//------------------------------// // Fish in the Big City // Story: I Love Being a Rainboom // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// One night in New York, Raphael, Jones, Raph, Casey, Sunset, Applejack, and Rainbow were out on a drive around the city. Raphael and Jones were on their motorcycles racing against Raph and Casey on the Stealth Bike, and Sunset, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were in the Party Wagon. “C'mon kids, try and keep up!” Raphael called in back. “Who you calling kids?” Raph called over. “You're literally the same age as us!” Sunset called out her window. “If fact I'm a year older!” Casey called in defense. “Yeah, but I'm older den all of you!” Jones retorted. “He's got a point.” Applejack admitted. “But we're gonna leave you in the dust!” Rainbow called out her window. And so the group continued to race, until Sunset caught a radio alert on the Party Wagon's own radio, “Guy's stop! Listen.” They pulled over and listened, “Attention all units, we got an unusual crook down here by the docks that's taken out several men! Subject appears to be a walking... fish. Request back up!” The three Rainbooms, Casey, and Raph looked at each other in shock, “Walking fish?” Applejack asked. “You don't think...” Sunset trailed off. “No. It can't be.” Raph said I disbelief. “What's goin' on?” Jones asked. “Sounds like trouble. Better check it out.” Raphael suggested. “Yeah. See yah there!” Raph called, as he sped up ahead. “Not if we see you first!” Jones called, as he and Raphael sped up after Raph and Casey. Rainbow cheered, “Ah yeah! Step on it, Sunset!” “Hang on!” Sunset instructed, as she floored the gas and drove after them. Upon reaching the docks, they parked their rides, and Sunset spoke, “Ok, guys. Let's go stealth. If we're dealing with who I think we are, we need to be careful.” “Who do you think we're dealin' with?” Raphael asked. “With any luck, we're gonna find out.” Jones replied, as they moved in. As they moved through the stacks of storage containers, they noticed several officers down, “Whoa!” Rainbow gasped, as they looked them over. “Are they?” Sunset asked in concern. “Nah, just knocked out. No sign of visible wounds.” Raphael inspected. “Let's keep moving before they come too.” Applejack suggested, as they continued on. Soon they came to a stop upon hearing the sound of movement, “Hear that?” Rainbow asked. “Sure do.” Casey confirmed. Before they could prepare themselves, Raphael called out, “Alright, pal! Show yurself!” Suddenly a voice answered, “Very well. But, let ask you this little question. What has two robotic legs and likes to stomp turtles and vigilantes? Answer...” walking out into the light was Fishface, “Dis guy!” Raph squinted his eyes, “Fishface!” Fishface growled, “Do not call me that!” Suddenly Jones and Raphael broke out into laughter, as the others looked confused, “A walkin' fish?!” Jones said between laughs. “And his name's Fishface?!” Raphael asked between laughing. “Actually, his name's Xever.” Sunset Shimmer corrected them. Raph decided to explain, “He was one of our Shredder's mutants and used to be the leader of the Purple Dragons before he got mutated.” “And Mikey named him Fishface.” Rainbow added. “He also said it was either that or Robocarp.” Casey put in. “I got one bettah: Lamo-carp!” Raphael joked. “Good one!” Jones chuckled. “I wouldn't keep laughing if I were you.” Applejack warned them. “Why?” Jones asked, as Fishface in anger jumped in kicking the two jokers off their feet landing them in some crates. “THAT is why!” Fishface answered with a hiss. The two got up, as Jones pulled his hockey mask down, “Okay den!” “Let's rumble!” Raphael got ready. Took the words out of my mouth.” Rainbow said, as the girls and Raph got ready. And so the group began fighting Fishface, as the mutant pulled out his balisword, and started attacking Jones and Raphael, “You know for a fish, you got good taste in weapons.” Raphael admitted. “I'm going to chop you two up and feed you to my piranha.” Fishface threatened, until Applejack knocked him away and engaged him. “So what's your story fish breath?” she asked. “Yeah, you're a lot farther away from New York than you think.” Raph put in. “Well, since you asked,” Fishface began, as he dodged Raph's sais, “I was just visiting New York just to take in the nostalgia and commit a few crimes. Then I happened upon a bright light at an old Kraang warehouse. To my surprise I found it looked like some sort of portal. Consumed by curiosity, I went through and wound up here. So I decided to do some exploring and discovered just how different this city is compared to our own. And now to my surprise I once again find myself facing off against you all. And what a surprise, another Raphael, and an older Casey Jones.” “We're gonna make you wish you stayed in our home dimension.” Sunset warned the mutant fish, as she engaged him. Fishface got past Sunset and fought Casey and his adult counterpart, “Man, when are you gonna realize no criminal or mutant is safe from us?” Casey asked, as he swatted Fishface aside with his goalie stick. Fishface just fought back against the younger vigilante, until Jones came in and used his bat against him. The fish mutant stood on his hands and his robot legs spun kicking the two vigilante's back. “Dis dude's tough!” Jones admitted. “Yeah. Mikey and I had to race against him once in a track he designed with booby traps.” “So he cheated?” Jones asked in disbelief. “Yeah. And when we won, he not only accused us of cheating, but called us a hideous example of bad sportsmanship.” Casey continued. Jones squinted at Fishface, “So you're not only a criminal, but a hypocrite as well? Dat's low!” “He's goin' down!” Raphael called, as he fought Fishface, with the two trading blows. Suddenly Raphael pinned the mutant down by his robot legs, “Is dat all yuh got? Lamo-carp!” “Actually...” Fishface hissed, before leaning up and bit him on the shoulder. “Aarghh!” Raphael cried, before hitting Fishface in the jaw to make him let go. The turtles stumbled back and dropped to his knees. “Raph!” Jones called, as he ran over to him, “You ok?” “Casey, I doan feel so good.” Raphael said sounding nauseous. Rainbow turned to Fishface, “What did you do to him?” Fishface chuckled, “Why I poisoned him.” “Poisoned him?” Applejack gasped. “Yeah,” Raph confirmed, “He did the same thing to me when we first fought him like this.” Rainbow was suddenly confused, “Wonder why he never used it on any of us?” Fishface smirked, and answered, “Because I prefer to do things physically,” he began walking around them, “And I wouldn't dream of poisoning such delicate chicas.” he flirted. “Ugh, and I thought Zephyr’s flirting was sickening.” Rainbow said feeling ready to heave. “You!” Raphael growled, “When I get mah hands on yuh, I'm gonna!” he suddenly fell on his chest from the poison. Fishface laughed, “You'll do what, turtle?” “Raphael needs help,” Sunset told the group, “We need to bail!” “We'll be back.” Raph warned Fishface, as they pulled a ninja vanish with their smoke bombs. Fishface looked around seeing they were gone, “Normally I hate it when they do that. But this means I can get back to doing what I love.” he hurried off himself. Meanwhile at the lair, Mikey, Michelangelo, Pinkie, and the CMC were laying around watching TV, Donnie, Donatello, Fugitoid, Twilight, and Princess Twilight were tinkering with stuff, while Leo and Leonardo were training with the rest of the group. Suddenly they heard the door open, and everyone saw Raph and Jones carrying Raphael, “Hey, Donnies get over here!” Raph called, as the group gathered around. “What happened out there?” Leonardo asked. “Raph doesn't look too good.” Michelangelo noted. “My son?” Splinter asked in concern. “He was poisoned, by Fishface.” Sunset explained. “Fishface?!” The Rainbooms and their turtles gasped. “Who's Fishface?” O'Neil asked in confusion. “An enemy of ours.” April explained. “Bring him over here.” Donatello instructed, as they brought Raphael onto a mat and laid him down. “I'll put together the same cure we used before.” Donnie said, as he started mixing stuff. “Alright, what happened out there?” Leonardo inquired. “We heard a police report about a walking fish by the docks so we went to check it out.” Rainbow began. “And to our surprise it was Fishface.” Applejack said. “Dude's how'd Fishface get here?” Mikey asked. “Probably the same way our Hun and the Purple Dragons did.” Leo suspected. "Sounds logical." Keno admitted. “So anyone gonna tell us about this Fishface?” Michelangelo asked. Karai spoke up, “He was once a human street thug that Shredder incorporated into the Foot to handle the dirtier jobs.” “He was eventually mutated into a mutant fish when he came into contact with mutagen.” April added. “So what now?” Spike asked. Donnie spoke up, as they were giving Raphael the cure, “Well, if we can find him I can actually use my own portal projector to send him back to our world.” “It should work.” Twilight confirmed. After Raphael took the cure, he woke up boiling mad, “Where's Fishface?!” he sat up. Donatello tried to hold him back, “Raph, you need rest!” Raphael pushed Donatello off him, and got up, “I'll rest lateah. Right now I've got the urge to kick some fish tail.” “I know what ya mean.” Raph agreed. “Question is how do we find him?” Rarity wondered. “Yes. I have my doubts he'll still be at the docks.” Fugitoid noted. “If we drive around I should be able to get a fix on him.” April suggested. The group turned to Splinter who spoke, “Go. Deal with this menace before he does something dangerous.” The ninjas and turtles nodded before heading off. Out on the streets, the teams were driving by Party Wagon, the Hauler, and motorcycles. Inside the Party Wagon, April was concentrating before speaking up, “Make a right. Now a left. He's getting closer. And stop!” the vehicles pulled to a halt outside a warehouse. Everyone got out and looked up at the building, “This is the place?” Princess Twilight asked April. “It is.” she confirmed, "Wait. I'm not just sensing him, but more in there." "More?" Casey asked. "Sounds like he didn't come alone." Donatello said. “Alright team...” Leonardo began, as Leo finished. “Let's move. But keep your eyes peeled. If Fishface has backup we need to be ready for anything.” And they proceeded inside. Inside the building, they looked around seeing it was empty, before spotting sacks of money piled around, “Looks like he's been busy.” Shini noted. “We'll have to return all this later.” O'Neil said. “Guys, above!” April gasped. Suddenly Fishface dropped from above a higher platform and landed before them, “So you tracked me? I figured as much." The other turtles, Jones, and O'Neil stared at the mutant in surprise, “He really is a walking fish?” Leonardo asked in disbelief. Michelangelo couldn't help but chuckle, “Look! Sushi that delivers itself.” but all that got was a kick by Fishface sending him hitting a support beam. Donatello looked down at the robot legs, “Nice robotic legs.” he admitted. “Glad you enjoyed it.” Michelangelo groaned. “The name is Xever,” Fishface introduced himself, “So you don't forget, I'll write it on your shells. With this.” he held up his sword. “Hey fish-sticks!” Raphael called, as he stepped forward, “Remember me?” “So you recovered from the poison, yes?” Fishface asked. “Oh, yeah. And I'm back to deliver a little payback.” he cracked his knuckles. “That goes for all of us.” Princess Twilight added. “Feeling lucky now, Fish punk?” Casey asked while readying his bat. "Actually, yes. Come on out, boys!" Fishface called out. To their surprise, several more punks and thugs armed with blunt objects came out from hiding and surrounded the ninjas, "Well, this is unexpected." Starlight said. "You've been busy since you got here." Raph noted. "Ah, yes. I decided to recruit some new blood for my gang. At first they were skeptical, but I managed to persuade them," he said sinisterly, while some of the gang member shuddered, "These guys are no Purple Dragons or Turks, but they get the job done." Fishface explained, "Boys, kill away." "With pleasure, boss." one of the gang members answered, as they readied themselves. “Attack!” Leonardo called, as the team attacked. The Rainbooms, both turtle teams, and their allies faced off against Fishface's new goons. Twilight dodged some knife stabs from one before using her magic to levitate a crate over nailing the punk with it. Both Casey's skated around bashing punk after punk with their baseball bats. Fishface had started fighting Rarity who dodged his attacks, before using a diamond shield to push him back. He almost hit a crate but grabbed onto it and flipped over said crate. Pinkie jumped in and started fighting, “You know, Xever, you really should consider giving up this criminal life and be a good guy.” “Que?” Fishface asked in confusion. “I mean with your skills you'd make a good ally. Bebop and Rocksteady gave up the bad guy life to be heroes and they're two of the greatest friends we've made.” the girl continued. “You must be incredibly dumb or stupid to think I would ever give up criminal life.” Fishface voiced his disgust. “Just a suggestion.” Pinkie shrugged. “She's got a point, Fishface,” Mikey said, as he jumped in and fought him, “Shred-Head's dead, Rahzar's dead, Tiger Claw's MIA, same for Stockman, and Bebop and Rocksteady are our chums.” “I care nothing for those idiotas!” Fishface hissed, as he tried to slice Mikey only for Leonardo to block it and knocked Fishface back. Applejack used her magical brute strength against a big brute of a thug, who spoke, "You're pretty strong for small one." "It ain't about size partner." Applejack said, as she tossed him over her shoulder and into two more thugs. Rainbow ran circles around several thugs, until one of them spilled a container of water making the floor slippery and caused Rainbow to slip onto her back, "Oh, I hate that." she groaned, as the thugs looked down on her. "Any last words?" "Yeah, buh-bye!" she upwardly kicked one of them in the chin before spin kicking the rest knocking them down. As Fishface readied himself for another round, Karai and Shini attacked him, before Fishface used his robot legs to trip them off their feet. Luckily they got back up quickly. Before the fish could make another move, O'Neil jumped in and kicked him aside. The Fish man stared the woman down as she spoke, “Back off, Fishface!” Fishface couldn't help but smile, “Aha, yes!” O’Neil attacked again, but Fishface swept her legs and dipped her, “Call me whatever you will! For I am, the Most Interesting Fish in the World!” he raised his brows flirtatiously at her. Jones growled at the sight of this and charged at him with a bat, only for Fishface to spin O’Neil into him, knocking them both down. "Have some sprinkles, boys!" Pinkie pie called out, while throwing sprinkles around that detonated. The explosion messed with their hearing, and allowed Mikey and Michelangelo to slid in on their shells knocking several thugs over like bowling pins. "Booyakasha!" Michelangelo cheered, "It is fun to yell." "I know." Mikey agreed. Fugitoid was blasting around at some more of the thugs who were taking cover before pulling out blasters they smuggled from a warehouse and started firing back, "Oh dear!" Fugitoid gasped, as he started dodging while fighting back, "Little help here!" April threw her tessen slicing off the blaster heads making them useless, "Sorry to mess up your toys, boys." she smirked. Raphael went at it against Fishface as the two matched blow for blow, until Fishface knocked Raphael back with a surprise kick, “It seems you didn't learn from last time.” the fish let out a hiss before he was about to bite the turtle again. Only this time, he got a piece of wood shoved into his mouth to keep him from closing it. “Think again.” Raphael smirked. As the group was finishing off what was left of Fishface's gang, the mutant fish managed to pull the wood out of his mouth and growled, “I have had it with you-” he got cut off as Raph and Rainbow knocked him aside. “Mind if we cut in?” Raph asked, as Rainbow and Sunset stood by his side. “Yuh know what, I actually doan mind,” Raphael replied, before calling out to their opponent, “Hey, Fishface! Let's dance!” so the four tag teamed against Fishface who stood no chance with their combined skills. “Donnie, portal!” Raph called, as Donnie used his projector to open up a portal. “Home's a-callin', Fish boy!” Raphael called, as the group punched him together making him fly back and into the portal that closed. Fishface landed back in the Rainbooms and their Turtles dimension, and fell right into the water at Coney Island. The mutant emerged from the water and spoke, “If I never see those tortugas and chicas again. It'll be too soon.” he swam away. Back at the warehouse, the ninjas and Rainbooms picked themselves back up and tied up all of the unconscious goons, “Well, that was fun.” Michelangelo admitted. “That Fishface sure was an interesting opponent.” Donatello admitted. “Oh, yeah. Back when our Shredder was alive, we fought him on a daily basis.” Donnie replied. “And I was hoping he'd be willing to turn over a new leaf.” Pinkie sighed. “Not every enemy can, Pinkie.” Starlight replied recalling Chrysalis turning down their offer of friendship. "I already sent a message to the authorities," Fugitoid explained, "They should be by to collect these hoodlums and the stolen money as well." “Come on, let's head back.” Leo instructed, as they left the warehouse. “I can't believe Fishface actually flirted with me!” O'Neil shuddered. “I know. Dat creep.” Jones said with a low growl. “He did the same to me too.” April told her adult counterpart. “Yeah. Not pretty.” Donnie added. “He did the same to me too,” Fluttershy admitted, “But he was very nice to offer to spare me... Only if I joined his gang.” “When we get back we should have pizza.” Keno suggested. “Good call.” Mikey agreed, as the group chuckled.