released a sinister smirk on his face and slithered away from Ariana to stand next to the Kraang's latest creation.
"Now, that's heavy metal right there." Casey muttered.
"What the heck is that?" Ezra asked.
"I figured you like the Kraang's newest toy." Kuro said. "Robot, eliminate the human boy."
Ariana moved forward to attack the robot with her metal jagged blades, but she got knocked away from the robot's pink energy blast. Ezra charged forward to attack the robot with his light energy balls, but he got knocked away from the robot's arm. Silver launched at the robot to attack with his claws, but the robot kicked the leopard mutant to the ground. Casey tried to attack the robot with a hockey stick, but the robot's captured him with a medium-sized pink energy ring. Then, the robot froze for a minute.
"What are you asking for? Destroy him!" Kuro yelled.
"Mission changed." The robot spoke. "Do not destroy Casey Jones."
"What?!" Kuro cried in shock.
Kuro created four dark energy balls in his hands and sent them charging at the robot. That made the robot dangerously engaged as it released Casey from the ring and walked slowly towards Kuro, who backed away slowly in fear.
"Order changed." The robot said. "Eliminate threat."
"Everyone okay?" Ariana asked as she helped Casey to his feet.
"I think we'll be fine." Ezra said as Silver helped him up.
"For now." Casey replied.
As Kuro was struggling to fight against the female robot, the three mage kunoichi and armored robot arrived onto the scene and kicked the Kraang robot at the same time.
"Oh yeah!" Talia beamed. "Face this, Chroma!"
Talia created a large ball made of sound waves that hit Chroma on impact. Unfortunately, Chroma's eyes began to glow and used its laser vision to attack the three mage kunoichis, forcing them to flee out of the way before joining Ariana, Ezra, Casey, and Silver.
"Okay! I did not see that coming!" Kirana said.
Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Casey, and Silver watched as Kuro and the rest of the Shadow Droids were having time trouble fighting against Chroma. Ariana quickly noticed a cracked panel on the back of the robot.
"Guys, I know a way to take that thing down." Ariana said. "But we need to get closer to it."
Before anyone could reply, Kuro suddenly attacked Ezra with a dark energized flying kick. Casey and Norbit quickly went to his aid and helped him up.
"Don't think we're finished here, gentlemen." Kuro said dangerously. "We have all night for this."
"He is wanting a fight." Norbit said.
"Then let's give him one." Casey agreed.
Kuro then fought Ezra, Casey, and Norbit. During the fight, Kuro managed to knock Ezra to the ground with a punch to his cheek.
"Ezra!" Ariana cried.
"I'll help the guys." Kirana said, rushing to the boys' aid. "You take down Chroma."
"I'll help too." Silver said. "Names Silver, by the way."
Camilla, Ariana, Talia, and Silver turned back to see Leia attacking Chroma with quick speed and amazing reflexes.
"You four could handle this creep on your own." Leia said to the three mages and leopard mutant. "I've never been so bored in my time with this robot. I'm getting out of here."
As Leia vanished into a shadowy portal from the ground, Chroma got back up and faced the three mage kunoichis and leopard mutant. The Kraang robot unleashed a swift barrage of pink energy bolts, causing the three mages and leopard mutant to dodge out of the way in quick speed. Talia and Camilla landed on their feet to cast a spell and summoned two red-orange chains to trap Chroma's arms tightly, leaving Ariana to climb onto the robot's back and opened the panel to rip some wires out. That made Chroma go crazy and spun the three mages around like a rapid tornado until they jumped out of the robot. Silver pulled out his claws and ran forward to impale Chroma through the chest.
As the three mages and leopard mutant finished off Chroma, Casey swung his hockey stick to hit Kuro in different direction with quick speed and Kirana landed an ice flying kick on the dark mage ninja.
"It's over, Kuro." Kirana said firmly.
Kuro noticed that Kirana gave him a secret wink at him, knowing that they're still secret allies towards each other.
"For now." Kuro retorted pretentiously as he vanished into a shadow portal. "But next time, I'll make things really hurt."
"Good riddance." Ezra huffed.
"Thanks, guys." Casey said with a sincere smile. He looked back to see the defeated robotic ninjas lying on the icy ground. "I'll take things from here."
"Alright. See you back at the fortress." Kirana smiled.
Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Norbit, and Silver ran out of the hockey rink as they headed outside and hopped back on the rooftops. But Ariana caught the sights of her friend April racing back into the hockey rink.
"April?" Ariana wondered. "Why is she going to the hockey rink?"
On the rooftops, Ezra noticed that Silver was going to a different direction.
"You're not coming with us?" Ezra asked.
"I got my own place to be at." Silver responded. "Think I'm better off on my own."
Ezra frowned but gave an understanding nod.
"See ya next time, Ezra." Silver smiled.
With that, Silver jumped off the rooftop and disappeared.
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As April arrived back at the hockey rink, she found Casey perfectly safe and had defeated the robotic ninjas by himself.
"Casey, are you okay?" April asked as she ran onto the ice.
April's speed on the ice caused her to slip into Casey's chest.
"Whoa, steady there, Red." Casey replied as he caught April from her fall.
As April and Casey locked eyes on each other, Ariana was watching them in the shadows and sighed sadly as she believed that Casey has a love set on her best friend; April.
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Back to the Crete Fortress, the K-5 and Norbit were watching another episode of Ace Crown on the couch. Then, Casey walked into the living room with pizza boxes in his hands.
"Hey, guys." Casey said with smile. "Pizza's here."
"Alright! Thanks, Casey!" Kirana, Camilla, and Talia cheered.
Kirana, Camilla, and Talia quickly grabbed the pizza boxes as they began eating the pizza like rabid pack animals. Casey moved past his crazy friends and moved forward to talk to Ezra.
"Thanks for coming to help me." Casey said, with a smile. "Plus your new powers are awesome."
"Your welcome, Casey." Ezra said. "Anything for the team."
Ezra and Casey fist bumped each other with a grin. Casey then walked over to Ariana.
"Thanks for the help back at the rink, Ariana." Casey said sincerely. "I know that you're always there at my side no matter what."
Casey pulled the purple mage kunoichi into a hug. Ariana went surprise and hugged Casey back with a smile. But when Casey planted a small kiss on her cheek, Ariana was so mega happy that she could fly out of the fortress and zoomed over the city in excitement.
"I LOVE BEING A MAGE!" Ariana yelled excitedly.