"Again!" Master Splinter yelled for his students to kick the air again.
"Hi-ya!" They all yelled out as their legs flew above their heads.
"AGAIN!" Splinter demanded and this time after the group kicked they all fell to the floor exhausted.
"Good my students, you have done well for the day. Now watch as I use the elephant trunk kick in motion." Master splinter took off to the dojo area as the five of the students sat in their meditation stance. Splinter then stated to use the new moves he had just taught his students and then finally broke a 5 foot stack of bricks in half. He bowed and then walked into his room.
"Well that was cool…" May whispered dumbfounded by the whole performance.
"Whats up with Master Splinter?" Mikey asked walking over to his room. "He's been acting kinda wacko for a few weeks…" Raph suggested.
Master Splinter then appeared from out of his room with a sack over his shoulder and his walking stick in his right arm. "My sons, I will be leaving you for a few days. Do not leave the lair until I return. Leonardo, I am putting you in charge. Miss Gibson, enjoy this break and keep my sons here." May nodded.
"But Master, where are you going?" Leo asked.
"It does not matter. Keep safe." And with that, Splinter was gone.
"Once again. I ask, what's up with Splinter?"
"Remember he went away like this three years ago. He didn't tell us where he went then either." Leo stated.
"HAHAHA, maybe he's got a girlfriend!" Mikey smiled and Raph slapped him. "Well there is only one way to find out where he went. Let's go follow him!" Raph smiled.
"He said for us to stay here though." Leo crossed his arms.
Raph laughed. "He also said for you to keep an eye on us. So you watch us, while we watch Master Splinter!" Raph charged away with Mikey, Donny, and May following behind.
Leo sighed. He knew he couldn't stop them at this point, and ran after them too.
Eventually Raph lead the group to an alley way where Master Splinter stopped at a dead end up against a brick wall. He took out from his bag a piece of chalk and started to draw weird symbols on the wall. The five students were in such awe that they hardly noticed anyone else that might have been on the streets.
Just then, Splinter started to hum some strange words and the symbols shined a bright purple color. He then walked into the wall and disappeared!
The five of them walked over to the brick wall and examined it. "It's rock solid. Like Mikey's head…" May stated and Mikey poked her side.
"And there doesn't seem to be any type of trap door either…" Donny looked around the wall.
"Looks like Splinter gave us the slip." Raph crossed his arms and pouted.
"Maybe, but Master Splinter taught us that 'If there's a will, and some UV lighting, There's always a way!'" he pulled out a UV light torch and shined it onto the symbols that once used to be there. They suddenly appeared again.
"Good job Donny!" May hugged him.
"Don, you got any chalk in your magic bag of tricks?" Leo asked.
Donny tossed his elder brother the chalk and Leo started to rewrite the symbols.
"There we go!" He dusted his hands off and Donny turned off the light.
"Hey bro, can you repeat that chanting?" Raph asked Leo.
"Yea, Im pretty sure…" he placed his hands together, closed his eyes, and started to repeat the strange chant.
The portal reappeared and everyone smiled.
"Who hoo!" May cheered and just as she was about to enter the portal Raph stopped her. "Hey, whats the big idea? You're not gonna let me go?" She pouted. Out of all the things they wouldn't let her do with them, this was the one thing she really wanted.
"No, of course you are going. But what if there is something bad an horrible waiting for us on the other end. We wouldn't want you to get hurt first." Raph smiled and then grabbed Mikey by the arm and threw him in the portal first. "That's why Mikey's going first." He laughed and then jumped in.
May started to laugh at the face Mikey made just before he was thrown in and looked back at Donny and Leo. "Come on guys!" She then jumped into the portal as well.
Inside the portal, was water everywhere, it was like they became water and then suddenly May felt the rush of wind and the portal opened again into another world. May flew across from where Mikey and Raph had landed and she rolled a few times and hit her head on a rock. Everything faded as she closed her eyes and couldn't get up.
Mikey had landed into a puddle and his brother, Raph landed on top of him. He felt even more weight as his other two brothers fell onto him as well. "Urgh. Get offa me!" He pushed them all off and shook out the water from his face.
"Where are we?" Raph asked looking around the mysterious place.
"It looks almost like some kind of dimension, like a world between worlds or otherwise known as a Nexus." Donny gave the brothers a vocabulary lesson.
"Yea, You mean like some point of overlapping sub-space commonality!" Mikey declared. The three turtles looked over at him in shock. "What? Don's not the only person who watches Star Treck ya know!"
Leo looked to his right and then his left. "Hey guys, where's May?" The turtles looked behind themselves and saw her lifeless body face down in front of a rock. Suddenly, another vortex circle appeared and out of it came four stick looking objects that landed in a line right in front of May.
May moaned and gradually started to sit-up.
May heard a weird noise and she gathered her thoughts together as she slowly started to sit on her bottom. Just then, she heard her name being called by four familiar voices as a strange almost alien sounding noise came from in front of her. She lifted her head and saw four stick looking creatures with curved swords in their hands.
She screamed and tried her best to run, but the cut on her head did more damage than expected and as she began to run, her feet tripped and she stumbled onto the ground again.
The turtles ran to her rescue and started to defend her and beat the crap out of the stick-like creatures. May crawled onto her feet and watched helplessly as her friends beat the creatures in no time.
"Thanks guys…" May held her head in her right hand and wiped away the blood coming from the tip of her hairline.
"Are you okay?" Raph yelled running to check on her.
"You're hurt!" Donny exclaimed walking in front of the girl.
"It's nothing. I'll be okay-"
Just then, an old friend appeared. It was Gyoji, the referee from Leo's fight with the Ultimate ninja. "Battle completed in 54.2 quagons. The Quanti are eliminated from the competition." He said placing a scroll into the ground declaring where the match was. The stick men stood up from the ground and faced the turtles bowing to them at the same time.
"Now, if you slongtags will-"Gyoji started to say.
"Slongtags?" Donny yelled out in confusion.
"Are you talkin' to us?" Raph yelled back.
Another vortex circle appeared behind the crowd and out from it came four green looking creatures. In a way, they looked like the turtles; except these guys were more circular and fat. Another creature jumped out from the circle as well. It looked like a female creature, with curves and long green hair, and she had on a yellow dress thing and a crown on her head.
"Wait. This is not good at all! The Quanti were supposed to fight the Slongtags. Not you, Earthers. In fact, the only earther registered is Hamato Splinter and no royalty. Now I will have to start this match all over again!" Gyoji complained and then disappeared taking the eight weird creatures and the female looking creature with him.
"Well that was helpful." May sighed. "What's going on here?"
"I don't know. And I don't care! The sooner we find Master Splinter, the sooner we can blow this popsicle stand." Raph yelled walking down a path. The rest followed.
"Are you okay May?" Mikey asked sweetly.
She smiled, "I'm fine Mikey. Thanks!"
"Well at least Gyoji looks familiar." Donny sighed.
"Yea! All I remember about Gyoji is that he works for that creep, the Ultimate Ninja. I swear if I see him Ima-" Raph punched his fists but then noticed a fight going on ahead of him. "What the shell?" The gang saw Splinter fighting a giant and by the looks of it, he was losing.
"Hang on Sensi!" They yelled and jumped into the fight. Just then Gyoji appeared again blocking the turtles. "You must not interfere with the match."
Just as Gyoji finished Master Splinter defeated the giant creature. The group ran after to congratulate their teacher.
"What are you all doing here? I thought I told you to keep a close watch on your brothers Leonardo. I am very disappointed-"
"Masta Splinter, don't blame Leo, I kinda talked him into letting us come." Raph stood up for his elder brother.
The giant started to stir and he stood up about to attack Splinter from behind. "Watch out!" May called as the guys ran over to defend their master once more.
"No no no!" Splinter called out defending the giant this time. "Lashin is not an enemy!" Splinter walked in front of the giant or Lashin.
"I had such high hopes for beating you this year dear friend." The creature bowed to Splinter.
"And you would have!" Splinter bowed to him.
The creature looked at the group. "You five should be honored to have such a great Master as your sensei. He is a legend around here!" He boasted.
The turtles mouths dropped. "He is?" Donny finally spoke out.
"You mean he hasn't told you?" he laughed as Splinter scratched the back of his head. "This is rich, pure rich! Hahaha! If you would, I'd like to tell you a story of your dear Master…"
Lashin continued about a story of Master Splinter and his Master, Hamato Yoshi, winning the competition held in this dimension called the big brawl. It was quite inspiring to hear the story about their master, who he himself had not even told his sons. May was honored to hear such a thing about Splinter-san. "whoa." She thought out-loud.
"That's so cool!" Donny replied. Before anyone else could remark, another vortex appeared and out of it the Dameo appeared. This was the ultimate Ninja's father, also the head of the muti-verse.
"Splinter Sensi, my good friend, it is an honor to have you compete once more in our competition. And this time you have your sons, oh, and finally a royalty of third-dimension Earth has come! This is truly a great day!" He announced. The turtles and May became confused while Master Splinter looked worriedly at May.
"They were not supposed to come…" Splinter stated.
Gyoji then spoke, "Sir, the four Earthers and the royalty were not registered to come. But they did win a qualifying match round."
"Excellent! Then by my decree they shall be allowed into the competition, if you deem it acceptable my friend." He spoke to Splinter.
He looked at his sons, "I thought they would not be ready to compete yet in the competition, but I guess that fate is showing an over-protective father that his sons are growing up. They may enter!" He smiled.
The Dameo smiled inside his mask, "Now that that matter is happily settled, I have an important stake of honor that need to be addressed." Just then a black cloud appeared next to the ruler of muti-verses and out from it appeared the only person in the world May hopped never to see again. The Ultimate Ninja.
Raph pulled out his sais and stood in front of the blond-haired beauty. "What is this? Some kinda trick?"
"No, no trick." The Ultimate Ninja bowed. "I swear it. Honored Sensei, I know that the last time we met I challenged Leonardo-san to a duel and kidnapped Princess May. And I humbly apologize against my actions upon your family. I beg for forgivness."
May steped aback. 'wait, did he just call me princess? Why? And why did the Dameo say that the turtles could fight finally and a royalty member was finally present? Are they talking about me?' She was very confused and the cut on her head started to burn. She held her forehead in her right hand as the pounding in her head and made all of the noise go away.
Splinter bowed. "Your apology is most gracious, we accept."
"Come!" The Dameo held his staff in the air as a blue light shrouded the group. "The next stage of the battle is about to begin."
They appeared on a platform in front of what looked like an area. Screaming started as the Dameo started to speak to the warriors down below.
It was such an amazing site to see, May felt as if she were on top of the world being up so high. The breeze blew her blonde hair in front of her face and she smiled as Mikey commented on how freaking cool this was.
As May pulled her hair behind her ears she caught a quick glimpse of the Ultimate Ninja staring at her through his mask. Chills covered her arms and she quickly looked to the opposite side where Donny had been standing.
He noticed how quickly her head turned and he commented, "Are you okay?"
"Yea," She lied. "My head is just starting to hurt some more. Maybe this cut on my head is worse than it seems."
The Dameo finished his inspiring speech and as he stated for the tournament to commence, fireworks shot into the sky and exploded into thousands of colors and shapes.
Just as May was distracted by the light show, The Ultimate Ninja stood next to her facing her and the turtles, "Please let me escort you to your next location, my friends." He held his arms out as if he expected some sort of hug. May took a step back and ended up in Don's chest.
"Whoa, sorry Donny." She quickly turned to him and apologized. "No problem?" he questioned the tone in her voice.
The group followed the ninja throughout a few passageways and halls and then eventually he stopped at a giant blue door. "Princess May. In here you will find all the groomers and dresser for your gown. You will not need to worry about anything else from here on out. Well, other than your warriors fighting for a good name of your Planet." He smirked.
"W..What?" Was all May could say.
"Miss Gibson, as a leader you should abide by the accommodations given to you. We will be fine. Go." Master Splinter pushed her towards the door.
"Yea, Miss Princess! BAHAHAHA!" Mikey laughed.
"Your highness!" Raph mocked.
May looked over at her friends and only hoped they would be safe. Who knew how long it would be before she got to see them again.
As she opened the door she looked this time at Leo, his face full of concern and fear in a sense. She walked through the doors into a room of gold. Literary. The whole entire furniture, walls and everything was made of gold. The doors closed behind her and she walked in the center of the room.
"Hello? Anyone here?" she called out.
"Ah! Miss May-darling!" a giant woman wearing a gold mask, just like what the Dameo wore, and a blue robe with white silk designs appeared from another door in the corner.
"Uh, hi?"
"Finally, a royal member from dimension Earth has arrived. I was wondering if you even had royalty." She laughed and lead May to what looked almost like a hair salon chair and mirror getup.
"Yea sorry about that." She played along with this woman. "I'm terribly sorry that this is rude, but what is your name dear?" She smiled as the woman sat her in the cold gold chair.
She laughed, "My name is Daiea. I am the personal dresser for the Dameo, his son, and all the other members of this kingdom. I also dress the royalty members from other worlds for the Battle Nexus Championship, such as yourself. Now tell me dear child. What is your favorite color?"
May sighed, at least it wasn't a trick. "I really like pink!" She smiled and looked at herself in the mirror. She was quite dirty and still in her training clothes from earlier that day. Her hair had some dirt and blood from her cut in it as well.
"Oh excellent color, it will match well with your coloring too. Now now, what is the matter with your appearance dear child? It seems as if you have been rolling around in the swamp." She laughed and grabbed a silver bottle from the table in front of the mirror. She poured what looked like glitter into her hand and then sprinkled it overtop of May. Suddenly May's hair went from dingy to bright in just three seconds. It was like she had just taken a shower, her hair felt light and bouncy and most importantly, clean!
"Now that's much better don't you agree?" Daiea stated and began to run her fingers through May's blonde hair. "I think I'll give you a half do-up, does that sound good?"
"Sure!" May closed her eyes for what seemed like only a minute.
"Ahh! There we are. Look and see Princess!" Daiea declared. May opened her eyes and gasped at the sight of her hair.
"I've never seen it this pretty before! You're amazing!" She awed. Her hair was curled lightly and the rest of her hair was in a half ponytail thing. However, where the half ponytail was, her hair had thousands of curls and twists with her bangs a bit curly and pushed to the side of her face. Her hair was also lightly glittered and very bouncy, yet light and flowy. May was appalled. "How did you-?"
"It's a family secret!" She laughed and lead May to the opposite corner of the room. "Now, time for your dress, pink right?" She asked looking through a book. May nodded.
"This one! What do you think?" She pointed to a page with a long flowy gown. "I'm in love with it, Daiea!" She smiled. Daiea smiled and nodded. "Now stand still…" She grabbed what looked like a wand and twirled it around May's body. Just like magic a beautiful pink glittery dress surrounded her body. It hugged her slight curves and she felt as if she had just become a fairytale Cinderella.
"Thank you! I love my outfit! I'm just a bit confused on what exactly I'm supposed to do…?" She twirled in her gown.
"Well my dear. After this, you head over where the other Royalties are and then you and your warriors will announce your placement in the tournament. It's really just a big show. Haha." She laughed as she picked up a few things.
"Oh that's cool…" May looked at herself again in the mirror. She had never seen herself so gorgeous before. Even going to homecoming dances at her high school. She had never dressed up this much in her life.
"Now sweetie, this is the final piece. Since I noticed that you didn't have your crown I made you one right as you walked in. Do you like it?" Daiea held in her hands a small silver Tiara. It was elegant and attractive to May's eye. As Daiea placed the tiara on the top of May's head she squealed and turned May into the mirror to see the entire picture of herself. Now May looked like Cinderella or at least a pink version.
"Now deary, follow down the hallway and take a left, then take a right into a room with other bodies wearing crowns as well." She bowed to Princess May. "You look beautiful. Your warriors must protect you valiantly." And with that being said, Daiea disappeared into the shadows.
May smiled and then headed into the empty hallway.
As she entered the room with different creatures that looked like her she came across Gyoji once again. "Ahh, Princess, you must stand here for the line order." He pointed to a spot between two creatures. 'Great I'm the thrid one in the line…' May thought. Just then trumpets sounded and the line began to move.
The Dameo started to talk of the royalty members of the warriors competiting and their planets. Then he called out the names of the Royalties as their warriors entered from the opposite ends.
"Royalty members, King Ubrea and Prince Hagul, with the warrior, Ramdu from Planet Umbrus!"
The first people in line walked out as the crowd cheered.
May started to get butterflies, what was she going to do if they found out she wasn't a Princess from Earth?
"Next, royalty members, King Adi, Queen Flo and Prince Serpt, with the two warriors, Xelow and Zasera from planet Yumdobia!" The crowd cheered and hooted when the Queen entered. She was quite pretty for a monster creature and May realized that she was next. She walked to the front of the area and onto a covered platform.
"Next, Royalty member Princess May…" May started to walk out of the platform and onto the dojo fighting area. Her hands were together and in front of her stomach. Her head was looking out to the crowed and she smiled as the crowd cheered and hooted at the Princess. "…with warriors, Splinter-san, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello from planet Earth!" The turtles and Splinter walked from the opposite side of the area and in the order the Dameo called out. Splinter walked to May and held her hands. "This way, Miss Gibson…" He whispered and lead May to another side of the circular area. Then as they walked off the Dameo called more names.
As the group from Earth entered into the overhead area May was tackled from the notorious Mikey. "MAYYY! YOU'RE GEORGEOUS!" He exclaimed and kissed her cheeks.
May laughed and hugged him, "Thanks Mikey." She pulled herself from his grip and presented herself to the other three turtles. They had their mouths open. "Uh guys, keep your mouths closed, bugs will fly into it." She smirked. The guys imedietly shut their mouths. "May, how did you-" Raph walked up to her.
"Daiea did it for me; she's the dresser for all the royalty that live in this place." She smiled.
"Warriors. Hurry. The match will begin shortly. Princess please come this way…" A guard called from another door.
May looked up at the four turtles in a line in front of her. They looked so courageous and ferocious. Of course she had seen them in battle many many times before, but she became very scared for their safety this fight. She ran over to Splinter and hugged and kissed him. "Good luck sensei!"
Then she hugged Donny. "Good luck Don!" And gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Next a hug for Raph, "Good luck Raph!" And kissed him on the cheek as well.
Mikey was awaiting his affection with a grin and hugged her tightly as she did. "Haha, good luck Mike!" And kissed him. Mikey sighed and kissed her back as she giggled.
Lastly was Leo. She caught a weird stare from him and quickly hugged him as she told him in his ear, "Good luck Leo." And from his hug she kissed his cheek. Suddenly she pulled away and stared into Leo's eyes. "Well uh, time to go." As she let him go and looked ahead to the guard she received a strage feeling from him. It had been like the ones she had before. Why did it keep happening?
"This way princess." The guard lead her to a room overlooking the soon to be fighting arena. She sat on a chair and thought about the warriors. 'Good luck guys.'
She couldn't help thinking that something was going to go wrong.