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The Ever-Burning Fire
The Episode of 'Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff Crew' continued as a humanoid lizard-man tore apart a laboratory.
"Where is it?! Where is the formula?!"
"Rampage is over, Captain Reptile! Cause Chris Bradford is here!" The show's titular hero stepped in boldly to face the villain.
Captain Reptile backed up slightly but found a chemical on a nearby table, which he took and drank instantly. The second he drank it; he grew to enormous size.
"You mean itty-bitty Bradford?" The villain taunted.
"Lil Rineo! HOOO!" Chris Bradford called out to his sidekick, who jumped from a nearby window, landed on a piece of wood and jumped up from it like a diving board, flipping in mid-air to deliver a kick to Captain Reptile's face…
The episode was suddenly turned off, much to Mikey and Olaf's dismay as they were eating pizza.
"No! Why'd you do that?!" Olaf exclaimed as he and Mikey looked towards Raph and Anna, the red-clad Turtle having turned off the television. "I wanna know what happened to Lil Rineo!"
"Yeah, it's real Earth-style entertainment, yo!" Mikey agreed as they both stood up.
"Sorry guys, but playtime is over." Anna said.
"Suck it up, we're needed on the bridge." Raph agreed somewhat harshly.
Mikey slammed the pizza he was eating on the ground out of frustration. "I miss Earth! I'm tired of space!"
Olaf seemed to agree. "I miss New York! I miss Arendelle! I miss all the nice people! I miss Grand Pabbie and the rest of the Trolls! I miss Marshmallow! I miss the Mighty Mutanimals! And… and…"
"We miss Master Splinter." Mikey finished as both he and Olaf looked down.
Raph and Anna both turned back to their pair, their expressions having softened as they felt the same way.
"Yeah, so do we. Big time." Raph agreed.
"We all miss our home and our families." Anna said sincerely. "As amazing as space is, pretty much everyone here wants nothing more than to go back home, but we still have a job to do."
"That's right. We stop the Triceratons, and we can finally go home." Raph agreed. "So come on, let's finish this whole damn journey."
This seemed to help perk up Mikey and Olaf's spirits slightly as they smiled a bit and followed Raph and Anna toward the bridge.
The Bridge
The Ulixies continued to fly through warp as Honeycutt continued to guide the ship in his personal station in the center of the room while everyone else sat in their respective stations; most seemed tired and we're almost ready to doze off. Kristoff and Sven both gave huge yawns; even Elsa tiredly leaned her head onto Leo's shoulder as they sat next to each other.
"Are we there yet?" Casey complained.
"Don't even start with that Jones." Karai warned.
"Man, it's a long way to the Z-Z-3-Plural-X-Beta Galaxy." Donnie said as Anna, Raph, Mikey, and Olaf walked onto the bridge. "Even warping is taking forever."
"Yeah, I'd say the far edge of the known universe is a long way." Leo yawned slightly as he stretched his arms, his right arm having accidentally fallen onto Elsa who was still slightly leaning against Leo; they quickly realized the contact they were in and straightened up, both smiling and blushing slightly.
"So, wonder what space death trap we're gonna end up this time." Kristoff said.
"The planet itself is Magdomar, which translates as 'Planet of Ever-Burning Fire'. Bleep!" Honeycutt informed.
"A fire planet?" Elsa gulped. "Not liking the sound of that."
"Makes sense with your ice powers, Elsa." April agreed.
"Aw man!" Mikey complained. "Couldn't we just once go to the planet of comfy pillows and endless free pizza!?"
"Or a planet made out of chocolate with people that give out endless free hugs?" Olaf hoped. "Is it really too much to ask for a nice warm hug?"
Most of the group ignored their complaints as the Honeycutt continued. "It's also the home of Tokka, one of the six great Cosmic Monsters of the Universe."
"Like that Cthugga monster the Daagon had?" Anna asked.
"Similar, although while Cthugga is a gigantic sea-monster, Tokka is an ancient volcanian-fire beast." Honeycutt replied. "Protecting the final fragment of the Black Hole generator with its life."
"So, I'm guessing it's not gonna give us the piece if we ask nicely." Sven said.
"You gotta give the Utrom credit though." Kristoff said. "First ancient angel-like beings, then a giant space-sea-monster, now a living volcano; they really gave their all in hiding these pieces."
"For all the good it did." Raph contradicted. "Considering those horn-heads have two of them and are dead-set on getting the last one."
"If we can keep from losing it this time, we might pull this off!" Casey stated.
"We have too, this is our last chance." Elsa stated, her voice filled with determination and desperation. "We get this last piece and destroy it as soon as possible. That'll slow down the Triceratons long enough for us to gather all the allies we've made on this journey, launch a full-scale attack, get the other two pieces back and destroy them, ending the threat once and for all."
"Sounds like a plan." Leo agreed.
The Ulixies came out of warp just beyond a moon in Magdomar's orbit. The planet itself seemed to have large black landmasses with oceans of lava covering at least seventy percent of the planet upon first glance.
"Now approaching Magdomar." Honeycutt reported. "The Triceraton fleet must be near, we must avoid them at all costs!"
April got the readings on station. "I see them!" The main screen at the center spotted a Triceraton ship orbiting the planet. The screen zoomed in to show that the ship had already launched a squad of raptor-fighters that show down towards the planet's surface. "They're on the other side of the planet! Closing in!"
"They're already launching their raptors!" Kristoff stated.
"They're gonna find the Black Hole thingy before us!" Mikey practically screamed.
"Oh no! What are we gonna do?!" Olaf was on the verge of panicking.
"Don't panic!" Karai exclaimed. "They don't have the piece yet; we still got a chance!"
"This is our last chance! We can't fail now!" Raph stated.
"Mr. Fugitoid, full speed ahead!" Leo ordered.
Professor Honeycutt put the pedal to the metal as he piloted the ship straight for Magdomar as fast as he could. "Booyakasha!"
Triceraton Ship
Though the ship itself was an average Triceraton destroyer-class warship, it carried with it the most influential and powerful individual in the entire Triceraton Empire: the vile and cruel Emperor Zanmoran himself. He glanced up at the main screen to see the image of the three pieces of the Black Hole generator coming together to form one single weapon.
"At long last… the Heart of Darkness will soon be in my claws!" Zanmoran stated. "And with its power, the Triceraton Empire shall rule over this universe as we always should have! No one can stop us now!"
"Sire." Captain Mozar stepped up to his emperor's side. "There is no need for you to be here; I can acquire the final piece myself. After all, it was I who took back the first two pieces from those pestilent Earthlings."
"You mean those 'pestilent Earthlings' who still live?" Zanmoran shot his captain a glare. "While you have retrieved the first two pieces, you failed to destroy the small group of beings who have pestered us every step of the way! This is the final piece and I will not allow your incompetence to jeopardize the importance of this mission! Do you understand, Captain Mozar?"
Mozar growled slightly but new better than to undermine his Emperor's authority. "Yes sire, I understand completely."
"Emperor Zanmoran, the ship has entered orbit and the Raptor squadron has already made it past the planet's atmosphere." An officer reported.
"Excellent, send a search-team and ready the teleporters." Zanmoran ordered. "Once our forces have located the fragment, I will see to its retrieval personally."
"And I will accompany you, my Emperor." Mozar stated. "In all likelihood, the Earthlings cannot be far behind. I will squash them before they even reach the fragment!"
Zanmoran gave a nod but said nothing else. Despite Mozar's failures, he was among the best warriors the Triceraton Empire had ever produced, and he would take no chances in dealing with the Earthlings; he underestimated them before, it won't happen again.
The heroes didn't get a chance to look at the hellish landscape that was Magdomar's surface as the Ulixies had to steer out of the way of the geysers of lava that shot out from the ground.
"Well, if Hell ever really does exist, I'd say we found it." Kristoff pointed out.
"Yeah, there are fire-burps everywhere dude!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Actually, this is mild-calm part of the planet." Honeycutt said.
"Seriously?! This is mild and clam?!" Elsa exclaimed.
"If that's the case, then I definitely don't want to see the rest of the planet." Anna gulped.
The Ulixies came towards what appeared to be an island of enormous and spikey rocks in the middle of a lake of lava. "That's where the Utrom said the Fragment resides!" The Fugitoid reported.
"And it doesn't look like there are any Triceratons nearby." Sven said after looking at the radar on his station
"Then let's grab it, pronto!" Casey said.
It took no time at all to find the fragment of the Heart of Darkness that stuck out, apparently wedged between large boulders.
"There it is!" Leo said.
"Hooray! We found the Fragment!" Olaf cheered as the Ulixies activated its tractor beam to extract the device.
"We might actually get out of this without a fight." Donnie voiced with a smile.
"Don't push our luck, it's never that easy with us." Karai remained on high alert, as her statement proved to be correct because the Fragment still remained embedded in the rocks and hadn't budged an inch.
"What's the hold-up?" Raph questioned.
"It's stuck." Leo stated. "It'll have to be a manual-op."
"Then let's land and get it out." Elsa said. "I don't want to stay any longer here than we have to."
"What's wrong Elsa? You seem tense?" Olaf asked.
"Aside from the fact that the Triceratons are here and very close by; I'm not sure if my powers will even work in a place like this." Elsa said.
"We're gonna need a clear landing spot." Leo tried to find one. "How about over there?" He pointed on the radar.
"Hmm, it's been pretty quiet here so far." Kristoff said. "Where's this Tokka-thing?"
"Somewhere close by." Honeycutt answered. "But if we act quickly, we can…"
The entire Ulixies was suddenly rocked as the ship was pelted by multiple green lasers from the outside.
"What the heck just happened?!" Sven shouted.
"Someone just shot at us!" Karai reported.
"Who?!" Leo exclaimed.
"I did! Lord Dregg!" The evil and egotistical insect lord's face appeared on the main screen, having hacked into their communications. "You idiotic mutant Terrans!"
"Oh no! It's Lord Dregg!" Olaf screamed in fear as everyone else looked either in shock, frustration, or just plain annoyance.
"Oh, come on! Are you kidding me?!" Elsa was ready to pull her hair out as she was more than sick of dealing with this oversized bug.
"Seriously, doesn't this guy have anything better to do with his life?!" Donnie was in agreement.
"He's even more obsessed than Shredder!" Karai voiced.
Dregg's personal craft, the Hornettron, flew above the Ulixies before hovering straight in front of it as Dregg continued his rant.
"Did you shell-dwellers and flesh-bags think that you could escape my wrath?! You reduced my entire planet to a frozen wasteland! Countless of my insect brethren have lost their lives! Even I can no longer return to my home! And for that, you shall meet a horrifying and depressing end!"
"I'm always prepared for that." Honeycutt said honestly. "When all you have left is a humanoid brain, you tend to get…"
"Evasive Action!" Leo ordered.
The heroes piloted the Ulixies as it shot past the Hornettron that gave pursuit as it opened fire. It tried to return fire with Raph, Casey, Kristoff, and Sven on the weapon's systems. One laser managed to hit Dregg's craft, but it did little damage as Dregg's ship was more suited for battle, which couldn't be said as the Ulixies took damage from the Hornettron's attacks.
"Shields are weakening!" April reported.
"Elsa, we could use some ice-dragons right now!" Casey exclaimed.
"Fire planet, remember?!" Elsa reminded. "Anything I make probably won't last ten seconds!"
"Even less than!" Honeycutt informed as he continued to steer the Ulixies. "Magdomar's average temperature is so hot that any ice-constructs Elsa makes will melt and evaporate in zero point three seconds!"
Despite Leo's maneuvering with the Ulixies, the Hornettron was still on their tail and continued to hit the Ulixies with its laser fire.
"We're taking a lot of damage! We can't take much more of this!" Karai exclaimed.
Anna saw on the screen of her station, the Hornettron producing five pods. "It's launching bug-eggs!" She cringed in disgust as she sawt he eggs hatch and produce five Vreen soldiers. "That is just… gross on every level!"
"Bug soldiers closing in fast!" Leo reported.
"Not for long! Come on Sven!" Kristoff took the weapons with his mutant-reindeer companion.
"Right behind you buddy!"
Kristoff took a laser at the upper starboard side while Sven took one on the lower port side. They each shot lasers and were able to successfully hit and kill each Vreen soldier before they could even make contact with the ship. However, before they could celebrate, the Ulixies rocked again as the ship's systems already began to fail.
"Oh no." April's face became filled with horror. "Power converters are failing! We're going down!" The Ulixies began to lose altitude, shooting for the planet's surface with the Hornettron still in pursuit.
"Diverting power to thrusters!" Honeycutt was able to pull up the ship and prevent it from crashing, but their enemy was still behind them.
"Casey, Kristoff, Sven, we gotta him simultaneously! Right on his ship's bug-head!" Raph stated as they each readied their respective weapon controls. "One… Two…"
"…THREE!" They all shouted at the same time as all four laser turrets locked and opened fire at the same time, scoring a successful direct hit on the Hornettron, exploding the top and sending it flying back in the distance.
However, the heroes didn't get a chance to celebrate as the Ulixies continued to plummet towards the surface of Magdomar. They all screamed as Honeycutt tried to pilot the ship as best he could. The Ulixies bottom hit a large jagged rock before it fell further and crashed on the blackened and barren surface, skidding to a harsh halt.
They all groaned as they tried to pick themselves up from off the floor. "Is everyone alright?" Leo asked.
"Yeah, still in one piece anyway." Karai groaned as Sven tried to help her up.
"Talk about a hard landing dudes." Mikey shook the cobwebs out of his head.
Once everyone was on their feet, they tried to get themselves situated. "Please tell me we're still close to the Fragment." Kristoff hopped.
"Yes, fortunately, we are still roughly ten kilometers away from the fragment's position." Honeycutt reported.
"Yeah, but the ship is barley flyable." Donnie looked at the readings on his station. "Guess we're walking the whole way."
"I will stay here and repair the ship." Honeycutt said. "I'll try to have it up as soon as I can."
"Alright." Anna said as the group was about to head out, but she noticed Olaf about to follow them. "Oh, you should probably stay here and help the Professor, Olaf."
"What?" Olaf sounded a bit hurt. "But I always go with you guys."
"Well yeah, but this is a fire planet." Anna explained. "And remember what the Professor said? Anything Elsa makes will melt in less than a second, that includes you."
Olaf seemed to understand. "Oh… Okay, I get it."
"Not to worry my little friend." Honeycutt tried to rouse his spirits. "I could use an extra set of hands to help repair the ship. Between the two of us, we can have the Ulixies back up in no time!"
This caused Olaf to smile. "Yeah! Let's get to work!"
The Fugitoid then addressed the rest of the group. "Head north, and be careful, this planet is among the most hazardous that we've ever been to on this journey. And remember, stay cool!" He chuckled slightly. "I made a funny!"
Olaf actually laughed. "Yeah that was funny! Stay cool! Because we're on a fire planet!"
Everyone else groaned as they all left the bridge to head outside.
Triceraton Ship
Emperor Zanmoran and Captain Mozar continued to stand and wait for their soldier's reports on the bridge of the warship when they suddenly got a communication. Lord Dregg's face appeared on the main screen above them.
"Triceratons! Heed me!"
"Vringath Dregg." Zanmoran narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Why would criminal scum dare to contact the Triceraton Empire?!" Mozar questioned.
Dregg appeared to feign a hurtful expression. "Oh, that hurts! I am royalty, you fools! And I know where the final Fragment of your adored Black Hole generator is! The Turtles, that annoying ice-female, and their allies are on their way to get it as we speak."
Mozar growled, but Zanmoran held his hand back to keep Mozar from acting out as the Triceraton Emperor spoke in a diplomatic tone.
"I apologize for my subordinate. Perhaps we can find a mutually beneficial solution; one royal to another." Zanmoran proposed.
"Oh, finally! Someone with common sense!" Lord Dregg stated. "I will help you to locate the fragment of your silly toy, all I'm asking is for the Turtles and the Ice-female, alive; you can throw their humanoid allies into your gladiatorial ring for all I care. I would also like forty million samulax."
"Very well." Zanmoran nodded. "If you find the Fragment first, the money and the Earthlings are yours."
Dregg smiled before he ended his communication as Mozar spoke to the Emperor. "Sire, how could you negotiate with such a vile insect?!"
"While I do admire your ferocity and longing for battle, Mozar; not every situation needs to be settled with violence." Zanmoran told the Triceraton Captain. "Often times, cunning is the weapon greater than any sword."
Magdomar
The heroes had donned all their spacesuits as they continued to traverse the hellish landscape. They came to a stop near a gap with a river of lava underneath. Elsa thrusted her hands to create an ice bridge, which melted and evaporated into steam the instant it was made.
Elsa sighed. "Looks like the Professor was right. Anything I make won't last long. I'm sorry guys."
"It's not your fault Elsa." Anna told her. "If anything, it's this stupid planet."
As the group jumped over and helped each other cross the gap, Leo offered Elsa a hand to help her cross, which she took without hesitation. Leo handed her one of his laser-katanas.
"Here, you might need this just in case." The blue-clad Turtle said as Elsa took the weapon.
"Thanks Leo." She smiled.
"Hey, get a room later you two!" Karai said. "We're on the clock!"
The group continued to walk as they traveled along a ridge off the side of a mountain. They felt a tremor which shook the area and almost caused them to lose their footing.
Donnie looked at the readings on his staff-scanner. "This whole area looks unstable, we'll need to…" Another tremor shook up the area as lava spewed out from behind them. Kristoff was almost covered in it, but Sven pulled him out of the way just in time.
"Run!" Sven exclaimed as the group ran as fast as they could away from the area; they ran up a large rock-bridge as another tremor hit and more lava spouts shot around them.
"This whole planet's out to get us!" Mikey screamed as he, Anna, and April fell behind most of the group. April tripped just as the everyone else made it to the other side of the stone-bridge.
"April!" Anna helped the younger girl up but looked in shock as the bridge began to collapse from behind. They both ran as fast as they could, but just before they could make it to the other side, the entire bridge collapsed, and they would have fallen to their deaths had Kristoff not grabbed Anna and Casey for April. Elsa and Leo joined them as they began to pull their friends back up to safety.
"Are you guys okay?!" Elsa asked urgently.
"Yeah… almost saw my life flash before my eyes." Anna shook her head.
"Thanks guys. We almost bought it." April took a sigh of relief.
Before they could even resume their journey however, the Dregg's Hornettron suddenly appeared out of nowhere and swooped in to grab Elsa by its mandibles, flying away with her as she screamed.
"ELSA!" Leo and Anna shouted as everyone looked in shock.
"Dregg! Again!?" Karai exclaimed out of anger and frustration as they all ran after them.
Elsa struggled in the Hornettron's grip. "I am not going to be your personal weapon, Dregg!" She shouted defiantly to the Insect Lord piloting the ship.
"Oh, I no longer have any intention of weaponizing you, my dear." Dregg sneered as the Hornettron came to a halt over the sea of lava. "After what you've done to my planet… sending my brethren to an icy grave… I think it's only fitting that I send you to a fiery one!"
The Hornettron released its grip, sending Elsa falling towards the lava. She screamed as she fell; desperately trying to form her ice-wings or shoot her magic out to soften her landing, but just like before, anything she made was rendered to steam instantly. However, her salvation came in the form of Leo as he swung from his suit's built-in grappler, catching Elsa just in time, while swinging up to a stable ridge and into safety.
Elsa immediately threw her arms around her savior. "Thank you, Leo! I really thought I was going to die!"
Leo returned her embrace. "It's alright. I won't let anything happen to you Elsa, I promise." He assured her as the rest of their friends and family regrouped.
Their tender moment was interrupted as Lord Dregg himself yelled furiously and flew down straight at them. Leo and Elsa were the first to be knocked back by a flying punch from the insect-lord before he swiped his claw at the nearest enemy, which happened to be Donnie, who was sent crashing into a rock.
Sven grabbed Dregg to try and crush him with a bear-hug, but Dregg's own strength was enough to break from Sven's grip before he delivered several punches to knock Sven down. Kristoff and Raph were next to attack as they slashed at him with their respective weapons, landing successful hits in but when they both came in for a simultaneous attack, Dregg caught both of them by their wrists with his hands before slamming them together and sending them crashing into Mikey and Casey.
Karai leapt at Dregg to deliver a kick before she tried to drive her blade at him, but Dregg flew into the air to avoid it as he launched a spider arm at her, ensnaring her in its red web-like fluid. He was about to pull her up, but Elsa came in with the katana Leo let her borrow to slice off the web, severing Dregg's whole right hand. Leo tried to jump from a rock and attack while airborne, but Dregg met him with a punch to the gut before striking with his fist onto Leo's helmet, sending him hurtling to the ground.
April and Anna ran around Dregg to try and shoot him with their respective laser guns, but this only tickled him as he launched several chest-missiles at the girls. Anna closed her eyes and prepared for the worst, but nothing ever came as she looked in surprise to see April using her psychic powers, focused through her Aeon crystal, to telekinetically hold the missiles in place.
"Thanks April." Anna said in relief.
"Back at you Dregg!" April threw the missiles at the Insect Lord, scoring a direct and explosive hit, sending him crashing into a ledge and falling down hard, hitting several rocks as he fell. He struggled to pull himself back up as his wings were damaged and he was missing a whole arm; only to look in surprise and frustration as he saw all his enemies standing back up, more than ready to fight him.
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST LET ME END YOUR PITTIFUL LIVES?!" Dregg wined.
"Because we actually like staying alive, freak!" Kristoff shouted.
Another suddenly tremor hit, shaking up the whole area. This one was much larger than the others as a large crack formed in the foundation of the island they were standing on. The group almost lost their footing, even Dregg himself. Elsa saw this as an opening and rushed Dregg with her borrowed laser katana. Dregg couldn't react in time as Elsa sliced at his chest before delivering a roundhouse kick to his face, causing him to stumble back just as the ground underneath him gave way and collapsed.
Dregg fell and couldn't fly back up due to his damaged wings. He tried to launch his only remaining spider-arm, but it couldn't find a good grip and he continued to fall. The group couldn't see where he fell, but it looked as though he wasn't coming back.
"Good riddance." Elsa sighed in relief as everyone picked themselves back up.
"So, is he really gone? Like really gone for good this time?" Kristoff questioned.
"He lost an arm, his wings were broken, and he just fell straight towards some lava. So yeah, I'd say he's gone." Karai assumed.
"Finally!" Casey exclaimed. "Dregg's harder to squish than a cockroach."
"Tell me about it." Anna rolled her eyes. "Nice one Elsa."
"Thank you." She smiled.
However, now was not the time to celebrate. "Come on guys, we better haul shell before the Triceratons find us to." Leo told the group as another tremor hit, this one milder than the others before.
"Whoa, excuse me dudes. Had a little gas." Mikey said.
"Not funny Mikey." Sven's eyelids lowered.
Donnie observed the area as more lava plumes shot up in the distance. "These earthquakes are being caused by an unstable magma…"
The entire area shook again, but this time with a much larger tremor. Most of the group was knocked off their feet with Raph being dangerously close towards an edge that he slipped and fell off completely, much to everyone's horror.
"RAPH!" They all screamed.
The red-clad Turtle continued to fall and plummet, but he quickly pulled out his laser sai and drove it into the wall, causing him to slide to a halt just inches away from the lava. He gave a quick sigh of relief before taking out his other sai to begin climbing back up.
"Raph, are you alright?!" Anna called to him out of worry.
"Yeah, I'm alright!" Raph called back as he pulled himself up onto a small ridge and spotted an odd light orange round object that looked so much like… "Is that an egg?"
He full got onto the ridge and picked up the egg in his hands to get a closer look at it. He tapped it slightly, only for the egg to shake slightly before it cracked, and the creature inside hatched out. It was a tiny hand-sized dark red turtle-like creature with large eyes. To say it was adorable would be an understatement. It looked towards Raph and gave a cute alien-call to him, apparently imprinting on him.
Even Raph's hardened heart melted slightly at that. "Awe, some kind of turtle-alien." He helped it on its feet in his hand. "Where's your mama, little guy?" He set the adorable creature down on the ground. "Okay, now go find your nest." The infant creature took its first steps as it walked closer towards the edge, but Raph pulled him away.
"Whoa, you're too close to the bad lava little fella." Raph advised as the baby looked up at him and wagged its tail. He helped it on his shoulder. "Better stay with Uncle Raph for now."
Raph climbed back up to meet the rest of his friends along with his passenger. "Hey guys, look!" The adorable alien baby gave its cute call as everyone else looked at it in surprise. But once Anna set her sights on it, hearts formed on her eyes as she immediately gushed.
"Oh my gosh! It's so adorable!" Anna practically squealed. She waved her finger at it. "That has got to be the cutest thing I have ever seen!"
"What exactly is that?" Kristoff asked as Sven looked in surprise himself.
"A baby turtle?" Casey questioned. "What'ch you do, lay an egg down there?"
"Not a good time to adopt an alien pet, Raph." Donnie told him.
"Yeah I gotta agree with Donnie on this one." Karai also said, but once she looked at the baby's eyes, a small smile formed on her face. "Even if it is cute."
"Awe, look at him!" Mikey took the baby in his hands. "He's almost as cute as me."
"I know!" Anna agreed as she took him in her own hands this time. "Who's a cute widdle alien turtle? You are! Yes, you are!" She gushed as she waved her fingers in front of its face; it smiled and bit down on her finger, however. "OW!" But she still smiled and handed it back to Raph.
That bite gave Raph an idea. "How about I call you 'Chompy Picasso'?" He gave the name as the alien, now named 'Chompy' nuzzled its head against Raph's helmet.
"Oh, that name is perfect!" Anna squealed. "Come on Elsa, you have to admit that Chompy is adorable!"
Even Elsa smiled slightly. "Yeah… he really is cute, isn't he?"
"Yeah, but what we need to do, is find out who his mom is and give him back." April advised.
"April's right." Sven agreed. "There's nothing more dangerous than a wild animal mother looking for her baby."
"We don't have that kind of time!" Leo stated. "We're on a mission to save Earth not alien turtles!"
"Leo, hold on! We can't just…" Elsa was about to say something, only for her to look upwards and gasp as she and everyone else spotted three Triceraton fighters closing in on their location.
"Raptors! Everyone hide!" Karai exclaimed as the group all ran and hid behind a large rock, which fortunately went unnoticed by the Triceratons as their vessels landed and a trio of Triceraton soldiers stepped outside.
The lead Triceraton took out a pair of binoculars and managed to locate their objective. "Sire, I've located the Black Hole weapon fragment. Dregg made good on his intel."
"Did he just say Dregg?" Kristoff whispered as the group continued to hide.
"Bug-boy must have tipped them off." Sven growled quietly. "Damn him."
The group looked in quiet surprise as they saw several more Triceratons beam down; five soldiers to act as guards, Captain Mozar, and the Triceraton Emperor himself. Most of the heroes were mildly surprised to see the Emperor himself present; save for Leo, Elsa, and Karai who glared at the dictator.
Zanmoran took the binoculars from the soldier who contacted him to see the Fragment for himself. "There it is. Ultimate power is soon within my grasp!"
"Oh no, they found it!" Donnie uttered in a slight whisper.
However, before anyone else could make a move, Chompy Picasso gave another call. Raph quickly pulled him back as everyone else took cover.
"What was that?" Mozar questioned. The soldiers opened fire at the rock where they heard the sound.
"I think they found us!" Anna exclaimed.
"Let's make a break for it, homies!" Mikey shouted as the group ran out from their cover; Anna, Leo, and April returned fire with their laser guns. "Later dino-dudes!" Mikey shouted as he threw a smoke-bomb down. When the smoke vanished; the Turtles and their friends were all gone.
"The Turtles and the Earthlings are here!" Mozar exclaimed. "Of course, that impudent bug couldn't destroy them!"
Zanmoran growled. "Do whatever it takes to retrieve the Fragment! Those Earthlings will not thwart me again! Not this time!"
After making some distance away from the Triceratons; the eleven heroes managed to make it to the island where the Fragment was; after ascending and climbing up the hill, they managed to make it to their objective.
"Fugitoid! We found the Fragment; we'll have it loose in no time! We need a pick-up now!" Leo contacted Honeycutt.
"Oh dear, we haven't gotten the ship's power back online yet!" Honeycutt replied.
"There are too many wires and buttons! I don't understand what any of this means!" Olaf practically screamed.
"Well what the heck are we supposed to do?! Carry the thing back?!" Kristoff exclaimed.
"We may not have a choice!" Sven stated.
Chompy gave a call while perched on Raph's shoulder, prompting the red-clad Turtle to pat him and calm him down. "Hey little guy, if I knew how to find your mama, I'd…"
A loud roar echoed throughout the area as the entire ground began to shake, rocking everyone in the area. But it didn't just shake, it actually appeared to elevate and turn, to where the ground was beginning to actually point up vertically! Everyone screamed as they all lost their footing and began to slide off the back of the moving island; which actually turned out to be the back of the enormous volcanic monster guarding the final Black Hole Fragment: Tokka.
The monster was the size of a volcano; all the other lifeforms; human, mutant and Triceraton alike, were mere insects compared to this great beast. It also bore the resemblance of a humanoid Turtle made entirely out of volcanic rock. The landmass the heroes thought they were previously standing on turned out to be its massive and spikey shell. The heroes almost fell of completely if it weren't for Sven grabbing onto the edge with Raph grabbing onto his legs, followed by Kristoff, Mikey, Elsa, Leo, Anna, Karai, Donnie, April, and Casey.
"Um… lucky guess… but I think we found Tokka." Anna said in a meek tone as they heard the creature deliver a three-mile-long roar.
Despite Sven's own strength; the combined weight of all his friends was too much for even him to carry. "Slipping… too much…. Weight!" He couldn't hold on any longer as he let go; resulting in him and everyone else screaming as they fell off Tokka's shell.
Fortunately, they fell on a flat ground as opposed to a pool of lava which was only about a twenty-foot fall. Though the impact did hurt, they all survived.
"Oh snap." Casey breathed in relief, fearing the worst.
They looked up to Tokka in amazement as the gigantic monster turned its attention to the Triceratons on the side of a mountain that were shooting at it.
"Look at the size of that thing…" Kristoff's eyes were wider than a pair of softballs.
"It's… it's… almost… amazing…." Elsa breathed.
"Let's just be glad it's not focused on us." Karai pointed out, as she saw the guardian-beast's attention focused on the Triceratons.
"The Fragment's still stuck to Tokka's shell!" Donnie exclaimed upon seeing the Black Hole piece still embed in-between the smaller spikes.
"The Triceratons have its attention now." Leo pointed out as they could only watch the conflict ensue. Though when Tokka's hand brushed against a large rock, multiple pieces of debris were knocked off and sent the heroes' way, forcing them to run to avoid getting crushed. They were able to find some cover behind three massive stalactites.
"Professor, how much longer can you get the ship fixed?!" Elsa practically screamed through her communications.
"I'll be finished in two shakes of a dungle!" Honeycutt reported.
"That means we'll be finished soon!" Olaf translated.
"So, what do we do in the meantime?!" April questioned.
"The only way to get that thing is to climb Tokka!" Mikey stated.
"Climb a gigantic fire monster to retrieve a piece of a weapon of mass destruction while it's fighting a bunch of deadly aliens?!" Kristoff exclaimed. "Sure! Why not?!"
"Alright; Raph, Kristoff, Donnie, Sven, Mikey, and Karai are with me!" Leo instructed. "Elsa; you, Anna, April, and Casey all stay here!"
"Yeah, alright." Elsa nodded, knowing that she wouldn't be able to help them all this time.
Raph handed Chompy Picasso to Anna. "Please keep Chompy safe." The princess took the baby alien turtle as Raph spoke to Chompy personally. "You'll be okay with Anna, little buddy."
Anna patted Chompy's head as she and everyone else saw their friends run towards Tokka. "Be careful everyone! Good luck!"
Meanwhile; Zanmoran and Mozar led the squadron of Triceratons, which were later joined by the other Triceratons sent down to search for the fragment, forming a squad of at least twenty soldiers as they opened fire with their rifles at Tokka, but this seemed to barley phase the ancient beast.
"Bring it down! Cripple it if you have to! Do whatever it takes! I want that Fragment!" Zanmoran exclaimed.
However, Tokka's belly began to glow underneath its rocky exo-skeleton before it opened its mouth to shoot a massive condensed beam of fire and plasma, which obliterated half the Triceraton squadron and tore a hole clean through the entire mountain.
Zanmoran groaned as he tried to pull himself up, as he did however, he happened to glance something behind Tokka. He took out his binoculars to zoom in, where he spotted Elsa, Anna, April, and Casey. He sneered as he recognized Elsa, the cryokinetic female that attacked him and destroyed his personal craft.
"Sire!" Mozar helped up his Emperor.
"Mozar, I leave you to retrieve the Fragment. I have something personal to attend to." He pressed a device onto his belt, teleporting him away.
The Triceraton captain's eyes became serious as he glanced at Tokka. The Emperor had now just entrusted him to retrieve the prize of the Empire, he would not let him down.
"Soldiers!" Mozar exclaimed as he activated his own teleporter to bring down some heavy artillery, the kind that came from Triceraton areal troops as they ejected from their Raptors. "Stand your ground to the very end!" He ordered as he and the rest of his squad opened fire on Tokka. "Destroy this beast!"
Meanwhile; the Turtles, Kristoff, Karai, and Sven ran along a large stone bridge; once they made it behind Tokka, they all jumped and activated the grappler's built into their suits. The hooks each hit the spot as they were automatically pulled onto Tokka's shell; grabbing onto whatever rock or ledge they could. They could see the Black Hole Fragment but were still quite a distance away.
"How are we gonna get that thing?!" Mikey exclaimed.
Elsa, Anna, April, and Casey saw their friends had made it onto Tokka's shell. "Yes! They made it!" April cheered.
Anna felt Chompy crawling all over and she tried to get him to calm down. "Hey, hey take it easy little guy." She held onto the baby creature that seemed incredibly excited for some reason. "Don't pay attention to the scary monster. Here, look at Aunt Anna's face!" She tried to make all sorts of silly faces.
"Poor guy's probably freaked out cause of the giant monster." Casey guessed, but this turned out to be false as Chompy gave an excited call, something that got Tokka's attention as she returned the roar.
The group of four hid behind a large stalactite as Elsa looked at Chompy and back at Tokka. "I don't think Chompy's afraid of Tokka…" Her eyes widened as she contacted the rest of her friends. "Guys! I think we found Chompy's mother!"
"Are you seriously telling us this now?!" Kristoff shouted over the communications.
"Yes! Considering you're climbing on top of her shell!" Elsa replied.
"TOKKA'S A MOM!?" Raph, Karai, Sven, and even Kristoff all exclaimed at the same time over the communications. Even Anna, April, and Casey were surprised by this revelation.
"Awe, that's adorable!" Mikey gushed
"Can't talk right now! We're kinda busy climbing for our lives!" Elsa heard Leo grunt as they were having trouble climbing.
Elsa, Anna, April, and Casey's eyes all became wide softballs as they felt the stalactite serving as their cover get brushed away before Tokka's face closed in behind, where she gave a loud roar, demanding they return her infant to her.
Anna promptly put Chompy down onto Tokka's jaw. "Hey… Chompy's a cute kid… he takes after you…" She said in a meek tone of voice with a nervous laugh.
Tokka simply rose and turned around to resume her struggle against the Triceratons as Anna fell on her knees. "Okay… that was terrifying…"
"And the last thing any of you will ever see."
All four of them looked in shock as they turned to see Emperor Zanmoran teleport onto the ground a few feet away from them.
"Zanmoran…" Elsa muttered.
"Can I assume that from this planet's environment, you are unable to use your unusual powers?" The dreaded Triceraton Emperor asked Elsa directly. Though she didn't respond, it was all he needed. "I'll take your silence as a yes, which will make it all the easier for me to completely annihilate you!"
Zanmoran immediately drew a blaster and opened fire on the pair; prompting them to run as Anna and April returned fire with their own laser guns. As they tried to run, Casey activated his hover skates as he pulled out his hockey stick and several photon-pucks, which he slammed in Zanmoran's direction. Each one made direct contact, and exploded, not only knocking Zanmoran back a few feet, but even destroying his weapon.
Seeing this as his chance, Casey skated towards Zanmoran and went on the attack. "Eat it your royal Jurassic jerk!" He slammed his hockey-stick at Zanmoran's face before jumping to do it again. "GOONGALA!" Before he could even make the attack, Zanmoran delivered a punch to Casey while airborne to send him flying and skidding across the ground.
"Casey!" April exclaimed as she and Anna ran out to shoot at Zanmoran, though the lasers hit, this only annoyed him slightly as he ran and charged, slamming his horned head into the two girls and send him rolling across the ground. Before he could attack again however, he felt a slice across his chest and looked to see Elsa glaring at him with the laser katana she borrowed from Leo.
"I may not be able to use my powers right now, but I'm far from helpless!" Elsa declared as she charged at her enemy.
Meanwhile; a squad of Raptors flew around Tokka as they pelted the beast with lasers as per Mozar's instructions.
"Team 2, attack with Raptors!" Mozar ordered as he and what was left of his squad continued to shoot at Tokka. "Get that Generator Fragment! Failing me means failing the Emperor and failing to live!" The Raptors continued to fly around Tokka as continued to shoot. Tokka retaliated with another condensed fire-blast from her mouth, which destroyed two fighters. One fighter tried to open fire on her head, but she simply opened her mouth to bite down on the fighter, destroying it. Two more fighters however flew over her and dropped a pair of bombs, which exploded over Tokka's body.
The explosion was enough to shake Chompy off Tokka's head and send him falling down off his mother's back.
"CHOMPY!" Raph exclaimed as he dove off from the ledge, he was on to try and catch the baby alien turtle. He was able to catch him just in time. "Gotcha!" He said as he activated his grappler to catch himself back onto Tokka's massive shell; however, it just barely missed the edge. "NOOO!" Fortunately, salvation came in the form of an extended snake-arm from Karai that wrapped around the grappler.
"I got you!" Karai exclaimed as she tried to pull her brother up; with Sven grabbing onto Karai and using his own strength to pull Raph up as well.
Raph was able to get a solid-landing on a stable-ledge and placed Chompy in a crevice deep in Tokka's shell and away from the battle. "You'll be safe here Chompy. Stay with your mama." Chompy sat down. "Good boy."
After Karai and Sven helped pull Raph back up; they quickly climbed to join Leo, Mikey, Kristoff, and Donnie as they climbed closer toward the Fragment.
Meanwhile; down below, Elsa swung her laser-katana at Zanmoran, but he caught it in his hands and delivered a punch to knock Elsa back before kicking her to send her skidding and rolling across the ground. She groaned as she tried to pick herself up, only for Zanmoran to grab her by the arm and yank her to eye-level.
"It's ironic, don't you think?" Zanmoran began. "You were among the most powerful enemies the empire has ever faced; and yet, look you now. Away from your friends, on a planet you have no power on, you're completely helpless. I almost pity you."
Elsa glared defiantly at Zanmoran, even as he began to squeeze her arm and she grunted in pain. There was no question she hated this being; probably more so than any other being she's met thus far, even more so than the likes of Hans, Dregg, maybe even the Shredder. This was a tyrant bent on conquering countless worlds and destroying any that wouldn't bow to him. He'd execute billions of lives without even blinking. That thought made her sick to her stomach!
Almost on pure instinct, Elsa quickly charged a large surge of magic in her only available hand and yelled as she thrusted it at Zanmoran's chest. The force of the impact was enough to force him to let her go and have him drop on one knee as the area she struck began to glow a cyan blue color which radiated throughout his veins briefly before fading.
Elsa tried to pull herself up, but she wouldn't have to as her sister, along with April and Casey came to help her up as they all glared at the Triceraton Emperor as he felt his own chest and coughed slightly.
"What… what did you just do to me…?!"
Meanwhile; Leo, Raph, Donnie, Mikey, Kristoff, Sven, and Karai all managed to climb up to the Black Hole Fragment and position themselves so they could not fall and began to push up on the large fragment.
"Push!" Leo exclaimed. "Give it everything you've got!" With their combined strength, the group managed to shake the massive Fragment loose and push it up; but due to their position, the Fragment began to fall off Tokka's shell completely.
It was almost in slow motion for everyone; human, mutant, and Triceraton as they saw the fragment fall and almost hit the lava. However, inches before it made contact with the molten liquid, it was caught in a tractor beam by the Ulixies that arrived just in time.
"Olaf and Honeycutt to the rescue!" Olaf shouted through the heroes' communications as the snowman himself stood on the bridge of the ship next to Professor Honeycutt while the tractor beam was pulling the Fragment towards the ship.
"Honeycutt! Olaf! You guys are life-savers!" Anna exclaimed as she and all the heroes had elated smiles on their faces.
"Why not just drop the thing into the lava and let it melt?" Karai questioned.
"Unfortunately, the lava isn't hot enough to destroy it. We'll need to…" Honeycutt attempted to explain.
Suddenly, Lord Dregg's Hornettron swooped in and snagged the Black Hole generator fragment right out of the tractor-beam, much to everyone's horror.
"HA HA HA! SO LONG SUCKERS!" Dregg mocked as he flew into the sky with the Fragment.
"NOOOO!" Elsa, Anna, Leo, Karai, Raph, Kristoff, and Sven all shouted at the same time; while Donnie, Mikey, Honeycutt, Olaf, April and Casey all looked shocked and frustrated at the same time.
"No! We had it!" Raph exclaimed out of frustration.
"Dregg!" Zanmoran grunted as he struggled to stand back up and pressed his teleporter again to beam himself back onto the ship in orbit.
"Blasted bug!" Mozar cursed as well. "Triceratons! Beam me up immediately!" He and the rest of his squadron were beamed onto their ship as well.
The Ulixies quickly used its tractor beam to quickly pull in Elsa, April, Anna, and Casey; followed by Leo, Karai, Raph, Kristoff, Sven, Donnie, and Mikey. Once everyone was on-board, Honeycutt piloted the Ulixies after Dregg's Hornettron.
Tokka meanwhile roared as two massive flames spewed out of holes on the bottom of her shell, propelling her almost like rocket-thrusters as she also took to the skies.
The Ulixies was right on the Hornettron's tail as both ships had left Magdmor and entered space just as all the heroes ran onto the bridge and got to their stations.
"Welcome back! Apologies for losing the fragment!" Honeycutt voiced.
"Yeah, we're really sorry." Olaf said as well.
"No time to worry about that! After Dregg!" Elsa exclaimed.
"Come on! Shoot that damn parasite out of the sky!" Karai shouted as she, Kristoff, Raph, and Casey tried to shoot the Ulixies at Dregg's craft, but it was able to avoid all the blasts as it kept a firm grip on the Black Hole fragment.
Anna saw something on her station's screen that made her eyes widen. "Uh guys… Tokka is flying after us…" It was true, Tokka was right behind the Ulixies.
"She can fly?!" Leo exclaimed as his, Kristoff's, and Sven's eyes widened.
"Wow, Tokka is huge!" Olaf exclaimed, having first laid eyes on the ancient creature.
"She's gonna ram our ship!" Mikey shouted out of fear, but this proved to be false as Tokka flew over the Ulixies. Though the ship was rocked as the ancient beast passed them, it wasn't damaged.
"She's still after Dregg." Casey said as they saw Tokka flying after the insect-lord, who happened to be flying toward a certain destination that made all the heroes look in fear.
"Oh no… Dregg's heading for the Triceraton's ship!" Elsa stated as they saw Tokka fly towards the alien warship which just so happened to be close towards a dwarf star.
Kristoff smiled. "Hey, maybe Tokka will tear apart their ship and get the Fragment. I mean… it's not they have anything that can actually kill her. Right…. Right?" He hopped.
Emperor Zanmoran and Captain Mozar had both walked onto the bridge as Lord Dregg contacted them.
"Zanmoran! I've got your precious weapon fragment! But you must destroy Tokka, give me sanctuary and one hundred million samulax! Or I drop it into a star!" Dregg demanded as he attempted to steer his personal ship away from Tokka as she attempted to chomp down onto him.
"You, vile pirate!" Mozar glared. "We should obliterate…!" Zanmoran firmly placed his hand on his captain's soldier to silence him.
"You have a deal, Dregg." Zanmoran said, while flashing a knowing look to Mozar.
Outside; the Triceraton ship opened its docking bay, allowing Dregg's Hornettron to fly inside with the Black Hole Fragment. However, right as it did, Tokka slammed into the ship, causing it to rock and alarms to sound all throughout the inside. She climbed up the vessel and spotted the Triceratons on the bridge before roaring at them.
Zanmoran however smiled evily. Having the completed Heart of Darkness would be prize enough on it's own, but personally destroying one of the six great Cosmic Monsters of the Universe will be more than enough to instill fear in the rest of the galaxy.
"FIRE!"
Seven Rock-Rockets were shot out of the Triceraton ship and gunning straight for the star.
Donnie saw what was happening at his station's radar. "Um guys… the Triceratons are firing rockets straight into that dwarf star!"
Everyone gasped. "But such an action will cause a super-nova! Destroy everything within the system!" Fugitoid exclaimed.
"What?!" Olaf shouted. "But… they wouldn't be bad enough to destroy such a pretty star and kill Tokka…" Olaf shook his head rapidly. "Oh, what am I saying?! OF COURSE, THEY WOULD!"
*BOOM!*
The Triceraton warship entered hyperspace to escape the shockwave just as the supernova went off. Everyone on-board the Ulixies covered their eyes to avoid being blinded by the flash just as Tokka and the Ulixies turned around and flew away as fast as they could to escape the massive and spectacular explosion.
Fortunately, the Ulixies warped away just in time, not noticing that Tokka herself had barley escaped the explosion.
Despite everyone making it away with their lives; not a single soul was happy about it as a deathly silence fell on them all upon realizing what they had just lost. The Triceratons had all three pieces to the Heart of Darkness, and that wasn't all. They thought Tokka had just died; though an ancient creature that probably would have killed them if they tried to steal the Fragment themselves, it was still a living being, and the Triceratons had just ended its life. And maybe even the tiny new life that was with her.
"Chompy was with her…" Raph muttered. "And now… now he's gone…"
"Then who's this hitching a ride on your shell?" Mikey asked as Chompy Picasso, alive, revealed himself, having climbed onto Raph's shell when he and his family and friends were still climbing on Tokka's shell.
"CHOMPY!" Raph immediately and happily grabbed the baby alien that licked his face. "Awe little guy! You're okay!"
"Awe… who is that?" Olaf gushed as he walked over and saw Chompy for the first time. "It's so cute!" Olaf took Chompy in his stick-arms as the infant gave a cute call and smile to the snowman's face. "Hi there, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!"
Raph and Mikey's smiles faded, however. "But what about Tokka…?" Raph wondered grimly as even Olaf's smile faded as well. "She was just trying to protect the Fragment… and… and Chompy…?"
"What about Earth…?" Anna asked in a grim tone herself.
Leo gave a yell as he slammed his fist onto his station's console, catching everyone's attention. "That's it! We've lost! This was our last chance! And… and they got the Fragments! All of them! We… we lost…. We lost… everything!"
No one said anything to him, not even Elsa as they all felt the despair of their newfound reality sink in.
Zanmoran personally led Dregg down a hallway and opened a door to him. "Thank you for your assistance, Lord Dregg. Your reward is right in there."
Dregg walked inside, but saw the small room was empty. "Where…? I don't see anything?" Zanmoran closed the door behind him. "Where is my money?!" Dregg flew back and slammed his fists onto the door. "Liars! Cheats!"
Zanmoran merely smiled evilly as he opened the air-lock door with the press of a button. Dregg desperately tried to grab onto the side of the wall. "NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOO!" Dregg screamed as he was pulled into the vacuum of space. His entire body soon froze completely as he drifted away from the warship.
All three pieces of the Black Hole generator were brought onto the bridge. Once they were lined up, the pieces automatically pulled themselves together to join into one unified weapon. Once the lights on it began to glow, indicating it was complete and fully operational; both Zanmoran and Mozar couldn't contain their sinister glee.
"At last! After eons of being separated and hidden across the universe, the Heart of Darkness is whole once and again and ours to command!" Zanmoran declared.
"And with it, the Triceraton Empire shall be the most feared and powerful regime the galaxy has ever seen! None shall dare defy us!" Mozar said in an equally excited and evil tone.
"Sire, Captain, a scout, Sergeant Zog, has found another Kraang outpost." A Triceraton soldier reported.
"Excellent." Zanmoran smiled. "What better way than to test our new weapon then by using it to destroy the very same beings who used it to destroy our home all those years ago!"
However, the soldier had one last thing to report. "Your highness, I have also discovered something you will find… amusing."
The Ulixies
Despite the grim situation every one of the heroes was now experiencing, they couldn't stand by and do nothing. With any luck, they can get back to their home before the Triceratons and make the preparations necessary to save their planet.
"Setting a course for the Milky Way Galaxy." Honeycutt reported.
April saw something on her station's readings. "Whoa, someone's trying to hack our monitors."
"Dregg again?" Kristoff questioned in annoyance.
However, their monitor turned on to reveal the Triceraton Emperor with his captain and several soldiers standing beside him. Once his face was seen, everyone looked in surprise as he spoke to them directly.
"Terrans, I want you to see something." Zanmoran stepped to the side to reveal the completed weapon under his control. "Behold! The Heart of Darkness, now complete and fully operational! We are about to test it on a planet you may well be familiar with. A primitive and back-water planet called… Earth!"
With that revelation, as well as the image of the Earth under the Triceraton's targeting screen; Elsa, Leo, Raph, Anna, Mikey, Donnie, Kristoff, April, Casey, Sven, Olaf, Karai, and Professor Honeycutt could only gasp in horror. While Chompy Picasso obliviously cuddled against Raph's face.
Done.
So; yeah terrible news. The Triceratons have the completed Heart of Darkness and are about to unleash it upon the Earth (again). Before, they were only using it to destroy the Kraang, and the Turtles, Elsa's family, and their friends and allies just happened to be in their way. This time however, the Triceratons know it's the heroes' home-planet and are about to unleash it on the Earth because of that reason. Now it's personal.
(I know that technically; Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf reside in Arendelle which is a parallel Earth, but they consider the Turtles' Earth to be a second home for them as well and will do everything in their power to help save it).
However; there are some good things to note. The heroes have now adopted the adorable Chompy Picasso into their loving and unorthodox family, and while Raph will always be his 'da-da', Anna and Olaf have taken a huge liking to the infant as well.
And it looks like were FINALLY done with Dregg, at least for this story (no, he won't appear in my story based off Frozen 2, perhaps in a future one, but we'll see, I'm a long way from that point).
And if you noticed, Elsa did something to Zanmoran. Something she's only done once before (accidentally), which is arguably a fate worse than having your home cast into an eternal winter. Let's just say that unless there is someone to genuinely love the evil Triceraton Emperor, his fate is all but sealed. (Hint-hint).
There is one chapter left. And I promise that things are going to be quite different than how it was in the cannon series. The ending to this whole space arc in the TMNT 2012 series honestly felt phoned in, especially with that ending; but I've got plans to change it up and give this story the epic and proper ending that it deserves!
Frozen Turtles in Space is coming to a close in the explosive finale to come! (With an epilogue chapter shortly after).
See you soon with the finale :)