In the Crete Fortress, four mages started reading comic books in the living room. Ezra and Norbit sat on the bean bag seats. Kirana and Camilla sat on the couch while Talia and Pink Hallow laid on the floor.
"Man, the Bronx City Sirens comics are so awesome!" Talia exclaimed with a smile. "Rosecaster and Maytag are wicked cool!"
Pink Hallow screeched and clapped his hands happily.
"Rosecaster and Maytag are alright, but they are no way better than Freakapool, Songvibe, or even Amazonite." Kirana said, holding up three girl-powered comic books in her hands.
"Come on, girls. What about the Elite League? It's way better then Kids Kabooms Go." Ezra said as Norbit nodded his head.
"Oh, please. The Powerpax are the bomb." Camilla said, showing Kirana, Talia, and Ezra the comic book cover in her hand.
"You're kidding, right? The Powerpax?" Talia asked shortly.
"The story of four young preteen sisters who got their powers from a dying alien leopard. Yeah, so awesome." Kirana teased with a grin.
Ezra held back a laugh. Talia covered her mouth with one hand to hold back her laugh.
"Hey, that comic has a real mix of adventure and kick butt, man." Camilla said with a serious face.
Kirana, Talia, and Ezra started laughing out loud. Camilla unloaded a machine-gun barrage of red psychic energy bolts at her siblings, causing them to fling over the couch.
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In Donnie's lab, Ariana was analyzing April's mind with her magic while Donnie was using his flashlight in front of April's face.
"I've been having headaches and weird nightmares about space and other galaxies." April said.
"I don't see anything physically wrong with you, April. You're probably just adjusting to life back on Earth." Donnie said.
"It could be that." Ariana said with a shrug. "Because I'm not getting anything from her mind."
"I don't know, Donnie. My seventh sense tells me it's not that." Mikey said as he came inside the lab with his comic book. "It's that freaky crystal she never takes off."
"For once, I have to agree with Mikey." Ariana said to Donnie. "Despite the power of the crystal has been increasing April's psychic abilities, I did detect weird energy coming from it."
"Hmm. I don't think a crystal could give her headaches, but let me take a look at it, April." Donnie suggested as he held his hand out to April.
But April slapped Donnie's hand away that made her friends jerk back from her.
"No! Get away from it!" April exclaimed as she held her crystal protectively in her hand.
Donnie rubbed his hand and Ariana's eyes widened in shock for her friend's behavior.
"Whoa, you're acting like it's your precious. You're addicted to that thing, April." Mikey said to April.
"April, just give it to me, so I can check it out." Ariana said gently.
"I said back off...me." April said threateningly. She then started to calm herself down. "Okay. Okay. It's just a crystal. No big deal."
April slowly took off the crystal from her necklace and handed it over to Ariana, who was inspecting the star crystal with Donnie's microscope.
"Wow. This crystal has many remarkable particles and structures that I don't know about." Ariana breathed in awe. "Hey, Donnie, can you try an experiment on it?"
"Leave it to me." Donnie said.
Donnie placed the crystal in a large jaws of the black vernier caliper that tightened it still as he held out his bo staff scanner in his hands to examine the crystal. But the crystal began shorting out to everyone's surprise and a sudden white spectral apparition came from the crystal to float above in front of everyone.
"What the heck?" Ariana gasped in shock.
"What is that, Donnie?" April asked.
"Trouble." Donnie replied.
Donnie, April, Mikey, and Ariana stared at the apparition in shock.
"Um, Donnie? Some sciencey explanation I won't understand would be cool." Mikey said in fear.
"I...I just don't know." Donnie replied as he kept looking at the apparition.
"It's alive." April said.
"You're right, April." Ariana said as she was sensing the spectral apparition with her magic. "Donnie's space bo staff was able to supercharge it with electricity that give sudden sentience and autonomy in the crystal fragment."
The apparition turned itself into a white orb and started flying past Donnie, April, Mikey, and Ariana. Only April and Donnie backed away as the orb flew in and out some of Donnie's equipment, leaving a surge of blue-white electricity coming from them. Leo, Raph, Vee, and Macey ran inside the lab.
"What did you do this time, Donnie?" Raph demanded.
Two electrical equipments sped past Leo, Raph, Vee, and Macey. A blue swirly portal appeared out of nowhere and Kirana came through it with Camilla, Talia, Ezra, and Norbit behind her as they saw the orb flying around the lab.
"What the heck is that?!" Camilla exclaimed.
The orb then turned into a puddle substance in the air and stood there to observe the lab before flying past Donnie, April, and Ariana. It flew through Mikey and then through Talia.
"Ooh, tingly." Mikey said.
The apparition then disappeared into the ceiling.
"Talia!" Camilla cried.
Everyone turned to see Talia was now flat on the floor and wasn't moving at all.
"Talia, are you alright?" Ariana asked as she ran over to kneel by her younger sister with Kirana.
Kirana took a deep breath and focused on her aura powers to examine her youngest sister.
"Don't worry. She's unconscious, but she's okay." Kirana said assuredly. "That orb must have knocked her out when it touch her."
"What was that thing?" Macey asked.
"My scan could not detect it." Norbit said.
"Some kind of magical mist live form." Vee said.
"It was more like an apparition." Ezra added.
"Where the heck did it come from?" Leo asked.
"April's Aeon Crystal." Donnie replied. "But whatever it was, it's gone now."
April glanced at the crystal to see it pulsing with energy power and clutched her hand on her neck that caught Ariana's attention.
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Talia was fast asleep in her bed inside her room. She was groaning a bit and flipped onto her back on the bed until suddenly she snapped wide awake and sat up with a sharp gasp. She began stretching herself and got up from the bed to look across the room with confusion.
"Huh? How did I even get here?" Talia said with a raised eyebrow. She turned around to see Pink Hallow standing on her bed with a huge smile on his face. "Hello, Pink Hallow."
Pink Hallow jumped into Talia's outstretched hands and Talia cuddled him to her chest as the goblin mutant looked up at his owner happily.
"I have no idea how I got here, but let's finish reading the comic." Talia grinned.
Talia sat on her bed and placed Pink Hallow next to her. She held out her comic book and opened it to finish reading, but she suddenly stopped with a low groan that dropped her comic book on her thighs. Pink Hallow was backing away from Talia with a scared face. Talia's eyes went glowing white and raised her hands to levitate the comic book in front of her face. The white spectral apparition reappeared itself out from Talia's body and disappeared itself into her comic book. Talia dropped herself to the floor and collapsed unconsciously, but Pink Hallow knelt on the floor and tried shaking Talia awake that made her eyes opening up from consciousness.
"Whoa!" Talia said as she looked around with a puzzled face after her eyes went normal again. "What just happened?"
"Talia! Mother wants to see us." Kirana shouted through the door.
"Okay!" Talia said. "Come on, Pink Hallow."
Talia picked Pink Hallow in her arms and raced out of the door, unaware of her comic book was crackling for a moment.
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Outside, Casey was riding his bike on the city streets with boredom in his mind.
"Ugh! Maybe the Turtles and the K-5 are doing something fun because the surface is feeling a little boring." Casey muttered.
Suddenly, Casey noticed several screaming citizens running for their lives. He put on his hockey mask and began pedaling his bike to investigate the problem and found himself face to face with a giant pink floating eye that was firing bright yellow laser blast at the vehicle at its sight.
"Giant alien eyeball? From the Wingnut comics?" Casey exclaimed.
Casey then viewed a sinister giggling woman on the nearby building rooftop. She has a slender yet toned build with white bleached skin, shoulder-length green hair, and sea green eyes. She wore a sleeveless purple and green turtleneck halter top and skintight black pants with built in high-heeled boots. She also has a closed black parasol that fades to brighter purple at the tip and a dark green handle with a double spearhead at the bottom.
"Jewelica? From the Rosecaster comics?" Casey cried excitedly. "Ha! My day just got wicked awesome. Wait till Raph and Camilla sees this."
Casey took out his cell phone and snapped a picture to send it to the Turtles and the K-5.
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Back in the Crete Fortress, Camilla heard her K-Phone ringing on the couch and picked it up to receive a picture from Casey.
"Okay, that looks super freaky." Camilla said.
Camilla held up a picture of a sinister woman to Ariana, Talia, and Ezra. Ariana tilted her head in confusion while Ezra raised his eyebrow in confusion, but Talia suddenly gasped as she immediately recognized her as the villain from her Rosecaster comic book.
"No way!" Talia said in shock. "That's Jewelica!"
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Meanwhile, Monoculus was floating forward for every sighting to destroy and Jewelica was moving across the rooftops as they both were unaware of Casey standing boldly in the alley.
"Hey, eyeball, clown woman, eat Photon Puck!" Casey yelled.
Casey dropped three silver hockey puck-shaped energy bombs on the ground and hit them right at Monoculous with his hockey stick before hitting three more silver hockey puck-shaped energy bombs at Jewelica, but the attack had proven to have no effect on the eyeball while Jewelica protected herself with her opened parasol. Monoculus turned to face Casey as the source of the attack and moved in the alley towards him. Jewelica grinned sinisterly to watch Casey backing away with fright from the giant eyeball.
Then suddenly, a white ninja smoke bomb hit Monoculus out of nowhere. Casey, Jewelica, and Monoculus turned their attention to the Turtles, April, and Macey.
"Man, that is one huge eyeball." Raph commented.
"And the grossest eyeball." Macey added.
"Monoculus." Mikey murmured happily. "It's so real. Just like from the comics. But I have no idea who's the crazy woman over there."
"Snap out of it, Mikey." Leo said.
Jewelica held her parasol with both hands and aimed it at the Turtles, but she got hit by a black ninja smoke bomb that came out of nowhere. Everyone turned their attention to the K-5 and Norbit.
"Alright, Talia, you're the comic book expert." Camilla said. "Break it down."
"Who is the growling lady?" Norbit asked.
"Okay, Jewelica is highly intelligent on the fields of engineering as well as an expert with explosives." Talia explained. "She makes countless weapons, but she mostly uses her razor-sharp playing jewel cards, explosive marbles, and her parasol in battle. She's also faster and more agile with moderate skill in hand-to-hand combat."
"You really are comic book nerd, Talia." Kirana said with a grin.
Monoculous fired a yellow energy laser from his eye at Mikey, who jumped back from the shot with a scream. Leo laughed and took his grappling hook to land on the building behind Monoculous. Jewelica threw a flurry of five razor-sharp playing cards at Talia, who dodged out of the way with backflips. Kirana jumped in the air and landed on the building next to Leo.
"Hit it from every side. Try and keep it off balance." Leo ordered his siblings.
"I don't think we should do that!" Vee called out.
"Why?" Macey asked.
"Attack her in a four way combo. Avoid the parasol." Kirana ordered her siblings.
"This could be a bad idea!" Ezra called out.
"How can this be a bad idea?" Norbit asked.
Donnie ran around the rooftops and landed in front of Monoculus while Leo and Raph went on either side of the eyeball. Ariana sprang high above Jewelica while Kirana and Talia jumped on her front and back of the comic supervillainess.
"Now!" Leo and Kirana shouted.
Leo, Donnie, and Raph charged forward to attack Monoculus with their weapons, but the giant eyeball's laser blast knocked them away. Kirana, Ariana, and Camilla charged forward to attack Jewelica with their magic, but the comic supervillainess twirled her parasol in the air and fired four green energy balls at them.
"Oh that's why." Macey said.
"Oh." Norbit said.
Mikey swung towards Monoculus with his grappling hook and poked the eyeball with his finger, but that didn't hurt him at all and Monoculus blasted Mikey away to the street ground. Talia jumped slightly in the air and swung her leg to attack Jewelica, who moved out of the way and released a cocky smile on her face. Jewelica unleashed waves of purple energy from her parasol at the orange mage kunoichi. Talia quickly created a diamond-shaped force field made of orange psychic energy to protect herself, but Jewelica's attack was too strong that knocked her to the street next to Mikey. Vee and Ezra jumped down to fight their enemies with Macey and Norbit to help but they were easily knocked down. April jumped down from the Argosy Theater and held her crystal in her hand that caught Donnie and Ariana's attention.
"You took the crystal from my lab?" Donnie asked with a stun face.
"It's mine. I need it." April countered.
"Figures." Ariana retorted.
April ignored Ariana and took out her tessen, throwing it to float next to Monoculous with the help of her crystal. Her eyes went bright blue and she moved her tessen back and forth into Monoculous to slice through him repeatedly, causing the giant eyeball to explode into yellowish-white dust. April caught her tessen and put it in her back pocket.
Suddenly, April looked up to see Jewelica levitating herself in the air high above. The comic supervillainess rotated her parasol counterclockwise to form multiple green cannonballs and aimed them down at April one by one. April quickly backflipped away from the cannonballs and stood next to Ariana.
"Ariana, fusion." April said to Ariana.
"You got it." Ariana said.
"Fusion? You two did a fusion spell?" Donnie asked incredulously.
"Ever since she got promoted to a full-on kunoichi." Ariana replied.
Ariana got up from the ground and stood next to April. They joined hands together and their great power began surging through their bodies, carrying them into the air with a ring of colorful energy circling around them. They closed their eyes for a moment, concentrating on their abilities together. Bright brown light began shining around the girls' bodies and the light expanded itself to fill the girls to surround them, transforming them into the fusion entity. The fusion has a tall, lean body with an extremely slender figure. She has brownish red shoulder length hair tied up into a small ponytail and right-sided curved bangs with brownish green highlights. She has blue eyes with freckles and a dark brown headband. She wore a brown jumpsuit with a yellow stripe down the left side of the arms, torso, and legs as well as a purple stripe down the right side.
"My name is Shanti and I'll show you what I'm made of!" The fusion entity spoke in a fierce tone.
Jewelica grinned sinisterly and fired twenty explosive marbles from her right hand down at Shanti, who protected herself with a large brown telekinetic energy shield by one hand. Jewelica growled and began rotating her parasol counterclockwise to charge a very large purple energy ball. As she fired it down, the large purple energy ball divided itself into smaller balls that hit Shanti with serious damage. Shanti quickly recovered herself and dashed forward to attack Jewelica with a flurry of fast slashes in several directions before slashing down with her tessen in a wide outward cut to release a wave of brown psychic energy that flew forward in front of Jewelica, causing the comic supervillainess to explode into greenish-white dust. Shanti put her tessen in her back pocket and began turning back into a mass of light to split back into April and Ariana.
"Man, that was weird." April said to Ariana.
Leo, Kirana, Casey, Raph, Camilla, Mikey, Talia, Vee, Ezra, Macey, and Norbit walked up to April and Ariana.
"Is everyone all right?" April asked.
"Yeah, we're okay." Kirana replied. "But I'm really impressed that you two can fuse for such a fast combat."
"Okay, I give up. Anyone want to tell me what's going on?" Raph demanded.
"I'll tell you what's going on. My comic book came to life." Mikey answered.
"Okay. Any other theories?" Macey asked as she rolled his eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.
"It's the Emperor Supreme of space eyeballs." Mikey explained. He pushed past April and Raph to hold a page from his comic book that has a white silhouette in front of Leo and Kirana. "It used to be in my comic, but now it's vanished."
Kirana stared at the comic page with a look of disbelief.
"Right. That's why there's no eyeball monster in your comic at all." Leo said sarcastically.
"Now, wait a minute. How can you explain Jewelica? I mean, she is a character from my comic book." Talia said. She snapped her fingers and a comic book appeared in her hand. She opened up a page that showed a white silhouette in front of Leo and Kirana. "It's vanished as well. I don't know how, but I do know it has something to do with April's Aeon crystal."
"Wait, you mean that white thing is the reason for Jewelica's appearance?" Camilla asked.
"That could be." Kirana said with a shrug.
"Come on, team. Let's head back to the lair." Leo said as he and the others walked away.
"And I want to take a closer look at that crystal, April." Donnie called out.
"Me too before I help Talia on the white apparition problem." Ariana said to Donnie.
Casey, Vee, Ezra, Macey, and Norbit walked over to Mikey and Talia.
"I have this comic. They kind of look the same but that's impossible!" Casey said, looking at Mikey and Talia's comic books.
"Unless the crystal! The thing the alien dudes gave April. It must have magical powers, yo." Mikey explained. "It did the scan-y thing. And then I was all tingly. And then it brought a character from my comic book to life!"
"Yeah, it all makes sense!" Talia exclaimed. "It did the same thing to me, except it sorta possessed me somehow. Can't explain it exactly, but that's how it happen."
"Yeah, sure if you're crazy, Mikey!" Casey snapped. He turned to Talia. "Talia, I know you have magical powers and all. But there's no way April's crystal can have any effect on you."
"Now hold on, Casey. They might have a point." Ezra said.
"That crystal did have some magic powers." Vee stated. "We'll have to test it, ourselves."
"But how can we do that?" Macey asked.
"My scanner cannot analyze the crystal." Norbit said.
"It's simple." Vee explained. "Mikey can steal it from the lab while Casey, Macey, and I can meet on a rooftop to wait for him."
"Talia, you can get a portion of the crystal and meet me and Norbit at a different rooftop." Ezra said.
"Better hope it works." Macey said.
Casey walked away from Mikey, Talia, Vee, Ezra, Macey, and Norbit.
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Back in the Crete Fortress, Talia was sleeping on her bed inside her room. Her entire body was enveloped in white light, making the orange mystic shudder in her sleep and then jerked awake with a sharp gasp. Bright white energy glowed blazingly from her eyes. Talia levitated herself out of bed and waved her magic around herself, changing her night clothes into her kunoichi outfit.
Talia teleported herself out of her bedroom and into Donnie's lab, where she found the purple masked turtle asleep on his desk and her older sister sleeping on top of him. She moved towards the crystal and waved her magic around to extract a portion of the power before teleporting away without notice.
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Outside, Talia sat cross-legged on the city rooftop ground and placed her comic book down to the ground. Ezra and Norbit stood beside her and watched closely. She closed her eyes and began concentrating on her powers through the crystal. As she opened her eyes, a strong gust of wind stirred below her and Talia lifted her arms in front of herself to hurl a mass of white energy that crackled into the comic book. That sudden burst of energy knocked Talia away from the comic book, causing her to regain her mind from the Aeon crystal's influence.
"Talia, are you okay?" Ezra asked as he and Norbit ran up to help her up.
"Wh...what happened?" Talia said with a groan.
Talia, Ezra, and Norbit looked up to see the smoke fading away and saw two comic superheroines standing in the flesh. One heroine has palish-white skin, long ginger red hair that goes down to her waist with vines tying one strand of hair in a ponytail, and green eyes. She wore a skintight green one-piece leotard with knee-high green boots and long green fingerless gloves. The other heroine has pale white skin, blonde hair done up in pigtails that have black and red stripes going through them, and blue eyes. She wore a red halter top that exposed her midriff attached to her black pants in a a suspender manner and red shin-high boots.
"Whoa!" Talia breathed with a smile. "You're Rosecaster and Maytag! Did the power of the crystal brought them to life with my magic?"
Suddenly, Maytag came running towards Talia with a jumping spin kick, but the orange mage ducked away and got behind the acrobatic heroine. Talia dodged two more kicks from Maytag and countered her with a swift kick that easily knocked the acrobatic heroine away to the edge of the rooftop ground. Rosecaster summoned multiple plant vines from her palms and began hitting Talia one after another, but the orange mage kunoichi protected herself with an orange psychic energy shield that pushed the plant heroine away towards Maytag.
"Hey, you got it all wrong! I'm not a bad guy!" Talia said.
"She's right." Ezra added. "We're cool here."
"Then, our bad, citizen." Maytag said as she and Rosecaster got up from the ground to walk towards Talia. "I have to admit you fight well."
"I am Rosecaster." Rosecaster introduced with a friendly smile. "This is my partner, Maytag."
"My name's Talia." Talia grinned as she used her magic to shrink her comic book into her waist belt. "And that's my friend, Norbit, and my little brother, Ezra. We were about to go on patrol. Care to join me to go look for crime?"
"We'd love to, Talia." Maytag smiled. "You got spunk, Talia. I like that."
"Alright then, let's go." Talia smiled back.
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Meanwhile, Ariana jolted her awake when she heard a loud sound. She got up from the sleeping Donnie and rubbed her eyes with a yawn. Donnie lifted his head from the loud sound as well. They watched April throwing things out furiously from the cabinet.
"Huh? What's wrong? Donnie asked.
"Where is my crystal?" April demanded angrily as she walked up to Donnie and Ariana. "I gave it back to you. Now you've lost it."
April went back looking around the lab for her crystal as Donnie and Ariana gave each other concern looks.
"Well, we'll find it, okay?" Donnie said. "Just relax."
"I don't want to relax. I want my crystal." April said as she threw away the table with her sudden strength.
"Chill down, April." Ariana said. "It may be the source of power, but it's really just a crystal."
April turned to Ariana with an angry face and walked up to her friend's face.
"Excuse me? It's not just a crystal!" April snapped. "Unless you took it! After all, you're a mage with magical powers!"
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Ariana snapped back as she got close to April's face. "I'm your best friend, April! I would never steal anything that doesn't belong to me!"
April glared at Ariana and began searching frantically on the floor. Ariana turned around to see Donnie was looking concerned about April's livid behavior.
"April?" Donnie asked slowly.
"Just leave me alone!" April screamed.
Suddenly, a thumping sound echoed inside the lab that immediately caught everyone's attention. April gasped to look at Splinter with Leo and Raph.
"You are not thinking clearly, April." Splinter said as he walked up to April.
"But Master Splinter, my crystal..." April stuttered as she began clutching her hands.
"You are too attached to that object. The crystal is a crutch. I recommend against using it." Splinter said firmly.
"It's not a crutch. It's just very important to me, and now it's missing." April said defensively.
"None of us took it, and we're all here except..." Leo said. He closed his eyes and knew the person who must have April's crystal. "Mikey. Vee must've gone with him."
"I'll call my siblings to help us out." Ariana said.
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Talia, Ezra, and Norbit were moving across the city rooftops on the patrol night with Rosecaster and Maytag until they stopped on the edge of the rooftop and detected a young woman down in the alley. She has pale white skin, long flowing black hair, dark purple eyes, and dark purple lipstick. She wore a black dress that featured metallic silver edges and a metallic silver belt with a purple gem, metallic silver elbow-length gloves and black knee-high boots.
"It's Alita." Rosecaster said with narrow eyes.
"She's one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy." Maytag said.
"Well, she's all we've got to kick butts." Ezra said.
"Alita?" Talia said. "Did she came straight out of my comic book?"
Talia, Ezra, Norbit, Rosecaster, and Maytag jumped down to land their feet as they confronted Alita, who turned around just in time to face them.
"Aww, you're mad at me." Alita said with a grin. "I know, I should have told you I was planning on something devious, but you know how I hate spoilers."
"You are a criminal, Alita! You're not gonna get away with this scheme of yours!" Maytag said firmly.
"You will step down and turn yourself over to surrender!" Rosecaster said, pointing her finger to Alita.
"And what will you do if I don't?" Alita snapped.
Alita flew above the alley and stared straight down at her enemies. Her eyes went bright lilac and shot out beams of purple energy to attack them. Maytag performed a few agile leaps and flips to avoid the energy beams as Rosecaster, Norbit, Ezra, and Talia scattered out of the way. Maytag took her yoyos and swung them repeatedly at Alita, who was dodging them with amazing speed in the air. Rosecaster shot sharp thorns from her palms at Alita, who was also avoiding them with her flight ability. Alita landed her feet back in the alley and unleashed a machine-gun barrage of purple energy bolts at her enemies. Ezra ran through them all without getting hit by the bolts and released a continuous laser beam out of teal psychic energy from his hand. The teal energy laser beam connected to Alita that sent her flying to the wall in pain. Talia walked slowly with her both hands in the dazzling radiance of the orange psychic energy. Alita laughed merely in her face, but she yelled surprisingly as a yoyo string tied her up tightly. Talia turned to look towards the source, which turned out to be a grinning Maytag. Rosecaster ran next to Talia and they clenched their hands into tight fists, hitting Alita with a single punch that knocked her out unconsciously.
Rosecaster and Maytag began securing the unconscious Alita, but Talia and Ezra were staring at them with a suspicious face. Norbit noticed and walked to his friends.
"I know the crystal's influence let me bring Rosecaster and Maytag come to life from my comic book, but how did Alita escape?" Talia wondered.
"And how do we get them back in the comic?" Ezra asked.
"Perhaps we can use the crystal's power again to send them back." Norbit said.
"Talia, what's wrong?" Maytag asked as she and Rosecaster walked towards the silent orange mage kunoichi.
"Look, I can't believe I'm saying this. But you two are made-up characters from my comic book." Talia replied.
"What are you talking about? We're not some comic book characters." Rosecaster said with a raised eyebrow.
"But it's true." Talia said. "You're from the city called Arkham. Rosecaster was specialized in botany and toxicology and later became a partner to the psychiatrist Maytag after stopping a feline criminal from stealing the Harlequin Diamond in Arkham Museum of Natural History."
Rosecaster and Maytag gasped in shock for hearing all of their origin information from Talia.
"That's all true, but how?" Maytag asked with a shock face.
"It was the power of the crystal." Talia said, lifting her hands in front of the comic book heroines. "It's somehow the source of life and power itself. I still have some of its power in me, but I just don't know how to wield on my own."
Suddenly, thick tendrils of white power began streaming up from Talia's palms and stretched up to the alley. The intensifying white light washed over Rosecaster and Maytag. Talia and Ezra gasped in sudden shock as they watched the comic book heroines hunching over with a moan of pain on the ground as white light enveloped them.
"Rosecaster! Maytag!" Talia hollered.
Talia got hurled backward in one split-second flash as if the remaining power of the crystal have left out of her system. She lifted her head from the ground and stared in horror at what Rosecaster and Maytag have become.
As the white light cleared out, Rosecaster and Maytag have changed into a different form.
Rosecaster has a slender upper body that curves out into fairly wide hips. Her upper body is green with two black stripes around her waist while the lower half of her body is black. Her small feet are tipped by small green claws with a third smaller one on each heel. Her tail is thin and curly in an elegant chameleon-like swirl. Her wrists have black stripes around them while her five-fingered hands are black tipped by a light green nail. She has long ginger red hair that parts to the right extending down to her lower legs with a single curved horn with an alternating black and green coloration on the left side of her head. Her circular green eyes are surrounded by black rings with sea green eyelids and her lips are dark green. Maytag has a slender upper body that curves out into fairly wide hips. Her upper body is red with two black stripes around her waist while the lower half of her body is black. Her small feet are tipped by small red claws with a third smaller one on each heel. Her tail is thin and curly in an elegant chameleon-like swirl. Her wrists have black stripes around them while her five-fingered hands are black tipped by a light red nail. She has long blonde pigtailed hair with black and red stripes going through them that extends down to her lower legs with a single curved horn with an alternating black and red coloration on the right side of her head. Her circular blue eyes are surrounded by black rings with crimson red eyelids and her lips are dark red. Rosecaster and Maytag turned to smile evilly at Talia.
"Because of the crystal's life and power, we're now even most powerful than ever before!" Rosecaster said.
"We should thank Talia for providing this kind of power, but it'll be more fun to destroy her." Maytag said with a shrug.
Maytag took her yoyos to grab Talia around her body tightly and pulled her close, letting Rosecaster summon a large plant vine whip from the ground and whip the orange mage kunoichi numerous times that drove Talia back to the alley wall. But Talia protected herself with a large orange hemispherical shield made of psychic energy as she collapsed on the ground with her knees kneeling on it. Ezra and Norbit ran to her aid and helped her up. Talia looked up to watch Rosecaster and Maytag leapt away out of the alleyway.
"No!" Talia shouted as she got up from the ground.
"Come on, let's go after them!" Ezra declared as he ran and the two followed them.
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Back in the Turtles lair, Raph and Camilla sat on the couch trying to call Mikey, Talia, Vee, and Ezra on their cell phones while April was pacing back and forth behind them.
"I swear, if Mikey lost my crystal..." April said threateningly.
Suddenly, Raph's T-Phone started ringing and the red masked turtle pressed the screen to answer the call. April knelt behind Raph to listen the phone call as Camilla moved herself to the T-Phone to listen as well.
"Mikey! Where the heck are you?" Raph demanded.
"Dude! Me, Vee, Macey, and Casey need help!" Mikey exclaimed through Raph's T-Phone.
Raph, April, and Camilla heard loud roaring from the T-Phone. They are completely unaware that Mikey and Casey are pursuing across the city rooftops.
"Wingnut and Screwloose have gone all evil! We're tracking them across the city right now. Did I mention they're evil?" Mikey explained.
"You're tracking comic book characters across the city." Raph said. He turned to Camilla and April. "And it's finally happened. Mikey's lost his mind."
"Well, there's a surprise." Camilla muttered with a grin.
"Wingnut and Screwloose are real, dude." Casey said. "They came from April's crystal."
"It was the magic within the object that made them come to life." Vee added.
"But don't tell April I took her crystal. Or that I lost her crystal. Or that the bad guys have her crystal. Cool?" Mikey added.
"Mikey! My crystal!" April screamed in fury.
"My bad." Mikey said sheepishly.
"Don't worry, sissy." Macey said. "We're following them with a tracking device Vee placed on the bad guys."
"Raph, get everybody to the old cathedral. Fast." Casey said.
Then, Casey hung up the call from Mikey's T-Phone.
Suddenly, Camilla's K-Phone started ringing and the red mage kunoichi pressed the screen to answer the call. April knelt behind Camilla to listen the phone call as Raph moved himself to the K-Phone to listen as well.
"Talia! I've been calling you for hours! Where are you?" Camilla demanded.
"Look, I'm sorry that I've missed your calls, but we really need your help right now!" Talia exclaimed through Camilla's K-Phone.
Camilla, April, and Raph heard loud giggling from the K-Phone. They are completely unaware that Talia, Ezra, and Norbit were pursuing after the corrupted comic book heroines across the city rooftops.
"Rosecaster and Maytag have gone evil!" Talia explained. "I'm tracking them right now in the city!"
"So let me get this straight. Your favorite comic book characters have turned evil and now they are on a loose across the city?" Camilla said. He turned to Raph and April. "Looks like Talia has offically gone into a comic book shopping spree."
Raph shook his head with a grin while April remained serious about the conservation.
"We're serious! Rosecaster and Maytag are real!" Ezra yelled. "They came to life from April's crystal. The power from the crystal have taken control of Talia and used her magic to set them free out of the comic book."
"So, you took my crystal too, Talia?" April screamed in fury.
"No!" Talia replied. "That white light went into my body earlier back in Donnie's lab and I was out like a light, remember? Camilla, just get everybody to the old cathedral now."
Talia hung up her K-Phone and she, Ezra, and Norbit continued to follow after the corrupted comic heroines until she spotted them leaping towards the large church tower up ahead.
"They're hearing in the Bell Tower Lair?" Talia said. "I'm glad I've finished reading the Wingnut and Rosecaster crossover comic."
"Let's save the superheroes then." Ezra said with a smile.
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In the Bell Tower Lair, Talia snuck inside the cathedral building with Ezra and Norbit as they glanced around the room in awe. The place has a machine core that looked like a supercomputer at the centerpiece. Talia, Ezra, and Norbit walked down the swirling stairs and Talia stared at an equally large U.S. penny from Wingnut and Screwloose no. 30 and an equally large squirrel from issue 35. Talia also saw four glass case displays of Wingnut and Screwloose's costumes. Talia, Ezra, and Norbit looked down to see Rosecaster and Maytag walking towards Wingnut and Screwloose. They noticed that both Wingnut and Screwloose looked very corrupted in their monstrous forms as well. Talia flipped herself from the stairs and landed quietly behind the four glass case displays while Ezra and Norbit quickly snuck down to follow Talia, where the two mages and robot found Mikey, Vee, Casey, and Macey hiding behind as well.
"Talia! Ezra! Norbit!" Casey exclaimed in a quiet voice.
"Thank goodness you guys are here." Macey said quietly.
"We needed back up." Vee added quietly.
"How did you guys find us?" Mikey asked.
"We didn't." Talia replied. "We were actually chasing after Rosecaster and Maytag."
"Rosecaster and Maytag?" Mikey and Casey gasped in surprise.
"Long story." Talia said. She looked at Mikey's superhero costume completed with wings on the shell, insect legs beneath his arms, antennae, and fly-like goggles on his eyes. "By the way, cute costume, Mikey."
"Thanks." Mikey grinned.
"Comic nerd too?" Vee asked as she walked to Ezra.
"Yep. Big time fan." Ezra replied.
Talia, Ezra, Norbit, Mikey, Vee, Macey, and Casey looked back at the four corrupted comic book heroes as they watched Wingnut holding the crystal in his hand.
"The crystal is a conduit of energy." Wingnut said. "It created us, comrades!"
"I get it now, Wingnut." Screwloose said. "We don't really exist in this world. We're just images brought to life."
"Yeah, it's a big bummer! What can we do?" Maytag asked.
"The crystal can sustain us. We can survive with its power." Rosecaster explained as she moved closer to observe the crystal. "We can become more real than the beings in this world. I just have to discover how to tap its mystical energy."
"Do we make our move?" Mikey whispered to his friends.
"Not yet." Casey whispered back. "Wait till the time is..."
"Stop!" Macey said.
"Don't move!" Vee warned.
But it was too late. Casey accidentally knocked one glass case displays to the floor with a loud thump that caught the corrupted heroes' attention.
"Oh snap." Talia said with a gulp.
"Great." Ezra groaned.
"Oh no." Norbit said.
"Intruders!" Wingnut yelled.
"They're after the crystal!" Screwloose shouted.
"Let's get them!" Rosecaster and Maytag hollered.
Casey swung his hockey stick at Wingnut, who dodged the attack and punched Casey under the chin with his fist. Mikey jumped in the air and landed on the ground to swing his arm at Screwloose, who moved out of the way and seized Mikey's fake antenna before punching Mikey's face that knocked him to the ground. Vee fired five arrows at Wingnut but he managed to catch the arrows and throw them at Vee, making her quickly backflip away from the arrows. Macey used her claws to block attacks from Screwloose and managed to use her tail to trip him over. Macey kicked his face four times before moving out of the way so Screwloose couldn't knock her down. Talia unleashed a rapid bombardment of orange psychic energy bolts at Maytag, who was backflipping to avoid getting hit. Rosecaster joined the fight to summon large bright green spores from her palms and directed them towards Talia with remarkable speed. Talia didn't have a chance to protect herself when the spores exploded with a strong enough force to knock her onto Mikey's shell. Ezra used his shield to protect himself and Norbit from Maytag's blows until Ezra shot a teal energy ball at Maytag to knock her down. Casey got slammed into Screwloose and quickly got back up to block the charging Wingnut with his hockey stick before moving to his conscious friends.
"Come on, Wingnut. We don't want to hurt you." Casey said.
"You're not bad guys." Mikey said.
"Yeah, you're heroes." Talia said.
"Lies!" Wingnut hollered. "You'll say anything to get the crystal!"
"The power of it is corrupting you!" Vee said.
"It's dangerous in the wrong hands!" Macey said.
"Please listen to us!" Ezra pleaded.
"We want to help you." Norbit said.
But the superheroes didn't listen. Wingnut charged forward towards Casey and the human vigilante went flying out through the window. Casey screamed as he started falling from the cathedral, but Raph suddenly swooped down to catch him in his glider.
"Got you, Casey." Raph said.
Raph tossed Casey to Leo, who was using his grappling harness just like Raph to catch Casey. Donnie, April, and Ariana rode in the Turtle Blimp. Leo flew up to the building and placed Casey down on the platform as Raph landed on the platform next to Casey. Kirana and Camilla came on the building platform to land with their allies from long zip-line hooks on the wrist bracelets. They looked to see the four monstrous comic book heroes.
"Whoa, Mikey, Talia, Vee, and Ezra were right. We got to start listening to them more often." Raph said.
"Definitely." Camilla remarked.
Leo pulled out his katana sword and jumped forward to fight Wingnut. Kirana's fists were engulfed in bright blue psychic energy and she charged forward to fight Rosecaster. Screwloose charged forward to hit Casey with his arm. Raph slid down on the ground to attack Screwloose with his foot, but Screwloose grabbed Raph's leg and swung him away off the building before flying after the red masked turtle. Vee quickly jumped down and knocked Screwloose back before grabbing Raph's hand. She shot her grappling hook at the pillar and went back in the tower while holding onto her second older brother. The two Turtles landed on a safe floor and continued the fight. Camilla swung her legs in rapid speed and unleashed red waves of psychic energy horizontally at Maytag, who used her yoyos to grapple the red mage and slammed her into the ground multiple times. Maytag grinned sinisterly as she tossed Camilla off the building. Camilla screamed as she began falling from the cathedral, but Talia suddenly swooped down in the air with huge bat-like wings made of orange psychic energy on her back.
"Hold on, Camilla! I'm coming!" Ezra shouted.
Ezra successfully caught Camilla's hand and used a protection bubble to make the two mages land on the building platform. Talia went over to the two mages as Ezra made the bubble disappear. They huddled together in an offensive stances when they watched Maytag summoning her yoyos with a giggle.
"I've bet the Powerpax deals with this sort of thing in their battles." Camilla said to Talia and Ezra.
Camilla, Talia, and Ezra charged forward to fight their magic against Maytag's yoyos. Leo blocked Wingnut with his katana swords and Kirana protected herself from Rosecaster's giant plant vines.
"What's wrong with you, Wingnut?" Leo asked.
"In the comics, you're a hero, Rosecaster." Kirana said.
"We still are!" Wingnut and Rosecaster shouted.
Leo kicked Wingnut away with his foot and Wingnut flew away in the air, making the blue masked turtle to follow after him with his grappling harness. Kirana released her force field and dashed forward to deliver quick kicks at Rosecaster performing a handstand kick and launched her into the air with another one.
From the Turtle Blimp, Ariana noticed that four corrupted comic book heroes have proven to be too powerful even with the increased numbers. But April was too obsessed on getting her crystal back that she spotted it around Wingnut's neck.
"He's got my crystal! It's mine!" April shouted angrily.
April began firing many garbage balls from the cannon. Leo turned around to see many incoming garbage balls and backed away to let each one hit Wingnut. Kirana turned around to see the garbage balls and jumped out of the way, allowing one of the garbage ball to hit Rosecaster. One of the garbage balls hit the church bell, causing it to ring out loud. Wingnut, Screwloose, and Maytag shouted in pain as they covered their ears from the soundwaves. As the church bell stopped ringing, Leo continued to engage Wingnut again and Kirana continued to engage Rosecaster again.
That gave Mikey an idea.
"Casey, I've got an idea." Mikey called out. "It's not great, but it's an idea."
"Just do it already!" Casey shouted as he was blocking Screwloose with his hockey stick on the ground.
"Talia, I may need your help on this one!" Mikey called to Talia.
"I'm on it!" Talia said as she was protecting herself from Maytag's yoyo attacks.
Talia ran away from Maytag, leaving Camilla and Ezra to take care of the corrupted comic heroine on her own. She held herself close to Mikey, who used his grappling hook to travel up to the chruch bell.
"Are you ready for this, Talia?" Mikey asked.
"You better believe it!" Talia replied.
Mikey and Talia grabbed a hold of the string as they both jumped down to ring the church bell. The ultrasonic noise of the church bell was too much for Wingnut, Screwloose, Rosecaster, and Maytag to handle. With four corrupted comic book heroes distracted, Donnie have moved the Turtle Blimp closer to the building.
"This is as close as Donnie can get, April! Now, focus your powers to retrieve the crystal!" Ariana shouted to April.
April used her psychic powers to levitate her crystal from Wingnut's neck that caught his and Rosecaster's attention.
"No!" Wingnut and Rosecaster shouted.
Wingnut and Rosecaster sprang towards the Turtle Blimp to reach out for the crystal, but they got held them back by Raph's grappling harness and Camilla's magic.
"Now reabsorb the energy that brought them to life." Donnie said to April.
April finally retrieved the crystal necklace in her hands, causing her eyes to turn blue for a second.
"Finally back where she belongs." April said with a calm smile.
With the crystal back in her possession, April focused her psychic powers to take back the energy that caused four corrupted comic book heroes' transformation. In a flash, the comic heroes were turned back to normal.
"Golly. Did you hear that, Wingnut? They're gonna send us back to being pictures on a page." Screwloose said angrily.
"No, old chum, They're going to send us back to where we're supposed to be." Wingnut said.
"I'm sorry for the all the trouble we've caused here, everyone. We now know that we don't belong here after all." Maytag apologized in a childish tone.
"Sorry everything got so messed up, Wingnut." Mikey said sadly as he lifted up his goggles with a sniff. "Thanks for coming on patrol with us."
"Anytime, old chum." Wingnut said, putting his hand on Mikey's shoulder.
"I really am going to miss you guys, Maytag." Talia grinned as she quickly hugged the yoyo heroine tightly. "I'm gonna miss our patrol together."
"Me two, Talia." Maytag grinned back as she returned Talia's tight hug.
April held out her crystal to focus on her psychic powers to return the heroes home, much to Mikey's sadness. Wingnut and Rosecaster held up a comic book of their own.
"Holy good-byes, everyone." Screwloose said with a good-bye wave.
"We will never forget you all." Rosecaster said with a grin.
Wingnut, Screwloose, Rosecaster, and Maytag glowed in bright blue smoke as they went back to their own comic books that were dropped to the ground after April's psychic powers were done. Mikey and Talia picked them up in their hands. Mikey opened up the pages with a sad look. Talia looked at Mikey's sad face and hugged him softly.
"Don't be sad, Mikey. They were never real to begin with." Leo said.
"They had to return to their home, bro." Vee added.
Mikey started crying and Raph placed his hand on his youngest brother. Camilla did the same with Talia, who placed her own hand on her older sister's hand with a kind smile.
"I know. It's cool, bro." Mikey said, blowing his nose into his comic book.
As Leo, Raph, Vee, Macey, Casey, Kirana, Camilla, Talia, Ezra, and Norbit comforted around Mikey, Donnie and Ariana turned their attention to April, who was clutching the crystal with her hands.
"April, when we get back to the lair, I think me and Ariana better run some more tests on that crystal." Donnie suggested.
"No, Donnie." April said defensively.
"April, are you all right?" Ariana asked with concern.
"It's my crystal." April said, staring at her crystal with a firm face. "I'm never gonna take it off again for anyone or anything ever again."