Chapter 55

Saving the World (Again)

Several minutes of planning later the Turtle Blimp was flying through the air once again, heading in the direction of TCRI.

As they flew, Leo called for those aboard to go over the plan one last time to make sure they all had it down.

"It's all on the Mighty Mutanimals plus Casey and April," explained Donnie as he drove the blimp through the air. "First they break into TCRI, then Doc Rockwell activates the portal."

"And then it's hello Dimension X," said Mikey excitedly.

"Once we're there, Metalhead and I will guide you since we've been there before," said Miwa, taking up the explanation. "Not that I'm too sure how much help we'll be, Dimension X is weird."

Metalhead nodded in agreement, and played the theme song from the X Files over his speakers.

"I get the first part, makes sense. It's the 'save millions of mutated New Yorkers' part I don't get," said Raph skeptically.

"Well, Donnie's got that super-retro-mutagen stuff. That'll work, uh, right Donnie," said Leo, still a bit iffy about that part of the plan as well. It was hard to plan for a siege on a place he'd never been. And Miwa, April, and Metalhead's descriptions and videos of the place didn't really make much sense.

Donnie beamed and held up a canister of the modified mutagen. "Heck yeah," he said. "And once we change all the humans back Rockwell will hone in on us with the Kraang Portal, and, theoretically, teleport us all back to Earth… Hopefully… maybe…" he added, not looking as sure about his explanation as when he started.

Raph shot him an extremely unimpressed look. "Yup," he said dryly. "We're doomed."

"It's an awesome plan, Raph," said Mikey bouncing up into a dramatic pose. "Dimension X, here we come!"

Miwa gave her baby brother an amused glance. "Well, someone's excited."

"Duh, Sis," said Mikey with a grin. "We already know I am awesome with Kraang stuff, right?"

His siblings and Metalhead exchanged glances. "Riiight," said Leo slowly. "So?"

"So just imagine how much more awesome I'll be in a dimension that is Kraang everything!" Mikey said excitedly.

His brothers and sister all paled at the thought.

"That… sounds utterly terrifying," said Donnie, looking like he was imagining his worst nightmare come true.

"So, So doomed," Raph repeated, his expression much the same.

Metalhead made a sound of a missile dropping to the ground and exploding in agreement.

Mikey blew a raspberry at them all.

"I just hope the Mutanimals don't screw this up," said Leo looking worried. "If they can't get that portal open…"

He trailed off, but they all knew what he wasn't saying.

"They'll be fine," said Raph. "An eight team butt kicking machine like them, they'll turn the place into another crater."

"Why are April and Casey going with the Mutanimals instead of us?" asked Mikey curiously.

"Well, neither of them are as trained as the rest of us, and lets face it, ours is the more dangerous half of the mission," said Miwa.

"And after repeatedly storming TRCI and knowing just how messed up that place is, that's saying something," grumbled Raph.

"And also because I don't have enough oxygen converters for Casey to come with us, and I'd rather not bring April into the place where the Kraang have been trying to kidnap her too from the beginning of this mess," said Donnie. "They may have gotten most of what they wanted from her in the invasion, but who's to say they won't do more if they got their tentacles on her again."

"Oh," said Mikey in a small voice, remembering the state April had been in when he and Donnie had rescued her in the invasion. He knew Donnie still had nightmares of the vacant expression on her face as the Kraang sucked her mental energy right out of her head.

Miwa reached over to pat Mikey on the shoulder. "Like he said, don't worry about it. We'll go in, save everyone, and be back in New York in no time."

"And once all the people are de-mutated, we can de-mutate you three as well," added Donnie.

That brought the turtles' thought process to a screeching halt, and they all turned to stare at Donnie. "Wait, what?" all three said in unison.

The genius looked startled at their reaction. "Well, yeah," he said. "Didn't you guys want to? I mean, with the super-mutagen there's really no more reason to wait."

The three exchanged glances. "But, Mother-" Raph started to say.

"Guys, we now pretty much have an unlimited supply of retro-mutagen for me to work with to cure Mother," Donnie pointed out. "The necessity to hoard it has passed. You could be human again, isn't that what you want?"

It was clear such a thought had not occurred to any of them, returning to normal had seemed like such a far off thing with retro-mutagen being so hard to make, and all the crisis in their lives to focus on instead. To have it suddenly offered practically on a silver platter had left them flummoxed.

Seeing how her brothers seemed to have been thrown for a loop, Miwa said, "Let's focus on saving New York first. There'll be plenty of time to talk about this later."

Leo shook himself to snap out of his daze, and nodded in agreement. "Right. We have a mission to finish."

He moved to stand at the edge of the blimp, and looked down at TCRI. "If our friends can pull it off so we can even get it started," he added, growing worried once again.


Within the portal room of TCRI, a wall suddenly exploded inwards, taking the aliens in the building completely by surprise.

Charging through the hole were eight figures the Kraang quickly recognized, and knew immediately none of them were coming out of this without bruises.

"Aw Kraang," said one of the Kraang with as close to an 'oh shit' expression as the aliens were capable of.

"Mutanimals HO!" shouted Slash as he led the charge against the aliens, and his five teammates plus two extra teenagers followed after him, and the room quickly descended into chaos.

Slash smashed the aliens with his mace. Leatherhead ripped them to shreds with his brute strength. Dr. Rockwell brainblasted any alien in his sights. Pete and Jason teamed up to outwit their opponents. Malachi tricked them into shooting each other. April and Casey stood back to back pummeling any Kraang they could get their hands on with their weapons. All together, it was an all out brawl, and with the element of surprise on their side, it was clear the Mutanimals were winning.

"Crush KRAANG!" bellowed Leatherhead as he smashed three of the androids together with his bare hands.

"You said it, LH!" agreed Casey as he sent one of his exploding hockey pucks flying at a couple of Kraang reinforcements rushing into the room, causing them to explode before they could do anything.

As Slash bashed through his own opponents, he glanced over at Rockwell and yelled, "Doc! Get that portal up pronto!"

Rockwell nodded, and leaped towards the portal's controls, leap frogging onto a couple of Kraang as he did so.

After beating off the only Kraang manning the computer, Rockwell began rapidly pressing the buttons on the controls. "Hacking in now!" he called down to the others.

"Bodacious, dude," cheered Jason from where he was bashing a Kraang over the head with his skateboard.

Slash nodded in agreement. "April, Jason, you two guard Rockwell's back! The rest of us we'll keep these chumps busy!" he ordered.

"On it!" agreed April as she sliced of an android head with her tessen, and hurried towards the monkey doctor, Jason following at her heels. The two of them stood on either side of the mutant and used their chosen weapons to bock laser fire, and pelt the Kraang with shuriken Donnie had let them borrow.

"Doc, hurry it up!" shouted Slash as he blocked some laser fire sent his own way with his shell. In annoyance, he threw a chunk of bread at the alien shooting at him, which caused Pete to dive-bomb the android in a hungry frenzy.

Finally, Rockwell hit the last button, and the machinery around them hummed to life. "The portal is up!" he announced.

In the center of the room, the three cannon like parts of the machine began blasting pink light into the air, shooting it up towards the ceiling and out of the tower.

The sky above TCRI began to darken, and the clouds above the building began swirling together in a massive pink vortex of light.

On the blimp, not far from the vortex, Mikey let out a whoop at the sight. "Yes! They did it!" he cheered.

"Unbelievable," said Leo in amazement.

"Hoist the mizzenmast, lads and lady," shouted Raph. "This pirate ship's about jack Dimension X!"

"Finally decided you'd rather be a pirate than a princess?" Miwa couldn't help but tease. "You do know it's possible to be both."

Raph just shot her a dirty look, and tightened his grip on the garbage cannon controls.

"Ready your oxygen converters, guys," called Donnie as he stuck his straw like device into his mouth. His siblings all did the same, not wanting to repeat Miwa's experience of breathing in Dimension X air.

As the blimp flew upwards into the portal, Mikey shouted one last, "BOOYAKASHA!" before they all vanished into the swirling pink vortex.

On the ground below, a damaged, but still functioning Irma-shaped android looked up at the sight above it (quite a feat, since it was currently lacking a head).

A second later, an even more damaged head flew over and attached itself to the neck, allowing Kraang Subprime to peer up at the portal above him.

"So, those turtle freaks think they're going to my home terf?" Subprime asked sarcastically to himself. "Ferget about it."

With that, he blasted upwards on his rocket feet, and shot through the portal after them.


In the spiky, pink and silver, bottomless void that was Dimension X, the Turtle Blimp's dark green graffiti covered exterior stood out like a sore thumb.

It didn't help that the blimp had appeared upside-down, leaving the brothers gaping as gravity effected their clothes and mask tails, but nothing else as they floated through the dizzying space.

"Boys," said Miwa, who had used the bars on the edge of the blimp to flip herself right-side-up, "welcome to Dimension X."

Metalhead once again played the X-Files theme song for added effect as he stood upside down like the rest of them.

Just like before, the only way one could describe the dimension was weird. The boys gazed around at the floating metallic islands covered in crystal trees and odd, and likely dangerous trees.

"Here are some basic ground rules," said Miwa as her brothers tried to pick their jaws up off the floor. "Rule one: don't touch the crystal trees, they explode. Rule two: don't touch the wildlife, it will either try to eat you, vaporize you, or crush you." Miwa paused thoughtfully, then said, "On second thought, let's just make rule one be 'don't touch anything, period'."

"Then what's the new rule two," asked Leo, still in a daze.

"Be careful where and how you jump or throw things," she said, pointing at their still upside-down position. "The gravity and laws of physics here are, er…" she paused to find the right word to describe it, before finally settling on, "Wonky."

Just then, a Kraathatrogon swooped by the blimp, the baby faced end of it giggling as it passed.

Raph stared at the sight with a goggled expression. "Freak show," he said.

"There's no sun, there's no anything," Donnie said, craning his neck to take in as much of the sights as possible.

"This. Is. AWESOME!" cheered Mikey, trying to jump in excitement, only to go tumbling off the blimp and out of sight.

"TENSHI!" shouted Leo, Raph, and Donnie in horror as they stared into the pink void, trying to spot where he went.

But Metalhead simply walked to the other edge of the blimp, and caught Mikey by the ankle as he came flying by out of left field and pulled him back onto the blimp, making his brothers all stare in surprise.

"That- This is ridiculous!" shouted Donnie in bewilderment. "Gravity cannot work like this!"

"Apparently here it can," muttered Leo as he hurried over to check on Mikey.

"Like I said," said Miwa gesturing at Mikey as if to present exhibit A. "Wonky."

"Sweet!" crowed Mikey. "Can I do that again?"

His answer was a resounding and unanimous, "NO!"

Finally having enough of being upside down, Donnie moved over to the steering wheel, and managed to flip the blimp so they were right-side-up again.

"Phew," he said as they started flying through Dimension X without his hood floating up above his head. "Well that's twenty-three percent better."

"So, Armonia, Metalhead," said Leo, taking charge so they could do what they came for and get out of this crazy place. "Do you know where the Kraang were keeping the mutated humans?"

The kunoichi and the robot exchanged glances, before shaking their heads. "Mortu only showed us them on an outpost video screen," Miwa said. "It didn't exactly provide us with a map of this place along with it."

Metalhead nodded in agreement with an apologetic buzz.

Leo grimaced as he heard that, before turning to Mikey. "Then, Tenshi, you thought you might be able to use your, er, Kraang sense even more in this place. Is that working for you at all?"

Mikey frowned thoughtfully, then held up his hand to signal them to wait. "Hold on," he said, then raised his other hand to press his thumb to his forehead and wiggle his fingers in the air.

"Dare I ask what you're doing?" asked Donnie.

"I'm trying to sense if they're nearby with my organic antenna," said Mikey in a tone of utter seriousness, despite how ridiculous he currently looked holding his hands against his head like antlers, and making an odd sort of humming sound with his mouth.

As he was doing that, Raph sent the rest of his siblings a look that was clearly questioning the youngest's sanity, which only became more pronounced as Mikey began doing a little jig around the blimp all while still waving his hands and humming.

Finally, Mikey came to a stop, and pointed in a random direction. "That way!" he declared.

The others exchanged glances, and shrugged simultaneously. "It's the best we've got for now," said Leo.

"You heard the man, Donnie," said Raph, deciding to just go with it. "Full speed ahead."

The genius nodded, and spun the steering wheel to send the blimp flying in the direction Mikey had indicated.

Several hours of flying later, it was still suspiciously calm in the floating pink void. Nothing had tried to attack them yet, but they had yet to see any of those they were looking for either.

"So, where are all the people?" asked Leo, voicing the question they were all thinking. "Feels like we've been searching forever."

"Ya got any idea where we're going, Tenshi? For real?" asked Raph, his tone making it clear his faith in Mikey's direction sense had long since waned, if it had ever been there in the first place.

"Of course I do, dude," said Mikey indignantly.

Just then another Kraang Worm flew in front of the blimp and roared at them.

"But there are always surprises along the way," Mikey said weakly at the sight of it.

"It's a Kraathatrogon!" shouted Donnie, being the only one who remembered the name. "Man the defenses!"

Miwa dove for the garbage cannon, and began blasting her ammo at the giant, mutagen-filled worm.

But despite her every shot hitting its mark, the worm was still coming for them, snarling angrily as it did so.

Raph grabbed his sister, and yanked her out of the way as the Kraathatrogon smashed itself into the garbage cannon, and continued to break its way through the entire balloon.

With a rude-sounding noise, the entire blimp started whizzing through the void at breakneck speeds as the air blew out of it.

The five teens and their robot had to cling to the handlebars for dear life, until the entire airless blimp crash-landed on one of the silver floating islands, sending them tumbling from the wreckage, bruised (or dented in Metalhead's case) but still in one piece.

Slowly they began picking themselves back up, groaning as they did so.

"I think I broke my brain," Mikey moaned rubbing his head.

"Ha, what brain," said Raph sarcastically as he got to his feet and reached for his sais. "I'm taking this freaky space worm down myself."

But just as he said that, the Kraathatrogon looped back around and sent him flying off the side of the island with a scream.

The siblings barely had enough time to panic at the sight of him disappearing over the edge, when suddenly Raph's scream came from above them, and he fell down on top of Leo.

Donnie was so busy doing a double-take of where Raph had disappeared to where both of his older brothers were now lying in a heap, that he barely noticed the Kraathatrogon coming for him next. Fortunately for him, Miwa did, and she tackled him out of the way.

Mikey then leap-frogged over his siblings with a cheer of, "I got this, dudes!"

With a series of leaps, Mikey hopped up onto one of the crystal trees, and let out a shout to lure the Kraathatrogon to him, then proceeded to do just what Miwa had specifically warned him not to do.

He broke off one of the crystal branches.

Miwa let out a strangled gasp at the sight as the tree began flashing as it prepared to blow.

But Mikey caught sight of a small bug-like creature crawling on a nearby branch, and grabbed it. Squeezing it tight, a long rope-like tongue shot out of the bug, and attached itself to a nearby rock-formation, yanking Mikey out of the way.

But the Kraathatrogon wasn't so lucky, and the tree exploded right in its baby-faced butt.

With a screech, the massive worm turned and flew away, still shrieking in pain as it did so.

Mikey then came in for a landing in front of his recovered siblings, and examined the crystal branch still in his hand.

"Hey, isn't this one of those crystals the Kraang use as a power source?" he questioned out loud as he recognized the crystal. He then grinned, and held it out to Donnie. "Here, Gifuto. I bet you can use this to power the Turtle Mech once we get back to New York."

His siblings barely registered his words, as they were too busy gaping at the display they had just witnessed. Seeing as his creator wasn't about to do so any time soon, Metalhead stepped forwards and took the crystal for safe keeping instead.

"Mi-Tenshi," said Leo, almost forgetting his brother's codename in his amazement. "How-how did you do that?"

Mikey shrugged in response. "I dunno, it just made sense to me," he said.

"Unbelievable," whispered Donnie, still in shock.

"So you really are a genius here," said Raph, finally having proof of it shoved in his face, but not fully able to process it.

Miwa let out an aggravated sigh. "Sure, why not," she said. "It makes about as much sense as anything here."

Metalhead looked at them all and let out a loud series of beeps, which finally broke through Donnie's daze as he nodded in agreement.

"You're right, Metalhead," Donnie said. "Weird as it is, Tenshi's Kraang-sense, or whatever it is, can only come in handy here. Any advantage we can get is good, right?"

Leo also picked up his jaw and nodded. "You're right," he said with his own nod, before turning to a preening Mikey. "Okay, Kraang Genius, what next?"

Mikey opened his mouth to reply, but Donnie cut him off.

"Guys, look!" he shouted, pointing at another island in the distance.

They all turned, and gaped as they saw what was on the island.

There were all the people they were looking for, mindlessly mining for more crystals off the trees on the nearby island. Only now the teens had no battleship to rescue them on.

"This just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse," said Leo as he stared at the mutated humans through his spyglass.

"We got this, guys," said Mikey cheerfully. "Don't sweat it."

"So we need to find a way to turn the humans back…" said Raph thoughtfully.

"And then the Mutanimals figure out a way to bring us all home," Donnie finished for him.

"It doesn't seem possible," said Leo pessimistically.

"Dude, it's the Mighty Mutanimals," said Mikey, looking fully convinced of their friends' awesomeness. "The operative word being Mighty."

"Plus April and Casey aren't bad themselves," added Miwa, making the others stare at her. That was unusually high praise coming from her.

But Mikey nodded his head enthusiastically. "Trust me, guys. They got it all under control."


Back in New York, all was not well with the Mutanimals in TCRI.

"We've gotta keep that portal open!" shouted Slash as he and Leatherhead worked together to beat back the seemingly endless army of Kraang. "For the sake of the city!"

"It's impossible!" shouted Pigeon Pete shouted as he evaded the laser fire above their heads. "They just keep coming! And we're getting low on sourdough!"

"They mayeth have numbers on their side, but we have valor!" said Malachi as he flew next to Pete. The sparrow then dived at the Kraang with a shout of, "Huzzah!"

Just then, the elevator door burst open, and through it stepped a Mrs. Campbell robot followed by reinforcements.

"Oh that's not good," remarked Jason from where he and April were still protecting Rockwell from the Kraang.

"Why didn't we bust that elevator when we got here?" asked Casey rhetorically as he smacked an exploding puck in the robot woman's direction.

But Mrs. Campbell caught the puck right out of the air, and tossed it aside, where it exploded harmlessly in a corner. "Biodroids, Irma-Bots," she ordered and said robots gathered around her.

Seeing the robot duplicates of her friend, April winced. "That is so wrong," she said.

"We are in a staggeringly phenomenal amount of danger," said Rockwell when he saw what they were up against.

"You said a mouthful," agreed Jason.

"Destroy the intruders!" ordered Mrs. Campbell as she armed herself with a laser whip and cracked it to signal the charge.

With a bellow, the Biodroids and Irma-Bots rushed forwards to attack, leaving the 'intruders' hopelessly outnumbered.

Not that that bothered Leatherhead as he surged forwards to meet them head on. "Bring it on!" he roared as he slammed into on of the Biodroids.

"Mutanimals! Don't let 'em near Rockwell!" ordered Slash as he and the rest rushed to join the alligator, leaving Rockwell with his two bodyguards.

If the room had been in chaos before, it was utter pandemonium now.

And the tide of the battle turned just as fast.

Pigeon Pete was taken down first, swarmed by Irma-Bots who pinned him to the ground.

Not long after. Casey and Malachi were taken down when they tried to help Pete, and two of the Biodroids were needed to pin Leatherhead who tried to aid the others.

April and Jason put up a valiant fight, but were quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers against them.

This left Rockwell to use his telekinesis to try and deflect his enemies as best he could, but Mrs. Campbell manage to hit him with her whip, and knock off his psychic amplifying helmet, cutting his powers down to the minimum. After that, it only took one Biodroid giving him a firm squeeze in its massive fist to subdue the monkey mutant.

Mrs. Campbell stood and observed their fallen enemies with an expression of mechanical disinterest, seeing that Slash was the only one left standing. Opening her rocket elbow and pointing it at the monkey, she said, "Give up, mutant. Or your friends will perish."

Rockwell was still struggling in the Biodroid's grip, and sent a desperate look at his leader. "Slash!" he shouted. "You can't let them deactivate the portal! The adolescents will be trapped in Dimension X!"

But Mrs. Campbell only buzzed her elbow as she prepared to fire, and several more Biodroids moved to surround the turtle, aiming at him with their butt cannons to add insult to injury.

Gazing around at his downed teammates, Slash scowled morosely as he realized what he had to do.

With a loud 'clang' he dropped his mace to the metal floor in surrender.

Mrs. Campbell then reached over to press a button on the controls, shutting off the portal and trapping the Hamatos in the other dimension.

"My friends," whispered Slash in regret, feeling they had failed their mission. "No!"

Mrs. Campbell surveyed them all, and moved to leave. "They may be of use to us later," she said as she swept out of the room. "Lock them up."

That was the last thing Slash heard before the Biodroids shot him with a stunning blast and everything went black.


Looking through his spyglass again, Leo tried to plan things out. "It looks like the Kraang have human hybrids on those three islands," he reported.

"Those islands are huge, man," said Raph, looking far more skeptical about their plan the longer they were there. "I mean, how are we going to turn all those mutants back into people?"

"You forget, Iyasa," said Donnie. "We just need to find a massive amount of mutagen, and convert it into retro-mutagen with this," he finished, holding up his super-retro-mutagen.

"Oh is that all," said Raph sarcastically. "A massive amount of mutagen. Let me just milk a few thousand Kraang worms."

"Or maybe if we gut them, they'll bleed mutagen instead," offered Miwa. "It'd solve two problems in one."

Her brothers and Metalhead stared at her.

"Sis," said Leo slowly. "Sometimes you scare me."

"Only sometimes?" asked Donnie.

Metalhead played the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in agreement.

But then something caught Mikey's eye overhead, and he grinned. "I bet that thing has a ton of mutagen inside of it," he said pointing.

The rest followed his gaze, and saw a Technodrome floating a few miles above their heads.

"A Technodrome?" asked Leo incredulously. "Tenshi-"

"Don't say it," said Mikey, already preening. "I know, I'm a genius."

"I was gonna say you're crazy," said Leo pointedly. "Steal a Technodrome?"

"And how would we even get there, the blimp's a wreck?" asked Raph.

Metalhead beeped and activated his rockets, and Raph rolled his eyes.

"How would the rest of us get there, I mean," he amended.

Metalhead promptly landed and let out an annoyed buzz.

"Well, we could borrow one of those Stealth Ships parked over there," Donnie suggested sheepishly as he jerked his thumb at a nearby Kraang outpost. "Just sayin'."

A grin slowly began spreading across Raph's face. "This is so crazy I'm starting to like this plan," he said.

Miwa smirked. "Just think how much damage we could do with one of those things."

Leo sent her a sidelong glance. "Really, really scare me sometimes," he repeated, making her smirk grow.

Mikey bounded over to take the lead. "Alright guys, stay frosty. Keep quiet, and all those other Raion-isms Raion likes to say."

Leo scowled at his baby brother's back and let out an aggravated sigh, knowing he wouldn't win this argument.

With that the six of them leapt off the island, only for the teenagers to float upwards, leaving Metalhead behind, and reappearing next to the island at just the right angle to land on it, the robot following soon after with his rockets.

Cautiously, they made their way towards the Stealth Ships. Keeping hidden as they eyed the closest one, Leo said, "Okay team, when I give the signal-"

"It'll be this," said Mikey, before flapping his arms like wings and imitating a very loud bird. "And then we sneak inside the ship."

Leo glared at him for stealing his thunder, but the glare quickly was replaced by a look of worry as he caught sight of something flying towards them from behind Mikey.

"That sounds like a great idea," said the screechy voice of Kraang Subprime as he hovered above their heads in his Irma disguise.

"Not this guy again," Donnie deadpanned.

"That's right, you freaks," said the Kraang smugly as he unfolded his android into its battle mode, and his alien self began flexing in its cockpit. "Kraang Subprime returns! You like that don't ya? Now come quietly, or I vaporize ya!"

Kraang Subprime then blinked in surprise, and had to dodge his body left and right to avoid several crystalline rocks being thrown his way.

Mikey had used the time he'd been flexing and bragging to gather up a bunch said rocks, and was now pelting them at the Kraang, who ducked to avoid them.

When it finally looked like the youngest was all out, Kraang Subprime turned smug again. "Ha, you missed," he said.

But Mikey just looked pointedly at Subprime's feet, and the alien followed his gaze.

There, nestled between Subprime's two robotic legs sat three of the crystal rocks.

Before the Kraang could react, Mikey opened his mouth and let out a piercing shriek that seemed to echo throughout Dimension X at an earsplitting pitch.

The sound made the three rocks detonate, and the resulting explosion sent Kraang Subprime flying off of the island and out of sight.

"You did it, little brother!" cheered Raph, pumping his fist in the air.

Metalhead reached over to give Mikey a high-three, which the turtle gladly accepted. "That's 'cause I'm sa-sa-sa-weet!" he said cheerfully.

"Come on," called Leo, hurrying for the Stealth Ship. "That won't hold that freak off for long."

"No," said Miwa dryly as the rest hurried after him. "That would be way too convenient."

Once they were inside the ship, Mikey ordered, "Gifuto, Metalhead, get this baby moving."

"I'm starting it! I'm starting it!" said Donnie as two of them hurried to the controls. Metalhead plugged himself into the panel, and the genius began pressing buttons on the steering.

A few seconds later the entire interior of the Stealth Ship lit up with a pink glow, and the engine hummed to life.

"So you really know how to fly this thing?" Leo asked.

Donnie laughed. "Of course not. I'm plugging Metalhead into the autopilot, and he's flying it."

"Whatever," said Raph. "Just get this bird in the air already!"

But Miwa was frowning. "Hold on, Casey told me you guys didn't use Metalhead to copilot the hot rod because Metalhead is a lousy driver? Something about too much Grand Theft Auto."

Donnie froze at that realization.

Leo exchanged a wide-eyed glance Raph. "Please tell me you fixed that," said the lead turtle hesitantly.

Donnie let out a nervous chuckle and Metalhead gave them a thumbs-up before using the controls to rocket the Stealth Ship into the air as fast as it could go.

The teenagers were thrown against the back of the ship from the speed they were going, and they all screamed at the top of their lungs (except for Mikey, who was whooping like he was on a rollercoaster).

Below them, Kraang Subprime slowly got back to his feet, and glared after them. He then pulled up a holo-communicator to contact his fellow Kraang. "Kraang Subprime to high base. Kids have hijacked that Stealth Ship."

"What are the orders that Kraang Subprime wishes to order as an order?" asked one of the Kraang on the high base.

Subprime rolled his eye, and said, "Oi, just shut up already. Do me a favor and unleash the Drako Droid!"

On his order, a massive door in the base opened, and out of it stepped a metallic monstrosity. It looked like a robotic dragon with two heads, no eyes, and rows of razor sharp teeth.

Two Kraang in saucers flew up into pilot seats atop the Drako Droid's heads to steer, and it was soon rocketing out of the base after the teens' Stealth Ship.

Within said Stealth Ship, the occupants had stopped screaming, but the force from the speed they were going still had the siblings pinned to the wall.

"So to sum it up," said Raph sarcastically from where he lay pressed between Donnie and Mikey. "We're in another Dimension, trying to do the impossible and save all the people of New York, and riding in a ship piloted by a Donnie's crazy robot who can only drive like he's in a car chase."

"If anyone's next words are along the lines of, 'It can't it get any worse,' I can't be held responsible for my actions," said Miwa, looking decidedly not amused.

There was a beat of silence to see if anyone would meet her challenge, but then something on the windshield of the ship caught Leo's eye.

"Uh guys," he said, managing to force his arm up to point. "Look!"

The all followed his gaze, and saw the Drako Droid flying at them at top speed, looking menacing as it flew through the pink void-like sky.

Raph reached over and smacked Mikey's shoulder.

"I DIDN'T SAY IT!" shouted Mikey indignantly.

"Yeah, but you were thinking it," Raph grumbled.

Miwa reached over and managed to smack the hotheaded turtle as well. "We were all thinking it, Shell Brain."

Raph considered her words, the reached over and smacked Donnie too, making the genius squawk. He would have also smacked Leo, but couldn't reach him.

"Tenshi, do you know what that is?" asked Leo to get them back on track.

"How should I know?" asked Mikey. "I've never seen it before."

Just then the Drako Droid opened its twin mouths and began blasting pink lightning at their Stealth Ship.

"BRACE YA'LL SELVES!" bellowed Mikey at the sight of the blasts.

Metalhead let out a buzz, and swerved the ship upwards to avoid the blasts, rattling his passengers in the process.

The robot then put all his crazy driving skills to use, swerving up and down and around the metal islands around them, trying to lose the Drako Droid or make it crash.

"Why aren't there seatbelts on this thing!" shouted Miwa as she and her brothers were thrown around the cockpit due to Metalhead's maneuvers.

Donnie opened his mouth to no doubt give a technical answer to her question, only to pale as he saw what was coming up ahead of them. "Watch OUT!" he shouted to Metalhead.

Ahead of the ship was a jungle gym of spiky metal pipes stretching in all different directions. It was clear that flying through it would be dangerous, and one wrong move could be deadly.

But Metalhead simply whirred in anticipation, and flew even faster towards it.

The teenagers began screaming again as the sped through the maze of pipes, avoiding the Drako Droid's blasts with several hairpin turns, and narrowly avoiding crashing themselves.

The Drako Droid, however, was too big to fit amongst the pipes, and it hovered outside them, roaring in rage.

"Booyakasha!" Mikey cheered as Metalhead flew them out of the pipes unscathed, and took off for the Technodrome once again.

But the Drako Droid wasn't about to give up so easily. It quickly flew around the pipes, and began blasting at them once again.

One such blast managed to hit the back of the Stealth Ship, and it flew out of control towards the Technodrome.

The occupants all screamed as the ship plowed straight through the giant ball's metal exterior, leaving a large hole in the side.

Behind them, the Drako Droid roared in triumph.


Waking up inside what looked like a large upside-down fishbowl within TCRI was the last thing Slash and his team wanted that night. But even so, here they were.

The more muscular of the group did their best to break the glass containing them, but it was no use. Their prison refused to shatter, and they remained trapped.

The lack of success was getting to all of them, but it steamed Slash most of all. "Let us out!" he shouted through the glass. "I swear, once I break these walls down, I'll-!"

Whatever he would do would remain a mystery as Leatherhead reached over to grab Slash's arm to keep him from hurting himself.

"It is useless, my friend," the alligator said in as close to a calming tone as he could manage in their situation.

Slash's face fell in defeat, and he sat himself down with a thud (nearly squishing Malachi in the process, but the sparrow managed to duck out of the way).

"It's my fault we got captured," the massive turtle growled to himself. "Maybe Raion was right. Maybe… I'm not fit to lead this team."

"That's not it at all," said April in an assuring tone. "He wasn't lying when he said he was upset we left without you guys. He was blaming himself, and taking it out on you, and he was wrong. He knows that, and so do we."

"Yeah, dude," said Casey. "You totally missed it when he was acting all mopey and self-doubting at the Lair while you were gone." The vigilante then added, "Plus, my dad told me what you did for him and my sister during the invasion. If it weren't for you and LH, Iyasa and the others would have to be pulling them out of Dimension X along with everyone else."

"He speaketh the truth," agreed Malachi. "Such a fate would have no doubt befallen my own parents as well, were it not for thy escort to safety, and discovery of their hiding place."

"Same with my Aunt," April piped up.

"Ditto with my folks too, as ungrateful as they are," added Jason.

"Not to mention Rockwell, Kurtzman and all the people who were at the lab," said Pete, focusing on encouraging Slash to avoid a panic attack from the cramped space they were in. "And I'd have been caught by the Kraang again if you hadn't saved me in the tunnels."

Seeing that he was still doubtful Leatherhead crouched down so that he was eye-level with Slash. "I have seen you save humans from the Kraang," he said. "Rescue your fellow mutants, us among them. You are a good soul, Slash. We are proud to follow you."

Slash slowly looked around at the mutants and teenagers staring at him encouragingly. "Thank you," he said gratefully.

Then he frowned. "But if we can't save the others, then all the humans of New York are doomed, whether they're in the Shelter or not. We've failed."

But Pete had noticed that Rockwell had yet to say a word during the entire pep talk, and turned to look over at the monkey mutant. "What are you doing, Tyler?" he asked, hoping for another distraction.

Rockwell sat in a meditative pose at the far side of their cage, and cracked one eye open to glance over at the pigeon. "I'm trying to focus," he said. "So would you kindly pipe down."

There was a beat of silence as the rest of them all stared at the monkey.

Finally Casey said, "Okay, I'm lost. What's he doing?"

"Focusing," Leatherhead replied. "Without the psychic amplifier we stole in a raid on the Kraang, his power is greatly diminished."

Seeing how April and Casey still looked a little confused, Jason pointed out of their cage. "The helmet Rockwell was wearing that got knocked off earlier, dudes."

"With it equipped, it doth increase his abilities greatly," said Malachi.

April frowned, then moved to sit in front of Rockwell. The action broke the monkey's concentration, and he glanced at her in mild annoyance.

But April didn't let it phase her. "Maybe I can help," she said. "I have psychic powers too, maybe if we combined them…"

Rockwell frowned thoughtfully, before nodding. "The idea has merit," he said, holding out his hands to take hers. "Close your eyes, and concentrate," he said to her, then shot a glance at the rest of the cage's occupants. "And not a peep out of the rest of you. This is a delicate process."

The two psychics then closed their eyes, and failed to see Casey send a rude gesture in Rockwell's direction.

Below their cage, a decapitated Kraang head slowly lifted from the pile of android parts, and began floating towards a retinal scanner.

"IT'S WOR-!" Pete started to cheer, but Malachi and Jason both clapped their hands over his beak to shut him up, and keep the Kraang from figuring out their plan.

The head paused in front of the scanner, and it buzzed as it read the commands. The glass case then rose up into the air, and its former occupants traded smirks.

They were free, and it was time for round two.


Slowly, a patrol of Kraang approached the Stealth Ship that had crashed into their Technodrome.

Upon reaching it, they stood beneath it and pointed their blasters upwards towards the hatch, ready for when their intruders popped out.

Only for it to open, and for the teenagers and their robot to leap out and take out the Kraang before they could even have a chance to fire.

But more quickly took their downed comrades' place, and the teens had to bolt to avoid the hail of laser fire in their direction. Metalhead took the rear, and returned fire at the Kraang as he followed after them.

Following Mikey's lead to the center of the Technodrome, Raph stabbed his sai into the door's control panel, locking the reinforcements out once they were all inside.

"We made it," said Raph in disbelief. "Wow, that was easy."

Miwa reached over and smacked him on the back of the head. "What did I say about saying things like that."

Raph turned to snap at her, only for his face to fall as he realized that they were not alone in the room.

Like when the Technodrome had crushed TCRI, the main center of this Technodrome was a massive room of narrow pathways and sharp spinning fan blades around a control panel in the center of the room, all powered by a thick pipe filled with mutagen. Though, unlike the last time they were in the heart of a Technodrome, the entire system wasn't cut in half, and set to explode, and its crew was still rearing to fight.

Crewmembers like the several pointing blasters at them at that very moment.

"Aw Kraang," groaned Raph as he readied himself for another fight.

The Kraang around the control center seemed just as surprised to see the siblings as they were, but recovered from it quickly and pointed their blaster at them. One of the Kraang (that was strangely wearing a pirate hat) gave the order for its comrades to fire.

"Ninjas Attack!" bellowed Leo as he led the charge against their enemies.

"Shouldn't I be the one giving the orders in Dimension X?" asked Mikey as he leaped up to hop on top of the Kraang flying in saucers overhead, squashing the brain-like aliens beneath his feet.

"Am I covered in mutagen zits?" asked Leo rhetorically as he cut down the androids in his path. "No, I'm not. I'll take your ideas and skills into consideration, Mikey, but I am still leader of this team!"

Mikey paused on top of one of the Kraang saucers (its pilot squealing under his foot), and considered that, before shrugging it off. "Fair enough," he said as he jumped off the Kraang, and used his kusarigama chain to swing like Tarzan around the room, and kick the Kraang in the pirate hat off the platform.

"Still," Leo said as he cut down another, only to see several spiderlike Kraang robots start crawling out of a hatch on the wall. "If you can take out all these Kraang droids…"

Mikey reached down to pick up a Kraang blaster, and beamed wickedly. "Can do, Boss," he said cheerfully.

Meanwhile, Donnie, Raph, and Miwa were using the sickle shaped fan blades as platforms to jump and dodge more Kraang saucers, all while taking out as many as they could, whether by their weapons or by knocking the aliens into the spinning blades. Metalhead, was flying around as well, trying to zap as many Kraang as he could, and punching several with his rocket fists.

Only to turn and stare in surprise as Mikey suddenly came flying by with two Kraang saucers stuck to his feet, and a blaster in each of his hands.

"Aw yeah!" he cheered as he began shooting down every Kraang in sight. "Check me out!"

He sent one of the Kraang flying into the hatch where the spider-like Kraang-bots were coming from, effectively blocking it off. The rest of the aliens in the room were soon sent falling past the fan blades into the dark depth below.

"Tenshi! That was amazing!" shouted Raph, too impressed to keep up his usual tough-guy image.

Metalhead beeped in agreement, and gave the youngest a double thumbs-up.

Mikey grinned back from where he was still hovering on the saucers. "Dimension X, plus years of video games equals Tenshi Awesomeness!"

"You have competition," Miwa couldn't help but tease Leo lightly.

Leo rolled his eyes in response. "Great, let's just get this thing moving," he said, turning towards where Donnie was already working on the control panel. "Gifuto, what have you got?"

"Good news," said Donnie said, pointing to a port on the mutagen pipe. "It looks like we have access to their mutagen supply through this fuel tube. "Not only do they use mutagen to terra-form, they use it to power the ship." He turned and beamed at the rest of them. "We've got a massive supply! Like-like this much!" he said brightly, holding his arms as far apart as they could go to demonstrate the size.

Mikey, meanwhile, had been making himself busy pressing buttons on the other controls, carefully monitored by Miwa and Metalhead.

"What are you doing?" his sister asked.

"If we wanna cure those people, we need to be closer," said Mikey simply as he pressed two buttons with his hands and one with his foot at the same time. With a buzz, a steering wheel popped out of the controls in front of him, and a hologram appeared to act as a windshield.

Metalhead stepped towards the steering wheel, but Mikey gulped and blocked his way. "Uh, I got this, robo-dude. You, uh, you've driven enough for the day."

Despite not having expressions, the look Metalhead gave Mikey was anything but amused, and he buzzed to show his annoyance.

Mikey shrugged apologetically, and started up the Technodrome, making it fly closer to the islands with the people. "Let's save New York!" he cheered.

For a giant ball of death, the Technodrome was surprisingly slow as it flew through the void. Fortunately, no Kraang managed to get in and stop them, but from the banging sounds outside the door, that may not last for very long.

Anticipating another attack, Miwa and Raph moved to stand on the walkway between the door and the control panel to act as guards, while Leo, Donnie and Metalhead hovered by Mikey in case he needed help.

Finally, the Technodrome was close enough to target the first of the islands, and the holo-windshield zoomed in upon it once it was locked onto.

"We have a visual on the human-hybrids, Gifuto," said Leo, unable to resist slipping into a more Space Heroes manner of speaking. "We need that portal ready to go."

"Give me two seconds," Donnie said as he made his own adjustments to the mutagen pipe. "I gotta add the retro-mutagen."

He then plugged the container of super-mutagen into the port, and added it to the mutagen powering the ship.

The entire Technodrome buzzed as he did so. Lights flashed, electricity crackled, and the whole death ball screeched to a halt before it all went dark, with only the glow of the mutagen to illuminate the room.

The teens braced themselves to keep from falling over (Raph and Miwa especially, since all they were on was a narrow walkway).

"Something's wrong," said Leo looking around in confusion in the dim light. "What's going on, Gifuto? Report?"

"I told you, the Technodrome runs on mutagen," said Donnie, pressing buttons frantically to try and get them powered up again. But the panel he was working on only fizzed and blew smoke in his face for his efforts. Coughing on it, he continued in a slightly panicked tone, "The engines just can't take retro-mutagen, Captain!"

"Not necessarily," said Mikey as he moved over next to Donnie, and began mashing buttons. "I just need to alter the ship's fuel converters, tweak the quantum difiblitrons, and…" he then pressed one last button, and they all stared in surprise as the mutagen pipe instantly turned from green to orange, bathing them all in a warm glow.

"Vuala," said Mikey with a flourish to his gaping siblings as the Technodrome returned to life, all its usually pink lights now a friendly orange.

Raph recovered first, "Mikey, you're-"

"A genius, I know," said Mikey proudly, very much enjoying the sensation.

"Why do I get the feeling Genius-Mikey is going to get old real fast?" asked Miwa dryly.

"You mean it hasn't already," Donnie grumbled to her softly, not enjoying being upstaged by his little brother.

"Get this thing moving, Mikey," ordered Leo. "We've left the others waiting long enough."

Just then a loud buzzing sound caught their attention, and they turned to see a pink saw begin to cut through the door separating them from the rest of the Technodrome.

The saw pulled out, and a green and yellow eye appeared in the hole it created. "Heeere's Kraangy!" shouted Kraang Subprime on the other side with a sinister grin.

The teens all tensed at the sight, but Metalhead simply hurried forwards, and pointed his flamethrower at the hole.

Seeing it, Subprime only had time to mutter, "Oh Kraang," and duck as the short robot sent a blast of fire at him.

Seeing that they didn't have much time left, Leo said, "Okay, Gifuto, we need that portal open! Call the Mutanimals!"

Donnie nodded, and hit the speed dial on his cell phone. "Come in April," he said, holding it to his ear. His face then fell as he heard no response. "April, you there? Anybody? April?" he asked worriedly.

"Great," said Raph as he and Miwa stood behind Metalhead to back their bot up. "If the Mutanimals can't transport us back, cancel the entire rescue mission."

"And us going home," added Leo grimly.

"Not to mention, I don't even want to know what these alien freaks would do with this much retro-mutagen," said Miwa, jerking her head at the pipe. "They cause enough trouble with the regular stuff."

Wincing at the possibilities that had, Donnie turned back to his phone and tried another number. "Rockwell, come in! Rockwell!"


With a roar of, "FREEDOM!" Leatherhead led the charge against the surprised Kraang, and the rest followed after, pummeling all in their path.

But Rockwell made a beeline for the portal controls. "We still need to reactivate that portal!" he called to the others.

Slash used his mace to take out a couple of advancing Irma-Bots, and shouted, "Just do it already!"

Pete and Malachi both swooped down to each grab one of Rockwell's arms, and flew him back up towards the controls. April and Casey followed to cover them from the Kraang fire, and Jason and Leatherhead did their best to divert attention away from the rest of them.

Dropping Rockwell where he needed to go, the two birds took over April and Jason's job of watching his back while he worked.

The monkey paid no mind to this as he began frantically pressing buttons on the portal controls. "Now," he muttered more to himself then his feathered bodyguards. "If we can transform the portal into a three-dimensional coordinate-locked beam-"

Just then Pete let out a startled squawk and, was thrown from his post by Mrs. Campbell. Before either Rockwell or Malachi could react, she pointed her rocket-launching elbow in their direction, and it glowed ready to fire.

But before she could shoot, Slash's mace flew through the air, and crashed into the robotic woman, slamming her into the wall, and falling to the ground where her body sparked, but was otherwise motionless.

"Great throw!" crowed Casey from where he was smacking the head off an Irma-Bot, and using said head as a hokey puck.

"Thanks, Chief!" called Malachi to Slash.

Rockwell, meanwhile, hit the final button on the controls, and allowed himself to grin. "Yes!" he announced to the others. "The portal is a go!"

Just like that, the portal fired up again, sending the swirling pink beam into the sky.

As the rest of the team finished off the last of their Kraang opponents, they cheered at the sight.

"We did it!" shouted Slash, punching his fist in the air.

"Now it's all on the others," said Leatherhead as he smacked a high five with Jason.

"Please, those dudes can handle it," said Jason confidentially. "I bet their waiting for us right now."

"One way to find out," said April as she pulled out a cell phone to contact Donnie, and moved to stand by Rockwell.


In the Technodrome, Donnie was even more ecstatic than usual to see his girlfriend's face appear on his phone screen.

"Come in, Gifuto," she said through the speakers. "We're back online, and ready to teleport some New Yorkers."

"April O'Neil, you are beautiful!" Donnie said gleefully upon hearing that.

April blushed at his words. "I bet you say that to all the girls," she said.

"Just the one," Donnie flirted back, but a look from Leo had him kept him from going on, and had him getting down to business. Turning back to the controls in front of him, he began imputing the necessary information. "Sending coordinates now. Adjusting for fifth-dimensional space…"

Mikey, meanwhile, was locking the Technodrome's mutation ray (or in this case, de-mutation ray) on the first island. "There they are," he said as the holo-windshield zoomed in on them to show it was on target. "The hybrids. Aw man, look at 'em. They're forced to work like Kroverian Ant-People."

Miwa rolled her eyes at her baby brother's back. "You read way too many comic books."

"Well they won't be for much longer," said Leo as he moved to stand next to Mikey. As he did so, a pair of levers to let him aim and fire the retro-mutagen popped out for him to grab. "Retro-mutagen locked and loaded," he said. "FIRE!"

The massive eye shaped screen on the front of the Technodrome lit up, and sent an orange beam to spread across the island, turning all the people there human again.

The humans had a moment to look around in confusion before the lack of oxygen occurred to them, and they began gasping for air.

"Sweet skills, Raion," said Mikey appreciatively.

"Don't get cocky!" Raph called from where he was still guarding the door. "We're not out of this mess yet!"

As if to prove his point, Kraang Subprime had resumed sawing through the door to get to them, and not even Metalhead's sending flames at him would detour him.

"I'm just getting warmed up, kiddos!" Subprime called sadistically over the sound of Metalhead's firepower. "I'm coming for your stinkin' hides, and sweet shells."

Miwa made a disgusted face. "Well that's a lovely mental image," she said sarcastically, making Metalhead nod in agreement.

Kraang Subprime ignored her quip, and went back to sawing.

But Leo's attention remained on the task at hand. "Gifuto, we need those humans teleported out now!"

"I'm on it!" Donnie said with a nod, and turned to his control panel and imputing the last of the coordinates.

On the other side, April quickly relayed them to Rockwell, and soon the people on the island were disappearing in a shower of sparkles, and reappearing in the streets of New York.

Seeing this, Donnie let out a whoop. "We did it! We turned a multi-dimensional transmat device into a mass-displacement teleporter!" he cheered as he geeked out.

"I have no idea what you just said, but Hooray," said Raph with a grin, momentarily turning his attention away from Subprime.

Mikey snickered and said, "That's how we're goin' home, Iyasa. Teleportation, ya'll."

Leo also beamed and added cheerfully, "Just like Space Heroes!"

The grin slowly fell off Raph's face when he heard that. "No way, forget it! You're not beaming my particles!"

"Would you rather stick around and have a playdate with this freak?" asked Miwa, jerking her thumb at the door.

Only for it to explode inwards on cue, and Subprime stepped through it in all his massive Irma-Android glory.

"Sa-prise!" he said as he gave them all a wicked grin.

Metalhead responded by pointing his flamethrowers at him once again.

Kraang Subprime only had enough time to grumble out, "Oh for the love a'-" before he had to duck to avoid another blast of flames.

But it was quickly clear that the flames weren't going to be enough, as more Kraang came flooding in through the hole Subprime had made, quickly outnumbering the group.

Seeing how much trouble they were now in, Raph called rapidly, "Okay, let's start beaming particles, Gifuto!"

He, Miwa, and Metalhead then rushed forwards to try and hold off the Kraang as the rest of their brothers locked on to the next island.

"Eliminate the ones called 'the kids'," said one of the Kraang, before Miwa took its head off.

"Oh shut up already!" she growled, getting very sick of hearing Kraang speak, only to find herself face to face with Subprime.

"That's what I said," Subprime said with a smirk as he swung one of his saw hands at her, but Miwa managed to duck out of the way.

"You've gotta hold them off, guys," Mikey called to the fighting three. "I've gotta pilot this thing!"

"Hold them off?" asked Leo, observing how many Kraang his brother and sister were up against. "How are they supposed to do that?"

"Yeah, that's a real good question, Greeny," said Subprime sarcastically. He then sent an explosive blast at the teens, and they all had to duck to avoid it (though, Metalhead didn't need to duck, as it flew right over his head).

The blast hit the far wall, and exploded, causing the whole Technodrome to shake around them.

With a growl, Raph shot forwards once again, and took out two Kraang flanking Subprime, before crouching down. Miwa ran right up behind him, and used Raph's shell as a stepping stool to launch herself into the air, and fly at subprime with her sword raised.

Subprime brought up one of his massive arms to block her blow, only to realize the two teens were just a distraction for Metalhead to fly in and blast the Kraang spy from the side.

Yelling in fury at being hit, Kraang Subprime aimed his blaster at the short robot flying overhead, and fired at him. Metalhead managed to fly out of the way, and the blast hit one of the spinning fan blades. The blade fell and landed right in front of the door, effectively blocking off any more Kraang from entering.

Seeing as he was now cut off from reinforcements, Kraang Subprime turned to take his rage out on the teenagers who were the cause of his ire, and slashed at them with his saw blades.

"There's one last island, Raion," said Mikey as he locked onto it. He then glanced over at Donnie. "We got enough retro-mutagen?"

"Down to ten percent!" Donnie called back.

Leo nodded, knowing he had to make this shot count. He quickly fired on the last island, tuning all the mutants there back into people, which were quickly teleported to safety.

"That's it," Leo called. "That's all the humans."

"Sending the last set of coordinates," said Donnie through his phone to April. "Ours. Get us out of here, Beautiful."

"You got it," said April, and in the background they heard Rockwell also call, "Confirmed."

Just then Kraang Subprime managed to swat Metalhead out of the air, and send him crashing into Miwa and Raph, causing the three to land in a heap on the walkway.

"Guys!" shouted Leo as he, Mikey, and Donnie hurried over to make sure they were okay.

"You're finished, stupid kids!" shouted Kraang Subprime with relish. "FINISHED!"

With that he launched himself at all of them with his saw blades ready to cut them to ribbons.

Only for the teens and their robot to vanish in a shower of sparkles just before he could reach them, and his saws slammed into the floor instead.

Seeing the now empty room, Subprime yelled in outrage. "NO! It can't be! NOOO! I was so CLOSE this time! SOOO CLOSE!"

It was only then that Subprime noticed the alarms going off in the Technodrome, and saw that Mikey had set up one last surprise before he'd left.

He'd sent the Technodrome on a direct collision course with a massive nearby island, and locked the controls so that it couldn't change direction.

Realizing this, Subprime's expression turned flat as he realized just how screwed he was. "Oh Kraang!" was all he managed to grumbled before the Technodrome crashed into the metal surface of the island and exploded on impact.


In New York, the Kraang patrolling the streets were in for a surprise as one after another people were appearing there, looking confused, but otherwise unharmed and (most importantly) completely human.

The Kraang tried to charge up their blasters to attack, only to find themselves teleporting off the Earth's surface, back to their home dimension.

Slowly, the people stared in amazement as the once dead looking city seemed to come back to life around them.

Having received the all clear from the Mutanimals, the people in the Shelter cautiously climbed back to the surface, emerging from the sewers to stare in wonder at the world around them and the people filling the streets.

On a roof top, five ninjas and a robot appeared in a shower of sparks, landing hard of the surface just in time to hear a rousing cheer come up from the streets that spread throughout the city like wildfire as the people rushed to meet their loved ones, embracing those they had not seen in months.

Seeing this, and knowing they were the cause of it, the siblings shared a wide grin, and Metalhead offered them all a thumbs-up.

"We did it!" said Leo in disbelief. "Somehow we did it!"

"WE'RE THE BEST!" crowed Mikey as he did a victory dance next to him. "GO NINJA! GO NINJA! GO!"

"Finally," said Donnie with a sigh of relief. "Everything is gonna go back to normal. Well, as normal as this city can get."

"Speaking of," said Miwa, glancing at the three turtles. "You guys can finally go back to normal too."

Leo, Raph and Mikey exchanged glances like they still couldn't fully believe that.

"Yeah, normal" said Raph wistfully. But then something occurred to him. "But what about the Mighty Mutanimals? And Casey?"

Next to him, Donnie paled, "And April!" he shouted, reaching for his phone to call her.

"What about us?" came the deep voice of Leatherhead behind them before Donnie could dial.

They all turned, to see the subjects of their concern walking across the rooftops towards them.

April rushed ahead of them all to throw her arms around Donnie's neck, and kiss him in front of everyone (prompting Leatherhead to reach over and cover Mikey, Malachi, and Jason's eyes under the guise of a group hug).

She pulled back to see Donnie giving her a dazed, but blissful grin. "That was too close for awhile there," April said, still keeping her arms wrapped around him. "Let's avoid doing anything like that anytime soon."

Donnie hummed in agreement, and leaned down to give her another quick kiss. "You should go find your father," he said as he pulled back. "He's down there somewhere waiting for you."

April gave her boyfriend a grateful smile, and with one last hug she let him go and hurried towards a fire escape to do just that.

Casey, who had been giving high fives and fist bumps to the other Hamato siblings, said, "I should go too. Dad and Shadow are probably worried, and it's gonna be weird now that they know what I do. And I can go tell Malachi's folks he's okay too."

"I much appreciate that, Sir Casey," said Malachi gratefully, knowing that the last thing the de-mutated humans would want to see is another nonhuman entity after their ordeal.

With a nod Casey hurried after April down the fire escape.

As they left, Leatherhead beamed at all of them. "We made it, my friends," he said.

"Looks like out plan worked, Doctor," said Donnie, moving over to congratulate Rockwell.

"Yes. And teleporting the Kraang back to Dimension X was a stroke of genius," said Rockwell, and Donnie glowed at the offhand comment.

Raph sent his older brother a grin. "You gotta admit, Leo. We couldn't have done this without everyone."

Leo nodded in agreement, sending a smile a Slash. "You did great, Slash," he said as he held out a hand for the larger turtle to shake. "I'm sorry I doubted you. Everyone deserves a second chance."

Slash beamed, and took Leo's hand. "I just tried to model myself after the best leader I ever knew. You."

Leo turned and grinned at the group. "Hamatos Clan, Mutanimals, it's time to celebrate!" he announced.

At that, they all gave a cheer of rousing cheer of, "BOOYAKASHA!" which could be heard even over the din in the streets below.

Finally things seemed to be going right.


A/N And so the invasion was stopped, and the Kraang were kicked back to Dimension X... Or were they? This was fun to write. I considered trying to add the Utroms into this, but wasn't able to fit them in. Still this came out pretty good in my opinion, what do you think?

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