There was no possible way. A foot ninja?! In Equestria?! I blinked my eyes a few times, but much to my chagrin, the foot ninja continued to stare at me through his large, and yet glowing, yellow eyes. I was contemplating what to do. I could go back inside and tell everypony to wake up. If there's possible danger looming ahead of us, everyone had a right to know. Maybe I could just sit here, and wait for it to leave. It obviously knew where my brothers and I were residing now. Perfect. If I would have known about the possibility of foot ninja here I would have tried to be just a little more stealthy. Now that I think about it, who knew how long we've been tailed by the clan?
Speaking of that, how did they get here?
My brothers and I teleported through Donnie's Tele-Portal. How did they manage to get here? Did they...did they follow us in? No, I would have noticed if they were at our home when things started going to shell. I'm sure the the machine broke as well...I tried to think, while not taking eyes off of the potential danger about 20 meters away from me. I was almost waiting for it to attack. Obviously it didn't have anything better to do, other than to spy on me. My guess was that Mikey was being watched when he was hanging out with Pinkie Pie, and that he led this foot-face straight to the Library. Good job, Mikey. Once again you exceeded all of our expectations.
Fearing the worst, I pulled both of my katana out of their sheaths. I was ready for a fight, since I knew that that was what it was going to come to. As soon as I did, the ninja's eyes seemed to harden. I accidentally blinked, and with a puff of smoke, he was gone.
Well, great. Now my next course of action is to somehow convince my brothers of what I saw. Well, I'm sure they'll believe me anyways. I don't lie, unlike some turtles... I sheathed my swords yet again before practically running back inside. The door slammed open loudly, making a huge "BANG" noise.
"WAKE UP! IT'S URGENT!" I shouted through the entire house. Raph groaned and threw a pillow over his head, as if to drown out the loud noise. I seemed to have startled Mikey, as he let out a girly scream and raised up his nunchuku. In his state of shock, he proceeded to smack the closest thing to him, which was unfortunate for Spike.
"OOPH!" Spike shouted as he was promptly nailed over the head. I couldn't help but wince. It may not look like it, but nunchaku hurt to get hit with, especially by a scared, hyperventilating, half-asleep Michelangelo. I think I saw a tear in Spike's eye. Mikey had soon realized what he had done and rubbed his head.
"Eheh..."
Donnie was wide awake at this point in time, and Twilight sleepily walked down the stairs from her room. Well, this is going to be just great to explain. "What is it?" Donatello asked. Twilight was barely paying attention, as she was furiously rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"I have bad news, no one freak out over this...but..." I let out a sigh, not really sure how to explain this. Raph let out an irritated, yet grumpy, grunt.
"Spit it out! I'm freaking tired." He mumbled through his pillow. Apparently he was listening.
"The Foot Clan is here." I just came out with it. The whole room was absolutely silent, except for another one of Mikey's girly screams. Raph and Don practically sat out of bed and proceeded to raise their eyebrows.
"...Leo have you lost it?" Raph asked. "In case you may have forgotten, we're in a whole 'nother dimension." He argued. I knew better than to disturb Raph when he's getting his beauty sleep, but I really didn't have the time to deal with it right about now.
"I know! But I know what I saw. Mikey, a foot ninja must have followed you home fro-" I caught myself. "-from when you came home earlier." I'm a terrible liar, but whatever. It seemed to appease everypony in the room.
Everypony looked over at Mikey, who was blushing meekly. "Hey, don't get mad at me! I didn't know!"
"Jeez, we're ninja's remember? Act like it!" Raph said. I sat there slack jawed as Raph finally realized what he had just said. He covered his mouth, but it was too late. Twilight's patience was diminishing. I hoped that she was a little too tired and had misheard him or something for the time being.
"What? What did he just say?" Twlight asked, furrowing her brow. Well, we're caught. There's no way out of it now.
"Uh....I-I mean..." Raph tried to slip his way though this, but Twilght wanted none of it.
"Ninjas?! You guys are ninjas!? What!?" She shrieked. Raph continued to blabber, but even he knew it was useless after a few more moments. He went passed the point of no return on this one.
Donnie let out a sigh. "Yes. Back home, we're ninjas experienced in Bushido." Twilight seemed to have no idea what 'bushido' was. I kind of figured. "It's a Japanese fighting style." Twilight also didn't seem know who the Japanese people were. "You know what I mean...The Japanese are a culture back home. Anyways, our master and father, Splinter, taught us everything about the art. That's why we carry our weapons with us everywhere..." Thank God Donnie remembered to keep silent about the fact that we're turtles, and that he left out a key fact about Splinter as well. That's not something Twilight needed to know anyways.
"Which is exactly why I was so upset when you told us we're not allowed to keep them around town." Raph added, trying to get everyone to forget about his most recent blunder.
"So? You snuck them anyways!" Mikey yelled. That reminded me, he DID have them at the diner. I can't believe I didn't realize that earlier... Raphael proceeded to say nothing, but he did have sly grin on his face.
"So, you guys are humans from another dimension, but not only that; you're ninjas?" Twilight paraphrased. My brothers and I all glanced at each other and gave her various shrugs and nods.
"Yeah, pretty much." I replied before any of my brothers. Like I said, ex-nay on the turtle-ay.
"Uhm...you guys seem afraid of this clan?" Spike added from the corner of the room. He almost scared me, I almost forgot about him entirely. I really didn't want to have to explain this much about us, but Twilight has to know now. She's going to be so angry. I wanted to explain, but I took too long thinking instead, so Donatello beat me to it.
"Kind of. Back home, a clan that's called the Foot..." Donnie tried to explain this, while also dumbing it down for her. For some reason, this was really hard for him to explain. "Well, I'll just say this. The leader of The Foot is a mad Utrom-" Donnie caught himself. "...alien, called The Shredder. He runs the clan and hates our guts because we stop all of his 'ingenious' plans to rule the world."
Mikey decided to pipe up now, raising a hoof as if he was trying to be polite. "Yeah! He's been kind of our arch-nemesis."
Raphael decided 'why not?', and added his input as well. "And he gets pretty darn close to doing it."
Twilight looked dumbfounded as her brain tried to process all of what we're telling her. "So...what does this mean?" She said after what seemed like an eternity of silence. All of my brothers and I looked at each other pleadingly, as if to say 'you do it'.
"It means he's back." I finally stated, lifting up my eyes to look straight into hers. Now, normally whomever we told this to, we'd get a negative reaction in return. Twilight Sparkle seemed unfazed, however. It bothered me.
"...I...I don't get it." She finally said. I wanted to facehoof so bad. My brothers were equally as frustrated. I decided to simply move on from the subject, considering she'd catch on eventually.
"Donnie. How the shell did The Foot get here?" I asked, looking at my purple masked brother specifically. I was sure he was thinking of something at this very moment. He slowly brought a hoof up to his chin and tapped it gently in concentration.
"Maybe he clicked his heels three times." Mikey stated, to which we all ignored.
"Wait...what if...?" Donnie thought out loud. Everyone perked up in there seats. When Donnie's mind gets to working, you know it's to get good. "Well, you know that incident of that one planet with Professor Honeycutt?" Donnie said. "It can work two ways. Someone can bring us back, or send us somewhere."
"So...we were sent here because The Foot fiddled with your machine?" Raph pondered, to which Donatello simply shook his head.
"No, I think the fact that we came here was completely our-" He looked at the ground for a second. "-my fault. But, The Foot followed us through it."
I raised an eyebrow. This...might be making sense? I don't know. "Wait, how is that possible? Raph and I were the last ones through it, and we know that it had gotten destroyed. Bits and pieces were flying everywhere!" I added. Donnie cursed to himself, before somehow snapping his hooves. How did that even work? They didn't even hav-
"No, but they are skilled with technology and using their resources. I bet you The Foot simply put it back together. There may have been bits and pieces flying everywhere, but the main supporter and structure was probably still intact." Donnie added. Oh, now I get it.
"So lemme get this straight." Raph sat up in his seat, hunched over. "So, we got sent here because of Donnie's blunder, but then The Foot rebuilt it and jumped in behind us." Donnie and I simply shook our heads, while Mikey, Spike, and Twilight looked on in a bewildered manner. "Why?"
The question had put Donnie and I off a little bit. That was a good question. "Why...?" Donnie repeated. That wasn't really fair. Donnie's the smart guy in all this, but he's no lawyer. Coming up with proof and reason wasn't his forte at all.
"Well, obviously to do what The Shredder does best." Mikey added from the sidelines. Before anyone had time to utter a rebuttal, Twilight let out a sharp scream, and my brothers all quickly shot out of their seats and shouted in my direction. I barely had enough time to duck before she sent the closest thing to her hurdling towards me, which happened to be a vase. It smacked hard into something behind me, which I presumed to be a wall. I stood back up and glared icy daggers at her.
"What the shell was that for!?" I shouted. Twilight just pointed a hoof, to which I followed. Behind me was the body of a single Foot Ninja, now unconscious and covered in tiny shards of the vase that was just beaned over his skull. He groaned unintelligibly. I blushed a little bit at my naiveness. Still couldn't believe I didn't notice him...
"Heh...thanks." I meekly said, to which Twilight nodded.
"Dudes..." Mikey said, looking up at the ceiling with a look of absolute horror on his face. Donnie, Raph, Twilight, Spike, and I all looked up with him, only to see something that made my heart drop like a two ton boulder.
Observing our conversation were Foot Ninjas. They were clinging to the ceiling like spiders, effortlessly holding themselves up. Their bright yellow eyes all focused on the different ponies(and single dragon) in the room. They...were spying on us. They do know where we are, and who.
Before anyone had a chance to shout, the Foot Ninjas let go of their comfortable position on the ceiling, taking out their swords as they descended on top of us.
***
"Look out!" I shouted, jumping and pushing both Twilight and Spike out of the way of a ninja that had gotten a little two close for comfort. They ending up becoming sprawled on the floor, a hint of both terror and confusion in the pairs eyes.
Raph smiled at the situation. That's something I both hate and loved about him, always itching to fight. It comes in handy when we're in a fight against these guys, but when he's bored he just picked fights of his own. He let out a childish giggle as he pulled out his sai and approached a single ninja, who was wielding a single katana much like my own. "Finally! Some action! I thought I was going through withdrawal for a second!" He hollered as he charged the ninja, holding out his sai as if to stab him. The ninja easily deflected the attack.
Donnie sighed as he held his bo staff in his hooves, which kind of irked me. He had the power of magic at his sides, and he still opted to use his hooves. It's not my choice, I know, but I still didn't know why. He twirled his bow effortlessly, getting at least five full rotations in a matter of two seconds before slamming it into a Foot Ninja who was about to strike Mikey from behind. "This isn't good!" He shouted through attacks.
Mikey was having a bit more luck. His nunchaku were terribly easily for him to wield. At least I thought. As he was in battle with a single ninja who was wielding a small mace, Mikey spun his one of his weapons behind his back, causing it to get ensnared in his tail. "YOWCH!" He cried. Knowing that the ninja in front of his would attack no matter what type of pain he was in, he simply smacked him with his other nunchaku entirely, sending him flying onto the floor. "Time out!" He shouted, as he tried to get his nunchaku untangled from his tail, while making small mock sobbing noises as he pulled repetitively.
Spike wasn't helping much, he wasn't that brave of a dragon, to say the least. He jumped on Twilight's back, whimpering a little bit as she launched magical beams from her horn at the intruders. One of the ninjas she hit flew back a good five feet and crashed into the bookshelf, which proceeded to fall on him. Twilight gasped, before tussling up her mane. "Not my books!"
"I think books should be the last thing you think about at a time like this!" Raphael added through grunts as he continued to fight the same exact ninja as earlier. The ninja brought his sword down on Raph vertically, giving him just the opportunity he needed. Raph caught the sword in his sai and jump kicked the intruder in the chest, all within milliseconds.
I was having a little bit of trouble of my own. I magically wielded both of my swords, giving me a much better advantage. After realizing that I was a bigger threat than my brothers, the ninjas decided to team up on me. Great. I effortlessly slashed with one sword, while using the other one to block incoming attacks from others. I quickly found myself being outnumbered three to one. I looked over at Mikey, who was still trying to untangle his tail.
"Almost got it..." He muttered to himself. A lone Foot Ninja noticed his situation and jumped to act. Sneaking up behind Mikey, he lifted up his sword.
"MIKEY! LOOK OUT!" Donnie shouted, smacking another ninja in the face with his staff. Mikey looked up just in time to see the blade slicing through the air down on top of him. He didn't have time to counter attack, so he let out a girly scream and threw his hooves in front of his face defensively.
"MIKEY!" I hollered.
Just a second before Mikey would have been sliced into pieces, a purple beam slammed into the ninja, literally sending him soaring out of the nearby window. Mikey looked up, and let out a relieved sigh. Twilight trotted over to him with Spike in tow, and quickly untangled his nunchaku from his tail.
"You're welcome." She said monotonously, causing Mikey to blush. Well, he had learned a lesson, that's all that mattered. With a war cry, he jumped up he swung his nunchaku in the air. He flew into the the crowd of ninjas that were almost lining up to fight me, and that I had barely managing to keep at bay.
"COWABUNGAAAA!" He shouted and he rushed into the fray, swinging his weapons and smacking intruders with them without mercy one by one. Heh, it was kind of hilarious. Mikey may not be serious when it comes to things like this, but he's a terror, and a butt, to fight in battle. I would know, I've sparred with him more times than I can count. He had potential to be the best fighter among us, but he's just lazy. Or that's what is seemed like to me anyways.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a pink blur flank me from behind. I let out a startled yell as I turned to face it, only to come face to face with...her. Her pink mane shuffled just a little bit at her quick and rather sudden stop, and she was smiling happily at me.
"Hi! What's up?" She giggled. My jaw dropped as I realized that she had no clue what was going on at the moment. I pointed behind me at my brother and the dozens of ninja, who were fighting mercilessly behind me. She followed my gaze, before letting out a small "oh."
"Now isn't the time, Pinkie!" I shouted. Hopefully, Mikey didn't know of her presence yet. I turned around just in time to kick a ninja straight in the face who had tried to charge me from behind.
"They look a little grumpy..." She stated, bringing a hoof to her mouth as her eyes softened. She kind of reminded me of Fluttershy at this point.
"LITTLE FREAKING BIT!" Raphael hollered, as he kicked a ninja in the back with a loud grunt. Apparently he knew full well that Pinkie Pie was here. Eh, oh well.
"Maybe...they need somepony to cheer them up! Maybe that will make them less grumpy!" I turned to look at her smiling face with disbelief. Was she being serious? Please tell me this was a sick joke. "And I know juuuuuust the thing!" She added. Before I had time to tell her to get lost, she pulled out a large, salmon colored cannon.
"W...Where did you get that!?" I shouted as she got behind the cannon, closing an eye as if to line it up perfectly to the battlefield in front of her.
"I ALWAYS carry around my party cannon!" She said with a "squee". This wouldn't end well. Out of nowhere, she jumped on top of the cannon and shouted to everypony in the room. "YOU PONIES READY FOR A PARTY!?" She screamed at the top of her lungs, hurting my ears a little bit. Everypony in the room stopped fighting, even my brothers and Twilight, just to stare at the crazy party pony.
"Pinkie?" Twilight questioned. "What are you-"
"COME ON PONIES! LET'S TURN THOSE WAR CRIES INTO CRIES OF LAUGHTER!" She sung before she pressed a large red button on the top of the cannon. The cannon shot out isn't contents with a large BLANG. The contents hit the ninjas with an unrelenting, and perhaps even deadly, force. The cannon made a large hole in the library wall, and sent all of the Foot Ninjas outside into the dirt, unconscious and in obvious pain. Somehow, not one of my brothers, nor Twilight or Spike, were injured. Twilight stared on in horror as my brothers and I celebrated. Upon further inspection, the contents of the cannon appeared to be confetti, cake, streamers, pinatas, and a clown, who was just as confused as we were upon looking at his surroundings. With a sigh, he got up and walked away into the darkness.
"Pinkie! Since when did your Cannon get that powerful!?" She was screaming at the pink perpetrator, as Mikey went over and hugged his love, who generously hugged him back.
"I added more sugar!" She grinned. Twilight looked like she wanted to strangle her friends neck.
"My...my library...my home is ruined!" She cried, on the verge of tears. Spike petted her mane from his spot on her back.
"It's okay, Twilight. We can rebuild it in a week, tops." Spike said, seconds before a large chunk of the wall broke into pieces on the floor. Twilight's eyes watered.
"We need to get out of here. We need to hide! They know where we live and will be back with more soldiers in a matter of minutes." I instructed. Twilight nodded, wiping a few tears from her eyes. Spike took the liberty to jump off Twilight's back.
"We...let's go talk to Fluttershy. I'm sure she can help..." She choked, before walking through the grass, away from the wreckage and towards the pegasus' house. I think I actually passed it a while back, although I'm not too sure.
Donnie, Raph, Spike, Mikey, Pinkie(unfortunately), and I all followed her, a tingle of guilt in out hearts. We knew what was going on now, how real this was.
It killed us inside knowing that we'd have to explain to Pinkie, Twilight and Spike the fact that this was only the beginning.