“Don't move, D.” Mikey told his brother.
“How'd I let you guys talk me into this?!” Donnie demanded.
“I said don't move!”
Donnie was currently standing against a tree with four apples balanced on his head. Mikey, Raph, Applejack, and Rainbow stood facing him while aiming arrows with the intent to nail the fruits.
“Relax, Don, we're not gonna miss... maybe?” Raph said smugly.
“Not funny, Raph! And remind me never to let you and Mikey take part in one of Applejack and Rainbow Dash's stupid rivalry contests.”
“You got nothing to worry about, Donnie,” Applejack began before speaking all smug to Rainbow Dash, “Seeing as how I'm the best archer.
“Ha! Not for long!” Rainbow retorted.
The four of them pulled their arrows back and let them fly and they sailed through the air. Donnie screamed and ducked as the arrows hit the apples, splitting them all into eight pieces.
“Bullseye!” Mikey cheered.
“Awe yeah!” Rainbow pumped a fist up, “Victory!”
“I wouldn't celebrate too soon, Rainbow Dash,” Applejack said, “Cause it's me who won.”
“Yeah right, I've clearly got the best archery skills.” Raph boasted.
“In your dreams.” Rainbow replied.
“So who won, Donnie?” Mikey asked.
Donnie stood up with a dry expression and answered, “Well, judging by your pinpoint accuracy, the velocity of your arrows, and the impact of your shots, I can honestly call it... A four way tie. Also, I'm out.”
“What?!” Applejack asked.
“Seriously?” Raph crossed his arms.
“You gotta be kidding me?!” Rainbow complained.
“But we didn't get to the blindfolded round!” Mikey whined.
Donnie spoke, “Forget it, William Tell.” he walked past the four and sat on the picnic blanket that was set up.
The ninjas and Rainbooms were having a picnic in the woods near the farm. Caitlyn's friend Buffy was visiting and was introduced to the girls. Wallflower and Juniper even joined them.
“Does it always end in a tie for those two?” Buffy asked Sunset about Applejack and Rainbow.
Sunset shrugged, “Eh, pretty much. Once they joined almost every club in the school just to be in more clubs than each other.”
“Except of course for my exclusive fashion club.” Rarity said.
“And my gardening club.” Wallflower put in.
Pinkie popped up between them, “They're right, look.” She pulled out the yearbook from her hair and showed them the school clubs pages. Sure enough, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were in every club photo.
“Wow.” Buffy said in disbelief.
“Even though they were not good at some of the subjects or knew anything about them. Like fencing.” Sunset pointed to the Fencing club picture, where Applejack was holding an actual fence.
“Or science,” Twilight motioned to the club picture where Rainbow looked like something literally blew up in her face, “Or chess,” Rainbow was grinning in the Chess club picture while other members just stared at her, “Or robotics.” In the Robot's club, Applejack was just holding an abacus.
“Or drama.” Rarity motioned to Applejack in the picture who was wearing a cape and held a rose.
“Or baking,” Pinkie ate a burnt cupcake Rainbow made earlier, “Though Rainbow's cupcakes aren’t all that bad.” Everyone looked repulsed at that before shaking it off.
Bright Eyes looked at a picture of the art club and smiled. Rainbow's art looked like something a preschooler would draw, but then she noticed something. One of the members of the art club was the same girl that she'd accidentally knocked down during her tour when she arrived in the human world. Seeing her again got Bright Eyes curious, but she shrugged it off.
Buffy was currently looking through pictures of dresses Rarity designed, “I gotta say, Rarity, I love these dress designs!”
“Thank you, Buffy. These are some of my early designs.”
“Still very good. Mine pale in comparison.”
“Oh I wouldn’t say that,” Rarity replied, “A little combination here and there could make improvements.”
Buffy looked intrigued, “Really?”
Rainbow groaned, “Great, now we have two Rarity's.”
“I know, right?” Raph asked equally annoyed.
Buffy then turned to Blade and Bright Eye, “So you two are from some kind of pony world?”
“That's right. Equestria.” Blade answered.
“Right right. I knew it started with an ‘E’.” Buffy nodded.
“I’m sorry if it’s unbelievable.” Bright Eyes said.
“Girl, I now know four mutant turtles and then some. Besides, it sounds like a fantasy I had as a little girl. In a good way.” Buffy confessed.
“So, you guys had more encounters with Equestrian Magic?” Juniper asked the group.
“Yep, the Party Wagon got infected and tried to destroy us.” Donnie explained.
“And then that acapella group that rejected Caitlyn tried to use it to cheat at the pet show and it backfired on them, turning their dog Lucky Shot into a rampaging beast.” Spike said.
April finished, “And recently, it sucked us all into the Super Quest video game. And we had to play the game in order to get Twilight's tracker back and get out.”
Raph motioned to Caitlyn, “But Caitlyn here almost ruined our chance!”
“Okay, in my defense, I was gonna give you the tracker after I won. I have a rep to maintain you know.” she replied.
“Even I didn’t know that she was Gameinator.” Zach confessed.
“Wow,” Juniper gasped, “You guys weren’t kidding about Equestrian Magic being out of control.”
Suddenly, April touched her head, “April?” Fluttershy asked.
“Guys, someone's-” before she could finish...
“Yaaahhh!” A man came bursting out of the bushes, tripped and crashed onto the picnic blanket, losing his glasses and dropping a canister of something that rolled away into another bush, “Where am I? Where are my glasses? I can't see without them!”
Mikey noticed the glasses and quickly stepped on them, “Whoops! My bad!”
“What's the big idea ruining our picnic?” Casey asked the newcomer.
The man looked up, “Picnic? You mean you're not with those lunatics?”
“Who?” Rainbow asked with a raised brow.
“What in tarnation are you talking about?” Applejack asked in confusion.
The guy breathed a sigh of relief, “Oh, good! I thought they had me for- wait!” He froze as he suddenly remembered the canister he dropped, “The plutonium!” he felt around, “Where's the plutonium?!”
“Whoa, calm down. Start from the beginning?” April calmed him.
“Who are you?” Leo asked.
The guy stood up and addressed himself, “My name's Michael Murphy. I'm a physics graduate at a university. Anyway, nice to meet you. I gotta go! Sorry about your picnic.”
He tried to run only for Raph to block him, “Whoa! What’s the rush?”
“They’re after me!”
“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked.
Michael began explaining, “Well, two weeks ago, I was abducted by this terrorist group. Their leader told me they were 'Humans Against The Extraterrestrials'. He forced me to build him some kind of secret weapon, threatening to kill me if I refused. And today, I discovered what weapon was, a bomb!”
“A bomb?!” the group asked in shock.
“That's right! And they're gonna use it to-”
BANG!
Rarity, Buffy, and Caitlyn shrieked in terror as Michael fell to the ground, clenching his shoulder.
“Holy Chalupa!” Mikey screamed.
“Where did that come from?” Sunset looked around.
“Is he?” Pinkie asked about Michael in concern.
Donnie looked him over, “No, he's just been shot in the shoulder. But the wound's pretty bad!”
“Who would do such a thing?!” Wallflower asked.
“I don't know, but whoever did must have good aim!” Donnie answered.
Far off in the woods on a hill, a man was looking at the downed Michael from the telescope on his rifle.
“Dang! I just wounded the fool!” he looked to the guy next to him, “Pewk, see anyone? Looked like he was talking to someone before I shot 'em.”
The guy known as Pewk looked through some binoculars, “Yep, Skonk. I see a bunch of teenagers and some folks in turtle costumes.”
“What? Le'me see that!” Skonk grabbed the binoculars and looked through them, “They ain't no costumes, they're aliens! Just as I feared, he's ratted us out to the enemy!” he turned to a large group of men standing behind him holding military weapons, “Come on, men, let's give those alien slime bags a proper earth welcome! Charge!” Shouting, the men rushed down the hill.
Bright Eyes heard the men crashing through the brush, “Guys, we got company!”
Quickly, the Ninjas and Rainbooms hid in some bushes and the trees, Donnie and April carried Michael behind a bush. The men stormed into the clearing, trampling over the picnic food and dishes. The leader, Skonk, a black man with a white stripe in his hair, looked all around but saw no sign of anyone.
One of the men named Caleb asked, “Where are the aliens, Skonk?”
“Must of heard us coming and high tailed it. Well, they won't get away that easily!” Then he noticed the canister sticking out of a bush and grabbed it, “And we got the plutonium back! But we can't let Michael or those aliens tell the rest of them about our plan!” He turned to his men, “Men, split up into four squads, scour the forest, and shoot anything that moves! And I mean anything! Meanwhile I'll head back to base and prepare the weapon! Move it!” The men broke into small groups and ran in different directions, while Skonk ran back the way they came.
In their hiding spot, the ninjas and Rainbooms didn't like the sound of things, “That doesn’t sound good!” Fluttershy said in worry.
“What do we do now?” Bright Eyes asked nervously.
“Well, for starters, Michael needs some medical help.” April reminded them.
“We should get him to the nearest hospital.” Donnie suggested.
“I’ll do it,” Buffy offered, “I’m not much of a fighter so this way I won’t get in the way.”
“Good idea, Buffy, this does help a lot.” Leo nodded.
“We'll go with her.” Caitlyn offered on behalf of herself and Zach who answered.
“Yeah.”
“Me too.” Wallflower volunteered.
“As will I.” Fugitoid finished.
“The rest of us will take down those wackos.” Leo said.
Sunset spoke, “I’ll go after that guy with the plutonium and get it away from him. Maybe I can learn something about these guys.”
Karai nodded, “Good. Dig up what you can.”
“Let’s move!” Leo ordered, and they split up.
Caleb and some men were roaming the forest, aiming their guns from one direction to another and looking all around. The only place they didn't look was up in the trees, where Raph, Applejack, Casey, and Rainbow were leaping over their heads. As Caleb passed by, Rainbow, who was hiding in a bush, pulled back her arrow and shot Caleb's hat right off his head.
“What the?” While Caleb was distracted, Casey launched a hockey puck, nailing one of the men in the head, “What was that?” Then Raph, who was right above him on a tree branch, threw a small rock at his head, “Ow!” he looked up growling, and aimed his gun up and fired multiple bullets at the tree, blasting off some branches, “Ha, take that, whoever you are!” Then he felt someone tap his shoulder and turned around to see Raph.
“You missed. But I won't!” And he knocked him off his feet with a hard kick, knocking him out.
One of the men shouted, “We're under attack!” He and the others aimed their guns at Raph who just smirked, then a flash of colors raced past and the men were suddenly weaponless, “Huh?”
“Looking for these?” The men turned to see Rainbow holding their guns that were completely unloaded.
“Goongala!” Casey ambushed them and whacked them with his hockey stick. Then Raph and Rainbow fought off two more.
One man tried to run away, only to bump into Applejack, “Howdy.” she activated her geode and punching the man, sending him flying back and crashed into the others, making them land in a heap.
“One group down-” Casey began.
“Three to go.” Raph finished.
In another part of the forest, the other group of men were looking around. One man looked to the left when a sparring stick hit him from behind, knocking him out. The other men noticed.
“Spread out!” the head guy ordered.
Suddenly a couple more guys were knocked out by a psychic blast. Some others started to blast in that direction when diamond shields blocked their shots.
“What in the-” then the shields slammed into them, knocking them out. The head guy looked around when something grabbed his legs and pulled him through the bushes and down a small cliff, knocking him out.
The thing that pulled him down was Donnie, who dusted off his hands with a sly look, “And out cold.”
April, Rarity, and Keno showed up as the red head spoke, “Well, that takes care of this group.”
“As Mikey said, like shadows in the night.” Keno said.
“Now let's hope the others were just as successful.” Rarity hoped.
A man named Bubba and another named Joe were leading some men over a stream, “I don't know about you, Bubba, but I've got me a bad feeling that something's gonna happen.”
Bubba stood on a rock, “You're worrying too much, Joe. I mean, we're armed to the teeth and I've got sharp senses. Ain't nobody gonna get the drop on- whoa!” Before he could finish, the rock he was standing on suddenly moved, making him fall into the water. Then out rose Leo with the rock actually being his shell.
“You know, there is such a thing as over confidence.” Leo warned them.
“Alien!” Joe cried, “Skonk was right!”
“Shoot him!” Bubba ordered.
The men opened fire, but Leo dodged and deflected the bullets with his katanas. Then Joe's gun was suddenly pulled from his hand.
What in blue blazes?” He was suddenly kicked away by Twilight.
Just then, Karai jumped out in front of Bubba and hissed at him with her snake face. Bubba screamed and began to run away before a chain wrapped around his leg and lifted him off the ground as Shinigami walked out.
“Get me down! Get me down!” Bubba called from above.
Shinigami looked up and giggled, “But the view is lovely up there!”
Joe was able to get back up. But before he could grab his gun, a couple of squirrels and chipmunks carried it away from him.
“What in the-” he then looked up at an angry Fluttershy.
“Perhaps you’re unaware that that is a dangerous weapon! Especially when using in an animal's natural habitat!” She whacked him with her blowgun, knocking him out, “Sorry.”
“That takes care of them.” Karai said.
“Now what?” Shinigami asked.
“Let’s regroup with the others and hope Sunset learns something on her end.” Leo instructs.
Pewk and the rest of the men were in another clearing, looking for any sign of Michael or the 'aliens', when something rushed past them from behind.
“What was that?” one of them men asked in surprise.
Then something else swung from trees above them. And another thing dashed by in the shadows. The men aimed their guns in all directions, waiting for whatever was out there to show itself. When...
“Hi.” Bright Eyes popped out.
The men were curious about a kid being out in the forest, “What the? Where did you come from?” one asked.
“Let me answer that by saying this...” she whipped out her nunchucks and shouted, “Booyakasha!”
She jumped at the men, whacking, kicking, and flipping all around them. Given her smaller stature and training in both Equestria and in the human world she was making it impossible for the men to catch her. Until Pewk came up from behind and grabbed her by the shirt and took her chucks.
“You little brat! Just what in Sam hill was that for?!”
“Hmm? I don't know? Maybe, to distract you guys.”
“From what?” One of the men asked.
Bright Eyes smirked and pointed, “From them.”
At that moment, Mikey, Blade, Pinkie, and Juniper leaped out of the trees.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey called.
“What the?!” Was all the guy said before they were attacked by the four.
Juniper kicked down a man then pulled out her sword and destroyed another one's gun before she kicked him back.
Pinkie was flipping around, tossing her sprinkles at the men's weapons, blowing them up, “You need more sprinkles! And you need more sprinkles!”
Blade blocked and dodged another man's swinging fists and guns before he grabbed him and flipped him into a tree, upside down, face first. Then he back-flipped to avoid another man's gun shots and fired lightning from his sword, destroying the man's gun and knocking him away.
“Yeah, boy!” Mikey cheered, as he took down more men, before turning to Pewk and made a face, "Booga booga booga!”
Pewk screamed, dropped Bright Eyes, and backed up into a rock as Mikey closed in on him, “Get back! Get back!” He held out Bright Eyes' chucks, “I'll use these!”
Mikey just smirked, “This is just too good to be true.” He whirled his nunchucks all around, showing off, and finished with a pose, “Hah!”
Pewk just stared, dumbfounded. Then the blade in one end of Mikey's chucks came out and he swung it down, slicing Pewk's belt and making his pants fall down, leaving him standing in his underwear. Everyone laughed as Pewk, overcome with shock, fainted.
Mikey noticed Pewk's underpants and scoffed, “Briefs? Lame.”
Skonk ran through the woods, but when he pushed through some bushes he came face to face with...
“Hi, going hunting?” Sunset greeted casually.
“What? Where did you come from?” Skonk asked in confusion.
Sunset responded by hitting Skonk back, “I’m only gonna say this once. Hand over the plutonium. Or else!”
Skonk scoffed, “You think you’re tough, girl? I won’t peel over easily!”
Sunset rolled her eyes, “Never the easy way.” she drew her kunai and gets into a stance.
Skonk opened fire while Sunset dodged the shots and threw her kunai. Skonk quickly knocked them away with his gun before blocking a kick from Sunset. Then he swung his gun trying to hit the girl, but she dodged the swings and flip-kicked the weapon out of his hands. Then the two fought hand to hand, blocking each others attacks. When Skonk threw a punch, Sunset dodged, grabbed his arm, hooked her legs around his head, and used her body weight to topple him to ground. Skonk then threw her off and stood up.
I ran into a friend of yours! Or should I say a friend you kidnapped and then shot!” Sunset frowned.
Skonk growled, “Michael!”
“That's right, he told me and my friends about how you forced him to build a secret weapon. What is it?”
“I'll never tell you!” Skonk stubbornly replied.
Sunset just smirked, “You don't have to!” She grabbed his arm and saw his memories.
In the memory, Skonk was standing before his men in front of a large building.
“As you all know, me and the boss gathered us all together because we share a common enemy! Aliens!” The men shouted in anguish at the mention of that name, "We've all suffered from the alien menace. The horrors we endured! The families and friends we lost! Well today, we're gonna show those aliens what happens when you mess with the human race!” The men cheered and held their fists up, “Now, the earth has been invaded three times, but I've noticed a pattern. The Kraang, the Triceratons, those bug aliens! All alien invasions, all happened in one place. And what place was that?”
“New York City!' The men answered together.
Skonk nodded, “That's right, so hence wise, their strong hold must be in the Big Apple and no one's doing a thing about it! No one, except us: Humans Against The Extraterrestrials! And I've got a plan that will put a stop to those aliens once and for all!” He opened the doors to the building and then opened the back of parked truck, “This is the last best hope for the human race,” he motioned to a huge bomb inside, “And we're gonna detonate it right in the middle of alien central. I'm aware it's an extreme genocidal move, but one has to make sacrifices for the greater good!”
The memory ended and Sunset gasped in shock, “You're gonna blow up New York?! ARE YOU INSANE?!”
Skonk was confused, “What? How did you?” He paused before gasping, “You read my mind! You're one of them! An alien in human's clothing!”
Sunset looked insulted, “What? No! I'm not an alien! And I saw your memories. Because I have magic!” she suddenly paused, “Although I probably shouldn't have told you that.”
“You expect me to believe your alien lies?!” Skonk accused.
“Maybe not. But you can believe I’m gonna stop you!” Sunset readied herself.
“Nobody’s gonna stop me from destroying all you aliens!” Skonk declared.
Sunset frowned in aggravation, “I'm NOT AN ALIEN!”
The two battled again resulting with Sunset knocking Skonk down and kicking away his gun.
“I won't let you hurt innocent lives just to hunt down enemies who aren’t around anymore!” she told him.
“Yeah, well the thing about that is, I do... what needs to be done!” he quickly threw some dirt off the ground in Sunset's face.
“Aaahh!” she cried while getting the dirt out. Skonk kicked her back, retrieved his gun and hit Sunset in the back of the head hard, knocking her down.
She glanced up as Skonk grinned down at her, “Game over, alien scum!” was all Sunset heard before she passed out.
Meanwhile Leo's group had just finished tying up Bubba, Joe, and their men.
“Good work, team.” Leo commended them.
“Got room for more?” Raph asked, as he, Casey, Rainbow, and Applejack walked in with the cowgirl carrying Caleb and his men.
Then Donnie, April, Rarity, Keno showed up with April levitating their men. And Mikey, Blade, Pinkie, Juniper, and Bright Eyes came, dragging Pewk and his men.
“I see you guys were as equally successful.” Donnie noted.
“Yeah. Easy as apple pie.” Applejack answered.
“Though who are they?” Casey asked.
“Maybe Sunset learned something on her end.” Rarity hoped.
“Well, I tried to call her moments ago, but haven't heard back from her.” April said.
“I hope she's all right.” Bright Eyes said in concern.
Just then two birds flew up and landed on Fluttershy's hand and chirped something to her.
“What?” Fluttershy asked, as the birds chirped more and she gasped, “Oh, no!”
“What is it, Fluttershy?” Twilight asked.
“These two birds said they saw the men's leader capture Sunset!”
“What?!” Everyone asked in shock.
“No!” Bright Eyes gasped.
Fluttershy continued to listen to the birds, “They heard Sunset say that the leader was going blow up New York. Then he accused her of being an alien, knocked her out, and took her!”
“We gotta help her!” Pinkie cried.
“And save New York!” Mikey added
“Fluttershy, can your bird friends lead us to her?” Karai asked.
The birds chirped to Fluttershy, who spoke to her friends, “They can show us where he was heading.”
“Let’s move!” Leo called, as they headed out.
Meanwhile, Sunset groaned as she woke up from her knockout, “Where am I?”
“Morning, Ms Alien Pants.” came a familiar voice.
Sunset's eyes shot open when she heard Skonk's voice. She saw that she was tied up and being carried over his shoulder.
Sunset struggled to get free and shouted, “You creep! What are you doing?!”
“As you aliens always say, I'm taking you to our leader.”
Sunset saw that Skonk was walking into a fenced in base. There were three large shed-like bases, Skonk walked into one of them and entered an office, where someone in the shadows of his lamp was looking over some plans.
Skonk stopped before the desk a gave a salute, “General, sir?”
“What is it, Skonk?” the general asked.
“Sir, I just captured an alien spy!” He dropped Sunset on the man's desk.
“Ow! Easy!” Sunset frowned at Skonk.
The general leaned into the light to have a look at Sunset, revealing himself to be none other than General Griffen; former head of the EPF.
“There’s been a mistake! I’m not an alien!” Sunset tried to reason.
“Quiet scum!” Skonk ordered her.
“That’s enough, Skonk!” Griffen silenced him, before turning to Sunset, “What’s your name, young lady?”
“Sunset Shimmer, sir.”
“Well, Ms. Shimmer, I’m General Griffen. And I want to know what are you doing in our business?” the general crossed his arms.
“Griffen? Why does that sound familiar?” Sunset pondered.
“Answer my question!” Griffen ordered.
“I was trying to stop your friend here from blowing up New York!” she nodded toward Skonk.
General Griffen spoke, “One, he's my second in command, and two, what do you mean blow up New York?!”
“Sir, she's lying.” Skonk accused Sunset.
“You're the one who's lying! He's got a bomb!” Sunset explained.
General Griffen raised a brow, “And how do you know this?”
“Uh... well... um?” Sunset stammered not sure telling another about her magic powers was such a good idea.
“See, sir, this alien's trying to frame me!” Skonk continued to accuse.
“Then let's find out,” Griffen said, before turning to Sunset, “Show us where this bomb is.”
Meanwhile, outside the base, guards were being picked off left and right as the ninjas snuck into the base. When they climbed up the roof, April stopped to feel her head.
“Sunset's nearby! She’s in that building.” April said.
Everyone looked through the skylight and saw her, “There she is!” Pinkie gasped.
“At least she’s okay.” Fluttershy said in relief.
“Who’s that with her?” Juniper motioned to Griffen.
Mikey looked down and gasped, “Oh, no! Not him!”
“Him who?” Keno asked, as Casey answered.
“That’s General Griffen! He used to work for TCRI and tried to dissect Mikey that day Tokka came looking for Chompy.”
“He sent the army to attack Tokka and tried to cut ties to the Utrom just to try to destroy her!” Leo added.
“The monster!” Rainbow frowned.
“Bishop told us he was fired after that.” Donnie noted.
“What is he gonna do to Sunset?” Twilight wondered.
“Ten to one, nothing good. Especially if they have a bomb with plutonium.” Leo answered.
“Then we better help her.” Blade suggested.
Soon the three entered the building where Sunset had seen the truck with the bomb.
“It's in there!” Sunset motioned to the truck
General Griffen turned to Skonk, and ordered, “Open it!”
Skonk took out a remote and opened the back of the truck, but when the door went up there was nothing there, much to Sunset's surprise.
“But... but... it was there?!” Sunset said in confusion.
General Griffen looked at Sunset clearly not amused, “Are you playing some kind of game?”
“No! I saw a bomb! I swear!”
Skonk spoke all smug, “Like I told you, sir. This alien is telling lies!”
“I'm not an alien! And I did see a bomb in that truck!”
“Well, we'll find out if you're an alien or not,” Griffen said before turning to Skonk, “Take her to lab for dissection!”
“Sir, yes, sir!”
“Dissection?! Wait a minute...” Sunset suddenly realized something, “Now I remember hearing your name, you're the jerk who tried to dissect two of my friends and attacked Chompy's mom, Tokka!”
General Griffen looked to her in surprise, “How do you know that?”
“Our ally Bishop told us! Remember him?”
Griffen's face twisted into rage at the mention of that name, “Yeah! Which means you're no ally of mine! Take her away!” he barked to Skonk.
Suddenly, the Ninjas crashed through the skylight and landed as Raph and Blade kicked Skonk off Sunset.
“Back away from our friend, General!” Leo warned the general with his blades ready.
“You!” Griffen frowned.
“I told you she was in lead with aliens!” Skonk said.
“Hello! We’re mutants! Not aliens!” Donnie corrected in irritation.
“And you think that makes it better?”
Griffen spoke up, “That doesn’t change the fact that you freaks got me fired from TCRI!”
Rainbow frowned at his quick to blame method, “Well, you should’ve thought of that while they were helping Tokka so she could leave earth!”
“Get 'em!” Leo ordered.
As they fought Skonk and Griffen, Juniper cut Sunset loose, “You alright?”
“I am now that you’re all here. Thanks.”
Bright Eyes came over while holding up Sunset's pouch with her kunai in it, “We found these when Fluttershy's birds showed us where you were last.”
Sunset accepted the pouch and put it back on, “Thanks, Bright Eyes. Skonk is hiding the Plutonium bomb somewhere but the General doesn’t believe me.”
“Then we better hurry and find it.” Shinigami suggested.
Raph had pinned Griffen against a wall, and spoke, “Figures you'd be the one leading these wackos!” He threw a punch but the general dodged it and head bashed him off.
“Someone's gotta protect the human race from alien scum and freaks like you!” He aimed a gun at Raph, only to be speed tackled by Rainbow and slammed into a jeep.
“You're still gonna pay for attacking Chompy's mom!” Rainbow warned him.
As Griffen stood, Casey whacked him with his hockey stick, “And for trying to dissect me and Mikey, yo!” When he took another swing, Griffen grabbed his hockey stick and threw him into Rainbow, knocking them both down.
General Griffen pulled out a walkie talkie and called, “Sound the alarm! We're under attack!” it was hit with a ninja star. Growling he then dodged a kick and sword swing from Blade who spoke to the former general.
“You think destroying others different from you makes you any better?”
Griffen started to fight Blade one on one with neither one letting up. Just then more men showed up and start firing at the ninjas.
“They got reinforcements!” Mikey cried.
“Hasn’t stopped us before!” Rainbow reminded him.
The soldiers opened fire, but Rarity quickly blocked their shots with her diamond shield, “If anyone's going to do something, they better act now!” Rarity said.
“Banzai!” Keno called, as he and Leo flipped over it and attacked the soldiers.
Casey tazed a soldier and saw more coming in, “It’s getting a little crowded here yo!”
“Then allow us to even the playing field!” Shini suggested while nodding at April who smiled back.
Shinigami used her hypno ball to hypnotize a couple soldiers and knocking them out unconscious.
“Time we take this outside!” April fired an esp blast sending the soldiers out of the building and the ninjas took the fight outside.
Applejack looked around at the soldiers, “Just how many of these varmints they hired?”
As everyone fought off the soldiers, Sunset, Juniper, and Bright Eyes were searching the truck trailer for the bomb.
“How could that Skonk guy just hide a bomb?” Juniper asked, while looking.
“I don't know? But keep looking,” Sunset ordered, “Maybe there's a hidden compartment or something?”
Bright Eyes was looking inside the trailer, when she bumped into something that wasn't there, “Ow! Huh?” she felt around and started feeling something right before her, “Hey, Sunset? I think there's something here.”
“What?” Sunset climbed in and felt what Bright Eyes had felt, “Hey you're right. It's gotta be the bomb! Donnie, Twilight, come over here!” she called out.
After taking down a soldier, the two geniuses rushed over, “What is it, Sunset?” Twilight asked.
“We found the bomb. But I think it's cloaked somehow.”
Donnie climbed in and felt the invisible bomb, “I think you're right, Sunset. Skonk must've had Michael install a cloaking device,” he glanced back as Raph who knocked out a soldier. He noticed the soldier had an emp device on his belt, “Raph! I need that guy's emp, on his belt!”
Raph picked it up and threw it to Donnie, “Here.”
Donnie caught it, “Thanks, Raph,” he set the timer and stuck it on the invisible bomb, “Okay, I've set it to let out a small charge that'll shut down the cloaking device.”
The emp did just that and in a few seconds, the bomb appeared. When it did, Donnie and Twilight let out a cry of horror.
“Bingo!” Sunset called it, as she was about to inspect it until Donnie cried.
“No one touch that! That's not just any bomb!”
“It's a thermonuclear device!” Twilight cried.
Raph was just as shocked, “What are these maniacs doing with a nuke?!”
“Wasting alien scum like you!” Everyone whipped around to see Skonk standing behind them aiming his gun.
“So this is the secret weapon Michael was trying to warn us about?” Juniper asked.
“That's right.” Skonk confirmed.
“Yeah, he's gonna use it to blow up New York!” Sunset told the group.
“Have you lost your mind?!” Donnie shouted, while pointing to the bomb, “If that thing goes off, it could wipe out all of New York!”
“A genocidal move I admit, but a necessary sacrifice.” the goon replied.
“Necessary?!” Twilight asked in outrage, “Thousands of innocent people will die! How is that necessary?”
“Besides, what did aliens ever do to you?” Bright Eyes challenged.
“They took away my family!” Skonk declared much to everyone's confusion. Skonk began explaining sadly.
"Years ago, when I was just a kid, my parents were scientists. Then the Kraang came and took them away. I never saw them again. But that wasn't the last I saw of the Kraang, years later they attacked my college dorm and I lost all my friends. Then when they invaded New York, my wife got mutated. When the Triceratons invaded, my son was obliterated in the confusion. And when the bug aliens invaded, my daughter was taken. I lost everything, because of aliens! And because I was too scared to fight back. So I vowed, that I would always fight back!”
He continued, “And that I'd do everything in my power to make sure that no alien would ever harm another innocent again. And nothing is gonna stop me from keeping this planet safe for the human race. Nothing!”
Leo and April overheard and tried to reason with him.
“Look, we're sorry for your loss,” Leo began, “We’ve all been hurt by the Kraang and the Triceratons as well, but this isn’t the way. While races like them want to destroy and conquer there are good aliens as well. In fact, one of them gave his life to save the earth. Without him, the earth would’ve been gone by now!
April added her two cents, “I know your pain. The Kraang have taken my mother when I was little. Please, let us help you.”
Skonk frowned at the two, “You. You know NOTHING! How could you side with them after what they have taken from us!”
April argued back, “I do know if you detonate that bomb, you’re no better than them!”
“Shut up! Not another word! I said nothing's gonna stop me and I meant it! Especially not you freaks!” Suddenly his gun was levitated out of his hands by Twilight, “What the?” Then before he knew it, Leo and Raph tackled him and held him down.
“Donnie, Twilight, disarm the bomb!” Leo ordered.
“On it!” the two climbed inside the truck.
“NO!” Skonk broke free, punched Raph, and head-bashed Leo. Then before anyone could charge him, he got to the driver's side of truck, got in, and gunned the engine, making Donnie and Twilight fall out. He made sharp turn, driving straight towards them.
“Look out!” April cried, and everyone dove out of the way as Skonk drove the truck right through the wall.
Everyone who was still fighting stopped when the truck smashed out. General Griffen was still grappling with Blade when they saw the truck barreling towards them and quickly jumped out of the way.
Griffen looked back at the truck and saw the bomb in the back, “What the? A bomb?! Agrh!” Taking advantage of the distraction, Blade hit the general with a chop to the neck, hitting a nerve and making him drop to ground.
The Ninjas and Rainbooms regrouped as Fluttershy asked, “What happened?”
“We found the bomb, but Skonk drove off before we could disarm it!” Sunset answered.
“It turned out he lost loved ones to the Kraang and Triceratons. That’s why he hates aliens.”” April added.
“He’s on his way to blow up New York!” Twilight added.
“And with Skonk driving away, we'll never catch him!” Donnie finished in worry.
“Never say never, Donnie.” Raph said, as he pointed into the building, where all the vehicles were.
General Griffen got up just in time to see the Ninjas and Rainbooms driving off after Skonk in some of the jeeps and atvs.
Griffen glared and barked to his remaining men, “Troops, get whatever vehicles are left and stop Skonk! And catch those ninjas!”
“Sir, yes, sir!” The soldiers answered and got to work.
Meanwhile, Buffy and the others were driving back after dropping Michael off at the hospital.
“So, you mean to say, that when you were younger, your father bought you your very own amusement park rides?” Fugitoid asked Buffy.
“Whoa, really?” Wallflower asked in surprise.
Buffy answered sheepishly, “Uh, yeah, I was a real spoiled kid back then. But I had them donated to Coney Island when I got older.”
“Aw man, I would've loved to go on those rides!” Zach groaned, as Caitlyn rolled her eyes.
“So the Turtles and Rainbooms have adventures like this all the-” Buffy was suddenly cut off by Wallflower.
“Watch out!”
Buffy looked back to see a truck speeding towards them. She and the others screamed as she swerved to miss the truck and stopped.
“Watch where you're going!” Buffy shouted to the driver.
At that moment, the Ninjas drove past, “Hey, that was the Turtles and Rainbooms!” Zach asked.
“Oh, my!” Fugitoid gasped.
“Who are they chasing?” Buffy wondered.
Caitlyn spoke, “I got a glimpse of a spherical thing in the back. It could be that bomb Michael was warning us about.”
Zach shouted, “Follow them, Buffy!”
Buffy did a sharp U turn and followed the ninjas and Rainbooms, before sighing, “Here we go again.”
They joined the chase just as Griffen and his men were right behind them.
Wallflower looked back and noticed them, “Uh, guys, we're not the only ones following them!”
Fugitoid spoke, “Not for long!” He climbed onto the roof then readied his arm blasters, “Have at thee!” And began firing at the cars tires, causing some of the vehicles to crash into each other and other things.
Caitlyn spoke dryly, “Have at thee? They're not knights you know!”
While Fugitoid managed to keep most of them at bay, three of the vehicles, one with General Griffen inside, managed to get past them.
“Oh no!” Wallflower gasped.
Back up ahead, Skonk looked through the rear-view mirror and saw the Ninjas chasing him, “They're persistent, I'll give 'em that!” he made a sharp turn, with the Ninjas and Griffen not far behind.
“Donnie, Twilight, get to bomb! We'll keep Skonk busy!” Leo ordered.
Donnie and Twilight who were riding with April in a jeep answered, “On it!” And both climbed out and got ready.
April floored the gas and drove as close as she could to the back of the trailer. Then Donnie and Twilight leaped out and just managed to grab hold of the footplate and climbed in. But then the truck's trailer hit a bump and they were lurched forward and fell onto the bomb.
Twilight looked at the bomb and spoke nervously, “Okay, we got this, no pressure!”
“True. All we gotta do is remove the plutonium core. At ninety miles an hour! WITH A MANIAC AT THE WHEEL!” Donnie shouted in a panic.
Raph drove up to ram Skonk. Despite that, Skonk sped up, “Gee, this guy doesn’t know when to quit!” Raph growled.
Rainbow spoke through the T phone, “Hey, Raph! Double whammy?”
Raph catching on smirked, “You’re on!”
Raph drove up to Skonk's left while Rainbow drove up to the right. Before Skonk could react, they both rammed the sides of the truck. Unfortunately that also shook Donnie and Twilight who were still in the back with the bomb.
“Hey! We’re in here!” Donnie shouted.
Raph turned to Applejack, who was riding with him, “AJ, take the wheel! I'm gonna try to stop the truck!” he climbed out the window.
“Careful, Raph!”
Raph jumped from the jeep to the truck and pulled open the passengers door, “Stop this truck!”
Skonk responded by whipping out a pistol and started shooting at him. Raph quickly dodged out of the way then threw a shuriken, knocking the weapon from Skonk's hand and out the window. Then he jumped in the truck and the two began wrestling over the steering wheel.
“You ain't stopping me, Turtle! Nobody's gonna stop me!” Skonk declared.
“I can't tell you how times we've heard that!” Raph replied.
“Now!” Leo called.
Leo, Mikey, Pinkie, and Shinigami all jumped from their vehicles and landed on the trailer of the truck, “Booyakasha!” The party turtle declared.
“What now? Pinkie asked.
“Let's help, Raph!” Leo answered.
Mikey looked ahead and got scared, “Um, guys?” he pointed up ahead.
Ahead of them, the jeep with Griffen inside had headed them off and was blocking the road. The general himself was aiming a rocket launcher at the truck. And them!
“Oh, no.” Leo gasped.
Rainbow saw that to and gasped. Then she jumped out of her jeep, activated her super speed and ran towards the general.
Griffen frowned and called ahead, “I'm gonna stop you, Skonk, one way or another!” But just as he pulled the trigger, Rainbow raced up a punched him across the face.
“That's for my friends! And Tokka!”
Fortunately, her punch caused Griffen to miss his target completely. Unfortunately, it caused him to hit the side of the mountain instead. Everyone stopped their vehicles when they heard a loud rumble. The rocket had caused the dirt on the mountain to come sliding down at them!
“Landslide!” Pinkie screamed.
Everyone screamed as the dirt plowed into the truck, turning it and sending it sliding down a steep hill. Leo was flung from the trailer and hit a tree. Mikey, Shini, and Pinkie almost fell off too but they latched onto their chain weapons to save themselves.
Leo got up and saw the other jeeps and began to run.
“Leo’s in trouble!” Mikey cried.
“I’ll see if I can swing around and grab him!” Karai said.
“I’ll buy you some time! Allow me to be the tough girl for once!” Fluttershy offered with determination.
Fluttershy jumped out of her jeep and did a whistle call. Suddenly a mob of bears including her friend Harry scooped her on his back charged at the Jeeps. The bears rammed the jeeps while Fluttershy screamed in war cry while riding on Harry’s back. Everyone stared down at the shy friend in awe.
“Whoa.” April gasped.
Rarity gasped, “My stars!”
Applejack looked in disbelief, “That girl never stops blowing my mind.”
Suddenly all the remaining H.A.T.E soldiers surrounded the group. Everyone got ready to fight, when Buffy's car rammed into the soldiers, knocking them out.
Buffy pretended to gasp in shock, “Oh no, I hit some guys.”
Rainbow smirked, “Great timing.”
Meanwhile, Karai drove her ATV down the slope and grabbed Leo's hand, pulling him on board.
“Thanks, Karai!”
“You're welcome!”
Then a jeep drove up along side and one of the soldiers fired a taser at Leo, but the turtle deflected it with his katana.
Mikey who saw everything declared, “That's it!” Then he jumped from the trailer, “Booyakasha!” And landed on the jeep, kicking the soldier out, then he punched through the top window and grabbed the steering wheel from the driver, “Look, I'm driving!”
He spun the jeep around then Pinkie and Shini jumped off the trailer next and into the back of the vehicle.
“Surprise!” Pinkie cheered, as she and Shini fought the soldiers and knocked them out of the jeep.
Another vehicle pulled ahead of them and the truck. Then a soldier popped out with another rocket launcher.
“Mikey, turn the jeep back around!” Shini ordered.
Mikey did what she said as the witch girl got in the driver's seat and floored the gas. The jeep drove right for the other one, then the three quickly ditched the vehicle as it smashed into the other jeep. They landed on the truck, with Pinkie and Shini grabbing the passenger door while Mikey face planted on the windshield, startling Raph and Skonk.
“What up?” Mikey asked with his face smashed against the windshield.
Back inside the trailer, Donnie and Twilight had opened up the bomb and the turtle was about to snip the wire that would defuse it.
“Okay... gotta be extra careful not to snip-” The trailer hit another bump which caused him to snip another wire. Then the timer began accelerating, “The wrong wire!” He and Twilight screamed.
“Guys! The timer on the bomb is accelerating!” Donnie screamed.
“And we're heading to Canterlot!” Twilight cried.
Raph spoke, “Oh that's real nice, Twilight. You gonna do weather and sports next?”
Twilight scowled, “Well, if you're gonna be nasty about it, Raph, now may be a bad time to say we're heading for a one hundred foot drop!”
“Are you saying there's a...”
“CLIFF!” Mikey screamed, as they saw it up ahead causing everyone else to panic.
“Donnie! Twilight! Get outta there now!” Leo called.
Donnie and Twilight jump out of the truck. Raph, Mikey, Shini, and Pinkie pulled Skonk out with them as they bailed out of the truck and went tumbling on the ground.
“Everybody down!” Donnie shouted, and they all dropped to ground and covered their heads.
The truck went over the cliff just as the timer ran out and the bomb went off in a massive explosion, completely obliterating the truck.
Raph looked up in confusion, “Wait? Shouldn't we all be vaporized or something?”
Donnie spoke as he and Twilight sat up, “That, thankfully, wasn't a nuclear explosion.”
“We did the smart thing and the removed the plutonium core first.” Twilight whipped out said core.
“Ah yeah!” Mikey cheered.
Leo smiled, “Great work you two.”
Then they heard a grunt and turned around to see Skonk standing up and he was not happy.
“You, FOOLS! You destroyed the chance for the human race's safety!”
“Who would be safe?!” Karai called him out, “Everyone in New York would've been dead because of you!”
“You are a seriously messed up akuma!” Shini said in disgust.
“You hurt a guy!” Leo called him out.
“Hunted him and us down!” Donnie put in.
“Tried to dissect Sunset and accused her of being an alien!” Pinkie added.
“And tried to destroy millions if not thousands just to destroy aliens who aren’t there anymore!” Mikey finished. Everyone looked at Mikey knowing his math was reversed but let it slide.
Raph added his two cents, “You’d think killing your own kind makes you better than the Kraang or the Triceratons? DO YOU?!”
“Silence!” Skonk shouted, “If you think you've all won, your sadly mistaken! Cause this ain't over! Not by a long shot! So says me I will never rest until every last alien threat wiped out for-Aaahhh!” He was suddenly shocked and fell to the ground unconscious, revealing Casey and the others standing behind him.
“Great timing.” Pinkie smiled.
“Are you guys okay?” April asked.
“We are now.” Donnie answered.
“Talk about intense.” Zach said still feeling the rush.
“The bomb is gone and the plutonium is safe.” Twilight stated.
“Awesome!” Rainbow pumped a fist.
“So what do we do with these guys?” Keno asked, while motioning to all the unconscious soldiers.
“Well, we can’t just leave 'em here.” Applejack noted.
Blade looked at the soldiers and shook his head in disbelief, “It’s just sad that they were prejudice against all aliens from being blinded by their own fear and hate.”
Before they could decide, a portal opens up and Bishop emerged with some EPF soldiers who began gathering the unconscious H.A.T.E soldiers.
“Bishop?' The group asked.
Bishop smiled, “Greetings, my friends. I’m sorry our reunion isn’t under better circumstances.”
“At least you came. It’s a long story.” Sunset said.
“Not to worry, Sunset Shimmer. Professor Honeycutt contacted me while he was at the hospital and told me everything. I’m just sorry General Griffen was involved.” He looked seeing Bright Eyes look up at him astonishingly.
“Wow! Bishop of the Utrom in person!”
Bishop nodded, while motioning to the new faces, “I see you have added new faces to your party.”
Leo nodded, “We have. Bishop, This is Zach, his sister Caitlyn, Buffy, and Wallflower Blush.”
“And this is Bright Eyes. She’s from Equestria.” Sunset introduced.
“Nice to meet you.” Zach greeted.
Buffy spoke, “The turtles briefed us on how you’ve helped them against the Triceratons. Thank you.”
“Yes, thank you.” Caitlyn said gratefully.
“It was my pleasure. You have chosen the best company with the Ninjas and Rainbooms. Any friends of them is a friend of the Utrom.” he expressed his respect.
“I believe you can take care of this plutonium.” Twilight handed Bishop the plutonium core.
“Thank you. The Utrom will make sure this plutonium never causes harm again. And the Earth Protection Force will take Griffen and his men to the authorities. Again, thank you for your assistance.
Donnie glanced at the knocked out Skonk, before speaking to the Utrom agent, “Hey, Bishop, maybe don't be too hard on Skonk. I mean, sure what he attempted to do was crazy and genocidal, but he just wanted the survival for humanity. And who doesn't want that?”
“And he did lose his loved ones to the aliens.” April added.
“He needs help with coping and realizing not all aliens are the same,” Blade put in, “I've been there before.”
“The EPF will make sure that Skonk gets the help he needs.”
“Thanks, Bishop. Now I think we have something to do.” Leo said, as the others nodded in agreement.
At the hospital, Michael Murphy was laying in a bed with his shoulder bandaged up. Then some shadows fell on him and he opened his eyes to see some blurry figures standing around his bed.
“Hey, Michael.” April greeted.
“How are you feeling?” Wallflower asked.
“Oh, it's all of you. Well, considering I just survived a gunshot to the shoulder, I fine. The doctors said I was lucky.”
Karai smiled, and spoke, “You’ll be pleased to know that we stopped those men from blowing up New York.”
“And the plutonium is stashed somewhere it won’t do anymore harm.” Sunset assured him.
“And Skonk and those HATE losers are taken to the authorities.” Casey finished.
Michael smiled and sighed in relief, “Thank you. All of you. Means a lot to me.”
“That’s what being a friend is for.” Applejack said.
“So what are you gonna do when you get out of the hospital?” Bright Eyes asked.
“Look for work I guess?” he shrugged.
April got an idea, “You know, we've got a friend who works for TCRI, maybe he can help you find a job there.”
“I appreciate that, thank you.”
“Well, I think we all better get going.” Sunset said, as they were about to head out.
“Oh, uh, before you go, if we ever cross paths again, I would like to hear more about the four giant turtles that were with you.”
Everyone froze in wide eyed dumbfounded. Outside his window, the Turtles too were surprised.
“He's good.” Mikey told his bros.