//------------------------------// // Peaceful Evening Interrupted // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls Shining Digital Alliance // by WarriorofFaith18 //------------------------------// It was a nice evening in New York. A kind of night where nothing could go wrong crime wise. Above one of the taller buildings stood The Ninja Turtles and their friends, The Rainbooms. The Rainbooms had their spring break so they decided to have it visiting their New York friends. For the past couple of weeks, there hasn’t been any new mutants, threats, or Purple Dragons or any thugs, but they still prepared for anything with their training and runs. But of course, they still have time for fun. “Everyone ready?” Leo asked. “We’re ready here, Leo.” Twilight spoke for her friends. “Alright, Girls! Rainbow formation!” Rainbow called. “Turtle formation, Brothers!” Leo ordered his brothers. The Rainbooms and the Turtles jumped off the building, only for Pinkie to land on a gargoyle statue and the Rainbooms pile on her while Sunset hangs on the front. “What happened to Rainbow formation?” Sunset frowned. “Rainbow formation? I thought you said Cupcake formation.” Pinkie shrugged. “Cupcake? Why would I say Cupcake formation?” scolded Rainbow. “You too, huh?” Raph asked. The Girls look to see the Turtle brothers piled onto each other with Mikey on the bottom. Shortly, They all got back on track and began to jump from building to building. Along the way, The Rainbooms couldn’t help but show off their powers. Then, Rainbow Dash lands on Rarity while in midair. “Hey, Rarity. Do that thing!” “Rainbow, it’s a bit unnecessary.” Rarity scolded. “Doitdoitdoit. Not gonna stop until you do it. Doitdoitdoit.” Rolling her eyes, Rarity produced a diamond disk that Rainbow jumped on and surfed on it like a surfboard. Meanwhile, Raph was jumping around when a flock of birds flew through him, resulting him with a mouth of feathers. “Look, Raph. This one’s name is Gladys.” Fluttershy introduced the bird on her head. Raph spat out the feathers. “Yeah. We met.” “They’re gonna be there, right?” Sunset asked. “They’ll be there.” Leo guaranteed. Soon enough, they were joined by their friends April O’Neil, Casey Jones, and Keno, who was carrying a couple pizza boxes. “And here they are. Hey April.” Donnie greeted. “Hey Dee. Hey Girls.” April smiled. “How’s it hanging, Jones?” Rainbow fist bumped with Casey as they still ran. “All Cool, Rainbow.” Casey grinned. “Good to see you, too, Keno.” Applejack ran past Keno. “Always good to see you, Girls.” Keno smiled back. Soon, they all entered a venting shaft and continued to run through the catwalks. “Everyone knows the rules. Keep the pizzas away from Mikey and Pinkie!” Leo called. “Hey, Raph! Think fast!” Keno threw a pizza to him. “Got it!” Keno threw the other pies to Sunset, Applejack, and Donnie. Mikey and Pinkie jumped around to grab one of the pizzas, only for that person to pass it to someone else. Some were close that either April or Twilight had to use their telepathy to snag the pizza away. Mikey and Pinkie didn’t mind for they were treating it like it was a game. Then, the group finally landed in the scorebox in the basketball stadium as the Knicks game began. “Awesome! We made it!” Rainbow cheered. “Spike, we’re here.” Twilight opened her bag as her pup popped out. “Good! Cause, no offense, but I was getting a cramp in that bag.” “Alright! I say go. You say Knicks.” Pinkie cheered. “Go!” “Knicks!” Everyone cried. “Go!” “Knicks!” “Go!” “Knicks!” “Go!” “Knicks!” As the game continued, they all watched as they ate pizza and enjoyed sodas Pinkie brought. “May not be hockey, but nothing beats a good old basketball game.” Casey grinned. “I’m just glad we actually can relax for once.” April added. “Eyup. No Krang. No evil mutants. No Equestria magic. No other dimensions.” Applejack sighed. “Still, we should be ready should anything happen.” Leo pointed out, recalling when their counterparts came to their dimension. “Agreed.” Twilight nodded. “Never a dull moment with us.” Raph added, biting into his slice. “At least Fugitoid is back at the lair should anything happen.” Sunset said, grabbing another slice. Just then, Leo’s T-phone went off. Leo goes to the corner with Twilight behind him as he answered it. “Hello?” He spoke as he put it on speaker phone so Twilight can listen in. “Leo, it’s Karai.” “Hi, Karai.” Twilight spoke. “Hey, Twilight.” Mikey perked up. “Karai? Is Shinigami with her? Tell her I said hi!” Annoyed, Twilight used her geode magic to levitate a slice of pizza to lure Mikey away. Leo continued. “So… What’s up?” “I’m at Grand Central with Shini and the Dazzlings. Adagio is going undercover and we might have a lead on the whereabouts of Baxter Stockman. Thought you might be interested to know.” Sure enough, Karai was on the roof of Grand Central Station with Shinigami, Aria, and Sonata looking through the roof window, seeing Adagio at the bar wearing a simple purple dress and violet gloves, enjoying a drink while eyeballing a suspicious guy in a trenchcoat carrying a briefcase. “It would be nice to stop Stockman once and for all.” Leo said, remembering how dangerous he was before and after he worked for Shredder. “Do you need any help?” “Nah. We’ll let you if we find anything.” Karai answered. “Besides, Donnie will be happy to know Adagio’s using his gift to her last Christmas.” Adagio activated her watch before heading near the guy while pretending to flirt with younger boy nearby. The watch was hacking whatever was in the briefcase. Thankfully, the hack was completed before the stranger left the area. Adagio smiled as she saw an icon on the that resembled Donnie and continued with her flirting with the boy before playfully leaving the station. Back at the game, The Turtles, allies, and Rainbooms were still enjoying themselves. “Defense! Defense!” they cheered with the crowd below. However, just as a player was about to make a basket, the electric billboards all started to glitch up before rerturning to normal. “What was that about?” Sunset asked. “Maybe electric issues?” Rainbow asked. “I don’t know. It’s been doing that the last couple of days, leaving a vibe everytime.” April said, feeling her head. “Technical difficulties. Never fun.” Keno sighed. “Let’s head out and see if we can meet up with Karai.” Leo suggested and with that, they all left. Shortly after, The Turtles and Rainbooms were jumping from building to building when Leo’s T Phone went off. “Guys! Hold up!” Everyone stopped on a building as Leo answered his phone and put it on speaker. “Hello?” “Leo, we’re about to go over the data Adagio hacked and-” Karai was interrupted by Adagio gasping. “Nonononononono!” “What’s wrong?” Sunset asked. Adagio was looking at her watch. “The files are automatically deleting themselves!” “What?” Karai hurried over to see the last of the files deleting itself. “Must’ve been an automatic self-destruct mechanism.” Twilight theorized. “Clever girl.” Mikey sneered only to be smacked by Raph. “Figures Stinkman would hide his tracks! And here I was hoping we’d bag him this time.” Adagio spoke up. “Wait! Before you go all tantrum on us, Raph, I was able to read some of the emails before they started to delete.” “What they say?” Rainbow asked. “Something about a partnership and opening a portal to another world.” “Another portal?” Donnie pondered. “Could Baxter be helping bring back Krang Subprime?” Fluttershy feared. “Kinda hard to after what happened to him in Gotham.” Applejack recalled. “And that doesn’t look like your average everyday Krang portal.” Pinkie pointed. Everyone looked to see a bright blue portal appearing above the interstate. From the Grand Central Station, Karai’s group saw it too. Emerging from the portal was a giant red beetle with scissor claws. The portal closes as the beetle roared and began attacking random cars. “A beetle? WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE A BEETLE?” Raph shivered. Leo frowned. “Sunset, call the Professor. See if he and Metalhead could get the Shellraiser and Party Wagon over-” He was interrupted by honking below. They looked down to see Fugitoid and Metalhead merging from the Shellraiser and Party Wagon and looking up as Metalhead spoke. “Who is driving which vehicle?” Soon, everyone climbed in the vehicles, with Leo driving the Shell Raiser and Raph in the Party Wagon, and both sped to the interstate. Along the way there, the vehicles stopped at an alley near Grand Central and picked up Karai and her group with Adagio changed back into her ninja apparel. “So, any idea where this overgrown ladybug came from?” Karai asked in the Shellraiser as they approached the interstate. “I’ve never seen anything like it before.” Fugitoid pondered. “Don’t think it’s from Dimension X.” Mikey feared in the Party Wagon. The beetle noticed the two vehicles facing it as they stop a mile away and started to stomp towards them. Leo pulled his T-phone out. “On my mark, we blast it with everything we got!” “Don’t have to ask me twice!” Raph answered. Everyone sat still as the beetle stomped closer to them. Then Leo shouted. “FIRE!” But when they pushed the buttons, nothing fired. They kept trying, but everything was shut off. “What the shell, Donnie? Did you forget to load everything?” Raph growled. “I never had to! It’s Krang technology!” Donnie snapped back in the Shellraiser. “There appears to be a magnetic disturburburburburburb-” Metalhead was spinning his head like crazy. “What’s wrong with Metalhead?” Twilight asked. “He mentioned something about a magnetic disturbance.” Donnie pondered before talking in his T-phone. “How’s Fugitoid?” “He’s conscious, but he’s unable to move or respond.” Sunset checked her robot friend. “Then the only thing we can do is RUN!” Leo cried. The vehicles turned around and drive away as the beetle started to chase them. Then, the beetle roared and started to fly after them. “Holy Chalupa! It can fly!” Mikey gasped. Every time it got near; the beetle tried to attack the two vehicles only for the vehicles to barely dodge it. “If it keeps following us, we’ll never be able to do anything to stop it!” Donnie feared. “Luckily, we have an alternate way of attack.” Twilight stated as opened the side door and used her geode’s power to levitate cars at the beetle. Rarity joined in and threw diamond disks as well. “Hey, Donnie, any chance the trash cannon up top still works?” Applejack asked as she climbed up to the roof. “It’s not hi tech so it should be.” Donnie answered. “Good to know!” AJ answered and began firing at the monster insect. Pinkie came up and poured her magic sprinkles in the cannon before Applejack fired again and shouted, “EAT SPRINKLES, YOU DUMB BEETLE!” As the trash cannon hit, there were multiple explosion disorienting the beetle. The beetle roared as it tried to regain its composure. After it did, it flew up and after the Shellraiser and Party Wagon. “It’s getting closer!” cried Raph as they put the pedal to the metal. Just as the beetle was about to attack, another portal opened and swallowed the beetle and disappeared in a flash. Both vehicles came to a screeching halt. “Uh Where’d it go?” Rainbow looked around. “urburburburbence. Where did the target go?” Metalhead came back to his senses. Fugitoid was able to move again when he detected something. “The police are on their way!” “We’re outta here!” Leo ordered as they drove away before the police arrived at the scene. “This is the closest picture of the monster that attacked the interstate hours ago.” Chang O’Brian was saying in the news that evening. “We’ll keep you posted as it develops.” After encountering the giant beetle, The Ninjas and Rainbooms returned to the lair to recuperate while the Dazzlings went back to Foot Headquarters. “At least they didn’t mention us.” Leo sighed, recalling the Muckman incident. Meanwhile, Donnie was checking the weapons on the vehicles. “Everything should be working fine. How could everything just stop due to a magnetic disturbance?” “Indeed. And I’ve dealt with many things in my travels in space, but this is new to me, I’m afraid.” Fugitoid shared. “So much for our relaxing weekend.” Applejack sighed. “This seems bigger than anything we’ve ever encountered before.” Shivered Fluttershy. “Nothing we couldn’t handle.” Rainbow bragged. “I don’t know. Visiting other dimensions is one thing. But when another dimension visits you, that’s something else.” Sunset feared. “Something tells me we’re gonna need backup.” Keno figured. “I don’t know. Slash and the Mutanimals haven’t got back from their mission yet.” Raph sighed. “And Bishop has his own matters Utrom wise to deal with right now.” Donnie added. “So much for using the Kraang portal to ask our friends back home.” Twilight said bluntly. “There’s gotta be somebody we can trust.” April pondered. Just then, Karai got an idea. “Wait. I know someone who might be able to help. We met after I was free from the mind worm. He’s from out of town so he should be here tomorrow night.” “He huh? Your new boyfriend, Karai?” Casey laughed until April punched his arm. Karai just glared at him. “Real funny, Jones. He already has a girlfriend. But more to the point, he’s a skilled fighter.” “I’d believe it when I see it.” Raph stated. “You’ll get your proof, Raph. But first, I have to call him. And like I said, it’ll take him until tomorrow to get here. Plus, Shini and I need to brief the Dazzlings on what we’re doing. So in the meantime, I suggest you guys get some rest.” “Agreed.” Leo said. “Casey and I need to get home too.” April added. “I wouldn’t mind a little shut eye myself.” Keno yawned. “And we should check into our hotel as well.” Rarity pointed out as the girls agreed. “Meet us at 11th and Bleeker tomorrow.” Karai stated as they all headed out. In an abandoned warehouse, someone monitored the encounter with the red beetle. It was Baxter Stockman. He chuckled as he watched the Ninjas and Rainbooms struggling and running against it. “And this is only the beginning, my friends.” Behind him appeared two figures in the shadows. One was a male and the other was a female. “I trust this means your dimensional gizmo is finished?” the female asked sounding impatient. “Yes. And I assure you I’ll have the mutagen machine by sundown tomorrow.” The male nodded. “Very well.” He snapped his fingers as the shadowy figure Adagio was trailing came up with a briefcase and opened it, revealing dollar bills, and passed it to Stockman. “Your payment is delivered as promised.” However, as the shadowy figure walked away, the male pointed to Stockman. “But keep in mind, if you’re doing this to stall for time, my patience is very limited. You have until sundown.” Then the male aimed his arm away and, glowing yellow, produced a portal. He then turned to the female. “Come, my love, let us leave the Doctor to his work.” The female chuckled as she took the male’s hand and the two enter the portal before it closed behind them. “He’s threatening, but at least he’s nicer than Shredder.” Baxter thought as he began his work. Meanwhile, in the park, another portal opened. This time, a boy came through. He had brown spikey hair and wore goggles, a jacket with flame designs, tan shorts, orange shoes, and yellow gloves. He was joined by a small blue dragon with a white belly and a yellow V on his forehead. The boy looked around and turned to the portal and waved for something. “We’re here!” he said. To Be Continued