Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Baxter Stockman was by far not a nice man. Though intelligent the man suffered from a highly over inflated ego. After spending his childhood years, suffering from bullying, he had gotten a job at TCRI…and was fired. So like any rational man he decided to build power armor to destroy the office in revenge. This first bad decision is what led him to run up against the Ninja Turtles. His first defeat at the hands of the mutant turtles brought about the creation of his M.O.U.S.E.R.S to commit robberies for him. Once again the Turtles defeated him, this time with the addition of their younger human brother. This defeat carried consequences as well as he found himself in the employ of the Shredder.
With no choice but to work for the Foot Clan, Baxter was forced to endure being the punching bag for Bradford and Xever. This of course led him to create his Maze of Doom, in an effort to destroy them both along with Harry and the Turtles. Once again he failed but at least in the chaos he escaped.
Sadly, freedom wasn't meant to last as after the Kraang invasion the previous summer, Baxter ran into both sets of hated enemies. Was forced to try and create a retro mutagen and once again failed and was defeated along with Fish Face and the newly dubbed Rahzar. And was subsequently forced back into servitude by Karai, this time with the handy addition of wearing a mutagen collar, set to go off should he disappoint.
This brings us to the newest chapter in the sad life of Baxter Stockman, who was currently hard at work in his lab, currently located in an abandoned warehouse.
I mustn't fail Shredder Stockman thought frantically to himself, ever mindful of the collar around his neck. As luck would have it the man in question had just arrived accompanied by Rahzar, and the Foot leader was not happy.
"Baxter Stockman, I ordered you to build me a mutant army" said Shredder, tossing aside pictures of the scientist's previous attempts. "And you give me this!"
Baxter flinched as Shredder tossed the photos in his face. Desperate to appease his master, Stockman, held up a photo of a man with a duck's head, dressed in motorcycle leather.
"No, no. Don't you see; it swims, flies, and knows, taekwondo. It's a triple threat."
Shredder wasn't amused as he coldly slashed his gauntlet blades through the photo in Stockman's hand.
"And it quacks" Stockman added weakly, now in serious need of a change of pants.
"Can it, Stickman" Rahzar growled, getting in Baxter's face. "This is the last time you mess up!"
"M-mess up? L-look at yourself, Rahzar. You're twice the dog-err-man you were before."
In response, Rahzar snapped at Stockman, eager to sink his teeth into the nerdy man's neck.
"No Bradford" Shredder commanded, calling off the mutant. "I have a more suitable fate in mind." Stockman could feel his heart drop, as he had an idea of what Shredder had in mind. "You have failed me too many times."
"No!" Stockman cried fearfully. "I mean, please Master Shredder. I have so many plans, mutant pigs and rhinos."
"Pigs!" the Foot leader snarled, angrily knocking aside Stockman's equipment.
"And rhinos" the nerdy man squeaked.
Shredder's patience had finally come to an end, Stockman could only watch in terror as he pushed the detonator for the mutagen collar, ignoring his desperate pleads.
"I am not a man of idle threats" Shredder said coldly.
"Bet you'll end up a bigger freak than me, Stickman" said Rahzar.
"There's nothing wrong with idle threats" Stockman panicked.
Time slowed down as Stockman flailed around the room in a panic, as the collar armed itself, the mechanism giving off a countdown to the end of his humanity. But then to his relief the collar suddenly stopped.
Stockman fell to his knees, crying in relief as Shredder and Rahzar walked away, leaving him to think that his master had shown mercy. But he was the collar had simply had a delay, the instant Shredder was out of sight, the collar's mutagen vials shattered spilling over him, ending his humanity and beginning the next chapter in Baxter's sad life.
"Nooooooo!"
With the crisis over at Hogwarts, Donnie and Harry returned to New York, where the genius turtle went to work on developing a retro mutagen. Said turtle was currently hard at work in his lab with the visiting April.
"Are we done yet, Donnie?" April yawned. "We've been up for like a million hours."
"No worries April" said Donnie, setting a beaker of his newest formula over a Bunsen burner. "This time it's going to work. We're finally going to turn your dad, human again."
April couldn't help but smile at her friend's determination. She was touched that Donnie had spent so long on this project, and she hoped with all her heart this would finally be the day it all paid off.
"Alright, now I'm adding a sample of your DNA" said Donnie. "So brace yourself for the scientific discovery of the century, retro mutagen."
In his excitement, Donnie had just noticed that April had fallen asleep. Smiling at the girl of his dreams, Donnie took a drop of his newest batch and introduced it to a slide of mutant cells.
Donnie danced for joy as finally after months of research, he had finally discovered retro mutagen. April could barely believe her ears as Donnie's cheers woke her.
"You did it?" April asked, praying it wasn't a dream. "You really did it?"
"Did what?" asked Mikey, drawing their attention to the door, where he, Raph, Leo, and Harry stood, drawn to the lab by all the excitement. "Did you invent pizza that doesn't get soggy in milk."
"I finally made it; retro mutagen you guys" Donnie announced. "The key to turning, Mr. O'Neil human again."
April couldn't help but cry at the thought of having her father back, she moved to wipe away her tears only to have someone else do it for her. Looking over her shoulder, April gave a watery smile to Hedwig, who entered the lab along with Splinter, drawn by all the commotion.
"And you too Sensei" Donnie added, holding the beaker of retro mutagen out to Splinter.
The boys couldn't help but stare in wonder as they considered their father returning to human form.
"Human once more" said Splinter, visibly thrown by the idea. After spending the last sixteen years as a mutant, he had never once considered the possibility of regaining his humanity. "Save April's father first. And then I will consider it."
Splinter turned and left the lab, leaving the others confused by his reluctance to take the antidote. But before anyone could comment, Mikey dashed over and took the beaker out of Donnie's hands.
"Ooh, I wonder what would happen if I turned myself human, again" said Mikey. "I wonder what I'd look like."
"We were never human to begin with genius" said Raph. "We'd just turn back into turtles."
"Yeah, I don't feel like having you for a pet, Mikey" said Harry.
"Give me that" said Donnie, taking back the beaker and placing it on his lab bench. "I've only got enough for two dosses. One for April's dad and the other for Master Splinter."
"Can you make more of the stuff?" asked Leo.
"Yeah but it takes ten canisters of mutagen to refine just one tiny dose of retro mutagen" the purple clad turtle explained. "And I don't have any left. But at least we can find April's dad and change him back."
"I'm just speechless" April said breathlessly. "Thank you. Thank you, so much Donnie."
April wrapped her arms around Donnie, planting a kiss on the love struck turtle's cheek, leaving him a babbling mess.
Hours after Shredder detonated the mutagen collar; Rahzar accompanied by a pair of Foot bots returned to the warehouse to witness Stockman's fate. But when he arrived there was no sign of the new mutant.
"Stickman, where are you?" Rahzar called. "I want to see what you turned into. Come on out."
The newly mutated Stockman stuck to the shadows, keeping low to the ground as he did his best to stay out of Rahzar's sight.
The dog mutant continued to call out when suddenly the lights went out, casting the room into darkness. It wasn't hard for him to figure out this was Stockman's attempt to stay hidden.
"Scared to show yourself Stickman? It's not like you can get much uglier." Rahzar taunted, the darkness preventing him from noticing the humanoid figure crawling along the wall behind him.
For a moment Bradford actually wondered if Stockman had actually run away, while he was gone. That idea was abandoned as something swooped being him, taking the heads clean off his Foot bots.
"Show yourself mutant!" Rahzar challenged, in response Stockman spat a smell goop at him. While the goop burned slightly, it did give Rahzar Stockman's location, giving him a look at the newly mutated scientist before he flew out a window into the night.
Out in the city April and the brothers have managed to track down, Mr. O' Neil; the bat mutant was currently a little busy trying to suck the blood out of a billboard photo of a woman's neck.
"Alright April, you hang back" said Leo, as they watched Kirby from an opposite rooftop. "We don't want to rile him up like last time."
"But I can help" April argued. "I can calm him down."
"Last time you tried that, he took you to his nest and tried to feed you dead rats" said Raph.
"Good point."
"He's asleep" said Harry. "We got to do this now."
Leaving things up to the brothers, April watched as they grappled over to the other rooftop.
"Ok we got to do this quick" said Leo. "Raph, Mikey, and Harry; we can't let him escape. Donnie spray him fast."
With his brothers in position should Mr. O' Neil wake up, Donnie took out a sprayer loaded with retro mutagen. The turtle took aim and was about to take his shot when suddenly something large rushed past him from behind, spooking him, causing him to drop the sprayer.
Shocked by the sudden disturbance, Wingnut's eyes shot open. Upon seeing the brothers, the bat mutant took to the sky, deaf to April's cries to stop.
The brothers were about to pursue when suddenly a voice called out, "Sentimental humans, give me the retro mutagen now!"
They were surprised to see a mutant fly, looking down on them from on top of the billboard. From what they could tell the mutant's upper body was that of your common house fly, complete with wings sticking out of its back. The rest of his body though as far as they could tell wasn't changed much just dressed in normal shoes and a pair of jeans, though the inclusion of a pink sweater, couldn't help but remind Harry of someone.
"Another mutant?" Leo gasped. But the fly man wasn't interested in them, instead his sights were on the dropped vial of retro mutagen.
"No, get your claws off that vial!" Donnie demanded, jumping on top of the mutant before he could fly away with it.
"Dog pile!" Harry cried, as he, Raph, Mikey, and Leo joined Donnie's efforts to ground the fly.
But in their struggle they mutant fly lost his grip on the vial, sending it flying over the side of the rooftop, shattering on the street. With the vial lost the fly mutant decided to go for another target, swooping down and grabbing April, while she was still distracted by the lost opportunity to cure her father.
"Let me go, you ugly germ farm" said April, doing her best to break the mutant's hold. Turns out April had really been practicing as she managed to swing her legs up over her head to planting her feet in the mutant's face. Though stunned by the attack the fly mutant quickly recovered his grip on April, now being more mindful of the girl's flexibility.
"Silence" commanded the mutant, his voice containing a sort of buzzing, one would expect from a fly.
"I know who that is" said Raph, recognizing the voice despite its changes. "It's Derek Stockboy."
"Baxter Stockman" the fly mutant corrected, confirming Raph's theory.
"Wow, guess he has a love for classic horror movies" said Harry.
"Come to my lab. You will bring more retro mutagen. Or the girl mutates with me." Finished delivering his ultimatum, Stockman flew off his April, forcing Harry and the Turtles to watch as their friend moved further and further away.
"Wow we really messed that up" said Mikey.
"Yeah, doesn't really help bro" said Harry, wondering if he could teleport on top of Stockman, force him to drop April, and teleport her to safety before she could hit the ground. Yeah I don't like the odds of that plan.
"I only have one vial left" said Donnie. "It'll take me months to synthesize more."
"Don't worry Donnie" said Leo, placing a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder. "We'll get April back and make her dad human again."
"Let's hope so. Let's really hope so" said Mikey, earning a painful shove from Raphael.
"It wouldn't hurt to get more hands on deck" Harry suggested, looking to Leo.
"Not a bad idea" said Leo. "We'll call Casey. Harry get some of the Hogwarts crew to help find Mr. O' Neil and tell them to bring their brooms."
"One air force, coming right up."
Harry then teleported away, planning to meet back up at the lair with their support.
As they waited for Casey and Harry to arrive, Donnie went to his lab to retrieve the last vial of retro mutagen. As he reached for the precious chemical, Donnie couldn't help but agonize over the situation.
"Oh man, what am I going to do" Donnie questioned aloud. "Save April and Mr. O'Neil, but what about Master Splinter?"
"What about me?"
Splinter gave a small smile, as Donnie jumped out of his seat, surprised by his father's sudden appearance.
"Leonardo informed me of the situation" said Splinter. "You must split up to rescue April and to find her father."
"I'm sorry, Sensei" Donnie said sadly. "This is all the retro mutagen I have left."
Donnie couldn't even bring himself to look at Splinter, feeling too ashamed. But Splinter refused to allow his son to wallow in such misery, placing a comforting hand on Donatello's shoulder, he urged the turtle to look him in the eyes.
"I may not be human, but I am fortunate enough to have my humanity" said Splinter. "Save Kirby."
Donnie quietly left to join Raph, Mikey, and Leo in the living room. As his son passed, Splinter took out a picture of his family with Tang Shen, wondering what she would've wanted him to do.
While Donnie was speaking with Master Splinter, Casey had just arrived in full vigilante gear.
"Who's the soon to be slap-shotted goon that kidnapped April?" Casey demanded, brandishing his hockey stick for emphasis.
"Long story, Casey. We need your help big time" said Leo. "And yes you'll get to hit someone with a hockey stick. Probably more than once."
This brought a smile to Casey's face, always eager to beat on the scum of the city. While this was going on, Raph approached Mikey, who had been leisurely reading a comic book, as he waited to begin the mission.
"Guess you and me are bat wrangling tonight, Mikey" said Raph. "Well us and Harry if he ever gets back here."
"Say no more, bro" said Harry, as he teleported into the lair accompanied by Neville, Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Hermione.
"Oh yeah! you're just in time" Mikey said excitedly.
"Please don't" said Raph.
"Don't what?" asked Hermione.
"This" Harry grinned, as Mikey threw down a smoke bomb, reappearing in an old favorite.
"The return of Turflytle, dog!" the orange turtle announced. "Buzz buzz is buzz back. Buzz!"
"You annoy me to no end" said Raph.
If being kidnapped by Baxter Stockman wasn't bad enough, April found herself hogtied and dangling over a giant vat of mutagen.
"Baxter, you don't have to do this" said April. "Donnie can help you. He can make more retro mutagen. It'll only take a few mon…I mean hours."
"If he fails I have a backup plan" said Stockman. "You fall and I-I jump in. We come apart and then come together. You. Me. As one. More human than I am now."
"Baxter listen. Dropping us into a vat of ooze isn't going to save you. You got to trust me on that!"
But Stockman wouldn't listen, instead choosing to focus on eating a chocolate bar from his pocket. April could honestly say watching Stockman, actually melt the candy with his acid spit before eating it was one of if not the most disgusting things she'd ever seen; and she'd Mikey eat.
Finished with his meal, Stockman turned his attention back to April, starting off on a tirade about how he couldn't trust anyone. While torture for April, it did provide the team of Donatello, Leonardo, Neville, Hermione, Casey, and Luna to repeal down from the ceiling unnoticed.
The team silently took positions among some crates, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike, when Casey in a bone headed move, clapped his hands on a fly, the sound of which blew their cover.
"Turtles you tried to sneak in yes. No retro mutagen; no trade!"
"I got your retro muta-junk right here!" Casey said defiantly, using his hockey stick as an imaginary guitar.
"He's a strange boy" said Luna, leaving Hermione and Neville to ponder the irony.
Seeing that they had no intention of handing over the retro mutagen, Stockman spits acid on to April's rope, partially melting the line, leaving it frayed and weak, threatening to snap at any given moment.
The fly mutant then swooped down on our heroes, who didn't hesitate to meet the challenge, with Casey leading the charge.
Just as Stockman came into range, the masked vigilante knocked him into the ground with his hockey stick. But the mutant Stockman is a lot tougher than the human version, as he manages to overpower the teen, shoving him aside.
Leo moved to attack from the side but turns out Stockman's new trillions of eyes are actually good for something, as the fly well flies up over the turtle dodging his attack, countering with a literally flying kick to the back of the head.
Seeing that the mutant insect was going to a difficult target Neville, Hermione, and Luna drew their wands, firing a barrage of spells at the mutated scientist. Though his new speed allowed him to avoid their attacks, the spell fire did at least keep Stockman on the defensive as they timed their spells to leave no openings.
For a moment it seemed the Hogwarts students had one the battle for them when suddenly Stockman decided fire some projectiles off his own, spitting wads of acid goop at the magic users, turning it into a good old fashioned shoot out as each side tried to keep ahead of the other's fire.
Sadly, Stockman had the advantage in that spitting didn't tire him in the slightest, despite their training under him, none of them had the same amount of magical reserves as Harry, meaning it was only a matter of time before the kids tired.
A fact that Stockman capitalized, overwhelming the Hogwarts kids with his acid loogies once their spell casting started to slow. Thankfully they weren't fighting alone as Casey came to aid, dropping down on top of the fly, pummeling him with his bare hands.
Wanting to get rid of his stowaway, Stockman performed a barrel roll, shacking Casey off his back, sending him flying into a stack of crates. With the teenaged vigilante out of the way for the moment, Stockman resumed raining goop down on Leo, Neville, Luna, and Hermione, who resorted to quick footwork to keep a head of the acid.
"Baxter stop" said Leo. "We don't want to hurt you."
Just then Casey freed himself from the crates and threw a canister at Stockman, snapping his fingers in frustration when he missed the fly mutant by a mile.
"Well Casey does."
"Actually Leonardo, I'm not liking him much either" said Luna.
"Um guys little help here!" April cried, as her rope was moments away from snapping.
Fortunately, as his friends were holding off Stockman, Donnie had been making his way up the side of the mutagen vat, reaching the top just as the rope snapped.
"Not fast enough" Stockman taunted, as April started to fall.
In a desperate attempt to try and save her, Donnie leaped over the vat, arms held out to grab the girl. But despite his best efforts the turtle's fingers only graze the end of the rope as he passed over, leaving April to drop into the mutagen vat.
"Two become one!" Stockman cried victoriously, moving to dive in after April.
Turns out Casey had other ideas, throwing his hockey stick at the fly man, stunning him long enough for him tackle Stockman to ground, with the Hogwarts kids joining him for good measure they started beating on the insectoid nerd.
With Stockman being taken cared of; Donnie and Leo climbed to the top of the mutagen vat curious as to why April's new form hadn't emerged yet.
"Is she…" Leo couldn't even bring himself to say it.
Watching for any sign of life the turtles stepped back as something started to climb out of the vat, still completely covered in ooze. To their surprise the ooze bubbled and then popped revealing a perfectly normal April.
"Nice catch Donnie" she complained.
"How are you… of course you're immune to mutagen" the purple clad turtle realized. "That's why your DNA worked to create retro mutagen, amazing."
As the others were busy rescuing April; Harry, Raph, Ginny, Ron, and Mikey searched the city for Mr. O' Neil. Turns out Turflytle is still very effective as it didn't take long for the bat mutant to start chasing after Mikey.
"So that's your friend April's dad?" asked Ginny, as they followed Kirby on their brooms.
"Yeah he's all the family she's got left" said Harry.
"Then we won't mess this up" said Ron. "Besides I think the real challenge will be keeping him from eating Mikey."
"Maybe we can give him a little taste" Raph joked.
Mikey certainly wasn't finding it funny as Kirby kept snapping at his heels.
"Ah help me, buzz buzz!" Mikey cried, desperate not to be eaten.
Taking out his T-phone, Raph made the call. "We got him on the run, Leo. Get over here before we let him eat Mikey."
"Got it, we'll be right there" said Leo, as he and the others struggled to pull Stockman away from Donnie.
But since things weren't crazy enough, Rahzar decided it'd be a good time to blow a hole in the wall, storming the place with a squad of Foot bots.
"I heard you say 'retro mutagen'" he said greedily. "I can be human again."
"On second thought, we might be a little late" said Leo, ending the call.
"Bring me that vial" Rahzar ordered, sending the Foot bots after them.
"Time to go" the blue clad turtle ordered, nodding at the visiting wizards.
"Luna, Hermione" Neville called, signaling for the two witches to help him. Gathering their magical energy, together they raised their wands, "Lumos Maxima!"
The combined full powered light charm blinded Stockman and Rahzar, covering their escape back to the Shell Raiser.
"No escape" said Stockman, flying after them. "No escape."
Not out of the race yet Rahzar turned his Foot bots with one simple order.
"Get me that vial before Stickman uses it. That retro mutagen is mine!"
The Shell Raiser was burning rubber as they drove through the city streets rushing to catchup to the others. But Stockman was proving to be a very persistent.
"He's gaining on us" said Casey, watching Stockman on one of the monitors.
"Firing garbage cannon!" said Donnie.
But the weapon proved ineffective as Stockman simply caught the trash ball and started eating it.
"Ok that's just gross" Hermione commented.
"Well he is a fly" said Neville.
"Take a right, Leo" said April.
Knowing by now it's best to trust her instincts, Leo followed April's directions as they did their best to stay ahead of their pursuer.
"Now a left, Dad's this way."
Though if Leo didn't ease up on all the sharp turns he might have a mess to clean up later.
"How do you know?" asked Casey.
"I just do. I told you I get certain feelings about things" said April. "Faster Leo!"
"Help!" Mikey cried. "Kirby bat wants to suck my blood!"
"Alright we better save him" said Harry."
Harry, Ron, and Ginny flew around Kirby surrounding him on three sides leaving an open passage for Raph to swoop in and ram right into the mutant bat, knocking him down on to a rooftop below.
Landing next to the downed Kirby bat, the group cautiously approached him, planning to wrap the mutant in a tarp until Donnie arrived with the retro mutagen. Turns out they wouldn't have to wait long.
"Wait!" April called, climbing up to the rooftop. "Let me talk to him."
Kirby watched warily as his daughter walked up to him, gently running her hands along his cheeks.
"Just stay calm Dad. We're here to help you" she said in a soothing voice. "Just calm down."
Pacified, Kirby nuzzled up against his daughter allowing the others to approach.
"Sorry this took so long, Mr. O' Neil" said Donnie, taking out the vial of retro mutagen. "Just a quick spray on your skin and you'll be good as new."
But the night's challenges weren't over yet as Stockman came out of nowhere, swooping down and snatching the vial right out of Donatello's hands.
"Seriously again!" Donnie complained.
"And it's about to get worse" Harry groaned, pointing to a squadron of Foot bots moving through the air, their arms spread out revealing their uniforms doubled as wingsuits.
"Flying Foot bots!" said a dumbfounded Mikey. "Dudes this is getting out of control."
"Let's move" said Leo. Jumping onto a passing Foot bot the blue clad turtle sliced its head off, directing its' still airborne body after Stockman. "We're getting that vial back."
"Turflytle and his maggot squadron to the rescue!" Mikey cheered, taking to the air with his costume's turtle glider.
"Maggots?! I'm going to make you eat that stupid costume" Raph threatened, as he flew off after Mikey.
"Yeah Mikey should never meet Fred and George" said Ginny, mounting her broom.
"Agreed" said Harry. "Luna, Neville, Hermione, each of you pair up with us. It's tough to fight and fly at the same time."
So with Hermione pairing with Ron, Neville with Harry, and Luna with Ginny, the magic users took off to join the dogfight.
"April, you and Casey stay and keep an eye on your dad" said Donnie, firing his grappling hook."
Left alone on the rooftop, Casey couldn't help but notice the smirk on April's face.
"Are you getting one of those feelings again?" he asked.
"Nope, just a really bad idea." April smiled, looking deviously at her father.
Believing he had given his pursuers the slip, Stockman attached himself to the side of a building as he struggled to open the vial of retro mutagen.
"Stupid childproof cap" Stockman complained.
Turns out he shouldn't have stopped as a mighty hero had arrived.
"Taste of Turflytle!" Mikey swooped in knocking the vial out of Stockman's hands.
Raph then came in catching the retro mutagen before it could hit the ground.
"Nice shot Tur-Err-Mikey" he corrected, too caught up in the action.
But it wasn't long before the vial was lost again as a Foot bot dropped down on top of Raph's glider pack, snatching the retro mutagen from his hands, sending the turtle spiraling out of control, as it used him as jump off point.
The bot didn't get far though as Leo dove down from above slicing its' arm off as he passed, sending the vial hurdling towards the ground.
Luckily the broom squadron had arrived with Harry using his seeker skills to snatch the vial right out of the air.
"Here, Neville" said Harry, reaching back to hand the vial to his passenger. "I need both hands to keep us steady."
Neville reached out to take the vial but before he could, Stockman swooped in knock their broom off balance, causing them to drop the retro mutagen.
"Mine!" Stockman declared, diving down after the prize.
"I don't think so!" said Luna, leaning over Ginny's shoulder as she blasted Stockman with a knockback jinx, forcing the fly off course.
"Don't miss" said Ron, as he and Hermione took advantage of the opening to go after the still falling vial.
Though not entirely comfortable on a broom even under normal circumstances, Hermione braced herself as Ron started to dive down after the retro mutagen.
"Got it!" she cried triumphantly, snatching the vial out of the air. "Now get us out of here!"
Glancing over his shoulder Ron could understand Hermione's panic as Stockman having escaped from Luna and Ginny, was now right on their tail, and gaining. But then help came from an unexpected way as Kirby carrying April and Casey, swooped in and tackled the mutant fly.
"Yes! Get him Dad!" said April, using her father's ears like a horse's reins. "Knock him out of the sky!"
Kirby bat screeched as he prepared to do just that.
"So we're riding your giant mutant dad" said Casey, letting the strangeness of the situation sink in. "This is so weird."
With the coast clear for the moment Ron planned on taking him and Hermione far away from the fight, when suddenly they found themselves surrounded by Foot bots.
"Get rid of them!" Ron panicked, doing his best to fly around the robotic ninjas.
Hermione aimed her wand at the nearest Foot bot but before she could even utter a spell the Foot bots started throwing shuriken, forcing Ron to take evasive maneuvers. With Ron making a number of high speed rolls and sharp turns, Hermione involuntarily let go of the retro mutagen vial, as she gripped the broom with both hands.
"Oh no" she cried fearfully,
Luckily Donnie had caught up, swinging from building to building a la Spider-Man. The brainy turtle managed to catch the vial "Got it!"
But he celebrated too soon as a Foot bot swooped down, slicing clean through Donnie's line, catching the vial as the turtle was left screaming as he fell towards the ground.
"Got you Donnie!" said Harry, flying past his falling brother, allowing Neville to pull the turtle onto the broom.
"Ok this is starting to be a tight fit" said Neville. Brooms were certainly not meant to hold three people.
The Foot bot was making a bee line out of there when once again, Stockman reared his ugly head, ripping the vial away from the robot, arm and all.
"At last" Stockman was sure that victory was his but then he glanced over his shoulder, spotting our heroes closing in on him.
Hoping to slow them down, Stockman throws the robot arm at them, hitting Mr. O'Neil. But so concerned with his enemies growing ever closer, Stockman fails to look where he's going causing him to fly straight into a billboard, dropping the vial.
"Where is it?" asked Ginny, having lost sight of the retro mutagen.
"There!" April cried, pointing to where they could see the vial teetering on the edge of a rooftop.
They all make a mad dash for the vial, just as it falls over the edge, each trying desperately to catch it. But turns out having a large group all flying after the same prize leads to some collisions as the Turtles comically crash into the wizards' brooms, missing the vial leaving it to shatter against a streetlight.
April watches heartbrokenly as it looks like her hope to cure her father have gone up in smoke. But that hopelessness quickly changes into determination as she notices traces of retro mutagen dripping down from the light post.
"Go Dad!" Gripping her father's ears tightly, April gives the bat mutant a good kick urging Kirby to fly as fast as he can, as his chance at humanity starts to trickle away. For a moment it looked like they weren't going to make it but with one last burst of speed saw Kirby passed under the street light, getting his with the very last drop of retro mutagen.
The effects were immediate as Kirby's body started to spasm, threatening to knock Casey and April off of him. When Ron and Ginny flew up taking each of the teens on their brooms as Raph and Mikey secured Mr. O'Neil in a tarp.
Landing on the sidewalk, they all watched as the covered form of the bat mutant continued to screech and writhe uncontrollably, until finally the very human head of Kirby O' Neil popped up through a hole in the tarp.
"Dad!" April cried happily, hugging her father as her friends cheered over the happy reunion. "I missed you so much."
"A-April?" said a clearly confused Kirby. "What happened Where am I? And why am I, nude?"
April's eyes widened as she now felt a little awkward.
"Dude, when you hear what happened you are going to laugh so hard" said Mikey.
"Some reason I doubt that Mikey" said Harry.
"You never know" said Luna. "I'd certainly want to hear about my adventures as a giant mutant bat."
While once again Luna's words surprised her friends April decided she once again needed to express her gratitude.
"You did Donnie" she said, pulling the turtle in for another hug and kiss on the cheek. "You're the best of the best of the best!"
April then went back to her father deciding she didn't care if he was only in a sheet, right now she was just glad to have him back, leaving behind a dazed love sick turtle.
"Two kisses in one day" Donnie said dreamily. Noticing Casey had seen the whole exchange, he couldn't help rubbing it in. "Eat it Casey Jones!"
Donnie then started doing a victory dance, but Casey got the last laugh tripping him up with his hockey stick.
"What's the story there?" asked Ginny.
"Oh Donnie's got a crush" said Harry. "I don't get why but it makes him really stupid."
Talk or no talk, it seemed Harry still had a few things to learn as he failed to notice the look Ginny had given him, at the mention of the word crush. What he did notice however was the look of longing on both Luna and Neville's faces. Luna he could understand given that Kurtzman was still in hiding from The Kraang. Neville on the other hand was a mystery.
"Neville you ok?" Harry asked.
"Y-yeah" said Neville, giving him a watery smile, before turning his attention back to the reunited father and daughter. "I'm just glad April has her dad back."
Harry suspected that there was more to it than that but decided it was best not to push him. Trusting that Neville would tell them when he was ready.
With everything winding down, Leo scanned the area for NY's newest mutant.
"No sign of Stockman Fly" said Leo, putting his telescope away. "Add him to the list of stray mutated bad guy freaks running around New York."
"Stockman Fly is Turflytle's ultimate superhero enemy. Buzz buzz" Mikey said dramatically. "But if he's out there, buzz buzz. I'll find him! Buzz Bu…"
"Enough with the buzz buzz!" Raph interrupted. But then Mikey smiled deviously his temper challenged brother. "Don't. Don't"
Ignoring his brother's warning, Mikey placed his bobble antenna on Raph's head. "Buzz buzz, dawg!"
"Mikey!"
With their friends all returned home, the brothers joined Master Splinter and Hedwig in the dojo reporting the success of their mission, though Donnie wasn't satisfied.
"I'm sorry Master Splinter, I wanted to change you back" he said regretfully. "But I swear if it's the last thing I…"
"Do not fret my son" said Splinter, silencing Donatello as he placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "I am content with what I've become. I have no place in the human world anymore. This is my home and you all are my family."
The family shared a smile glad to be together.
As for Stockman well he wasn't experiencing anywhere close to the same heartwarming feeling as a couple of Foot bots dragged him into Shredder's throne room.
"Well look at you Stinkbug" Rahzar sneered. "I'd squash you right now but Master Shredder has other plans for you."
"I have one last mutant I want you to create" said Shredder, descending from his throne to loom over the frightened Stockman. "Or I will pluck your wings like the lowly insect you are."
At his master's command Rahzar then dropped a chocolate bar at Stockman's feet, watching as the pitiful creature trembled at theirs.
"Y-yes Master Shredder" Stockman whimpered, accepting the treat. "Thank you for your generosity."
Stockman then melted the candy with a wad of goop, once again taking his place as Shredder's slave.
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