7.1 2003 Verse (Continued from 6.9)
Bishop gritted his teeth and clenched his coffee cup a little tighter as he continued walking, trying his best to ignore the music following him around.
It seemed his mysterious hacker was back, and was just as inescapable as the last time. His techs had once again failed miserably to discover the culprit, and even installing new state-of-the-art cyber security could not keep the hacker out.
Still, Bishop had to admit this time the constant music did have some advantages.
As he entered the next room, the Imperial March blared from the speakers, making all his workers jump and look at him fearfully. His employees had spent most of the day terrified of making Bishop angrier than he already was and were acting far more productive than usual.
Not to mention, the theme for Darth Vader was far less annoying then Men in Black. And it didn't have lyrics.
Within Cyberspace, Donatello came to this realization as well. That wouldn't do, he didn't want to accidentally help Bishop.
The solution quickly came to Don, and he quickly began making his adjustments.
Within Area 51, the speakers let out a piercing squawk, and the Imperial March cut off.
Everyone stared up at them with batted breath. Did this mean it was over?
Then the speakers came to life again, and the employees could only stare in horror as they heard what came out next.
"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy. But here's my number. So call me maybe-"
Bishop crushed his coffee cup in his hand, heedless of the hot liquid that splashed out of it.
"Someone had better get me some damn earplugs, or there will be hell to pay," he growled. "And someone find a way to shut that music off!"
The employees scrambled to do what he said.
In cyberspace, Don clutched his stomach as he laughed. This was far too much fun.
7.2 2012(ish) Verse Inspired by the fic Acceptable Risk by StariaSestra
Karai could not stop laughing at the scene in front of her.
After the Rodeo Detectives loop, Karai hadn't been too impressed by the loop she was in now. In this loop, Karai had woken up as some sort of knight in shining armor in a fairy tale version of her world.
At first it seemed like she was the only one awake for this variant loop. She had found most of her family's counterparts here, and they all had fitting rolls. Master Splinter was a noble Lord, Leo was a fellow knight, Donnie was an inventive blacksmith, and Mikey was the local jester (a job he seemed to really enjoy). Raph had been the only one unaccounted for. Knowing him, she had suspected he was likely to be a huntsmen or something out in the woods.
Then came news that the kingdom's princess was supposedly lost in the nearby forest, and someone was needed to go find her.
Guess who got the job.
One dangerous trek through the forest later (which ended up having to involve fighting bandits, trolls, and one very irate dragon) Karai found her princess.
The sight of which was which cause of her aforementioned laughter.
In front of her looked like a scene from a Disney movie. Standing in the middle of a clearing, surrounded by several cutesy woodland animals was the princess. The only problem with the picture was that the princess was a clearly awake Raphael.
"SHUT UP!" snarled Raph, her (yes, her) face burning red with embarrassment.
But Karai just continued to laugh. It was definitely worth the bandits, trolls, and dragon just to see this.
Raph's face and body looked slimmer and more feminine shaped, but it was hard to tell with what she was wearing. She was dressed in a floor length, puffy, frilly, lacey, red, monstrosity of a ball gown. Her mask was tied in a large bow in the back, and a sparkly gold tiara was perched on her head.
"I said Shut Up!" growled Raph again as Karai continued laughing.
"I-I'm sorry, y-your majesty," said Karai between breathless giggles. "But you-snirk-you look fabulous today, haha."
"I hate you!"
What Karai failed to notice, was the cutesy woodland animals were starting to look less cute as they glared at the one upsetting their 'princess'.
While still snickering, Karai began to pull herself together. "Why didn't you just take the dress off?" she had to ask. She was surprised Raph hadn't just ripped it off by now.
"I tried," Raph grumbled. "But this stupid thing must be made of steel or something, it just won't rip, and whatever's holding it on is on is hooked under my shell where I can't reach."
Karai pictured Princess Raph's attempts to get the dress of with that information, and starting laughing again.
Raph growled and covered her face with her hands. "You better not tell anyone. This could not get any worse."
She was proven wrong a second later when she heard the click of a camera shutter. She looked up in horror to see that Karai had pulled her T-Phone out of her subspace pocket and had taken a picture of her.
"Oh, I don't have to tell anyone," said Karai teasingly. "This picture is worth more than a thousand words."
"GIVE ME THAT PHONE!" shouted Raph. She tried to run over to Karai, but she tripped on her dress, and fell sprawling on the ground. She growled as she heard Karai take another picture.
However she stopped when she heard more growling that didn't come from her.
Karai and Raph looked back to see that all the woodland animals were now glaring murderously at Karai and snarling.
Raph got an evil grin on her face. "Get her!" she ordered the animals.
That was all they needed, and Karai found herself being chased through the forest by a stampede of critters.
When Raph finally figured out how to move in her dress (however slowly that it was) she found that Karai was stranded up a tree fighting off squirrels and birds while the more grounded animals kept guard below.
"Still worth it," called Karai.
"T-Phone, self-destruct!" Raph called, having remembered that function on the walk over.
Karai's T-Phone fizzled and died.
"Dammit!"
7.3 Movie Verse Requested by phoebe. gimenez.7
Just another loop with a rooftop fight against the Shredder. However, in this Variant Loop Raph had found himself to be the only one awake, and Mikey had been killed years before his awakening.
The Shredder was shorter and broader than usual in this loop, but fought with just as much ruthlessness as he always did.
That all changed when Donny managed to knock his helmet off with his Bō staff.
Raph stared in horror at who was under the Shredder's Kuro Kabuto. His brothers stopped and stared as well, shocked by what they saw.
Dressed as their worst enemy, and glaring at them murderously was not Oroku Saki. It none other than Michelangelo.
"Mikey!?" Leo asked in astonishment. Unable to process that their little brother had returned to them like this.
Mikey cocked his head slightly as he glared at the other three turtles. "Who the hell is Mikey?"
Raph and his brothers exchanged a glance, before readying their weapons. It was clear they all now had the same goal in mind.
One way or another they were getting their baby brother back.
7.4 2012 Verse
When Mikey walked into the lair with bandages covering his face, everyone was horrified.
"Mikey what happened?" Leo asked, as he and the other turtles rushed over to the youngest.
"Who did this?" demanded Raph, looking ready to pound someone into the dirt.
Mikey's reply was muffled by the bandages.
"Out of the way please," said Donnie, shoving past Leo and Raph with his box of medical equipment.
With great care, Donnie removed the bandages, despite the muffled protests from Mikey.
They quickly saw why once the last bandage was removed. It was not pretty.
"Aww man," whined Mikey. "The dude said to leave the bandages on for an hour, it's only been forty-five minutes."
"Mikey," said Leo in a very disapproving tone, "is that a tattoo?"
Mikey beamed up at them. "Yup," he said cheerfully.
Donnie slapped his forehead, and left to put his medical kit away.
Raph was furious. "Why would you do something so stupid? You nearly gave us a heart-attack!"
"'Cause it's something I wanted to do," said Mikey, not at all ashamed. "Check it out! It's a tattoo of my face on my face. Cool right? It's like I'm wearing a mask and the mask is me!"
Raph and Leo stared him in utter disbelief.
"I know! Mind blowing, right?" said Mikey, mistaking the reason for their silence. "That's what the tattoo guy said too!"
"Tattoo Guy!" shouted Leo. "You let someone see you?"
"He WHAT!" asked Donnie as he rejoined the rest of them.
"Pssh, yeah," said Mikey rolling his eyes. He pointed at his newly inked face. "It's not like I could do this myself."
At the sight of Leo, Raph and Donnie's furious faces, he quickly put up his hand in a calming gesture. "Don't worry, the guy was totally cool with me. Though he did say something about his drink being really good if he was seeing me."
His brothers groaned at the implications of that statement.
"What?" asked Mikey cluelessly.
"Michelangelo!" said a booming voice behind them all. They turned to see that Splinter had arrived on the scene and was glaring down at his youngest disapprovingly.
Now Mikey looked nervous. "Uh, h-hi, Sensei…"
Master Splinter pinched Mikey's newly inked and still very sore cheek. "I will speak with you alone," he said, dragging the youngest turtle away despite his yowls of protest.
The next loop the tattoo was gone, and while Mikey was disappointed about it, Master Splinter's punishment was scary enough that he never got a tattoo again.
Not a visible one at least.
7.5 1987 Verse
When Michelangelo had been warned about this type of loop, he'd never thought to would happen to him. Even though it had happened to others, he'd thought it would still skip him. The trend had been for these types of things to happen to happen to Raphael.
Speaking of Raphael, if he didn't stop laughing, Michelangelo was going to make him eat his own bandana.
"Would you quit it," said Michelangelo in annoyance.
Raphael continued to snicker. "Sorry Sis, but no way. This is too good."
Michelangelo groaned, Renet had warned them, but that still didn't prepare her to spend a loop as a girl. To be completely honest, she didn't really mind the fact too much. It was Raphael's amusement about it that was the problem.
"You know it's only a matter of time till it happens to you," she pointed out. "The Go Ninja, and the Booyakasha Raphaels have both been like this for a loop. That makes you a more likely target."
Raphael shrugged, still looking amused. "I'll deal with that when it happens. But until then, I can enjoy the fact it happened to you first."
Michelangelo snorted. Then an idea occurred to her for pay back.
"Well then," she said, making her way towards the exit of their lair. "I'll just have to use this to my advantage while I can."
That got Raphael to stop laughing. "Wait, where are you going?"
"To visit Mona Lisa," said Michelangelo in a nonchalant tone. "She and I can have a girl talk, and I can tell her all about you."
Raphael's eyes widened at the implications of that statement.
Michelangelo then bolted out of the lair before he could stop her.
"Wait! Stop! Stay away from my girlfriend!" shouted Raphael, attempting to chase after her.
But Michelangelo was already gone.
Raphael sighed and thunked his head against the wall. 'Just great.'
Then Donatello walked up to him looking troubled. "Was that Michelangelo I just saw leaving the lair?"
"Yup," moaned Raphael miserably.
"Er, then why did he look like a girl?" asked Donatello.
Raphael stared at his brother, then thunked his head again, hopping to knock himself out and this all be a bad dream.
No such luck.
7.6 2012 Verse
Karai grinned ferociously as Foot Ninja surrounded her. Another loop where she was fully human had started, and she was already making preparations to sabotage the Foot and make her way to New York.
But still, it was nice to get a little training in before she left.
As the Foot Ninja attacked, she had a great deal of fun taking each one of them down without breaking a sweat.
When the last of her attackers lay groaning on the floor, Karai could not resist the urge to pump her fist in the air and shout, "Booyakasha!"
She then froze at the sound of metallic boots as the Shredder came up behind her. He always insisted on watching this training exercise to monitor her progress. Because of this she always had to make sure she held back and only used the moves he'd taught her.
Grudgingly, she turned to face him and bowed.
The Shredder stared down at her. "You fought well, Karai," he said passively.
Before the praise would have made Karai swell with pride, but now it curdled her stomach, as she knew he wanted her to fight well in order to kill her real father.
"Thank you, father," was all she said, carefully keeping her tone neutral.
"But I must ask," said Shredder, making Karai tense. "What was the purpose of yelling that at the end."
Karai smirked as she glanced up at him. "Oh, just modern teen lingo," she said sarcastically. "Most young people these days say it. You really need to get out more, father."
She then flounced out of the room, leaving the Shredder to wonder if he had just been insulted, or if he was just getting old.
7.7 Usagi's Verse
Usagi watched in amusement as his kame friends went about their morning rituals around their campsite. According to Leonardo, the loop the four of them had been experiencing was a baseline one, so during a quiet time period in the loop the four of them had decided to go and visit Usagi and Gen in their native world.
Usagi had welcomed his friend's visit, as he too was feeling boredom from the constant repetition of it all. Gennosuke (who had finally become looping aware) was also pleased by their visit, if only because it gave him someone new to gamble with.
Usagi could not help but be fascinated by the dynamic of the four turtles as they prepared for the day. For ones who were brought up in a different culture (despite the Japanese influence on it), their ways of going about things were different.
The most notable difference was their choice of breakfast food. Donatello had explained that they had not wanted to be an inconvenience to the two samurai, and had brought their own food on their trip. Since Michelangelo had been one of the ones tasked with packing the food, the amount was vast, and likely more than needed, as such the kame were willing to share.
Usagi examined the colorful boxes of cereal in front of him, as he tried to determine which to try. Gen had had no such qualms, and had poured some of each in his bowl with the milk. He seemed to enjoy it, but the turtles were insisting that the food tasted better unmixed.
Finally, Usagi decided on a bright red box with an image of a rabbit on the front.
However, just as he was about to pour it, Michelangelo snatched it away and waggled his finger at Usagi.
"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids," said the orange wearing ninja with a wide grin.
Raphael quickly reached over and smacked his younger brother on the back of the head. "They won't get that joke, ya Bonehead," he grumbled.
Leonardo then snatched the box away and poured Usagi a bowl. "Ignore him, you're welcome to have this."
Usagi and Gen stared at the brothers, then shrugged and ate their breakfast. Very different cultures indeed.
7.8 2012 Verse
Dogpound clung to the side of the tanker truck containing the chemical the Shredder wanted poured down the sewers to eradicate the turtles, their snake of a sister, and their sensei. Thus far there had been no interference from the five reptiles. But the seemingly easy mission was setting Dogpound on edge. Something was about to happen, he just knew it.
As if on cue, the tanker drove under a bridge and a rain of shuriken came down on the tanker.
Dogpound brought his arm up to shield his head from sharp metal, and the tanker screeched to a stop once it came out from under the bridge.
The dog mutant glared up to see Michelangelo standing on the top of the bridge grinning down at him.
"Doctor Prank-enstein For The Win!" yelled the turtle as he chucked a water balloon at the tanker.
Too late Dogpound noticed that some of the shuriken had pierced the metal container and the chemical was leaking out.
He and his Purple Dragon flunkies had just enough time to scramble away before the entire tanker exploded.
The other three turtles and Karai joined Mikey on the bridge (which had miraculously not been destroyed in the explosion).
"Are you crazy, Mikey?" Leo demanded angrily. This was not what he had been planning for this mission. "That was incredibly dangerous!"
"Not to mention stupid!" agreed Raph.
"You could have killed someone!" said Donnie in distress. "Most likely yourself!"
Karai was about to use the tip of her tail to smack her youngest brother across the head, when she noticed what he was doing. "Are those marshmallows?" she asked incredulously.
Mikey was indeed holding a stick of marshmallows over the blaze from the explosion, looking perfectly content. "Yup, sure is. Do you want one?"
"MIKEY!" they all yelled angrily, realizing he had done all this on purpose.
The youngest turtle simply looked up at them with an innocent expression. "What?"
7.9 2003 Verse
Don03 wondered just when he became the go to guy for others in the multi-verse to call and talk (*cough* complain *cough*) to about the problems in their own universe.
This time it was Donnie12 calling to complain about his version of Mikey.
"I swear he's driving all of us up the wall," Donnie was saying over the communicator. "Not only has he started pulling pranks on all of us any chance he gets, but all our fights have become nothing but a joke to him. He's not taking any of it seriously, and it's putting our whole team in danger."
"Why don't you talk to him about it?" asked Don patiently as he worked in his lab, the communicator wedged between his ear and his shoulder.
"We've tried! Repeatedly! Nothing is getting through to him, not even Master Splinter," said Donnie in exasperation. "The main problem is that Mikey is not seeing any of the consequences for his actions. Anything bad that happens gets erased in the next loop, so he doesn't see any reason to care."
"Didn't you warn him about crashing the loops?" Don asked, pausing in his work.
"We did," said Donnie with a sigh. "He thinks we just made it up to scare him into behaving. We even had Venus and her Donatello call him and tell him about their crashed loop. He thought they were ripping off a scary video game."
Don winced. This was not sounding good. "How bad has it gotten there? What's the worst he's done?"
"A shorter list would be what hasn't he done," moaned Donnie. "He's gotten drunk, prank called every bad guy we have, he made Kurtzman so paranoid he no longer does anything but hide under his bed wearing a tinfoil hat, he stuck a leash on Dogpound, put Fishface in a mermaid bikini, rigged a giant flyswatter to follow Stockmanfly around, he convinced the Kraang that a water pistol was his greatest weakness, he blew up a tanker just to roast marshmallows, he got a tattoo of his face on his face, he switched Master Splinter's cheese phone with actual cheese (which started to stink after a week), he locked Karai and Leo in a closet together, he sent out flyers that Raph was going to marry the Roachinator (Raph beat him to a pulp for that), he switched all Casey's hockey pucks with mini pizzas, he dyed April's hair green while she was sleeping, and who knows how many other things."
Don winced at the long list. "Ouch," he muttered.
"Most recently he snuck into Foot HQ just so he could stick a whoopee cushion under the Shredder's throne," said Donnie. "It wouldn't have been too big a problem if he hadn't stuck around to watch Shredder sit down on it. He was caught laughing, and barely made it out of there alive."
"Sounds like your brother has the beginnings of a bad case of Sakura Syndrome," said Don with another wince. He was starting to dread the day his own Michelangelo became looping aware if this was what he had to look forward too.
"Sakura Syndrome?" asked Donnie in confusion.
"It was in the Looping for Dummies manual," said Don. "It's when a looper feels that there are no consequences to their actions, and goes out of their way to anything they want. It was named after this girl who started looping and went nuts."
"And that's happening to Mikey?" asked Donnie worriedly.
"If he doesn't get his act together soon, then yeah," said Don apologetically.
"Aw, Sewer Apples," moaned Donnie. "I'll talk to him again. Maybe the others and I can stage an intervention."
"Good luck with that," said Don, sensing the end of this conversation. "Hey by the way, why do you and the others call me when you have complaints?"
Don got the sense that his counterpart was shrugging on his end of the line. "Because you give the best advise, and I'm pretty sure you're the nicest out of all of us."
With that the conversation ended, and Don had to smile. The nicest turtle in the multi-verse, he could live with that.
7.10 2012 Verse
"MIKEY!" yelled the rest of the Hamato clan, as once again their youngest did something stupid for the heck of it.
"What?" said Mikey, glancing over at them. "You said not to take any more unacceptable risks. This isn't risky at all."
While the youngest turtle was saying that, he was standing perfectly still as the Kraang fired at him from down the hall with their lasers.
"Would you get out of their line of fire!" shouted Leo from his hiding place behind a large crate. "You could get hit!"
"No way, dude," said Mikey brightly. "These guys are such a lousy shots. They still haven't hit me, and I'm not even moving."
"He does have a point," said Raph, from behind his own cover.
But Leo remembered the loop where Raph's body (while his mind was not in it) had been shot and killed.
"They don't need to be good shots," Leo snapped, "they just need to get lucky once!"
"Guys, if I may interject," called Donnie, from where he was hiding with Karai. "The continuous laser blasts from the Kraang's bayonets is causing the structural integrity of this facility to become unstable!"
"In English, Donnie!" called Mikey.
"He said the roof could cave in on us at any second!" shouted Karai.
Just as she said that, one of the Kraang's shots hit Mikey in the head, and he crumpled to the ground.
"MIKEY!" they all shouted again. But before they could run to him, the ceiling started to crack and rumble.
Then it caved in on all of them, burying them in the rubble.
Two words flashed through Karai's mind as she fell into blackness.
'System Crash'
A/N Read Review, and Give suggestions.
7.1- Yup, Don has definitely been hanging out with Mikey for too long.
7.2- I seem to enjoy gender-bending poor Raphaels. In Acceptable Risk, StariaSestra said out that Raph might be an undiscovered Disney Princess with his habit of talking to animals, and his weird (but awesome) connection with pigeons. I was laughing so hard at that that I just had to write this.
7.3- As requested by phoebe. gimenez.7. Thanks again for the suggestion. I couldn't resist but putting a slight Winter Soldier spin on it.
7.4- Mikey really wanted that tattoo. I'll leave it up to your imagination what it looked like.
7.5- I've had 2 different Raphaels gender bend, I figured it was time to pick on someone else. And Donatello is now awake.
7.6- Karai is sassy, and if the Shredder had hair he'd now be checking it for gray ones.
7.7- I couldn't resist. Plus I haven't done anything with Usagi recently.
7.8- Is it just me, or is Mikey getting out of control.
7.9- It's not just me. Also 2003 Don is a sweetheart, he's my favorite turtle in that series.
7.10- Looks like Mikey crashed the loop. You'll have to wait till the next chapter to find out the consequences.
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