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Chapter 25

Earthquakes, Portals, and Worms, Oh My! Part 1

After the fiasco at the Kraang prison, things only started to heat up for New York City, and as always the Hamato Clan was at the dead center of it.

Not even a week past before the next disaster occurred. The Rat King made a reappearance, once again commanding every rat in the city to attack the people above.

The difference was that this time the Rat King had somehow gained access to mutagen, and planed to mutate the entire world into rat people, allowing him to rule over them all.

But with the team's combined efforts (even Casey, despite his overwhelming fear of rats) they were able to fight the maniac off, and rescue the hostages his rat minions had grabbed, including Mikey and April's friend Irma.

"How'd you guys find us?" Irma asked as April led the civilians to safety.

April glanced over to where Leatherhead was barely concealed in his attacks on the Rat Kings first experimental rat mutants.

"Let's just say I know someone who knows these tunnels really well," April replied.

After another fight with the Rat King and his forces they managed to defeat the insane scientist, and the last they saw of him he was tumbling over the edge of a cliff.

On another note, on the same day the Rat King tried to take over, April brought a stray cat she'd found to the dojo in hopes the Hamatos could take it in.

Mikey had loved the animal instantly, and let it lap at the ice cream cone he'd brought down to the lab for the group study session.

Unfortunately, this had unforeseen, but completely predictable consequences.

Miwa massaged her forehead. "Let me get this straight," she said. "April gave you a cat, and not even five minutes into owning her, you got her mutated her into… this?"

Miwa pointed inside the open freezer in the kitchen. Inside was a cat made entirely out of Neapolitan ice cream.

The cat wobbled and let out a happy sounding meow.

Mikey twiddled his thumbs and looked sheepish. "Uh yes," he said in a tiny voice.

Miwa groaned and rubbed her forehead. "Well, at least now Donnie has his retro-mutagen guinea pig."

Mikey's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates, and he scooped up his cat and hugged it to his chest protectively.

The Hamato family later found Mikey trying to smuggle the entire refrigerator into his room to protect his new pet from being experimented on, and didn't calm down until Donnie had sworn on pizza, his honor, their grandparents' graves, and their pinkie fingers that he would not experiment on the cat.

After that, things were quiet for a few days. But then things started shaking up, literally.

It was an average night at the Renaissance Dojo. Yoshi was leading his last kendo class for the evening in Ji geiko (practice spars) before they cooled down for the evening.

Yoshi stood at the head of the room watching his students pair up and practice against each other, occasionally calling out for them to stop and switch partners.

Just as he was about to order the end of the class, the ground suddenly started shaking violently beneath their feet.

"Get under the doorways and stairs! Keep your heads down, and your hands over the backs of your necks!" Yoshi ordered, and the students crowded into the area beneath the door, and under the stairway to the upper level of the dojo until the shaking subsided.

"What was that, Master Splinter?" asked one of his students once it had stopped.

"An… earthquake?" said Yoshi, voicing it more as a question than a response.

"In New York?" asked another student skeptically. "That's unlikely."

"Then what else could it be, genius?" asked a third student sarcastically.

'What indeed,' thought Yoshi, having a sinking suspicion that there was more to the quake than it seemed.

But without any answers to his students, he ended the class and sent them on their way with a warning to be more careful. Things were no doubt about to become far more dangerous for everyone.

Within Foot Headquarters, the assembled Foot Ninja bowed as the Shredder stalked through them and sat himself down on his throne. He then looked down upon his three hench-mutants, who were kneeling at the foot of the stairs before him.

"Are all the preparations made?" the Shredder asked his minions in a tone that made it clear any a negative answer would be met with dire consequences.

"All is as you requested Master Shredder," said Tiger Claw, glancing up at his master as he did so. "The Kraang have agreed to your terms, and will prepare the trap to your specifications."

"Excellent," said the Shredder, turning his throne to stare out the window over the city. "If all goes as planned, by this time tomorrow Tang Shen and her children will be mine."

Behind him, his minions snapped to attention, and marched out of the room to begin the proceedings.

In Donatello's basement lab, the genius in question was working diligently at his computer to discover the source of the recent shaking, his siblings watching him from over his shoulder.

"So what have you found, Donnie?" Leo asked when he saw his brother stop typing.

"I've been graphing the earthquake epicenters," Donnie explained, pointing at his computer as he did so. "They're happening in a pattern that's not at all random."

'Well, whatever it is, I don't like it," Mikey declared, looking disgruntled. "The guys down at the Lair sent me a text. Those stupid quakes made the tunnels around their home collapse. Leatherhead and Mondo are both stuck down there clearing it out some of the debris so they don't always have to take the long way when they want to come and visit."

"Are they alright?" asked Miwa.

"They're fine, LH says the Lair is sturdy enough," said Mikey. "Just a lot of collapsed tunnels between there and here."

"Well, that doesn't sound good," said Donnie with a frown. Then he looked over at Metalhead. "Hey, Metalhead, do you mind going to help them out?" he asked.

Metalhead gave them a thumbs-up, and left down the secret passageway to start clearing the rubble.

"Thanks, Robo-dude!" Mikey called after him.

Once he was gone, Donnie turned his attention back to his computer and continued his explanation. "Another thing that's strange is I'm getting weird energy readings under the epicenter. It looks like some kind of tech is causing the quakes."

Raph shared a knowing look with the rest of his siblings. "You guys thinking what I'm thinking?" he asked.

Leo and Miwa nodded, but Mikey looked clueless. "Kitties?" the youngest asked innocently.

With a growl of annoyance, Raph smacked his little brother on the head. "Mikey, who has that kind of technology?" Raph asked in exasperation.

Mikey thought hard for a moment before his face lit up. "Kitties with tools," he said happily.

Raph smacked him again. "The Kraang, nimrod," he growled.

"Oh, right," said Mikey, looking like that thought had just occurred to him.

The others rolled their eyes and started planning their investigation on the Kraang's latest plot.

While April had been let on more missions after their most recent assault on TCRI, she still felt the need to prove herself.

So in order to do that, she secretly started doing patrols on her own around her neighborhood. Nothing too dangerous, she wasn't stupid. Just a run around the rooftops on her block each night to make sure the area was still safe.

Despite the earlier quakes, it was looking to be a regular night. The neighborhood was as quiet as any in New York City could be, and there was not even a Purple Dragon in sight.

She had just been about to head in when she got the sense that someone was following her.

Making sure not to show that she'd realized her stalker was there, April hurried along the roofs and quickly ducked into a dark corner to wait for him to pass.

As the one following her got close, she leapt from the shadows with a yell, kicked the stalker's feet out from under him, and pinned him to the ground with her tessen at his throat.

Below her, a familiar hockey mask-wearing figure looked up at her. "Ow," Casey groaned. "Nice moves, Red."

"Casey!" April asked incredulously. She then pushed herself back to her feet, making sure to jam her knee into his gut as she did so.

Casey let out a grunt of pain, before pushing himself back to his feet as well. "What is with girls and doing that," he muttered to himself as he brushed himself off.

"What are you doing here, Jones?" April demanded angrily. She had still not forgiven the boy for his previous actions. She was no longer as openly hostile towards him for the sake of the team, but still treated him to an icy cold shoulder whenever he was around.

"I saw you on patrol, and thought I'd join you," said Casey, trying to look casual. In truth, he'd been hoping for another chance to once again try to apologize. He was really missing having April as a friend. But it was really starting to look like she would hate him forever.

"Why?" she demanded scathingly. "You think I can't handle this on my own?"

"No-no-no," said Casey quickly. "I just- I was free and- I just wanted to help?" he finished as a question, not really certain if it was the right response or not.

April scowled, turned her back on him, and started to walk away. "Well I don't need your help. So you can go and-"

But whatever Casey should do was left unsaid as April reached the edge of the building and stopped dead at the sight below her.

"What is it?" Casey asked walking over to join her.

Looking down at the alley below, Casey quickly saw what had caught her attention.

Below them a line of Kraang was marching into a pink triangle shaped portal set at the end of the alley.

"There's so many of them," April whispered. Forgetting for the moment that she was mad at Casey.

"Looks like LH was right about them upgradin' their portal stuff," Casey said with a frown as he looked at the triangle shaped portal. This one just appeared to be a door set into nothing. It wasn't attached to some big machine, or hidden behind some door. It was just there.

Finally, the line was growing shorter, and as the last few Kraang stepped through the portal, April and Casey dropped down to the alley to get a closer look.

Impulsively, Casey pulled his mask down over his face and snuck up on the last Kraang before it entered the portal. Smacking it over the head with a cricket bat, Casey knocked it away from the portal, and blocked as the Kraang tried to punch him in retaliation.

Then April ran up with her tessen, and sliced through the android, making the alien inside leap for freedom, only to be smacked away by Casey's cricket bat.

"When you play cricket, you gotta have some crumpets," said Casey with a laugh as the Kraang slithered away.

April, meanwhile, was examining the portal the other Kraang had gone through. At the tip of the triangle shaped portal was a small mechanical device. Pressing a button on it the portal closed, and the devise dropped to the ally floor.

"Wow," she said, picking the device up off the ground. "Let's take this to Donnie. Let him check it out."

"Doesn't he have enough on his plate?" asked Casey. He and Donnie had been getting along better now that Donnie was actually getting to know him, rather than simply disliking him because April did. Casey had quickly become aware just how many problems the genius was juggling in his big brain, from school, to the development of retro-mutagen, to maintaining their equipment, not to mention his own personal science projects. In fact, Raph had been complaining about how much trouble they'd been having getting him to take a break long enough to eat and sleep.

But April frowned as if she suddenly remembered that she was still mad at him. "Trust me," she said bitingly. "Donnie can handle it."

Casey sighed and got the feeling April wasn't going to accept his apology this time either. Instead, he silently followed after her as she led the way to the dojo.

A few minutes later, April was explaining to the Hamato siblings what the two of them saw, and demonstrating the new portal for them. Before she did, however, the siblings ran to grab their gear in case something nasty came out of it.

"-And then, you press this button," said April pressing the button and stepping back. The triangle shaped portal opened up and the pink glow filled the lab. "And Portable Portal."

"Wow," said Donnie as he looked the portal over in amazement. "The Kraang are always one step ahead." He then looked thoughtful. "I wonder if this is what's behind the earthquakes. We're gonna have to test it."

"I don't know, Donnie," said Leo skeptically. "You think that's a good idea?"

"What would a portal have to do with an earthquake anyway?" asked Miwa. "I mean, this one's open, and the ground isn't shaking."

"Maybe it leads to the source of them," said Mikey eagerly. "Like how the porta potty led to that prison."

"Don't remind me," grumbled Raph, still sore he'd gotten captured.

"Well, there's one way to find out," said Casey in a cocky voice. "I'm going."

Raph rushed forward and grabbed him. "You're crazy! Nuts! Out of your gourd!" he said, shoving his friend aside. "I'm going first."

And before anyone could stop him, Raph leaped through the portal and vanished.

"Hey!" shouted Casey indignantly, and dove in after him.

"Oh for the love of-" growled Miwa, annoyed by their impulsiveness. She then hurried after the idiot boys to keep them from doing something stupid.

"Mi! Wait!" yelled April, running after her friend, quickly followed by a worried Donnie.

Mikey glanced at Leo once they were the last ones there. "We can't let them go alone, dude," the youngest said with a shrug. Then he dove in after the rest with a yell of "Booyakasha!"

Rolling his eyes at the crazy stunts his team pulled, Leo dove in after them as well.

Little did they know that the second they left, another earthquake rocked Manhattan, dislodging a piece of the lab's ceiling and knocking the portal out of commission.

When Leo reached the other side of the portal, he could do nothing but stare in awe at the sight around him.

It was like he and his team were standing on a transparent walkway in the middle of the sky. Dark puffy clouds slowly drifted by and thunder clapped in the distance, giving the whole place an eerie atmosphere. Set on either side of the walkway was a line of pink portals, each going to a different place.

"Okaaaay," said Raph looking around. "This is weird."

Miwa cautiously stepped forwards a few times, careful about placing each step. When despite seeing nothing there her foot never met anything but solid ground, she looked over at the rest in alarm. "Is anyone else wondering just what the heck we're standing on?" she asked.

Casey followed her example, tapping a hockey stick in front of him like a blind man's cane. "Yes," he agreed. "But something tells me I don't want to know."

Mikey and April wandered over to peer through one of the other portals. Through it they saw a sky filled with stars, and eyeballs the size of planets dotted among the blue.

Leo looked into a different one to see a dismal dimension full of dark towers and gray skies.

"Wow!" breathed Donnie as he looked around in awe. "It's like the Grand Central Station of dimensional travel! The Kraang must use it as a gateway between realities."

Just then, Mikey saw the portal they'd come through close behind them. "Guys, The Door's Gone!" he yelled in a panicked voice. "We're Trapped!"

Leo frowned. "There's thousands of doors!" he said to the others. "Everyone! Start searching for a way home!"

The teens spread out and began looking in the doors, hoping to find one to their own dimension.

Just as Donnie was showing April a beautiful dimension of what looked like a cross between clouds and jellyfish, Casey started yelling for the others to come look at what he'd found.

Casey stared at the portal in front of with a freaked out expression, and the others quickly saw why.

Within the portal they saw a redheaded woman in yellow, a dark haired man in a hokey mask, and an Asian woman in a gray ninja outfit, walking along side four identical mutant turtles each wearing a different colored mask. Blue, red, purple, and orange masks to be exact.

Mikey's eyes widened as he made the connection. "It's US!" he exclaimed. Then he frowned. "Why do we look like dorks?"

The others all turned to stare at the youngest incredulously. "We're in there as mutant turtles, and all you can say is how goofy it all looks?" Leo asked in disbelief.

Mikey's eyes widened as he realized that. "Awesome!" he cheered, punching the air. "I wanna be a kick butt ninja turtle too."

"Seriously?" Raph asked. Then he noticed that Leo and Donnie had both shifted away from him slightly.

Glaring at the two, he deadpanned, "You do know being a mutant's not contagious right?"

Leo and Donnie both looked sheepish, and went back to their original spots.

"Still," said Miwa, looking concerned, "With how much mutagen has been flying around, it could only be a matter of time before…" She trailed off, but the others caught on to what she hadn't said.

Aside from Mikey (who looked excited at the possibility) the other humans in their group looked ill at ease with the prospect.

"I'm gonna start designing mutagen proof clothes once this mission is done," Donnie vowed.

"Any chance you could start it sooner?" Leo had to ask.

Raph turned his attention back to the portal. "Is that really supposed to be April and Mi?" he asked skeptically. Both women were clearly older than the teenagers in question.

"Nice jumpsuit," Donnie sighed dreamily, imagining his girlfriend dressed in one.

"That ninja outfit's not bad either," said Casey, sending a wink at Miwa.

Miwa rolled her eyes at him, and walked away to search more portals. The others reluctantly followed her example, still sending the offending portal wary glances.

As Mikey wandered past some of the portals, one of them caught the corner of his eye. Backtracking, he stopped in front of a portal that looked almost like a mirror. Inside it there was another lane of portals floating in a dark cloudy sky. The only proof that it was not a mirror was the fact that where his reflection would be, there was instead another mutant turtle in an orange mask standing in front of him staring back.

Mikey blinked in tandem with the turtle as both of them processes what they were really seeing. Mikey had to admit, this turtle looked far more like him than the one in the other portal. Aside from his orange mask, the turtle also had the same blue eyes and freckles that Mikey had, leading to an uncanny resemblance.

Mikey stuck out his tongue as he scrutinized the turtle, but jumped back in surprise as he saw the turtle do the exact same movements as him.

Maybe it actually was a mirror… A weird funhouse kind of mirror at least.

Mikey then struck a silly pose, and the turtle did the same at the exact same time as him. Frowning, Mikey blew a raspberry and made a face at the turtle, only to again be met with a mirrored movement.

Knowing there was only one way to be sure if it was a mirror or not, Mikey reached out and poked his finger at the portal. The turtle version of him did the same on his side, and their fingers met through the dimensional barrier.

Mikey jumped back in surprise as he felt the scaly texture of the large green finger. The turtle Mikey did the same, no doubt equally surprised to feel the human finger through the portal.

Both Mikeys looked at each other and opened their mouths to speak, but before they could Mikey heard a shout from Leo, which echoed through the portal on the other side.

"Guys, Look!" Leo called, pointing to the portal he was next to.

Mikey instantly forgot the turtle Mikey (and on the other side, Mikey 2012 forgot about the human version of him just as quickly), and hurried to join the others by the portal.

"I think it's Dimension X," Leo said to them as they peered through the portal.

Inside was a predominantly pink world with floating islands made of a metal-like substance and spiky constructs.

"Home of the Kraang," Raph said to himself as he gazed into the portal and got his first look at their enemy's home world.

"No wonder they want to leave," said Miwa as she studied the place. "It looks like a cross between a six year old girl's fantasy, and a torture chamber."

"This place is making my brain melt," whimpered Mikey.

But then April clapped her hand over his mouth and hissed, "Shhh! I-I sense something coming."

Just as she said that, a platform started coming towards the portal carrying two Biodroids and two other Kraang in saucers with lasers on the front. The teens jumped back as the Biodroids stomped through the portal towards them.

"Get ready team!" Leo yelled, pulling out his swords.

They ducked as a laser came their way, and scattered as the Kraang came out of the portal at them.

"Biodroids destroy!" said one of the Kraang as a Biodroid aimed a fist at Mikey's head. The youngest tried to use his nunchucks to attack the Biodroid, but was smacked away for his efforts.

The fight continued, making the team scatter as they worked in tandem to fight the aliens.

Casey managed to knock one of the Kraang on saucers into the eyeball planet dimension, lessening their enemy count, but the Kraang on saucers were mostly a nuisance, the real problem was the Biodroids.

Leo managed to take out on of the gorilla suits with his swords thanks to the help of Raph and Mikey. But before they could celebrate, the second Biodroid managed to take the three of them by surprise and knocked the ninjas into a portal.

Seeing this, the others tried to run towards the portal, but then the second Kraang in a saucer shut the portal down using some kind of remote. The Kraang then tried to toss the remote away into another portal, but it didn't expect Miwa to dart forward and catch the remote before it could go through.

"Ha!" shouted Miwa triumphantly, holding up her prize.

The Kraang was not happy about that, and fired his laser at her in retaliation, making Miwa dodge farther away from the others.

While Miwa was chased by the Kraang in the saucer, Donnie, April, and Casey had to flee from the second Biodroid, as it fired its butt-cannons at them. But once the three were too far away to shoot at, the Kraang in the gorilla suit turned its attention over to Miwa.

Miwa quickly found herself having to dodge both the Kraang in the saucer and the Biodroid on her own.

Turning back, Donnie's eyes widened at the sight of his sister fighting them. "Armonia!" he yelled worriedly. "Watch Out!"

Miwa over compensated a dodge from a laser blast, and stumbled. Swinging her arms to regain her balance, she reached up to grab hold of something and managed to snag the device at the top of the portal.

Falling backwards, Miwa stumbled through the portal, dragging the portable portal device with her, making the whole portal vanish as she went through.

"ARMONIA!" shouted Donnie as he tried to run back, but Casey and April grabbed his hands and forced him to keep going forwards so the Kraang wouldn't catch them as well.

They ran on through the rows of portals, but the Biodroid was faster than it looked, and soon caught back up to them.

With a mighty leap, the Biodroid flew over their heads, and landed before them, blocking their path.

With an angry yell, Casey rushed forward, and hit the gorilla suit hard enough to knock it off balance, and stick its head in one of the neighboring portals. With the combined effort of Casey, April, and Donnie, they managed to shove the Biodroid the rest of the way in, making the Kraang screech as it fell from a great height to the dimension below.

"That was too close," said April.

Casey then turned his attention to Donnie. "Alright Donnie, how do we get out of here?" he asked. "Or better yet, how do we find the others?"

Donnie gave a helpless shrug. "I'm guessing we look through more portals, they have to be-"

But before he could finish, April wandered over to a different portal and peered inside. "Guys, check this out!" she called to the boys.

They both moved to stand beside her and peer through. "Wow, looks like another part of Dimension X," said Donnie as he looked though the portal and once again saw the spiky pink world.

As they looked they saw a group of Kraang below them using electric rods to force something big through another portal.

Casey made a sound of disgust. "What is that?" he asked as whatever it was disappeared through the portal.

The Kraang apparently heard him, and turned their attention towards the teens' portal.

"Kraang is aware of spies in the doorway where Kraang is not, but soon will be," one Kraang said.

"I think we're in serious trouble," said April worriedly, backing away.

As if to prove her point, the sound of a Kraang blaster firing up came from directly behind them, and they looked around to find themselves completely surrounded by Kraang.

"Surrender is optimum," said one of the Kraang surrounding them.

"Non-surrender means disintegration," added another.

"Which is less optimum," said a third.

Seeing no way out, Donnie whispered, "For now, play along."

He, April, and Casey raised their hands in surrender, but Casey couldn't help but announce, "For the record, I don't count this as a surrender."

Meanwhile, Leo, Raph, and Mikey fell out of their portal and into a dumpster in a trash strewn alley. The portal then snapped shut behind them, keeping then from going back to the others.

Mikey groaned and sat up with a lampshade on his head. "Guys, what dimension are we in?" he asked woozily.

Raph smacked the shade off, allowing Mikey to see they were back in their own world.

Leo pulled himself from the dumpster and looked up at where the portal had been. "The others are trapped over there," he said despairingly.

"Yeah," agreed Raph as he followed Leo out of the dumpster. "We gotta find a way back to them."

As Mikey pulled himself out as well, he looked thoughtful. "That portable portal April brought us might still be in the lab. Maybe we can use it to get back."

Raph and Leo exchanged surprised looks. "Mikey had a good idea?" Raph asked in disbelief.

"Mikey had a good idea," Leo confirmed, looking just as surprised.

Just then the ground started shaking under their feet once again, making the ninjas wobble and work to keep their balance.

"We also gotta find the source of these quakes," Leo added as they turned to run home.

But before they could even leave the alley, a shadow passed them overhead, and landed in front of them.

"Tiger Claw!" Leo said, grabbing his swords at the sight of the giant cat. His brothers grabbed their weapons as well.

"It seems the aliens made good on their word to send you here," said Tiger Claw menacingly, pulling out his guns.

"Wait!" said Mikey. "So this is a-"

Out of the shadows slipped several Foot-Bots, surrounding the teens completely.

"-A trap," Leo finished for Mikey as the three brothers closed ranks, and kept their backs to each other, and their eyes on their enemies at all times.

"I ask only once, summon your master!" Tiger Claw demanded, aiming his guns at the three of them.

Raph scowled at the larger mutant. "Sorry pal," he snarled. "He's not a cat person."

The teens then had to scatter as Tiger Claw's gun went off, leaving a singed crater where they had once stood.

While Mikey and Raph took on the assembled Foot, Leo focused on taking down Tiger Claw. It was clear the tiger mutant had been training since their last fight, and the leader was hard pressed to land a hit on him.

The Foot-Bots were eventually thinned out and the fight moved up to the roof tops, leaving it to be the Hamato brothers against Tiger Claw.

But Tiger Claw had brought his A game that night, and even with the three of them, they could not seem to take the tiger down.

Finally, Tiger Claw managed to trip up Mikey, and send a bola to wrap around Raph, tying him up.

Landing his jetpack next to Mikey, Tiger Claw lifted the youngest up by his ankle, and carried him over to a large smoking chimney. "You are defeated!" the feline said to Leo. "Summon your master, or the little one goes into the furnace."

"Don't do it, Raion!" yelled Mikey.

"It's a trap for Sensei!" added Raph from where he was tied up.

"Of course it's a trap!" Leo shouted back. He looked over at where Mikey was dangling helplessly. "Tell me the part where I have a choice?"

When neither of his brothers managed to offer one, Leo reluctantly pulled out his cellphone, and dialed their emergency hotline.

In the Renaissance Dojo, Master Yoshi was meditating in his and his wife's room, when the cheese phone rang.

The cheese phone had been a gag father's day gift from his children when they were much younger, and the family had set it on a private line to be called if there was ever an emergency.

So when Yoshi and Tang Shen heard it ring, they new it was serious, no matter how silly a shape the phone was.

Answering it immediately, Yoshi held the phone to his ear, and Tang Shen hovered worriedly next to him, and pressed her head close to his ear in order to hear the conversation.

"Moshi moshi?" Yoshi said into the phone. Hearing his son's voice he said, "Leonardo, what is the problem?"

Yoshi's eyes then widened in alarm as he heard his son cry out in surprise and the sound of him dropping his phone. The phone was then picked up by someone else, and a familiar voice came over the speakers.

"We meet again, Hamato Yoshi," said Tiger Claw's voice.

"Tiger Claw," Yoshi hissed. "What have you done to my-"

"Your sons are safe, for now," Tiger Claw replied.

Yoshi froze at his words, and could hear the sounds of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo letting out calls of alarm in the background.

"Yes, I know they are your flesh and blood," Tiger Claw taunted. "I also know that their mother is not as dead as my master was led to believe."

Yoshi's grip on the phone went slack, and Tang Shen caught it and held it to her own ear.

"What do you want?" she demanded, having heard what was said, and knowing there was no need to hide anymore.

"Tang Shen, I presume," said Tiger Claw arrogantly, making her children cry out warnings in the background. "It is quite obvious what my master wants. You, of course, and your cubs as well. Along with Hamato Yoshi dead at his feet."

Tang Shen gritted her teeth, and gripped the phone so hard the plastic started to crack. "If you hurt my babies, I swear to you, there is no where in this world I will not find you."

Tiger Claw had the gall to laugh at that. "If you ever want to see your cubs again, come to this address with Hamato Yoshi." The Tiger Mutant then rattled off an address and hung up.

Tang Shen all but threw the phone back into its holster, and threw her arms around Yoshi. Her husband hugged her back, and they took a brief moment to seek comfort in each other before hurrying to prepare themselves for what would no doubt be a trap.

The event they had always feared had finally come to pass. The Shredder knew Tang Shen was alive, and they knew he would stop at nothing until he had her.

Miwa groaned as she picked herself up off the rooftop she'd landed on after falling from the portal. Seeing it was no longer there, she looked down at her hands to see the things she'd been holding on a death grip.

In one hand was the remote device that she'd stolen from the Kraang. In the other was the portable portal she had grabbed during her fall.

Grateful to know she had a way back, Miwa stood up and took in the area around her.

She realized with a start that this was the dimension she and the others had been viewing through the portal. The one with her brothers all being turtles, and her, Casey, and April's counterparts looking older and just as strange.

Looking down from the roof, she could still see their weird counterparts following who she assumed was her own counterpart through an alley.

"So where are you taking us, Lotus?" the turtle in the blue mask asked the Asian woman.

'I guess she's not my counterpart after all,' Miwa thought to herself.

"Patience, Leonardo," said Lotus Blossom in reply. "And be in your guard. No doubt the Shredder will be nearby."

As if on cue, Foot-Bots popped out of nowhere, and tried to attack the turtles. But the turtles, Lotus, and Casey's counterpart took care of them with relative ease with April's counterpart filming the whole thing with a large video camera.

Seeing that they had things well in hand, Miwa turned her attention to the portable portal. She pressed the button in the center, and stepped through it, making sure to once again pull the device along with her.

Only to not find herself back at the Portal Highway, but instead in a different place all together. Instead it was a bright world, full of futuristic buildings.

"Okay, this isn't where I wanted to go," Miwa muttered to herself.

Looking around, she caught sight of four turtles in superhero outfits fly by.

Smacking herself in the forehead, Miwa vowed never to let Leo or Mikey know of this world, and passed through the portal again, this time fiddling with the remote as she did so in hopes of ending up somewhere more familiar.

Only to once again not be in the place she wanted. Instead she found herself at the edge of a crowded dance floor as several people cheered for another four ninja turtles as they danced to the song playing.

Miwa could only quirk an eyebrow at the lyrics, "Go ninja, go ninja, Go! Go ninja, go ninja, Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!"

Snickering to herself at how cheesy it all was, she moved to a dark corner, and opened the portal with the remote again, hoping that the third time was the charm.

Only to be disappointed again, as she found herself somewhere that looked like New York, but clearly was not her New York.

As she gazed around the roof she'd appeared on, she caught sight of another four ninja turtles celebrating a victory on the next roof over, and had to stop and stare.

The four turtles were huge, way bigger than her brothers, or any of the other counterparts she'd seen so far. They were all over six feet tall, and had more muscles than she'd seen on some pro wrestlers.

As she watched, she saw a flash of light and they all froze, and then start freaking out that someone had taken their picture. A second later they dragged another older looking April onto the roof with them, and demanded she give them her camera.

Feeling it was time to go, Miwa opened the portal again, and hurried through it, only to once again be disappointed.

As she watched a hooded figure ran into the alley below the fire escape she had landed on, chased by some goons in punk clothing, only for the figure to be saved by yet another turtle version of Raphael, and a college-aged boy that could only be Casey Jones.

As the hooded figure was revealed to be a mutant arctic fox, Miwa slumped to floor of her fire escape and watched the drama unfold with a sigh of impatience.

"This is going to be harder than I thought," she grumbled to herself.

A/N For the record, the idea that the Cheese Phone was a father's day gift is based on the DeviantArt picture TMNT – Father's Day by Myrling. Here's part one of the Wormquake/Manhattan Project episode. I couldn't resist adding the little mirror play that Mikey did with Mikey12, it had been in my head since the start of this fic. I also decided to give Miwa her own adventure, rather than try to mix her in with the others. Can you tell which Turtle Verses she goes to? Things are also about to start heating up for Tang Shen, and it doesn't look good. Sorry, no of Rats and Men, but I didn't think it'd be as big a deal without Yoshi being a rat.

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