Months of peace had gone by since the time travel incident with Savanti and Renet.
Kara resumed her underground fighting career having gotten much stronger not only due to her training but the battles they've encountered as well.
Kara entered her and Dragan's home carrying her title belt over her shoulder and large grin plastered on her face.
"Oh, good, you're bak, just in time for dinner." She glanced at the oven clock and blinked. "Rather quickly, I might add."
"Yeah, you should of seen it! I think I beat my record time tonight! Oh, it was awesome!" She set the belt on the couch and stretched. "If this keeps up there will be no one that can defeat me! Woo!" Kara threw her hands in the air before falling over on the couch.
Dragan walked over with two bowls of noodles in her hand and sat down across from her holding a bowl out. "That doesn't seem boring tae ya?" She asked with a raised brow.
Kara sat up, taking the bowl from her. "What do you mean?" Picking up a forkful of noodles, she blew on the gently and started to eat.
"I'm just surprised is aw. Ye were always ready for a challenge or somethin' new. I'd think alwyes winnin' would eventually become boring for ya." Dragan did the same, slurping her noodles into her mouth.
Kara stared at her a moment, chewing and swallowing her food. "Well, this is something I love to do. How can you get bored with what you love?" She lowered her gaze to her bowl in thought. Now that she mentioned it, fighting in the ring has gotten easy for her; so easy that teams of two to three people have begun challenging her but in the end she'd always be victorious. "For the record though, I wasn't ready for EVERYTHING new." She shuddered at the memories of them time traveling and dealing with Kavaxas but then again those were also new challenges that she and the guys worked and conquered together. "Why do you always have to be right?" She mumbled, shoving more noodles in her mouth.
Dragan chuckled softly, looking apologetic before staring out the balcony door curious if the others felt the same. She jumped hearing a sudden loud noise and looked over at Kara to see her slam her empty bowl on the coffee table. "I got an idea!"
Dragan raised her brow but waited for her to continue.
"Why don't we go visit Brilliance and see if she would spar with us and the guys? She's pretty freaking strong! I bet sparring with her would get our blood pumping and adrenaline rushing."
"Hey, that's not a bad idea. I feel bad for not visiting her as often. Yeah, that sounds like a plan. Let's do it!" She quickly finished her food as well and they both got up to do their business first.
"-And this show's way better than the original."
They could hear Raph punching the training doll when they entered the lair.
"Are you two talkin' about that dumb show still?"
"Atleast it's not Crognar." Kara mumbled.
"We're kinda busy doing nothing here, girls, what do you want?" Raph asked leaning against the doll only to slip and fall to the ground.
"I hae a feelin' ye guys are bored so Kara came up wi an idea tae..liven your spirits." She turned to let her explain only to see the spot she was at empty. Instinctively she turned her head towards Donnie's lab and she could see the back of her head disappear behind the doors. She shook her head with a smile but left to go gather Leo up.
"Hmm an anti-gravitiy calzone maker might not be be most practical invention." Donnie slid his chair back unknowingly right in front of Kara. She watched him with a smile on her face as he looked over a list of invention ideas. "Maybe a new robo-training dummy that Raph can't-" His thoughts were interrupted when he nearly jumped out of his skin with a start, feeling someone grab him. He leaned his head backwards to see Kara mere inches from his face, their noses touching.
"Still talking to yourself, hun?" She smiled softly before giving his nose a peck and letting him go. He stood to his feet and walked back to his table. "I'm just having trouble coming up with new inventions. "What's your next Stealth Bike or Turtle Mech or Patrol Buggy?" my brain keeps asking but no answers come to mind." He said aloud while toying with a Kraang arm. "Let's face it, without some crazy, weekly threat, there's just no point." He turned his gaze to the side with a sigh and went to sit down only for Kara to push the chair underneath him with her foot before he fell to the ground.
"I don't believe that's true. You're just not use to having so much free time that you don't know where to start." She hopped on the table and grabbed his hands, pulling him in front of her and moved her hands to his face so he would look at her. "I'm sure you'll come up with some insane invention that'll have all of us head over heels for."
He closed his eyes to her touch, placing his hands over hers. She gave him a kiss before pulling away and smiled. "I have an idea that just might help you out of this pickle." She hopped off the table and took his hand, leading him out to the living room.
Dragan slid the Dojo doors open to see Leo meditating under the tree and slowly closed the doors behind her to keep from disturbing him then sat down next to him to join in. She opened one eye hearing him flop on his back and looked down noting the bored expression on his face. "So I was right." She muttered softly.
He turned his head to look at her and sighed. "I don't get it. I've been meditating for weeks and I still don't feel any enlightenment or higher plane or anything."
"I don't think it's somethin' that comes tae ya right away. I've heard monks an priests spend years tae reach a higher spiritual plane; usually in isolation. I don't think that's somethin' ye need right now though."
"I didn't think peace could be so dull."
She chuckled softly and laid on top of him. "What did ya think the meanin' o' peace meant, silly? Ya hae tae remember it's not just ye that deserves peace but the people o' the surface as well. Besides, I think it's a good thing, we never really get tae spend quality time together; just us." She crossed her arms on his chest, laying her head down on them. "Luckily for ya though, ye hae a friend who has crazy ideas." She got off him and helped him to his feet, taking him to the others.
After explaining Kara's idea the boys were in agreement.
"That's not a bad idea. We've only seen her fight with Kavaxas and Dregg."
"At this point, I'll do anything. I'm dying for some action." Raph grinned at Donnie already stretching his body.
"Me too. The Foot are gone, Shredder is dead. I never thought I'd miss the Kraang." Leo crossed his arms over his chest.
"Aw, I don't want to fight her. She's so nice and gives such warm hugs." Mikey hugged himself with a smile on his face.
"So it's settled then. We go visit her and see if she'll give us some training. Hate to admit it but I'm getting excited just thinking about it." Kara punched her fist into her hand, grinning ear to ear.
"We still need to stay sharp so we'll patrol the city on our way to her place. Got it?"
"Now that you mention it, I have been picking up some weird energy readings in the Lower East side, so I could run some new scans as well."
"Look at you guys, already back to your ninja-selves." Kara spun around, throwing her fist in the air.
"Mikey, see any bad guys so far?" Raph asked, Dragan right beside him.
"Nada, bro." Mikey said while riding his skateboard around. "What do you got, D?"
"Hmm, this is odd. I'm picking up a strange type of interdimensional portal energy, but I can't pinpoint the source." Donnie stared down at his device moving it around to try and get a better reading on it's location.
Kara took to the T-Phone from Donnie so he could concentrate and leaned against the alley wall. "I don't think it's close by so we may have to move further into the city and considering how these things turn up; probably away from Brilliance's place."
"Where's Leo? He's not picking up his T-Phone."
Kara and Donnie looked at each other and went to group up with the others.
Kara found Leo not far from their location and led the others to him. She blinked when she spotted him wearing a long trenchcoat and hat.
"Beating street punks isn't as rewarding as it used to be."
"Cause you're dealing with idiots who think just because they have a weapon that they're stronger than you." Kara picked up his hat, taking her cap off, and put it on. "And you said these weren't great disguises." She grinned but blinked when Dragan took it off her.
"I know you're bored, Leo, but you're steppin' too close tae fire. What if ye get caught?" She walked up next to him, handing him back his hat.
"Yeah, you shouldn't be taking risks like that."
"Donnie and Dragan have a point. What happened to "ninjas stay in the shadows"?"
"Shadows? Things aren't the same now." Leo took off his coat and threw it over the side of the building. "This city doesn't need us anymore."
Kara and Dragan looked at each other then to Leo worried.
-Dimensional Turtles-
"Donatello, do you think you can find our counterparts here?" Dimension Leo asked, turning to him.
"Come on, we don't need those posers. It's just Shredder and Krang. Piece o' cake." Dimension Raph said twirling his sai in his hand.
"With their help we can get back home in time for Kara's concert, who I'm suppose to be body guarding for." Dimension Dragan said, squinting her eyes at the guys. "I thought I'd be able to spend the whole day with her but nooooo. Stupid Shredder and Krang have to get in the way as always." She crossed her arms over her chest with an annoyed look on her face.
"We should score some pizza while we're here. Antonio's is the best in any dimension, dudes!" Dimension Mikey shouting, bouncing his knees in excitement.
"Wait, hold on. I'm picking up a unique energy signal." Dimension Donnie looked over his device and gasped. "It's the Technodrome! This way!" He pointed in the direction to go in and they followed him, walking calmly in the open while Leo began to not so discreetly hide behind cover.
Dimension Dragan stared at him with her arms crossed watching his every move before she sighed. "Whatareyoudoing?!" She practically shouted causing him to let out a yell and fall over.
"This isn't like our home dimension, remember?" He rolled towards a carousel and bent down low. "We have to remain stealthy. Don't let anyone see-gah!" He was thrown backwards by a laser, the others running to his side and stood in a circle, bringing their weapons out.
Dimension Dragan held her wooden sword out, searching the area being able to hear someone but there wasn't anyone in sight.
They all looked at each other in confusion, Dimension Raph shrugging his shoulders til he was kicked away from the circle but quickly composed himself and stood up straight. "Ok, Electric Boogaloo." He attacked with his sai but made contact with nothing but air and instead was getting punched in kicked and thrown to the ground by an unknown force that liked to giggle.
Dimension Dragan and the others stood around him til a van sped towards them causing them all to jump out of the way, the van swerving and screeching to a halt. The van door opened and Rocksteady came out looking buffer than normal and Bebop appearing right next to him.
"Bebop and Rocksteady?!" Dimension Leo shouted.
"Of course these two mothballs would be here but..they look so different." Dimension Dragan noticed looking them over.
"It's like them but not, dudes." Dimension Mikey said.
"Look out!" Dimension Dragan shouted, jumping out of the way as Rocksteady roared and charged, sending the Dimension turtles flying. She went over to Donnie to make sure he was ok, helping him to his feet. "And they're a lot tougher."
"We got these guys. Turtle power!" Dimension Leo shouted, all of them charging into battle but were suddenly cut off by Rocksteady firing at them, making them dance around to avoid getting shot before separating.
Dimension Leo, Donnie, and Dragan hid behind a garbage bin with piles of boxes on top. Rocksteady walked towards the area looking for them when Donnie climbed on to the garbage and shoved the boxes over, them tumbling around and on Rocksteady.
"What is-is styrofoam peanuts?" Rocksteady questioned having a box fall over his eyes making the two turtles and Dragan giggle til Rocksteady grabbed Donnie, "Ooh, bubble wrap," and slammed him to the ground.
Dragan pulled out her wooden sword and jumped on his shoulders with her sword raised and struck his head but blinked when the tip broke off. "His skin is hard as a rock!" She shouted in surprise til she was grabbed by the feet and thrown into a wall. She slumped to the ground, slowly picking herself up, hissing in pain.
Mikey ran towards the carousel, jumping to the other side where Bebop followed, and slid back to the front. He grabbed the handles and pulled only to have Bebop come right to him. "Too slow, Foolio." Bebop kicked him across the face the impact spinning him in the air and dropping to the ground with a painful thud.
Raph ran towards a fire hydrant, grabbing Bebop's attention. "Why don't you cool off?" He struck the fire hydrant where water would come out but nothing came out. A light gasp escaped his lips but he growled and hit it as hard as he could to no effect. By then, Bebop was right in front of him, watching. When Raph looked up, Bebop's mohawk was charged and he threw the energy, the close range throwing him to the ground and water exploding out of the top of the fire hydrant.
Leo led Rocksteady towards the swings, sliding under him when Rocksteady got entangled and went to attack put got punched in the gut, sending him flying.
The Dimension Turtles and Dragan were defeated.
-Other Turtles-
Mikey continued to skateboard around, wandering towards Brilliance's while the others went to look at the soundwaveamajiggies, beatboxing when he heard some familiar voices.
"Let us go, you creeps!"
"You're stupid, ugly skin broke my favorite sword! You're gonna pay for tha-gah!"
Mikey stopped and went towards the voices to see the Dimension Turtles and Dragan piled up with Bebop and Rocksteady over them.
"Whoo! Definitely feels good to be on the winning side of a beat down."
Let us finish the job then, eh?" Rocksteady charged his weapon, aiming at them wall.
"Wait, wait!" Raph shot up to his knees, waving his hands. "You can't kill us. This is a kids show!"
"What are you talking about?"
Rocksteady lowered the weapon, it charging down."Uh, hmm, Crazy one is right. How weak and pathetic they look, da? Not very sporting."
"Fine, let's take these losers back to Shredder and Krang. They'll know what to do with them."
"This is totally bogus!" Mikey shouted.
"You snot-nosed booger eater! You're gonna get it once we're free!" Dragan yelled, struggling to free herself.
"Do you Turtles ever shut up?!"
Other Mikey landed on the ground just as they were driving off. "Oh, no!"
"Slow down, Mikey. Are you sure you saw our counterparts from the other dimension?" Donnie asked. Dragan was off to the side talking on her phone, seeming annoyed, when Mikey wouldn't lower her tone she moved farther away.
"And Bebop and Rocksteady were there, looking like bad news, wearing dead turtle shells and everything!"
"Your counterparts? We finally get to see them?" Kara asked, sitting cross-legged next to Raph and leaned forward in excitement.
"If its them." Raph said, arms crossed, not believing him. "Are you sure this isn't the time you got chased by a Chupacabra in the sewers?"
"Or when you kissed Renet back in the Wild West?"
"Or saw Thor eating a hot dog in Fifth Avenue?"
"Did you?!" Kara asked, leaning forward more only to get a little too close and begin to fall til Raph put his hand in her face and shoved her backwards, falling onto her back instead.
"I kissed Renet and it wasn't a hotdog, but I really saw the other "us's". Bebop and Rocksteady threw them in their van and drove off towards Chinatown!" Mikey began to walk in circles in exaggeration at them not believing him.
"Hm, Chinatown, huh?"
"If what he says is true and they're here then that can mean something dangerous. I'll go to Brilliance's for help." Kara hopped down and pulled out her phone. "If it really is nothing then call me and we can still hang out with her but if it is then turn on your locations so I can track you guys down." Donnie nodded, pulling out his phone as well, pressing the location icon to turn it on.
"I'll..hae tae catch up wi ye guys later. My parents are in town an thay want tae hae dinner. Their one yearly visit an thay decide now tae do it." Dragan clenched her hand over her phone, glaring at nothing to the side of her.
"Alright. If you don't call within half an hour then I'll know you're all in danger. Got it?"
Everyone nodded at her plan and they all separated.
The guys drove the Party Wagon to Chinatown, following Donnie's scanner. Once they stopped, they climbed out one by one, Donnie staring at his machine.
"The source must be around here somewhere."
Leo stepped onto a manhole cover and looked down at it, a thought coming to mind. "Maybe it's coming from the underground."
-Dimension Turtles-
Dimension Shredder and Krang were looking over schematics on the large computer when Bebop and Rocksteady came in with the Dimension Turtles and Dragan in their arms, Dragan having to be dragged from behind with a rope, who was starting to come to.
"Finally, you ugly undulates! What have you brought me?"
"We get the freaky Turtles and Irish girl for you."
"It's Scottish, you peanut brain!" Dragan narrowed her eyes at the two.
"At last! Not only do I finally have these irritating reptiles in my grasp, but they will witness my final victory over all dimensions!"
"I think you mean "our" victory, Shredder!" Shredder looked away from Krang as if he didn't hear him.
Rocksteady and Bebop placed the Dimension Turtles and Dragan on a platform in the center of the room before activating the laser bars, trapping them inside.
One by one the Dimension turtles woke up.
"Ugh, anyone get the number of that bus? Where are we?" Raph asked while Leo untied Dragan.
"Oh no, Shredder and Krang. We're trapped!" Donnie was the first to notice the two before getting a look around the room.
"There's got to be some way out." Leo pondered, helping Dragan to her feet.
"I got this, dudes." Mikey said while lasso-ing his grappling hook. "Cowabunga!" He shouted, throwing it towards the control switch but Rocksteady grabbed it before it got close and pulled it along with Mikey forward; Mikey getting zapped by the laser bars. When it stopped he froze for a sec, letting out a sigh of relief, only to get zapped a few more seconds before dropping to the floor.
Dragan bent down beside him to check and see if he was ok.
"Oh, maybe I can use my Turtle Comm to short out the signal." Donnie looked around for it but it was nowhere on his belt.
"Not so fast." Bebop said turning visible while tossing the device in the air.
"Aw, man!"
"I know! I'll just insult these overgrown idiots until they charge the cage and get zapped." Raph said with a grin, getting into a stance to get his insults ready.
"And why would overgrown idiot charge electrified cage?" Rocksteady questioned in a coy manner before pushing a button that electrified them all.
Dragan sat up, her hair poofed out, the ends having tiny sparks flying around them. "Way to go, Raph." She groaned and fell back over.
"This isn't going to be as easy as it usually is." Leo began to grow worried for him, Dragan's, and his brother's safety.
-Other Turtles-
"By my calculations, it should be right around-HOLY CHALUPA!" Donnie and the others skidded to a halt, gasping at the massive machine in front of them.
"Is that a Technodrome?" Leo asked.
"A ridiculous-looking one, even by Dimension X standards. What's the huge eye for?"
"And why is there a painted foot on the front?" While Donnie and Leo were taking apart the structure design, Raph asked the obvious question; "So how are we gonna infiltrate that thing?"
"Whhyy don't we try the open door?" Mikey pointed to the door opening with the sign, "Enter here" posted on an arrow beside it.
They entered safely, landing inside and began searching through the Technodrome. "No security. Who are these clowns?" Raph wondered out loud.
When they came across the main room they lowered to a crouch and blinked in surprise. "Kraang? And Shredder?" Leo exclaimed.
"Well, that explains the dimensional disturbance."
Leo looked around and waved for them to follow him behind a machine to get a closer look.
"Look, it's them. The other "us's" and Bebop and Rocksteady."
"Mikey was right again." Raph said in surprise before he rolled his eyes. "Lame."
Leo's eyes were on Dragan, who was trying to put all her hair back in a ponytail but would get angry when one or two strands would poke out. He shook his head, eyes turning serious."Let's move."
Dimension Leo stepped forward defiantly. "You won't get away with this Shred-Head!"
"But I already have, my meddlesome mutants." Shredder began to cackle evilly.
"So, what next, Boss-Man?" Rocksteady asked, moving to them.
"Now, with those troublesome Turtles out of the way, we will need to you fools to..run some errands."
"We need to fully power up the Technodrome. Then we can conquer this dimension." Krang explained.
Other Donnie and Raph snuck towards the control panel on the platform, Donnie beginning to work to set them free.
"Dude! You found us!"
Other Raph placed his fingers to his lips shushing Dimension Mikey.
"We totally had this without you posers getting in the way." Dimension Dragan shoved Dimension Raph with her elbow, narrowing her eyes at him. "This is not the time to be picky about our rescue. So save it." She whispered harshly.
"We can always just leave you here, Raphael." Other Raph said with a grin.
Dimension Dragan noticed the Other Turtles coming to view and smiled. "Thanks guys."
Other Leo glanced at her and smiled when Dimension Leo stepped forward. "Thanks for the save. Turtle Power!" He shouted only to quickly cover his mouth at his mistake, everyone's eyes going wide when they realized their cover was blown.
"The Turtles? There's more of them?!" Shredder shocked at the news.
"Quick, do something! These Turtles are actually dangerous." Krang shouted in fear, his tone of voice deepening at the end of his sentence.
"Well, um, don't just stand there, you blithering blister-brains! Take them down!" Shredder ordered Bebop and Rocksteady, who charged up their weapons, aiming at them and fired.
The Other Turtles dodged their bullets, jumping all over the room to keep from getting shot.
"Yeah! Go Green Machine!" The Dimension Turtles shouted while Dimension Dragan just chuckled.
"Don't call us that!" Raph shouted.
"Whoa! These guys are even more armed up than usual!" Other Donnie exclaimed, jumping to the second floor and running from Rocksteady's bullet barrage. "Eat hot plasma, turtle freaks!"
Other Mikey jumped on to a panel then flipped on to his feet, dodging the bullets when Bebop appeared behind him, pointing his weapon at him. Mikey let out a gasp but blinked when bubbles tickled his face, popping on contact, and making him smile.
"Bubbles?" Bebop slid under Mikey as he tried to attack him, focusing on changing the dial on his weapon. "Come on, come on." Just when Mikey jumped into the air for an attack, Bebop turned around and pressed the trigger, sending a sound wave at Mikey that threw him to the other end of the room and in Other Leo's arms.
Other Donnie went back to the control panel on the platform to work on getting the Dimension Turtles free when his brothers were thrown next to him. He gasped when he saw Bebop and Rocksteady with their weapons aimed at them.
"I have you just where I wanted!" Krang shouted, pushing a button that summoned jelly-like goo from below them, encasing and hardening around the Other Turtles bodies, trapping them.
"What the heck is this!?" Other Raph shouted, trying to pull himself free.
"Da, freak turtle ninja's are finally finished."
-To be continued-