In a dark room, a mysterious female Asian mystic kunoichi was sitting on the floor in some form of meditation. She was a tall and slender woman with flawless skin, long black hair set in a traditional Japanese princess hairstyle, and green eyes. She wore a dark red Chinese sleeveless qipao dress with a slit on the left side that is high to the waist, black rose lace tights, and dark red ankle-strap combat boots. Her face was completely covered by a black metallic mask made of steel.

Suddenly, three Shadow Clan ninjas quietly appeared out of the shadows and walked slowly toward the meditating ninja. With her amazing mystical martial arts skills, the masked kunoichi defeated all three of them easily. Then, a female Korean mystic kunoichi appeared behind the masked mystic kunoichi. She was a very slim figure with fair skin, short hair with black on the left side and grey on the right, and blue eyes. She wore a black sleeveless jumpsuit with dark grey leather attachments and a zipper going down from the neck to the stomach, long dark grey gloves with black elbow and hand protectors, and a pair of black combat boots.

But unfortunately, she wasn't alone. The sound of sliding doors alerted the masked mystic kunoichi and immediately knelt down with respect when a familiar person entered the room.

"Lady Shade." The masked mystic kunoichi greeted.

"I'm surprise that you're using your time very wisely." Lady Shade said.

"Yes, mistress. I've already assembled an army of mystic ninjas and kunoichis from around the world." The masked mystic kunoichi stated. "The Shadow Clan are now at your command."

"Excellent." Lady Shade said. "Because I've also discovered that my old enemy is here in New York. Shiroibara Saldana."

"Shiroibara Saldana is alive?" The masked kunoichi questioned in surprise.

"And she's training her own daughters as kunoichis as well. I want all of them destroyed." Lady Shade ordered.

"I won't let you down, mistress." The masked mystic kunoichi vowed with a nod.

"I know." Lady Shade informed. "Because you will work together with Sapphire."

"I don't need any help." The masked mystic kunoichi refused as she stood up and glared hard at Sapphire. "Especially from this crazed woman."

"Are you sure, princess?" Sapphire asked tauntingly. "I doubt you'll be needing a lot of help."

"Enough of your pathetic rivalry." Lady Shade said firmly. "Sapphire has experienced with the dark side of the city ever since I've recruited her. You two will work together."

"Don't worry, Lady Shade. We'll find them and wiped them out." The masked mystic kunoichi said with a nod.

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Meanwhile, the Lotus Ninjas raced each other across the rooftops for fun while performing various flips as they jumped from one building to another to pull off the best tricks.

"Hey, girls! Check this move out!" Donna yelled.

Donna ran past Leona to jump off the roof with a swift flip and landed on the rooftop of the next building to slid around to face her sisters. Ellie smiled as she flipped high in the air and breakdanced onto the building that her older sister was standing on. Donna applauded to her youngest sister's stunning performance politely.

"Oh yeah, baby!" Ellie cheered. "I'm on the roll!"

Lee and Ella skidded to a stop at the end of building as they stared at the space between two buildings.

"Top that, ladies!" Ellie said with a grin.

Donna smirked as she gestured her hand for her older sisters to take to the challenge.

"Alright then." Lee said, taking a few steps back. "Check this move out!"

Lee ran forward and launched herself off the roof to perform a couple swift flips in the air before landing on her feet in front of her younger sisters with a final cartwheel.

"Wicked!" Ellie said in awe.

"Sweet moves, Lee!" Donna grinned.

Lee, Donna, and Ellie looked back at Ella, who was cracking her neck and suddenly darted forward at her sisters like a fast rocket. All Lee, Donna, and Ellie can do is scream as Ella crashed into them as a dogpile on the ground. Ella laughed as her sisters got up.

"Ella, what the heck was that?" Donna snapped. "You didn't even do any impressive moves."

"My bad." Ella grinned with a shameless shrug.

Suddenly, a small sound drew the four girls' attention. Lee darted forward and leaned against the wall with her sisters close behind. She conjured up a large water shuriken very slowly as her sisters drew their elemental magic powers. The girls jumped out from behind the wall and moved forward to face off against a...small puppy, who looked up at them and barked.

"Keep your head up, Lee." Ella mocked, putting a hand on Lee's right shoulder. "You might actually win this challenge."

Lee glared at her younger sister and elbowed Ella's stomach to shut her up.

"How cute!" Ellie beamed, holding her hands out to pick up the puppy. "It's a puppy!"

Then, immediately, Ellie turned around to hear a female teenager calling out for her pet's name. She quickly got up and walked forward to deliver the puppy to its rightful owner. But unfortunately, her older sisters were trying to stop her.

"What are you doing?" Donna whispered.

"Hey!" Lee hissed.

"Ellie, wait!" Ella cried.

"What?" Ellie said, turning to look at her older sisters. "I'm just returning this puppy to its owner."

"Are you an idiot?" Ella snapped. She paused for a second. "Let me rephrase that. You're an idiot!"

"You can't show yourself to a human!" Donna said.

"Why not?" Ellie asked. "I mean, we looked like humans."

Donna opened her mouth for a second and realized that Ellie has a point on that one.

"Okay, you got me there." Donna said. "But you show your powers to them, they'll freak the heck out!"

"And I'm not. I don't see what your problem is." Ellie said confidently.

"You're a short mystic kunoichi with magic powers." Ella pointed out.

"Look, that girl is gonna see that I'm just a normal teenage girl." Ellie explained optimistically. "Now, I'll be right back."

"No! Ellie! Don't!" Lee, Donna, and Ella hissed as they tried to stop their youngest sister.

But it was too late. Ellie jumped off the roof with the puppy on her arms and landed onto the fire escape stairs. Lee, Donna, and Ella leaned over the roof ledge to only watch the whole thing. The girl was still calling for her puppy when Ellie landed in front of her.

"Hi!" Ellie said brightly as she held out the puppy. "I got your puppy."

"Oh thank you!" The girl said with a relieved smile. "You found my puppy!"

Ellie smiled back before she jumped off the fire escape and landed into the ally below. Her sisters couldn't believe their eyes on what just happened and then jumped down from the roof. Even in her kunoichi outfit, Ellie still makes an impression. But it was still best to not interact with a human in a true disguise too long.

"Anyone saw that coming?" Ellie asked with a grin.

"No." Donna, Lee, and Ella replied with deadpan looks on their faces.

"But let's face it." Ella said cynically. "No human, besides Casey, in this city will never understand you. Obviously, even we don't."

"Yeah." Ellie sighed sadly.

Ellie knew it has been days since they have battled the Kraang and mutants, but she wondered if she can make one mutant friend for a change. She has this certain of optimism that gives her the full strength to never give up hope. She just secretly wished there's a mutant out there who understood that, a mutant she can talk to, a mutant...more like her. But her plans for a mutant friend will have to wait when she gazed up at the billboard from above.

"But I bet that woman would." Ellie said with a grin.

Lee, Donna, and Ella looked up to see a billboard on the rooftop above.

"Scarlett von Lake." Lee said skeptically. "The martial arts superstar. Why?"

"Because she's a martial artist just like me." Ellie smiled.

"And?" Donna said.

"And she's in town for a martial arts expo today!" Ellie continued as she pointed back at the billboard. "She can show me her secret move: The Ink Tempest! And I'll show her my secret move: The Hurricane Twist!"

"Catchy name." Donna said dryly.

"Look, Ellie, face the facts." Ella said, as she stepped forward towards Ellie. "Scarlett von Lake is the last person on earth who would be friends with you. Plus, there's no way anyone out there will be ever friends with a mystic girl like you."

Ellie glared. It never changed the fact that Ella could show a little respect for her bright optimism. Most of the time, she feels like that Ella was never trying to support or make her feel better.

Some big sister you are, Ella. Ellie thought.

The sound of footstep suddenly alerted the Lotus Ninjas to danger as they found themselves surround by a group of Shadow Ninjas.

"What the? Mystics in New York?" Donna questioned in surprise. "I thought we're the only ones."

The four mystic kunoichis eyed every mysterious Shadow Ninjas, who started charging forward to attack the girls. Ella delivered a barrage of flaming spinning kicks at the incoming Shadow Ninjas, Ellie delivered a series of four high-damage wind somersaults to the next group of Shadow Ninjas, Donna stomped her feet to the ground to send a hail of boulders rising up on every incoming Shadow Ninjas, and Lee channeled her water around herself out of thin air and fired the water power as a giant wave forward washing away each Shadow Ninja coming in her way on impact. After all of the Shadow Ninjas are defeated, the masked mystic kunoichi from the dojo jumped down into the alley and faced the Lotus Ninjas. She charged forward towards the girls and delivered several powerful blows on Lee, Ella, and Donna. But Ellie swung her swift kick at the masked mystic kunoichi, who caught the leg and pulled Ellie towards her face.

"How many mystics are you?" The masked mystic kunoichi asked.

Ellie didn't respond and quickly released her leg from the masked mystic kunoichi's hand. She spun around and fired a massive beam of wind energy from her palms that send the masked mystic kunoichi crashing to the wall. The masked mystic kunoichi got up and glared at the girls, who were getting into defensive positions.

Suddenly, the sound of approaching police sirens interrupted the battle. The Shadow Ninjas, the masked mystic kunoichi, and the Lotus Ninjas quickly retreated just before the police arrived in the empty alley on the scene.

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In the Crete Fortress, Lee stood in the kitchen and told Saldana everything that had happened in the alley as she wasn't happy about the loss in battle.

"That mysterious kunoichi leader was amazingly good." Lee reported. "But for all I know is that it wasn't a fair fight."

"A fair fight?" Saldana questioned.

"You know, mother, where either side can win." Lee replied.

"So, you don't want to assure your victory?" Saldana asked.

Lee nodded, not knowing that her words have conflicted Saldana's pragmatic thoughts about battles. Saldana tackled the blue mystic kunoichi to the ground and her white energized fist pressed against Lee's throat.

"Was that fair?" Saldana asked.

"No." Lee answered with a groan.

"Did I win?" Saldana asked again.

"Yup, I see your point." Lee admitted with a sigh.

Saldana helped her daughter up from the floor to her feet.

"Always seek victory, not fairness." Saldana said wisely.

"Hai, mother." Lee said with a bow.

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In the living room, three mystics and one human are having a relaxing night. Casey was reading the latest articles in the newspaper, Ella was doing push-ups with bricks near the entrance of the fortress, Donna was doing some research on her laptop, and Ellie was reading over a magazine that had a picture of Scarlett von Lake on the cover.

"Oh, I wish me and Scarlett von Lake were friends!" Ellie gushed as she kicked back in the air and laughed excitedly.

"Ellie, you already have a friend." Casey pointed out with a smug smile. "The one and only Casey Jones."

"I know, but I mean like a friend that acts like me in every way." Ellie said, turning back to her magazine.

"Yeah, too bad there aren't any of them who could tell how weird and annoying you both really are." Ella commented.

Ellie rolled her eyes in annoyance and gazed back at her magazine.

"Or she could check the internet." Casey said. "Yo, Donna, can I borrow your laptop real quick?"

"Oh sure, just a sec." Donna said nervously.

Donna quickly changed the screensaver of Casey chilling on the coach into the wallpaper of purple blooming flowers. She got up from the floor and walked over to Casey as she handed her laptop to Casey and sat next to him.

"Check this out." Casey said, tapping on the keyboard as he was unaware to Donna's shyness. "It's that website where you can make friends with anyone online."

"Cool!" Ellie beamed, snatching the laptop from Casey and quickly tapped the key buttons into the search box. "Oh, Scarlett von Lake's on here! She'll be my first friend!"

Ellie clicked the friend button and leaned towards the screen as she intently waited to see if Scarlett will accept her as her friend and...she did.

"Wow, that was fast." Casey said surprisingly.

"Yes! Scarlett has accepted my friendship!" Ellie said with a smile. She quickly hugged Casey happily and unaware of the horror and surprise coming from Donna's face. "Thanks, Casey!"

Ellie tossed the laptop into the air in seconds and ran off the couch. Donna darted forward to catch her laptop from hitting the floor and looked up to watch her younger sister running towards the fortress exit.

"And where do you think you're going?" Donna asked.

"To hang out with my friend, duh." Ellie replied casually.

"But this woman's famous, Ellie." Casey said. "She could have hundreds of friends!"

"So could be the great opportunity to study some of her moves." Ellie said with a shrug. "Later!"

With that, Ellie exited out the Crete Fortress.

"Well, this ought to be good." Casey said.

"Should we go after her?" Donna asked worryingly.

"Nah, she's gotta learn the hard way." Ella responded.

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Meanwhile, Ellie was strolling on the streets as a normal person. Instead of wearing her mystic kunoichi outfit, she wore a light green long-sleeved top with an orange cropped top over it, light green denim jean-shorts with light brown leggings under them, and orange low-heeled boots. She was enjoying the stroll and bright lights of the city until she suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye. Looking up, she watched as a large green humanoid mutant turtle ran along the rooftop.

Who is that? Ellie wondered. I've got to check it out. This could be my chance to make friends with a mutant.

Ellie ran quickly into a nearby alley and twirled her index finger around to turn her clothes into her mystic kunoichi outfit without her metallic mask. Going into stealth mode, Ellie climbed up to the rooftop and followed the mutant. It looked as if he was headed somewhere. The mutant stopped his feet and Ellie quickly hid behind the doorway. The mutant was searching around the rooftop as if he could tell that someone was following him.

Whew! Ellie thought as she took a deep breath. I wasn't spotted.

Then, Ellie looked down to see a long chain wrapped around her waist. Before she can react, she was suddenly pulled away from her hiding spot as she stumbled into the mutant's arms. The mutant turtle himself has light green skin with freckles, orange mask with shorter tails, and a pair of nunchucks on his strap belt. He also has the same height and eye color as the orange mystic kunoichi. Ellie and the mutant turtle made eye contact and they felt a magical attraction as if they instantly felt something for one another. Their gaze was more focused than any gaze should be. Innocent baby blue eyes—the exact same color that the ocean had carried. Their eyes were sparkled with joy, innocence, and curiosity behind their masks. They could feel a new kind of heat glowing through them. Everything that made them who they are—their love for their family, their home, their wild side, their name, themselves—disconnected from them in that second and floated up into space. They could see that now—how the universe swirled around them as they felt the gravity no longer tied them to their position. It was the mutant ninja turtle and the mystic kunoichi that held them here now.

"Hi." The mutant turtle greeted charmingly.

"Hi." Ellie greeted back dreamily.

"Oh, sorry." The mutant turtle chuckled sheepishly as he knew that he's still holding Ellie in his arms and released her from his nunchuck chain. "I don't believe I've met a dudette before."

"Oh, yeah." Ellie said. "I just can't believe that you're a mutant."

"Wait, you're not afraid of me?" The mutant turtle asked in confusion.

"No, and why would I?" Ellie replied. "I'm a mystic. I'm used to all mystical creatures around the world. Besides, I think it's cool to meet a friendly mutant."

"What's a mystic?" The mutant turtle asked again.

"A sub-race of naturally magic-wielding humans." Ellie explained. "We have a natural gift to channel magical energies. So, yeah."

"Well, the name's Michelangelo, but you can call me Mikey." The mutant turtle introduced with a flirty smile.

"And my name is Michelle, but you can call me Ellie." Ellie giggled.

"Ellie? That's a pretty neat name." Mikey smiled.

"Oh, thanks." Ellie said with a pink blush on her cheeks. "And I think your name's pretty cool. It's so awesome that you're a mutant."

"Really? Cool!" Mikey grinned dreamily.

As Mikey and Ellie stepped closer and gazed into each other's eyes, they both realized that they have something else to do.

"Oh my gosh! I love to stay and chat, but I have to meet someone." Ellie said.

"Oh, really? So do I." Mikey said. "If I see you again, we can hang out."

"Sounds good." Ellie replied with a wink.

With that, Mikey and Ellie went separate ways to meet their friends.

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As Ellie raced across the rooftops in supersonic speed, she finally made her way to the dojo from the edge of the rooftop and spotted Scarlett von Lake walking out of her dojo to lock the doors below.

There's Scarlett von Lake! Just like on the Internet! Ellie squealed.

Ellie quickly jumped down from the rooftop and landed on the ground in the alley as she quietly stood behind Scarlett, who immediately turned around to face her with a confused look on her face.

"Um, who are you?" Scarlett asked.

"Oh, I'm Michelle, but you can call me Ellie." Ellie introduced happily. "You accept me online as friends, so I came by to see you."

"Oh, that's right. Nice to meet you." Scarlett said calmly. "Please, come in."

Scarlett unlocked the doors and Ellie walked inside, but she began to feel something familiar about the happy teenager and she'll keep a close eye on her.

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Later on, the Lotus Ninjas stood on the rooftop on a lookout for the mysterious masked kunoichi that they fought last night above the same alley they were earlier. Lee was intent on finding out who exactly is that master masked kunoichi the other night. Also, she was trying to get a successful strategy to battle them again.

"They could have been watching us from here above." Lee said to Donna. "This would be the perfect time for coming up a perfect ambush on them."

"But don't you think that's not even fair?" Donna asked.

"It's about victory and nothing more." Lee replied firmly.

"I see your point." Donna said.

Lee and Donna turned around to glance Ellie, who was talking to Ella about her meeting with the famous Scarlett von Lake as Ella was clearly not listening to her youngest sister. She had been talking nonstop about Scarlett for hours, almost giving Ella a massive headache by hearing all of that.

"Enough already!" Ella snapped. "You've been going on about Scarlett for three hours!"

"Oh, looks like someone's jealous." Ellie said as she moved close into her older sister's face. "You just can't admit that you are wrong, can't you?"

"Oh please, me and wrong don't go in the same sentence." Ella scoffed as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Oh, yeah? I'm pretty sure my two other sisters would love to hear about my encounter with Scarlett." Ellie said as she put her arms around Lee and Donna.

"Not really." Lee said.

"The silent talk will be much better." Donna commented.

"Fine." Ellie said, glaring at Lee and Donna. "I got better place to talk to someone rather than you girls anyway."

Then, Ellie leapt off the roof and disappeared into the alley.

"I know she did not just ditch us." Lee said sassily as she narrowed her eyes.

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On a building rooftop somewhere near the ocean, Ellie had summoned three dummies made of solid air on the edge of the rooftop and took a perfect aim to shot several air-based shuriken in a row. Something she must to keep her mind off about her so-called sisters.

"Nice aim." A familiar voice called behind Ellie.

Ellie startled for a moment, but she released a relaxed smile when she spun around to meet the mutant turtle standing behind her.

"Thanks." Ellie said with a wink. "I've figured you find me here."

Just then, a mumbling noise came and Ellie looked at her stomach.

"I guess I'm hungry." Ellie laughed.

"Let's eat pizza!" Mikey smiled. "Do you like pizza?"

"Yeah!" Ellie smiled back. "Pizza is awesome!"

"We have so much in common." Mikey and Ellie beamed happily.

After Ellie got the pizza from Antonio's and went back to the rooftop, Mikey joined her and the two began to eat pizza together.

"Um, I was wondering how long have you been practicing your powers?" Mikey asked.

"Ever since I was five." Ellie answered. "As kids, male mystic began having their powers at age six while female mystic began having their powers at age five. Ever since I was six, I gained the power of controlling air at my will."

"Wow, that's so wicked awesome!" Mikey grinned with excitement. His grin slowly turned into a frown. "Are you sure it's okay for me being your friend?"

"Of course, Mikey." Ellie said with a warm smile. "Why wouldn't you be?"

"It's just my brother Raph thinks I can't be friends with a human or a mystic such as yourself." Mikey said.

"Same here. My sister Ella thinks making friends with a mutant is impossible." Ellie scoffed. "But you are my friend and we have to promise to keep out friendship a secret from your brothers and my sisters."

Mikey put his hand on his heart and his other hand in the air.

"I promise." Mikey said with a smile.

Ellie smiled and took another bite of pizza.

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Ellie arrived back at Scarlett von Lake's dojo and walked inside in her different outfit once more. She began to notice that the Scarlett kept asking suspicious questions about her sisters and her mother as if Scarlett wants her to share secret information with her, but she must maintain a small amount of secrecy from Scarlett at all cost.

"Hey, Scarlett!" Ellie greeted enthusiastically.

"Hello, Michelle." Scarlett greeted back. "But before we can get to know each other, I need to know about you. Tell me about...your sisters."

Ellie's eyes widened a bit, but she quietly kept her cool in her mind.

"Oh, they're really good gals." Ellie replied with an innocent smile. She looked down to the floor with a frown. "But only if they can respect me more."

Scarlett was beginning to grow frustrated because Ellie kept refusing to give out any information that she need, so she eventually decided to try a new approach.

"Okay, I'll tell you what." Scarlett said. "I will teach you my secret move: The Ink Tempest."

"Ready? Awesome!" Ellie exclaimed.

"But you must swear that you must not show to anyone." Scarlett said. "Because it's a symbol of our friendship. Got it?"

"I promise." Ellie promised with a nod.

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Back in the Crete Fortress, Ellie quickly demonstrated the proper movement of the Ink Tempest to her sisters, even though she was promised not to tell anyone about Scarlett's secret move. She did the swift motions with graceful precision that got only Lee and Donna interested with impressed looks on their faces. Well, except for Ella, who was leaning against the large crystalline tree with her bored face and both of her arms crossed over her chest to watch her younger sister ending the move with a proud smile.

"And that's how you do the Ink Tempest." Ellie smiled dramatically.

"That was incredible!" Lee cheered excitedly.

"Yeah, it's both gracefully effective and complex!" Donna agreed.

"And surprisingly, Ellie learn exactly how to do it." Ella remarked dryly.

"Hey! At least, Mikey said I did it perfect!" Ellie snapped.

The word "Mikey" surprised Lee, Ella, and Donna real fast.

"You met a boy?" Lee, Donna, and Ella said quickly as they moved closer to Ellie's face with happy smiles. "Spill!"

Ellie gulped and decided to create a lie about Mikey being just a regular person instead of a mutant.

"Oh, well, okay." Ellie said with a smile. "His name is Mikey and we have so much in common! We both are super agile, love eating pizza, playing video games, and plus he's super cute!"

"So when can we meet this Mikey?" Ella asked.

"Oh, I would love for you three to meet him, but Scarlett wants me to meet her old friend." Ellie replied quickly.

"You're going now?" Lee asked.

"Sorry, ladies!" Ellie said. "You know how it is. I won't be long."

Ellie walked out of the dojo and left her older sisters alone.

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Since that Ink Tempest had inspired the three mystic kunoichis, they decided to try and master the secret move for fun. Donna stood aside as Lee and Ella took turns on mastering the Ink Tempest.

Saldana stepped in the dojo from her room and stopped to witness Lee succeeding on completing the Ink Tempest move on Ella with her water-based power, causing her eyes to widen wide in shock.

"Where did you three learn that?" Saldana demanded.

Saldana's sudden voice made her daughters turn around and faced their mother immediately.

"Ellie learn it from this new friend of hers." Lee answered.

"Unfortunately, that move comes from Lady Shade." Saldana said grimly.

Lee, Donna, and Ella looked at each other in shock and disbelief.

"Lady Shade?" Donna said. "So you're saying that Scarlett was one of her students?"

"I'm certain of it." Saldana said. "It's the only way she could know that secret move."

"And Scarlett is just pretending to be Ellie's friend to get to you." Lee concluded.

"It all makes sense now!" Ella exclaimed. "Ellie's in trouble!"

Three mystic kunoichis rushed out of the Crete Fortress to rescue their youngest sister.

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Meanwhile, Ellie went back to the dojo and looked around in the dark room. She was trying to find Scarlett, but she was nowhere in sight.

That's weird. Ellie thought in confusion.

Ellie immediately spun around and gasped in fright to see the same masked mystic kunoichi that she fought before and an unfamiliar mystic fighter at her side. She tried to put up a decent fight on them both, but she was eventually overwhelmed by their amazing combined fighting skills as two mystic women stood over the orange mystic kunoichi.

"Who are you and what have you done with Scarlett?" Ellie demanded.

"What do you mean?" The masked kunoichi said with a giggle. "We already met face to face."

"No, it can't be...!" Ellie gasped with wide eyes. "Scarlett?!"

"Good guess." Scarlett smiled as she removed her black metallic mask off her face. "When we first met, I already started to sense a familiar mystic blood rushing within you. And now, you are nothing but bait to my plan."

Sapphire grinned sinisterly and tied Ellie up with a dark white plasma energy rope to hang her onto the wall before she and Scarlett walked away out of the dojo. But Ellie were shocked as she finally realized that Scarlett and Sapphire are just using her as bait to lure out her sisters and Saldana.

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Few minutes later, the three mystic sisters had sped their way at Scarlett's dojo and landed swiftly on top of the dojo skylight as they're going into their stealth mode in order to jump in to save their sister. Donna casted a spell in her mind and her two fingers began to glow in bright purple, using her index and middle fingers together to cut a hole in the glass without a fail. As Donna reached in the hole to unlock the window, the three Lotus Ninjas peered through the glass. They saw Ellie was tied up on the wall looking very sad and depressed while she was being surrounded and guarded by Shadow Ninjas. The girls silently entered the dojo and attacked the guarding ninjas with their swift ninja moves.

"Thanks, girls." Ellie whispered with a grin.

"Don't worry, we're getting you out of there." Donna said.

Lee gazed at the dark white plasma energy rope that tied Ellie up and slowly created a small water shuriken star to throw it forward like a Frisbee, cutting the dark white plasma energy rope and released Ellie, who landed safety in front of her older sisters.

"We gotta go." Ellie said. "I'll explain everything along the way."

The Lotus Ninjas jumped out of the dojo and ran across the rooftops into the streets as they were unaware that they are watched by Scarlett through the night vision binoculars with Sapphire standing next to her and the Shadow Ninjas stood right behind them. Their plan all along was to let Ellie be rescued by her older sisters in order to follow them home.

"Excellent." Scarlett said.

"Now, we got 'em." Sapphire said with sly smile.

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As Scarlett and Sapphire followed the Lotus Ninjas into the empty building with the Shadow Ninjas, they walked forward to track the girls down. Now, all the four sisters had to do was wait as they are crouching quietly in the shadows. One by one, the Shadow Ninjas were silently yanked into the dark shadows by Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie. Scarlett and Sapphire looked around for anything unusual, but they found the Shadow Ninjas are completely gone. Now all alone, Sapphire lit out a flare to look up to watch their Shadow ninjas hanging unconsciously in ropes from the ceiling of the building main room.

"Show yourselves!" Sapphire called out.

Out of nowhere, Lee and Ella came out of the shadows in front of the two mystic women with Donna and Ellie came out of the shadows from behind. All four mystical sisters clenched their fists with their elemental magic energies engulfing on their hands in their offensive stances.

"They trapped us!" Sapphire said in realization.

"Let's take them down!" Scarlett shouted.

The battle quickly took on between the Lotus Ninjas and the Shadow mystics. Scarlett charged forward towards Lee and Ella, leaving Sapphire to face Donna and Ellie. Ella was lying on the floor by a blast of black ink that Scarlett send out. Scarlett was about to approach towards the fire mystic kunoichi threateningly. That's when Scarlett begins to notice Lee was right behind her and grabbed the water mystic kunoichi firmly to kick her away into Ella. Sapphire avoided Donna's earth energy blasts and then swung a wave of dark white plasma energy at Donna that threw the purple mystic kunoichi flying into Ellie, sending the two mystic kunoichis falling on the ground. Sapphire smirked as Donna and Ellie got up from the ground. But the fight was just getting started for the Lotus Ninjas. Lee and Ella got up and resumed their fight with Scarlett while Donna and Ellie resumed their fight with Sapphire. Their battle was almost over once the four mystic girls stood their way towards the two evil mystic ninjas, who were unaware that the opening hole that has several water pipes was right behind them.

"You girls knew that we're hunting you!" Scarlett said in realization.

"That's right." Ellie said with a sly smile. "And now it's over."

With that, Ellie jumped slightly and delivered several air-based blows to Scarlett with her own kata, kicking her back and knocked her down over Sapphire.

"Hit it, Lee." Ellie called to her oldest sister.

With a nod, Lee's eyes glowed in bright blue and concentrated on the water pipes from the opening hole. A powerful jet of sewer water began to wash its way to Scarlett and Sapphire, causing them to be swept away in a wave of huge water out of the building with loud screams. After they were gone, Donna and Lee walked over to Ella and Ellie with giggles.

"Well, that didn't seem very fair." Ella smirked.

"I couldn't agree more." Lee said. "Let's go home."

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Back in the Crete Fortress, the three mystic kunoichis celebrated their victory with a pizza party and grabbed two slices of pizza as they sat on the coach in the living room. But they noticed that Saldana was looking very worried, becoming concerned about their mother's silence.

"Um, mother, aren't you hungry?" Donna asked, taking a bite out of her pizza.

"I feel that Lady Shade knows our existence too well." Saldana replied wryly. "But worse, she knows about all of you. Our struggle had only just begun."

"And we'll be ready for her." Lee said firmly.

Donna and Ella both nodded in agreement, making Saldana smile for her daughters' confidence. Ella looked over to see Ellie sitting on the floor with her crossed legs as she noticed that her little sister was still hurting over Scarlett's deception. That's when Ella stood up and walked over to Ellie.

"Hey, Ellie." Ella said, sitting down next to her younger sister. "You're okay?"

"No, I'm not." Ellie answered with a said sigh. "This is all my fault. I should have known you can never make friends with someone who can endanger us. I know that now."

"Look, don't be so hard on yourself. And besides, you're an awesome gal and you deserve to have better friends like that boy Mikey. After all, he's lucky to have a friend like you." Ella advised. Then, her voice became deeply serious. "And if you tell the other girls about this conservation, I'm coming after you."

"Thanks, Ella." Ellie smiled, feeling better from her older sister's words.

"Anytime, sis." Ella smiled back as she patted her younger sister on the head and walked away back to the others.

Encouraged by Ella's words, Ellie conjured up Donna's laptop with a snap of her finger and clicked something to unfriended Scarlett von Lake with a triumph grin. The only friend she has now is Mikey. Despite having a mutant as her friend, Ellie has so much to learn from him. But sooner or later, she has to tell her sisters about him...someday.