A/N: Another Ace Attorney character will have a recurring guest appearance in this review episode.
In this twenty-second non-canon review, Team RWBY joins forces with Athena Cykes as they review the Michael Bay-produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), as they go on a journey to remind the fans of the original and how the retrospective still lives on to this day...
BEACON
Team RWBY and Athena Cykes' Commentary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (Part 1)
"Raven, we got your message about the impending danger.", Athena says as she was with RWBY, communicating with Raven Branwen via hologram.
Ruby asked, "Yeah, something about a great evil coming, Raven?"
"I sense a terrible force that is consuming our youth and threatening to destroy the Ninja Turtles franchise.", seriously noted Raven.
Team RWBY gasps, "That is NOT radical!"
"I sense Megan Fox as April...", sensed Yang's mother.
Team RWBY and Athena both gasped.
"...dick ugly CGI roadkill..."
Team RWBY and Athena gasp again.
"...and all of it being produced by Michael Bay!"
Team RWBY and Athena gasp once more, louder than the previous two gasps.
Yang asks, "Mom, isn't that the man so insecure about his masculinity, he gave Transformers testicles?"
"The same, Yang.", Raven answered in all seriousness.
Athena questioned, "Raven, what do we do to stop this bullshit?"
"First, you must review the movie.", instructs the tribe leader.
Blake and Weiss shake their head, "Well, obviously."
"That's kind of a given.", the attorney agrees.
Raven then says, "Second, you must find the Heart of the Ninja Turtles and remind the world of it!"
"The Heart of the Ninja Turtles?", Ruby and Yang pondered.
Athena also asks, "Where do we begin?"
"Start with the basics. Like...try saving an individual known as April O'Neil.", ordered Yang's mother.
Blake and Weiss asks again to make sure, "What, but- She's been kidnapped?"
"Do you see her right in front of you, or anyone in that room? Or anywhere in the Academy?", Raven firmly asked.
The five answer, "No."
"Then she must be kidnapped. Go, all of you. Find the heart of the franchise and rip this Turtle turd a new one!", commands the tribal leader.
Team RWBY and Athena then look at each other and nodded while the holographic transmission of Raven Branwen ended.
The five then decide to go back downstairs to the entrance of Beacon Academy.
But once they open the door, they find themselves in the middle of the city of Atlas strangely, with no one in sight on the streets of the city as if it was quarantined or abandoned for some reason.
They turn to look at the entrance to Beacon, but they find out it had vanished.
"What... How did- Why are in Atlas? Where'd Beacon go?", questioned Athena, puzzled; "Is it just me or are we in The Adjustment Bureau?"
Ruby simply said, "Well, we're thinking the same thing, but we just assume we might be seeing everything as a movie. Now, come on, let's start the review while we save April."
"Alright.", sighs Cykes as the five began their mission.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Athena began, "The film starts with their origin story, which I think is paying homage to the graphic novel, but it's kinda pointless, seeing how they're just gonna explain it again a few scenes later.", saying as the opening had Michaelangelo's nunchucks destroying a VHS tape, "Huh... I hope that VHS tape was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III."
"But they abandon the world inspired by an overly violent perv like Frank Miller, to a different world inspired by an overly violent perv like Michael Bay. And at the center is Megan Fox, who is like, 'Look, I'm wearing yellow, so I'm April now!'", Ruby states, "Now, to Fox's credit, she's really not...that bad."
The attorney concurs, "Yeah, April is known for always being saved. But in this film, it really only happens once at the end. And even then, she still manages to give the finishing blow. That pretty much never happens."
"Still, it doesn't help that the character's likeable energy and perkiness takes a backseat to being dull as a pet rock.", Yang tells Cykes.
The orange-haired girl considers as they watch a part with April in the movie, "Yeah, even as the light news stories go, would you really watch her? She looks as disinterested as kids doing a homework assignment."
"Maybe she just needs a different outfit. Like the giant cleavage wrapped in banana peel look.", suggests Blake.
Athena questioned, "Have you guys been reading some of Michael Bay's notes?"
"I don't think so.", team RWBY told them, as Weiss continued, "Though, give Michael Bay's 13-year-old brain credit. He did find a way to actually somehow get her on a trampoline."
Ruby comments when the trampoline teacher Harley in the movie tells April during one of her live reports, "I can just see him now saying, 'No, no, it's supposed to be shot in slo-mo and in extreme close-ups. God, it's like this director sees women as people or something.'", before continuing, "She gets a tip from Chef Gordon Ramsay that something shady's going down that night at the docks, and she snoops in to see what it is.", as the five watch masked men in the movie wave flashlights away which are mounted to their guns.
"Yeah, wave those guns with lights around. Nobody will ever notice the secretive Foot Clan.", sarcastically said the 19-year-old attorney.
Yang then says, "Of course, they're stopped by our unseen heroes as April notices that they left a calling card."
"Because, ninja leave no trace.", Athena presumes, "Or do they? Mostly, they definitely don't leave any trace.", as the film shows a snippet where April returns to her apartment where she meets her roomate again.
Blake greeted, "Oh, hi, roommate who literally has no purpose in this movie at all. Admit it, you forgot she was even in this film, didn't you?"
"Then from out of dark came an awesome sound, shouted 'Cowabunga!' as they hit the ground! From the field of weeds, THE HEROES RESCUED THE FLOWER, 'CAUSE THEY POSSESSED TURTLE POWER!", rhymed the orange-haired girl in excitement where the same scene showed April telling her roommate of what happened with her encounter with the Foot Clan.
RWBY calms her, "Hey, Athena, Athena. It's in the past. Let it go."
"Sorry.", Athena apologizes as the five continue walking around Atlas in search of April, "T-U-R-T-L-E..."
RWBY replied to the rhythm, "Power."
"T-U-R-T-L-E..."
"Power."
The young attorney says when they watch a scene where April's boss Bernadette, played by Whoopi Goldberg, telling her to make a lead story; "Hey, I've got one: Why the fuck is Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg in this movie?"
"I bet she's like, 'Aw, Christ! Was today Bring Your Daughter to Work Day?'", Weiss thought out loud when April told her what happened with her encounter with the Foot Clan.
Athena includes at the part in the same scene where April had photographic proof of what happened, with Bernadette rolling her eyes; "Why is she rolling her eyes like that? Does she NOT want proof of her story?"
"Maybe, she just doesn't like the folder she's keeping it in.", thought the leader of team RWBY, "She was like, 'Brown? Puh! That's so like her.'"
The orange-haired girl nods, "Yeah, that was weird.", synopsizing, "The proof isn't enough, but that doesn't stop The Shredder from warming up, by breaking the hands of the Foot Clan with his chin. I guess people can do that now.", before a example of the movie shows Karai talking to Shredder in his lair, the latter hidden in shadows with his silhouette shown.
"I bet Shredder should say, 'Wait, are we speaking Japanese or English? We keep going back and forth. Oh, damn it, now you got me doing it. It's like vine: Once you see someone do it, you want to start doing it yourself.'", snickered Ruby's elder sister.
Athena describes, "The Foot Clan lures the Turtles out by holding people hostage in a green subway. Because for some reason, subways in movies always have to be green.", the next part showing Karai and the Foot Clan holding people hostage in a subway with the former yelling out for someone anonymous and threatening to execute the hostages.
"Karai's like, 'Don't make me explain why everyone is hiding their identity behind a mask, except me. Oh, I'm hoping they put my face on Assassin's Weekly.'", imitated the Faunus girl.
The Schnee girl continues, "The Turtles, of course, save the day, and April is the only one who somehow notices them and follows."
The next scene showed April's first encounter with one of the Ninja Turtles, Raphael.
"Good...", Team RWBY and Athena observe the part as the camera focuses on his foot, before panning up and around his body (without revealing his face) to a shot where we see the camera behind Raphael who looks at April, "...good...", but not before Raphael turns around in the shot as it reveals his face, making Team RWBY and Athena groan when watching it, as this abruption had ruined the mood.
Team RWBY swore, "Goddamn it!"
"So close...", disappointed Athena.
Ruby says, "To be honest, the design of the Turtles aren't that bad. They have different articles of clothing that not only match their character, but also help us to tell them apart easier. But, for Oum's sakes, what did they do to their faces? They just look...ugly! It's like if the Annoying Orange was an annoying avocado."
"Or if Slippy Frog got Botox injections, and then got herpes.", Athena thought.
"Or if the Finding Nemo turtle got Jaundice! Not relating to our friend Jaune although an episode was named after the Jaune-related pun."
"Or if that troll from Lord of the Rings joined a street gang!"
"Bottom line, they don't look very go...ooh, ooh! Or like a radioactive Smurf that got caught in an oyster!"
"You got too greedy."
"Sorry... It was last minute.", Ruby sorries as they watch the scene where Leonardo (the leader of the Ninja Turtles) told April to not tell anybody about them, although they already know their name.
The attorney said in surprise, "Oooh, they know her name. She's on the news!", while the five saw April in the movie take a picture of the Ninja Turtles as they leave.
"And speaking of April, it looks like we found her...", Team RWBY reminded Athena as they reached Atlas Academy, before they went through the entrance of Atlas Academy and up the stairs, across to a door where they heard someone's voice.
They open it, but once they got through, the five find themselves in a different part of Atlas at the Schnee Manor.
"What in the world...?", confused Weiss, "We're at the Schnee Manor. My home...", the girls turning back to see the manor door they went through, with Ruby going to open the door to open it, but only to have it show the exterior of the Schnee manor's entrance.
Blake comforted her girlfriend Weiss, "What is happening?!", confused as well.
"That doesn't make any sense. First, we were at Beacon, then we were at Atlas and the academy there, and now we're in the Schnee manor? Looks like the room's empty but us.", Ruby deduced.
Yang then hears a voice coming from the manor's dining room, "I think it must be coming from over there!"
"Let's hope that door doesn't send us into a wild goose chase around Remnant. I got the feeling that we're in for such a ride.", Athena unsettled.
The five approach the door, opening it. This time, the door shows the dining room as predicted, empty and only showing someone tied up in a chair and facing away from the girls.
"Look!", Blake and Weiss gasp, seeing a bomb underneath the chair April is tied to.
"Okay, that must be April. We gotta save her. Remember, we're sure one step closer to get to the heart of the Ninja Turtles... Then we'll best be on our next step.", discusses Ruby to Athena and her friends quietly, as she and Athena walk over and start untying April.
April says, "Oh! Thank goodness you found me, girls!", turning around to see Ruby and Athena, the latter who suddenly recognizes something of her.
She looked so much like Athena's girlfriend back home, Trucy Wright.
"T-Trucy?", flabbergasted the attorney.
Team RWBY surprised, "Huh? Who's she?"
"My girlfriend back home in L.A.", Athena told them, "What are you doing all the way here in Atlas, Trucy? I thought you were back home in L.A. at the Wright Anything Agency...", supposed Athena.
The girl replied, "Who's Trucy? My name is April. Man, these guys who tied me here know as much about tying knots as E.L. James."
"Then why the hell didn't you do anything, Trucy?!", frantically worried the 19-year-old orange-haired girl.
"It's April.", she (Trucy) stated firmly, "And to clarify, I didn't do anything because it's a great story. Brain behind operation is literally brain behind operation. Villains who try to take over the world with alien technology when they could just make a fortune selling it, mutants who roam the city during the day, yet nobody seems to care about it whatsoever. Turtles try to stay secret even though they are constantly on TV and newspapers. News reporter wears a yellow jumpsuit during every report, and yet somehow never gets fired."
Athena apologizes, "I'm sorry, but we may have to go right now before this place blows up to smithereens!"
"Let's go get the hell out of here!", team RWBY warned as the four and Athena lead the way, going through the door as April (Trucy) followed way behind.
But that time when they exited through the dining room door, they once again find themselves transported somewhere else in the world of Remnant, before the girls heard an explosion fade as they look to see the door had vanished again and that April (Trucy) was no where in sight.
The attorney anxiously said in agony, "No...no, no, NO! TRUCY! TRUUUUUUCYYYY!"
"Athena, calm down! Calm down! We don't even know what's happening right now, but we need to figure this out! We're not nearly a quarter into the film, but we need to notify Raven about what's happened.", Ruby sorted.
Athena started tearing up, tears welling in her eyes, "But...what about Trucy...? My girlfriend...?"
"That doesn't look like it's the real her. I know it may look like your girlfriend, but it's April we're talking about.", Yang corrected, "It seemed like the bomb had detonated, so hopefully she found a way to survive that."
The orange-haired girl saddened, "How could you girls be so sure? I've been on a relationship with Trucy for a year now!"
"We do think she made it. There must be a way we would know.", Blake interpreted.
Weiss sighs, "But thanks to these doors that keep bringing us all about and everywhere across Remnant, there's no telling where we'd be next!"
"Uh, girls...?", the Faunus girl said, looking around the room they're in, "It looks like...my home."
The Schnee girl asked her girlfriend, "Wait...you mean...the Belladonna Family Home? This is where you live?"
"Before Beacon.", reminiscenced Blake.
Weiss supposed, "But where are your parents? Maybe they could help."
"But so far today on our journey besides April, we haven't seen a single person in Atlas or the Schnee Manor, maybe not even here too! Speaking of which, where are we?", Ruby mystifies.
Blake tells her, "We're in Kuo Kuana."
"Where?", Ruby and Yang asked.
Weiss corrected, "The largest city of...Menagerie. I learned this from geography... We went halfway across the world!"
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. You're saying that these doors keep sending us all the way across the planet like it's some kind of a Christopher Nolan-esque world tour?", perplexes Athena Cykes.
Team RWBY clarified, "I think so. We don't know why, but we're going figure this one out..."
"We need to find whoever's responsible for this!", suggests the attorney.
Ruby tells her, "We're trying to figure that out!"
Just then, a message from Ruby's scroll (the holographic tablet in Remnant that acts like a phone, gaming device, camera and portable computer) rang.
"It must be my mom.", Yang hoped, "We need to tell her."
Ruby then pulls out her scroll and picks up the call, which then activates a video call showing Raven.
The leader of team RWBY, "Hey, Raven. We have a situation. We found April, but when we were leaving, the doors keep sending us to random places around the world, and April had disappeared! We don't know where she is now!"
"We don't think we're looking in the right place though, mom.", the blonde huntress said.
Athena supported, "Yeah, there's something very...strange, enigmatic and silly about this."
"Strange. But very well, then.", Raven told them, "Try defeating the Foot Clan. I hear they're trying to blow up a civilized place somewhere in Menagerie."
The Faunus notified, "That's where we are right now! But that's not bad, the Foot's a big part of the Ninja Turtles' identity."
"Plus, as long as we the next doors we gonna exit through doesn't lead us somewhere else, we'll best be on our next step.", the heiress planned.
The tribal leader assigned, "Onward, girls. I trust you all to give it your all.", before the video call ended.
"All right...let's go kick some Foot... That's surprisingly not redundant!", Ruby commenced, before the five of them reach the Belladonna Family Home's entrance doors.
Yang crossed her fingers, "Please don't send us elsewhere, please don't send us elsewhere..."
Ruby opens the doors, which shows the beautiful sight of Menagerie and the village of Kuo Kuana.
"Wait, wait, wait! There's something very familiar about this!", baffles the orange-haired attorney to the four girls before they were gonna advance, suspicious about their mission so far.
Blake tells her, "What do you mean? We're losing sunlight. Now come on, we have a job to do!"
"What my girlfriend said. We don't want to get literally blown away!", Weiss proclaims as well, with the five heading off.
We then see Ruby, Yang, Blake, Weiss and Athena all walking down the steps of the stairway to the Belladonna Family Home and strolling across Kuo Kuana, showing an overhead pixelated background and the five's pixelated 8-bit forms as they sauntered, as if it was like a video game reference to the TMNT game.
"So strangely enough, April and the Turtles had a connection before. As her home movies reveal, not only did she used to be Mara Wilson, but she also saw the Turtles grow up in her father's lab. She even gave them their love of pizza.", Ruby commented the next scene.
Athena advocated, "So this part is going to piss off the purist of Ninja Turtle fans."
"So, while we talk about it, may we suggest something that would seem to be better for us and the readers to get more angry about that rather than what we're saying. Like, per se, Greedo shot first?", Yang proposes.
The orange-haired attorney nodded, "I kind of like that change in A New Hope. Changes from that scene happened numerous times before, even for the Disney+ version."
"Yeah, us too.", the blonde girl agreed with her.
Athena gossips, "Don't get us wrong, the stars must have all had to have been aligned for them to meet up like that again, but it is kind of clever giving them a connection early on."
"It almost makes up for the fact that they have so little connection beyond that. Personally, I don't think it was that bad an addition.", adds Blake.
The young defense attorney adversed, "But that doesn't help prove her case, when, like a fucking dumbass, she tries to tell her boss the truth!", the scene showing April telling her boss Bernadette about her first encounter with the Ninja Turtles, resulting in her getting fired and canned; "Well, what the hell do you think would happen? They'd give you the Pulitzer for being a fucking psychopath?"
"Well, if they did, they'd also give it to Will Arnett as Vernon, as he agrees to help her after being told the whole story. But that could be because she's the only one who will listen to his failed stand-up.", mentioned Weiss.
Athena responded to an earlier scene with Vernon having a conversation with April about his coffee break, "What the hell is he talking about?"
"He's like, 'Come on, it's a Nickelodeon movie. You think I'm going to use my A-material?' As if playing Batman in the LEGO movies wasn't good enough.", the leader of team RWBY imitated again.
The orange-haired girl reacts to the current scene with Vernon and April, the latter telling him that they're not aliens but reptiles, "A momentary pause for people groaning at that piece of shit joke...okay, that'll do."
"April goes to see Eric Sacks...", the blonde huntress says.
Athena muttered, "Eric Ballsacks..."
"Yeah, well done. ...Who is played by William Fitchner, who helped her father with his experiments when he was still alive.", Ruby's sister summarizes.
The Faunus joked, "He's like saying, 'I was gonna say April came early this year, but Bay has a bit of a pervy audience. I have other jokes, though. I used to live on 5th Avenue. Get it? Sacks and 5th? Hahaha, I kill me, and I might kill you. We'll just have to wait and see.'"
"But the funny thing about that...hold on one second. It looks like we're here.", the Schnee girl said.
They arrive at Menagerie's boardwalk, where they see several Foot Clan enemies surveillancing the area, considering the fact that there were no other civilians seen besides the enemies.
Ruby presumed as they hid behind crates out of the Foot Clan's sight, "Seems that there's enemies searching all over the place."
"We need to make our move and stop whatever they're planning to blow up.", Yang sorts out.
Athena unsurely hoped, "Hopefully they didn't already blow up a few bridges or whatever. Don't know how deep the water is."
"It's shallow.", guarantees Blake.
The attorney asked to be sure, "Are you sure? It looks like the Philippines back home."
"Just shut up, the enemies are gonna hear us.", shushed Weiss.
Ruby then said, "We need to sneak past, beat some enemies in case they find us, and we gotta go through a shit load of this stuff in order to defuse the bombs they're planting before they blow up and kill us all. Weapons ready, team RWBY?", pulling out her Crescent Rose, with Yang prepping her Ember Cecilia weapon, Blake pulling out her Gambal Shroud, and Weiss pulling out her Myrtenaster at the ready."
"I don't have a weapon though...", gloomed Athena.
Yang nods, "Understood. But what do you have?", politely saying this.
"Well, after all, I am a specialist in analytical psychology and I do have an AI companion named Widget that I use as a portable computer and use a program called the Mood Matrix.", the attorney told the four.
The four looked were not pleased.
Ruby surmised, "You've been doing a lot of mystery-solving cases, weren't you?"
"I beg to differ. Been reviewing on some bad games too that were a load of ass.", excused Athena.
Blake and Weiss reminded the other three, "The Foot Clan's gone.", seeing the enemies move to a far part of the boardwalk, "Now's our chance!"
"Go!", Ruby signalled as the five of them sneaked across and went into one of the huts to search for the bombs they will disarm.
Athena continues the film, "Something you'll notice is that there's more attention given to Sacks in this movie than there is the Shredder, and that's because Sacks was originally supposed to be the Shredder. It was changed because so many people gave them shit.", watching the part where Sacks says to April that the mutagen possesses powers beyond their hopes, with team RWBY responding by pulling up a sign saying 'A Tribble Brought Kirk Back From the Dead'.
"Fitchner would've been so much better!", the leader of team RWBY expected.
The attorney nodded, "Yeah!", discussing more afterwards, "It's totally different, but he would've been great for the part. He's weird, he's creepy, he's got a strange, sick charm to him. Yeah, he's not Japanese, but neither was Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. If we can have a cartoon where April's a teenager with no one going fucking nuts, why can't we have a movie where this guy is the Shredder? Instead, we get this dull hunk of wood who could just as easily been replaced with a scarecrow who speaks Japanese sometimes. It would've been like Iron Man 3 all over again if the Shredder in this movie was treated like the Mandarin, who we which hope is faithful to the comics in the upcoming Shang-Chi movie."
"So the Turtles abduct April...", describes Yang.
Ruby states, "...which is really backwards when you think about it. We mean, come on, this doesn't help Mikey's creeper talk at all."
The orange-haired girl gave her opinion, "Well, to be fair, he was still pretty creepy in the original..."
"...where she meets Splinter and we learn more about their backstory.", finished Yang, with Splinter in the movie telling April the whole story, especially of how her father set fire to the lab in order to destroy Shredder's plans.
Athena postulated, "So he accidentally set himself on fire? What kind of scientist is this? He creates mutant turtles, but can't light a match without burning alive? Maybe, he's the fire guy in the NES Game of Ninja Turtles."
"Even his daughter got out of there fine, and she's obviously like half his age! Look, she even managed to save the Turtles...sort of. She lays them in the street. I'm...sure the...cars will take good care of them. Not relating to the first two Cars movies Ruby and Yang did.", Blake mentions.
The attorney synopsizes, "They start to mutate over the years and learn about humanity by peaking out at Times Square. Not a bad idea, but then we get the dumbest addition of all.", as the movie shows Splinter reading a book of Ninjitsu which he made a realization to teach and mentor the young turtles to become ninjas with the art of ninjitsu, "Who the dick sausage masters Ninjitsu from a fucking book?! It's not even a good book! Look at it! They're like drawings from Game and Watch! They're not supposed to just be good, they're supposed to be amazing, and then they got that from this? Where's the chapter saying how to dodge bullets? Where's the chapter saying how to jump off cliffs? Where's the chapter that teaches you how to read Japanese?! Yeah! THE BOOK IS IN JAPANESE! How did they even read this if they're English-speaking turtles?!"
"Did Times Square just have Japanese lessons on the hour every hour?", Weiss asks, "Feels weird since this concept can be conceived into an educational kids show, right?"
Athena abstracted, "Shredder finds them and blows up their hideout, injuring most of them. Wouldn't it have made sense to hide in their shells for that?"
"Nah, they're just there to put advertisements on. Oh, wait, we don't need that; they just say it naturally on their own.", the red-black-haired huntress pointed out, with Michaelangelo telling April about his secret stash of orange Crush behind the fridge and to not tell Raphael about it when he was bringing April in a place to hide.
The orange-haired girl rose an eyebrow, "Why would that need to be secret?"
"Maybe the taste is so good that it has to be kept a secret. Go buy Crush now!", advertised the blonde huntress jokingly.
Athena typically expected when the Shredder in the film enters in his armor without his face being shown, "Oh, look, a Shredformer. He's mixing the ancient art of Ninjitsu with high tech robotic bullshit."
"Very Japanese the more we think about it. He's like, 'Um, have we met? We're talking like we have this long history, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've ever seen each other. Oh, come on, you aren't even looking at me while I fight you. That's just rude!'", the Faunus imagined.
The female attorney recounted, "Shredder beats up Splinter and captures three of the Turtles, leaving an unconscious Raphael behind.", watching the part where Shredder orders his men to blow up the place.
"You know, that's not really as much 'destroy this place' as much as 'create a bit of a fixer upper'. We mean, come on. Three people survived that 'destroy this place!'", coherently considered the Schnee girl.
Athena was about to continue, "And after that, they...", before seeing RWBY try to decipher the first bomb they were defusing, "What the hell are you guys doing?!"
"We're not good under pressure!", Ruby excused, as the timer on the bomb was counting down from 3:00, although they were already trying to figure out how to defuse it whilst they were reviewing it. The bomb was already counting down from 5:00 when the girls had arrived at the hut.
The orange-haired-girl facepalmed, "What seems to have you guys worked up?"
"Look, there's so many wires in here! Black, white, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, rainbow-colored! We're trying to find out which is the real one or else it'll blow up!", Yang told her.
Athena says, "JUST...choose the orange one!"
"Are you sure?", Ruby asked.
She says, "Just do it!"
"You sound like Shia LaBeouf when you say it!", Yang jokes, as the four members of team RWBY intensely then cut the orange wire as the bomb counts down from 2:30, when...
...
Bomb deactivated.
Blake and Weiss took deep breaths in relief, "Accomplished...", as Ruby and Yang calmly high-five.
"That's one down.", Ruby and Yang panted, "How many bombs are there...?"
Athena looked out to see the other huts, saying, "If I'm correct, I would assume...there's about 10 bombs more for the rest of the boardwalk huts."
"WHAT?!", Team RWBY shouted, "Ten more?!"
She replies, "Maybe more, maybe less. I'm not sure, because this is the ONLY HUT WE'VE WENT TO SO FAR!"
"And now this thing has turned into some kind of puzzle or maze where you supposed to figure out where the other bombs are?! Seriously!? Are you kidding me right now?!-!?", Blake freaked out.
Weiss decided, "You know what? Fuck it! We'll just go grab the bombs in the other huts and throw them all in the ocean! Like hell we care about defusing them, we only have less than two minutes left! And we're not staying here!"
"Right! Let's go, girls!", Ruby said to the others as they were about to leave the hut...
...but soon witnesses the Foot Clan enemies from far away as they starting to see them from far away!
Yang swore, "Oh, HELL no!"
"Fuck that noise!", Athena aggravated.
The Foot Clan enemies then starting running towards them far across the boardwalk, who were preparing to shoot them.
Blake yells, "RUN!", to her friends.
"Guys, what about the bombs!", panics Weiss.
Blake tells her girlfriend, "Fuck the bombs! Just go!", as she picks her up bridal-style as she, Ruby, Yang and Athena left the hut and ran off, bullets shooting by the Foot Clan as it misses them.
As the enemies kept shooting, the girls dash around the boardwalk as Ruby uses her Crescent Rose to send her, Yang and Athena flying in mid-air across (the latter two holding on to Ruby), while Blake and Weiss escape by using the former's semblance Shadow to distract the enemies.
Landing near where Blake and Weiss was running, Ruby continues running whilst Athena was riding on her piggyback-style with Yang running alongside her sister.
"Where should we go?!", Athena asked frantically.
Blake told everyone, "Back to my home!"
"What if the Foot Clan catches up with us!? The bombs will detonate in less than 1 minute!", Weiss distraughts.
Ruby then came up with something, "I have an idea! Yang, Blake, Weiss, take my hand! Athena, stay where you are!", telling the latter to stay in the piggyback position moments earlier; Blake takes Ruby's hand while Weiss embraces her dearly while Yang takes her other hand before Ruby shouted, "HANG ON!", she says as she uses her semblance Petal Burst to send them to the Belladonna Family Home.
Her Petal Burst shortly had five streams of red, yellow, white, black and orange colors as the Petal Burst nears the Belladonna Family Home.
Dispersing into hundreds of flower petals once they were steps away from the entrance, Ruby opens the door, with her and the other four going through to find themselves in the deserts of Vacuo.
Once they pass through, the doors they went through had disappeared once again, although they heard another explosion sound that faded away, seemingly that the bombs have exploded.
Panting, team RWBY and Athena sighs.
"We didn't disarm the bombs in time...", Ruby saddened.
Yang sorrowed, "We're not even close to finding the Heart of the Ninja Turtles..."
"We let Menagerie down...", Blake distressed.
Weiss miserably adds, "We don't even have a clue of how this will end."
"And here we are, stuck in the middle of the desert of Vacuo...", Ruby despondently said, as team RWBY sat down and started to cry.
Athena thought for a minute before she said, "Well...it's not like we're gonna let anybody important die, right? Sure, I believe that Trucy..."
"April.", Ruby corrected.
She continued, "...April had surely made it out okay. Surely we haven't seen anyone besides April and those guards at Menagerie, but as long as we stick together, I'm sure we could all find the Heart of the Ninja Turtles...and finish that damn movie."
Just then, a scorching wind rushes past team RWBY and Athena, before stopping in front of the five and creating a small rotating vortex of sand, before it gathers enough sand in which shows an ethereal form of Raven once again.
"Raven?", Ruby and Athena astonished.
Yang rubs her eyes, "Mom...what are you doing here?"
"I sense you girls were in danger, so I decided to communicate with you girls again through magic with sand and dust.", explains Raven.
Blake and Weiss wondered, "That doesn't make any sense. Are you some kind of genie or an Arabian fairy godmother or something? Because you're starting to look like it through your Jack Frost ethereal form."
"I am not...a genie. It happens when you mix sand and dust to create a temporary portal.", Raven told them.
Ruby sighed, "Whatever. Raven, this isn't working! We feel like we're not anywhere closer to the Heart of the Turtles. We kept scrambling around Remnant with no clue where to go next!"
"Hmm. We'll have to go straight for the throat then. Face it head-on. Go defeat the Shredder! If that doesn't lead to the Heart of the Turtles, nothing will! Oum has spoken!", commanded Raven, before her ethereal form disappears as the small sandy vortex dissipates and dies down.
Ruby stood up, "She's right. We have to go defeat Shredder..."
"We'll be together no matter what.", confided Yang, standing up.
Blake stood as well, "We'll find the Heart of the Turtles."
"And we'll fulfill our destiny. Counting Athena in.", smiled Weiss, the last to stand up.
Athena smiled deeply for her friends, "That's what I'm talking about."
"Maybe he's at Shade Academy. Only if we could...", Ruby says as she and her friends climb up a huge sandy dune, reaching the summit to find what appears to be the Shade Academy, "...Found it!"
The attorney perked up, "There it is!"
"Let's roll!", excites Yang.
She, Ruby, Blake, Weiss and Athena giggle as the five of them ran down the dune and sped across the sands of Vacuo, reaching the huge doors of Shade Academy until...
...once they opened the doors and entered...
...they find themselves facing away from Haven Academy's entrance, the entrance to Shade Academy already disappearing.
Looking around, the girls were shocked and distressed to have found themselves in a different environment across Remnant, as Athena was about to blow in a fit of rage.
"FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...", Athena screamed at the top of her lungs.
To be continued...
