In the main room of the Shadow Clan, Lady Shade sat quietly in her throne chair. Tigress pixeled herself on the floor in the room and released a loud roar in the air. The K-5 stood on the left side of the room while leaning against the wall as if they were down to test some new upgrades to the hologram simulation.
"Oh, yeah, baby!" Talia cheered.
"Whoo-hoo!" Ezra cheered.
"You got this, Kirana!" Ariana cheered.
"Hit her hard, sis!" Camilla cheered.
"Let's hope the upgrades Valina promised are good to our improvement." Kirana smiled as she stretched her arms and legs.
Kirana walked forward from the wall to the fighting battle and released a playful smirk at Tigress on her face before getting into her fighting stance. Tigress hissed angrily and got into her fighting stance.
"FIGHT!" Lady Shade hollered.
Kirana charged forward to attack first as she stood on one leg to the floor and quickly extended her other leg at Tigress's face with incredible speed and power. Tigress growled and ran towards Kirana to slash her rapidly with her burnt orange energy claws repeatedly, but Kirana blocked the attack with a medium-sized blue psychic energy shield. Kirana jumped up with her feet in the air and twirled her upside-down body to attack Tigress with her legs like helicopter blades. Tigress became dizzy for the moment, making Kirana smile for the perfect opportunity to strike.
"Haaaaaahh...!" Kirana cried. She gathered the full force of her psychic energy in her palms and then released an omni-directional sphere of blue psychic energy that hit Tigress with full force. "Kikosho!"
That powerful attack defeated Tigress and she got herself pixeled into nothingness. For her outstanding victory, Kirana performed a flip and crossed her arms with a winking pose and a victorious grin.
"Substitution: Talia." Lady Shade spoke.
Kirana walked back to her younger siblings, who were cheering for her outstanding victory.
"Totally wrong game for kikosho, sis." Talia chided.
Talia walked forward to the fighting battle and got into her fighting stance with a firm look on her face when Galva pixeled herself on the floor in the room and released a loud shriek before getting into her fighting stance.
"FIGHT!" Lady Shade hollered.
Talia winked at Galva with a grin and dashed forward to unleash a flurry of fast berserker punches and kicks before finally kicking the goo mage mutant away. That incredibly fast attack made Galva dizzy for a minute, giving Talia the chance to finish the battle. Talia had charged forward and relentlessly knocked Galva around the battlefield with a series of powerful blows delivered in different poses until she immediately defeated Galva with a final kick blow. For her outstanding victory, Talia breakdanced on the floor and did a pose with her two finger salute.
"KO! Talia wins!" Lady Shade announced.
"Oh, yeah! That's how I roll." Talia smiled proudly.
Talia walked back to her siblings as Ariana, Camilla, and Ezra stepped past her with smiles on their faces.
"Oh please, that was nothing compared to the best." Camilla scoffed.
"Now, watch and learn." Ariana said.
"Time for the guy to step up." Ezra grinned.
Camilla, Ariana, and Ezra stepped forward to the fighting battle to fight against Jinx and Crystallia, who were suddenly pixeled into nothingness. The entire Shadow Clan main room stage has changed into a holographic training room with blue grids in the floor and green grids in the walls.
"No fair!" Camilla, Ariana, and Ezra groaned.
"I'm sorry, K-5. But Domino, Rosetta, and I need you five in the main room immediately." Valina spoke from the intercom.
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The K-5 immediately exited out the hologram simulation room and entered into the ship's main room.
"What is it, Captain?" Kirana asked.
"I have received a message from the Cristallum mothership." Valina explained. "Erin told me that one of the Witches Six had stolen the first talisman from them and we must retrieve it back."
Valina placed a button on the control panel and a holographic image popped up in the center of the room. The image showed a light blue spherical ship sitting at the center of a giant black star-shaped spaceship. A profile information of the spaceship had popped up on the screen that caught everyone's attention.
"This is Aqua's spaceship. She's known as a scientific researcher with the power over ice and nano robots on her victims." Valina stated.
"So, I believe our best point is the ship's air lock." Kirana said. "We can take the Galaxy Boards to sneak aboard."
"Also, I'm certain that the first talisman of the Cosmo Escalation weapon is being stored in Aqua's main storage." Valina added calmly. "Norbit, Rosetta, and Domino will remain on the ship with me and monitor your progress."
"Works for me." Rosetta said.
"Sure, I'm on it." Domino said with a nod.
Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, Talia, and Ezra gathered together in a huddle circle.
"Alright, girls, Operation Infiltrate Witch Ship is a go." Ezra said to his sisters.
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The K-5 exited out of the Nexus and headed over to the giant spaceship in their jetboard vehicles. They had managed to get to the ship with no problem at all.
"We're at the air lock, Valina." Ezra said to his space visor.
"It's somehow unguarded, but you five must remain cautious." Valina said from the mages' space visors.
"Relax, Valina. We're kunoichis and a ninja. Trust me, we can handle this." Talia said reassuringly.
The K-5 carefully leaned backwards to decelerate their boards for landing in an act of camouflage and they hopped off their boards to sneak inside the ship.
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Inside the spaceship, the K-5 took a peek around the ship interior and walked down a winding hallway in stealth mode.
"Okay, we're in, Captain." Kirana said through her space visor. "Which way should we go?"
"You five should lead down that hallway and you'll find the armory." Valina instructed.
"You know, this will be much easier than encountering more crazy aliens." Talia said with a smile.
But Talia spoke too soon when she and her siblings are suddenly confronted by two tall robots, who are standing emotionlessly in front of them. They have blue metal skin with ten steel blue removable speaker-like components attached to their bodies, longer arms and legs, and stumped feet.
"Aw, dang." Camilla groaned.
"Heh, spoke too soon." Talia chuckled nervously.
The robots released the disks from their bodies and the disks were levitating in front of the five mages in a circle.
"Can I be the first to say retreat?" Valina asked from the mages' space visors.
"Agreed! Back to the air lock, guys!" Kirana cried.
The K-5 turned around and took off running while the robots sprinted themselves fast behind them. The robots fired powerful sonic blasts at the mages, causing them to scream at the top of their lungs while running away as fast as they could. Kirana, Ariana, Ezra, Camilla, and Talia raised their hands to unleash many psychic energy blasts at the robots, but the disks formed force fields out of sonic waves that are strong enough to deflect the blasts from harming the robots.
Then, the robots projected powerful sonic blasts within the disks that knocked the K-5 sisters to the floor unconsciously. One of the robots grabbed Ezra off the ground and tied his hands behind his back.
"Let my sisters go!" Ezra demanded.
Before the robots can finish the mages off, a hologram of their creator's face appeared in front of them.
"Nanobots, status report." The light blue witch alien demanded.
"These lifeforms were trying to infiltrate the ship." One of the Nanobots reported.
"We'll dispose them." The other Nanobots said.
"That won't be necessary." The light blue witch alien said calmly. "It certainly amuse me that neither Azura, Rosa, Chiffon, nor Jade couldn't defeat them. Take these four ladies to the Mosaic Lab."
"And what of the boy?" The Nanobot asked as he was holding the teal mage ninja up hostage.
"Bring him to me." The light blue witch alien responded.
The Nanobots used their disks to trap the girls in a transparent steel blue sound energy sphere. The Nanobot took Ezra with him to confront the witch alien. They raised the sphere up with one hand and began to teleport out of the hallway to the laboratory. Ezra looked back in worry for his sisters, until the Nanobot pushed him forward to make him walk.
"Move it." The Nanobot demanded.
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Ezra and the Nanobot moved to a little operating room and the Nanobot untied Ezra to hook him up in a chair with hand restrains.
"Hope your comfy." The Nanobot said.
He left the room and locked the door. Then, the windows opened the curtains to reveal the ultimate laboratory to the teal mage ninja, who gasped in shock.
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The Nanobots arrived inside the Mosaic Lab and stepped forward into the laboratory along with the sphere that carried the girls. Talia slowly woke up first and her eyes widened in shock as she pressed her hands on the sphere and looked around the lab. The entire laboratory has many advanced computer terminals and heavy machinery. Kirana, Camilla, and Ariana started to wake up from their unconscious state and they observed around the lab in awe.
"Let us out of here, you tin cans!" Camilla yelled.
"Don't waste your time, Camilla." Ariana said. "This sphere is made out of sound waves that can't be broken nor destroyed."
"If only I had my sound maic, I could get us out of here with a snap." Talia added.
"Don't worry, girls." Kirana said reassuringly. "I'm sure Norbit, Valina, Rosetta, and Domino are working on a rescue plan right about now."
"Wait. Where's Ezra?" Talia asked, worriedly.
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In the operating room, Ezra struggled to break free from his restraints but they were too strong.
"Perfect." Ezra groaned. "What am I gonna do?"
"If I were you, I'd make myself presentable."
Ezra widened his eyes at the voice and looked around.
"Who said that?" Ezra asked.
"Over here. In the cage."
Ezra looked on the small table and saw a creature trapped in a bird cage. The creature was a three foot tall bird with green feathers with red feathers at the tail, and orange beak, grey claws, and black eyes.
"Oh. What's a bird doing here?" Ezra asked.
"What's a bird?" The creature asked. "I'm a Razicutal, a feathered alien from the planet Qubicity."
"Wow. I guess there is something out there beyond the galaxy." Ezra thought. "So why do I have to be presentable?"
"This witch, Aqua, is the cruelest one of the Witches Six." The Razicutal replied. "She'll get angry if she's ticked off too much."
"But I have no interest in talking to her." Ezra denied. "Although, there's no other choice I have."
"We all don't have much choices here, kid." The Razicutal said. "I didn't ask to be a prisoner here, but I couldn't escape when they can hunt you down in seconds."
"I'm sure my sisters or my team will think of something." Ezra said, reassuringly. "I hope."
"They'd better think outside the box." The Razicutal sighed.
"Yeah, I guess." Ezra sighed.
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Back on the Nexus, Norbit, Valina, Rosetta, and Domino realized that they couldn't track the K-5 from the spaceship.
"So, you're saying that we can't find them?" Domino questioned firmly. "Something must be wrong when they went in that ship."
A blue Levian flew up towards Valina and reported the mages' current location within the ship in a non-understandable language.
"The Levians have found them." Valina said to Domino.
Two green Levians touched their hands on the screen and the four team members stared out at the pinpoint image from the view screen that was coming from Aqua's spaceship.
"Oh, my, it seems the K-5 are taken inside the Mosaic Laboratory." Valina said.
"Oh, that's not good." Rosetta said.
"There's no telling what that alien can do to them." Valina added.
"Well, we can't just sit here." Domino said determinedly. "We have to go get them."
"Is there anyway we can sneak in?" Norbit asked.
"The Levians could control the ship." Valina said. "The four of us can sneak aboard and find the talisman while the Nanos are distracted. I just hope the Mages are alright."
"How are we gonna sneak in?" Rosetta asked.
"I have an idea, but you will have to stay on my back through the trip." Norbit said.
"Huh?" Domino, Valina, and Rosetta asked.
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Back in the operating room, Ezra and the Razicutal were staring at the ceiling in total boredom.
"So, how did you end up here?" Ezra asked.
"I was the first to be captured as the Witches Six invaded our planet." The Razicutal explained. "Aqua thought I could be useful into tracking the legendary talismans or whatever they were."
"The talismans for the Cosmo Escalation?" Ezra asked.
"Unfortunately, I was not helpful because I didn't have the tracking skill." The Razicutal continued. "So as punishment, I was forced in this cage to rot. And today is the day they give me my death sentence. I'll be injected with lethal injection."
"Oh no." Ezra gasped. "Don't worry, I'll think of something to get us out! I won't let her kill you!"
"Thanks for that kid, but you're more important that an old creature like me." The Razicutal sighed. "When they take you to the room, you need to explain that Aqua needs to let your sisters go free."
"But what about you?" Ezra asked. "Your on a death sentence!"
"You gotta stay strong for those girls just like your father, Dastren, was strong for all of us." The Razicutal replied.
Ezra thought about the idea. Then, the Nanobot entered the room.
"Aqua wishes to see you." The Nanobot said.
He went over to remove the restraints and tie his hands with rope before making Ezra stand up.
"Good luck, kid." The Razicutal whispered.
"Wait, what's your name?" Ezra whispered.
"Ace." The Razicutal whispered.
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Back in the Mosaic Laboratory, the Nanobots made their way closer into the darkness. The K-5 sisters could see the entire battlefield with their own eyes, except it was more of an icicle-filled room. As the Nanobots reached to the center of the battlefield, the light blue witch alien entered the room and smiled at the four mages as she made her way closer towards them.
In the private room, Ezra was shoved inside as the door locked behind him. He looked out the window and gasped as he saw his sisters.
"My Nanobots picked up intruders in my ship, but I didn't expect it to be you mages." Aqua said.
Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, and Talia briefly looked at each other before looking back at Aqua with glares. The Nanobots released the mages from the sound energy sphere and then moved away into the darkness. The K-5 were about to raise their hands up into their offensive stances, but Aqua was already anticipating their move.
"I don't think so!" Aqua said with a cruel smile.
As Aqua snapped her fingers, four Nanobots appeared beside their creator and aimed their disks automatically at the mages.
"Fire!" Aqua ordered her Nanobots.
The Nanobots began firing a round of sound energy blasts at the K-5 that easily knocked them out. The four mages collapsed onto the ground while groaning in pain.
"Girls!" Ezra cried.
"Perfect shot." Aqua smiled. She leaped over to the balcony up above the battlefield and sat on her throne chair. "Let's see if you four can handle against my Nanobots."
"You won't get away with this!" Kirana shouted. "We have a score to settle with you because you took the talisman from the Cristallums!"
"Thanks to my Nanobots." Aqua said. "They obeyed my every command at my will. I will use them to steal the other two talismans that those Cristallums will ever need to complete their precious mission. But in the meantime, my Nanobots shall take care of you. Nanobots, make them suffer!"
The Nanobots obeyed and began firing several sound blasts after the K-5, who were frozen in shock. Aqua watched the battle with amusement from her throne seat while Ezra watched in fear.
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Meanwhile, Norbit, Domino, Valina, and Rosetta quietly snuck inside Aqua's spaceship and managed to get past the Nanobot security forces with stealth and cunning. They have already ran around several hallways and finally found the armory as they approached to the closed door.
"Man, how did a robot like you get so fast?" Rosetta asked.
"Ezra gave me upgrades." Norbit said.
"The talisman is in there." Valina said.
"I'm on it." Domino said with a nod.
Domino concentrated on her powers to walk through the door of the armory and phased back out with talisman in her hands.
"Well, we got the first talisman of the cosmo escalation weapon." Rosetta said. "Now we need to find the K-5."
"Let's go." Valina said.
Rosetta, Valina, Domino, and Norbit ran through the halls to search their friends during this time of crisis.
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In the Private Room, Ezra was still watching in worry for his sisters. He started thinking of what he could do and widened his eyes when he thought of the perfect one. He focused his magic and created a portal on the ceiling to drop Ace in his cage in the room before the portal vanished. Then, he summoned a teal key to unlock the cage and free Ace.
"Ezra, what are you doing?" Ace asked, as he helped free Ezra from the rope.
"We're getting out of here." Ezra replied. "All of us."
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Back to the Mosaic Lab, the K-5 stood in place when several sound blasts began to race after them. Before the four mages could defend themselves against the attack, one Nanobot stepped in front of the girls and used his disks to protect them with a sound force field. The Nanobot has red metal skin contrasted to the rest of the Nanobots.
Then, the Nanobot waved his arms up in the air and created a storm of sound waves from his disks. The four mages stared in awe as they watched many powerful omnidirectional sound energy waves flying across the large battlefield, destroying the Nanobots at once in a wide area. The rest of the Nanobots were damaged and deactivated on the ground.
"Thank you." Kirana said. "What's your name?"
"I'm Vol." The red Nanobot replied.
"But why are you helping us, Vol?" Talia asked.
"I was once a respected Nanobot in Aqua's command, but I became a traitor when I had developed a will of my own and refused to take any more orders." Vol explained.
Suddenly, a teal portal opened up in front of the K-5 and Vol. Ezra and Ace hopped out just before the portal disappeared. The four mages ran over to their younger brother and the siblings group hugged each other.
"Vol!" Aqua hissed from her throne. "How dare you return after your demise?"
"After you so-called destroyed me, I have managed to download what was left into one Nanobot's body and rebuilt myself in the progress." Vol responded.
"Then, allow me to finish you off and this time permanently!" Aqua shouted. "Fire!"
The Nanobots fired another round of sound energy blasts at Vol, who didn't even have a chance to guard the attack that time. He took the attack on at full force and cried in pain as his body was broken and damaged by the bullets, making him collapse on his knees while trying to fight his pain.
"See what betrayal gets you?" Aqua said. "You have grown too much free will and now I will extinguish that forever."
As Vol continued to cry in pain, the K-5 charged forward and delivered several fast psychic energy blasts at the Nanobots one by one.
The double doors swung open again with Norbit, Domino, Valina, and Rosetta entering the scene in time. Aqua was prepared for them as well and launched orbs of light blue energy, but the two alien heroines and one mage protected themselves and Norbit from the attack with force fields.
Vol managed to pick his head up and saw how the K-5 are fighting against the controlled Nanobots to save him. He broke free from the sound energy blasts and got up from the ground to fight back with the others. Domino, Valina, and Rosetta hurled balls of energy while Norbit blasted rockets at Aqua, who got blasted instantly by the attacks and threw back to her defeated Nanobots.
"Everyone, follow me! I know a way out of here!" Rosetta shouted.
Ace was about ready to fly, but he fell down. Ezra gasped in shock and ran to his new friend.
"Ace, we have to go." Ezra said, as he kneeled down by him.
"I can't." Ace wheezed as he showed the teal mage the injection spot. "They already gave it to me before you used the portal."
"No!" Ezra cried. "Ace, stay with me! I can still save you, I promise!"
"It's okay, kid." Ace smiled, weakly. "My time was up anyway. You're the best out of both of us. Thank you for being my friend through this. You're a good kid, Ezra... I know it..."
With his eyes closed, Ace breathed out one last time before he became motionless.
"Ace...no..." Ezra cried, as he covered his face.
His sisters ran over to him and frowned at the scene. Kirana walked over and put her arms around Ezra.
"Ezra, I'm so sorry." Kirana said.
"Guys, we have to go." Camilla interrupted. "Hurry."
With Aqua and the rest of the Nanobots defeated, the K-5, Norbit Domino, and Rosetta ran out of the Mosaic Lab to follow Valina into the hallway and straight back into the airlock exit. Vol looked back at his creator with a glare on his face before following the others. Domino opened the airlock and the ten heroes were sucked out into space. Vol raised his arms apart and used his disks to protect the heroes and heroines with a sound energy force field, floating them to the waiting stealth starship in a short distance. Valina used his powers to levitate the four Galaxy Boards back to the Nexus.
But Vol flew out of the Nexus that caught the heroines' attention.
"What are you doing, Vol?" Talia asked with a shout.
"You have to find the other two talismans before the Witches Six does!" Vol shouted back. "I already made my alliance with the Cristallums after I rebuilt my body! But don't worry we'll see each other again soon!"
With that, Vol waved his hand at the heroes and heroines and flew forward into the deep part of space.
The K-5, Norbit, Domino, Valina, and Rosetta got into the ship's main room and Valina commanded the Levians to escape the witch starship before Aqua can sent her Nanobots after them. The Nexus had warped away safely from Aqua's ship.
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Back at the Nexus, everyone took a breather inside the main room.
"Now, that was a close call." Ariana said as she took a deep breath.
"I still can't believe we fought against Aqua's Nanobots and ran out her starship!" Camilla said excitedly.
"I'm just excited to get your battle right on time." Domino said with a smile as she stood between Ariana and Camilla.
"Well, we wouldn't have made it without Vol." Talia said.
"But, I couldn't save Ace." Ezra frowned. "He didn't deserve to die like that."
"What he said about you was true." Norbit said as he put his hand on Ezra's shoulder. "You are a good kid."
"You gave him happiness in his last day, you did a noble thing for someone." Rosetta added, as she put a hand on Ezra's other shoulder.
"Yeah, I know you both are right." Ezra said, with a small smile.
Norbit and Rosetta hugged Ezra and he hugged them back.
"One talisman down and two more to go." Kirana said to Valina. "Where will we find the next one, Captain?"
"I know just the certain person who can help us find the rest." Valina said. "Levians, full speed ahead!"
The Levians obeyed Valina's command and the Nexus soared itself into the next area of outer space.