** Prologue **

The Shredder

The Shredder tried to clench and unclench his mechanical hand on his new exoskeleton armor. With Kurais help, he managed to escape from his ice cold prison on the asteroid though a teleporter. He felt gratitude for his prodigy, although he knew she were growing weak, distrust for the weak fools who called themselves his servants, like the Hun. Maybe he should just dispose of that sad excuse for minion, putting Hun out of his misery. But the feeling that he felt the strongest, was the hatred against the Turtles. He couldn't help but to smile when he taught of their fate who were soon to be brought to them, by none other than the Shredder himself! He only needed to do some slight modifications on his teleporter and it would be able to send the meddlesome turtles far, far away. Hopefully to another dimension. And here, at the deserted tourist paradise Laguna Azure, he could work without any disturbance from the outside world. He smiled. Nothing could go wrong now.

The Turtles

"Map turtles!" Donatello said with excitement to his brothers when he lifted his head from the computer.
"What?" Michelangelo said and scratched his head.
"Their hatching time is drawing close, and often more than half of them wouldn't even make it to the water again! They either get taken by predators or caught by poachers to be sold to zoo's and petstores, so guess what I've got planned for us?"
Raphael leaned against the wall and rolled his eyes. "Oh please! Do tell me! I'm DYING with excitement over here!" He said sarcastic, but got a light punch in the side by Leonardo's elbow.
"What we're you going to say, Donnie?" Leo said.
"Well, wouldn't it be great to go down to Florida and help the baby map turtles to make it to the water? You know, help our cousins to survive! At least try to protect them from poachers!" Donnie said with a huge grin.
Leo was skeptical. "You know it's not good to meddle in nature, right?" He said.
"Yeah, but poachers aren't exactly a part of nature now, are they?" Donnie tilted his head to one side. "Pleeaase? That would even give me a chance to study them! Plus, wouldn't you guys think it would be interesting to meet some relatives?"
Leo shrugged. "What do you think guys?" He asked the rest of the family.
"No way!" Mikey shouted from his place in front of the tv. "They're having a MLP (for you Delilah ;)) marathon this week and I am NOT going to miss it for anything in the world!"

"Why do you even watch that piece of crap?" Raphael said and hit his brother in the head with a magazine.

"PIECE OF CRAP?" Mikey raged and jumped up out of the sofa. "Oh no, you did NOT just call My Little Pony "Piece of crap"! Its about love, friendship and magic, how can you NOT like it? Its the best show EVER!" He flailed his arms around while speaking. Raph turned to Leo.
"Ya know, I can't stand that sickening, silly theme song for a whole week, can we PLEASE go?" Raph said and looked troubled. Leo smiled, but were still not sure if they should go. He decided to ask Master Splinter.

The old rat insisted that they should go, mostly so he could watch his drama shows in peace and quiet. And to Mikeys dismay, they left the sewers of NY to go to in South-America, where the map turtles would hatch, only a couple of hours later. Right before the next episode of MLP. They manage to sneak on a truck that would go all the way to a town nearby the beach where the turtles usually laid their eggs.
But for revenge, Mikey started to sing MLP songs and kept doing so for a couple of hours, until Raph hit him on the head with a magazine, again.
The next day they arrived at the small town Laguna Azure, a now more or less deserted tourist paradise. Unfortunately, they didn't have sewers at Laguna Azure, so the turtles had to hide out in an abandoned hotel. Mikey found something to complain about every seventh second;
"Geez! Look at all this DUST! How can there POSSIBLY be so much dust in a damp place like THIS? Is that even physically possible, Donny?
Eww! Whats that smell? Raph, I've told you to warn us next time!
WOAH! That spider is HUGE! It's bigger than Raph's head! That CAN'T be physically possible!
Omg, WHY IS THERE BLOOD IN THE TUB? I will certainly NOT recommend this place!"
"Mikey, chill out! We wont' stay here for more than a couple of days!" Leo eventually said. Mikey moaned.
"This place doesn't even have CABLE! How will I survive for a couple of days?" He whined. Leo sighed and gave up.

Donatello was really worked up. According to him, the turtles might hatch already this night! They always hatch at night, that way more of them might survive. Raph looked pained, but he preferred this to a whole week of MLP.

So the night came and the turtles sneaked down to the beach. There was still and quiet and there didn't seem to be any living soul nearby. The sand on the beach were soft and clean and the palm trees swayed in the light breeze. The moon reflected on the oceans surface and gave light to the whole beach. It was beautiful. Why this place were abandoned is a mystery. The turtles spread out on poacher-hunt and waited. A couple of hours later, Donny noticed the first turtles hatching. They were soon followed by more.

"Hey! These little guys are quite cute!" Leo said and flipped a baby which had fallen on its back so he came up on the right side again.
"I told you so!" Said Donny and took some photos. None of them noticed the shadows that lurked among the dark trees. The shadowy strangers didn't notice the teenage mutant ninja turtles either. Just as six new baby turtles crawled up from their sandy nest, they were snatched up by the strangers and put in a jar. But one of the babies suddenly turned around and bit its kidnapper in his finger. The kidnapper screamed and threw the turtle in the jar and hurried to secure the lid. The baby turtle landed on its back and cracked its shell.

The Turtles heard the mans scream.

"What was that?" Mikey asked. Leo frowned.

"It seems like we aren't alone here..." He said seriously and drew his katanas. His brothers did the same thing with their weapons. They heard a car engine start somewhere beyond the trees. They hurried to the place the sound came from and got just in time to see four men load something into a pickup. The men noticed the turtles and three of them got into the car and drove of, and left the fourth man alone. The last man panicked and started to run after the pickup, shouted and flailed his arms. But his comrades wouldn't stop.

The Turtles began chasing the man, but the man stopped, turned against the turtles and fell on his knees.

"Please forgive me, spirits! I-I didn't mean to take your children! He forced me!" He cried and begged to the turtles. "P-please, don't k-kill me!" He sniffled.

"Who forced you?" Leo got curious and asked. The man looked down in the ground.

"I won't tell you, because if I do, he'll kill me!" He said and clenched his fists. Raph snarled and grabbed the man by his shirt and pulled him closer to him.

"If you don't tell us, we will do something far worse to you!" He said menacingly to the man. The man hesitated, but when he saw the anger in the giant turtles eyes he started to stagger again;

"H-he don't tell us his real name... B-but he's a tall, frightening man in a metal armor. He has claws on his left hand and calls himself; The Shredder..." The last he said with a faint whisper. This enraged Raph.

"You're LYING!" He growled and pulled the man even closer. Leo put his hand on Raph's shoulder.

"I don't think he is lying, Raph" he said and looked at the whimpering man in Raph's hand.
"Where is The Shredder now?" Leo asked the man and released him from Raph's grip.

The man stood up on shaking legs. "H-he has his headquarters in the observatory! On the cliff south to here!"

"Listen, we're going to let you go, in ONE condition!" Leo said and crossed his arms. The man gulped and looked down at the turtle. Even though Leo was shorter than the man, he still looked pretty menacing. "That you show us the way. No tricks or anything like that and we're going to let you go unharmed." The man turned paler than a ghost, but then he nodded slowly.

The man, who introduced himself as Juan, were walking in front of the gang. Mikey turned to Leo and looked worried.

"So, does this mean that The Shredder is back?" He asked. Leo didn't answer for a while. When he finally opened his mouth, he said;

"I don't hope so..."

The Shredder

He received the jar with the baby turtles in them. He smiled to himself. These would be perfect test subjects for his new and improver teleporter. He placed the jar by the side of the teleporter and turned to the men who fetched them. One of them had a bandage around his finger. The Shredder frowned.

"Weren't there four of you?" He asked the men. The men nodded nervously.

"But one of us got left behind when we got attacked by four angry spirits." Said one of the men and licked his lips. He was nervous. "We would like to get our payment now, we angered the spirits by taking their children from them, and now they want revenge! We don't want to stay here longer than necessary, I'm sorry." The man continued. The Shredder put on something that would resemble a grim smile.

"Why yes of course! You will get the payment you deserve" He said and tried not to laugh when the men sighed in relief. The Shredder snapped his fingers and three foot soldiers came out from the shadow. The men now realized what The Shredder meant by payment. The man who spoke before clenched his fist to The Shredder.

"CURSE you, Shredder! May the turtle spirits punish you!" He shouted before he was killed by a foot ninja.

Turtle spirit? The Shredder wondered, either it was just a legend, or maybe, if he were lucky, his old "friends" would be here. He picked up the jar with the little turtles and grinned. Everything were going perfect. He ordered his minions to start the teleporter. He was going to give it a test run, and these little baby turtles were going to be the lucky ones to test it first. Suddenly the alarm went through the building and the door were blown to pieces.

The Turtles

There was a huge fence surrounding the old observatory. Juan had left as soon as he could and the turtles were figuring out a way to get in unnoticed. They had forgotten about the baby turtles, now they were just curious; had The Shredder returned? Or was it just another phony?
"I say we just go in and slash our way through!" Raph said and punched his palm.

"Yes, that sounds like a REALLY good idea! Why not do it unarmed too? That way it would be more exciting, dont'cha think?" Donny said and rolled his eyes in sarcasm.
"Its sounds like a Raph-plan, alright!" Mikey said and laughed.
"Guys, just focus! Its an old observatory, right? So the security can't be too advanced?" Leo said and started to draw a map on the ground. "So, this is what we'll do..."

Later Mikey, Raph and Leo stood outside the door. So far things had been running smoothly, all they waited for now was Donny. He would disarm the mechanics that locked the door.
Leo was a bit worried. Things had gotten far too easy, there were hardly any guards and according to Donny, the alarm system were about as complicated as an easybake oven.
Just then Donny came running. He started to say something while breathing heavily, but were interrupted by a piercing alarm.

"Oh, lemme guess; somethin' went wrong?" Raph said and crossed his arms. Donny nodded. Leo turned to Mikey.

"Mikey, are you ready with the explosives?" He asked and Mikey replied slightly annoyed; "Is Raph stupid?"

Leo took that as a yes and asked Raph to wait or a moment before beating the shell out off Mikey. Donny and Leo looked around after any sign of action. But even with the security alarm blaring out of the speakers, the place seemed deserted.

"TAKE COVER!" Mikey shouted with excitement in his voice and dragged the others along to hide behind a car. The entrance door were blown to bits with a deafening 'BOOM'. Afterwards, Mikey pretended to be deaf to annoy the others. They ventured carefully through the entrance door and the dust the explosion had created pinched them in their noses and throats. Everything were lit inside the observatory and the turtles had a moment of chock when they saw who were on a podium a few meters away next to a strange, but yet familiar, contraption. His armor reflected the light coming from the roof and his red eyes blazed. It was him. He was back. The Shredder.

He also had a moment of surprise, but that quickly turned when his foot ninjas had surrounded the turtles and the turtles found themselves standing back to back.

"Well, well, well... Who do we have here? Long time no see, Turtles..." The Shredder said with his bone chilling, yet smooth, voice.
None of the turtles knew what to say. They were still surprised to see him again. This was without doubt THE Shredder, the real one. Donny noticed the device next to The Shredder. He recognized the technology to be utrom-ish, but it had hints of human too. Donny gasped when he noticed what it was. It was a teleporter. But he also saw something good. Good for them, that will say. The teleporter were getting started and smoke were coming from the device. Donny figured that something had too be wrong with the power circuits. Soon it would explode and god knew what happens then. The Shredder didn't notice that. He was too busy feeling victorious.
Donny whispered what he had found out to Leo and a plan started to develop in his brain.

"So..." Leo said and looked around. "Where is Kurai then? I haven't seen her in a while" He said while slowly walking to the side. His brothers looked at him in confusion, before they knew what he was trying to do. He was trying to stall time by talking to The Shredder, and kept his attention. Donny counted the foot ninjas surrounding them. Only ten of them, this would be a piece of cake.

"Yo, Shredhead! Is that a new armor you've got? It looks nice on you!" Mikey said and followed his older brothers example, but he went the opposite direction. The Shredder became confused, and a bit suspicious. What were the turtles up to? He decided it was time to apprehend the turtles to send them away. He snapped with his fingers and the foot ninjas sprung to attack. However, they stopped in the middle of the attack and turned to The Shredder, or more exactly, the teleporter. Lights suddenly began to flash and a new, beeping alarm could be heard. And suddenly, in the middle of the teleporter, a swirling circle of bluish light appeared. It emitted a crackling sound, like fire, and they could see an unfamiliar land in the middle of it.

Shredder snickered and turned to the portal that opened.

"Finally..." He said and picked up the jar with the turtle infants. Donny gasped when he saw the poor defenseless babies. Before he could stop him, the Shredder flung the jar into the swirling vortex. The Shredder turned to the Turtles again and pointed to them.

"And you're next! Get them!" He roared and the foot ninjas attacked again. But just as a foot ninjas blade collided with Leo's swords, the portal turned red and the crackling noise intensified. The computer screens became black and the the word in red "DANGER" showed. As Donny predicted, the teleporter became unstable due to the faulty circuit connecting. The Shredder turned to the portal as it suddenly lit up with a sharp, red, beaming light. Donny mentioned for his brothers to get away.
They went outside and and started to run for dear life. Donny knew they had to put as much distance they could between themselves and the portal.

Suddenly, everything lit up as the facility behind them exploded in a red and blue inferno. The shockwave that followed made the Turtles fall forward. When things calmed down, Leo turned to see. The observatory and it's surroundings were gone. Instead there were a large hole in the ground, as if something just scooped it up from the face of the earth. Mikey whistled at the sight.

Donny felt sorry for the little infants whom The Shredder tossed into the other world. He hoped they would be okay.

"That must have been the easiest confrontation with The Shredder... Ever!" Raph said and checked his weapons for damages. "I'm kinda dissapointed"