Last time, after his first day of school where he reunites with his friends, Ken Heathspike was walking his dog, Delilah, when a downed spacecraft suddenly crash landed in the center of Maretropolis Park. There, both Ken and Delilah were in for a shocking discovery to find six new girls, the Harmonian Defenders. To further the shock, each girls have demonstrated to have six unique special powers, when they stopped an armored robbery and foiled the attempts of the Diamond Dogs. Then as if things couldn't get any weirder, Delilah had an accident within the girls' spaceship and gained the ability to talk!
What will become of Ken and his new friends? Let's find out.
"Delilah?!" Ken exclaimed, as he was just getting over his bewilderment at what became of his dog. "Did you just talked?!"
"What?!" Delilah responded in equal shock. "Y-You...can understand me now?!"
"Girls?!" Ken asked, turning to the defenders. "What just happened?
Walking over to the control panel, Masked Matter-Horn typed in several alien texts, before the screen displays the analysis and the readings of the ray that had shot Delilah earlier, "Ah-ha! It appears Delilah's been hit with this new form of technology I've been developing," Masked Matter-Horn explained. "I've never had the chance to test it on actual living beings, so I didn't take into account of the side effects it would have. Though, from the looks of it, Delilah's been given the ability to speak your language!"
"Whoa, really?!" Ken asked, before he looked back at his dog who shared his fascination.
"Fascinating," Delilah barked.
"So what now?" the boy asked.
"Well, if you want, I suppose I could try to reverse engineer the effect on Delilah and return her to normal," Masked Matter-Horn offered.
"Oh, but I rather like this ability I have acquired!" Delilah voiced her protest. "Now whenever Ken wanted me to speak, I speak!"
"Yeah, but I doubt anyone would react so well about a talking dog," Ken said as he whispers into Delilah's ear, "You want to risk going to the vet and being gruesomely dissected just to figure out how you can talk?" with that, Delilah whimpered in fright, but understood where her owner was getting at.
Turning his attention back to the girls, Ken watched to see Masked Matter-Horn was typing in several more alien commands, "Good! Camouflage is still functioning. Which means we can hide the ship before anymore unwanted visitors sees themselves inside," Masked Matter-Horn, while gesturing towards Delilah, who blew a raspberry in response. "Unfortunately, the ship's under heavy damage. Most of its motor functions are not responding. We can't fly and leave the planet. The ship is no good for a sleeping quarter," Masked Matter-Horn frowned. "Not with the state it's in."
"So what do we do now?" Saddle Rager asked. "We can't just camp out here in the park, in the cold dark, can we?"
As the girls begin to converse amongst themselves, Delilah perked up with an idea, "Psst, Ken!" Delilah tugged at her boy's shirt, getting his attention.
"What is it Delilah?" Ken asked, lowering his ear close to what his dog had to say.
Later
"I must say, it's awfully generous of you two to let us sleep in your abode!" Masked Matter-Horn smiled lovingly as she and her friends followed the boy and his dog.
"Any friends of Ken and I are family to Ken and I," Delilah said welcomely.
"Though, if you girls could do us both a favor and keep it down," Ken said cautiously. "I'm not so sure how mom and dad would react meeting you girls, and I don't think they're too big on me having six new girls over at my house," the boy shook his head in frustration, "It's always the same with dad. Whenever I brought up girls, he's always starting with these talks about puberty and everything, it's tiring!"
"And what am I? Chopped liver?" Delilah barked.
"You're different, Delilah! You're family! Just....quiet."
At last, the friends finally arrived at the house, to see some of the lights were turned on.
"Okay Delilah," Ken whispered. "You go through the dog door first, and let the girls in through the backdoor, and I'll take the front door in case mom is home."
"Affirmative," Delilah nodded in confirmation, as she took the girls around back, while Ken was left at the front door, composing himself, ready to act like nothing unusual has happened to him, before turning the knob and entered the house.
"Mom? I'm home!" Ken called out. "Mom?" the boy searched the house for a little bit to find that his folks have left the place all to himself, Delilah, and their new friends.
Speaking of whom, it wasn't long before Delilah and the Harmonus Defenders came into the living room to rendezvous with Ken, "It appears mom and dad are gone for the night," Delilah spoke.
"Yeah, looks that way. And it looks my cousins have gone back to their place," Ken nodded, before he turned to look at the Harmonus Defenders, "Well, it ain't much, but it's home. Mi casa es su casa."
"¡Gracias Ken por su generosa hospitalidad! Por eso, siempre estaremos en deuda contigo." Masked Matter Horn spoke in fluent Spanish.
"Impressive!" Delilah exclaimed.
"Yeah! That's pretty cool!" the boy exclaimed, before he frowned, "I actually don't speak Spanish."
With a giggle, Matter Horn explained in English, "I said thank you for your generous hospitality, Ken. For that, we are forever in your debt."
"Ahem!" Delilah cleared her throat.
"And of course, you too, Delilah!" Saddle Rager giggled, kneeling down and stroked the Dalmatian lovingly.
"Hmm," Radiance marveled as she and her friends decided to have a look around of the house's interior. "You have such a nice place here, Ken," the fashionable girl mused.
"No kidding," Zapp said in agreement. "I could actually move in here."
Ken blushed at that comment, before he chuckled, "Really? You don't say," just then, Delilah's ears perked up.
"Uh oh!" the dog walked up to the front door, and looked through the windows that confirmed both hers and Ken's dismay.
"Oh shit! My parents are here!" Ken exclaimed frantically. "Girls! You have to...what the?" when Ken turned to look at the defenders, he was flabbergasted to see they were gone, as if they've disappeared out of thin air.
Just then, the front door opened up and stepped in was Ken's father, "Ken! Where've you–" before the police captain could finished, Ken tackled his old man in a death gripping hug. "Whoa, whoa, hey. It's okay." dropping his stern and commanding demeanor, losing himself to the father inside of him, the police captain gently coaxed his frightened son.
Just then, his mother came up from behind, "Ken! Oh thank goodness you're alright!" she said, pulling her son in for a loving embrace. "You had us worried! You weren't home and it was past your curfew!"
"Yeah, mom, I know, I know," Ken replied. "I was in the park with Delilah, when...uh," the boy hesitated as he tried to come up a good cover story for what really happened to him and his dog. "Wow, I'm bushed," he faked yawning. "I'm going to crash now," he said, walking up the stairs to his bedroom with Delilah following.
"Good call, Ken," Kenbroath nodded to his son. "It's still a school night, and you have a full commitment tomorrow."
"Yeah. See ya in the morning pops," Ken said. "Goodnight mom."
"Goodnight sweetie," Wysteria replied to her son.
Walking fast, while keeping their composures the best they can to appear normal, Ken and Delilah finally made it back to the boy's room, walking in and closing the door behind them, "Phew," Ken breathed a sigh of relief as he retired to his bed, kicking his shoes off.
"Hey Ken!" Ken jumped up, startled by the sudden greeting, turning around to face the girls.
“What’re you girls doing here?!” Ken asked.
“You told us to hide, so we hide,” Fili-second answered.
“In my bedroom?!”
“What’s the big deal? You’ve got some neat stuffs up here,” Zap said, while playing one of the boy’s video games. “C'mon, c'mon! DIE YOU ZOMBIE FIEND! DIE! DIE!!!” the girl snarled, pressing the button rapidly to shoot at all the incoming zombie hoards in the game, not realizing the pressure she was putting on the game with her electric powers, until it overloaded and the TV blew up. "Yeah! Take that!" Zapp cheered, much to Ken's horror.
"Ah! My game!" Ken shrieked.
"What was that?" Ken's mother called out. "Ken? Are you alright up there?"
"Y-Yeah!" Ken called out, struggling to come up with another excuse to cover for the girls. "Delilah was just being a naughty dog!" miffed, Delilah blew a raspberry at her owner.
"There. Good as new," Masked Matter-Horn said, after she successfully restored the TV to its former glory.
For a test drive, Ken turned on his video game console to find his achievements and scores are still there, "Phew, that's a relief," the boy sighed.
"Sorry again about your game, Ken," Zapp apologized. "Sometimes, I don't know my own strength."
"Yeah, well with 'great powers comes great responsibilities,' you know," Ken quoted. "Words to live by."
"Those are the words of Ben Parker!" Matter-Horn smiled.
"What?" Ken and Delilah looked up at the girl in surprise. "You've read Spider–Man?"
"Yeah, she's quite the fast reader," Mistress Marvelous smirked. "That and we've been reading most of your comic books while you were downstairs with yer folks."
"I'm liking this Pete 'Spidey' Parker guy!" Fili-Second said, while hanging upside down and reading a comic issue of Spider–Man. "Uh oh! Watch out! Here comes the rhino!"
"He's good," Zapp nodded. "But he's no Shazam."
"I like this Wonder Woman," Marvelous commented. "She's my kinda gal."
Ken turns to Delilah and whispered, "The kids back in school will never believe me when I say alien girls are in my room and they're enjoying Marvel and DC superheroes."
"So long as they don't go Brightburn on us, then I'd believe it," Delilah replied.
"Wow, these guys are awesome!" Zapp smiled with excitement. "They're all like us, or we're all like them!"
Ken nodded in agreement, before he was hit with an epiphany, "Actually, that's not a bad idea!" he said. "You girls are exactly like these heroes! Maybe even better! Better yet, while you're staying here, you could be real superheroes to the city!"
"Really?" the defenders asked.
"Yeah!" Ken smiled with excitement. "Why didn't I think of this before? You girls are a sign for our prayers! You can help my dad and the police! You can patrol the city, fight crimes, clean up Maretropolis and save many innocent lives!"
The girls all exchanged glances with one another, before Masked Matter-Horn stepped forward, "Ken, as much as we admire your optimism and all, but we couldn't really...I mean, we'd love to help, but wouldn't it be like taking away all the works of your city's finest and going against all their work ethics?"
"Well, not with all the 'cutbacks' the city's good for nothing mayor had to make," Ken muttered. "And on top of that, this city is just teeming with criminal organizations that are setting up shops, with the police department being heavily understaffed. I want to change all that."
Masked Matter-Horn pondered, "He's got a good point," Mistress began. "I mean, that's why we're defenders, isn't it? To use our powers for the good of the people we serve."
"Well, the people we used to serve," Masked Matter-Horn sighed in grievance.
"Even so, we should at least use our skills for the benefit of this world while we're here, right?" Zapp asked.
"Indubitably!" Radiance followed.
"Oh yeah!" Fili-Second added.
"Definitely!" Saddle Rager joined in.
"So what do you say, Matter-Horn?" Ken asked.
Matter-Horn tapped her chin as she thought about it, "Well, Queen Celestia would've wanted us to do it." with a shrug, the leader of the girls nodded, "Alright. We'll do it."
"YEAH!" the five other girls cheered.
"Ken? What's all that noise?" Ken's father asked.
"Sorry dad!" Ken replied. "Just watching a movie with Delilah here," he chuckled nervously, hoping his old man would buy that.
"Well turn the volume low, son. Remember, it's still a school night."
"Yeah pops," turning back to the girls, Ken shushes, "Listen girls, if we're planning on having you stay here, then you got to be more quiet. We can't run the risk of having mom and pop, or any unwanted attentions discovering you all in here."
"Of course, Ken," Masked Matter-Horn complied. "We'll try our best."
"Alright," wanting to get out of the awkward moment and back to the subject at hand, Ken started, "So now that we've established my house being your temporary base of operation, next is coming up with a name for the team."
"But we've already got a name for our team," Fili-Second started. "We're the Harmonian Defenders!"
"Nah, something more closer to Earth. Like the...the Power Princess!" Ken coined. "Yeah! The Power Princesses! How does that sound?"
The girls all exchanged looks with one another, unsure of what to make of that name, and how they should respond to the young earthling's suggestion. This is definitely the start of an exciting adventurous story.