“There is more than one of everything.”
- September, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #17 (Part 1 of Reflections)
New York City, TMNT (2012) Universe: Present Day
(Takes place after the space adventure in Season 4)
Nighttime has fallen over the Big Apple, and things are a bustle sometimes at night, friends are out having fun, couples are on dates and, at times, things are quite peaceful.
But somewhere, at the ruins of the Worldwide Genome Project building, a brawl is going on inside.
For here, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are battling against the Kraang, aliens from the sinister Dimension X, who are in hiding in secrecy following their second defeat for the conquest of New York awhile back.
Donatello had got word from the Kraang’s communicator sphere that a small band of Kraang were hiding out at W.G.P. building, and after rounding up the rest of the brothers, as well as April and Casey, they were on their way.
Having arrived, they discovered that they were transporting another cargo of mutagen ooze, as well as plans for another secret invasion at a different part of the planet.
However, once again due to Mikey blowing the cover, they were now in hot water.
“Donnie, we could use a bit of good news anytime now!!” shouted Leonardo, fighting back some of the Kraang droids while Donnie was booting up the Kraangs’ teleporter.
“Good news, I’m almost into the network.” Said Donnie as he was nearing completion, until he spoke “Bad news, the Kraang are getting reinforcements fast!”
“Let’s hope you know what you’re doing!” Casey shouted down to the brainiac turtle while keeping the Kraang at bay, Raphael backing him up.
“Dudes!” shouted Mikey, “Can’t there be some way to beat them all at once?!”
“Perhaps,” replied April, putting her extra training to the test, “Unless Donnie can reverse the Kraang teleportation’s polarity, it could send the Kraang back into Dimension X!”
Though despite this, things were looking grim for the heroes, as more Kraang came poring in, armed to take down their enemies.
“April,” shouted Leo, “Make sure to get a canister of the mutagen, it could help us to make some retro-mutagen to cure Karai!” Saying that made Leo think about Splinter, when they believed that when Karai vanished, she had perished, but he hoped that she could still be alive, and with more retro-mutagen, they could finally be able to cure her.
While April did just that, Leo lost his guard and was knocked down by one of the Kraangs’ mechs, Raph and Casey following suite.
“Donnie,” Mikey called out to Donnie, “if you’ve finished your wizard hacking, now can be a good time!”
Donnie was about to press the button to activate the reversal of the gateway, when two Kraang droids grabbed hold of him.
Before the Kraang could finish them off, two portals suddenly opened up, “Donnie, my man!” said a relieved Casey, “You cut in a bit close, but you did it!”
Donnie turned to the teen “But… that wasn’t me…” he confessed.
Suddenly a cry came out from one of the portals, “Oh Bother!!” came the shout as suddenly a small group of what looked like toy animals fell to floor with crash.
When coming to, the smallest one, Piglet saw where they were and couldn’t believe his eyes “Oh D-d-d-d-dear!!” he shouted as he ran back behind Pooh.
The Turtles, Casey, April and even the Kraang were surprised at this encounter, until Tigger, acting all serious, bounced in front of the Kraang and looked like he going to fight them.
“Ok, you wise guys, put them up, them up I dare ya!” Tigger bravely said, ready to give the Kraang a knuckle sandwich.
“Tigger, try not to encourage them!” shouted Rabbit, but it was too late, the bouncy Tigger began doing usual air boxing tricks, as a way to say that he was going to give the a thing or two.
The response was not a good one, as the Kraang lifted their guns to target Tigger and the others, much to their shock and horror, suddenly the Kraang were knocked from behind, as something charged out of the other portal, giving the robots a good spin dash!
Everyone looked to see what it was, as the thing that spin dashed them was Sonic, following him out of the vortex were Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Shade and the Mario Bros.
“Huh,” said Sonic, as he and the others looked around their surroundings, “this is odd, one minute we’re in the Mushroom Kingdom, the next we seem to be in the middle of a battle sequence for ‘Robots vs. Monsters’”, the last comment really ticked Raph off.
“Hey, blue boy! Just so you know, we’re not monsters, we’re mutants!” he scolded Sonic “second, we’re good guys, the Kraang are the bad guys here!”
“’Kraang’?” Knuckles whispered to Shade.
“I think he’s referring to the robots…” she whispered in reply.
“Enough!” shouted one of the Kraang droids, “Kraang prepare to destroy the ones known as the Turtles, and take these new beings for Kraangs’ experiments, if the new beings become enemies of Kraang as the ones known as the Turtles are, eliminate them!”
“Two words,” Knuckles shouted out to the Kraang droid “Mouth. Full.”
Soon the battle restarted, only for some new players to join the fray, while Pooh and his friends ran for cover, trying to avoid being blasted by laser fire.
“WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!” shouted Rabbit, who was so stressed and scared at the same time.
“I don’t know!” said a scared Kanga, who holding Roo close to her, the latter being worried as she was, “How could this game of hide and seek go down hill so quickly?!”
“Head’s up!” shouted Shade, using her blade rush attack to slice one of the robots in two, only to discover the robot’s centre to be an odd-looking squid, “What the… is that thing a living brain?!” she said in panic, knowing that she never a creature like this from the Twilight Cage.
All of a sudden, another wormhole opened up, this time revealing four robotic droids, like the ones that Sonic and Mario’s group were after.
One of the Kraang turned to another asked, “Kraang, are these the new weapon bodies that Kraang has sent out for Kraang?”
“No, Kraang,” the other alien replied, “Kraang hadn’t created these types of weapon bodies, Kraang does not even recognize them at all!”
Then one of the droids turned to the direction to where April was, and spotted the canister of ooze in her possession.
“Foundation Element: Located,” it said, “Commence collective capture and return to master.”
Soon the droids joined the fight, not caring whose side anyone was on.
“Man, who are these guys?” Casey cried out.
“Don’t know, Casey,” Raph, called out, “since they’re fighting the Kraang, that’s good, but since they’re attacking us, that’s bad!”
While the battle was going, Donatello was able to get back to the Kraang computer, finally pushing the button to activate the Kraangs’ teleporter.
Soon, everyone felt a pull of gravity, as the Kraang teleport was functioning in the wrong direction, “Everyone, hold on tight!” shouted Shadow, though while no one knew who’s who, they had to do what he said, while everyone hang for dear life, the Kraang were whisked away back into their dimension.
However, April (who was still holding the canister of ooze under her arm) lost her grip, and was instantly flying towards the portal.
“April!” shouted Donnie, as he tried to shut down the machine, fearing of what would happen to her, suddenly, though while the Kraang feel into it’s portal, the other droids opened another one, different to the Kraang’s on, resulting April and the canister to get caught by one of the drones, as they along with the rest flew straight into it!
As Donnie left the controls, he rushed as fast as he could to jump after his crush, however he was to late, as the portal snapped shut.
Both portals closed, leaving her friends shocked at what had happened, April had been transported away, kidnapped by another type of alien race, no less!
While recovering from the dimensional pull, Mario suddenly found himself grabbed by the suspenders by Raph, who believed that he and the others were the cause of it.
“Ok, pal, you got about 20 seconds to tell us what you did with April, or I’m gonna beat you to a pulp and throw you head first to a-” threatened Raph, only to be stopped by Leo and Donnie, calming him down due to his temper.
“Whoa, whoa, steady pal, time out!” said Sonic as he helped out with calming down the hot-tempered turtle, he then continued “Hate to break it to you, but we didn’t do anything, all we did was came into this universe while looking for our friends, who were basically got snatched through the same vortex your friend went through.”
As Sonic said that, Pooh and the others had a small thought (with Pooh doing his usual thinking state), perhaps that strange hole was what caused Christopher Robin to disappear.
“Excuse me,” said Pooh, gaining the two groups’ attention, “but did you say your friends were missing?” after a nod from both Sonic and Raph, the bear continued, “Our good friend, Christopher Robin, disappeared also, and I was thinking that maybe, we could… perhaps… help each other find our friends…?”
“As in helping us find our friends?” asked Shade, the toys nodding in agreement.
Mikey then agreed to the idea, “Dudes,” he said, “this is sweet, looks like we’re going on a rescue road trip!”
“Guess so,” said Leo, who then turned to Sonic and Mario’s group, “sorry about that little scene earlier…”
But Sonic just shrugged, saying “It’s all right, it doesn’t matter right now anyway…”
“Alright, then,” said Donnie gaining everyone’s attention, “I’ll see if I can contact the Mutanimals while I reset the teleportation coordinates, hopefully, while we look for April, they can keep guard of the city while we find her.”
“Excuse me,” said Luigi, gaining the brainy turtle’s attention, “but your friend and ours could be anywhere due to those wormholes…”
“Don’t worry about that,” said Donnie, “we’ve had our share of dealing with dimensional travel.”
With that Donnie got to work, while the two groups have a proper introduction.
Later…
Soon, everyone was set and ready for what they had to do, while Casey and the Mutanimals stay on guard around New York city for anything unexpected to happen, the TMNT, Sonic and Mario’s group and Pooh and his friends, in the Shellraiser, would travel to where ether the portal that Dr. Rockwell was about to activate would take them.
“All right,” said Dr. Rockwell preparing the final preparations, “as soon as I finish the final preperations, I activate the teleporter, which will send to you on your way, but remember, we have no idea which dimension you’re going to end up in, so be careful.”
“Don’t worry, Rockwell,” said Leo, as he and the others were in the Shellraiser, ready to go once the portal opened, “If any unknown threat tries to mess with us, we’ll give them the good ol’ welcome with the Shellraiser.”
“Yeah,” said Shadow sarcastically, “because if any foes sees that you’ve got an ice cream lamp, they will definitely be ‘terrified’”, he said as he pointed to the ice cream lamp on the other side of the control room of the Shellraiser.
Ignoring this, the turtles were set and ready, as Dr. Rockwell activated the machine, a portal similar to the one the others arrived through opened, and the Shellraiser raced into it, the passengers wondering where they were going to wind up in…
Gotham City, DC Universe: Present Day
Crime was on the prowl once more, as the Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin, in their respected vehicles, were giving chase to Bane, having been reported on steal valuables, including some Kryptonite that were about to be put in storage.
The chase continued onward as Bane, on his drill, was making a quick get away from the heroes, of course, it was a bit tricky as most of the stolen goods began falling off, including the Kryptonite.
“Hey! No littering!” shouted Robin, as he was dodging some of the stuff that was falling off of Bane’s drill, while grabbing a piece of Kryptonite in the process.
As Batman, in the Batmobile, drove up to Robin, the Boy Wonder had a good thought about what Bane was taking.
“What does Bane want with loads of this Kryptonite, Batman?” he asked, to which Batman replied with a very good reason.
“What everyone, such as Lex Luthor, wants with Kryptonite. To take down Superman, once and for all!”
He then turned his attention back to the chase “…but NOT today!” he said seriously.
The chase continued across the streets, Bane even went far as to use his strength to smash the road behind him so the duo would have a hard time catching up with him.
“Heh, those bozos won’t stand a chance once I get out home free!” Bane spoke to himself, believing that nothing can stop him.
Suddenly, while he wasn’t looking where he was driving, a portal suddenly opened in the middle of the road, and bizarre vehicle drove out, catching Bane by surprise.
Though he got away, his drill slammed on the side, resulting in trying to get back on track.
Seeing this, the Dark Crusader and Robin got out of the away easily, “Did you see that?” said a surprised Robin.
“Yeah,” answered Batman “but what ever that was, that would have to wait, though it did help us giving us more time to catch Bane!”
Meanwhile, in the Shellraiser, the passengers were still a little shaken, once they were out of the portal, it seemed that somehow got in the way of what looked like a chase.
“WHAT WAS THAT?” shouted Leo, having steered away from crashing.
“I don’t know,” said Rabbit, “but I hope that is something that we won’t do again!”
“Guys,” cried out Mikey, “we must have witnessed a cool hero-villain high speed chase!”
“Really?” asked Raph, “Now is the time to think super hero?”
“I’m telling you I think we should help them!” begged the youngster turtle, wanting to be part of the cool heroic act.
“I don’t know,” said Donnie “I think they’ve got this under control…”
Back with the duo, they were nearly close to the bridge that Bane was almost approaching, “Robin, cut him off at the bridge,” Batman called out to his partner, “we’ll have him cornered.”
“Okay, Batman!” said Robin, one step ahead, he began to accelerate his bike, ready to surprise Bane once they trapped him on the bridge.
But as the due were nearing the bridge, something started to happen to Robin’s bike… it began to slow down and started floating, along with a confused Robin.
Batman made a good stop at the bridge, but sensed something not right, as Robin was not following and arrived to the other side of the bridge, as Bane made his escape.
“Aww, and we were having such a nice chase…” said Bane with a chuckle, as he escaped.
Batman turned to see what happened, only to be surprised at what he saw next, Robin and his bike were floating off the ground, and as they were floating towards a wall, it broke apart, as behind it was a portal!
The others in the Shellraiser saw this as well as Donnie’s Space/Time scanner (created back in their world to look out for unexpected anomalies) was picking up the disturbance, soon Mikey said “Ok, now they don’t have things under control…”
Soon, Robin, the Kryptonite he was holding and his bike were instantly sucked into the wormhole!
Seeing this, Batman accelerated back where he came, and did a turn to the portal speeding into it, seeing this Mikey turned to Leo, “Follow that superhero car!!” not wanting to object, since they spotted another portal, Leo shifted into gear and speeded the Shellraiser towards where Batman went, and followed him into the vortex…
The Bridge of Khazad-dûm, under the Mines of Moria: Middle-Earth
“You cannot pass!” shouted Gandalf the Grey, as the Balrog came closer to taking him down on the bridge.
For while he succeeded in getting the rest of the Fellowship to the other side, the wise wizard had to stay to cover for them, though the others were scared, practically Frodo, who didn’t want to leave without his friend.
“Gandalf!” the young hobbit shouted, but the wizard was still standing his ground, refusing to move until the Balrog was dealt with, either it leaves or face the consequences.
“I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udûn!” Gandalf declared himself, while defending himself from the flame monster’s attacks.
“Go back to the shadows.” He demanded, but the Balrog was still not turning back, as it prepared it’s whip, it took one step forward, that was then that Gandalf the Grey unleashed all his might.
“YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!!” he shouted like he was creaming to the heavens, as he brought down his staff (while holding his sword) as it unleashed a wave of bright light.
As the monster took another step, the bridge collapsed underneath it, as it let out a mighty roar as it fell to it’s demise.
Believing it was over, Gandalf turned to the others… only to get caught by the Balrog’s whip as it started to drag him to the edge.
“GANDALF!!” shouted Frodo, the others looked in fear, as Gandalf, before loosing his grip looked to the others.
“Fly, you fools!” he said… before finally falling into the chasm, Frodo shouted in despair to what had happened, as the wizard fell, grabbed hold of his sword (which fell along with his staff), spotted the fire demon and fell towards it, fighting it in free-fall.
Suddenly, a vortex opened up above the fight, and both the Batmobile and Shellraiser came out, though while they were driving back in Gotham, they were now falling down the chasm with them, crashing into the sides of the rocky walls, even, for a while bashing into the Balrog.
Inside the Turtles’ vehicle, everyone was in a bit of panic as they were bouncing off the walls due to what was happening outside, “WHAT THE SHELL JUST HAPPENED!?!?” shouted Raphael, who was trying to hold on tight, despite getting bashed and bounced off the others.
“I don’t know, but it seems we’re all bouncing like Tiggers… but for once not in a good way!” Tigger cried out, who was currently bouncing off the walls, and for once he wasn’t enjoying that type of bouncing.
“Never mind that,” explained Shade, “we need to get out of here, right now!!”
Knuckles, nodding to the idea, was preparing to unlock the door, until he turned to the others and called out, “Alright, folks, get ready to jump on the count of three!”
“Ready…” Knuckles started, only to be interrupted by Shadow as he quickly shouted “Three!” kicking the doors open, and the passengers to jump out, only to begin falling as well.
Batman had his own situation, realizing what was happening, he activated the ejection seat, and was shot out of the Batmobile, just in time before it exploded.
Gandalf, though while fighting the Balrog, was pretty surprised about what he was seeing, but couldn’t get distracted from the fight, but during the commotion, the Balrog was about to do a sneak attack from behind, when the wizard heard someone shout “Heads up!”
As on cue, Donatello landed behind Gandalf and started attacking the Balrag, ruining the monster’s element of surprise.
“Thank you, my boy…” Gandalf said, before becoming confused of encountering a giant turtle, “though, I must say that I’ve never met a creature like you before…”
“Don’t mind us,” said Sonic, who was falling down, but acting a little relaxed, as like he was lying down on thin air, “We’re just, you know, ‘dropping’ by!”
“Jokes?!” said a flustered Donnie, still fighting, “At a time like this?!”
“Don’t worry, Donnie,” Sonic replied, “I’m just rolling with it, like I gonna role like THIS!!”
At the last statement, Sonic rolled into a spin dash and struck the Balrog on the head, as it let out a roar of anger for getting attacked.
As Sonic, Knuckles and Amy landed on different parts of the beast, they began their wave off attacks, Knuckles and Sonic giving it a good punch and kick, while Amy attack with her hammer.
“Hey, Knuckles,” Sonic called to the echidna, “doesn’t this fire-spitter remind you of the Ifrit?”
“I guess,” said Knuckles, only to get grabbed by one of the Balrog’s claws, as he was struggling to escape, he then stated “only the Ifrit never walked on two feet!”
As Leonardo used his grapple hook to hitch a ride of the monster and join the fight, the heroes had to use the gravity to their advantage, for when attacking the Balrog, they would jump to avoid getting attacked or grabbed, then try to dive back on to continue attacking it.
For the others, mostly for Pooh and his friends, they were having a difficult time as they were still falling (with an exception of Owl, as he could fly, though he would try and help the others without getting hit by the Balrog), and though while they may land on the creature, they still had to avoid getting grabbed by it.
Soon, Batman used his grapple hook and landed on the beast, next to Donnie and Gandalf.
“Where’s Robin?” he asked, earning the wizard’s attention.
“What?” Gandalf asked, before noticing the Balrog about to strike again, “Behind you!” he shouted, only for the caped crusader to react slowly as he was then grabbed hold of.
“I said, where’s Robin?” Batman repeated, as the Balrog swung him around, like a naughty child playing rough with it’s toys.
“My dear fellow,” the wise wizard responded, “I have no idea what you’re talking about…”
Soon Leonardo came into the conversation, “He’s talking about his friend, a young lad by the name of… Robin, wasn’t it?”
“Yes,” said Batman, believing the beings knew of what happened to his partner could have been the ones who were in the weird truck, “you wouldn’t happen to be the fellows who tried to help stop Bane, was it?”
“Yeah, I guess we did help a bit…” said Leo, then Gandalf interrupted the situation wondering who it was they were talking about.
“Could you explain what this is about this ‘Robin’ fellow?” he asked.
Having wriggled his way out of the claws of the fire beast, Batman jumped back onto the chest, helping the fighters give it a few punches while hanging on tight, during this he answered Gandalf’s question, “Yes, he got sucked into a weird hole in Gotham, I followed and it lead me to you!”
As Batman got grabbed again, Luigi, while helping Knuckles out of the other claws of the creature, turned to the mysterious masked man and asked with curiosity “And who are you…?”
Struggling free, the caped crusader revealed himself through introduction, “I’m Batman!”
Soon, he released some exploding Bat-Rangs onto the creature’s face, injuring it, before calling out to the others, “Those of you who’ve got grapple guns, head up!”
Grabbing hold of Gandalf, Batman used his grapple gun, sending them upwards, with the Turtles using theirs while carrying some of their group members (since Pooh and his friends were basically live toys, it seemed pretty easy to carry them up, while Tigger and Owl used their bouncing and flight to head up, Sonic, while carrying Amy, Mario, Luigi and Shadow used their speedy jump skills and Knuckles used his spikes to climb up, along with Shade), leaving the Balrog to fall into the abysses.
Following that bizarre experience, everyone made it back to the broken bridge, most them painting from the close call.
“My thanks, dear friends.” Said Gandalf, after getting a helping hand from Shadow, once he was back up, with his stick in tow, his surprise return thanks to these new strangers gave quite a surprise for the rest of the Fellowship, who were all glad and happy to see, practically Frodo, who instantly ran to him, happy that he was alive.
But the happy reunion was instantly swooped away, as Donnie’s device began to alert them again, suddenly a wormhole appeared behind Frodo, pulling him in while the Hobbit was holding on to dear life.
“Frodo!” shouted Gandalf, with worry and fear at what was happening.
Before he was sucked straight in, Frodo cried, “Help! GANDALF!!” before the pull of the vortex won over him and sucked him in!
Gandalf was horrified, not only that his dear friend was vanished into the unknown, but the One Ring, that Frodo was still possessing, had been sucked in as well! If anyone were to find it, it would mean certain doom!
“The Ring!” he shouted in fear, “Frodo has the One Ring! It can not fall into the enemy’s hands!” before the others could ask what the ring is about, Gandalf charged after Frodo, and without hesitation, the others had to follow him as well.
“Quickly! Fly!” he shouted to the others, who were following behind him.
“Wait for us!” shouted Mario, who was then put in thought ‘That ring must be very important to that wizard’s cause’, as they entered the wormhole.
Batman was last heard, grumbling, as he told called out to the Wizard “I’m not an actual Bat, Gandalf!”
As Batman was the last to jump in, the wormhole vanished, leaving the Fellowship confused, worried and distressed at what has happened, two of their friends have suddenly vanished, and they have no idea what’s going on and what’s going to happen.
The silence was then broken when Sam thought aloud, “I suppose we just wait for them then…?” for he too, was uncertain of what was to come…
Ponyville, Equestria: Present Day
It was a lovely day in Ponyville, and it seemed to be in celebration, as a party was going on, held by Pinkie Pie, Ponyville’s top party planner.
It was a special day that even the Royal pony sisters, Princesses Celestia and Luna, and the Royal couple, Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor, were invited, as well as Discord (through Fluttershy, being the two of them being best friends).
“I gotta admit it,” said Rainbow Dash, “Pinkie Pie’s parties never seem to get old, and that’s a good thing too!”
“I very well agree, Rainbow,” said Twilight, as she was enjoying one of the cupcakes on display, “this is absolutely amazing to see everypony happy, and that we’re all having a great moment with nothing bad happening.”
“I kind of agree to that, Twilight,” said Cadence as she, Shining Armor and her aunts came by towards Twilight, her friends and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who each earned their Cutie Marks a while back after helping out Diamond Tiara, former-school bully-now-friend to the CMC.
“Usually these sort of events would evolve some sort of threat to all of Equestria, though while I do enjoy the thrills, I think it could be nice to get together just regularly, especially with after everything with our foal.” Cadence continued, while having good look at her daughter, Flurry Heart, with a smile, as the baby was asleep at the moment.
Meanwhile, Discord was enjoy the party very much, he even invited the Smooze over again, as it and Treehuger were getting along well now than they did before, as he was getting some more snacks, he felt a bizarre shaky feeling in him, literally, as his body began to act weird, of course this was mostly a way of Discord sensing something up.
After it stopped, Discord had a feeling something was going to happen, he then got out what looked like a transcript of sorts and looked into it, then realised what it was with an interested smile before he teleported back to Twilight and the others.
“Oh, hello, guys!” he said, after startling the others when he teleported in front of them.
“Discord, what are you doing here?” asked Celestia, looking concerned and suspicious of what mischief Discord would do, despite now being truly reformed and friends with Fluttershy.
“Nothing much, I’m just hanging around with my dear friends, getting ready for the big event,” said Discord, trying to hide the suspicious way he was in and doing.
“Is it for the upcoming surprise super-mega sponge cake I’m about to reveal, then yes it is!” said Pinkie Pie, oblivious that that wasn’t what Discord meant.
For what Discord sensed was out in the Everfree Forest, at the Tree of Harmony, where the Elements were in place, however, several robots appeared, and looked up to each of the Elements.
“Foundational Element: Located.” The leader stated, “Prepare for retrieval and return to the master.”
They then held up their robot hands, and, what they were using looked like they were using the force, used their abilities to grab hold of the Elements.
Back with the group, Discord declined Pinkie’s suggestion, much to the pink pony’s disappointment, as he explained what he meant, “Oh, you’ll see soon enough, right… about… NOW!”
As he said that, a wormhole opened by nearby, startling the group (except Discord), as well as a few of the citizens of Ponyville.
Suddenly, Princess Celestia sensed something amiss, as she turned to her sister, who also sensed something wrong as she asked “I take it you feel it too?”
“Yes,” said the elder sister, “something’s not right…”
“Look!” cried Scootaloo, as the others turned to the direction her hoof was pointing at.
There, heading their way, were four strange metal figures, for Twilight, she saw how they stood almost looked similar to the humans she encountered in the other world where her human friends and Sunset Shimmer live.
But what shocked her, her friends and the royal sisters most was that in their hands were the Elements of Harmony, taken from the Tree, “Quick! Stop them!” she called out to her friends “They got the Elements!”
Things soon took a bad turn, despite Rainbow Dash and Applejack’s might; they were no match for the thieves.
Soon Spike, having came back with more sweets, saw what was happening and charged towards them, wanting to stop them (and even impress Rarity if he did), he then got hold of one of the figures, wrapped around its neck and bit hard on the shoulder, however, this hurt his mouth a bit, and the robot didn’t flinch, despite feeling the bite, and grabbed Spike, who suddenly became a captive (much to both his displeasure and embarrassment).
Soon the robotic thieves took a strong leap, and were nearing towards the portal, Rainbow Dash saw this and flied after them, hoping to catch them before they escaped, but it was too late, “Help, Twilight!!” shouted Spike, before he and the thieves vanished into the hole as it disappeared, just as Rainbow zoom through were the hole would be!
“SPIKE!!” cried Twilight, worried of what would happen to him, knowing him as a younger brother figure.
“Ah, Hayseeds,” said a disappointed Applejack, “they got away clean!”
Rainbow Dash, who was steamed, flew straight to Discord, as she finished “And YOU didn’t do anything to stop it!” the others glared at him as well.
“Don’t blame me,” said Discord, innocently, “I’m not called the Spirit of Chaos for nothing,” then he sternly spoke “and besides, I only sensed the dimensional disturbance, I didn’t plan this to happen, though I did enjoy it happening so unexpected.”
Before Fluttershy could scold him, another portal opened up above Rainbow, and ten figures fell with a crash… as well as on top of Rainbow too!
As the dust cleared, it revealed that the figures were the Goddesses of Gamidustri, after a bizarre journey through the portal.
“Phew, finally we’re out of the pipe of colours,” Neptune said as she got and muttered “and I thought we were never going to appear again in this chapter…”
As the others got up, they had a good look around their surroundings, Rom and Ram, being a bit excited, seeing actual ponies around, began ot giggle with glee, for Peashy, however, she was having fun, as she landed on top of Rainbow Dash and was want her to giddy up.
“Rom, are you seeing this?” said Ram, seeing all the ponies, who were a little spooked and surprised to see some strange beings.
“You bet, sis,” Rom answered, and then turned to Rainbow Dash as she pointed to the pony’s cutie mark, “and check out that tattoo! It’s so cool!”
“Giddy up, pony, giddy up!!” cried a happy Peashy, who was having a bit of fun, as she continued pretending to be moving, while actually getting Rainbow to move.
Poor Rainbow Dash, as she looked, she saw Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack trying to hide their giggles, Pinkie looking a bit silent but not doing anything much, as she was in a bit of a pickle, as Ram was checking out and stretching her wings, Rom began pulling her front hoof and Peashy still riding on her.
Stressing out and not taking anymore, she snapped at the three girls “Hey, cut it out, will ya?!”
The three girls were very well surprised, as Peashy got off from shock of what she just witnessed, then joined Rom, Ram and the others as they backed off.
“Did that pony… just talk?” Uni asked in surprise, until Rainbow grumply flew up to her and the others.
“Yeah, this pony can talk!” she said, a little peeved “And we want to know what happened to Spike,” she demanded, being suspicious of the unlikely guests that had arrived, as she continued, “were you the ones behind this?”
Just then, Applejack pulled on her tail via teeth, “That’s enough, Rainbow!” she said crossly, “I don’t think they would have been part of Spike’s kidnap, but I am curious about who they are.”
“Oh boy,” said Neptune, when hearing Rainbow’s rant as she mumbled, “looks like this dimension has a pony version of Noire, all hotheaded with no friends…”
“Excuse me?!” shouted Noire “I do too have friends!” while that happened the others remained uninvolved with the usual conversation between the Goddeses of Planeptune and Laystation.
“And what are you saying I don’t have friends?!” said, surprisingly, Rainbow, who butted into the conversation, “I do have friends,” she then gestured to her five friends and the three fillies, “these girls are my friends!!”
Suddenly, another portal appeared above them, and yet another group landed with a crash, most of them dog piling on top of Rainbow, Neptune and Noire.
For what the others saw was not what they expected, as the next batch off unexpected guests was Sonic’s group, who were regaining their ground and wondering where they wound up in next.
“Whoa,” said Sonic, the first to see where they landed, “now where are we?”
Shadow then looked as well, to his own displeasure, “And why is everything so… colorful?” he gave a small (unnoticed) shuddered, as he looked around Ponyville, and saw some of the ponies seeing the excepted turn of events, he began to feel like they landed in a kid’s TV show.
Pinkie Pie, meanwhile, having been silent since the first group showed up, then the second group, suddenly, some of the different members got back up, she came back to life as she made big gasp, which startled everyone.
“OMYGOSHOMYGOSHOMYGOSH!! You’re all different beings not from around here, I can’t believe it!” said Pinkie, going all hype as she continued, as well as introduced herself and welcome the newcomers as well “Hi, nice to meet you I’m Pinkie Pie and I like to welcome you to Ponyville, our sweet little home in Equestria, which is were you are, and I take it from around Equestria, or better yet from this world either, but it’s great that you’ve come by to visit,”
“Pinkie…?” Twilight spoke a bit, trying to get the pink pony’s attention as she continued.
“You know, Twilight has gone to another world a few times, I wonder, are you from that world as well, cause if you are then welcome,”
“Pinkie…?”
“But I’m beginning to wonder if you’re quite from the world that Twilight’s been going to, so my guess is you must be from a different world, or even whole other different worlds to be precise!”
“Pinkie…”
“Tell me, what are the other worlds like? Do you come from a kingdom made of candy? Or maybe even a world full of super heroes? Or maybe where there are places where trees grow cupcakes, and cakes, and pies! Or…”
“PINKIE!!” shouted Twilight, who was growing annoyed of the rambling, which succeeded in stoping Pinkie on the spot, as she turned to the Bookworm Princess.
“Yes, Twilight?” she asked, fluttering her eyes.
“Man, what is up with that pony?” asked Amy.
“It seems this one seems to enjoy talking a lot!” suggested a giggling Vert.
“That or she needs to lay of the sugar,” said Knuckles, totally confused about what just happened.
“Well, she is a rather feisty, young pony,” said Gandalf, who was actually completely interested a bit, “I believe this seems quite wonderful,” he then got back to business of asking the nice pony folks where Frodo went “but I don’t suppose you saw a young Halfling pass this way?”
“What’s… a Halfling?” said a confused Blanc, unsure of what being it was, as she and the others never encountered such a creature back in the respected countries, or even from Gamindustri to that matter.
“Well, you see,” said Mikey, “this Halfling is about…” he then heighted Peashy as he continued, “this height, the same size as her, actually!”
“The only thing we saw,” spoke up Sweetie Belle, “were some strange metal beings that took the Elements of Harmony and Spike!”
Apple Bloom helped by continuing what Sweetie was saying “And then they disappeared into some weird hole in the sky!”
Donnie got a good thought about it, then got out the scanner to make some calculations.
“What’s that dohicky?” asked Applejack as she saw the device.
“Whoa, is that a new Haystation?!” asked an excited Rainbow.
“Uh… no…” said a confused Donnie; unsure of what thing Rainbow mentioned was, before giving out the true answer.
“This is a special scanner that detects any anomalies in the Space/Time continuum, the hole, as you mentioned must have been some kind of dimensional rift.” He explained, gaining some intrigued faces from the others.
“Do you girls know where the rift is?” asked Sonic.
“The… uh, ‘rift’, as you mentioned, it disappeared after Spike was taken…” answer a timid Fluttershy, nervous about the newcomers.
“So, you didn’t cause that?” asked a now fully understood Rainbow, who’s misunderstanding had been corrected, which was answered by the shaking of both groups heads, then Gandalf got an idea and spoke up.
“Might I suggest that we set out on a quest, to find this… rift, you say?” this got the others pretty intrigued.
“Well,” Shining spoke up, beginning to like the idea a bit, “I suppose that can work, but first, I’ll let the guard know about what’s happening, put them on high alert if anymore of these rifts pop up.” He then headed off to speak with the royal guards nearby, Princesses Celestia, Luna and Cadence (with the baby who, surprisingly, was still asleep through what had happened) joining him.
“Well, I guess we can help,” said Twilight, thinking that finding the rift might help her and the others find Spike, “I mean, perhaps this rift could be the key to finding Spike and the Elements.” Her friends and the Crusaders liked the idea very much, so they nodded in agreement.
“Count us in too!” said Neptune, as she spoke for the others “We were basically trying to know about these rift things ourselves!”
“Well then, welcome aboard, the more the merrier, I say.” Sonic stated, as new members of this rescue party gained new members.
“Very well,” said Gandalf, “for at this moment, we shall be known as the Fellowship of the…” unfortunately he didn’t quite got time to finish, as another rift opened up… right below the group!
Unknown to the group, while they were getting together into a team to begin their adventure, Discord, secretly mischievous while wanting to help them get started, snapped his tail, which caused the rift to appear below them as they fell in, screaming as the vanished along with the portal.
Then pretending to be confused to cover his tracks, he said “’Fellowship of the Aargh?’ That’s an odd name; I might say…” he then gave a good chuckle at the unfortunate event that had happened.
“Huh, where did the others go?” asked Princess Luna, as she, Celestia, Cadence and Shining had came back.
“Oh you just missed them,” said Discord as he spoke about what happened, “they just hitched a ride into another rift that opened and skedaddled off.”
“WHAT?!” the royals were pretty shocked, only to turn sour as they looked at him with disappointment and frustration of Discord’s lack of involvement (unaware of what he did), “For all we now know late, that Twily and her friends have vanished with those other beings down another rift, and you didn’t even lift a claw to help them?!” said a flipped Shining, now discovering that her could be in huge trouble.
“I told you, I’m suppose to be the spirit of the unexpected, don’t blame me if I’m not allowed to get involve and ruin a good bit of chaos when I see it!” Discord fibbed a bit.
While groaning, Princess Celestia looked to afar, “Twilight, where ever you are… be safe…”
While the royals returned to speak to the mayor of the situation and Cadence having to calm Flurry Heart down, who had woken up from the outburst, with all of them having hopes and praying that Twilight and her friends be ok and be safely returned home, Discord brought up a chair as he began reading the script book again.
“Now then, let’s see what’s happening at Twilight’s end…” he spoke to himself, as he turned the pages, then stopped when he found the page he was looking for, “Oh, this is going to be deliciously chaotic,” he then conjured up some popcorn and a fizzy drink as he then turned to the reader with a smirk, “I sure you’re going to enjoying this as I will, by the time we hopefully reach the half way point, I’m going to need some more popcorn!”
Back in the vortex rift, the others were flying to who knows where, most of them were scared and the others were concerned of what may lay ahead.
“We’re at this strange beast’s mercy and I do not trust where it is leading us!” called out Gandalf as they went, “We must get out!”
“Agreed!” cried Batman, as he then turned to Donnie, “Donatello, lend me your scanner!” the brainiest turtle understood, thought with bit caution, as he threw the scanner to the dark knight, as he caught it and began his own calculations.
“If I can locate what is generating this rift…” he said, only for Donnie to understand as he finished his sentence.
“Then we can be able to disrupt it! Batman, you’re a genius!” he cried.
Soon the two began working on the scanner, and as Donnie did the finally touches, the vortex began to warp a little, meaning that they did something.
“Does that mean that worked…?” said Plutia, lazily and confused, as the group were whisked into the unknown, as their incredible journey really begins…
Unknown Dimension
All is quiet in a cavern, somewhere on an unknown planet, in an unknown dimension.
All is silent, on this quite-possible lifeless planet, while the only thing that exists, is a strange machine, for what looks like gateway portal.
It’s main section was a large, inverted metal triangle with lights dotting along its edge. Other features included a large hole in the center and symbols encircling the hole.
Around the circularity of the hole, seven crystal-like panels were attached to the machine, glimmering well, with different markings on them.
The bottom tip of the triangle is connected to a base which was basically a giant platform, almost like what you see from dance floor video games, with several thick cords sticking out from the back of the base.
Next to the machine, and also between it, were what looked like four giant hoops, two were on the floor, while the other two were on top.
All around the room and by the machine, it looked like there were bits and pieces, with several equipment around, almost like there were experiments around there.
No one knows who made it, or where it came from, it is just there, motionless…
Until it began to hum…
The humming is very small and quiet, until it suddenly grew louder, and louder, until the gateway began to open up.
At first, it remain still active, until suddenly a huge group emerged out of the portal, some landed on the platform, while others crashed onto the floor next to the base, and only a small few landed on the feet nicely.
As he, Batman, Twilight and Donatello were gaining their surroundings, Shadow looked back to where they came out of, only to discover something up with the machine.
The machine’s gateway begin to shake and rattle, with static electricity going everywhere, and the sound of humming began to grew louder and high pitched, as if something bad was about to happen.
As Donnie saw this, he realized what was about to happen as he cried out “LOOK OUT!!”
Suddenly the machine exploded sending everyone and everything flying scattered everywhere.
Then it seemed that gravity was gaining a bit of control, as it suddenly pulled the seven panels (and almost few of the travelers) into a collapsing wormhole, before it imploded, once it was over, everyone, either dizzy, startled and/or a little bruised, began to recover from what happened.
“Well,” said Knuckles, as he was the first to speak while dusting off his arms, “don’t know what that was you did there, but we’re still alive.”
“Are you sure…?” groaned Rainbow Dash, as she almost felt like she sent flying by force like what Applejack did before when she was tired.
Soon everyone began regaining him or herself, the Goddesses helped their sisters up, Fluttershy and Piglet were helping out Gandalf (after all, he is an old man, besides a wizard), Luigi helped getting Mario up, and Sonic and Amy got themselves up (though for a while they were blushing after landing on top of each other).
“Well, now that’s settled,” said Sonic, pretending that nothing happened, “What exactly happened, anyway?”
Donnie had looked back to the now broken machine that they came through as he thought aloud “This technology looks very advanced, a lot like that of the Kraang,” he then began studying it as he continued “my guess, that gateway created the rift that brought us here…”
Mikey, having been through what almost looked like an inter-dimensional rollercoaster, was acting a little dizzy while regaining himself as he asked “Uh… which gateway…?”
“The one that exploded…” deadpanned Donnie, as his young brother was getting his head on straight.
Suddenly Pinkie Pie popped up, felling over-excited as usual, “Woohoo! That was amazing! We were all like ‘whoosh, aaahh!’ and then we crashed with a ‘Oof, ow, oof!’ and then the thing went ‘Kaboom!’ and it was the GREATEST RIDE OF ALL TIME!!” she spoke as she was describing the journey in her own way.
“Yeah… that’s great and all Pinkie…” said Twilight, as she used her magic to stop Pinkie at her tracks in a way to calm her down, then she turned to the others, “however, does anyone know where we are exactly…?”
“Beats me…” said Neptune.
“Seems a bit new to us.” Blanc added.
“I would remember this place if I’ve been here, but I’m afraid this place doesn’t ring a bell.” Stated Mario, as he and Luigi looked around.
“Hmmm… this is an odd place to be, indeed.” Gandalf spoke, as he used his staff to light the cavern a bit, looking around.
Suddenly Mikey began to have a thought which spooked him out, “Dudes,” he cried “you don’t think we’re in Dimension X, are we?!”
Raph then walked to his confused brother as he bonked him on he head as he said, “Mikey, we’ve been through this, if we were in Dimension X, we’d be suffocating right now. We’re not suffocating so, hence forth, WE’RE NOT IN DIMENSION X!!” the last part he shouted, almost bursting Michelangelo’s eardrums.
“Shade,” Sonic spoke to Shade “do you think we’ve been transported back to the Twilight Cage?”
“I’m not sure,” answered the echidna girl, “though be best to look around, just to be sure if we are.”
“Agreed,” said Applejack, “and we have to stick together on this one, right Apple Bloom?”
There was no reply, “Apple Bloom…?” Applejack called for her sister, still no answer.
“Hey, where is Apple Bloom?” asked Scootaloo.
“And Sweetie Belle, for that matter!” said Rarity, realizing her sister wasn’t here also.
For as the gateway was destroyed, it sent everyone flying, even out of the cavern room that the others were currently in.
“What happened to Plutia and Peashy?” cried Rom, who was searching everywhere.
“And where’s Roo?” cried Kanga, realizing her child was missing also.
The others were going to spread out and search when they heard a cry, “Over here!!” said a voice that Lumpy and Kanga recognized.
The group turned and spotted Roo with Plutia, “Hey… uh, Roo is it?” said Twilight, “Are you two ok?”
“We’re fine!” answered Plutia, being happy as a bunny.
“We were just following Peashy and Sweetie Belle out of the cave,” explained Roo, “you got to check this out!”
Without hesitation, the others caught up to the two and followed them up some steps.
Soon they spotted Apple Bloom, who was gesturing them to come out and look outside with the others, as they did, they were in for a big surprise.
As they step outside to join the others, an incredible site greeted them, for they were in space! In another dimension, no less!
There in nearby where they were, were what appear to be some ruins of a building or two, and far from it, was huge planet, that almost looked like something intergalactic punched it, so, for some of the group, it looked like they were on a moon.
Every single one of the members were surprised and awe struck at this site, as Sonic turned to Shade.
“Ever saw this in the Twilight Cage?” he asked, which the echidna shook her head, with him already guessing what that meant.
“Then I guess you can scratch that off the list…” he then turned back to the scenery, as Amy looked to him.
“This is incredible,” she said, “but where exactly are we, Sonic?”
“I’m not sure,” replied the Blue Blur, as he and the others continued their sight seeing, giving in to what could be the most incredible and important moment of their lifetime, while he continued, “but one is for certain is that Gandalf’s suggestive quest is only the beginning, and that this whole new adventure has only just begun…”