//------------------------------// // Shroom Lodge // Story: Shining Christmas In a Half Shell // by WarriorofFaith18 //------------------------------// It was Christmas Eve in the mountain area. On the road, two school buses were driving up the mountains. They were full of students from Canterlot High who were all very excited. Principal Celestia had recently been invited by her old friend, Mr. Moochick, who owned a lodge in the mountains. He was more than willing to let her invite some of her students and friends since it was the off season. Celestia even asked the Rainbooms to invite their friends from New York, including the Ninja Turtles, as well as their friends, Team Shine. They weren’t far behind in their vehicles. Everyone was very excited. “Okay, Students!” Celestia spoke up. “We’re almost to the Shroom Lodge. Who’s ready for a wonderful Christmas?” The Students all cheered then Sunset Shimmer starts to sing a Christmas carol with everyone joining in. As they sang, No one noticed Lancer looking at the window looking dismal. ---------- Meanwhile, at the lodge, Mr. Moochick and his workers were preparing the lodge for their guests as well as Christmas. “Everything’s looking wonderful, Everyone!” He called to his workers. “Keep it coming! Our guests will be here soon!” -------- Just then, the school buses park in the parking lot. As the students got out of them and grabbed their luggage, Twilight looked towards the roads, as if looking for something or someone. The other Rainbooms noticed. “You alright, Twilight?” Sunset asked. “You didn’t forget anything, did you?” Pinkie teased then gasped. “You didn’t forget Spike, did you?” Just then, Spike popped out of Twilight’s backpack yawning. “Someone mention me?” “Oh! Thank goodness!” Fluttershy breathed as Twilight explained. “I’m seeing if the Turtles are here yet. I texted Leo the directions up here and he told me they weren’t far behind us.” “Yeah! They seemed excited to join us for our little Christmas getaway.” Rainbow agreed. “Plus, Shine Boy and his team were finishing up some business back home and they’ll join us soon.” Applejack added. “Same with the Spy Racers.” Fluttershy put in. Just then Rarity pointed. “Look! I see the Shellraiser and The Party Wagon!” Sure enough, she was right. The Shellraiser and the Party Wagon were pulling up in the parking lot. After the two vehicles parked, the doors opened, revealing the Ninja Turtles and their ninja friends and allies, including Kirby O’Neil, Kurtzman, Gabby, and The Dazzlings. “Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas, everyone!” Mikey greeted. “Feliz Navidad!” Gabby added. “Guys!” The girls cheered as they embraced their friends. “Glad you all could make it!” Twilight smiled as she embraced Leo. “We all agreed we could use some time off from the city.” Leo explained. “Yep! Nothing like Christmas at the countryside.” Kirby sighed happily. “It’s good to get out more.” Kurtzman stretched “Slash and the Mutanimals will be here soon.” Raph mentioned. “Same with Shine Boy and his team and The Spy Racers.” Sunset added as Celestia and Luna walked up to the group. “Hello, everyone!” Celestia greeted. “Merry Christmas, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna.” April greeted followed by the others. “We better head in for role call. Besides, Mr. Moochick is looking forward to meeting you all.” Luna stated. “Let’s go! Besides, it’s kinda cold out here!” Mikey ran for the door only to slip under the door. “Oh! Be careful! There’s an icy path under the door.” Said Mr. Moochick as the small old man wearing green walked out of the lodge to greet the newcomers. “Welcome, everyone! I’m Mr. Moochick, owner of the Shroom Lodge. And you all must be the ninjas of New York, including the famous Ninja Turtles!” Leo walked up to shake Mr. Moochick’s hand. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, sir. My name is Leonardo and on behalf of my friends and family, we thank you for this invite for the holidays. I hope you don’t mind we’re mutants.” Mr. Moochick chuckled. “Mutants. Aliens. All are welcome to my lodge on Christmas. Come in. Come in. we better help you folks get settled in before celebrating the festivities.” Pinkie helped Mikey pick up his luggage when she noticed a familiar cooler and gasped. “Is that who I think it is?” “None other.” Mikey winked as they placed the cooler on a cooler and opened it, revealing it to be Ice Cream Kitty who meowed happily. “Meow!” “Merry Christmas, Ice Cream Kitty!” Pinkie greeted the cat who purred and licked Pinkie on the cheek. She wasn’t the only one to greet a familiar face. As They helped Raph with more luggage, Rainbow and Fluttershy saw a certain alien turtle on Raph’s shoulder. “Chompy!” cried Fluttershy. “Merry Christmas, Chompster.” Rainbow greeted as Chompy cheered. As the Ninjas entered the lobby, The students happily greeted their friends from New York. They talked about plans as well as sharing their excitement for Christmas. Even though Lancer was polite enough to wave to them, Logan knew what was he upset about and could only bite his lip. After a little while of mingling, Celestia calmed everyone down so she could speak up. “Attention, everyone. We will divide everyone into groups of two and you will each be sharing a room together. We will have more guests coming so don’t worry if you don’t have a roommate. After we get settled in, we can prepare for our greatest Christmas celebration ever!” Everyone cheered and before long, everyone had their roommate and room key and went put their luggage away. As they did, Karai and Shinigami saw four familiar faces entering the lodge. “Hey, Shine Boy.” Karai greeted their recent allies. “Merry Christmas, Karai. Shini.” Shine Boy greeted as he and Love Shine were carrying luggage in. As Gamer entered, he ended up slipping on the icy path that Mikey slipped on earlier. “Whoa!” “Ooo! Careful on the icy path.” Shini warned. “Hopefully, it’s not a running gag.” Gamer muttered as he got up. As the heroes enter, a fifth figure wasn’t far behind them. She was teenager around the same age as Shine Boy and Shine Girl with brown long hair with her left head bang reaching her right side. She wore a pink jacket with a white stripe in the middle with magenta sleeves and light blue jeans and beige platform heels with maroon straps. “Hi there.” She greeted as she took off her scarf and earmuffs. “Oh. Who’s your friend?” Shini smiled. “Shinigami, Karai, allow me to introduce Serenity Vatheela. She works at our town’s newspaper as a photographer and a very close friend of mine.” Shine Boy couldn’t help but blush. Karai smugly smiled as she shook Serenity’s hand. “So you’re Serenity. Shine Boy told me about you.” “And he told me about you, Karai.” Serenity said. “Any friend of Shine Boy is a friend of mine.” “Likewise.” Karai agreed. “Anyway, Principal Celestia is assigning everyone their rooms.” “We better get over there so we can settle in.” Shine Girl stated grabbing her bag. “Agreed. Besides, I promised Leo I’d help him with one of his presents for our Secret Santa gift exchange tonight.” Remembered Shine Boy. Just as they grabbed their gear, they another familiar group walk up to the door. “Primo! Amigos! Amigas!” Gabby cheered as she walked up. “Ahola, Gabby!” Greeted Tony before he slipped dropping his bags. “Whoa!” “Aie! Careful of the icy path!” Gabby sheepishly grinned while the others laughed. Gamer looked at Karai and Shinigami. “Yep. It’s a running gag.” “Here. Let me help.” Shine Boy helped Tony up. “So you guys are the Spy Racers.” “That’s right. I’m Tony Torreto. This is Layla, Frostee, Cisco, and Echo.” Tony introduced as the groups shook hands. “These are my friends and teammates. Gamer, my younger brother, Love Shine, Shine Girl, and my special friend Serenity.” "And this is DJ Drone.” Frostee held up his drone as Gamer perked up. Wow! Cool drone!” he smiled. "Thanks man.” Frostee high fived Gamer. Shine Boy spoke up. “I heard about you Spy Racers from one of my superiors in the United Nations. You guys do tight efficient work.” "And any friends of the Ninjas and Rainbooms is a friend of ours.” Love Shine added. "Same here.” Echo agreed. Karai spoke up. “I was just telling these guys that Principal Celestia is pairing people up for rooms.” "Then we better get over there.” Layla stated. "Then we can get ready for the festivities!” Cisco grinned as he waved to Sonata. "Took the words outta my mouth.” Love Shine grinned as they fist bumped. So, they all headed to Celestia to check in. ------- Later, after everyone found their room and got settled in, everyone got busy around the lodge. As Shine Boy walked down the stairs, he saw Gamer helping Micro Chip, Sandalwood, Octavia, and Vinyl decorate the Christmas tree, Shine Girl near the stage practicing her number for the show that night along with the Dazzlings and Bulk Bicep with Melody, Love Shine was enjoying hot cocoa talking to April, Rarity, and Casey, and Serenity sharing her portfolios with Wallflower, Trixie, Karai, and Shinigami. He smiled at the sight of everyone getting along during the holidays. As he reached the bottom of the stairs, he found Leo walking to the stairway. “Hey, Leo. Long time no see.” He greeted the leader in blue. “Hey, Shine Boy. Merry Christmas.” Leo greeted back. “You got your present ready?” Shine Boy asked. “Yeah. It’s in the Shellraiser. I wanted to hide it until it’s gift wrapped.” Leo added. “Alrighty. Let’s go get it and finish wrapping it.” Shine Boy headed to the door while pulling up his hood. “It sounds like some of the students are having a snowball fight outside.” Leo added as he put on a blue scarf and a stocking cap. “Maybe we can sneak pa- Yeow!” Shine Boy almost got pummeled by snowballs when he tried to open the door. “Hmm. Maybe not.” The two look to see through the window that two slopes were built like forts and everybody was throwing like they were at war with each other. People were getting pummeled mercilessly. “Doesn’t look promising.” Shine Boy stated. “We’re gonna have to run like crazy. I gotta get it wrapped soon!” Leo said. “Y’know it’s a good day for a run. I could use the exercise” Shine Boy joked. The two looked at each other seriously as Leo counted to three with his fingers. As he reached three, Shine Boy threw the door opened and the two tried to hurry across. Unfortunately, they didn’t get far before they got spotted by Applejack, who cried, “Ambush!” The two jumped under a smaller slop to take refuge from fired snowballs. “Cease fire!” Shine Boy called as he stood up. “Leo and I aren’t in the game!” “Game? This is no game! It’s WAR!” declared Granny Smith as she, Applebloom, and Big Mac poured apple juice on snowballs and threw them at Shine Boy, who ducked back just in time. “So much for sneaking pass.” Leo sighed. “What’re you guys doing?” Shine Boy and Leo looked to see Sunset, Flash, Tony, Layla, and Gabby jumping into their slope. “Don’t shoot!” Leo gasped. Tony held his hands up. “Whoa!” “Easy, amigos.” Gabby added. “Relax, Leo. We’re not gonna fire.” Layla assured the lead turtle. “So what are you guys doing out here?” Flash asked. “Shine Boy and I just wanted to get my gift for the gift exchange later. We tried to sneak pass but got forced into this.” “This sounds like déjà vu for me.” Sunset groaned, remembering the time she went through the same thing with Pinkie and her soufflé for Rarity. “Aye caramba!” Gabby rolled his eyes. “Maybe we can help.” Sunset offered. Hearing that was enough to get Shine Boy to smile. “You thinking what I’m thinking?” he asked Leo. “That we can get through this with a little teamwork?” Leo suggested. Shine Boy explained his plan. “Sunset, Flash, and I will draw their fire on us while you make a run for the Shellraiser, grab your gift, and hurry back, ninja style! Tony, Layla, and Gabby will cover you.” “Sounds good.” Sunset grinned. “I’m in.” Tony smiled. “Let’s do this.” Flash nodded. “I’m ready.” Layla agreed. “Lesto.” Gabby added. “You up for this?” Leo asked. “It’s why I’m here. Why we’re here.” Shine Boy grinned. “Now go!” Leo nodded as he threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared along with Tony, Layla, and Gabby while Shine Boy jumped out of hiding with Sunset and Flash behind him. Everyone kept trying to hit him, but Shine Boy dodged them quickly. Sunset and Flash returned fire. “What’s the matter, Shine Boy?” Shine Boy turned to see Applejack holding a giant snowball over her head. “Afraid of a little snow?” “Them’s fighting words, AJ!” glared Shine Boy. “Ya gonna cry?” taunted Applejack. Thinking fast, Shine Boy pulled out a flashlight and shined it at Applejack blinding her and causing her to drop the snowball on her head. “No fair!” “You forced my hand!” Shine boy called out. He turned to see Leo hurrying to the Shellraiser as he passed the forts. “Gogogogo!” Tony cried as they all ran. “We got a runner!” Raph cried as he and Mikey prepared to fire on their brother. “Raph and Mikey see them!” Flash reported before he was hit by a snowball. “Not if I can help it!” Acting quickly, while dodging some more, Shine Boy pulled out a bolo and swung it at Mikey, causing him to bump into Raph and the two were tied up together and fell down. “Now that’s just cheating!” Raph growled, struggling to get free. “That’s why I wanted no part in this!” Shine Boy snapped back as he pulled out his staff and started to hit snowballs like baseballs. “Time for an air strike.” Frostee smirked use his drones for an aerial attack. They were led by DJ Drone and started firing snowballs like bombs. A couple of drones went after Leo’s group. Tony looked up and spotted them. “Take cover!” he cried. Then, Layla grabbed him and used him as a shield. Before Tony could protest, he was pelted with snowballs. “You said take cover, Torreto.” She grinned before she waved to Leo and Gabby to keep going. “We need to stop those drones!” Sunset reported to Shine Boy. “Keep returning fire! I’ll handle them.” Shine Boy ordered before he smacked a snowball at a drone causing it to crash into a couple more drones. Sunset threw a couple snowballs before a couple hit her in the back, causing her to fall down. She got up very crossed. “Alright! Who threw those cheap shots?!” She pointed at Bulk and Cisco. “Was it you two?!” Cisco hid a snowball behind his back. “Wasn't me!” Bulk however panicked. “I'm a conscious objector!” Then Cisco ducked as Bulk was hit with more snowballs. Meanwhile, after many close calls while Gabby stayed behind to hold off more drones and students, Leo passed a snowman and finally made it to the Shellraiser. He looked and found the box with his gift where he hid it on the way up. He grabbed it and left the Shellraiser. “I got it!” He called to Shine Boy, holding it up. Shine Boy looked after knocking away more snowballs. “Great! Bring it-” He cut off when he noticed the snowman twitching. “Leo! Behind you!” Leo turned to see Rainbow Dash emerge from the snowman crying, “Sneak attack!” Rainbow threw a couple snow balls at the surprised Ninja Turtle. Leo dodged them quickly, but one of the snowballs hit the box from his hand. Both Leo and Shine Boy could only watch in horror as the box fell on the ground with the sound of breaking inside. Leo picked up the box and walked away, ignoring the snowballs Rainbow threw at his shell. As Shine Boy watched Leo walk away in remorse, he was ignoring the snowballs everyone was pummeling him with, even when Raph broke free from the bolo and started to slam snowballs at Shine Boy’s head. Then, Shine Boy’s face slowly went from remorse to anger as he started to glow, melting the snowballs off him. Shine Boy looked around, seeing some of the student crawling like they were hurt or lying like they were dead. Sunset, Flash, Tony, Layla, and Gabby were caught up in the war to pay attention. Mikey noticed how Shine Boy was glowing. “Uh oh.” “YOU FOOOOOOOOOOOLS!” As Shine Boy screamed, a glowing shockwave sent all the snowball fighters off their feet and melted the snow forts. Shortly after that, as he calmed down, Shine Boy looked around to see everyone looking surprised as they looked around the smooth blanket of snow and immediately felt terrible. He didn’t mean to ruin their fun. He just wanted to help Leo. Without a word, He ran to the same direction Leo went. “Shine Boy Wait!” Sunset called but was too late. Tony got up from a pile of snow. “Whoa. What a fight! Were there survivors?” he fell back down. “Help please.” Layla ignored him and then looked over to Sunset who was helping Flash up and over to Gabby. They all had a look of concern for their friends. “What was that all about?” Rainbow wondered out loud. To be Continued