Raph groaned, looking back at the small workshop they stood over … seeing nothing but rubble. "The invasion known as the invasion of earth has began at the time that is known as right now." The monotone voice of the slimy pink bastards rang in the air as what looked like giant balls were sent down into the ground as the pink eye in the sky shot a constant stream of lasers down into the surface.

"Aw man aw man, this isn't good, this so isn't good!" Mikey shouted hysterically. "The invasion's begun! We're toast! Game over man, game over!"

"Not if I have anything to say!" Peter leapt off the roop, swinging to one of the orbs and kicking it out of the sky and into a building … where it proceed to just get right back up and fly away without a single care.

"AAA!" A woman screamed as one came close … and ate her.

"NO!" Spidey shouted out, swinging forward as he tried to grab a man, reaching him too late as a metal ball snatched him up. "NO!"

"Peter, those things are likely pre-programed, they've likely locked onto a target, knocking them off crouse isn't going to stop them!" Donnie shouted at the web head.

"Then I'll grab the targets before they do!" He swung forward again, this time speeding up as he pulled an elderly man out of the way of one of those orbs. "You're not getting your hands on him." Peter growled as it still continued to chase them. "I said…." He picked up an entire car over his head, and slammed it into the opening of the orb. "YOU'RE NOT TAKING HIM!"

SMMAAAAASSSSSSSH!

Th orb was smashed to pieces. "Not… not so tough…. are you… you alien… bastards…."

Swosh

Five orbs came in, four of them shooting at Peter as the fifth snatched the old man. "Stop it…!" Pieces of his clothing were littered with holes as was continually shot at. "I said….. STOP IT!" He webbed two orbs together, sending them crashing and into scrap metal. "I COULD USE A LITTLE HELP HERE, GIANT MARTIAL ART KNOWING REPTILES!"

Leo jumped on one of the orbs, stabbing it as it fell … only for four more to start shooting at him. "There's too many, we need to fall back!"

"We aren't doing that while people are in danger!" Peter shouted.

They heard the sounds of footsteps, turning to see … armies. Armies of Kraang marching down the streets. "The humans will surrender to the Kraang, or face that which is known as, destruction." There were too many. There were too many for Raph to deal with.

The aliens began firing at the turtles, so many lasers going off at once it looked more like a wall of purple than their usual fights. The Kraang didn't even look like they were even being careful about where they were blasting, firing at cars, buildings, even the people… people were falling to the ground dead from their various shots.

"NOOOOOO!" Peter kept lifting cars over his head and throwing them into the hordes of Kraang, blowing them up bit by bit as they continued to come.

"It's like a hydra, chop one down and two more take its place!" Donnie shouted as he dodged out of the way of incoming lasers. "We're not going to do anything in the long run just by fighting them like this!"

"If we don't do this then they're just going to kill the people they don't kidnap!" Peter screamed as one of the orbs smashed into a building … which began collapsing as what sounded like a girl began screaming. "Hang on, I got you!"

"Peter, the building's coming down, it's not worth it!" Raph screamed out.

"If that's what you really think then you don't know the first thing about me shell head!" The web head kept going, not even chastising him for using his real name in public as he disappeared into the collapsing pile of brick and mortar.

"Spidey!" Mikey shouted, ducking and weaving through the lasers as he tried to follow after.

"Don't..!" Leo pulled their youngest brother back. "We can't just dive into the situation blind to save everyone!"

"Isn't that the point of being a hero!? Saving people no matter what!?" Mikey shouted back.

"This is more than just about being a hero, Mikey, the whole world is at stake!" Leo pointed to the crowds, both the screaming and those laying on the road. "Every time we save someone ten more people are in danger! We'll get nowhere if we just keep going at it like this!"

"I don't even … I don't even know what to do." Donnie looked like he was just flat out panicking. "They outnumber us, they out gun us, they have an indestructible fortress with hundreds of soldiers. I can't think of anything, I can't, I can't …"

"I…I got you!" Peter shouted as he came out of the rubble, busting through as more of his costume tore off, holding a young girl closely.. "..I…I got you…" He spoke softly, brushing off the debris off the sobbing girl and kicking away any remaining rubble.. "You alright?"

The girl just kept crying, clinging to the masked teen. "My parents… my family….."

"It's alright… it's alright.." He patted the girl. "What's your name?"

"...Mattie…" She whimpered. "Mattie… Franklin.

"Okay Mattie, just stick close. I'm gonna take you to the nearest ambulance and get your parents out of there. Just hold on tight." Peter picked the girl up as if she was a little kid, webbing away.

"Spidey, you can't keep doing this." Leo said. "The Kraang are just going to keep coming, and sooner or later they're going to run you ragged."

"... I'm not looking the other way." He said, jumping in the air. "My responsibility is to save every single person in this city, no exceptions!" He left them behind as the sounds of lasers, screams, and chaos rang out in the air.

"...What do we do Leo?" Mikey asked, looking more disheartened than ever.

"...I don't know…. but we're not going to figure it out here." He ordered. "Get back to the lair…if we're lucky, we'll have enough space to think of a plan."

Raph walked up to Leo. "I'm gonna go drag the moron back when he falls."

"Raph…"

"Do what you need to do, Leo, I'll do what I need to." He said bluntly as he leapt into the streets. Only upside was with all the chaos going around, no one was going to notice a giant ninja turtle running through the streets, or at least pay attention to one. Which was good, cause dragging Peter back wasn't going to be an easy task.


Jessica sat in silence in the back seat of the car, sounds of traffic blaring out around them. "Why aren't we taking the subway?" She asked. It was freaking New York, who the hell drove in the middle of the most crowded city on earth? They would've had an easier time just walking. Instead she had to stay inside a crowded car that barely had air conditioning and sitting next to her bratty little brother.

"Do you know how dirty the subways are?" Her dad answered without taking his eyes off the road. "It's where all the homeless go to sleep when the cops kick them out of central park."

"Well that and he's afraid of the giant alligator that was rumored to be running through the pipes." Mom added.

"It ran from helicopters near Brooklyn, it's no longer a rumor." The man argued.

Mom just sighed. "Philip, how's your tooth?"

"It really hurts …" The reason they were all together? A fucking cavity, as if they ALL needed to go there for some reason. It wasn't her teeth that got all gunked up from eating too much halloween candy in one setting, yet her free time had to be sacrificed to show 'support' or whatever family shit Mom tried to put a spin on.

"Mom, why do I have to come? I could've spent the day with Doreen." Sure it would've mostly been going through blurry photos of spider-man and feeding her pet squirrels, but it would've been more engaging than this.

"It's not too bad, Jess, how often do we get to spend as a family nowadays?" Her mom asked.

"We see each other all the time at dinner." A whole half hour was really all she could take of her family every day.

"Well now we'll have something to talk about and laugh at tonight."

BEEP

The car from behind them blared out. "Move the car, you brunette bitch!"

"HEY! That's my wife you're talking to, fuck face!" Her dad flipped the guy behind them off.

"Heheheehe…..ow…hehehehehe.." Philip laughed in between grunts.

"Well, if you wanted to teach little Lucifer here how to speak to a New Yorker, a good hour of public television would've done the trick." Jessica rolled her eyes.

"Honestly Jess, I don't know where this attitude of yours came from." Her mother shook her head. "It's not Doreen, she's such a sweetheart."

"She's just acting…ow…emo because…ow….she doesn't know how to ask out….ow….her boyfriend…ow.." The brat gave her a shit eating grin.

"Hey you little turd, you wanna keep all your teeth, I suggest you stop talking." She growled.

"Make me … ow." The boy grumbled.

"Hey, what's this about a boyfriend?" Her dad asked. "Better not be that Jones kid. Dad's bad news and he's not any better."

"Ugh, gross, no way I'd be into that maniac." Jessica gagged. Where the fuck did that idea come from?

"Yeah, she likes…ow….her boys…..skinny and nerdy…."

"One more word, and that cavity is coming out here and now." She growled, raising her fist.

"Dear, it's nothing to be ashamed of. I was a nerdy girl when I was your age, and I accepted your father." That was NOT what she wanted to hear right now.

"Your mother could rock a pair of glasses, let me tell you." Please, please do not.

"Like how Jess….ow….rocks herself…ow….to pictures…ow…of Johnny Storm…"

"That's it, you little fuck, your teeth come out right now!" She threw a punch to the boy, trying to end his annoying chats here and now.

"MOOOM!"

"Jessica, Philip, stop it right now!" She shouted. "I swear I'll ground you both so help me-"

BOOM

Jessica would always remember this scene. The sound of an explosion, the sound of screaming, the panic in her father's eyes as he turned to them, and the sight of a truck falling down on them.

Crash


Casey … had only one thing to say. "I told everyone the aliens were real!" He laughed in triumph as he pulled out his hockey stick. Sure those guys were blasting everyone, but it was the principal of the matter. "Who's the crazed hockey stick maniac now! Me! Cause I was crazy enough to believe the truth!" He skated right into the streets with his rollerblades and smacked the head off its body. "Score one for Casey Jones!"

He heard the sound of guns cocking, turning to see ten more robots aiming their blasters at him. "The human who refers to themself as the one known as Casey Jones will surrender to Kraang, and face that which is known as being horribly experimented on against their will."

"Geez, and here I was about to offer you a phone home. Guess I brought out the party favors for nothing!" He took out his pucks and began sending them into their heads. He might've not had a super suit or a lot of brains, but he did have street smarts and guts, and in a fight, those ride or die instincts were the only things that mattered.

Said pucks bounced off their heads, not doing much of anything. "Kraang thinks human is that which is known as, a complete idiot."

"Kraang agrees." And then they started shooting him.

"Well at Least Casey Jones doesn't speak in the third person like a moron!" He skated out of the way, pushing dumpster and debri in their way as he tried to get out of there. Okay, his weapons weren't going to do TOO much damage, so he needed to get a little more extreme. Luckily, with everyone running in a panic, that left plenty of cars ripe for hotwiring. Now how did that go again … red and blue wire? … Meh, he had back ups in case he messed up. "Now lets see…"

VROOOOMM

"WHOOOOHHIOOOOO!" Good news, the car started running and he was ramming into the bots like they were bowling bowls. Bad news, the car was a stick shift and he got it stuck in reverse, so he was driving backwards at 80 miles per hour through alien robots. If this wasn't the premise of a video game one of these days, he was going to be SUPER disappointed.

"GOONGALA!" Casey cried out as he went through Kraang after Kraang, running his way through the streets, seeing absolute chaos as people were snagged, bots were firing, and … was that Spider-Man in the distance? Today was SO cool! Now this was gonna be how his heroic career started. He had no idea what Hobie was so worried about, this was so wicked-

smassssssshhhh

Casey felt the airbags into his face as he collided into a building

"... Right … forgot you had to … steer these things." He groaned, slowly getting out of the car.

Click

Into a bunch of Kraang bots all staring at him with guns. "... This is gonna hurt." He grimaced, grabbing onto his hockey stick …

Vrreeeeee

Only for a green shockwave to blast the bots away. "I swear, this town just gets nuttier every day."

"Thanks man." He waved to the strange yellow suited person that looked familiar. "Wait…weren't you on the bugle being thrown in jail?"

"Posted Bail, now Imma shooting aliens in a barrel in the world's wackiest county fair." The southern voice nodded as he blasted away several more aliens. "You can complain, or you can run with your tail between your legs."

Casey looked out into the city, pulling out his hockey stick. "And miss all the action? Why would I ever do that?" He took a swing, repeatedly bashing one of them into scrap metal.

"Heh, you got guts kid. Think you'd be interested in a job?"

"Nah, the old man didn't raise a crimmal." He swung away.

"Sounds like a good pa." With that, the guy in fishnets went off, firing at the floating orbs in the sky. "I better get a vacation when all is said and done!"

"Don't know what you're complaining about, I'm practically in disneyland right now!" Casey cackled, taking out his baseball bat for some double smashing power. "Alight you lousy aliens, I'm here to smash bots and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum!"

"Kraang does not understand why the human who is what can be described as moronic would chose to chew what is known as gum of bubbles at such a crucial and vital moment.

Casey and the criminal turned to each other, and with a nod of empathy, beat the robot to a pulp. If one thing ruined the fun, it was aliens not understanding the language.


Splinter sent another ninja flying. "Maybe my sons were right to feel confident in their ability to deal with the common Foot soldier." They didn't feel trained in the slightest. Even April, in her current stage of training, would have been enough. Saki truly had lost his way in more than one if he let people as undisciplined and uncoordinated as this into his ranks.

Making his way inside, he found himself staring at a giant dog and fish, which he assumed were Bradford and Xever. "This is your one opportunity to stand aside." He growled. "My patience has run as thin as ice this day, do not make it crack."

"So this is the oh so famous Hamato Yoshi." The giant dog mutant grunted as he cracked his boney muscles. "Master Shredder has spoken quite a lot about you over the years. Mainly how you don't have the spine to finish the job."

"It's not a matter of spine, it's mercy, something that I've run out of." Charging ahead, he's struck two nerves within the chest area of the large mutant, making Bradford flinch and allowing just enough time for Splinter to force him back into a wall.

He moved his head around the mechanical leg coming out from behind him, striking from two sides to loosen the joints before he ripped it off, using it as a club to send Xever into the same wall as Bradford. Splinter followed with a kick, the force striking through the fish and attacking the dog.

He moved away from the two unconscious mutants, looking for April the best he could. "Saki, you coward! How much longer will you send your pawns while you hide in the shadows!?"

"The irony of that statement is almost palpable, old friend." The voice… that dreaded voice that haunted his dreams for over fifteen years rang through the hall. "We were the same, trained by the same master, and we both retreated, built our armies and prepared for the inevitable war."

Thooom

With a massive thud, Splinter, for the first time in over a decade, came face to face with the Shredder, who bore the helmet, covering his massive scars. "You sought war, Saki. You let your anger and your petty rage overwhelm you, and destroyed both our lives."

"Says the man whose life was handed to him on a platter because he was born into it." They shot back, rage filling his voice. "I actually lived for the clan. Even when I found out the truth, that I was adopted, stolen from the hands of the foot, I dedicated my life to being a better ninja, yet you got everything that rightfully belonged to me!"

"It was never about the clan, and you know it." He glared. "It was always about Teng-shen."

"Keep her name out of your mouth." With a click of a remote, the windows closed around them, enclosing the two within the room.

Splinter looked around. The Shredder needed to be dealt with, but … "Where is April?"

"I've given her to my new ally … the Kraang." The man chucked without heart or remorse.

"You truly are a fool, old friend. You have no idea what they are capable of or the hell they'll unleash upon the world!"

"I know enough." The man spoke back. "I know they hate your accursed sons as much as I hate you, and they provided me with the perfect means of getting what I want.." His once brother in arms charged right at him, aiming for the face. "You within my grasp, trapped like a rat!"

"A rat you say.." He ducked underneath the strike and swept the man's leg with his tail, unveiling his hood and revealing his appearance. "Yet I don't see an ounce of humanity within you." Splinter drove his fist forward, blocked by Saki's forearm. "You surrender all this for nothing but petty vengeance!"

"My vengeance is anything but petty!" They swung a blade as Yoshi ducked, followed by a strike of the leg he blocked. "It burns like an inferno that will obliterate your soul!"

"And all it cost was your own, soaking in the darkness to fill in the empty husk that is your life!" Splinter accused as he felt the blades graze across his chest, barely managing to avoid the piercing as Saki sent a kick to his face. "If the only way to end this feud is to exterminate your life, then so be it!"

"One way or another, a life will fall today." With that, the two of them rushed forward, ready to finish this.


Another girl in trouble, destroy the orb, shove her inside-the building was collapsing, get her running. Another boy, web up the rubble and smack away the Kraang, take a shot to the leg because the kid would be dead if you didn't. Another elderly, help them to a better spot to hide as the world explodes around you.

Peter's spider sense had been all over the place, like a fire alarm constantly going off in the back of his head. With every turn, every flip, every jump, his sixth sense would alert him of a brand new danger just five feet away from him. This was it, the end of the world … and even his best was barely cutting it.

"The man of spiders will surrender to the superior Kraang." One of the robots said as yet ANOTHER army marched their way forward.

"Superior, you clearly need to double check that. Just look at your terrible fashion sense." Let out some jokes, distract yourself from how unfixable this was, think of a way to fix this, save people, or they'd all die and suffer and it would be on you just like it always is.

Lasers were fired, but Peter dodged every one of them… okay some of them hit him on the side, but none of them slowed him down as he shot a line and pulled a collapsing wall down onto the incoming Kraang, burying them in the rubble just like Mattie's parents…

A woman cried out as another orb flew to grab her. He ran forward, getting scrapped by lasers as he moved her out of the way. "Okay, express Spidey is busy today, need you to keep running!"

"Thank you thank you thank you!" She shouted as she ran off. Thanks…a rare occurrence for Spidey yet it came at the moment of his greatest failure

"Are you done yet!?" Raph shouted as he stabbed a Kraang's head in. "We both know you can't keep this up forever Spidey!"

"I don't have the option to stop!" He shot back as he tried to swing away. "Get back to you brothers, I got this handled!"

"Yeah, you got this handled, just like you had the symbiote handled!" Raph counted, chasing after him as he stabbed some more Kraang. "I packed for five months against Splinter and I'm already halfway through the arsenal!"

"Then you better restock then!" He shouted as she went to shoot out another line…and got a whizz instead.

"Pot calling the kettle!?"

"I got super powers to make up for it…I'll just ripped them apart peice by peice when I run out!" He landed on one of the Kramer and slammed them into the ground as he changed his cartridges..

Click

Spidey looked up … they were surrounded on an intersection, multiple orbs surrounding the air with sharp blades, armies of Kraang they couldn't count, and so many screams in the distance. "Prepare for that which is known as, your squashing."

"Dream on." He gripped his fist, taking a deep breath …

"It's clobberin time!" A gravelly voice shouted, as multiple Kraang bots shot in the air, looking like a train was running right through them.

"Really, that's your catch phrase?" A younger voice responded back, one that sounded closer to his age as what looked like a giant floating tub with four people inside flew above them.

"Oh, like you can do better, kid?"

"I can, just watch." The blonde guy smirked as he jumped out of the tub. "FLAME ON!" And suddenly one section of the army surrounding them was reduced to fucking molten metal.

"Johnny, don't get cocky now, you just started learning how to fly!" A blonde lady shouted as Kraang started to get lifted in the air, like they were trapped in an invisible box and crushed into scrap. "And don't go supernova… "

"I know, I know. I'll destroy all the oxygen in the atmosphere, I got it Sue, don't rain on my parade." The flaming man spoke, turning to him and Raph. "No way, Spider-Man? Big fan man. Who's the giant turtle?"

"Ah…yeah…" He waved to what should be impossible…then again his life was already impossible, so really why was he questioning anything. "That's a long story. He's a friendly, just know that…mr.."

"Right, forget my manners. Johnny storm. Teen magazine's sexiest man in the sixteen-eighteen demographic, now a full fledged super hero, the Human Torch!" He showed off, shooting more fireballs as he shot one in the air, creating a 4 insignia in the sky. "And this is the first super heroic debut of the Fantastic Four!"

"I did NOT agree to the tacky name!" They turned to the gravely voice as what bursted in was a … thing made out of rocks. He ignored the lasers firing at him like it was nothing, turning to the two of them. "If it isn't red undies and an ugly newt."

"Hey, watch it you walking pile of turds, I'll beat the snot out of yah till you nothing but finely grated sand!" Seems Raph could be pushed out of bafflement with an insult.

"Fascinating." Spidey whipped his head around as-wait, was that Reed Richards? Was Reed Richards stretching his arms out and holding multiple floating orbs of death in the air as if they were gumballs!? "This technology is far beyond what the modern mind could offer, even Tony Stark …"

"Honey." The girl said, lasers bouncing off the air around her like there was something there. "End of the world?"

"I'm getting to it."

"….Did I hit my head on one too many Kraangs or are you sharing the same delusion?" He whispered to Raph.

"I think you might need to check in on Doctor Connors if Molten Man here is any indication." Raph whispered back.

"Well, love to stay and swap stories, but kind of in the middle of our first world saving crisis." The so called 'human torch' smirked, flying away and melting apart more bots. "Yo, rock bite, betcha twenty pizzas I can melt more aliens than you can clobber!"

"That's a fools gamble kid!" With a grin, the rock guy rushed forward into the Kraang, decimating them into pieces.

"Alright … definitely going on top ten weirdest." Peter muttered, looking around. "Still a lot …" He readied his shooter.

"Spidey!" Raph slapped him across the face. "These guys have the streets handled! If we're going to save the world, if we're going to save everyone, we need to head to the source and stop it head on!"

"But.."

"You're the one that always goes on about power and responsibility! So what's more responsible? Patching yourself up and fighting this thing head to save the world, or keeping yourself tired and worn out as you die along with over half this city!?"

… He looked at the four … then at the technodrome … "Right … focus on the problem at hand." Focus on stopping the Kraang for good.


April could do nothing as she was strapped to a table, her body bruised and the binds too strong to break. "Let me go!" Ugh, what she wouldn't give to punch that smug satisfaction off of that bitch Karai's face…you know…if she had the chance. Next time Peter fought her, April would ask her friend to photograph the humiliation.

"No." The Kraang responded bluntly. Once she was taken it was in and out, but April knew they flew her up to a giant fortress in the sky. Meaning escape was next to impossible. She was really starting to hate being the damsel in distress all the time. Why couldn't she be the one saving people from capture for once?

They placed her onto a platform, lifting her up higher and higher … until she was face to face with … a big Kraang. "Greetings, the one who is known as April O'Neil." It said with a sinister grin, breath revealing. "I am Kraang. You may refer to me as Kraang Prime."

That…..that was by far the MOST terrifying sight April had ever seen in her life, no questions asked. "I can also call you the ugliest piece of brain in the universe, would that work for you?" Peter was right, jokes really did help cope.

They frowned. "You are using the idiom of that which is known as a pot calling that which is known as kettle the color black." Coming from the gigantic slimy brain, April didn't feel all that offended. "Do what is known as Jest for what little remains of your already shortened lifespan, April O'Neil, you and your planet will soon be no more."

"Right, of course." She rolled her eyes. "You kidnap me, my dad, torture so many people, all for the sake of just killing me on a table. Your motives make SO much sense!"

"Not killing, harvesting." The Brain smiled darky as a helmet with a bunch of tubes connected to it. "Kraang can not use mutagen correctly in this universe. Kraang needed a human that is attuned with the world around them. Your Psionic abilities will provide the key we desire to perfect the process as it should for our purposes known as the process of terraforming the earth."

… She really was the key … somehow, some way, for whatever reason, the Kraang knew about her powers, and were using her to make the mutagen perfect. "You're not going to win, you know…" April kept a strong face. "Spider-man, the turtles, they're not going to rest until they've bashed that overgrown pimple you call a face into the ground!"

"Kraang has faced many things that would make the one known as the man of spiders and the one known as the turtles feel that which is known as nightmares for all eternity." They shot back. "Races beyond physical imagination, demons from other realms … a giant turtle as the bases of all reality… which in the use of the term Ironic is pretty relevant in hindsight." Huh? "Kraang has seen countless worlds with countless beings… and not ONE has been able to stop us, so a group of genetic anomalies pose no threat to the might that is Kraang."

The helmet finally descended, as April could hear humming. "This isn't gonna hurt, is it?"

The sinister grin grew wider if it could. "Why would I design something if it wasn't meant to hurt someone?"