The Lotus Ninjas quietly walked through the mist in an alleyway on a strange foggy night.

"Shade could be anywhere. Stay close, girls." Lee said cautiously.

"Plus, the frost coming from the mist can't accumulate unless it's freezing below zero." Donna stated.

"Donna, enough with the scientific stuff." Ellie complained.

"And that's why you always known as the dimwit in the family, Ellie." Ella remarked.

"And I've found four hopeless mystics with only less seconds to live."

Hearing Shade's voice echoing through the night made the four mystics search their surroundings for any sign of the enemy. Ellie felt her arms being seized by someone's grasp and looked at them to see a strong chain made of black energy coming from Lady Shade, causing the orange mystic kunoichi to scream while getting dragged off into the fog that caught her older sisters' attention.

"Ellie!" Donna cried.

Donna charged towards Lady Shade with her earth covered fists, but Lady Shade created a black energized whip to wrap the rocky fists together tightly and pulled the purple mystic kunoichi close towards her. Lady Shade then delivered a powerful kick to Donna's face that sent her flying to the street unconsciously.

"Donna, no! Take her down, Ella!" Lee ordered.

"With pleasure!" Ella shouted.

Lee and Ella charged forward towards the Shadow Clan leader as they raced on the opposite side of the alley to attack her with a punch from Ella and a kick from Lee. Lady Shade countered with a brutal three punch combo that sent the blue mystic kunoichi flying to the ground away from her. Ella aggressively dove at Lady Shade with her flaming fists until the Shadow Clan leader delivered powerful quick jabs to the red mystic kunoichi's chest and sent her final jab that was strong enough to send Ella flying into the darkness. Lee could barely stand on her feet as she watched Lady Shade walking towards her with black energized steel claws with wide, terrifying eyes.

"Time for me to end your life." Lady Shade said. "Permanently."

Lee doesn't have any time to scream as Lady Shade swiftly attacked the blue mystic kunoichi with a quick slash.

"Noooooo!" Saldana cried, waking up from her devastating nightmare.

Saldana took many deep breaths and tried to get control of herself from her nightmare.

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As Saldana walked out of the dojo and into the living room, she saw her four daughters taking their leave out of the fortress.

"Where are you four going?" Saldana called out.

"We're heading out for our evening patrol." Lee answered.

"No more patrol!" Saldana declared harshly. "Last time you fought Lady Shade, you four barely escaped with your lives!"

"Mother?" Lee questioned confusingly. "Are you alright?"

"Look, we know our battle with Lady Shade was unexpected, but we'll be ready next time." Ella said confidently.

"And that's why you're staying here until you are ready!" Saldana yelled with her narrowed eyes as her face leaned close to Ella's scared face. "No patrol! No games! No spell casting! No rest! Only kunoichi training staring now!"

Ella, Donna, and Ellie quickly jumped behind Lee in fear as they stared at Saldana with shocked faces. They have no idea why their mother was acting strange, but they know that this week isn't gonna be much delightful.

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After training for the past few weeks, the girls were becoming exhausted from the lack of rest. They kept tiredly charging at each other and slowly blasted each other with their elemental powers. The more Saldana keeps ordering her daughters, the less she's ignoring their tiring condition.

"Mother, please. I'm begging you. Can we please rest?" Ellie pleaded.

"And let Lady Shade fueling her rage until you are all dead? I don't think so!" Saldana responded harshly.

"Mother, we've been training for weeks with any sleep at all." Lee said calmly. "We need rest. Look at us, we can't take anymore."

"Alright, you may rest." Saldana agreed calmly.

"Thank you." Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie smiled happily as they fell to the ground with tiredness.

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After a long peaceful nap, the four mystic sisters had split up around the fortress in relaxation. Lee was watching Battlestar Matrix and Ella was chilling on the couch with her pet Samson in the living room. Samson jumped on the top of the TV with great reflexes and turned the TV off with his paw.

"Hey! Samson!" Lee cried angrily.

"Sorry, it was his idea." Ella said with a grin. "He really never like that show."

"That's because you two are so emotionally alike." Lee said dryly as she rolled her eyes.

"Don't make me come over there and pound your face to the floor!" Ella snapped as she stood up from the couch.

"I'll love to see you try, Ella." Lee said, crossing her arms over her chest.

Suddenly, Ella got herself nailed in the face with a water balloon. Ellie walked into the living room with a bucket of water balloons in her hands.

"Your Prank Queen had arrived, ladies!" Ellie cheered.

Ella got close to Ellie's face with a dangerous look on her face.

"Oh, looks like I'm so dead." Ellie gulped.

"I'm gonna kill you for that!" Ella hollered.

Ellie screamed helplessly and began running away from Ella, who was chasing after her with blasting fireballs one by one.

All Lee can do is watch her sisters running around the living room with a sigh.

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Meanwhile, the three mystics visited Donna's lab and saw their brainiac sister working on her latest invention that was covered by a large white cloth.

"You're still on that vehicle?" Ella asked.

"Well, duh." Donna replied. "I called them Turbo Karts. I've designed them with the right technology so we can each drive one with speed and acceleration."

"Well, I suggest that you got to find a way to relax without building gadgets all the time." Ellie said, looking at the detachable kart blueprints in her hands.

"We all have different ways to relax ourselves, Ellie." Lee said.

"Yeah, that's how I do." Donna agreed.

"And this is how I do." Ellie smiled slyly.

Ellie threw a water balloon from her back to hit Lee, who quickly ducked down to have the balloon hit Donna right in the face. Donna dropped her tools and snapped her neck side to side, walking close to Ellie with an angry look on her face as her hands transformed into large rock gauntlets. Ellie quickly made a run for it out of the lab as Donna chased after her from behind.

"You better watch your back, Lee!" Ellie announced. "Because you're next!"

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Few minutes later, Saldana's harsh training session kept wearing her daughters down. But that quickly ended when Casey stepped into the dojo.

"Guys, you're not gonna believe this." Casey said as he waved his phone in the air.

Everyone surrounded Casey to watch a video of the Wuju Twins' conversation on his phone.

"We're gonna Lady Shade tonight." Juli said. "She has a plan to destroy the Lotus for good."

"How?" Juni asked. "I mean, she doesn't even know where they live in this city."

"She believes that they lived somewhere that relates to metal connected by magic somewhere." Juli said. "That's all she needs to know to wipe them out."

Casey then turned off his cell phone and looked back at the mystic family.

"As I feared, our home is no longer safe from Lady Shade." Saldana said grimly. "She must be stopped at any cost."

"But how could we stop her if she's too strong for the four of us to handle?" Lee asked.

Lee's eyes narrowed when she sensed Ellie's aura holding a water balloon in her hand from behind. She lifted her hand out and clenched it into a fist, causing the water inside the balloon to explode in Ellie's hand without turning.

"Oh c'mon!" Ellie whimpered.

"We have to go outside and find out what they're planning." Ella declared determinedly.

"Ella's right." Lee said with a nod.

"Scary." Donna and Ellie muttered together.

"There's no other way." Lee continued. "Lady Shade will plot a death surprise on us if we stay up here any longer."

"Then go, my daughters." Saldana said sternly. "Find Lady Shade and stop her."

The Lotus Ninjas nodded their heads and ran out of the fortress exit.

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Later, the Lotus Ninjas followed the Wuju Twins from their hideout to an abandoned decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church from the rooftop silently. The mystics hid down on the edge of the rooftop on a lookout. Lee crouched down on the far left, Ellie crouched down between Lee and Ella, Ella crouched down between Ellie and Donna, and Donna crouched down on the far right. They all looked down the building area, which they believed to be Lady Shade's headquarters.

"So, this must be the place." Lee whispered.

"You know, I've been thinking and maybe we're in over our heads." Ellie said.

"What makes you think that?" Donna asked.

"Oh please." Ella snapped. "When did that ever stopping you?"

"I'm just saying after everything mother said is making us do something drastic!" Ellie snapped back. "And that frighten me."

"It's alright to be scared, Ellie." Lee said softly. "Even Ella is scared."

"As if!" Ella protested.

Lee let out a smirk and used a hint of blue magic to tap the back of Ella's head, causing her to spin around with a yelp. Donna gave Lee a thumb up with a smile and Ellie laughed under her breath. Ella glared at the giggling Lee with a growl.

"Your four should be." A deep seductive feminine voice spoke.

That voice made the four mystics freeze as they turned around to find a thick black female humanoid made of fluid ink with a two white slanted eyes on her face coming from behind them.

"Scarlett!" Lee gasped.

"Man, that mutagen really mess her up!" Ellie said.

"You said it." Donna agreed with a nod.

"Well, well, well." Scarlett said with a sinister grin. "Looks like I'm gonna have some fun."

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie summoned out their elemental magic in their offensive stances. Lee charged first and summoned a stream of big water bubbles at Scarlett with great force multiple times, but Scarlett blocked the attack with her gigantic palm she enlarged slowly. Lee quickly dodged by jumping in the air to deliver a swift kick as Scarlett swung her giant fists at the blue mystic kunoichi, who went flying in the air and crashed to the ground back towards where her sisters were standing. Ella charged forward and fired several fiery curved fire beams towards Scarlet, who quickly blocked the attack with her gigantic fist and used her other gigantic fist to punch the red mystic kunoichi back to the ground next to Lee. Donna charged forward and summoned five long earth spikes that pierced Scarlett from all sides around the building. Scarlett growled and swung her gigantic fist at the purple mystic kunoichi, who was able to dodge just in time but she was getting punched in the face by Scarlett's other gigantic fist that sent her flying into Lee and Ella. Ellie ran towards Scarlett and created an enormous tornado to hit the ink mystic mutant with great force. Scarlett's giant fists began punching the orange mystic kunoichi, who was dodging them in supersonic speed until she got smacked into her downed sisters when one punch from Scarlett got her at the side of her face.

"Ha, you four weren't even all that challenging since I got a brand-new form." Scarlett said with a laugh. Her giant arms reverted to normal size and shaped them into long whips as she began stalking towards the mystics. "Allow me to thank you for that."

"Okay, this is seriously hopeless!" Donna exclaimed.

"Inque's just too strong for us!" Ellie agreed.

"Inque?" Lee asked, giving her youngest sister a confusing glance.

"Because she's made of ink, so yeah." Ellie explained.

"Uh, girls. She's getting closer!" Ella said as she watched Inque walking closer to them with shocking eyes.

"Ellie, smoke us out of here!" Lee ordered.

"Don't have to tell me twice!" Ellie screamed.

Ellie took out a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground, enveloping the four mystic kunoichi in a puff of misty black smoke as they disappeared out of Inque's sight.

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Back in the Crete Fortress, the Lotus Ninjas sat on the living room with disappointment. Ellie and Lee sat on the couch together, Donna sat on the couch's armrest with her lilac touchscreen pad, and Ella sat on the floor in front of the couch with her arms and leg crossed. Saldana and Casey stepped in the living room as they stood in front of the mystics, who three out of four were looking up at them.

"We couldn't take down Scarlett." Lee said sadly. "She's more quicker and stronger than the four of us combined."

"Yeah, with her new mutant form, she's just too powerful for us to take on." Ellie agreed with a frown.

"Maybe we need to relocate our new home." Donna said, showing a page on Spain on her touchscreen pad. "We could live in Spain. Bull fighting is entertaining this time of year."

"No way." Casey said suddenly. "You girls can't just give up just like that. I'll spy on Lady Shade's meeting with her goons."

"I don't think so!" Ella cried.

"Nu uh!" Ellie hollered.

"Not a chance!" Donna shouted.

"Forget it!" Lee yelled.

"I'm the only one who can do this. Besides, what choice do we have?" Casey pointed out. "We can't let Lady Shade attack your home, so I'm going whatever you like it or not."

Lee, Ella, Donna, Ellie, and Saldana exchanged looks as they knew that they have no any other choice.

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Later that night, the Lotus Ninjas watched Casey walked towards Shade's hideout from the opposite rooftop.

"I don't like the looks of this." Donna said worryingly.

"Me neither." Ellie agreed. "But he can do this."

Casey looked up at the church with a smirk and began skating away into the alleyway.

"Wait a minute! What does he think he's doing?" Donna gasped, looking over the edge of the building.

Casey began hopping on the up the building fire escape and started climbing up to the building rooftop.

"He's so wicked cool." Donna said dreamily.

"But what exactly is he doing?" Lee wondered.

Casey let out a smirk and skated forward to leap himself in the air and landed on the church roof ledge safely.

"And he sticks the landing!" Casey cheered in a whisper.

Then, Casey tiptoed quietly on the church ledge and took out his cell phone before walking through the stain glass window hole.

"Very clever, Jones." Ella smirked.

Lee took out her cell phone and put it on speaker, so that the girls can hear a familiar voice on the other end thanks to Casey's cell phone on speaker.

"Scarlett, you and the Wuju Twins will not mess up this chance." Lady Shade spoke over the phone. "One of my best Shadow Clan scientists have collected extremely rare machines found in Europe. These machines will have the perfect ability to destroy them once and for all. Now go and fulfill your mission."

Then, Lee clutched her cell phone quickly.

"What machine is she talking about?" Ella asked.

"I don't know, but we can't let Inque and the Wuju Twins use it to destroy our home." Lee replied firmly.

"Then, let's get Casey out of there." Donna said.

"No, we can't." Lee said. "We won't put Casey at risk."

"Wanna bet?" Ella asked, pointing her finger out at Shade's hideout.

The four mystics saw Casey jumping down on the building fire escape and landed on the ground in the alleyway safely. They also caught Inque and her crew walking past the alley. Inque stopped walking and turned her face to the alley, zooming her vision into the dark alley to see Casey hiding in magnified scale. Inque began looming over the shocking Casey and shaped her arms into long whips to capture him by the limbs. The Lotus Ninjas quickly jumped down from the building they were standing on and landed on the street ground to find a black van drove away with a tied-up Casey and Inque strapping herself off the top of the vehicle.

"No! We're too late!" Donna said. She turned to Lee. "Lee, what do we do?"

"Inque maybe powerful for us and we can't take her on, but we gonna save Casey." Lee said.

"And also our home!" Ella added.

"Sounds like a plan to me!" Ellie grinned.

"But how are we gonna catch them on foot?" Donna asked.

"Who says we are?" Lee said with a smile.

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Meanwhile, the Lotus Ninjas raced down the street in the Turbo Karts. Each Turbo Kart has a slightly more curved bodywork with a white bumper and a hood of different color palettes that matches the girl's custom color with anti-gravity wheels. The engine is on the back of the kart that is blocked with two circles on each side of it. Lee sat on the blue kart, Ella sat on the red kart, Donna sat on the purple kart, and Ellie sat on the orange kart. The girls also wore black futuristic shield sunglasses that features a single rimless lens that is curved and has a molded nosepiece at the bottom. As the driver, Lee accelerated the kart to pick up the speed.

"This is so cool!" Ellie yelled with a smile.

"This is crazy, Lee!" Donna shouted. "The karts aren't complete yet!"

"You're sure about that?" Lee shouted back with a smirk. "Now where's Inque?"

"Just around a corner!" Ella replied, looking at the radar from her kart.

Lee drove the Turbo Karts around the right corner of the street and finally caught up to the hijacked truck. Inque saw the Lotus Ninjas approaching towards the truck and commanded the Shadow Ninjas to attack them. Donna put on a small grin and summoned arrows made of earth to fire them at the Shadow Ninjas on impact, sending the evil ninjas lying painfully on the street ground. As the Lotus Ninjas continued pursuing their enemies, Donna was able to read the name of the machine on the truck and quickly figured out Lady Shade's plan.

"Girls, this was Shade's plan all along!" Donna cried. "This truck is full of Hassam! They are extremely dangerous microscopic insectoid machines that reacts violently to metal! If they get contact to the fortress, it will incinerate our home and our mother in seconds!"

"Then, we'll split up!" Lee said firmly. "Donna, you and Ella save Casey! Ellie, you're with me!"

"Alright!" Donna, Ella, and Ellie agreed with nods.

Lee pressed a green button in her kart, causing the Turbo Kart to detach four sidecars for the girls to drive individuality. The truck and the van drove off in two different directions, but the Lotus Ninjas were able to keep track on the vehicles. Ella and Donna drove off to save Casey from the Wuju Twins while Lee and Ellie drove off to stop Inque.

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As Donna and Ella have caught up to the white van, they drove up to the side of the van with smirks on their faces. Donna threw a smoke bomb in the van to blind Juli's eyes and Ella threw five small prong spikes on the ground to pop the tires. Ella and Donna have pulled to a stop, getting out of the Turbo Karts in their offensive stances. The Shadow Ninjas quickly jumped out from the back of the van and charged forward to attack the mystics, who had easily defeated them with their power combination attack. Juli and Juni slowly walked up to the mystics for a sneak attack, but they got easily knocked out by Casey, who kicked the van door wide open after he untied himself.

"Nice one, Casey!" Donna smiled.

"Cool karts, Donna." Casey said with a smile. "Those are some wicked wheels."

"Yeah, the karts were my idea." Donna giggled sheepishly.

Suddenly, the engines inside the Turbo karts just exploded.

"Yeah, they're not ready." Donna sighed.

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As Ellie and Lee have caught up to the tanker truck, they drove up close to the truck and unleashed several small prong spikes on the ground to pop the tires. Lee and Ellie have pulled to a stop, getting out of the Turbo Karts in their offensive stances and charged forward against the ink mystic mutant. Inque's polymorph strength and shapeshifting fluid had still proven to be tough for the mystics. Ellie created several blades of wind that attacked Inque, who stumbled back from that attack. Lee turned around to see one Shadow Ninja stepping out of the truck and began throwing a deadly glass sphere that contains the Hassam inside out in the sky with fast reflexes. Lee's eyes widened wide in shock when the glass sphere broke and the Hassam began swarming around on their search for the fortress, but that quickly made her remembered what Donna just said earlier.

"Ellie, quick! Let's create a bomb!" Lee ordered. "And don't even think about throwing that water balloon!"

"Uh, what are you talking about?" Ellie asked innocently.

"Don't play dumb with me!" Lee snapped as she pointed her finger to the balloon that was hidden behind Ellie's back. "I have water magic, remember? I can sense that water balloon since the beginning."

Lee lifted her hand out and clenched it into a fist, causing the water inside the balloon to explode in Ellie's hand once again.

"I swear nothing can get past you." Ellie said.

Ellie joined hands with Lee and they both concentrated on their magical powers.

"Bakudan!" Lee and Ellie chanted.

As Lee and Ellie casted, bright beams of blue and orange energy was released from the mystics' auras and formed together to create a silver medium-sized bomb. Ellie threw the bomb at the laser cannon, causing all the Hassam to fly towards the bomb in fast speed. As the Hassam began incinerating the bomb, the explosive weapon had detonated itself that took the Hassam with it in seconds. Then, Lee waved her hands to manipulate water out of thin air and formed it into the shape of a massive pillar to strike the truck, the Shadow Ninjas, and Inque from below before summoning a stream of big bubbles from her hands that hit the enemies at great force.

"Great job with the bomb, Ellie." Lee grinned.

Suddenly, Ellie exposed Lee with a second water balloon in the face.

"Oh yes! Told you that I'll get you!" Ellie cheered.

"I have to admit, Ellie. I did not see that coming." Lee grinned surprisingly. "Although, I still have no idea where you keep those balloons with you."

Then, Donna and Ella ran up to join their sisters.

"Well, looks like we missed the action!" Ella smiled with a chuckle.

"Nice job on the Turbo Karts, Donna!" Lee grinned.

"Thanks, Lee." Donnie grinned. Her happy face changed into a serious look. "But they're still not ready."

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Meanwhile, Inque had returned to Lady Shade's headquarters. She had walked through the doors to see Lady Shade in her chair and approached her to kneel her knees down.

"They defeated you with karts and a bomb?" Lady Shade questioned with a growl.

"I know it sounds unreasonable, but I promise you it won't happen again, mistress." Inque explained quickly.

"Fine, but if you break that promise, your life will be very unfortunate." Lady Shade said threateningly.

Lady Shade manifested a large black energized spiked flail from her hands and hit Inque with it that sent her to the wall as an incoming punishment.

"I understand, mistress." Inque said weakly.

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Back in the Crete Fortress, the Lotus Ninjas sat on the couch with some victory pizza in the living room.

"My daughters, I owe you all an apology from before." Saldana said as she levitated herself into the living room.

"For what, mother?" Lee asked confusingly.

"For letting my fear of Lady Shade destroying all of you clouding my mind." Saldana replied. "But you all have overcome that fear and made me proud. So, as for today, no training."

Lee, Ella, and Donna cheered excitedly. But Ellie released a mischievous smile as she conjured up her last water balloon in her hand behind her back and got ready to prepare her throw. Unfortunately, Lee beat her to it once again.

"Wait a minute." Lee said irritatingly. "What happens if Ellie throws her water balloon again?"

"Then, all of you will be training for a whole month nonstop." Saldana replied. She turned around to levitate her way to the dojo. "Try all you want, Michelle, but you outmatch a master mystic like me."

Lee, Ella, and Donna turned to stare at Ellie dangerously, making the orange mystic kunoichi chuckle nervously.

"You are so dead!" Ella shouted.

Ellie made a run for it with a scream, but she quickly got tackled by her three older sisters to the floor.