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The turtles and humans couldn't believe what they were seeing. Upon entering through the portal they quickly found themselves surrounded by portals going down a dark hallway.
"Well I think it's safe to say we aren't in New York anymore," Raph said looking weirded out by their new surroundings.
All of them stared into the different portals and were blown away by the strange places that they found on the other side.
"Are these…other lands?" Maya asked.
"Sort of…they look like other dimensions. It looks like we stumbled on some kind of Krang portal subway line," Donny explained.
The purple masked turtle was becoming excited by the idea that they were exploring not just outside of their planet but their universe! That was until he realized that the portal had closed after he had walked through it.
"Uh guys we have a problem," Donny said getting everyone's attention.
"I don't know how to open the portal from this side," the turtle explained sounding slightly panicked.
Before anyone started to freak out Leo quickly went into leader mode and said, "We'll just have to find another way out, right now we can't stay here. If we don't keep moving the Krang will find us in no time. Everyone start looking for a portal to get us home."
Everyone quickly started looking through the portal doors to find the one that would get them back to Earth. If it wasn't for the fact that they were on Krang territory the teens would have all found this both amazing and amusing. Some of the world's they found looked absolutely ridiculous.
"April check this out," Donny said when he found a world covered in glistening ice.
"Wow it's beautiful," she commented making the turtle happy that he could show her something that could make her smile so bright.
"Check this out Red," Casey called over.
Donny watched as April quickly went over to Casey without batting an eye, much to the turtle's annoyance. He huffed as he followed after them with an annoyed expression on his face.
That quickly changed though when he looked inside the portal and saw…himself, his brothers and his friends all looking really strange.
"Wow…we look like dorks," Mikey commented casually.
Maya stared inside and couldn't help looking a little irritated at her appearance in this world. The girl she was staring at had wild crimped bleach blond hair covered in coral, star fish and sea weed. Her drastically larger chest was covered by nothing but seashells and…was she wearing a hula skirt? The expression on the girl's blank face suggested that she wasn't very smart. The turtle's kept her walking in the middle of them as if she might wander away on her own and get lost if they didn't.
Casey couldn't help chuckling at the mermaid's reaction to her counterpart. Wanting to get a rise out of the girl he teased, "Lookin' good in those shells Gidget."
"Ya...shells," Mikey said staring through the portal earning himself a glare from the small mermaid.
The girl noticed Mikey staring at the other slim beautiful mermaid with large breasts before looking down at her own body thinking about the vast difference between this woman's mermaid form and her own.
Feeling angry about the whole thing Maya smacked the back of both Casey and Mikey's heads before she crossed her arms and said, "This one refuses to acknowledge that that walking ditzy poacher target Barbie is supposed to be a mermaid let alone this one."
"I wouldn't get to upset about it May, it just another universe's idea of what you'd look like. Trust me Mikey would rather have the Maya he has no over that one any day." April said trying to comfort her friend.
"That supposed to be April?" Raph asked in amusement making the red head turn to see her other dimensional counterpart.
The girl had her lips pressed together tightly as she started the woman's large bust and perfect figure being extenuated by her tight obnoxiously yellow jumpsuit. Subconsciously the teen looked town at her all around smaller figure.
April couldn't help growling when she heard Donny mumble, "Nice jumpsuit."
"May we agree that the universe had a horrible sense of humor?" Maya asked when she noticed her friend's emotions spike.
"Yes. Yes we can," April replied in an icy tone.
Leo looked away from the portal when he felt drawn to look inside another. What he saw shocked him.
"Guys look! I found dimension X," Leo said getting everyone's attention.
"Man this place is melting my brain," Mikey said before April covered his mouth and hushed him to stop talking.
"I think I sense something," she whispered.
The turtles were immediately on guard with their weapons with Casey and April. Maya quickly changed her upper body so that she could fight in her natural form. All was quiet for a moment before suddenly several members of the Krang shot out and started attacking the group.
The teens seemed to be holding their own pretty well but the Krang were too many. It took nothing for the aliens to send them all flying.
"Split up!" Leo shouted before the group all went in different directions.
Mikey and Maya were covering each other's backs pretty well while Donny covered April. Leo, Raph and Casey were fighting more independently but keeping an eye on each other's back.
One of the Krang were about to shoot at Maya when Mikey quickly pushed the mermaid out of the way taking the hit for her. The smallest of the turtles went flying through one of the portals.
"Mikey!" Leo and Raph cried when they noticed their youngest brother had disappeared and quickly flew in after him.
Just after they fell through the portal disappeared trapping Donny, April, Casey and Maya. The group all turned to a Krang holding a remote, the creature smiled before it threw the remote through another portal and flew off.
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Leo, Raph and Mikey all fell through the portal screaming before landing in a dumpster on top of each other. The blue masked turtle was the first to recover instantly turning to his youngest brother to make sure the shot he took wasn't serious.
"You okay Mikey?" he asked running a hand over his brother's plastron.
Mikey winced before he replied, "ya…whatever those things were they hit me with…they make Raph's punches feel like I'm getting punched by a baby."
If the orange masked turtle didn't already have a huge bruise on his chest Raph would've smacked him upside the head.
"If you're fine enough to mouth off like that then you can get the hell off of me," the red masked turtle growled.
The three brothers quickly climbed out of the dumpster to see that they had returned to their dimension.
"Come on you guys. We have to find a way to get the other's home," Leo said jumping out of the dumpster quickly followed by his younger brothers.
"That's gonna be hard considering the smart turtle is the one we gotta get home," Raph replied.
Leo wanted to retort but before he could, they quickly found themselves at the mercy of yet another earthquake.
"We also need to find a way to stop these shakes," the blue masked turtle commented.
Mikey and Raph nodded their heads in agreement before they were suddenly attacked by gunfire. The three turtles quickly took a defensive stance ready to face their attacker. They were shocked when they saw that their opponent was a giant tiger.
"What the hell do you want Tony the tiger?" Raph growled.
"My name is Tigerclaw," the giant tiger replied in a deep voice.
"I knew it! I was totally gonna name him Tigerclaw!" Mikey yelled not helping their situation.
Tigerclaw pulled out his gun once more and aimed it at them before he said, "I will say this only once. Summon your rat master."
"No way fur ball," Raph replied.
With a growl the tiger began firing on the turtles who all managed to dodge the attacks easily. After just barely managing to dodge a shot aimed at his head, Mikey jumped up on a set of fire escape stairs on the side of an apartment building.
"Bros! We got to get to higher ground!" the orange masked turtle shouted before he quickly climbed up to the roof followed by the other turtles.
When they got to the top they all looked around to make sure the coast was clear before Raph asked, "What now?"
Before Leo could answer Tigerclaw quickly pounced onto the roof. With a mighty roar the massive beast kicked Leo one way and pushed Raph another. The two brothers quickly got up to attack Tigerclaw but were shocked to see him holding their baby brother over the roof by his ankle.
A terrified Raph looked over to his older brother ready to follow his lead only to see that Leo was just was scared and lost as he was.
"Now that I have your attention call your master," Tigerclaw growled.
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Casey, April, Donny and Maya managed to find a hiding spot until the krang disappeared through another one of the portals. None of them dared to even let out a breath until they had all disappeared before getting up.
'What are we to do now?' Maya asked.
"I dunno ask Gap tooth he's the expert," Casey said staring at Donny.
"Gap tooth? Have you looked in the mirror lately cave mouth!" Donny replied furious.
"Guys enough! Come over here and check this out," April said in an irritated tone.
The two boys went over to where the girls were to see them staring into a portal. It was full of krang.
"This must be another part of dimension X," April commented.
Maya stared at what the Krang were doing and it appeared that they were shoving some poor creature through a portal. Her eyes widened in surprise when she recognized where they were shoving the creature into.
'There is another way home' Maya said pointing out the portal to the others.
"No problem Gidget. We'll just sneak by all the alien robots and the giant worm," Casey replied sarcastically.
"Don't look now but I think they saw us," April said before the four teens quickly found themselves surrounded by Krang members with guns.
"To surrender now would be wise," one of the robots said.
"Resistance will end in your demise which would be less wise," another beside him said.
"Play along," Donny whispered before he put his hands over his head followed by the others to show surrender.
"That which is known as Krang will feed that which is known as krang's enemy to that which is known as the krathachigan," one of the other Krang said before leading the group through the portal into Dimension X.
The teens were silent as they were forced to go through the portal that took them to New York City. When they went through it was a great relief to them all to breath in the familiar smoggy air of their home.
"You will keep on marching from the place you are to the place you are not yet," the Krang instructed as they continued to lead them down the subway tunnel.
"Donny do you know what this thing is they intend to feed us to?" Maya whispered to the purple masked turtle beside her.
"To be honest I'm not really sure what it is," the turtle admitted.
"Well we could wait around to be eaten or we make a move," Casey replied before firing up his home made Taser before using on the Krang's arm that had a gun aimed at him.
April, Maya and Donny quickly followed the boy's lead taking out the Krang that surrounded them before running down the tunnel. They turned and went through a door on their right that led into an abandoned subway line before Casey used a stick to keep the door shut.
Slowly and cautiously the group went down the subway line looking for a way out. Casey took this time go walk beside Maya. He knew the mermaid was anxious about the whole dance thing and Mikey. Now that the danger was at bay it seemed like a good time to bring it up to the mermaid.
"So I talked to Mikey before we left," Casey said to the mermaid who looked up at him surprised.
'What did he say?' Maya asked anxiously.
"After I explained everything he said he was cool with it as long as I made sure you enjoyed yourself and got you home in one piece," the boy explained.
Maya smiled as she sighed in relief. She had been terrified that Mikey would get the wrong idea of her friend taking her to observe the ceremony of the mating dance.
"What are you guys going on about?" Donny asked when he heard his baby brother's name come up.
April who had been listening knew exactly what they were talking and couldn't be more irritated by the subject.
"Oh didn't you know? Casey is taking Maya to a dance as his date," the girl explained in an annoyed tone.
Donny looked a little surprised, he and his brothers knew about school dances and things like that. They also knew that those things were done with boys asking girls to be their girlfriends and use the dance as an excuse to have a date.
"Mikey was okay with this?" Donny asked genuinely shocked.
"Donny don't get the wrong idea dude, sometimes people go as friends cause they ain't dating nobody but wanna have someone to go with. Better to go with Maya then some jerk tryin' to get lucky. Red is just mad that I didn't ask her first," Casey explained before giving the furious redhead a smug smirk.
April's eyes widened before she crossed her arms and in a smug tone said, "Jones you could take Donny to the dance for all I care okay, I'm not jealous!"
"Never said you were jealous O'Neill, I said you were mad. Now that you mention it though you do look a little green," the boy replied in the same tone.
The girl opened her mouth to reply but instead growled before walking off ahead of the group. Maya quickly ran after her friend not wanting her to get too far ahead of them and also clear the air.
'April please wait' Maya said as she caught up to her friend.
The other girl did indeed stop allowing her friend to catch up with her with an annoyed expression on her face.
'So it's true then. This situation greatly bothers you' Maya said bluntly.
April clenched her firsts before she replied, "it's not a big deal."
'This one wishes very much that you would have told her' the mermaid replied.
"The worst part is that I don't even know why it's bothering me so much. I mean I feel kind of stupid that I thought he was asking me instead but Casey knocked me off my high horse a bit and I'm over it," the girl explained.
'Yet here we are' Maya said knowingly.
"I don't understand why it makes me so mad when that he's paying more attention to you right now; Or that my stomach sinks every time he offers to walk you home after school," April said covering her face with her hands in embarrassment.
"I'm sorry," April mumbled through her hands.
Maya gently pried the girl's hands from her face before she said 'this one is not mad at you April. You are one of this one's beloved sisters and it is understandable that you are unsure of your feelings.'
The red head huffed with an annoyed expression on her face before she said, "Why did it have to be him? Why couldn't it be someone like Donny?"
'Dear sister we do not get to choose our one. Our one is simply the one who is best for us' Maya explained before pulling April into a warm embrace.
April quickly returned the hug before she said, "no matter who my one is I could never love them as much as I love my sisters."
The human girl tightened her hold on the mermaid before she heard the boys catching up to them and pulled away.
"Everything cool?" Casey asked.
Maya just smiled at him and nodded her head before a sound echoed through the tunnel that made a chill run down their backs.
"What is that noise?" April asked.
"I don't know but it's worse than the sound of Mikey eating a pizza," Donny said earning him a belly smack curtesy of Maya.
The group carefully continued down the tunnel until they were in a room full of Krang and a giant space worm. They watched as the robots hooked something up to the beast before an ooze that looked like mutagen came out of it and into a giant container.
"Are they milking it?" Casey asked looking grossed out.
"Looks like it and it looks like mutagen," Donny replied looking fascinated.
One of the worms became aggressive and slammed its body on the ground causing the entire room to start shaking violently.
'This is what is causing the earthquakes' Maya commented.
April had been watching the mutagen milking process with disgust when she felt something tickling her leg. At first she thought it was Casey but when she looked down she realized it was a little space worm. The girl squealed as she kicked it off getting the attention of the Krang.
"Release the Kraathatrogons!" One of the Krang bots commanded.
The four teens could only look on in horror as the giant space worm started coming towards them.
"I'm gonna need a bigger hockey stick for that thing," Casey commented before they all took off running.
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Leo, Raph and Mikey could only sit helplessly and wait for their father to save them. It was clear to see that the pacing Tiger was quickly losing his patience.
"Time is up, where is your master?" Tigerclaw demanded.
"Just wait he'll come and kick your stumpy tail right up your stripped-"
"ENOUGH!" Tigerclaw roared cutting off Raph.
"Your lives end now," he said before he started pushing the three brothers towards the furnace.
The mutant tiger stopped when he felt a ninja star graze his cheek and looked up to see none other than Splinter himself.
"Release my sons NOW!" Splinter demanded with a deadly expression aimed at the beast who dared to try and harm his children.
Tigerclaw smirked at his opponent before he began shooting at the mutant rat. Splinter quickly dodged before jumping to the building where Tigerclaw was and began throwing rocks at him. Tigerclaw took every hit before going at Splinter with his blade, the former human quickly dodged the blade as if he teleported before attacking his opponent head on.
Leo, Raph and Mikey cheered their father on from where they were held captive. They were happy to see that their father was easily winning against this enemy. They were even more confident of their father's victory when Splinter had Tiger claw at blade point with his own sword at the edge of the roof.
"Now we shall see if cats do in fact always land on their feet," Splinter said.
Before he could push the cat over to his doom Tigerclaw yelled, "NOW!"
Karai who had been in hiding shot a dart at the rat which hit its mark in Splinter's neck. Splinter had just enough time to take the dart from his neck before he dropped to the ground feeling weaker by the minute.
"SPLINTER!" the three turtles shouted.
The former human watched as out from the shadows came his daughter that he thought he had lost forever.
"Miwa," he said before he succumbed to the darkness.
"What did you do to him?" Raph demanded.
"A mild poison. However if not treated quickly then it will kill him so I suggest you cooperate with us," Karai explained walking towards them.
"Shredder wants them alive but he didn't say in what condition," the girl said pulling out her blade.
"Shall we have some fun?" she asked with a wicked smirk on her face before Tigerclaw caught her arm.
"They are to be in good condition for Master Shredder," Tigerclaw growled before letting the girl go.
The turtles were so shocked by the turn of events that they didn't notice their father use the last of his strength to grab a ninja star and release his sons from their ropes.
"Boys run!" Splinter commanded before Tigerclaw kicked Splinter to the ground.
Leo quickly shoved Karai out of the way before going to his father's side. Mikey went to his other side and together they lifted their sensei off the ground. Raph covered them before throwing a smoke bomb on the ground and together they disappeared into the night.
Karai quickly stood up before throwing her sword and screaming in rage that she had failed to retrieve them yet again.
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