Months ago…..
Dragaunus teleported to a wasteland planet and waited before a certain shark shaped ship land near him. It converted to reveal the bounty hunter Armaggon.
“So, we meet at last, Dragaunus.” the shark spoke. “Never thought I’d see another Saurian overlord after all these years.”
“The bounty hunter, Armaggon.” Dragaunus noticed Armaggon’s pale look. “It looks like you’ve seen better days.”
“One of Dregg’s pets tried to digest me. Took me an eternity to burst out.”
“That bug Dregg was an overconfident one.” Dragaunus mumbled. “I trust you brought the eggs I requested?”
Armaggon responded by holding up a container holding what appeared to be meatballs. “Some of the most lethal creatures in the galaxy. Also comes with instructions. You have my pay, right?”
Dragaunus held up a bag as well as a computer chip. “Thirty credits as well as the coordinates to the planet Earth. I could just teleport you there you know.”
“Nah. I prefer to fly there. Besides, I want to land where my enemies are instead of wasting time searching the planet.” Armaggon accepted his prize and began to head out before Dragaunus spoke again.
“Once you defeat your enemies, perhaps you can come to Anaheim and work for me.” He offered.
“Once I rip off those brats’ heads, I might take ya on that offer, Dragaunus.” Armaggon shrugged before blasting off.
As he left, Dragaunus snickered as he stared at the eggs inside the container.
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Present Day…
“So you still have the eggs that Armaggon gave you?” Wraith asked as Dragaunus held that same container.
“Indeed! You could say I’ve been saving them for a special occasion.” He chuckled. “This could be our last chance to distract those retched ninjas and Rainboom friends of the Ducks. They may look like what the humans call meatballs, but once they hatch, they become some of the most lethal creatures in the universe!”
“And how pray tell do we make sure those brats get these eggs?”
Dragaunus felt put-off on Wraith’s question. But before he could say anything, Siege and Chameleon entered the room arguing.
“Quit hogging the paper! It’s my turn!” Siege demanded trying to snatch the newspaper from Chameleon, who held it back as his head shape shifted into an orange cat.
“Forget it, pal! You know I love starting my day reading the funnies.” He taunted sounding like a lazy cat. But when Siege quickly snatched the papers, his head shifted back and he jumped up trying to steal the paper back. “Hey! Give that back! I ain’t finished with that!”
Wraith shook his head drearily. “Why do you two bother fighting over the newspaper? I thought you hated politics, Siege?”
“Doesn’t mean I don’t laugh at how these humans fail their planet.” Siege smirked before tossing Chameleon aside.
Suddenly, Dragaunus’ eyes widened as he saw the paper. “Wait! Show me that article!”
“You a Husker fan, Lord Dragaunus?” Siege asked holding up the sport section.
“NOT THE SPORTS PAGE, YOU DUNCE!” Dragaunus snapped before yanking another article from the paper and began to read it. “Let’s see. ’Grand opening. UFO Pizza parlor in Anaheim. Come today for our big bake off, enjoy free samples, live music from special guests The Hex Girls, have your picture taken with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, enter our raffle drawing for free deluxe pizzas.’ Hmm.”
Chameleon got up from the rubble Siege threw him in. “What? You thinking about lunch already, Lord Dragaunus?”
“Blech! I don’t know why those turtle creatures love that concoction. It’s just nothing but cheese melted on bread.” Wraith scoffed.
“Oh they do, do they?” Dragaunus smirked. “Well, I think I know how we can use that to our advantage. Siege! Get to Anaheim prison! We might need help from an old collegue.”
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Back at the Pond, Donnie was working on a washing machine with a practice dummy on it while Mikey hand his nunchucks to Nosedive who began twirling them.
“Okay, Don!” the duck called. “I’m ready to get down this machine of yours!”
“Hope he’s not too tough for ya, Nosedive.” Mallory joked as Nosedive shot her a look.
“I don’t know, Mal. It might almost be a fair fight.” Raph chuckled. “Of course, I can’t say who it’s fair for.”
Casey and Rainbow laughed at Raph’s joke while Night Shine drank his coffee in amusement. As Leo and Shining Armor were playing a game of chess next to him, Wildwing called to his brother.
“Careful, little bro! always study your opponent well.”
Donnie turned the machine on, causing to spin the dummy around with its arms out like it was punching as Nosedive walked up and started swing the chucks at it. “No sweat, Bro! the day old Nosedive can’t kick butt on some washing machine is the day I hang up my…. HOCKEY ST-I-I-I-ICK!”
Suddenly, the dial turned on its own, causing the dummy to spin so fast Nosedive couldn’t keep up and ended up getting knocked silly. Acting quickly, Scootaloo flung her knife at the cord which knocked the plug off the outlet with its helm, shutting the machine.
“Nice shot, Scoots!” applauded Buzz as she grabbed her knife.
“Yep. A good strategy.” Mallory nodded. “Sometimes attacking an enemies line of supply is more effective than a frontal attack.”
“Thanks, Mal.” Scootaloo smiled. “It was something Karai taught me.”
“You alright, Nosedive?” Applebloom asked.
“Wake me when the blueberry muffins are ready, Ma.” Nosedive mumbled in a daze before falling back down.
“He’ll be fine. He’ll snap out of it soon.” Grin smiled.
Just then, Shine Boy entered the room with Serenity, Zach, and Sunset. “Hey, guys. So what’s on the agenda today?”
Before anyone could answer, Phil entered the room. “Boobalas! Have I got a public appearance for you all!”
“Forget it, Phil!” Leo waved off. “I told you already we don’t do public appearances.”
“Relax, Leonardo. Only the Ducks are making the appearance.”
“We need to find that final fragment before Dragaunus.” Raph added. “We’ve been distracted with Dr. Paradigm, Spider Bytz mutating Shine Boy, and Daddy O’Cool. We need to get back to completing the eye of Sarnoth!”
“Just hear me out, fellas.” Phil read his brochure. “‘Grand opening. UFO Pizza parlor in Anaheim. Come today for our big bake off, enjoy free samples, live music from special guests The Hex Girls, have your picture taken with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, enter our raffle drawing for free deluxe pizzas.’ I figured since you turtles like pizza so much, I figured you’d want to come along.”
Mikey snagged the brochure. “I’m sold! Cmon guys! We gotta go if it has pizza!”
Leo and Raph looked at Wildwing who sighed. “I… promised Phil we’d do one public appearance before the game Saturday.”
“And I know we’ve been saying this over and over again, but I’ll keep saying if it really does lead us to the final fragment.” Shine Boy figured.
“And we are still on vacation. Just because we are trying to save the world doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy ourselves.” Cadence advised.
“And I want to ask these Hex Girls to preform for the halftime show.” Phil chimed in.
“Did I hear the Hex Girls?” Shini walked up as Mikey showed her the paper.
“Someone you know, Shinigami?” asked Shine Girl.
“They’re one of my favorite bands.” The witch girl smiled.
“I remember you sharing some songs of theirs with me a couple times. They are great.” Karai admitted.
“Yeah, they’re really awesome!” Mikey chimed in before blushing. “Shini invites me over to play video games sometimes.”
“Is that the only thing you two do together?” Night Shine smirked, causing the two to blush very bright as Shini threw a smoke bomb in his face, covering his face with black powder. “Just asking.”
Rarity cleared her throat to change the subject. “Anyway, I’ve heard the Hex Girls before. They are very good. Kind of …. Spooky.”
Pinkie pulled a tape recorder from her puffy hair. “Note to self, look into Hex Girls songs for next Halloween party.”
“I say we go!” April smiled.
As everyone agreed, Leo sighed. “Okay, we’ll go.”
“Besides, we should be done with the Crystal Converger by tonight.” Tanya said as she entered with Gamer and Fugitoid.
“You’re a prince, Leo! A prince among turtles!”
“Yeah yeah.” Leo waved off Phil’s praises.
“We better get ready. Cmon, Ducks!” Wildwing said as everyone began leaving the room.
“Besides, fighting those Saurian jerks do work up an appetite for those free pizzas!” Mikey grinned.
“Just as long as they don’t sick washing machines at us, right Nosedive?” joked Duke as everyone laughed at his jest while Nosedive shot a look at him.
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Later, at the street corner where UFO Pizza held its celebration, the heroes were among the crowds. The Turtles all wore their cloaking disguises while April, Karai, Shinigami, and Team Shine wore civilian clothes. Night Shine just wore a black wide brim fedora and his jacket zipped up and sunglasses over his eyes that powered down to normal. Serenity was taking pictures of the scenery as they walked around. The Mighty Ducks were wearing their hockey attire as they took pictures with people that were in line to get their picture taken while Phil supervised.
“This is amazing!” Mikey cheered.
“Sure is.” Sweetie Belle agreed before smiling at Michael (Gamer) and blushing.
“Too bad your cousin couldn’t be here, Gabby. He would’ve loved this.” Scootaloo sighed.
“Si, Scoots. The Spy Racers would’ve loved this.” Gabby shrugged.
“Yep. So far so good.” Tony (Shine Boy) looked around.
Just then, an announcer spoke up. “Ladies and Gentlemen! Thank you all for coming to the grand opening of UFO Pizza! Enjoy free samples, get your picture taken with Anaheim’s Mighty Ducks, and enter your name for our drawings for our free deluxe pizzas! But first and foremost, give it up for Thorn, Dusk, and Luna, The Hex Girls!”
Everyone cheered as three figures appeared on stage. They were three young women wearing black dresses that made them look like vampires. The black-haired one played guitar while the red-haired one played keyboard and the blonde one with pigtails was on drums as they all sang together.
Everyone applauded as the song finished.
“If I ever questioned your word, Shinigami, pray that I never did, I definitely agree. They are good.” Tony said.
“Yeah they are.” Caitlyn smiled when a familiar voice spoke up.
“Well, I think they decent. Mediocre at best.”
Everyone turned to see Vernon Fenwick walk up to them.
“It takes mediocre to know mediocre.” Shini sneered.
“What are you doing here, Vernon?” Caitlyn glared.
“Well, it just so happens that this a public event, Caitlyn. I just came to enjoy myself.”
“Oh joy.” Casey grumbled.
Vern then noticed the four cloaked turtles. “Haven’t I seen you four before?”
“I don’t think so.” Raph brushed off.
Vern then noticed something about them. “Wait a minute! Weren’t you those exchange students that came on Pizza Friday? I thought you were Swedish.”
The four were stumped about that before Tony and Brandon stepped in.
“Because they’ve been learning English.” Brandon folded his arms.
“Ya! They are best friends!” Mikey talked sounding Swedish.
“And who are you fine gentlemen?” Vern asked the two.
“I’m Tony and this is my bud, Brandon. We’re friends of these guys from Columbus, Nebraska who are joining our friends on vacation.”
“Now, now. I’m not here to make trouble.” Vern silently sweated.
“Stop bothering our friends and we can leave quietly.” Brandon bargained.
“Yeah! Especially those who know great music when we hear it!” Caitlyn snarked as Gabby and April held her back.
“Caitlyn!” Sunset whispered. “Let’s try not to make a scene. We are in public.”
What Vernon said next didn’t help matters any. “Easy for you to say since you never played anything before.”
Unknown to the group, The Hex Girls seemed to have heard their conversation and looked at each other and nodded. Then, Thorn gestured to Caitlyn to come here which Zach noticed and got Caitlyn’s attention.
“Wanna bet?” Caitlyn asked calmly, surprisingly.
Everyone was surprised as she walked over to the Hex Girls.
“I wonder what’s that all about?” Rainbow wondered.
“Beats me.” Zach shrugged. “But they wanted Caitlyn to come over.”
“I hope we weren’t too loud.” Fluttershy worried.
“I don’t think we were, Fluttershy.” Shining assured her.
The group became more surprised as Dusk handed her drumsticks to Caitlyn who sat next to her drum set.
“They’re gonna let her play the drums?” Applejack blinked.
“Ooo. This outta be good.” Vern took out his phone. “I’m putting this on my live stream.”
“Should we get her?” Asked Sunset.
“Nah. She’ll be fine.” Zach said, causing everyone to blink.
Vern spoke to his phone. “This is Vern ‘The Falcon’ Fenwick here with live in Anaheim, The snoop Caitlyn Roberts is going to attempt to play the drums.”
Back at the photoshoot, The Mighty Ducks just finished another photo when Nosedive saw Caitlyn about to preform.
“Wonder what’s she doing?” he wondered to himself.
Caitlyn took a deep breath and began to play on the drums.
Everyone, especially Vern, was shocked to see how wonderful Caitlyn played the drums. Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle were all wide eyed and all jaw dropped at the same time. Nosedive was equally surprised as his jaw dropped open as well. Serenity took a couple pictures on her phone. When she finished, there was a long silence. Tony then began to applaud with everyone, except Vern, applauding along. Zach then leaned over to Vern.
“Did I mention that Caitlyn took drumming lessons since she was six?”
“And she says she doesn’t have a thing for music.” Rarity gleamed.
“Way to go!” Buzz cheered.
The Ducks applauded as well. “All right, Caitlyn!” Duke cheered.
“Cool.” Luna smiled.
“Wicked.” Dusk clapped.
“That girl's got skill.” Thorn admitted.
Shortly after, Caitlyn rejoined her friends who happily congratulated her.
“Nice work, Caitlyn!” Sunset smiled.
“You got great skills, kid.” Brandon thumbed up.
“Thanks, guys.” Caitlyn smiled. “Did I sound mediocre?”
“Mediocre? You were metal, Girl!” Casey fist pumped.
Raph then turned to the still surprised Vern. “Now, if you’ll excuse us, we got names to enter for some free pizzas.”
As the group left, Serenity walked up to Vern and took a picture of his surprised look. “I’m adding that to my personal collection. See you, Mr. Fendwick.” She smiled before hurrying to the group.
After they entered their names, the group went to mingle in the crowds, just talking and trying some samples of pizza, having a good time all around. They managed to make their way to the Ducks who were taking a little break from photos.
“Hey, guys.” Tony greeted.
“You guys having fun?” Wildwing asked.
“Yeah we are.” Leo nodded.
“You look like you were having fun earlier, Caitlyn.” Duke grinned.
“Yeah, you really rocked that drum solo, girl.” Nosedive added.
“Thanks, guys.” Caitlyn smiled.
“Should’ve seen Vern’s face when she nailed it!” Mikey laughed along with Casey and Zach.
“That same guy who’s been trying…. To expose these ‘turtle creatures’ he’s going on about?” Tanya gestured, trying not to expose the four brothers.
“Eyup. Tried to humiliate Caitlyn but she served him karma.” Applejack patted her back.
“So far, no sign of the final fragment. Or Dragaunus or his goons.” Sunset whispered.
“Same here.” Wildwing added. “You guys continue to have fun, but keep your eyes peeled.”
“We will.” Leo promised.
Pinkie popped up and sniffed something. “It looks like they’re bringing out the pizza prizes to display! Let’s go!”
“Yeah and our break’s almost up. You guys go ahead.” Mallory smiled.
“Okay. See you in a bit.” Cadence waved as the group headed towards the table.
Meanwhile, in an alley near the festivities, Chameleon saw the pizzas being carried out and pulled out a communicator. “Lord Dragaunus! The pizza prizes have arrived.”
“Good.” Dragaunus spoke in the communicator. “Then it’s time to add the secret ingredient. You know what to do. And no mistakes!”
“Al momento, mio capitano!” Chameleon saluted as he shapeshifted into a chef and walked towards the table.
At his ship, Dragaunus pulled up Siege on his vid screen. “Siege! Are you three in position?”
“Ready in position, Lord Dragaunus.” Siege said as he, Wraith, and a new figure hid in another alley.
“Good! Once Chameleon does his part and he’s on stage, you three sneak into the kitchen and make sure those brats see you to make them believe you are sabotaging the kitchen.”
“I hope we get this over with.” Wraith groaned. “Seeing these humans having fun is giving me a migraine.”
“I too am eager to get started.” The third figure stepped from the shadows, revealing a humanoid falcon wearing a red cape, black tights and boots, a red belt, and gold wristbands. “I have been waiting a long time to get back at Duke for humiliating me last time.”
Dragaunus turned his attention towards the falcon. “Listen closely, Falcone! I am aware you tried to double-cross me last time! However, I am willing to give you another chance, a feat only a few under my rule have ever received. Don’t. blow. It!”
“O-Of course, Lord Dragaunus.” Falcone gulped. “I assure you things will be different this time.”
“See that it does.” Warned Dragaunus before he signed off.
As everyone observed the pizzas on display, Chameleon made his way to the table under his disguise.
“Truly, a work of art.” He spoke in an Italian accent before placing an egg on each pizza unnoticed.
Back with the heroes, Shining tapped Leo on the shoulder. “Hey, Leo. Could I talk to you in private?”
“Uh sure.” Leo blinked but complied. “I’ll be back in a bit.”
“Oh. Okay.” Twilight was equally confused.
Shining looked towards Cadence and winked, giving her a clue at what he was doing. Cadence understood. “They’ll be fine, Twilight. It’s just guy talk. C’mon.”
“Okay.” Twilight shrugged. “I hope he doesn’t scare Leo too much.”
“Not at all.” Cadence assured.
After a little way from the crowd, Shining and Leo stopped by the curb. As the two sat down and after a moment of silence, Leo broke the ice.
“So…. what’s up?”
Shining took a deep breath and answered. “I know we haven’t talked much since we’ve met and there’s something I wanted to tell you, which was why Cadence and I were hoping you and your family could come on our vacation. First, and foremost, I just... wanted to thank you, for helping Twily all this time.”
“It’s no problem.” Leo smiled.
“She’s more lucky to have you in her life than me.” Shining looked down.
Leo patted his shoulder. “Shining Armour, you’re her brother.”
“But you’ve done a better job at protecting her, better than me. I know you’re aware of what happened at the Friendship Games, well I also had a hand in it.”
“What?” Leo asked.
“When I was a student at Crystal Prep, I competed in the games. We won, and I was super proud of myself. When Principal Cinch told me about wanting Twilight to compete, I thought it might be good for her, help her socialize more. But I guess there was also pride talking. When I found out what happened, and what Cinch did, I was devastated. Twily went through a lot of pain, and I helped put her there. I… I didn’t mean for her to get traumatized during Camp Everfree. Even when Cinch realized her mistakes, I had a hard time forgiving her. Eventually, with Cadence, Twilight, and even my dad helping me, I did forgive her. But I still regret my decision.”
Leo took a deep breath. “Yeah, I can relate to that.”
“You do?” Shining looked up.
“When Professor Honeycutt confessed that he made The Black Hole Generator, I yelled at him and went after the Triceratons myself, almost killing myself. When we realized he was gonna sacrifice himself to destroy it and he did, I was so upset that I wouldn’t get the chance to apologize to him. Thankfully, his head survived, and Sunset found him, and Twilight made him a new body and we were able to start over. But even so, I try my best to be there for my brothers with Master Splinter gone.”
“I guess we both share the big brother responsibility.” Shining admitted.
Leo nodded. “It’s not easy, but with your sister and her friends’ help, as well as the many friends we’ve met, our bond has been able to stand strong.”
“Indeed.” Shining nodded. “I’m really glad you all included me and Cadence in your fight with Dragaunus. Despite me and Twily’s friction at the beginning. I guess I had to see that Twily wasn’t that same girl from the Friendship Games.”
“Shining, you did the right thing. Sometimes, we needed Master Splinter’s against our enemies. And I guess it’s a sibling thing why Twilight neglected your help.”
“Well, Thanks to Duke, we were able to talk it over. And at least it won’t ruin our surprise for Twily.”
“Surprise?” Shining leaned closer to Leo and whispered in his ear.
Leo widened his eyes at what he heard. But before he could say anything, Shining shushed him.
“Cadence and I want to keep it a secret until we defeat Dragaunus. We don’t want her to worry until we defeat him.” Shining explained.
Leo nodded as he smiled. “Okay. I promise. I won’t say anything.”
Just then, they heard the announcer spoke. “AND NOW! THE MOMENT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! THE DRAWING FOR OUR FREE DELUXE PIZZAS!”
Leo got up. “I guess we better get back.”
“Yeah.” Shining agreed before stopping Leo quickly. “And Leo? Thank you.”
Leo smiled back before the two hurried back to rejoin the others.
The heroes were next to an alleyway near the stage in front of the restaurant when Leo and Shining regrouped with them.
“Welcome back.” Greeted Keno.
“Everything okay?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah. Just a little guy talk.” Shining assured her.
“Everything’s fine, Twilight.” Leo patted her shoulder.
“You’re just in time for the drawing.” Tony told them.
“Heck yeah, Bra!” Mikey cheered. “Let’s score some free pizza!”
“Yeah!” the CMCs joined in.
Unknown to them, Chameleon crept up behind the stage and transformed into a normal human male before walking up on stage as the announcer introduced him.
“AND HERE, A VOLUNTEER TO HELP US! MR. KAYMEL IAN!”
The heroes and the Ducks all looked shocked when they heard the name.
“Kaymel Ian?” Sunset frowned.
“If that’s not Chameleon, then I don’t play soccer!” Rainbow pointed out.
Donnie secretly pulled out his T-Phone to contact the Ducks secretly. “Hey, Wildwing. You heard that guy’s name, right?”
Over to the Ducks, Wildwing scanned with his mask. “We heard, Donnie, and unfortunately that is the Chameleon in disguise.”
As Chameleon waved to everyone, especially to the heroes, Casey pulled out his hockey mask. “Should we pound him?”
Cadence stopped him. “Hold on, Casey. It doesn’t look like he’s going to do anything bad.”
“Cadence is right. He doesn’t even have a weapon on him. We better not engage until he tries anything.” Wildwing advised.
“Just what is he doing?” Mallory wondered.
“I know, right?” Nosedive chuckled. “Kaymel Ian? Really? Is he even trying?”
“Nosedive’s got a point. It’s like he wants us to know it’s him.” Karai pointed out.
“Just what is he trying to pull?” Raph glared.
“Maybe he’s trying to distract us!” Everyone looked to see where April pointed.
“It’s Siege and Wraith!” Fluttershy gasped as they saw the two climb down a building.
“And Falcone!” Duke widened his eyes as he saw his former partner climb down too.
“Who?” Mikey asked.
“He’s a Raptrin member of the Brotherhood of the Blade. A group of jewel thieves that I once was in back in Puckworld.”
“Wait! That’s him?” Sweetie Belle blinked.
“Oh yeah. I forgot you were a thief once, Duke.” Casey shrugged.
“At least you learned.” Gabby added.
“I guess Dragaunus was willing to give him another chance to get the final fragment of the Eye of Sarnath!” Mallory concluded.
“We better go after those three!” Applejack stated.
“But what about Chameleon?” Zach pointed out.
“I hate to admit it, but Zach is right.” Wildwing pondered a bit. “Leo, You and your group go after them. We’ll keep an eye on Chameleon. I’ll even send Duke to help you guys.”
“You got it, Wildwing.” Leo nodded.
“Let’s cut through this alleyway so we don’t cause a scene.” Tony advised.
As they hurried into the alley, Applejack turned to the CMCs and Buzz. “Applebloom, you and your friends and Buzz stay here.”
“Understood, Applejack.” Applebloom nodded.
“You can help keep an eye on Chameleon, but listen to Wildwing no matter what!”
“We will.” Sweetie Belle promised.
“You can count on us!” Buzz added.
“We’ll stay with them until you guys get back.” Serenity assured as Caitlyn thumbed up. “Just be careful.”
“We will.” Tony nodded. “Let’s go.”
And with that, he and Applejack hurried to catch up with the others. Duke snuck away while Phil quickly walked up to the three goth girls.
"Hey, you ladies wouldn't happen to do half-time shows by any chance?"
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Meanwhile, in the restaurant, the head chef was taking a phone call.
“Alright. Got it. Two deluxe pizzas to go.” He said before hanging up and handing a note a. “There, you heard it, Dragun, two deluxe pizzas to this address here.”
“But Shades, we don’t have any made deluxe made left!” the deliverer gasped.
“Take a couple from the table outside then. I’ll make some more for the drawing and ask the announcer to hold out real quick.”
Dragun Shot nodded and hurried out. He went to the table and took two of the prize pizzas in their boxes and carried them off, unaware of the meatballs on the pizzas.
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Back with the heroes, they came out of the alley next to UFO Pizza, with Team Shine changed into their hero attire along with April, Karai, Casey, Shini, and Keno in their ninja and vigilante gear and attire. Duke shifted from his hockey gear to his combat gear as well. They poked out of the alleyway when Gamer spotted the three villains.
“There they go! In the kitchen!” he pointed as they saw Siege, Wraith, and Falcone running in a building door.
“Pump up the volume, guys! We got’em cornered!” Rainbow stated.
“Falcone is very sneaky! Be careful!” Duke warned.
“Understood! Let’s go, guys!” Leo waved.
As they ran in, the Turtles turned off their cloaking disguises. They all entered the kitchen hurrying in when Mikey stopped and saw all the pizza ingredients in the cubbies on the table counters.
“Oh wow! Pizza heaven!” he awed.
He snapped out of it as both Raph and Night Shine smacked him on the head.
“Mikey! Focus! Bad guys to fight, remember?” Night Shine glared as Raph pulled him away.
Everyone drew their weapons as they cornered the three. Night Shine threw his machete to Shining so he could use it while he drew his hatchets while Cadence grabbed a broom. Falcone drew his sword as he pointed to Duke.
“Duke, old chum. It’s been a long time.”
“Not long enough, Falcone.” Duke scowled.
“Still upset about leaving you for the police last time, I see.” Falcone teased.
“I’m more surprised Dragaunus would recruit you again after you tried to double cross him as well.”
“I ain’t complaining.” Falcone smirked.
“You will be after we whooped you and your buddies, Big Bird!” Rainbow declared.
“Whoop this, Girly!” Siege grabbed and threw a butcher knife at the kitchen rack above the group, causing it to fall.
Acting quickly, Rarity used her geode to produce diamond shields and blocked the pots and pans before they hit anyone while Love Shine just punched a skillet away.
“Nice try, Ankylo Breath!” Raph mocked.
Leo was about to say something when Shine Boy stopped him. “Let me, Leo.” He cleared his throat. “Let’s make these orders to go!”
“How did you-?” Leo was flabbergasted.
“I’m just done watching you struggling with a catchphrase is all.”
“I see.” Leo said. “Attack!”
As they charged, Leo then turned to Shine Boy. “Still not doing Turtle Power.”
Shine Boy held his hand up. “Just…. No. I’m done, okay? Let’s just fight.”
Leo smiled before they jumped at Siege along with others. April had her tanto as she faced Wraith.
“I remember you.” Wraith mumbled.
“Still upset about last time?” April smirked.
Wraith responded by clashing his staff with April’s blade. Suddenly, a dart narrowly missed Wraith. He looked to see it was Fluttershy who fired the dart. “Oh, it’s you.”
“You are going to pay for mind controlling me to hurting my friends!” Fluttershy stated.
“Oh Joy.” Wraith deadpanned before Shine Girl jumped on his back.
Duke fought sword to sword with Falcone. When he was gaining the upper hand, Falcone tripped him and was about to stab him when Shining jumped in and blocked the blade.
“Duke has taught you well in our old style.” Falcone mumbled as they locked blades.
“I bet you say that to all swordsmen.” Shining grunted.
Before Falcone could counter, Cadence used her broom to whacked him on the side as he recoiled.
“Keep your mitts off my husband!” she ordered.
“How romantic.” Falcone deadpanned before fighting Leo and Twilight.
Over to Siege, Pinkie grabbed a wad of pizza dough. “Hey, Siege! Pound your way out of this!”
She threw the dough at Siege, only for him to catch it, slash a couple holes in it with his claws, and held it like a net.
“Gladly! Have a dough net!” he smirked as he threw the net at her, Love Shine, Shini, and Rarity. Luckily, Love Shine was able to slash their way out with his photon blades.
“Okay. Bad idea.” Pinkie grinned sheepishly as Rarity and Shini deadpanned at her.
“Just need to be done right!” they saw Gamer stab an uncooked pizza with his katana and spun it on the top.
“Agreed!” Karai did the same with her tanto. “Somebody get some tomato sauce!”
“Two orders of tomato sauce…” Twilight chimed.
“Coming up!” Rainbow finished as the two used their spears to launch two pots of tomato sauce towards Siege hitting him in the face.
Gamer and Karai launched their pizzas at Wraith and Falcone, splatting them in the face. As the three recoiled, Applejack tripped Siege on a rolling kitchen cart while Sunset did the same to Wraith and Leo to Falcone. As the three rolled away, Mikey and Shini grabbed a couple more uncooked pizzas.
“Alright, chumps!” Mikey grinned.
“And now for the finishing touch!” Shini smirked as they flipped in position.
Pinkie popped up next to Duke handing him another pizza. “Hey Duke! Wanna do the honors?”
Duke smiled and nodded before accepting the pizza and hurrying next to Mikey and Shini and the three readied to throw.
“No! No! Not that!” Wraith pleaded as Siege and Falcone were equally worried.
“NOW!” Duke ordered and three threw the pizzas.
“BOOYAKASHA!” Mikey cried as he threw his.
The pizzas hit the three villains as they fell off the carts and landed outside in the alley.
“I despise anchovies.” Wraith mumbled as they got up.
“They’ll pay for this. Big time.” Siege growled as they began to teleport away.
Falcone wiped of some pizza gunk off him as he smirked to himself. “Enjoy your win, Duke, for next time, I’ll win.” And with that, he teleported too.
They were gone when everyone hurried out.
“Aw! They’re gone again!” groaned Rainbow.
“And I didn’t see anything that looked like a fragment.” Gamer sighed.
“We might as well bet back to the others.” Leo decided.
“Yeah, Phil’s probably blowing a gasket wondering where I am.” Duke joked.
“And to find out if Chameleon’s done anything yet.” Shine Boy.
“Let’s clean up the kitchen before anyone gets suspicious.” Cadence advised.
“Good idea.” Sunset agreed.
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Thanks to the Rainbooms’ geode power, they got the kitchen looking like it did before the fight. Pinkie even made uncooked pizzas exactly like the ones used in battle. They had regrouped with the CMCs, Serenity, and Caitlyn as Duke rejoined the Ducks. Team Shine, Karai, Shini, and April changed back into their civilian attire while the Turtles reactivated their cloaks.
“Hey guys.” Serenity greeted as she hugged Tony. As they spoke, Donnie turned on his T-Phone so the Ducks would listen in on their conversation.
“Everything okay?” Caitlyn asked.
“Yeah, we sent those three away.” Karai nodded.
“Unfortunately, it didn’t lead to that final fragment.” Michael grimaced.
“At least it means those guys don’t have it.” Applejack assured.
“Yeah. So we still have a chance.” Sunset added.
“Did Chameleon do anything while we were gone?” Casey checked.
“No. he hasn’t budged an inch since they announced him.” Applebloom pointed towards the still disguised Chameleon who stood on stage.
“Yeah, even when they postponed the drawing for technical difficulties.” Wildwing spoke through the T-Phone.
“How odd.” Tony mumbled.
“I’m getting a bad vibe.” Grin muttered.
“You wouldn’t be the only one, Grin.” April agreed, sharing the same worry.
“It could be he was expecting us to see his buddies sneaking in.” Donnie guessed.
“Then why does he look happy to see us?” Raph raised a brow.
Before anyone could answer, the announcer spoke again. At the same time, the head cook from earlier put out some new deluxe pizzas for the drawing.
“AND NOW THE DRAWING WILL BEGIN! MR. IAN, WILL YOU DO THE HONORS?”
“Of course.” Chameleon spoke in a gentlemen voice. As he reached in the raffle bucket, he pulled out extra tickets from his sleeve and pretended he pulled them from the bucket and read them. “And the winners of the pizzas are…. Sunset Shimmer, Casey Jones, Rainbow Dash, and… Michelangelo Hamato!”
The heroes cheered hearing they won the free pizzas as Brandon looked at Mikey confused. “Hamato?”
“Well, it was Sensei’s last name and he was our dad.” Mikey explained.
“Makes sense. Never thought of it before.” Brandon shrugged.
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Later, after the festivities, everyone went back to the Pond and were enjoying their free pizzas.
“Ain’t Antonio’s, but it’s not bad for a close second.” Keno smiled eating his slice.
“Should try Goodfeather’s if you’re around our home.” Gamer suggested.
“Though it’s too much of a coincidence that we won with Chameleon at the raffle.” April pointed out.
“I know it doesn’t feel right.” Sunset agreed.
Pinkie was halfway eaten her slice before gasping at a thought. “You don’t think Dragaunus recruited Pizzaface, do you?”
The Ninjas and Rainbooms wide-eyed at Pinkie’s guess while the Ducks looked confused.
“Who?” Tanya asked.
“Not again.” Raph and Night Shine groaned as Mikey stood up.
“Pizzaface is one of our greatest enemies.”
“Yeah, we don’t need to go through this again.” Pinkie pulled out a remote and fast-forwarded Mikey telling the Ducks about Pizzaface before playing again after Mikey finished.
“a mutant pizza chef?” Duke pieced together.
“And his pizza slices talk and turn you into zombies.” Nosedive added.
“I know it sounds ridiculous, but it really happened.” Leo deadpanned.
“As much as we hate to admit it.” Raph grumbled.
“And we end up paying for it when we ignored Mikey about it.” April sighed.
Just then, Phil entered looking bummed out.
“Hey, Philsy.” Greeted Keno.
“Everything okay?” Sunset asked in concern.
“No.” Phil sighed. “The Hex Girls are a no go for the halftime entertainment. Said they had another gig that same day.”
“Aw too bad! I was hoping to meet them.” Shini pouted.
“Oh man! I could’ve gotten their autograph for ya earlier! Sorry.” Caitlyn cringed.
“That’s okay. The thought slipped my mind too.”
"Maybe you'll see them again someday, Shinigami." Rarity held up her phone. "I know someone who follows them on Mystable."
"One of your fashion friends?" Applejack teased.
"As a matter of fact, yes. I just never met her in person is all."
"Really? What's her name?" Shinigami asked.
"A miss.... Daphne Blake."
"A lot of good it will do if I don't find my halftime entertainment!" Phil griped as he took a slice with the egg Chameleon planted. “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my office.”
Gamer analyzed his slice with a handheld device. “Nothing out of the ordinary here.”
“I’m not sensing anything either.” April felt her head. “But I just can’t stop feeling something bad.”
“I’m also getting a bad vibe.” Grin agreed.
“Well, I guess there’s nothing much we can do for now until we get a better understanding of Dragaunus’ plan.” Shining shrugged.
“Shining’s right.” Wildwing nodded. “Not much we can do racking our heads together.”
“Besides, the pizzas getting cold.” Joked Zach.
Suddenly, everyone heard a scream coming from Phil’s office.
“That was Mr. Palmfeather!” gasped Serenity.
“I knew it.” Mumbled April.
“Cmon!” Leo led the group towards the office while Mikey and Nosedive both grabbed a slice and ate them before following.
They all bursted in the office to see Phil cowering on his desk.
“Phil! What’s going on?” Wildwing asked.
“Something wrong with your pizza slice?” Karai guessed.
“It’s not the pizza! It’s the creature that CAME with the pizza!” Phil feared.
“That’s it. No more horror movies for you.” Duke deadpanned.
“Look!” Everyone looked at where Shine Girl pointed and gasped. There at the corner was a small red reptile like creature with a tail and long oval head snarling at them.
“What the hay is that?” Applebloom gasped as she huddled with her friends in fear.
“I got it!” Casey jumped towards the creature. “Goongala-oof!”
The creature avoided Casey, causing him to fall on the floor. It scurried around as everyone either moved away or tried to grab it. Love Shine and Night Shine ended up bumping each other’s head while the Rainbooms ended up piling on each other.
“Okay, which one of you went heavy on the pizza?” Rarity griped.
“At least you’re not on the bottom!” groaned Sunset. “I feel like I got board checked by Grin!”
“She ain’t wrong.” Grin mumbled before missing the creature.
“I got it!” Donnie managed to grab the creature which struggled in his grip. “Easy, little guy. Nobody’s gonna hurt. YEOW!”
The creature responded by biting his figure, causing Donnie to release him. It then ended up landing on Caitlyn who shrieked. “Getitoffgetitoffgetitoff!”
“Ducks Rock!” Nosedive grabbed a hockey stick to whack it off, but the creature jumped and he ended up hitting Caitlyn on the stomach instead.
“You missed.” Mallory deadpanned as Nosedive cringed.
“Tell me about it!” Caitlyn groaned as Buzz and Scootaloo helped her up.
Wildwing turned to the still scared Phil. “Phil, exactly what happened?”
“My pizza slice felt a little cold, so I put it in the microwave. When I opened it, that thing was there and it ate my slice!”
“Sounds like my kind of creature!” Mikey joked as he, Duke, Leo, and Shine Girl cornered the creature. Shine Girl motioned the three as she slowly took off her cape. The three grabbed her cape like a blanket as Shine motioned to April who nodded. The creature then hurried from under Mikey.
“Oh no you don’t!” April used her ESP to levitate the creature in midair.
“NOW!” Shine Girl cried.
“BOOYAKASHA!” Mikey hollered as he, Shine Girl, Leo, and Duke wrapped up the creature in the cape.
“Flame time’s over, Hot Stuff!” Duke declared.
“That outta hold him.” Leo sighed.
“So what all was on that pizza slice, Phil?” Duke questioned.
“Well, it had pepperoni, veggies, you know the usual. Oh! And it had one meatball on it. Pretty big for pizza standards.”
“That meatball must’ve been an egg of some sort that hatched… whatever that thing is.” Twilight adjusted her glasses.
“I don’t remember what they were called, but I remember reading about vicious creatures like those!” Fugitoid shared. “Figures Dragaunus would have eggs of them!”
“They’re… Killer Pizzas!” Mikey declared dramatically.
As everyone looked at him confused, Serenity sniffed a bit. “Did someone make toast?”
“Hey, I smell it too!” Tanya agreed.
“It’s coming from… there!” Shine Boy pointed to the curled up cape, which was starting to smoke.
“Oh no!” Shine Girl gasped as she unfolded the smoked cape. “And this was one of my best capes!”
“Where’d the little smoker go?” Nosedive looked around.
Spike sniffed around and trailed to a hole in the wall. “Looks like he got clean away!”
“Chica inteligente.” Gabby mumbled.
“We better check the other pizzas!” Sunset realized.
They hurried to the last of the pizzas and looked at them.
“No meatballs here.” Zach observed.
“If those things are aliens, why didn’t my gear pick up any radiation?” Gamer wondered.
“Dragaunus must’ve cloaked it from out gear.” Mallory guessed.
“And there’s no way he’d send only one creature after us!” Keno stated.
“You might be right.” Scootaloo explained. “When we were keeping an eye on Chameleon, I saw one of the delivery boys from UFO Pizza took a couple of the pizzas off the table.”
“Probably to fill an order.” Sweetie Belle guessed.
“Yeah. Because they put out replacements just as you guys returned.”
“Then it’s a safe bet that those two might have two more of those little monsters.” Love Shine concluded.
“We gotta stop that delivery!” Wildwing stated.
“We better split into three teams.” Shine Boy stated. “One in the Migrator, another in the ShellRaiser, and the other in the Shine RV.”
“Agreed.” Leo agreed as Wildwing nodded.
“Let’s go!” and with that, the heroes hurried out.
“So that thing won’t come back right?” Phil asked only to see no one around. “Guys? Hello?”
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Later, The Shine RV was driving around the streets of Anaheim while The ShellRaiser checked another part and the Migrator was in downtown. Gamer was checking the computer as he sat on the passenger side when it started beeping.
“I’m getting readings five blocks west!” he reported.
Shine Boy activated his viz communicator to call the other vehicles. “Shine RV to everyone. We found our delivery boy! Sending quadrants.”
“Roger! We’re on our way.” Leo answered in the ShellRaiser.
“Same in the Migrator.” Wildwing added.
The vehicles drove to an apartment building as they saw the delivery guy grab the pizzas from his truck.
“They got those eggs in them, like the one Phil had on his slice. No doubt more Killer Pizza creatures.” Wildwing scanned with his mask.
“Then, let’s cut him off at the pass!” Leo stated as the parked their vehicles in an alleyway nearby.
They hurried over to see the see through elevator reaching the top of the building.
“It stopped at the penthouse!” Mallory stated.
“Leo! You and your ninja group get to the roof by grappling hook. Team Shine and I will take the stairs with the Ducks!” Shine Boy instructed.
“Cadence and I will watch the entrance with the kids.” Shining spoke for him, his wife, the CMCs, and Buzz.
“Right! Let’s move!” Leo nodded as the ninjas and Rainbooms fired their grappling guns.
“Good luck!” Buzz called as everyone hurried.
As Team Shine and the Mighty Ducks climbed the stairs, Shine Boy led with his Life Meter.
“Where are we?” Nosedive groaned.
“It looks like we’re in the… teens. Somewhere.” Gamer panted.
“Hang in there, guys! We’re getting close!” Shine Boy assured.
“When we get to twenty, tell me. I’m gonna throw up.” Nosedive grunted.
“Not on me, you’re not!” Tanya backed away as they continued running up.
The Ninjas and Rainbooms reached the penthouse just as Team Shine and the Mighty Ducks merged from the stairway. They were about to burst in when they heard screaming inside.
“Something tells me we’re too late.” Raph deadpanned.
“That makes two of us.” Duke agreed.
Wildwing scanned the room inside with his mask. “They must’ve put them in the microwave! The creatures are hatched!”
“Then let’s do a little extermination!” Night Shine drew his machete.
Inside the penthouse, the kids were frightened at the two creatures that growled at them when Karai and Sunset kicked the doors open.
“Exterminators!” Sunset cried.
“Get’em!” Leo ordered as they tried to grab the creatures, which scurried away causing the group to pile on each other.
“Not again!” groaned Rarity as Nosedive and Casey were on her.
As the creatures hurried away, Leo, Karai, Shine Boy, Sunset, and Duke gave chase.
“Oh no you don’t!” Karai glared.
“You’re not getting away this time!” Leo stated.
As the rest hurried to follow them, Tanya gave the kids a couple bills. “Here. This should cover the pizzas. UFO Pizza wasn’t responsible for those things. Bye!”
“Bye, Miss Duck!” the boy waved as Tanya hurried away.
The girl raised a brow. “Were those turtles?”
The group hurried to the roof and looked frantically for the Killer Pizza creatures. It wasn’t until Pinkie shouted. “Over here!”
They hurried to her position to find the creatures climbing down the building.
“They’re climbing down the building!” stated Duke.
Shine Boy equipped his gloves with shukko spikes as he spoke. “Start heading down and let Shining Armor and Cadence know. I’ll try to stop them halfway.”
“I’m coming with!” Karai followed and the two climbed towards the creatures.
“He’s right! Let’s go, everyone!” Wildwing ordered.
As they hurried down, Duke contacted Shining Armor on his commlink. “Shining! The creatures are heading your direction!”
“We see them, Duke!” Shining confirmed as he and Cadence watched them through binoculars as they continued to climb down.
“We’re on our way down! Do not engage, but don’t lose sight of them!” Leo instructed.
“Understood.” Cadence nodded.
“I hope Shine Boy and Karai will be okay.” Applebloom noticed the two quickly climbing towards the creatures.
As they got closer, Karai morphed into her serpent form tried to attack the creatures, only for the creatures to snap back at her. They double teamed her causing her to lose her grip. Luckily, Shine Boy grabbed her before falling off the building as she reverted to normal. Unfortunately, this gave the creatures enough time to get to the ground and make their escape just as the heroes hurried out of the building.
“There they go!” Buzz pointed.
“After them!” Raph cried as they hurried after them, but not before Twilight levitated Shine Boy and Karai down to safety and they joined the chase.
“Hurry! They’re getting away!” Mallory cried.
The group hurried before they were unable to find the little creatures.
“Where’d they go?” Zach asked.
“Over here!” Everyone looked to see a guy wearing a big hat, a pink shirt, suspenders, blue jeans, and sunglasses. “They went that way!”
“Uh thanks?” Leo nervously thanked.
“Who are you?” Night Shine pointed his machete at the stranger.
“I’m a friend. My name is William Renaday. I’m here to help.”
“Should we trust him?” Mikey asked his brothers.
“I’m afraid we have to trust him for now.” Donnie sighed. “He’s seen us and we don’t have time to debate about it.”
“Donnie’s right.” Leo nodded before turning to William. “Okay. You can help. We’ll get acquainted later.”
“Follow us!” Wildwing instructed as they hurried to the alley William pointed to.
“Don’t worry. I’m right behind you.” William chuckled quietly before following.
The creatures then scurried to a manhole and burned through the cover and jumped through the hole.
“They’re going in the sewers!” Love Shine pointed out.
“And that’s where we’re going!” Applejack stated as she removed the burnt through cover so they can pursuit.
Nosedive stopped. “Wait! We’re going after them in a sewer?”
“This is our usual stomping grounds, dude.” Mikey shrugged as he climbed down.
“Will you quit griping and get moving!” Mallory ordered as Night Shine pushed him in.
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Back at his office, Phil was doing some paperwork when sniffed a little bit.
“Is something burning in the microwave?” he asked himself.
He turned to see the creature from earlier burn through the wall. “Oh no! Not you again! What is this? The sequel?”
The creature then scurried out of the room burning through the door. Phil sighed as he grabbed a metal trash can.
“Probably not the smartest move, but I’ll have to catch to catch that before he melts headquarters. Besides, I should sue that thing for property damage!”
Phil followed the burnt trail before seeing the back entrance of the Pond with a small brunt hole on the door.
“Slippery little devil, you!” he muttered as he opened the doors and entered the Anaheim sewers much to his displeasure. “The sewer. Why not? Cause creatures like that little hothead can never pick a cleaner environment!”
As he looked around, he didn’t see the creature jump in the water of the underground river. As it descended, it began to grow bigger and bigger.
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Meanwhile, the heroes were searching next to the underground river. Spike was ahead sniffing the trail as Shine Boy and Wildwing scanned the area.
“The creatures’ footprints stop here.” April observed.
“And the trail stops here.” Spike sniffed.
Shine Boy looked at his Life Meter. “I’m not getting a flicker.”
“I’m not picking them up either.” Wildwing scanned the area.
“You think they jumped in the river?” Sunset figured.
“Oh, I hope not. That water is filthy!” Rarity revolted at the thought.
“Hopefully, they didn’t drink from it.” Nosedive guessed as the CMCs were grossed out.
“I’m getting a really bad vibe.” Grin looked around.
“Maybe they washed out further ahead.” Gabby pointed.
April felt her head. “I think I sense something that way!”
“Lead the way, April!” Donnie said as the group followed, unaware two shadows in the river were heading their direction.
William was looking around before being startled when Night Shine clapped his shoulder. “Everything okay?”
“Uh yes! Everything’s fine!” William smiled.
“Then come on! We’re moving!”
“Coming.” William said as they hurried to catch up.
Soon, they stopped by a corner as April peeked at the other side.
“What is it, April?” Tanya asked.
“Is it the creatures?” Night Shine gritted his teeth.
“No, but I do see some familiar lizards.”
It turned out April had spotted Dragaunus, Siege, Wraith, Chameleon, and Falcone walking in the sewers. Siege held up a small device that beeped as he turned a nob on the side.
“According to the instructions, turning this nob short summons the creatures.”
“And by activating the big switch, we can sick them on those cursed mallards and their ninja friends.” Chuckled Dragaunus.
“A brilliant plan, Lord Dragaunus.” Wraith nodded.
“And once they’re eliminated, we can find the final alien fragment.” Falcone smirked.
“Not gonna happen, Falcone!” Duke’s voice spoke up. The villains looked to see the heroes facing them with their weapons drawn. Chameleon morphed into a teenage punk.
“Dude, we’d ordered pizza for this party, but it got eaten!”
“Fools! You’re all doom!” Dragaunus declared.
“Try it, Lizard Lips! We can handle anything you throw at us!” Nosedive taunted.
“Or do you think we’re scared of your pizza-eating powder puffs!” Rainbow added.
At that same moment, merging from the water were Killer Pizza creatures. They were yellow and twice the size of Grin. Everyone except Rainbow noticed them and were shocked.
“Uh, Rainbow?” Applejack poked her shoulder.
“Ooo! Shaking our flanks, aren’t we guys?” Rainbow mocked, oblivious to the approaching monsters.
“Um, now that you mentioned it.” Fluttershy gulped before everyone started running.
It wasn’t until one creature roared did Rainbow finally noticed. “WHOA!” She used her super speed to dodge an attack from the creature. “What are those?”
“Our cute little pizza-eating powder puffs.” Chuckled Dragaunus. “Destroy them!”
As Siege, Wraith, Chameleon, and Falcone charged, Leo noticed. “Watch out everyone!”
Raph, Keno, Mallory, and Applejack fought Siege while Donnie, April, Rarity, Tanya, and Gabby fought Wraith, Mikey, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Shini, and Nosedive fought Chameleon, and Falcone dueled Duke with Leo, Twilight, Sunset, Shining, and Karai helping Duke while everyone else fought the creatures.
“Goongala!” Casey whacked one creature with his hockey stick before he was whacked away. Grin wrestled with the other before narrowly dodging the claws.
“Looks like that one could use a manicure.” Shine Boy joked using his staff to pole away from the creature’s claws as Wildwing fired a puck at him.
Scootaloo jumped away when a creature whacked a piece of the wall at her direction. Luckily, Rainbow hanging on a pipe grabbed her and moved her before the debris hit.
“Phew! Thanks, Rainbow. I owe you one!” Scootaloo breathed.
“Who’s counting?” Rainbow joked before getting an idea. “I’m gonna toss you on that creature. Ready?”
“Ready!” Scootaloo caught on. Rainbow then tossed her and she landed on the creature’s head, covering its eyes with her hands. “Now you see her. Now you don’t!”
Buzz noticed this and had Grin toss him the other creature and did the same thing. “I like the way you think, Girl!”
The two caused the creatures to face each other. As they got closer, they jumped off, causing the two monsters to smack each other, and high fived each other.
“Nice work, you two!” Zach cheered.
“Cheap shot.” Dragaunus mumbled.
William was walking around as if he was sight seeing as if he was enjoying the scene.
“This is great! I’m finally getting the footage this time!” he whispered.
“William! Duck!” William duked as Shine Boy kicked a creature that tried to sneak upon him. “Might want to focus if you wanna help out.”
“Y-Yes! I’m truly sorry.” William apologized.
Over to Duke, he was clashing with Falcone by blade when Falcone disarmed him. But before he could stab him, Leo blocked his attack with his katana.
“What’s the matter, Duke old chum? Too coward to fight me that you rely on others?” Falcone teased.
“Why? Afraid of being outnumbered, Falcone?” Duke joked as he grabbed his sword and continued fighting while Karai sweep kicked Falcone down.
As the creatures started backing the others to a wall, Serenity, who along with Caitlyn hiding behind the corner taking pictures, noticed Siege using the control device to control the Killer Pizzas.
“Guys!” she cried. “Siege is controlling the creatures with that device!”
“Not for long!” Casey whacked the device out of Siege’s hand with his hockey stick. Sweetie Belle tried to grab it only to get tackled by Chameleon before Mikey kicked him off.
“I got it!” Gamer slid to grab the device.
“Oh no you don’t!” Dragaunus jumped after it and knocked it out of Gamer’s grip and into the underground river.
“Or not.” Gamer deadpanned.
Dragaunus angrily grabbed Gamer by the shirt. “You fool! Now the creatures are out of control!”
“Maybe you should’ve thought of that before knocking it out of my hand!” Gamer snapped back as Shine Boy whacked Dragaunus freeing his brother.
The creatures then started chasing not only the heroes who started to run away but the Saurians as well. Shine Boy grabbed Serenity and carried her while Nosedive grabbed Caitlyn.
Wildwing spotted William lacking behind. “William! Get a move on!”
“I’m coming!” William hurried to catch up.
“I knew this plan was good to be true!” Wraith whined as he ran.
As they ran, Dragaunus yelled at Chameleon. “Chameleon! Look at those instructions! There has to be some way we can get them under control!”
“I’m reading! I’m reading!” Chameleon skimmed through the notes as he ran. “Oh, this looks promising. Erdo, if we zap the creatures with an even larger burst of energy. EEEEEEEEE!” As he read, Chameleon tripped over the instructions, ripping the paper.
Wraith caught the top of the paper and finished reading. “They’ll turn back into eggs again!”
“This way, everyone! Maybe we can outrun them!” Wildwing led the heroes to a corner.
“Nosedive! Put me down! I can walk!” Caitlyn griped as Nosedive carried by the torso.
“In case you hadn’t noticed, we are RUNNING from the big monsters!” Nosedive gulped as he ran.
Soon, they found themselves at a dead end as a big shadow covered the corner. William screamed as everyone else gasped.
“Holy chalupa!” Mikey gasped.
“What is that?” Karai asked.
“Is it one of the creatures?” Spike cowered.
“No. this one looks bulkier.” Shining observed.
“Well, I’m done running like a coward!” Night Shine readied his machete.
“Whatever it is, we’ll go down fighting!” Leo drew his swords.
“Everyone, get ready!” Shine Boy twirled his staff.
Everyone drew their weapons and readied to fight when they were greeted by a screaming startled Phil.
“Phil!” Wildwing glared.
“Mr. Palmfeather?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Boobalas! Boy, am I glad to see you!” Phil smiled.
“What are you doing down here?” Mallory quizzed.
“That little creature thing from earlier came back and escaped through the back entrance. I followed it so I can sue it for property damage and kinda got lost.”
“You would.” Joked Duke.
Zach then noticed something behind Phil. “Hey, what is this? A B.Y.O.M party?”
“B.Y.O.M?” Phil raised his brow.
“Bring your own monster?” Everyone looked towards where Zach pointed and, to their shock, was the third creature fully grown growling at them.
“I think we found him, Philsy.” Keno gestured. “You still wanna sue him?”
“I uh think I’ll drop charges.” Phil sweated.
“William! Look out!” Shine Boy tried to warn. But it was too late.
The creature grabbed William and started to shake him like a ragdoll. The shaking caused his hat and mustache to fall off, surprising the group. It wasn’t until Grin tackled the monster that the released William.
Pinkie grabbed his hat. “Here’s your hat, William and… your camera?”
“and mustache.” Spike added.
“Look!” Caitlyn pointed.
Everyone looked to see William was really…
“Vernon?” April, Casey, Zach, Caitlyn, and Rainbooms gasped.
“Not him again.” Nosedive rolled his eyes.
Realizing his identity has been exposed, Vernon quickly got up and snatched the camera from Pinkie. “Ha! I have the footage I needed to expose you Turtle creatures to the public! And I will always be step ahead of-!”
Suddenly, his camera was knocked out of his hand as a kunai destroyed it.
“Nononono!” Vernon panicked before noticing Raph and Night Shine cornering him. They then knocked him out cold and Raph dragged him to the corner.
“That should knock him out for a while.” Raph dusted his hands off before the creature got back up.
“Looks like we’re cornered, guys!” Sunset winced.
“And Game Boy here had to drop the controller in the water!” Raph pointed to Gamer.
“Hey! If you can handle having Dragaunus on your back better than me, I’d like to see it!” Gamer glared back.
Night Shine then grabbed Raph by the shell and dragged him towards the river. “Just for that, Raphie boy, you just volunteered to swim in and grab it!”
He then tossed Raph into the water who gasped for air and climbed out.
“No?” Night Shine taunted before yelling. “Then shut up about everyone’s flaws!”
“I’ll go!” Mikey walked towards the water.
“You sure, Michelangelo?” Shini asked in concern.
“I ain’t afraid to get dirty and one of us turtles is suited for the job. Besides, we need that controller to beat those things!”
“Then, swim like you never swam before, Mikey.” Shine Boy encouraged. “We’re all counting on you!”
“Booyakasha!” Mikey dove in the river as everyone began backing away from the creature.
“What now?” Twilight asked Leo.
“We better head back to Dragaunus and his goons as well as the other creatures.” Leo suggested.
“He’s right.” Wildwing agreed. “For all we know, they found the final fragment by now!”
“it’s gonna be dangerous.” Tanya pointed out.
“If it’ll buy Mikey sometime to grab that controller, I laugh at the danger!” Shini stated.
“Aw! I knew you had a thing for Mikey.” Nosedive teased making kissing noises as Shini blushed before pushing him back.
“I just want him to see me break his high score on Vampire Mania.”
“Yeah. She does.” Shine Girl whispered to Karai, who snickered.
“Video games. Just as competitive as hockey.” Grin mumbled to himself.
The group then hurried to see Dragaunus firing at the Killer Pizza monsters.
“Back! Back, you ungrateful creatures!” he yelled.
“I think he has himself somewhat occupied right now.” April pointed.
“No se’. Should we really help them?” Gabby wondered.
Before anyone could answer, Siege aimed his blaster at them. “I got you brats right where I want you!”
“Guess that answers that.” Love Shine shrugged before they avoided fire.
After rolling away, Shining managed to block Falcone’s blade with Leo’s other katana. As they struggled, Falcone taunted him. “Too bad Duke’s training won’t save you this time! A shame. You could’ve been a valuable swordsman if I trained you illustriously!”
“I don’t think my wife would approve!” Shining groaned before Falcone was punched silly by Cadence off him.
“I warned you not to mock my husband. I hate to repeat myself.” The principal dusted her hands.
As everyone else continued to fight, Grin dodge a creature’s attack before rolling underneath its legs. The creature looked down confused.
“You wouldn’t want to disturb my inner tranquility, would you?” Grin then kicked the creature’s flank, causing it to fall down.
Chameleon ran around before screaming as a Killer Pizza monster was about to stomp on him when he was pushed out of the way by Zach. As they got up, Chameleon looked confused at the kid.
“You saved me? Newsflash, kid! I’m on the other team!”
“You villains have a real gratitude problem, you know that?” Before Zach could argue more, a creature grabbed him and lifted him up while Chameleon ran away, unaware something sparkly got caught on his toe. “Guys! Help!”
“Hang on, Zach! We’re coming!” Leo assured as he, Shine Boy, and Wildwing hurried to the rescue before the creature threw the teen at the three, sending them back.
Pinkie grabbed some sprinkles and threw them at the creatures. “Eat sprinkles, you big bullies!”
The creatures roared as they were disoriented by the explosions, but they still stood strong.
“Man! Those guys are tough!” panted Casey.
“If Mikey doesn’t hurry back, we may have to use our secret weapon!” Sunset sighed as she clung to her geode.
“Well, I’m ready to fight to my last breath!” Shine Boy stood strong.
“Sheesh, read enough comic books, Shine Boy?” Nosedive joked.
“No time for jokes!” Duke stood ready with his sword.
“Well, I say Mikey needs to hurry up if he wants to eat pizza again!” Night Shine glared.
“Mikey, please hurry.” Twilight whispered.
At that very moment, underwater in the underground river, Mikey swam and found the controller for the creatures and grabbed it before swimming back to the surface.
“BOOYAKASHA!” Mikey yelled as he fired a ray of light at the monsters, causing them to roar in pain.
“Alright, Mikey!” Buzz cheered.
“Way to go, Mikey!” Raph cried.
“Yay.” Fluttershy whispered.
“Quick, Mikey! Hit’em with another blast!” Wildwing called.
Mikey tried to zap them again, but the device short circuited and was unable to fire. “I can’t! The batteries must’ve gotten wet!”
“Oh joy.” Night Shine rolled his eyes.
As the Killer Pizza creatures began walking towards them again, Gamer noticed the puddles of water under them. “I got an idea! Donnie! Casey!”
Donnie and Casey hurried to him as Gamer pulled his taser. “I need you both to help me electrify the puddles!”
“You got it, Games!” Casey pulled out his taser.
“Of course!” Donnie activated his geode and transformed his staff, which was noticed by Wraith.
“What’s this?” he muttered to himself.
“NOW!” Gamer cried before the three electrified the puddle. The electricity jumped from puddle to puddle before massively shocking the three creatures, causing them to revert back to their meatball looking eggs again.
After they stopped shocking the puddle and the electricity dyed down, the group crept up to the eggs.
“That did it.” Tanya said as she held a metal container and Twilight levitated the eggs in it.
“Nice work, guys.” April smiled.
“Magnifico!” Gabby complimented.
“It was more Gamer’s idea.” Donnie patted his shoulder.
“How did you know that would work?” Karai asked the young hero.
“I overheard Chameleon and Wraith saying that a large charge of energy could reverse the growing process.”
“Good work, little bro.” Shine Boy smiled as Serenity hugged Gamer.
“Good thing you did. Those creatures nearly stopped our growing process.” Twilight added.
“Speaking of Chameleon and Wraith, where are those overgrown lizards?” Sweetie Belle looked around.
“There they go!” Spike pointed at the Saurians climbing up the ladder.
“Along with Dragaunus!” Wildwing stated.
“And Falcone!” Duke sneered.
Dragaunus roared from the manhole. “This isn’t over, Mallards and brats! Not by a long shot! The Eye of Sarnoth will be mine!”
“Dream on, Magma breath!” Rainbow yelled back.
Falcone glared at Duke and Shining. “Farewell, Duke old chum! As for you, Shining, next time we meet, not even your wife will save you now!”
“Oh, shut up.” Dragaunus glared as he pulled Falcone up and covered the manhole.
“They’re getting away!” Raph was about to run up before he was stopped by Sunset.
“Let’em go, Raph. By the time we get up there, they’ll be teleported outta here.”
Raph sighed knowing she was right.
“C’mon. It’s been a long day.” Leo suggested as the group headed back.
“I’ll go deal snoopy Vern back there.” Night Shine walked the other way.
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Back at the Raptor, Dragaunus was very upset as his forces were cowering from his fit.
“Unbelievable! Unimaginable! UNACCEPTABLE! I throw everything at the Ducks and their friends and nothing! NOTHING! HAS BEEN ABLE TO STOP THEM! AND WORST OF ALL, WE HAVEN’T EVEN COME CLOSE TO SECURING A PIECE OF THE EYE OF SARNOTH!” He then fired at one of his drones, destroying it.
“I suppose it is a bad time to tell you, Lord Dragaunus, that those Ninjas and Rainbooms have been holding back on you.” Wraith mumbled.
“WHAT?” Dragaunus snapped at him.
“The turtle with the broom handle transformed it to shock the creatures. Meaning they might have more power than we anticipated.”
This made Dragaunus even more infuriated. “THAT’S JUST PERFECT! IT’S BAD ENOUGH YOU ARE ALL INCOMPETANT JUST DEALING WITH THOSE DUCKS, NOW YOU’RE TELLING ME THOSE TURTLES AND GIRLS HAVE BEEN-!” He stopped when passing Chameleon and looked down at his foot. “What. Is that on your foot?”
“Huh?” Chameleon looked down to see a certain shining crystal between his toes. “Huh. Must’ve got caught after that kid tackled me.”
He took the crystal off his foot and gave it to Dragaunus, who looked at the crystal and began to smirk evilly.
“It is! The final fragment of the Eye of Sarnoth!” he chuckled. “Amazing how much you can accomplish without even trying.”
“What does this mean, Lord Dragaunus?” Siege asked.
“Now. The ultimatum begins.” Dragaunus laughed evilly.
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Back at the Pond, the group was relaxing while enjoying some more pizzas from UFO Pizza.
“It was nice of UFO Pizza to give us a couple free pizzas for dealing with those creatures and save their business.” Cadence smiled.
“Well, they just opened so I didn’t want them to go out of business because of Dragaunus.” Tanya shrugged.
“And at least those kids didn’t sue them either.” Night Shine mumbled as he added hot sauce on his slice.
“Probably because we gave them a couple of pizzas on us for them.” Love Shine pointed out.
“All in all, everyone had a happy ending.” Shine Boy concluded.
“Except Dragaunus!” giggled Pinkie.
Just then, Mikey walked in, wearing a towel, humming.
“There you are, Mikey. For a moment, I thought you were gonna live in the shower room forever.” Raph joked.
“I figured I’d scrub a little more than usual after swimming in that sewer river. Besides, I love the body wash Rarity lent me.” Mikey gleamed. “So, what pizza we got?”
“Anything but meatballs.” Nosedive answered.
As Mikey sat next to Shini and ate his slice, Fugitoid and Donnie entered the room with Fugitoid holding up what looked like the Crystal Converger but had a handle and small screen on it.
“Great news, Guys!” Donnie announced. “We finally finished upgrading the Crystal Converger!”
“I give you…. The Sarnothometer!” Fugitoid smiled.
“Yay!” The CMCs cheered along with Pinkie.
“Now we can find that final fragment!” Mallory smiled.
“Not only that, but I programmed it to destroy the Eye of Sarnoth on contact!” Tanya assured.
“So we find the final fragment, reassemble the eye, and destroy it!” Casey concluded. “Sweet!”
“We’re gonna need to rest up after fighting those creatures. We’ll start searching in the morning.” Leo suggested.
“Agreed. We need to be ready to fight Dragaunus for it too.” Wildwing added.
As they finished up their dinner, Caitlyn walked up to Night Shine. “Hey, Luke?”
“Hey what?” Night Shine grumbled.
“What did you do with Vernon?”
Night Shine smirked. “Oh, I dropped him at some random alley.”
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Meanwhile, in an alleyway, Vern woke up and found his destroyed camera.
“Oh no! All my footage gone!” he groaned. “How can things get any worse?”
“You again?!” Vern turned around to see the same biker punks that beat him up before. Then he realized he was back in the same alley.
“Didn't get the message, did yah? This is our turf, Turkey, now your gonna pay!” the leader punk cracked his knuckles.
“And it just got worse...” Vernon gulped right before the punks grabbed him and started beating him up again.
To be continued