//------------------------------// // Good Turtles vs Bad Turtles // Story: Equestria Ninjas: Friendship School // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// Down in the Crystal Catacombs, the ninja gang and ponies were trying to find Spike who was kidnapped. What they found were four monstrous clones of the Turtles who wanted to destroy them. Cut off from their friends and without their weapons,the turtles fought relying only on their natural abilities. The eight mutant ponies fought each other with each member going after their other self. Dark Raph was using his brute strength against Raph and spoke, "You are one ugly pony!" Raph dodged his dark self's punches and answered, "Did you just call me ugly, Ugly?" he dodged more of Dark Raph's strikes, "You've seen yourself? You look like something a toilet spit up! In fact all you losers smell like a seawater and kitty litter milkshake!" Dark Raph growled and tried to attack, only for Raph to dodge and give the dark mutant an upward kick to the jaw. Dark Raph shook it off and caught a flying kick from Good Raph, before slamming him onto the floor, "I wonder if there's a yummy green filling inside you?" Donnie was throwing punches and kicks at his clone who crossed his arms across his body and spoke, "Donatello. I've longed to meet my twin. I studied your timing. You telegraph all your blows. Your technique is painfully obvious." Donnie took his dark self by surprise and went for his legs tripping him up, "What that painfully obvious? Or just obviously painful?" Donnie mocked, only for his dark self to get up and attack him. Leo and his dark counterpart were engaging against each other, "Taking our weapons while you remain armed? That's hardly a fair fight!" Leo dodged Dark Leo's sword attacks, and knocked him to the ground, "You say you're our clones, so we should share many traits, but you're all nothing like us! You especially! What you're doing is the most dishonorable thing I've ever seen," Dark Leo lowered his sword. Leo continued, "I was raised to follow the traditions of bushido... of honor! And since then, I've valued it. If you are my clone, then you should value honor!" Dark Leo just knocked Leo aside and answered, "We share DNA, but we are nothing alike! We. Are. NOTHING LIKE YOU!" the two leaders in blue continued to engage. As Mikey and Dark Mikey fought, the clone spoke, "I knew you'd be Michelangelo. They said you were the stupid one." he laughed insanely. "Me stupid?" Mikey asked feeling insulted, "You're the one with the two foot tongue hanging out of your mouth. It looks like a big pink booger!" Dark Mikey swatted Mikey with his club, "Ooh, it looks like a fly ball!" Mikey crashed on the ground, "And it's out of here!" he did a victory dance. "You know this reminds me of when Crognard had to fight his mirror doppelganger." Mikey recalled. "Crognard?" Dark Mikey asked, "That cartoon sucked eggs!" he laughed. Mikey stood there looking horrified at what his dark self said, "Crognard sucked eggs?" he frowned, "Blasphemy!" he grabbed his clone by the tongue and tugged him down to his level, "You're no clone of mine!" he suddenly saw what he was holding and let it go with a shriek. "I/You just touch your/my tongue!" the two said collectively before gagging. Finally Dark Mikey grabbed Mikey and tossed him to the ground, followed by the other turtles being tossed by their evil clones. 'This battle is over, you have all lost!" Dark Leo declared. "Let's finish 'em!" Dark Raph suggested. "Let's!" Dark Donnie agreed. "Oh, this is gonna be sweet!" Dark Mikey rubbed his hands together. Inside the crystal prison, the group was trying to bust out but any magic was repelled, "We got to get out and help the guys." April told them. "Stand back," Rocksteady began, "Is Rocksteady to the rescue. For turtle comrades!" he roared and charged at the crystal wall and burst out of it giving everyone an opening. The charging muscular mutant unicorn ended up charging right at the dark turtles knocking them into a wall. He snorted, "You get rocked by Rocksteady!" "Saved by him?" Raph groaned, "I'm never gonna live this down." "Leo!" Twilight called, as the group went to their friends, "You ok?" "We'll be fine, but we got to get our weapons and medallions back." "I got this!" Rainbow flew up and snatched them before giving them back to their rightful owners. "My friends, now would be a good time for a tactical retreat." Fugitoid suggested. "But what about Spike?" Twilight asked in concern. "We'll find him, but right now we need a new strategy." Leo answered. "Later, dark fools!" Bebop fired an energy mohawk at the ceiling above the dark turtles causing a cave in to block them off allowing the good guys to escape into another part of the catacombs. "No!" Dark Raph growled, "They got away." "Settle down!" Dark Leo ordered, "They won't go far. We still have their friend." "Uh, guys?" Dark Mikey asked, while looking around a corner. "What?!" they snapped. "We have a problem." Dark Mikey said, as the other three looked around the corner seeing some rope bindings that looked cut by sharp claws. "He's gone!" Dark Donnie shouted. Dark Leo growled, "Find him and the others!" they started spreading out to find the heroes and Spike. The ninja team had stopped to rest in another part of the catacombs, with April and Shini helping Donnie and Mikey, "Wow. Those guys roughed you up good." Applejack noticed. "Yeah. Is this what it feels like when I get tough on you guys during practice?" Raph asked his bros. "No, that was much worse." Mikey groaned. "What do we do now?" Fluttershy asked. "Yeah. Those chumps will eventually find us." Casey added. "And worse, we haven't even found Spike yet." Keno added. "Oh, I do hope Spikey-Wikey is ok." Rarity said in worry. "Actually, I've never been better." came a familiar voice. They looked over and saw Spike completely unharmed, "Spike!" they cheered and ran over to him with Rarity nuzzling him. "Spikey-Wikey, you're safe!" "We were worried about you." Pinkie added. "You gave us quite a scare." Blade put in. "Sorry, guys. I thought it was a fan who wanted an autograph. I didn't expect I'd be jumped by hideous replicas of the guys here," Spike motioned to the brothers, "Where'd they even come from anyway?" "I'd like to know myself." Leo replied. "When we see 'em we'll ask them ourselves." Karai added. "Are you nuts?" Mikey asked, "You saw what those guys are capable of." "Except this time we have our weapons and our medallions back." Donnie reminded him. "Plus they're still like us, and like us they have weaknesses that even we're aware of." Leo put in. April concentrated and gasped, "Guys, they found us." A wall burst open, and stepping in were the dark turtles, "Knock-Knock!" Dark Mikey laughed. "So this is where you've been hiding." Dark Donnie said. "No more running. We finish this now!" Dark Leo ordered. "You know, I actually agree." Leo nodded, before motioning to the group, "Take 'em down, everypony!" and so the group once again engaged the Dark Turtles, only this time it was the Dark Turtles who were struggling now that the odds were in the heroes favor. "Now that we got our medallions, let's take these posers down!" Raph said, as he started channeling the power of his medallion. "Take it easy, Raph, or we'll bring the house down and us with it." Leo warned him. "Jeez." Raph groaned, as he only channeled a bit of his medallions' magic, as did the other turtles. The powered up turtles fought their dark selves with their allies helping, but in the midst of the fight, Dark Mikey grabbed Spike and held him hostage, "Look what I got!" he laughed. "Spike!" Twilight cried. Dark Leo raised his sword and aimed for Spike, "Let's try this again... You four and Starlight surrender yourselves, or the dragon eats steel! Three seconds!" Leo winked at Spike and the dragon got the message. "Three. Two. One-" "No! Stop!" cried Starlight, "We're the ones you want. Don't hurt him!" "Oh, they won't." Spike said, surprisingly smug. Before anyone knew what was going on, Spike hooked his leg around Dark Mikey's right hoof and grabbed his arm. "Huh? What are you-whaahhh!" was all Dark Mikey said, before Spike flipped him to the ground with a thud. "Awesome flip, Spike!" said Mikey. "You'll pay for that, you little brat!" Dark Mikey growled and tried to lunge for him. But Spike flew up and blew a small fire wall at the Dark Turtles to keep them from coming after him. Then he landed near his friends. "Spike!" Twilight threw her hooves around her best friend. "Where'd you learn that flip?" asked Sunset in confusion. "Watching you guys," said Spike, "Guess Leo realized it, huh?" he winked at Leo. "Sorry to interrupt, but here come our evil twins." Donnie said in worry. After extinguishing Spike's flames, the Dark Turtles charged at them, weapons drawn. The Turtles drew their weapons and engaged the Dark Turtles one on one. As Mikey fought his clone, he suddenly realized something, "Wait a minute, if you're my clone, you not only have my strength but also my weakness." Dark Mikey stopped fighting "Weakness? What weakness? Tell-me tell-me!" "My weakness is... hoo-wah!" with an upper kick, Dark Mikey was sent crashing into a wall and fell flat on the ground, "I can be pretty gullible at times. Wow, I actually admitted that." Raph was fighting his clone. And although he had his weapons back, he was still taking a bad beating from Dark Raph. "YOU'RE STILL WEAK," Dark Raph said, "ALL THAT'S GONNA COME OUT OF THIS, IS YOU NOT MOVING NO MORE!" "That's what you think." Raph said. Dark Raph threw a punch at Raph, but he dodged and used the same move he used to defeat Slash,by using his finger to hit a nerve in his arm. Dark Raph howled in pain and Raph kicked him right into Dark Mikey. Donnie and his clone were clashing with their weapons, "This is pointless," Dark Donnie snarked "I can predict any move you'll possibility make." he swung at Donnie with his spear but Donnie ducked at the last second and knocked the spear out of his hands, much to his surprise. "Not every move." Donnie said, as he whacked Dark Donnie into the other two. Now all that was left was Dark Leo, who was sword fighting against Leo, "As you can see, in a fair fight, we're more than a match for you impostors." Leo said. "I don't care!" said Dark Leo. The two clashed out with their swords looking evenly matched until they reached a statement. Both sides struggled hard. Then finally, Leo forced the weapons out of Dark Leo's hands. Then Twilight flew in and blasted Dark Leo into the other Dark Turtles, knocking them over. As the Dark Turtles got up, they saw they were surrounded. Dark Leo looked at his double, "You may have defeated us, but this battle is far from over." "Hasa-la-see ya, Turtles!" Dark Mikey threw down a smoke bomb. Everyone coughed from the smoke. When it cleared, the Dark Turtles were gone, "No! Not Fair!" shouted Raph, "I wasn't done with those posers!" "Easy, Raph," said Leo, "We got Spike back. That's all that matters." "Who were those Dark Turtles?" Karai asked. "I don't know," Leo said "But I have a feeling we'll see them again." "Dark Mikey said they were clones of you guys," Twilight pondered, "But clones don't just appear, they have to be created by somepony." "But by who?" Starlight asked. "We'll figure it out later," Leo said, "Right now we need to get out of here." Leo said, as they headed back. Later on in the Crystal empire throne room, Fugitoid was projecting a hologram of the dark turtles before Cadence and Shining Armor, "As you can see, these four clones captured Spike to lure the turtles down to the catacombs to destroy them." Blade explained. "At least you're all ok. Especially Spike." Shining Armor said. "Where could they have come from?" Cadence wondered. "I have my hunches Shredder and Krang are behind this," Donnie theorized, "I mean you think it's coincidental they find their way to Equestria and now dark clones of us suddenly appear?" "Good theory, but how could they have created them?" Sunburst asked. "I have no idea." Donnie admitted. "I cannot find an answer to that either." Fugitoid admitted in shame. "Well, we may not know how they were created, but if these dark turtles are connected to Shredder and Krang we can be sure they will show their faces again." Sunset noted. "Agreed. Until then we still need to be extra cautious." Twilight warned the group. Meanwhile in the Everfree Forest, the Dark Turtles were standing before Chrysalis, Shredder, and Krang. Dark Mikey laughed as he held up a small device, "Luckily we got out of there with this portal device Master Krang provided us with." "You imbeciles!" Shredder scolded them while stomping in front of the four, "We give you a simple task of eliminating the turtles and bring us Starlight Glimmer, and you botched it!" Dark Raph growled and got into Shredder's face, "I don't like the way you're talking to us!" "Enough!" Chrysalis shouted, and both Dark Raph and Shredder backed away from each other, "Yes they failed to bring us Starlight and the Turtles, but their practice run was still a success. You four have proven yourselves worthy and therefore you may continue to serve us. But make no mistake, should failure be the only thing you bring us, I will make you four wish I never created you." she warned them. "Not to worry, Queen Chrysalis. We will not fail you again." Dark Leo promised, as the Dark Turtles bowed to her. "Our own clones of the turtles, what could be better?" Krang asked Shredder who was skeptic. "Why do I get the feeling they like her more than me?" the ninja asked. "Why would they not? I like her more than you." Krang laughed much to Shredder's irritation.