April clutched her head and groaned, looking around at the carnage in front of her eyes. As she took a proper note of her surroundings, the city in flames, thick black smoke filling the blood-red evening sky and innocent people injured or worse scattered everywhere, April could not stop the tears leaking from her eyes.
"How could this happen...?" she whispered, shrinking into herself and digging her nails into the dry dirt beneath her. Realisation hit her hard as she frantically looked around for those who were close to her. "Dad?! Guys...?" her eyes widening at a huge mountain of bricks and dust behind her. She crawled over and began to pull the crumbled debris out bit by bit, she pleaded in her mind to find the friends she cared deeply for. After struggling with the larger, heavier pieces, she dropped to her knees and bent her head down, fresh tears falling onto the dry ground. "You saved me..." her voice choked out. "I'm so sorry..."
"You don't have to be," a rough voice from behind her muttered. Recognising it immediately, April spun around and smiled in pure joy at the orange-masked turtle staring down at her. He held out his left hand to April, which she grabbed tightly as he helped her to her feet.
"Michelangelo," she whispered, wrapping her arms around the turtle's neck. "I'm so happy you're alright," she looked over his shoulder and then looked at Mikey. "Where are the others?"
"Not a clue," he grunted, looking away from April. He pulled away from April's arms gently and began walking away in the opposite direction of the city. He glanced over his shoulder and looked at April. "We better get moving, if you're coming with me, April. It's not safe here and I need to find a place to check over my arm, it doesn't look so good."
Desperately wanting to search for her father, April knew that it was important for her and Mikey to stay together for the time being. She knew that Mikey, too, wished to search for the rest of their family, it was the best idea to get to a safer area in case of another disaster. Reluctantly, she ran after Mikey and walked beside him, hugging herself as she refused to look back.
[Present Time]
The large full-moon draped over the city of New York with a silvery-light as four shadowed figures darted over the rooftops fast and stealthily. The smallest of the four figures suddenly stopped in front of a huge billboard advertising a brand new pizza takeout. "Dudes, look!" the figure stepped into the light of the lamps on the billboard revealing himself to be a humanoid turtle wearing an orange mask and a brown belt which held a pair of nunchucks.
As if on cue, the other three figures hissed, "Mikey!" in unison before another turtle wearing a red mask with the tails suddenly walked up to the turtle named Mikey and smacked him over the head with a grunt.
"Guys, quit it!" a turtle wearing a blue mask hissed, holding two katanas in his hands as he leaned over one of the rooftops that looked down on a warehouse. "Raph, Mikey, get over here!"
"Sorry, Leo," the younger one, Mikey, replied, bouncing over to the purple-masked turtle. "Whaddya' think, Donnie? I bet the Purple Dragons are in there!"
"I guess we'll have to wait and see, Mikey," the purple-masked turtle, Donnie, answered. He kept his eyes on the warehouse, squinting down as the lights inside suddenly switched on. The garage doors suddenly began to creak open as several members of the Purple Dragons gang stepped out holding small crates.
"Looks like they're waiting for somebody," Leo stated, watching the scene down below them.
"It does, doesn't it?" a familiar voice hissed from behind the four turtles, causing them to whirl around where they stood face-to-face with a mutant fish with robotic legs and a tall skeletal-dog mutant, both given the names Fishface and Rahzar by the youngest turtle, Michelangelo.
The other three turtles pulled out their weapons while their leader stepped forward with his katanas, ready to fight. As soon as the footbots moved, the turtles all ran forward, each going in different directions. Fishface sparred with Raphael while Leo and Mikey fought off the huge number of robotic ninjas. Rahzar leapt forward and began to swipe his claws at Donnie who kept dodging out of his way, causing him to growl in irritation.
Fishface began aiming high-kicks at Raph's face, who in return kept blocking his robotic legs with his sai. Just as Raph was starting to feel more confident, Fishface hit him full-on in his face, sending Raph skidding across the rooftop.
"Raph!" Donnie yelled, dropping his guard as he turned away from holding Rahzar back with his wooden staff to check on his older brother. Rahzar used this to his advantage and swatted Donnie away, grabbing his staff and pointing the blade at his head. Leo and Mikey soon were overwhelmed by the robots and were forcibly held down on the ground with the robots holding their arms behind their shells.
"Dudes! The numbers are totally unfair," Mikey grumbled, lying underneath about five robots who held him down. Leo rolled his eyes and grunted as Fishface smirked at the two turtles before snatching one of Leo's katanas that he had dropped during the fight.
"What are you-" Leo began to struggle underneath the robots and Fishface walked towards Raph slowly, dragging the blade of the katana along the rooftop, causing a shrill screeching sound. Fishface chuckled darkly as he raised the katana above his head, ready to strike the red-banded turtle with a killing blow.
"Raphael!" Leonardo yelled, finding a new strength as he forced himself to stand, kicking away the arms of the footbots as they tried to grab at him. "Get your slimy hands away from my brother!"
To emphasis this point -or rather, this demand- Leo threw himself on the ground and swept his leg around, catching Fishface and causing him to fall down, the katana loosening from his grip and clattering on the floor. Leo picked it up and pointed it at Rahzar who had been holding the blade to Donnie's throat the entire time.
Rahzar roared and charged towards Leo, still holding Donnie's staff. Donnie got to his feet and ran in the opposite direction as Rahzar used his height and strength to knock Leo to the ground. Before Rahzar could stab Leo with the blade of the staff, a familiar voice screamed;
"BOOKYAKASHA!!" which then was followed by a huge cloud of purple smoke. When the smoke cleared, the turtles had vanished leaving Rahzar stood on a rooftop with destroyed robots and an unconscious Fishface.
"Nice going, Leo," Raph smirked, throwing the wooden staff he had taken back from Rahzar at Donnie who caught it and slid it back into the harness on his back.
"Hey, I wasn't the one who nearly got stabbed by Fishface," Leo retorted, sniffing at Raphael who clenched his fists angrily, unable to think of a comeback as they walked back into the lair.
"I wasn't- Ugh!" Raph threw himself on the sofa and grabbed one of Mikey's comics from his constantly-growing pile. Leo switched on the television and flicked through the channels to see whether he could catch an early Space Heroes episode while Mikey headed towards the kitchen. Donnie stayed standing and smiled as Leo shuffled closer to the television screen as he had discovered a rerun marathon of Space Heroes. With a small sigh, Donnie headed into his lab to begin gan working on several objects that needed fixing.
As soon as he began getting to work, the Kraang communication orb began glowing. He glanced at it as it began to receive an unknown signal. Standing up, he opened the door of his lab and peered out. Mikey and Raph were eating pizza while Leo had his face practically pressed against the screen of the TV. "Hey guys," Donnie called, feeling a little bad for disturbing them. "The Kraang orb is going off again."
"It is?" Leo stood up and walked into the lab, Raph and Mikey following. "What's it detecting?"
"No idea," Donnie answered honestly, placing his hand on the orb. "Perhaps it's detecting a small trace of chemicals and/or some mutagen in the atmosphere..."
"Well whatever it is, we're ready for it!" Raph said enthusiastically, tightening his hands into fists. Mikey grinned at him while Leo stared at the orb, a sudden feeling of worry sent a shiver down his entire body.
"Hey, Donnie," Leo said calmly, rubbing his left arm. "Maybe we should go and ask Master Splinter-"
Leo was completely cut off as a sudden familiar triangular portal appeared in front of the four turtles. A strong force began to pull everything -including the turtles- toward the portal, causing them to grab anything tightened into the floor. "Hang on guys!" Leo shouted, trying to keep his feet planted on the ground.
The portal began to increase in size, gradually growing closer and closer to Donnie as he held on for dear life to one of his worktops. He could feel his grip loosen as the force seemed to get stronger. "No!" he yelped, trying to keep his grip on the bars. He looked at the terrified faces of his brothers one last time before the bars of the worktop ripped out of the ground and pulled Donnie straight into the portal.
"DONNIE!" the other three turtles screamed in unison as the portal closed immediately and sent them crashing to the floor.
"NO!" Raph punched the ground and bent his head while Mikey looked down at the ground and whimpered to himself, refusing to look at his brothers. Leo just stared wide-eyed at where his younger brother was once stood.
"Donnie," Leo's voiced cracked and he fiercely shut his eyes and yelled at the top of voice. "Donatello!"