Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The brothers cheered as they moved across the city rooftops. But not everyone was enjoying the late night run as April followed after them at a much slower pace.
"I…never…understood how turtles could be so fast" April gasped, dropping to her knees in exhaustion.
"Come on April, this is just the warmup" said Mikey as they stopped to let the girl catch her breath.
"The warmup!" April exclaimed in horror. "For two hours?"
"That's what ninjas do" said Leo. "Training sometimes lasts four, five hours at a time. Awesome right?" he finished with a cheerful laugh but April didn't share his enthusiasm.
"Are you kidding me? I'm going to puke. What about a real mission?"
"It took fifteen years of training before Master Splinter let us go on a 'real mission'" Raph scoffed.
"And he only let me go because I have the guys watching my back" Harry added before April could argue about his age. "You've still got a way to go, April."
"Oh come on!" April whined. "Even your friends from Hogwarts went on a mission and they have even less training than me!"
"Maybe we should take her on more missions Leo; it makes sense" said Donnie.
"Yeah the best training she could have is hanging with the ninjas" said Mikey, doing karate chops for emphasis.
"No way" said Leo. "It's too dangerous."
"What if something happens to her?" said Raph voicing his concerns.
April was about to argue that she could protect herself when she was suddenly hit with a strange migraine feeling. But the pain quickly passed just as quickly as it arrived leaving her with a strange awareness.
"Guys I think there's someone watching us. Right over there" April finished, pointing to a shadowy figure over on the next rooftop.
"Get him!"
The chase was on as the team raced after the spy.
"Leo I can get him" said Harry, thinking he could teleport on top of their target.
"No we don't know who or what he is" said Leo, not wanting to risk any unpleasant surprises.
Harry could understand his brother's reasoning but a quick glance back at the trailing April made him wonder if the girl would be able to keep up. Well April you wanted a real mission.
Turns out their target was quick on their feet as they had already crossed a few rooftops before they were able to get close enough to identify that he was man dressed in a trench coat wearing a fedora.
"Hey look" said Mikey, pointing to their spy as he slips inside an apartment window.
With their target cornered the team moves to the fire escape right outside the apartment window.
"It's quiet" said Donnie. "Too quiet."
"How long have you been waiting to use that one?" Harry questioned, prompting his older brother to roll his eyes.
Leo just shoots the two a light glare signaling for them to be quite as he pops open the window with his knife.
Once inside the team finds the apartment blanketed in darkness.
"Harry" said Leo, prompting his youngest brother to cast a low powered lumos charm; summoning a lowly lit ball of light to hover above them. Now able to see they spread out around the room finding a collection of maps and diagrams but it's Mikey that finds something very disturbing.
"Guy's check this out" Mikey gasped, revealing a wall filled with photos of the brothers, April, what appeared to random wizarding locations, and The Kraang, a lot of Kraang.
"Ok what's with the creeptastic pictures?" April questioned. As they studied the photo wall, Raph noticed someone hiding right outside the door.
"Well I guess we've seen enough guys. Let's get out of here!" Raph said loudly, silently signaling the others to stay quiet and play along.
Raph's ruse worked as the man they were following leaned out to check to see if they'd actually left, only to be caught by surprise as the red clad turtle grabbed him by the collar and dragged him into the room, pinning him against the wall with his sai at his throat.
"Don't hurt me I'm a friend" said the man. Now that he was out in the open they could see the man was middle-aged man with greying hair.
"More like stalker" Raph countered.
The man's eyes widened as he took in April and the brothers' faces.
"Finally after all these months face to face with Harry Potter, the talking ninja turtles, and April O'Neil herself."
"You better start talking pal" said Leo, moving to stand by Raphael, his hand threateningly on the hilt of his sword. "What's with the photos? Who are you?"
"I'm…"
"Jack Kurtzman" Harry interrupted, walking over to the man. "Explain everything" he ordered as held out of a framed photo of the man with a young Luna Lovegood and a woman that he assumed was her mother.
A sad smile spread across Kurtzman's face as he took the photo from Harry's hand and took a seat on his couch.
"I'm guessing my Luna told you about me?"
"Not much" said Harry. "All we know is that you have ties with Luna and that you're an embarrassment for the British magical government."
"So why don't you fill in the rest?" Raph demanded.
"I'm a journalist; I travelled to England during the wizarding war against Voldemort. I was investigating the mysterious deaths and wondered into the magical world through a weak point in the wards. My investigation eventually led me to Pandora Lovegood, the love of my life."
"What happened to her?" asked April, noticing the sorrow in Kurtzman's voice as he spoke about his love.
Kurtzman then pushed aside some papers on his table and opened a photo album for them all to see.
"The Kraang." Kurtzman said sinisterly. "Last year I was on the case of the missing scientists. Pandora came to help me and together we learned far too much… and she paid the price."
Kurtzman then showed photos of evidence of ancient murals depicting The Kraang.
"The alien infiltration is long lived ancient in fact. The Kraang have been trying to use mutagen to terraform the Earth for thousands of years."
The photos then showed images of the aliens experimenting with the ooze over the centuries.
"But they couldn't use the mutagen in our universe without a specific chain of human DNA."
The photos then showed The Kraang examining and experimenting on human beings.
"No way" Harry gasped, as the photos began to show images of Kraang droids present during a witch burning. The most shocking part being that the aliens were present on both sides of the conflict.
"If The Kraang were on both sides then that means they engineered the witch hunts" Donnie said in realization.
"That's right" Kurtzman confirmed. "But it goes further than that. Pandora and I traveled during our investigation of the Kraang invasion; we found evidence that magic isn't as old as they'd like to make you believe."
"What do you mean?" asked Harry. Hermione's not going to like learning everything she's read in History of Magic is wrong.
"Truth is magic has only existed from sometime in the middle ages. Same for all of the plants and animals."
Harry's eyes widened as he remembered how he found traces of mutagen in unicorn blood the year before.
"That's right Harry. The entire magical world is just the result of Kraang experimentation."
"But what's the point in creating magic?" Raph questioned.
"The Kraang needed a specific chain of Human DNA. They spent millennia capturing people, shaping human kind's genetic code. Until finally…." Kurtzman paused and held up a picture of a baby girl.
"That's me" April gasped.
"Your mother was taken by The Kraang before you were born" Kurtzman continued. "Then she was experimented on."
"Mom" April muttered, heartbroken for the woman she never knew.
"That's why you're so special April. Your DNA can perfect the mutagen in this dimension."
The kids could only stare eyes wide in shock over what they've learned.
"Wow" said Donnie, summing up all of their thoughts.
"I-I think I need to sit down" said April, her legs buckling underneath her as she struggled to accept these truths.
"So if all magical creatures are basically April prototypes; then why are The Kraang wiping out wizarding communities?" asked Harry, remembering what Luna had told him when they first met.
"I'm afraid don't know" Kurtzman replied. "But I can tell you that this isn't something recent. Magical communities all over the world are being systematically abducted."
"But how come no one notices The Kraang snatching up so many people?" Mikey questioned.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but Mikey's got a point" said Raph. "You'd think someone would say something."
"Yeah I mean the magical communities may be isolated but you'd think the muggle-borns' parents would say something." Harry added.
"Not necessarily" Donnie argued. "The magical world is hidden and even the different communities don't communicate regularly or The Kraang would've been noticed by now. And remember the schools like Hogwarts take in eleven year olds and only give them an education that'd be useful in the magical world. It probably isn't uncommon for parents to lose contact with their kids."
All conversation came to an abrupt end as the door to the apartment was kicked open by a group of heavily armed Kraang droids.
"They found me! I don't know how but they found me!" Kurtzman cried, as the aliens opened fire.
"Get down!" Harry yelled, tackling the journalist to the ground as laser fire passed over them.
The apartment fell into chaos as the turtles scattered around the room dodging laser fire. Raph quickly went on the offensive charging the nearest Kraang droid, getting into an intense wrestling match with the alien.
Raph tried to push the alien back but the Kraang's mechanical body proved too strong as he quickly took control and pushed the red clad turtle up against the wall. Refusing to back down Raph continued to push back fruitlessly against the Kraang droid, but he was no amateur and quickly turned the tide as he kicked the droid's legs, buckling the knee and throwing it off balance. He quickly followed up by throwing the Kraang over his shoulder, slamming it into the wall.
Mikey screamed as he ducked and tried to take cover on of Kurtzman's sofas as he didn't seem to have much room to move. Seeing his brother in danger Harry left the journalist's side and joined the battle.
"Hang on, Mikey!" Harry cried, throwing his tantō at the Kraang droid's head, taking it out of the fight as the blade hit its mark.
"Thanks bro" said Mikey. Harry just smiled thinking it wasn't a big deal as he moved to retrieve his weapon. Thankfully his orange clad brother was watching his back as Harry failed to notice another Kraang aiming its blaster at his back. Quick to return the favor Mikey acted quickly and threw a spray of shuriken at the alien before it could pull the trigger.
"And now we're even" said Harry, as the brothers turned their focus to the ever growing number of Kraang.
As the brothers fought off the aliens, April crawled along the floor behind a couch looking for anyway she could help. Unfortunately, she wondered right into the path of a Kraang droid, who had her at gun point. Fortunately, Donatello as always was there when April needed him and he quickly came to her rescue taking the Kraang out with a brutal swing of his bō staff.
"I'll protect you, April" said Donnie, smiling at the girl. This turned out to be the wrong thing to say as a scowl formed on the redhead's face.
"Protect yourself" April snapped, drawing her tessen as she marched into battle, leaving a saddened Donatello behind. As she stepped out into the open April got distracted watching as Harry, Raph, and Leo worked together to clear a path to the door, their blades slicing through Kraang droids like hot knives through butter.
The feeling of laser fire flying past her head certainly brought April out of her daze as her attention turned to a Kraang droid entering the apartment. As the alien opened fire, April barely had time to react as she unfolded her war fan in time to block the laser blast. Sadly, she wasn't able to handle the resulting heat of her weapon causing her to toss it away. An action April instantly regretted as the Kraang droid now held her at gun point. The alien was seconds away from firing when suddenly the droid was sliced cleanly in half from behind by Leonardo.
"It takes a little practice, April" said Leo, wanting to sound supportive.
"So I'm told" April snapped, frustrated by her performance.
As Kraang continued to entered the apartment it soon became clear that the battle couldn't be won forcing them to retreat out the window. But as he moved to follow the brothers and April, Kurtzman paused as he grew fearful of leaving his notes behind.
The Kraang didn't seem to like that idea as they opened fire on the meddlesome journalist, causing him to fall backwards out of the window.
Kurtzman screamed as he fell towards the pavement, certain that thi
s was the end for him and fearful of what would happen to his daughter with his passing. Thankfully the journalist had made some highly skilled friends as Mikey catches the man with his nunchuck chain just inches from hitting the pavement.
Now in the alleyway behind Kurtzman's building the group knew it wouldn't be long before The Kraang caught up to them. Turns out they really didn't have any time at all as at that very moment one of their vans blocked the end of the alley, the back doors opening to reveal a Kraang piloting a four legged pod, equipped with a laser firing mini gun.
"Scatter!" Leo cried as the brothers, April, and Kurtzman raced down the alley with the gun toting alien in hot pursuit. "Harry, think you've got it in you for a big jump?"
"Just tell me where" Harry replied, ducking as a laser grazed the tip of his hair.
The Kraang followed after their hated enemy relishing the feeling of being the one to finally put an end to their meddling, only to have pause in confusion as it saw Harry teleport away leaving his friends behind. While the alien found this to be odd it decided instead to focus on eliminating its remaining targets, a sadistic smile forming on its face as it finally cornered the turtles, April, and Kurtzman in a dead end.
Kraang: "Reveal the place unknown to Kraang that is the place that the one called Harry Potter is located in that place" the alien demanded, moments away from firing on our heroes.
To the alien's confusion Leo stepped forward a smug smirk on his face and pointed up. The Kraang didn't have long to question this as the sound of a truck horn rang out seconds before the Shell Raiser fell from the sky, landing on the alien.
"Anyone call for a taxi?" Harry smirked as his brothers, April, and Kurtzman entered the vehicle.
"Good job, Harry" Leo complimented, moving to take the wheel from his brother. But Harry had a different plan in mind as he wasn't exactly eager to give up what could be his last time behind the wheel.
"Don't worry guys, I got this" Harry cheered, slamming on the gas.
"Harry!" the others screamed in terror as the Shell Raiser sped onto the open road, crashing into dumpsters, mailboxes, and just managing to avoid crashing into cars as they made their escape.
"Harry, give me the wheel!" Leo ordered.
"But Leo, I'm starting to get the hang of it" Harry argued, only to wince as the Shell Raiser ran over a thankfully unmanned newspaper stand. "Ok, I'm pulling over now."
"Here's the plan. You infiltrate TCRI then wipe out all the data The Kraang have on April's DNA" Kurtzman told the brothers.
"Infiltrate TCRI?" April questioned. "I thought you guys blew that place up."
"Yeah" Harry confirmed. "And trust me, when we blow a place up it stays blown up."
Turns out Harry spoke too soon as he and the others were soon surveilling the now fully restored TCRI building from across the street.
"So what happened to staying blown up" April teased.
"Oh shut up" Harry grumbled.
"We break in, erase April's DNA codes and get out. Infiltration only" Leo ordered.
"Let's do this." April said determinedly.
"Great you and Kurtzman stay outside on lookout."
"What on lookout?!" the girl snapped, angry that Leo would sideline her like that.
"No problem" said Kurtzman earning a hateful glare from April. "Take this it's a keycard I stole from one of their vans. It'll get you into TCRI."
Giving their thanks the brothers moved to rooftop across from the TCRI building. As the brothers prepared to zip line over they paused as they heard a groaning April struggle to climb up the building.
"You have to admit she's determined" said Mikey, watching as the now heavily panting April walked over to them.
"Alright April, stay here and maintain radio communication" Leo ordered, before zip lining away.
"But I want in on the action too" April complained.
"Don't worry, we'll be back before two shakes of a Kraang tentacle" Donnie assured, choosing to ignore the girl's displeasure of being left behind.
"Stay outside like some stupid sidekick. I don't think so" April scoffed, as she moved to follow after the brothers.
Entering through the roof Harry and the turtles dropped into what looked like a typical office…well a typical office filled with Kraang droids that were strangely unresponsive to their presence.
"Um, ok why aren't they attack?" asked Harry.
"I think they're charging" Donnie replied, pointing to large power cords connected to the back of the Kraang droids' heads.
"Weird, I wonder if there's Kraang inside of them" said Raph.
"Yeah check it out" said Harry, moving the arms of the closest android revealing a sleeping Kraang inside. Feeling curious Mikey approached the droid, poking at its synthetic human skin.
"Dudes their faces are all rubbery and stuff" the orange turtle laughed, as he started playing with the Kraang droid's lips. "Blah blah blah. Donnie stinks."
"Stop that" Leo snapped. "We got to move before they wake up." Though there was one more delay in their plans as at that moment April dropped down from the ceiling surprising the brothers.
"April, what are you doing here?" Raph demanded.
"I told you. I'm sick of waiting on the sidelines" April replied.
"Fine" Leo sighed, seeing no point in trying to send the stubborn girl back now. "But be quiet, stay close, and do not…let Mikey touch anything."
Of course the moment Leo finished giving his warning the Kraang droid, Mikey was playing with let out an electronic beep and its eyes started flashing a purple light.
"It wasn't me" Mikey said in a panicked voice.
"I think they're done charging" said Donnie, as the rest of the droids started doing the same.
"Then we've got to move!" said Harry, leading the way as they made a mad dash for the elevators, just managing to make it before the aliens noticed their presence.
Using the keycard Kurtzman gave them the team gained accesses to Level 40; the real Kraang facility. The only problem the aliens had very poor taste in elevator music.
The elevator let them out in a large chamber filled with hundreds of Kraang, all of which were floating in hover saucers in a meditative trance.
"What's going on Donnie?" asked Raph.
"It's a Kraang sweet 16 birthday party" Donnie replied in a sarcastically sweet tone, Raph just scowled at his brother's tone. "How am I supposed to know!" he finished returning to his natural voice.
"Yeah Donnie, never make that voice again" Harry pleaded. "Seriously for some reason it brings to mind kittens and ugly pink sweaters."
As they struggled to figure out just what The Kraang were doing, April was hit with another random migraine as her mind somehow became attuned to the aliens.
"It's Kraang Prime. They're meditating. Communicating. I can hear they're thoughts" April explained, leaving the brothers stunned.
"Woah you're like telepathetic" said Mikey.
"Telepathic" Harry corrected. "Trust me I've read enough comics to know."
Kraang Prime: "The experiment is nearly complete. Despite setbacks the mutagen will be ready as planned."
"They're talking about invasion" April informed the brothers.
"Can you hear anything?" Donnie asked Harry.
"No not even static. This must be part of whatever makes April special."
Kraang Prime: "Soon we will transform the Earth and all of its hideous people."
April gasped in horror at the idea of what the aliens planned to do to their planet. But in doing so she had accidentally alerted Kraang Prime to her presence. The Kraang meditating in TCRI let out a horrific shriek triggering the alarms and throwing the building on high alert.
"Run!" Leo ordered, leading the way back to the elevator.
"Some stealth mission" Raph commented, as his eldest brother frantically tried to summon the elevator.
"Dudes it's that freaky chick with the exploding elbows!" said Mikey, pointing to the Kraang robot known as Ms. Campbell.
Leo continued to frantically push the elevator button but before it could arrive Ms. Campbell fired a pair of missiles at the intruders, forcing them to jump out of the way as one of the explosives destroys their escape route. The second however had locked on to April.
"April!" Donnie cried, tackling his crush out of harm's way as the missile flew overhead before detonating against a wall.
"Lookout!" April screamed, returning the favor as Kraang droids started firing on them, keeping the pair pinned down.
Leo was quick to come to their aid as the Kraang droids were too focused on Donnie and April to notice his swords slicing clean through them until it was too late. After cutting his third Kraang droid in half, Leo took up its top half and began using the alien's gun to return fire on approaching Kraang saucers.
"Guys the door" he ordered, gesturing to the door on the far side of the room. Unfortunately, Ms. Campbell and a squad of armed Kraang droids stood in their way.
"I'm really starting to hate that psycho granny" Harry grumbled, as he and his brothers moved to engage the enemy. Drawing her tessen, April moved to join them only be taken by surprise as she's trapped in Kraang droid's grip on her arm.
Kraang: "It is the human known as April O'Neil."
"I'm not going to ask for help" April told herself, swinging her tessen at the Kraang droid's head in an effort to free herself. But despite her best efforts April wasn't able to make proper use of her weapon as it bounced harmlessly against the droid. Until finally having grown tired of April's futile efforts, it caught her arm and started dragging her away. "Donnie, help!"
Hearing their friends cry Harry and turtles just managed to catch sight of April being dragged out of the room.
"Guys we have to save April" said Donnie. The genius turtle was so distracted by the redhead's abduction that he failed to notice a missile approaching from behind luckily he's got his brothers to watch his back as Leo quickly came to his rescue, tackling him out of the way.
"Raph take out Ms. Rocket Arm" said Leo.
"Already on it" Raph replied, charging at the deadly granny. Seeing the approaching turtle, Ms. Campbell aimed her rocket at Raph, her arm seconds away from firing. But just before the missile could be released, Raph threw his sai into chamber causing the weapon to self-destruct the resulting explosion was just big enough to take out the remain Kraang droids and clear the way for the brothers to follow after April.
Once the brothers entered the hallway they were surprisingly met by a now free April, not so surprisingly she was followed by a squad of trigger happy Kraang.
"Run!" April cried, rushing past them as the aliens fired on them. Following April's lead, the brothers ran down the long hallway until the redhead pointed to a side door as a possible escape. But once they were inside it was revealed to be a complete dead end.
"Ok why are we hiding in a dead end?" Raph asked sarcastically.
"Looks like we're trapped too" said Harry, struggling to open the locked door. As Harry and the turtles tried to think of a way out, April suddenly began laughing manically. The situation only got worse as the room started to fill with poison gas.
"April why are you doing this?" Donnie begged, his laced with the pain of betrayal for it was clear that the psychotically laughing girl had purposefully led them into a trap.
As his brothers tried desperately to break the door down Donnie tried to think of some reason why April would betray them to The Kraang.
"April, what's wrong with you?" Donnie questioned. "Are you being mind-controlled."
In response April slapped Donnie. "Try again." She then proceeded to deliver admittedly a well-executed combo consisting of three powerful punches to the chest, a palm strike to the chin, and finishing with a devastating back kick powerful enough to knock Donnie flat on his shell.
"Ok now way that's April" said Harry.
"It's an android, get her!" Raph charged the fake April, his sais at the ready. If there was any doubt this wasn't the real April, there certainly weren't any now as the April duplicate easily catches Raph's hands and counters with a vicious head-butt.
"I hate having to do this" said Donnie, swinging his staff at the fake April. But the April double simply catches the weapon and despite her slim build manages to lift and toss Donnie over her shoulder with one hand.
Quick to recover, Donnie notices that he's landed by the control panel for the door. An idea quickly forms as the April duplicate approaches him. But just as the fake April lunges at the purple clad turtle, Donnie slips under her outstretched arms, and kicks out her leg and throws her face first into the control panel. The fake April lets out a piercing scream as the control panel shorts out, sending a powerful surge of electricity through her body before finally dissolving into a strange black tar like goop.
With the controls shorted out the door opens allowing the brothers to escape the gas chamber.
"Ok Donnie want to explain that?" Harry asked.
"It was some kind of replica. A fake April" Donnie replied.
"But she looked so real" said Mikey. "Like tofu bacon."
"Come on we've got to find the real April" said Leo, leading the brothers further into TCRI.
"And tofu bacon does not look real" said Raph.
"It tastes real though." Mikey argued.
"No it doesn't" Harry denied, siding Raph in the argument.
Eventually the brothers found themselves in a DNA sample chamber like the one they found when they took down the World Wide Genome Project. Except this time instead of random samples all of the chambers were filled with copies of April.
"By Darwin's beard" Donnie said in awe. "April clones."
"Weird" Mikey commented.
"Perfect genetic duplicates."
"Weird."
"I bet The Kraang have been growing them to harvest her DNA."
"Weird"
"I got it ok!" Donnie finally snapped.
"So where's the real April?" Raph questioned.
Turns out the real April was busy being strapped down to a table surrounded by Kraang droids.
Kraang1: "The DNA that belongs to the April clones is lacking, Kraang."
Kraang2: "Kraang needs more real April DNA."
April could only squirm as a large needle started to lower towards her head.
"How about I just give you some hair or something?" she begged. "That has DNA."
Kraang3: "That is correct. But this is far more entertaining to Kraang."
"Hurry Donnie" Leo urged his brother as he worked to erase the data The Kraang had on April's DNA.
"I'm hurrying as fast as I can" Donnie replied. Just then the sound of April's screams echoed through the walls.
"Yeah think you better step on it" said Harry. As if things weren't bad enough a trio of Kraang droids then entered through a higher level of the chamber, spotting the brothers.
Kraang1: "The turtles survived. Open the bin that is known as the reject bin."
The floor then opened up beneath Harry and the turtles. They can only watch in horror as a giant misshapen clone of April rose up. The monstrosity had large bulbous left arm and right leg. And a horrific second head extending out of her left eye.
"What the heck is that?" Leo questioned.
"Derp. Derp. Derp." The clone repeated as she lumbered around the room, her flailing arms taking out the Kraang droids as she moved towards the brothers.
"It's some kind of reject clone" said Donnie. "A genetic mishap. An…
"An, April Derp!" Mikey finished, giving the clone her name.
The boys scattered around the room taking advantage of the Derp's clumsy movements. Leo made the first move jumping from the top of the main DNA container, landing on April Derp's head leaving her dazed. Donnie then made his move knocking her further off balance with a blow to the leg with his bō staff. Harry and Mikey then made their move as the latter used his nunchuck chains to bind the clone long enough for Harry to come down on her with his Raikiri attack. Though the April Derp was made of stronger stuff then the previous clone as the electrical surge didn't seem to have much effect on the defective clone. With April's fate growing worse by the minute the boys couldn't afford to waste time.
"You guys handle the Derp. I'll rescue April" said Raph, taking off to find their friend.
"Aw man. I wanted to do that" Donnie whined.
"More deleting. Less complaining" Harry told his brainy brother reminding him that they still needed to wipe The Kraang's files on April's DNA.
April struggled desperately as the Kraang machine continued to descend upon her when suddenly it came to a complete stop, the cause being none other than Raphael.
"Great saved by Raph." April complained, frustrated that once again she was the damsel in destress. "I'll never live this down."
"Well we've all been there April" Raph replied. Drawing his sais, Raph dropped down onto the floor, and began fighting against the Kraang droids. But their numbers proved too great as they began to pile up on him, binding his arms, leaving him only able to watch helplessly as The Kraang restarted their machine.
As Raph struggled to rescue April, the others continued to struggle against her far less than flattering imitation.
The April Derp's lumbering movements forced Leo on the defensive as he made use of his agile movements to keep ahead of the monster's grasp.
Seeing his brother in trouble Harry charged the Derp head on, his tantō in one hand and a Raikiri charged in his other, trusting that his brothers would provide an opening. A trust that was well placed as Mikey did just that, using his kusarigama chain to trap the Derp's leg, throwing her off balance.
Unfortunately, her large size also gave the April Derp incredible strength as she easily tugged on the chain hard enough to pull Mikey towards her, knocking against her back, which soon revealed itself to have a large mouth on it, a large sickly purple tongue slinking out and licking the disgusted turtle.
Attempting to come to his brother's rescue, Harry made his move. The young ninja leapt at the Derp's head only for the mentally challenged clone to snatch him out of the air.
"April give hugs" the Derp said cheerfully as she gave Harry a backbreaking hug.
"Help! Harry don't want hug!" the boy cried.
"Donnie you wipe those computers yet?" Leo asked.
"Still working on it" Donnie replied.
"Work faster!" Harry cried, struggling against the Derp's grip.
Leo moved to rescue his youngest brother, his swords at the ready. He leapt at the defective clone intending to cut Harry free. But the Derp's bizarre movements play to her advantage, knocking the turtle away with her butt as she dances around with the captive Harry.
Though everything wasn't all bad as Donnie finally finishes deleting April's DNA codes from the computers. True to form Donnie took a moment to bask in his accomplishment unfortunately he chose a bad time to do as and was caught by surprise Leo came crashing into him.
Gathering as much energy as he could Harry cast the brightest lumos charm he could, blinding the April Derp. Harry soon regretted this as the blinded behemoth started flailing him around like a ragdoll, bashing him painfully against the clone chambers.
"I hope Raph's having an easier time!" Harry groaned, hoping that his brother would be back soon with April.
Raph was certainly not having an easy time of it as he was trapped under a dogpile of Kraang droids, watching helplessly as the needle point of the Kraang machine neared April's head.
"April!" Raph cried helplessly.
Kraang: "Do not struggle the one called April O'Neil will soon expire."
Never before had April felt such fear and powerlessness. She knew that despite his best efforts Raph wouldn't be able to save her and that this would be her end. But as she fell further into despair a power was building within her.
"No. No. No!" All at once a massive surge of psychic energy came blasting out of April destroying all of the Kraang droids and leaving Raph stunned by the display of power. Though his mind was full of questions, Raph decided to put them on hold and quickly freed April from her bindings.
"Are you ok" Raph asked, allowing April to lean on his shoulder as they exited the room.
"Brain…on fire" April groaned. "Other than that, eh."
Turns out the Kraang droids weren't the only things that April's power affected as Harry, Mikey, Donnie, and Leo faced off against April Derp, Harry s felt his magic suddenly slip out of reach as if someone had flipped an off switch on his powers. He didn't have long to worry about it though as he attention turned to the giant defective April clone, that much to all their surprise randomly exploded into goop, along with the rest of the April clones.
"Yes goodbye April Derp!" Mikey cheered, though his smile dropped when the tar splashed into his face.
"Hey you ok?" Leo asked Harry, noticing the odd look on his youngest brother's face.
"Tell you guys later. Let's find April and Raph" Harry replied deciding their friend and brother were more important.
It didn't take long for them to meet up with April and Raph, finding them just as they were leaving the room The Kraang held her hostage in.
"I'm so glad you're alive" Donnie said in relief, wrapping April in big hug while also pushing Raph aside. The celebrating came to a quick end as the alarms started blaring telling them it was time to leave.
Escaping the TCRI building wasn't the hard part. No the hard part was escaping the hoard of Kraang firing at them as Harry, the turtles, and April crashed through of a ground floor glass door out onto the open street with the aliens in hot pursuit.
"Harry, time for an exit" said Leo.
"I can't" Harry replied, despite his best efforts his magic still felt sealed away. With The Kraang closing in on them things were looking bleak. But a wise man once said that a good friend is all you need in a time of crisis and Jack Kurtzman was definitely a good friend to have.
The journalist drove onto the scene in a stolen Kraang van giving the kids a much needed getaway vehicle. Kurtzman couldn't help but laugh as they drove away in one of the alien's own vans.
"Thanks for the save Mr. Kurtzman" said Leo.
"Call me, Jack" the man smiled, after tonight they were certainly on a first name basis. It didn't hurt that Harry was friends with his daughter either. "So did you wipe out the Kraang computers?"
"We did" Donnie reported. "By the skin of our noses."
"The only reason we survived was because of April" said Raph. "Whatever you did back there saved us all."
"I don't know what I did" said April. "I was freaking out and then zap, The Kraang were toast."
"Well whatever you did definitely had some power" said Harry. "You took me out too."
Now that certainly got everyone's attention and they all started to wonder just how powerful was April. Eventually Kurtzman deemed it safe to pull over in an alleyway to let the brothers and April out.
"Well I'm off. Somebodies got to keep an eye on The Kraang" said Kurtzman.
"Mr. Kurtzman, is there anything you want me to tell Luna?" Harry asked. He had a feeling that Jack had made a lot of sacrifices for his daughter's safety.
"I leave secret messages for her in her uncle Xenophilius, Pandora's brother's magazine, The Quibbler." Kurtzman explained. "But I would like you to give her this." He then handed Harry what looked like a worn notebook. "Pandora charmed it to never run out of pages, so there's more than you'd think. It has all her research on magic and The Kraang inside. My love was a very clever witch and encoded it; I haven't even seen it all. But incase anything happens to me or in England, I think the information inside should keep her and of course her friends safe."
"I'll get it too her." Harry promised.
"If you ever need my expertise, Luna can tell you where to find me" said Kurtzman before driving off into the night.
Once in the lair they headed straight to Donnie's lab where he went to work. The first problem with Harry's magic was a simple fix as it turned out April's power could act like a magical EMP, a temporary problem that fixed itself over time. But things weren't so simple when it came time for Donnie to examine a sample of April's DNA.
"This doesn't seem possible" Donnie gasped, his eyes wide in shock over what he saw under the microscope.
"What's wrong?" April asked, feeling somewhat frightened by what he could've found.
"Based on all the data I copied from the clone lab, your cellular makeup is actually a morphogen blend of Human and Kraang DNA."
April couldn't help but take a step back as she struggled to understand just what Donnie was telling her.
"You're not entirely human, April. That's why you have psychic powers. In fact, you're a half human, half alien mutant."
Donnie's words leave them all completely stunned but of course Mikey is the first to recover.
"Welcome to the family!" he said cheerfully but April can only stare in horror as she struggles to accept her new identity.
First new chapter of the new year. Hope everyone had a great holiday and as always thanks for reading. Please leave a comment/review.