//------------------------------// // Stockmans and Dragons // Story: I Love Being a Rainboom // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// Several days ago that night the two Purple Dragon groups were called together by an unknown sender, the groups discovered it was Baxter Stockman of both their individual worlds. "So you made it to this world too?" Turtle Hun asked Stockman while crossing his arms. "Yes. And I for one am quite shocked at where the portal led me too," Stockman admitted, while pacing around, "So I did my research and by luck I happened to come across my own alternate counterpart of this world." he motioned to Baxter, who continued. "We got to talking about our lives. How our minds and skills fell under the control of simple minded brutes!" he motioned to Hun who grunted. "The horrible degradation at the hands of the Shredder!" Stockman continued, "Although to be fair, he did hold me in high regards while I was treating him with my mutagen formula, but still!" "Even after I broke away from the Foot I was still held against my will by others who wanted to exploit me of my genius!" Baxter continued to vent. "So that's when we decided to team up and rid ourselves of our common enemy that played a key role in our lives falling apart... The Turtles." Stockman finished. Baxter turned to Hun, "You're already aware there are more than one group of turtles now, am I right?" "Unfortunately." Hun grumbled. "But we did not gather you all here to pass insults," Stockman eased the tension, "Rather we come baring a proposition." "Is this going where I think it is?" Turtle Hun inquired. "I think you already know the answer to that." Stockman replied. "So you want us to team up again to destroy the turtles?" Sid asked. "Correct, my young thug." Baxter answered. Tsoi spoke to Stockman, "Last time we partnered up you bailed on us when things got crazy." "And what did you do not long afterward?" Stockman challenged, making Tsoi fall silent having no comeback. Baxter spoke up to both sides, "I know we all have trust issues due to past events and what not," Hun scowled, "But this is the best golden opportunity we could ever imagine. Think about it. Two Purple Dragon Groups, and two superior genius minds working together can do what the Shredder never succeeded at." "At least if you're all willing to put aside your differences and work together." Stockman tempted them. The two Hun's looked over at each other before nodding, as human Hun spoke to the two geniuses, "We're all listening." "Excellent." Stockman snickered as he and his counterpart laughed. Back to present time in the turtles lair one night, the turtle groups, the Rainbooms, and their human allies were all getting in some training. As the turtles, April, and Casey were training with their counterparts, the Rainbooms, Princess Twilight, and Starlight were sparing against each other, while Keno, Karai and Shini were training the CMC. Karai was throwing punches at Sweetie Belle who was blocking them with her arms. When Karai attempted to sweep kick the younger girl, Sweetie jumped and avoided the sweep kick. "Not bad." Karai admitted. "I'm learning from the best." Sweetie Belle answered, as they continued their sparing. As Shini faced Apple Bloom, the witch girl used her magic to become a swarm of bats to distract the younger Apple. Apple Bloom knowing what was coming next spun around and used her Tanto to block Shini's weapon. "That's not gonna work this time, Shini." Apple Bloom warned her. "You learn quick." Shini replied. Finally Keno was going hand to hand with Scootaloo, "Come on, Scoots, keep it up." he ordered her. "You may be a pizza boy. But I got a special delivery for you!" Scootaloo called, as she dodged a punch before grabbing his arm and made Keno uppercut himself. "I almost bit my tongue." Keno groaned. "Yamea!" Splinter announced, and the group ceased their sparing. "Excellent work, my friends." Fugitoid commended them all. "Well, we need this workout." Leonardo answered. "Yeah, our Purple Dragons are still somewhere in the city. And we have to send them back." Leo added. "Just like we sent Fishface." Rainbow added. "I just can't understand how it is they all got here anyway." Twilight pondered. "Well, they obviously got here through the same Kraang portal tech. But none of them actually did it." Donnie pointed out. "Whatever the reason, all that matters is we find the Purple Dragons and send them back to our world." April said. "Yeah, less Purple Dragons here, the bettah." Raphael said. "Can you imagine how bad it would be if both Purple Dragons teamed up?" Michelangelo asked in worry. "That's a scary thought." Fluttershy shuddered. "Oh, we could take them all on." Raph replied. "Yeah, I mean we got magic on our side." Mikey added. "Maybe, but just because we have an advantage doesn't mean our enemies don't." Leo warned his brothers. Suddenly the monitor rang, and the group rushed over with Donatello checking it, "A street cam has picked up a break in." "So let's go check it out." Rainbow said. "Yeah, I needed a good run tonight." Pinkie added. "Be careful all of you." Splinter warned them. "We got this, sensei." Applejack promised. "Let's move." The two Leo's and Sunset ordered, as they headed out with Fugitoid following. Out in the city, the ninjas were jumping the roof tops following the trail, "Should be up ahead." Donnie said, as he checked the tracer. "Look!" Jones pointed down, as they saw Sid, Fong, and Tsoi carrying bags of money. "Just those three?" Raph asked in disappointment. "Well, that stinks." Casey grumbled. "We can totally take them." Rainbow said, as she was about to make a move, only for Princess Twilight to stop her. "Hold it. Let's let them run. They could lead us to where they're held up at in the city." "Good call." Sunset replied as the two Leo's nodded in approval. So they let the Dragon trio run, while they followed and stuck to the shadows. They trailed the three to a warehouse by the docks. They watched them enter the building, as Apple Bloom spoke. "There they go." "So what now?" Raph asked for instructions. "The Dragons are without a doubt waiting for something." Leo began. "And let's not forget they're still packing Kraang tech." Applejack put in. April concentrated, "They're in there all right. But I'm sensing others as well." "Could be more thugs they recruited like Fishface did." Rarity suspected. "Whatever they are, we need to be ready." Leonardo said, as they armed themselves. They crashed through the warehouse windows, "Booyakasha!" Mikey called, as they landed on the floor and looked around seeing the warehouse was pitch black. "Guess they can't afford their electric bill." Pinkie joked, until the lights came on and they saw they were surrounded by both Purple Dragon teams armed with Kraang tech and replicated tech. And accompanying the two gangs were Stockman Bots, and two different types of Mouser robots. "Aw, Sewer pickles!" Raph grumbled. "And here we thought it was just more of our Purple Dragons, but both teams?" Mikey asked in disbelief. Starlight spoke to Michelangelo dryly, "You just had to bring up the possibility of them teaming up." Michelangelo just chuckled sheepishly. "Welcome, ninjas." came a voice as Hun and his mutant counterpart stepped into the light. Turtle Hun spoke up, "How nice of you to follow us home." "Well, this is great now we can compare our Huns together and see which looks worst." Raph said. "I'm not sure which is worst." Raphael replied. Turtle Hun frowned, "Your jokes will not save your from our trap." "Like we're afraid of you thugs." Rainbow replied. "Rainbow, you realize we're not dealing with just Purple Dragons here." Twilight reminded her of the robots. "Stockman Bots and Mousers?" Keno asked in surprise. "That can only mean..." Karai began, as Stockman appeared. "Greetings, my old enemies," Before any of them could speak, he stopped them, "Don't say it! It's Baxter Stockman." "Actually, we were gonna say that." Sunset answered. "Nevertheless." the genius replied. "So you helped bring these two groups together?" Princess Twilight inquired. "Well, I can't take all the credit. Or can I? Since it was 'me' and well 'me' after all." Applejack groaned, "You ain't makin' one bit of sense." "Just the kind of reaction to expect from a simple minded country bumpkin." came another voice. "What?!" Applejack asked hearing that insult. "Who was that?" Shini wondered, as they looked around, while the turtles and their allies of this dimension were cautious. "Only one person we can think of." Donatello answered. Walking in on scene was the Baxter Stockman they knew, "Stockman!" O'Neil gasped. "That's your Stockman?" Rarity asked in surprise. "He looks relatively normal." Donnie admitted. "I wouldn't go that far." Jones replied. "So you managed to meet up with your counterpart here?" Leo asked the former fly mutant. "Oh, yes. And just like back home my counterpart has like me suffered countless humiliation from you turtles, the Foot, and the Shredder." Stockman replied. "But with our superior minds and our hired help we will rid two worlds of you turtles." Baxter declared. "And you Rainbooms will be an added bonus." Turtle Hun added. "Yap-yap," Raph mocked while moving his hand like a mouth, "Can we skip to the part where we kick all your butts?" The two Stockman's and Hun's frowned, before announcing to their forces, "Attack!" The Purple Dragons and Stockman Bots started opening fire, while several Mousers started charging in trying to bite the ninjas. "Scatter!" Leonardo called, as they split up. "Take them!" Leo ordered. So the group split up to attack their enemies. Sunset, Twilight, and Karai fought against some Purple Dragons after disarming them of their blasters. The Dragons grabbed their regular blunt weapons and continued to fight the three kunoichi. Casey and Jones were skating around, as the young Casey spoke to the older one, "You ready for this?" "Kid, I was born ready," the adult answered, as they announced together, "Goongala!" they shot exploding hockey pucks at the Stockman bots expecting some explosions, but to their surprise, they didn't blow the bots. The Stockman Bots were surrounded by blue force fields. "Force fields?" Fugitoid gasped. "Oh, yes," Stockman answered, "My counterpart and I did some upgrades on my robots." the Stockman Bots extended blades from their arms and got into ninja stances before attacking. "Great, now they fight like Foot Bots." Rainbow groaned. Applejack tried striking a Stockman Bot, but the force field automatically activated before her blades could touch them, "And we can't even attack them without getting blocked." "if you give me a moment I can jam their force field responders." Fugitoid offered, as he started hacking into them with a spare T-Phone. "Stop him!" Baxter ordered, as the Mousers suddenly started shooting laser blasts from their mouths. Fugitoid dodged frantically, until Sunset called, "Defend the Professor!" the two Mikey's, Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy came to Fugitoid's defense. "Sprinkle attack!" Pinkie threw some magic infused sprinkles at the Mousers blowing some up. As Rarity used her shield to repel the laser shots, she spoke to the robot, "How much longer?" "I'm working on it!" he answered, as he worked faster. Leonardo, Leo, Raph, and Raphael were fighting the two Huns, while avoiding their strong punches, "Two different Huns. Same sized brains." Raphael told his counterpart. "I will crush yours underneath my feet!" Turtle Hun roared as he used his own kung-fu against the turtles combined with his raw strength. "You really are strong." Hun admitted. "I've always been strong." Turtle Hun replied. "Well, you won't be much longer!" Raph called, as he and Leo activated their medallions and powered up. "Now let's see you both match up to this." Leo answered, as he used his wind element to blow the two Hun's back causing them to crash into crates. "Not more magic." Hun grumbled, as the two got up. Raph saw the CMC's were laying low, until he saw some Mousers sneaking up behind them, "Girls, look out!" The CMC saw the Mousers and rolled to the side before the robots could pounce them, "These varmints got to go." Apple Bloom said, as the three started striking at the little robots breaking them. Fugitoid had just finished his hacking, "I'm in!" he shut down the force fields in all the Stockman Bots, "It's ok, my friends. The robots have no force fields." "It's ok, they can fight without needing them." Baxter assured, as the Stockman Bots still engaged the ninjas. As the Rainbooms fought the two Purple Dragon teams, they kept disarming them while dodging their lethal strikes, "This is an even better work out than fighting their teams separately." Rainbow said, while using he speed to dodge four Purple Dragons. Applejack dodged some laser shots before kicking a bunch of crates at five purple dragons knocking them to the floor. As Rarity, Mikey, and Pinkie took down more Stockman Bots, Stockman flew in and started firing his own laser shots at them. "Now you'll face the might of Baxter Stockman!" "I'll bring him down." Pinkie threw sprinkles at Stockman that exploded. As Stockman was blinded he ended up crashing into Rarity knocking her right into Baxter who fell down and suddenly his appearance started fazing out revealing his exoskeleton with his brain in a jar. The sight of this made Rarity shriek in terror while backing away from him. This alerted her friends and several others who saw Baxter's true form, "What the?" Sunset gasped. "Holy Chalupa!" Mikey gasped. "Sweet Celestia!" Spike stared in surprise. "Your Stockman's a brain?!" Leo asked his counterpart. Baxter got up and dusted his exoskeleton off, "That's right, you accursed turtles!" "How in the world did you end up like this?!" Donnie asked in confusion. "I'm glad you asked!" the brain began, "I trust your counterparts told you about how they foiled my plan to use my mousers to commit robberies, yes? Well, after I escaped from them, I was abducted by Hun and brought to the Shredder, where I soon learned a very painful lesson: The Shredder did not tolerate failure! Every time one my ingenious plans were foiled by your counterparts, Shredder had me disembodied, one excruciating painful part after another, until I was nothing more than the very brain you see before you!" "And I thought I had it rough with the Foot Clan." Stockman told the group from his world. Fluttershy covered her mouth in shock, "Oh, no!" Casey looked disturbed, "Dude, that's just wrong!" "Indeed it is! And do you want to know who is blame for my misery?" Baxter turned to adult April, "You are, Ms O'Neil!" April turned to her older self who spoke in confusion, "What?!" Baxter stepped forward, "If you hadn't brought the Turtles to my lab in the first place, I never would have lost my body!" O'Neil realizing the part she played in Stockman's disembodiment down the line couldn't help but feel partly guilty despite the wrong her former partner was committing, "Stockman, I... I'm so sorry! I never wanted-" "I'm afraid it's too late for apologies, April! But I think it's the right time for me to finally exact my vengeance on you for all my sufferings!" He jumped forward and grabbed onto her. "No!" April shouted, as she struggled to pull the clinging exoskeleton off. "April!" Jones called, before frowning at the mad genius, "Now yuhr askin' fawh it, Stockman! Goongala!" he attacked him with his bat, but Hun grabbed him and tossed him away. "Your fight is with me, Jones!" Casey growled, as he attacked his rival. April used her telekinesis to pry Baxter off adult April and throw him across the room, "Thanks, April." O'Neil told her young self. "Don't mention it." April replied, as the two redheads tag teamed against some Purple Dragons. As Stockman continued to fight the ninjas, Rainbow zipped in, "Did you know he was like that?" "Actually, yes," Stockman confessed, "It surprised me to see what became of him. I actually almost puked." "I'm feelin' ready to puke after seeing him." Raph replied, as he and Stockman clashed. As Fugitoid was blasting more Stockman Bots and Mousers, Twilight landed near him, while using her magic to levitate some of the robots and flung them at each other, "Guess you're not the only one here who lost his body, huh?" she asked the Professor. "Yes, and I thought I was stuck with an unpleasant robot body." Fugitoid replied, as he continued opening fire. Soon the robots were down and several Purple Dragons were as well, "We got 'em on the run now." Michelangelo said. "That's what you think." Baxter said, and with a flip of a switch the walls opened up to reveal a battalion of fresh off the line Stockman Bots and Mousers. "Figures they always make more." Donatello sighed. Turtle Hun roared, "Looks like you ninjas are running out of options. What do you have to say now?" Suddenly a Kraang portal opened up, and everyone looked at it, "Now what?" Leo asked fearing they got enough problems already. Suddenly flying out from the portal was a familiar mace that nailed Turtle Hun, "Whoa!" the alternate turtles gasped. "Who threw that?" Michelangelo asked. Stepping out from the portal was another familiar turtle mutant, "Hey, there, Hun. Been awhile." "You!" Turtle Hun growled. "Yeah. Me." "Slash!" Raph and Fluttershy cheered. "What da shell?!" Raphael asked in confusion. "Another big ugly turtle?" Hun asked in disbelief. "That's right! And this big ugly turtle brought friends! Mutanimals, ho!" charging out of the portal was the rest of the Mighty Mutanimals. "Cowabunga!" Mondo Gecko called, as he boarded around. Leatherhead roared as he attacked Hun, "Aw, crud! Not again!" he growled, while holding the gator in place, but was eventually overpowered. Pete flew out of the portal and looked around. One of Hun's Purple Dragons noticed this, "Check it out, a bird brain!" he laughed. A female Purple Dragon from Turtle Hun's gang spoke up sounding worried, "You really shouldn't have said that!" she ran for cover. "Why?" He got his answer as Pete's confused look changed to determined, as he whipped out his Kraang blaster and started shooting around taking out some Stockman Bots and Mousers, while the thugs took cover. Bandit was running around before jumping atop two stacked crates before jumping down on a Purple Dragon, "Slam dunk!" he pounded the thug's head knocking him out. Michelangelo looked around in amazement, "A crazy pigeon and a butt-kicking raccoon? I love these guys already!" he yelped, as some Stockman Bots were still firing on him. Donnie tapped into his medallion and powered up before utilizing the thunder element creating a thunderous clap knocking the robots off their feet and into a pile. "Nice one, D!" Mikey cheered, as he powered up as well and used his mastery over earth to shake the ground underneath some Purple Dragons making them drop their weapons, before attacking them himself. Rockwell extended his hands and levitated a few Purple Dragons making them fly around in a circle before using a psychic blast to send them flying into a wall. Suddenly three more members came at him from behind, "Get the ape!" Rockwell spun around, "How about getting yourselves, boys?" he took control of their minds and made them attack each other. Donatello watched looking astounded at Rockwell's work, "Who's that monkey? And how is he doing all that?! Mona Lisa was flipping around, before knocking out two Purple Dragons. Raphael watched her and looked flustered, "Whoa. What a woman!" Raph whispered to him, "She's mine." Mondo came up from behind one of the Purple Dragons and trips them with his skateboard, "Take that, yah Purple Dragon sussbag!" he was cut off by being punched into a wall by Sid, as he Tsoi, and Fong approach him with a few Dragons from the other group. "You are so weak sauce." Fong chuckled. "But I'm not!" Shini jumped in and nailed the trio before turning to the other dragons. She giggled before raising her hypno ball. "What's this?" one of them asked, as she waved it like a pendulum. Suddenly they felt the area around them was collapsing and saw themselves getting disfigured and broken apart. They screamed in fright while nothing was truly happening to them. "Not bad, witch girl." Michelangelo said, while dodging Stockman firing shots at him. Fong, Sid, and Tsoi slipped out the back of the warehouse, "Come on, we need to fallback." Fong said. "Hi, boys." The three stopped and looked around seeing the CMC armed and ready, "Going somewhere?" Sweetie Belle asked, while showing her nail claws. "Beat it, ya little squirts!" Fong dismissed them. "How about we beat you instead?" Scootaloo asked while maneuvering her butterfly knives. "Aww, ain't that cute!" Sid laughed, before pounding his fist, "This won't take long!" "Yeah." Tsoi agreed. "You little brats are gonna be very sorry!" Fong promised, as the three closed in on the girls. Back inside the warehouse, the Ninja team with the aid of the Mutanimals were plowing through the two Dragon teams while demolishing the Stockman Bots and Mousers. Both Stockman's looked around seeing their robots getting demolished faster than ever. "There's no way we have enough robots to take them on." Stockman told his counterpart. "I suggest we make a hasty retreat." Baxter suggested. The two tried to get away, only for both Leo's to block their paths, "The only place you're going is back to our dimension Stockman." Leo called, as he used his water element to short out his robot suit. "No-no-no!" Stockman cried, as his suit wasn't responding. Before Baxter could try to get away, Leonardo kicked him causing him to crash into a crate. Rainbow ran circles around him tying him up. "For being such a genius, you sure weren't smart enough to avoid this." Rainbow said, making Baxter groan. Both Huns stared down the ninjas while noticing both their gangs have fallen, "What do we do now?" Turtle Hun asked his counterpart. "We get out of here!" Hun answered, as they tried to escape only to get levitated up by Rockwell and tossed aside. As Hun got up he saw the Rainbooms and their turtles standing ready, "Booyakasha!" they announced before attacking hi together with their combined magics sending him flying out the window. "Aw, crud!" Hun shouted, as he flew across the sky before landing in the water. The Purple Dragons of this world got up and bailed to find their boss. Turtle Hun found himself face to face with the alternate turtles who attacked him together. The mutant Hun even with his kung fu couldn't keep up, especially after being worn down from the fight earlier. The turtles delivered a four way flying kick knocking the mutant gang leader back hitting a wall knocking him out. "Aw, yeah!" Mikey cheered. "We did it!" Pinkie cheered. "Hey, where are the CMC?" Donnie asked, as they saw no sign of the younger girls. "I don't see Fong, Tsoi, and Sid anywhere either." Keno noticed. Suddenly they heard a screaming coming from outside. They raced out and to their shock found the Dragon trio on the ground, with their hands tied up, and Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo are sitting on them. "Howdy, y'all." Apple Bloom greeted. "What took you so long?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Don't worry, we got these guys for you." Scootaloo said. "Not bad, girls." Leo admitted. "Your training has certainly paid off." Rarity added. "Although we probably did soften them up for you." Raphael smirked, making the CMC pout. The Caseys, Raphs, Mikeys, Rainbow Dash, Keno, and a few of the Mutanimals laughed at the sight of the three thugs. "This has got be a whole new level of embarrassing for you guys!" Raph laughed at the Dragons. "Ah, shut up!" Fong grumbled. Soon back inside the warehouse, Stockman, Turtle Hun, and the Purple Dragons were in a pile. Donnie used his portal ray to open a portal back to their dimension, "Twilight. April. Rockwell. Care to do the honors?" "Of course." Twilight answered. "You know it." April nodded. "Indeed." Rockwell agreed, as they levitated their enemies up and moved them through the portal. "You haven't seen the last of Baxter Stockman!" Stockman promised, before going through the portal that then closed. "That takes care of them." April said. "What about him?" Karai motioned to Baxter. Suddenly lights shined through the warehouse windows putting everyone on alert again. The doors opened and entering were EPF soldiers, "EPF agents?" Donatello gasped. "Oh, no." Leonardo feared, as the agents made space as Agent Bishop entered. "Evening, my old friends." he greeted. "Bishop." Raph frowned. The Ninjas got defensive, "If you think we're coming back with you, then you got another thing coming." Applejack warned him, until Agent Bishop raised a hand to silence her. "You can relax. I'm not here for you. I'm only here for him." he motioned to Baxter. "Leo, are we just going to let Bishop take Stockman?" Raphael asked his brother. "I think whatever Bishop has in mind for Stockman is worse than what we'll do." Leonardo answered. Two agents grabbed the bound doctor, as Bishop spoke, "Now then, Dr. Stockman, when we get back we're going to have a few words about you bailing from your post." he finished sternly. Baxter sighed, "Will I never be put to rest?" he sighed, as Bishop and the EPF left. "Well, now we've officially won." Sunset told the group. "That'll teach 'em to mess with the Mutanimals." Bandit said. "And the Rainbooms." Twilight put in. "Leatherhead!" Mikey and Pinkie cheered, as they ran up to the gator hugging them. Leatherhead chuckled, "My friends, it is good to see you." Raph hugged Mona, "Am I ever glad to see you, Mona." "As am I to you, Raphael. Rakka rakka!" Mona replied, as they nose kissed. "So now that all the drama's out of the way, who dah shell are dees guys?" Raphael asked about the new band of mutants. "Definitely Raph." Bandit whispered to Mondo. "Wow, Bishop wan't kidding when he told us there were even more turtles in the dimension you guys went too." Slash said. "Did Bishop send you?" Fluttershy asked. "Correct." Mona confirmed. "Anyway," Leo began, "Mutanimals, these are our counterparts from this dimension." Sunset continued, "Turtles, these are our friends back home, the Mighty Mutanimals." Slash spoke up, "Name's Slash, the leader. This here's my second in command, Leatherhead." "A pleasure to meet you all." the gator greeted. "He seems as nice as our Leatherhead." Michelangelo told his brothers. "Our scientist, Dr Rockwell, Mondo Gecko." O'Neil looked down at the lizard, "Well, aren't you cute." "Thanks." Mondo answered, as he once again stuck out his tongue. "Aah!" O'Neil backed away in repulse. "I had the same reaction." April assured her adult self, while Jones squinted at Mondo who looked like he was trying to hit on his woman. Donatello had stared at Rockwell who was picking bugs off his arm, until the psychic monkey spoke, "And what, dear boy, are you staring at?" "Uh, sorry. I'm just curious about how you do what you just did." the genius turtle answered. "Well, you see, I was once a brilliant scientist. Until my treacherous partner used a combination of mutagen and monkey DNA to turn me into what you see before you." "Fascinating." Donatello replied sounding intrigued. "Afterward, I was captured and experimented on by the Kraang. They gave me psychic powers with this helmet, while accidentally unlocking my vast intellect that was almost lost to me during my mutation." "Granting you ESP? Cool." Bandit walked up, "I'm Bandit Raccoon. Don't judge me by that. Especially you!" he motioned to Raphael. "I didn't say anything." Raphael replied sounding insulted. "Well, I had to make sure." Bandit replied. Raph laid a hand on his counterpart's shoulder, "It's true. I gave him a lot of grief when we first met. And that really led to problems." "I'm Pigeon Pete, the team spy." Pete said, before taking a bite out of a baguette. "And I'm Mona Lisa, the only non-mutant member." Mona introduced herself. "You're not a mutant?" Jones asked. "She's actually an alien," Fugitoid answered, "A Salamandrian to be precise." "Alien lizards?" Michelangelo gasped, "Your world really does have everything!" "So, now that we've won, let's go celebrate!" Mikey cheered. "Sounds good to all of us." Princess Twilight smiled, as Leo nodded. So they group left the warehouse unaware they were being watched from afar by two figures, "So not even those idiotic street thugs could defeat those lowly turtles and Rainbooms." "Well, it was your idea to open those portals to the exact locations of them along with Stockman and that fish varmint." the second figure reminded him. "Don't start with me!" the first one snapped, before calming down, "It looks like we'll have to settle this ourselves." the figures took their leave. Later on at the Turtles lair, the whole group was partying it, with some like Donnie dancing close to April, Jones close to O'Neil, Leo close to both Twilight's, and Mikey near Shini. Rockwell was with both Donatello's looking over some equipment. Bandit was playing some one on one with Michelangelo, where the raccoon was running circles around the turtle before making a slam dunk. "Score!" Bandit cheered. "Bandit win! One nothing!" Pinkie cheered. Michelangelo spoke to Bandit, "Bro, you're good." "I know." Bandit admitted. Splinter noticed Mikey sitting around deep in thought, "Michelangelo, what troubles you?" "Oh, well, Sensei. I was just thinking about your Stockman. I actually sort of feel bad for him." he answered. "I feel that way about him too." Fluttershy admitted. Raphael hearing this spoke up in disbelief, "Uh, did yuhr brains snap or somethin'? That creep has tried to kill us so many times!" "Well, you heard him? Your Shredder literally tore him to pieces." Starlight reminded him. "Yeah, but it doesn't change the fact he's one of our worst enemies." "Maybe, so," Sunset spoke up, "But I learned there's no shame in sympathizing with an enemy. It shows you can see why one is driven to such ambitions." Splinter smiled and nodded, "Wise words, Sunset." "And he was kinda right," O'Neil admitted, "Whether we like it or not our meddling did result in Stockman getting himself torn apart by Shredder." "That just goes to show you actions do have consequences." Leonardo reminded his brother of when they first thought they destroyed the Shredder leading to the gang war. Raphael sighed, "Ok, you got me there." "And as much as I hate to admit it," Donatello began, "No one, not even Stockman deserved what the Shredder did to him." "When it comes right down to it, Stockman was just yet another victim of the Shredder." Splinter declared. "I still can't believe your Shredder would even do that to Stockman." Princess Twilight said. "Yeah. The worst thing our Shredder did to our Stockman was mutate him into a giant fly." Donnie said. "Which we changed him back, but didn't even get a thank you." Mikey said disappointed. Karai spoke up, "Well, there was a time Shredder did threaten that he wouldn't be able to walk if he hadn't fixed Xever's legs. Most other times I just listened to him threaten to pluck his wings or limbs off, but never acted upon it." "So what happens now that Stockman and our Purple Dragons are back in our world?" Rarity wondered. "Do we have to go now?" Fluttershy asked sounding disappointed. "Say it ain't so." Mikey pleaded. "Well, what other reason is there for us?" Twilight asked. "Plenty," Donatello answered, as he came over, "I've just recently received a message from Captain Mortu of the Utroms and they're coming here to see us and our counterparts. Apparently your Bishop informed them of us and wants to meet in person." "Yes! Extended stay!" Pinkie cheered. "Alright!" The CMC high fived. "Well, as long as there's a reason." Leo admitted. "Plus, we still have no idea how all those portals that brought our enemies here came from." Sunset reminded them. "Our mission here isn't over yet." Princess Twilight said. "Indeed." Fugitoid confirmed. Leo turned to Slash, "Slash, would you and the Mutanimals like to stick around with us?" "Really?" Slash asked. "Yeah, you guys deserve to get to see another world outside Moo Mesa." Applejack replied. "Well, what do you say team?" Slash asked his group who all voiced approval, "Guess it's unanimous." "Good," Leonardo admitted, before speaking to the big turtle, "And, Slash, you did well in leading your team in helping us face the Purple Dragons. You and your team have both my trust and my friendship." "Same for the rest of us." Raphael replied, on behalf of himself, Donatello, and Michelangelo. "Thank you, friends." Slash and Leonardo shook on it.