//------------------------------// // Brotherly Rescue // Story: Shining Christmas In a Half Shell // by WarriorofFaith18 //------------------------------// In the storm, Leo, Shine Boy, and Wallflower tracked through the snow. After waiting awhile, Shine Boy and Wallflower finally got Leo’s gift replaced as well as gift wrapped. It had started to snow when they left town and it was only when they were halfway there did the storm began to blow. Shine Boy looked over to see Wallflower shivering despite her winter apparel. He took off his cape and put it on the girl. “Here. Put this on.” He told her. “What about you?” Wallflower shivered. “Not to worry. My apparel’s climate controlled. It’s you I’m worried about.” Wallflower nodded as she wrapped herself in the cape. “It’s a sssshame there were sso much last-minute shoppers at the store we stopped in.” “I blame myself.” Shine Boy sighed. “I don’t.” Leo mentioned. “You wanted to help me, and we got it replaced and wrapped. This weather just snuck up on us.” As the three came to the top of the slope of the mountain, Shine Boy pointed ahead. “After we pass this slope, we should be about a mile away from The Shroom Lodge.” “Then let’s get moving.” Leo declared. The three were halfway passed the slope, Leo held his hand up, stopping Shine Boy and Wallflower. They stop to hear rumbling and look up to the top of the slope weakening. Everyone knew that meant it could be one thing. An avalanche! “Run!” Leo cried as the three double timed it. The snow was piling around them as fast as they were running. They were near what appeared to be a canvas barrier when they look to see a huge bunch of snow starting to slide down. Acting quickly, Shine Boy grabbed Wallflower by her waist. “Get to the Lodge. Bring back help!” he quickly told her, then threw her to the clearing as she screamed. Luckily, the snow cushioned her fall and out of harms way. Nonetheless, Wallflower could only watch in horror as the avalanche buried Shine Boy and Leo. As the avalanche began to subside, Wallflower got up and after a little hesitation hurried to the Lodge. Meanwhile, under the barrier, Shine Boy turned on a light stick from his utility belt and looked around. “Leo? Leo!” He spotted the turtle, covering himself as he sheltered his gift, and hurried to him. “Are you okay?” “Yeah. I think so.” Leo looked to see his present was alright and looked around. “Where’s Wallflower?” “I tossed her out of the way and hopefully she’s on her way to get help.” “Glad this canvas barrier was here.” Leo sighed. “Can you use your Shine Power to get us out of here?” “I can try.” Shine Boy focused as his insignia began to glow. But when he tried to fire a beam of light, it flickered and faded. He tried again, but to no avail. “I must’ve used a lot of power during the snowball fight. It’ll take an hour or so to recharge. All I can do now is use my Shine Power to keep us warm and hope Wallflower made it back.” He then sat by Leo, then his body glow faint but warm. “What about your medallion? It could get us out.” “I left it in the Shellraiser. I didn’t think I needed it during the holidays.” “Worth a shot.” Shine Boy shrugged. “What a way to enjoy Christmas Eve, huh?” “I hope our friends aren’t too worried about us.” Leo sighed, thinking about his brothers and Twilight. -------- Thankfully, Wallflower made it back to the Shroom Lodge. As the Rainbooms helped warmed her up with extra blankets and Sapphire handed her some hot cocoa, she explained everything to them, the ninjas, Principal Celestia, Team Shine, and Mr. Moochick. “And then Shine Boy threw me outta the way as the avalanche covered them both. And that’s when I hurried here.” She finished before drinking her cocoa as Sapphire rubbed her shoulder. “This is terrible!” Twilight feared. “No Bueno.” Gabby sighed. “It’s bad enough they’re in this storm, now they’re buried in an avalanche.” Fluttershy whimpered. Gamer slammed his fist on the table in anger. “This is all your fault!” he cried to Applejack and Rainbow. “If you didn’t force them in your little war and damaged Leo’s gift, they wouldn’t have had to leave!” “In our defense, Me, Sunset, Layla, Flash, and Gabby tried to help them.” Tony protested. “How was I supposed to know that Leo was holding his gift?” Rainbow snapped back. “Didn’t the cease fire mean anything to you?” Gamer began stomping upstairs. “Gamer, we were just playing a game.” Applejack stated. “A GAME THAT’LL COST ME A BROTHER!” Gamer shouted before entering his room, slamming the door. “Ouch, Man.” Frostee sighed. “Poor fellow.” Echo whispered. “You’ll have to forgive him.” Love Shine comforted Applejack and Rainbow Dash. “He’s still young. And if Shine Boy was here, he’d point out that blaming people won’t solve anything.” “No, he’s right.” Raph sighed. “It was our fault. If we weren’t caught up in our little fight, this wouldn’t be a problem.” “What are we gonna do?” Donnie asked. “Well, we gotta do something!” Pinkie said frantically. “The party’s in an hour and a half and they’re not back yet!” “Yeah it’s not a party without them.” Cisco shrugged before Layla nudged him. Mikey pondered. “Hmm if they’re not back in time, what does that mean for their secret Santa?” “MIKEY!!!!” Cried everyone. “Right. Bad time.” “I’m gonna go talk to Gamer.” April stated as she headed upstairs. “I’ll come with you.” Echo followed her. “Well There’s gotta be something we can do.” Layla pondered. “Maybe we can check to see if our snowmobile is working.” Mr. Moochick offered. “Now hold on!” Principal Celestia called out. “As much as I want to help Shine Boy and Leonardo, I will not endanger my students in this storm!” “Then it’s a good thing I’m not your student.” Everyone turned to see Raph dressed in a red scarf, hat, and gloves. “Leo’s out there! And I am going to bring him back and you can’t stop me!” Celestia and Raph glared at each other. Seeing he had her beat, Celestia sighed as she stepped aside. “No. I can’t.” “I’m going with you, Raph.” Casey stepped up. “I ain’t sitting around when they need us. We’ll find them faster than you can say, ‘Go get’em, Casey Jones!’” As Casey put on his winter coat, Karai playfully said, “Go get’em, Casey Jones.” “Dude! I haven’t left yet!” Cisco and Frostee couldn’t help but snicker before shaking off. “Ready?” Casey nodded as Raph prepared to open the door before stopping. “If Gamer ever comes down, tell him I’m sorry and I will bring his brother back as well as our brother.” Raph and Casey nodded then worked together to push the door opened and hurried out to find their friends. “SHINE BOY! LEOOOO!” “Be careful, Casey!” Gabby cried. “Find them, Raph!” Twilight called to them before she succumbed to her tears. “Oh Leo, why didn’t you return sooner?” Not far in the room, Lancer saw the whole thing and couldn’t but worry about his friends. “Don’t worry, Twilight. We’ll find them.” Sunset tried to comfort her. “We have to.” Layla added. “We’re gonna do everything we can to bring them back.” Celestia assured her. “Why can’t Equestria magic help us out for once?” Asked Twilight, shedding a tear. “If only it could.” Sunset sighed. “And it looks like someone feels the same way as you.” Everyone looked to see Serenity sitting at the table’s end, looking very worried. She was looking at her favorite photo of her and Shine Boy. Behind the photo was a message Shine Boy personally wrote that said, ‘I never give up!’ She looked out the window and began to sing. Serenity: You can give me hope With your big smile I know Our future is bright. You could make fountains shine so pretty with such pretty lights. I know I can’t stop you If you wanna make things right. Oh Dear Shine Boy what can I Do to bring you back to me? My dearly beloved I can only hope that You are safe and sound. I fear without a blanket You will fall on the ground. Even when things look very Hopeless I hope you’re standing tall. Just to have you home would be the Greatest Christmas gift of all. Meanwhile, under the snow, Shine Boy was trying to keep his hope alive as well as he sang too. Shine Boy: Help me, dear faith Don’t let me fall into despair I hope I will be free and back To my friends I’d be there I will not think of goblins And ghosts when evening shadows fall To be home again would be the Greatest christmas gift Shine Boy: Of Aaaall! Greatest (Serenity: Just to have you back would be the greatest) Both: Christmas Gift. Shine Boy: Yes! To be back home would be (Serenity: Yes! To have you back would be) Both: Greatest Christmas Gift. Of all! “Do you think Wallflower made it back at the lodge?” Leo wondered. “I just hope she got there.” Shine Boy breathed as the two sat there, trying to keep their hope alive before they heard a muffled voice from outside. “Leo! Shine Boy!” “Raph?” Leo perked up. “Raph! We’re in here!” Despite the wind blowing, Raph was able to hear his brother’s call. “Casey! Over here! Leo! Are you alright?” “Yeah! We’re both alright. Just trapped.” “Don’t worry! Casey and I’ll get you out!” Raph pulled out his sais as Casey pulls his hockey stick and the two try to chip them out, but the snow was tougher than they thought. Just then, Casey heard something crumble nearby. “Hey! Hey Raph!” he reached to get Raph’s attention. “What?” “You hear that?” “Hear what?” Another crumbling noise happened, startling the two. “That!” Both cried. “What’s going on out there?” Leo cried. “Something big’s coming this way!” Casey called back. “Raph! Casey! Get outta there! Save yourselves!” Shine Boy shouted. “I’m not leaving you two!” Raph declared. “I promised!” As Raph and Casey take a stand, a giant shadow emerged from the trees. a blinding light blinded the two as they tried to the monstrosity. “There they are!” The light then turned off, revealing the shadow to be Mr. Moochick’s snowmobile. Emerging were Donnie, Mikey, April, Karai, Shinigami, The Rainbooms, Gamer, Love Shine, Shine Girl, Slash, Leatherhead, Bebop, and Rocksteady with Fugitoid at the wheel. Right behind them, Cisco’s truck drove through with caterpillar trends as Echo’s car hovered over the snow. It landed and the Spy Racers emerged from the two vehicles. “Guys!” Raph smiled. “Raph! Casey!” Tony cried. “Sorry we’re late.” Slash joked. “Mr. Moochick wanted to make sure his snowmobile was working.” Fugitoid explained. “How’d you guys find us?” Casey asked. “You can thank Gamer for that.” Karai motioned Gamer with a small tracking device as the young tech head explained. “While I was mad about what happened, I was able to find my tracker because I knew I had to do something to help. All I had to do was have Frostee program the drones to pinpoint the destination.” “We tech heads gotta stick together.” Frostee smiled as his drone landed right by him. “Gamer? Is that you?” called Shine Boy from under the snow. “Bro! Are you okay?” “I’ll be fine if Leo and I can get out of here.” “Hang tight, guys!” called Sunset. “We’ll get you guys out!” Layla added. “Come, Comrades! Let us dig out our friends!” Rocksteady proclaimed. Everyone worked together to dig up their friends. Love Shine used his photon lasers and Pinkie used her magic sprinkles to weaken the snow’s layer. Everyone began to dig while Applejack, Rocksteady, Slash, and Leatherhead made the most progress. Finally, they reached to the two leaders. Slash and Bebop reached in and grabbed Leo and Shine Boy by the hand and pulled them out of the slope. Leo was greeted by a hugging Mikey. “Leo!” he smiled. “I thought we’d never see you again!” “It’s good to see you too, Mikey.” Leo smiled. As Twilight approached Leo, she was trying to hold back her tears in vain before embracing Leo. “I was so worried about you!” She cried on his shoulder. “It’s okay, Twilight. We’re alright.” Leo comforted her. Nearby, Tenderheart Kisses and her ghost friends appeared riding a sleigh. “Look! There they are!” she cried. “Looks like they didn’t need our help after all.” Fatso stated. “Well, that’s a bust!” Stretch grumbled. “This stinks!” Stinky added. “It’s not so bad. We at least got our cameo.” Casper stated as his uncles agreed. “Can we head back to the lodge?” Meako whined. “It’s cold out here!” Shreeko shivered. “Mush, Boys, Mush!” ordered Freako as they drive back. Back to the group, Applejack and Rainbow walked up to Leo and Shine Boy. “We’re sorry about ruining your gift.” Rainbow said. “And the whole snowball war.” Applejack finished. “I’m sorry for ruining it.” Shine Boy apologized. “We’re still friends, right?” Leo smiled. “Always” The four embraced each other. “Now what say we head to the lodge? I know somebody’s waiting” Shine Boy declared. “Si. It’s freezing out here!” Gabby shivered. “And our Christmas celebration is in an hour!” Pinkie cried. Everyone agreed as they all got in the snowmobile and vehicles and drove off. --------- Everyone back at the lodge were looking out the windows for the heroes. "Anyone see them out there?" asked Micro Chip. "At least the storm is starting to let up." Luna noticed. "my assistants put extra blankets on the beds and making some hot soup." Mr. Moochick assured. "There! The keen and observant Trixie sees them!" Trixie declared. "Cowabunga!" Mondo cheered. When they saw them returning, they all cheered for them while some hurried outside to greet them. "They made it!" Flash declared. "And they found Shine Boy and Leo!" Sandalwood smiled. The Ninjas, Mutants, Spy Racers, and Team Shine merged from the snow mobile and cars and mingled with their friends. Wallflower walked over to Shine Boy. "I was afraid I was too late." she smiled as she handed the hero his cape. "I'm just glad you made it." Shine Boy accepted his cape. "Merry Christmas, Wallflower." "Merry Christmas." Wallflower smiled back. "And there's someone who's been waiting for you." "Of course." When Serenity came out, everyone made way for her and Shine Boy as the two looked towards each other. Shedding a tear, Serenity smiled and ran to embrace her hero. Shine Boy smiled as he spun her around in happiness. Everyone smiled at the sight. “I was worried you wouldn’t come back this time.” She whispered. “My friends wouldn’t allow that.” Shine Boy said as friends smiled at the compliment. “Besides, nobody should be alone on Christmas.” Serenity smiled as she began to sing. Everyone made room as the heroes entered the lodge. Suddenly, Raph and Casey slip and fell, getting everyone’s attention. “Careful on the icy path.” They all said at once. “Is it too late to mention I just found some ice melt?” Gamer asked sheepishly. His only answer was a groan from Raph. To be concluded