The Triceratons were closing in on them. Mikey looks around nervously. "Um, Leo, we're surrounded."
"Attack left," Leo whispers as they prepare to pull out their weapons. "On my signal." Leo, Mikey, Raph, Yuuki, and Alopex pull out their weapons and got into a fighting stance, Mona as well.
"No need to attack, my friends," A voice calls out. A Triceraton steps out through the crowd and walks towards them. "As much as I would enjoy a rematch." Traximus said.
"Traximus?" Raph asked, surprised. "No way!"
"Welcome to the Triceraton rebellion," Traximus bows.
"Rebellion? No way!" Raph dismissed.
"Allow me to introduce a small part of my ever-growing rebel army," Traximus gestures to several Triceratons, and a few other familiar faces as well, Aya, and Kluh.
"Hey, I know those guys. Looks like somebody brought back a few recruits from the Battle Nexus Tournament, just like he said he would," Mikey pointed out. "Me? I'm just had to settle for bringing back...the championship trophy." He brags, rubbing his hands.
"I thought we agreed you weren't gonna do that anymore," Raph pulls the tail ends of Mikey's mask and smacks him on the head.
"OW!"
In the throne room, Donnie and Venus were kneeling on the floor, their wrists were bound. Mozar walks up to Donnie and Venus and grabs them by the wrist.
"Listen you pea-brained geko, how many times do I have to tell you? The Fugitoid. Is. Not. On. Earth!" Donnie insisted.
"Our brains may be small, terrapin scum," Mozar drags them to the screen. "but our tracking equipment does not lie." He throws Donnie and Venus. "The Fugitoid's teleportation reach directly to your planet."
"He was on Earth, but he's not there anymore!" Venus explained.
Zanramon leans in forward from his chair. "Then where is he?!"
Venus turns to Zanramon. "If I tell you, will you promise to leave the Earth alone," She tells him. "If you do, I will go with you. I won't fight back. I won't try to run away."
"Yes, all of this unnecessary fighting will end. I promise to spare the Earth, " Zanramon tells her.
Donnie shakes his head. "Venus, no..." He whispers quietly so that only she could hear. "You can't sacrifice yourself and your freedom that you've fought so hard for. You know what will happen! The Utroms won't stand a chance."
Venus agreed with Donnie. The Utroms wouldn't stand a chance. They would be wiped out by the Triceratons if she gave up their location.
"I...I can't tell you that." Venus stammers.
"Can't...or won't?" Zanramon presses as he stepped towards her.
"Leave her alone," Donnie shouted. "I'm the one you want!"
"Tell me where the Fugitoid is?!" Zanramon demanded.
Donnie glares at him then turns around, facing his shell to the Prime Leader.
Zanramon growls in anger, making Venus flinch. She knew all to well what he was capable of.
Then she saw him make a sickening smirk. "Very well. We "pea-brained gekos" will just have to extract the information from your over-sized terrapin brain," Zanramon explained. Mozar places a helmet on Donnie's head. He struggles as it shocks him. He screamed in pain as he felt every fiber of his brain being pierced as it was being scanned.
Venus tried to run to him but Mozar stopped her as he grabbed her. She struggled against his grip.
""Donnie!" Venus exclaimed.
"Struggle all you want. There's no resisting the Triceraton mind probe." Zanramon tells him. Venus looks up to see Donnie's memories begin to appear on the screen.
The three brothers, Yuuki, Mona and Alopex were lead to an hidden underground base.
"Man, you got some horns, Traximus," Raph commented. "putting your rebel base right under the Prime Leader's nose."
"Zanramon is too focused on his insane war against the Federation to notice us," Traximus explained. "he has driven the Triceraton Republic into the brink of destruction. That is why he must be overthrown." He clenches his fist.
"Can't you just hold a recall election?" Mikey jokes.
Then, a Triceraton slams into Mikey, knocking him down. Alopex winced as she saw the hard tackle. Raph laughs.
"Thanks pal, you just saved me the trouble of doing it myself,"
Traximus gestures to four familiar Triceratons that were standing behind Leo and Yuuki. "You remember Monza-Ram and his Triceraton All-Stars."
"Didn't we open a major can of butt kick on you guys in the Tri sports Arena?" Mikey questioned. "Of course, that was nothing compared to my unprecedented victory in the Battle Nexus Championship!" He brags, waving his hands in the air. They all watch him.
"Is it possible your brother has grown even more annoying since we last met?" Monza-Ram asked as he shakes Raph, and Leo's hands.
"It's a rare gift," Mikey commented.
"Yeah, and I wish we could exchange it," Raph said, with his hands on his hips.
Leo turns to Traximus. "So, Traximus, do you think your troops can help us spring Donatello?"
"Monza-Ram and Aya will assist you, but beware. The Prime leader has sworn a personal vengeance on you turtles," Traximus warned. "What exactly did you do to him?" He places a hand on Leo's shoulder.
"Other than take him hostage, get him blasted by his own troops, steal his personal space cruiser and get it blown to atoms all while escaping with the Fugitoid?" Leo asked before crossing his arms. "Not much."
In the throne room, Donnie tried to fight the helmet's probe of his memories as the screen showed where they were helping the Fugitoid escape in Zanramon's space cruiser.
"Master Splinter!" Donnie exclaimed. His voice echoed.
Splinter is meditating in his room when he hears Donnie's voice. He gasps and closes his eyes.
"My son, I am with you," Splinter's voice echoed in Donnie's mind.
Then the helmet shorted out just as the Fugitoid's location was about to be revealed.
"Impossible, no one has ever resisted the mind probe!" Mozar exclaimed in shock as he takes the helmet off of Donnie's head.
"Clearly, the Earth creature has something to hide. But we have other methods of making you talk," Zanramon pointed out.
"I'll never tell you anything!" Donnie hissed. Zanramon kneels down to him.
"Not even to save your miserable brothers?" Zanramon asked and Donnie and Venus gasps. "Oh yes, we known they are in the same city we apprehended you."
Zanramon appears on the United Nations screen again. Donnie is next to him. "Attention people of Earth, since you persist in your defiance by not giving up the Fugitoid, we will continue to remove your cities from the planet and take them apart bit by bit until we find him!" Bishop was watching intensely. "Starting with this densely populated island metropolis!"
The home world fires it's lasers around New York, preparing to lift it up, like Beijing. The lasers started to destroy buildings and streets. It circle around a part of the city and people began to run away as it headed towards the Brooklyn Bridge.
The bridge is torn in half, falling into the river below. Donnie, Venus, Mozar and Zanramon watched on the screen.
"Your brothers are down there. Tell me where the Fugitoid is and I won't have them hunted down and destroyed!" Zanramon demanded.
Donnie cringes.
What can he do? What can he do to stop this?
He can only hope that his brothers were alright.
Casey, April, Michael and Sarah walked through the sewers, trying to remain undetected by the Triceratons that were storming the streets above
. "Remind me again why we're walking through the stinking sewers?" Casey complained.
"Because the guys weren't back at the park. We can't contact them with a Shell Cell. Heading back to the lair is the only thing that makes sense," April explained.
"Yeah, well, I think we oughta-" A rumbling sound cuts Casey off.
A laser cuts through New York and river of water began to rush rapidly, heading towards the group.
They head towards a ladder and climbed it just before they were swept away by the sewer water. The peek through sewer lid but quickly duck as they see a Triceraton walk by. They lift the cover again and climbed out. They look up to see the home world taking the city apart.
"Something's tells me it's gonna take awhile to get back to the lair," April said nervously as they run off. But, as they did, they didn't know that they were being watched as well. Two agents watched them from an alley nearby.
"Still no signs of the turtles and the , but we ID'd four of their associates."
"Shadow them," Bishop ordered. "We need to follow every possible lead to the Fugitoid."
Bishop watched from the roof of the United Nations as he sees the city being taken apart. He held his phone to his ear.
"Look, my agents are closing in, but you need to handle the Triceratons. We had a deal, remember?"
A voice answered him on the other end.
"Well, it's a little hard to hold up my end of the bargain when they're slicing New York off the face of the planet!"
The three turtles, Yuuki, Mona and Alopex and Mona-Ram walked to the sewer entrance of the ship.
"First, we need to get to the monitoring station and determine where they're holding your brother and Venus. We'll make our way through the-"
"Sewers!" The turtles finished.
"Never fails," Raph commented.
"So I still don't understand," Leo speaks as they walked. "How does a Triceraton All-Star like you end up fighting for the rebellion?"
"Zanramon threw the entire team in prison after our humiliating defeat at your hands. Traximus helped us escape. Now my allegiance is only to him," Monza-Ram explained.
"Hey," Mikey pushes past Leo and Yuuki. "Speaking of humiliating defeat, did I happen to mention I'm a Battle Nexus Champion?" Mikey strikes a victory pose.
"Mikey, give it a rest," Yuuki said. "We all know you won. But, this is getting a bit too much."
But, Mikey ignores her.
Raph growls and raises a hand getting ready to smack him but Leo stops him. Instead, he smacks Mikey on the head.
"Ow! Et tu, Leo?" Mikey replied as he rubs his head.
The Triceraton guards were doing a check on the sectors.
"Sector Zag, all clear,"
"Sector Rez, all clear,"
"Sector Narza, all clear."
Suddenly, an explosion goes off underneath of them. "Sector right under your noses, not clear!" Mikey exclaimed as they are engulfed in smoke.
Punching and kicking noises were heard before the smoke clears and Mikey emerges. He disarms a Triceraton and knocks him out. Leo jumps out and disarms a second Triceraton before lying on his back and kicking the Triceraton to the ground. Raph rolls, taking a Triceraton with him and kicks him down. Monza-Ram grabs a Triceraton by the collar and throws him. One of them is backing away from Aya, heading towards the alarm. She grabs him by the arm and kicks him down.
"We came, we saw, we kicked some shell!" Raph commented with a smile.
"Yes, but it won't be long before they realize the security system has been breached. We need to work fast," Aya starts to go through a map of the ship. Monza-Ram sees something blinking on the screen. "Wait, go back!"
She goes back, and on the screen reveals a green circle beeping on the screen. "The good news is, your brother and Venus are on this base. The bad news is they're with the Prime Leader in the throne room,"
"Can you get us in?" Leo questioned and Monza-Ram nods.
"Perhaps, if we can overcome a few obstacles."
Suddenly, they hear an alarm and Mikey looks at the door. He sees a few Triceraton guards running towards the room. "Um, would one of those obstacles be a bunch of heavily armed guards?"
The guards press a button and shut down the shield to the door and started firing.
The home world ship has finished. A shield surrounds New York, like Beijing. A large chunk of the city starts to lift up.
"Wait, stop!" Donnie protested. "I'm telling you, the Fugitoid is not on Earth!"
"And why should we believe you?" Zanramon questioned, accusingly, as he pointed a finger at him.
"Can't you just scan for his positronic energy signature or something?" Donnie asked. Mozar and Zanramon laughs at him.
"What kind of fools do you take us for? Positronic energy signatures are as common as space dust!" Zanramon tells him.
"Not on Earth. Our technology isn't advance enough!" Donnie explained.
"What?! Why was I not informed of this?!" Zanramon demanded, turning to Mozar. He backs away nervously.
"Naturally, we just assumed-"
"We Triceratons assume nothing except...victory! Initiate positronic energy scan, now!" Zanramon interrupted.
"Yes, Prime Leader!" Mozar salutes and walks up to a control panel, starting the scan.
"This had better not be one of your terrapin tricks," Zanramon tells Donnie. "Or a way to stall time perhaps while your brothers commit some act of sabotage!"
"My brothers? Are you kidding? They wouldn't be caught dead in this place," Donnie denied, smiling nervously.
Then the door opens from the hall.
"Prime Leader!" A Triceraton calls out. Leo, Mikey, Raph, Yuuki, Mona and Alopex were with him as well, their wrists bound.
Venus turns to Donnie. "You were saying?" She asked sarcastically.
"Excuse the interruption, but these were caught attempting to take over our security post."
"Wouldn't be caught dead in this place, eh?" Zanramon mocks. "Well, they have been caught!"
The Triceraton and Zanramon walk up to each other.
And now they will be exterminated." Zanramon points a gun at the six.
"You eight will now answer for all the crimes you've committed against the Triceraton Republic! And don't think I've forgotten about my space cruiser," Zanramon hissed.
"Just want to point it out there," Alopex said. "I have nothing to do with this."
"Yeah, we weren't even there!" Yuuki added.
"Silence!" Zanramon shouted.
He points the gun at Alopex. She backs away nervously and Mikey stands in front of her.
"Excuse me, Prime Leader," The guard interrupts, saluting. "but would it not be best to prolong their agony in your private torture chamber?"
"Ah," Zanramon replied in approval and lowers his gun. "Excellent suggestion, guard. Make it so."
"Yes, sir!" The guard answered and takes them away as Zanramon laughs. They walk down the hall, the guard was watching them.
"Well guys, is this your idea of a rescue? It's pretty lame," Donnie scolded.
Then Leo, Yuuki, Raph, Mona, Mikey, and Alopex stop, turning to the guard.
The guard looks around before taking out a controller and presses a button. Everyone's restraints unlocks, and falls to the floor.
"Huh?" Venus and Donnie asked.
"You were saying?" Leo asked smugly.
The Triceraton takes off his helmet, it was Monza-Ram. Donnie and Venus looked at him in shock.
"Monza-Ram! Ookay, open mouth, insert foot," Donnie commented.
Monza-Ram pulls off a vent. "Come, we must get you to an escape ship."
In the throne room, the scan was already half way done.
"We've scanned half the planet, sir. Not one positronic energy signature. Maybe the terrapin was telling the truth," Mozar explained, while Zanramon watches angrily.
"No! The Fugitoid must be here! He has to be here!" Zanramon insisted. He slams his fist on his throne. They were interrupted by a call as a Triceraton comes on the screen, completely naked.
"Guard, what is the meaning of this?!" Mozar exclaimed, baffled. "Why are you out of uniform!?"
"Sir, the three terrapin creatures, and three of their friends, an unknown alien, and one of our own attacked us and stole my uniform," He reported as he rubs his head.
"What?!" Zanramon questioned, surprised. "Seal off the base! Do not let them escape!"
"All units, full alert. All units, full alert. We have alien intruders. Commence Tri base lock down immediately," A voice said in the docking bay. "I repeat, full alert!"
The turtles, Yuuki, Mona, Venus, and Alopex and Monza-Ram sneak in through a hole and took cover behind some explosives. Leo and Raph tip one over quietly. The two of them and Monza-Ram roll it over to the guards who look at it confused. Monza-Ram and Venus fire laser guns at the explosives, causing it to explode. The guards were now distracted and the eight sneak past them through the smoke. Monza-Ram hurls a explosive in the air and sets it off.
The turtles stop at a ship that looks familiar.
"Hey, this is the Prime Leader's ship," Mikey speaks. "Didn't we steal this once before?"
"And guess what," Leo asked. "We're stealing it again."
"You guys really love ticking off every person you meet?" Yuuki smiles.
"It's kind of a hobby," Raph commented.
They run towards the ship and jump in. Monza-Ram rolls away more explosives, setting off some near him. He jumps to the door of the cruiser, looking down at them.
"Good luck, my friends," He tells them, closing the door. Mikey and Raph went into the gun stations.
"Good thing we already know how to fly this thing," Mikey commented. Leo and Donnie hop into the front seats.
"Actually, the Fugitoid piloted last time," Donnie pointed out as he and Leo tried to start the ship. The side of the ship collides with the docking hanger as it takes off. Venus, Yuuki, Mona and Alopex fall to the floor as they lost their balance.
"You are terrible drivers!" Venus shouted.
"Well, I'd like to see you try better," Donnie retorts.
Venus stood up and walked over Donnie.
"Move over," She said as she shoves him aside. "Hey!"
The guards start to fire at them.
"Mikey, Raph," Leo shouted. "Take them out!"
Mikey and Raph fired the guns at the guards, taking them out. Venus piloted the ship throughout a hole and into space.
"Prime Leader, the, uh, terrapin creatures and Venus and some Earthers have stolen your private space cruiser...again," A Triceraton reported, nervously to Zanramon.
"Whaaaat?!" Zanramon exclaimed, slapping his forehead. "I just had it detailed!" He turns to Mozar. "Don't just stand there, destroy them!"
Mozar speaks, hesitantly. "But sir, Venus-" He was cut off by Zanramon.
"She defied me for the last time! She can be destroyed along with her race!" He growls. Mozar saluted and runs off. "And tell Engineering to start building me a new space cruiser!"
"All combat fighters, to your fliers immediately! All pilots to tri-fighters immediately!" Aya sets off explosives everywhere as she presses a button, setting them off and destroying the ships.
"Prime Leader, the tri-fighters on the space have been sabotage," A Triceraton tells Zanramon. He angrily slams his fist on the throne, breaking off a piece.
"Deploy the tri-bases! I want those terrapins and Earthers vaporized, do you hear me? Vaporized!" He demanded, clenching his fists. The bases break off and started to after the cruiser.
"Planet Earth, dead ahead!" Donnie reported.
One of the bases release an energy ball at the cruiser.
Mikey sees it on the screen. "I'm worried about dead behind, as in our dead behinds!"
The energy ball was heading closer to them.
"Sit tight and hold onto your lunches!" Donnie calls out as he helped Venus piloted the ship.
The ship flies up but the ball follows after them.
"Hey, no fair!" Mikey whines.
"It must be a smart weapon," Donnie explained.
"Well we better get smarter, because it's right on our tail!" Raph replied.
"Right now, that's the least of our problems!" Donnie answered nervously as they were heading towards the flying bases. They fire two more energy balls and the cruiser dodged them. They all screamed, while Mikey screamed in excitement. The cruiser flies towards Earth again, the energy balls still following them. Zanramon watches from the throne room and Mozar steps up to him.
"Prime Leader, the planetary scan is complete. Negative on all positronic energy signatures." Mozar pointed out.
"The Fugitoid is not on Earth?" Zanramon questioned in disbelief. "Then this entire invasion has been a colossal waste of time and resources!"
"The high council will not be pleased," Mozar pointed out.
"I'm the high council!" Zanramon shouted, slamming his fist. "Besides, I can still save face with the destruction of those terrapins!"
The energy balls were still chasing after the cruiser.
"Can't you do anything to shake those things, Donnie?!" Raph asked in annoyance.
"Don't you get it, Raph?" Donnie replied. "Those energy spheres follow us everywhere we go!"
"So maybe it's time to start using that to our advantage," Leo tells him.
Donnie nods. "Right,"
They enter past the shield and fly towards where a part of New York was being lifted.
"Special delivery!" Mikey exclaimed as they fly through a hole.
The energy ball follows them, destroying the base in the process. The piece of the city falls back down into place.
"Way to go, Donnie!" Mikey cheered. "How'd you know that was gonna work like that?"
"Actually, I didn't," Donnie answered.
Zanramon stands up growling angrily. He screamed in rage and pulls out a control panel throwing it at the screen, breaking it. "Why can't anything go right?!"
"Actually sir, our planetary scan picked up another teleportation trail," Mozar explained, showing the teleportal beam that transported the Fugitoid and the Utroms away. "One leading away from Earth. Apparently, the Fugitoid was on the planet briefly, then teleported off."
"Then perhaps our search has not been in vain," Zanramon said, happily. "Quickly, plot a course to follow that trail at once. Alert all ships! We're leaving this miserable backwater planet!"
All of the bases retreat back to home world. Raph looks from the window seeing them leaving.
"So the horn heads are packing it in," He pointed out.
"Looks like we saved Earth from an alien invasion," Leo said.
"Awesome! We'll get a hero's welcome, dinner with the president, a made-for-TV movie!" Mikey exclaimed in excitement.
Everyone stared at him with blank expressions on their faces.
"Or we can just continue hiding in the sewers and let someone else grab the glory," He finishes sheepishly.
"Look on the bright side," Donnie speaks. "We got a cool spaceship out of the deal. And more importantly, this whole Fugitoid crisis is finally over."
At the destroyed of what used to be the TCRI building, an energy beam appears out of nowhere, as someone apparated from it.
It was the Fugitoid. He looks around.
"Oh dear, am I too late?"