Infinity Crisis: Rampage of the Rani

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This was originally published elsewhere from August 21st, 2022 to April 21st, 2023.

Disclaimer: All characters belong to their respective parties.

Author's Note:

And hello at last, the main story detailing The Rani and her master plan, following up on The Return of the Rani. Admittedly, the idea of a Doctor Who crossover with Turning Red had been on my mind but not as something part of Infinity Crisis but I'm eventually going to return to that well as its own thing but otherwise, this is an idea that wouldn't leave my head.

I have other thoughts in mind but they'll be for after this chapter. Until then, hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1: Ms. O'Hara

July 5th, 2001 - Earth - 030122

A deserted building in Vancouver. Long abandoned for decades, that was once an office building near the McBarge but when the McBarge closed down, so did the office building. And it sat there rotting away with no buyer interested in the empty space.

On the night of July 5th, 2001, however; debris and papers flew away as if the wind had picked up.

Materialising out of nowhere, a wardrobe appeared.

The nefarious Time Lady herself, the Rani stepped out of her own TARDIS and surveyed the empty area. She could see the graffiti that was everywhere inside and trash and decay everywhere.

"Well, better than nothing I suppose." The Rani said. "A front is a front, it'll need shaping up to avoid detection. I rather not have it suddenly be torn down while I'm still in this."

"I'm going to need help however, loathe am I to admit it." She added.

 

With that, The Rani stepped back into her TARDIS and dematerialized as she plotted the necessary plans.

What seemed like months before she made her return to Vancouver were more like years as she gathered DNA from countless universes to gathering her recruits to serve as her subordinates to even making a deal with Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd to loan her the Putties, their foot soldiers, in exchange for her creating a monster.

And so she did, which proved adequate in a fight with the Power Rangers before ultimately being destroyed as the monsters before it.

But the deal was made far too late for Rita and Zedd to rescind as The Rani was given one hundred Putties exactly to assist her goals. The Rani, being cold and calculated, saw them as disposable but can get the simplest tasks done.

Next was to recruit her subordinates. The first being Lash from the recently destroyed universe of Earth-030165. Only a handful of Inhumans and other super powered beings survived via escape ships with Lash being recruited by The Rani just as the Earth exploded.

The Rani never did figure out why such a universe ended up being destroyed. But it did not matter.

Curiously when she found Dark Mercury, her universe was also destroyed but it was explained to the Time Lady herself that an incident regarding Dark Moon as she was destroying advancing enemies but did it too well as it resulted in its destruction. The last thing Dark Mercury remembered was being separated from her comrades in a flash of light and ending up in the Rani's TARDIS.

With nowhere else to go, Dark Mercury agreed to work for the Rani.

As The Rani gathered more subordinates, the front for her laboratory was complete. To throw off civilians, The Rani had conceived of Pip and Jane Industries, a new office business complex. Nothing that drew attention to itself.

Behind the facade in the entrance however, was an advanced laboratory; all bigger on the inside. The Rani had managed to reverse engineer technology from Gallifrey to create an all out facility with multiple rooms, storage units and prison cells to house her experiments and her subjects.

The Rani stood in the middle of one of her laboratories, impressed with the scale and materials in place.

"Report, Dark Mercury." She requested the villainous Sailor Guardian to speak.

"All the materials are in place." Dark Mercury reported. "The Genetic Bomb is almost to completion with the acquired DNA recovered."

"All good." The Rani said satisfied before asking, "And the main laboratory?"

"All secured and set up with the specific DNA you requested." Dark Mercury confirmed. "The red panda and Patient Zero."

"Well done." The Rani said, impressed albeit still with her cold tone of voice.

"But also of curious notice, a subject you captured, that Skraaldian from Earth-101197?" Dark Mercury began to inquire.

"What about it?" The Rani asked.

"Well, it expired in its prison cell." Dark Mercury responded. "It appears the fact you took DNA from it multiple times managed to kill it after months of captivity even despite the nutrients required."

"A weakling if I ever knew one." The Rani scoffed as she examined test tubes of various other subjects she had acquired DNA from before placing them on a centrifuge.

"I don't wish to question your judgment, mistress Rani." Dark Mercury said before asking, "But was it really necessary killing all of the Skraaldians but the one lone creature even after blowing up their planet?"

"Not only did they dare to disrespect my intelligence and my offer to recruit them but they were easily conned by that simpleton organization." The Rani responded nonchalantly.

"Besides, their hive mind was flawed and might as well test my virus on such creatures and even destroy their homeworld with that lethal detonator you helped create."

"It's not like their DNA will be lost forever." The Rani added further. "Besides using their DNA for my Genetic Bomb and as potential DNA for my army, I'm considering cloning them. Genetically perfecting their hive mind and intelligence."

Dark Mercury listened with intrigue. She had been increasingly interested in The Rani and her scientific methods, feeling the Time Lady had opened her eyes to the unlimited possibilities of everything beyond her comprehension.

"Now, track the girl and her friends. A reminder that they reside in Toronto, the Lee family temple will be opening in a moment." The Rani then said to Dark Mercury. "Don't let them see you. Inform me where they're going and I'll do the rest until a certain point. Wait for my signal when I require your assistance. Understood?"

Dark Mercury bowed, "Yes, my lady."

"Good. Take the transporter." The Rani then said.

With that, Dark Mercury raced to a chamber with a few pods that were the transporters and with that, Dark Mercury dematerialized.

However immediately afterwards as The Rani pressed the button on the centrifuge to spin the test tubes, an alarm rang.

"What's going on?!" The Rani asked, alarmed.

She raced to a computer console on the center of her main laboratory. As she typed frantically, the screen showed a prison cell on one of the floors being conspicuously empty and the aftermath of two of the Putties disintegrating.

But more concerning to her was the computer screen informed her the teleported was used not long after Dark Mercury had left and that on another screen she had eyed on, she noticed copies of the files of her subjects she thought were lying on the console of her laboratory had been stolen along with three other Putties disintegrating.

"Blast!" Growled The Rani as she clenched her fists.

 

"What do we do now?" Lash asked as he approached the Time Lady with another Putty alongside him.

"This will not derail my plans for the time being!" The Rani said.

"You!" She then pointed to the Putty alongside Lash.

The Putty pointed to himself as if asking "Me?"

"Yes you, you simpleton!" The Rani said. "Take a squad of your kind and find our escaped prisoner!"

The Putty saluted her and ran off to gather others to help him.

"The teleporter is the other way!" The Rani rolled her eyes in annoyance as the Putty and nine others joined, running in the opposite direction.

"And I told that idiot Metal Head not to leave my files so carelessly!" She then shouted in annoyance.

June 12th, 2002 - 1:30 P.M.

It was early afternoon. Summer vacation had begun and the Lee temple was buzzing more than ever as always, opting for the summer to open a bit earlier. The main attraction being that Meilin

Lee had the ability to turn into a red panda. Even after the Skydome incident aka Pandapocalypse 2002, people all over the country had to see it for themselves. Even tourists from other countries wanted to see the new phenomenon themselves.

The gates opened to reveal Meilin Lee as she transformed into her red panda form with her mother Ming by her side, greeting the guests as they ventured inside.

The father Jin of course was doing his part as a tour guide, informing guests of the history of the temple and the family heritage.

"Doctor!" Cried a brown skinned woman as she conversed with her friend, a short haired blonde woman in a gray jacket and suspenders as they watched a few feet away from the temple.

"Oh I see her!" The Doctor said in gleeful astonishment. "Very curious indeed but also cute!"

"Definitely going to explore what the deal is!" She added as she rushed over to the temple. "Come on, Yaz!"

"Doctor!" Yaz cried out as she joined her.

The Doctor sped over to the temple like a giddy child out of school.

As they joined the crowd of people entering the temple, the Doctor had finally managed to meet the red panda herself, Meilin Lee.

"Oh brilliant!" The Doctor smiled in astonishment. "I never knew red pandas could grow that size!"

"They do now!" Mei laughed as she shook the Doctor's hand.

Yaz had managed to keep up and managed to see Mei herself as well, immediately shocked at the enlarged red panda herself.

"Are you really?" Yaz asked the red panda.

With a poof of pink smoke, Meilin transformed back into her human self except with the additional details of the red panda ears and tail remaining.

"Sometimes yes, sometimes no!" Answered Meilin smiling. "Sometimes I can be both!"

Yaz stared wide eyed in amazement at the thirteen year old who managed to shapeshift before her very eyes. All the while without Meilin or anyone else looking, the Doctor managed to use the sonic screwdriver to scan behind her back.

With that, Meilin transformed back into her red panda form whilst greeting more guests.

The Doctor looked at the sonic screwdriver with a curious look on her face just as Yaz joined her.

"What's up?" Asked Yaz.

"Interesting!" The Doctor said with intrigue in her voice.

"The girl has full human DNA but it can fluctuate between that and red panda DNA." She continued. "She's completely normal otherwise!"

"Then why is she, you know?" Yaz inquired further.

The Doctor then motioned her to Jin, starting a tour of the temple.

"Maybe we'll get our answers there!" The Doctor said.

"Our temple is the oldest in Toronto." Jin began the tour as he led the tourists inside.

As always, Meilin took pictures with each guest who wanted to take a picture with the apparent local celebrity in Toronto.

"Bamboo leaves!" Meilin and two children shouted as her mother took a Polaroid picture.

"Hey Mei!" She heard Miriam shout to her.

Meilin saw her friends Miriam, Priya, Abby and Tyler coming inside the temple much to her delight.

"Ready for karaoke?" Miriam asked.

"You bet!" Meilin responded. "But let me look my best first!"

With a poof of pink smoke, she transformed back to her human self but once again kept the ears and tail.

"Bye mom, bye dad!" She called out to her parents.

"Just be home in time for dinner, Mei Mei!" Ming called back.

"We will!" Meilin promised before adding, "Thanks for covering for me, dad!"

"You bet!" Meilin responded. "But let me look my best first!"

With a poof of pink smoke, she transformed back to her human self but once again kept the ears and tail.

"Bye mom, bye dad!" She called out to her parents.

"Just be home in time for dinner, Mei Mei!" Ming called back.

"We will!" Meilin promised before adding, "Thanks for covering for me, dad!"

"Have fun, Mei!" Jin said as he placed on the cardboard red panda costume.

 

"And don't load up on junk food!" Ming shouted. "Remember last week!"

"I won't!" Meilin shouted back to give her mother assurance. "Don't worry!"

As the five left the temple however, a young woman in a flower sundress, white sneakers and a straw hat eyed on the children underneath her sunglasses, looking inconspicuous by pretending to take pictures of the temple in order to not draw any attention to herself.

The most notable feature however, was her blue hair.

As she saw the children leave the temple, she took out a flip on mobile phone and pressed the dial button as she stood behind one of the potted plants.

"Status report?"

"The children are on the move. Going to the karaoke place."

"As I figured based on my own observations. Follow them but remain inconspicuous. Don't assist unless I tell you. I'll get them myself."

"Yes, mistress Rani."

As Ming tended to the guests as she and her husband taught them about the family ancestors, the disguised Dark Mercury left the temple fast but discreetly.

During the conversation however, Yaz had noticed the peculiar behavior of the woman when she looked back briefly before eyeing on the young woman when she wasn't looking.

Elsewhere, Meilin and her friends were just getting off the street car where they arrived just in time for their usual karaoke place a few blocks down.

"You want to make a Nightfall fan film?" Meilin said as she was the first to step off the street car.

"I do." Priya said in her usual deadpan manner but still excited. "If no one's going to do a movie, I want to be the first to do it."

"I want to play a vampire!" Abby exclaimed with glee.

Priya smirked, "Don't worry, you'll be in it."

She beamed with excitement as the teens entered their usual karaoke place, SongCook's Rec Room, a restaurant with a karaoke bar that had often been a hangout for teens.

Stepping out of the street car as well after driving a few feet away was Dark Mercury, still in her disguise. She had managed to follow them from the temple to the street car without any of them suspicious of her activity.

As she stopped by an alleyway, after narrowly avoiding a Pizza Poppa cart its owner was chasing after, she heard a familiar noise and saw The Rani's TARDIS, still a wardrobe, materializing in front of her.

The Rani stepped out as she walked toward Dark Mercury as she carried a metal briefcase with Lash stepping out as well but staying put with his arms crossed.

"The children have entered SongCook's." Dark Mercury informed the Time Lady.

"Excellent." The Rani said, satisfied with the progress so far.

The Rani then took out a small white cube and placed it on the edge of the sidewalk. Pressing the top, it produced a hologram of a moving truck.

"I shall do the rest." She then told Dark Mercury, "stay here and guard the TARDIS with Lash. You both will be called when ready."

"Yes, mistress." Nodded Dark Mercury.

With that, The Rani approached the karaoke bar and went inside. She eyed the teens briefly as she sped walk to one of bathrooms, the ladies room, in order to avoid detection from her targets.

As she entered and locked the door, she placed the suitcase onto the floor to reveal a simple waitress outfit, complete with a white shirt, black vest, black shoes and dark pants. Her disguise.

But on top of it, a small vial.

A few minutes since Meilin and her friends entered the karaoke bar, already they were up on stage singing the lyrics to one of the many songs by 4*Town such as Nobody Like You. All five of them poured their hearts out singing the lyrics.

After finishing, whilst even performing a couple of dance moves, Meilin and her friends sat back down to the booth. All of them were cheering for their accomplishment singing.

"Shouldn't our drinks be here?" Asked Miriam.

As a waitress with bright pink red hair and a slightly long braided ponytail was about to pour soda into empty cups, her process however was interrupted by an intrusive voice.

"You're needed at another table." Another waitress said sternly.

"Table eight?" The waitress asked.

"Get to it." The other waitress said coldly. "I'll take over your duties for table five. Now."

The waitress was put off by her rude attitude but nevertheless complied as she walked away for her apparent new duty.

As she walked away, the other waitress looked back and forth for any witnesses, she took out the vial and poured the contents into the ice filled cups which resembled black powder before pouring cola on them.

"I've heard from the official 4*Town forums, there's going to be a midnight release of 4*Town's new album!" Abby exclaimed in excitement.

"I still can't believe they wrote a song called Red Panda!" Meilin said, excited with glee. "You're practically famous!" Miriam grinned.

Tyler cheered on as did Abby. Much of her friends cheered in excitement over the news especially after the incident at the Skydome being nicknamed Pandapocalypse 2002.

"Yes, we all know the not so subtle exploits of Ms. Lee." The teens heard a familiar snobby voice.

"Ms. O'Mara?!" Meilin shouted in shock.

The teens were shocked to see their former science teacher working in the karaoke bar, even holding a tray of their soda. She looked at them with an expression of disdain.

"Yes, it may shock you that teachers have different jobs during the summer." "Ms. O'Mara" said with a sneer and sarcasm in her tone. "I should have known I'd see you five here however."

 

The teens looked at her and each other awkwardly. Wondering whether to say something or not as they rather not risk incurring her wrath.

"Holding your tongue as ever, as I figured." "Ms. O'Mara" said as she placed each of their drinks on the table. "Here. I especially don't understand why you consume those disgusting sugary concoctions."

"Uh...good to see you, Ms. O'Mara!" Miriam said awkwardly as she took hold of her soda and then waved to her as did the other teens with forced smiles on their faces.

"Save it!" "Ms. O'Mara" shouted in annoyance. "I'll be out of this job in a week and go on a three month long vacation, so don't expect to see me again. And I'm thankful so I won't have to deal with you brats!"

With that, she walked away with her back turned on them.

"At least for now." She muttered quietly to herself with a small grin on her face.

As soon as Ms. O'Mara was out of their sight, the five teens broke their forced smiles and groaned.

"She's so mean!" Abby grumbled with a frown on her face.

"She's a witch!" Tyler crossed his arms as he agreed with his friend.

"The worst." Priya concurred in her usual monotone as sipped her soda.

"She's a snob!" Miriam exclaimed.

"And so bossy!" Meilin said.

The five murmured in total agreement. The memories of having Ms. O'Mara as their science teacher came flooding back to them.

Remembering the multiple times she had berated each student. Meilin remembered the annoyed look Ms. O'Mara always gave when she got an A as always. Miriam remembered Ms. O'Mara shaming her clothes at any opportunity, literally insinuating Miriam lived an inferior, lower class lifestyle.

Priya would remember she and the other students would be graded unfairly for the most arbitrary reasons. One time, Priya had gotten a C on a science quiz over two wrong answers out of twenty questions that Ms. O'Mara considered crucial.

Abby on the other hand, was targeted by Ms. O'Mara for even more superficial reasons such as her mother working at a salon, another way of insinuating she too, lived a lower class lifestyle. As well as Abby's aggressive, high strung personality.

And finally with Tyler, Ms. O'Mara often berated him for "looking like a wannabe basketball player" as well even similarly graded him unfairly for arbitrary reasons.

"I got a D on my science quiz and for what, the spelling of Cytoplasm?" Tyler said in exasperation.

"Called my braces imperfect." Miriam said with an angry tone in her voice. "Where does she get off?"

"At least we won't see her again!" Meilin said with confidence in her voice and reassurance for the sake of her friends.

"At least not until school starts." Priya dryly added.

Meilin gave a quick glare at Priya before regaining her composure.

"Point is, this year is going to be special!" Said Meilin. "And we're gonna own it!"

"Yeah!" Her friends cheered as they held their glasses high in triumph.

"We are 4*Townies, ride or die!" Meilin exclaimed as she and the other made a toast to their friendship.

With that, the 4*Townie friends sipped their sodas as they await their second turn at the karaoke machine.

Elsewhere in another alley, a bright light flashed before a bystander with a flask just as he was passing through.

The bright light dispersed to reveal a squad of the Judoon, eleven of them including their commander.

The bystander looked at his flask in confusion after he took one look at the Judoon and looked at them again. In response, he ran off-dropping the flask entirely.

"Find the Doctor!" The Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don growled. "Make sure she does not escape again."

"You think this blue haired woman seemed suspicious?" The Doctor asked Yaz as the duo walked out of the temple after the tour and into a busy street.

"Positive." Yaz nodded in confirmation. "She seemed too interested in the children."

"What did you hear?"

"I didn't hear much thanks to the crowd but I heard her talking to a mistress?"

The Doctor froze in place. She could not help but wonder if it was Missy again, a previous form of The Master. She could not help but wonder if she was in a time period where Missy was residing until the next encounter when The Doctor used to be her previous self.

"Doctor?" She heard Yaz call her.

The Doctor shook her head, snapping out of her trance.

"What?"

"You froze for a moment." Yaz said before asking, "are you alright?" "You remember the Master, right?" Asked the Doctor.

"...Yes?" Yaz replied, very unsure where the Doctor was going to go with her question.

"Well before you met The Master as is," The Doctor explained to her friend. "He was, well, used to be a Time Lady at one point."

She continued on rapidly as Yaz nodded as she began to understand a bit.

"Often called herself Missy. Now last I saw her, she teamed up with one of her previous selves. But for all I know, if this is her doing, if indeed it is her, this could be at a time before my previous self met her again. Does this make any sense to you, Yaz? Tell me if I'm not making any sense!" "I mean I can follow this one a bit at least." Yaz shrugged.

"Something is wrong and we need to find out what it is!" The Doctor said as she raced off with Yaz not far behind.

"Doctor, wait!" She cried out as she ran.

It was now 2:30 P.M., Meilin and her friends walked out of SongCook's Rec Room but they noticed after they performed their second song, they were feeling a bit exhausted.

"That was great!" Meilin exclaimed as she rubbed her eyes. "But why am I feeling tired?"

"All of us are." Miriam said as she grasped her head. "I don't know why."

"The world's going fuzzy..." Abby moaned as she stumbled a bit, almost tripping on her feet.

As they approach an alleyway near the bus stop, a familiar figure stepped out-blocking their path.

At first, Meilin lifted her glasses up as she squinted before placing them back on as she tried to make out who was in front of them. Only she briefly had her vision cleared to recognize who.

"Ms. O'Mara?" Meilin asked in confusion. "What are you doing here? And what's with the outfit?"

"Ms. O'Mara" being dressed in her actual red jumpsuit outfit complete with the gloves and boots with her hands on her hips and a cold look on her face.

"Yes and no." "Ms. O'Mara" said. "There was never a Ms. O'Mara for a start."

"...What?" Meilin paused in shock before she asked, still feeling disoriented.

"Considering how weak and disorienting you all are, I might as well tell you straight away. I am The Rani." The Time Lady introduced herself.

"And you brats are about to become part of a bigger picture." She added.

"I'm sorry, what?" Miriam asked in shock and confusion.

Meilin, even in her disorienting state, knew this meant trouble.

"Help!" Meilin cried out.

"Don't even bother!" Said The Rani as she motioned to the truck next to Meilin and her friends. "Do you see that truck next to you? Not only is it a hologram of my own creation, it also acts as a shield and is sound proof. No one can hear you."

"Help!" Meilin and her friends shouted loudly in the vain hope someone would hear them. "Help! Help! Help us! Help! Help!"

"Help!" The Rani mockingly shouted at the top of her lungs in a taunting manner.

"Mei, transform, man!" Tyler shouted.

Meilin grasped her head, still feeling dizzy. Even as her red panda ears and tail poofed away.

"I can't..." She groaned as she stumbled. "I'm too weak..."

"No one's going to help you, Ms Lee." The Rani said. "And that being the case..." With a snap of her fingers, out came Lash and Dark Mercury from the alleyway.

The teens looked at them in shock at their sudden appearance.

"Who the heck are they?" Priya asked with her eyes wide open in surprise.

"Take them!" The Rani commanded.

With that, The Rani grabbed Meilin Lee, wrapping her arms around and placed the girl under her arm as the red panda girl hopelessly struggled to break free from the Time Lady's grasp.

"Let me go!" Meilin cried out weakly. "Let me go!"

"Put us down! Put us down! I banish you! Let me go!" Miriam and Priya shouted as they struggled to break free from Dark Mercury picking them up from the back of their shirts with Priya weakly waving her hand as if she was trying to cast a spell.

While Miriam was pounding her fists but both were feeling they were fading.

"Let us go! Get off! Get off me, ugly muscle man! Let go!" Abby and Tyler shouted and struggled to break free as Lash picked them up by their hair with Abby even insulting Lash in Korean.

"Let go!" Meilin tried to scream but felt her body giving into unconsciousness. "Mom... dad... help..."

Meilin's head finally slumped over, completely unconscious as were the other teens.

Satisfied, The Rani deactivated the hologram as she reached over to touch the top part of the holographic cube, dispersing the truck hologram entirely.

"Come," The Rani said to Lash and Dark Mercury. "We have work to do."

The Rani and her two main subordinates went back to the alleyway and straight back into The Rani's TARDIS.

With all three inside, the doors closed and dematerialized out of the alleyway as if it were never there at all.

"Wait! Stop!" A voice cried, belonging to a man with curly blonde hair and a rainbow coat rushed into the alleyway attempting to catch The Rani's TARDIS.

He attempted to leap onto the ship before it disappeared but landed on the ground instead when it left and out came a few file folders flying out of his coat.

"Blast!" He growled, half in annoyance over picking up the fallen files but half in anger he was too late to save the teens.

"It looks like I'll have to race to the Lee family temple!" He said with determination.

"I just hope I'm not too late!" He added as he raced off.

But not before he crashed into another person.

"OW!" Both screamed as they hit their heads and fell down.

"Doctor, are you okay?" Yaz asked in concern as she helped the Doctor up.

"Yes, I'm quite alright!" The curly haired blonde man said.

"What?" Yaz in confusion asked as she stared at the man.

"What?" The man asked in irritation.

"What?!" The Doctor exclaimed in shock as she stared at the man before her.

"What?"

"What?"

"Do you two know each other?" Yaz asked the Doctor.

"More than you know!" The Doctor answered breathlessly. "He's me..."

"What?!" He exclaimed in shock as well as he eyed his future self. "Impossible!"

"Believe it, I'm you!" The Doctor said. "Your future self, number six!"

"Then in that case, Doctor," The 6th Doctor said. "There's something urgent you need to know and I'm afraid we're running out of time!"

Author's Notes:

And that's your cliffhanger, the classic Doctor Who theme from the Colin Baker era if you wish.

So, plenty of behind the scenes from me to go about.

- So, the title I give credit to L1701E. He saw I was thinking about titles for this story andhe suggested Rampage of the Rani which actually sounded better than Evolution of the Rani. The alliterative name works as he pointed but also given the premise and what she's doing, it seemed more fitting. So, a huge special thank you to him.

- Earth-030122 is named after the date Turning Red premiered at the El Capitan theaterbefore its Disney Plus premiere date.

- Pip and Jane Industries are a shout out to Pip and Jane Baker (No relation to Colin), thecreators of The Rani.

- The Skraaldian is the alien race from the first episode of Men in Black: The Series, evenits designated Earth number is its premiere date October 10th, 1997.

- And another thing about the Skraaldians, I tend to have a theme especially in mycrossovers where a certain antagonist is always bested and beaten by someone worse than them and nine times out of ten it's either a Horror villain, Marvel villain or a Doctor Who villain. And in this case, it's the third given the Rani.

- The idea of The Rani intending to make clones of the Skraaldians is inspired by theorigin of Vee in The Owl House. Don't think about this one too hard. Just something I think the Rani would do.

- While I'm going to introduce him in the next chapter, Metal Head is from the G.I. Joe cartoon DiC made in the early 90s.

- Chronological wise, this takes place before Series 13 or otherwise known as Doctor Who: Flux, hence why it's just Yaz as the companion. I'll leave it up to the reader if they see this as their first adventure after Revolution of the Daleks or one of their many adventures after it.

- I picked the 13th Doctor as she's my favorite Doctor and always wanted to write her andshe's a Doctor I intend to write the most for anything related to Infinity Crisis and even outside of that series.

- I did think briefly about the story taking place immediately after the last scene of the film but I decided it should at least take place a few weeks after and into the summer especially as I have plans for action and comedic set pieces in mind.

- The flower sundress is a shout out to Raina from Agents of Shield as prior to her transformation as an Inhuman, wearing the flower sundresses was a visual motif of hers.

- Yaz getting suspicious was a late addition while writing as I realized, I essentially had her and the Doctor doing nothing and weren't going to get deeply involved until later. Briefly I thought about the Doctor admitting she met Sun Yee but that just ended going nowhere.

- SongCook's Rec Room is a combination of two actual karaoke bars in Toronto. I wastrying to find what karaoke bars were open in 2002 but no such luck. So, I decided to combine two different names of the karaoke bars still open being SongCook's Korean Restaurant and The Rec Room.

- Pizza Poppa being a reference to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Whichwas something I was inspired by my dear friend Ben2Dartmouth when I asked him for ideas. Can't say why yet, it's a bit of a spoiler. But either way, a huge special thank you to him as well.

- The hologram was last minute, having Meilin and her friends getting kidnapped in thedaylight and near public places as well as the function of being a shield and sound proof, basically done to avoid such a potential plothole and really, you can argue Dark Mercury helped invented that.

- Inspired by the movie Men in Black, I decided to go for the idea of The Rani infiltratingand in disguise as a member of staff and nobody paying attention. Though, she's more discreet than Edgar.

- The waitress in question is a Hikaru Shidou variant from Magic Knight Rayearth. Ben2Dartmouth gave me an idea but don't want to give it away yet still.

- I've always had the idea that The Rani infiltrating the school disguised as a scienceteacher. And I came up with the most ludicrous scenarios what she could have done and possibly in character. Actually originally, I was going to have the Rani drugging Meilin and her friends at a school lunch but I couldn't figure how she'd do it being discreet. So ultimately, I changed it to a karaoke place.

- Ms. O'Mara being the disguised name for The Rani is a shout out/tribute to the originalactress who played the role in the classic Doctor Who, Kate O'Mara

- The Judoon being here, this one I'll give away slightly because to be blunt, as a runninggag for my Doctor Who crossovers, if I involve the Judoon, they have to endure tons of comedic and humiliating abuse being put on them. Like, think Home Alone 1 & 2 and Boba Fett in Return of the Jedi. That and the Judoon would had to have been alerted about the Doctor escaping prison in Revolution of the Daleks. But otherwise, yeah, Judoon get slapstick abuse.

In addition, I made a small error in The Girl From T.O.R.O.N.T.O. in which I should have wrote Judoon captain instead of commander, which, my mistake and I had forgotten the Judoon captain even had a name in Fugitive of the Judoon and presumably it was always the same one in the Doctor Who episode Smith and Jones because either way, the same Judoon captain from those stories and this one, is the same one that endured comically violent abuse in The Girl From T.O.R.O.N.T.O.

- Missy I did consider briefly as the main villain but I dug in my heels and wanted The Rani no matter what.

- The Doctor and Yaz investigating was going to go on longer into the next chapter but Idecided to shorten it and it sacrificed a moment I was fond of being The Doctor finds out it's the Rani through a business card promoting Pip and Jane Industries where she unscrambled an anagram of The Rani. But ultimately in the end, it had to go as it could slow the story.

- Honestly, I just thought one of the worst things The Rani can do being she can care lessabout humans is drugging children and kidnap them for her experiments. Hence why I settled on this plot.

- The Rani taunting Meilin and her friends with even a loudly mock cry of help todemonstrate no one is listening is a homage to a moment in the third segment of Creepshow where Leslie Nelson as the antagonist did the same thing.

- The 6th Doctor as to why he's in this is basically he seemed a lot of fun to write for. It'snot a full on multi Doctor story but it is taking somewhat of a cue from The Two Doctors. Even adding in the Judoon as a third party was meant to reflect kind of how that story had the Sontarans.

- I did wanted to add another Doctor, the 4th Doctor as he's my second favorite Doctorbut the sad reality is, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find a way to get him in there no matter how much I wanted him but I had enough characters either for importance or as fodder for slapstick abuse, I didn't want to over stuff him. I'll use him next time though.

- Originally, the cliffhanger was going to be the Rani leaving after kidnapping Meilin andher friends and the 6th Doctor failing to rescue them to set him up as a mysterious character like Castiel in the Supernatural/Scooby Doo crossover and even have the 6th Doctor show up at the Lee temple after the 13th Doctor and Yaz arrived to tell Ming and Jin what they found. But seemed pointless stretching out the story and wouldn't make sense business cards for a front be sent out that ultimately, I decided to have all three go to the Lee temple and the 6th Doctor tell the 13th Doctor and Yaz about The Rani.

That's it, hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for chapter two! See you soon!

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Author's notes:

It took almost a month but it's here. A bit longer than the previous one but yeah. This is where things go full speed ahead.

Here's the second chapter at last and I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 2: A New Shade of Red

At first, Meilin could not open her eyes fully. She could feel her head pounding from the drug she unknowingly ingested. She felt all she wanted to do was sleep so this apparent headache would go away.

"You children can wake up now. The drug I designed is meant to knock you out for ten minutes."

Hearing a familiar voice, Meilin's eyes opened as did her friends. The very first thing they saw being The Rani staring at them with her arms crossed.

Meilin grasped but soon she and her friends noticed upon waking up, they were strapped onto table platforms in the middle of a laboratory. They struggled to break free but could not due to the manacles on their wrists and ankles strapped onto them.

"What the heck?" Miriam exclaimed.

"Ms. O'Mara, what is this?!" Meilin demanded to know.

"I already told you, there was never a Ms. O'Mara, I am The Rani." Said the Time Lady. "Otherwise, welcome to my main laboratory."

She continued, "What you see is my main base of operations. Where I've been in your universe for months, Earth time wise."

"What do you mean 'our universe?'" Asked Meilin.

"And you said Earth time," Priya said before point blank asking, "Are you an alien?"

"In your arbitrary definition of the word, yes." The Rani replied before adding, "Exiled from the planet Gallifrey. Known for my various experimentations on life forms."

"Wait, you are an alien?" Asked Miriam, shocked by what had just heard.

"We gotta deal with aliens too?!" Tyler exclaimed in disbelief as Abby grinned at the thought of meeting aliens.

"And again, what do you mean 'our universe?'" Meilin asked again.

The Rani rolled her eyes as she continued, "Yes, if you must call me an alien. And your universe is part of a series of other universes. The multiverse. During one of my many journeys, I discovered the multiverse. Some universes are similar, others are not. First and foremost however, I experiment in genetics and biochemistry. Discovering the multiverse however and being inspired by the Skrulls and their genetic experimentations, I realized I can harness all sorts of genetics of every life form from every universe imaginable within my grasp. Everything for me to take advantage of."

"What's a Skrull?" Asked Tyler out of confusion.

The Rani glared at Tyler in pure contempt. "You stupid children have no imagination even when taking my Science classes."

"Lady, you're nuts!" Abby shouted.

"We just thought you were grumpy, kind of a jerk." Miriam said. "Now it's pretty clear you're crazy!"

In a split second, The Rani slapped Miriam across her face much to the horror and anger of Meilin and the rest of her friends.

"I suggest you keep your mouth shut, little girl!" The Rani said.

"That was uncalled for!" Meilin screamed.

Abby growled in anger as she attempted to break free from her manacles with Priya and Tyler screaming their objections.

"Break free Ms. Lee and transform into your red panda form or I'll target my Genetic Bomb to be fired at your family temple!" The Rani exclaimed her threat.

This elicited gasps from her friends but Meilin had a look of fear and distraught on her face.

"You wouldn't!" Meilin cried out with worry.

"I would." The Rani gave a small smirk. "But even if you could, your manacles specifically are designed to size shift with your red panda form that even if you decided anyway, you won't break free."

"I intend to save the Genetic Bomb as my final solution. Turning this universe into my personal set of slaves and also recruit the rest as soldiers." She then added. "But speaking of soldiers, that's where you five come in."

"What do you even want with us?" Asked Priya.

"Considering I'll need an army to conquer the multiverse," The Rani responded. "I decided to start with you lot as my subjects. Test subjects but otherwise, children can be easily indoctrinated into becoming soldiers."

The five young teens looked at The Rani incredulously.

"But why us specifically?" Asked Meilin.

"It was at one point when being around Toronto searching for subjects, I had seen you running down the street to that ridiculous concert at the Skydome." The Rani responded.

The last remark earned death glares from the five teens.

The Rani continued as she ignored the glares, "Mind you, I first noticed during your dodgeball session upon seeing your arm transform. In any case, I followed you and managed to get there. Just in time for your mother to cause destruction. Of course, I kept myself hidden whilst obtaining the fur from you and your mother. You'd be amazed how much fur the both of you can shed."

Meilin gagged upon hearing that last part with her friends concurring.

"Dude, that is so gross!" Miriam said with.

"That's just weird." Priya concurred.

"You can't steal fur!" Abby exclaimed.

"You're a weirdo!" Tyler said.

The Rani rolled her eyes in response.

"Oh please, you brats clearly never owned pets as you should know how often a cat or a dog shed their fur. Or in your case, Ms Lee, you shed fur every 0.3 seconds."

"Hey!" Screamed Meilin, offended by the remark.

"You stupid children wouldn't last in biology class-"

"Mistress!" The Rani heard Dark Mercury through the intercom. Annoyed at being interrupted, she pressed a button on the console to talk to her.

"What is it?" The Rani asked with an irritated tone in her voice.

"Forgive me," responded Dark Mercury. "But that sorceress who turns into a cobra, Messina?"

"Yes, what about her?"

"She's on the verge of death. Her nephew, the frog, is already dead."

"My poisoned nutrients worked, I take it?"

"You poisoned the nutrients?"

"Yes. I couldn't allow them to escape, could I? Shoot the incompetent sorceress."

"Yes mistress."

Turning off the intercom, The Rani now eyed the young teens who stared at her with shock, horror and disgust.

"Dude, you are so messed up!" Miriam said.

"My dear child," The Rani responded. "It is all in the name of science. What seems barbaric to you is just simply another Wednesday."

The Rani turned to the doors on the left as she heard ruckus from behind those doors. Her eyes narrowed, as she concentrated on the noise until finally, she heard a laser gun shot fired twice.

"I...will...rule the world-" Messina's only words she managed to croak before a third shot managed to do her in.

The Rani, satisfied, turned to face the teens again, only to see their jaws drop in horror.

"Oh come off it, Messina was a fool in her universe." The Rani said without skipping a beat. "That imbecilic sorceress had every opportunity to kill her nephew but turned him into a frog instead and he managed to live. Frankly, she deserved to die for her stupidity and ill thought out plans anyway."

"Dude, what are you talking about?" Tyler asked in utter confusion.

"Regardless, you five are the first to become part of my army. Think of it, you'll be given extraordinary abilities and help me conquer the multiverse." The Rani said, ignoring Tyler's question.

"Hard pass!" Meilin spat.

"Yeah, we're not doing this!" Miriam concurred as Priya, Abby and Tyler nodded and shouted their agreement with Miriam.

The Rani stared both coldly and annoyed at their vocal disagreements.

"I didn't say you five had a choice." The Rani said as she pressed a few buttons.

She continued as needles descending from the ceiling targeted each of the arms of the five children. Meilin and her friends stared at the needles in paralyzed fear. Even Priya, known for her deadpan expressions, felt fear coursing through her veins.

"What's that?" Priya asked, staring wide eyed at the needle pointed at her.

"Four of the needles have the red panda DNA from the fur of Ms Lee and her mother, while for all five you including Ms Lee herself, DNA from Patient Zero tossed in for good measure." The Rani answered simply.

In response, all five struggled frantically to break free but The Rani, very quickly, pressed a button to initiate the injections.

As the needles descended upon the five teens, they screamed in utter fear. The Rani only observed with a cold expression on her face as the needles reached their arms as the children begged and screamed helplessly.

Finally, the needles pierced through their skin, right into their arms and injected the intended DNA. The teens could feel the injected DNA coursing through their bodies, spreading through their bloodstream until it affected all their entire bodies.

But suddenly, all their eyes rolled back and the teens started to twitch, compulse and violently shake, having seizure attacks as they groaned and screamed. The Rani now had a look of concern, not for the children but side effects she did not anticipate and the potential loss of her starting army.

She checked the computer monitor for answers. She looked at the visual status of each of the young teens and to her shock, in the sense she underestimated the reactions, their heartbeats had run rampant and dangerously high.

"Lash, Dark Mercury! Get in here immediately! Now!" The Rani shouted into the intercom as she pressed the button to activate it.

She then raced to where Meilin was as the teens were still having what looked like a seizure attack to the point of coughing foam out of their mouths. The Time Lady could not further examine them due to the constant movements including their heads jerking around as if they were possessed.

"My lady, what's happened?" Dark Mercury asked as she and Lash entered the main laboratory.

Before The Rani could answer, Meilin's eyes shifted back to normal and loudly screamed their lungs out as did Miriam, Priya, Abby and Tyler. All five screaming for a good, solid thirty seconds before passing out completely.

"Check the monitor!" The Rani said to Dark Mercury.

Dark Mercury nodded as she raced over to the computer console and looked at the monitor.

"My lady, heartbeat rates have normalized." Dark Mercury reported.

As if to be extra sure, The Rani felt the pulse on Meilin's wrist after rolling up the girl's sleeve.

"The stupid children gave me a scare!" The Rani said, annoyed. "I underestimated the side effects on humans."

"Wouldn't be the first time you underestimated whatever." Lash snarked as he crossed his arms.

The Rani in response raised her forefinger with a dark glare on her face, signaling him to be silent.

"Don't even dare bring up past failures." The Rani said. "It's clear despite even testing on other near extinct species from Earth 101197, the physical side effects can be unpredictable. Very curious indeed."

She then added, "It seems to me, given they haven't expired, safe to keep them imprisoned until they transform and then I'll deal with them."

The Rani pressed on the intercom.

"Putties, I will need a few of you lot for prison transport."

On cue, five Putties came into the main laboratory and stood in a row awaiting her orders.

"Take these children to their prison cell." The Rani said. "I will be dealing with them shortly as soon as they wake up."

The Putties nodded and got to work as the platforms shifted into wheeled carriers with the press of a button. Each of the Putties wheeled them out of the main laboratory to the right.

"The left, imbeciles." The Rani said in an annoyed tone.

Obligated, the Putties wheeled the children to the left to be taken to their prison cells.

"And get rid of that sorceress too!" The Rani called out to them.

"I will remove the body, mistress." Dark Mercury bowed before leaving.

"What do you want me to do then?" Lash asked.

"Stay here in case anyone else escapes." The Rani answered. "Make sure anyone who tries doesn't leave. Dead or alive."

"You're the boss." Lash nodded.

Meanwhile, the Doctor, her 6th counterpart and Yaz were in the street car on their way back to the Lee temple. The trio found themselves sitting in the middle right behind the windows.

"The Rani is behind this?!" The Doctor asked in a shocked manner.

"Who's The Rani?" Asked Yaz.

"The Rani is a Time Lord exiled from Gallifrey for her malicious experiments." The Doctor quickly explained. "I ran into her a couple of times both as my sixth and seventh incarnations respectively."

"Seventh?" The 6th Doctor repeated in a quizzical manner. "Seventh? Seventh? I've met The Rani long enough well into my next incarnation?"

"Long story there." The Doctor replied before adding, "That was a weird adventure, all I can say without going into spoilers."

"Doctor, when have our adventures never been weird?" Yaz countered.

"I see you haven't told her the incident on Hyperion III." The 6th Doctor snarkily remarked to the current Doctor.

"Why would I ever want to talk about that?" The Doctor retorted.

"I'm just merely remarking on your companion's comment."

"Like your adventures are weirder than mine? I had to deal with the Solitract I found in Norway!"

"Try dealing with the entirety of Varos!"

"Can we come back to why we're here, please?!" Yaz exclaimed almost loudly before stopping herself from making a scene.

"Sorry, Yaz!" The Doctor apologized. "Sometimes you can't help but argue with yourself."

"An understatement." The 6th Doctor scoffed.

"Oy!" The Doctor chided her 6th incarnation.

"Let's recap!" Yaz said. "The Rani is behind this and she's kidnapped children to turn them into some kind of mutant army?"

"That's the gist of it." The 6th Doctor nodded. "One way to put it at least."

He then added, "It seems that the children are the start of it before she decides to expand her methods to others."

"She's trying to turn them into child soldiers?!" The Doctor exclaimed in shock, borderline anger.

"How did you even get mixed up in this?" Yaz then asked.

"To make an extremely long story short," The 6th Doctor replied as he began to explain. "I was on my own piloting the TARDIS when I landed in Vancouver. I didn't think much about it, just landed then. But a peculiar building upon walking around said Pip and Jane Industries. I thought that was too curious. Even after checking a directory, there was no such thing."

"Interesting oversight on her part." The Doctor said.

"Quite. Knowing her however, it wouldn't matter as long as she maintained a low profile." The 6th Doctor concurred before continuing. "Just as I was about to investigate after seeing a young lady with blue hair enter, the one you described, I was ambushed by a rather large brute and I woke up finding myself in a prison cell. Face to face with the Rani of course."

"Let me guess, you exchanged banter?" Yaz asked.

"Yes, how did you know?" Both incarnations of the Doctor asked.

"Lucky guess." Yaz shrugged in response. "Is it not typical?"

The 6th Doctor continued still, "In any case, she merely told me her plans to conquer the multiverse, developing her army. Of course she then left me to my own devices with only a couple of guards she called Putties. Fairly easy to dispose of."

"You killed them?!" The Doctor asked, aghast.

"They were constructs!" The 6th Doctor said. "Not alive to begin with but fairly easy to trick. For I faked a heart attack and punched them. Incidentally, a big Z on their chest turned out to be their weak spot. Why they would have that I've no idea but that's beside the point. Either way, I escaped, went into the main laboratory and stole copies of the profiles of her first subjects and managed to get into the transporter room, one that turned out to be controlled by thought as I imagined being anywhere than there and subsequently ended up in a Chinese restaurant in Kingston called Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine."

"That's a two and a half hour drive to Toronto!" The Doctor pointed out.

The 6th Doctor bitterly laughed, "Don't ask my story about that. Let's just say taxi cab drivers, teenagers playing me for a fool and riding with an insane preacher do not equal a fun journey. I had to take the train as a last resort but even that didn't work out, so I took the bus instead. And well, here we are."

"Quite the journey you took." Yaz remarked.

"Indeed!" The 6th Doctor nodded. "But now, we have a much larger problem to take care of."

"6th me is right, we have to get to the Lee family temple and fast!" Said The Doctor.

"What exactly are we going to tell them though?" Asked Yaz. "Not sure if they'll gravitate to complete strangers who know a lot about what's going on with their daughter."

"What other choice do we have?" The Doctor responded.

Yaz could only shrug and sigh, admitting she had a point.

The Putties managed to arrive near the prison cells as they continued to push the gunnieries of the children, whilst passing by two Putties pushing the dead bodies of Messina and the frog man.

As the Putties approached and went inside the room of a dozen prison cells, Abby slowly opened her eyes to notice the Putties with their backs turned. They walked across and went past by a dozen prison cells. Some empty, some full of prisoners.

As they stopped by another empty cell, most of the Putties with the exception of two, had decided to leave. One of the two Putties had pressed a button on a remote that removed the restraining manacles.

With their backs turned again, Abby opened her eyes briefly to see one of the Putties open the prison cell via hand scan on the wall.

She closed her eyes instantly shut again as the Putty turned around. As it was about to carry her into the prison cell, Abby finally struck back.

"BOO! BOOGA! BOOGA! BOOGA!" Abby screamed as she flailed her arms as if she were a ghost.

The Putties were instantly startled and attempted to run away before Abby kicked one of them in the face.

As she leapt off, the two Putties began chasing her around in a circle as Meilin began to wake up.

"Abby, what's going on?" Meilin asked as she rubbed her eyes.

"Kidnapped! Being chased now!" Abby exclaimed as she kept running in circles trying to avoid the Putties chasing her.

Meilin looked at the Putties with a dazed look before shaking her rapidly in disbelief as she now remembered what had happened to her and her friends.

"Crap!" Meilin cried out in disbelief.

"Ugh, my head hurts..." Miriam groaned as she woke up.

"My head is seriously pounding like a jackhammer..." Priya concurred as she grasped her head.

"Ow!" Tyler groaned as he grasped his head.

The three shook their heads, now alerted to the situation at hand.

"Hey!" Meilin shouted at one of the Putties before she punched directly on the Z plate of its chest.

The Putty stepped back in shock before it slumped its arms in resignation before exploding into pieces.

"Whoa..." was the only word Meilin breathed in amazement.

"Guys, hit the Z! It's their weak spot!" Meilin then turned to her friends.

The remaining Putty panicked upon hearing that and ran out of the room as the young teens could only stare in disbelief.

"That was easy." Priya said dryly.

"Wait, are we in a room of prison cells?" Miriam asked as she looked around her surroundings.

Behind her, she and the others looked at a cell with an older woman with brown skin, glasses and in a nurse scrub uniform. Beside her is a reptilian looking creature Miriam had to admit looked cute. Both had pleading looks on their faces.

"Dude, we'll get you out of here!" Miriam said as she struggled to find a way to open the door. She noticed a pad stuck to a wall and placed her hand. Nothing.

"Maybe it's one of those palm recognize things." Priya said.

Suddenly, they heard the door open yet again. They turned to see more Putties including who they presumed to be the one who ran away originally based on it pointing to the teens.

"We'll be back for you! We promise!" Meilin frantically said quickly to the two prisoners.

The woman and the creature could only nod in understanding before the Putties came rushing in to grab the teens. Meilin and her friends however ducked. But not before Miriam punched a Z on one of the Putties as did Priya and Tyler. Even all five of them including Meilin and Abby had a second go hitting the weak spots of the Putties. The teens then rushed out of the prison cell room with the doors closing behind them.

"Which way?!" Asked Tyler.

"Uh..." Meilin debated where to go, looking left and right.

"What's going on?" Meilin jumped with her tail sprouting out, startled when she heard Dark Mercury.

"Definitely right!" Meilin said as she and her friends ran in the intended direction.

"We got to pick a door!" Miriam said as they raced across the hallway of rooms.

"Which door though?" Priya asked.

"Let's try this one!" Abby said, pointing at a door on the right.

The young teens ran into the room to find a few tube shaped pods.

"Uh...where are we?" Asked Miriam.

"My lady!" Startled, they heard Dark Mercury shout from behind the door. "They're in the transporter room!"

"Get inside one of these!" Meilin said to her friends as they nodded in agreement.

Meilin stepped into one of the chambers first before the rest stuffed themselves in with her tail disappearing, creating an overstuffed, claustrophobic filled chamber.

"I wish we were at school right now!" Meilin cried out.

With that, the young teens disappeared in a flash of light.

"I'll open the door!" A wild abrasive voice shouted.

"Don't!" The Rani shouted.

"Bang! Bang!" He exclaimed as the doors blasted open with multiple debris destroying a few of the chamber pods. Out of the smoke, came The Rani, Dark Mercury and a few Putties. As well as a man in a red and black armored suit with two rocket launchers on his back and yellow goggles around his eyes.

The Rani surveyed the damage and a look of anger formed around her face.

"Metal Head..." She gritted her teeth.

"Uh...sorry about that, boss lady." Metal Head sheepishly apologized.

Angrily, The Rani turned around and punched Metal Head in the gut. He felt the pain hard enough that he clutched his chest.

"You imbecile!" The Rani snarled. "You're lucky I implemented self repairs for the transporters just in case. But otherwise make one more mistake, I will have your head! Is that understood?!"

Metal Head nodded frantically.

"Good!" The Rani made one final glare at Metal Head before departing to the main laboratory with Dark Mercury beside her.

"Inform the Putties I sent to retrieve the Doctor to change tactics. Search for the missing subjects and bring them back to me!" The Rani ordered Dark Mercury before adding, "And gather the subordinates."

"It will be done, my lady." Dark Mercury nodded.

"And as for you..." The Rani said to one of the Putties before punching it in the Z on its chest.

At the Lee family temple, it was now 3:25 P.M., a handful of tourists were still around as Ming and Jin were doing their best to run the temple. But Ming throughout the past half hour was starting to worry as Meilin had not come yet after karaoke.

"I'm sure she's alright." Jin said to Ming reassuringly.

"Mei Mei has never taken this long before." Ming said with a worried tone in her voice.

Suddenly, they heard the sounds of running footsteps. They turned to see The Doctor, her sixth counterpart and Yaz running into the temple and stopping in front of the couple, all three appearing out of breath after the street car dropped them off.

"Hello again!" The Doctor said as she tried to catch her breath.

"Hello, miss?" Ming said in confusion, recognizing The Doctor and Yaz but was curious about the blonde man in the bizarre coat.

"It's urgent we need to talk!" The Doctor then said.

"Literally the fate of the Multiverse depends on it!" The 6th Doctor added.

"Don't interrupt me!" The Doctor said to her sixth counterpart, annoyed.

"You were speaking out of breath!" The 6th Doctor retorted.

"So did you!" The Doctor turned to Ming afterwards and said, "Miss, this concerns your daughter and something terrible may have already happened!"

Ming and Jin could only stare in shock and appear distressed.

Elsewhere, at the now closed for the summer Lester B. Pearson Middle School, in a flash of light, Meilin and her friends dropped into a comical pile outside the front doors.

"Ow." Priya said with her deadpan tone of voice.

"What just happened?" Miriam asked as she and the others stood up.

"I think that teleporting thingy got us where I wanted it to go." Meilin answered with some uncertainty.

"So, controlled by thought basically?" Priya guessed.

"Yeah!" Meilin nodded, accepting the answer. "That's got to be it."

"We got to call the cops!" Tyler suggested.

"Oh yeah, what are we going to tell them? 'Hey, an alien kidnapped us for crazy experiments talking about the multiverse!'" Miriam sarcastically said before asking, "Who's gonna believe us? We're kids!"

"I turn into a red panda though!" Meilin responded.

"Yeah but again, aliens!" Miriam exclaimed. "People know you're the red panda since it's an Earth thing but nobody still believes in aliens!"

"They even cancelled The X-Files last year." Priya chimed in. "Safe to say UFO fascination is dead."

As the young teens debated amongst themselves, unknown to them, they were being watched from afar by a squad of Putties who were not far away from the school and in disguise wearing hats and trench coats.

"I have just received word that the Putties have found the children." Dark Mercury told The Rani, who was staring at the monitor in the main laboratory as she surveyed the security footage showcasing the escape.

"Excellent!" The Rani said as she took her eyes away from the monitor.

"Have you assembled the subordinates?" She then asked.

"Yes, my lady." Dark Mercury said as she presented the five individuals, not including Lash, all lined up.

"Of Earth - 090289, Metal Head but you know him already."

"Ready to blow off some steam!" Metal Head shouted with utter glee.

"Klis, the evil doppelganger of Silk from Earth - 666."

A six armed young Korean American woman with demonic eyes stepped forward with a simple growl.

"Captain Cold of Earth - 1979."

A man with a blue face with blue goggles and a dark blue and white coat and hoodie, complete with white gloves and boots stepped forward.

"Verminous Skumm of Earth - 091590."

A rat man creature in a red hood and purple outfit stepped forward with a grin on his face.

"And finally, Chilla of Third Earth."

A woman in blue skin, white hair with horns and a crescent moon on it with a white outfit to complete the look with another crescent moon around her chest as well, stepped forward in line with the others as she held a smirk on her face.

The Rani paced around them accordingly.

"You lot all have much to prove to me. You will gain my respect, maybe even promoted if you manage to retrieve my escaped subjects. You do understand however if you fail, you will be subjected to consequences. Understood?"

"Yes, mistress. Yeah boss lady!" Four said in unison save for Metal Head with his own words and thumbs up to boot.

The Rani gave him a quick glare before turning to Dark Mercury.

"Get a few weapons of mine ready and come to the transporter room."

"Yes, my lady!" Bowed Sailor Mercury.

As the young teens conversed amongst themselves as they began to walk a few feet away from the school, Abby stopped as clutched her stomach. Her friends stopped to notice as they heard her moan in pain.

"Abby?" Meilin asked her friend. "Abby, what's wrong?"

"I don't feel too good..." Abby moaned, looking a bit sickly.

"Guys..." Miriam had a look of worry on her face as she began to do the same as she felt a similar pain. "I think I'm feeling it too."

"Oh no..." Meilin groaned as she, Tyler and Priya fell to her knees, clutching their chests.

"What's with this pain?!" She then cried out.

Abby moaned the loudest in pain until she made a loud burp.

In which case, the pain suddenly stopped for all five of them. After a moment of silence, Meilin spoke.

"Maybe The Rani just wanted to give us indigestion!" Meilin scoffed before bursting out laughing.

The four others followed, laughing loud that their troubles were a false alarm.

That was, until Abby burped again but was followed by a poof of pink smoke and in her place, was a giant red panda. Soon, Miriam followed suit the exact same way. As did Priya and Tyler. Meilin in shock at first, her ears and tail appeared before giving a burp of her own and transformed into her red panda form.

The five stared at each other in shock for seconds. All seeing each other in their red panda forms. Meilin could see how hers differentiate from the others. The braided ponytails of Miriam were largely intact. The hairstyles on Priya and Tyler also remained. For Abby, her form was largely more pudgier than the others.

"I..." Abby was the first to speak after a moment of silence. "Am... so... FLUFFY! I'M SO FLUFFY!"

Abby gleefully hugged her tail.

"I always did say I wanted a tail." Priya shrugged, immediately going along with her newfound transformation.

"Uh, Mei." Miriam said with uncertainty to her friend. "What happened?"

"I don't know!" Meilin cried out. "This is too weird! I can't even process how this is happening to you guys!"

"It's that crazy witch!" Tyler exclaimed in stress and anger, all with a horrified look on his face. "Look at me! I'm cute and I'm, I'm fat!"

He lifted his belly a bit, whined and cringed upon seeing the weight he gained as a red panda.

"This is insane!" Screamed Tyler as he began to run. "I need help!"

But before he could any further, he bumped into and knocked down a being in black armor where the helmet is rhino shaped. The being fell into a mud puddle.

Tyler could only stand in shock (with his arms raised as a lot of red pandas are prone to do when in a state of surprise) as did his friends who had just caught up with him. But more shocking to them was seeing a being with their head exposed that literally resembled a rhino. Joined by other similarly dressed beings.

"You have committed a great offense! For assaulting a Judoon-!" The Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don growled.

"That was just an accident, you saw it!" Tyler frantically said as he turned to his friends with his tail hitting the Judoon captain by accident much to her annoyance.

In response, she pulled out a rifle to which Miriam spotted quickly.

"Tyler, look out!" Miriam screamed.

She rushed in and pushed the Judoon captain to the ground, causing her to misfire the rifle and instead, hit a street lamp. As it toppled over, it crash landed on a vacant car. Somehow, the radio turned on and out of the speakers, the song Beat It by Michael Jackson was blaring loudly.

The Judoon captain got up instantly. As Meilin got in between Miriam and Tyler, they along with Priya and Abby had looks of fear on their faces upon seeing the angry rhino alien's face.

"Insubordination will not be tolerated!" Pol-Kon-Don screamed in furious anger.

"Hey look!" Meilin shouted as she pointed her finger at nowhere.

The Judoon captain turned as Meilin threw a punch but was immediately thwarted when the Judoon captain intercepted it and used her hand to block the red panda girl's fist from coming into contact.

Pol-Kon-Don turned to face Meilin eye to eye with an unamused look on her face.

Thinking quickly however, Meilin kicked the Judoon captain directly in the crotch. Pol-Kon-Don released the girl's fist as she bent over and screamed in pain and afterwards, thrown to the rest of the Judoon who toppled over like dominos.

"Let's make a run for it!" Meilin screamed as she stepped on the Judoon who struggled to get up from the mud puddle. And consequently, got stepped on by the remaining newly transformed red pandas, directly on his chest.

After a mere fifteen minutes inside the Lee household, with the TV on no less, explaining what to Ming and Jin, they could only stare at the two Doctors and Yaz with utter confusion and bafflement.

"That...is insane!" Ming said after a minute of silence.

"Madame, it's the truth!" The two Doctors said in unison before turning to each other to say, "Don't do that!"

"Miss Lee, your daughter turns into a red panda." Yaz said. "Surely what we told you is not any more absurd!"

"That is different! The red panda is an Earth ordeal!" Ming countered. "There were no aliens involved!"

"Are you sure about that?" The Doctor asked. "Because from my experience-"

"Oh shut up, you!" Ming cut off the Time Lord. "You and the other one don't even have names! How are you both the Doctor? And why that ridiculous coat on him?"

"I beg your pardon, young lady!" The 6th Doctor huffed, feeling outright offended.

"And how do I know you people aren't involved with kidnapping my daughter?" Ming then exclaimed, accusing the trio.

"We told you what's going on!" Yaz countered.

Jin spotted the television and reacted in shock just as the four other adults argued amongst themselves.

"Uh, Ming?" He tapped his wife's shoulder.

"What?" Ming asked in annoyance until her expression became that of shock when she saw the television.

A breaking news report with the caption "Pandapocalypse Continues?" Featuring handheld footage of Meilin and her friends, all in red panda form, running away in a mad panic with their arms raised.

"Mei Mei?!" Ming screamed in shock. "Miriam?! Priya? Abigail? Tyler? What happened to them?! Why are they-?!"

"Madame, that's what we told you would happen!" The 6th Doctor said in an exasperated manner.

"Then you're..." Ming trailed off in shock as she was starting to put everything together and pointed at the 6th Doctor.

"Precisely!" He replied. "I am a Time Lord! As is my current counterpart."

"Hello!" The current Doctor smiled with a wave.

"But how?!" Ming exclaimed, completely exasperated. "This makes no sense!"

As Ming was trying to process everything. The phone rang to which The Doctor answered despite Jin offering to get it.

"Hello! This is the Doctor visiting the Lee family residence! How can I assist?" The Doctor spoke into the phone with a cheerful tone and smile on her face.

"It-it-it's supposed to affect the women in my family only! How did they get it?!" Ming continued to rant in confusion.

"Excuse me?" The Doctor approached Ming resting her chin on the woman's shoulder. "She says she's your mother. Want I take a message?"

Ming's eyes bulged out in a mad panic as she ducked on to the couch exclaiming, "I'M NOT HERE!"

The Doctor shared a look of concern as she allowed Jin to pass the phone to Ming who hesitantly spoke into the receiver.

"Mother... Hello!" Ming gritted her teeth in fear with a fake smile on her face. "How's everything with you since last month?"

"Ming, I called to talk to you about a troubling matter I've been told of just now."

"Uh... six o'clock news?"

"I'm calling as to why my granddaughter's friends are now red pandas?"

"Mother, I swear we're trying to figure that out. I swear this has nothing to do with Sun Yee!"

"Then how are they red pandas?"

"That's what we're trying to figure out but I can handle it."

"I'll be coming. With reinforcements."

"No! I can handle it-!"

But it was too late, her mother had hung up and dropped the phone in dismay, freezing in place.

"Family troubles?" The 6th Doctor asked Jin.

"It's very complicated." Jin sighed.

"I'm going to guess red pandas are a family thing." The Doctor chimed in.

"Yes they are." Jin responded.

"I suppose I should tell you-" Ming said before being cut off.

"You can tell us details in the TARDIS." The Doctor said. "Right now, we need you, your husband, your grandmother and whoever she's bringing!"

"What? How can you-?"

"You'll see! The TARDIS isn't far from here!" The Doctor grinned with a wink as she grabbed Ming's arm and rushed out the door with everyone following in pursuit.

Meilin and her friends continued to run as fast as they could to get away from the Judoon. During their running however, they could not help but notice an inner physical change within them.

"That's weird!" Meilin said. "I never ran this fast before as the red panda!"

"It doesn't feel like super speed but we're faster than usual!" Miriam concurred.

"Is that the Patient Zero stuff the Rani was talking about?" Meilin asked as she and her friends stopped by the window of a convenience store.

Quickly however, all five of them saw a familiar person. Staring at the wall was a seventeen year old with a bored, sleepy look on his face wearing a kangaroo hat.

In response, the five teens became smitten. Pressing their two forefingers together and stomping their right foot multiple times rapidly before shouting at the top of their lungs with a crazed look on their faces with their tongues sticking out,

"AWOOGA!"

The five quickly covered their mouths in embarrassment and darted away before the boy could notice. Though Abby originally opted to stay before Priya dragged her away by grabbing her tail.

As the five red pandas continued to run away, they ran past by a police car as an officer was eating his donut. He looked at the sight before him but merely shrugged. Figuring this would be a daily occurrence from now on.

Suddenly, a big fist broke through the car window on the left and was immediately thrown out and knocked unconscious upon landing on the pavement face first.

Lash dusted off his hands as The Rani, with the Point Three rifle strapped to her back, and Dark Mercury joined him.

"Good. This vehicle shall suffice to commandeer." The Rani said as she got inside the driver's seat with Dark Mercury and Lash getting in the back.

"The rest of you," The Rani spoke to her minions and five Putties outside the now stolen police car. "Steal other vehicles and join me."

With that, she drove away with the others immediately going for an SUV and a jeep respectively. From afar however, they were being watched by a young teenage girl of Romani descent with a red tiara dressed in red watched in concern and astonishment.

She pulled out her cell phone and dialed 119.

"You expect us to go in there?!" Ming asked incredulously as she pointed to the TARDIS.

"Well walked across the temple for this?! This...blue box?!"

"Young lady, I'll have you know the TARDIS is more than meets the eye." The 6th Doctor said.

"Will you stop calling me young lady?! You look my age!" Ming responded, annoyed.

"You really want me to answer that?" The 6th Doctor replied smugly as he placed his hands on his hips.

"We can debate about ages later, right now we need to get to your mother and gather more help to assist us!" The Doctor said as she opened the TARDIS doors.

"But I-"

"Ming, we need to trust them." Jin placed his hand on his wife's shoulder sympathetically. "For Mei."

Ming breathed inward and outwardly, resigned to trusting the strangers.

"Alright, let's go then!" Ming said determinedly.

"Good!" The Doctor smiled as she ran inside the TARDIS with Yaz following, Ming and Jin running inside with the 6th Doctor being the last to get in and closing the doors behind him.

"It's bigger on the inside?!" Screamed Ming.

"Uh..." Jin was speechless upon the sight of it all.

"Oh so you've redecorated? I don't like it!" The 6th Doctor said, unimpressed.

"Oy!" The 13th Doctor shouted, offended at the remark.

The TARDIS dematerialized instantly to their first destination. Just as Meilin and her friends arrived at the temple with Meilin herself coming in first while the others waited outside.

In her Florida home, Ming's mother, Wu, was applying the final touches to her make up when her home phone rang.

She thought it might be her own daughter trying to make a case that she'll resolve the odd occurrence of her granddaughter's friends becoming red pandas. She could amuse her daughter and hear her out.

"Yes?" Wu spoke into the receiver with her usual tough demeanor.

"Ms. Lee?" A British voice spoke.

The voice was enough to cause her to stumble and almost drop her phone out of fear upon recognizing the voice, even her eyes bulged out in horror, quickly losing her tough exterior.

"Um, yes Mister-" Wu spoke nervously.

"Ms Lee, we are aware of your family's ability to transform into red pandas which is why we didn't intervene with your granddaughter figuring that would get resolved."

"I'm going to get the bottom of it, I assure you!"

"Due to the fact one of our informants claimed they witnessed Time Lord activity just now, this situation may be out of your league."

"Give me a chance, please! This will be resolved, I promise!"

"We'll give you twenty four hours to resolve this mess. If you do, report your findings afterwards. If not, we will have to intervene. Your membership won't be affected of course, you've proven yourself among our group. Just get it done. Understood?"

Wu nodded, "Yes."

"Very well. We'll be in touch."

Wu remained worried after the phone hung up. But soon she was distracted by an odd sound.

She turned around to see the TARDIS materializing in her room much to her shock. Wu wondered where a Police Call Phone Box even came from and if it was connected to her most recent phone call.

The doors were then opened quickly to reveal the Doctor herself.

"Are you Madame Wu?" The Time Lord asked.

Wu nodded "yes" albeit with hesitation.

"Your daughter's inside and we need all the help we can get to rescue your granddaughter and her friends!" The Doctor said as she grabbed Wu's arm and dragged her to the TARDIS hastily.

"Unhand me! Who are you?!" Wu shouted angrily as she was dragged into the TARDIS despite all attempts to resist her.

She nevertheless was dragged inside and as the TARDIS dematerialized yet again, she expressed a moment of shock.

"It is bigger on the inside!" She screamed in Mandarin Chinese.

"I can't find mom or dad anywhere!" Meilin cried out to her friends as she left the temple.

"Seriously? How? Where'd they go? What happened?" Her friends responded with a variety of responses.

"I don't know!" Meilin replied, sounding extremely worried. "I mean, it didn't look like The Rani came here."

"Maybe they went looking for you!" Said Abby.

"That's gotta be it!" Meilin exclaimed, figuring that could have been what had happened.

"I mean, we're bound to attract attention at this point anyway." Priya chimed in.

Suddenly, they heard a high pitched scream not too far away.

"What was that?!" Asked an alarmed Miriam.

The five red pandas ran toward the left corner of the temple walls. They peered from the corner to see their classmate Stacy Frick being surrounded by older Caucasian teen boys in dark and brown leather clothing.

"Here! Here's all the money I have!" Stacy cried out, scared out of her mind.

Meilin and her friends immediately recognized trouble when they saw it, especially a mugging in progress. She then looked at her friends who all nodded with Meilin nodding back at them, all of them fully committed to what they were about to do.

"This ain't enough!" Said one of the teen boys. "There's gotta be more in that purse!"

"Yeah!" Concurred another teen boy with an emo haircut as he grabbed a baseball bat menacingly approached her. "I say let's beat it out of her!"

"No you don't!" The boys heard Meilin growl from behind.

"Oh yeah?" The leading older teen boy said. "And what are you gonna do about-?"

As the teen boys turned around, they were soon greeted by five angry red panda faces roaring at them. The boys screamed in pure terror. The one with the emo haircut tried to use the baseball bat to hit one of the red pandas but Miriam in particular not only clawed it in half but also punched him hard enough that he flew into a trash can.

"Whoa...!" Miriam breathed in amazement. "Didn't know you could do that as the red panda!"

"Neither did I actually." Meilin replied in equal parts confusion and amazement, wondering if this was connected to the Patient Zero DNA.

"Let's run, guys!" The lead older teen boy screamed in fear before tossing the dollar bills back to Stacy as he ran. "Take your money!"

The boys screamed their heads off as they ran until they were far away where they weren't heard with the last one wobbling away, still in the garbage can.

Stacy then looked at the five red pandas before her with sheepish, shy looks on their faces with Meilin waving "Hello" timidly.

"Uh, hi Stacy!" Meilin awkwardly greeted her classmate.

After a moment of silence, staring in awe, she screamed, "OH-EM-GEE! You saved my life and you're the cutest things ever!"

She rushed over to each of the red pandas, giving them each a hug as she gushed over them. Their emotions ranged from amusement given the first time she adored Meilin Lee as the red panda to Tyler being uncomfortable as he still did not want to be seen as cute.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Stacy cried out as she hugged her now red panda form classmates.

"Uh, it's no problem, Stacy!" Meilin smiled.

"Yeah, we wanted to help out." Miriam chimed in.

"You're like furry superheroes!" Stacy exclaimed. "I got to tell my friends! Thanks again!"

With that, Stacy ran off to which they assumed she was going home. But in addition, the five teens found themselves transforming back into their normal human selves. Except with the addition of red hair.

"Hey, we're back!" Miriam shouted in astonishment as she and the others examined themselves with Abby being the only one disappointed to be human again.

"Well, mostly." Priya said with her usual deadpan manner as she looked at her strands of red hair.

"You get used to it." Meilin assured her friends with a soft smile.

"I don't think so!" Tyler shouted in objection. "What am I going to tell my parents?"

Before Meilin or her friends could answer, they instantly ducked as they saw laser firing rapidly at the wall, narrowly missing them as they transformed back into their red panda forms due to them being startled.

They looked up and turned around to see The Rani, armed with the Three Point rifle still pointing at them with Lash and Dark Mercury joining her just as her minions and the Putties arrived in their stolen vehicles.

"You can't escape, children!" Exclaimed The Rani. "I own you all! Surrender to me, return to my lab so you will join my army to conquer the Multiverse."

With no hesitation whatsoever, the five teen red pandas ran away as fast as they could.

"So you ungrateful, spoiled brats prefer to be hunted down like animals," The Rani mused out loud in half irritation but also in half satisfaction. "Fine by me."

The Time Lady then shouted to her minions as she stepped inside the police car and turned on the ignition, "Let the sport commence!"

Author's Notes:

And that's it for chapter two, cue Doctor Who theme since these kind of cliffhangers, I've had the classic Who mindset in a way when writing the cliffhanger chapters. But anyway, behind the scenes tidbits:

- The chapter title, A New Shade of Red? Inspired by and became a deliberate shout out to a fellow Infinity Crisis spin off fanfic A Darker Shade of Red by Marcus S. Lazarus.

- While the idea of Meilin's friends turning into red pandas isn't a new idea, it's one I've had for a month or so prior to writing the story itself. There's a particular story going on called A Secret Wish by N8han11 that acts as a sequel to Turning Red but there are differences involved such as the methods are explicitly Sci-Fi as to how and why the 4 Townies transform into red pandas.

And also unlike that story, they are not multi-colored. And honestly to me and I mean all due respect to the author, it doesn't make sense to me they wouldn't be the exact color of red pandas anyway. The only thing this kind of has in common is that it can act as a bit of a sequel to Turning Red but not really at the same time. Just in case somebody says "Oh this idea is like that other one!"

- It was on the suggestion of Michael Weyer, the writer of Infinity Crisis, upon writing this that I reference an ongoing subplot of the Skrulls going around the Multiverse doing their own experiments and conquering which, in character for The Rani to do.

- Messina is from the obscure animated film Freddie the Frog F.R.0.7. and a reference to the title character. When I was writing the second chapter, the film turned twenty that week. So I decided for the sake of dark humor, I toss that in. And might as well demonstrate how evil The Rani is and the lengths, for now at least, Dark Mercury will go to please The Rani.

- By the same token however, there was an action set piece in mind of The Rani killing Messina herself and even showing little concern for Dark Mercury but I cut it because one, it was stopping the Rani and her exposition to Meilin and her friends dead cold. And two, Dark Mercury showing doubts happen way too earlier than intended. So I cut it and had it replaced with a Horror scene type implication where Dark Mercury does the deed herself.

- Meilin and her friends screaming and then passing out is a nod to a moment in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie as to the very last moment that happened to the 7th Doctor. Though here obviously, they don't die and then regenerate.

- The Rani holding up her finger to tell Lash to hush is a homage to that specific moment when Han Solo did it in The Empire Strikes Back and as well as Kylo Ren doing it in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

- It's my first time writing two Doctors so, hopefully I did that well.

- Doctor Who stories referenced are Time and the Rani, Terror of the Vervoids, It Takes You Away and Vengeance on Varos.

- Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine is the name of the Chinese restaurant in the 80s Twilight Zone episode The Misfortune Cookie. One of my favorite episodes actually.

- The 6th Doctor recounting the methods of travel, the stuff with the teenagers and the preacher is a deliberate homage to the hitch hiking journey Dr. Loomis took in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. While the latter two are inspired by what happened to me when I moved to West Virginia as yes, the train was unreliable, left me stranded in Chicago and had to take a bus for the rest of the trip.

- Now I did look up Kingston to Toronto doing a Google search and yes, it is a two and a half hour drive.

- Abby scaring the Putties is lifted from a moment from Octopussy when James Bond pretended to be dead and leave the villain's palace.

- Yes, that is Camila Noceda, the mother of Luz, and Vee from The Owl House. Again, seemed in character The Rani would want her. But why Camila, you could say she was brought over due to struggling to fight The Rani.

- Metal Head is from the DiC G.I. Joe cartoon. I asked Michael Weyer about that show's place if it exists with Earth - 1984 since it followed the events of the 1987 movie, he told me it's a separate thing so, I decided to give it its own Earth unless he tells me otherwise and I'll revise it.

- Klis being from Earth - 666, it's a Marvel Earth I describe as most of the Marvel heroes and villains being full on monsters and demons.

- Captain Cold is from Earth - 1979, the Superfriends universe which was used before in Infinity Crisis. I wanted to include a variant of a Flash villain since I like the rogues gallery of the character. Plus, like other minions and the Judoon, I wanted to give a Hanna Barbara character extreme slapstick hell.

- Vermonous Skumm and Chilla, same deal. Want to give a Captain Planet character and an 80s cartoon character slapstick hell especially from a toyetic cartoon like ThunderCats and G.I. Joe.

- Originally, there were going to be more minions. Even Zartan from the Sunbow G.I. Joe series and the future versions of the eco villains from that Future Shock episode of Captain Planet featuring Dr. Blight, Looten Plunder and Vermonous Skumm were going to appear and given gruesome deaths by the Rani but one, too many characters and two, the latter would require too much explanation so, they all got cut and at the very last minute, limited to just five. Not counting Dark Mercury and Lash who are like the dragons to the Rani.

- The burping thing. Just a bit of "LOL they burped." Seems like something out of The Witches (not a fan) but I'd like to say it's more like a gag from Ed, Edd n Eddy since burping was among the random sound effects the show used.

- The start of the Judoon getting beaten up running gag. And yes, this is a moment lifted from Marty kicking Griff in the crotch in Back to the Future Part II. Plus really, if Russell T Davies is not going to have the Judoon abused by slapstick, then I'll do it myself.

- Patient Zero stuff will be revealed, I promise.

- Callbacks to Turning Red I admit were done on purpose, mainly for my own amusement. Especially given my favorite joke being the Awooga scene from the film that I decided to amplify it to the power of five.

- The Three Point rifle is from my previous story The Girl from T.O.R.O.N.T.O. which yeah, I'm implying The Rani and Lytton did cross paths.

- To clear up confusion just in case, no, this is not Scarlet Witch from X-Men Evolution. It's a variant of Scarlet Witch I tossed in that she could be a magical girl version of her. But the 119 number is a hint of something bigger in mind that will be revealed.

- Same deal with Wu, there is an organization in mind that I will reveal in due time she's a part of.

- I wanted to portray Meilin and her friends becoming superheroes of their universe in their own way and I was inspired by ironically said story in regards to my usage of Stacy Flick. Ultimately, I thought a bunch of older bullies would do the trick.

- "Let the sport commence!" Is a line taken from Octopussy when the villain of that movie leads a safari chase in getting James Bond. In a way though, you could say this is commentary on British colonialism given the characters of Turning Red who are now red pandas.

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Author's Notes:

Huge apologies! Not only throughout October, I had my yearly Horror movie marathon but real life got in the way so to speak and the amount of action in this chapter is a lot. It is very slapstick heavy chapter just a head's up but also furry superhero action.

And yes, I know the last 13th Doctor story, The Power of the Doctor, aired so this might be out of date but it's time travel anyway and from her point of view, she's the current Doctor when you think about it with all the Doctors in Multi Doctor stories.

An announcement however and a very special thanks to Ben2DartMouth for this.

The universe in this story, Earth-030122, is known as the Super Besties universe where Mei and her friends become superheroes. And in addition, Earth-103117 as seen in The Girl from T.O.R.O.N.T.O will be known as the Spy Besties universe, the one where Mei and her friends become junior SHIELD agents.

Again, special thanks to Ben2DartMouth for the names, he's a terrific author, solid friend. Read his stuff.

Anyway, hopefully you enjoy it after a long wait!

Chapter 3: Mall Madness

It had been mere minutes compared to the actual time Mei's grandmother and her aunts would had been gathered. A lot of which had been awkward encounters such as Lily barely finding a babysitter for her daughter Vivian in time when the Doctor brought her last, much to the Time Lord's chagrin. Even to the point of waiting for said babysitter, which ultimately ended with the babysitter of choice looking bewildered at the sight of a Police Call Box dematerializing and fading away.

She reminded Lily of the dire situation, even bringing Grandma Wu to emphasize her point.

Or even Chen when she was shopping for a new dress for a get-together was gathered first and was more flabbergasted upon seeing a blue box appear out of nowhere and a random woman dragging her in.

With Wu and the other aunts gathered, it was time to get down to business. Had the aunts themselves not decided to chat loudly amongst themselves over their current predicament.

"This was a phone booth?! Who's that crazy lady and the guy with the ugly coat?! What does all this have to do with Mei Mei? Is there even a bathroom here?" Were among the questions asked by the aunts as the TARDIS traveled through space and time.

Even the best efforts of Ming and the Doctor were fruitless in trying to get them to calm down and listen.

"Ladies!" Shouted Wu.

Wu raising her voice was enough to silence them and get their attention.

She then turned to see the Sixth Doctor with an absurd amount of cotton in his ears sticking out and on his right hand, an air horn that he was ready to press.

"Oh! My apologies!" The 6th Doctor quickly apologized as he removed the cotton from his ears and put away the air horn. "I had assumed drastic measures would have been needed."

Wu, Ming and Jin stared at the Sixth Doctor incredulously. As did the current Doctor and Yaz, both staring at him with utter bafflement.

"Are you sure you used to be him?" Yaz asked the Doctor out of uncertainty. To which The Doctor only nodded with hesitation.

Wu sighed before she spoke, "Truth be told, I do not know what's going on."

"I am as lost as all of you." She added.

Wu then motioned to The Doctor as she continued, "Only she knows what the situation is at hand."

Immediately before Wu could add anything further, the aunts asked questions in a rapid fire manner-all four demanding answers.

"Excuse me, ladies!" The Doctor cried out before sighing in an irritable manner.

Realizing the aunties still weren't done talking, she then used her two pinky fingers to make a loud whistle to silence them.

The aunties stopped as they stood there listening to the Time Lord herself.

"Now," She began. "Let's do this one at a time!"

"Though I'll provide immediate answers first." She then added in a rapid fire manner. "I'm the Doctor. The man before you in the coat is my sixth incarnation."

In turn, the 6th Doctor waved a cheeky hello.

She continued, "And as of now, I'm the current Doctor. I'm a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and we can regenerate upon the verge of death."

Yaz noticed that she did not mention Gallifrey was destroyed. She figured no doubt since her past incarnation was present, she would not want to tell her past self the future.

"As a matter of fact," The Doctor then pulled a wallet out of her jacket. Opening it, she displayed a row of photos that descended downward from her first incarnation to her current self.

"Why does one of you have a celery on your jacket?" Asked Chen, one of the aunties.

Feeling insulted, the Doctor closed her wallet.

"Now I'm insulted more about that than when people ask about the rainbow coat my sixth self wore." The Doctor huffed.

"Why does he look like a skittle though?" Asked Lily.

"Quiet, Lily!" The Doctor snapped.

"My coat gets insulted?" The 6th Doctor asked, hugely offended as he placed his hands on his hips. "I'll have them know I've been called fashionable on various timelines and planets!"

"I agree but let's not get off topic here!" The Doctor said to her past self. To which the Sixth Doctor grumbled to himself.

"Anyway, and what you're in now?" The Doctor turned her attention back to the aunties as she raised her arms in excitement with a smile on her face. "The TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimensions in Space!"

"Why is it bigger on the inside?" Another aunt, Ping, asked.

The Doctor's face grew more annoyed as she answered with her shoulders slumped, the feeling of excitement completely gone now, "Dimensionally transcendental! They exist in separate dimensions!"

"That doesn't even make any sense!" Lily protested.

"Quiet, Lily!" Wu hissed, annoyed as much as the Doctor was starting to be as she the Time Lord growing increasingly such.

"Now, do any of you have actual questions?" The Doctor asked as she addressed the aunties.

Helen raised her hand first.

"Yes, you!"

"What's wrong with Mei Mei?" Asked Helen.

"Well based on what sixth me told me, she and her friends have become victims of experimentation by The Rani." The Doctor responded.

As soon as she saw Ping raise her hand, she immediately answered, "Yes, The Rani is a Time Lord like me."

"What kind of experiments?" Asked Lily.

The Doctor briefly debated in her mind to mention the specifics but figured she had no choice.

"Well," she sighed before blurting out, "she seems to have stolen your niece's DNA and turned her friends into red pandas themselves."

"WHAT?!" The aunties screamed in shock as the Doctor, her sixth incarnation, Yaz and even Ming winced at their loud reaction.

"She can do that?!" Chen shouted.

"How can she do that?!" Ping shouted.

"How can they turn into red pandas?" Lily concurred.

"You have to be joking! That's impossible!" Helen countered.

"Madame, I'm afraid that's what happened!" The Doctor responded before adding, "For a reference as to how dangerous The Rani is with her experiments, in my one of my earliest encounters with her, she ruled the planet Miasimia Goria, removing the need for sleep from its inhabitants that turned them violent."

"That's how bad she is!" She finished.

"Which is why this situation has become more dire than you can imagine as no doubt The Rani is hunting them down after they likely escaped!" The 6th Doctor added.

The aunties gasped at the likely possibility. As did Ming, Jin and Wu, who all had looks of concern and worry spread across their faces.

"Doctor!" Ming approached the Doctor with a distressed tone in her voice as she grabbed the Time Lord by her jacket and dragged her close to her face. "Please tell me-"

"Ming, we will find your daughter and her friends!' The Doctor quickly reassured her. "We just need to find where they are first!"

"Please, let me go though." She then politely added.

"Sorry!" Ming apologized as she let go of the Doctor.

"That's easier said than done though!" Yaz said. "Finding out where the children are!"

"You're from the future, aren't you?" Chen asked the Doctor. "Can't you use your mind to look for the children?"

"I'm not psychic!" The Doctor retorted. "I don't know where the children are!"

"But you travel through time!" Ping argued. "You're like magic!"

"Time travel is a science, not magic!" The Doctor argued back.

"How do you explain why this thing is bigger on the inside?" Helen asked in confusion.

The Doctor shouted exasperated, "Madame, I literally just said earlier it's all dimensionally transcendental! How do you lot not understand this?!"

"No need to be rude, I'm just asking!"

"Why don't you see into the future often?"

"What kind of alien are you, anyway?"

"Do you know a friend of mine who was abducted by aliens?"

"You know, Vivian would love this kind of thing for her birthday! Do you do parties?"

"Can you tell us the lottery numbers for next week?"

The Doctor double facepalmed and screamed into her hands upon hearing the constant barrage of questions and complaints, even felt like pulling her hair out as Yaz looked on sympathetically.

"Do you deal with this often with your relatives?" The Doctor asked Yaz as she looked up from her hands.

Yaz could only reply with a sheepish shrug.

"Glad I do not put up with this nonsense when by myself and Mel." The 6th Doctor laughed.

"You, shut it!" The Doctor hissed at her past self. "You're not helping! You're barely doing anything!"

Ming placed her hand on the Doctor's shoulder sympathetically. She turned to look at Ming as she expressed a sympathetic look on her face.

"Trust me," Ming said to the Time Lord. "I know exactly how you feel."

The Doctor gave a soft smile to Ming.

"I mean you're a time traveler!" The Doctor's face dropped and slumped over as she heard Lily speak to her.

"Why not just search online where Mei is?" She added.

"Quiet, Lily!" Wu again chided Lily.

Suddenly, the Doctor lifted her head up, quick as a flash. Struck with inspiration.

"Oh Lily, you're brilliant!" The Doctor cried out with a grin.

Helen, Chen and Ping turned to Lily in shock, who was more surprised than them.

"I am?" Lily asked in confusion.

"She is?" Ming and Wu asked in unison, equally confused as well.

"That's how we'll track them down!"

The Doctor then turned to Yaz and said, "Yaz, look up on your phone about red panda incidents in Toronto circa year 2002!"

"I'm on it!" Yaz nodded as she got out her phone.

"Wait, what kind of phone is that?" Helen asked Yaz as she and the rest of the aunts eyed on her iPhone in astonishment.

"Not like any phone I've seen!" Chen cried out.

"These phones became all the rage since the 2010s!" Yaz said. "You can even watch videos!"

The aunts cried out in amazement as they formed around to stare at Yaz's phone.

"Wait, you're from the future?!" Ping asked in amazement.

"Don't you love technology a decade from now?" The Doctor whispered to Ming, Jin and Wu with a grin on her face. "That's the latest model from 2021!" The three stared at her in shock and amazement.

"Suddenly the 80s feel threatened." The 6th Doctor commented with snark in his tone of voice.

"Don't get snarky on me!" The Doctor retorted.

It had been thirty minutes to an hour when Meilin and her friends were being chased by The Rani and her subordinates.

The five ran on all four paws, the latter four fully being accustomed to doing so quickly, especially after picking it up from Meilin who had the experience.

At multiple instances, The Rani had been shooting at them with the rifle. The teens were smart enough to dodge, especially with their apparent increased speed much to the disgust of The Rani as she had figured the DNA of patient zero had finally settled in.

Metal Head on the other hand attempted to launch the missile launchers from his back but not only missed them but ended up causing more property damage.

To which he backed down after receiving a death glare from The Rani after one of the missiles almost hit the police car she hijacked and destroyed one of the vehicles the Putties hijacked with them inside it when it blew up a bystander's car and flipped, only to land on the putties-destroying them immediately.

But suddenly during the chase, they no longer saw Meilin and her friends once they drove through the smoke. The Rani expressed her frustration and ordered her subordinates to continue to search around the Toronto area still.

Seemingly unknown to her however, Meilin and her friends used the smoke from the explosions as a cover for when they turned a corner on a street that led them a shortcut to the Square One shopping mall in Toronto.

Meilin figured perhaps, especially out of sheer desperation to hide, she and her friends could at least rest for a while and think.

They managed to arrive outside the entrance and managed to return to their human forms.

They collapsed on the sidewalk before sitting up.

"At what point..." Miriam wheezed a bit as she panted, exhausted from running. "Did we all lose control?"

"I'd say when The Rani came to our school, disguised as a science teacher." Priya said dryly.

Miriam noticed Meilin looking at the concrete with her head hanging low. She even turned away from her friends.

"Mei, what's wrong?" Miriam asked out of concern.

"Nothing!" Mei quickly answered as she faced Miriam.

"Come on, Mei." Miriam said, her tone suggesting and asking not to lie to her.

Priya, Abby and Tyler looked at Mei, expecting some kind of answer out of her.

After a moment of silence, tears began to form around Mei's eyes. Sympathetically, her friends gathered around her for comfort immediately.

"I'm sorry!" Meilin sobbed. "It's all my fault!"

She continued as Miriam placed her hand on Mei's shoulder, "I thought life would be better now and the red panda got us in trouble and now you're all stuck with it! I turned you all into freaks! All because of me!"

"Hey, it's not your fault!" Miriam said as she tried to comfort her sobbing friend. "I mean, you're not the one with the mad science getup. It was that witch, The Rani!"

"But I'm why she targeted you guys!"

"We're not blaming you," Miriam gently said to Mei in a comforting tone. "It's not your fault that psycho had it in for us."

"She always hated us anyway." Priya said. "Even without eyeing on the red panda, she would have gone for us."

"And she's still a jerk!" Abby chimed in aggressively in agreement.

"I blame you though." Grumbled Tyler as he crossed his arms.

"Shut up!" Abby shouted at him, chiding him for the remark.

"And you know, the Rani aside. I'm actually liking being a red panda." Miriam said to Mei with a smile.

Mei ceased her sobbing as her eyes widened in shock.

"Whaaaat?" Mei responded, astonished.

"I do!" Miriam grinned enthusiastically. "I always wondered what it'd be like and it feels fun!"

"It's not a werewolf but I'm totally loving it!" Priya said with her deadpan tone as always but implying being just as enthusiastic.

"I LOVE BEING FLUFFY!" Screamed Abby in utter excitement with glee in her voice.

The four girls then looked at Tyler, expecting him to throw in his two cents on the matter.

"What?" Tyler asked with his arms still crossed, annoyed all eyes were on him. "I'm not a fan."

Mei and her friends then had looks of being unimpressed. As if they somehow knew he was lying.

"Fine! I kind of like it!" Tyler sighed in defeat. "Happy?"

"I knew it!" Abby cried out with a grin on her face.

"What am I going to tell my parents though?" Tyler then added. "How am I going to explain this?!"

"I'm sure we'll think of something." Mei said to Tyler reassuringly before turning to the rest of her friends. "All of us will."

The besties hugged each other, confident that they will be able to get through their situation and forever supportive of each other.

"Where are they?!"

The teens heard a familiar voice. Enough to spook them to transform into their red panda forms.

They turned to the right to see a crowd of people running away from a familiar set of alien beings with the leader resembling a rhino.

"Uh oh..." Meilin gasped as she stared in fear at the Judoon.

"There they are!" The Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don exclaimed.

"They're not the only ones..." A worried Miriam said as she pointed to the left as she pointed to another source of trouble as she heard tires squeal.

Her friends turned to see the police car and SUV. Coming out were The Rani and her subordinates.

"RUN!" Meilin screamed.

With that, Meilin and her friends ran towards the mall itself.

The Rani and the Judoon captain paused to glare at each other for a moment. Noticing immediately sharing a desire to go after the red panda teens.

"Get them!" The Judoon captain shouted to her troops. "Storm the shopping center!"

The Judoon marched in unison after their targets much to the annoyance of The Rani.

"The Judoon are here?" The Rani asked in confusion before shaking her head. "Doesn't matter!"

She turned to her subordinates, "Make sure they don't get them!"

With that, the Rani and her subordinates all rushed toward the shopping mall.

The red panda teens barged into the mall to which they were quickly amazed by the sheer size and scope of it all. Dozens and dozens of stores on both floors. Escalators galore. So large and majestic that it might as well felt magical.

"Whoa..." They breathlessly said.

Meilin then shook her head violently, snapping out of her trance as did her friends. Especially after noticing amazed looks from shoppers, even tourists who were taking pictures.

"Everyone, scatter!" Meilin exclaimed.

"Bad idea!" Priya said. "Splitting up usually means kiss of death in Horror movies."

"Then pick a partner and scatter!" Meilin then said.

As Meilin ran past the escalators, Miriam and Tyler followed, while Priya and Abby ran toward the escalators-going up a floor much to the amazement of everyone else inside.

The Judoon finally barged in, to which everyone else reacted in fear and began to run away, either making a break for the main exits or emergency exits.

The Judoon captain caught fleeting glimpses of Meilin, Miriam and Tyler via their tails running into one of the stores.

"Search high and low!" The Judoon captain growled. "They will not get far. If they resist, fire! Execution will be their sentence!"

With that, the Judoon captain gathered five of her troops into the direction Meilin, Miriam and Tyler ran while the remaining six went up the upper floor of the mall.

Not too long immediately after, The Rani and her subordinates arrived as she witnesses fleeting glimpses of the Judoon running on both floors.

The Rani turned to Metal Head, Klis, Captain Cold, Verminous Skumm and Chilla and said, "You five are to go up the second floor. It's obvious the brats have scattered."

She then turned to Lash and Dark Mercury. "And of course, you two are with me as usual."

"Yes, my lady!" Dark Mercury nodded.

"Now move!" The Rani ordered her subordinates.

With that, the five minions raced up the escalator while The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury ran in the same direction as the remaining Judoon. Pushing away those who were still running away from the Judoon.

As the five subordinates went up stairs, they were greeted by a group of security guards, all aiming their guns at the strange beings.

"Freeze!" Shouted one guard.

"You said the magic word!" Chilla smirked.

"And my favorite word!" Captain Cold concurred.

In response, she blew a literal blizzard and managed to hit all the guards within their presence-freezing them all.

In turn, Captain Cold using his own freezing gun, managed to freeze the incoming reinforcements.

"Impressive." Chilla said to Captain Cold before frowning. "But my naturalistic abilities are more effective than your technological weaponry."

"Don't you start!" Captain Cold argued. "My weaponry is invincible to abilities!"

"We shall see!" Chilla huffed in annoyance as she marched in the continued intended direction.

"And we shall!" Captain Cold snarled as he joined her.

Verminous Skumm looked Klis in confusion as if he expected an answer from her. She could only respond with a deadpan glare.

"Um...let's go!" Skumm said awkwardly as he ran off to join the others with Metal Head running as he screamed in joy. Klis followed not too long.

Priya and Abby ran alongside seeing the stores, trying to figure out where to use as a cover. Some stores were either too small, especially for their red panda bodies, even when they can transform back to human or figured some stores could be obliterated easily.

"Wait!" Abby skittled to a halt.

"What?" Priya asked Abby.

"What about in there?"

Abby pointed to an entrance to a brick and mortar sized store called Sir Saves A-Lot. A sign complete with a logo of a king with a dollar sign scepter on top of the words.

"That'll work!" Priya and Abby said in unison.

They then ran inside just as the remaining Judoon arrived to see them.

"Find the delinquents!" One Judoon trooper growled before they marched down inside the store.

Priya and Abby ran through much of the store, which was now vacant after a quick evacuation. Running from the furniture section to the toy section. All while their tails accidentally knocked over a dozen lamps or even tripped over shopping carts, both still not used to their red panda forms.

"I definitely now know how Mei feels!" Priya said in her deadpan tone of voice.

As they reached the toy aisle, Priya and Abby hid in one of the sections dedicated to action figures. Abby could not help but notice a discarded unsold backpack on the floor, just as she and Priya heard marching footsteps and immediately scurried away to another toy aisle to hide in.

To Abby's delight, she spotted a most specific and peculiar item; a packaged box for a rocket called The Thunderbolt. Her eyes lit up with excitement. She had to get this one.

So much so that she immediately grabbed it and stuffed it in the backpack. Alongside some duct tape she found on the floor and a pack of D4 batteries.

Priya could only look at her with a deadpan and skeptical look on her face.

"What?" Abby said. "You'll never know! We could blow up the witch!"

Priya paused to think over her statement. But did not have the time to think it over as she continued to hear the marching footsteps. But as she and Abby frantically looked back and forth, Priya to her relief had found something.

"I got an idea!" Said Priya.

The Judoon finally arrived at the toy section searching from aisle to aisle. One of them halted and surveyed around a wall of stuffed animals next to the Barbie dolls. Varieties including cats, dogs, bears, raccoons, lions, tigers, dinosaurs, pandas and in particular two red pandas with their faces staring blankly as they sat on the floor.

"Keep searching!" One of the Judoon troopers said as they marched away.

Though they failed to notice the eyes of the red pandas eyeing on them until they left.

"That was close!" Priya said as she and Abby sighed in relief.

"Look!" Abby hissed as she pointed to another problem.

Priya ducked, dragging Abby with her, behind one of the aisles to see the five subordinates of the Rani walking by.

"What do we do?" Abby whispered her question to Priya.

"You ever seen Home Alone?" Priya responded with a similar quiet, whispering tone.

Upon hearing what Priya said, Abby's eyes lit up with demented glee much to her pleasure.

Meanwhile, Meilin, Miriam and Tyler had managed to go through the service corridor to hide from the Judoon and the Rani when they found a door around the arcade.

"Now what?" Asked Tyler.

"I'm trying to think!" Meilin answered. "I know for one thing; I'm tired of running!"

"What do you mean?" Asked Miriam.

"Remember when I stood up to my mom at the Skydome?" Meilin asked.

Miriam and Tyler nodded.

"How can we forget?" Miriam said. "It was last month."

"Yeah!" Meilin continued on. "Like, if I can do that, what's stopping us from fighting back? Being chased by The Rani and her goons and whatever those Rhino guys are, why are we afraid of them when we can use being the panda to our advantage?"

Miriam and Tyler listened intently on Meilin's speech.

"My ancestor Sun Yee became a red panda to fight off bandits, invading armies, all sorts of bad guys! If she can do it, why not us? We could even become superheroes!"

"What? Like Teenage Mutant Red Pandas?" Tyler asked in a snarky manner.

One that earned a glare from both Miriam and Meilin.

"The point is," Meilin resumed her speech. "Let's show these jerks we're not pushovers! Now who's with me?"

"I'm so in!" Miriam said with fierce determination. No hesitation whatsoever.

After a short pause, Tyler nodded. Now committed.

"Let's get 'em! And I want to get back at those rhino guys for trying to shoot me!" Tyler said.

"So what's the plan, Mei?" Miriam asked.

This time, Meilin froze. She did not even think about improvising other than running.

"I, um..." Meilin stammered, struggling to think. "I'm sure I'll think of something! But what?"

She said as she leaned her furry paw on a door. One which opened immediately and the red panda girl gave off a startled yell as she clumsily stumbled and fell inside face first.

"You okay?" Asked Miriam as she and Tyler rushed to her aid in concern.

Tyler in turn, turned on a light switch to reveal much to their surprise, big boxes of fireworks and left over Christmas wrapping paper.

"What?" Asked Meilin as she stood up and surveyed the room.

"This is just random!" Miriam remarked.

On the floor, Meilin spotted a permanent marker and duct tape. Suddenly, she had a struck of inspiration.

"Guys, I got an idea!" She then said to Miriam and Tyler with a grin on her face.

"They must be here!" Chilla growled with irritation as she and others walked through one section of the clothing aisle.

"Maybe I'll blow them up from the inside!" Metal Head said with demented glee.

"You fool!" Captain Cold said. "We're still inside! You want to blow us up too?!"

"Besides, they're running scared!" Verminous Skumm grinned. "They're just kids. Kids are always scared of anything beyond their control!"

As they walked past a row of shirts, they failed to notice from underneath their feet, a trip wire settled in between two racks.

"What is that?" Klis hissed and pointed at the object a few feet in front of them.

While they did not pay any mind to it much, a tennis ball machine in front of them, as they figured some careless employee left it there.

"A tennis ball machine." Skumm replied before he mockingly asked her, "You don't have one of those in your world?"

As Chilla's ankle pushed through the wire, the wire attached to the on switch of the tennis ball machine triggered.

"What?" Chilla asked, surprised the machine managed to turn on.

Suddenly at rapid firing succession, tennis balls were flung at the five at full speed.

The first ball managed to hit Chilla directly on her forehead before she could even react and stumbled back and fell to the floor as a result just as more tennis balls fired at her and the others. Even a tennis ball managed to hit Captain Cold in the chest. Followed by Metal Head who got a few hits on the nose and his ribs.

Verminous Skumm on the other hand, got hit in the crotch. Followed by a hit on one of his eyes-causing him to fall over. For Captain Cold, the tennis balls rapidly hit his entire body all over, even hit his butt hard when he turned around by accident before falling over-face first.

Klis duly avoided the flying tennis balls by stepping to the other side and vice versa due to her own spider sense helping to avoid the incoming projectiles.

It was only because of slipping onto one of the balls she managed to get hit and knocked her down to the ground.

As the villains try to recover, Abby from behind them, threw a brick at Metal Head's butt. He screamed in pain upon impact.

"What are you screaming about?" Chilla asked, irritated.

As she turned around, she was greeted by a brick to her face. As the brick hit her upon impact, Chilla screamed in pain to the point of covering her face to somewhat ease the pain.

"You don't want to get blood on your gloves!" Captain Cold laughed before a brick hit the side of his head-knocking him down.

As well as a brick hitting in the crotch for Verminous Skumm when he turned around to see Abby armed with two more bricks.

Klis instantly jumped onto the ceiling but did not stop Abby from throwing a brick at her forehead to which she reacted in a very dizzying manner as she grasped her head.

Chilla finally stared at Abby, who in her red panda form, grinned like a Cheshire cat before bolting away to the right.

Chilla growled angrily to the point of steam literally pouring out of her ears, "GET THAT LITTLE BRAT!"

"Scatter if you have to!" She added. "Divide and conquer!"

With that, the subordinates ran in various different directions to find Abby and Priya. As soon as they finished struggling to find their footing again. Or in the case of Klis, crawl upon the ceiling.

Back on the first floor, the remaining Judoon marched past the arcade in search of their targets. While The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury walked past by the same location not long after.

Behind a Mortal Kombat II arcade machine is the door leading to the service corridor. One that opened to reveal Meilin in her red panda form still, looking back and forth to see if everything was safe as she carried two boxes of fireworks and a sheet of wrapping paper on top.

Satisfied, she whispered to her friends, "Coast is clear!"

Miriam and Tyler, also in their red panda forms, followed Meilin out the door with each of them carrying four boxes of fireworks underneath their arms.

Soon, the trio found themselves running up the escalator with the supplies in tow.

"What are you doing?" Asked Tyler as he noticed Meilin drawing on the opposite side of the wrapping paper which was white on the floor.

"Just a little something to fool at least those Rhino guys." Meilin replied as she drew on the paper at rapid speed. Not since she drew her sketches of Devon as a merman did she draw this fast.

"See anyone?" She then asked Miriam who was acting as lookout.

"Not yet!" Miriam said as she looked down.

Still determined and full of confidence, she kept on drawing.

"Is this the door to the security office?" Meilin heard Tyler ask.

Her ears perked up with interest and then she grinned, getting another idea.

Elsewhere in Sir Saves A-Lot, the other half of the Judoon were still marching through down the store, searching from aisle to aisle.

Upon going into the auto department, specifically an aisle dedicated to tires, Priya watched them from behind one of the shelves of different brands of tires.

Upon getting into the exact position she hoped they would get into, Priya pressed each of her paws on the two shelves and pushed over them.

The Judoon noticed too late to see the shelves fully crash and fall upon them. The Judoon barely had time to react as the shelves fell on them. The Judoon were now fully underneath a barrage of tires. Save for one who ran away immediately in the other direction.

As the shelves toppled over each other like dominos, Klis after descending from the ceiling landed near the auto supplies. Despite her spider sense telling her of incoming danger, she did not have time to react as the last shelf fell on her.

Unlike the Judoon, the shelf literally crashed through her-still standing despite the impact.

The remaining Judoon managed to get up and place the shelf back in its standing position. Only to be greeted by Priya, in her human form this time, armed with a launcher with pool cue balls.

"Cue ball in the side pocket!" Priya quipped sardonically as she fired the first ball.

The impact hit one of the Judoon square in the head-even despite the helmet on. The impact threw him off so much, he accidentally fired upon another Judoon's rifle upon turning around. Immediately it was destroyed along with doing the same to the other rifles and guns the Judoon were carrying due to either no time to react or using their rifles as shields.

Despite this, the Judoon unit was ready to fire with one of the two remaining rifles. Only instead for Priya to fire another ball and plugged into the front of the rifle which exploded at the very moment the Judoon unit pulled the trigger.

The explosion sent the Judoon unit flying backwards-crashing into the rest of them back onto the floor. Immediately in turn, Priya fired another ball; this time hitting him in the crotch.

The Judoon unit moaned in pain and as he turned over, Priya fired another shot and hit him in the butt instead-causing him to scream in pain.

With a satisfied smirk, Priya bolted away.

"Find that child!" Growled one of the Judoon as he and the others marched off into her direction.

Chilla spun off in a random direction, still angry over being immediately humiliated by a childish prank. She was determined to find two of the escaped subjects.

Suddenly, she came across the bathroom. Figuring the children could be anywhere, Chilla decided to check there first. Though much to her confusion, the doors are labeled separately. One being labeled Women's on the right and on the left labeled Men's.

"This world is so strange." Chilla mused to herself as she entered the Women's room first.

The room was in total darkness upon entering and the door closing behind her.

"Hello?" She asked aloud.

Suddenly, she noticed an odd smell. She could not pinpoint what it was. Even it smelled somewhat familiar. Though she struggled to see in the dark.

Suddenly, she saw light from behind. She turned around to see a Judoon unit with his rifle still intact.

"Halt!" The Judoon unit said. "Where are the juvenile delinquents and the Doctor?"

"I'm afraid that's none of your business and only mine!" Chilla said.

As the door closed, the Judoon unit fired the weapon.

Suddenly in a quick flash, the Women's bathroom exploded. Enough of a force to break the door off its hinges. The entire room had been filled with gasoline from top to bottom courtesy of Priya, whom she and Abby managed to craft multiple traps around the store very quickly in such a short amount of time.

Stumbling out first was the very Judoon unit who fired the weapon which was now utterly destroyed with half of it blown apart and his armor utterly damaged beyond repair with charred skin around him.

As his knees weakly buckled, he fainted.

Walking out faring no better was Chilla. With her hair sticking upwards like the Bride of Frankenstein with soot around her and her cape burned away halfway down.

"I'm going to freeze those brats on the inside out!" Chilla growled in anger.

In a fit of anger, she went toward the Men's room next under the impression she would find Priya and Abby there.

Upon opening the door, she failed to notice in the top corner, a blowtorch shot out a tinge of flame and suddenly, Chilla's hair was now set on fire due to her hair standing up-making it an easy target.

Chilla sniffed the smoke around her. Confused, she went to the mirror.

She yelped and screamed as she saw her reflection. Her hair was on fire.

"No! No!" Chilla screamed. "What have they done to my hair?!"

She puckered her lips and blew, only to see her ice powers in the hopes of creating a mini snowfall, had failed to materialize.

"No!" Chilla then screamed in despair. "That explosion neutralized my powers!"

She rapidly looked around in desperation to find anything that could put out the fire on her head.

That was until she saw one of the stalls containing a toilet. Seeing it filled with water, she felt some relief.

She then did a handstand as she grasped the edges of the toilet seat to easily insert her head directly into the toilet.

BOOM!

While not an all out explosion, an implosion occurred in a brief flash of light.

Chilla finally collapsed on her knees and removed her head from the now smoking toilet. It had been filled with kerosene.

While her hair was now flattened to normal, most of it was now gone. Leaving behind a huge bald spot on her head. She more resembled Jared Leto in House of Gucci if anything.

Chilla groaned in pain with her teeth gritting while still maintaining a look of anger across her face despite all the burned soot covering it all.

Verminous Skumm in the meanwhile, managed to go to a Money Center. Seeing a door there, possibly leading to an employees lounge or some other office, he started there.

"Those kids have got to be hiding in there!" Skumm said as he leapt over the counter.

He approached the door and turned the knob. At first it didn't respond but when he pulled it by accident, the knob came off. But much to his confusion, a string was attached.

"What the?" He said in confusion.

He pulled the string through and through, sinking in on him that it was long. He had to know where this would lead.

As he pulled the long string for a good few more seconds, Skumm finally reached the end. Only now, it was stuck. He pulled again to see if anything would come out, any sign of anything. He turned around and yanked from the end.

He suddenly heard a click and then felt something pierce through his skin. Right around in between his butt and his scrotum.

Skumm screamed out his lungs as loud as his voice could.

"What was that?" Asked Miriam as she heard a faint scream.

"I think there's a soccer game a few blocks down." Meilin responded, not taking her eyes off her plan.

Skumm did not know that a staple gun was attached to the door. Even placed on the area from behind where the other side of the door knob would be in order to shoot through an empty hole.

Skumm then groaned in pain as he turned to the front of the door. He yanked the staple from the in between his injured areas. Doing so however, he accidentally triggered another staple gun firing.

This time, the staple hit his crotch directly. Skumm yelped and gasped in pain. He yanked the string again by accident, again, for the staple gun to fire at his testicles directly.

Skumm fell to his knees, only for him to yank the string by accident immediately yet again. This time for the staple gun to fire directly at the right of his nostril-piercing through it.

Finally, he gave up as he fell on his back.

With Captain Cold, he ran in a random direction in his pursuit of Abby and Priya. As he passed through a section dedicated to cold and flu medicine, he found a pharmacy in the middle.

Thinking they might be inside, Captain Cold approached the door on the left that led to the inside of the pharmacy. But in an act of obliviousness, he failed to see a bright glowing red knob emitting heat.

He pressed his right hand on the door knob to enter, he instantly felt the extreme, intense heat. He could hear his skin sizzle like bacon as the heat was so strong, it went through his glove to pierce his skin underneath.

He screamed in agony, feeling the intense pain.

He then removed his hand and blew on it. Then in an act of total desperation, he used his freezing gun on his right hand to cool it off. As he did, the ice melted away upon firing but did the trick.

Though he moaned as he saw the burned scar imprinted on his hand as the steam began to clear. He failed to realize that an electric barbeque starter was placed on the other side of the door, directly on the knob to emit heat to the front knob.

Without hesitation, he walked away from the front door until he noticed another door on the right.

Despite his initial hesitation, he went after barging through a small flu shot set up. He stopped short of touching the door knob.

He uses the tip of his index finger to touch the knob to test the temperature.

Nothing.

He then gripped the doorknob for further testing. Still nothing. The knob was at normal temperature.

Satisfied, he opened the door. Only to fail to see a blowtorch shooting fire at the top of his head. Captain Cold screamed his lungs out as he felt the scorching flames touch his scalp for a good solid minute.

He pulled out of the door and ran off screaming. Frantically trying to find a way to put out the fire on top of his head. Stumbling and tripping on his feet along the way before settling on using his freeze gun yet again. This time at his entire head.

After firing the weapon, his head was encased in ice for a moment before the heat melted the ice away but did its job putting out the fire on his head nevertheless.

"Ow..." He groaned as he touched his torched scalp with a tinge of dismay.

Back with Meilin and the remaining besties, Meilin had just placed the finishing touches of her plan.

"And...done!" She cried out satisfied as she placed the cap back onto the permanent marker.

"Miriam! Tyler!" Meilin then cried put softly to her friends. "You got the fireworks set up?"

"Just got the last one in!" Miriam said while giving Meilin a thumbs up as she and Tyler placed the last box onto a neatly stacked pile, all ready to go into the elevator nearby.

"Perfect!" A satisfied Meilin said as she begun placing the wrapping paper with pieces of tape to attach it to.

"You sure this is gonna work?" Asked Tyler.

"It's got to!" Meilin replied. "Which is why we're gonna light these up anyway if it doesn't."

"And sneak attack!" Miriam excitedly grinned as she pounded her fist.

Tyler concurred an enthusiastic "Yeah!"

"Now all we have to do is get their attention!" Meilin said as she eyed the door to the security office.

The Judoon captain and her troops searched every store on the first floor and to their irritation, could not find her targets.

"Where are they?!" The Judoon captain growled as she stepped out of the food court, after destroying a nearby McDonald's.

With The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury, they did not have better luck on the other side of the first floor as they ventured around the arcade.

"Can't we just search the second floor now?" Lash asked, sounding annoyed as he threw an arcade machine across the floor, much to the annoyance of Dark Mercury. "They're clearly not here!"

"We'll have to at this point!" The Rani replied, sounding equally annoyed. "I grow tired of these children and their apparent antics!"

Suddenly, they and the Judoon heard feedback from the speakers across various sections of the mall.

"Attention all Christmas shoppers!" They heard Meilin's voice echo throughout the intercom.

The Rani and the Judoon captain listened intently at her voice. Whilst inside the security office, Meilin spoke into the microphone with a huge grin on her face.

"Just so you know, we're not afraid of you bozos anymore. Especially not a pretentious witch and dorky rhino people!"

The Rani frowned at the insult while the Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don gave off an angry and annoyed look over the insult.

"We're going to be coming down the elevator and you better get ready for a fight! Meet us on the first floor. Unless you're too chicken!"

Meilin then made chicken clucking noises to get her insult across further.

Insulted and infuriated respectively, The Rani and the Judoon made their way to reach the first floor where the elevator is.

"Now guys!" Meilin said as she opened the door from the security office.

Miriam on cue lit up the multiple fuses sticking out each of the boxes with a box of matches she found in the very same security office. While Tyler pressed the down button on the elevator. Both teens, in their human form, leapt out of the elevator in the nick of time just as the doors closed.

"The fireworks are going to be awesome this year." Meilin grinned in excitement as she joined her two friends, sharing her excitement as they transformed back into red pandas.

Metal Head walked around another section of the store as he searched for his targets. He walked past by another set of bathrooms. He paused and turned around.

"Oh! No way they ain't hiding there!" Metal Head laughed as he rushed over to the women's room.

He turned the doorknob but found it locked.

"I'm coming in, no matter what you brats do!" Metal Head shouted.

He kicked the door open as he laughed and upon setting one foot into the threshold, a bag from above opened up and falling out came a collection of various tools and all fell on his head. Metal Head fell to the floor face up as the hard metal tools landed hard on his skull.

With a large red wrench falling last on his face for further punctuation.

Captain Cold marched down the store angrily, hoping to deal with the teens once and for all for the extreme humiliation he got put through. As he passed through a kitchen supplies aisle, he noticed another trip wire when he looked downward at one point.

"I will not be fooled by such a childish prank!" Captain Cold said.

As he stepped over it however, he felt his feet slipping. He looked down and to his shock, he was slipping on various cleaning liquids on the floor.

Captain Cold struggled to stand still but failed as he finally slipped and fell. And then screamed as he slid across the floor. Finally, he crashed into a shelf filled with paint cans. And upon impact, the shelf toppled over.

"Oh no..." Groaned Captain Cold as he braced himself.

The paint cans finally crashed and fell onto him, creating an entire mess all around.

The Judoon after their previous snafu, marched towards the electronics section given that seemed to be the direction Priya was going after she ran away.

Priya, in her human form, watched from a distance to see the Judoon as she was peering from the bottom of a display case of Blade II DVDs.

"You got the stuff?" Priya asked Abby as she ducked from behind.

"Got it!" Abby answered, also in human form, as she gave the thumbs up to Priya, bringing beside her a pot, firecrackers and a cigarette lighter.

Priya nodded as she turned a portable DVD player beside her and a DVD of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. She rapidly looked for the specific scene until she finally did and turned the volume up to maximum just as the marching Judoon approached the electronics section.

"Hold it right there!"

The Judoon stopped marching as they heard the voice of an older man and turned into the direction they heard it from.

"Identify yourself! We are the Judoon!" A Judoon unit replied.

"I knew it was you. I could smell ya getting off the elevator!"

The Judoon looked at each other confused over the statement, wondering how a human male could smell them.

"You was here last night too, wasn't ya?"

"You are mistaken." The Judoon unit countered. "We were not in this location previously. Nor was it designated at first in order to acquire our targets."

Priya smirked as she shook her head how much they were falling for the trick. She fast forwarded the non gangster parts constantly to get to the required dialogue she wanted.

"You was here, and you was smoochin' with my brother!"

"What did you just say?" The Judoon unit growled to the point of being downright offended as the others conversed in confusion over the remark.

"Don't gimme that! You've been smoochin' with everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff."

The Judoon were left slack jawed at the accusation thrown at them.

"I could go on forever, baby!"

"You will be executed for this baseless accusation!" Growled the Judoon unit, feeling utterly annoyed. "We are searching for five delinquents for assaulting a Judoon officer and the Doctor for prison escape!"

"All right. I believe ya... but my Tommy gun don't!"

At first, the Judoon unit scoffed but then realized their weapons were destroyed earlier when he realized he was holding nothing and it dawned on them they were utterly defenseless.

Priya and Abby snickered quietly to themselves knowing full well and had a feeling their opponents forgot.

"Get down on your knees and tell me you love me!"

The Judoon unit gulped but nevertheless, stood firm and defiant.

"We will not stand down!" The Judoon unit shouted.

"You gotta do better than that!"

"We have had enough of this foolishness!" The Judoon unit growled, borderline screaming in frustration. "If you know the whereabouts of both parties, take us to them immediately or face execution!"

Priya paused the movie for dramatic effect for a minute. Then she resumed the movie on the intended spot when she fast forwarded a bit.

"Maybe I'm off my hinges, but I believe ya."

The Judoon unit smirked.

"That's why I'm gonna let ya go."

Priya gave Abby the thumbs up. Signifying for her to light the firecrackers after she placed them into the pot.

"I'm going to give you to the count of three to get your lousy, lyin', low-down, four-flushing carcass out my door!"

Suddenly, the smirk disappeared from the Judoon unit's face. Replaced with a look of fear and panic.

"One..."

"Move!" Cried the Judoon unit as they tried to run away from what they assumed was a madman with a weapon.

"Two..."

Abby kicked the pan away from her and Priya. To which the firecrackers exploded right on cue as the gangster in the movie laughed as he fired the tommy gun with the gunshots and firecrackers echoing throughout the store.

The Judoon ducked to the floor face first upon hearing the gunshot, either hoping they would not get shot or accept their fate. All of them flinched at each gun shot.

"Three! Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!"

The Judoon flinched again upon hearing multiple gunshots again.

"And a happy new year!"

With that last bang, Priya and Abby ran out of the electronics section carrying paintball guns.

Without hesitation, they fired at the butts of the Judoon.

The Judoon yelled in pain even despite trying to get up to grab the two teens. Only for them to be shot in the crotch when they tried to do so.

"Now look here!" One of the Judoon said before being hit multiple times in the face.

Finally, for the cherry on top of humiliating them, Priya and Abby transformed into red pandas and roared furiously at the Judoon.

"Retreat!" The Judoon unit cried out in fear.

With that, the Judoon ran away from the two red panda teens as fast as they could out of sheer fear they were fighting back.

"That's right, run you cowards!" Abby shouted before shouting in Korean, "Go crying back home to your mommy!"

"You go, girl!" Priya smiled before she high fived Abby.

"Come on, we got to get ready for the next trap!" Priya said to which Abby nodded enthusiastically at before they ran off.

Back on the first floor, the Judoon finally arrived at where the elevator was. But unknown to them, The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury arrived quietly as they stood behind them.

"As soon as they begin to fire," The Rani whispered quietly to her cohorts. "Kill the Judoon right away!"

The Rani then held the rifle as she prepared to fire.

Dark Mercury however activated her goggles to scan the elevator.

"Mistress! My lady!" Dark Mercury hissed quietly to her superior. "I detect no lifeforms in the elevator."

"What?" The Rani flatly asked her.

Finally, the elevator doors opened. The doors revealed a large sketch on the white bottom of the wrapping paper of Meilin and her friends in their red panda forms.

Instantly, without even thinking twice; the Judoon fired at the sketch with the boxes of fireworks behind it just as all the fuses reached their end.

The entire elevator exploded instantly in a huge fiery blaze and a loud boom. For some of the Judoon, it literally blew them away with much damage done to their armor. For the rest of the Judoon, the shockwave sent flying to either various stores on the left or the food court on the right. Causing them to crash through the windows and crash through the various food sections. With one of the Judoon crashing through the walls with their head sticking out-completely helmetless and in pain.

And in another case, one landing on the grill on their back after crashing through another wall before falling face first into the floor.

Even The Rani and her two allies were not immune as the shockwave sent them flying back a few feet as well. And the Judoon captain herself landed the concrete pavement with a loud thud and a lone piece of firework that struck her eye in a comical cartoon fashion and a cracked horn.

"Oh Yeah!" Meilin, Miriam and Tyler pumped their fists in triumph and high fived each other upon seeing the results from above.

Chilla had already stormed and stomped out of the men's bathroom in pursuit of the two teens.

While Captain Cold stood up after having tons of paint covering him. He groaned in pain as he straightened his back as he walked along.

As did Metal Head as he recovered from the assault of tools dumped on his head. He staggered across until he tripped on another wire and in turn from a top of a shelf of kitchen appliances, came a falling iron, which ended up hitting him directly in the face-leaving with an heating imprint on his face.

The impact caused him to do a pratfall.

The last remaining Judoon in the store after the explosion began to stir from his unconscious state. Only to be met by an unfamiliar shadow. A shadow belonging to Klis who looked down in curiosity.

The Judoon unit looked at her in a quizzical manner, until his expression turned to fear as she removed the scarf from her mouth to reveal sharp demonic teeth.

She roared maniacally as the Judoon unit screamed, right before he was dragged into the destroyed women's bathroom where it was followed by the sounds of screaming and then slurping and chomping.

Captain Cold, still wiping paint off from his eyes, attempted to find something he could properly clean his face with. To his relief, a water fountain was right next to him as he started to walk past it.

He failed to notice however, were claws belonging to an arc welder attached to the bottom with Priya and Abby discreetly hiding from a few aisles down as they watched carefully.

Priya turned on the welder just as Captain Cold pressed on the lever on the front of the water fountain.

Finally, he felt a huge electrical shock coursing through his body as he screamed. His body stuttered and twitched with each passing yell.

"Turn it up to eleven!" Abby exclaimed as she grinned and rubbed her hands in demented glee.

Priya looked at the dial of the arc welder and said duly noted, "Hmm, no eleven but let's take it to... thirty."

As she turned the dial to the intended number, Captain Cold screamed louder than ever before. With a few sparks, he screamed louder and louder until at one point, to the two girls, Captain Cold had turned into a skeleton.

"Wow! Just like in the cartoons!" Abby said with excitement.

"Yeah, that's enough punishment." Priya said as she turned off the arc welder before turning to Abby.

"Let's go, girl! We got another trap to set up!"

"Right!" Abby shouted, pumping her right fist.

With that, the two ran off for the next trap.

While Captain Cold finally felt the electrical current stop but ended up with paint dried on his body and left smoking entirely. At last with one shriek, he fainted.

Verminous Skumm angrily stomped around-looking for the two teens after he pulled out the staples from his body. He figured they had to be somewhere else.

But as before with the others, he failed to notice a trip wire, this time as he ventured back into the clothing aisle.

And this time upon stepping through it, he noticed a bag of cement falling straight toward him from one of the store lights.

"Uh oh..." Skumm muttered before being hit directly in the face when the bag exploded on impact.

He fell down as the cement mix sprayed across the floor.

Back on the first floor, the Judoon that were blown away struggled to get up but were blinded by the smoke still. The Rani fared better in comparison albeit weakly due to the impact.

As the Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don was the first to stand up, she was greeted by the sight of an aluminum baseball bat. She was whacked across the face and stumbled a bit backwards due to still being disoriented by the explosion.

As her eyes cleared, she witnessed an incoming trio of silhouettes from behind the smoke. Until finally out of the smoke, came Meilin Lee, Miriam and Tyler in their red panda forms, welding aluminum baseball bats they had taken from a nearby toy store.

"Charge!" Shouted Meilin as she used a combo of the bat and her tail to whack the Judoon captain across the face.

Miriam and Tyler went after the other Judoon who just started to recover. With Miriam kicking one in the crotch before whacking him from the top with the baseball bat.

Tyler on the other hand went for a quarterback tackle on one of the Judoon.

"Take this!" Tyler angrily shouted as he punched the tackled Judoon.

Meilin dropped the bat in favor of punching the Judoon captain and whacking her more with her tail.

"Oh, we're not done with you, yet!" Meilin then said to the Judoon captain with a smirk.

"What?" Pol-Kon-Don exclaimed, confused.

Hastily grabbing from a nearby Bass pro shop store and from the wall reserved for fire emergencies respectively, Miriam strapped both an oxygen tank and a fire extinguisher, both upside down, onto the Judoon captain's back with Tyler using duct tape to hold them attached around her waist.

For added measure, Tyler kicked her in the crotch.

"That's for trying to shoot me!" Tyler shouted in satisfaction.

"Lift off!" Meilin cried out with a satisfied smirk.

Miriam and Tyler then used their red panda claws respectively to cut open both the tank and the fire extinguisher. The foam and the air were let loose, sending the Judoon captain flying straight up-launching towards the glass windows above.

"What the?" Pol-Kon-Don shouted before screaming as she was launched into the air.

Meilin, Miriam and Tyler looked up in awe at the result.

"Wow...it worked!" Meilin breathlessly shouted in amazement.

Finally, the Judoon captain crashed through the glass window ceiling and finally spun out of control in mid air before flying elsewhere in the country of Canada as she screamed all the way.

As the other remaining Judoon got up, even the ones staggering out of the food court, the three teens immediately went for fisticuffs as soon as they were on sight. Meilin even headbutting a Judoon beneath his mouth.

Miriam turned around, standing on her front paws and kicked another Judoon directly in the face with her feet like a bull would. Miriam even thought she heard a doorbell ring when she kicked him twice before he flew into a table after the impact.

With Tyler, he used his red panda body to his advantage as he knocked down another Judoon to the floor with his large belly.

"Body slam!" He screamed as he jumped and slammed hard onto the knocked down Judoon as he emitted a scream upon impact.

"Suck on that, fool!" Tyler shouted to the knocked out Judoon as he stood up.

"Keep that last one busy!" Meilin shouted to Miriam and Tyler as she pointed to the remaining Judoon unit. "I have a bone to pick with the Rani!"

As the Rani began to recover, shaking her head in the process, she noticed Meilin Lee in her red panda form, charging at her. Instinctively, she held the three point second rifle and carefully aimed the weapon at her.

But not before Meilin picked the top piece of a destroyed firework and jammed it on the front of the rifle just as she pulled the trigger to fire.

"You imbecile!" The Rani growled before shouting, "It's going to explode now!"

With that, The Rani threw the rifle across the ground as she and Meilin ran for cover to avoid the incoming explosion. While Miriam and Tyler delivered a finishing blow to the remaining Judoon unit with a few back and forth punches until he finally passed out, knocked onto the floor.

But then they saw the rifle about to explode and then Meilin running toward them.

"Get down!" Meilin shouted as she and the two teens ducked to the ground with their hands covering their heads.

The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury began to run. The rifle exploded. While not as big, the explosion created enough smoke and debris and enough of a shockwave to send the three to the ground, while Meilin, Miriam and Tyler safely managed to avoid being blown away.

Meanwhile with Chilla, after minutes of angry walking, she managed to find herself in a corridor leading to various rooms like an employees lounge or offices dedicated to managers.

As Chilla approached the door to the latter, she for the first time, heard one of the voices of the teens she was pursuing.

"Oh no, we're really scared!" Priya shouted behind the door with a hint of sarcasm.

"It's too late for you, brats!" Chilla angrily said. "We're already here! We're gonna get you!"

"'Kay!" Priya calmly said back as she placed rope inside a fan just as Abby placed a bag of feathers made out of torn feather dusters. Abby then turned on the fan but the blade stopped upon the rope blocking it and immediately dived under the table.

"Why you little-" Chilla angrily grumbled as she opened the door.

She was then greeted by a plastic wrap sheet of glue and grease she walked right into that covered her face and her body.

Chilla growled in outrage as she tore off the plastic wrap away from her.

"Now you're dead!" Chilla snarled and screamed.

As she stomped in anger, she failed to notice she triggered the rope attached to the fan. With the rope loose, the fan's blades spun and blew the feathers onto Chilla.

Chilla stood there stunned. She blew out a couple of feathers that had gotten in her mouth.

Her face once again formed to anger and looked around the employees lounge to find her targets. To her dismay, they were nowhere to be seen. Not even under the table.

Priya and Abby managed to sneak past Chilla earlier just as they saw she was covered in feathers.

As they ran out of the employees lounge and back into the store, they continued to run-turning to the right to enact their next plans.

"Just a few more traps and we're unleashing the big one!" Priya said.

"Alright!" Abby grinned excitedly.

As the smoke began to clear, Meilin, Miriam and Tyler stood up and dust themselves off as they began to look around to find The Rani and her cohorts standing up.

With a growl, Meilin charged on all four of her paws, as did Miriam and Tyler.

Dark Mercury groaned as she grasped her head, feeling a bit of a headache after the double explosion. But upon looking straight ahead, she failed to react in time to Miriam body slamming and tackling her.

Lash on the other hand recovered quickly and was confronted by a charging Tyler. The large Inhuman tried to get a few hits on him but missed with every punch as Tyler dodged with ease. Finally, he managed to headbutt him directly to his chest and knocked him down.

As The Rani finally stood up, she noticed her cohorts were taken down. As such when she looked straight ahead, she was greeted with a punch to the face by Meilin Lee herself. Followed by a kick and a whack across the face with her tail.

The Rani was knocked down once again.

"Lash! Dark Mercury!" The Rani shouted. "I require assistance!"

Quickly thinking, Dark Mercury unleashed an ice-based defensive move that hastily created a wall that divided between them and the three red panda teens.

Soon, they stared at the ice wall in awe but then took notice of The Rani and her cohorts running away to another part of the mall.

"Chickens!" Meilin scoffed.

"You think Priya and Abby are okay?" Miriam asked out of concern.

"Let's go!" Meilin nodded.

With that, the three teens ran up the escalator to the second floor.

Metal Head walked around the store yet again, this time grumbling to himself how he had been outsmarted by two teens yet again. Only to now come across Verminous Skumm who was still recovering from being hit with a bag of cement.

"What happened to you?" Skumm asked Metal Head, perplexed by his injury.

"I can ask you the same thing." Metal Head replied. "You look like you're ready for the fryer to be Kentucky Fried Rat!"

"Why you-?!" Skumm growled as he physically tried to assault Metal Head over the remark.

What they failed to notice however was yet another trip wire, but also a still heating grill and a griddle in front of them.

They tripped as soon as Skumm tackled Metal Head.

Metal Head landed his face on the grill. He screamed in pain as he felt the heat touching his face, even after removing himself. In turns, his face now has grill marks.

"Ow..." He groaned with a squeak.

While Verminous Skumm landed on the griddle via his butt. Like Metal Head, Skumm screamed loudly as he could as he felt the pain touch his buttocks.

He quickly removed himself and tried to save his hands behind to ease the flaming pain.

"Got us again!" Metal Head growled.

"Get 'em!" Skumm shouted.

The two ran a few feet until they reached the center of the store when they saw Chilla finally appear.

"Chilla?" Metal Head asked in confusion upon seeing her feathered state to which Skumm was equally perplexed.

"What on Earth happened to your face?" Chilla asked Metal Head in utter bafflement.

"Why do you look like a chicken?" He responded with a question of his own.

Finally, Captain Cold rejoined the others looking none the worse for wear and still smoking from his electrical shock with the water fountain.

"Why are you-?" Chilla began to ask before being cut off.

"It was the children!" Captain Cold hastily said as he whimpered.

"Those children are a menace!" Chilla exclaimed.

Finally, Klis showed up. Looking all better than the others in comparison. Save for a bit of blood on her face.

"And where have you been?!" Chilla asked, annoyed Klis seemed to had gotten off easy.

In response, she licked the blood off from her face. Even grinned afterwards.

Chilla's right eye twitched upon seeing the act.

"Don't even answer!" Chilla sighed. "I don't want to know."

As Chilla and the other subordinates began to continue their search, they failed to notice tiny Micro Machines cars on the floor.

They screamed as all five slipped on the tiny toys and landed on the floor face, feeling the wind knocked out of them. But with Chilla, she landed on a few by accident as some were inserted into her buttocks, to which she emitted a high falsetto scream. Along with Verminous Skumm feeling his testicles punctured again.

"You guys give up or are you thirsty for more?!" Abby cried out from a few feet away as she appeared in front of them in her human form with a huge grin on her face.

"Get 'em!" Metal Head shouted as he and Captain Cold were the first to stand up after recovering.

Abby turned around to give Priya, also in her human form, the thumbs up. To which Priya did it back. She then promptly threw one of the two paint cans she managed to tie rope around the store lamps.

The first can swung directly toward Captain Cold.

"Look out!" Captain Cold shouted as he ducked.

"Huh?" Metal Head made a noise of confusion before the paint can hit him in the face instead-knocking him down and Chilla breaking his fall.

"You simpleton!" Captain Cold turned away to shout at Metal Head.

Right before he failed to react in time to see the second paint can hit him in the face.

The impact sent Captain Cold flying toward Verminous Skumm, who crashed his fall.

"Those little monsters..." Chilla grumbled as she shoved Metal Head away.

As she stood up along with the others, they were soon stunned and confused to find Priya and Abby, now with shopping carts. But with curious additions. The fact that on the bottom of both carts with two oxygen tanks each strapped to the bottom with duct tape.

"See ya!" Priya mockingly waved to the subordinates.

Suddenly, both she and Abby transformed their human arms into their red panda arms and with their strength, tore the tops off the oxygen tanks.

Immediately, the carts launched like formula-1 cars. Moving so fast that the subordinates did not have the time to react as when the carts hit them, they were flung inside and went along for the ride.

Chilla, Metal Head and Captain Cold were flung into one cart, while Verminous Skumm and Klis flung to the other.

All five of them screamed their heads off as they saw literally everything flash before them. That was until the second cart sped up too much that it flipped on a store counter and flipped upside down-landing on the first cart, creating a cage for the five that merely shoved them together like an overcrowded jail cell.

The carts then finally launched out of the store and back into the mall. The subordinates screamed due to the intense speed, as well as some of them were able to see they were about to crash into a kiosk dedicated to a book series called Growing Around.

The incoming crash immediately demolished the kiosk, destroying everything in sight upon crashing.

Finally, after knocking off a trash can, the carts, much to the displeasure of the subordinates as they kept on screaming, flew off the second floor and crashed into the pavement of the first floor.

Witnessing what had just happened were Meilin, Miriam and Tyler, who stared in shock at the events that transpired in front of their eyes.

"Mei!" Meilin heard Abby cry out her name that snapped her out of her trance as did Miriam and Tyler.

Priya and Abby, now transformed into their red panda forms, ran toward the trio, finally leaving the store.

"Are you okay?" Meilin asked the two out of concern.

"We're good, girl!" Priya responded, reassuring her friend.

"We kicked their butts good!" Abby shouted in triumph.

The five teens looked over the destroyed rail fence to see The Rani's subordinates crawling out of the crash as they groaned.

"Serves them right!" Miriam said as she glared at the villains.

"What's our next move?" Tyler asked Meilin.

"W-what?" Meilin stammered. She was unprepared to answer.

"We got these guys on the run!" Said Miriam. "We're fighting back and winning!"

"And we traumatized five of them with our pranks." Priya added.

"We blew them up real good!" Abby shouted, throwing her own two cents.

"What do we do next?" Asked Tyler, uncertain what to do next.

Meilin was equally uncertain. They were lucky to take on their new foes and that she and her besties were able to fight back against them. But she realized on the other hand, some things had to be done.

"I know we can't leave The Rani alone!" Meilin spoke after pausing for a moment. "What if she goes after us again? Or one of us? Our classmates? Or our parents?"

The four teens had a huge look of worry upon hearing the last part. Now that they knew who The Rani was truly, she could try anything to obtain her targets.

"You saw her chasing us!" Meilin continued. "She's not going to stop coming for us until she gets what she wants!"

Meilin then pounded her fist in determination.

"Let's stop her right here and now so she'll never hurt anyone ever again!" Meilin made her declaration.

"What are we going to do though?" Asked Priya.

Meilin once again froze. She did not consider a game plan due to everything that happened all at once. She placed her forefinger and thumb around her face in thought.

"I don't know." Meilin replied as she was deep in her thoughts.

"We could throw water on her and hope she'll melt." Abby suggested.

The besties looked at Abby with a perplexed look on their faces. Abby herself remained unfazed however.

"Or we could grab a formula she made where she turns people into mice and use it on her!" Abby then said.

"Abby, she's not an actual witch!" Meilin sighed. "We just call her that!"

Suddenly from behind, she heard the sounds of a movie playing on display on a television set at the video store MoonCoast. It was the ending of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The scene where young Anakin Skywalker blew up the inside of the Trade Federation droid control ship. And on the display on the left was the ending of Independence Day on another television set at the same store where Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum blew up the alien ship on the inside after uploading a computer virus.

Suddenly, it was as if a lightbulb went off on Meilin's head.

"I got it!" Meilin exclaimed in excitement.

"What? What is it?" Miriam eagerly asked along with the rest of the besties.

"We're gonna take out The Rani and her home base from the inside!" Meilin replied.

She continued, "I know, we don't know where it is. Which is why we're gonna pretend to give in..."

"And then boom!" Abby shouted.

"Sneak attack!" Miriam concurred.

"Yeah! It's the only way she'll never hurt somebody or us ever again!" Meilin said before she asked as she moved forward her paw, "Now who's with me?"

"I am!" Miriam said without hesitation with her paw laid out.

"I got your back, girl!" Priya did the same as she voiced her agreement, even with her usual deadpan expression.

"Fight the witch!" Abby screamed in Korean doing the same as the others.

"Let's go kick her butt all over outer space!" Tyler nodded with determination as he did the same.

"Let's do this!" Meilin shouted

The five besties placed their paws together and threw them in the air and cheered.

"Oh!" Abby suddenly remembered the backpack she brought along. "I got this too!"

Meilin looked inside to see what was inside; a roll of duct, the batteries and the rocket the Thunderbolt.

"Maybe this can help us." Meilin said, intrigued by what Abby had brought along.

Back on the first floor, The Rani, Lash and Dark Mercury reconvened to a shoe store after the last battle. The Rani stood in the center facing the wall with her arms crossed. Fuming quietly how she had been outsmarted by mere children.

While Lash and Dark Mercury were sitting on chairs within their own thoughts.

"So much for the brilliant mind of The Rani." Lash said with sarcasm in his voice.

"Don't you start!" The Rani angrily responded, never raking her eyes off the wall.

"Mistress, we clearly underestimated the children." Dark Mercury said whilst trying to be respectful. "After all, the Lee girl did manage to win against her mother-"

"If I wanted your analysis and opinion, I'll ask for it!" The Rani spat at her when she no longer stared at the wall before going back to it.

Dark Mercury was taken aback. Surprised to see The Rani react in such a manner to her.

Before Dark Mercury could put much more thought, she saw something that alerted her.

"My lady!" Dark Mercury cried out to The Rani.

The Rani turned around to see her subordinates marching toward her, somehow managing to find the Time Lady. As they stepped inside the shoe store, all five of them kneeled to her despite looking none the worse for wear and that even prior to going in, Chilla, Captain Cold, Metal Head and Verminous Skumm had to crack and straighten their backs after the cart crash.

"What on Earth happened to you lot?" The Rani asked, completely baffled at the mess before her.

"We..." Chilla spoke albeit hesitantly. "Fought the children and we were outnumbered."

The Rani frowned as her eyes narrowed. Clearly not believing her excuse.

"Considering my escaped test subjects were only five and I had chased three while you five chased two, I find that hard to believe." The Rani scoffed.

"Outnumbered?" She added. "Outclassed is more like it."

Chilla glared at her leader for the remark. Very unhappy with what had happened to her previously.

"However..." The Rani began as she pulled an advanced pistol from one of the holsters around her waist and turned a knob on the dial on the right to a specific setting.

"Do you lot know the penalty for failure?" She glared at her subordinates as she asked in a threatening manner.

Chilla's expression now suddenly morphed into one of fear.

"Give us one more chance, Mistress!" Said Captain Cold with a hint of fear in his voice. "And we shall succeed!"

"I'm afraid I am not in the giving vein today!" The Rani said darkly, quoting Shakespeare's Richard III.

The Rani shot the weapon point blank range albeit randomly and the blast ended up hitting Verminous Skumm much to the shock of everyone.

Skumm screamed in pain as he was disintegrating in front of everyone's eyes until he fully disappeared as if he were never present at all.

The rest of the subordinates stared in shock and horror at what had just happened, even Klis was stunned beyond belief. Lash was even a bit surprised, while Dark Mercury felt conflicted.

She felt The Rani needed to make an example but Verminous Skumm was not even a putty. He was as living as she and the others.

"We beg for your forgiveness, Mistress!" Chilla literally begged on her knees.

"Your idiocy and failure to obtain even two children is simply baffling!" Said The Rani. "Someone needed to be made an example of."

"My lady," Dark Mercury spoke to The Rani. "I agree with your wording but perhaps it was a bit excessive to kill him?"

She then added, "After all, we need all the help we can get."

"And I told you before, if I wanted your opinion, I'll ask!" Said The Rani, sounding annoyed before adding, "And yet, I did not, did I?"

Once again, Dark Mercury was taken aback. She thought she was at least equal to The Rani.

Unbeknownst to them however, five familiar red panda shaped bodies approached the shoe store, one of them wearing a backpack.

"Ahem!"

Suddenly, The Rani and all her cohorts heard a familiar voice.

They turned to see Meilin and her friends standing outside the entrance facing them. Or in the case of the Rani, she looked up after staring at the subordinates kneeling to her after her outburst at Dark Mercury.

She in turn glared at her new enemies.

Outside the mall, the TARDIS materialized outside the entrance. The Doctor, her sixth counterpart, Yaz and much of the Lee family stepped out.

"You sure this is the place?" The Doctor asked Yaz.

"Yes!" Yaz replied. "According to the article, there was an incident that took place here at the Square One shopping mall where their security cameras caught five red pandas fighting monsters."

"I still don't understand how this thing is smaller outside!" The Doctor and Yaz heard what Chen said.

They turned around to see the four aunts inspecting the TARDIS, all four still in disbelief about it much to the chagrin of the Doctor.

"Ladies!" Wu shouted in order to get their attention and keep focus.

"Mother," Ming whispered to her mother. "What happened with Mei Mei's friends, could they have inherited red panda spirits of their own?"

"There might be a possibility despite this being the result of science." Wu said, feeling a bit uncertain herself.

"Stampede!" Then they heard Jin shout, interrupting further thoughts.

"What?" The Doctor asked in confusion.

The Doctor turned to the right and much to her shock, she and the others witnessed most of the Judoon running out of the mall in a mad, frantic panic. Not even bothering to notice their original target; The Doctor right in front of them.

As she and the others backed themselves to the TARDIS exterior to avoid the incoming, charging Judoon.

As all of the Judoon left, the Doctor was perplexed. Not only because they looked like a literal mess but also they were running away in fear. All of the Ming family looked on in shock while the Sixth Doctor expressed confusion.

"What are the Judoon doing here?" The Doctor asked aloud, surprised to have had seen them.

"Well you did escape from prison." Said Yaz.

"You were in prison?!" Ping reacted aghast at the thought of The Doctor being an escaped convict.

"It's a long story! But it was for leaving the planet Gallifrey." The Doctor responded hastily before appearing uncomfortable about the subject.

"I see I still get into trouble with the authorities." The 6th Doctor remarked.

"I rather not talk about it!" The Doctor responded before asking, "but what I'm curious about is why the Judoon were running away."

"The Judoon in all my encounters never expressed fear or anything! Let alone an outright retreat!" She added.

"Those things have a name?" Asked Chen, still shocked by what she had witnessed.

"Madame," The Doctor approached Ming, asking, "Has your daughter taken self defense classes?"

"No?" Ming responded in confusion.

"Doctor," Wu said calmly to the Time Lord herself. "When the gift of the red panda was bestowed upon Sun Yee, she had defended her village against bandits."

The Doctor placed her hand around her chin in deep thought. She remembered learning more about the origins of Lee red panda family lineage during the tour.

"Only one way to find out." The Doctor said before shouting, "Let's go!"

With that, she and Yaz ran towards the mall with the others joining them.

The Rani glared at her red panda opponents as the four remaining subordinates crawled away in fear.

"I'll handle this myself." The Rani simply said to Lash and Dark Mercury, who nodded hesitantly.

"If I were you, I'd back off." Meilin said in a threatening manner with her fangs bared.

The Rani scoffed at her threat.

"If I were you, I'd surrender."

"We're not afraid of you anymore!" Meilin exclaimed.

"You're going down, lady!" Abby shouted in Korean.

Miriam, Priya and Tyler nodded in utter agreement with their friends.

The Rani raised her eyebrow, skeptical at their words.

"We shall see." The Rani simply said.

The besties and The Rani stared at each other. Eager to who will draw first.

"You won't win this." She added. "You can't escape me."

"We can and we will!" Meilin said with her friends nodding in agreement.

The Rani's eyes burrowed, appearing unimpressed.

The Doctor and the others ran inside finally and much to their shock, saw the destroyed state of it all.

"What on Earth happened?!" The Doctor exclaimed in shock.

The group examined the damage brought upon the mall including the already melting ice wall and the destroyed elevator.

"It's like a war zone happened here!" Chen exclaimed.

"Smells like fireworks." Yaz deduced as she sniffed the air.

The Doctor and her sixth counterpart curiously examined the ice wall before them. "Astonishing!" The Doctor breathlessly exclaimed in amazement.

"It quite is!" The 6th Doctor concurred. "Probably the work of the blue haired woman. I had a feeling she was ice themed."

"Did that crazy stunt show from MTV come to Canada?" Helen shouted as she and the aunts examined the crashed carts.

"I don't understand." Ming was at a loss for words, even fearing the worst. "What's even happened? Is Mei Mei safe?"

The Doctor heard her concerns and immediately approached her for comfort.

"Madame, if your daughter is that strong as the red panda, she should be safe." She said to Ming.

The besties and The Rani continued to glare at each other. Still having their standoff. The Rani clenched her fist with Meilin and her friends doing the same.

Suddenly, Meilin made her first move. An attempt to rush at her just as her eyes turned red and her claws out and sharp teeth still bared.

The Rani noticed. And she knew exactly what to do next.

"Before you even think about trying anything," The Rani said to Meilin before pulling out a remote-like device from one of her pockets.

"Remember that I can target the Genetic Bomb at your temple." She continued. "And who knows? Your mother could have returned in time for me to mutate her and the rest of Toronto!"

Meilin stopped herself from coming any closer. While the plan was to get inside her base and fake giving into The Rani's demands, her feelings on her mother being threatened were not. Her red angry eyes went back to normal and her teeth no longer sharp. And her claws retracted.

"And don't think their parents won't be affected too." The Rani then motioned to Meilin's friends.

Now the rest of them expressed fear and hesitation.

Meilin looked to her friends, as if she needed to know what to do next and earn their approval.

"It's okay, Mei." Miriam said sympathetically and assuringly. "We're behind you no matter what."

Meilin then turned back to facing The Rani, who now had a triumphant sadistic smirk on her face.

Reluctantly and with a heavy sigh, she said, "You win."

She lifted her arms as if expecting handcuffs to be placed on her. Either way, The Rani was pleased to see Meilin surrender. And her friends as she saw them do the same.

"So, you finally admit defeat." The Rani smiled before sarcastically quipping, "That wasn't so bad, was it?"

She then turned to Captain Cold as she hit him upside his head.

"Make yourself useful and create ice cuffs." She told him.

Beneath his goggles, Captain Cold gave an annoyed glare at her before he obliged. Using his ice gun to create handcuffs.

"Could they be any colder?" Priya sarcastically asked as she and her friends felt the coldness of the ice cuffs on their furry wrists. Though Priya did not appear to shiver like the rest of the besties.

The Rani reached into another one of her pockets to pull out another remote- like device.

"I will bring the TARDIS here." The Rani said as she pressed the red button on the remote device.

"You could have used that?" Lash asked incredulously over something that could have been solved fast.

"We were in a rush." The Rani simply replied.

Metal Head, with a grin, approached Abby and Priya alongside Chilla and Captain Cold joining in.

"Not so tough, ain't ya?" Metal Head laughed as he gloated.

Chilla and Captain Cold likewise joined in on laughing after being humiliated by their traps.

In response however, Priya and Abby growled like angry animals complete with the red eyes, sharp teeth and claws. With Abby attempting to chomp off Metal Head's entire head off but missed as he backed off quickly, whimpering. As did Chilla and Captain Cold who all three tripped as they were frightened and hugged each other for safety.

The Rani looked at the display and rolled her eyes.

She sighed in utter disappointment as she said, "I hired imbeciles. I literally hired imbeciles."

To her relief, her TARDIS finally materialized in front of her. But to the utter bafflement of Meilin and her friends, it looked like a wardrobe.

"You expect us to fit in there?" Miriam asked incredulously.

"It's bigger on the inside!" The Rani hastily replied, sounding very annoyed.

"Now get in!" She then said as her teeth gritted.

As the Doctor and the rest of the group were about to investigate up the second floor, they stopped upon hearing a familiar sound.

"What's that?" The Doctor signaled the group to halt as they walked up the escalator.

"What sound?" Lily asked.

The Doctor shushed Lily. She cupped her hand around her ear and leaned over for a closer inspection and appearing more alarmed.

"I hear it too!" The 6th Doctor said, now feeling alarmed himself.

"A TARDIS!" The two Doctors cried out in unison before gasping, "THE RANI!"

The Lee family and Yaz then feared the worst and proceeded to run down the escalator with the two Doctors rushing out first upon landing back on the first floor with Ming not too far behind, especially after taking off her high heeled shoes to run faster.

Like prisoners going into a bus, the besties were loaded inside after the subordinates, Lash and Dark Mercury went inside The Rani's TARDIS first with The Rani only one remaining outside to supervise.

"It's bigger on the inside?!" The Rani heard Miriam shout and rolled her eyes in response.

"This is impossible!" Tyler screamed in shock.

"Sick..." Priya exclaimed in her usual deadpan manner.

"I want one!" Abby exclaimed.

The Rani raised her eyebrows in confusion in response to what Abby had just said.

Meilin was now curious. Just as she was about to get in, she heard a familiar cry.

"Mei Mei!"

Meilin turned around as her red panda ears perked up, to see her mother Ming, just placing her shoes back on but also The Doctor. Both were running toward the very same shoe store just around the corner, alongside the Sixth Doctor, Yaz and the rest of the Lee family.

"Mom?!" Meilin cried out in shock.

The Rani looked on in shock but hastily used the laser pistol and started shooting at point blank range.

"Madame, get down!" The Doctor cried out as she tackled Ming, both of them ducking to avoid the incoming laser blasts.

"Get back!" The 6th Doctor cried out his warning as he spread his arms to halt the rest of the group in order to not get shot by the incoming laser blasts.

"No!" Meilin shouted in fear and in a panic. "Don't hurt her!"

In response, The Rani then turned to aim the laser pistol at Meilin.

"Do not try anything!" The Rani said with fury in her voice. "There's two ways we can do this; you get in or I'll shoot your mother. Or two, I shoot you if your mother comes near me. What will it be?"

Meilin stopped herself from voicing her objections any further albeit hesitantly.

"Mei Mei!" The Rani heard Meilin's mother cry again as she pointed the weapon at her daughter, just as Ming ran inside the shoe store.

"Don't even try!" The Rani threatened.

"So it is you!" The Doctor said as she entered inside herself.

"Ah, so it is you, Doctor." The Rani said unimpressed and annoyed before snarking, "You've changed again already. I assume however you did not hit your head to cause your regeneration this time."

Ignoring the remark, The Doctor angrily shouted, "You have gone way too far this time, Rani! Experimenting on children and creating child soldiers is a new low! Even for you!"

The Rani rolled her eyes in response.

"All in the name of science, Doctor." The Rani said just as the Sixth Doctor entered inside the shoe store himself.

"Besides, one Doctor is annoying enough." She added as she glared at the Sixth Doctor. "I don't need to hear your lack of vision from the power of two."

"Let the children go, Rani!" The 6th Doctor demanded. "Take me if you wish but leave the children alone!"

Ming noticed the Tamagotchi she wore around her neck glowing red. As she glared at the Rani, she gripped her hand around the device.

"Mom!" Meilin cried out to her again.

Daughter and mother looked at each other with Meilin giving a soft and sad smile, even to the point of tears forming around her eyes. And Ming's.

"It's okay, mom." Meilin softly said. "I'm gonna be okay."

Meilin nodded, as did Ming. The Rani however, looked on in complete disinterest.

"Let's. Go." The Rani growled at the red panda.

With that, Meilin walked into The Rani's TARDIS but not before giving one last look at her mother. With Ming looking on in sadness.

"You lose, Doctors!" The Rani shouted arrogantly to the two Doctors before stepping inside her TARDIS. And finally, the wardrobe disguised TARDIS dematerialized until there was nothing else left, just as Yaz and the rest of the Lee family arrived.

Ming sobbed her heart out at what just happened with Jin and Wu comforting her sympathetically. Even the two Doctors and Yaz looked on in sadness as did the aunties.

But the current Doctor shook her head and said to Ming, "I've said this before to two brilliant women I met and it bears repeating here; Darkness never sustains even though sometimes it feels like it might."

"And we are not giving up rescuing your daughter!" She added with determination in her voice.

Ming looked at the Doctor with hope in her eyes as the Doctor gave her a very hopeful smile.

"I should add, you forget!" The 6th Doctor said in his usual loud manner. "I know where The Rani is!"

The entire Lee family looked at the two Doctors in hopeful astonishment.

"We must warn you however..." The 6th Doctor said before the current Doctor finished for him.

"The Rani is going to expect us no matter what! It is going to be a major risk no matter how smart we go about it. She is dangerous to deal with."

"I was going to say that!" The 6th Doctor said irritably.

"Doctor, I am going to do whatever it takes to rescue my Mei Mei and her friends!" Ming said with passion and determination. "I refuse to lose my daughter to that diseased maniac!"

Jin nodded in agreement.

"We all are!" Wu nodded in agreement as well.

"She's family!" Lily shouted as she and the rest of the aunties agreed.

"What are we waiting for, Doctor?" Yaz said, agreeing with the others.

The Doctor nodded.

"To the TARDIS then!"

With that, the group made their move to run back outside to the Doctor's TARDIS.

Author's Notes:

And cue Doctor Who theme. And this is done on purpose since I do want to emulate classic Doctor Who cliffhangers.

But onto my thinking with this chapter:

- Wouldn't want the Sixth Doctor to know more about his future.

- A reference to a gag from The Husbands of River Song where River Song had a similar display wallet that had all the pictures of the Doctor up until 11, it's where she didn't realize the old man was the 12th Doctor.

- A joke about the Fifth Doctor having celery on him would be funny instead of "LOL The 6th Doctor has a weird coat."

- I'm willing to defend the 6th Doctor outfit. Just saying.

- A reference to The Mark of the Rani, the very first appearance of The Rani herself. Yes, the events mentioned are simplified but had to be quick and to the point.

- The explanation for the TARDIS as to why it's bigger on the inside came from The Robots of Death when the 4th Doctor explained to Leela how it worked. And in character Mei's aunts would just not buy that and still question it.

- Now the Square One shopping mall is real but I took a lot of creative liberties as given my intent with this chapter, I decided to play very fast, very loose with the location of choice.

- As I wrote this chapter, I realized I inadvertently made a throwback to the age of furry superheroes that were spawned to cash in on the Ninja Turtles craze. But not only that, considering what I'll get into soon, that the Home Alone movies played an influence, I decided to lean hard into the "kids rule, adults drool" phase that was prevalent in the 90s and 2000s with Nickelodeon and even Disney wasn't alone on that.

- Miriam's first line in the chapter is taken from a line in the 1990 Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles movies.

- I thought it'd be in character that the besties would end up enjoying being red pandas themselves, even Tyler despite his reluctance to admit it.

- Everyone leaving the mall because of seeing the Judoon was just my way of getting everyone out in order to avoid the realistic implications of civilian casualties. So, empty out the mall it was so I could have it damaged. That's the only consequence I'd deal with but give me credit, I'm not Zack Snyder and pulling a Man of Steel.

- Security guards will be fine though in case you ask.

- Sir Saves A-Lot is inspired by Sir Sav-A-Lot from Jumanji. Neither are real for the record. But this one as opposed to its inspiration is part of a chain of brick and mortar stores like Wal-Mart or Target for this story.

- The Thunderbolt is the name of the rocket from one of my favorite Horror movies, The Gate. You'll see why it's important later on.

- E.T. shout out with Abby and Priya hiding among stuffed toys.

- Now Home Alone. Now as I writing it in December, that played a huge influence as while I did invent some traps of my own, a lot of these are taken from the first two movies. Just basically "LOL this trap from one of the Home Alone movies is used on this villain."

But also why, is that considering Turning Red played a lot with cartoon psychics, there's a moment where when Meilin goes to school after the first morning with her red panda transformation, when Priya brings out a case of deodorant out of nowhere after Abby brought up Meilin was smelling, I decided to just take that cartoon logic to an extreme and what better extreme of gags than Home Alone 1 and 2?

- Another Ninja Turtles shout out with the name Tyler jokingly suggested.

- Brick scene is a variation of the infamous brick scene from the second film.

- Pool cue ball launcher I admit I took from the recent film Home Sweet Home Alone as I thought that was too good not to use.

- The Judoon, always kind of bothered me they never had extreme humiliating defeats with the closest being when the Fugitive Doctor ripped a horn off. I thought if Russell T. Davies is not going to do it, I'll do it myself. Plus admittedly, when I do write Doctor Who crossovers or if I do a solo Doctor Who story, if the Judoon are involved, expect them to get a lot of humiliating abuse thrown at them. Like say, Spider-Man mocks them while outsmarting them to name one example.

- Now Meilin's plan is a homage to Godzilla vs Gigan where the human characters there defeat the aliens controlling Gigan and King Ghidorah with boxes of dynamite and a sketch of the human characters behind said boxes as one of the leads is a Manga artist and his art fooled the aliens they that shoot at it and ultimately, they blew themselves up and their home base. And to be honest, it just seemed in character for me that the Judoon would not tell the difference.

- Incidentally, I didn't realize until much later before uploading this chapter, the Judoon blowing up fireworks is reminiscent of the ending of Eve of the Daleks where the Daleks blew up fireworks by mistake that led to their defeat.

- Thought it'd be funny Chilla ended up being the one to suffer a similar trap Harry had in Home Alone 2. Same with the feather trap in the first Home Alone.

- Likewise with Captain Cold with the two specific traps from the first Home Alone that Harry suffered and two traps from the second Home Alone that Marv suffered through.

- Again, played fast and loose with how the floor plans looked in a store I made up.

- Same deal with Verminous Skumm giving him a trap from the second Home Alone movie.

- Originally, I was going to have Angels With Even Filthier Souls, the movie within a movie from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, actually exist in the Super Besties universe but I decided for a fun meta moment that I went for Pixar characters watching a movie owned by Disney featuring a movie that doesn't exist.

- I decided to throw in a random Horror moment and made a good way to show what Klis had been doing elsewhere to avoid being hit by traps.

- "Turn it up to eleven" is a shout out to This is Spinal Tap.

- Tyler getting his revenge on the Judoon captain was last minute as I felt he should get retribution after the last chapter.

- What happens to the Judoon captain is deliberately evoking Boba Fett's humiliating defeat in Return of the Jedi. And the use of a fire extinguisher as a jetpack was something I remembered in Casper: A Spirited Beginning, a film I do not recommend watching but I included something from it anyway.

- Doorbell gag is something taken from the 1995 Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers movie when Billy kicked one of the Ooze Men twice and there was a doorbell ring for each kick that I wanted to see if I could pull off in prose form.

- The rocket carts I call them was inspired by again Jumanji with the scene of the kid Peter with a Home Alone style trap on Van Pelt. The shopping carts however, the poster for Jackass: The Movie came to my mind that I decided would make for a good slapstick set piece.

- The Growing Around kiosk being destroyed is my middle finger to MrEnter. Growing Around is his "cartoon" I use the word loosely that he turned into a book series which... not very well received and he's defensive about it. But infamously, he's the guy who said "Turning Red should have mentioned 9/11" despite one, the film takes place in 2002. Two, it's set in Toronto.

This is something he hasn't really apologized for, he gets defensive about it too, he's overall by all accounts not a pleasant person. But I don't want to get into it.

- The intense speed of the rocket carts I envisioned having the feel of the outcome of the garage trap in Saw: The Final Chapter albeit PG Rated of course.

- I originally had an extended chase scene in mind with Meilin and her friends driving asecurity guard cart with Captain Cold and Metal Head stealing one of their own to chase, a scene inspired by the movie Houseguest.

With the way the chapter was structured however, there was no way to fit it in. Had to go.

- References to The Wizard of Oz and The Witches.

- Tyler's line is a variation and homage to a line uttered by Kincaid in A Nightmare on ElmStreet 3: Dream Warriors:

"Let's go kick the motherfucker's ass all over dreamland."

- While I always had the intention of Meilin and her besties go to The Rani's base of operations, I wasn't sure just yet how to go about it. I did have them willfully surrender originally and they escape upon entering but I felt that made The Rani look like a complete imbecile and didn't want that.

But it wasn't until writing this chapter and ironically like Meilin, it was those two specific films I remembered that I decided that was the way to go, along with The Rani using the still lingering threat of launching the Genetic Bomb on her family. Which Meilin does know given it was established that she can use to her advantage for her plan to work but The Rani's ego would blind her as opposed to her easily fall for a trick.

- MoonCoast being a parody of Suncoast for all you young people.

- Why a shoe store? Just popped into my head and that's it.

- The moment with The Rani and her subordinates is deliberately lifted from the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie even to the point of two specific lines being used. Including the usage of Richard III. And yes, Skeletor said a line from Richard III in that movie.

- I know I had The Rani kill off random characters but I swear a scene like this is to showhow far The Rani has gone since Time and the Rani.

- The red panda spirits thing was something I thought of recently given the context of Turning Red that I decided to pay some kind of lip service to that and just ultimately let the reader decide if they think so.

- Reference to the events of Revolution of the Daleks with the Doctor escaping , I thought it'd be likely if the Judoon went around searching for her.

- And speaking of, unless plans change, it's not the last time the Judoon will appear in this story.

- I also thought it would now be likely how Sun Yee became a red panda would be part of the Lee family temple tours, now that Toronto knows about Meilin Lee and her mother turning into red pandas.

- Jackass shout out of course.

- Originally it was going to end with Meilin just noticing her mother calling for her before The Rani forces her inside her TARDIS, says to both Doctors "You lose!" and the 6th Doctor saying he knows the location of The Rani's base of operations. And even at one point, I thought of a cliffhanger of The Rani ordering Metal Head to blow up the TARDIS when I also originally thought of the Doctor and co. appearing directly into the mall and blow up it until I reveal in the next chapter, that the shields protected the TARDIS and everykbhe else.

But at the moment I got there, I decided to not only extend it a bit but actually give the 13th Doctor her moment to interact with The Rani, even if brief. And even to give the scene an emotional moment of distress especially for Ming and Meilin. And even bring the 6th Doctor despite a brief interaction.

- Reference to Time and the Rani, at least a running joke with fans at how often they joked the 6th Doctor regenerated because he hit his head on the TARDIS console. Yes, I know there's a Big Finish audio drama that explains what happened prior but still.

- I know, I shouldn't have characters repeat a line they said but I felt what the 13th Doctor said in Spyfall Part Two applied here.

And that's it! Look out for chapter four where at long last, the identity of Patient Zero will be revealed.

Until then, hope you enjoyed reading this chapter!

[Movie-Brat]

Author's Note:

Hello again! This time, I wanted to take a month long break after writing the third chapter for so long and not too long hopefully it won't take as long to write but I'm here now and I hope you enjoy what's to come.

Chapter 4: The Wrath of the Rani

Inside The Rani's TARDIS, the five besties, still with their wrists restrained icy handcuffs, were lined up to the wall as The Rani punched in the coordinates on the console.

The Rani looked at the five teens after the TARDIS began to make its transport. She noticed they had dour, sad looks on their faces. Especially Mei in particular, which she figured had no doubt had something to do with the encounter with mother.

The Rani rolled her eyes.

"Oh get over it, child." The Rani said coldly as she examined the besties like a military drill sergeant. "Now that you five are firmly back within my grasp, my plans will finally commence as envisioned."

"Do not disappoint me however." She added.

Behind her back, Meilin glared at The Rani, her eyes literally turning red due to her rising anger as well as her fur rising up.

She then looked at her red panda paws and tightened them into fists, the more her anger grew.

Suddenly, another set of red panda paws touched her shoulder in a comforting manner.

Meilin turned to the left to see her friend Miriam looking at her sympathetically and a vote of confidence with Priya, Abby and Tyler joining in. This managed to calm Meilin down with her nodding back in gratitude as a thank you.

In Vancouver, the Doctor's own TARDIS managed to materialize in front of the building Pip and Jane Industries.

Behind unbeknownst to everyone however was a smashed and destroyed Ferrari with the only things left were an empty oxygen tank, an empty fire extinguisher and duct tape.

The two Doctors, Yaz and the Lee family stepped out and saw the office building in front of them.

"That's not much of a secret hideout, is it?" Helen said, unimpressed with the plain looking office building with the words "Pip and Jane Industries" on top in bold but plain letters.

"That's the general idea, however." Said The Sixth Doctor. "Be inconspicuous as possible and hope nobody notices."

"People rarely pay attention to office buildings." The Doctor herself added. "They're like grass. You get used to it and it blends in."

The Sixth Doctor then turned his head to the right to find from across the secret base of The Rani, a welcome sight he had hoped to see.

"Unbelievable!" The Sixth Doctor cried out happily.

He and the others turned to his direction to see from across the street in alleyway, the Sixth Doctor's own TARDIS standing there.

"Neither The Rani or her cohorts bothered to spot it!" The Sixth Doctor exclaimed.

"Good!" The Doctor nodded. "It means we'll have the advantage!"

"What are you even going to do?" Yaz asked The Doctor with Ming nodding in agreement.

"We're going to surprise The Rani!" Answered The Doctor. "Free the children and so forth and stop her plans once and for all."

She then said, "Ming, stay with the others."

"What? No!" Ming objected. "I'm coming with you!"

"Madame, as we told you," The Doctor said. "The Rani is dangerous and we can't allow you to get hurt!"

"And I told you I'm not leaving my daughter in the hands of that diseased maniac!" Ming countered firmly.

"Madame-"

"Doctor, do you have any children?" Ming cut off The Doctor with a question.

The Doctor froze. The question Ming had asked hit her a lot on a deep personal level. The Doctor did not react in anger, only just a tinge of sadness.

Yaz grew concerned, sensing based on The Doctor lowering her head, it was a personal question that made her uncomfortable.

Even The Doctor looked at her sixth counterpart who reacted similarly. He was not comfortable himself as his head slowly lowered.

Finally, after a moment of silence, The Doctor gave her answer.

"Yes." The Doctor simply said, clearly trying to hold back tears. "My granddaughter. Her name was Susan."

"And you would do anything to make her happy? Help her even?" Ming then asked.

The Doctor remembered when she realized her granddaughter Susan fell in love with the freedom fighter David during the Dalek invasion of London way back in her first incarnation. It was that day, she saw Susan clearly loved David and realized she had to let Susan think for herself and do what made her happy.

The Doctor recalled her speech to Susan begore she departed forever, something that still lingered in her head.

"Yes." The Doctor simply replied.

"Then please understand," Ming began passionately. "Mei Mei is my daughter. Whom I cared for all my life. I never want any harm coming to her or even her friends. And I will do anything to stop this monster, even if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to rescue my Mei Mei!"

The Doctor stared at Ming, impressed and touched by her passionate plea.

"And besides," Ming added as she touched the Tamagotchi around her neck with a hint of sadness. "I at least want to make up for how I acted just last month."

It did not take long for The Doctor to realize what Ming was referring to due to the tour she and Yaz learned about when they went to the Lee family temple earlier in the day. Especially when Yaz had asked about the Skydone fundraiser to which they remembered Ming clearly looking embarrassed as to how and why the incident transpired.

"What on Earth is she talking about?" Asked The Sixth Doctor, confused.

"The Skydome incident." The Doctor replied. "Growing pains she and her daughter called it."

The Sixth Doctor could not help but chuckle at the remark.

"Remind me to ask how that even happened when this whole mess is over and done with." The Sixth Doctor said.

"Alright, you'll come with us." The Doctor then said to Ming. "Same with Jin!"

"What? Me?" Jin asked in confusion.

"Might as well get both parents in on this!" The Doctor said before turning to Yaz.

"Yaz, I need to stay with Wu and the aunts."

"What? Why?" Yaz objected as she asked.

"Yaz, there are two reasons I need you to stay with the others." The Doctor responded. "One, in case anything happens; like if 'I'm not back in fifteen minutes' happens or sound of a gun shot happens, get the TARDIS to make a last minute rescue."

"How do I even do that?" Asked Yaz.

"Ask for the hologram interface!" The Doctor responded.

"Alright." Yaz nodded before asking, "Then what's the second reason?"

"To be honest, Wu aside, I'm not sure I trust the aunts alone with the TARDIS." The Doctor bluntly said.

Yaz turned to see Wu and the four aunts once again examining the TARDIS exterior with Helen knocking on the doors.

"How can this thing be a spaceship if it still feels like it's made of wood?" Helen asked with the aunts nodding in agreement and Wu facepalming at their actions.

Yaz then turned back to the Doctor with an uneasy expression on her face.

"Good point..." Yaz conceded.

"If we're all done here, we best be going!" The Sixth Doctor said in an irritable manner as he began marching toward his own TARDIS.

"Doctor," Ming then said to the Doctor. "I am ready for anything."

"Then let's go!" The Doctor nodded as she, Ming and Jin ran toward the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS.

"Why is this one just a plain white room?" Ming asked as the TARDIS dematerialized after going inside.

"Don't you start, young lady!" The Sixth Doctor shouted in annoyance.

Finally, back in the secret base of The Rani, The Rani's own TARDIS materialized in the main laboratory. Same as it ever was except with the addition of wheeled trays with various needles and an army of Putties standing around, waiting for her presence.

The TARDIS doors open to reveal The Rani stepping out alongside her two allies and her subordinates. Finally, Meilin and her friends walked out of The Rani's TARDIS like prisoners being escorted to their jail cells.

Meilin then took notice of the dozens of needles on the wheeled trays.

"W-what are those for?" She asked the Rani.

"Considering the amount of prisoners, I'll be doing further experiments." Answered The Rani.

"Especially once I put you brats under my firm control." She added as she picked up a needle containing red liquid. "This should put you five under my command."

Meilin gulped in fear as did her friends.

"Putties!" The Rani turned to her troops before she made her command. "Escort the children to their prison cell. I'll deal with them soon."

A dozen Putties soon gathered around the besties and grabbed their red panda arms.

"Now!" Meilin cried out as with her sheer strength, she broke off the ice cuffs by slamming them down on one of her knees with her the rest of the besties doing the same.

Afterwards, Meilin bashed the two Putties around her arms, both hitting the Z's on their chests to which they immediately disintegrate.

Lash and Dark Mercury were about to fight back but not before Miriam dive bombed at the duo-tackling them to the ground.

As Captain Cold was about to fire his freeze gun, Priya used her tail to whack him across the face and instead, he misdirected and fired the gun at Chilla-freezing her head completely.

Immediately afterward, Priya punched Captain Cold in the face.

Metal Head as per usual, wanted to use his missile launchers but froze upon seeing Abby, who had a demented smile on her face.

"Uh, h-hey, little lady..." Metal Head stammered as he backed away, the more Abby stomped closer.

"N-no hard feelings, right?"

After a moment of silence, Abby lunged her head forward as she chomped right in his face, narrowly missing him. In response, Metal Head screamed as he ran away.

Tyler in the meanwhile threw a few Putties at Klis, knocking her down despite her efforts to dodge them.

The Rani looked on with an infuriated look on her face. She had been deceived despite all her efforts to get the five teens in line and commence with her plans. And somehow despite her massive intelligence, she had been outsmarted by a simple thirteen year old girl.

In response, The Rani pulled out the same gun she used to kill Verminous Skumm and carefully attempted to aim the weapon at Meilin.

Miriam while knocking down a Putty, saw the Time Lady's attempt to shoot her friend.

"Mei look out!" Miriam shouted to her friend.

Meilin turned around, after knocking down another Putty, to see The Rani pull out the same weapon used to threaten her and her mother.

Thinking quickly, she grabbed a few Putties and mushed them together into a ball and threw it at her.

The Rani barely had time to react as she noticed too late at the incoming object being thrown at her. She was pushed away a few feet upon impact, which caused her to drop the weapon.

In turn, the Putties unraveled from their forced ball form and felt dizzy as they lay sprawled out on the floor.

"Let's go!" Meilin cried out to her friends as she ran to the right with the rest of the besties following her lead after much fighting with The Rani's forces.

"We got to free the prisoners!" Meilin said as her friends ran alongside her, all of them running on all four paws.

The Rani stood up as she growled and glared at her resisting subjects.

"Mistress..." Dark Mercury spoke softly as she stood up. "We may have underestimated..."

Smack!

The Rani smacked Dark Mercury across her face. Upon falling, she stood up and stared at her superior in shock.

"Do not give me your opinions, child." The Rani seethed in anger before shouting, "Go and get those brats!"

Dark Mercury stood up and glared at her before marching away to fulfill the command.

The Rani immediately then ran to the control panel in the main laboratory and began typing in buttons. A timer on the right showed 0:30, signifying thirty seconds.

"If those brats continue to defy me, I'll show them how doomed they are!" The Rani snarled as she pulled put the remote control device from her pocket before putting it back inside.

With that, she picked up the discarded weapon and ran off to find her targets.

As Meilin and her friends ran down the halls, she attempted to remember which one contained the room with prison cells. She looked left to right and thought hard to remember which one.

"Abby, Tyler!" She cried out to two of her friends. "Pick a room that has anything you could destroy that's important to The Rani!"

"You got it, girl!" Abby responded with Tyler nodding in agreement.

"Mir, Priya, we're freeing the prisoners!" Meilin then said to the three remaining besties as they nodded in agreement as well.

The five besties finally split up with Abby and Tyler picking and barging in the next room they saw as the doors automatically opened for them.

While a few doors down, Meilin, Miriam and Priya skitted to a halt upon seeing one of the doors.

"I think this is the one!" Meilin said as she and the remaining besties entered through the door.

To Meilin's relief, it was the same room with the prison cells.

"We're freeing everyone!" Said Meilin as she rushed to one of the prison cells.

"How are we going to do that?" Asked Priya before she added, "They still have those palm recognize thingies."

"We got to find a way to free them at least!" Meilin responded as she raced toward the last prison cell she came across.

The same brown skinned woman in the nurse scrub outfit and the reptilian girl upon seeing her in her red panda form were shocked. Meilin picked up on their reactions and instantly transformed back into her human form much to their relief.

"I told you I'd be back!" Meilin smiled.

"How are we going to get them out though?" Asked Miriam as she and Priya joined her.

Before Meilin could answer, they heard a mysterious noise.

They turned to the left to see a blue police call box materializing in front of them.

The three besties stared in awe at the sight before them until finally, it materialized all the way.

Then it dawned on Miriam.

"Please tell me whoever this is, isn't like The Rani." Miriam said.

Meilin and Priya realizing what she meant, went into a fighting stance. Especially with Meilin transforming back into her red panda form.

The door opened to reveal The Doctor herself, whom Meilin recognized from earlier in the afternoon at the temple and not too long after the same woman accompanied her mother when they intervened just as Meilin and her friends surrendered to The Rani at the mall.

"I come in peace!" The Doctor shouted with a cheerful demeanor as she stuck her head out the door.

"Hey, you're that lady I met at the temple earlier!" Cried out Meilin as she recognized the woman she met.

"Hello!" The Doctor waved as she stepped out of the TARDIS.

"Are you with The Rani?" Priya asked, point blank with suspicion in her tone of voice.

"Goodness, no!" The Doctor responded, horrified before adding, "I'm a Time Lord, yes, but I'm in no way pro eugenics. Nor would I ever experiment on children!"

"I'd consider it an insult comparing me to The Rani!" The 6th Doctor cried out, feeling offended, as he stepped out of the TARDIS.

"And you are?" Miriam asked the man in the rainbow coat.

"Oh, I'm The Doctor and so is he!" The Doctor introduced herself as she pointed to herself and to her sixth incarnation, who gave a cheeky "hello."

"Um, how?" Meilin asked in confusion as she pointed to the two Doctors.

"Regeneration and time travel, hell of a mix really!" The Doctor said.

"Mei Mei?" Meilin heard the voice of her mother.

Ming and Jin stepped out of the TARDIS and saw Meilin to their relief.

Without hesitation, Meilin rushed toward her mother and the two embraced in a hug.

"You've escaped?" Ming asked.

"Yeah!" Meilin replied. "I told you we'd be okay. I only pretended to surrender just so we can free the prisoners and take down The Rani's home base from the inside."

The Doctor looked at the red panda girl in amazement before nodding, "Clever girl!"

"Only now we don't know how to free everyone because of a palm recognize thing." Priya said in her usual dry tone of voice.

"Ha, child's play!" The Doctor grinned.

She took the sonic screwdriver from her pocket and pressed on the button-activating it.

The palm recognize pad then blew out sparks which opened the doors, freeing the prisoners.

The woman and the creature immediately ran out of their prison cell.

"Gracias!" The woman thanked the Doctor.

"My pleasure, ma'am!" The Doctor smiled.

"I was hoping to use the sonic lance though." The Sixth Doctor said with disappointment in his voice.

"I got to be honest," Said the woman in the scrub uniform. "Magic is one thing but aliens? I'm sorry but that's seriously a step too far for me, especially when dealing with that insane woman!"

"You won't have to for long and trust me on that." The Sixth Doctor said as he guided the woman and the creature to the TARDIS.

"Wait, you expect us to go in there?" She asked incredulously as she pointed to the TARDIS. "I already had enough with that cabinet she forced me to go in!"

"I assure you it's bigger on the inside and much more safe than The Rani." The Sixth Doctor said as he opened the door to guide them in.

"And refrain from insults, please." He added.

"I'll free the others!" The Doctor said as she went to work freeing the remaining prisoners cell by cell.

"Think you two can guide them to the TARDIS?" The 6th Doctor asked Ming and Jin.

"Why us?" Ming asked.

"You two did see the TARDIS in person." The Sixth Doctor replied. "It'll ease every individual better they hear it from you."

Jin nodded in agreement. "Good point!"

"Hey, I think I found something!" Priya cried out as she stared at the prison cell next the first freed one.

Meilin, Miriam and the Sixth Doctor immediately joined her and eyed on a lone object in the prison cell; a metallic case with no view windows on the front.

"Curioser and curioser." The Sixth Doctor said, intrigued by the mysterious sight.

He paused for a moment and stared at each of the three besties as if he were expecting either of them to say something.

"What?" Asked Meilin.

"I thought one of you would complete the reference." The Sixth Doctor replied.

The three besties stared at him in confusion.

"Alice in Wonderland?" The Sixth Doctor said, beckoning them on.

The three besties still continued to stare at him incredulously.

"Never mind!" The Sixth Doctor scoffed in annoyance as he walked toward the case.

"Literacy references are wasted on youths of the 2000s!" He then grumbled.

"Hey!" Miriam shouted, as she, Meilin and Priya were offended by the remark.

"I read Alice in Wonderland!" Meilin protested. "I just didn't think that reference was needed!"

"Oh, allow me!" The Doctor said as she slid in and used the sonic screwdriver again to open the prison cell.

With that, she went along freeing more prisoners.

The four gathered around the case and stared at it in awe.

"I'm guessing this is the Patient Zero The Rani was talking about." Said Priya.

"How do you know?" The Sixth Doctor asked.

In response, Priya duly pointed out the words "Patient Zero" labeled on the side.

"So it is." The Sixth Doctor remarked, feeling a bit remise he missed the label.

"Who do you think's in there?" Asked Miriam.

"Only one way to find out!" Answered The Sixth Doctor.

He took out the sonic lance much to his pleasure. He stabbed the metallic case on the edges of the case, powerful enough to open it. Steam ejected from all sides as the top opened all the way from the right. As the steam cleared, finally, they had a good look at the mysterious patient zero at last.

To their amazement and curiosity, it was an older woman, roughly around her twenties to early thirties, taller and a muscular build underneath her suit which was of the Union Jack flag with the rest either being blue and brown gloves and brown boots.

On top of her was a shield that also had the flag of the Union Jack.

"Whoa!" Meilin, Miriam and Priya gasped breathlessly in amazement.

The Sixth Doctor then noticed an oxygen air mask around the woman's mouth.

"No doubt this is what's keeping her asleep!" The 6th Doctor said as he removed the mask from her mouth.

"What did you find?" The Doctor asked as she came in, pausing her rescues for a moment.

"We found patient zero!" Meilin said.

"Who?" Asked The Doctor as she raced over to them.

As The Doctor joined the four, she stared in astonishment as to who it was. She had recognized who this individual was.

"Captain Carter?!" The Doctor shouted.

"You know her?" Meilin, Miriam, Priya and the 6th Doctor asked simultaneously.

"I've met her before!" The Doctor replied. "But I wonder how she even got here?"

Captain Carter began to stir. Her eyes starting to open. She groaned as her right hand grasped her head briefly. She felt her head pounding as soon as she woke up.

As she sat up, she turned to see a woman with short blonde hair in a gray jacket and rainbow overalls, a man in a rainbow coat and three giant red pandas staring at her. A sight she did not anticipate to see much to her utter confusion.

"What in the world?" Asked Captain Carter in an incredulous manner.

"Uh, we can explain!" Meilin and Miriam nervously said.

Immediately, Meilin, Miriam and Priya transformed back into human form. Which, Captain Carter still had the same perplexed reaction on her face.

"I'm certainly open to listening!" Captain Carter chuckled nervously. "Because um, I really don't know what's going on."

"Peggy, do you remember me?" The Doctor asked the Super soldier.

"Do I know you?" Asked Captain Carter, now confused over the Doctor asking as if she had knew her.

"It's me!" The Time Lord said. "The Doctor! I know I look different but I can regenerate and well, here I am!"

"...No?" Captain Carter responded awkwardly after a short pause.

"I can't say I know you." She added.

The Doctor looked disappointed but then her expression changed to one of curiosity.

"What was the last thing you remember exactly?" The Doctor asked another question.

"Well," Captain Carter spoke as she began to recount her last memories. "I remember fighting the Red Skull on an air bomber and his own weapon destroyed him. I had to steer the bomber away from its intended destination and crashed into the arctic and I blacked out."

"Ah! Definitely a variant!" The Doctor cried out as she realized this was not the same Captain Carter she knew before.

"Variant?" Captain Carter asked, further confused.

"Multiverse shenanigans, long story!" The Doctor responded.

"Trust me, it's all nuts!" Miriam added her two cents on the matter.

Captain Carter stared blankly, feeling stunned over what she had been hearing.

"I'm...lost." Captain Carter said before adding, "Will someone on Earth please tell me what is going on and how long have I been asleep?"

"Well it's 2002." Priya dryly said.

"Fifty seven years?!" Captain Carter shouted, shocked at what she had just heard.

"That aside, to put you up to speed," The Doctoir hastily began. "The Rani, a renegade Time Lord, has kidnapped you, been kidnapping people from other universes..."

"Stole DNA from our friend Mei and her mom, took blood from you to turn us into red panda super soldiers." Priya finished in a blunt manner.

"That's the gist of it at least." She added.

"She what?" Captain Carter flatly asked.

"Doctor!" Both Doctors heard Ming scream suddenly.

The group raced out of the prison cell to see cornering Ming and Jin were the Judoon, all still resembled a mess after the mall incident from the paintballs inflicted on most of them to the battle damaged armor on others but managed to get new weapons after retreating.

"Oh great..." Priya groaned. "These guys again."

The Judoon captain, Pol-Kon-Don, turned around to see Meilin, Miriam and Priya, among the familiar targets aside from The Doctor. Her eyes turned to furious anger upon seeing them.

"Now, we have caught you!" The Judoon captain herself roared.

"Are they with The Rani?" Asked Captain Carter.

"Definitely not!" The Doctor responded.

"We just met them by accident and there was a misunderstanding-" Meilin explained before being cut off.

"Enough!" Pol-Kon-Don shouted. "Juvinile delinquents have been found guilty of assaulting Judoon units. Sentence: Execution!"

"And Judoon cold case unit. Fugitive. The Doctor. Sentence: Execution over prison escape!"

Captain Carter then stood in front of the two Doctors and the besties with her shield in tow.

"Move or you will be considered an accomplice to both." Pol-Kon-Don said.

"You will not abuse these people under your brand of what you consider justice!" Captain Carter said. "I will not allow you to stand here and threaten especially innocent children."

"You will be considered an accomplice if you do not step aside." The Judoon captain growled as she repeated her threat, clearly frustrated with the amount of interference.

"Then I dare you to arrest me." Captain Carter smirked as she raised her shield. "If you want them, come and claim them!"

"Then your sentence will be execution!" Pol-Kon-Don shouted.

"Time to teach you manners then." Captain Carter quipped.

The Judoon fired their weapons to disintegrate Captain Carter. But immediately, despite no super speed, she managed to deflect every blast with the shield.

Some the blasts destroyed a few of the palm locks that kept the prison cells shut. But the rest however had managed to hit five of the Judoon. Their own weapons ended up disintegrating much of their own troops in an ironic twist. Much of the fault also laid on the Judoon captain moved out of the way that instead hit one of the Judoon units.

As Pol-Kon-Don turned around again, she was greeted by the sight of an incoming fist and was punched across the face.

Captain Carter in rapid succession, began fighting the rest of the Judoon. Even ramming and hitting them with her shield. She even used the shield to cut in half the rifles the Judoon were carrying before punching them across their faces.

Carter stomped the foot of one of the Judoon before knee punching him below the stomach and whacking him on the back with her shield.

An incoming Judoon was prepared to tackle her but Carter kicked him right in the chest before grabbing his arm to flip him over. And then a kick to another Judoon unit's face with her ankle hitting him across the face that knocked him down.

Followed by another Judoon unit who went for fisticuffs but instead was punched in the gut in rapid succession by Captain Carter before being knocked out cold by her shield whacking him on his head.

Quickly, she back handed punched a Judoon in the face to the point of cracking the helmet before being hit in the crotch and falling over on his side.

Finally, Captain Carter eyed on the Judoon captain Pol-Kon-Don herself as she was taken aback by how easily Captain Carter took down much of the Judoon. Nevertheless, she roared as lunged at Captain Carter but before she could react or even land a hit, the Judoon captain ended up being knee punched in the groin.

"Why again...?" Pol-Kon-Don groaned as her knees collapsed to the ground.

"Hold it!" Captain Carter exclaimed as she grabbed her horn and forcibly lifted the Judoon captain back on her feet.

"We're not done yet!" She added as she smirked.

She then wrapped her arms and held the Judoon captain in a crushing hug and flipped her upside down-performing a German suplex, which ended up with Pol-Kon-Don having her horn so stuck in the ground, she was stuck standing upside down completely.

"Not so fun being terrorized, is it?" Captain Carter quipped as she dusted her hands before spinning the Judoon captain like a spinning top.

"I needed that exercise and seems that fifty seven year sleep did me good!" She added as she flexed her muscles.

Carter then turned to see the besties, Ming, Jin, The Doctor and her sixth incarnation staring at her in amazement, even the sixth Doctor was slackjawed.

"What?" Captain Carter asked.

"That..." Meilin started breathlessly.

"Was..." Priya duly said.

"Awesome!" Miriam finished, shouting the word.

"That was so cool!" The three girls screamed in excitement to which Captain Carter blushed at their compliments.

"Normally, I wouldn't approve of violence but consider me impressed!" The Doctor smiled.

"As am I!" The 6th Doctor concurred.

Meanwhile back with Tyler and Abby, for a while, they were rapidly checking which door to go into.

"Where do we even go?" Tyler asked Abby, who was rapidly and even sniffing each door.

"Why are you sniffing doors?" Tyler asked Abby as he reacted incredulously.

"Maybe I have super sniffing powers as a red panda!" Said Abby, looking fiercely determined as she attempted to sniff underneath one of the doors. "I could find something!"

"And?" Tyler asked in a skeptical manner.

Abby turned to make a frown at Tyler as she stood up, completely dawning on her she had no such power.

"No..." Abby groaned sadly.

Tyler scoffed and mumbled under his breath as he tried to think of which door to pick.

"Wait, we can go in this one!" Abby exclaimed as she rushed into a random room the left.

"Abby!" Tyler shouted as he rushed inside to follow her.

The doors closed once both of the besties ran in.

To their surprise, the lights turned on automatically upon going inside. And to their shock, what they discovered were hundreds of human sized test tubes containing rows of not only beings that resembled The Rani but also male equivalents of her as well. All in a green liquid and given breathing apparatuses around their mouths.

"What the..." Tyler mouthed in shock.

Even Abby was at a loss of words.

As they walked past each tube, they expressed shock, awe and terrified simultaneously. Awe at the amount of the work The Rani had put in that looked like an army of clones. Terrified at the thought of what could The Rani want with this many clones of herself.

In between the tubes halfway through, Abby and Tyler noticed a desk with a couple of files. Rummaging through them, they noticed files that raised a ton of questions. Though small potatoes compared to the room itself.

Much of the curious files included "Missing Project: Synergy", a file with a picture of a young redhead woman attached to a file entitled "Missing Prototype: Kimber", a file with the picture of a blue book with a small note scribbled underneath that said "It can transport the reader anywhere in time and yet, somehow not a TARDIS?", a file entitled "Reclaim Project Youngblood", a file entitled "The Timeless Child", a file on "The Boiling Isles" and a file entitled "Winter Soldier technology" with a picture of a brown haired young woman with the name Rikki Barnes written underneath.

Abby and Tyler stared at these with half intrigue but half taken aback as well. They left the files as they continued on exploring the rest of the room.

In what felt like forever walking given the seemingly endless room of tubes, Abby and Tyler had finally reached the end of the room which contained an open elevator. Abby rushed in despite Tyler's objections.

"Abby, wait!" Tyler shouted. "We don't know where that's gonna go!"

With a groan, he followed Abby into the elevator and in turn, she noticed two buttons that were green and red respectively.

Without a second thought, she pressed the green button and the elevator proceeded to descend downward.

Back with the rest of the besties, the prisoners had now been freed as the last set of prisoners entered the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS.

"That's everybody it seems!" The Sixth Doctor said, satisfied.

"Didn't think there'd be a school teacher and her students with Rick Springfield of all people however." The Doctor said in a confused manner.

"The multiverse is always full of surprises!" She added.

"I'm going to need a vacation from this madness when this is all over!" Ming said, exasperated over the whole experience.

"I've no doubt have a lot of catching up to do after waking up!" Captain Carter sighed.

Suddenly, they heard a loud, shrill voice from behind the door.

"Time to bust some heads!"

"That guy again." Priya groaned as she recognized who that voice belonged to.

"Bang! Bang!" Metal Head shouted as the doors were blasted open via his missile launchers.

"Get behind me!" Captain Carter shouted to the besties, the two Doctors and Meilin's parents as she drew her shield.

"Oh we can take them on!" Meilin said as she, Miriam and Priya were prepared to fight upon transforming into red pandas again.

Captain Carter then threw her shield as just as a Putty was the first to step inside, the shield managed to hit the "Z" on its chest and ricochet back to Captain Carter who grabbed it back with ease. In turn, the Putty disintegrated.

"Get 'em!" Metal Head shouted as he and a group of Putties alongside the rest of the subordinates rushed in.

In turn, Meilin and her friends charged at them with Captain Carter joining the fray.

"Mei Mei, no!" Ming shouted, pleading her own daughter did not rush into danger.

"Madam, wait!" The Doctor stopped Ming from rushing in as she noticed Meilin's mother attempting to run after her with the Sixth Doctor doing the same to Jin.

"It's much too dangerous!" The Sixth Doctor concurred.

The subordinates roared as they and the Putties rushed into battle.

Metal Head did not last long however as he ended up running into Meilin's fist and was knocked out after she simply held her fist in place and anticipated he would run into it. And he proved her right.

Chilla, after recovering from her head being encased in ice for a while, was prepared to fight Captain Carter. But as she tried to blow her lips in ther hopes of her powers had come back, nothing.

"No!" Chilla exclaimed in horror. "That prank still neutralized my powers!"

In response, Captain Carter punched her in the face before knocking Chilla down with her shield. Then Captain Cold attempted to shoot her with the freeze gun but with a quick reflex, Captain Carter knocked it out of his hand before punching him in the face.

Miriam in the meanwhile, dive bombed on a group of Putties, with her chest hitting all the Z's on their chests. Very quickly, she rolled over just as they disintegrated.

Priya had a bit of trouble with Klis as her spider sense helped her dodge every attempted punch. But thinking quickly, Priya managed to trip Klis with her tail. But not before punching a random Putty on the Z as well.

Throughout the whole battle, Ming and Jin stared on in shock at the battle before them. Seeing their own daughter and her friends holding their own against who were essentially dangerous people. Ming in particular never exactly approved of her daughter being involved with violence.

"Is...is this happening?" Ming asked The Doctor in confusion.

"Well you did say in the tour Sun Yee used the red panda form for defense against invaders." The Doctor said.

Suddenly, Dark Mercury and Lash finally came in, just as Meilin, her besties and Captain Carter finished the last remaining Putties sent to recapture their targets. Meilin, Miriam and Priya still however were not deterred by their presence.

"Let's get 'em, girls!" Meilin growled.

The besties and Captain Carter began to charge at them to which Lash lunged at Captain Carter with his fist in tow. Immediately, Captain Carter used her shield to block his fist.

Dark Mercury in turn fired an attack with sharp icicles like they were daggers which Meilin and her friends narrowly avoided after Meilin let out a scream upon seeing them.

"Mei Mei!" Ming cried out in distress.

Seeing her scream, Dark Mercury in turn began to conjure up an ice blast. Meilin noticed and her emotions turned to anger.

"Don't you dare!" Meilin snarled.

Dark Mercury turned and reacted too late to see Meilin lunge at her and then punched her in the face. In turn, Dark Mercury accidentally fired an ice blast at Lash, specifically at his back.

Lash felt the cold but remained unfazed as he was too busy trading fisticuffs with Captain Carter. Lash's fists then glowed and fired an energy blast to which Captain Carter deflected back with her shield.

Lash moved out of the way, Miriam and Priya ducked as they were charging at him, as did Meilin. Instead, the blast hit a random Putty, who exploded.

Meilin whistled in amazement. While the two Doctors, Ming and Jin stared on in shock.

Captain Carter and Lash continued to fight, until Miriam used her furry paws to cover his eyes much to his chagrin and Priya grabbing his legs.

"Get off me!" Growled Lash as he swung his fists which Captain Carter narrowly avoided.

Finally, Meilin rammed right into Lash's back with Miriam leaping off in the nick of time. And thanks to Priya grabbing his legs, Lash failed to stand still and began to fall. To which Captain Carter took advantage of and delivered an uppercut punch right underneath his chin.

Lash fell on his back after the punch but not before Meilin body slammed him.

"Dog pile!" Shouted Miriam as she and Priya joined in, piling on Lash. The strength of three giant red pandas was enough to pin him and even knock him out.

"Well, good work, girls!" Captain Carter said smirking, impressed with the besties.

"Let's just say we were tired of being picked on by The Rani!" Said Meilin, feeling satisfied as she stood as she dusted her paws.

Suddenly, her ears perked up as she heard another noise.

She turned around to see more Putties at the door, ready to fight.

"Good Lord, how many of them did this Rani recruit?" Captain Carter exclaimed.

"A lot apparently." Priya said in a dry manner.

Back with Abby and Tyler, the elevator finally reached the bottom floor. Immediately they left and at first what they saw was nothing but empty space upon first stepping out.

"Now where are we?" Asked Tyler.

Abby sped around with the intention to even find anything until she bumped into something hard and metallic.

"Ow!" She exclaimed as she fell down and rubbed her head.

Tyler rushed over to her aid and helped her up.

"I'm fine, don't worry!" Abby said.

Immediately, Abby and Tyler looked up to see the very object in front of them. Finally, they had a clear look. A long rocket shaped object with tubes of chemicals pouring inside. As they looked up, they saw the roof had been opened. It quickly dawned on them that the rocket was the very thing The Rani had been threatening them with.

"The Genetic Bomb!" Abby and Tyler gasped.

"It's that Genetic Bomb the Rani was talking about!" Tyler exclaimed.

"Let's crush it!" Abby growled.

"How?" Asked Tyler. "This thing is huge!"

"At least topple it over!" Abby whined a bit. "I want to see it fall!"

"No one is touching the Genetic Bomb!"

Tyler and Abby jumped, startled upon hearing a familiar voice from behind. They turn around to see The Rani herself with the pistol aimed at them.

"And I suggest you surrender right now." The Rani said in a dark and threatening manner.

Meilin knocked down another Putty with one of her furry fists as well whacking another one with her tail. As well as her besties doing the same and Captain Carter bashing the Putties with her fists and shield.

All the while two Doctors, Ming and Jin still looked on.

"Should we not do something?" Asked Jin, unsure of the events presented before him.

"Depends." Answered the Sixth Doctor. "Only thing I regret is not bringing popcorn for us to enjoy."

"Will you be serious?" The Doctor chided her past self.

"Yes, my daughter is in the battlefield!" Ming concurred.

"You must admit though, she really holds on her own!" The Doctor said.

As the four punched the "Z" on every Putty, some of the subordinates like Metal Head, Chilla and Captain Cold began to stand up, only to find themselves knocked down again with Captain Carter hitting Metal Head in the nose, Miriam and Priya using their bellies to bash Chilla's head and Meilin landing an uppercut punch on Captain Cold.

"How many of these guys do we have to fight?" Asked Miriam.

"Not much longer!"

The three besties and Captain Carter turned around to see The Rani with Abby and Tyler in front of her with her gun pointed at their backs.

"Sorry..." Abby sheepishly said.

"And I see you woke up Patient Zero." The Rani glared at the remaining besties.

"So you're the one who kidnapped me and used my blood to experiment on innocent children!" Captain Carter exclaimed.

"Oh come of it!" The Rani rolled her eyes. "It's for the benefit of my grand vision."

The Rani then looked at all her subordinates on the floor including the Judoon, all spread out, with a look of disgust on her face.

"Pathetic." She said with utter disgust.

"You!" The Rani looked up to see Ming marching toward her despite the objections of Jin and the two Doctors.

"Ming, don't!" The Doctor exclaimed in plea.

"What have you done to my Mei Mei and her friends?!" Ming demanded as her index finger poked The Rani on her chest.

The Time Lady herself remained unfazed and in turn as if in response, pointed the gun at her.

"I suggest you back off." The Rani simply said.

"Oh..." Ming nervously uttered as she bit her lower lip in embarrassment.

"Madame, why did you assume being an overprotective parent would halt the Time Lady who experiments in eugenics?" The Sixth Doctor remarked in a snide fashion.

"Oh shut up, you!" Ming shouted back.

With that, the now captured victims of The Rani marched back to the main laboratory with The Rani herself forcing them with the gun pointed at them from behind.

The group marched until they stopped before going right into the center.

"Now halt." The Rani commanded.

They did so as commanded. The Rani pushed the group aside and face them, still threatening them with the weapon.

"What are you going to do with us?" Asked Meilin.

"Besides the fact I'll kill both Doctors," began The Rani. "I'll put you brats under my control completely with a formula I've developed to manipulate your minds."

The besties cringed at the thought, while Ming and Jin expressed horror as did the two Doctors and Captain Carter.

"Don't you dare touch these children!" Screamed Ming as she was held back by Jin. "Especially my Mei Mei!"

"And as for you two twits, I'll include you among my army." The Rani said before adding, "Mind control formula included of course."

Meilin gasped as did her parents. Horrified at the thought of being under the control of The Rani.

"You wouldn't dare!" Meilin growled as her red panda tail materialized as she felt anger rising.

"I can and I will." The Rani snarled before adding, "I'll even go after your precious 4Town just to spite you!"

Over hearing that remark, Meilin and her friends shot death glares at the Time Lady.

"Don't you dare!" Meilin snarled herself as her eyes glowed red.

"That's so not cool!" Miriam concurred as her eyes glowed red as well, as did the rest of the besties.

"Oh come off it!" The Rani rolled her eyes. "Their music is uninspired insipid slop to entertain adolescents and nothing more."

She then added, "And apparently they can't count considering there are five members despite the name of their group."

"Hey!" The besties shouted, offended by the additional remark.

Ming leaned to Meilin's ear and whispered, "I didn't sound like that, did I?"

Meilin looked at her mother, who saw she had a tinge of sadness and remorse on her face, clearly uncomfortable being reminded of her past actions and thoughts. As did Meilin but gave an expression to Ming that she still forgave her.

"And you won't get my blood either!" Captain Carter exclaimed in anger. "How dare you violate my body doing this!"

"Oh that's where you're wrong, woman!" The Rani retorted. "For I have plenty of sedatives to put you back into stasis sleep."

"What was with that crazy room with the clones though?' Asked Abby.

"Yeah, just what are you up to?" Tyler concurred with his own question. "I thought it was just the multiverse you want!"

"Huh?" Asked Meilin in confusion upon hearing them. With Miriam and Priya voicing their own sounds of confusion.

"What are they talking about?" Asked The Doctor.

"I was about to ask myself." The Sixth Doctor concurred.

The Rani glared at the two besties as if she did not want anyone to know right away.

"You know, considering you love to brag about your superior intellect, you might as well go for it." The Sixth Doctor snarkily remarked.

"That's right, why not have at it right now knowing you?" The Doctor concurred.

The Rani at first was taken aback. Wondered if she got too predictable about her bragging. Even briefly considering if she was being tricked again. But she also saw on the other hand, she had caught everyone where she wanted even despite a few hiccups right now and before.

"I suppose since I'm on the cusp of victory, I could tell you the entire plot." The Rani said.

"She's so totally a Bond villain." Priya remarked to Tyler, who nodded in agreement.

"You see, there are some things even my subordinates such as Dark Mercury do not know." The Rani added.

"What are you saying?" Asked Meilin.

"You see," The Rani began. "It was during my time when I explored and studied the multiverse while preparing my experiments, I at some point received a visit from The Master. From a later point in his life at least."

The Doctor's face grew grim as her heart sank upon hearing what The Rani had mentioned.

The Rani continued, "He had told me certain things. Some that drove me mad admittedly."

The last sentence she uttered with venom in her tone of voice.

"I know your secret origin, Doctor." The Rani darkly said as she glared at the Doctor in her current incarnation.

"What is she talking about?" The Sixth Doctor asked his future incarnation with concern in his tone.

"Spoilers. No really!" Answered The Doctor.

"Oh come off it, Doctor!" The Rani said. "I won't tell him. But what I will mention is he told me after he told me had destroyed Gallifrey."

To Meilin, her friends, her parents and Captain Carter, they remained confused over the mention of Gallifrey, though nevertheless were unnerved she casually mentioned what they assumed to be a known planet to the Doctor that was ultimately destroyed by an enemy she knew.

The Doctor herself looked crestfallen. But none more so than her sixth incarnation. As he looked horrified upon hearing such a thing.

"He...he destroyed Gallifrey?" The Sixth Doctor spoke in shock.

The Doctor could not allow her sixth incarnation to know the truth yet.

"I wouldn't put much stock into it." The Doctor countered, feeling guilty she had to literally lie to her past self. "Remember, she is remotely insane."

The Sixth Doctor nodded, thinking perhaps she was right.

The Rani continued on as she ignored the two Doctors and their remarks.

"When he told me why, I grew disgusted. I hated you more in every fiber of my being than usual. Never had I such contempt for your existence. I was driven mad because of you! But then I realized I can do something far greater with my conquest of the multiverse. I was exiled from my own planet. Hating the teachers, the founders, the council. They're practically all gone. I realized I had an opportunity. With my experiments and ambition, I can create my own vision of Gallifrey. Free of its pretentious founders and teachers and so forth. And most of all, free of you, Doctor."

The two Doctors listened on with great horror on their faces. As did Meilin, her friends, her parents and Captain Carter. All who could only react in shock and horror the more she spoke.

She continued still, "I had a new purpose. I can create a far greater, better vision of Gallifrey. Thanks to the inspiration from the Skrulls and especially after doing much research on Sun Yee, even in disguise at the temple tours and while collecting samples of the red panda, I was able to survey the Skydome incident, which I was convinced the red panda, thanks to the Lee family lineage, would be the perfect subject for the creation of my army, in addition to the blood of Captain Carter. And then, with my clones, the intellectual aspects will be emphasized, all free of imperfections especially on the physical side and with a genetically created army on my side; the multiverse will soon be populated by individuals who only resemble and think like me. Ultimate perfection with filth either wiped out or turned into simple soldiers. And finally, with every opposition dealt with and destroyed, the multiverse will become my ultimate vision of Gallifrey!"

She shouted the last sentence with each venomous, maniacal precision.

"So that's what this is about! It's not just about conquest!" Meilin said as she realized what everything meant, summing up her observation with her adding, "Revenge!"

"Astute observation, Ms. Lee." The Rani sarcastically replied as she glared at Meilin.

"She is so totally insane." Priya dryly remarked to Tyler who nodded in agreement.

"Wait, what about those guys you hired?" Meilin then asked The Rani. "You could just create a bunch of guys to blend in Toronto better!"

"My subordinates?" The Rani scoffed as she began to walk over to the control panel. Unknown to her however, Dark Mercury, Lash and the other subordinates walked quietly and stood behind the captured subjects without the Time Lady noticing.

"They were a means to an end. Easier to manipulate." The Rani continued on. "Once the multiverse had surrendered to me or at least when my army proves to be more effective, they would be disposed of."

The subordinates reacted in shock. While Lash gave a look contempt, not happy about the planned betrayal. But none looked more crestfallen than Dark Mercury. Her face then morphed into one of anger.

Angered by the apparent planned betrayal after her servitude working for The Rani and admiring her. Even wanting to be her.

"You're mad." Captain Carter said with disgust on her tone of voice.

"You simply lack vision!" The Rani retorted as she stopped by the control panel.

"Why even this universe then?" Meilin then asked. "Why even bother here?"

"This particular universe has high readings of multiverse activity." Answered The Rani. "There are a million or so variants from other universes occupying this very universe as we speak."

As she looked down on the control panel, she added, "Naturally, it seemed like a viable place to start."

While she was looking away however, Abby transformed back into her human form and quietly walked away from the group without the others noticing.

She ran to the front of the control panel without The Rani noticing, waiting for her time to strike.

"I was essentially going to continue threatening you brats with the ever looming threat of launching the Genetic Bomb," Said The Rani. "But perhaps I might as well start now. That way you'll be all out of ideas to resist me."

"Don't!" Meilin gasped as she was prepared to rush over to stop her.

The Rani quickly pressed the button for launch.

"Oh no..." Miriam whispered in distraught with the others sharing a look of despair.

The Rani turned to point the gun at the group once again.

"In thirty seconds, Toronto and soon the whole world will be mutated into my slaves." The Rani darkly said before she stopped herself as she soon saw something was amiss. She mentally did a head count and realized the problem before her.

"Wait!" The Rani cried out. "There's only nine of you."

Meilin and the others looked in confusion until Meilin herself realized one of her besties was missing. That was until she saw Abby sneaking up behind on The Rani.

"Where's that annoying fat pig of a girl?" The Rani asked.

Abby frowned, angered at the insult. To which she rushed over quickly and roared as from behind, she kicked The Rani hard directly into her crotch.

The Rani screamed in pain and shot the gun into the roof.

Meilin seized the opportunity with the remaining besties joining in.

"Mir, stop the bomb!" Meilin cried out as she and Tyler tackled The Rani.

Miriam immediately raced toward the control panel.

Inside the current Doctor's TARDIS, Yaz, the aunts and Madame Wu reconvened inside the TARDIS after The Doctor and the others had departed to The Rani's base. Yaz and Wu had been doing their best to prevent the aunts from causing chaos inside or ask too many questions most of all.

"Miss, please do not touch the controls!" Yaz said cautiously to Ping out of concern.

Suddenly, the sound of the laser blast from The Rani's gun was overheard-startling the group.

"What was that?!" Chen exclaimed.

"That sounded like a gun!" Lily said.

"Not like any gun I've heard!" Helen said.

Yaz began to fear the worst. Something she hoped would not have come down to but if the Doctor was in danger, she was not going to stand by.

Yaz turned to face the control panel, the pillars even that moved up and down.

"What was it that she said?" Yaz asked aloud to herself.

"What'd she say?" Asked Lily.

"Help her, please!" Yaz asked, pleaded with the TARDIS console control panel with a worried tone in her voice. "I'm asking for the hologram interface!"

As if the TARDIS had heard her pleas, a hologram emitted in front of her. To her shock however, the hologram was represented by an image of Yaz herself.

Wu and the aunts were even taken aback by the resemblance. Yaz could not help but be a bit flattered however.

"Should we be afraid?" Asked Helen.

"The Tardis Voice Visual Interface speaking." The hologram spoke even with Yaz's voice. "How may I assist?"

"Please!" Yaz spoke without hesitation with passion in her voice. "The Doctor is in danger and she's confronting The Rani! What can you do?!"

The hologram dematerialized.

Yaz looked on in distraught. While Wu and the aunts were utterly baffled.

"Some help that thing is!" Chen spat.

As if the TARDIS did not take the remark well, the console control panel began to make its usual noise when departing and arrive. As well as a few levers and buttons being touched automatically much to everyone's shock.

"What's going on?!" Ping screamed.

"Hang onto something!" Screamed Yaz.

Yaz, Wu and the aunts screamed in terror, anticipating the potential wild ride from the TARDIS as they felt the ship spinning.

Miriam raced over to the control panel and saw the countdown. So far going from twenty five to twenty. Nervously, she looked over to the control panel and saw on the dashboard words and labels written in a weird language with a baffled look on her face the more she stared at it; figuring it was the language of where she came from.

After a moment of confusion for five seconds, Miriam shouted, "Screw it!"

Using her red panda arms, she smashed the control panel with her strength-destroying it in the process and stopping the countdown.

The Rani had managed to push off the two red pandas off of her, only upon getting up and attempting to rush over, she had finally seen her control panel destroyed.

"NOOOOO!" She screamed in distraught.

Inside the launching pad, the tubes connecting to the Genetic Bomb finally detached as it finally toppled over-spilling the contents upon impact after falling.

The Rani glared at Miriam, who in turn, gave off a triumphant smug grin.

"Just so you know, the girl with the braces you called 'imperfect' who lives a lower class lifestyle is the one who beat you!" Miriam said with pride.

The Rani seethed with rage as she glared at Miriam and then at Meilin and Tyler with looks of satisfaction on her face.

"For a super genius, you sure didn't see that coming!" Meilin said with a smirk on her face.

The Rani's anger only had gotten worse with that remark as in response, she pulled a different type of remote control from one of her pockets. Pressing a button, laser cannons descended from the ceiling with all of them aimed at each of her intended victims.

"That's not good!" The Sixth Doctor said.

"That's not gonna be good for anyone!" Priya remarked dryly.

"At least I'll have the satisfaction murdering you all!" The Rani spat in anger. "But..."

The Rani lunged at Ming quickly and holding her hostage as she bent her arm from behind to restrain her. She forcible dragged her out of the group and into the center of her laboratory.

"I will keep Meilin and her pitiful mother in the prison cells for the rest of their lives!" She finished.

"No!" Jin screamed as he attempted to run to his wife's aid.

"Stay put, you!" The Rani shouted as a laser cannon was pointed at him, stopping him in his tracks. As did Captain Carter who tried to lunge at the Time Lady but did not wish to risk anything, even when using her shield to deflect.

"I'll continue to use their DNA until they prove no longer useful or if my army is fully operational at last." The Rani said.

"Leave them alone!" Miriam shouted as she attempted to lunge at The Rani before halting as a laser cannon was pointed at her.

"Rani, don't do this!" The Doctor said, making one last effort to get her to listen to reason. "Rather than eugenics and create armies especially child soldiers, you can use your experiments for good. Don't go far off the deep end than you normally are."

"And as I said before, you lack vision, Doctor." The Rani retorted.

Suddenly, the sound of a crash was heard.

"What was that?" Asked The Rani.

The rest of the group stood still as the crashing noises became louder and louder.

Finally, something crashed through the wall. Much to everyone's shock, including The Rani; it was the TARDIS. The current Doctor's own TARDIS, crashing through the wall as it spun.

Taking advantage of the apparent rescue, Ming elbow punched The Rani in the chest. Which in turn, allowed her to release Ming and dived out of the way as the TARDIS was heading straight toward them but not before shoving back The Rani.

The Rani stumbled back, only for the TARDIS to cease flying and spinning as upon impact, it knocked over a tray filled with needles of various DNA subjects which in turn were sent flying straight toward The Rani.

"Oops..." The Rani groaned.

All the needles managed to hit The Rani in the chest with the last needle thrown directly onto her forehead. All the needles injected the DNA into her body as she slumped down onto the floor.

"Whoa..." The five besties breathed in amazement over what had just happened.

The Doctor could only stare in shock over what she had just witnessed. She thought briefly what if it was Yaz piloting the TARDIS but mentally reminded herself humans can't figure how to pilot a TARDIS. But she remembered she told Yaz what to do if she were in danger and figures the TARDIS did the heavy lifting.

"What on Earth just happened?!" The Sixth Doctor shouted in shock.

"A lot of amazing things!" The Doctor grinned.

After the TARDIS made a stable landing, the doors opened to first reveal Yaz in a dizzy state as she stumbled out of the TARDIS.

"Um...hi...Doctor..." Yaz said slowly as she tried to regain a straight posture after the wild ride of a rescue.

Wu was next to step out, in a similar fashion as Yaz with her jacket a bit dishelved and looked like she was about to throw up as she climbed onto the edges of one of the TARDIS doors.

"Oh..." Wu groaned as she felt her head still dizzying.

"Mother!" Ming rushed over to her mother's aid.

"Grandma?" Mei exclaimed in confusion as she and the rest of the Besties shared looks of equal confusion.

"Wasn't that blue box just in the prison cell with us earlier?" Miriam asked as she pointed to the TARDIS.

"And how did you lot fit in there?!" Captain Carter asked in amazement.

Finally, all four of the aunts stepped out of the TARDIS in a slapstick Three Stooges like fashion as they fell on top of each other one by one in a pile.

"Doc!" Lily was the first to stand up as she grabbed the Doctor by her jacket as she exclaimed out of breath, "Your time machine is crazy!"

"That thing could have broken my hip, it almost killed me!" Helen threw in her two cents.

"How did it even move by itself?" Asked Ping.

"I almost threw up last night's dinner because of your stupid ship!" Chen shouted.

"Madame, refrain from my insulting my ship!" The Doctor sternly responded to Chen before adding, "And for the record, my ship stopped The Rani from turning your family into prisoners!"

The aunts gasped as they turned to see the The Rani, still knocked down on the floor with the needles still on her body.

"Mom!" Meilin cried as she rushed over to her mother and changed back into her human form.

The two were then fully embraced in a mother and daughter hug with Wu joining in with Jin and the aunts included. Finally, her friends joined the collective hug.

"I'm just so glad you're safe!" Ming said with happy tears forming in her eyes.

"I'm glad she didn't make you a prisoner!" Meilin cried the same way.

Their moment of relief was finally interrupted by the sound of groaning.

The groups turned to see The Rani stand up as her body began to shake as if she were having the chills. The Rani shouted and groaned more after she removed the one needle from her forehead. She breathed heavily as she stared at it before tossing it aside.

Then, she felt her head throbbing. Not unlike any headache. Her arms then stretched out as she shouted in pain.

The Rani then collapsed on her knees, finally all the needles were ejected from her body as she hugged her chest. She breathed rapidly and twitched violently before she finally stood up with arms stretched out once again and screamed as she emitted a very bright flash of green light that everyone in the lab swore they saw her skeleton for a brief moment.

The laboratory went silent with everyone speechless. No other sound than The Rani's heavy breathing.

"Uh...you okay?" Miriam asked The Rani hesitantly after a moment of silence.

Finally, The Rani began to laugh. At first softly. But then quickly escalated into a full blown, loud maniacal laughter-echoing throughout the laboratory-even complete with an inhuman shaped shadow on the walls.

Everyone in the group was unnerved by this new development. Even Lash, Dark Mercury and the rest of the subordinates were equally unnerved.

"She may have lost it." The current and Sixth Doctors said in unison.

"You think?!" Everyone else shouted in unison.

"You... fools!" The Rani screamed with a combination of furious anger and insane glee as suddenly, red and blue fur began to grow on her face and her eyes glowed red, similar to Meilin. "Imbeciles!"

"Those were blood and DNA samples of the various subjects I obtained from including you little brats and my own minions I've gathered!" She added further.

Suddenly, claws, hulking arms began to appear and replaced her once normal arms. Tearing the sleeves and shoulder pads apart. Her nose began to form into an animalistic snout-similar to a red panda. Even her teeth such as her canines began to form into fangs.

"Now you have done and made me angry than before." The Rani growled as her voice deepened.

She then raised her left arm as her claws sharpened.

"Go to the transporter rooms." Dark Mercury said to the subordinates.

"What about the boss lady?" Asked Metal Head.

In response, Dark Mercury gave him a death glare and even raised her arm with the intent to hit him. Lash figured even despite the betrayal, Dark Mercury carried over a few abusive traits of The Rani onto her. Even the other subordinates were unnerved.

"L-let's go then!" Metal Head cried hesitantly.

Dark Mercury smirked as she and the others walked away.

"Time to call for a retreat!" Dark Mercury said.

The Rani's chest and torso began to inflate like a balloon at times before quill like hairs similar to Lash began erupting from her back and spiked dorsal plates as well.

"I think we may need to leave!" The Doctor shouted as everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Into the TARDIS!" She ordered everyone.

Immediately, Meilin, her friends, parents, relatives, Yaz and even Captain Carter ran inside in a mad panic. All except for the Sixth Doctor, who ran in the other direction.

"Where are you going?!" The Doctor shouted with worry.

"My own TARDIS, remember?!" The Sixth Doctor shouted back as he ran off.

"Oh, right!" The Doctor shrugged in acknowledgement before darting away back to the TARDIS.

"How is this thing bigger on the inside anyway?" Asked Meilin as the TARDIS dematerialized.

"Please don't start!" The Doctor shouted irritably, still sour over her aunts asking the questions.

Immediately upon departure, the laboratory crumbled around them. Debris flew everywhere as everything began to collapse. The remaining Putties did not even survive, a group did not even finish playing poker when the entire base collapsed. Even the room filled with clones ended up destroyed as the tubes finally toppled over and the roof collapsed-killing them all before they could enact their objectives once the multiverse had been conquered.

Outside the Pip and Jane Industries building, the TARDIS materialized a few feet away from the building's entrance.

The Doctor stepped out first with everyone else following after, just as Meilin and the rest of her friends transformed back into human form besides Abby, who had turned back earlier.

Suddenly, the group turned-alarmed, upon hearing a noise which ended up belonging to the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS much to the relief of the group.

The Sixth Doctor immediately bolted out but not before closing the doors.

"I told everyone we freed to stay inside and the TARDIS shields are up!" The Sixth Doctor said as he joined his current self and the others.

"Shields are up on mine too!" The Doctor said.

"What's happening?!" Meilin asked the Doctor.

Before The Doctor could answer, everyone bore witnessed the roof of the building collapsing and crumbling. But suddenly, the rest of building was torn apart and destroyed completely-leaving nothing left as rising from the ground was a behemoth. A giant behemoth that was once The Rani.

The group looked in awe and terror as they saw what The Rani had turned into. One that both Doctors would describe as a type of chimera like beast. Not helping was Meilin being reminded of her mother being a giant red panda at the Skydome but none were terrified being reminded of the incident more so than Ming herself given she had still regretted her actions.

"That's...a very big mutant red panda..." Yaz stammered, struggling to put her shocked thoughts into words.

"...I'm going to need a vacation after this!" Captain Carter said, exasperated at what she was witnessing.

While The Rani indeed turned into a giant red panda but the end result was more mutated due to the varieties of DNA. While she had red fur and it was the dominant color, blue fur was sprinkled throughout, as well as scales across her chest and her face along with the aforementioned quills and spiked dorsal plates on her back, a scorpion stinger on the red panda tail, octopus tentacles around her waist, splotches of gray as additional muscle as are some splotches of green. The only thing that remained of The Rani was her hair style.

The Rani roared, sounding a combination of different animals but deeper. So loud that everyone covered their ears.

The Rani glared at her enemies who still have looks of intimidation on their faces much to her sadistic delight.

"Oh, crap!" Wu cried out in Cantonese.

The Rani let out a deep, inhuman booming laugh that yet was still recognizable.

"Now, you pathetic mongrels!" The Rani spoke as she looked down on her enemies as storm clouds began to rise and the wind furiously picking up immediately.

She shouted with her booming voice, "you will face THE WRATH OF THE RANI!"

"This seriously escalated fast..." Priya said with a stunned look on her face.

"Finally, something I don't want to hug!" Abby exclaimed in a fearful manner.

As the wind furiously blew more, Abby felt the backpack she wore since the mall incident with the items she picked up in the hopes of fighting The Rani, completely slipped off her back and was blown away.

"No, the backpack!" Abby exclaimed, distraught over losing the backpack despite her effort to catch it.

"Nothing can stop me, now!" The Rani shouted as she punched a nearby building that crumbled to pieces.

The Rani, with maniacal glee on her face, turned to eye on Meilin. The girl herself frozen in fear, especially once The Rani targeted her.

Meilin yelped and attempted to run but despite her size, The Rani in a quick motion, managed to hit Meilin. Swatting her away like a fly.

"No! Don't hurt her! Please!" Her friends cried out, pleading.

"Mei Mei!" Screamed Ming.

The impact sent Meilin flying until she landed on the roof of the McBarge and transformed into a red panda at the last minute to soften the landing. Despite doing the trick, the landing knocked her out regardless.

"There is nothing you can do to stop me!" The Rani exclaimed before cackling.

"Isn't there anything we can do?!" Asked Yaz.

"I'm sorry, Yaz!" The Doctor remorsefully apologized. "I'm at a loss what to do!"

Miriam and the rest of the besties stared at the Doctor, feeling helpless. Until they looked at The Rani and Miriam's face then turned into a look of fury and determination. The final battle was about to begin. It was time to take down The Rani.

Author's Notes:

And cue Doctor Who theme! We're at the home stretch with chapter five being the last besides an epilogue or two.

And now some behind the scenes notes:

- As mentioned before, Pip and Jane Industries is named after Pip and Jane Baker, the creators of The Rani. I wanted to give them a shout out.

- Originally, the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS was going to be inside the prison and how they got in was going into an office front desk charade with a robotic secretary greeting them and the Doctor deactivates it with her Sonic Screwdriver.

At that point with how the story was going, it had to be cut and looking back, maybe even as a gag, it would have slowed down the chapter.

- The Dalek Invasion of Earth is yet another Doctor Who story referenced that nowadays is known more for the departure of Susan, especially given the speech by the First Doctor. And really, I thought it'd be in character for Ming to insist on joining in on the rescue first hand and ask that question, even not knowing it'd sting for the Doctor.

- Had to put in one more Home Alone reference with the "even if I have to sell my soul to the devil" line. Which, I thought would suit well for Ming to say.

- I also thought considering that one moment in the ending of Turning Red of how embarrassed she looked when she marked up how much money the temple raised to fix the Skydome so far, Ming would feel extremely guilty for how she acted. Not just terrorizing the Skydome but how she acted toward her daughter given the verbal and attempted physical abuse. That I imagine she still feels a huge amount of guilt over.

- I'll get into more detail later but the hologram interface is something from the Doctor Who episode Hide.

- I always intended for The Rani to be increasingly more abusive to Dark Mercury to get the point across she uses people and has no respect for her subjects as she is in her episodes.

- While I did intend to split up the besties but I didn't exactly at first have a clear plan other than a few them wake up Captain Carter and free the prisoners. But for certain details I'll get to later, I ultimately decided on Abby and Tyler being separated, especially since it felt like nobody else had anything to do.

Originally, it was even going to be just the Sixth Doctor Who joined the Besties while separated from the others himself. But ultimately, it made more sense to bring in him, the 13th Doctor, Ming and Jin.

- As I mentioned, it is Camilia and Vee from The Owl House being among The Rani's prisoners. Timeline wise, it's before the second season finale of that show.

- The Sonic lance is a device the Sixth Doctor used in Attack of the Cybermen which was used by him to stab a Cyber Scout in the sewers.

- Alright yes, Captain Carter is Patient Zero. But I should stress, this is a variant of Captain Carter. Not the one from What If?, her comic miniseries, Earth 838 as seen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness or even the one being a companion of the 8th Doctor in someone else's Infinity Crisis fanfic.

This Captain Carter variant is native to Earth-030122. It's still the Super Besties universe but there are Marvel heroes that are native to this Earth.

And yes, I put in the line of the 13th Doctor asking her if she remembers her in reference to the Infinity Crisis fanfics with the 8th Doctor to make it clear it's a different Captain Carter. I figured if Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness could get away having a Captain Carter variant, I could too.

- Thankfully, I got to have the Judoon beaten up more. There's one more scene with them intended. Now that I think about it, in this story, they're the equivalent of the accidental tourist from National Lampoon's European Vacation. Except, the Judoon had the violence coming to them because they're jerks.

- "If you want them, come and claim them!" Is a reference and variation of a line said by Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Instead of him, it's them. You know what I mean.

- Abby sniffing around just seemed like the most Abby thing she'd do.

- So this part regarding the clones. This was something added as I was writing. Looking back, chapter four before these additions did feel short and I didn't have anyone to do much of anything. And I'll get into more detail a bit but I did debate with myself, do I include this or not? And ultimately, I chose to add it. And I think it adds a lot of things to The Rani's plan.

- The files in question. Some you can guess for yourselves but that being said, most of these I'm leaving for other authors to write about and they have my full permission to expand on these. I do have some ideas to give any author who's interested if they're interested.

- Synergy and Kimber are of course Jem references. The concept there being one, Synergy turns out to be a machine The Rani created out of stolen Cybertronian technology The Rani created blueprints out of but were taken by mistake by Jerrica's father.

Kimber as it turned out is a prototype clone of The Rani with the intent she'd be a sleeper agent and designed to blend in with humans i.e. the original concept of The Terminator. With The Rani using a sample of Princess Adriana from the Jem episode The Princess and the Singer. And as for how given Jerrica and Kimber's mother? Well if you saw the Justice League Unlimited episode Epilogue given the whole thing about Terry McGuinnis being a clone of Bruce Wayne, same deal there.

- The blue book is a reference to the cartoon Time Warp Trio. My friend Ben2DartMouth and I actually discussed the idea of The Rani meeting the characters of that show in a chapter of Glimpses that he suggested this and I was game for it because I really do want to read that story so, I want to encourage it.

- Project Youngblood is a gag idea. Ben2DartMouth also suggested I make a gag to keep readers guessing. I considered Cyber Force originally but thought people would miss the joke so, I picked Youngblood because it seemed funnier and the off chance people might have seen the Atop the Fourth Wall videos on those comics. Youngblood seemed like a safe bet people could get a laugh out of.

- Yes, The Rani knows about The Timeless Child.

- The school teacher and Rick Springfield is a reference to Mission Magic. Which was a Filmation cartoon about the actual singer who happens to be friends with a teacher named Miss Tickle (Mystical, get it? Haha? Jeez.) So yeah, I implied The Rani kidnapped her, him and the usual students of Miss Tickle who appear on the show.

- I do have other prisoners in mind but one, I wanted to concentrate on everything else first and two, I rather not bog down the chapter with listing a variety of prisoners The Rani kidnapped because I don't want to bore the readers. But here's a list besides the aforementioned Mission Magic characters and Camilia and Vee:

Mulan (Earth-1998)

Tiana (Earth-2009)

Rapunzel (Earth-2010)

Moana (Earth-2016)

Pepa (Earth-2021)

Captain America (Earth-8096)

Ms Marvel (Earth-12041)

Captain Marvel (Earth-12041)

Whirlwind (Earth-12041)

Spider-Man (Earth-92131)

Cyclops (Earth-92131)

Jubilee (Earth-92131)

Thunderbird (Earth-92131)

Rogue (Earth-92131)

Yolanda Mortez/Wildcat II (Earth-2)

Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl (Earth-2)

Billy Batson (Earth-51)

Robin (Earth-66)

Jay Garrick/The Flash (Earth-1941)

John Stewart/Green Lantern (Earth-1992)

Hawkgirl (Earth-1992)

Wonder Woman (Earth-1992)

The Question (Earth-1992)

Velocity (Earth- 913175)

Catra (She-Ra reboot)

Megan, Molly and Danny (Earth-1984)

Fluttershy (Earth-131216)

Connor Macleod (Earth-1986)

Duncan Macleod (Earth-992)

Joe Morton (Earth-992)

Tessa Noël (Earth-992)

Methos (Earth-992)

Richie (Earth-992)

Uncle (Earth-2000)

Jade (Earth-2000)

Viper (Earth-2000)

Ranger Tabes (Earth-192)

Charlie (Earth-192)

Chloe Park (Earth-192)

Kit (Earth-192)

Wildernessa (Earth-192)

Kelsey (Earth-192)

Grunkle Stan (Earth-467)

Marcy Wu (Earth-467)

Anne Boonchuy (Earth-467)

Sasha Waybright (Earth-467)

Candace Flynn (Earth-081707)

Penny Proud (Earth-154205)

Will Vandom (Earth-2004)

Now plenty of these characters have been in Infinity Crisis stories before yes. To make things easier, they get kidnapped after their respective appearances. And no, the Disney movie characters are not from Once Upon a Time, more their animated movie counterparts.

And chronologically, Mulan is kidnapped first and the last ones to get kidnapped prior to the events of The Return of the Rani and Rampage of the Rani were the cast of Mission Magic since The Rani would feel she has had enough prisoners to make up her army besides Meilin Lee and her friends.

- In regards to The Rani finding Abby and Tyler, I didn't know what to do with her originally before I wrote my additions I'll call them so, this among other things gave her something to do other than stand around waiting.

- With how The Rani said "pathetic", I pictured it in the same as Principal Skinner from The Simpsons.

- Just an "LOL" moment that subverts the deal of an overprotective parent would solve anything like in a sitcom.

- I had a bit too much fun writing The Rani hating 4Town.

- Purposeful callback to how Ming felt about 4Town which, you got to admit, makes sense she'd feel differently about them now. Especially based on the autographed picture at the end of Turning Red.

- The entire motive of The Rani doing what she's doing, it's the very thing I debated with myself back and forth about if I should put it in. But in a way, number one, looking back on planning what chapter four could be, it came off as too short or too long but I think what it came down to was take The Rani and her need to commit eugenics to the most logical extreme.

- Originally, I was going to include a gag during The Rani's big Bond villain speech where the 13th Doctor tells the 6th Doctor to cover his ears to avoid spoilers of future events but Ben2DartMouth suggested the 13th Doctor lie to him with the idea because she's crazy especially given her plan involved turning kids into red pandas. Which, I decided to roll with. Especially as the War Doctor in Day of the Doctor was told the name Bad Wolf. So I thought I could get away with flexible continuity.

- Mei's summation is something like that scene in Halloweentown II with Marine summing up similarily. Which is fitting since director Domee Shi on occasion has mentioned a few Disney Channel movies among the influences for Turning Red.

- The Rani intending to do away her subordinates is inspired by Hugo Drax in Moonraker intending to kill Jaws once his vision of a perfect Earth is complete as he did not fit his desire for the perfect human civilization.

- Meilin bringing up why The Rani has outlandish subordinates is something Ben2DartMouth brought up and implemented in.

- More will be explained what The Rani meant by "Multiverse hotspot."

- So between Rani getting kicked in the crotch, the crash and the needles thing, inspired by the third act of Beethoven of all movies. That was always something planned from the beginning among many things.

- So, the hologram interface like I said, I got from the Doctor Who episode Hide. I needed a last minute rescue to save the rest of the heroes of the story. So I remembered the episode Hide when the climax of the episode involved Clara trying to rescue the 11th Doctor from being stuck in another dimension.

My take on it is less mean spirited than how that episode portrayed the hologram. It's a duex ex machina yes but I had to do it to get from point A to B, especially given what happens next to The Rani.

- Miriam being confused over a control panel written in an alien language and then smashing it is a shout out to a similar moment in the Justice League episode Twilight Part Two where Batman does something exactly like that.

- Dark Mercury threatening to hit Metal Head is meant to indicate she's on her way of becoming as bad and abusive as The Rani.

- Her retreating is reminiscent of Evil Lyn leaving Skeletor in the Masters of the Universe movie.

- The Rani beginning her transformation with a bright green light and the insane laughter is a shout out to the transformation scene of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde in The Pagemaster. Even how she transforms physically is a shout out to The Howling.

- The Rani transforming into a mutant red panda chimera was also something planned from the start. I wanted a big climax and basically a culmination like this seemed fun.

- Yes, Putties are dead and The Rani has back up files inside her TARDIS.

- Other subjects on the physical side The Rani stole samples from like Godzilla, Hulk, Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Damage from the DC universe.

- Originally as a bit of a nod to Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College, there was going to be a second face on her chest like the human antagonist of the film but that didn't work out since it'd be too goofy for this story and wouldn't work with the overall mutant red panda visual I pictured.

- Deliberately, I invoked the moment from Shredder is Splintered, an episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, with the "Wrath of the Rani" line instead of Krang. Visually, I invoked the Night on Bald Mountain segment from Fantasia as I wrote the scene where she bursts through and destroys her secret base.

- Wu shouting "Oh, crap" is a callback to a similar moment in Turning Red when she saw Ming turn into a giant red panda.

That's all the behind the scenes notes. Hope you enjoyed this latest chapter and hope you're looking forward to chapter five!

See ya soon!

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Author's Note:
After a break, here it is! The final chapter of The Rampage of the Rani. It took months but it's finally done. There's surprises in store and more but hope you enjoy!

In memory of Kate O'Mara, Pip and Jane Baker and Jason David Frank.

Chapter 5: The Battle of Pandapocalypse 2002

The rest of the group stared at the now mutated red panda Rani in utter shock and horror.

Storm clouds continued to get darkened more and the weather worse as the wind furiously blew hard alongside the rain, completely becoming a hurricane.

"The weather is a slave to my command!" The Rani shouted in her now booming voice as she raised her right arm, putting forth more furious storms.

"Remind me to thank that mutant for her DNA sample I took from her when she wasn't looking!" The Rani laughed as miles behind her, a few tornadoes began to form.

The group from below struggled to maintain their footing due to the heavy winds blowing at them.

"Do something, Doc!" Helen screamed at the Doctor. "You're the smart one!"

"So is he!" Chen shouted as she pointed to the Sixth Doctor.

"What makes you think I can solve this?!" The Sixth Doctor retorted. "I never had to come across such an insane ordeal as this before!"

"Surely there must be something you can do!" Yaz said to the Doctor with a worried tone in her voice.

The Doctor was speechless. She struggled to think of what even say but nothing.

"I'm sorry, Yaz." The Doctor said to Yaz with sadness in her eyes as well as worry. "I'm just as much at a loss!"

Ming overheard the conversation and looked at the Tamagotchi around her neck like a necklace and then at The Rani, still causing her round of chaos.

"The waves obey my every whim!" The Rani cackled as her left hand lifted as if she were a conductor, to create a dozen waves from the lake where the McBarge was. Creating tidal waves and water sprouts on the lake.

Ming then glared at The Rani, just as the Tamagotchi glowed a brighter red.

The Doctor noticed as the reflection shined across a few feet from her. She saw Ming grip the device around her.

"Madame, no!" Shouted The Doctor as she ran up to Ming and grabbed her arm.

"Let go!" Ming shouted back as she struggled to break free from The Doctor's grasp.

"The red moon won't be for another few months!" The Doctor frantically said as she recalled another aspect of the tour at the Lee family temple when she inquired enough about the fundraiser to rebuild the Skydome.

Wu joined in realizing the danger, mainly so her own daughter would not get hurt as well.

"She hurt Mei Mei!" Ming screamed. "What am I supposed to do?!"

"You won't have to!" The three women stopped their struggle upon hearing Miriam.

They turned to see Miriam with just as much of a look of anger but also one of fierce determination.

"We'll take her down!" Miriam growled. "For Mei!"

"You're not going anywhere, girls!" Captain Carter said.

"Don't try to stop us!" Miriam glared at Captain Carter.

"You didn't let me finish!" Captain Carter retorted before giving off a smirk. "Not without me, you're not!"

"No one steals my blood for mad science and gets away with it!" She then added.

Miriam smiled back as did the rest of the besties. The remaining four transformed into their red panda forms. Miriam crouched down on all fours.

"Get on!" She cried out to Captain Carter.

Without hesitation, Captain Carter leapt onto Miriam's back. Riding her as if she were a steed going straight into battle.

"For Mei!" Miriam shouted.

"For Mei!" The rest of the besties chanted.

With that, they rode off and leapt onto one of the buildings in front of them; leaping from window to window.

"Wait! Stop!" Ming shouted as she and Wu attempted to reach to them but failed as soon as they leapt away.

"I'm afraid there's nothing we can do but watch!" The Sixth Doctor said.

"But they're children!" Ming argued in distress. "It's too dangerous!"

"What are we supposed to do?!" Ming then asked as she looked to the Doctor and then her mother for answers.

After a moment of silence, The Doctor spoke.

"These children are our last line of defense." The Doctor said solemnly.

Ming looked at the Doctor with a look of concern on her face.

"Mother..." Ming turned to face Wu with as much as concern and worry as her own daughter.

With a heavy sigh, she said aloud and prayed softly, "Sun Yee, give them strength!"

"I hope you're right about this, Doctor." Yaz said anxiously.

"So am I." The Doctor sighed, concurring with her friend.

The red panda besties continued to leap from each window sill on the vacant building until they finally reached the rooftop, right next to The Rani's giant red panda face, too busy to even notice her enemies as she was maniacally enjoying her newfound form and powers.

"Let's take her down!" Miriam shouted.

"Let us send her back to hell she came!" Captain Carter cried out.

With that, she and the besties roared their battle cries as they leapt off the building and straight toward The Rani's head.

Now she had noticed, just as the group landed directly on her face. First with Miriam and Captain Carter landing on her snout. Priya and Abby on each of her ears. And finally, Tyler on top of her head.

"Nothing can stop the almighty Rani!" The Rani shouted in arrogance.

"Wanna bet?!" Miriam cried out as she punched directly onto The Rani's nose with her super strength.

The Rani shouted in pain as she felt the direct impact. Captain Carter in return, leapt off Miriam and threw the shield at the mutant red panda's forehead.

As The Rani grabbed her forehead in pain, Captain Carter landed on top of her head alongside Tyler just as the shield ricochet back to her.

"Nice one!" Tyler complimented the super soldier as he raised his hand to give her a high five.

"What are you doing?" Captain Carter asked in confusion.

"It's a high five." Tyler responded. "It means awesome! Like you're cool, made a boss move, you know?"

Miriam leapt up onto the top of The Rani's head, landing next in between to Tyler and Captain Carter.

"I'd say we caught her attention!" Miriam said.

Abby in turn, screamed loudly into one of The Rani's ears.

The Rani screamed in pain and in retaliation, attempted to swat Abby. But she managed to avoid the incoming giant paw by leaping onto her nose.

"Booger attack!" Screamed Abby.

She dug her red panda paws deep into The Rani's nostrils much to the disgust and irritation of The Rani herself.

"ARGH!" The Rani screamed. "You are disgusting!"

Abby leapt off from The Rani and right onto one of her tentacles. But not before she took one good look at her now booger covered arms in disgust.

"Ewwww!" Abby groaned whilst making an expression of disgust on her face as she shook off the boogers rapidly from both her furry arms before going back to hanging onto one of The Rani's tentacles.

Priya leapt off the other ear and latched onto The Rani's right arm.

Priya dug her claws deep into The Rani's arm. The Time Lady herself felt the discomfort and this time reacted in anger as in response, she attempted to squash Priya with her left paw. Priya saw the shadow and then the paw itself descending toward her to which she leapt onto one of the claws and on all fours, ran across her arm much to the irritation of The Rani.

Abby, with a manic grin on her face, chomped on the tentacle she was hanging onto. The Rani felt the searing pain and roared in response.

Suddenly, Abby looked up to see incoming tentacle descending upon her. In response, she leapt onto the incoming tentacle before hopping onto the next on each jump.

Miriam and Tyler looked at each other and nodded as they immediately slid down and grabbed The Rani's eye lids.

"What the?!" The Rani growled incredulously.

Then the two teens pulled the eye lids like rubber bands and released them. The Rani screamed in pain once again, just as Miriam and Tyler dived and latched onto a tentacle each.

Captain Carter in turn, leapt off and landed on another tentacle and used her shield to make an open cut. But then leapt onto another tentacle upon seeing another one descending upon her.

"Repugnent mongrels!" Growled The Rani as she tried to keep up with her enemies.

Suddenly, The Rani eyed on the adult group below her much to the horror of both Doctors and everyone else.

The mutated Time Lady opened her mouth and a glow began to form around her mouth.

"Oh no!" Miriam shouted, having a look of fear on her face as she guessed what was possibly going to happen next.

"I got her!" Tyler shouted.

He jumped from the moving tentacle, giving him extra propulsion, as he leapt upwards and hitting The Rani directly beneath her lower jaw, causing her to instead fire what looked like a glowing stream of light at the sky much to the amazement and horror of everyone.

Tyler landed back down on the tentacle he jumped from, just as The Rani stared at him with a look of fury on her face. But was soon distracted by a hit on the side of her face. The Rani turned to see the very same shield ricochet back to Captain Carter, hanging onto one of her tentacles.

"Kick her butt, Miriam!" Shouted Ming.

She paused. Astonished at what she had just said as she was normally well reserved, the Skydome incident aside.

"Go red pandas!" The Doctor threw in her moment of cheer as well.

"Punch her in the eye!" Yaz chimed in.

"Knock her block off!" Chen shouted, joining in as well.

"Go team red pandas!" Helen, Ping, Lily and Jin threw in in their two cents.

As the group shouted their cheers, The Rani noticed as she loomed down at her other enemies, cheering on the besties and Captain Carter.

"Shut it!" The Rani growled loudly in irritation at the group below her.

Encouraged by the cheering, especially from Ming, Miriam bit The Rani on the very tentacle she was clinging onto. The Rani once again felt the pain as Miriam jumped onto another tentacle while Priya pierced through one of the tentacles. Even Tyler got into biting another tentacle.

"Use the right cross!" The Sixth Doctor shouted. "It won't knock her out given her size but it is often a trademark of Muhammad Ali against his opponents!"

"Good idea!" Abby shouted as she heard the suggestion. "I don't know what it is but okay!"

Abby then leapt off the tentacle and high enough to land on The Rani's shoulder. Upon impact, immediately, Abby raced up to the side of her neck and punched it.

"Repugnant brat!" The Rani screamed. "How dare you?!"

The Rani attempted to swat Abby with her right arm but as ever, Abby avoided the attempted and instead crawled on top of her-pulling The Rani's fur even, much to the annoyance of the Time Lady.

The Rani was now screaming in pain and annoyance.

On the roof of the abandoned McBarge however, Meilin had finally woken up. She grasped her furry red panda head given she had fallen face first upon impact.

She then turned around to see what she briefly forgot; the mutated giant sized red panda version of The Rani. But what shocked her more was seeing her friends and even Captain Carter fighting her off. While she was happy to see her friends fighting The Rani directly, she was concerned for their safety.

"Oh no!" Meilin shouted in distress.

The winds proved too strong, even for Meilin in her red panda form, that she slipped and fell to the ground.

"Oh come on!" Meilin whined.

As she whined, an incoming object hit her in the face and knocked her down again, this time face up.

"Now what?" Meilin groaned as she sat up and removed the object from her face.

Her look went from distress to astonishment as she examined the object before her.

It was the same backpack Abby was carrying from the mall.

"I wonder..." Meilin whispered her thought out loud to herself.

She unzipped the backpack and saw previously what she noticed; the very rocket Abby took from the mall.

"The Thunderbolt!" Meilin read aloud the packaging on the box.

Suddenly, she heard a noise beside her. She turned to the right to see a bunch of debris landing the roof of the McBarge thanks to the heavy winds and rain, alongside the tidal waves. But among the debris, was a broken in half wooden bowsprit. As she looked inside the backpack again, she saw duct tape included. And from there, she felt as if a lightbulb went off in her head.

Meilin sprinted to the debris and grabbed the bowsprit. She transformed back into her human form and went to work as she tore open the box.

In the meanwhile, Captain Carter had now leapt onto The Rani's nose for the sole purpose of stomping on it much to the annoyance of the Time Lady.

Miriam managed to headbutt The Rani directly onto her chest before bouncing back onto the tentacle she latched onto.

"Wow this chick is hard!" Miriam groaned as she grasped her head, feeling the impact from her attempted headbutt.

Meilin had been rapidly putting together the rocket as the battle raged on. First, putting together the launching pad. Then placing the rocket on it, which had been in one piece in the package. The third thing she had to do was to put in right wires to connect from the remote control to underneath the thrusters of the rocket itself.

All while because of the heavy winds, Meilin had to keep the bowsprit still and to do so, her feet transformed into red panda paws to keep it still by gripping it with her toes while the rest of her body remained human.

But every second, she looked to see her friends and Captain Carter still fighting The Rani and knew she had to work fast. All while reading the instructions.

The besties and Captain Carter did what they could to fight The Rani. Even despite still standing, the group gave their fight their all. Priya had managed to land a punch in The Rani's eye while jumping.

Tyler even managed to bite one of The Rani's fingers. Priya and Abby even managed to after a bit of leaping, bite The Rani's tail with Miriam and Captain Carter tugging at her ears.

The Rani was getting more angry by the moment.

"ENOUGH!" The Rani screamed in anger as her red panda fur flared up coinciding with her fury.

"Do you think you can make a fool out of me?!" She then shouted.

The besties and Captain Carter stood in fear as she displayed her fury. Not helped by The Rani screaming and the group felt an even more furious wind blowing at them. To which finally, the besties and Captain Carter were blown off The Rani to which they found themselves in a tornado conjured by the Time Lady herself and were then dumped onto the building next to them.

The Doctor and the rest of the adults in question looked on in horror at the sight before them. But none more so than Meilin, who looked up to see her friends and Captain Carter in a now precarious position.

"NO!" Meilin screamed in distress.

In response, she rapidly finished the wires and moved onto to using the duct tape to attach the bowsprit to the rocket.

"Is everyone okay?!" Miriam asked as she stood up.

Before anyone could answer or move further however, they looked up after hearing a loud roar to see The Rani using her scorpion sting attached to her red panda tail descending upon them.

"Jump!" Shouted Captain Carter as she and the besties jumped off the building, just as the scorpion sting tail hit it-destroying the building entirely.

But neither the besties or Captain Carter landed as they soon found themselves engulfed into another tornado conjured by The Rani but soon, the tornado began to suck in the adults. The Doctor noticed to her horror, she was starting to being lifted off the ground. With Ming, Yaz and the others soon noticing the same.

"Hang on!" Screamed The Doctor.

Everyone screamed in a mad panic as they found themselves in the tornado, spinning and spinning as The Rani laughed at their misfortune.

"MOM!" Meilin screamed as she saw her mother and her friends in the tornado.

The Rani finally began to walk. Stomping each step like a kaiju as she held the tornado within the palm of her hand with a triumphant smirk on her face as everyone inside tried to grab each other's hands but failed. As she made her way to the inlet, she failed to notice a mile in front of her, Meilin tightening the spritbow with the duct tape upon wrapping it around the nose of the rocket, especially after her red panda paws turned back into her sneaker clad feet. She made sure it was not only tightened but also the very sharp end from the bottom would be front and center.

Finally, The Rani made it to the inlet where the McBarge was and parted the water like she were Moses parting the red sea.

"Tell me when it's over!" Screamed a distressed Tyler.

The Rani finally threw the teens, the two Doctors and the rest of the adults into the dry part of the departed inlet.

Everyone groaned in pain as they felt the impact.

"Is everyone alright?" The Doctor asked as she quickly stood up.

"Do we look alright?!" Shouted Chen.

"Uh...guys!" Miriam cried out in a stammer as she pointed to everyone at The Rani standing them before them from the docks with a crazed and imposing look and posture on her face as she stared down at them like an angry god.

Meilin noticed and quickly double checked if everything was in place. With the last touch being where to aim the rocket.

Meilin aimed the rocket directly toward The Rani given she had stomping toward where the McBarge was, which was enough to make her a walking, exposed target. Finally, she settled on aiming for where her heart should be. Even despite not knowing Time Lords have two hearts, she was positive aiming the rocket where the heart is, would be enough to stop her.

Satisfied, with everything seemingly in order, Meilin grabbed the launch remote and pressed the button.

Nothing.

"What?" Meilin cried out in confusion.

She rapidly pressed the button multiple times.

As lightening flashed behind The Rani, she clenched her fists.

"Rani!" The Doctor stepped forward, shouting despite the loud wind and lightening. "Please don't do this! This isn't worth it!"

"Take me instead!" The Sixth Doctor shouted. "Leave the children out of this! It's me you want!"

"Are they seriously trying to reason with that maniac?!" Lily cried out, exasperated.

The Rani was not listening as she said a loud for everyone to hear, "I'm going to enjoy this!"

The Rani laughed as even more lightening struck behind her.

"Why won't it launch?!" Meilin shouted in frustration as she rapidly pressed the button on the remote aggressively. "Argh! What's the problem?!"

In desperation, she consulted the box and to her horror, she now noticed the "Battieries not included" label on the front of the box. To which she opened the bottom hatch of the remote to see there were none whatsoever.

"Oh come on!" She screamed in anger as she furiously tossed the box aside.

But just as quickly, she remembered the backpack.

Meilin grabbed the backpack and looked inside. To her relief, there was a pack of D4 batteries. Just the ones she needed for the remote.

"Yes!" Meilin cried out triumphantly. "Thank you, Abby!"

With that, she immediately placed the batteries into the remote.

As The Rani was about to provide a finishing blow, Jin crawled over to Ming, who was now feeling entirely helpless at the situation, to comfort her. In turn, Ming hugged her husband.

Wu joined in, hugging her daughter and son in law, with even the aunties joining in as well. Quietly accepting their fate but at least wanted to be with their loved ones.

Miriam, Priya, Abby and Tyler even hugged each other. They knew they tried, fought for their fallen friend but was not enough but they too figured if they were going to die, they rather be with the people they loved. Even joining in with the Lee family.

The Doctor grabbed hold of Yaz's hand. To which Yaz responded a look of surprise on her face but comforted a bit despite the threat of death looming upon the two. The Doctor shot Yaz a look of apology and sadness but still loving. To which Yaz nodded with tears forming in her eyes with a sad smile on her face. If she was going to perish, she thought, at least it was going to be with the woman she crushed on.

Captain Carter in the meanwhile, stood in front of everyone and raised her shield to protect the group. Even despite the odds against her.

"So this is it for us, isn't it?" The Sixth Doctor said to the super soldier.

"I refuse to go down without a fight, even when outnumbered or outclassed!" Captain Carter responded before adding, "I can do this all day!"

The Sixth Doctor even had an emotional look on his face, fearing he may not have a future after all.

"In any case," The Sixth Doctor said to Captain Carter and everyone else around him. "It truly has been a pleasure meeting you all."

The two Doctors stared at each other before giving approving nods to each other.

Meilin finally inserted the second and last battery inside the remote. She gave The Rani one last glaring look.

"Hey! 4*Town forever!" Meilin screamed.

Finally, she pressed the launch button.

And this time, the rocket finally made the sound of thrusters launching; music to Meilin's ears as the rocket finally launched out of the McBarge-flying directly to its intended target.

Meilin sat up after the shockwave of the rocket knocked her down but nevertheless, eyed on the sight before her.

"And now, you pathetic insects!" The Rani said with a maniacal smile on her face as left paw formed a fist and raised it in mid air, preparing to deliver the finishing blow. "You're finished!"

Captain Carter raised her shield as the fist started to descend with everyone else closing their eyes-preparing for the worst.

But just as The Rani was about to finish off her enemies, she halted her intent midway through as she noticed a small but noticeable incoming object heading toward her.

"What?" The Rani said in confusion.

But because of the rocket's speed, she had no time to retaliate as with a quick of a flash, the bowsprit attached to the rocket managed to stab The Rani directly into one of her hearts with the rest of the rocket following after as it burrowed inside.

The mutated Time Lady red panda screamed in pain upon the rocket impacting her. She felt as if the whole world had stopped moving for her.

Throughout the surprise blow, the entire group opened their eyes, or in the case of Captain Carter; she had lowered her shield, they saw The Rani cease her attack. They then turned to see Meilin on the roof of the McBarge, figuring she had something to do with it.

"Mei Mei! Mei!" Ming and Miriam screamed in relief simultaneously.

"Of course that girl was our last hope in our darkest hour!" The Doctor smiled in relief.

As The Rani roared in pain, everyone focused their attention on the mutant red panda before them.

The Rani emitted one more roar with arms raised and stretched out as three bolts of lightening struck her-now fully losing her control over the weather and losing all her powers as the fierce weather was now dying down.

Finally, The Rani began to fall with the entire group staring in shock at the incoming giant about to fall on them, just as the inlet was no longer being parted.

"Everybody swim!" Screamed Captain Carter.

As the water was restored, everyone braced themselves to swim and avoid The Rani falling on them.

Meilin witnessed the sight before her as The Rani finally fell onto the inlet creating a huge splash of waves and the Time Lady herself even hitting her face on the edge of the roof of the McBarge with Meilin running out of the way and jumped into the water.

But Meilin was the last thing The Rani saw as she fell to her apparent death as she now found herself sinking into the water with the last thing of her to remain on the surface for a moment besides a few tentacles was her red panda claw being raised up before completely sinking into the inlet once and for all.

Under water, the Doctor found herself struggling to swim but managed to keep steady even while noticing a faint object buried deep in the inlet. But The Doctor figured she would worry about it later as she swam to find any of the others.

She looked around for anyone until she saw Meilin a few feet away from her, floating unconscious in her human form. The Doctor immediately swam toward her to save her.

Finally, the abnormal weather had ceased. The winds stopped blowing, the tornadoes disintegrated, the rain stopped pouring and the dark clouds dispersed-revealing a clear night sky due to the events taking place for hours.

The waves had finally calmed down; enough that after two minutes of silence, Miriam climbed over from the docks to dry. She gasped for fresh air as she burst out of the water with Ming and Jin hanging onto her neck and arm respectively given she was still in her red panda form.

Priya likewise surfaced and climbed on over to dry land with the Sixth Doctor and Yaz in tow. Followed by Abby who had been carrying Wu, Helen and Lily. And finally Tyler along with Ping, Chen and Captain Carter who had hung onto his furry neck and arms.

Everyone had plopped down after their near death experience with the Rani and the raging waters-all breathing heavily from the adrenaline rush of surviving.

"Everyone alright?" Asked Captain Carter.

"We're cool!" Answered an out of breath Miriam as she gave the thumbs up.

"More...than cool." Priya wheezed a bit, still her in dry manner.

"I'm going to need a vacation after this!" Ping said as she mourned her curly hair perm being flattened by the water.

"That Rani woman was crazy!" Shouted Chen.

"I should sue her for attermpted murder!" Lily exclaimed.

"Is anybody even going to believe us after this?!" Helen asked aloud.

Suddenly, Miriam became alarmed.

"Where's Mei?!" Miriam shouted.

Even Ming, who bolted upright, realized someone was missing herself.

"Mei Mei?!" Ming shouted. "Mei Mei!"

Yaz even bolted upright herself, realizing someone else was missing as well.

"Doctor!" Yaz shouted. "Where's the Doctor!"

"Doctor!" She continued to cry loudly as everyone else shouted for Meilin.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of splashing water from behind.

They turned around to see The Doctor, alive and well but exhausted, climbing the docks with Meilin around her arms. But to everyone's shock with their relief being short lived, the red headed girl appeared unconscious.

The Doctor collapsed on her knees as she gently placed Meilin onto the ground and immediately, she went to work performing CPR on the young teen.

"Is she-" Ming hesitantly began to ask.

"Let's hope not!" The Doctor answered fast as she continued to place her mouth on Meilin's to give her air and continued to press on her chest every couple of seconds.

Everyone watched in fear. Hoping Meilin had made it out from the entire battle as the besties did. Miriam, Priya, Abby and Tyler especially took it the hardest as Ming.

"Please don't do this!" The Doctor pleaded to the red panda girl. "You have your friends, your family! Don't give up on them!"

The Doctor continued the CPR process best she could. But finally after two minutes, Meilin seemed unresponsive.

The Doctor stopped and slowly lifted her head to look at everyone.

The Doctor did not speak. Just a slow shake of her head before dropping in a solemn of sadness.

"No.." Ming cried softly as tears formed in her eyes.

"Not Mei..." Miriam whispered in despair as tears dropped from her eyes.

The rest of the besties began to cry, even loudly. As did the rest of Meilin's family. Jin, crying himself, tried to his best comfort Ming. The two ultimately hugged while sobbing. The aunties fared no better as tears fell from their eyes as their heads lowered in sadness. Wu even found herself breaking down emotionally.

Even Captain Carter despite not knowing Meilin at all, could not help but feel sad at the outcome. The Sixth Doctor even could not help but display sadness himself at the situation.

Yaz, while crying, even did her best to comfort the Doctor as she kneeled next to her.

"It's not your fault." Yaz gently touched the Doctor's shoulder.

"...Then why does it feel like it is?" The Doctor asked as she sniffled after a moment of silence.

The moment of sadness finally ceased as the Doctor and everyone heard the sound of coughing.

Alarmed, they looked at the source of the sound to which they saw Meilin Lee herself coughing up water before turning face down at the ground to vomit out water much to her disgust.

Afterwards, she sat down, breathing in and out after the whole ordeal.

"Wow!" She breathed in amazement.

Meilin then turned to her friends and family with a reassuring smile on her face.

"You know what I shouted before I launched the rocket?" Meilin said. "4*Town forever!"

With that, she gave the thumbs up.

With happy tears in the eyes of her friends and family, even laughter from the former, they all rushed up to her with expressions of relief and happiness in their eyes as they all hugged her but not before her besties turned back into humans. Meilin blushed at the adoration so much, her red panda ears and tail appeared.

"Oh Mei!" Miriam laughed and sobbed happily.

"I'm so glad you're okay!" Ming cried out with tears in her eyes.

"I told you already I was going to be alright!" Meilin smiled, touched by how everyone loved her so.

Meilin then turned to Abby and said, "Hey Abby, you were right! We really did need the rocket after all."

"I told you!" Abby screamed in excitement. Even screaming at her friends, "I told you we needed the rocket!"

"Mei." The Doctor said to the red panda girl. "You are definitely the most remarkable little girl I've met!"

"Thanks." Meilin said to the Doctor with a small smile on her face.

"So, is The Rani gone?" Meilin then asked.

"I doubt it." The Sixth Doctor replied. "She's a Time Lord herself and we have the ability to regenerate."

As everyone paused their moment of happiness, Priya bluntly asked, " Then shouldn't The Rani-"

Her question was ultimately cut off as everyone turned to the inlet to see a bright large beam of light erupt from the water-lasting seconds, before disappearing entirely. Everyone stared in awe at the sight but soon had an expression of worry on them. Especially when they saw what surfaced; the remains of the Thunderbolt rocket and the bowsprit.

"She's not gonna..." Meilin hesitantly began to ask before the Sixth Doctor cut her off.

"Don't worry, I doubt she'll come back immediately after that humiliating defeat." He said. "But like The Master, she'll plot and scheme her revenge."

"Then we'll be ready! Right, guys?" Meilin said with a huge burst of confidence to her friends.

"Right!" The rest of the besties agreed, nodding and shouting.

Most of the adults however expressed concern, Ming and Wu in particular seemed the most worried.

"Um, about this..." Ming was about to ask Meilin before Miriam cut her off.

"Mrs. Lee, we love the panda!" Miriam said. "I didn't know how Mei felt about keeping it until it happened to me!"

Ming was stunned. As was Wu. Stunned to see someone not among their family embrace the red panda. They were both left speechless, not sure how to respond.

"I like embracing my inner animal." Priya said in her dry monotone voice.

"AND I'M SO FLUFFY!" Abby screamed in excitement.

"Honestly..." Tyler said as he scratched his head. "I wasn't cool with it at first but...I actually kind of, sort of like it."

Tyler chuckled as he smiled and blushed.

"Can we keep them?" Asked Miriam.

"Please?" Priya pleaded.

"Please!" Abby shouted.

The besties kept on pleading and begging with their best puppy dog eye impressions to Ming and Wu, still shocked they want to keep the red panda.

"Please, mom?" Meilin asked her mother with an expression of pleading herself.

The two women looked at each other with discomfort at first but soon based on their emotions, they realized like Meilin, it was inevitable they were not going to let go any time soon.

With a sigh, Ming asked, "You really wish to keep the pandas?"

"Yes! We really want it!" The besties shouted. "We're like superheroes!"

"Then, alright." Ming said with a soft smile. "You can keep them."

"Alright!" Meilin and her friends shouted in excitement as they hugged each other.

"But!" Ming said to Meilin sternly. "But you'll have to promise me that you'll teach them how to control the red panda and use it responsibly. Okay?"

"You got it, mom!" Meilin said as she hugged her mother to which Ming returned the favor.

To which was followed up by her friends hugging her and laughing.

"May Sun Yee guide you all then." Wu said to the besties with a soft smile of her own.

"So that's it?" Chen asked, disappointed in her tone of voice. "They get to keep the panda too?"

"Let's not ruin the moment." Yaz said to Chen much to her chagrin.

"But of course, you do know this means we have to discuss this with your parents, right?" Ming pointed out.

Suddenly, the rest of the besties now had looks of shock and horror on their faces.

"Oh crap, our parents!" Miriam cried out in a panic as she grabbed her toque.

"Now you're worried?!" Tyler cried out exasperated and annoyed. "Why do you think I've kept asking what my parents are going to say?!"

Meilin then turned to the Doctor to ask, "Uh...ma'am, uh, Doctor is it?"

"Just The Doctor." The Doctor simply replied.

"Doctor who?"

The Doctor laughed. "Never gets old!"

The Sixth Doctor chuckled as if in agreement.

"Well, can you..." Meilin began to ask.

"Of course!" The Doctor eagerly said. "I'll be happy to vouch for all of you!"

"Thanks, Doc!" Meilin said as she hugged the Doctor.

The Doctor was surprised but returned the hug, feeling touched by the red panda girl's sincerity.

"As will I." The Sixth Doctor chimed in. "But first I should take all of the Rani's former prisoners back to their own universes."

"How long will that take?" Asked Meilin.

The Sixth Doctor laughed. "Young lady, I have a time ship! I'll be back the second I leave!"

"You have a time machine?!" Asked everyone except The Doctor, much of the adult Lee family and Yaz.

"Yes. Wasn't it obvious?" The Sixth Doctor asked.

"In any case, I'll be back!" He added.

With that, the Sixth Doctor raced back to his own TARDIS and dematerialized immediately leaving the others awkwardly standing around and staring at each other.

"So...do we wait?" Priya asked.

"We are not finished yet!"

Meilin and her friends gave a startled gasp but then groaned as soon as they glanced Over to see who it was.

The remaining Judoon including their captain, who all look none the worse for wear after being left behind in the now destroyed secret base of The Rani.

"The Doctor will come with us and the juvenile delinquents will face execution!" Pol-Kon-Don snarled, clearly frustrated of the whole ordeal.

Suddenly, the Judoon captain backed away a bit upon seeing Captain Carter in front of her.

"If you're asking for round two," said Captain Carter as she cracked her knuckles. "I'll gladly oblige."

"I will handle this!" Ming insisted as she sped walk toward the Judoon captain, who now looked utterly confused.

"You!" Ming shouted as she pointed her index finger at the Judoon captain in an accusatory manner.

The Judoon captain herself even slipped and fell on her butt.

"Why are you harassing my daughter and her friends?!" She then demanded.

"...They-they assaulted a Judoon officer!" The Judoon captain stammered in fear.

"Hey!" Shouted Tyler, still upset over his first encounter with the Judoon. "It was an accident and you know it!"

"I do not appreciate you terrorizing innocent children, especially when my own daughter is involved!" Ming then sternly raised her voice. "You will leave these children alone! Do I make myself clear?!"

The Judoon captain gulped in fear. This was not her day nor for the rest of the Judoon after everything they had went through.

"Yes..." The Judoon captain weakly said.

"Good!" Ming said, satisfied with the answer. With a huramph, she walked away.

"Now..." said Captain Carter said as she approached the Judoon captain with her hand opened.

"Need any help?"

The Judoon captain was at first hesitant but nevertheless accepted her help. Or was about to grab her hand until Captain Carter grabbed the Judoon captain's horn instead.

Everyone else had winced upon seeing hard Captain Carter had punched the Judoon captain as upon throwing her to the other side, she punched her so hard that Pol-Kon-Don was literally thrown right into the inlet.

Pol-Kon-Don managed to surface, with her horn missing. And then cowered in fear upon seeing Captain Carter standing on the docks with the horn in her hands.

"Now, are you finally going to leave the Doctor and the children alone?" Captain Carter asked the Judoon captain. "Or will you oblige for round three with a friend of mine?"

As if on cue, Meilin stood next to Captain Carter with a grin on her face much to the horror of Pol-Kon-Don.

Not helped by Meilin immediately transforming into her red panda form with her fangs bared and eyes red with a crazed look on her face.

The Judoon captain screamed in horror.

"That's it!" Pol-Kon-Don screamed in fear. "The Doctor is hereby no longer under arrest and the juvenile delinquents have been found not guilty!"

Upon hearing that, Meilin transformed back into her human form.

"That's better!" Meilin smirked as she crossed her arms before sticking her tongue out.

The rest of the Judoon looked on in fear and even stared at the rest of the besties. To which the teens took full advantage of by transforming into their red panda forms and took one step forward to which the Judoon recoiled.

The Judoon captain at that point could care less about the insult or that the rest of the Judoon were being humiliated further. Every member of the Judoon just wanted to leave.

"Retreat!" Pol-Kon-Don shouted. "They are somehow worse than Captain Marvel!"

With that, the Judoon retreated in beams of light upon Pol-Kon-Don pressing a device that allowed them to teleport.

Finally after they left, Meilin laughed, alongside her friends after they transformed back into their human form. The besties high fived each other after feeling victorious. Even Captain Carter could not help but be amused by the teens' antics.

"I hope that's the last surprise at least!" Chen said.

"I'm going to need a vacation after this madness!" Helen concurred.

"Hey Mrs. Lee?" Miriam said to Ming.

"Yes, Miriam?" Ming replied.

"Thanks for rooting for me back there." Miriam gave a soft smile. "Really means a lot to me you did that."

"Oh!" Ming exclaimed in surprise. "Well, you're welcome. And it's the least I can do for thinking you were... odd. I'm ashamed of myself for thinking so lowly of you."

"It's cool, Mrs. Lee!" Miriam said smiling, with no hint of hard feelings. "No hard feelings. At least I know you don't hate me."

Miriam attempted to do a fist bump, much to the confusion of Ming.

"It's a fist bump!" Miriam explained.

Ming went along with it albeit hesitantly given she was unfamiliar with the concept.

"We'll work on it." Miriam chuckled to which Ming laughed along.

"Well, while we're discussing things, I feel out of place." Said Captain Carter as she scratched her head.

"Because now it's dawning on me I technically have no home, I'm not even sure if any of my colleagues are alive or even of older age themselves." She added.

The rest of the group reacted awkwardly, unsure what to do suggest as they realized she had a good point. Even the besties had no clue what to do.

"You can stay with me in the meantime." Wu said much to the shock of everyone.

"Mother, are you sure?" Ming asked.

"After what happened, it's the least I can do." Wu said. "She can stay with me and I'll help her however I can to help her get her own place."

"Thank you, miss." Captain Carter smiled in gratitude. "That's very generous of you."

"You're welcome to stay for dinner as well later on, if you wish." Jin then offered much to the delight of Meilin and her friends given their fondness of his cooking.

"I'd be honored." Captain Carter replied with a smile before chuckling. "I've been feeling peckish anyway."

"As for you, Doctor." Wu walked up to the Time Lord with at first a stern look on her face but soon morphed into one of gratitude. "Thank you for saving my granddaughter."

"And I thank you for saving my Mei Mei." Ming thanked the Doctor as well with more emotion in her voice.

"I never turn down the call for help!" The Doctor responded with a smile.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of the TARDIS materializing. They turned to see and realized it was the Sixth Doctor returning from his trip sending everyone who had been imprisoned back to their respective universes. Albeit only a few minutes later than he intended.

The Sixth Doctor stepped out and said as she clasped his hands, "So, anything interesting I missed?"

"A lot, Doc!" Meilin laughed.

"Ah, miss..." The Sixth Doctor approached Ming whilst trying to remember her name.

"Ming Lee." She responded.

"Yes, Ming, my apologies!" The Sixth Doctor said. "It occurred to me during my traveling, I noticed your fundraiser when we showed up in the temple. So!"

The Sixth Doctor took a small brown bag out of his pocket and gave it to Ming.

"What is it?" Asked Ming in confusion.

"A bag of diamonds from the planet Telos." The Sixth Doctor replied. "After the whole ordeal with the Cybermen, the remaining Cyrons have given me diamonds as a thank you. There's ninety thousand dollars worth of pure diamonds. They're common on Telos."

Ming reacted in astonishment. Touched by the generosity of the Time Lord.

"I...don't know what to say!" Ming exclaimed. "Thank you!"

"That reminds me!" The Doctor said as she produced a small brown bag of her own from one of the pockets of her jacket and gave it to Ming.

"That, my friend is another bag of diamonds from Telos!" The Doctor added. "The Cyrons give diamonds to me yearly as a gift. These can definitely help fund the bill to pay for repairs for the Skydome. Should total up to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars."

The entire Lee family, even the besties, were shocked at the total amount and generosity they were given.

"I...uh..." Ming stammered, speechless.

"Thanks, Doc." Meilin said to the Doctors. "Both of you."

"Quite welcome, Mei." The Doctor smiled warmly in response.

"Trying to one up me in generosity, are you?" The Sixth Doctor huffed as he put his hands on his hips.

"It's not a competition!" The Doctor responded, feeling offended.

"I made the generous donation first!"

"Doesn't hurt to follow suit!"

"Doctors!" Yaz stepped in to break up the argument. "Can we not fight? We just got done with The Rani after all."

"Very well!" Both Doctors said and agreed.

"But I suppose we should get moving finally." Said The Doctore before turning to Miriam. "Miriam, was It? Should we start with your parents?"

Miriam then froze. Suddenly afraid of how her parents will react to her newfound red panda form and her wanting to keep it. Not helped by the rest of the besties having the same reactions at the thought of doing the same.

"Don't worry, Mir." Meilin said to Miriam in a comforting tone of voice as she patted her friend's shoulder. "I'm sure it'll work out. I got your back."

Miriam turned to Meilin with a smile, touched by Meilin's reassurance.

"Thanks Mei." The two high fived.

"4*Town, forever!" The two cried out.

Two weeks later...

As the bus drove on, inside were Meilin and her friends on their seats chatting amongst themselves. With the exception of Meilin herself, seemingly talking to no one.

"I'm Meilin Lee. I'm thirteen years old and I can turn into a red panda. And two weeks ago, so can my friends. And it's been a wild ride. Pandapocalypse 2002 got bigger than ever! It eclipsed even the Skydome incident.

It took a lot of convincing for the other parents to get on board but thanks to The Doctor and...well, the other Doctor, they were cool with the panda. Just as long as we're all home by curfew. Win some, lose some I guess. You should have seen the looks on Tyler and Abby's mom and dad.

Thankfully we didn't have to pay damages to the mall. Turns out The Doctor meant it when she said she gets a bag of diamonds as a gift yearly so it was easy enough to pay off the damages. How lucky is that?

But after eating dad's dinner, both the Doctors went their separate ways and Captain Carter went to go to Florida to live with grandma until she can find her own place to stay. And don't worry, The Doctor dropped off grandma, Captain Carter and my aunties.

These last couple of weeks have been crazy though and the temple got more popular than ever. Now even my besties are joining in helping out with temple duties. Even the mayor of Toronto visited the temple! We're even halfway through paying the Skydome repair bill.

Who'd have thought all this happened in such a short amount of time? And now, who knows what happens next?"

The bus stopped, with Meilin and her friends figuring they were near their intended location.

Meilin and her friends leapt off the bus and made their way to the karaoke place as they walked down the sidewalk.

"It still feels so unreal you guys can turn into red pandas." Said Meilin.

"Tell me about it!" Said Miriam. "Stacy wanted my autograph just yesterday!"

"I tried to howl at the moon last week." Priya chimed in in her usual dry manner. "It surprisingly works as a red panda as much as a werewolf."

The besties laughed in response.

"I got the red panda all wrong." Tyler said as he flexed his arms. "I feel more awesome, you know?"

"It's fun having a tail!" Abby threw in her two cents in excitement.

"Hey guys, did you get a letter from the Doc this morning?" Meilin asked her friends as she held an envelope.

"Yeah." The rest of the besties answered in unison as they all brought up their own envelopes.

"There's not even a stamp." Meilin said as she read the letter after removing it from the envelope. "It said, 'Come to the karaoke place. There's a surprise for you.'"

"What do you think it means?" She then asked.

"Don't know." Tyler said as he crossed his arms. "Why didn't she just phone us? Or send an email?"

Meilin could shrug in response.

"Only one way to find out." She said as she began walking with her friends following her.

Finally, the besties entered SongCook's Rec Room. They looked around to see nothing a miss so far. Waiting staff was exactly the same. As were the tables, the food, the karaoke stage and equipment. Everything was exactly as it should be.

"It looks the same." Meilin commented out loud.

"Is something supposed to happen?" Asked Miriam as she scratched the top of her toque covered head.

"Oh Ms Lee!" A Korean American woman in her thirties approached the young teens.

"Hey Mrs Dae." Meilin greeted the owner of SongCook's Rec Room.

"You arrived just in time!" Mrs. Dae said as she took out five laminated cards out of her jacket pocket. "Your VIP passes are here!"

Each of the besties received the passes much to their confusion. That kind of reward was not there before originally last they were here two weeks ago.

"When did you get these?" Asked Meilin.

"Oh they were made just recently." Mrs. Dae answered before adding, "You'll find your special room near the kitchen."

The besties looked at her in a quizzical manner before walking away.

"O...kay..." Meilin said awkwardly before moving on.

As they moved forward, they stopped by the kitchen doors to find another door albeit unmarked in front of their eyes.

"That was so not there before." Priya said.

Without hesitation, only because she wanted to know the truth right there and now, she turned the knob and opened the door.

Upon opening, to their shock, the room was abnormally large considering the outside did not look like there'd be enough room. A lot of space yet no empty areas. There was a television set, a circle couch with a table in the middle, various candy and soda fountain dispensers, a vending machine of snacks and most notably, a large supercomputer near the table.

"I call the candy dispensers!" Screamed Abby as she made her way through in an excited frenzy.

The rest of the besties followed immediately in a rush after while Meilin stared on in shock.

"H-how?" Meilin stammered.

"What is all this?" She added.

"Loyal customer rewards?" Abby theorized as she had a mouthful of M&Ms.

"I mean, I'm not complaining but where did all this come from?" Meilin asked further.

As if someone had heard her, the besties heard a familiar noise. They turned to the right to see a very familiar blue box materializing in front of them. Two of them. And a third one coming in.

The besties stopped their exploration of their new room upon seeing them and joined Meilin.

As the three TARDISes materialized, the middle one opened to reveal The Doctor herself with Yaz joining her.

"Doc?" Meilin asked in a surprised manner.

"Mei!" The Doctor smiled. "I see you got my letter!"

"Oh boy, I did!" Meilin chuckled as she held the letter in question.

"So, do you like the place?" The Doctor asked as she clasped her hands in excitement.

"We love it!" Meilin said before asking, "But how and why?"

"Well I should answer the why." Replied The Doctor before she explained. "Your courage and tenacity to defend the innocent and yourselves I found much inspiring. And considering you wanted to be superheroes, I figured I should at least give you shall we say, your own Avengers mansion or Hall of Justice."

The besties raised an eyebrow, only because they did not understand the comparison.

"Think of it as the Batcave." The Doctor simplified things.

"Oh!" The teens said in unison, now understanding the comparison.

"But as for how, met the owner." The Doctor explained further. "When this place was developing in the early 90s, I was basically going to make a simple request but trouble showed up with the Zygons and the Kree, saved her life and wanted to repay me to make it even and yes, all of the parents know and ended up being fine with it."

"With a lot more convincing than last time." Yaz added as the Doctor nodded.

She then stretched out her arms as she finished, "And well, here we are. I designed and built the place myself!"

"By yourself?!" The Sixth Doctor exclaimed as he opened the door with a redheaded woman by his side.

"Don't get too upset, Doctor!" The young woman said.

"Of course not, Mel." The Sixth Doctor said to his companion. "Just merely pointing out that I assisted building this room."

"To be fair, not like you wouldn't try taking all the credit." Mel retorted.

"That's what I told her about my Doctor." Yaz smirked to which the Doctor shot her an offended look.

The Doctor then shrugged, "Well okay, I did have help. Not just my past self and past friend though!"

The door to the third TARDIS opened to reveal a young man with dark brown skin, dark hair, a mustache around his upper lip, an orange shirt, brown jacket, brown pants and brown shoes to complete the look. Joining him was a young blonde haired woman in blue overalls, white shirt and black boots.

"Hello Mei!" The dark skinned man smiled. "Good to see you again!"

"Who are-" Meilin was about to ask until the Sixth Doctor cut her off.

"Remember, Ms. Lee," The Sixth Doctor said. "Time Lords regenerate. Even us!"

"Oh so you turn into into different people!" Miriam summarized in excitement. "Cool!"

"That's one way to put it." Chuckled The Sixth Doctor, amused by her summation.

"He's my future incarnation!" The Doctor said, referring to her future incarnation.

"I just simply figured, 'What the hell?'" The future incarnation of The Doctor said as he playfully shrugged his shoulders.

"I had some input on the snack machine." Ruby chimed in.

"What's with the computer though?" Meilin then asked the Doctors.

"Glad you asked!" The Doctor said in an excited manner. "Meet Mrs. Smith. A super computer modeled after Mr. Smith, a supercomputer who was allies with an old friend of mine. It'll recognize either of your voices and can answer any question you ask!"

"Anything?" Priya asked out of curiosity.

"Anything!" The Doctor answered again before adding, "All you have to do is say, 'Mrs Smith, we need you!"

"Comes portable too!" The future Doctor said as he gave them a laptop.

Meilin and her friends were overwhelmed. Excited but overwhelmed but were nevertheless on board.

"This is great, Doc!" Meilin smiled.

"Yeah, this is awesome!" Miriam concurred.

"Anything more awesome?!" Abby exclaimed.

"Anything you need, Mrs. Smith can help you. Oh and the door knob responds to only any of your fingerprints too!" The Doctor replied. "But remember, your future is what you make of it. So make it a good one, all of you!"

The besties nodded to each other before nodding to the Three Doctors.

"We will, Doc!" Meilin said.

"You can count on it!" Tyler said as he gave the Doctors the thumbs up.

"Well, it's time for us to go!" The Doctor clasped her hands as she made her to the TARDIS with Yaz following.

"I trust in your abilities, children." The Sixth Doctor said with a warm smile as he stepped inside.

"Good luck to you all!" Mel said after waving goodbye and stepped inside the TARDIS as well.

"You're all going to do great!" The future Doctor said as he stepped inside the TARDIS.

"See you on the flipside!" Ruby threw in her two cents as she followed the future Doctor.

"You're definitely going to do great things!" Yaz smiled warmly as she stepped inside the TARDIS.

"So where are you going, Doc?" Meilin asked the Doctor. "Back to the future?"

The Doctor chuckled at the Back to the Future reference.

"Future, past, another world." The Doctor responded with a warm smile of her own. "The great thing about the TARDIS is that there's always an adventure waiting."

She took one last look at the besties squad and said, "You five are going to be fantastic superheroes."

With that, she stepped inside the TARDIS. And finally, all three TARDISes dematerialized.

Afterwards, the besties awkwardly stood around for a moment.

"So...What do we do next?" Priya asked, breaking the silence.

"Hey Mrs Smith, we need you!" Meilin said to the supercomputer.

The monitor on Mrs Smith turned on, displaying a galaxy on its monitor.

"Hello Ms Lee." The super computer spoke with a female British voice Meilin thought sounded like Mary Poppins. "How can I be of assistance?"

The besties looked at each other until Melin asked, "Any crimes in progress?"

"As a matter of fact, yes." Mrs Smith replied as the monitor changed to a view of the Daisy Mart from above. "There is a robbery at the Daisy Mart."

"I suggest you all too to it now." The supercomputer added.

"Devon!" The besties cried out in unison.

"If they hurt him, I'll pulverize them!" Abby shouted as she pointed her fist.

"Then let's hero up, guys!" Meilin said.

"What do we call ourselves though?" Asked Tyler.

Meilin froze for a moment before turning to her friends.

"We'll workshop it." Meilin said. "In the meantime, red panda bestie squad are here to stay!"

"Ready to save the world?!" She then asked with her fist pumping the air.

"So ready!" Miriam exclaimed.

"I was born ready." Priya replied in her usual dry manner of tone.

"It's panda time!" Tyler pounded his excitement.

"Let's kick some bad guy butt!" Abby screamed.

With that, the besties rushed out of the secret room and outside the karaoke place-transforming into their red panda forms and rushing away to the Daisy Mart as fast as they could. But nevertheless, enthusiastic becoming red panda superheroes. Heroes for Toronto.

And so it began, for ever since, they had fought atypical villains from bank robbers to corrupt politicians polluting to various supervillains and invading forces.

From the likes of Plantman, who stole the nefarious alien plant known as Audrey II from a man named Seymour. The gravity themed villain Graviton, armless Tiger Man, the Cybermen from the planet Mondas, variants of the treacherous Decepticons, a variant of M. Bison, the Queen of the Shadowkhan known as Jade, the Sontarans, the Toronto mafia led by Benny Blacktooth, Valmont and The Dark Hand, a villainous variant of the Silver Sentry, the Terrible Trio which consisted of three of their classmates including Carter Murphy-Mayhew where they were the Badger, the Dolphin and the Vulture respectively with Carter taking the third identity.

A villainous variant of Psynapse who may know more about their universe than they thought. A secret about their universe no one but Meilin's grandmother knew about.

With other Multiversal threats as a villainous variant of Rogue from Earth-030165 who had never joined the X-Men, Sabretooth from the same earth and Tobey McCallister III who had gotten his hands on the Multiversally misplaced Medusa Mask and became the Psycho Pirate.

As well as the likes of Abyss and Madelyn Spaulding to even the most dangerous threats as the Weeping Angels, the fortune telling machine known as the Mystic Seer, monsters as the Horrors from Horrorland and middle school urban legends come to life as the Bananas in Pajamas. Even the dangerous magical board game Jumanji gave the super besties a hard time.

With the ultimate threat of them all being the Daleks, their greatest challenge yet.

But the besties were not without allies, the Doctor and Captain Carter aside. The 4*Townies ended up making first contact with the Draconians after saving them from the aforementioned Sontarans during a chase through the solar system. Or even Alpha Centauri and the Ice Warriors, the latter who were originally their enemies until the empress was saved and a cease fire was ordered.

Even allies from other universes such as The Avengers of Earth-199999 and Supergirl and Ghost Spider of Earth-38. Even the likes of Liza, Howie, Melody and Eddie of Earth-95859, Anne Boonchuy aka Insect Girl, Sparkle Cadet and Luz Nocenda, Sorceress in Training.

Whatever the challenge, Meilin and her friends will be ready and get into action.

Three days later...

It was late at night, streets mainly empty in the West End section of Toronto. Everything was quiet.

Until a portal in the sky opened up above an apartment complex. The winds picked up, displaying rough behavior and continued on, until a human shaped object fell from the sky and landed on the roof of the apartment building.

He landed with a grunt due to how hard the impact was, landing face first. But with that otherwise, the winds ceased and the portal disappeared.

The human figure in question was clad in a green suit, white gloves and boots, gold armor and a helmet where the top resembled a dragon of some kind. The one thing he wielded was a sword with a curved blade.

He stood up and looked around his surroundings.

"Those Mysticons almost had me." The man spoke, groaning a bit at first. "I'll get back to them soon. But in the meantime, I'll have fun conquering this universe as I did the others! And I'll show no mercy to my good self once I come to his universe. Just you wait..."

He raised up his sword and shouted, "With the Sword of Darkness, I will conquer this universe. Long live me! Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger!"

His evil laughter echoed as lightening flashed behind him.

Two weeks earlier...

The two TARDISes dematerialized, both of them off to meet with each set of parents of the besties from Miriam to Tyler.

But immediately after they left, a familiar hand slammed their palm on the docks. Almost as if she had been waiting for everyone to leave.

The rest of her body followed; The Rani had survived, albeit with much damage to her clothes with her gloves and boots torn apart the most. But surprisingly to her, she looked the same. After she had dragged herself onto dry land, she looked at her reflection on the surface of the inlet.

She touched her own face in shock. She regenerated back into her first body.

"Seems my regeneration cured me of my mutation enough to get me back into my original state." The Rani said a loud to herself. "But as long as I'm myself again, I will enact my revenge."

She growled every last syllable she uttered.

"You will pay, Meilin Lee!" The Rani then snarled as she clenched her fists in anger. "I will get my revenge!"

She ran back to where her secret base used to be and to her relief, despite everything being destroyed; the only thing that remained was her TARDIS.

Wasting no time, she leapt to the destroyed crater that was her secret base and hastily entered the TARDIS. And just as quickly, it dematerialized.

But seconds later, the same TARDIS, still disguised as a wardrobe, materialized. But this time, stepping out was a young woman seemingly in her late twenties with raven black hair and brown skin, wearing a gray formal business suit.

She coldly scanned around the destroyed area of Pip and Jane Industries.

"Blast!" The woman cursed under her breath. "I arrived too late to meet her."

"But perhaps I will catch up to her soon." She added with a small smirk on her face. "I will get my revenge on Ms. Lee. I will kill her! The Rani never forgets!"

With that, the future incarnation stepped inside back into her TARDIS and dematerialized away.

The Rani's new reign of terror may had just begun but the superheroics of the Super Besties had just gotten started, ready to take on the bad guys and never give up the fight.

Author's Note:
And once again, cue Doctor Who theme. Though technically, there are two short epilogue chapters but you won't have to wait long for those. Think of them as mid and post credits scenes in a way.

So, behind the scenes notes:
- Yes, The Rani got her hands on Storm's DNA, hence she was able to control the weather.

- The line about waves is lifted directly from The Little Mermaid when Ursula turned kaiju sized in the climax. Which was all a deliberate homage but I didn't time this to go with The Little Mermaid remake which at the time of this writing, has not come out yet. Just a funny coincidence.

- "Send her back the hell she came" is a variation of a similar line she said in the first episode of What If? Even complete with her battle cry or yell or scream.

- Abby screaming into The Rani's ear, a very Tom and Jerry moment I evoked.

- Basically the mutated red panda Rani was always something I always envisioned from the start since writing and with the exception of additions and changes, it was always the intended idea for the climax.

- "Booger attack" seemed very much in line with gross out kids movie joke or at least TV shows and I felt it was the most Abby thing she'd do.

- The Rani's eyelids being pulled and snapped back are a shout out to a similar moment in Toy Story when Buzz Lightyear did the same to Sid's dog.

- At some point originally during the fight, I thought about doing a direct callback to the infamous moment of Mei gyrating in front of her red panda mom, except it'd be the Besties doing it like either just Miriam or all but there wasn't any place in the fight where it was possible so it had to be cut.

- L1701E mentioned in his review of the previous chapter that it would be a terrifyingly cute image if The Rani as the mutant red panda if she fired atomic breath considering I had The Rani grow out dorsal plates like Godzilla as part of her mutation. First, yes, she definitely went for Kaiju DNA. Two, I decided to take him up on that thought and implement it here.

- I wanted at least even a small moment from some of Mei's family and the scene from Matilda of the kids cheering on the kid Bruce came to my mind that I applied it to them, especially for Ming cheering on Miriam.

- So there's your payoff with the rocket, because the Thunderbolt and the overall intent is from and paying homage to The Gate, where the kid uses a rocket to blow up the head demon. The bowsprit I'll explain in a moment.

- "Tell me when it's over" is a line lifted from the third act of E.T.

- Had to have Captain Carter say, "I can do this all day."

- I was actually trying to think of what would be a good Pre Ass Kicking one liner for Meilin to say and ultimately what I settled with seemed more in character for her to say.

- So the final blow to The Rani is not only a homage to The Gate but also to the climax of The Little Mermaid, right down to the bowsprit being used to stab her but also the lightening strikes and her falling down into the water.

- The 13th Doctor I know does not approve of killing but I think in this instance because of The Rani being far beyond gone and knowing she'll regenerate anyway, I imagine she'd let the rocket stabbing go.

- The fake out death was something thought very late as I was writing the chapter. Originally it was Meilin coming out of the inlet first with The Doctor and so forth. But I felt I needed what TV tropes calls a Disney death, which is a fake out death. I needed some extra drama and there were two ways going about it as I had originally The Doctor scan the inlet with the Sonic Screwdriver to find her but it looked like Meilin didn't make it with the Doctor bringing out Mei's glasses as the only thing she could find. The crying occurs and then Meilin comes out of the water, showing she survived and of course, the one I wrote in.

Which I almost rejected because it seemed too dark but I asked Ben2Dartmouth which one he liked and to my surprise, he liked the latter. And I realized quickly if I go with the CPR thing, I'd have given The Doctor something to do in the climax. And you know, might as well deliberately evoke Disney movies so, why not?

- As I keep saying, if Russell T. Davies is not going to humiliate the Judoon, I will.

- Something I forgot to mention in the last chapter is that I originally had a Judoon sneak away and end up in the room with the Genetic Bomb and when it gets destroyed, said Judoon unit was going to mutate, as a homage to a moment in Robocop even when the Judoon unit gets crushed but I didn't have a good story reason why so the reference got cut. And for the best since it might be too gruesome for this story and would have killed the pacing too.

- Felt like including a small moment for Ming and Miriam given Ming had low opinions originally on Miriam including her directly apologizing.

- Cyrons are the alien race from the planet Telos as seen in Attack of the Cybermen and diamonds are common on that planet according to Lytton. And well, felt like having both Doctors do something generous.

- I wanted an excuse to pull off the fourth wall breaking Meilin pulled in the film and I needed something expository but without it being boring as to what happened next.

- And I did have trouble how to end the story. Just having it end in Vancouver seemed short so I thought of the ending from Back to the Future Part III (even using the second to last final line from the film) and as a homage to the likes of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and the live action Sailor Moon series, I decided to have the Doctors build a secret home base for the Super Besties.

There's kind of a precedent for how the Doctor pulled it off as besides a parody The Curse of Fatal Death, he first story of Series 9, The Witch's Familiar I believe had the 12th Doctor outsmart Davros with a similar quick ahead thinking.

- I decided, not as first dibs I promise, that I thought it'd be cool if I added the upcoming 15th Doctor and companion Ruby Sunday.

And of course, wanted to bring Mel as a cameo.

- Originally, I did think about The Doctor bringing in Mr. Smith, the supercomputer from The Sarah Jane Adventures but it seemed out of character she'd take the very computer from her old friend's house especially given the short audio drama Russell T Davies wrote. Then I thought maybe another door thst acts as a time portal to 2023 to let them in the house but that required a lot of thinking about the logistics that I simply went for The Doctor creating such a supercomputer that's similar.

I did consider having her be of the same crystal alien race as Mr. Smith but I already had a lot of expository dialogue already.

- I had to include Devon again somehow as a gag.

- So a lot of these ideas for villains came from Ben2Dartmouth like Plantman with Audrey II and the Terrible Trio with the classmates from Turning Red including Tobey McCallister III as Psycho Pirate from a previous story of his as well as including my own choices like Graviton and a variant of Abyss including an M. Bison variant who's largely based on the Raul Julia version and some elements of the 90s Street Fighter cartoon.

And I also felt it'd make sense if they have allies and those two were my first choices in particular.

But the big thing is, this is all done to encourage other authors to take on this universe and write whichever stories including with these villains and allies however you please and of course, I'll be happy to answer whatever questions you have should you do.

- Benny Blacktooth again is from the original plans of Turning Red before being discarded but he now also exists here besides the Spy Besties universe.

- Abyss I know is not a villain in the Jonathan Hickman run of The Avengers, something I made a mistake I admit but on the other hand, that being said, it's a shout out to her portrayal in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. In the case, her origin is similar in the comics but it's still her personality in the cartoon.

- Madelyn Spaulding is a villain from Static Shock, though her powers in this universe are more based on from her second appearance in that show.

- Certain other heroes, will be explained in a one shot.

- Earth-95859 being the universe of the Bailey School Kids by Ben2DartMouth which I thought it'd be fun if they ended up being allies of the Super Besties.

- The Daleks, yeah, I hinted their ship being what the Doctor saw.

- I thought it'd be cool as well if I included a Green Ranger variant that never turned good, stayed a villain but acts solo, no longer working for Rita.

Plus, it was done as a tribute to Jason David Frank who sadly passed away and I think I'll dedicate this chapter to him anyway.

- Mysticons I'm a fan of and wanted to establish their place in Infinity Crisis here.

- Throughout writing the entire story, I debated as to whether The Rani regenerate or not. First she was, then she wasn't, going back and forth. Ultimately I decided to have it both ways thanks to the 14th Doctor setting a precedent and I wanted to pay tribute to my friend Amit as he had Simone Ashley as The Rani in mind if she were to appear in NuWho, who funny enough was in Sex Education with the future 15th Doctor himself Ncuti Gatwa, pointed out by said friend. So I deliberately based a future incarnation of The Rani on Simone Ashley.

Yes, I am aware there is a new incarnation of The Rani in the Big Finish audio dramas but we'll call her future Rani for simplicity's sake.

And that is about it. Look out for the next two days for the short epilogue chapters.

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Epilogue #1: The Illuminati Will See You Now

"I still don't particularly understand what is it you want me to do." Said Captain Carter as she followed Wu to her bedroom.

It had been a week since Captain Carter had departed to Florida with Grandmother Wu, thanks to The Doctor, to live with her for the time being. And for a while, it was as normal as it could be with exercising, eating and even Captain Carter talking with Wu to catch up on how much the world had changed while she was missing in action.

But today, Wu had asked her to come to her bedroom closet.

Wu opened the doors and replied to the super soldier, "I figured now is the time to discuss bigger matters with you."

"In the closet?" Captain Carter said in a quizzical manner as she pointed to it.

"Not exactly." Wu answered bluntly as she parted her clothes left and right.

She flipped a third light switch and out from the floor of the closet came a large tube, fit for one or two people, rising from the floor.

"What is that?" Captain Carter asked in confusion, bewildered at the sight in front of her.

"Our mode of transportation for where we're going." Wu calmly said.

As she stepped inside, she motioned Captain Carter to come along.

 

At first, Captain Carter was hesitant; already weirded out by the way too advanced technology in front of her. But nevertheless, she swallowed her pride and got inside the tube next to Wu, fitting alongside her with no problem.

Wu then pressed a red button and within seconds, a bright flash of light appeared and dispersed immediately afterwards-leaving the tube empty.

Stepping out of a chamber were Wu and Captain Carter, the latter checked her entire body to see if something was a miss, anything that had gone wrong, while Wu stepped out calmly.

"Where are we anyway?" Asked Captain Carter as she found herself in a bright but not too bright empty room with a council table consisting of seven chairs.

"Headquarters." Wu simply answered as she walked around the table.

Captain Carter tilted her head in confusion, "I'm sorry, what?"

Wu sighed, giving Captain Carter the impression what she was about to say was a secret that was not going to be easy to explain.

"I am part of an organization that has dealt with other worldly or mainly Multiversal beings." Wu began to explain.

She continued on, "I am a member of the highest authority; I am a member of the Illuminati."

"The illumin-whati?" Captain Carter exclaimed in more confusion.

"The Illuminati."

The two women heard a sophisticated British voice speak up.

They turned to see a man in his early 40s in a black business suit with a black tie and shoes to match with natural but slick dark hair approach them from an elevator along with five other individuals either in costume or a polar bear.

"Forgive the quiet entrance." The man with the British accent apologized. "The elevators here are often silent."

"Ms Lee, your report on The Rani situation was quite interesting." He added.

"Was that what that one phone call was about?" Asked Captain Carter as she recalled on her first day living in Wu's home when she overheard a phone call she made in her bedroom.

Wu nodded in confirmation, "Yes."

"So who are you people?" Captain Carter then turned to the British man and his associates. "What exactly is this place?"

"We are the Illuminati." Answered the British man as he began to explain. "We run an organization dedicated to rescuing refugees from destroyed universes, even conquered universes. We even deal with potential threats from the Multiverse as well as study various universes."

He continued on, "We have agents in different divisions working in rescue operations, scientific research and combat as well providing homes for the refugees and placed into public records as if they were always there. And we've been doing a good job I'd say, save for universes fixing situations themselves or the Doctor saving them."

Captain Carter stared at him in bewilderment. But then came to a realization.

"Wait, The Rani mentioned this particular universe being a hotspot of Multiverse activity!" Said Captain Carter before she then asked, "Is this why?"

The British man nodded.

"Correct."

After a moment of awkward silence, Captain Carter then quipped, "I still need another month of vacation in order to digest this madness!"

"Don't worry too much." The British man said. "You were brought here because Wu recommended you and we do need a seventh member."

"Excuse me?" Captain Carter asked incredulously as she turned to Wu who could only reply with a sheepish grin.

"I was impressed by your skills as a fighter and defending the children." Wu said. "And perhaps someone with a good sense of morale would be a major positive for the Illuminati unlike certain individuals."

The last couple of words she uttered as she shot a glare at her British associate, to which he chuckled.

"But in any case, allow is to introduce ourselves." The British man then said. "Wu, of course you already know, of Earth-030122."

"My name is Bond, James Bond." The British man then introduced himself before adding, "Of Earth-111795 to be specific."

"Medusalith Amaquelin, Queen of the Inhumans, of Earth-030165." He then introduced a regal woman in form fitting red suit and armor with purple hair moving around as if they had sentience

"Ice Bear of Earth-052114." Bond introduced an anthropomorphic polar bear with an advanced axe with the symbol of the mastadon wrapped around his back.

"Ice Bear welcomes newcomers." The polar bear said.

A man in a black suit with a dash of white around the upper chest and a viser on helmet stepped forward with a nod of greeting.

"Gazerbeam of Earth-061518." Bond introduced the fifth member of the Illuminati.

Standing in between Medusa and Bond, was a dark brown skinned man in a life like bat suit, even complete with actual life like bat wings and a mask resembling such an animal.

 

"And finally, Wayne Williams aka Batman of Earth-072501." Bond introduced the last member of the Illuminati.

Captain Carter looked these individuals with intrigue but felt unsure about joining a group so soon after just waking up after fifty seven years.

"Most of us were refugees ourselves and ended up what we designated as Earth-030122." The secret spy continued. "We're still finding people from Ms Amaquelin's universe after it was destroyed. We founded this organization to help those from other universes who have no home and keep out intruders, even searching for The Rani's former underlings. But also to study. But we can't let others find out for it may cause a panic and too many enemies to take advantage of should they know. And therefore, we became the Illuminati, always working in secret."

"You have quite the cast of characters for your membership." Captain Carter said before turning to Wu to ask, "But are you sure about inviting me to join?"

"Not only do I trust you after the incident with The Rani," Wu said. "But your actions and morale do assure me you're what this group needs."

Captain Carter nodded in thanks to which Wu nodded back.

"Alright, I accept your membership." Captain Carter said before adding, "Provided Mr. Bond does not hit on me."

"What gave it away?" Bond gave a small grin.

"I know your type, Mr. Bond." Captain Carter bluntly said, unamused. "Don't even think about hitting on me."

Bond shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "fair enough."

"Regardless, welcome to the Illuminati, Ms. Carter." Bond said as the two shook hands, welcoming her.

"I hope you know what you're doing, Ms Wu." Bond said to older woman. "Advocating your granddaughter and her friends being superheroes, let alone a certain Time Lord encouraging it."

"I can say with utmost confidence and assurance, they have earned the respect and I trust The Doctor after saving my granddaughter." Wu said firmly, unafraid to talk back to James Bond himself now that the ordeal with The Rani was over.

"And I trust Captain Carter the same." She added to which Captain Carter gave her a smile of gratitude.

"Very well." Bond sighed softly before turning to Medusa. "You and Wu can give our new acquaintance the tour."

"Abolutely, Mr. Bond." Medusa nodded.

"This will be quite interesting, Ms. Lee." Captain Carter said to Wu.

To which Wu gave a small chuckle and said, "You have no idea."

Author's Notes:
So, yeah. This I've been waiting forever to reveal since day one of thinking of this story and including the hints like the variant of Hikaru Shidou.

Because the main inspiration of course is the depiction of the Illuminati in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Even including Medusa and Captain Carter as members is meant to evoke some of the members. And to clarify just in case, Captain Carter in this is of the same Earth as Wu, Earth-030122.

And yes, while I am going to explore a bit about the process in a future one shot, this is also for other authors to play around with.

- Illumin-whati is of course a line from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

- Some ideas were Ben2Dartmouth such as the color of Medusa's hair and the inclusion of Gazerbeam.

- Earth-111795 is named after the release date of GoldenEye so yes, this is the Pierce Brosnan version of James Bond. As well thinking about it now, what if the different James Bonds are simply alternate universe selves?

- Earth-030165 is named after the the publication date of Fantastic Four #36 which had the first appearance of Medusa when she was a member of the Frightful Four.

- Earth-052114 is named after the release date of the original pilot for We Bare Bears when it premiered at the KLIK! Festival.

- Yes, Ice Bear is wielding the battle axe, a weapon of the Black Ranger from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. No, Ice Bear isn't a Power Ranger but it is a weapon of choice he uses from a previous variant.

- Earth-061518 is named after the release date of the video game Lego The Incredibles. No he's not a Lego in this but he is from a universe where he's alive.

- Earth-072501 is named after the publication date of Just Imagine...Stan Lee's Batman.

Actually I didn't know at the time name of the universe designated number for the Stan Lee versions of the DC heroes so I opted to create that number. Of course, now I know but I'm keeping the number and say it's a variant universe. Plus, I just love that version a lot that I wanted to include him.

- Now I did originally had in mind a scene of the Illuminati after indicting Captain Carter where they take a vote as to whether the Super Besties should roam free being superheroes or not with the votes being tied with Captain Carter being the deciding vote and ultimately favoring letting the teens be superheroes therefore making the votes 4 to 3, with her, Wu, Ice Bear and Medusa being in favor while James Bond, Gazerbeam and Batman being against the idea.

But when I thought about writing it; one, I forgot the motive why they would take a vote. Two, basically a lot of teen superheroes would be running around in Earth-030122 anyway so it just wouldn't make sense the Illuminati would suddenly be worried about it.

Three, I rather the epilogue being about the Illuminati should just be to the point anyway and I rather it didn't take long.

- Of course, the last scene is to set up the one shot and like I said, have fun with the Illuminati and their organization as you please.

So that's one epilogue down and one more to go. So stay tuned for that.

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Oh and just so I won't get in trouble.

Disclaimer: Characters belong to their respective owners.

Epilogue #2: Revenge in Progress

After The Rani pressed in the buttons to have the TARDIS depart from Toronto in 2002, another woman was there to greet the Time Lady.

An older woman with short black raven hair, her bangs in front, wearing a black and red combat suit and glasses on her face, stared at The Rani incredulously and confused.

"What on Earth happened to you?" The woman asked as she spoke with a Russian accent, seeing The Rani in her torn clothes and soaking wet.

The Rani turned to her subordinate with an angry glare.

"Child counseling gone wrong." The Rani responded in a sarcastic manner.

"You could have just brought me in." The Russian accented woman then said bluntly.

"I gave you the task to oversee my projects and other captured specimen, Baroness." The Rani said coldly as she began to regain her composure. "But that being said, now is the time you take action at last."

"Remember our deal." The Baroness said to The Rani. "I work for you how long until then and when you achieve your goal of conquering the multiverse, I will be sent back to my universe."

"I know well enough after saving your miserable life in that wormhole you found yourself in." The Rani said as she rolled her eyes before adding, "I even kept track of how many times you brought up your ridiculous reminder that you may as well be clock."

 

She then asked, "Have my clones reached their coming of age yet?"

Reaching into her coat, the Baroness took out a clipboard of papers but not before she gave The Rani a death glare over her earlier comment.

"'Projects Leo and Lin, age 13.'" The Baroness read the notes out loud as her response to The Rani. "Yes, they have."

"The accelerating age hormones have worked as I hoped." The Rani said, satisfied.

"Release them immediately!" She then ordered the Baroness.

"Yes, mistress." The Baroness said as she pressed a red button on a remote control.

"Follow me." The Rani then commanded the Baroness much to her chagrin.

The two women walked down the corridor of The Rani's TARDIS until she found the very room she was looking for on the right.

The door opened thanks to a palm recognize pad and upon entering, the women saw two thirteen year old children out of just recently drained of liquid tubes, dressed in red and blue combat suits respectively. The two young teens stood there like soldiers in a military camp, listening to their drill sergeant. But their first action was to bow at The Rani and then kneeled to her.

The Time Lady was so far pleased as she smirked, while the Baroness could only stare with intrigue as she crossed her arms and leaned to the wall with her right foot presses against it as well.

"My first attempt at creating a super soldier army ended in failure." The Rani spoke. "But, that did not mean I never made a failsafe just in case."

She continued on, "You two will instead be the future of my genetic super soldiers. I demand only your undying loyalty, which should not be a problem given I inserted DNA of myself with my knowledge and personality into yours combined with the DNA of the red panda from Meilin and Ming Lee. And your first task is to avenge my destroyed plans thanks to those accursed teens. You will train first before being sent out to destroy the brats and that accursed Time Lord for the time being however. You will even embark on certain assignments with me. But do not forget your true mission when the time finally comes."

"Do you understand?" The Rani then asked. "Do you understand, Leo and Lin?"

Two young teens, matching Meilin's height and body type, stood up. One being a boy with short red hair, looking like a male version of Meilin Lee.

The other, an exact duplicate of Meilin Lee in appearance and gender, even right down to her red hair with the only difference being no glasses.

Both look cold and determined as they stood up.

"Yes, mother." Said Leo with a sick, sadistic grin.

"Perfectly." Lin said with a similar sick, sadistic grin as they pounded their fists in sync with each other.

Author's Notes:
So like the other times, this is set up for other authors to follow through on. At some point I'll come back but I'm content with other authors using the ideas I set up and I wanted to add at least a few more villains for the Super Besties and you're free to use them to fight other heroes.

Again though, you're free to ask me anything.

- So the overall intent is to evoke and pay tribute to the mid credits scene from Thor: Love and Thunder which I really love. As well as a dash of the mid credits scene from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Shadow being hinted at and being the result of genetic science like Leo and Lin.

- I wanted to give The Rani a surprise subordinate but I debated what as I was going to go with an alternate universe Pearl from Steven Universe where she's evil for example. Ultimately I settled on the Baroness from G.I. Joe Renegades since I liked that version and what was ultimately the series finale gave me an easy excuse to get her in.

- For those who will ask, what happened was in the series finale of GI Joe Renegades, the Baroness got sucked into a wormhole thanks to the M.A.S.S. Device as did that show's version of Dr. Mindbender. Since they won't reveal what happened to them what with the show being cancelled, I decided to have The Rani get her.

- I've no idea about Dr. Mindbender to be honest.

- So the germ of the idea came about thanks reading again about what got cut from Turning Red and among them was the character of Leo, who was supposed to be the cousin of Meilin Lee and can also turn into a red panda before the film decided to have the red panda be only inherited by the women in the family and transferred much of Leo's personality into the character that ultimately became Tyler according to the film's director Domee Shi.

So with that and then my mind wandering into remembering that one episode of Danny Phantom where Vlad Masters creates a gender bent clone known as Dani and well, the two thoughts merged and this was the result.

- I thought about giving Leo and Lin black streaks in their hair as something of a shout out to Rogue but ultimately it came down to why would The Rani want that given, you know, eugenics. So yeah, just red hair for them.

- Of course, I added in Lin because I love alliteration, thank you Marvel, that I thought it'd be neat if they were male and female twins.

So that's Rampage of the Rani. Which I'm finally proud to say I finished. I'll take a break of course but I'll keep on writing.

Hope you enjoyed the ride and hope to write more in a series of Infinity Crisis fanfics.