Beneath the Earth's Crust:
"Shell! How long is it going to take to get to, Donnie? Its been hours already!"
"I don't know, Mikey. The signal is showing something but its too early to confirm anything yet."
"I hope we don't end up back in that Underground city!"
"Don't worry. The path we're on is far off from there."
"Ya better find sumthin soon, Don. Ya don wanna Mikey ta get bored do ya?"
"Believe me, Raph, if I could, we'd be there by now."
"Are we there yet? Heheh-OWCH!"
"Well at least we have an entertaining comedy show to pass time by."
"Yeah, wish I had some popcorn to go with, Amigo."
"Ya makin fun a ME!?"
An annoyed Raph turned around pointing at the red and orange turtles that were walking behind him.
"Cause if ya were, ya gonna get ya shells kicked!"
"Oh no, no!" Raphael waved his hands at shoulder length. "I was just pointing out what great skills you got at comedy!"
Raph punched at him only to miss at the last second.
"But I have one thing to point out!" Raphael added as he summersaulted over his counterpart and landed on his feet "Ya gotta make ya voice a lot deepa dan dis, an ya need ta work on ya punchlines!"
There was silence as five mutants stared at Raphael.
"Whoa! Did that guy copied your voice or what?!"
Mikey voiced his family's amazement at the gifted turtle.
"I'LL GIVE YA A PUNCHLINE!"
Recovering from the stun, the hothead hurled another fist at him that got dodged by ducking down. Taking the opportunity, the pudgy turtle swiftly swung his leg tripping his counterpart who fell on his back.
"Not THAT kind of punch, STUPID!" Raphael laughed before making a run for it.
"ARGH! COME BACK HERE YA REJECT!" recovering quickly, Raph gave chase throwing threats of doom at him.
"HAHA! Its like watching a recorded tape of how I spend quality time with Raphy boy!"
"I'll go get those two back."
Leo went towards their direction but Splinter stopped him.
"Wait, Leonardo. It will be wiser if I go fetch them myself. You go ahead. We'll rejoin with you."
"Hai, Sensei."
I nodded to Master Splinter and when he left I mentally shook my head at Raph as we moved on. We were walking in the dark underground caverns for hours now, trying to track down the Technodrome with Don's accelerograph, and Mikey kept nagging on the two geniuses, who were at the front, every five minutes.
I was right behind everyone making sure Raph wouldn't do anything irrational, since he wasn't exactly... fond of these alternatives of ourselves, especially his own counterpart, whose personality seemed very… unlike him. Splinter must've picked up Raph's negativity towards them and probably wanted to make sure he won't… hurt himself...
While we were at it, I kept sensing that someone was eyeing me. I felt the gaze was on my old wound. I couldn't take it anymore and turned my head swiftly to find my counterpart was staring at the covered crack of my carapace near my shoulder. I've almost forgotten about him being behind me. Caught by surprise , he turned away with embarrassment written all over his face. Narrowing my eyes, I decided to let it go.
I just hope we get them out of here before I start asking about my broken shell… From the look on their faces I can tell that they haven't crossed path with true evil like we did… They don't need to know about our story…. Its for their own good.
Raphael ran not far off from where he left the group. Giggling to himself, he looked back to see how far his pursuer was away from him, but found no one.
"Hey, where's that hothead?" he stopped beside a rocky column to look around him
"Hmm, either he gave up and turned away... OR he's about to ambush me right now from the shadows!"
He then got grabbed by his neck in a classic headlock.. Raph was holding his head under his arm.
"Ya second guess was right, Reject!"
He heard his taller duplicate say.
"How come I didn't hear you?!"
"I'm a ninja, remember?"
"Duh, so am I!" pointing out the obvious
"Well, it seems ya don't pay attention in class, and now ya gotta pay! Big time!"
A smirking Raph applied pressure around his victim's neck.
"Say 'Uncle'!"
"In your dreams!" He winced "Man! You need a deodorant!"
"I said: SAY UNCLE!"
"SPLINTER!"
"Fooling around will only make it worse!"
"RAPHAEL!"
At lighting speed both turtles stood up lining up in front of their beloved angry Sensei, looking at their feet like a couple of naughty school boys.
"There is no time for this foolishness!" he frowned at both but his eyes seemed more cross at his own son. He then looked back at the shorter of the two with a less stern expression.
"We need to get you back home and we don't know if your only chance is still out there, so please refrain from irritating your brother till then."
"His brother?!I only have THREE bros! These are-!"
"ENOUGH!" Splinter hit the cave floor with his stick glaring back at the hothead. "I will have no more arguments!" He motioned to them to walk in front of him.
They glanced at each other with a glare before they obeyed. No more words were said till they returned to their group, and even then they said nothing till they reached their destination.
A couple of hours later:
"You were right, uh… Donatello " Don said to his counterpart, as the signal on the handheld device he was holding beeped faster.
"Tracking the recent weird seismic activity has lead us straight to the-?!"
Suddenly the cave was lit like it was day time. They soon found themselves right in front of the...
"TECHNODROME!" Leonardo shouted as they eyed the source of the light and found out that it came from the giant eyeball on top of the war machine.
"A giant golf ball on wheels?! That's your Shredder's ultimate weapon?!" Raph voiced his opinion on the sight before him.
"Never judge a book by its cover." Leonardo said.
"Is that another one of Master Splinter's sayings?" Donatello asked in a not amused tone
"Well, no. Its something that I've read in a book of proverbs."
Suddenly a whizzing sound was heard alerting the group and making them get into their fighting stances. The group watched as the Technodrome opened up its gate. Out came a man in a black and grey outfit, and his arms and shoulders were covered with spiked armory. He also wore a purple cape over his shoulder and a metal helmet and a mask that covered his whole face save for his eyes. The turtles unfamiliar with him, and their Sensei, raised their eye ridges at his sight.
"And that's your Shredder?!" Raph asked in a mocking tone.
"In all his glory!" Raphael replied rolling his eyes.
"HAH! He looks like one a Mikey's badly drawn comic book villains!"
"Eight Turtles?!" Shredder narrowed his eyes at them. "I don't know how this came to be, but soon there will be NON!"
He raised his hand and behind him his minions emerged. Foot soldiers in their purple uniform carrying various weapons including ones similar to their own, lances and laser guns.
"Bebop and Rocksteady!"
The tall Turtles and their Sensei heard Donatello say as two mutants, a warthog and a rhino emerged from behind Shredder.
"Destroy them! All of them!" the masked man motioned his hand forward.
"With great pleasure Master Shredder" Rocksteady affirmed as he and Bebop charged forward with foot soldiers
"Say your prayers, toitols" Bebop assaulted them with his laser gun.
Several soldiers bombarded the enemy with laser guns as well, forcing the Turtles and the rat to swiftly hide behind several boulders that were scattered around the area, shielding themselves from the barrage of laser beams. The area soon became like a live light show.
"How do you guys deal with situations like these?" Leo shouted as the enemy continued its assault.
The shorter turtles glanced at each other, and one by one they gave each other a toothy grin as if sharing a secret joke.
"SPILL IT ALREADY! " Raph motioned with his sai, irritated by their stupid grin.
"How do WE deal with them, he asked?" Raphael repeated the question before they-
"TURTLE POWER!"
-swiftly spin-jumped out of their hiding place and charged at the enemy.
"Don't you just love these guys?" The joker of the group pointed with his thumb at them then triggered his adrenaline with a battle cry, as he jumped after them.
"Cowabunga!"
"Gee! its like having FIVE Mikeys now!"
Raph grabbed his forehead.
The remaining turtles and their Sensei had no choice but join in.
One of the Foot threw several ninja stars at Leo. Leo jumped sideways to avoid them. Out of instinct he looked back and to his shock the shurekins turned back towards him. Swiftly he cut them down with his twin katanas. He then rushed towards his opponent and gracefully kicked and slices him only to find a surprise.
"Robots?!" he said while he remained in his strike position on the ground.
"Exploding Robots!" Mikey corrected him, finding the situation rather amusing.
The Leader looked up at him as he ran off to fight off more of these things. It didn't make any sense to Leo at all. He eyed the dismantled metal heap. In all his fights he had always faced tough opponents who gave him a challenge. These things, besides being un-organic proved one thing...
"They're not even fit as commercial toys!" Don voiced Leo's thoughts as he swinged his bo at the robots, easily blowing up a number of them without really trying.
"I agree to that" Leo nodded as he proceeded to dismantle some more lance wielding foot soldiers.
Splinter smashed a few robots with his cane, before he grabbed a fist from behind him and throttled it forward. The attacker swiftly righted himself in mid-air landing on his feet as he faced his adversary.
"Shredder!" he fixed his eyes on him.
The two started to circle each other. As the opponents studied each others' movements Splinter couldn't help but feel anger build up towards him like he did towards his own Shredder. However this sense of anger was different from the one he harbored towards the Shredder he knew. That anger stemmed from the loss of his beloved father at that Shredder's hands, but this was stemming from…
"Why do I have this immense sense of betrayal?" he whispered to himself.
"So you are the Splinter of this dimension." Shredder observed in a prideful manner "Not quit different from my adversary. But lets see if you're a worthy opponent."
"Prepare to get plazmarized!" rocksteady shot like made at Leonardo and Donatello.
Avoiding the hits Leonardo noticed the cave's ceiling was about to give in right above the mutant rhino. The duo eyed each other and nodded as they silently and quickly formed a plan.
"I don't think so!" Leonardo jumped on and off Donatello's shell straight to the ceiling and with his katanas cut the soil above. Raining debris fell on the unsuspecting foolish rhino, burying his whole body, save for his head.
A Foot with a sword waved his weapon at Mikey, whose eyes widened at the sight before him. Sonar rays came out of the sword, prompting Mikey to jumps away letting the sonar hit a boulder.
"Hey! What the SHELL?!"
He yelled as he witnessed the giant rock shatter to pieces from the explosion.
"I feel like a major Déjà vu just hit me." The shorter nunchaku wielder eyed the forth wall with a smile.
Don was having a fight with a Foot who waved a fan at his direction creating a force field dragging the surprised Bo wielder towards him. Not the type to stay shocked for long, Don latched onto a rocky column.
"HAYAA!"
He forcefully thrust his Bo at the enemy. Upon contact it instantly blew to smithereens.
"That'll teach you to drag me around!"
He went to retrieved his weapon which was still in good shape.
"Yeah! Who wants some?!" Raph was really enjoying his time, stabbing shredding and kicking the robots and simply having the time of his life.
Seeing this, Raphael couldn't help but smile and look at the forth wall.
"Now THAT'S a happy turtle!"
He pointed his thumb at him before he sensed and dodged a laser shot
"I'm gonna pulverize ya, Shellbacks!" Bebop assaulted him.
"Sure!"
Raphael jumped on the warthog's shoulders with his hands, grabbed him and flipped him forward, Knocking him on the floor. The sarcastic Turtle then jumped to the ceiling hand-chopping off several rock-like stalactites, causing them to fall and surround Bepop, preventing him from escaping.
"Just as soon as you get out on parole!" he joked.
"Cut it out, Bro! I'm trying to fight here!" Mikey, who was within earshot, was on his knees unable to control his amusement as he hugged himself.
Donatello spotted a giant boulder on a higher level and used his bo to roll straight at Raph's targets eliminating them all, leaving a disappointed Raph who looked like a kid who had a bunch of sweets and were suddenly taken away from him.
"Strike!" Donatello yelled triumphantly hitting the ground with his bo.
"I'll give ya a strike!" Raph shook an angry fist at him.
Donatello was taken aback.
"Hey! I was only trying to help you!"
But Raph ignored him and walked away muttering angry words under his breath.
"Sheesh, nobody appreciates good help these days." he shook his head at the 'audience' when Raphael approached him.
"Forget him. Lets go take care of the rest of these junk bots."
Agreeing, they jumped off back into the fray.
"Wow! What a hard-case!" Michelanglo said to Mikey pointing at Raph as he witnessed his anger at Donatello.
"Bro, I could tell you stories." Mikey said shaking his head.
"Argh! Blast it!" Shredder yelled as he received a punch from Splinter that sent him spiraling away. The transceiver on his belt rang. Knowing he had better answer it he pressed the answer button leaving it hanged there while he jumped up to resume his fight.
"Shredder! You bungling idiot!" an annoying voice that sounded like a person with sore throat trying to speak while squeezing his wind pipe and burping at the same time.
"I'm in the middle of something here, Krang!" he yelled into a microphone that was embedded beneath his mask, while avoiding a kick directed at his face.
"First you get us stuck in this infernal dimension, and now you struggle GRAO! with these primitive creatures?! If my troops from dimension X were here.."
"Oh, quit nagging about 'Dimension X'. We're having enough trouble in THIS dimension! Can't you see we have EIGHT Turtles now?!"
Then a sudden realization hit him.
"Wait! That's it! Of Course! "
Followed by another hit, to the head this time, courtesy of Splinter who side kicked him, knocking him over for the hundredth time. But he jumped back on his feet, making sure to keep enough distance away from his adversary.
"If this dimension has its own version of the Turtles, perhaps it has its own Shredder as well!" he whispered low enough so only Krang was able to hear him.
"Ooooh! And maybe even its own Krang!" The one who is known as Krang said in a way which is known as mock interest. "Why, that will be-"
"Shutup Krang! And turn the emergency power on now! We're leaving!" He dodged a hit from Splinter.
"At least you know when to quit."
Within the Technodrome, at the Main Computer room there stood a humanoid robot that had an alien pink brain, with eyes and a mouth for a face, was placed in the robot's exposed stomach. Following Shredder's instructions it pressed on a few buttons.
"Emergency Power now online!" Computer screen blinked the words.
"Well, its been nice fighting with you, but I'm afraid I have some other important things to attend to." Shredder said before he did a graceful backflip keeping him faraway from Splinter and took out a strange looking control device "Until, we meet again, Hamato Yoshi." He pressed the button and turned rushing towards the Technodrome, leaving a shocked Splinter behind.
"Wait! Come back here!"
He tried to follow but after running a few steps he halted after noticing the robots freeze. Their eyes became red and started shaking violently.
"What gives?!" Raph asked the question that was running in all of mutant ninjas' minds.
"They never did that before!" Leonardo was confused by the sudden development.
Robots exploded setting the area in flames forcing the Turtles and their Sensei to jump to safety behind some huge rocks
Bepop and rocksteady got free and raced to the technodrome before it closed it gate.
"Wait for us Boss!"
They jumped in right before it closed up.
Krang took the chance to unleash a giant laser beam on one of the walls creating an escape route. Causing the ground to vibrate violently and rock and debris fell as a result.
"Come on! They're making a run for it!" Raph yelled, prompting the groups to chase the technodrome.
But Krang was prepared for it. As one laser beam dug its way out a second one at the back of the technodrome was unleashed on the ceiling breaking the rocks up above and sending them raining down forcing the Turtles to jump back.
They could do nothing about it when the boulders completely blocked the path.
"SHELL!" Raph angrily threw his sais to the floor. "We almost had'em!"
"Self destruct mechanism… I never thought that would be part of their programming." Donatello pondered as he grabbed one of the robots head.
"Must be a new upgrade." Raphael suggested.
"Probably"
Donatello nodded then almost skipped a heartbeat when the robot's head got swatted away from his hands.
"QUIT CHIT-CHATTING AND MOVE YA SHELLS!"
Raph motioned to them to move on.
"What's up with you? You should be glad that we'll stick around for a while!"
Raphael smirked wanting to have a second go at riling his counterpart up. But was stopped by a hit on the head, courtesy of Don's Bo.
"Let him be. He's in no mood right now."
"Whatever you say, Brainiac." Raphael shrugged.
When they were about to move on, Leo did a head count then noticed Splinter was in deep thought.
"Master are you OK?!"
Two Leonardos asked at the exact same time, prompting them both to feel awkward.
Splinter snapped out of his daze and to find both leaders in front of him.
"Huh, yes my Sons!" He placed his paws on their shoulders. "Lets move on."
They nodded then turned to leave while the Ninja Master eyed the alternate turtles thoughtfully.