Lionel's eyes soon flashed open and he had come into the Dream Realm as he looked around before finding Cherry as she was sitting in the corner, next to some file cabinets.
"Maybe this will help organize things for Princess Luna and any descendants I have who share this unique ability of mine," Cherry said as she sorted files, arranging some dreams by color and some that weren't in color before sighing. "If I ever get back home that is, with those guys being stubborn mules."
"Ossu!" Lionel called, waving to her. "Doing some filing, I see?"
Cherry looked over and waved at him. "Hey, Lionel. Yeah, just trying to keep busy and distracted," she then said. "Cooling down a bit. I used some punching bags earlier though to take some stress out until you guys were ready for me again."
"I'm sorry about that." Lionel replied.
"It's all right," Cherry said. "I had a pretty good work-out." she then gestured to the punching bags.
The punching bags were shown to resemble most of Batman's rogue gallery such as The Joker, The Penguin, and The Mad Hatter.
"Well, at least they're not turtles." Lionel nodded.
"I was debating about that, but I figured these guys are easier to punch through frustration." Cherry shrugged.
"Fair enough," Lionel replied. "Besides, Mitsu has been captured by Whit; turns out he was a sneaky fink."
"What?!" Cherry asked.
"It's true," Lionel nodded. "We saw it with our own eyes."
"No way..." Cherry gasped and shook her head. "Aw, man... We have to save her! She's our friend!" she then added, sounding like a true adventurer now.
"Love that enthusiasm, Cher," Lionel told her. "Now let's go!"
"All right," Cherry replied. "Oh. Before I go, is Mulan doing okay?" she then asked.
"Yeah, she seemed fine and determined for battle like always," Lionel shrugged. "Why?"
"I took a look into a dream of hers," Cherry said. "It was very graphic. Somehow, Shan Yu came back to life into this realm and came to slay her for revenge so that he could gain eternal life or something like that. I was concerned that maybe she was scared of her dream... Or maybe she got over it and she's using that as motivation to stop those creeps."
"Could be a bit of both, really." Lionel nodded.
"Still can't get into Batman's dreams though..." Cherry stuck her tongue out. "I guess he doesn't want me to get inside his head."
"Yup, the guy's brain is fortified." Lionel nodded. "Same ol', same ol'."
"All right then, let's wake up so we can help come up with a plan." Cherry replied.
"That's the Cherry I know and love." Lionel smiled proudly.
And soon, Cherry and Lionel both gasped as their eyes flashed wide open and they were soon back in The Waking Realm.
"Good. They're awake now." Patch said in relief.
"Yeah; awake and kicking." Lionel replied.
"Hey, uh, you okay, Cherry?" Atticus asked his best friend.
"I'll be fine," Cherry shrugged. "I'm ready for anything though as long as we have a plan first."
"Also, Whit said that unless we bring Kenshin to the castle, he'll kill Mitsu." Lionel added.
"You know what we gotta do, right?" Cherry asked.
"Bring Kenshin to the castle?" Atticus guessed based on how Cherry often was.
"We're gonna try to think of a way that Mitsu doesn't get killed and that Kenshin doesn't get in trouble, and then we'll find a way to go back home," Cherry clarified. "I'm just not sure how we will do it, but we have to get it done."
Atticus glanced at Cherry before looking her in the eyes. "...Klutzy?" he then began.
"Draconequs," Cherry rolled her eyes. "Yes, Atticus, it's me. This is very serious."
"What the heck is that about?" asked Lionel.
"Klutzy draconequs?" Atticus guessed that was what he was asking about.
"No, I know about that," Lionel replied. "Why use it now? She wasn't gonna bring Kenshin into the danger. Besides, have you forgotten Kenshin is stuck in the present day?"
"That's why we need to figure out what we're gonna do and how to save the world and not to mention the time-stream," Cherry added. "Plus, I'm hoping we can try to enjoy our summer vacation in Storybrooke while we're still young. That place looks really cool to me and I'm not letting Drell's side quests of going with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mess it up for me."
"Is that's what's really important to you?" Patch asked dryly. "Your summer vacation?"
"That's not what I meant, Patch," Cherry rolled her eyes. "I just want things to start making sense again. Time-traveling adventures are always pretty headache-inducing like 'A Sitch in Time' or 'Back to the Future'."
"Yeah, so maybe have a little more faith in her on this, y'know?" Lionel asked.
"All right, sorry, Cherry," Atticus said. "So, what do you think we should do now?"
"Well, we'll definitely help Mitsu," Cherry replied. "Probably start with that... Do a bit of a sneak attack if possible."
The daimyo was having dinner. Walker and Niles dragged in a prize prisoner: Mitsu.
"My apologies for this crude interruption, Daimyo," Walker said. "But perhaps this little bird will sing for your supper."
The daimyo's eyes glared at Mitsu. "You stole my son!"
"I do not have your son. He is gone on a magic journey," Mitsu retorted bravely. "Only the scepter can bring him back."
"You are lying. You have both my son and the scepter." said the daimyo.
"I have nothing," Mitsu said. Then she turned to Walker. "He has the scepter."
Walker soon looked puzzled with a lot to think about from that snarky statement. He had to wonder why Mitsu would say such a thing, though he thought about who would have what they needed. Niles hauled Mitsu off to the dungeon, where the daimyo thought she might improve her memory. Walker had another mission. He hurried out of the daimyo's chamber. Whit was waiting for Walker when he returned to his quarters. The navigator stood by a long table where the scroll painting of the four turtle demons was laid out. His fingers touched the slash made by Walker's sword. He didn't like the picture at all. It frightened him.
"It's them!" Whit said when Walker entered. "It's the same demons as in the village! I know! I was with them, risking my neck while you were sipping rice wine with His Lordship!"
"Impossible," Walker said. "Are you afraid of a simple folktale, told in a dusty old scroll?"
But Whit knew danger when he saw it. "Let's just get the gold and shove off, like you said. Or hadn't you noticed who's winning this massacre?"
Walker changed the subject. "Where is it?" he asked.
Whit didn't have to be told what "it" was. He'd known Walker would learn sooner or later that he had the scepter and soon brought it out of the sack after thinking about it. "Equal partners." he then said.
Walker nodded, seeming trustworthy to Whit at first, though he seemed to have something else in mind that he would keep to himself.
Meanwhile, the group began to dash off over to where they needed to go with the Ninja Turtles.
"All right, guys, let's try to break in, but be quiet," Cherry suggested. "Well... As quiet as you can. I don't want anyone to know that we're here." she then added.
"Don't worry, we'll try." Patch replied softly.
They then kept on going before they made it to a stone wall.
"Sheesh... That looks like a long way up..." Cherry said nervously as she looked way up above the top.
"The idea is definitely to keep folks out," Lionel nodded. "Good thing it's not magic-proof."
"Someone care to do the honors then?" Cherry asked with a grin. "Cuz as much as I'd love to help out, I'm afraid I can't climb up or climb down from there."
"What can you do?" Raph retorted.
"My father has a recipe for turtle soup," Cherry warned with narrowed eyes. "Maybe you'd like to meet him."
"Guys! We're on the same side here! Or did you forget?" Lionel hissed.
"Hmm..." Cherry and Raph both paused before simmering down a little.
"Sorry, kid..." Raph said. "Keep that girlfriend of yours under control though."
"Cherry has an interesting way of dealing with people," Atticus remarked. "It takes some getting used to."
"Yeah, take it from someone with experience," Lionel nodded. "I'll show you the flashback later. I'll go over the fence, in the meantime."
"Meet you on the other side then?" Cherry asked him.
"Hopefully not in the negative sense of the word." Lionel replied as he extended his arms over the wall and pulled himself over.
Cherry blinked before the others began to follow in their own way. The Turtles simply decided to use their weapons to guide themselves up the wall and to the other side as they had to.
"Well, I hope those guys make it inside alright." Mo said as she adjusted herself as Cherry got over her nauseous feeling while passing through with their help.
"Don't worry; so far, we're alright!" Lionel replied.
"I just wish I could get this stupid cuff off!" Atticus complained. "It seems to be sucking away my magic!"
"Only I will be taking that off for you, dearie~" Rumplestiltskin's voice smirked as he was shown to be sitting on the top of the wall in front of them. "I don't want this mission of yours to be too easy, but I will help wherever I'm needed~"
"He's got a point; this time you have to rely on your own skills instead of using your magic to make everything easier," Lionel stated as he stuck his head back through the wall. "That way we don't have a repeat of the Crash Bandicoot disaster."
"Yes, though I heavily rely on it myself, I'm trying to show you don't need magic to always solve your problems," Rumplestiltskin tutted as he wagged a finger. "It could even destroy you."
"Oh, come on. How could magic possibly destroy you?" Atticus rolled his eyes.
"Believe me, sometimes you don't want to have to find out," Rumplestiltskin shook his head before deeply sighing. "I abused it once and it cost me something very special and dear to me that I have regretted my whole life ever since it led to an unfortunate incident."
"...And what would that be?" Atticus asked. "If you don't mind me asking."
"Sorry, but that's my business and my business alone, so I will tell you when the time is right," Rumplestiltskin replied. "Now please, do go on and save your friends. If you truly need my help though, just say my name, and I'll be right there."
Atticus rolled his eyes as he followed the others over the wall. Rumplestiltskin soon seemed to disappear again. Cherry jumped down and looked around as she stood with her friends on the other side.
Mitsu bowed her head as she sat in her cage before looking over. A rather large man was walking towards Mitsu with a bucket where the sounds of cats meowing in distress could be heard before he dumped out the bucket to feed the cats below the floor through the grates. However, some cats began to sound more irritated than hungry which concerned the large man before he knelt beside the grates and opened the top to see what was going on.
"Meow, dude!" Mikey's voice called out before suddenly the man saw him and the others who pulled him in to get rid of him.
"Get him, guys!" Cherry called as they began to ambush the portly man.
There were scuffling sounds. Then, "Ouch! One of his chins landed right on my foot!"
"What do you expect? One of your fists landed right on his nose!"
The Turtles had come to rescue her! Once that was done, all they had to do was to find April, save her, defeat the daimyo, make birdseed out of Walker, get the scepter, and get back to the 20th century before 12:00. All in a day's work for the Turtles. The daimyo's men brought April to Walker's chambers.
"Ah, Miss O'Neil. My partner, Mr. Whit, and I were just discussing your future."
April didn't like his attitude and told him so. "First of all, your partner is the lowest scum of the earth. In fact he's worse than scum. He gives scum a bad name!"
"I know. That's why I hired him." Then he turned to the guards. "Take her away."
That wasn't what April wanted. "I have information about the daimyo's son," she said.
Whit looked at her. "I think she's telling the truth," he said.
Walker snapped at Whit. "I don't pay you to think. I pay you to lie, cheat, and steal. Go down to the harbor and bring back the men. With guns."
"Guns?" Whit asked.
April didn't like the sound of this.
It took the Turtles a few minutes to get to Walker's quarters and they only had to sneak past 15 armed guards and knock out three others. By the time they reached Walker's room, he was gone. All they found there was April's cloak and the ancient scroll. The Turtles looked at it in surprise.
Mitsu translated the words along the bottom of it. "'The Battle of a Thousand Swords — Four demons defeated the Daimyo and his army'."
"Yup, definitely family," said Donatello, pointing. "That one's got Raph's beak!"
"But it was only a legend," said Mitsu.
"Dudes! We're legends!" Mikey proclaimed.
Then the daimyo appeared at the door. He gaped at the ancient scroll and then at the intruders. "You!" he uttered.
"Who were you expecting, Guns 'n' Roses?" asked Donnie.
"You've come back!"
"We like to drop in every three, four centuries," Leonardo said. "So why don't you give us the scepter and we'll be out of here."
"You have disgraced my ancestor, but you will not disgrace me," The daiymo snapped, pulling out his sword. "For that, I am willing to die!"
"No!" said Mitsu, drawing a dagger from her cloak. "We will both die. But only one of us will die with honor."
"Are we out of the loop here, or what!" Leo asked.
But Michaelangelo was more direct. He couldn't let Mitsu die! He threw himself between Mitsu and the daimyo just in time to catch the daimyo's sword under his own arm! The daimyo couldn't believe he had wounded a demon. Then he realized the Turtles weren't demons. That was really good news. He instructed his troops to kill them. The battle began.
"All right, I hope that you guys are ready to fight." Mulan said as she arrived.
"Ready when you are." Cherry replied.
"I was born ready," Mulan smirked. "Let's kick some Daimyo butt and help you get back home."
"Right!" The rest of the group agreed as they soon got ready to go to fight the enemy to save feudal Japan.
"I'm doing this for Kenshin!" Kintarō proclaimed as he lunged out, using his animal-based strength as Atticus used his god-like strength.
Cherry brought out a special-looking sword before giving it to Atticus.
"Hopefully this thing still works without my magic." Atticus said to himself as he began to help out.
"Cowabunga!" Lionel whooped as the group spun into action.
And it soon turned into a ballroom blitz as everybody attacked.
"Hey! Mikey, look out!" Mo warned.
Someone soon came up right behind the orange-masked turtle and struck down on him... Only to hit his hardbacked shell. "Oh, he who dings the shell must pay!" Mikey glared as he soon came to attack that guy next.
"Man, good thing you guys are turtles." Cherry remarked as she fought with her own sword.
The other Turtles then readied their own weapons and began to join on the action.
"Stand back from me," Patch smirked. "You're about to deal with Patch Pongo: The Karate Dog!"
"Patch knows karate?" Cherry asked.
"Are you really surprised at this point?" Atticus replied.
"Meh." Cherry shrugged before they both fought with their swords.
The daimyo's soldiers shouted as they poured out into the courtyard, and attacked the group.
Lionel got out a pogo stick and began to pound on the soldier's heads, one-by-one!
"That is no child!" They screamed. "That is a yōkai, taking on a human form!"
"He's not your worst nightmare though," Mo smirked as all eyes came on her. "I am!" she then stomped and slammed the ground with her hands and feet before she soon made vines appear from the ground to tie up and restrain the soldiers that were in her way.
The soldiers yelled out and panicked, struggling, but were unable to get out of the vines so easily.
"Nice combined effort!" Atticus smiled at Mo and Lionel.
"It was my pleasure." Mo smirked.
"Mine too!" Lionel added.
Luckily for Mitsu, she was able to help out too.
"Your turn!" Leo told one soldier before kicking him in the face as he rolled with his swords at hand.
"1, 2, 3, KICK!" Raph called as he moved around a bit with one soldier before kicking him out of the way against a bed and began to do the same with another soldier, almost like he was doing a dance.
"I'm doing this for Northern Wei!" Mulan glared as she helped her new friends fight next.
"For Kenshin!" Kintarō added as he joined in.
"YEEAH!" They shouted as they kicked a pair of soldiers away.
"Bases loaded! Home run!" Donny laughed as he faced his soldiers with no problem so far.
"Leap Frog!" Mikey called out, jumping up in the air before slamming his hands down on two soldiers, sending right for the floor.
Raph then tackled more soldiers down as Leo jumped in the air and air-kicked away two soldiers that were at his sides.
"Triple play!" Cherry laughed as she spun and kicked down three soldiers at once, sending them right down for the floor.
"Hello! Goodbye!" Patch smirked as he kicked away soldiers in his way, showing he was a lot stronger than the average Dalmatian.
Mitsu took down one more soldier before looking around as that seemed to be the last of them.
"Nicely done, my new friends," Mulan said to the group. "I think we got them all."
"I think so too." Cherry nodded to Mulan.
"You fought very great, Cherry." Atticus smiled.
"Meh... No big." Cherry shrugged bashfully.
"Point is, we won, and they didn't," Lionel smirked. "So... Good looking out, folks!"
The group soon cheered at their victory.
"As if there was any doubt." Patch smirked back.
"Oh, totally." Atticus added.
"Yeah." Mo nodded as she looked pumped and excited.
"You guys will be brought back home in no time after that attitude." Mulan approved.
Leo found the daimyo, who was running for the safety of his own dungeon. "C'mon, stay," he then said, holding him off with a katana. "It'll be fun!"
The daimyo stopped and then attacked Leo with his own sword.
Leo slashed down on the daimyo's sword and cut it in two. "You should have used a Masamune." Leo said. Masamune was the genius sword maker of ancient Japan. Leo knew his work well. He was glad the daimyo didn't.
The daimyo grumbled and threatened in Japanese before he continued to brawl with the blue-masked turtle with their swords.
The two got very intense with their fight before Leo seemed unable to get back up from their swords clashing together and he was suddenly kicked back by the daimyo.
"Big mistake, dude!" Leo grunted and panted before gritting his teeth together and growled.
The two stopped for a while before Leo then raised his sword and came to strike it down only for the daimyo to fight back with his own sword and they continued to clash together.
Eventually, the daimyo's sword flew up in the air and then crashed into the ground, making him fall back away from Leo who continued to approach him. "Go ahead. Finish me." he then challenged the turtle in front of him.
"Okay..." Leo nodded before he took out an extra sword and held the swords together like a giant pair of scissors before leaning in and sliced off the man's ponytail before smirking. "There. Short enough for ya?"
Patch chuckled as he happened to see that during the fight. The daimyo scrambled to his feet and ran off before he heard Leo whistling. As he turned his gaze to the turtle, Leo sliced the rope next to him, making the gigantic bell that hung over the daimyo drop. The daimyo looked up, and screamed in horror as the bell landed atop him. He shouted angrily, but there was nothing he could do. The bell weighed a ton. He couldn't budge it, and every time he hit it on the inside, it gonged loudly, ravaging his ears.
"Ring-a-ding-ding!" Lionel snickered.
"Ouch!" Cherry winced a little before chuckling. "That probably smarts."
"Ah, yeah!" Raph smirked as he met up with his brothers and the group.
"Looks like those guys can take it from here to take their frustrations out after being locked away for so long." Atticus advised.
"Only, who's trapped inside here?" Raph then asked as he looked at the bell.
"Lord Norinaga." Leo replied proudly.
"Lord Norinaga?" Donny repeated before striking the bell with his staff before it made a vibrating ringing echo. "Name rings a bell."
The others laughed at that then.
"The good guys: 1, Daimyo: 0." Mo said to the others.
Eventually, at the top, they heard something from the rooftop and they looked over to see that April was held hostage as she struggled and strained.
"I guess this is regular routine," Cherry remarked. "April gets in trouble and the Turtles gotta save her."
"Pretty much what happens in Metropolis too with Superman and Lois." Atticus replied.
"Don't these people believe in gun control?" Don asked.
Walker smiled at the sight. "Thank you, Mr. Whit." he said.
"Yeah, Whit, you make a great servant. I'm real impressed." April said, not very pleased in her insincere tone.
"My, my, such spite," said Walker. "There is nothing sadder than true love gone awry." Since his troops had arrived, he no longer needed a hostage. He pushed April toward the Turtles. Then he turned to Whit. "Shoot them." he said.
"What?" Whit asked, surprised.
"Her too." Walker said, pointing to April.
Surprisingly enough, Whit was hesitating. Walker then turned to Niles and gave him the order. He also told Niles to shoot Whit.
"Gee," Don said softly. "If we die here in the Past, does that mean we won't be born in the Future?"
"In situations like this, that's usually how it works." replied Lionel.
"Hey, why don't you shoot us?" Leo asked Walker. "Unless you're too scared."
There was a moment of surprised silence.
"See, he knows he can't kill us because we're demons," Leo then decided to explain the smart remark to Niles who seemed too foolish to understand. "Your bullets will just bounce back and kill you instead."
"And you wouldn't want that, would ya?" Atticus smirked at Niles.
"Yeah, wouldn't ya?" Patch added, also smirking. "I bet you're too cowardly to take on my friends and these Kappa guys and even a talking and butt-kicking Dalmatian~"
Niles looked at his captain. "Uh, might you want to have the pleasure of the first shot, Captain?" he asked.
"Fools!" Walker spat. With that, he drew his pistol, then seemed to change his mind. He stepped behind the cannon, which was pointed right at Leo's head, and calmly touched off the fuse.
The cannonball exploded out of the barrel, but in the microsecond it took, Leo ducked his head into his shell! The cannonball sailed harmlessly past him and struck the bell, shattering it. There stood a very startled daimyo, cringing and clutching his ears.
Leo pulled his head up out of his shell. "I LOVE being a Turtle!" he declared.
"Devils!" Walker exclaimed, and he really believed it this time. He ran for his life, and the Turtles and their friends followed.
They followed him to his quarters, but all they found there was an open window with a rope hanging out of it.
"You don't suppose he...?" Lionel started.
"...No, he only got in here a few seconds ago," said Cherry. "We'd still see him hanging and suffocating there if he was."
"Come on! We can still catch him!" Atticus called out before running off.
The group then continued to go after Walker as he made his escape. Walker soon made it to the roofs and looked like he was ready to jump with some more rope.
"Hurry, Raphael!" Cherry called out.
"Right behind ya, Perky!" Raph replied as they ran across the rooftops, being very careful and diligent.
The group and the Turtles kept running by before they soon caught Walker right before he could get away and then saw them right behind him.
"Stop right there or you're a goner, dude!" Donny called out as he and his brothers caught up.
"Totally." Mo added, joining the adventure team she was a part of.
"What kind of demons are you?" Walker demanded.
"We're turtles, friend." Leo replied.
"Of the teenage mutant ninja variety, sleazeball!" Donny added as they readied their weapons.
"And I'm Cherry and these are my friends," Cherry added. "We go on adventures together to stop the forces of evil and that includes you, buddy."
"You can either surrender or go the coward's way out," Atticus said sharply. "It's up to you."
Walker knew it was time for desperate measures. He reached into the sack and pulled out the scepter.
"Check it out!" Mo exclaimed.
"This, I believe, is what you've been searching for..." Walker smirked. As he held it out, Donnie beckoned to him to hand it over. "...go fetch." he whispered. And with that, he threw it high in the air.
Quickly, everyone scrambled to grab the scepter before it broke.
"Did you think I would make it so easy, you nasty little reptiles?!" Walker sneered, before he started to make his escape. "And everyone knows cowards live longer!"
"Cowards die a thousand deaths and a hero dies, but one!" Cherry retorted before she ran off with her friends.
"Aw, shows what you know!" Walker scoffed at her before he escaped with the new rope.
Everyone ran all around and tried to be in the right place to catch the scepter for when it would fall so that they would save it and not have it be smashed. Mikey soon found the right placement for himself and held out his hand before he caught it, though his foot slipped after catching The Time Scepter and he looked like he was ready to fall.
"Oh, no! We gotta help him!" Atticus called out before he came towards Mikey and grabbed his arm to keep him from slipping and falling off of the roof.
Everyone soon grabbed onto each other, taking each other's hands, and pulled each other closer over onto the rooftop and helped Mikey before he would fall with The Time Scepter. April and Mulan both sighed in relief that the turtles and the adventure group were going to be just fine. Walker was soon about to escape again until he saw that he forgot his birdcage and was about to grab it, only for Whit to cut the rope and suddenly launch a flaming boulder against the bad man to stop him and his escape. The boulder then launched against the ladder that Walker was on and the man screamed as he was thrown off of the ladder and soon plummeted down below and fell right into the water down below him which likely killed him instantly.
"Wow... Bungee jumping without a bungee," Donny remarked. "That could be dangerous."
"Well, well, well, my dears~" Rumplestiltskin smirked as he was shown again, sitting and crossing his legs right next to them as he seemed to appear out of nowhere. "It looks like you've won the day and now you have a way back home."
"Yeah, sure seems like it." Lionel nodded in agreement.
"Way to go, guys!" Renet smiled.
"Thanks, Renet," Cherry replied. "Well, it's been interesting."
"I'm sure it has." Renet remarked as she nodded at the perky goth.
Whit soon mysteriously disappeared after helping the group and the turtles take down Walker as things began to wind down in Japan.
"Hey, guys! Ahem!" April called out as she cleared her throat. "We have an egg timer to catch! Let's move it!"
"Then maybe we can go back to our vacation after this." Cherry said hopefully.
"Maybe." Atticus added.
"We could order some pizza for your final night with us before you go?" Leo offered.
"...Well, okay," Cherry replied. "I guess we could have pizza before we head back to Storybrooke."
"Buckle up, gang. It's time to go home." Patch smiled.
"Guys? ...I'm not going back," said Mikey.
"What?" asked Leo.
"What'd you say?" April added.
"I said, I'm not coming back." Mikey told them.
"C'mon, you can't be serious." April replied.
Mikey simply crossed his arms with a firm expression.
"...He's serious." Raph noticed.
"Didn't we already talk things out?" Cherry asked. "Why not, Michelangelo?"
"Hey, wait a minute," April said as she approached the orange-masked turtle. "You are going back to New York."
"Been there, done that," Mikey scoffed. "Besides, you all got nice homes... Mine's a sewer." he then reminded sourly.
"I've been thinking the same thing, guys," Raph said to Leo and the group. "People appreciate us here. We don't have to live like moles."
"Are they seriously not listening to us?" Atticus complained. "We already had this conversation!"
"No way! We're all going back," Mo suggested. "Tell them, Leonardo."
"Actually..." Leo spoke up, almost like he was considering it.
"Hey, not to sound selfish or anything, but what the heck," April sighed sharply. "Why not? Cherry, the others, and I don't wanna stay here."
"Couldn't agree more." Atticus added.
"Me, neither," Donny piped up. "Do you think I could possibly live without a single microchip?"
Then suddenly, The Time Scepter lit up which only meant one thing.
"Somebody's activated the scepter," Donny realized. "We gotta go now!"
"I wonder who activated it?" Patch wondered.
"So... You're leaving?" Mulan asked as she walked over.
"It looks like it," Cherry said to the warrior woman. "It was really nice meeting you, Mulan. I suppose you can try to find something nice during your travels with Lancelot... Someone who won't break your heart."
Mulan bit her lip a bit. "...Let me come with you," she then said. "To New York, to Storybrooke, wherever you're going. Maybe I can have a better chance at my life than wallowing over my broken heart and losing my home to Shan Yu."
"Sure, Mu," Lionel replied. "And also, just because we already had this talk doesn't mean Mikey accepted it."
Mulan had a small smile on her face.
"Does this mean I get to see my dear friend again?" Kintarō asked hopefully.
"Yes, Kintarō," Mo nodded. "You will be reunited with Kenshin momentarily."
"Great," Kintarō beamed. "I love him like a brother, so I'm very excited to see him again."
"I can understand that," Atticus smiled. "I love Cherry like a sister, so I'd miss her too if she was sent away into another time or dimension."