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Splinter's Mind dot EXE
The Foot Clan were quick to return to their base and close up shop once they had lost sight of the Shadowy Force. "Senseis! Those Shadows had something to do with the Shredder! We should find it's source immediately!"
"Yeah! We find it we find Master Shredder!" Rocksteady agreed.
"But if we can free the Shredder's soul he'll reunite with his body and come to us." Brute pointed out.
"What we saw is impossible to follow and track." Lieutenant added. "So now we will undo Karai's seal and Shredder will seek out his Foot Clan."
"Work smarter, not harder," Bebop finished.
"Ohhh yeah that is smarter!" Rocksteady said happily as Recruit nodded in agreement. Lieutenant began a powerful spell to track down the seal….
X X X
Leo got everyone back to the lair. April had called her mother and she arrived just in time to see Mikey at the verge of tears Klunk attempting to comfort him. "It's my fault….all my fault…." Mikey muttered over and over a bit madly holding his head as Carol rushed over hugging him, she shushed him as she rubbed his back.
"No, it's not. It's okay Mikey, we're gonna figure this out." Carol assured.
"Carol's right none of this self-loathing stuff!" Leo added patting his head. "Instead, we're going to insert Raph's plan here!" he said pointing to his older brother as everyone gathered around him as he was relaxing in Splinter's recliner.
"Honestly I don't know," Raph admitted. "Last time we hit him with everything we've got and just barely made him go away. And we don't even know where the seal is so." He said pointing to Splinter across from him. "Insert Dad's plan here!"
"I got nothing," Splinter admitted with a sigh. Donnie slid over with a stethoscope.
"But Papah you were trained from birth to protect the world from Shredder, surely your mind must be filled with Answers!" He said listening to his brain. Splinter's eyebrow twitched in annoyance as he crossed his arms. He then swatted Donnie with his tail.
"Unfortunately, I filled it with a lot of other things too." Splinter admitted. "Why didn't I listen to my Grandpa Sho's painfully boring lessons on how to defeat the Shredder!?" He despaired.
"I have felt your pain." Mikey admitted thinking back to when they first went to the library.
"To answer your question, generational trauma and a lack of interest." Carol said.
"If Splinter was there when his grandpa spoke. Then the information's gotta be there, right?" Krysta asked.
"If it was committed to long term memory then yes." Carol replied. "And it does sound like he heard this lesson quite a bit, so some of it would have to be."
"Too bad we can't go through his mind like a file cabinet." Tiger Claw sighed crossing his arms. However, hearing this Mikey beamed happily.
"That's it!" he cheered jumping to his feet. "There's a spell that lets you go through people's memories!" he explained excitedly.
"But that would require sending you and your brothers to the most horrifying hideous place you have ever been!" Splinter warned.
"Jersey?" Leo joked chuckling to himself as everyone stared at him with a half-lidded look. "Haha, callback."
"No," Splinter said flatly before taking a breath. "My…Mind….."
Mikey gulped as his brothers, Krysta, April, Shelldon and Klunk all screamed in horror.
Buddy came in to help with the spell. Tiger Claw immediately tasked himself with looking through the book he had borrowed from the Mystic Library: Broken Seals for Morons. Carol was helping while Shelldon and Buddy guarded the lair.
They had found a large area to work with as Mikey used his Mystic Chalk to draw out the seal as he gave it to Krysta, Mayhem and Klunk to work with placing it down. "Left for forward, right for backwards."
"Got it!" Krysta said as he took his place beside his brothers and his father in the middle.
"Okay we're going to be teleported inside Dad's mind. While that's happening, Klunk, Krysta and Mayhem will use the Sands of Time to move us around and deeper into his memories." Mikey explained.
"This is safe right?" April asked worriedly.
"Ehh, not really," Mikey admitted. "Memories hate being tampered with and will fight back. And if something happens to us there….it's gonna happen to us here…" Mikey muttered worriedly.
"Okay Once we're in we need to find Grandpa Sho. Leave no memory unturned!" Donnie explained.
"What about the memories I want to keep private?" Splinter asked nervously.
"We're out time. You're just gonna, have to deal. But I doubt the boys are gonna poke around like that." Tiger Claw said from across the room.
"Dad please try to relax. We'll be as quick as we can. The more tense you are about this the more your memories won't like us there!" Mikey pleaded.
Splinter nodded taking a deep breath as Mikey nodded to Krysta who nodded back. Charging mystic energy she slammed her hands down as a bright blue light surged around them. It was almost like they had just fallen asleep. But then as the sands began to fall and a beautiful aura began to float around them the four turtle's eyes snapped open glowing with only a white light before Splinter's did the same.
X X X
The only thing Mikey was aware of next was a strange stifling smell of many people in a confined space fortunately there was ac combating the combined heat. A bright spotlight shone brightly on all of them as they slowly allowed their eyes to adjust to the room they looked around. They saw a bunch of people around. And there was some kind of Photo background behind them.
"Did it work are we in Dad's memory?" Donnie asked. Leo turned and gasped.
"Look, Look, Look, Look!" he shouted pointing towards a large Greek patterned pot with some kind of red concoction in it with in large letters of a familiar font were the words 'Hot Soup' "We're on the set of a Lou Jitsu movie!" Immediately the boys began fan-freaking as Leo repeated Lou Jitsu over and over. Mikey cheering Omigosh repeatedly.
As Mikey finished jumping up and down, he gasped noticing someone familiar passing them. "Look there's Young Dad!" he shouted jumping off the small stage and rushing after him but moving past him quickly was a small older human who kind of looked like Splinter as he did now.
He wore a blue robe with a matching headband with a black and red version of their clan symbol on it. That had to have been Grandpa Sho. "Yoshi!" he shouted holding a scroll banging on Dad's trailer door. His brothers were already behind him. "This is your last chance!" he demanded. "Enough of this silly play acting!" he said. Mikey frowned at this. Draxum would tell him similar things about any interest he dared to show him. It was worded nicer, but the same meaning was there. "You must come back to your family! And fufill your destiny!" he said glaring at the scroll.
"Your destiny is liberate, the Yokai and reclaim our place on the surface! What time do you have for any garbage hobbies Attila…."
"I told you Jiji I don't have time for that anymore!" Splinter growled opening the door roughly. "Can't you see how important I've become! SOMEONE BRING ME A DONUT ON TOP OF A PIZZA!" he shouted loudly slamming the door. Sho hung his head.
"Good bye….Yoshi….." Sho muttered walking towards the exit of the building they were in walking towards the Darkness. Mikey suddenly heard a slight shift in the blinds and a small sob. He turned to see his father peeking out from the blinds in tears welling in his eyes. His Father still wanted his family in his life. He missed them. Fans came and went. But family was always beside you but if you broke their bond enough...Splinter left his family, and they ultimately left him because he wouldn't do what they wanted. Mikey felt tears pool in his own eyes as he could see Yoshi curl up into a ball on the ground putting his head in his knees. For a brief second he saw himself there.
"FOLLOW GRANDPA SHO!" Raph shouted breaking Mikey out of his thoughts. He immediately rushed to catch up with his brothers trying to keep pace with the older Hamato.
No matter what they did Sho was getting further and further away. Raph reached out for him but couldn't catch him. The lights started to flicker and blink out around them until everything went black. Then a large spotlight appeared on all of them. "Where'd he go!?" Raph cried.
"GET OUT!" shouted a dark raspy voice. They turned to see a version of Lou Jitsu in various shades of black minus the sunglasses that were glowing sinisterly. Leo was suddenly punched hard. Flying back into Mikey who caught him.
"That hurt!" he groaned.
"Remember what I said before?" Mikey asked.
"Then that's not Papah!" Donnie gasped as they suddenly saw a bunch more Shadowy Figures in the shape of Lou Jitsu surrounded them. "Dad's subconscious is fighting back against invaders, like that movie!"
"Exactly!" Mikey whimpered as the Lou Jitsus took a fighting stance. They leapt at them.
X X X
April was tending to Donnie as his eye started to swell up. She gasped when she saw it as they both looked stressed and in pain. "Oh no! It's that thing Mikey warned us about! Splint's subconscious is fighting back!"
"We've gotta move them! How do I do this!?" Krysta asked frantically trying to figure it out as was Klunk. Mayhem however barked at them and placed his paw on the ring in front of them and slid it to the right. The symbol in the middle of the ring twisted around Splinter before stopping.
Within seconds Raph found himself in cool night air wind whipping up from his feet the tails of his mask billowing upward as were his brothers. They all suddenly found themselves free falling in a large city that wasn't New York the four screamed as they were plummeting towards a small apartment complex. A portal opened up and they suddenly found themselves in a bedroom. With some various Japanese posters around a couple of movie VHS tapes a bookshelf lined with various lessons on fighting styles stances and magic. On a bed with a blue cloud pattern in jeans and a green and white long-sleeved shirt some whiskers on his chin large yellow sunglasses different from his Lou Jitsu ones and large bulky red headphones like his noise canceling headphones was Splinter.
"Whoa it's human teenaged Dad!" Leo gasped.
"Yoshi!" Sho shouted, hitting him on the head with the scroll they saw him holding earlier. The boy yelped, holding his head with a growl. "You never listen to me!" Sho scolded.
"What was that!? I wasn't listening." Splinter replied to Sho a bit loudly.
"I said you must complete your training! So, you can defeat the Shredder should he ever return!" Sho said. "It is your duty, just as it was your mothers." He said in a way meant to guilt trip Yoshi who now had an intense look of pain on his face. Mikey resonated with that, how Draxum would make him feel guilty for trying to be a kid, for wanting to rest. For being sick! Was Dad allowed to have interests!? Allowed to rest!? Allowed to even enjoy life!? From what he saw last year….no…..Outside Splinter's ear twitched in annoyance something everyone noticed.
"What!?" Yoshi snapped angrily. "And waste my life like you and Mom did, waiting, for some made up Boogie man from a bajillion years ago!?" he growled. "NO WAY!" he shouted with a swipe of his arm. "I'm writing my own Destiny Gramps! I'm going to Hollywood Land to become a star!" he growled throwing the copies of Pictures he had mailed there in his Grandpa's face.
Throwing his headphones down Splinter Stomped out. "Yoshi!" Sho shouted. "The Fate of the world may one day rest on your shoulders!"
"Wow Dad really beefed this one." Raph muttered rubbing his head.
"No, Sho did." Mikey muttered bitterly. "Maybe he wouldn't have been so against this is he was just allowed to be himself. But he wasn't he was….just like…" there was a rumbling as everything went dark. Everything was dimly lit. But the TV that was in Splinter's room suddenly turned on. Mikey looked into it seeing his own reflection. That suddenly turned ghastly pale and slightly split open version of his face with vein marbling with an elongated creepy smile and tiny glowing Red pin pricks for eyes in deep sunken sockets.
Mikey yelped jumping on Raph followed by the twins who each wrapped themselves around an arm. Sliding out was a strange, mangled version of Mikey that had split open swollen arms a smashed shell and burnt twisted legs that slithered around like a snake seeing mice to eat as it looked above them with yellow mangled sharp teeth.
"You're…..toooooo…laaaattteeeeee…" it hissed.
"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT!?" Leo screamed pointing at it. "IT WON'T STOP LOOKING AT ME!" It was then they were suddenly surrounded by more Shadow Jitsu, pulling themselves out of the photos and growing to normal size.
"Oh, look more evil manifestations of father again on top of the horrifying evil manifestation of Michael." Donnie sighed, resigning himself to his fate.
"RUN!" Mikey screamed as they took off running through the area the Shadow Jitsus, running after them. Despite being unable to walk and having to pull itself along with his over cooked Hotdog arms and chopping with those teeth was able to keep pace with them. A few of them had shrunk back down to jump onto the turtles as Mikey kept trying to beat them off of himself. They were getting quickly overwhelmed as Mikey used magic to blast them all away. Even Horror-Mikey who shrieked when he was hit with a wall of fire. They had made it to a Karaoke bar downstairs as they kept trying to fight of the Shadow Jitsus. Horror-Mikey appeared and sent them all flying outside with one whip of its useless legs.
"How are we supposed to get the information we need if Lou Jitsu and Zombie me keep stopping us!" Mikey growled in frustration as they took off running again as the Zombie Mikey struck into the ground like a snake and only got concrete and dirt. It looked at them hissing as it took off shrieking after them the Lou Jitsus running along the roof to surround the turtles.
Immediately the Shadow Jitsus were on one side and Horror-Mikey on the other.
"We've gotta split up, you guys keep them busy while I get close to Sho!" Raph said. His brothers nodded nervously as Leo and Donnie got in fighting stances and started fighting with the Shadow Jitsus while Mikey kicked away his horror counter part that had just tried to take a bite out of Raph. Using his nun chucks he grabbed it by the neck and slammed it into a nearby building. It let out a hissing moan that sounded like him crying.
Mikey retracted into his shell a bit very unnerved.
X X X
Outside the group was getting bruised. Mayhem tried to move them again but this time forward, but immediately found a gap in the ring and whimpered in horror.
"There's a gap why is there a gap in the memories!?" Klunk cried. "Can that happen is it supposed to happen?!"
Mayhem shook his head he didn't know. Carol looked over as she and everyone else were now trying to tend to the Turtles. "Come on you guys hang in there…."
Krysta looked worried, however she got an idea and immediately rushed over to Mikey who was looking terrified and exhausted. She grabbed his head and began to mind meld with him.
"Krysta wait!" Tiger Claw shouted. "You can't mess with the spell!" but it was too late she had already made the connection. Inside Mikey was dodging out of the way of snake strikes shrieking and crying large yellow teeth just barely missing Mikey's foot.
"Mikey!" Krysta's voice echoed inside her head.
"Krysta!?" Mikey gasped. "You can't mess with the spell!" he shouted as jumped away from a large, marbled pale fist.
"I don't have a choice something's gone wrong with Splinter's memories there's a gap in the ring Mayhem can't move you forward!" Krysta warned.
"But that shouldn't happen…." Mikey gasped before realizing something. "Unless….." he muttered looking at his horror self that was twisting its head around with sickening cracks. "I Hope I'm right!" Mikey screamed as he ran towards it.
"MIKEY!" The twins shrieked in horror as Mikey dove towards the Beast's mouth making sure to go right past the teeth and receive no damage as they snapped shut.
Krysta looked at Mikey, he was panting, shivering but still alive as she held his hand. Inside Mikey groaned and looked around He remembered being described this room by both Leo and Draxum. His original lab. He immediately saw Lou Jitsu tied up to the machine as it sparked and cracked too life. Both his DNA and ooze flew into the containers containing him and his brothers. "This is when we were first Mutated." He suddenly heard Huggin and Munnin scream as they were sent flying into the core. Both Lou Jitsu and Draxum turned to see what was happening and an explosion blew Draxum away as Lou Jitsu rushed over to the four Turtles. Mikey thought he had seen a set of three things go off in another direction, but he focused on his father pressing the button that freed all the other creatures. He gasped seeing a young Tiger Claw rush past him. The experiments that would become the monster they fought were caught on the floor breaking and falling underground with collective roars.
Lou Jitsu rushed past him holding all four turtles as Draxum pulled himself up and suddenly unleash a vine that immediately wrapped around something in Lou Jitsu's arms and pull it away with a shriek.
"NO!" Splinter screamed, turning into more of Rat turned to see Draxum holding the baby version of him that the two Gargoyles immediately grabbed and pulled up behind the explosion that sent his father flying back. Rushing after his family he saw Lou Jitsu burst into tears holding Raph, Leo and Donnie.
"I'm sorry little one. So very sorry!" he hissed in agony tears streaming down his cheeks. If he didn't leave now, they'd all die. That was the only reason he, Draxum and the Goyles survived leaving when the ydid. He saw Lou Jitsu make his way out the door grabbing the portal key that he saw Raph use a Year ago. He kept running after them as he suddenly found himself back in the lair.
"I'm home?" Mikey asked confused. "No, I can't be…." He muttered looking around. He turned to see the version of himself a year ago. Before he dawned his own mask. He looked so timid, so worried. He sat down nervously trying to keep as small and out of the way as possible.
"I know this memory…" he hissed. He saw Splinter come over to him.
"Atilla?" he said softly. But he hadn't interpreted it as that. In his mind it was tranquil fury.
"Ah! I'm sorry, sorry!" Atilla said bowing on the ground. "I don't know what I did but I'm sorry!" he whimpered tears forming at the edges of his eyes as he attempted to fight back against.
"No, my son you did nothing wrong, blue on the other hand." Splinter growled.
"He's sorry too! Please….please…" Attila whimpered shivering trembling.
Splinter looked horrified and lost on what to do. He hung his head in shame. When he was out of ear shot as Mikey followed him he heard Splinter speak again. "I just wanted to meet you…"
"Dad…." Mikey muttered softly.
The lair changed back. His blood froze as soon as he saw a portal open with everyone falling out of it.
"Is this…the Sewers, I'm both impressed and disturbed," Tiger Claw muttered in awe.
"Oh no," Mikey hissed as he turned to see Splinter begin to Apologize to Mikey however Mikey had spun around quickly sending Splinter flying. He screamed as he crashed into the kitchen.
"POPS!" Raph screamed as he and Mikey rushed inside after him. Mikey saw Splinter cough and grip his rib cages as Mikey shivered as Raph rushed in.
"Are you okay!?" Raph shouted as they heard crashing and shouting from the other room.
"I….I think my ribs are broken…" Splinter groaned blood spilling down his face as Mikey began to tear up wildly.
"I didn't mean too…" he sobbed. "I'm sorry…." The images changed again. His brothers came in looking exhausted. He began to piece together what memory this was of Splinter's when Splinter saw his exhausted sons. He went over going to light touch Raph.
"Boys," he whispered softly. "You've been at this for two days. You need-"
"NO!" Raph snarled getting right in his father's face. "I don't want to stop until I know my brother is safe! It's your fault this happened! AND IT'S YOUR FAULT HE'S SO MESSED UP LIKE THAT!"
"NO IT'S DRAXUM'S FAULT! IT'S ONLY EVER BEEN….Draxum….this is Splinter's guilt." Mikey muttered as the memories changed again to Tiger Claw yelling.
"You realize that was incredibly stupid! What were you thinking taking him with you?! And how the hell did you not know that the Foot Clan were after your son?!" Tiger Claw growled at him as Splinter was sitting with his own tea shutting him out. "And it's not like you were any help comforting him either." Tiger Claw spat.
Mikey could see Leo getting angry while he was listening and he felt like Tiger Claw wasn't being fair. He saw Splinter's head snap up with a glare at the Tiger Mutant. "I don't have to listen to you! I don't even have to acknowledge you!" Splinter snapped getting right in Tiger Claw's face. "I have lived a life much longer than yours! You're like what twenty!? You!" he began roughly tapping his finger against Tiger Claw's chest with each word. "Are a little tiny baby too me!" he hissed.
"I COULD EAT YOU OLD MAN!" Tiger Claw shouted, getting right in Splinter's face their foreheads pressed up against each other, before Carol got between them.
"Enough neither of you are helping the situation right now." She snapped, making them sit down and back off from one another. "What we need to do is figure out how to get through this." she added a bit softer.
Leo left as Tiger Claw and Splinter huffed, turning away from each other. Tiger Claw just laid on the bed Donnie had made out for him. Carol heard Leo begin to cry a few minutes later and went to check on him. Mikey on the other hand went after Splinter rushing into his room as he began to cry.
Mikey hugged his father tightly. To his surprise he had reacted. He had found the real Splinter in the memories.
"Daddy, I forgive you! I never blamed you." Mikey whimpered tears flowing down his face as outside a bright orange light began encompassing the seal covering it completely as both Splinter and Mikey began to cry. A gold aura filled the room. It was warm forgiving.
"Mikey…." Krysta muttered, giving him a side hug.
"Please forgive yourself, please…. If you didn't run when you did you all would've been killed. I know things could've been better, but things still can get better."
Splinter hugged him back in response sobbing blubbering apologies as the two tightly hugged. Before the Monster could surprise attack the twins it shrieked in pain writhing and twisting as it began to change into a version of Mikey that had never been taken by Draxum before fading into light. Mikey, however, went flying and screaming. He saw someone running towards the next memory.
"RAPH CATCH ME!" he shrieked as Raph suddenly turned and yelped opening his arms for Mikey to land in.
"Whew thanks Big Bro." he said crawling into his back to rest.
"Mikey what happened!?" Raph asked shocked.
"You've gotta keep going I'll explain on the way!" Mikey said holding onto Raph who immediately started running again. "That monster was all of Splinter's memories of me combined into a creature because of his guilt over losing me!"
"That can happen!?" Raph asked.
"Told you this was dangerous, but I managed to help him." Mikey muttered warmly proud of himself. "I helped him forgive himself. It was never him Raph! You and Tiger Claw weren't being fair."
"I did apologize for that," Raph muttered a bit shamefully. "I was just mad when I said that. We were worried and couldn't find you anywhere. We were afraid you were gonna…." He said slowing to a walk.
"I know, it's okay. It was Draxum it's always been Draxum." Mikey sighed.
"You know that applies to you too, right?" Raph asked making Mikey blink the Box Turtle looked thoughtful for a minute, but he couldn't dwell on this for long as the scenery changed again. They were in a brightly lit park surrounded by Sakura blossoms.
Mikey felt nervous. They were beautiful but he learned from Donnie that the Sakura represented death in Japan. Memories were also altered and changed in the user's mind. There were so many, could Splinter have made more in his head because something bad happened here?
They had heard a small child making fighting grunts. They saw their father as a young Toddler banging two toys together one some kind of beaked Kappa the other was Ultra man a show his father held dear to his heart. Maybe that was why his movies were action packed adventures?
"Look!" Raph gasped as he pointed to Sho opening the Scroll and began speaking to baby Yoshi. "And just before the mean Teddy Bear Shredder destroyed the village the greatest weapon in the history of the Hamato Clan. And struck him in his cute fuzzy nose! Boop!" he declared. "And sent them both to the Twilight Realm. Where they lived awfully ever after."
"That must be Karai in the picture under the Shredder. She's got a sword and she's casting a spell." Mikey muttered.
"That must have been what was Karai used to make her seal!" Raph gasped. "That's it now we know what to find and where to go!" he said happily.
Yoshi was looking at it a bit confused. But interested in it. They saw Sho huff and glance off to the side almost like he saw something Mikey looked over and could see someone watching until a familiar voice addressed his father.
"Yoshi, sweetie" the woman's voice said sadly. Yoshi turned curiously to his mother. Mikey turned as well and gasped. It was Ghost Lady, in her own set of blue Hamato robes. Ghost Lady had been Splinter's mother, thus his grandmother this whole time! She looked down at her son with shimmering sky-blue eyes welling with tears threatening to spill over quickly. "Mommy has to go." She said as Sho sadly hung his head his frown twitching sadly.
"No Mommy, please stay!" Yoshi begged his own gold eyes shimmering immediately spilling tears. Hugging his mother's arm.
"Oh, my sweet boy; I wish I could," His mother said mournfully petting his head gently. "But it is my duty to keep watch for the return of the Shredder."
"But who will hug me when I'm scared?" Yoshi whimpered.
"Anata wa Hitorijanai." She said sadly her lower lip trembling as she hung her head hugging him one last time for a few moments. Getting up she let her arm slide out of Yoshi's who immediately began screaming for her running after her only for Sho to mournfully grab him, keeping him from his mother.
"NOOOOOO! NO, NO, NO!" Yoshi screamed helplessly. "MOMMMY PLEASE STAAAYYYYY!" he screamed as Splinter began sobbing profusely outside, everyone watching him sadly.
"Dad…." Mikey muttered sadly tears forming in his eyes.
"Poor Little guy no one he turned his back on the Hamato Clan. You were right," Raph said as Splinter appeared sobbing Mikey hugged him while Raph put a hand on his shoulder.
His mother stopped and looked back, tears streaming down her own face now with a sword on her side now clearly visible. "One day you will understand the sacrifice we make as Hamato." She said to him. "Be good for your grandfather he has much to teach you." She said solemnly to the boy who was sobbing. "I love you." And instantly she disappeared into a burst of Sakura petals vanishing forever.
"NOOOOOOO!" Both Yoshi and Splinter shrieked as the buildings revealing one massive Shadow Jitsu emerged knocking the twins back towards Raph and Mikey. Splinter disappeared as the massive shadow man roared at them.
"Oh no…" Mikey whimpered before exclaiming. "DAD'S. MIND. IS. PISSED!" Immediately they were all hit with a barrage of chi energy firsts from Shadow Jitsu that then went to step on them. But fortunately…..
"APRIL OOOOOO'NEEEEIIILLLLLLL! AND B-TEAM!" she screamed as she Krysta with a frozen tail and Tiger Claw with one powerful thrust all slammed into Shadow Jitsu knocking him over onto the ground the three landed near the Turtles with the Sands of Time in April's hands.
"So, who wants to go home?" Tiger Claw asked.
"Yo Mayhem get us out of here!" April shouted as she slammed the hourglass down shattering it as everyone floated up with a blue glow that soon disappeared as everyone woke up.
"And ow…." Donnie muttered with a groan.
"And now we're back," Mikey muttered sitting up.
"What happened?! And who put all these tears in my eyes!?" Splinter shouted rubbing his eyes as Raph and Mikey smiled.
"Guys Mikey and I know exactly what to do to prevent the return of the Shredder!" Raph declared. "Karai's seal is in the Twilight Realm!"
"RAPH, RAPH, RAPH, RAPH!" Everyone cheered jumping up and down.
"So, all we need to do is figure out what the Twilight Realm is! How to get in how to get out fix the seal and probably some other stuff!" he said counting their, to dos on his fingers. But everyone had stopped cheering, looking at him as Krysta lowered her hand knowing he had no answers to her questions.
"We don't have to do that again do we?" Shelldon asked.
"Nope! I happened to know just enough to get us started!" Mikey assured. "The Twilight Realm is another dimension, Draxum used to go in there sometimes! There's a portal in his basement lab! And I'm pretty sure the basement mostly survived the explosion!"
"MIKEY, MIKEY, MIKEY, MIKEY!" they all cheered with Raph striking a pose as they immediately began to make plans packing up food and water and other supplies in case of the worse.
"Hold down the Fort Buddy!" Raph declared.
"Buddy!" the Paper Ninja declared making a salute. Mikey stared at the area where Leo was about to make a portal. Leo put a hand on his shoulder.
"We're with you." He assured. Mikey nodded and took a deep breath. Leo opened the portal and just beyond it was the ruins of Draxum's lab…
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