The Rainbooms and Turtles join forces with Dakota's Hero Static Shock to stop the scheme by the Kraang and the Meta-Breed
The ninjas and Rainbooms are back again taking on the Kraang, Subprime, Bixolio, and Armaggon this time in the city of Dakota, most notably known for it's crime, gangs, and Bang Babies. With the aid of their new allies Static and Gear, the ninjas hope to apprehend their enemies, before they pull off their most vile plan yet to create mutant Metahumans.
Equestria Girls x My Little Pony Friendship is Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Static Shock x DC Animated shows.
This story was written by deviantartist TMNTony whom I promised to upload here when he was done.
The events of this story take place following the events of the Carmen Sandiego crossover; The Crimson Thief, and before the events of the Growing up Creepie story; Bugged Out.
Applejack was then thrown onto Rainbow Dash. “I think that was a huge giveaway, Rainbow.”
What started as a usual visit where the Rainbooms visited their friends from New York had turned to a battle against old enemies. They had received word from Bishop of the Utrom that their bounty hunter enemy, Armaggon, had escaped prison along with the renegade Utrom, Bixolio, as well as some Kraang droids that had not been rehabilitated yet. They tracked the renegades at a warehouse in New York. Before long, both sides were fighting again.
“You twerps aren’t gonna get the best of me this time!” Armaggon declared as he fired missiles from his suit.
“Give it up, Armaggon! You’ll never beat us!” Leo cried.
“Well, this time, Armaggon’s gonna have the victory!”
Bixolio added, “And I still owe you brats fer ruinin my scam in Moo Mesa!”
“Would it help that we weren’t there for that?” Casey asked before dodging a swing.
“Apparently not.” Raph dodged another swing from Armaggon.
“Anyone who helps our enemies is our enemy!” Bixolio declared.
“Even with you two together, you won’t be able to beat us!” April stated.
“That’s why I freed them myself!”
Everyone looked and, to their shock, saw Kraang Subprime emerged from the corner. His Shredder exosuit was damaged but still functional.
“Kraang Subprime?!” Everyone gasped.
“Why can’t you stay beaten?” Rarity groaned.
“Because Kraang Subprime CAN’T be beaten!” Subprime declared, “After Rainbow Bum kicked me into the portal, I was able to make my way back to Dimension X! There I found these two imprisoned and released them under the condition that we team up against you girls and freaks! And when I’m done with you, I’m gonna pay your Bat Buddy a visit!”
“Never gonna happen!” Raph cried.
“Time to crack some shell!” Armaggon licked his lips.
“Not yet!” Subprime opened a portal, “We still got stuff to do before we have our revenge!”
“And where we headin', Subprime?” Bixolio asked as Kraang droids entered the portal.
“We’re going to a place where a big bang happened.”
Twilight overhearing perked up.
“See ya round, losers!” Subprime smirked as he, Armaggon, and Bixolio hurried to the portal.
“Stop Them!” Leo ordered.
But they ended up piling on each other as the portal closed.
“Well that’s embarrassing.” April muttered as they all picked themselves.
“Great! Now how do we find them?” Raph huffed.
“Big bang.” Twilight repeated.
“Do you know something, Twilight?” Sunset asked.
The group headed back to the lair in Donnie’s lab where Twilight explained her thought.
“Remember when we were stuck in Gotham?” she asked.
“Where we met Batman and his team?” Fluttershy asked.
“Ah yes,” Fugitoid said. “It was a doozy to find you all. At least this Batman helped you all.”
“Yeah. And Raph and AJ didn’t like him at all.” Mikey chuckled before Raph clonked him on his head.
“Look! In our defense, we were worried about getting home!” he shouted.
“Still, I ain’t too proud of giving him the cold shoulder when he agreed to help us.” sighed Applejack.
“Well, I was no better myself.” April pointed out, recalling how she got jealous when Donnie eyed Batgirl.
“The important thing is you all learned, and we left Batman and his crew on good terms.” Sunset assured her friends, who smiled knowing it is true.
“Anyway,” continued Twilight, “During some of our downtime in the Batcave, I read about an article on the bat computer,” She then held up a flash drive, “Luckily, Mr. Pennyworth was nice enough to let me copy the file on this flash drive.”
“Gotta love Alfred.” Casey grinned.
Twilight gave Donnie the flash drive, who hooked the flash drive on his computer and brought up the file as everyone gathered.
“The Dakota City Big Bang.” The smart turtle read.
“That’s the one.” Twilight confirmed before Donnie continued.
“According to this, the police were testing this new tear gas on some gang members at a chemical facility. Gun shots were fired, resulting in chemicals being released and combining with the tear gas, resulting in a couple of the punks gaining powers and mutating. The event was called the Big Bang.”
“Meta-humans?” April and Sunset gasped.
“Precisely.”
“Metahumans? That’s what everyone called us in Gotham.” Rainbow pointed out.
“Wait. There’s more,” Donnie continued, “One of these metahumans became Dakota City’s local hero.”
He pulled up a picture of an African American teenage boy with black locks. He wore a dark blue trentchcoat over a black shirt and pants, blue gloves, and had a white mask and blue goggles over his eyes. He was riding a circular board glowing with electricity.
“His name is Virgil Hawkins. When he was affected by the gas, he discovered he could manipulate electricity. He then made himself an outfit and called himself Static.”
“I would’ve called him that!” Mikey boasted, “Either that or ‘Shocker’.”
“I think that last one is taken.” Rainbow stated.
“Robin told me that Static had helped Batman a couple times.” Twilight added.
“So, it’s safe to say he’s a friend.” Sunset confirmed.
Casey looked at Donnie’s computer to notice another picture of Static. He was joined by another teenage boy who wore a green jumpsuit and a blue helmet with a green visor. On his back was a mechanical backpack.
“Hey, D! who’s that? His sidekick?” he pointed.
“According to the info, He’s Richie Osgood Foley, Virgil’s best friend and confidant. He was the first to know about Virgil’s secret. Passive exposure to the Bang Gas gave him super-intelligence, which enabled him to easily invent rocket-powered boots and "Backpack", a highly intelligent multipurpose device worn on the back capable of surveillance and other semi-independent activities. With this equipment, he became a superhero named "Gear" and became Static's full-time partner in crime-fighting.”
“Impressive.” Twilight admitted.
“Even so, I don’t think they’ll stand a chance against Subprime, Armaggon, and Bixolio.” Raph stated.
“Raph’s right. We have to stop those three before they do anymore damage in any dimension!” Leo agreed.
Donnie walked to his shelf and pulled out his portal projector. He also grabbed a couple other things and put them in a bag. Some of the others did a little packing themselves, or in Rarity’s case, some ‘essentials’. Soon, everyone was ready to head out.
Leo turned to the Fugitoid. “Professor, could you let Karai know that we’ll be gone to another world?”
“I will let Bishop know as well,” The robot saluted, “You all just be careful out there.”
“Everyone ready?” Donnie looked to the group.
“Ready when you are, D.” April answered.
Fluttershy noticed something and asked Twilight, “Um Twilight? Where’s Spike?”
“Oh, he’s just asleep in my bag. He’ll probably wake up when we get there.” Twilight said.
Fugitoid turned a couple nobs on the portal projector, then gave it back to Donnie. “These are the coordinates Pawn and I used to find find you in Gotham. This should get you to Dakota City.”
“Thanks, Professor.” Donnie pointed the projector and shot opened a portal, “Next stop. Dakota City!”
The Turtles, April, Casey, and Rainbooms all entered the portal. Sunset was the last to enter and waved goodbye to Fugitoid before entering the closing portal.
The Turtles, April, Casey, and Rainbooms made it through the portal and to Dakota City. They all landed on top of a building and looked around.
“Here we are.” Donnie presented.
“Dakota City.” gasped April.
“It looks brighter than Gotham.” Casey looked around.
“Whoa.” awed Mikey.
“Reminds me of back home.” Rainbow pointed out.
“Oooo!” Pinkie smiled.
“Amazing.” Rarity marveled.
“Hoo-wee.” Applejack whistled.
“Wow.” Whispered Fluttershy.
“Cool.” Sunset said.
“Not bad.” Shrugged Raph.
Spike yawned as he popped out of Twilight’s bag, “What I miss?”
“I’m sure we’ll see more while we’re here, but right now, we need to find Static and warn him about Subprime.” Leo then turned to Twilight, “Any idea where we can find him, Twilight?”
Twilight pondered. “Well, we could try his school. Should be this way.”
“Let’s move.” Leo ordered and they moved out while Twlight filled Spike on everything.
Before long, they arrived at an alleyway across from the school.
“This is the place. Dakota Union High.” Twilight pointed.
“So how do we do this? It’s obvious you guys will make a scene.” Applejack explained to the Turtles.
“Not to worry. I came prepared.” Donnie pulled out a familiar device.
April and Sunset facepalmed. “Oh, no!”
“Oooooh! What's that?” Pinkie peered over Donnie’s shoulder.
“This is my portable cloaking device.”
Applejack raised a brow, “Portable what now?”
“Well, you girls were trapped in that mirror when I explained this to the others. It's designed to give us holographic human disguises. Basically it'll make us look exactly the way we see ourselves as humans.”
“Fascinating!” Twilight amazed.
“Don't be too impressed, the first time he used it was when the guys snuck into my school for pizza friday.” April grumbled.
“And they used it again when we went looking for you at the mall.” Sunset added.
“So, what happened?” Rainbow asked.
“They made fools of themselves in my school.”
Twilight giggled. “Is that true, Leo?”
“It was the first time we got to interact with other humans!” Leo blushed.
Donnie continued, “Anyway, what we didn't know was that some Kraang droids were using the same cloaking technology to disguise themselves and both of us ended up exposed. Then they used a freeze ray on everyone including April.”
“My word!” Rarity gasped.
“But luckily after we defeated them I used the ray to unfreeze everyone and we got out before they could see us.”
“Again, you were this close to being exposed!” April huffed.
“Don't remind us! When Splinter found out, he gave us all Randori!” Raph groaned.
“What's Randori?” Sunset asked.
“PAINFUL!!!” The Turtles cried at once.
“Well, I’m sure we’ll do better this time.” Leo assured.
April could only roll her eyes as Donnie pushed a button, activating his device.
“Alright. Who’s first?”
“Me!” Mikey cheered as Donnie passed the device to him and he transformed into his previous human cloak “Check me out!”
Pinkie Pie awed, “Wow! You look good, Mikey!”
“Nice shades!” Rainbow complimented.
“I got next!” Leo was the next to use the device.
“Nice look for Leo. And I'm definitely sure Twilight, here, thinks so.” Spike grinned.
Twilight’s jaw dropped as she saw Leo’s human form. Her face turned red as Leo noticed.
“Twilight? You okay?” he asked.
Twilight began to breathe heavily then fainted. Luckily, Leo caught her before she landed on Spike.
“I think you broke her.” The dog said as Raph, Mikey, and Casey all laughed their heads off.
“Twilight? Twilight!” Leo slapped her cheek a couple times.
“Maybe she needs mouth to mouth, Leo!” Mikey teased.
“Shut up, Mikey.”
“Wait a minute. She’s coming around.” Sunset noticed as Twilight opened her eyes and stood up straight.
“Sorry. Leo’s form caught me off guard.” She blushed.
“I’m still me underneath, Twilight.” Leo assured her.
Raph was the next to use it, only to turn into a prom queen again, “What the? Donnie!”
Mikey, Casey, and the Girls all laughed at him.
“Oops! Well, I still have some glitches to iron out.” Donnie said smugly.
“And if it's any consolation, Raphael, I think you look very stylish!” Rarity smiled.
“Gee, thanks.” Raph said dryly as Donnie gave him his jock form.
“Now we're talking!” Rainbow cheered.
“And finally!” Donnie then used his invention on himself, “What?”
“Exactly the way you see yourself, huh?” chuckled Applejack.
“Y’know, This is how I’ve pictured you guys as humans.” Rainbow pointed.
“If you boys weren’t turtles, I’d say you look great.” Rarity critiqued.
“Okay, guys, do not embarrass us this time! I mean it!” April strictly instructed.
“Relax, April, we're not gonna do that again. But you gotta admit, THIS IS INTERSTELLAR!” Mikey cheered.
“That again? Really? I told you it's not a thing!” groaned Raph.
“Now that we’re ready, let’s go in.” Leo instructed.
Everyone nodded as they headed to the school while Spike snuck back in Twilight’s bag.
As the group walked in the hallways, students noticed the newcomers. Mikey clicked his tongue at some of the girls who giggled at him. Some of the guys gave flirty looks to the girls, which made Fluttershy uncomfortable.
“Do they have to stare?” she whispered.
“Well, we are new here.” Applejack assured here.
April held the shy girl’s hand, “It’s okay, Fluttershy. We’ll hopefully be out of here soon.”
As the group continued around the school, they were noticed by two teenager boys. One was African Amercian with black locks and wore an orange jersey and blue pants. The other was a blonde white boy wearing glasses, a green hoodie, and kahki pants.
“Hey, Virge, you seen those guys before?” the boy with glasses asked.
“Can’t say that I have, Richie. They seem friendly.” Virgil answered.
“Not to mention some pretty ladies,” Richie smiled slyly, “Whataya say we give them a tour of the school?”
“Sure why not? They look like they’re looking for something.”
The two walked up to the group as Richie spoke up, “Pardon, mademoiselles,” The group turned to the two as Richie continued, “You and your buddies seem to be new to our school. Could we interest you to a tour of our facilities?”
The girls chuckled at Richie’s flirty suggestion, “My. What fine gentlemen.” Rarity grinned.
“As a matter of fact, we could use a tour of this place. Thanks.” Leo spoke as he shook Virgil’s hand.
“No problem. Name’s Virgil Hawkins. And this my best friend, Richie.”
The groups’ eyes shrank realizing they found who they’re looking for.
“Uh… my name is Leo and these are my brothers Donnie, Mikey, and Raph.”
“I’m April O’Neil.”
“Name’s Casey Jones.”
“I’m Sunset Shimmer and this is Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy.”
“Nice to meet you all.” Richie smiled.
“Those names sound familiar.” Virgil pondered.
Before anyone could say anything else, the school was shaken by a loud BOOM! The group turned around the corner to see four teenagers causing havoc. One had red hair with yellow streaks, wore a red shirt and baggy khaki pants and was firing actual fireballs. Another was a Jamaican guy with enormous feet, causing earthquakes as he stomped. The other guy could form his hands into knives as he grinned evilly. They were joined by a humanoid bird girl.
“Are those….. Metahumans?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah. The worst ones.” Richie gasped.
“You guys get outta here. We’ll get help.” Virgil instructed before he and Richie hurried off.
“What do we do now, Leo?” Twilight asked.
“What else? We take’em down.” Leo declared.
Back with the Metahumans, the red head blasted a locker.
“Hey, Kangor! You better be right about this!” he looked to the Jamaican.
“Trust me, Hotstreak. This will bring out Static!”
“I hope so!” giggled the smiling guy, “I’ve been itching to cut something up. Eh, Talon?”
“Whatever makes you happy, Shiv.” sighed the Bird girl.
The four were then taken aback by getting whacked. They all looked up to see the newcomers.
“Well, well, well, lookie what we have here!” Shiv smirked.
“You all are brave but made a grave mistake.” Kangor cracked his knuckles.
“I never seen them before.” Talon raised her brow.
“Well, I’m burned enough to-” Hotstreak started before he saw Sunset Shimmer, “Well, hello hot stuff.”
“Huh?” Sunset raised a brow.
“I might be nice enough to spare your meddling friends if you go out with me.” he flirted.
Sunset scoffed, “Sorry, you’re not my type.”
“Burn me and get burned!” Hotstreak glared as he stomped towards Sunset before Raph blocked him.
“You heard the lady. She’s NOT interested!”
Not taking 'no' for an answer, Hotstreak hit the turtle in disguise with a fire ball, sending him flying to a wall. As he recoiled, his cloak flickered for a second.
“What the-?” As Hotstreak was distracted, Sunset kicked him in the gut, forcing him to back up.
“That guy isn’t human!” he groaned.
“Let’s see what makes him and his friends tick!” smirked Shiv as his blades started to glow.
“Let’s take this outside!” Kangor stomped hard enough to send the ninjas flying through a window. As they all hit the street, the four brothers’ disguises got disrupted and left them exposed, much to their shock. Some of the students were equally shocked.
Mikey got up quickly, “Everybody, run! There are four bullies in there, trying to kill us!”
The students only ran screaming as one shouted, “Run! It’s a talking toad!”
“I know. Weird, right?” Mikey asked, oblivious to him exposed.
Donnie looked at himself to see the cloak wore off, “Uh oh.”
The four metahumans jumped out and saw the four mutants.
“What I tell ya?” Hotstreak glared. “They’re a bunch of overgrown frogs!”
“You failed biology? They’re turtles!” Talon snapped as Shiv laughed his head off.
“Guess the cat’s out of the bag,” Leo sighed as they all drew their weapons. “Ninjas! Take’em down!”
The groups were soon in combat with each other. After he smacked away Casey, Rainbow, and Mikey, Kangor wrestled with Applejack.
“You’re strong. I’ll give you that.” He said as they arm wrestled.
“You’re not the first to try to sass me.” The cowgirl hissed.
Meanwhile, Raph stood face to face against Hotstreak.
“I’m gonna fry your sorry shell!” the teen sneered.
“Not a good idea,” Raph growled, “Play with fire. You get burned!”
As Hotstreak fired fireballs, Raph used a little bit of his medallion’s power to counteract the flames. Sunset and Fluttershy tried to help Raph by throwing her kunai and Fluttershy firing a dart. It was enough to distract the teen long enough for Raph to hit him a couple times.
Talon flew up in the air as April, Donnie, Rarity, and Pinkie stood their ground with weapons in hand.
“You think you can beat me with those toys?” the bird taunted.
“Why? You scared?” April taunted back.
“Yeah, I’m scared of a fan, stick, chain, and sickles.” Talon rolled her eyes before swooping down at the four. Before her attack hit, Pinkie used her chain to wrap her up as April and Rarity double team punched her and Donnie hit her with his bo.
“Oh, they’re scary in the hands of ninjas.” Donnie smirked.
Talon then screeched at the four with her supersonic screech. Struggling, April used her ESP to counterattack.
Shiv used his blades to Leo and Twilight, laughing as he swung. Both Leo and Twilight struggled to block his attacks. He then was able to knock the two off their feet and swiped Twilight’s backpack.
“Let’s see what goodies the lil Einstein’s got.” He chuckled. He opened the backpack only for Spike to jump out and bite him on the nose.
“Bad dog! Bad dog!” Shiv shouted, trying to get him off.
This distracted him long enough for Twilight and Leo to kick Shiv in the gut. Leo caught Spike while Twilight seized her backpack.
“Good dog.” Leo patted Spike’s head.
“ENOUGH!” Kangor stomped his foot, causing a tremor that knocked the ninjas off their feet. As the Ninjas tried to get up, they saw the Metahumans towering before them.
“I don’t know who you freaks are and where you come from, but you picked the wrong city to visit!” Hotstreak was about to blast them when suddenly-
ZAAAP!
The four were zapped by electricity. Everyone looked to see who should soar in but Static himself.
“Is this how you treat people from outta town or just the unique ones?” he asked.
“You’ll never make friends like that.” joked Gear as he ascended next to Static.
“Static! Just the one we were looking for!” Kangor pointed.
“Forget the freaks! Let’s get Static!” Hotstreak shouted.
“Hey! We’re not finished yet!” Raph ran after, throwing his sai, hitting the hot head luckily the hilt got him in the head. Soon Static and Gear joined the Ninjas to battle the four Metahumans and started to overpower them. After a struggle, the four were pushed back.
“You’re lucky your new buds slowed us down, Static! Next time, you’re all going down!” Kangor stated.
“Adios, muchachos!” Shiv giggled as the four retreated. Soon, the Ninjas heard police sirens.
“The cops are coming!” Applejack gasped.
“We better get outta here!” Leo declared.
“Come with us!” Static called out as he and Gear flew up a building. The Ninjas and Rainbooms jumped up to the roofs to follow just before the police arrived at the school.
Meanwhile, the four Bang Babies were in an abandon part of town.
“Well, that was a bust!” Talon huffed.
“I didn’t count on Static having new buddies!” Kangor glared.
“Well, when I see them again, they’re dead!” Hotstreak hissed, “Especially that turtle with the forks!”
“And that girl who stood you up?” Shiv laughed his head off as Hotstreak glared.
“That’s another thing. Who are those turtles and kids?” Talon raised her brow, “Think they’re metahumans?”
“Never seen them before.” Kangor shrugged.
“I know I never seen THEM before!”
The Bang Babies look to where Shiv pointed to see robots surrounding them aiming their blasters.
“The ones known as Metahumans will be coming with Kraang!”
The Turtles, April, Casey, and Rainbooms arrived on the top of a building with Static and Gear. As they stopped to catch their breaths, Static looked at the group, especially the turtles.
“Four. Walking. Talking. Turtles.” He said in amazement.
“Congratulations. You win the Nobel prize.” Raph teased.
“This is pretty cool.” Static told Gear, who nodded.
“Hey! No need to freak out, dudes! We can explain! You see-” Mikey began before Gear explained for him.
“Fifteen years ago, you four came in contact with some mutagen, that transformed you into your present state and were trained by a ninja master.”
“Huh?” The Turtles gasped.
“Robin told us.” Both Static and Gear grinned.
“You know Robin?” Casey asked.
“We helped Batman and Robin on one or more occasion.” Static said as Gear added.
“Plus, we’re reserved Titans.”
“That’s great.” April complimented.
“Yeah. And he told us all about you all,” Gear said before he named everyone. “Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, April O’Neil, Casey Jones, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. The Rainbooms, right?”
“That’s right.” Sunset confirmed.
“So, what brings you guys to Dakota City?” Static asked.
Leo stepped up and took a breath, “We came to warn and help you…….. Virgil.”
Hearing that got Static and Gear stumped.
“You too, Richie.” Mikey gleamed as Gear dropped his jaw.
“How do you know who we are?!” Static gasped.
“Whoa whoa whoa! We just read the files Batman has on you.” Sunset assured.
“Batman‘s got a file on us?” Gear asked.
“He’s Batman, of course he’s got a file on us,” Static shrugged before pondered, “Now, that I think of it, that’s where I heard your names.”
“Really?” Fluttershy asked.
“Last time I met up with Robin, he told me about you guys.”
Just then, Twilight’s bag unzipped, and Spike poked his head out, “Twilight, could I come out now? I kinda need a fire hydrant.”
“AHH! That dog just talked!” Gear screamed.
Twilight pulled Spike out before he faced Static face to face, “Hey, how’s it going?”
That resulted in Static screaming in shock before Twilight tried to calm them down.
“It’s okay. It’s okay! It’s just my dog, Spike.”
“Seriously? They’re okay with talking turtles but freak out to a talking dog?” Spike rolled his eyes.
After he and Gear calmed down, Static decided to ask the obvious question, “So, what did you guys wanted to warn us about?”
“It’s kind of a long story,” Leo began as they explained to the two about Kraang Subprime, Armaggon, and Bixolio in their universe, made Static and Gear genuinely concerned.
“Okay, I think the first thing we should do is call the Justice League.” Gear suggested.
“No can do,” Static whistled, “Last I heard, they’re off world, including Batman.”
“We understand it’s kind of big, but we need to stop them before things get worst.” Sunset pointed out.
“And we’re gonna stop them whether you guys are in or not.” Raph added.
“Raph.” April scolded.
“What do you think, Virge?” Gear asked his friend.
Static pondered, “Well, from what Robin told me about you guys, you’re a little…….” He noticed Mikey trying to make his disk fly only to fall on his face, “Unorthodox.”
Hearing that made the group very dismal, especially Raph and Applejack before Static continued, “But he also told me you are actually skilled as ninjas. And if Batman trusts you, so do I.”
“So you’ll help?” Sunset smiled.
“I will under one condition,” Static used a little electricity to let Mikey ride his disk, “Think you guys could teach us some ninjitsu while you’re here?”
“We can teach you some basics.” Leo nodded.
“Then it’s a deal.” Static shook Leo’s hand in agreement.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey cheered as he flew around the rooftop.
“What'd he say?” Static raised a brow.
“I don’t know, but it sounds cool,” Gears shrugged before he turned to the group. “C’mon. we’ll take you to our little base of operation.”
“Lead the way.” Rainbow chimed as they all moved out while Static jumped back on his disk but still let Mikey ride along.
Meanwhile, The Kraang droids were escorting the four Bang Babies to a warehouse.
“It’s bad enough I have to be a Metahuman again. Now I’m captured by friggin aliens.” grumbled Talon.
“Same,” Kangor agreed, “All I remember is waking up to have my powers back and instructions to find you three and fight Static.”
“You were lucky I was steamed with Static after the last time we fought! Cause I’m ticked enough as it is!” Hotstreak growled.
“Ya think these guys are gonna probe us?” joked Shiv.
Hearing that made Hotstreak burst in flames. “NOBODY IS GOING TO PROBE ME! NEVER!”
The Kraang droids then aimed their blasters at the flaming teen, “Kraang is not interested in that which is known as probing. Kraang has that which is known as big plans. If the ones known as Metahumans do that which is known as cooperate, then the ones known as Metahumans can help Kraang with that which is known as the big plans.”
Hotstreak put out his flames as he glared at the head droid, “Say I believe you, how do I know you’re really gonna help us?”
“Because we came to an agreement.” Said a familiar voice.
The four Bang Babies looked to see a chair turning, revealing the gangsta Metahuman, Ebon.
“Ebon?” the four gasped.
“Long time no see.” He said smoothly.
“You with these freaks?” Hotstreak glared before Ebon stretched his arm and slammed him on a chair.
“I see you haven’t changed. They call themselves the Kraang. And they are gonna help us take the city!” Ebon explained as Talon, Shiv, and Kangor all took seats, “But first, allow me to introduce you to my business partners,” As the shadow figure explained, walking from the shadows were Kraang Subprime, Armaggon, and Bixolio, “You will be taking orders from them as well as me,” He then pulled out a familiar canister, “They supplied us with this stuff called mutagen. With the right mixtures, I’ve been able to restore Bang baby powers with it.”
“Does it work?” Shiv smirked.
“Kangor and Talon are living proof it does.”
“You-!” Talon angrily got only to be forced back down by Armaggon.
“Sit down!”
“Did you give Static my calling card?” Ebon asked.
“We wrecked the school to get his attention and we would’ve roughed him and Gear up if they weren’t joined by some overgrown turtles and girls.” Hotstreak growled.
Hearing that got Subprime worked up, “The Turtles? And the Rainbooms? HERE?! IS THERE NO LOSING THEM?”
“That won’t stop us!” Bixolio declared.
“So what is your big plan anyway?” Kangor raised a brow.
Ebon answered, holding the canister to his face, “We’re bringing the old gang back together!”
Static and Gear lead their new friends to an abandoned gas station.
“This is it,” Static pointed, “It ain’t the Hilton,” He paused as he opened the door, "Let’s face it. You’d all be better off staying at the Hilton.”
The Turtles, April, Casey, and Rainbooms followed the two in the gas station. As they entered, they all looked around.
“This isn’t so bad.” Sunset looked around.
“I beg to differ,” Rarity huffed, “It’s so dusty!” She started to dust one of the chairs. As she did, she then noticed a rat scurry before she shrieked and jumped into Applejack’s arms.
“How can you two stand it here?!” She gasped.
“Get a grip, Rarity.” Applejack rolled her eyes as she dropped the fashion girl.
“Can’t you see you scared the poor thing?” Fluttershy scolded as she pat the creature.
“I SCARED IT?!”
“Don’t mind Rarity. She’s always picky about cleanliness.” Rainbow told the hero duo.
“It’s kinda like our lair if it was above ground.” Mikey guessed.
“Not bad.” Raph shrugged.
As they all gathered round, Static and Gear took off their masks. Richie’s backpack crawled off his back like a droid as Twilight noticed.
“Wow! Your backpack is a droid, Richie?” she gasped.
“Yep. Backpack here is a highly intelligent multipurpose device I can wear on my back. It’s capable of surveillance and other semi-independent activities.” Richie explained.
“I gotta make me one of those.” Twilight awed.
“I could show you my schematics.” Richie offered as he led her to a counter.
“So, how long have you been operating here?” Casey asked.
“Since Richie became Gear and started inventing stuff.” Virgil explained.
“Aren’t you guys worried they might tear it down?” April worried.
“Nah. Been like this for years. However, we had been thinking about getting a rendezvous place.”
“Till then, this is our little base of operation,” Richie smiled as he sat down. “But enough about us. Since we know how you guys came to be, could you tell us the whole story?”
“We would be honored.” Leo smiled.
As Virgil passed around sodas to everyone, the Ninjas told the two the long version of their story. From the rivalry of Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki to their endless fights with the Foot and the Kraang as well as their adventures in space and how they met the Rainbooms. Sunset then told them about Equestria and the girls’ counterparts, as well as Princess Twilight. She felt sheepish telling of her dark past, but the others helped her not feel ashamed.
After hearing the whole story, Virgil and Richie were both surprised and amazed.
“A whole world of talking ponies?” Virgil asked.
“Sounds amazing. Though some would think that would be girlish, but I find it awesome.” Richie stated.
“And I’m sorry about Master Splinter,” Virgil bowed, “I… know what it’s like to lose a parent.”
“Sorry, sugarcube.” Applejack patted his shoulder.
“That’s okay. I know she’s in a better place.”
Just then, the makeshift radio crackled to life, getting the groups attention, “Attention, all units! There’s a giant green blob attacking downtown! Send backup now!”
“Sounds familiar.” Richie chimed in.
“Duty calls.” Virgil added as the two donned their masks and Static turned to the group.
“Guess we got a chance for us to work together.”
“Guess so.” Leo nodded.
“We’re ready to help.” Twilight stated.
“Alright. Follow us!” Gear grinned as they all headed out.
Static and Gear made sure they weren’t going too fast for the Ninjas and Rainbooms. They were even more surprised how well they kept up. Soon they all arrived at the top of a building nearby the scene and saw the overgrown green blob.
“Goopzilla.” Static glared.
“I would’ve SO named it that!” Mikey declared before Raph clonked his head.
“Mikey likes to name every villain we encounter.” Donnie told the two hero.
“I see,” Static pondered before turning to the party dude, “Tell you what, Mikey, first new villain we encounter, you get to name’em.”
“Really?” Mikey gasped as his eyes lit up.
“Oh, don’t encourage him!” Raph rolled his eyes.
“Any who, what’s the story about that overgrown jello mold?” Applejack asked, trying to get everyone back on track.
“It’s an overgrown amoeba affected by the Big Bang.” Gear explained.
“That’s a big amoeba!” gasped Twilight.
“And I thought mutagen did enough damage.” April added.
“So how do we stop that thing?” Sunset asked.
“Gear and I will draw its attention while you guys get civilians outta here. Once they’re safe, we’ll try to immobilize it. And above all, DON’T let it eat you!”
“You heard Static. Let’s take it down!” Leo declared as they all drew their weapons and jumped into action.
As Static and Gear got Goopzilla’s attention by firing electricity and explosives at it, The Ninjas and Rainbooms got people to evacuate the area, even though some ran at the sight of the Turtles.
“You’re welcome!” Raph shouted.
Leo and Twilight blocked one of the tendrils from grabbing a teenage girl with black hair, red shirt, and blue jeans. Hearing her gasped, Leo expected her to run like the others.
“Yes, go ahead. It’s not like we saved your life or anything.” He sighed.
However, the girl looked more curious than scared. “Are….you guys friends of Static?” she asked.
“We are.” Twilight answered.
“Thank you. Any friend of Static is a friend of mine. I’m Daisy.” And she took her leave.
Once the people were evacuated, the Ninjas joined the battle. But no matter how much they slashed it, the amoeba kept regenerating and fought back, while Rarity mostly dodged for her complextion’s sake. One of the tendrils tried to grab Gear only to get smacked by Casey’s hockey stick.
“Goongala!”
“Nice swing, Jones!” Gears called, giving a thumbs up.
Casey grinned giving a thumbs up back.
Static descended to Leo, Raph, Sunset, and Twilight who recoiled from a hit.
“It’s stronger than the last time.” He groaned.
“How’d you beat it last time?” Sunset asked.
“Well, it hated the cleaning water from the janitor’s mop bucket because of the disinfectant.”
Mikey jumped over. “So…. We get a mop bucket?”
“No!” Twilight scolded.
“Just a mop?” Pinkie chimed in.
“THE DISINFECANT!” Donnie shouted.
“Where do we get disinfectant around here?” Applejack pondered.
“On it!” Rainbow used her super speed and ran off, only to return seconds later with bags of disinfectant cleaners, “This enough?”
“Hopefully.” Static breathed.
“I got an idea.” Leo grinned.
Shortly, the group went on top of the buildings, surrounding Goopzilla. Half of them sprayed disinfectant on the blob, causing it to shriek, while the rest threw shruiken, and Sunset with her kunai, piercing it.
Leo looked towards Static. “Now, Static!”
Static nodded and fired electricity that struck the shuriken and kunai that conducted it, causing it to hurt the giant amoeba so much it exploded. Rarity used her shield to protect everyone, while Mikey unfortunately had some splashed in his mouth.
“Blech! Taste awful!” he cried in disgust.
“So gotta say it,” Gear grinned before shouting, “Booyakasha!”
Static landed next to Leo. “Looks like we’re gonna get along just fine.”
Leo nodded as the two fist bumped.
After Goopzilla was defeated, the group went back to the gas station. Static and Gear changed out of their costumes and were now wearing the clothes they had in school.
“It’s getting late. My pops’ expecting me home for dinner.” Virgil said.
“Same with my folks.” Richie added.
“So, where are we gonna stay?” Fluttershy wondered.
“I’m certainly not staying in there! Besides, there’s not enough room for all of us.” Rarity huffed.
“Fraid you’re right, Rarity, so we wouldn’t dream of suggesting it,” Richie shrugged before pondering, “But there maybe a place for all you guys.”
Soon, they arrive at an old rundown music store called Stonegas Records.
“This used to be a music store until the owners became metahumans.” Virgil explained as the girls looked around.
“Hmm. A little polish and paint could fix this place up.” Applejack stated.
“I suppose it’s better than the gas station.” sighed Rarity.
“Me and the girls will stay here.” April explained.
“And there’s an old juvie hall not far from here where you fellas can stay.” Richie told Casey and the Turtles.
“Okay. We’ll meet at the gas station first thing in the morning.” Leo instructed.
“Sounds good.” Sunset agreed.
“Sleep well.” Twilight wished as the guys made their leave.
Not long after, Virgil and Richie showed the Turtles and Casey the old run-down juvie hall.
“This was where Gear made his first appearance. I was held prisoner here.” Virgil shared.
“I think we can make this work.” Leo looked around as Mikey jumped around claiming any he could get.
“This room here? Mine! And where you’re standing. Also mine.” Finally, Raph clonked him on the head.
“I could really tune this place up.” Donnie looked around.
“Thank you for hooking us up with this.” Leo thanked the duo.
“No problem. Well, we better get going.” Virgil nodded.
“See you guys tomorrow.” Richie waved as the two headed home.
“Alright. Time to get comfy.” Casey boasted as he picked a room and laid back.
“It’s pizza time!” Mikey cheered as he searched the phonebook.
“Think Subprime is making his move yet?” Raph asked his leading brother.
“No doubt. But there’s not much we can do after fighting that giant amoeba.” Leo yawned.
“Yeah I suppose you’re right.” Raph sighed, knowing he was beat as well.
“We’ll start searching tomorrow.” Leo promised as they all got settled in
“Can I pick’em? Or can I pick’em?”
Armaggon returned to the warehouse, taking off bags off some former Bang Babies. Ebon wasted no time in gathering former members of his gang. Some joined willingly, like Carmendillo and Slipstream. Others, like Puff and Onyx, were brought by Bixolio and accepted the invite.
The ones Armaggon kidnapped look around in fear.
“Well done, Armaggon.” Ebon stepped in.
“E-Ebon?” stuttered one of the boys. “W-what do you want from us?”
“Don’t be nervous. I just wanted to restore what was lost to you.”
Then, Ebon and Krang Subprime both grabbed a canister, opened them, and began to pour mutagen on the kidnapped kids, who struggled to get free. The warehouse was filled with the two’s laughter as Hotstreak glared, Shiv grinned, Kangor crossed his arms, and Talon turned away.
The next day, while Virgil and Richie were at school, the Turtles gathered supplies from a salvaged yard while the Rainbooms, April, and Casey got a feel for Dakota City. While Donnie made a makeshift minilab, Mikey found a couple TVs and hooked them together.
“What’s the matter, Mikey?” The Turtles looked to see the Rainbooms, April, Casey, Virgil, and Richie entered as Richie continued, “Can’t decide what to watch?”
“I got bored last night not having anything to watch. All work and no TV make Michelangelo a dull dude,” As Mikey plugged them all in, no one noticed a street downtown Dakota City blacking out. When Mikey turned on the sets with the remote, the TVs all pulsated with brightness and sound, causing everyone to shield their eyes and ears. Shutting it off, Mikey eyes widened in awe, “Whoa.”
“Here. Let me help.” Richie grinned as he walked over and started to rewire.
Virgil noticed Donnie’s little makeshift lab, “Hey, Donnie, What’s with the lab?”
“Just my work away from home. I just want to be prepared because the Kraang will no doubt try to mutate people. Once we collect some mutagen, I can work on making retromutagen if needed.”
“Good idea, D.” April grinned as Virgil nodded.
Twilight then noticed they were two turtles missing, “Hey. Where’s Leo and Raph?”
“Leo wanted to get to know the city so he and Raph went out in hopes of finding a clue to Kraang Subprime. He didn’t want to draw any more attention after the fight in the school.”
“I was afraid somebody would recognize us from yesterday. But surprisingly, no one noticed any of us when we wore sunglasses.” Rarity explained.
“I’m just glad no one stared at us.” Fluttershy breathed.
“How do people not recognize you just because you wear sunglasses?” Rainbow asked, as she put hers back on, causing Pinkie to gasp.
“Who’re you and what you do with Dashie?”
“Seriously?” Rainbow Dash bluntly huffed.
Richie then stood up after finishing rewiring, “Okay, Mikey, try it now.”
“Rock n Roll!” Mikey cheered as he turned on the TVs, only to change his expression to bored as the sets showed a news report, “Boring.”
“Wait. I wanna see this.” Twilight stopped Mikey from changing the channel.
“Another metahuman outbreak? After the attack at Dakota High and the giant amoeba, city council grows more concerned. We now go to genetics expert, Dr. Karl Marx, for an opinion.”
The group saw an elder looking scientist appear and spoke.
“We had thought after curing a couple metahumans we would see a decline in metahuman activity. But it appears that the events of yesterday are the signs of a new outbreak and must be taken to alert.”
“You think this Karl Marx guy might be a target for the Kraang?” Sunset asked.
“Possibly.” Twilight pondered.
“I heard he does his research at the university not far from town. He studied the original Bang Baby gas for a vaccine and possibly cure should another outbreak happen” Richie remembered.
“Might be a good idea to check up on him.” April figured.
“I’ll call Leo and Raph and let them know.” Twilight pulled out her phone.
“Just enough time for us to suit up.” Virgil said as he and Richie hurried to change.
Meanwhile, Ebon and Subprime were watching the same news broadcast.
“That the guy?” Ebon pointed to Dr. Karl Marx.
“That’s him. I was thinking about an audience with him when we were in Gotham, but never could get to him due to being put up with that Joker freak!” Subprime growled.
“I can arrange that.” Ebon said as Slipstream entered.
“What can I do for you guys?”
“You and your boys must find this Dr. Karl Marx and bring him here with some of that gas he studies.” Ebon ordered.
“And don’t you DARE come back empty handed!” Subprime glared.
“Me and my boys don’t even know the meaning.” Slipstream assured as he turned to leave before Ebon stopped him.
“Before you go, take one of the newbies with you.” As he said this, a shadow walked up punching his fists.
Slipstream looked at him and shrugged. “You’ll do.” And the figure followed him out.
The group met up with Leo and Raph around the town area on top of the building.
“So where’s this university?” Raph asked.
“Just a couple blocks away. Follow us.” Gear said as they headed out.
“You guys enjoy your tour of the city?” Static asked Leo.
“Getting a good feel for the city. It’s not New York, but it’s kinda identical.” Leo explained.
“Where do you guys live?” Twilight asked curiously.
“It’s a couple blocks that way. But….. I‘m not so sure my dad would be too happy meeting you.” Gear bit his lip, recalling how difficult his father could be with different people.
“Why not?” Twi asked.
Static took a deep breath, “It’s... complicated. Besides, aren’t you guys supposed to, you know, lay low and not draw any attention to yourselves?”
“I guess. Not to mention we did make a scene with the giant amoeba.” Leo shrugged.
“Here we are!”
The group looked across the street to see a university. But before they can enter, April clung to her head.
“April. What’s wrong, darling?” Rarity asked in concern.
“What’s wrong?” Static asked.
“April gets that way when she senses enemies,” Donnie explained before turning to April, “April?”
“Guys? We’re not gonna be alone in there.” April gasped.
“Then we better proceed with caution and find Dr. Marx before they do.” Leo stated as they all hurried to the university. “Okay. I’ll pick the lock and we’ll-”
“Done.” Leo looked to see Gear was able to open the window.
“That works.” Leo grinned as they hurried in the window.
“According to the directory, Dr. Marx is in the second floor.” Gear analyzed a map on the wall.
“Let’s move!” Leo cried as they made their way in the building.
Little did they know, they were already too late. Slipstream and his boys, the Cyclones, had already met the scientist and had him take them to the laboratory for the bang baby gas, which was held in big containers.
“Here is the chemicals you want.” Dr. Marx said, showing no signs of fear.
“Excellent,” Slipstream answered then turned to his boys, “Grab those containers and let’s split.”
The Cyclones were about to grab the chemicals when a shruiken nearly struck one of the men.
“Sorry. The souvenir shop is on the first floor!” Slipstream turned to see Raph with his brothers, the Rainbooms, April, Casey, Static, and Gear at the door.
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Static and Gear! And they have some new buddies! The Turtles and Rainbooms I’ve heard so much about.”
“Who’s this guy?” Rainbow asked.
“Slipstream. One of the Bang Baby ring leaders. His men are called the cyclones.” Static answered.
“I’m guessing his powers are making tornadoes?” Sunset guessed.
“You better believe it, Missy!” Slipstream barked, “And I’m gonna leave with what I came for whether you like it or not! Rough’em up, Boys!”
“Take’em down, Guys!” Leo declared, as they drew their weapons and charged at the villains.
As the two groups fought, Sunset blocked Slipstream from Dr. Marx.
“Stay behind me, Doctor!” she ordered.
“Uuuh, thanks.” Dr. Marx shrugged.
When it looked like Slipstream started to overwhelm Sunset, Static hurried over and knocked Slipstream’s cane out of the gangster’s hand and held him by the collar.
“Give it up, Slippy! Whatever you’re planning ain’t gonna happen!”
“Oh gee. If only I brought someone to help.” Slipstream said with a blank expression. “Oh wait. I did.”
“Me!” another voice came from behind Sunset and Static as they were swatted towards the others. Out from the shadows came a familiar blonde teen to Static and Gear. He was wearing a yellow suit with green boots and vest and red gloves.
“Aaron Price?” gasped Static.
“You remember me. Good. Because I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN WHAT YOU DID TO ME!” Aaron shouted, as he fired a strange liquid at the group who dodged. Donnie then noticed the liquid was eating away the wall behind them.
“Guys! That stuff is acid! Be careful!” he gasped.
“Is he a metahuman?” Fluttershy asked.
“Wasn’t the last time we saw him.” Gear answered.
“I’m different from the last time! You’re gonna pay for spoiling my plans last time!” Aaron declared.
“All you did was use your stepbrother who you never cared about!” Static shouted, causing the ninjas to gasp.
“How cruel!” Fluttershy covered her mouth.
“Well, you’re about to see how true brothers work!” Raph declared as the Turtles charged at him. As the Rainbooms, April, Casey, Static, and Gear battled Slipstream and the Cyclones, The four turtles tried to fight off Aaron while avoiding his acid attacks.
As he grabbed Mikey by the neck, the party dude struggled, “This acid dude’s got a tight grip!”
“Grip, huh?” Aaron pondered before declaring, “From now on, Static, I am called Acid Grip!”
“Huh. Wasn’t really trying that time.” Mikey raised his brow before Raph kicked Aaron off his brother.
“Okay. I’ve had just about enough of this,” Slipstream began to form a twister, causing the group to be sent flying across the room. He then turned to his boys, “Grab the doc and chemicals and let’s split!”
“Static!” Sunset cried, as she tossed him a kunai. Catching on, Static threw the dagger at the chemicals and focused his lightning at, causing it to conduct on the containers of chemicals and explode them. This caused the tornado to cease, but by the time the heroes came around, Slipstream, the Cyclones, Acid Grip, and Dr. Marx were gone.
“Typical. They got away!” Raph slammed his fist on the ground.
“And they got Dr. Marx as well!” Twilight gasped.
“Worse yet, Aaron Price is back and calls himself Acid Grip.” Gear breathed.
“Did he really took advantage of his stepbrother?” Applejack asked the duo.
“’Fraid so,” Static sighed. “Y’see, his stepbrother, Dwayne, is a pre-teenaged boy who possessed reality-manipulating powers after exposure to Big Bang gas, allowing him to change things into anything else he can clearly imagine. Dwayne was shy, misguided, and didn't have very many friends; he even liked to conjure characters from his favorite comic books, computer games, TV shows and commercials, bringing them to life with his powers. When Aaron found out about his powers, he talked him into getting him free money and other goods from the banks and malls of Dakota. I tried to tell Dwayne to stop listening to his brother, but he didn't believe me and tried to kill me in a rage. Then, I played a tape of himself as Virgil and Aaron talking. The tape was all that Dwayne needed to hear, as Aaron frequently expressed his dislike of Dwayne in the recording. Dwayne, hurt by Aaron's lies, decided to stop using his powers. My pops has worked with Dwayne, and found Aaron to be a very bad influence on him and I knew he was a better role model for Dwayne.”
“How dreadful.” Rarity feared.
“The poor thing.” Fluttershy sympathized.
Leo then noticed Static secretly clenched his fist with an angry look on his face, “Static? You okay?”
Static quickly shook it off, “Uh yeah. Just a lot on my mind.”
“So, why would that Slipstream guy and Aaron….. I guess it’s Acid Grip now… would want Dr. Marx?” April pondered.
“Could it have something to do with this?” Mikey looked in a nearby closest. He opened up the door and revealed something that got everyone’s attention. The closest was full of canisters of mutagen.
“What the hey?” Rainbow gasped.
“That is a lot of mutagen!” Pinkie gasped as well.
“That’s the mutagen?” Gear asked as Twilight nodded.
“How did he get this much?” Sunset pondered.
“Doubt he had it shipped from Gotham.” Casey glared.
“Either way, we should take most of these to make retro mutagen.” Donnie stated.
Everyone agreed and worked together to empty out the closet. Twilight and April levitated a big amount while Static used his powers to lift the rest.
“Y’know, if these things weren’t dangerous, they could’ve made sweet lava lamps.” Gear grinned.
“At least we stopped them from getting those dangerous chemicals.” Static nodded.
“Agreed. I just hope we can rescue Dr. Marx and soon.” Twilight pointed out.
“C’mon. Let’s head back.” Leo said and they left the university.
Back at the warehouse, Slipstream and Acid Grip faced Ebon and Subprime while Bixolio watching.
“Did you get the chemicals?” Growled Ebon.
Acid Grip turned away, “Static destroyed the containers.”
“But not all of the chemicals,” Slipstream reached into his shirt and pulled out a sample tube of the chemicals, “Managed to salvage a sample of the chemicals. Told ya I wouldn’t return empty handed.”
Subprime took the tube and grinned as he analyzed it, “There’s enough in here to duplicate. I’m impressed. You metahumans succeeded where Kraang droids would obviously fail MISERABLY! So don’t spoil my good mood and tell me you got the other part?”
“Better yet. He came with us willingly.” Slipstream made way for Dr. Marx, who was surprisingly being escorted by the Cyclones.
“Excellent.” Bixolio handed the tube to a Kraang droid, “Take this for duplication.”
“Understood.” The droid responded and left the room.
Both Subprime and Bixolio faced Dr. Marx, who showed no signs of fear.
“It’s been a long time, Dr. Marx. Or can I still call you…… Kurosa!” Subprime grinned.
“Kraang Subprime. Bixolio.” Dr. Marx acknowledged. Then his body opens up, revealing him to be a droid piloted by a rogue Utrom, “Been a long time.”
One night, in the Hawkins home, Virgil’s older sister Sharon was heading out the door when their father, Robert Hawkins, looked up from his newspaper.
“Sharon. Where you going this late?” he asked.
Sharon sighed, “I’m going to see Adam. Daddy, I’m very worried. He’s been very antisocial recently. I just gotta help him.”
“Well, he has lived a troublesome life.” Mr. Hawkins pondered. “Be careful. And hurry back safe.”
“I will.” Sharron promised as she went out the door.
Later, Sharon made her way to a junkyard. As she walked, she called quietly, “Hey. Are you there? It’s me.”
“Over here.” A male voice whispered.
Sharon turned to see a purple lamp post changed into a figure. It was a man wearing a black suit that looked like rubber. He was known as Rubberband Man, The bad Bang Baby turned good. The two were soon sitting on the edge of a building and talked.
“You’ve been very distant and hard to talk to. If you hadn’t called, I would’ve believed you’d leave me.”
“Sorry, babe. Just a lot on my mind,” Adam sighed, “I was once a talented musician who was on the verge of a professional career. I was a stock-clerk job at a music store called Stonegas Records. But of course, I had to be a part of my brother’s gang as well as a criminal! And when I try to come clean, I end up having Ebon tricking me and Replikon tries to ruin all my hard work!” Adam's angered tone then became a hurt sigh, “I-I’m afraid of being hurt. Not just hurting me, but everyone else I care about, especially you.”
Sharon, moved, hugged Adam’s arm, “I understand what you’re getting at, but you shouldn’t let fear hold you back. You have a lot to give to this city. I know you do.”
“Maybe.” Adam shrugged.
Later, Adam escorted Sharon back to her home to see she got home safe.
“Thanks for helping me home.” Sharon thanked as she landed off his hand shaped as a seat.
“Just remember. Don’t let fear hold you back. And promise you’ll call more.”
“That I can promise.” Adam grinned as he watched Sharon enter her home. He then formed a ball and bounced away, unaware that a pair of eyes were spying on him.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was running around town while being stealthy in the process. She stopped at the top of a building to take a breather.
“Nothing like an evening run to get you in the mood,” She said to herself, “The girls are just hanging out, the Turtles are training Virgil and Richie while Donnie's starting on that retro mutagen. Maybe I’ll get lucky and find Kraang Subprime,” She then got up and started to run again, “Wish Scootaloo was here to see this.” She was still in thought when she ran into a big purple ball.
“What the-? Who threw that?” she thought out loud as she reached for the ball when it rolled away on its own. After many attempts to grab it failed, Rainbow tried to use her foot to block it. But she was taken by surprise when the ball bounced over her foot. This made her more crossed.
“No whacked-out ball’s gonna best me!” she declared as she drew her naginata and hit the ball to a pole.
“Ow!” the ball then became Rubberband man that took the Rainboom by surprise, “I don’t know what your beef is with me, gal, but I’m not in the mood for games!”
“What the-? A metahuman?” Rainbow gasped before she grinned, “Awesome!”
“Whatever. Just turn around and get going and I’ll be nice to pretend this never happened.”
Rubberband man turned to leave only to face Rainbow again, “What? How?”
“I have my own special abilities.” Rainbow grinned.
“Just leave. NOW!” Rubberband man enlarged his hand and slammed it on Rainbow but missed as she ran past the rubbered metahuman. After many failed attempts, Rubberband man finally grabbed the Rainboom and began to squeeze her out of anger.
“Serious, aren’t we?” Rainbow groaned as she struggled.
As he squeezed, Rubberband man began to slowly snap out of his anger as he remembered Sharon’s advice from earlier. Realizing he almost did something he would regret, he quickly released Rainbow and started to back away in fear. But just as he turned to leave, a big hand punched him. Both looked to see a big purple guy and a panda bun-haired girl in blue.
“Great. You two again.” Rubberband man rolled his eyes.
“That’s right, Stretchy! We have unfinished business with you!” The girl chimed.
“Yeah. You won’t escape this time!” the big guy cracked his knuckles.
“Get’em, Onyx!” the girl ordered the big guy.
“You got it, Puff.” Onyx grinned as he charged at Rubberband man.
The two collided in combat. As he shifted his hands and feet, Rubberband man was able to put up a good fight against Onyx. Then, Puff blew some of her gas, distracting him for Onyx to take out. Meanwhile, Rainbow was able to regain consciousness and noticed the fight. Realizing the two are ganging up on the Metahuman she fought earlier, she got up and ran fast enough to blow gas back to Puff and Onyx, disorienting them.
“Two against one ain’t really that fair.” She teased.
“How she do that?” Onyx coughed.
“She must be one of them Rainbooms Shiv and Kangor told us about!” Puff concluded.
“The ones who helped Static?” Onyx asked.
“Get her!” Puff ordered.
“Wait. Static?” Rubberband man took aback as Rainbow battled Puff and Onyx. While she put up a good fight with her speed and ninja training, Rainbow was being overwhelmed by the two Bang Babies. But just when Onyx was about to hit her hard, he was hit by a large hand and crashed into Puff. Rainbow looked up to Rubberband man standing by her side. He then helped her up and the two faced Puff and Onyx.
“Looks like we have a fair fight now.” Onyx observed.
“I am anything but fair,” Puff growled as she climbed on Onyx’s shoulder, “This ain’t over by a long shot, Rubber Head! And you, Girlie girl, have made a terrible enemy today!” Then, Onyx ran away carrying Puff.
Then Rainbow and Rubberband man then turned towards each other before Rainbow broke the silence, “I guess I owe you an apology for fighting you earlier.”
“Don’t sweat it. And…… thank you. For helping me,” Rubberband man breathed. He was about to leave before turned at the Rainboom. “What’s your name, kid?”
“Rainbow Dash. The most awesome girl you ever met!”
“You got enthusiasm, kid. I’ll give you that.”
Rainbow noticed how depressed Rubberband man seemed to be. “Are you okay?”
“Just have a lot on my mind.”
“You wanna tell a friend?”
Rubberband man perked up a bit at the word, ‘friend’ and sighed, “Let’s just say I’ve been hanging with the wrong crowds. And been framed for my checkered past. It is rare for someone to actually consider me a friend.”
“Maybe because no one showed you true loyalty. Me and my friends could use someone like you.”
“Puff said you and your friends know Static,” Rubberband man pointed out, “Is this true?”
“Yep. We came to help him with enemies of our own,” Rainbow answered. ”If you come with, we’ll explain everything.”
After hesitating a bit, Rubberband man nodded and followed Rainbow Dash.
Back at the juvenile center, The rest of the Rainbooms and April were hanging out with the guys. While Donnie studied in his lab, Leo and Sunset were training Static and Gear, Raph and Casey were sparring, Fluttershy and Rarity were watching with Spike, April was on her computer with Twilight by her, And Mikey, Applejack, and Pinkie were watching TV eating pizza. Just then, Rainbow walked in.
“Hi, guys!” she greeted.
“Welcome back, Rainbow.” Sunset greeted as everyone finished their activities and gathered around the Rainbow haired girl.
“Any luck on Subprime’s whereabouts?” Casey asked.
“’fraid not, Case.” Rainbow sighed. “But I found someone who can help us.” She made way for Rubberband man, who walked in a little nervous.
“Rubberband Man!” Static gasped.
“Hey, Static.” Rubberband man greeted.
“Friend of yours?” Raph perked up.
“In a way, he is.” Gear assured.
“It’s okay! He helped me against a duo of Bang Babies.” Rainbow said.
“Who?” Gear asked.
“Puff and Onyx,” Rubberband man answered, “Wanted payback for last time,” He then turned to Rainbow, “These the friends you told me about?”
“Yeah! Let me introduce you. This is Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. Together, we’re called the Rainbooms. These are our friends from New York in our world, April O’Neil, Casey Jones, and the Ninja Turtles- Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael.”
“And this is Spike.” Twilight added as she raised the pup up.
“Hiya.” Spike grinned at the newcomer.
“Human Turtles, talking dogs?” Rubberband Man raised a brow before sighing, “Better company than most Bang Babies.”
“So what brings you back in the city?” Static asked.
“Just a lot on my mind,” Rubberband Man sighed, “Kinda stuck in a rut in my life.”
“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked.
“I suppose you all have the right to know,” Rubberband man sighed as he told his story, “My name is Adam Evans. I was once a talented musician who was on the verge of a professional career. I was a stock-clerk job at a music store called Stonegas Records. But of course, I had to be a part of my brother’s gang as well as a criminal! Even before I became a Bang Baby. For a time, I was an enemy. But I really have been trying to redeem myself and do some good. The problem is someone tries to ruin all my hard work! I just don’t know what I can do.”
“So you use to be a criminal?” Leo gasped.
“Yes. But I’m not that way anymore! I’m telling the truth.”
“Uh-oh.” Raph and Twilight mumbled, fearing Leo was gonna label Rubberband Man because of his past.
Leo walked up to the metahuman and, surprisingly, smiled at him, “I believe you.”
Rubberband Man grinned as Twilight walked up to Leo and whispered, “Was that something you learned, Leo? How to sense the truth?”
“No. This is called ‘Trust in your gut’.” The leader whispered back.
“Anyway, We could really use your help, Adam.” Sunset said.
“What’s happening?”
“We’re here to stop our enemies called the Kraang. Lead by Kraang Subprime.” Applejack explained.
“They created the mutagen that made the Turtles who they are today. We’re afraid they might do some damage here if not stopped.” Twilight added.
Rubberband Man slouched on a counter as he remembered Sharon’s advice, “I want to help. I really do. But I don’t know if I even trust myself let alone think if you guys can trust me after what I’ve been through.”
Sunset put her hand on the metahuman’s shoulder, “As someone who went through a similar route, I understand what you feel.”
“And when you’re with the ninjas, you’re in the best crowd possible!” Mikey grinned.
“Really and Truly!” Pinkie added.
Seeing Rubberband Man still seeming unsure, Static walked up to his fellow metahuman.
“Maybe this will help you see you can trust us.” He reached to his mask and took it off, revealing himself.
This surprised Rubberband Man, “Virgil?!”
“You know him?” Rainbow asked.
“He's dating my sister. While we had a rough start, he has helped in the past. And we could really use your help against the Kraang.”
“Maybe I can help. If you guys trust me.” Rubberband Man perked up.
Everyone cheered.
“After all, it’s only a matter of time before Ebon finds out I’m in town.”
“Who is this Ebon?” Rarity gasped.
“He’s the baddest ringleader of the Bang Babies he calls the Meta-Breed.” Gear stated.
“And I’m sorry to say, he’s my older brother.” Rubberband Man added grimly, shocking everyone.
“What is with people using their own siblings?!” Applejack cried.
“Do you think Ebon teamed up with Kraang Subprime?” April pondered.
“You’re probably right there, April, which would explain how Aaron became Acid Grip.” Static agreed.
“No doubt they’ll probably make more!” feared Gear.
“We’ll have to start searching tomorrow. Right now, I suggest we get some sleep.” Leo suggested.
“I’m gonna need to find a place to stay myself. My place is being fumigated and it’s the first place Ebon would look for me.” Rubberband Man pointed out.
“You could stay with us.” Casey offered.
“Plenty of rooms.” Raph added.
“You are more than welcome to bunk with us.” Leo smiled.
Rubberband Man smiled, “Thank you. All of you.”
“We better head back to the music store to rest ourselves.” Sunset mentioned for her and the rest of the girls.
“And we need to get home ourselves.” Gear spoke on behalf of himself and Static.
Before they all left, Rubberband Man whispered to Static, “Does Sharon know about this?”
“Nope. Just my Pops.”
“Probably better that way.” Rubberband Man breathed before Rainbow walked past them.
“Hey, Rainbow. Thanks.”
“For what?” Rainbow raised a brow.
“For giving me the right direction.”
Rainbow smiled. “No prob. Look forward to working with you, RB.”
As the girls left, RubberBand Man smiled, seeing hope to keep his promise to Sharon.
Meanwhile, Back at the warehouse, Puff and Onyx told Ebon about their encounter with Rubberband Man and Rainbow Dash.
“So, my little brother is in town and has joined Static’s little party?” The ringleader pondered.
“Want us to hunt him down for ya?” Puff asked as she checked her nails.
“No need! If he’s joined Static and those ninjas, we’ll deal with him soon enough.” Ebon stated as a Kraang droid walked up to Subprime.
“The duplication of that which is known as Bang Baby gas is fifty percent complete.”
“Okay not bad. We just gotta keep those Turtles and Rainbooms distracted long enough to complete our plan on time!” Subprime hissed.
“I think one of our newer recruits can fix that, Subprime.” Ebon chuckled as his eyes squinted.
Two teens were harassing a family. One was a girl wearing black with crystal gems and the other was a guy wearing an orange vest and headband over a blue sweater. They both chuckled evilly as the guy took off his shades.
“Oh don’t mind us. We just need to be bringing in new recruits.” He smirked as the girl held out her hand where crystals as sharp as daggers materialized.
“This is the third break in today.”
Later, Leo, Raph, Rarity, Static, Sunset, Twilight, April, and Rubberband Man checked out the now ruined apartment, looking for clues.
“It sounded like there were two of them. A girl in black and a guy wearing blue and orange. They tore up the place and took the family son.” Leo continued.
“Anyone you know?” Raph asked Static.
“Not anyone I know.”
April felt her head as she looked at the floor and saw a broken bat, “Someone tried to fight back. Guess they weren’t enough.”
“Any guesses on who these two are working for?” Twilight suggested as she analyzed any clue she could find.
“They’re probably gathering more young people so Ebon could mutate more Bang Babies.” Static concluded, while secretly clenching his fist in anger which Leo noticed.
“They’re adding more while we can’t even find this Ebon OR Kraang Subprime and people get hurt!” Angered, Raph punched a file cabinet which fell to the floor.
“RAPH!” Everyone scolded.
“You’re upset. We understand. But let’s not damage this place any further.” Sunset pointed.
“Besides, if we can find a clue about these two, we might be able to find Ebon and the Kraang.” Twilight added.
“Jackpot!” Everyone looked to see Rubberband Man pick something off the floor, “I think I found something.”
He opened his palm to reveal a small crystal shard.
“Ooo! It’s lovely!” Rarity took the shard and looked at it through her own microscope before sighing, “Oh. It is just crystal, not diamond. But it does look nice.”
Rarity handed the shard back to Rubberband Man, who explained, “Remember what the parents told the cops through those radios Gear made? They said one of the two created crystals out of her hand.”
Static caught on, “Of course! If this is something off that Metahuman, we might be able to find a way to locate those two.”
“Exactly.” Rubberband man handed the shard to Twilight, who looked at it with her magnifying glass.
“I suggest we take this back to Donnie and Gear so they can analyze it.”
“Agreed. We better get outta here before the police come up.” Leo said then they all left the apartment.
“Well, this makes my job easier.” Armaggon smirked as he stood before the two metahumans who hand him the family’s son who was tied up with a bag on his head.
“Anything else we can do for you, Sharky?” the guy asked smirking.
“Ebon said to wait for further orders. So until then, Stay put!” Armaggon ordered as he took the prisoner and mumbled before leaving, “Kid’s got spunk. I’ll give him that.”
As Armaggon took his leave, the boy began to prance in place, “Could you believe it, Chrissy? We’re Bang Babies! We can do whatever we want!”
Chrissy, however, just shrugged, “Better than my old life, Otto. My dad was gonna put me in board school.”
“Well, now with our powers, no one can touch us!” just then, Otto’s phone goes off and the teen answered it.
“So, who we ruffing up this time?” Chrissy asked.
Otto smirked. “Oh. You’re gonna love this…..”
Meanwhile, back at the juvenile hall, Donnie was analyzing the crystal shard under the microscope. After looking at it, the tech turtle then spoke.
“Okay, Gear and I analyzed the shard. It’s definitely no ordinary piece of crystal.”
“It’s got human DNA as well as traces of Mutagen. Meaning that this was generated from a mutated human.” Gear added.
Donnie then pulled out his mutagen tracker, “We can trace this with my tracker to its original owner.”
“And we can find those two Bang Babies and take them down!” Rainbow gleamed.
“Heck yeah!” Casey added.
“We gotta find them before they kidnap more victims!” Raph declared.
“Hold on, guys. This has ‘setup’ written on it.” April pointed out.
“April’s right. If I still know my brother, Ebon would be expecting us to find him.” Rubberband Man agreed.
“But we can’t just sit around while innocents get mutated!” argued Pinkie.
April sighed, “I know, Pinkie, but I’m not suggesting we do nothing either. We just need to be cautious if Ebon is anything like the Joker.”
“Agreed,” Leo nodded, “We need to exercise caution just in case. Everyone gear up!”
As they gather their gear, Leo walked up to Static.
“Are you feeling okay, Virgil?” the lead turtle asked.
“Fine. Why you ask?” Static shrugged.
“You seemed upset about something earlier. Wanna talk about it?”
Static sighed, “Just a lot going on. Every time I thought Ebon couldn’t sink any lower, he always proves me wrong.”
“I understand your frustration, but if you let it bother you, you will play into our enemies’ hands. It’s something Splinter told all of us many time.”
Static took a deep breath, “I’ll try.”
“All we can ask.” Leo then headed out with Static not far behind.
Soon, the group was looking around downtown with Donnie leading with his mutagen tracker.
“One of those metahumans is nearby.” He whispered.
“Everyone stay alert.” Sunset added as Spike sniffed around.
Suddenly, Pinkie began to shake.
“What’s up with Pinkie?” Gear noticed.
“That means something’s gonna go bad!” Applejack said while looking around cautiously.
At the same time, April felt her head, “Guys! They’re here!”
Then, a couple sharp crystals narrowly missed Static and Fluttershy, who barely dodged them.
“Aw! You just took the fun out of everything!” a male voice sighed.
The group saw as before them landed was a girl in black and a guy wearing an orange vest and headband over a blue sweater.
“It’s the two behind the kidnappings!” Rarity declared.
“Guilty as charged.” The girl waved off.
“Allow me to introduce ourselves. Name’s Otto and this here’s Chrissy.”
“Why you roughing people up yo?” Casey pointed his stick at the duo.
“Not that it’s any of your business, Gretsky, we’re just following orders.” Chrissy glared.
“And our next orders is to rough you up, Static, and your new buddies!” Otto pointed to the Turtles and Rainbooms.
“You think you can take us?” Raph pulled out his sais, “I’m afraid you’re outnumbered, dude.”
Mikey looked as his eyes widened, “Uh… Raph?”
“Then it’s good that I decided to join in.”
Everyone looked in fear as Ebon landed near Otto and Chrissy with Hotstreak, Shiv, Talon, Kangor, and Carmendillo.
“Is that…?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yeah. Ebon.” Gear nodded while Static clinched his fist.
“We meet again, Static!” Ebon greeted.
“Should’ve known you’d survive the last time!” Static glared.
“And you’ve made some new friends. So, these are the Ninjas and Rainbooms I heard from my new business partners.”
“Ebon did team up with the Kraang.” Rainbow grimaced.
Leo drew his katanas, “We know you’re with the Kraang, Ebon! Where are they?”
“And what have you done with Dr. Marx?” Twilight added.
“Relax. The good doctor is fine.” Ebon confessed as Shiv chuckled like a hyena.
“Ninjas! Take’em down!” Leo ordered.
“Waste’em, Bang Babies!” Ebon cried as the two sides charged into battle.
“The red shell is mine!” Hotstreak declared as he charged at Raph.
As the two sides battled, RubberBand Man faced his brother yet again.
“Looks like this was inevitable.” Ebon glared.
“This time, you ain’t using me!” Rubberband man stated before throwing the first punch.
Static fired electricity at Otto before noticing his attack was going around him.
“What the-?” Otto then pushed him back using an invisible force.
“I got him!” Pinkie threw her sprinkles at Otto that exploded. But as the smoke cleared, Otto appeared unharmed, “I don’t got him!”
Gear check a scanner, “He appears to be generating a barrier around himself, like an outer perimeter!”
Mikey perked up. “That’s it!” Everyone looked at the party dude who dodged an attack from Chrissy. “I’m calling that guy Outer Perimeter!”
“Can I call myself Outer for short?”
“Even better!”
“Love it! Too bad I have to kill you guys.” Outer knocked everyone around him down with his barrier.
Mikey had to go back to help Rarity and Applejack against Chrissy who had crystal shards the size of swords. She was so skilled she was able to fight the three.
“And Cryskill is that skilled as well!” Mikey added.
“Cryskill?” Rarity, Applejack, and Chrissy each raised a brow.
“Well I figured she creates crystals and she trying to kill us-”
“We get it.” The two Rainbooms stated.
Chrissy was not amused, “Cryskill? I wanted to be called Shard!”
Outer went to her side, “I don’t know. Cryskill sounds hot.”
Cryskill blushed, “You think so?”
After a second’s pause, Cryskill and Outer continued to fight. Meanwhile, Hotstreak continued to fight Raph.
“You’re gonna pay for getting in my way, Shell back!” he threw fireballs at the turtle who dodged them.
“With pants like that, I’m surprised you show your face in public!” Raph snapped back.
Before Hotstreak could respond with another attack, he was kicked from behind. As the hotheaded teen got up from the recoil, he turned to see it was Sunset who kicked him.
“Y’know, it’s a bummer you turned me down! We could have lit this city in flames!”
This made Sunset frown, “If I was a bad girl, I might have. But now, I wouldn’t go near your kind!”
Before the hothead could hurt her, Sunset kicked him down. Then suddenly, Talon swooped in and tackled Sunset.
Casey was facing Carmendillo and having a difficult time hitting him.
“Hold still, you overgrown rodent!” Carmendillo responded by rolling up into a ball and nailing the vigilante who fell in pain. He then unrolled and stared down at Casey.
“What can I say? I’m always on the go,” He teased before grabbing Casey’s bat and looking at it, “A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn’t pay money for this?”
Then, Casey was able to shock the Bang Baby with his taser and got his bat back, “It was a two for one sale, pal!”
Leo was fighting Shiv as their blades collided. Of course, Shiv used cheating tactics to overwhelm the leader turtle.
“Chop turtle anyone!” he chuckled. But before he could cut, he was suddenly lifted into the air while glowing magenta. He looked to see Twilight using her geode’s power.
“You will not hurt him!” she glared before tossing Shiv to a wall, knocking him out cold. The two smiled at each other, but suddenly-
WHACK!
Ebon hit Twilight from behind, rendering her unconscious. Luckily, Leo was able to hurry to protect her before Ebon could grab her. Rubberband man got back up to help as the two fought the Bang baby ringleader.
Meanwhile, Rainbow used her speed to distract Kangor long enough for Donnie to get the jump on him, knocking him out. They then went over to help the others who couldn’t land a hit on Outer, who kept deflecting every blow. Applejack and Rarity were tag teaming against Cryskill. Rarity was holding her diamond shield against Cryskill’s crystal blades.
“Diamond is better than crystal!” the fashionista declared.
The Bang Baby glared, “You vain types are all the same!”
Then, Applejack rammed at Cryskill, shattering her crystal shards and knocking her out cold.
“Cutting it close aren’t you?” huffed Rarity to Applejack.
“You’re welcome.” The cowgirl snapped back.
April then fired a psychic blast at Outer, who couldn’t deflect it and was knocked out.
“Whoa!” Rainbow gasped.
“How were you able to hit him, April?” Donnie asked.
“I’m not sure. I guess he can’t deflect what he can’t see.”
“Sounds pretty logical.” Gear shrugged.
Meanwhile, Raph tackled Hotstreak and started to punch his face repeatedly until his fist got on fire.
“No one gets the best of Hotstreak. GOT IT?”
Raph responded by hitting him with the grip of his sais, “I got it and NOT impressed!”
Meanwhile, Sunset was holding her own against Talon.
After wiping her lip from an attack, Talon spoke, “You’re tough. I’ll give you that.”
“You too.” Sunset panted.
Talon then charged at Sunset, who stood ready. Before she could hit her, the pony turned girl dodged and grabbed her hand.
“Now!” Sunset then used her geode to read the Bang Baby’s mind. She saw Talon before and after she became a metahuman. She also saw after she was cured, Talon tried to fix her life and showed much promise before she woke up as a metahuman again and found out Ebon remutated her. Sunset snapped out of her trance as her hand slipped from Talon’s hand as she recoiled. Sunset’s determination turned to remorse.
Talon noticed the fire head’s face, “What’s got you melancholy?”
“How could they do that to you?”
“What’re you talking about?” Talon raised a brow.
Sunset walked up to her, “I read your memory. You were trying to rebuild your life before Ebon mutated you.”
Talon’s eyes shrunk. Sunset offered her hand, “We can help you.”
Talon picked herself up. Seeing they were still in a fight, she grabbed Sunset.
“What are you-”
“Flip me.”
“Huh?” Sunset raised her brow.
“I have to stay with Ebon. Meet me at the building at 25th and Lamaar tomorrow and I’ll explain everything. Now flip me.”
Sunset nodded and flipped Talon over her shoulder. Then she went to help Raph against Hotstreak.
Everyone else hurried to help against Ebon. However, the ringleader was more too clever for everyone and able to fight everyone. Soon, Static fired an electric blast at Ebon. Ebon turned just as the teen fired another blast.
“Did I struck a nerve, Static?” the Bang Baby smirked.
Normally, Static would have a clever remark to counter. But this time, he was so mad he just tackled Ebon and kept hitting him with electricity like crazy. Everyone gasped in shock.
“Static, stop!” Leo cried.
“Virge, cool it.” Whispered Gear.
But Static didn’t hear. He kept hitting Ebon who then grew his hand, punching the hero sending him flying.
“So you wanna get serious, Static? Alright, let’s get serious!” Ebon was about to hit the teen as he was trying to get back up when Leo dashed in and slashed Ebon’s hand, causing him to recoil. The lead turtle then helped Static up.
“We need to get outta here!” he ordered, “Raph! Sunset! C’mon!” he motioned as everyone else gathered around him. Raph then jump kicked Hotstreak, causing him to fall down.
“We’ll settle the score next time!” He glared while he and Sunset hurried to the others as Mikey pulled out a smoke bomb.
“Adios, Bang Bums!” he slammed it to the ground and the group was gone with the smoke.
Ebon squinted his eyes while Hotstreak punched the ground as the other Bang Babies regained conscious.
“What now, Ebon?” Carmendillo asked.
“It’s time to put the plan in motion,” Ebon turned to Outer and Cryskill as police sirens were heard, “You two! Turn yourselves in to the authorities. But don’t worry. We’ll break you out when it’s time!”
“If you say so, boss.” Cryskill shrugged.
“Let’s book!” Ebon lead the others away while Cryskill and Outer waited for the police.
Soon, the group was back at the juvenile hall. As everyone who was hurt was being tended, Static took it hard.
“I-I’m really sorry, guys. I-I don’t know what came over me.” He apologized.
Gear put his hand on his bud’s shoulder, “Hey hey hey, Virge. It’s okay. So you went a little nuts on Ebon.”
“Yeah. Ebon knows what buttons to push. Don’t sweat it.” Rubberband man added.
“Well, if it makes you feel better, Virge, I could’ve gone nuts myself on Hotstreak. Man, is he annoying.” Raph punched his fists.
“We all understand how you feel, Virgil. I’d be lying if I didn’t say we all have our ballistic moments.” Sunset nodded.
Hearing his friends’ comments made Static smile, but he still felt unsure. This did not go unnoticed by Leo and April. Then, Mikey and Pinkie rushed in.
“Everyone! You should come see this!” The party dude cried.
Everyone hurried to the TVs and saw the recent news bulletin.
“This just in. The two metahumans responsible for the recent breaking and entering kidnappings have been apprehended. However, the whereabouts of the kidnapped are still unknown. More as it develops.”
The group saw the two metahumans were Outer and Cryskill.
“I hope we don’t see them anytime soon.” Rarity huffed.
“I guess Ebon and the others booked before the cops got there.” Casey shrugged.
“And we know he’s with Kraang Subprime.” Rainbow pointed out.
“So we find Ebon, we find Subprime, Bixolio, and Armaggon!” Pinkie finished.
“And Dr. Marx.” Twilight added.
“They’re definitely not gonna be easy since their adding new recruits.” Raph sighed.
“Maybe we can increase our numbers as well.” Donnie pondered.
“Whataya mean, Donnie?” Leo asked.
“I’ll need to stop by our dimension first thing in the morning. But for now, we should get some rest.”
“Yeah it’s almost our curfew anyway.” Gear pointed out.
As the girls, Virgil, and Richie were heading back, Leo called to Virgil, “Don’t worry, Virgil. We will get through this.”
Virgil sighed without turning around. “I know.” He then headed out.
“YOU MORONS!”
Back at the Bang Baby hideout, Kraang Subprime was not happy to hear his enemies still lived. He knocked Kangor down and held Carmendillo by the neck.
“HOW COULD YOU NOT DEFEAT A BUNCH OF BRATS AND FREAKS?”
“Like you did any better?” Hotstreak glared.
“DON’T PUSH IT, TORCH BOY!” Subprime’s blades extended and pointed to the hothead.
“Try me!” Hotstreak flamed up ready to take on the Kraang leader before Ebon got in the way.
“Knock it off! I admit I underestimated those ninjas. But rest assured, Subprime, we will proceed as planned.”
“For your sake, it better!” The Shredder blades retracted while Hotstreak powered down but still glared at the alien as Dr. Marx came in, opening up as Kurosa.
“I took the liberty of having someone bring a couple scientists to help finish the Bang Baby gas.”
“Who’d you hired?” Bixolio asked.
“An old collegue of mine. He goes by the name of… Dr. Koenig.”
Hearing that name caused Ebon to chuckle evilly while Subprime smirked.
Late at night, a figure hurried on top of buildings. It was a young female wearing a magenta body suit with a purple bandana and cape.
“I’ve got to find Static. He’s the only one who can help now.” She panted and hurried off, unaware a tall figure was following her
The following morning, the Ninjas minus Donnie, and the Rainbooms, were training with Virgil, Richie, and Rubberband man as well as get in their morning training. As they spared, Richie was telling Rarity his love life.
“And That’s why I never had a girlfriend.” He finished.
Rarity was amazed, “That’s understandable.”
“Eh what can you do?” the two then kept sparring.
Meanwhile, Leo was doing katas with Virgil in hopes to calm the teen’s tension. Meanwhile, Casey and Raph sparred with Rubberband man while the rest of the group were either doing katas or practicing their moves. When they finished, Virgil spoke.
“So, Where’s Donatello again?”
“He’s gonna see he can get help back home as well as get some extra equipment.” Leo answered.
Just then, a portal opened near the loading dock under the building. Everyone hurried over to see the Turtles’ vehicle, The Shellraiser, emerge through the portal.
“This thing yours guys?” Virgil asked.
“Yep. The good ol’ Shellraiser!” Mikey grinned.
Richie looked at the vehicle impressed, “Not bad. Not bad at all.”
The side door opened, and Donnie came out with a bag of equipment.
“Love the set wheels, D.” whistled Richie.
“Thanks, Richie.” Donnie smiled.
“So, D, did you get anyone from home to help?” Casey asked.
“Well, I didn’t come just for the ride, Jones.” Said a familiar voice as a certain pizza boy emerged from the vehicle.
“Keno!” the ninjas cried.
“You came!” Pinkie squeezed Keno in a hug.
“Always. Happy. To see you. Too. Pinkie.” Keno groaned before the party girl released her.
“We were hoping to see you again.” Sunset smiled.
“Well, I was talking with my boss at Antonio’s who wanted to take some time off from work. I was gonna check in with you guys when Fugitoid explained everything to me. That was when Donnie came and asked me to help you guys. I’ve really gotta join you guys on patrol more.”
“Better late than never.” Rainbow grinned.
“How long have we been gone from home?” Fluttershy asked.
“About a half hour,” Donnie pointed out, “Remember, we traveled through time as well as space.”
“And if it’s anything like Gotham, I might use the rest of my vacation to visit Indigo Zap. She was meaning to introduce me to her parents.” Keno added.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough time to ask Karai or the Mutanimals so just Keno. However, I made another stop in Equestria.”
The Ninjas and Rainbooms perked up.
“You got Princess Twilight?” Leo asked.
“Nope. Sorry, Leo.”
“Starlight Glimmer?” Sunset guessed.
“Nope. Not this time.”
April perked up, “You mean-?”
“Yep.” Donnie stepped aside as another familiar figure merged from the Shellraiser.
“Blade Swipe!”
“Greetings, my friends. It has been a while.” Sure enough, it was their mutant pony friend Blade Swipe who was turned human like before.
“Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes.” Raph grinned as the two high fived.
“I landed at Canterlot castle and told Princess Celestia about our situation. She was more than willing to let Blade Swipe come help and found him meditating in the garden.”
“Should Princess Celestia need me back, she will let Twilight know and she’ll write in your journal and Donatello will send me back.” Blade said.
“Allow me to introduce you guys to our new friends,” Sunset walked up to introduce them, “This is Virgil, Richie, and Adam. They also are known as Static, Gear, and Rubberband Man.”
“And this is Keno from our world. He’s a pizza delivery dude who fights crime as the Nightwatcher,” Mikey introduced, “And this is Blade Swipe. He’s a mutant pony from Equestria.”
“Nice to meet you guys.” Keno shook Richie’s hand.
“Nice to meet you too. Like your voice.”
“Back at ya.” Keno and Richie fist bumped.
Virgil shook hands with Blade Swipe, “Nice to meet ya.”
“Any friend of the Ninjas is a friend of mine.” Blade smiled as he shook hands with Rubberband Man next.
Just then, the radio nearby crackled to life.
“We interrupt our music program for this important announcement. A tall, horrible Bang baby has been seen causing havoc in the downtown area! The suspect is identified as Dr. Koenig also known as Heavy Man. More as it develops.”
“Anyone you know?” Casey asked.
Richie nodded, “He was a scientist at Ashton Biotechnics who worked with the parents of a friend of ours on a project involving cell matter absorption. The project was canceled, but he remained using himself as a test subject. The results were strength and the ability to absorb non-living matter, but a gruesome look as well. Worse, he was going to become as heavy as a statue and unable to move.”
“We better get down there before he hurts anyone!” Virgil hurried to change into Static.
“And he might know where Ebon and the Kraang are.” Rubberband Man added.
“Let’s go.” Leo declared as everyone grabbed their weapons.
In the downtown area of Dakota City, the masked girl was thrown by a big figure. He was a tall, disfigured guy with pale white skin who wore a ripped up lab coat.
“You ain’t getting away that easily!” the figure growled.
The girl then picked herself up, “I’m done running, Heavy Man.”
Heavy Man just scoffed, “Cute. But that ain’t gonna save you.”
Heavy Man got closer before a hockey puck exploded on his neck. He turned to see Static, Gear, Rubberband Man, the Ninjas, Rainbooms, and Blade Swipe standing ready with weapons in hand, “You!”
“Sorry, did you two want to be alone? Ain’t happening!” Casey said smugly.
“I don’t know who you shmucks are, but if you’re with Static and his little pep squad you made a grave mistake!” Heavy Man cracked his knuckles.
“Take’em down!” Leo ordered as they charged at the former doctor as Gear helped the girl up.
“You okay, She Bang?”
“I think so,” The girl answered before griping, “I leave for a few weeks and you guys start a bridge club without me?”
“Actually, they’re just visiting and we’re helping.” Gear explained.
“Well, I was looking for you guys anyway.” She Bang shrugged.
The two joined the others who were throwing projectiles and keeping their distances from Heavy Man, who kelp trying to hit back. Static then hit him with an electrical punch.
“So how are you able to move? You couldn’t even lift a finger after last time!”
“I’m more advanced thanks to some mutagen curtesy of the Kraang!” Heavy Man then threw Static into Leo before Sunset threw kunai at him. As he pulled the daggers off, they then disintegrated in his grip. He then charged at her only to feel his hands stuck. He looked to see his hand sparkling as Twilight used her geode power to levitate. As she tried to lift him, Twilight struggled and sweated.
“I. can’t. lift him,” She grunted, “Too heavy!”
“Hang on! I’ll help!” April jumped in and tried to help with her telekinesis with little to no improvement, “Wow! He really is heavy!”
“Booyakasha!” Mikey tried to hit him with his nunchucks only to be hit away real hard, “Has anyone seen my teeth?” he felt dazed.
Raph tried to punch Heavy Man to the side only to hurt his hand, “Yeow!”
Blade Swipe rushed in and struck with lightning from his blade. Heavy Man just brushed it off and threw him into Casey, causing him to drop his sword. Unable to find his weapon, Blade looked at the dazed vigilante and saw his hockey stick lying next to him.
“Gonna have to borrow this.” He told Casey.
“No prob, dude.” Casey thumbed up, still dazed.
Blade got up and twirled the hockey stick, channeling lightning on it. Then, he slashed lightning at Heavy Man multiple times, causing him to kneel. After Blade stopped, Heavy Man only glared at him.
“Just how tough is this guy?” Rainbow used her speed but her punches were not having any effect. Instead, Heavy Man only responded by throwing Raph into her.
“Y’know, Don, I think we should have picked up Bebop and Rocksteady as well.” Keno panted.
“Even if I thought about it back then, we couldn’t waste time trying to hunt them down!”
“Just saying.” Keno shrugged.
Everyone continued to fight Heavy Man, but the big guy proved to be more than a challenge. Then Applejack stood before him.
“Alright!” She took off her claws, “Time to put this varmint down!”
“You wanna play, cowgirl?” taunted Heavy Man.
“I’m done playing around.”
“Good cause so am I!” Applejack then charged at Heavy Man. The two wrestled and were evenly matched until the cowgirl grabbed him by the back.
Heavy Man smirked. “You think you can lift me?”
Applejack yelled as she actually lifted the Metahuman surprising him as he landed head first on the concrete. Everyone hurried to AJ as she caught her breath.
“Phew! Actually broke a sweat lifting that guy!” Everyone smiled at their friend before Heavy Man actually lifted himself up.
“AW! COME ON!” Rainbow Dash groaned.
“You think one little hit like that could stop….stop…” Suddenly Heavy Man stopped in his track as he stood like a statue.
“What’s happening to him?” Blade raised a brow.
“Whatever the Kraang gave him must be wearing off. He absorbed too much matter that he’s too heavy to move.” Gear suggested.
“Which means he won’t answer our questions.” She Bang pouted.
Just then, police sirens could be heard.
“The cops.” Casey stated.
“We better get outta here!” Leo led everyone away just before police cars surround the frozen Heavy Man.
Soon, the group made it back to the juvenile hall. When they arrived, Sunset and Leo explained their origins to She Bang, who spoke after they finished their story.
“So that explains a lot.”
“Now that you know about us, how about you introduce yourself?” Rainbow suggested.
“Okay. Here goes,” She Bang cleared her throat and took off her mask, “My name is Shenice Vale. I also go by She Bang.”
“You a Metahuman too?” Casey asked.
“Actually, I was a science project.”
“Huh?” The Ninjas and Rainbooms asked before She Bang explained herself.
“Years ago, my parents, Jonathan and Dolores, made me chromosome by chromosome. DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. They fell in love with me and went into hiding from a group of people who’d try to clone me, so I had to act like a shy, normal person till we moved to Dakota trying to blend in with the other Bang-Babies.”
The Ninjas and Rainbooms were speechless from what they heard.
Twilight broke the silence, “That’s pretty amazing.”
“Eyup.” Applejack agreed.
“So She Bang. What brings you to the hood?” Static asked.
“My parents were captured. Again,” She Bang described, “Dr. Koenig had help from these guys in black suits and had rubber skin.”
Rubberband Man frowned, “And you assume I’m to blame?”
“Nono. Not that kind of rubber. The rubber they used looks like human skin.”
“The Kraang!” the group gasped.
“That’s what they call themselves? The Kraang?” She Bang raised a brow.
“They’re the reason why we’re here.” Leo stated as Donnie explained.
“They’ve teamed up with Ebon using this stuff called mutagen to create more Bang Babies. We’re trying to stop them.”
“Maybe that’s why they kidnapped your parents.” Twilight realized, “Since we stopped Slipstream and his goons from getting the Bang Baby gas, Kraang Subprime is having them along with Dr. Marx to recreate the gas!”
Sunset’s eyes shrunk, “Do you think they’ll combine the gas with the mutagen?”
Everyone looked around with fear in their eyes.
“That would make the retro Mutagen useless!” Donnie feared.
“Couldn’t we, oh I don’t know, combine the gas with retro mutagen?” Spike pointed out.
“It’s possible. The question is where can we find more gas?”
“Good question,” Gear pondered, “We better find some to try. I’ll do a little research for any possible leads. Should take me about tomorrow.”
“Good. Dig up what you can,” Leo nodded, “We’re pretty beat from fighting Heavy Man anyway.”
Sunset walked up to She Bang, “You’re more than welcome to bunk with us, She Bang.”
“Sounds good. Can’t remember the last time I was at a sleepover.”
“Oh we’re gonna have so much fun together!” Pinkie hugged She Bang.
“And we promise. We will help rescue your parents.” April assured.
She Bang smiled as she saw everyone with comforting smiles, “Thank you. All of you.”
“We’ll see you guys tomorrow.” Sunset waved as the girls, Richie, and Virgil headed out and Raph turned to Blade and Keno.
“Okay, let’s get you two settled in. Pick a room and it’s yours.”
“Sounds good to me. I’m beat.” Keno yawned.
Blade, however, did not answer. As the mutant pony turned human stared at the cells, he began to sweat and tremble nervously. He panted as he kept having flashbacks of his capture, mutation, and torture by the Kraang. Then, suddenly-
“Blade!”
“Huh? What?” The touching of Mikey’s hand on his shoulder was enough to snap him out of it.
“You alright, Dude?” Mikey asked worried.
“I- I’m not sure. Just being around cells and jail places keeps reminding me of when the Kraang torured me and mutated me. I’m afraid I can’t sleep in one of those rooms.”
“Oh yeah. I keep forgetting that.” Mikey rubbed his head.
“Don’t worry, Blade. We’ll figure something.” Leo assured.
“Maybe I have a solution.” Rubberband man walked up.
Later, Blade set his stuff in the security station, “This will do nicely. Thank you, my friend.”
“Happy to help.” Rubberband Man smiled as they all got settled in for the night.
In the hideout of The Kraang and the Bang Babies, Kraang Subprime was talking to Ebon.
“It would appear that the enhancements of the mutagen didn’t last long on Dr. Koenig.” The Kraang grimaced.
“At least he got what we needed.” Ebon pointed as two Kraang droids threw doctors Jonathan and Dolores Vale to the floor.
“W-What’s going on?” Dolores trembled.
“Nothing much. Just you two are gonna help Dr. Marx recreate the bang baby gas and combine it with this mutagen!” Ebon stated.
“And if you get any ideas,” Kraang Subprime glared as Bixilio and Armaggon snapped collars on the two scientists’ necks. On the collars were viles of mutagen, “Those collars contain samples of that mutagen. One wrong move and I push this button and you’ll mutate into the last organic thing you touched!” one of the Shredder arms rose to reveal a control with a red button, “Any questions?”
The scientists were too scared to answer as Ebon ordered, “Send them in with Dr. Marx.”
Shiv and Acid Grip grabbed the two, dragging them away.
Back at the music store, April and the Rainbooms were enjoying hanging out with Shenice. The place looked almost brand new thanks to Applejack’s repainting and Rarity’s décor with sleeping bags on the floor. There was also a heater, fridge, and TV that Richie hooked them up with.
“Thanks again for letting me stay with you girls.” Shenice smiled.
“It’s our pleasure, Sugarcube.” Applejack nodded.
“You’re part of the team now! It’s the least we can do.” Rainbow added without looking up from her game.
“And trust me, I’ve been where you are. The Kraang kidnapped my father and the Turtles were able to rescue him. And we will do the same for your parents.” April assured their newcomer.
“Thanks.” Shenice smiled.
Pinkie added. “And since we’re teaching Static and Gear some of our ninjutsu tricks, we can give you a little pointer or two.” She then looked around to notice someone was missing.
“Hey. Has anyone seen Sunset Shimmer?”
“She said she went to get some more snacks,” Twilight remembered, looking up from her little project, “I know Fluttershy is giving Spike a little walk.”
“I hope nothing bad happens to either of them.” Rarity feared.
Meanwhile, Sunset climbed up on top of the building on the address Talon told her the night before. She walked around the roof, checking for signs of the Kraang or Bang Babies with a kunai in her hand until she heard a voice.
“You came,” Sunset turned to Talon landing on the roof, “Would’ve been here sooner but had to shake off Shiv and Armaggon. And I assure you I’m alone as promised.”
“Sorry, just a precaution.” Sunset put her kunai back in her pouch.
“Personally, I don’t blame you. I’ve done some terrible things as a metahuman.”
“Actually, I can relate.” Sunset sighed.
“You were bad yourself?” Talon asked curiously.
“Believe it or not, yes. I turned my back on my teacher because I wanted power. Until a special friend opened my eyes and thanks to her I have made lots of friends. And we can help you too.” Sunset held her hand out.
Talon looked hesitant to accept the pony turned girl’s hand, “I want to believe you. I really do. But Ebon is too strong. And with that Subprime and his gang helping him, we’d be outmatched. I’m sorry.”
Just then, an idea came to Sunset, “Maybe there is a way you can stay with Ebon and help us at the same time.”
“I’m listening.” Talon crossed her arms.
“You can be our spy. We’ll keep meeting like this, and you fill me in on Ebon and Subprime’s plans. Then, when we defeat them, my friend will help cure you with his retro mutagen.”
Talon looked interested, “I can do that. And I’ll hold you to your promise to cure me. But if I find you con me, deal’s off and you’re mine. Got it?”
Sunset nodded, “I understand. In fact, I’ll Pinkie Promise that we’ll cure you,” Talon held up her finger, only to see Sunset act out the Pinkie Promise, “Cross my heart, hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye.”
Talon was speechless, “Okay?”
“It’s how me and my friends hold a Pinkie promise.”
“If that means you’ll keep your promise, then it’s cool,” Talon shrugged before turning to leave, “I gotta go before Ebon knows I’m gone. I’ll see you here in a couple days. That way they shouldn’t get suspicious.”
“Okay. And thank you.”
Talon spread her wings when she realized Sunset thanked her, “You’re welcome.”
As Sunset watched Talon fly away, they were being watched in secret by Fluttershy and Spike, who heard everything.
“I hope Sunset knows what she’s doing.” Spike whispered.
“I think she does,” The shy girl explained, “We should trust Sunset. This may the advantage we need against Ebon and Kraang Subprime.”
Then the two headed back to the music store with Sunset unknowingly not far behind.
“This just in. Concerns around Dakota continue to increase as the number of break ins and kidnappings continue to grow. According to witnesses at the scenes, the subjects were identified as metahumans and former Bang Babies. Even though Static, Gear, and their new friends are trying to stop these kidnappings, it seems things are getting worse before they get better. One of the kidnapped is genetic expert Dr. Karl Marx. More as it develops.”
Virgil was taking Blade Swipe to the sports store as they passed by an electronics store, hearing the news broadcast on the TVs in the display windows. Hearing it made Virgil upset, but he tried to shake it off as he turned to Blade.
“So whatcha need to find at the sport store?” he asked.
“Well, I’m thinking about increasing my arsenal,” Blade explained, “All my life, before and after my mutation, I’ve been trained to fight with just a sword. After our fight with Heavy Man, and using Casey’s stick, I think it would be time for what Donatello would call an upgrade. After all, a ninja should learn how to use other weapons. And since the Kraang are involved, I can finally pay them back for what they did to me! Plus if a juvenile like Casey can use simple sports equipment for weapons, why can't I?”
"True, but don'tcha think hockey sticks and baseball bats are a step down from what you use?" Virgil wondered.
"Maybe, but it's not like there's a weapons shop around here." Blade noted.
"True, plus you'd need a license and all that to use them. Well, here it is." Virgil pointed as the two stood before the sports store before entering. Soon, they found the Hockey sticks and Blade began trying them out trying to find the one that felt right.
As he watched, Virgil began to ask Blade question about Equestria, “So do you guys have sports in Equestria?”
“Indeed. Pretty much anything that is familiar to your world’s sports. For example, we have horse hockey which is played in the clouds and mostly by pegasi. There’s also Bowling, Hoofball, Buckball, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” Blade explained before he picked up a black hockey stick with maroon on the end, “This one will do.”
Virgil nodded as the two headed to the register when they heard smashing. The two ducked in an aisle and peeked out to see Shiv and Carmendillo wrecking the place.
“Shiv and Carmendillo?” Virgil gasped, “Boy those two have lousy timing.”
“I do not tolerate watching their kind threatening innocents,” Blade glared, “I’ll distract them while you prepare.”
Virgil nodded as he hurried to change into Static as Blade headed to face the Bang Babies.
Shiv and Carmendillo were wrecking the store looting money and valuables while the owner tried to get up after getting hit by Carmendillo.
“Well at least it wouldn’t be a total loss!” Shiv chuckled.
“Too bad there ain’t anyone worth kidnapping for Ebon and Subprime!” Carmendillo added.
“What about the old geezer?” Shiv pointed to the store owner.
“I don’t know. But then again, the bosses aren’t too picky who we kidnap so far.” Carmendillo shrugged as the two walked towards to the owner.
“I beg to differ.”
The two looked to see Blade Swipe standing there, cracking his knuckles, “I’m only going to say this once. Leave this fellow alone and get out! Otherwise, you leave me no choice but to hurt you.”
Shiv just chuckled at the threat, “Hear that, Carmy? This geek thinks he can hurt us! Such a comedian!”
“Have any other bold words you wanna throw at us, Tough Guy?” Carmendillo taunted.
Blade stood unfazed, “Words won’t win this battle.”
“So true!” Shiv declared as he and Carmendillo double teamed. But Blade disappeared before they could hit him. Shiv looked around, “Hey! Where’d he go?”
“Who was that jerk anyway?”
“Heh one look at us and he chickened out!”
Carmendillo then noticed a figure behind Shiv, “Hey! Shiv, behind you!”
Shiv turned just as Blade punched him, knocking out his gold tooth and sent him flying to a wall. Blade then took another pose, taunting Carmendillo to come.
“Oh whoever you are, you are DEAD!” the armadillo rolled into a ball and bounced at Blade, who dodged and poked him with two fingers at a certain spot, resulting Carmendillo to unroll and cringe from pain, “What did you do?”
“Found your pressure point,” Blade grinned before he whispered, “I’ll have to thank Leonardo for showing me that technique.”
Shiv then jumped up and, with a demented look on his face, morphed his hands into blades.
“I can play that game.” Blade drew his sword, charging it with electricity. Then the two charged at each other and fought blade to blade. Carmendillo was able to get up and grab his spear and was about to cheap shot Blade while he was distracted by Shiv when he was shocked from behind.
“Naughty naughty, Carmen. It’s not nice to sneak up on people!” Carmendillo looked to see Static flying in.
“Static! I should’ve known! Shiv! Let’s book!”
“Sorry we have to cut this short!” Shiv jumped over Blade’s shoulder and grabbed his golden tooth before escaping with Carmendillo, “You wouldn’t have won anyway!”
After the Bang Babies left, Blade sheathed his sword as Static walked up to him, “Hope I wasn’t too late.”
“I ain’t complaining,” Blade smiled before he walked up to the counter and put the hockey stick on it, “I’d like to purchase this.”
The owner smiled, “Young man, you just saved my life. It’s on the house.”
“Thank you very much.” Blade bowed as he and Static took their leave.
Back at the Bang Baby hideout, Civilians who were captured by Armaggon and the Bang Babies and not yet mutated had glowing eyes as they were constructing a rocket. Ebon entered with Kraang Subprime and Armaggon and walked up to a teenager girl wearing a ragged up outfit of colors along with Hotstreak.
“How goes construction, Maddy?” Ebon asked the girl.
“Surprised we’re on schedule. These bums are so slow whether possessed or not.” Madelyn complained.
“Just make sure they finish the rocket and we won’t have any trouble!” Subprime growled.
“Then let’s have some fun.” Ebon smirked as he whispered to Madelyn, who smirked.
“Right. Hey you!” Madelyn pointed to a fat male teen in her control who stood up, “Dance!”
The teen just did a pathetic dance as they weren’t not amused.
Subprime spoke up, “Have him do the swim! I actually like that one.”
The teen then danced like he was on the beach while the villain enjoyed watching it before Armaggon spoke up, “Ballet!”
The villains laughed their heads off as the teen danced like ballerina. Then Hotstreak noticed something.
“Hey! Ebon! Shiv and Carmendillo are back.”
Sure enough, Shiv and Carmendillo have returned and walked forward. The villains ceased their fun and walked up to them.
“I trust you both been riling things up?” Ebon asked.
“Yeah we made a mess of things.” Shiv grinned.
Subprime walked up smirking as Carmendillo continued, “Ripped up a sports store, stole a few things.”
“So. Did you bring an innocent for Maddie here to brainwash?”
Shiv and Carmendillo looked at each other. Then Shiv spoke up to Ebon, “Well, we were about to bring someone, but-”
“WHAT? How could you mess up a simple task?! You call yourselves Bang Babies? You’re Bang BUMS!”
Carmendillo tried reasoning with Subprime, “B-But Subby, There was this guy with black hair and a scar over his eye! He creamed us then Static showed up and-”
“Is that him?” Everyone turned to see Hotstreak pointing to a TV screen where a news reporter was reporting in front of the sports store with Static and Blade Swipe next to her.
“That be him.”
Subprime walked up to the TV to get a good look at Blade. “There’s something familiar about him. Aw Kraang it! If he’s with that Static brat and those Turtles, he’s Kraang’s enemy!”
“You two are dismissed!” Ebon stated.
As Shiv and Carmendillo left, Bixolio hurried in. “We got a problem in the prison chamber!”
Back at the juvenile hall, Static and Blade were just coming in when they were greeted by everyone.
“Hey there, you big star!” Pinkie grinned.
Blade immediately knew what the party girl meant,, “You know, huh?”
“It’s all over the news.” Sunset pointed to the TVs.
“Moments ago, the sports store was being threatened by Bang Babies, only to be thwarted by Static and a mysterious swordsman.”
Hearing the broadcast made Blade blush, “Sorry. Didn’t mean to make such a commotion.”
“It’s okay, Blade.” Leo put his hand on Blades shoulder.
“It looks like they consider you an ally to Static and as a metahuman.” April added.
“Besides, we kinda made our presence known when we fought Goop-zilla.” Donnie added.
Just then, Static’s phone rang, “It’s my Pops,” He checked before answering and putting it on speaker phone, “Hey, Pops. What’s up?”
On the other end of the line, Robert Hawkins spoke to his son, “Hey, Virgil. Have you seen your sister?”
“Not since breakfast this morning.”
“Because one second she was doing dishes. One minute I get back, she was gone. And there are still dishes in the water.”
“That doesn’t sound like Sharon.”
“No. And that’s what worries me. Keep an eye out for her, you and your friends, and bring her home safely. I’ll finish the dishes. There isn’t a lot left.”
“We will.” Static hung up the phone with a worried look on his face. The others shared the same worried look.
“That doesn’t sound good.” Leo spoke.
“Well it sounds like she just walked out, so it wasn’t a break in.” Gear pondered.
“Maybe somebody made her leave.” April gasped.
“Could it have something to do with those people with glowing eyes?”
Everyone looked out the window Pinkie was at. Some people were walking with their eyes glowing bright pink like they were following something. Static and Gear looked at each other with concerned looks.
“It can’t be.” Static gasped.
“You don’t think-?” Gear added.
“You know something about this?” Applejack raised a brow.
“Madelyn Spaulding. She’s a Bang Baby who can control people’s minds. She discovered her powers when she didn’t get voted class president.” Gear explained.
“I was able to evade her mind control because my powers enhanced my body's natural electrical field to block her power. I electrified her brain, erasing her memory of ever being a Bang Baby and my secret identity. She was hospitalized after that for awhile.” Static continued.
Sunset looked away, feeling her story is similar as Static continued.
“She was released from the hospital and eventually was forced to work in a comic book store; however, she wasn't allowed back in school. She was only able to remember a few moments from her encounter with Static. Her encounter with me resulted in the loss of her original powers and the gaining of new powers, which enabled her to telekinetically move things. This was triggered from her anger caused by thinking me and Richie were laughing at her. She then freed Hotstreak, Ebon, and Talon from jail and took the role as leader of the team. Her lead was short however, as she fought with Ebon over leadership. We showed up and once again, shocked Madelyn's mind into submission and defeated the Meta-Breed. I was hoping Madelyn would’ve been gone for good. Guess I was wrong.” Static quenched his fist in anger, which Leo noticed.
“We gotta go after her!” Raph declared.
“Agreed. She might’ve possessed Sharon.” Rubberband Man agreed.
“Well, what’re we waiting for?” Casey put on his mask.
But before they could leave, the radio crackled to life.
“We interrupt our regular program for a special news bulletin. Snow has been discovered in the downtown area with blizzards and hail falling by random. There appears to be a teenage girl wearing blue in the eye of the bizarre storm appearing to be the cause of this!”
“Sounds like Permafrost.” Static thought out loud.
“Who’s that?” Blade asked.
“A mentally-broken homeless child named Maureen Conner. Following her mother's death and her stepfather abandoning her family, she became homeless, and developed psychiatric problems from the sheer rejection and loneliness. After the Big Bang, her hair turned white and her skin light blue, and she became an incredibly strong cryokinetic, able to create, manipulate and control frost, sleet, flurries, snow and ice, and create massive blizzards, hailstorms, and snowstorms. Around Christmas, Maureen turned to trouble-making, getting my attention. I learned about her tragic past from Reverend Anderson, being able to manage to reach out and calm her down. The girl was taken to a local church for help in their homeless program, which she gratefully accepted when offered by Reverend Anderson.” Static explained.
“The poor thing.” Rarity gasped as Blade looked away in remorse.
“We need to find out why she’s freaking out.” She Bang stated.
“But we need to find Madelyn and through her Sharon!” Rubberband Man reminded the group.
“We’ll have to split into two groups.” Sunset suggested.
Leo quickly gave orders and split the group in two. “Okay, Sunset. Take Pinkie, Mikey, Donnie, April, Rarity, Fluttershy, Gear, and Rubberband Man and go after Madilyn. The rest of us will deal with Permafrost. Let’s move!”
The group then split into the said two groups and hurried to their destinations.
Sunset’s group followed some possessed civilians to a warehouse by the pier.
“Let’s head up to the roof!” Sunset pointed.
“You think the Kraang are hiding here?” Mikey whispered as they all jumped up to the roof.
When they got up there, April felt her head, “I don’t sense any Kraang here. But I am sensing someone with strong mental powers in there.”
“That’s got to be Maddie.” Gear stated.
They all look through the skylight to see Madelyn controlling civilians into making a giant rocket. Kangor and Acid Grip were standing guard. Rubberband Man then saw someone familiar down there.
“Sharon!”
Sure enough, it was Virgil’s sister, possessed and forced to work on the rocket.
“Is that Virgil’s sister?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yeah. That’s her.” Gear confirmed.
“She’s pretty,” Mikey awed before nudging Rubberband Man, “You dog.”
“Ebon and Subprime must be planning to use that rocket to spread the Bang Baby mutagen when it’s ready.” Donnie hypothesized.
“So how do we stop them without getting possessed ourselves?” Rarity asked.
“If I can concentrate hard enough, I might be able to counteract her powers with my ESP.” April offered.
“That’ll have to be our best option.” Donnie agreed.
“Donnie and Fluttershy, you two guard April while she uses her powers. The rest of us will deal with Kangor and Acid Grip to get to Madelyn. Once everyone is free, Gear and Rubberband Man will help them escape.” Sunset planned.
“Let’s do it!” Gear grinned.
The group jumped down through the sky light.
“What the-?” Madelyn looked up in surprise.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey declared as they all landed on the ground with weapons in hand.
“It’s those freaks and girls again!” Acid Grip growled.
“They’ll make a great bonus to Ebon and Kraang Subprime!” Madelyn smirked as her eyes began to glow.
“Oh no you don’t!” April used her powers to counter Madelyn’s power.
Madelyn groaned, “That girl! She’s blocking my power on them!”
“Then we should fix that!” Kangor cracked his knuckles as he and Acid Grip charged at the group.
“I don’t know if I ever said this. Ninjas! Take’em Down!” Sunset declared as they got in position.
Sunset, Rubberband Man, and Gear fought Kangor while Rarity, Pinkie, and Mikey fought Acid Grip and Donnie and Fluttershy stood by April. Rubberband Man bound Kangor as Sunset jumped kicked him followed by Gear. Rarity used her diamond shield to block Acid Grip’s acid attacks while Mikey and Pinkie kept bapping him with their weapons, irritating him.
“You brats are really starting to annoy me!” he growled.
“Well, you should have thought of that before you helped our enemies!” Pinkie responded with a raspberry.
Meanwhile, April put up a fight with her ESP against Madelyn, who was able to send possessed people after her. Luckily, Donnie and Fluttershy have been pretty successful in keeping them back.
“Sorry!” Fluttershy kept apologizing to every possessed innocent she hit.
“Can you free any of the victims, April?” Donnie asked his crush.
“It’s taking everything I got just to fight her! If I try to free everyone, I won’t protect you guys from her control!” April grunted, “The only way to beat her is to knock her out!”
“You got it!” Mikey jumped over Acid Grip and after Madelyn.
“Wait! Mikey! She’s stronger if you’re too close!”
“Too late!” Madelyn laughed as she began to possess the party turtle.
“MIKEY!” Everyone gasped.
Mikey screamed as he dropped his nunchucks and clenched his head in pain. As he fell to his knees, Madelyn walked towards him.
“Now let’s see what’s in your little head.” She smirked while touching the turtle’s head.
“Papa!” Mikey cried, trying to resist.
Inside Mikey’s head, Madelyn skimmed a kaleidoscope of images of pizza, Ice Cream Kitty, Chris Bradford, Crognard, Shinigami’s hat, and time scepters before reaching a door.
“Once I open this, I will know what I need to possess this freak as well learn from him.” She was about to open the door when-
“You do not belong here!” a hand grabbed her hand before she could open the door. She turned to see a humanoid rat wearing a kimono.
“Who-who are you?” Madelyn gasped.
“I am Master Splinter and I demand you to GET OUT OF MY SON’S HEAD!” Splinter then punch Madelyn so hard that in the real world, she was sent flying causing her to lose her hold on the party dude. Mikey gasped as he breathed slowly.
Pinkie and Rarity knocked out Acid Grip and hurried to him, “Mikey are you alright?”
“Yeah, Pinkie. Just need to a moment to pull myself together.”
Coming up with an idea, Pinkie reached into her hair and pulled out a slice of gumdrop and mushroom pizza and offered it to Mikey, who smiled and accepted it.
"Just what the doctor ordered." he munched on it happily.
As Sunset, Gear, and Rubberband Man knocked out Kangor and hurried over, April called out to them, “Guys! I don’t know what Mikey did just now, but Madelyn’s control over these people has weakened! I can free them!”
“Go for it!” Donnie nodded as he and Mikey hid behind a couple crates before April freed everyone from Madelyn’s control. As everyone regained consciousness, Gear started to escort them out of the warehouse with help from the girls who quickly put on shades. As everyone hurried out, Rubberband Man looked around and found his woman.
“Sharon!”
“Adam?” Sharon smiled before embracing the metahuman, “What’s going on? Last thing I remember was doing the dishes.”
“It’s a long story. I’ll tell you on the way home.”
As Rubberband Man walked out with Sharon, the rest of the group went to where Madelyn landed. The girl didn’t seem to notice them as she trembled in fear. Pinkie waved her hand at her but got no response.
“Whatever happened in Mikey’s head must’ve traumatized her.” Gear concluded.
“Let’s destroy the rocket and head out,” Sunset turned to be surprised, “Uh, where’s the rocket?”
Everyone looked around to find the rocket the possessed civilians were building was gone.
“The Kraang must’ve snuck it out during the fight.” Gear guessed.
“They must’ve teleported it because they couldn’t have moved it without us noticing.” Donnie added.
“Acid Grip and Kangor are gone too.” Fluttershy gasped, noticing the missing villains.
“C’mon. We’ll let the police handle it from here.” Sunset sighed.
Shortly after, the group watched from the rooftops as the police took Madelyn away. Pinkie asked Mikey a question.
“Hey Mikey. How’d you prevent Maddie from possessing you?”
“It’s weird. As she was entering my mind, the last thing I remembered was Splinter. It was like he literally came and knocked her out of my head.” Mikey puzzled.
“Even in death, Sensei is still watching over us.” April sighed as everyone smiled.
“That is one devoted dad.” Gear complimented.
After a moment of silence, Sunset spoke up, “C’mon. let’s go check on Leo and the others.”
“I’ll text Rubberband Man what we’re doing.” Donnie pulled out his T-phone.
So the group took their leave, hoping the others are surviving Permafrost.
As the others dealt with Madelyn, Leo, Twilight, Raph, Rainbow, Casey, Applejack, Keno, Static, She Bang, and Blade Swipe hurried to deal with Permafrost.
“So how do we deal with Permafrost?” Leo asked Static.
“I think the first thing is to talk to Reverend Anderson. Maybe he might know why she’s acting this way.”
“Hopefully, it’s not too late to calm her down.” Blade feared.
“I hope so too.” Twilight agreed along with everyone else.
Soon after, the group made their way to the church where Reverend Anderson was waiting, knowing Static would hear about Permafrost and has seen the Turtles from when they fought Goopzilla.
“I was expecting you and your friends, Static.” He greeted.
“Then you know why we’re here?” Twilight adjusted her glasses as the reverend nodded.
“I don’t know what has gotten into Maureen. She was doing just fine before the recent kidnappings. She has been helping around the church and had finally warmed up to other people. Then, she disappeared until recently.”
“We gotta stop her before she harms anyone!” Raph punched his fist.
“Please don’t harm her. She really is a hurt soul.” The reverend begged as Blade secretly clenched his fist.
“Don’t worry. We’ll do everything we can to help her.” Applejack assured before the group made their leave.
As the group headed downtown, they began to feel a little colder.
“Is it me or is it getting a little cold around here?” Rainbow folded her arms.
“Nah, I feel it too.” Applejack agreed.
“We must be getting close.” She Bang added.
When they turned the corner, the wind was blowing hard as they saw a huge cloud covering the street with snow and hail blowing around like crazy.
“I think we found her!” Keno pointed at a familiar figure at the center. Sure enough, it was Permafrost. The blue skinned white-haired girl was summoning snow and hail like crazy.
“Yep, that’s her,” Static confirmed before calling to her, “Maureen!”
Permafrost looked up. “S-Static?”
“Why are you doing this? Maybe we can help.”
“No one can help ME!” Permafrost began blow even heavier storm winds, knocking the group off their feet.
“This is gonna be tougher than I thought.” Static mumbled.
“So how do we stop her?” She Bang asked.
“If only Sunset was here.” Twilight offered.
Leo nodded, “We got to try something. She Bang, you go and try to reason with her. The rest of us will keep her distracted and get civilians to safety. Now let’s go!”
Everybody hurried in the storm while She Bang hurried to get behind Permafrost. It was a struggle for everyone as they battled the strong winds and snow and hail. Rainbow Dash tried her super speed to fight back, but the wind was too strong. Everyone else was able to help civilians escape, even if some ran from the sight of Raph and Leo. As Permafrost continued to blow heavy winds, She Bang made her way to the eye of the storm. She snuck up to Permafrost only to get blown away by an outraged Permafrost. Suddenly, she was caught in midair. She saw her rescuer was an African guy wearing snow gear riding a snowboard. He created an ice path to ride on and slid to the safe zone.
“You okay?” he asked.
“Yeah thanks.” She Bang thanked.
As the others hurried to them, suddenly a power cable fell and was about to hit them.
“Look out!” Static was about to use his power when the cable suddenly stopped and was flown back and tied back up and out of harm’s way.
“What the-?” The group found another guy hurrying to them. He was a white skinned guy wearing chains all over his body.
“Are you guys okay?” he asked the group.
“Yeah. Did you do that?” Applejack pointed to the cable.
“Stop that wire from frying you guys? Yeah. That was me.”
“Thank you.” Twilight thanked the duo.
“You guys are new. Who are you guys?” Static asked.
The snow suited guy answered, “I’m Jack Froster. And this is my buddy, Joey Hunter.”
“Yo.” The guy with chains waved.
Before anyone could ask anymore questions, the storm began to grow worse.
“How do we stop Permafrost?” Leo asked out loud.
“I heard Ebon got to her,” Everyone turned to Jack, “He taunted her into thinking she would always be alone.”
“That jerk!” Casey growled.
“But how do we calm her down? We can’t even get near her.” Keno pondered.
Blade watched the storm in anger. Then, without any hesitation, he ran into the snowstorm just as the group noticed.
“Blade! Wait!” Leo called.
“Is he nuts?” shouted Raph.
“I hope he knows what he’s doing.” Whispered Applejack.
Blade battled the weather as he journeyed to Permafrost. He used his lightning from his sword to negate the hail and snow. It also kept him from freezing to death. Before long, he made it to Permafrost.
“Maureen!” he cried.
“STAY AWAY FROM ME!” She bellowed, “And it’s Permafrost!”
“Either way, you must listen! Don’t do this! It’s not worth it!” Blade tried to reason with her.
“Nobody cares! I’m just a monster!” Permafrost rejected.
“Nobody cares? Reverend Anderson cares! Static cares! My friends care!” Blade then declared, “I CARE!”
“YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW ME!” Permafrost snapped.
“Do I? From what I heard, I used to be like you!” Permafrost began to listen as Blade told her his story, “One day, I let my curiosity get the best of me, getting me captured, mutated, and tortured. When I escaped, my own friends and others ran from me scared, causing me to run away in exile. I grew to believe I would never return and that I was hated. For years, I stayed in solitude. I never got to say goodbye to my mother and father, see my little sister grow up, fight alongside my brothers in arms, and was betrayed by my true love. I was even being manipulated by a vengeful spirit who tried to use my anger and hatred as a weapon to destroy my home. Then I faced those guys who convinced me it was not too late to change and reunited me with my sister who helped me see the error of my ways and help destroy the spirit. Now I have reformed and fight the good fight. It wasn’t too late for me as it is not too late for you.”
Hearing everything, Permafrost landed back on the ground as her eyes began to water, “Does the- Does the pain ever go away?”
“I-I wish I could say yes. I know what happened to you long ago. I know I can’t take away your pain, but I can help you get through it and maybe I can give you the peace you long for,” Blade held his arm out to the girl, “Let me help you.”
Permafrost ran into an embrace with Blade, crying. As the two hugged, the storm around them subsided. Everyone saw the two as the snow and hail died down and hurried over.
“You did it, Blade!” cheered Twilight.
“I have learned from the best.” Blade smiled.
Permafrost turned to Static, “I’m so sorry.”
“It’s okay. Ebon knows how to tick people off.” Static nodded.
“We better get outta here before the cops get here.” Raph pointed out.
“Raph’s right. Besides, we should go before they arrive.” Leo added.
Blade turned to Permafrost, “C’mon. we’ll take you back.”
Permafrost nodded as they all took their leave.
Everyone all gathered on a building top and met with Sunset’s group.
“Everything went well on your end?” Leo checked.
“Yep. Sharon’s safe.” Rubberband Man nodded.
“And I don’t think Madelyn will bother us for a while.” Sunset added.
“And it looks like you took care of your end.” April noticed.
“Actually, Blade’s the hero here.” Keno pointed.
“I was able to convince Maure- I mean Permafrost to let me help her because her story was similar to mine.” Blade explained.
“So… if you don’t mind me asking, why’d you went off like that?” Gear kindly asked.
Permafrost sighed but knew they had the right to know, “Well, I was taking an evening walk…..”
Maureen was on an evening walk when she is confronted by Ebon who began to taunt her.
“You think you can have a normal life? You may think you’re loved, but they fear you! Eventually, they’ll leave you like your pathetic stepfather! No matter what you do, you will always be alone!”
And with that, Ebon walked away laughing, leaving Maureen on her knees in despair.
“And you know what happened next.” Permafrost pouted.
“That Ebon really burns me up!” Rainbow glared.
April then turned to Joey and Jack, “What about you guys?”
Joey took a deep breath and explained, “Well, both me and Jack here were just your everyday dudes when this shark guy took us away from our homes.”
“Armaggon!” everyone gasped.
“When we could see again, Ebon had us with several others and covered us in this green stuff, turning us into Bang babies ourselves.” Jack continued. “Resulting in our powers you saw. Joey can control metal wires while I can make snow paths.”
“We were then held prisoner along with the other Bang Babies who refused to join Ebon and that Kraang Subprime until we joined. Then one day, the key to our door was in reach like somebody dropped it. Either way, we were able to escape, but we couldn’t free the others because we were discovered by the Kraang so we had to escape. We escaped through the sewers and that was when we saw you guys with Permafrost and you know the rest.” Joey finished.
“Well, at least we know the hostages are alright for now.” Fluttershy said.
“You wouldn’t know the exact location of their base do you?” Leo asked.
“Unfortunately, in all the confusion, we kept getting lost so we really don’t know.” Jack rubbed his head as everyone groaned.
“So much for that idea.” Raph grumbled.
“Sorry. If we remembered, we’d be happy to lead you to it.” Joey offered.
“So what are you guys gonna do now?” Static asked the duo.
“Well, we can’t go home. Ebon might be hunting us down.” Joey feared.
“Maybe you guys can stay with us!” Mikey offered.
“Mikey!” Raph growled.
“Wait, Raph! Mikey may have a good point!” Sunset stated.
“Joey is right about Ebon and Kraang Subprime might be looking for them. We can’t just leave them at their mercy,” Donnie pointed out, “Besides, I’d to further study their powers.”
Raph sighed, “Okay. Okay. Just don’t make us regret it.”
“We’re staying at the old juvenile station. You’re welcome to stay with us until we beat Ebon and Kraang Subprime.” Leo offered.
“Sounds like a plan.” Jack agreed.
“But if you guys are gonna be metahumans, you need codenames!” Mikey declared.
“Codenames?” Joey raised a brow.
“I don’t think that’s important right now, Mikey.” Applejack said.
“Oh, come on there’s always time for codenames!” Pinkie declared.
“Can’t argue there.” Gear shrugged.
Mikey then looked towards the duo, “Let’s see…..” he then pointed to Joey. “I think you’ll be….. Shot Cord!”
“Shot Cord huh? I like it.” Joey grinned.
Mikey then turned to Jack. “And you will be…. Sub Zee.. no that one’s taken…. Not Jack Frost….”
“I know right?” Jack shrugged, “All the good ones are taken.”
“Snowstorm!” Mikey perked up, “You will be Snowstorm!”
“Great!” Jack raised his thumb up.
“Now that that’s taken care of, I’m gonna walk Permafrost back to the shelter.” Blade pointed.
“You sure you don’t want to stay with us?” Twilight offered.
“Thanks, but I want to let Reverend Anderson I’m alright and I’m really tired right now.”
“And stay there so Ebon won’t heckle you again.” Static ordered as Permafrost nodded in agreement before she left with Blade.
“Alright, everyone, let’s head back.” Leo ordered as they all headed back.
Meanwhile, at the Bang Baby hideout, Ebon and Kraang Subprime entered the prison chamber where multiple Bang Babies who refused to join were held like Aaron’s stepbrother, Nails, and others.
“How! HOW DID THOSE TWO ESCAPE?” growled Subprime.
“They must’ve gotten a hold of the key card and escaped.” Bixolio pondered.
“Who was watching the prisoners?” Ebon demanded.
“I think it was a couple Kraang droids.” Bixolio pondered.
Hearing that made Subprime angrier, “I can’t even rely on Kraang droids to do something simple as guard duty!”
Just then, Armaggon entered with Kangor and Acid Grip, “Despite some interference with the Turtles and Rainbooms, the rocket is near completion.”
“Madelyn tried to control one of the freaks, but something traumatized her and now the police have her.” Acid Grip added.
“At least the droids were able to teleport the rocket under their noses.” Ebon smirked.
“And that we are on schedule!” Subprime added, “Now as the rocket reaches completion, we just need more of that Bang Baby gas and our conquest shall begin!” he then turned to a couple Kraang droids, “Get me Kurosa!”
“Affirmitive!”
As the group left the chamber, Bixolio wondered out loud, “I still would like to know how those prisoners escaped.”
No one noticed Talon peeking from the corner before turning away smiling.
As morning came to Dakota City, a bus dropped off a couple of tourists at the bus stop. One was a teenage girl with brown hair in a ponytail wearing a white shirt under a pair of short coveralls with a red jacket. She looked around like she was looking for something.
“I sure hope I can find Static and get his help.” She said to herself.
Meanwhile, Static, Gear, She Bang, Ninjas, and Rainbooms were jumping off rooftops on patrol.
“You guys were right. Dakota City is brighter than Gotham.” Keno admitted.
“I know right? Any brighter and I’d have to bring sunglasses.” Casey chuckled.
“Still, nice to get out for some fresh air.” Applejack smiled.
“Too bad Blade wanted to talk to Permafrost and Rubberband Man wanted to check on Sharon.” Pinkie stated.
“Yeah, RB wanted to see how Sharon was holding up after Madelyn possessed her.” Rainbow pointed out.
“And Blade told me he promised to help Permafrost after Ebon rattling her.” Sunset explained.
“After everything you told me about him, this might be what Maureen needs.” Static agreed.
“I just hope we find Ebon and Kraang Subprime before they hurt or manipulate more people.” Raph winced.
“Not to mention they’re holding my parents.” She Bang added.
Raph sighed, “Yeah, I know. You’re right. It’s just-”
“It’s stressful. We get it, Raph. But we can’t let those two get under our skin.” Sunset pointed out.
“And not stop us from still helping others.” Gear pointed out.
“Look over there!” Everyone looked to where Mikey was pointing and saw a local city bus driving faster than normal with police cars in hot pursuit.
“What could be going on there?” Spike asked nonchalantly.
April felt her head, “A couple crooks hijacked that bus after robbing the bank. They got a couple hostages in there!”
“We better get over there right away!” Leo stated as they hurried over buildings before he gave out orders, “Donnie, take Mikey, Gear, Fluttershy, and Rainbow and make sure pedestrians are out of the way!”
“We’re on it!” Donnie declared as he lead the others ahead.
“The rest of us have a bus to catch!”
Leo and the others hurried to the bus and jumped on just as it sharply turned into an alleyway to give the police the slip.
“I’ll get the door!” Static used his powers to open the emergency exit door in the back of the bus. Everyone jumped in and knocked out a couple crooks.
“It’s Static! And his new buddies!” one of the crooks cried.
“Fun’s over, Ruffians!” Rarity declared before everyone looked at her confused.
“Lame!” Raph coughed as Rarity stared at him.
“You ain’t getting us, Freaks!” the crooks fired at them only for Rarity to generate a diamond shield to protect the group.
“I think not!” the fashionist stated.
“Ruffians!” Raph mocked as Pinkie, Gear, and Casey laughed while Rarity looked steamed.
Before the crooks could fire again, Twilight used her geode to levitate the guns out of their hands, “Shouldn’t be playing with dangerous weapons!”
“Ninjas! You know the drill.” Leo said before they fought the crooks.
Despite being crowded, the ninjas were able to gain the upper hand on them. As they passed civilians, Sunset hurried to them.
“Hurry! Get to the back!” she told them. They nodded and did what she said. One thug tried to grab a kid only to get smacked away by Casey.
As the bus drove through town, some civilians hurried out of the way while Donnie’s group saved others. As she saw this, the brown-haired girl took off her glasses with a determined look on her face before hurrying to an alley. The bus then swayed a bit, causing Twilight to drop the guns.
April made her way to the driver seat and took the wheel. Then she stepped on the brake, but the bus didn't stop! "What?!" She pressed the brake again and again, but it still didn't stop. "Oh no! The brakes aren't working!"
"And we got a big problem!" Pinkie pointed ahead and they saw that the bus was heading straight for the peer!
Everyone screamed as the bus rode right off the dock... and suddenly started flying.
"Uh... Twilight, are you..." Applejack began.
"No, I'm not doing any of this!" Twilight replied.
"Then, who is?" Static asked.
He soon got his answer, when the bus landed back on the road and one of the doors was forced open, revealing a girl with blonde hair in bangs. She was dressed in a blue suit, with a big red letter S on the front, a red skirt and red boots. And what surprised them was that she was also floating in mid-air.
"I'm sorry, am I interrupting?" She asked, nonchalant.
"Holy moly!" Gear said, amazement. "It's-"
"It's Supergirl!" One of the crooks exclaimed. Then he and his cronies aimed their guns.
"Look out!" Leo shouted.
But as the crooks opened fire, their bullets just bounced off the girl's body like it was made of steel.
"Really?" She said, before she shot a red beam from her eyes that blasted a gun out of one of the crook's hand. Then she grabbed two of the others' guns and crushed them.
"She's strong." Applejack said.
Then one crook threw a punch at the girl's gut, "Ow!" He yelled, pulling his fist back in pain, right before the girl grabbed him by the shirt and held him off the floor.
"If the bullets didn't work, then neither will that." the girl stated, and tossed him into the other crooks, knocking them into a heap.
Then she zipped over toward a cable and in seconds the gang were all tied up.
Soon, the police caught up and took the crooks away while the Rainbooms helped the civilians out of the bus. Leo and Raph joined Donnie and Mikey in the shadows to stay hidden. When they all left, Supergirl turned to the group.
“Thanks for the help.” Static shook her hand.
“So, you’re Static? I heard about you from my cousin,” Supergirl admitted, “As well as Gear and She Bang too.”
“Pleasure to meet you, too.” She Bang greeted.
“Definitely.” Gear added.
“So who’s your new friend?” Pinkie peeked up coyly.
Supergirl turned her attention towards the new group, including the four turtles coming out of the alley, “Of course. Where are my manners? My name is Kara Zor-El. I also go by Supergirl.”
“Kara huh?” April perked up, “You wouldn’t happen to know Batgirl, do you?”
“Indeed. We’re good friends.”
“We helped her and Batman a while back. My name is April, and these are my friends Casey, Keno, and the turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael. And these are the Rainbooms Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy,” She then saw Spike pop out of Twilight’s bag, “And that’s Twilight’s dog Spike.”
“Nice to meet you all. I had heard about a group of ninjas who fought in Gotham. So, you four are mutants?”
“Yep.” Mikey nodded.
“You a metahuman?” Donnie asked.
“An alien, actually. I’m a Kryptonian.”
“Krypto-what now?” Casey raised a brow.
“Kryptonian. One of the last ones. Our home planet Krypton was destroyed years ago. It’s kind of a long story,” Supergirl took a deep breath, “Right now, I’m looking for a super criminal.”
“Who ya looking for?” Gear asked.
“A girl by the name of…. Livewire.”
"Oh, no!" Rarity moaned.
"Who's Livewire?" Static asked.
"She's kinda like an evil version of you, Static," Supergirl explained.
"Say what now?"
"It's true, bro." Gear confirmed.
“We also fought Livewire before with the Titans.” Leo shared.
“We were able to beat after she DARED to mock my fashion designs!” Rarity gritted her teeth.
“More importantly, we have fought Livewire before and we’re willing to help.” Sunset offered.
“Sure. To be honest, I came here to ask help from you, Static.” Supergirl smiled.
“You got it.” Static nodded.
Supergirl then turned to the Ninjas and Rainbooms, “You guys can help too. I’m curious to see you guys in action after what Batgirl told me.”
Everyone smiled while Rainbow spoke to Donnie, “Could I have the keys to the Shellraiser?”
“Sure.” Before Donnie could ask why, Rainbow took them and ran using her geode’s power.
“She’s pretty fast.” Supergirl raised a brow.
“Yeah it’s getting her to slow down is the real trick.” Twilight sighed.
Before long, Rainbow arrived with the Shellraiser. As most of them got in, Supergirl looked inside.
“Not bad.” She grinned.
“Now let’s go find Livewire!” Leo shouted as they headed out.
Meanwhile, around a construction site, workers were running away from lightning being shot everywhere. The cause was none other than Livewire. The pale skinned girl was laughing as she caused more destruction in the area.
“That’s it. Run away! You’d ruin my fun!” she taunted as she fired some more.
“That’s enough, Livewire!”
Livewire looked down to see Supergirl land on the docks below.
“Supergirl! So you followed me, huh?”
“That’s right and we’re gonna bring you in!”
“We?” Livewire raised a brow before seeing Static and Gear landing next to the teen, “So that’s the legendary Static. You’d almost be cute if you weren’t a do gooder!” she then saw the Shellraiser and frowned as the Ninjas and Rainbooms emerged, “Oh no!”
“What up, Livewire?” Mikey mocked.
“Not you twerps again!” she growled.
Rarity pointed her sickle at the metahuman, “We have some unfinished business with you!”
Livewire scoffed, “You may have gotten the best of me last time, but this time you’re all gonna get shocked!”
Everyone drew their weapons as Livewire landed in front of them. Then, Leo cried, “Let’s get her!”
Everyone charged at Livewire who fired electricity at them, and they dodged.
“Goongala!” Casey got close enough to whack the villainess with his hockey stick. Recoiling at first, Livewire smirked as she grabbed the end of the stick, “Crud.” Casey said just before Livewire shocked him.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey cried as he jump kicked the villainess before she smacked him away. Supergirl landed next to him.
“What’s a Booyakasha?”
“Just something fun to say.” Mikey shrugged.
April fired a psychic blast while Fluttershy fired darts and Sunset some kunai at Livewire. She was starting to get more annoyed than hurt as she fired electricity everywhere, shocking everyone.
“And I thought Indigo had an electrifying personality.” Keno groaned.
“Boo.” Rainbow criticized.
Livewire then towered over the group, “This time, it’s maximum voltage at CLOSE range.”
She prepared a large amount of electricity and was about to shock the group before-
“Booyakasha!” Supergirl dove in and punched Livewire. She then uppercut her into the air multiple times then slammed her into the ground. As she landed, everyone else was able to recover from the shock.
“You’re right, Mikey. That is fun to say.” The kryptonian smiled.
“I swear, Mikey, you’re starting a pandemic teaching everybody that word.” Raph rolled his eyes.
“Worth it.” Mikey smugly grinned.
“You want fun?” Everyone turned to see Livewire angered with her fists sparking, “See how you like THIS!” she fired at the construction’s support as it began to sway before beginning to fall. Quickly, Supergirl flew up and held the construction support with her super strength. As she was distracted, Livewire flew up and started to punch her.
“Hey! That’s not fair!” Pinkie shouted.
“Duh! Name one villain who plays fair.” Rainbow stated.
“I’ll even the playing field!” Static declared.
Donnie hurried over to him, “Try to lure her near the water. That’s her weakness.”
Static nodded as he flew up on his saucer. He was able to hit Livewire off Supergirl.
Livewire wiped her lip as she faced Static, “You think you can shock me?”
Static pointed at her, “Girl! I’ll put a shock to your system.”
“Catchy.” Mikey awed.
“That’s what I thought.” Gear added.
“We need to help Supergirl!” Fluttershy gasped.
Applejack turned to April, “Think you could levitate me up there?”
“On it!” April used her power to lift the cowgirl on top a building near the construction. Applejack then used her geode to help Supergirl hold the construction.
“If they can straighten it out, we can fix the supports.” Twilight theorized.
“I got a blowtorch!” Gear pulled out.
“We should’ve told AJ before she went up.” Casey realized.
“Tell Supergirl!” She Bang pointed out, “She’s got super hearing!”
Leo nodded before calling out, “Supergirl! Straighten it out while we fix the supports!”
Supergirl nodded as she gestured Applejack and the two began to try to straighten it out. Everyone else helped Gear fix the supports while Raph used his medallion’s power as well.
As Static and Livewire were still flying around and dodging each others blasts, the hero noticed they were close to the waterfront and remembered what Donnie said about what happened Livewire when she got wet. Getting an idea, he flew toward the waterfront and turned to face the villainess.
"Hey, Livewire," he called, "You know, you and I have a lot in common, but there's a difference between you and me."
"Yeah, what's dat, sparky?" Livewire asked, and lunged at him, but he dodged.
"I'm not afraid of getting wet." Static answered, with a smirk.
"What are you talking about..." She looked down and saw that she was floating right above the water. Before she could react, Static flew into her, pushing her toward the water. "NOOOOO!"
They landed with a splash and Livewire was electrocuted and knocked out. Soon, Static climbed out of the water, pulling the unconscious Livewire and collapsed on the ground.
Shortly after, Supergirl was able to straighten out the construction as the group fixed the supports. They hurried to the waterfront to meet up with Static. They all watched from the rooftop as they watched the authorities took Livewire away.
“Thanks for the help, Supergirl.” Gear thanked.
“My pleasure, but the real hero was Static.” Supergirl smiled.
“Well, I did have help.” Static mentioned the ninjas and Rainbooms as Supergirl smiled at them.
“Thank you for helping me with that building. You know, everything Batgirl told me about you guys was true. You’re all alright with me.”
Sunset shook her hand, “Thanks, Kara, we appreciate it.”
“I’m sure my cousin would like you guys too. Speaking of which, I need to head back to Metropolis.”
“You sure you can’t stay?” Pinkie pouted.
“I’m sorry, but I’m watching things while my cousin’s off world. But if you need me, you can call me through the Justice League.”
“Goodbye, Supergirl.” Fluttershy waved as Supergirl began to ascend.
“And thanks!” Mikey added.
“Hope to see you all again soon!” Supergirl waved back as she flew away.
After waving goodbye, the group began to head back. As they headed back to the juvenile station, Leo talked to Static.
“Hey, Static. Who is Kara’s cousin?”
“Let’s just say he’s a super friend. Maybe you’ll meet him someday.” Static grinned as they all headed into the sunset.
At the Bang Baby hideout, Ebon was sitting in his chair while Kraang Subprime sat quietly before the doors opened, revealed a couple of Kraang droids escorting Dr. Marx who wore a mutagen collar like She Bang’s parents. When the doors closed, Dr. Marx pushed a button on his collar, ejecting from his neck as he opened up to reveal Kurosa.
“You wanted to see me?” he asked.
Subprime walked up to him, “Yes. The rocket for our master plan is near completion. How goes the Bang Baby gas?”
“We are on schedule. I just need a couple chemicals to speed up the duplication process. The Vales are hoping for a chance to escape which gave me an idea for where we can get the chemicals.”
“Good. Make it happen!” Subprime smirked.
“I need a couple of Kraang droids and some of the metahumans.”
Subprime’s face then turned blunt, “I can spare a couple droids. But I had to double security with those Bang Babies after the prison break. And Armaggon and Bixolio are supervising the construction. It took every bit of my patience to get that overgrown candle to sit still!”
“Then I think it’s time I introduce the new additions of my Nightbreeds.” Ebon snapped his fingers as four figures in the shadows walked up behind him. Just seeing them was enough to make Subprime and Kurosa to smirk.
Meanwhile, at the juvenile station, The Turtles and Rainbooms were doing their regular daily training with She Bang and Rubberband Man while Shot Cord and Snowstorm watched with Spike.
“Man, they’re good.” Shot Cord spoke.
“I’ll say. These guys are awesome like Rainbow claimed.” Snowstorm awed.
“I never get tired of watching them do this.” Spike agreed.
As the group ended their training, Blade Swipe entered with Static and Gear.
“Hey, Blade! How’d it go with Permafrost at the shelter?” Sunset greeted.
“She’s doing fine. A lot of her friends from church were more worried for her than scared of her.” Blade smiled.
“That’s good to hear.” April smiled.
“Yeah. And I also talked to Reverend Anderson and…… I’m thinking of adopting her as a daughter when I return to Equestria.”
Everyone was surprised when they heard that as Pinkie gasped the loudest, “YOU’RE GOING TO BE A DADDY?”
“Well, I did promise her I’d help her through her pain. And since she doesn’t have family here, I can at least give her the family she’s been longing for.”
“So when she returns to Equestria with you, she’ll become a pony, right?” Gear asked.
“That’s right. I already talked to her about it and she seems interested. She said she’ll think about it while we battle the Kraang and Ebon.”
“Sounds fair.” grinned Casey.
“Agreed. I think you’ll make a great role model for her.” Leo smiled.
Blade smiled as his friends shared their agreement while Static patted his shoulder as his smile showed his approval.
“Well, hate to break up the celebration, but I have a lead on where the Kraang might strike.”
“Of course. I was done anyway.” Blade nodded.
“What you got for us, Gear?” Leo asked as Gear showed a print out.
“Alva Industries. The owner is one of the richest men in the world, or at least in our dimension, Edwin Alva. He makes Bill Gates look like he's homeless.”
“Whoa.” Mikey awed before Raph clonked him on the head.
“So why does he have the Bang Baby gas?” the hot headed turtle asked.
Static answered by shrugging, “There wasn’t a sure answer. But his son, Edwin Alva Jr. used it to gain different superpowers and ruin his father's company because he was neglectful and contemptuous of him. During our final confrontation, Alva Jr. inadvertently transformed himself into stone due to a power overload making Edwin Alva Sr. feel guilty that he hurt his son and drove him to it.”
“Sheesh! He makes Shredder almost had a heart.” Rainbow huffed.
“Well, he worked on trying to restore him. After a failed attempt thanks to two losers named Specs and Trapper, he orchestrated capturing me, Hotstreak, Gear, Talon, and Rubberband Man in order for his scientists to siphon our energies for the restoration machine.”
“That was not fun.” Rubberband Man glared.
“Well would you believe me and Hotstreak donated our energy to the machine and restored Edwin Alva's son?”
“We're talking about the same Hotstreak we’ve been fighting recently?” Raph thought out loud.
“The same one who had the hots for Sunset?” Pinkie pointed at Sunset who groaned.
“Please stop.”
Gear held up his print out, “Well, get this. It says here after the Bang Baby cure was distributed, Alva has kept his remaining supply of the gas in his factory and away from the public.”
“We better stake it out.” Leo suggested.
“Agreed,” Donnie added, “If I can get some of that gas, I can combine it with the retro mutagen.”
“Maybe even find a clue to She Bang’s parents and Dr. Marx.” Twilight agreed.
“Let’s gear up!” Sunset declared.
After the group got their gear and headed out, Leo turned to Snowstorm and Shot Cord. “If you hear or see anything urgent, call us right away.”
“We will. And good luck.” Snowstorm thumbed up. After they left, he turned to Shot Cord, “So now what?”
“Well, we should try practicing using our powers. The sooner we get’em down, the sooner we can beat Ebon and go home.” Shot Cord suggested as he eyed a nearby pile of wires and poles.
Before long, the group arrived on the roof of Alva Industries.
“Easy, everyone.” Sunset whispered.
“I love this spy stuff.” Pinkie grinned.
They all looked around, preparing to face enemies.
“Huh. Not much to this place.” Donnie shrugged.
“Donnie. There may not be much security, but we better move in quietly.” Leo cautioned as Twilight agreed.
Raph, however, wasn’t worried, “C’mon, Leo. Whattya say? Let’s do it,eh?”
Rainbow, Casey, and Keno mimicked him, “Let’s do it.”
Leo’s only response was him rolling his eyes.
“And this is it.” Gear then lead the group to a skylight. They all peeked at the vats of Bang Baby gas below.
“Dang.” Casey gulped.
“It’s a pool of nightmares is what it is.” Rubberband Man glared.
“Okay. We’ll sneak in, get a canister of that stuff, and get outta there.” Donnie planned out.
“Sounds good.” Applejack nodded.
“Except we’re not alone.” April pointed as they all saw Kraang droids in the building.
“Terrific. Kraang droids have to show up.” She Bang mumbled.
Twilight then noticed a familiar figure, “Guys! Look! It’s Dr. Marx!”
Sure enough, it was Dr. Marx. They saw he was running away from four figures in the shadows.
“Who are those guys?” Rainbow asked.
“Never seen them. But they look a lot like Nightbreed!” Static noticed.
“Nightbreed?” Fluttershy asked.
“That’s the name of Ebon’s gang.” Rubberband Man answered.
“We gotta save him!” Rarity declared.
“Agreed.” Leo nodded.
“And maybe we can find my parents as well.” She Bang added.
“Then let’s go.” Blade opened the skylight while Rubberband Man held to the ledge extending into a long slide.
“Going down.” He joked.
“Let’s go, Ninjas!” Leo lead the group down as they all slid off Rubberband Man.
“Whee!” Pinkie cheered.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey joined in.
They all landed between the Nightbreed and Dr. Marx.
“You want the doc? You gotta go through us.” Raph grinned as they drew their weapons.
Twilight turned to Dr. Marx, “Are you alright, Doctor?”
“I’ll be fine. Thank you.” The doctor smiled.
Suddenly, laughter echoed as the group saw Ebon rising in front of the Nightbreed.
“Ebon!” they all gasped.
“Oh don’t mind us. Me and my Nightbreed just came to take the naughty doctor back with us.”
“And taking some Bang Baby Gas from Alva.” Static glared.
“Figured while I was here, I’d grab some souvenirs,” Ebon turned to his new Nightbreed. “Get the doctor!”
“Get’em!” Leo ordered as three of the figures charged at the heroes. Ebon fought Leo, Static, and Blade. Raph, Sunset, Rainbow, and Casey fought a girl with dreadlocks while wearing welding goggles wired gloves. Mikey, She Bang, Fluttershy, Keno, and Pinkie fought one guy dressed in black with spiked shoulder pads. April, Rarity, Applejack, and Gear fought a shorter guy with long hair, a shirt with sleeves long enough to cover his hands and was blindfolded by a black headband. Twilight tried to lead Dr. Marx to the nearest exit only to be blocked by Kraang droids despite Donnie and Rubberband Man trying to cover them.
After taken hit from Raph, the dreadlocked girl lit up her gauntlets and caused electric circuits around them to go haywire. The group were more dodging electricity, allowing them to get hit by their opponent.
“Cheap shot.” Growled Raph as he recoiled.
“Look familiar?” Ebon taunted as he fought, “Circuit Breaker’s power may be similar to Static’s, but her power is channeled through anything electrical!”
“I would’ve so called her Circuit Breaker!” Mikey declared, before the figure in black almost hit him. As the party dude dodged, She Bang and Keno tried to double team the Nightbreed. The figure threw his hand, unleasing a sea of a black liquid that covered the two before Fluttershy and Pinkie helped them out.
“What did he throw at us? Oil?” She Bang looked.
“Careful. It could be flammable!” coughed Keno.
“You’re right about that, She Bang!” Ebon continued, “Oil can summon oil to his biding.”
“His name’s literally Oil?” Raph cried as he dodge Circuit Breaker’s attack.
“Yeah. I would’ve called him Slipstream. Though I think that was taken.” Mikey pondered.
Meanwhile, April, Rarity, Applejack, and Gear struggled against the long haired Nightbreed. Despite seemingly blind, he was able to fight the four with ease. Then, April used her ESP to grab him in midair.
“You got'em!” Applejack cried.
Suddenly, the Nightbreed screamed a supersonic blast knocking the four off their feet. It was enough for April to lose her hold on him and he landed back on the ground.
“And Echo there uses supersonic attacks!” Ebon concluded as he pushed Leo and Blade back.
Static blasted electricity at Ebon, but it suddenly went around him and flew throught the ceiling.
“What the-?” Static tried again with the same result.
“What’s the matter, Static? Losing your touch?” Ebon chuckled.
Blade then saw the fourth Nightbreed behind Static holding her hand out, “Static! Behind you! That girl’s messing with your powers!”
Static turned to notice as Ebon introduced her, “Ah yes, Polarity is like a magnet who can change directions of your electricity!”
Leo then jump kicked Ebon then turned to Static, “Blade and I will handle Ebon. You get Polarity!”
Static nodded and went after Polarity who ran out of the building.
Meanwhile, Twilight kept leading Dr. Marx down a pathway only to keep getting intercepted by Kraang droids. Donnie and Rubberband Man kept taking them down, but they kept coming. During the struggle, Donnie was able to fill his canister with Bang Baby gas before rejoining the fight. Then, a Kraang droid was about to fire at Twilight and Dr. Marx.
“Dr. Marx! Look out!” Twilight warned. Dr. Marx turned just as a laser hit him in the eye. Grunting, he covered his eye with his hand. Seeing this, Leo kicked Ebon away and jumped down to them. He hurried to them as Twilight reached to him.
“Are you alright?” Then, both Twilight and Leo received a shock as Dr. Marx looked up revealing his eye was robotic and stood up unfazed.
Twilight was baffled, “Y-you’re…. you’re a Kraang?”
“Utrom. Actually.” He smirked before hitting the school girl, causing Twilight to hang on the catwalk and over a vat of Bang Baby gas.
“Twilight!” Leo slid passed the now revealed Utrom and grabbed Twilight.
“What’s going on?” Sunset called as she saw her friend hanging.
“Dr. Marx is an Utrom!” Leo shouted, surprising everyone as they temporarily stopped fighting.
“A renegade Utrom, I take it?” Applejack raised a brow.
“Indeed. My name is Kurosa! And I am the brother Bixolio!”
“Mind blown!” Pinkie cried.
“Love to stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have things to do for Kraang Subprime. But let me leave you a parting favor!” he started to walk up to where Leo held Twilight and was about to kick them into the vats below.
“I don’t think so!” Rubberband Man swooped in and smacked Kurosa away and helped Leo pull Twilight back up. As he got up, Kurosa looked to see a couple Kraang Droids hauling away canisters of Bang Baby gas.
“Ebon! We got what we came for!”
“Nightbreed! We’re outta here!” Ebon called as they all followed him to the exit. He then turned to the ninjas coyly, “See you round, Ninjas!”
They all escaped before the group could follow them. All they could do is regroup. They were still shocked about Dr. Marx being an Utrom. At last, Leo spoke.
“C’mon. let’s go find Static.”
Meanwhile, Static was in pursuit of Polarity outside Alva Industries. Polarity ran before looking back thinking she gave Static the slip before bumping to Static in front of her.
“Let’s see how you repel up close!” he stated.
As she looked up, Polarity’s hood fell off, revealing her face. She was an African American with black hair in a ponytail.
Static gasped as he recognized her. “Molly?”
Molly only responded by pushing him away. She was about to break for it when Static grabbed her arm.
“Molly! Wait!”
“It’s Polarity!” She snapped as she punched Static off of her and ran to join the other Nightbreed.
“Wait.” Static groaned as he could only watch as she ran out of sight. Just then, The Ninjas, Rainbooms, and the others hurried to him.
“Static!” cried Leo as they hurried to him.
“You okay, buddy?” Gear asked as he helped his friend up.
“I couldn’t stop her.” Static groaned from his hit.
“C’mon. We better get outta here before security finds us.” Applejack pointed out.
Static nodded and followed the others out of Alva Industries just before the police arrived.
Later, Back at the juvenile station, The group told Virgil as well as Snowstorm and Shot Cord about Dr. Marx.
“I can’t believe it. The Doc’s one of those Kraang?” Snowstorm gasped.
“He’s actually an Utrom. A renegade Utrom.” Sunset corrected.
“I’m more shocked he’s Bixolio’s brother!” Rarity added.
“Well, at least we don’t have to rescue him. Just She Bang’s parents.” Rainbow shrugged.
“How can you be so senseless, Rainbow?” Twilight snapped before breathing, “I-I’m sorry, i-”
“It’s okay, Twilight. We all feel the same way,” April assured. Still unconvinced, Twilight went back to her little project.
Gear then turned to Static. “And you found out that Polarity is really Molly Kirkson from fourth grade?”
“Yeah. She sounded confused and lost.” Static sighed. He then remembered a time they played together when they were kids. They were having fun together before seeing a closed off alley. Virgil wanted to explore, but Molly wasn’t sure. Virgil went in anyway. Unable to see him, Molly called to him.
“Virgil? Virgil!”
There was no answer.
“Virgil!”
Static snapped back to the present seeing Raph looking at him.
“Huh? Sorry,” He apologized, “What did you say?”
“I said, And those new Nightbreeds are tough. Right?”
“Yeah.” Static agreed.
“Well, it wasn’t a total loss. I did get a canister of the Bang Baby gas for the retro mutagen.” Donnie held up the canister.
“Great!” Pinkie bounced.
“Nice!” She Bang joined in.
Everyone else just smiled. Then, Static got up, “Well, it’s almost dinnertime. I need to get home.”
“Me too.” Gear added.
“Yeah. We could use the rest.” April spoke for the group.
“Yeah. Tomorrow we have to push a bit on our training.” Leo stated. As the group began to leave, he gave an assuring smile to Twilight, telling her it’ll be okay. He then talked to Static, “This will be no different from before, Virgil. We’re going to do everything we can for Molly. I promise.”
Static looked back at Leo and gave a slight nod, “I know, Leo, and that is all I can ask for.” He then continued home.
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“HOW COULD YOU EXPOSE YOURSELF LIKE THAT?”
Back at the hideout, Kraang Subprime was not happy to hear the heroes learned about Kurosa’s identity.
“Need I remind you it was YOUR Kraang droids that shot me!” Kurosa rolled his eyes as he repaired the eye of his exosuit, “Besides, they may know, but the Vales won’t have to know. And we got the Bang Baby gas so we are closer to our conquest of this dimension.”
“And my new Nightbreed has proven effective against Static and his buddies.” Ebon added.
“I’ve heard that before! And it always ends in disaster!” Subprime grimaced.
“I assure you we are on schedule,” Kurosa then finished his repairs and re-entered his suit, “Now I must return to the Vales to make sure we finish The Bang Baby Gas on time.” Dr. Marx then attached the mutagen collar on his neck.
“Very well. Escort the doctor back to the lab!” Subprime ordered two droids who escorted Dr. Marx back.
“I assure you, Subprime. It’ll take a miracle for those fools to stop us now!” Ebon smirked.
“See that it does.” Subprime glared.
As they talked, the Nightbreed stood there watching as Polarity hung by a window.
“How does he know my name?” She whispered, thinking about Static.
Meanwhile, in a dark room, a couple figures were watching a screen as one with a red eye spoke.
“This was footage taken from Alva Industries in Dakota City. The Metahuman known as Ebon was breaking and entering stealing some chemicals. But keep watching.”
They then saw footage of Kraang droids firing.
“Is that… The Kraang?” a female gasped.
“I don’t believe it. The cat is playing chopsticks with chopsticks!” A younger male said, obviously watching another monitor and not paying attention.
“Focus!” scolded another blunt female voice, turning off the monitor as the younger male groaned.
“Wait! I thought I saw something. Here!” Another female pointed to footage of the Ninjas and Rainbooms fighting.
“Well. Well. Well.” The figure with the red eye gleamed.
The other male’s eyes tightened as he said, “Looks like we’re seeing some old friends.”
It was a nice day in Dakota City. Inside the juvenile station, The Ninja Turtles, April, Casey, Keno, Rainbooms, Blade Swipe, Static, Gear, Rubberband Man, and She Bang were training hard all morning. Leo was making sure they didn’t over train like Splinter made them after their first encounter with Shredder. Even Snowstorm and Shot Cord helped out while learning a thing or two themselves. After hours of sparring, everyone was starting to get tired.
“Okay, everyone. I think that’s enough training.” Leo called.
“Good,” Gear plopped down on a chair, “I couldn’t even fight a parking ticket.”
Static, however, wanted to keep going, “C’mon, guys. I could go another round.”
“I don’t know what you had for breakfast, Virgil, but I sure could use some of it.” panted Casey.
“I appreciate your enthusiasm, Virgil, but I think that’s enough for today.” Leo noted.
“I’ll spar with you.” Blade walked up and faced Static.
“You sure, Blade?”
“I got this, Leonardo. Trust me.” Blade winked.
Leo walked back and the two began to spar. Static threw punches while Blade blocked them. Blade then sweep kicked him flat on his back. Static quickly got up and continued to punch and kick but still couldn’t land a hit. He kept getting tired before he couldn’t punch hard anymore. Blade only used his finger to stop the punch before Static fell to his knees, panting.
“You got me.” He admitted.
“Try not to use too much energy right away.” advised Blade as he helped him up.
“That was intense.” Fluttershy breathed.
“Haven’t sweated this hard since our first day training.” Applejack wiped her brow.
“I also want to make sure we don’t overdo it again.” Leo pointed out.
“I think it’s still fair, Leo.” Twilight nodded.
“Yeah. We need to prepare if we’re to stand a chance against Ebon’s Nightbreed.” Sunset agreed.
“And I thought gym class was brutal.” Gear joked.
“Tell me about it.” She Bang agreed.
“A little training and you’ll start to get used to it.” April told them.
Mikey then turned to Snowstorm and Shot Cord, “And you guys are doing good as well.”
“Thanks, Mikey.” Snowstorm smiled.
“I’m also impressed with how you made your own bow, Joey.” Rarity pointed to Shot Cord’s makeshift bow he made from metal poles and wires.
“Thanks. I’ve been pretty good at archery since 5th grade.”
Spike then perked up, “You guys hear that?”
“Hear what?” Rainbow asked.
“It sounds like an engine….. above us!”
“Wait! I hear it too!” Pinkie agreed.
“Everyone! To the roof!” Leo declared as they hurried to the roof.
Everyone soon came up to the roof and saw a familiar ship landing on it.
“It’s the T-Ship!” Pinkie cheered.
“Were you guys expecting company today?” Blade asked.
“Not really, but it’s okay. They’re friends from the last time we were in this dimension.” Leo answered.
“These them Titans you told me about?” Keno asked.
“None other.” confirmed Casey.
Once the ship landed, the cockpits all opened to reveal it was their friends, The Teen Titans, who were happy to see the group.
“Donnie! Twilight! Long time!” Cyborg greeted.
“Hey, Cyborg.” Donnie smiled.
“It sure has.” Twilight agreed.
“Leo how’s it going?” Nightwing shook Leo’s hand.
“It’s great to see you again, Nightwing.”
“Mikey!” Cheered Beast Boy.
“Beast Boy!” Mikey high fived his titan buddy.
“Friend Rainbooms!” Starfire smiled.
“Good to see you, Starfire.” Fluttershy greeted as she, Pinkie, and Rainbow each hugged her.
“Hey Raven. How’s it been?” Sunset greeted her.
“You know. Same old same old.” Raven bluntly said but still grinned.
Beast Boy looked over to Raph, “Hey, Raph, how’d your brain implant go? Good?”
“What?” Raph snapped before Beast Boy gestured to him, showing he was joking, “Funny.”
“Batgirl!” April ran and embraced her.
“April! So good to see you again.” Batgirl then waved to Donnie, “Hey Donnie.”
“H-hey-” Donnie tried to shake of his blush, “Hey Batgirl. Good to see you again.” April and Batgirl just playfully rolled their eyes.
Casey noticed someone was missing, “Hey, where’s Robin?”
“And Blue Beetle?” Applejack added.
“Blue Beetle is back at Titans Tower on monitor duty in case we’re needed back.” Cyborg added.
“While Robin is keeping an eye on Gotham with Huntress and Black Canary while Batman is away. Plus, he’s under hot water with schoolwork.” Nightwing added.
“We’ll make sure to tell him you said hi.” Batgirl promised.
“And I see you have more friends than the last time.” Starfire noticed Keno and Blade Swipe as April introduced them.
“Yes. This is Keno from our home dimension. He also goes by The Nightwatcher.”
“He’s also a pizza delivery guy!” Mikey chimed in.
“Where was he in the old days?” Cyborg joked as he nudged Nightwing who grinned.
Leo then gestured to Blade, “And this is our friend, Blade Swipe, from Equestria,” He then turned to the two, “And these are our friends from last time, The Teen Titans. Keno, you already met Batgirl and Nightwing after we fought Red X together. This is Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven.”
“It is an honor to meet you all. Any friends of the Ninjas and Rainbooms is a friend of mine.” Blade bowed.
“Likewise.” Cyborg shook his hand.
“Nice to meet you guys.” Keno added.
“It is nice to meet you, too friend Keno.” Starfire smiled. Keno blushed at the sight of Starfire and Raven but quickly shook it off.
Raven noticed Spike by Twilght’s foot, “Is that the dog you told me about, Twilight?”
“Oh yes,” Twilight held her dog up. “Titans, Meet my dog Spike.”
“Ooooh! He is adorable!” Starfire grabbed and hugged him.
“Nice to be appreciated.” Spike smirked despite being squished.
The Titans, minus Nightwing and Batgirl, perked up to hear Spike talk.
“He can talk?” gasped Beast Boy.
“Whoa. Déjà vu.” Cyborg said.
“Why am I not surprised?” Raven raised a brow.
“This does not mind change me. He is still so cute.” Starfire continued to hug Spike.
“Oh yeah?” Beast Boy transformed into a dog just like Spike only green. Starfire put Spike down while the dog walked up to what looked like looking in the mirror as the two dogs began moving symmetrical. No matter what Spike did, Beast Boy was able to imitate move for move.
“Wow!” Pinkie and Mikey awed.
“What a showoff.” Raph rolled his eyes.
Then, Spike and Beast Boy acted like they were wiping a window. As the two breathed, Beast Boy then collapsed in disgust.
“And you wonder why I like the jalapeno and cheddar dog treats.” Spike smugly looked at Twilight, who smiled and rolled her eyes.
“Gotta admit, dog, you got moves.” Beast Boy admitted as he morphed back and fist bumped Spike.
“That was impressive.” Raven admitted to herself.
Beast Boy noticed the Turtles’ medallions, “I see you guys some new bling.”
“Yeah. We have a lot of catching up to do.” Leo admitted.
“Which will have to wait. I’m afraid there’s another reason why we’re here.” Nightwing pointed out.
The Ninjas knew what he meant as Twilight spoke, “So you know the Kraang are back?”
“We saw security footage from Alva Industries.” Cyborg stated.
“We could’ve called, but when we heard The Justice League was off planet, we didn’t know if you went with them.” Applejack admitted.
“We were more watching things on Earth, so we probably were the busy.” Starfire admitted.
“Which is the other reason why we’re here,” Nightwing continued, “We were called by The Justice League Watchtower to check dimensional rifts in the area.”
“Which lead us to seeing that footage from Alva Industries, where we saw you guys fight the Kraang.” Cyborg added.
“We were worried that Static and Gear didn’t have enough experience to deal with the Krang.” Starfire stated.
“Well, we have been giving them some ninja pointers. But we still could still use your help.” Leo confessed.
Just then, a big boom was heard. The groups looked to see smoke rising in the distance.
“Looks like that came from the downtown area!” Gear pointed.
“Shall we?” Nightwing offered.
Leo nodded, “Let’s do this.”
“Boom Bam, baby!” Cyborg cheered.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey and Beast Boy high fived.
The group, minus Snowstorm and Shot Cord, then hurried to find the villainous couple.
Meanwhile, in the downtown area, Puff and Onyx were robbing a jewelry store. As they emerged, they walked up to Hotstreak, Kangor, and a big guy wearing a purple jacket over a yellow vest and red pants and a red beanie. On his chest was a speaker.
“Thought we’d get a little score while we’re out and about.” Puff grinned.
“If you’re done having fun, we need to get back before Armaggon comes back!” The group turned to the big guy, “He told us to wait while he gets a couple components for That Kraang guy.”
“I could care less what Shark breath wants!” Hotstreak growled, “Same to Subprime. I don’t trust him. You wanna be their pawn, Boom? Do it on your own terms!”
Angered, the big guy was about to stomp over to before he was blocked by Kangor.
“Cool it, Boom!” he ordered.
Boom glared, “I didn’t ask for your opinion!”
“Tell it to Sharky over there!” Puff pointed to Armaggon who landed in front of them.
“I told you NOT to run off! Teenagers,” He huffed, “Well, I got the components we need so recess is over! Let’s get back.”
“I Think not, Armaggon!”
The groups looked to see the Ninjas, Rainbooms, Static, Gear, Rubberband Man, She Bang, and the Titans land by them.
“Fun’s over!” Nightwing declared.
“Great. First the Justice League and now the Titans? Is there anyone Static doesn’t know?” Puff ranted.
Beast Boy asked Mikey, “Hey Mikey, who’s the Shark guy?”
“That’s Armaggon. He’s a space bounty hunter who’s nothing but trouble.”
“Well, I have been having a rough day. Maybe cracking some shell will ease my tension,” He then noticed Starfire, “A Tamaranian? Now there’s a rare find. Maybe I’ll turn you in as a bonus.”
“I will not be your bounty, Hunter!” Starfire hissed.
“Ninjas!” Leo began.
“Titans!” Nightwing called.
“Take’em down!” they shouted together and the groups ran into battle.
Leo, Nightwing, Twilight, Blade, Static, and Starfire fought Armaggon as Raph, Sunset, Rubberband Man, and Raven fought Hotstreak and Donnie, Keno, Gear, April, Rarity, and Batgirl took on Puff and Onyx while Rainbow, Fluttershy, She Bang, and Beast Boy battled Kangor and Mikey, Pinkie, Applejack, Casey, and Cyborg took on Boom. Static flew around on his saucer as he kept zapping Armaggon.
“I can see why Ebon finds you annoying!” The bounty hunter snarled trying to blast him.
“That’s what you get for mutating in my neighborhood.” Static cried before he was hit by a laser.
“Looks like you’re outta gas.” Armaggon was about to shoot Static before he was hit from behind. He turned to see Blade with his sword sparking.
“Then it’s a good thing he’s not alone!”
Armaggon blasted lasers while Blade used his blade to deflect them as he inched towards him. He then slashed the shark’s guns in half. Then, Nightwing jumped in and hit him on the nose with his baton, causing the bounty hunter to recoil.
“Hey watch the nose!” he glared.
“You sensitive?” Nightwing teased before Leo and Twilight tag teamed and both hit the shark, then Starfire fired starbolts at him.
Raph and Hotstreak were once again at each other’s throat.
“We gotta stop meeting like this!” Raph joked.
“And we’re gonna keep meeting like this until I pry you out of that shell!” Hotstreak declared as the two grappled.
“You’ve been eating garlic.” Raph pretended to gag.
Angered, Hotstreak threw him off and was all flamed up.
“Azarath Metrion Zinthos!” Raven used her powers to open a fire hydrant while Rubberband Man used his body to redirect it on the flaming teen as Sunset helped Raph up.
“He’s really starting to steam me up.” She stated.
“I’m more scorched that steamed.” Raph added.
Meanwhile, Onyx was throwing Donnie, Keno, and Gear off him while Rarity was luckily able to catch them with her diamonds. Puff powered up to her smoke form and fought both April and Batgirl. Batgirl threw a batarang at Puff, who caught it.
“Is that the best you got, Batgirl?” she insulted before it exploded in her hand, causing her to fall down.
“Does that answer your question?” Batgirl smugly asked.
Puff got up and was about to charge before Batgirl ducked down where April fired a psychic blast at her, sending her flying into Onyx.
“I’ve really missed fighting like this.” Batgirl shook April’s hand.
“Me too.” April smiled.
Rainbow ran circles around Kangor, who then swung his foot swatting her like a fly. Then Fluttershy shot darts at him and She Bang punched at him.
“You’re really starting to bug me!” Kangor glared.
Then, a small green fly buzzed up to his face then transformed into a monkey, latched on to his face, and started to slap him like crazy. after Kangor fell over, it transformed back into Beast Boy.
“How’s that for bugging?” he joked.
“It seemed more like monkey business to me.” Rainbow added as Beast Boy gestured to her in laughter.
“Booyakasha!” Both Mikey and Cyborg charged at Boom, who kept blocking their attacks.
“Goongala!” Casey launched some explosive pucks that exploded at Boom.
Boom then yelled as his speaker began booming loud music at the group, knocking them off their feet. As he played, Applejack slowly got up and crept up to Boom and punched him at the speaker, stopping the noise. Then, the two wrestled with each other.
“Been a while since I fought someone tough!” Boom admitted.
“Been facing tough guys like you and like them, you’re gonna regret it!” Applejack grunted.
“I have enough regret doing this!”
“Whattya mean?” Applejack raised a brow.
“Like you’d understand!” Boom grabbed Applejack and threw her.
“Surprise, Cupcake eyes!” Pinkie threw cupcakes at Boom’s eyes which exploded, disorienting him.
Armaggon was starting to get overwhelmed. He then saw Puff and Onyx getting knocked out while Hotstreak tried to get a hit on Raph as Kangor was getting overwhelmed as well and Boom kept trying to hit his opponents.
“Why am I wasting time with you? I got what I came for!” he pulled out a teleporter before turning to the Bang Babies, “We’re leaving!”
“Next time, Shell back!” Hotstreak hurried over while Boom and Kangor followed behind.
“What about them?” Boom pointed to Puff and Onyx.
“Leave them!” Kangor ordered, “Ebon’s orders.”
“Stop them!” Leo cried.
But they were too late. Armaggon pushed a button and they all teleported away.
“Isn’t that supposed to be our thing?” Mikey asked hanging upside down.
“At least we got those two.” Gear pointed to Puff and Onyx who were still unconscious.
“Man. And I thought King Shark was tough.” Beast Boy groaned.
“Looks like we’ll be sticking around awhile.” Nightwing added.
Just then, they heard police sirens in the distance.
“The cops can handle it from here.” Static stated as they all took their leave.
After watching the police take Puff and Onyx away, the group went back to the juvenile station. After the Titans grabbed their stuff and picked a room to stay in, everyone gathered around some pizzas they ordered and decided to catch up for old time’s sake. The Turtles and Rainbooms shared their adventures from getting their medallions and defeating Kavaxas to their adventures in other dimensions.
“So, the medallions give you the power of these apprentices of this Clover the Clever?” Starfire asked.
“Yep. We’ve been handling our powers well. But we still practice our ninjitsu skills like normal.” Leo nodded.
“I have read about this Kavaxas you spoke of,” Raven admitted, “Never thought he would actually be real.”
“Still sounds like a tough customer,” Beast Boy added, “Sounds as tough as Trigon.”
“BB!” Scolded Cyborg.
“It’s okay. Nightwing told them.” Raven looked at Nightwing who looked away in regret.
“In his defense, he was trying to make us feel better after we experienced Scarecrow’s fear toxin.” Twilight pleaded.
“Eventually, you would have learned the truth. Besides, I’m flattered to know something we both have in common, Twilight,” Raven grinned, “I just hope you never meet my father.”
“After fighting Hothead, I can believe it.” Mikey stated with his mouth full of pizza, much to Rarity’s disgust.
“And Pizza Face actually was proven real?” Beast Boy grinned.
Everyone except for Mikey, Pinkie, and Fluttershy looked sheepish before Raph gritted his teeth, “Yes.”
This caused Beast Boy and Cyborg to burst out laughing, “We totally called it!”
“And the Twilight in Equestria started a School of Friendship?” Starfire asked.
“And we trained some of the students in ninjitsu.” Sunset added.
“And one student tried to take away the magic?” Raven raised a brow.
“Yeah. But a couple of students were able to stop her and restore her.” April added.
Batgirl munched on a slice as she observed Donnie’s portal tracker, “So you made this portal tracker, Donnie? I’m impressed.”
“Thanks. After my counterpart showed me his, I made my own so we wouldn’t rely on the portal to Equestria at Canterlot High all the time, especially after the time we met the Legendary Pillars of Equestria. Or if needed, come to other dimensions with the means to get back home.”
“So you guys visited other dimensions as well?” Cyborg asked.
“As my big brother would say, Eyup.” Applejack nodded.
“These counterparts of yours. What’re they like?” Rubberband Man asked curiously grabbing a slice.
“Annoying,” Raph bluntly put, “All they think about is eating pizza and shouting stuff like ‘Turtle Power’ or ‘Cowabunga’!”
The Titans, including Static and Gear, couldn’t help but snicker while Pinkie popped up next to Raph, “Don’t forget about the initial belt buckles.”
“I wonder if there’s a version of us like that?” Beast Boy wondered.
“I’d rather not think about it.” Nightwing grimaced.
“Anyway, you’ve also visited other dimensions with that?” Cyborg changed the subject.
“Yeah. There was this world where humanoid cows lived as cowboys called Moo Mesa.” Twilight explained.
“Cow cowboys?” Beast Boy raised a brow.
“That was where we encountered Bixolio, a rogue Utrom who’s now teamed up with Kraang Subprime.” Raph added.
“And Dr. Karl Marx is his brother?” Batgirl asked.
“Yeah. And his real name is Kurosa.” Sunset confirmed.
“Anyway, we also found another version of us.” Mikey grinned.
“Yeah these turtles were more serious but still cool.” Rainbow put in.
“They may have had different aspects, but we both learned a lot from each other.” April smiled.
“Glad to hear you’ve been keeping busy.” Nightwing smiled.
“Yes indeed.” Leo sighed.
“Hey, maybe we should visit other dimensions ourselves?” Gear beamed.
“Maybe,” Static shrugged, “Of course, after we beat the Kraang so that we still have a home to go back to.”
“Of course.” Gear agreed.
Leo then turned to Nightwing, “By the way, Nightwing, do you guys still see Jason Todd ever since the battle at Arkham?”
The former Robin sighed, “He… still shows up every now and then. Good news is he surrendered the Red X costume and went back to being the Red Hood since. Cyborg and I made double sure that no one uses that suit EVER again.”
“You could say I quadrupled the lock.” Cyborg joked.
“He still fights criminals his way, but still helps around cases every now and then. He still doesn’t see eye to eye with Batman.” Batgirl mentioned.
“Hopefully we don’t see him anytime soon.” Raph glared.
After finishing catching up and cleaning up, Static and Gear changed back to Virgil and Richie.
“We better head home before our folks get suspicious.” Virgil stretched.
“Yeah I’m pretty beat after fighting Armaggon.” yawned Beast Boy.
“We can all use a good night sleep.” Nightwing agreed.
“Raven, Starfire, and Batgirl are welcome to bunk with us.” Rarity offered.
“I better check in with Blue Beetle and let him know what’s going on.” Cyborg added.
“And I’m almost done with my little project that should help us.” Twilight added.
“Hopefully, this means we’re close to ending this nightmare.” Virgil sighed, still thinking about Polarity.
This was noticed by Leo, “We will, Virgil, we will.” He whispered as the group left.
“I will get you out of there. I promise.”
After returning with Armaggon, Boom went to the prison chamber to talk to his sister, Miranda also known as Mirage, who was held captive with the other Metahumans who refused to join Ebon and Kraang Subprime.
“How many more crimes is Ebon gonna make you do? I don’t want to lose you like last time.” Pleaded Mirage.
“Look. I know what I did before was wrong. I don’t wanna go down that path again. But I won’t let Ebon or Kraang Subprime harm you!” Boom sighed.
Just then, two Kraang droids marched up behind Boom, “The hour known as visiting hours is over! The one known as metahuman must vacate that which is known as immediately!”
“No. I won’t leave her!” Boom struggled as the droids began to drag him away.
“Go, Byron! I won’t let them hurt you!” sobbed Mirage.
“Kraang’s orders! Evacuate now!” The Kraang droids eventually threw Boom out of the chamber, locking the door.
“Miranda! MIRANDA!” Boom pounded on the door for a while with no success. In anger, he pounded his fist on the ground. As he got up, he noticed Talon standing near the exit.
“Hurts, doesn’t it?” she said.
“Like you care.” Boom glared.
“You think I wanted to be a Bang Baby again?” hearing Talon’s words made Boom stop in his tracks, “I was starting to have a normal life only to have it taken away by Ebon!”
Talon then walked up to Boom and whispered to him, “Listen, one of Static’s new friends asked me to spy on Ebon and Subprime. In return, they’re gonna cure me and the others. Help me, and them, and I’ll help get your sister out.”
Boom’s eyes widen as he remembered Applejack looking concerned as they fought, “How-How do you know we can trust them?”
“That Rainboom promised and, call it a gut feeling, but I believe her. All I ask is to just pretend to do Ebon’s bidding and when the time is right, we’ll get the prisoners out, including your sister. Okay?”
Boom thought a bit before nodding, “Okay. I’ll do it your way.”
“Thank you. I promise you won’t regret this.” Talon grinned as she rubbed Boom’s cheek. As she left, Boom watched her with a slight blush then smiled before leaving.
Meanwhile, in the airport, an airplane from Africa had just landed. While passengers were walking off and luggage was being unloaded, a figure in the shadows emerged from the cargo bin and hurried behind a couple crates. The figure was an African who wore black attire and fedora. A tan headband covered his eyes.
“I fear Static is in for the fight of his life. I’ve got to hurry!” he told himself as he hurried out of the airport.
At the old music store, The Rainbooms, April, She Bang, Starfire, and Raven were all sound asleep in their redecorated base. As they all slept peacefully, two small figures snuck in through the skylight. The two floated down and snuck past the sleeping girls. The two revealed to be a white dog with a red cape and an orange cat with a blue cape as they made their way to Fluttershy, who was still fast asleep.
“Well whattya know, K-Dog? It really is Fluttershy.” The cat grinned.
The white dog shushed his cat friend, “Shh. We don’t want to wake her friends, Streaky.”
The dog then reached and shook the shy girl, “Hey. Fluttershy. Wake up.”
Fluttershy stirred a little before waking up to see the dog and cat, “Krypto? Streaky? Is that you?”
Krypto nodded before motioning her to keep quiet. Fluttershy nodded before whispering, “Meet me outside. I’ll get dressed and ready.”
Krypto nodded as he and Streaky snuck out of the building. Fluttershy was able to get dressed and grab her weapon quietly without waking anybody up. Or so she thought.
“Fluttershy?” Fluttershy squeaked quietly in fear as she turned to see April in her pajamas rubbing her eyes, “Where are you going this late at night?”
“Sorry. I’m going to talk to some old friends.” She opened the door to reveal Krypto and Streaky, who grinned sheepishly when they saw April.
“Aw. How cute.” April cooed.
“This is Krypto and Streaky. They're friends of Bathound. We met when I followed Ace.”
Krypto woofed while Streaky meowed, obviously saying hello.
“This is April. She’s one of my friends.” Fluttershy introduced as April petted the two.
“Okay. I better not keep you guys,” April yawned, “I’m gonna go back to bed.”
“I’ll try to be back by morning.” Fluttershy promised as April closed the door, waving goodbye. With that, the shy girl followed the two pets to the roof of the building next door.
After getting up to the roof, Fluttershy hugged her two super pet friends.
“It’s so good to see you.” She smiled.
“Same here. I’m sorry to bother you this late at night,” Krypto apologized, “But when Ace told us you and your friends were back, I just had to see you again.”
“I was equally excited.” Streaky admitted.
“It’s alright. I was so busy here in Dakota City, I was afraid I wouldn’t see you guys,” Fluttershy looked around, “Is Ace here too?”
“Unfortunately, he’s helping Robin around Gotham as well as have other missions,” Streaky sighed, “But he wanted us to tell you he said hi.”
“Oh. I see.” Fluttershy sighed a bit disappointed.
“But we can introduce you to our other friends in the Dog Star Patrol.” Krypto added.
Fluttershy perked up, “Dog Star Patrol?”
“Yep. I told them about you and how you helped us against Isis and the other villain pets. They were hoping to meet you if you ever came back, Fluttershy.”
“How far are they from here?” Fluttershy asked.
“Actually, I did call them on the way here and here they come.” Krypto pointed to a fire hydrant shaped ship descending to them. Krypto then held on to Fluttershy as he and Streaky flew up to the hatch that opened up.
As they were in the ship, Krypto and Streaky led Fluttershy to a command chamber where a group of dogs awaited them.
“Hey, everyone, I want you all to meet Fluttershy. She’s a member of the Rainbooms and a ninja. She’s also from another world as well.”
“Hello.” Fluttershy waved as the dogs all greeted her.
“Meet The Dog Star Patrol. First is Brainy Barker.”
“Greetings, Fluttershy.” Greeted a beautiful purple Afghan hound.
“This is Mammoth Mutt.”
“Hello there.” Smiled a pink chihuahua.
“There’s Bull Dog.”
“Pleasure to meet you, madam.” Smiled a lavender bulldog with bull horns.
“That’s Tusky Husky.”
“Hello, mademoiselle.” A sky blue Siberian Husky bowed.
“Here’s Hot Dog.”
“Welcome.” Smiled a red Dachshund.
“And That’s Paw Pooch.”
“Please to make your acquaintance.” Greeted a yellow and brown Basset Hound with eight legs.
“It is nice to meet you all.” Fluttershy sat on a stool as the pets gathered around her.
“Krypto told us how you helped him, Super Cat, and Bathound stop Isis and other villain pets.” Hot Dog smiled.
“Wasn’t easy. Especially when Roulette thought I was stealing from her and Pinkie was stopping her fight.”
“Well, by jo. She can understand us.” Bull Dog pointed.
“Told ya.” Streaky grinned.
“Would it be alright if I read your mind, Ms. Fluttershy?” Brainy walked, “I would like to learn through your mind and as a bit of a precaution.”
“It won’t hurt, will it?” Fluttershy feared.
“I assure you I will not harm anything in there.”
“Okay.” Fluttershy sat still as Brainy put her paw on her forehead.
“Just relax and this won’t hurt a bit.” Brainy’s eye then began to glow.
Inside the shy girl’s mind, Brainy walked in a quiet meadow as butterflies flew.
'She seems to be a gentle soul,' she thought, 'How fitting.'
The dog then walked up to a door. Seeing it as the way to her memories, she reached to open it when a male voice spoke up.
“Can I help you?”
Brainy turned to see a humanoid rat in a maroon kimono robe looking at her.
“Oh! I’m sorry. Are you this girl’s conscience?”
“Actually, I was her sensei. I am Hamato Yoshi, but you can call me Splinter.”
“I am Brainy Barker of the Star Dog Patrol. I assure you I mean the girl no harm.”
Splinter looked at the dog before his look softened, “You appear to be as harmless as you say. Much better than the last person who entered one of my student’s minds. Very well. You are okay to enter.”
“Thank you, honorable sensei.” Brainy bowed as Splinter opened the door for her.
As Brainy walked in what appeared to be a flower covered hallway and saw pictures of Fluttershy with her friends, from the Rainbooms to the Ninjas. She even saw a picture of a big turtle wearing a black mask that was covered in roses. After seeing more pictures of good memories, the dog saw the hallway began to get covered with thorns and bats flew past her. She then saw a shadow of a dark figure in bladed armor and red glowing eyes laughing evilly.
“My goodness!” Brainy gasped as she backed away. “What an awful figure!”
Believing she saw enough, Brainy teleported from the mind.
Brainy’s eyes stopped glowing as she regained consciousness and Fluttershy opened her eyes.
“Are you alright?” Fluttershy asked in concerned.
“Yes. I think I saw enough,” Brainy breathed, “Enough to believe everything I heard of you and your friends.”
“So, what brings you back to our dimension?” Bull Dog asked.
“It’s a long story.” Fluttershy began to tell the Dogs why she was here. She even shared some of her ninja moves to the Star Dogs, who enjoyed every move she did for them. However, as the shy girl shared moves and stories, nobody noticed a small droid with a built in camera on the ceiling.
In a secret headquarters, A figure with a robotic cat paw was watching The Star Dog Patrol as Fluttershy shared her adventures and ninja moves.
“So this is the metahuman that helped Superdog and Bathound defeat Isis.” He sneered.
As he continued to observe, a blue kitten walked up to him.
“Affirmative,” He explained, “Her name is Fluttershy and she’s one of these Rainbooms that helped Batman save Gotham from these aliens called the Kraang.”
The figure turned his chair, revealing to be a green cyborg cat, as he got up and walked up to a damaged Kraang droid, “Ah yes. The Kraang. They have such advanced technology that would rival even Brainiac.”
“Word has it the Kraang are back and in Dakota city, Mechanikat.” The kitten explained.
“Excellent. This couldn’t have worked out better than I planned, Snooky. Once I pinpoint their location, it’s all about making contact. While I make contact, you will head to Dakota City and keep an eye on our friends.” He chuckled as he turned a couple nobs.
“Yes sir.” Snooky nodded as he took his leave.
In the Bang Babies hideout, Bixolio noticed a beeping light on a control panel.
“Somebody’s making contact with us.” He told Armaggon who was passing by.
“Who’d be dumb enough to contact us?” the shark grumbled as Bixolio answered the call. As he pushed a button, a screen flickered on as Mechanikat appeared on it.
“Greetings. Am I talking to the Kraang?”
“What’s it to you, robo furball?” Armaggon snarled.
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Mechanikat. I’d like to speak to your leader.”
“Kraang Subprime is busy at the moment. What’s so important you have to bother us?” Bixolio raised a brow.
“I wish to gain access to technology of the Kraang.”
“And why should we give it to you?” Bixolio asked curiously.
“What if I told you I could lead you to a Rainboom?” Mechanikat offered.
Bixolio and Armaggon looked at each other in surprise, “We’re listening.”
Mechanikat pulled up a picture of Fluttershy on the screen, “This girl is in the company of my archnemesis, a Kryptonian dog named SuperDog.”
“What do you take me for? The Kryptonians went extinct ages ago!” Armaggon snarled.
“Then you do not know that a Kryptonian survived as well as his dog.”
“That'd make some meal.” Armaggon pondered.
“What do you want from us in return, Mechanikat?” Bixolio questioned.
“I deliver you the Rainboom and Superdog and in return, I gain access to Kraang technology.”
Armaggon and Bixolio looked at each other before the shark answered, “I’ll meet with you. But if you’re trying anything, I’m having a canned meal tonight!”
After Mechanikat ended his transmission, Armaggon began to leave before looking back at Bixolio, “If Subprime asks, tell him we might get a prisoner real soon.”
After showing some of her ninja moves and telling her adventures, Fluttershy decided it was time to head back.
“I’m sorry, but my friends will be up soon and with the Titans’ help gonna find Ebon and Subprime.” She apologized.
“We understand, madame.” Bull Dog nodded.
“Just know you are always welcome here. We hope to see you again, Fluttershy.” Brainy added.
“Thank you very much all of you.”
“SuperCat and I will escort her back.” Krypto offered as the other super dogs said their goodbyes.
Before long, He, Streaky, and Fluttershy were all back in Dakota City.
“Thank you for introducing me to your friends.” She thanked.
“It was also good to see you again as well. But I’m afraid we need to be heading back ourselves,” Krypto sighed, “Kevin will be up soon.”
“Same with Andrea.” Streaky sighed.
“I understa-” Fluttershy perked up, “Do you guys hear that?”
“Hear what?” Krypto perked up.
Fluttershy held on to her geode and listened, “It sounds like cries for help.” She then hurried to find the source of the distress.
“Fluttershy! Wait!” Krypto cried as he and Streaky tried to follow her.
Sure enough, someone did needed help. It was Snooky. When he arrived in Dakota City, a bunch of street dogs began to chase him. They were too big and too tough for him to handle. All he could do was outrun them. Unfortunately, he made a wrong turn and was cornered in an alley. The blue kitten could only curl up in fear as the dogs slowly crept up to him growling. But just when they jumped at the cat, a figure jumped in and grabbed him just in time.
“Are you alright, Little Guy?” Snooky opened his eyes to see he was in the arms of the very Rainboom he was to locate. He quickly jumped out of Fluttershy’s arms and started to back away.
“It’s okay.” Fluttershy tried to calm him down, but the blue kitten then turned away and ran.
Fluttershy still smiled, “You be careful now!” she waved.
Snooky turned a corner and stopped to catch his breath. He then looked to see Mechanikat looking at him impatiently.
“And where have you been?” he sneered.
“I just had a bunch of-”
“Never mind!” Mechanikat interrupted rudely, “Did you find the Rainboom with Superdog?”
“They’re a couple blocks away. That way.”
“You better be right about this!” Armaggon walked out of the shadows.
“Of course, Armaggon. Once the Rainboom is yours, all I ask is access to Kraang technology.” Mechanikat smirked.
Snooky, on the other hand, looked towards where he ran from Fluttershy with regret on his face.
Meanwhile, Krypto and Streaky flew over to Fluttershy.
“Is everything alright?” the superdog asked.
“Yes. A little kitten was trapped with some dogs, but I saved him.” The shy girl smiled.
“Betcha I’m cuter than that kitten was.” Boasted Streaky as Krypto playfully rolled his eyes.
“It was just a small blue kitten.”
“Blue Kitten?!” Krypto and Streaky gasped.
“Something wrong?” Fluttershy asked.
“That kitten might’ve been Snooky!”
“Snooky?” Fluttershy worried as Krypto continued.
“Snooky Wookums is Mechanikat's sidekick and secret agent. He’s an evil mastermind pastel blue kitten who uses his cuteness and intelligence to cause all sorts of trouble for us and the Dog Star Patrol. He is Mechanikat's most trained agent.”
“How terrible!” Fluttershy gasped.
“Definitely cuter than him.” Streaky boasted while Fluttershy and Krypto gave him a dry look.
“We better find him. Mechanikat might be up to something around here! Where’d he go?”
“This way!” Fluttershy followed the two pets as they all hurried to a street corner.
As they looked around cautiously, Streaky sneered, “He couldn’t have gone too far.”
“Looking for me?”
Fluttershy drew her weapon as she, Krypto, and Streaky turned to see Mechanikat walk from an alley corner with Snooky.
“Mechanikat!” gasped Krypto.
“We meet again, Superdog!” Mechanikat then turned his attention to Fluttershy, “And this must be one of these Rainbooms. The one who helped you against Isis.”
“You’re Mechanikat?” Fluttershy gasped.
“So it’s true. You can understand us.”
“I get that a lot.” Fluttershy sighed.
“What’re you doing here, Mechanikat?” Krypto glared.
“It’s hard to keep something like the Kraang a secret. After hearing about them after trying to take over Gotham, it was difficult to find traces of their technology since Batman took it away. Of course, I heard from my resources that the Kraang were back in Dakota City. And it’s only a matter of making a deal with them in exchange for their technology!” Mechanikat chuckled.
“As if! There’s only two of you and three of us!” Streaky boasted.
Mechanikat snapped his fingers in response. Then a dozen of his Catbots landed right beside him and Snooky.
“Why do you keep saying that?” Krypto facepalmed.
“I look forward to upgrading my Catbots with the Kraang technology I’ll get for defeating you! Also, I asked for assistance.”
“More like pestered!” Out from the shadows came Armaggon who walked to the side of the Catbots.
“Armaggon!” gasped Fluttershy.
The bounty hunter pointed to Krypto, “So that’s the Kryptonian dog?”
“Yes. That’s him.” Mechanikat assured.
Fluttershy took aback, “Wait. How can you understand them?”
“I’m a bounty hunter! I have an alien translator!” Armaggon yelled before calming down, “At least I can take you back as a bonus.”
“You will not hurt her!” Streaky declared as he and Krypto flew in front of Fluttershy.
“Get them!” Mechanikat cried as Armaggon and the Catbots charged.
Fluttershy joined Superdog and Supercat in fighting the Catbots. During the fight, Krypto then faced Armaggon.
“Your bounty hunting days are over, Shark!” He declared, ready to strike.
“Then it’s a good thing Robo-fur over there gave me this!” Just before Krypto could hit him, Armaggon held up a glowing green rock, causing Krypto to fall to the ground weakened.
“Kryptonite!” Fluttershy gasped.
Armaggon licked his lips as he grabbed Krypto by his neck, “I never had Kryptonian before. Much less a Kryptonian dog.”
Suddenly, Armaggon was kicked in the face by Fluttershy, dropping Krypto as well as the kryptonite, which bounced a little ways.
“Are you alright, Superdog?”
“I should be fine.” Krypto shooked.
Armaggon got up and rubbed his cheek as he glared at the shy girl, “Alright, then. I’ll deal with you first!”
“I’ll deal with Armaggon!” Fluttershy stood ready as Armaggon started to charge at her.
“We’ll deal with the Catbots as long as you keep the kryptonite away from us.”
Fluttershy nodded as she hurried to grab the kryptonite.
“Get the Kryptonite!” ordered Mechanikat.
Armaggon battled Fluttershy, who was able to hold her own against him as the two struggled to gain possession of the kryptonite. But the green rock kept getting kicked around the battlefield. Luckily, Fluttershy was able to knock it away should it land near Krypto or Streaky, who were destroying the Katbots despite the radiation.
“Not so tough without your backup singers, Are you?” Armaggon teased before getting hit by a kick from the shy girl, “Maybe not.”
Krypto and Streaky were able to beat the Catbots, but the kryptonite slid near Snooky who picked it up as everyone froze while Mechanikat walked up to his agent.
“Well done, Snooky! You have pulled through once again. Now. Give me the kryptonite!”
Snooky looked around to see Krypto and Streaky looking at him with fear while Fluttershy was held captive by Armaggon. The first thing that was on his mind was the Rainboom saving him from before, causing his paw to shake.
“Are you deaf? Hand. Me. The. Kryptonite. Now!”
Hearing Mechanikat say that didn’t help at all. Snooky winced remembering how Mechanikat would mistreat him despite his loyalty to him. It was there he knew what to do. He lifted the kryptonite and threw it near a storm drain.
“NO!” Mechanikat dove for the rock, but it was too late. The kryptonite fell to the sewers below and the water carried it away. Mechanikat turned angrily to Snooky, “You Dare? YOU DARE BETRAY ME?”
Snooky snapped back, “I’m through with being your patsy! Risking my life for what? Just so you can conquer the world? Well, forget it! I’m done! D-O-N-E. DONE!”
Mechanikat screamed as he prepared to slash Snooky. But after raising his paw, he suddenly couldn’t move it. He turned to see Krypto holding his paw glaring at him.
“Don’t even think about it.”
As Armaggon saw everything, Fluttershy used it as a distraction to stomp on his toe causing him to release her and kicked him away.
Armaggon saw the situation, “Well this was a bust!”
Mechanikat noticed the hunter leaving, “Armaggon! Wait! What about our deal?”
“Deal’s off! I got bigger fish to fry, Rust bucket!” Armaggon flew off in his suit.
Seeing he was defeated, Mechanikat dropped down and started to throw a tantrum, “NONONO!” he cried.
“It’s over, Mechanikat!” Krypto then grabbed Mechanikat by the cape.
“This isn’t over, Superdog! Mark my words I will have my revenge!” He then turned to his former agent, “And you! You will pay for your betrayal!” Before Mechanikat could finish, he was knocked out by Streaky who borrowed Fluttershy’s blowgun and smacked him upside the head.
“I think he was finished.” He grinned as he gave Fluttershy her weapon back.
Snooky then walked up to the trio, “I am really sorry for everything I have done to you.”
“It’s okay, Snooky, but my question is…. Why?” Krypto asked.
“I owe her my life. She showed me real kindness when she saved me,” Snooky pointed to Fluttershy, “Also, I’m fed up with Mechanikat’s ungrateful attitude.”
“I figured he was an ungrateful type,” Fluttershy nodded before looking back, “I’m just sorry I couldn’t get any info from Armaggon about where Ebon and Kraang Subprime are hiding.”
“Maybe this’ll help,” Snooky held up a beeping device, “I put a homing device on Armaggon when he came should he have turned on us, but now I want you to have it.” He gave the device to Fluttershy.
“Oh thank you!” the shy girl smiled accepting the device.
Krypto then grabbed the unconscious Mechanikat, “I think I’ll drop him off at Mogo on my way back home.”
“Where’s that?” Fluttershy asked curiously.
“Mogo is a sentient planet in sector 2261. He should keep him in check.”
“Even so, he’ll come after me should he escape.” Snooky shrugged.
“Maybe I can help,” Fluttershy smiled, “I can take you to the animal shelter back home and find you a new home.”
“I…. always wanted a home.” Snooky confessed.
“I think that’s a great idea.” Krypto nodded.
“Well, if you guys are okay with it, then I am too.” Streaky admitted.
“Then it’s unanimous!”
“Thank you.” Snooky bowed.
“Well, we better get going,” Krypto stated as he and Streaky began to float up as he carried the unconscious Mechanikat, “It was great to see you again, Fluttershy! And Good luck, Snooky!”
“See ya, guys!” Streaky waved.
“Goodbye!” Fluttershy waved back.
“Ruff Ruff! And away!” Krypto and Streaky then flew away. Then Fluttershy saw the sun rising as she picked up Snooky.
“My friends will be up any minute now. Let’s head back. Once Twilight locates Armaggon with this, we’ll have Donnie drop you off at the shelter back at our dimension.” She explained as they headed back.
Back at the music store, The rest of the Rainbooms, April, Batgirl, She Bang, Raven, and Starfire were awake and getting themselves around to stop Ebon and Kraang Subprime. Just then, Fluttershy entered with Snooky in her arms.
“There you are, Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash smiled.
“April briefed us on what you were doing and we’re glad you’re okay.” Sunset added.
“Hi, everyone,” Fluttershy greeted. She then noticed someone was missing, “Where’s Pinkie?”
“Mikey and Beast Boy were here earlier, and they told us Leo and Nightwing are checking out a jailbreak. They went to get Static and Gear, and Pinkie joined them.” Applejack explained.
“Leo wants us to meet them at the juvenile station for further instruction.” Batgirl added.
April then noticed the periwinkle kitten in the shy girl’s arms, “Aw! Who’s your little friend?”
“This is Snooky. He’s someone I’m gonna need to drop off at the animal shelter back home. He also gave me this.” She held up the device and gave it to Twilight.
“What is it?” she asked.
Fluttershy smiled as she said, “Our key to finding Kraang Subprime and Ebon!”
It was early morning when Static went to meet up with Gear at the gas station.
“You ready to meet with the others?” Gear greeted.
“You bet.” Static said with a determined look on his face.
Gear looked at his friend with concern. “You uh sure you’re up to this?”
“I know I almost lost it against Ebon, but I’ve been talking to Leo. I just….. I just want this whole thing to be over and help those captured by Ebon. Especially Molly.”
“I hear ya,” Gear put his hand on Static’s shoulder, “And with our training from the ninjas and Rainbooms, plus The Titans helping us, there’s no way we can lose.”
“Absolutely!” Both Static and Gear jumped to see Pinkie suddenly standing next to them as Mikey and Beast Boy were coming right next to her.
“Pinkie! You ever thought about wearing a bell?” Gear breathed.
“I tried that once, but my ninja training made me so fast it won’t ring.”
“So what’s up, guys?” Static asked.
“Leo and Nightwing are checking out a jailbreak hoping to find something to lead us to Kraang Subprime and Ebon.” Beast Boy answered.
“They want us to meet them in the juvenile station then we’ll plan from there.” Mikey added.
Before anyone could answer, Pinkie’s cell phone went off and she answered it, “Hi, Sunset! Yeah. We’re with Static and Gear.” She then perked up, “She did? Really? We’ll be over soon,” After she hung up, the party girl began to jump around everywhere, “We got it! We got it! We got it!”
“What? What? We got what?” Mikey asked crazily.
“Sunset said Fluttershy just met with Superdog and Supercat and has a device that’ll lead us to Subprime and Ebon!”
“Well what are we waiting for?” Beast Boy gleamed.
“Let’s get over there!” Static grinned as they all took off.
Static and Gear flew while Mikey and Pinkie jumped from building to building and Beast Boy transformed into a hawk. They were about halfway there when Pinkie suddenly stopped, causing everyone else to stop as well.
“Why’d you stop, Pinks?” Gear asked.
“Look.” Pinkie pointed to an alley. They all looked to see a certain blinded Nightbreed sneaking into it.
“It’s Echo.” Gasped Mikey.
“That one of those Nightbreed guys?” Beast Boy asked as he reverted back to normal.
“Yeah,” Static confirmed, “Let’s follow him. Maybe he’ll lead us to Ebon and Subprime.”
Nodding in agreement, the five hurried to the alleyway and saw Echo going down an abandoned subway tunnel.
“What could he be doing down here?” Mikey whispered as they continued to follow him. They were further in the underground tunnel when Echo turned around and looked ready to fight as they all hid.
Then, he called out, “I know you’re there, Static! Come on out! You and your friends!”
Static and the others stepped out in shock, “How’d you know we were behind you?”
“I may be blind as a bat, but I can use radar like a bat. Plus, I can hear the electricity pulsing in your body. And the movement of Gear’s device.” He then pointed to Mikey, Pinkie, and Beast Boy, “You smell like pepperoni, you smell like cotton candy, and you smell like tofu.”
“Wow! He’s good!” Pinkie exclaimed.
Static then pointed in accusation, “Alright, Echo. You’re going to lead us to Ebon and Kraang Subprime!”
“You won’t find them here.” Scoffed Echo.
“Whataya mean?” Mikey asked.
“You wouldn’t understand.” Echo turned to leave.
“What? You left them or something?” Gear’s guess was enough to stop Echo in his track, “You did, didn’t you?”
“I….. don’t know if it’s my choice to say.”
“It’s alright, Echo,” A female voice said. From the shadows merged a girl with purple short hair and a magenta jumpsuit, “I trust Static and his friends.”
“Gail.” Static greeted the girl.
“It’s been a while, Static,” Gail then noticed the newcomers, “I heard you’ve been hanging around some new friends.”
“Well, here’s a couple of them. This is Michelangelo.”
“What up?” Mikey grinned.
“Pinkie Pie.”
“Party extrodinaire!” The party girl boasted.
“And I’m sure you heard of Beast Boy here.”
“Of The Teen Titans. Of course.”
“Hey.” Beast Boy waved.
“My name is Gail. I also go by Nightingale. I lead the Nightbreed down here.”
“Didn’t you use to work for Ebon?” Pinkie accused.
“You’re right about the ‘use to’ part,” Nightingale explained, “You see we’ve a fatal sensitivity to light, so we live underground. Ebon recruited us in an attempt to conquer the city by attempting to blanket the entire city in pure "dark matter", giving us free rein of it, and I stopped him by absorbing it into myself. Even though Static and Gear offered to help us, we refused and went back into hiding in darkness.”
“But that doesn’t explain why Echo is down here with you?” Gear asked curiously.
Nightingale nodded, “Come with me. I will explain everything.” She led the group down the tunnel.
Before long, they arrived in what looked like an underground city.
“Welcome to Nightbreed City.” Nightingale said.
As they walked around, they noticed Echo wasn’t the only new Nightbreed. Circuit Breaker was having her gauntlets fixed by a guy wearing black overalls and gloves over a gray shirt. Oil sat on a rock eating a chocolate bar. Just then, a tall woman walked up to the group.
Nightingale held up her hand, “It’s okay, Brickhouse. It’s only Static and his friends.”
Brickhouse nodded as she politely greeted everyone who passed her, “Static. Gear. Pinks. Green guy,” She hesitated when she saw Mikey, “Mr. Turtle Guy.”
“What up?” Mikey waved.
“So you and your buddies all left Ebon?” Gear asked Echo.
The blind Nightbreeder nodded, “We were some of the kidnapped teens Ebon mutated. Believe me. We are not proud of what we did and fighting you all, but Ebon told us that if we helped him, Subprime will cure our light sensitivity, when I found out that Subprime has no idea how.”
Oil continued, “Echo lead us to the sewer system where we found Nightingale and the other Nightbreed.”
“We were no match for Ebon or the Kraang. We were fortunate to escape undetected. My gauntlets are proof of that.” Circuit Breaker showed her damaged gauntlets before letting the guy in overalls work on them again.
“I was more than willing to welcome them. I just wish we could do more. I mean look at us!” Nightingale revealed her suit had spots that were duct taped. The group saw the others were in the same condition, “Things have not been easy for us. We’ve had to dig around garbage for food and have no access to clothing or blankets. But we can’t leave here due to our light sensitivity. Tech has been working on finding a way for months with little to no success.” She pointed to the guy in black overalls.
“If there is a chance we can see sunlight again without dying, we have to take it. Problem is it may take months before I figure something. By then, we may starve to death by then.” Tech sighed.
Hearing that made Static very angry inside as he clentched his fist. He then looked around to notice something, “Where’s Polarity?”
“Yeah I thought she was a Nightbreed too?” Mikey realized.
Echo lowered his head, “I tried to convince her, but she was too confused. Luckily, her light sensitivity isn’t as severe as ours.”
Static understood, but was still down about being unable to help.
“Isn’t there anything we can do to help?” Mikey asked.
“Like the humans would help us?” Oil sighed.
“There are good people! They can help!” Beast Boy argued.
“Not that we don’t believe you, but we vowed to find the problem ourselves. Besides, they might try to capture us let alone try to cure us.” Nightingale explained.
“I have an idea!” Pinkie chirped, “We can’t get you guys to leave, but we can get people to donate food and clothes to you guys!”
“Will people be able to do that?” Nightingale asked.
“Maybe I can convince them,” Static stood up, “Gear!”
“Way ahead of you. I got a camera and crew to meet us a couple blocks away!” Gear held up his phone.
“You guys stay here!” Static said before he and Gear hurried out. As they left, no one noticed a head appear off a wall. As it disappeared, Mikey perked up like he sensed something and went to look around.
Before long, the camera crew came just as Gear promised and set up for the broadcast. Soon, they were ready and began as the reporter spoke to the cameras.
“This is Shelly Sandoval with a live broadcast with Static who has an important announcement about the metahumans known as the Nightbreed.” She then held the mike to Static as he began to talk.
“As some of you may have known, The metahumans known as Nightbreed have went into hiding due to their photosensitivity. But I had just found out they are struggling. They don’t have food or spare clothes. I ask for anyone out there to please donate food and clothing to these. I understand Dakota City has been having trouble with Bang Babies recently, but these metahumans might be people you know and care about even before they became metahumans. While there are those who let power get to their heads, there are those who are confused, scared, and sad that they left everyone and everything that meant everything to them. So I am asking, no implore you all, please donate! If we can show we care about the Nightbreed or any other confused metahuman, we can take away that fear! We can help each other!”
Throughout all of Dakota City, many people saw the broadcast. In his home, the former hero named Soul Power smiled to see the young hero showing his concerns for those less fortunate.
“You did good, Sparky.” He smiled.
In his home, Robert Hawkins smiled to see the good his son was doing.
“Your mother would’ve been very proud of you, son.” He said to himself with tears in his eyes.
Hiding in a tree was the man in black who watched the broadcast through TVs in a store window and smiled. Meanwhile, somewhere in space, Batman had been watching the broadcast on one of the ship’s scopes and smirked to himself.
Shortly after the broadcast, many volunteers were filling a delivery truck with spare clothes, blankets, and food.
“Once we’re done loading the truck, the driver will bring the truck to the abandoned subway station.” Daisy was explaining to Static and Gear.
“And we’ll help the Nightbreed unload it to their little city.” Gear added.
“Thanks. For doing this.” Static thanked Daisy.
“After all the time you guys saved us all, it’s the least we could do.” Daisy smiled.
“We’ll go on ahead and let the Nightbreed know.” Static stated as he and Gear started head back to the underground city.
Moments after the duo and volunteers left, the driver was about to enter the truck when a figure came up from the seat and punched him out cold. Daisy turned to see him starting the truck and started to drive away.
“Hey!” Seeing that Static was long gone, the girl grabbed the side of the truck just before it left. The figure looked through his sunglasses to see Daisy through the rearview mirror. He then sped up and made sharp turns in an attempt to knock her off. Despite her best efforts to stay on, one turn was so sharp it was enough to knock Daisy off. Daisy screamed as she braced for hitting the sidewalk.
“Booyakasha!”
Suddenly, she saw she was still in the air. The girl looked up to see she held by Mikey who was swinging on his chain in pursuit.
“Hey! You’re one of those turtle friends of Static’s, aren’t you?” she gasped.
“Yep! Friends call me Mikey. Are you okay?”
“I am now thanks to you!” Daisy smiled.
“Sorry if I’m scary.” Mikey sweated.
“Couple days ago, your friend with the swords saved me from that amoeba. And as I told him and that girl with the glasses, any friend of Static’s is a friend of mine.”
Mikey smiled to hear that before Daisy explained the situation to him, “That guy hijacked that truck filled with stuff that was donated to the Nightbreed!”
“I heard,” Mikey explained, “I felt we were being watched so I went to investigate. I followed through the sewers which lead me to you guys. I saw the whole thing in the alley so I thought you could use some help.”
“We need to get that truck back!” Daisy declared as Mikey held her on his back.
“Already on it. Booyakasha!” Mikey cried before he saw Daisy looking at him confused, “Something fun to say.” And with that, the ninja hurried to where the truck went.
Meanwhile, in the subway tunnel, Static and Gear told The Nightbreed the good news and they along with Pinkie waited for the truck to unload it. Just then, a green bat flew up to them and transformed back into Beast Boy.
“I can’t find Mikey anywhere.” He said.
“That’s not like Mikey at all!” Pinkie pondered.
“Maybe he went to get pizza?” Gear guessed.
“Without even telling us?”
“Hope he’s okay,” Static hoped while checking his watch, “And that truck should’ve been here by now.”
“Hopefully, it shows up soon. Leo’s probably wondering where we are.” Gear pondered.
“They were moments ready to head out before we left.” Static added.
“That’s what you get for trusting the wrong people!” a new voice said.
Everyone turned to see the figure walking through the wall. He was a brown haired tall guy wearing a brown coat and shades.
“Fade?” everyone gasped.
“Who’s that?” Pinkie raised a brow.
“Fade. He was one of us before he sided with Ebon!” Nightingale glared, “You have some nerve showing your face around our direction after turning on us, Fade!”
“Hey now. Is that anyway to say hi to an old friend?” Fade asked, “Besides, you’ve given Tech another chance.”
“That’s because I’m trying fix our photosensitivity to redeem myself!” Tech growled.
“Which is more than I can say about the surface people.” Fade barked back.
“That’s a lie! They’re bringing food and supplies to these guys!” Static declared.
“Is that what they told you? I saw that same truck heading to the other side of town!”
“What?” Everyone was shocked to hear Fade’s claim.
“Face it, Static! You wasted on breath on such ignorant fools!”
“Wanna bet?”
Everyone turned to see Daisy and Mikey at the entrance each with a box of donations.
“Daisy?” Static gasped.
“Mikey!” Cheered Pinkie and Beast Boy.
“Sorry for the sudden leave, but I sensed a presence with my keen sense and followed that guy to the truck and hid in the alleyway so I wouldn’t make a scene.” Mikey explained.
“I was the last of the volunteers to leave when I saw that guy hijack the truck and tried to stop. Mikey here saved me and we found the truck hidden in the junkyard. Mikey was able to drive it back here. Despite his parallel parking.” Daisy added.
“Yeah! Wait what?” Mikey took aback on the last part.
Hearing that made Nightingale mad as she glared at Fade.
“Liar!” she hissed.
“We don’t need them!” Fade declared.
“And how were you going to prove that? By making us suffer?”
Unable to have an answer, Fade screamed as he went after Daisy while Mikey pulled out his nunchucks. But before he got near them, he was knocked away by soundwaves shrieked out by Echo. He looked up as Echo snarled at him.
“This isn’t over! YOU HEAR ME?” he shouted as he faded through the wall.
“Coward!” Echo went after him before Nightingale stopped him.
“Let him go. He’ll think twice before showing his around us again. Besides, we have more important things to do.”
Shortly after, The Nightbreed helped Static, Gear, Mikey, Pinkie, Beast Boy, and Daisy unload the truck. Shortly after, the driver came to take the truck away and didn’t press any charges since it arrived at the destination. After he left, Daisy talked to Nightingale.
“I hope this didn’t make you think we couldn’t be trusted.”
“I think what you all have done for us has proven that there are people I do trust,” Nightingale smiled, “Thanks to you all, we have enough to last a month or so.”
“And the cupcakes are a nice bonus,” Brickhouse smiled, “Thanks, Pinks.”
“You’re all welcome.” The party girl grinned.
Echo walked up to the heroes, “We will never forget what you’ve done for us. Remember, you must stop Ebon and Kraang Subprime before they mutate anyone else.”
“You have our word.” Static promised.
As the heroes all headed out, Gear stopped and turned to Tech.
“I almost forgot. Hey, Tech! I’ve been meaning to ask you. Where’d you get your fusion power couplers?”
“Made’em myself.” Tech smiled as the two thumbed up each other.
Meanwhile, at the hideout, Ebon threw his chair at wall in anger after Fade informed him and Kraang Subprime about the Nightbreed.
“You sure?” he growled.
“Affirmitive! I would’ve fooled them if it wasn’t for that turtle!” Fade informed.
Suddenly, a loud boom shook the place, startling the three, “Now What?” bellowed Subprime.
Ebon and Subprime hurried to find the prison chamber severely damaged and Kraang Droids were knocked down along with Boom.
“The prisoners have escaped!” Subprime hollered.
Ebon saw Boom coming around and grabbed him by the collar, “What. Happened?”
“T-Talon. She damaged the place and freed the prisoners. Tried to stop her, but she got the jump on me.” Boom struggled to answer.
“Just great! First the Nightbreed now Talon? They pick NOW to betray us!” Ebon dropped Boom in anger.
“I don’t need this right now!” Subprime cried. Behind him, Kurosa entered then noticed they were upset and was about to leave when Subprime acknowledged him, “What do you want?”
“Sorry to intrude, but you will be pleased to know the rocket is finished. I already have the Kraang fueling it with the Bang Baby mutagen at this very moment.”
Subprime thought for a moment before turning to Ebon, “Fortunately, for those traitors, we can begin the invasion,” He stomped towards Boom and picked him up by the collar himself, “As for you, since you were the one to lose the prisoners, YOU will be the one to find them!” his cockpit closed up as he spoke in his Shredder voice, “And don’t you dare return without them!”
“I’m gone!” Boom assured. After Subprime dropped him, he hurried out the door. As he exited, Boom looked back then turned forward and hid his smile as he headed out.
Back with Static, he and the others began to head back to the juvenile Station after dropping Daisy off at her home. They soon stopped and walked towards the station. Beast Boy then spoke to Static.
“You should feel proud of helping those Nightbreed guys.” The green teen said.
Static shrugged, “Well, it would’ve almost ended badly if it wasn’t for Michelangelo.”
“Hey c’mon, dude! It was a team effort!” Mikey chimed.
“Mikey’s right. Don’t let what Fade did worry you, Virge. We did good.” Gear patted his friend’s shoulder.
“And put smiles on everyone’s faces!” Pinkie grinned.
Static smiled to hear the support of his friends and then showed determination. “Well, now we must be ready for the biggest fight of our lives.”
“You are right, my friend.”
Everyone turned around startled as the figure in black landed near them. When he revealed his face, Static gasped.
“Anansi?”
Anansi nodded, “A great battle is upon us. Thought you could use some help.”
In the Dakota prison, the warden was looking through the cells checking on the Bang Babies and other renegade metahumans held there. Cryskill and Outer were sitting by the wall separating their cells, Madelyn shivered still not recovered from seeing Master Splinter’s spirit, Puff was looking at her nails while Onyx was held by titanium shackles, and Heavy Man was still frozen. After checking all of them, the warden was about to head back to his desk when suddenly-
KABOOM!
He was knocked off his feet by an explosion. As he lost consciousness, Ebon emerges from the smoke along with Kangor and Acid Grip.
“Don’t mind us! These Bang Babies are getting out for good behavior,” Mocked Ebon. He then spoke to everyone as Kangor and Acid Grip began breaking cell doors open, “Our time has come, Bang Babies! The invasion has begun!”
“Alright!” Outer cheered as he exited his cell.
“Now let’s crack some shell!” Cryskill declared.
“Get in line!” Onyx cracked his knuckles as Acid Grip melted his shackles.
“Cause we call dibs!” Puff added as she walked out.
Kangor was about to open the cell with Madelyn in it when Ebon stopped him.
“If Maddie’s not through with her episode, then she’s useless. Leave her!”
He then walked up Heavy Man and injected a serum of mutagen in his neck. Soon enough, Heavy Man was able to move once again.
“About time!” he grumbled as he walked out of his cell.
“Wait! What about me?” cried a voice in another cell.
Inside was a teen whose nose was so long it resembled a ferret.
“Sorry, Ferret. But I ain’t got time for dead weight!” Ebon scoffed.
“But I can lead you to someone who can help!” Ferret pleaded, pointing to another cell.
Ebon looked at the cell as a dark shadow turned to see him and growled like a leopard.
“Perfect.” He smirked.
Present….
“And then he let him out and left me here! That’s all I know!” Ferret was telling Nightwing and Leo who came to investigate when they heard there was a jailbreak. Leo frowned from what he heard.
“Ebon WANTED us to send his Bang Babies to prison!” he glared.
“He and Kraang Subprime must be finished with their project,” Nightwing deduced, “And I thought Joker was too complicated to figure out.”
“It must’ve had something to do with the rocket Sunset told us when they dealt with that Maddie girl.” Leo added.
“Agreed. We better get back to the others.”
But as the two were about to leave, Ferret cried to them, “Wait! You can’t just leave me here! I’ll do anything!”
Leo and Nightwing looked at each other in annoyance before looking at Ferret grinning.
Back at the juvenile station, Raph was pacing around impatiently. He looked around to see Donnie finishing the Bang Baby retro mutagen with help from Cyborg, Keno balancing on one of his sparring sticks with Blade using his sword for katas, Casey lifting a dumbbell, and Rubberband Man was drinking coffee from the coffee machine Donnie fixed up. At last, he lost patience and punched a wall, getting everyone’s attention.
“What is taking everybody so long to get here? Ebon and Kraang Subprime are probably finished with their big plans while we’re here, acting like everything is awesome!” he yelled.
“Hey! What do you think me and Donnie have been doing, taking a nap?” Cyborg snapped back.
“We’ve just about finished with the Bang Baby retro mutagen. Without it, we’ll be dealing with a whole army of Bang Babies.” Donnie added.
“And Leo wants us to wait for him and Nightwing to get back from checking out that prison break. Not to mention the girls as well as Static and Gear.” Keno said as he landed back on his feet.
“Oh! So our fearless leaders’ want us to sit here on our butts? Everytime we go after the Kraang and Bang Babies, we fight one, barely survive, and hafta come back to recover. IT’S GETTING OLD REALLY FAST!” Raph continued to rant.
“Chill, Raph!” warned Casey.
“Yeah man searching for Ebon is like finding a needle in a haystack.” Rubberband Man added.
“Rushing to battle without the right preparations is not a wise move, Raphael. If you want to be successful in defeating our enemy, just be patient and wait for the others.” Blade calmly advised.
Raph, however, scoffed, “You wanna waste time? Then stay here!” then, he stormed out of the station.
Blade sighed in defeat, “I wonder if his sensei had that kind of result.”
“Unfortunately, that’s his easy side. Any angrier and he would’ve at least tried to punch you.” Casey described.
“Man! I’m surprised you guys never kicked him out of the team.” Rubberband Man shrugged.
“It’s more like Raph threatens to quit,” Donnie explained, “When he’s not stomping off, Leo usually orders him to stay behind. Eventually, he cools off, comes back, saves the day, apologizes, and things go back to normal. However, there was that time both he and Applejack left because they thought Batman wasn’t really helping us get home. He then showed them where his parents were killed.”
“Man! And you’d think he’d learn to get anger management by now.” Cyborg rolled his eyes.
Just then, The Rainbooms, minus Pinkie, April, She Bang, Batgirl, Starfire, and Raven all entered.
“Hey, guys.” Greeted April.
“Hey, Red.” Casey greeted back.
“We got here as soon as we could.” Twilight said.
“Pinkie went with Mikey and Beast Boy to pick up Static and Gear.” Applejack added.
“Yeah. You see what they did on the news?” Keno pointed to the TVs where they were showing the broadcast from earlier of Static speaking.
“We saw that on our way over here. Pinkie texted us saying they’ll be here soon.” Rarity explained.
“It was very pleasurable to see such generosity!” Starfire gleamed.
“Indeed. And it looked like it was a success.” Blade agreed.
Fluttershy noticed a couple others were absent, “Um, where’s Leo?”
“The radio mentioned a jailbreak earlier. He and Nightwing went to check it out and hoped to find a clue to Ebon and the Kraang.” Donnie answered as he gathered his canisters of the Bang Baby retromutagen.
“And Raph?”
“Mr. Personality? He took off in a major funk.” Cyborg huffed.
“Again?” Sunset facepalmed herself.
“Major funk.” Keno rolled his eyes.
“Terrific.” Raven said bluntly.
“Did he have to do it now?” Sunset griped.
“Do what now?” Everyone looked to see Pinkie, Beast Boy, Mikey, Static, and Gear enter.
“Everyone, meet Anansi the Spider. He’s a local hero from West Africa and a friend of ours.” Static introduced Anansi, who bowed in respect.
“I have heard of you Ninjas and Rainbooms from your time in Gotham. It is an honor to meet you, as well as the legendary Teen Titans.”
“It’s an honor to meet you as well.” April shook his hand.
“So what brings you to our side of the globe?” Rubberband Man asked.
“I had sensed that Static was in for a long and tough battle. I came to give my services to you all.”
“I say we could use the help.” Keno said.
“Cyborg and I had just finished the Bang Baby retro mutagen. Unfortunately, we don’t have a Bang Baby to test it on.” Donnie sighed.
“I think we can fix that, Donnie.” Everyone looked to see Leo and Nightwing entering with Ferret. The Bang Baby was escorted in with his hands tied together.
“Who’s that?” Sunset asked.
“Ferret. He’s one of the Bang Babies we’ve encountered in the past.” Static explained.
“So you were mutated by Ebon, weren’t you, Ferret? Cause last I checked; you were cured last time.” Gear questioned the metahuman.
“Yeah. I was,” Ferret scoffed, “Only to get in prison for getting supplies for those Kraang freaks, and Ebon frees everyone else and I’m just dead weight to him!”
“Maybe if your face wasn’t so….. rodent like.” Rarity said, trying to be nice.
“Face it!” Ferret sat down upset, “I’m just pathetic. Tried to be tough just to be ditched, gassed by the Joker, and ended up on anyone’s heel!”
“So Nightwing and I promised him the retro mutagen could turn him human again.” Leo told everyone.
“It’s a good opportunity to see if it will work or not.” Donnie opened a canister and filled his sprayer with the retro mutagen.
“W-Will it hurt?” Ferret trembled.
“A few stings here and there, but that means it’s working. So no need to worry,” Donnie assured, “Cross your fingers.”
Donnie then sprayed the metahuman and shortly after, Ferret squirmed in pain. But sure enough, he reverted to being a human again. When the pain was gone, he got up to see he was human again.
Cyborg scanned his body, “His vitals are back to normal.”
“I’d say that’s a successful test.” Twilight smiled.
“So now what are you gonna do, Ferret, if we can still call you that?” Gear asked.
“Probably skip town, start a new life. Ebon doesn’t want me? Fine! His loss!” Ferret got up and headed for the door before turning around, “And thank you.”
After he left, Twilight turned to Leo and Nightwing, “So Ebon freed every Bang Baby we fought and imprisoned?”
“Unfortunately.” Leo answered as everyone gasped.
“It could only mean one thing.” Static thought for a moment.
“That Ebon and Kraang Subprime are ready to take over Dakota City!” Sunset concluded.
Mikey then turned to Fluttershy, “So where’s this thing you told us that’ll lead them to their hideout, Flutters?”
“Right here, Fluttershy placed Snooky and the device on a counter, “Snooky here put a tracker on Armaggon and that device will help locate him.”
“Alright. Let me have a look,” Donnie looked at the device as Snooky pointed to what buttons to push, “Uh…Thanks,” He politely thanked. It didn’t take long for the tech turtle to figure the device and got it working, “There!”
“That is one smart kitty!” Cyborg whispered to Gear.
“I can’t believe I’m almost jealous,” Gear whispered back before pointing to the device, “That looks like they’re at the waterpoint near the docks!”
“Then we better get moving!” Leo declared before turning to Snowstorm and Shot Cord, “I know this may ask a lot, what with you still new to your powers, but we could use your help.”
“I think we’ve been on the sidelines long enough!” Snowstorm pumped his fists.
“If we don’t stop Ebon and Subprime, who’s to say they do what they did to us to someone else. So it’s personal.” Shot Cord nodded.
“Let’s go save my parents!” She Bang declared.
As everyone prepared to head out, Leo looked around noticing someone was missing. “Where’s Raph?”
Meanwhile, on the rooftops of Dakota City, Raph was sulking. What started out as a fit slowly turned to regret as he walked around, violently kicking anything he could find that wasn’t attached to the roof.
“Why?” he yelled, “Why do I keep doing this? We needed to get everything together so we’d win! But NO! I had to storm out! AGAIN! I swear one of these days, everyone is just gonna leave me because of my anger! Casey, Slash, Leo, Donnie, Mikey, Sunset, Fluttershy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mona and Chompy would leave too. Why can’t I ever learn from the last time? Why why WHY?”
Raph’s personal rant was soon interrupted when a giant wad of lightning hit the top of a building a couple blocks away. Raph decided to investigate. When he landed near the building, he hid behind a generator and peeked out to see a figure where the lightning hit. He was an adult African American guy with short black hair and small beard. He wore a blue and black body suit with blue and yellow lines shaped like lightning bolts. A small black mask covered his eyes.
'Who’s that?' Raph thought to himself as he saw the figure looking around as if he was searching for something. Or someone. Suddenly, Raph’s T-phone went off, getting both their attention. He checked to see Leo was calling him.
“Bad timing, Leo.” He muttered before he heard the guy.
“Who’s out there? Show yourself!”
Sighing, Raph jumped out of his hiding spot, drawing his sais, faced the guy who looked confused.
“What the-?” he was interrupted when Raph kicked him in the gut, and he fell to the ground.
Raph then set his foot on the guy’s chest pinning him as he demanded, “Who sent you? Ebon?”
“I could ask you the same question!” the guy responded by shooting lightning at the turtle, sending him flying across the roof. Raph got up and prepared to fight again.
“Static’s not gonna like it when he finds out you ripped off his style!” he taunted.
“Static?” the guy perked before glaring, “I taught the kid everything he knows!”
“And I’m Samwise Gamgee!”
The guy continued to fire electricity at Raph, who kept dodging and kept trying to hit his opponent.
“It’s gonna take more than a jerk in a Halloween costume to shock me!”
“I’ll show you shock!” the guy generated a big electric ball and hit Raph with it. As the hothead struggled to get back up, the guy walked up and looked sternly at the turtle, “Now! You wanna talk this out?”
Raph suddenly jumped up and was about to tackle the guy when he suddenly couldn’t move.
“Raph! Wait!”
Raph turned to see his brothers, Rainbooms, Static, Gear, She Bang, Rubberband Man, Snowstorm, Shot Cord, Titans, Batgirl, April, Keno, Blade, Anansi, and Casey coming to the rooftop. He saw that Twilight was using her geode to levitate him to stop him fighting.
The guy was surprised at the sight of the other turtles, “More turtles? Static? What’s going on here?”
Static saw the guy, “Lightning! It’s okay. They’re friends of ours.”
“Even this guy?” Lightning pointed to Raph, who Twilight set down gently, “Said his name was Samwise Gamgee.”
Pinkie laughed, “That’s not his name! his name is Raphael!”
“You okay, Raph?” Leo asked his brother.
“Yeah,” Raph sighed before pointing to Lightning, “You know this guy?”
Static walked up to introduce him, “Everyone, this is Black Lightning. He’s a member of the Justice League and he’s my mentor on how to use my powers.”
Nightwing then spoke, “Lightning, these are our friends from another dimension. The turtles are Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and you’re familiar with Raphael. There’s April O’neil, Casey Jones, Keno, Blade Swipe, and these are the Rainbooms. Twilight Sparkle, her dog Spike, Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy.”
Shortly after, they explained the situation to Black Lightning. After they finished, Lightning spoke.
“So you guys are the Ninjas and Rainbooms Black Canary and Batman told me about. Guess I had to see you guys to believe the mutant turtle part.” He pointed to the turtles.
“So what brings you our way?” April asked.
“I’m one of the members who stayed on earth while some of the league are off planet. After Cyborg reported about the dimensional rifts, I volunteered to investigate. Then I came across Sam-er, Raph and you know the rest.”
“We had just pinpointed the location of the ones responsible. They’re an alien race called the Kraang.” Donnie held up the tracker.
“Yeah, Batman told me about them. Think you guys could use some help?” Lightning offered.
Leo walked up to Black Lightning and smiled, “You are more than welcome to help. We could use it.”
After the two shook hands, Twilight spoke, “Now let’s stop Ebon and Subprime before they launch their rocket!”
And with that, the groups headed out. As they hurried, Lightning spoke to Raph.
“Listen, I’m sorry about earlier.”
“Nah, it was my bad. It’s a bad habit of mine.” Raph admitted.
“There’s the rocket!” Pinkie cried.
Sure enough, they arrived at the waterfront of Dakota City. There was the same rocket from when they fought Madelyn now complete and ready to launch.
“Why didn’t we see this earlier?” Rainbow whispered.
“You really think they’d build that out in the open?” Raven whispered back.
“Why are we whispering?” Mikey whispered.
“Because this is obviously a trap!” Nightwing mentioned quietly.
“Okay, everybody move in quietly.” Leo shushed.
Everybody slowly crept up to the rocket while keeping an eye out for Ebon, Kraang Subprime, Bixolio, Armaggon, any Bang Baby, and Kraang droids.
“It’s quiet. Too quiet.” Anansi analyzed.
“Yeah. Don’t like it.” Lightning agreed.
“Ebon!”
Everyone jumped as Beast Boy called out to the area. As they all glared at him, Raven yanked him on the ear.
“Thanks a lot, Beast Boy. I may never have the hiccups again.” She hissed.
“He beat us to it.” Mikey whispered to Pinkie who nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, emerging from the shadows were the Bang Babies, Hotstreak, Shiv, Kangor, Carmendillo, Slipstream, Outer, Cryskill, Puff, Onyx, Acid Grip, Heavy Man, Armaggon, Bixolio, and Polarity all surrounded the heroes along with dozens of Kraang droids and a humanoid leopard.
“Osebo!” Anansi glared at the leopard.
“Perfect! Now I can destroy you AND Static!” Growled Osebo.
After drawing their weapons, the heroes looked up to see on the platform near the rocket were Ebon and Kraang Subprime staring down at them.
“Welcome.” Ebon grinned.
“Ebon!” Rubberband Man gasped.
Static then saw Ebon’s business partner, “And I take it you’re Kraang Subprime!”
“In the Kraangy flesh, Sparky!” Subprime boasted before noticed the Titans, “So these are the so-called Teen Titans that Hoody wasted my time with last time!”
“That’s Kraang Subprime?” Cyborg blurted, “Why does he sound like a parrot?”
“Oh good. It’s not just me,” Beast Boy added, “Though I think it’s more like a duck.”
Hearing that was enough to get Subprime steamed, “ENOUGH! If you all are with those ninjas and Rainbooms, as well as Bat Breath’s buddies, I will dismantle you ALL!”
“Batman was right. He yells a lot everytime he talks.” Black Lightning mumbled to himself.
“How ironic!” Ebon held up a canister of Mutagen, “The very thing that was your making will now be your undoing!”
“Not if we have anything to say about it!” Sunset cried.
“Power up, Guys!” Leo ordered as the Turtles and Rainbooms used their geodes and medallions to transform into their magic forms and attire.
“That’s new.” Batgirl whispered to Nightwing.
“Yeah.” The former Robin agreed.
“Dang!” Static gasped.
“That’s cool.” Gear added.
Not far from the battlefield, a news van drove up and the crew scrambled behind a wall. The cameraman began to roll the camera as Shelly began to report and broadcast the soon to be battle. Just then, Ebon shouted to his forces.
In the warehouse district in Dakota City, Boom was sneaking around before coming up to a warehouse. After checking to see the coast was clear, he knocked on the door. It opened as someone peeked out.
“It’s just me.” Boom assured.
The door then opened to reveal Araon’s stepbrother Dwayne, who let the big guy in. After Talon broke the metahumans out of the Kraang’s prison, with help from Boom, they all went to the warehouse to hide until Ebon and Kraang Subprime were defeated. Miranda smiled as she ran to embrace her brother.
“Byron!”
“Miranda!” Boom hugged back.
Talon walked up, “How’d it go?”
“It worked. Kraang Subprime sent me personally to find you all.”
“Good. Now we can wait for the coast to be clear. Once we’re clear from the Kraang, we find Sunset Shimmer and her friends and hopefully the antidote to our Bang Baby forms.”
“Guys! Take a look at this!” The bang baby known as D-struct called.
They all gathered around in front of the makeshift TV Dwayne thought up to see the broadcast at the waterfront.
The Turtles, April, Casey, Rainbooms, Blade Swipe, Keno, Static, Gear, Rubberband Man, She Bang, Titans, Anansi, and Black Lightning battled Ebon and Subprime’s forces. Cyborg fought Armaggon one on one.
“I’m gonna rip you apart piece by flesh!” the bounty hunter declared the two grappled.
“Never was a fan of Shark Week!” Cyborg glared.
Meanwhile, Raph faced Hotstreak once again. Hotstreak was un-amused by Raph’s mystic form.
“You think your new getup makes you better than me? NO ONE compares to me!” the teen scoffed.
Raph, however, had enough of the big talk from his opponent, “Just shut up and fight.”
The two then fought fist to flame. Each fought each other firing flame attacks and punching each other.
Beast Boy, Mikey, and Pinkie all fought Acid Grip who kept firing acid at the trio.
“Eat acid, Ninja creeps!” Acid cried.
“Guy’s into his work, I’ll give him that.” Beast Boy remarked before transforming into a bunny rabbit to avoid the acid attacks.
“Booyakasha!” Mikey then used his geode power to throw a boulder at Acid Grip, who used his acid to melt the big rock before it could hit him, “Okay New plan!”
Mikey then prepared another boulder, only this time, Pinkie threw sprinkles on it before he threw it at Acid Grip. Just before Acid could melt it, the sprinkles exploded causing the boulder to blow up and disorient him long enough for Beast Boy to transform into a rhino and ram him, knocking him out.
“Yeah!” the three high fived.
Starfire was blasting Kraang droids when she saw Applejack getting thrown by Heavy Man.
After checking the cowgirl, the Tamaranian faced Heavy Man, “I got him!”
Applejack stopped her, “No! He’s mine.” She got back up to face Heavy Man.
“You’re not getting the best of me this time!” Heavy Man glared.
“I underestimated you, Doc! Ain’t gonna happen again!” Applejack tilted her hat in determination.
“Yeah? Well this time, The Kraang gave me a concentrated dose of Mutagen. So you’re not gonna luck out this time, cowgirl!”
“Funny. I was gonna say the same about you.” Applejack smirked before the two wrestled each other.
She Bang fought Kraang droids with the hook swords Leo gave her earlier and slashed them apart. Then she heard Snowstorm call to her.
“She Bang! Duck!”
She Bang ducked as Snowstorm threw a snowboard like a boomerang. On the ends were ice shards as sharp as daggers as they smashed more droids who tried to jump She Bang. The board then bounced back to Snowstorm who caught it.
“Nice!” She Bang thumbed up.
“Thanks.” Snowstorm smiled.
Gear threw smoke bombs at more droids as he joined the two, “So how you liking the weapons Leo gave you, She Bang?”
“Pretty cool. Hope you and Static didn’t mind not getting yours.”
Gear just shrugged, “Static didn’t care about getting one and I got plenty of toys to fight myself. Besides, we agreed with Leo when he said you were behind on training so you needed it more.”
As Anansi fought Osebo, Nightwing fought a couple Kraang droids before speaking to Leo, Twilight, and Blade.
“We need to get to Subprime and Ebon and stop that rocket! Leo! Take Twilight, Static, and Blade and stop that rocket!”
“We’re on it!” Leo answered.
Static turned to Anansi, “You got this?”
“Leave Osebo to me. You go help your friends.” Anansi answered before blocking an attack with his staff.
Static nodded as he followed Leo, Twilight, and Blade towards the rocket.
Meanwhile, Rarity was deflecting shards fired by Cryskill with her sickles.
“You know this is a waste of good crystals! You ever thought of designing for fashion with those?” the fashionists asked.
“You sound like my old man!” Cryskill hissed before she fired more. Suddenly, they stopped in midair. The two looked to see Raven was using her powers to block them.
“Azarath Metreon Zinthos!” Raven threw the crystal shards back at Cryskill, who used her shards as daggers to deflect them. Rarity used this opportunity to use her diamond shield to knock her out.
“Thanks, Raven.”
“You’re welcome,” Raven then noticed Rarity collected some of the crystal shards, “What are you doing?”
“Well, I could use these for my next design.”
“Whatever makes you happy, Rarity.”
Over to Rainbow Dash and Rubberband Man, the two were up against Puff and Onyx once again.
“We gotta score to settle with you two!” Puff declared.
“For once, we agree.” Rubberband Man said. He then grabbed Rainbow’s naginata by the end and morphed into a ball.
“Let’s take em!” Rainbow declared as she swung her staff at Onyx. Rubberband Man then morphed his hand into a big anvil as he hit the giant in the jaw, forcing him to kneel in pain. Puff then blew smoke at them only for Rainbow to use her speed to dodge and hit her in the back, causing her to fall unconsciously.
“Nice move.” Rainbow smiled as Rubberband Man morphed to his regular shape.
“Never thought I’d say this. Booyakasha.” He smiled.
“Goongala!” Casey launched explosive pucks at Carmendillo, who kept bouncing to dodge them.
“Think you’ll get lucky and hit me!” The Bang Baby taunted.
“Hey! Casey Jones is a team player!” Casey stated.
“What’s that suppose to mean?” Before Carmendillo could get his answer, he was struck by Nightwatcher in the back and fell to the ground. Casey walked up next to Keno.
“If I can’t rough on you, I can keep you busy for someone else to do it for me.”
“Well said, Jones.” Keno agreed as the two fist bumped.
Batgirl threw a couple of batarangs at Outer, who used his powers to protect himself while April was dodging fire power by Bixolio. The teens were backed up towards each other.
“How you holding up?” April asked.
“Nothing I throw at this guy can’t even touch him!” Batgirl huffed.
“Switch?” April offered.
“Switch.” The two switched around. Batgirl threw a batarang that destroyed Bixolio's blaster while April knocked Outer off his feet with a psychic blast.
Outer got back up and glared at April, “You ain’t cheap shooting me this time!”
But before he could do something, he was knocked down by Kangor who was sent flying by Donnie.
“Nice hit, D!” April smiled.
Batgirl cartwheeled away to avoid Bixolio's punches. Both April and Donnie noticed it.
“Should we help her?” Donnie asked in concern before April held up her arm.
“No. She’s got this.”
Batgirl then pulled out a disk from her utility belt and attached it to the back of Bixolio's exosuit just as Bixolio grabbed her.
“This hoedown is over!” He declared.
Suddenly, Batgirl smirked, “You’re right about that!”
The disk then caused Bixolio to crackle with electricity as his exosuit malfunctioned.
“Now that’s just bloody cheating!” he huffed.
Over by the rocket, Leo, Twilight, Static, and Blade made it to the rocket and confronted Subprime and Ebon.
“This ends now, Ebon!” Static declared.
“Couldn’t have said it better myself.” Ebon glared.
“Subprime is mine!” Blade said as he faced the Kraang leader.
“I don’t know who you are or where you’re from!” Subprime started before his cockpit closed and his Shredder exosuit spoke, “But now you face your doom!”
“Then maybe I should remind you who took your tendril.” Blade muttered as he pulled out his hockey stick.
As Leo and Static fought Ebon, Twilight made her way to the rocket controls where she faced Kurosa.
“Kurosa!” Twilight glared.
“You’re too late! The countdown has already started!” Kurosa pointed to the timer.
Suddenly, off Twilight’s back emerged a drone backpack like Gear’s only it had eight legs instead of four. It was also light violet with Twilight’s cutie mark.
“Sabotage rocket!” Twilight ordered as Arachnid started to climb on the rocket.
“No!” Kurosa tried to stop the drone only to be stopped by Twilight and the two began to fight.
“You really think you could take on old Armaggon!” The bounty hunter boasted as he pinned Cyborg to the ground.
“Yeah! And it’s about time somebody gave you the boot!” Cyborg lifted his foot which thrusted a rocket on the sole, knocking Armaggon off him. Cyborg then punched Armaggon’s suit, damaging it, then converted his arm into his cannon and blasted the shark, knocking him unconscious.
“Booyah!” Cyborg cheered before looking at Armaggon, “Y’know, for a bounty hunter, he sure brags a lot.” He shrugged before hurrying to help Nightwing with the Kraang droids.
Black Lightning was fighting the cyclones before facing Slipstream.
“So you’re the famous Black Lightning, the guy who taught Static what he knows,” The gangster smirked, “Beating you’s gonna be a big score!” he then created a tornado that swallowed Black Lightning, spinning him around in the air.
“Hate to rain on your parade!” he called, “But when there’s a tornado, there’s always lightning!” Lightning then spun lightning around the twister before shocking Slipstream.
Osebo was grappling with Anansi who fought with his staff.
“Your illusions won’t stop me this time!” the leopard growled.
“Maybe, but what about your so-called allies?” Anansi grinned before a Kraang droid shot at Osebo.
“What are you doing?” he snarled.
“The one known as Osebo attacked Kraang!” the droid stated. To the droid, Anansi was another Kraang droid thanks to his illusion powers, “Now, the one known as Osebo will pay for that which is known as betrayal!” the droid aimed his blaster at the leopard.
“Wait! It’s not what you think!” but it was too late. The Kraang droid shot Osebo with his blaster, knocking him out. He then turned to Anansi, still seeing him as a fellow Kraang, “Are you that which is known as all right, Kraang?”
Seizing the opportunity, Anansi struck the droid with his staff. The Kraang began to see through the illusion just before the spider hero knocked him out.
“I am, thanks to you.” He grinned.
Back at the rocket, Blade fought Cyber Shredder and was evenly matched. With every attack, Blade was swinging his hockey stick in anger.
“You took me prisoner!” he gritted, striking an elbow joint, “You mutated me!” he then stabbed a knee, “You TORTURED me!” he then hit a shoulder, “RUINED MY LIFE!” he then spin kicked Cyber Shredder in the chest, knocking him next to the rocket.
Cyber Shredder sat up, opening back up to Kraang Subprime, who was very annoyed, “YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO BE SPECIFIC!”
Blade then put his stick back and drew his sword, walking towards Subprime. As he prepared to strike, he spoke.
“Well, I’m going to make sure you never rob anyone of ANYTHING EVER AGAIN!”
But before he could strike, Subprime smirked, “Well, that’s wishful thinking. NOW!”
Blade turned just in time to block a sneak attack by Shiv. As he was distracted, Subprime extended a Shredder claw and damaged the platform near Blade and Shiv, breaking it causing the two to fall back onto the street. As Blade tried to recover his posture, Shiv got up and walked up to him.
“Not so tough now are ya?” he taunted as his hand turned into a blade. He was about to strike when suddenly-
Woooooosh!
A small hailstorm blew Shiv away from Blade Swipe. He looked to see it was Permafrost, who saw the news broadcast and hurried to help her new father and friends.
“Keep away from my DADDY!” she cried, firing a gust of wind and snow. Shiv kept dodging her attacks making his way to her then kicking her in the gut. As she recoiled, Permafrost looked up to Shiv about to strike her. Then, Blade got up and knocked Shiv away with his hockey stick.
“Keep away from my DAUGHTER!” he declared before hurrying to Permafrost and helped her up. As they embraced, he smiled as he whispered, “Good girl.”
Twilight continued to battle Kurosa while Arachnid continued to sabotage the rocket. Seeing the drone, Subprime got up and went after Twilight’s project. Seeing this, Twilight levitated a control panel and hit Subprime away. However, Kurosa took this chance and blasted Arachnid off the rocket.
“NO!” Twilight gasped as Arachnid fell damaged.
Leo and Static were tag teaming against Ebon when Leo noticed that Twilight was about to be tag teamed against Subprime and Kurosa.
“Twilight needs help!” he cried.
Static noticed as well, “Go help her! I’ll deal with Ebon!”
“You sure?”
“I got this. Now go!” Leo decided to listen and go help Twilight. Static then faced Ebon alone.
“Looks like it’s just you and me now, Static.” Ebon smirked.
Static then tried to fire electricity at Ebon only for it to miss his target.
“How easily we forget,” Ebon chuckled while pointing down at Polarity who was hiding behind a pillar, “As long as Polarity is around here, your attacks are useless!”
Static could feel his anger rise seeing his childhood friend used against him, but he remembered Leo’s advice and did a fighting stance.
Ebon was unfazed, “So you wanna end this mono a mono, huh? Very well.” He then clenched his fists before charging to punch Static, but the teen was able to block his punch.
“What the?” Before Ebon could ask, Static did a roundhouse kick, knocking him off the platform. As they got to ground level, everyone stopped their fighting to watch the epic showdown.
“Let’s get a little closer!” Shelly whispered to her cameraman as they hurried without being seen.
The heroes were cheering for Static while the Bang Babies were cheering for Ebon. As the brawl began, Hotstreak noticed Subprime fighting Leo and snuck away while Raph was focusing on the fight. The two circled around. Ebon then kept throwing punch after punch, but Static kept dodging every one. When the Bang Baby extended his arm in a punch, Static dodged and jabbed his fingers on his arm. Ebon then couldn’t feel his arm.
“What did you do?” he growled.
“Pressure points,” Static said, “Something my ninja friends taught me.”
Angered, Ebon continued to fight with one arm. Surprisingly, he started to gain the advantage over Static. After multiple hits, the Bang Baby leader was able to toss the teen like a ragdoll. As Static struggled to get up, Ebon began taunting him.
“No matter how much training you get, the results are the same! You fight for the weak that is why you lose! We Bang Babies are the future! We’re stronger! Better! We were made to rule!”
“You’re….. wrong!” Everyone drew their attention to Static as he slowly got up despite his injuries. Then, he faced Ebon with determination, “Being metahumans does NOT make us better! Than anyone!”
Meanwhile, Shelly and her cameraman were close enough and out of sight they recorded Static’s speech for all of Dakota City to listen to Static’s speech.
“While there so many where power gets to their heads like you, there are those who fear their new powers. You use that fear to manipulate them to do your bidding. But there are others who overcome their fears and work on using their powers to help others, not themselves. You think just because you manipulate others to follow your will, you’re all powerful? Face it, Ebon! You’re nothing without power!”
As Static spoke, everyone in Dakota City heard everything. In her hiding spot, Polarity felt motivated as her look of fear turned to determination. In the warehouse, Talon and the others heard Static’s speech and Talon then got up.
“I know what we have to do.” She told the others.
Ebon, however, was furious as he stomped towards Static, “Say that. Again!”
Static was unfazed, “You’re. nothing. Without. Power.”
Ebon then smacked Static back down with his good hand. He then put his foot on Static’s head.
Leo and Twilight had beaten Kurosa and Subprime. Twilight then looked down and gasped, “Leo!”
With their attention diverted, Subprime used what little power he had left and snuck away. Leo saw where Twilight pointed and saw Static about to be squashed by Ebon.
The Ninjas, Rainbooms, Titans, Gear, Rubberband Man, Gear, She Bang, Snowstorm, Shot Cord, Permafrost, Anansi, and Black Lightning could only watch in horror as Ebon prepared to squash Static’s head.
“Static!” Gear cried.
Ebon smirked as he lifted his leg. But just as he was about to stomp on the teen, Polarity stood in his way.
“You got something to say to me, Polarity?” Ebon glared.
Just then Carmendillo spoke, “Uh Ebon?”
“What?” Ebon then looked where Carmendillo was pointing to see Talon, Boom, and the rest of the escaped walking up towards the battlefield.
“Traitors! All of you!” Ebon shouted.
“This ends now, Ebon.” Not far behind were Nightingale and the rest of the Nightbreed, along with She Bang’s parents as Circuit Breaker dropped their mutagen collars on the ground.
Ebon was down to the last of his patience as he pulled out a remote, “You’re all too late! Our little rocket is due for its launch!” but when he pushed the button, nothing happened, “WHAT?”
“Scuse me,” Everyone looked up to see Spike near the rocket with some ripped out circuits, “But something tells me that these were important.”
“Arachnid was more than just infiltrating your rocket, Ebon!” Twilight called, “It was carrying my dog and made a hole for him to sneak in and destroy the control units!”
Ebon shouted in anger as the metahumans joined the battle, helping the heroes. Polarity helped Static up and got him to safety. Then, Boom blasted at Heavy Man and hurried to help Applejack up.
“Thanks.” The cowgirl thanked.
Heavy Man scoffed, “You picked the wrong time to play turncoat!” as he stomped towards the big guy, Boom fired soundwaves at him. Struggling at first, Heavy Man slowly was making his way to the teen, “You think this’ll stop me?” he yelled.
“No! But it’ll slow you down!” Boom smirked.
Hearing that made Heavy Man realized he was starting to feel heavy again, “No! Not again!” he looked around for more mutagen only to get hit really hard by Applejack.
“Oh no you don’t!” the cowgirl glared. Heavy Man was on his knees before he was too heavy to even speak again. She then turned to Boom, smiling, “Thanks for the assist. You’re good.”
“You’re very tough yourself.” Boom nodded as the two locked hands.
Fade rose from the concrete to see Nails scratching Armaggon’s suit and before the shark could deal with her, Cyborg and Nightwing flipped while Nightwing threw some birdarangs and Cyborg used his supersonic cannon to blast the bounty hunter, sending him crashing to a wall.
“Still got the Sonic and you got the Boom.” Cyborg grinned smugly.
“Nice work, Cy.” Nightwing nodded as they fist bumped.
Fade was about to sneak up behind them before Nightingale blocked him.
“Don’t even think about it, Traitor!” she declared before preparing to blast him. Fade tried to turn the other way before he was zapped from behind. Turned out it was Casey who shocked him with his taser.
“Goongala.” He grinned.
“Very nice.” Black Lightning commented as Nightingale smiled.
She Bang slashed another Kraang droid before running to hug her parents, “Mom! Dad!”
“Shenice! You’re alright!” Dolores embraced her daughter.
“How did you escape?”
Johnathan explained, “The Nightbreed broke us out and took out our mutagen collars.”
Echo jumped right by them, “We agreed it was our best option to redeem ourselves. We led Nightingale and the others to the base.”
“Circuit Breaker destroyed the defenses, and we found the Vales and it was only a matter of slicing off those mutagen collars off.” Tech added as he grabbed a Kraang blaster and fired at the Kraang droids.
Meanwhile, Kraang Subprime was hiding behind the rocket, working on fixing his Shredder exosuit. He was so stressed out his suit kept shorting out, angering him more.
“I don’t know where those freaks and brats get their friends from, but they all PAY!” he growled to himself.
“Having a little trouble there, Subprime?”
Subprime turned to see Hotstreak staring down at him.
“WHY AREN’T YOU OUT THERE FIGHTING?” He yelled.
“Didn’t know if you needed help or not.” Hotstreak said unfazed.
“Well, I DON’T! Now get out there and GO CRACK SOME SHELL!” Subprime ordered.
“I’m done taking orders.” Before Subprime could answer, he was quickly yanked off his exosuit and dangling in Hotstreak’s grasp.
“Exosuit! Activate-!” But before Subprime could complete his command, Hotstreak punched the Shredder suit, impaling it. As it shut down, Hotstreak blew fire in it before yanking his hand out, revealing to have pulled a portal device.
“Did you really think you could fool us? Ebon may think we can trust you, but I know once we mutate this city, you’re gonna dump us! Ain’t happening! This city’s mine!” he pushed a button causing a portal to open. He then turned to Subprime, “Go conquer someone else!” he then threw a screaming Subprime in the portal as well as kicked the Shredder exosuit in too. When, the portal closed, Hotstreak headed back to the battlefield. He walked up to Ebon who spoke.
“Where’s Kraang Subprime?!”
“He ditched us.” Hotstreak shrugged.
“WHAT?!”
“I saw him jump in a portal and take off.” The hot head lied.
This made Ebon even angrier, “You want something done, gotta do it yourself!” he stomped away while Hotstreak smirked as he snuck away.
Soon, all the Kraang and Bang Babies were lying in defeat. Cyborg then threw a device that became a containment chamber that captured all the Kraang.
“That should hold them!” he grinned.
“Nice work!” Casey cheered.
Static then turned to Talon as Polarity helped him up, “Why did you help us?”
“Your speech to Ebon motivated us.” The bird girl answered.
“All of us.” Polarity smiled.
“You heard?” Static raised a brow.
“Your fight was being filmed on the news,” Talon pointed to Shelly and her cameraman. Mikey responded by waving at them before Raph clonked him on the head as Talon continued, “I wanted Ebon to pay for mutating me, but I’m no match for him. So I made a deal with your red head friend over there.”
Everyone turned to Sunset who sighed, “She became our spy inside Ebon’s forces in exchange to be cured once Donnie finished the retromutagen.”
“Then she was the one who dropped the key card to help us escape!” Snowstorm realized.
Boom walked up as he put his hand on Talon’s shoulder, “When the Kraang locked up my sister, they made it personal for me. Thanks to Talon, we staged a jailbreak to free her and the others.”
“And we have enough retro mutagen that’ll return you all back to your regular selves before Ebon mutated you.” Donnie assured them.
But just when everyone was feeling high spirited, Bursting to the scene was Ebon, who glared at them all. Static, the Turtles, Rainbooms, and Titans jumped in front of the escapees.
Ebon growled, “We’re not through yet!”
“Just save yourself the trouble, Ebon! It’s all over!” Gear declared.
“The battle is yours, but the war is far from over! Not as long as I got THIS!” Ebon held up a canister of mutagen.
“Mutagen!” Fluttershy gasped.
April still stood tough, “Hand it over, Ebon.”
“Of course! In small doses. Through future Bang Babies!”
“You’ll have to get through us first, PAL!” Rainbow pumped her fists.
“A pleasure.” Ebon smirked.
Just then, Spike jumped on the Bang Baby leader, causing him to lose the canister. As it rolled away on the concrete, Anansi hurried and grabbed it. Ebon tried to grab Spike, only for the dog to jump away and land in Twilight’s arms as the girl smiled.
“You think it’s over?” Ebon clearly having enough, “Not by a long shot! As long as I still have mutagen, I’ll make more Bang Babies and come back stronger than ever!”
Static stepped up, “No matter how many Bang Babies you make, you’ll never be a match for one special power!”
“And what, pray tell, would that be?” Ebon squinted.
Static ducked as the Turtles and Rainbooms held hands as their geodes and medallions began to glow.
“Our Friendship!” Twilight declared before they all shouted, “Booyakasha!” as they fired a huge Rainbow blast at Ebon, whose eyes shrank before he was sent flying and screaming into the rocket that exploded on impact. As he went flying, no one noticed another canister tucked Ebon’s back beginning to crack.
After the Turtles and Rainbooms powered down, The Titans were amazed at what they saw.
“Whoa.” Awed Beast Boy.
“Dang!” Gasped Cyborg.
“Wow.” Raven blinked.
“So this is what they meant of the Friendship is Magic?” Starfire asked.
“I remember the Rainbooms doing that to the Joker, but- wow.” Batgirl added.
“Agreed.” Nightwing added.
Static walked up to Leo and patted his shoulder, “Nice one.”
Leo smiled and nodded before pointing to the broken rocket, “C’mon. we better make sure he’s defeated.”
“Agreed. Let’s go!” Nightwing agreed as he led the group to the rocket site. They immediately began looking for the Bang Baby leader. After looking around for what seems like hours, Cyborg spoke.
“You’ve never disintegrated anyone with that Friendship Rainbow, did you?”
“Not that I’m aware of. It usually destroys corrupted magic forms, but not an entire body.” Sunset recalled.
“Ebon has been able to sneak under our noses. Maybe he escaped.” Gear pondered.
“Maybe he’s setting a new distance world record!” Pinkie guessed.
“Doubtful.” Rainbow rolled her eyes.
“Anything?” Black Lightning asked.
“Nothing.” Anansi shrugged.
“He’s probably toast! Face it, we moped the floor with Ebon!” Casey boasted.
“Yeah, we got the touch! We got the power!” Beast Boy added.
“It’s pizza time!” Mikey gleamed as the three clapped it up.
Suddenly, both Raven and April gasped in fear as the cloaked Titan said, “Oh no!”
“Guys! He’s near!” April warned.
Suddenly, a giant dark hand bursted through the dock they were on, startling the group. There was roaring as the hand kept bursting through the flooring, causing the heroes to fall to the lower level. As they all regained their composure, Raph cried, “Look!”
Everyone gasped in fear at what they saw. Ebon was bulkier than before with muscles that could rival Bane. He growled as he slowly walked towards them.
“Oh. My.” Trembled Fluttershy.
“He must have had another canister on him!” Applejack figured.
“What he do, drink it?” Gear gulped.
“He’s as ugly as Super Shredder!” Pinkie trembled.
“He’s a Super Ebon!” Mikey held her.
As Ebon walked, Starfire flew at him, throwing star bolts at him. Unaffected, Ebon swatted the Tamaranian away, but Nightwing was able to catch her.
“He is the too strong!” she gasped.
“Great! Now what are we supposed to do?” She Bang feared.
Ebon roared as he destroyed supports to the dock, causing the place to shake.
“This dock can’t take much more of this! Not with all that stuff on top!” Raven looked up.
Desperate, Rubberband Man ran up to reason with his brother, “Ebon! You gotta listen to reason! You’re gonna destroy us all!”
Ebon’s answer was grabbing him and growling, “Then so BE IT!” he threw him back to the others.
“You okay?” Rainbow checked.
“Yeah. Thanks.” Rubberband Man sighed.
“Hey! It’s all coming down!” Lightning cried as Ebon continued to smash.
“I’m too good looking to go!” Rarity hugged Anansi, who only raised a brow.
Static looked around and saw a fuse box. He then turned to Leo, “Leo, get everyone off the dock! I got an idea!”
“Are you sure?” the leader in blue asked.
“Trust me.” Static nodded.
Knowing there was no time to argue, Leo nodded before ordering the group, “Everyone! Clear the dock!”
Everyone evacuated the dock. Starfire carried Nightwing, Beast Boy transformed into a pterodactyl and carried Mikey and Pinkie, Lightning carried Anansi, Gear used his rocket shoes and carried Donnie, and Everyone was carried by either Rarity’s Diamond shield or Raven’s energy disks.
Soon, only Static and Ebon were left on the collapsing dock. Static glared at Ebon.
“This ends now, Ebon!” he cried.
“Staaatiiic!” the overpowered Bang Baby growled.
Static then put his arms out. One aimed at Ebon and the other at the fuse box. He then blasted his electricity at the fuse box. Because it had electricity stored in it, it doubled his powers as his other arm fired at the Bang Baby leader. Static held nothing back blasting at Ebon. His eyes lit up as he screamed when the dock collapsed on the two, as everyone looked in fear.
“STATIC!” they cried.
As the dust settled, everyone hurried back to the dock to find their friend.
“Please be okay!” Leo prayed.
“We’ll find him, Leo. We have to.” Twilight put her hand on his shoulder, while concerned herself.
“I can’t believe he did that.” Rainbow said with disbelief.
“Guess he figured that was the best way to beat Ebon.” Applejack figured.
Gear was franticly looking through the rubble trying to find any sign of his friend. He then stopped when he found Static’s mask.
“If anything happens to him, I’ll never-” Rubberband Man mumbled before hearing rubble move.
Everyone looked to see a hand merged from a pile of rubble. They immediately recognized the hand.
“Static!”
They all hurried and unburied their friend. Static, unmasked, coughed as Leo and Gear helped him up.
“Easy, Static. We got you.” Leo smiled.
“You had us worried, buddy.” Gear said.
Pinkie ran and hugged Static bawling. “Thank goodness you’re alright!”
“Yeah, Pinkie. I’m fine,” Grunted Static before she released him, “I figured it was the only way to beat Ebon.”
“Looks like it was very effective.” Sunset observed.
“You did good, kid. You did good.” Lightning patted his shoulder while Nightwing and Anansi nodded in approval.
Static smiled before something caught his eye, “Uh oh.”
Everyone looked to see Talon, Boom, and the rest of the escaped metahumans had just seen Static unmasked for the first time.
“I don’t believe it.” D-struct gasped.
“Virgil Hawkins?” Dwayne asked.
“You’re Static?” Tantrum added.
Polarity walked up with a shock look on her face as she saw her childhood friend was a hero, “Virgil? Is it really you?”
Static sighed in defeat, “Yes, Molly, it’s me.” He then was taken aback by a hug from Polarity who smiled.
“Thank you. For helping me. Again.”
Hearing that made Static recall that same time he and Molly went exploring in that closed off alley. He was almost out when he heard a cry from help. He hurried back to find Molly with her foot caught in rubble. Virgil hurried over to break away the rubble enough for Molly to get her foot out and they both got out safe and sound.
Back in the present, Talon chuckled as she walked up to Static, “So, we had Static when we kidnapped you. And you two tricked us into thinking otherwise. Ebon would’ve definitely been mad. Don't worry, it's high time I did the right thing.”
Boom then grabbed Static’s mask where Gear dropped it and handed it to Static, “Don’t worry. We won’t tell anyone. We’re all going to do the right thing.”
“I've been on the wrong side and trusted the wrong people too long. About time I start making the right choices.” AquaMaria admitted.
D-Struct walked up, “You stopped me from joining Ebon's crew, a mistake that'd have ruined my life. If that's not the makings of a friend, I don't know what is. Besides, I still owed you a favor for tutoring me.”
“You traveled all the way to Gotham to help me and stopped me from making a mistake. I think it's time I repaid the debt.” Nails added.
“You tried to warn me about Aron and I didn't listen. I owed you this much.” Dwayne spoke.
“You helped me when no one else would. About time I use my powers for good.” Permafrost smiled.
Tantrum sighed as he came clean, “I guess I owed you for helping me with my problem. Plus, I guess I should repay the damage I did to your house.”
“I think it's about time I use my powers for good. Besides, I'm not giving up on my brother just as he didn’t give up on me.” Mirage smiled.
Static smiled to hear more of the good he’s done and the ones he helped as he accepted his mask and put it back on. He looked over to Leo, who smiled and winked before helping him up along with Gear.
“Too bad Ebon couldn’t say the same thing.” Rubberband Man sighed as they began to walk away.
Everyone stopped when they heard Beast Boy cried, “Look!”
Everyone gasped at what they saw. It was Ebon’s hand slowly emerging from the rubble.
“No way!” Cyborg jawdropped.
“It can’t be!” Fluttershy gasped.
“Nobody could’ve survived that!” Rainbow added.
Suddenly, another pillar fell on top of where Ebon was buried, knocking him out again. They looked to see it was Applejack who knocked it over.
“That should hold him until the authorities arrive.” The cowgirl dusted her hands off.
After breathing a sigh of relief, everyone walked back up to the street. Static then turned to the metahumans as Donnie and Cyborg brought out the canisters of retromutagen.
“As promised, Donatello here was able to make the retromutagen that’ll restore you all back to normal. However, I’m letting you decide to be cured. If you want to keep your powers, I promise we can make this town a better place. Not by greed and crime, but by justice and freedom. If you choose a life of crime, we will find you. And you won’t win. But, the choice is yours.”
Everyone then looked to see the police standing there as the lieutenant nodded in agreement. Just then, a pizza van drove up by the police vehicles and a blue haired guy with glasses came out.
“Excuse me, I have an order of sixty-five pizzas for a…. Mr. Cyborg?” he double checked the receipt.
Everyone looked at the said Titan who shrugged, “I kinda ordered them for the victory party before they blasted Ebon.”
“I think we can make things more festive!” Pinkie then pulled out her party cannon and fired streamers confetti, and balloons which decorated the waterfront, “Let’s get this party started!”
“We can help as well.” Johnathan spoke for himself and his wife.
As Donnie, Cyborg, and the Vales began curing the metahumans while everyone else began to party as the police gathered the unconscious villains before themselves joined the festivities. Hearing about the cure, Kangor walked up to Leo and asked, “Have you seen Ferret?”
“Yes. He was the first Bang Baby we cured.” Leo answered.
Kangor smiled as he got in line for the cure.
Not far, Hotstreak was already long gone before the police arrived. He took one last look at the direction of the waterfront.
“Enjoy your victory, Static. Next time, I’ll be calling the shots. You and your friends, especially Raphael and Sunset, will be at my mercy.” He said to himself before walking away.
“What started as an epic battle became a block party and community service. After defeating gang leader Ebon, Static, along with the Teen Titans, Justice League’s Black Lightning, and a group of teenagers cured many of the metahumans who were mutated again by Ebon and his ring of Bang Babies. At first, four of the teens almost looked like four large turtles, but were mistaken after closing in. Ebon, and many of the Bang Babies who were involved with the recent kidnappings, have been taken into custody while others have been cured themselves. Whoever the teens who helped Static were able to find a cure for the recent Bang Baby outbreak. Thanks to them, as well as Static and the heroes, many of the victims have returned home safe and sound. This is Shelly Sandoval saying wherever you teens are, thank you. For everything.”
It was morning after the battle and after party. In order to not expose themselves, The Turtles were able to cloak themselves like before, but before Miranda used her powers one last time to cover for them before she was cured. All in all, the party was an excellent time and success. As the sun rose, Static stood on top of a building as he is joined by his father, Robert Hawkins.
“You did good, Virgil. Your mom would’ve been very proud.” Robert told his son.
“Yeah. I think she would,” Static smiled, feeling good about everything for the first time in eve, “Of course, I couldn’t have done without my friends, both old and new.”
The two turned to see the Ninjas, Rainbooms, Teen Titans, Batgirl, Black Lightning, Anansi, Gear, Rubberband Man, She Bang, Snowstorm, and Shot Cord. Not long ago, Mr. Hawkins had learned about the Turtles from the news and his son had to tell him the truth about them. Thankfully, he was okay with them since they were helping his son. He walked up to Leo.
“And I may not have known your father, but I know he would’ve been proud of you all as well. Thank you. For helping my son.”
“Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. It means a lot to us.” Leo shook hands with him.
“Thanks to you all, I believe this city is gonna have better days ahead.”
“Yep, and we’re gonna work on keeping it that way.” Static assured.
As Leo and Static explain, everyone remembered things they saw and have ahead.
“Many of the ones we cured are heading home to their families while others are moving to places Ebon would never find them again.” Cured of their powers, Byron and Miranda head to the subway home. Before joining them, Talon, now cured, looks over to see Sunset who smiles at her and hugs her as a way of saying thank you. As she headed in the train, Sunset watches as the train heads out. Meanwhile, Kangor looks back at the city before picking up his bag and heading out.
“While some of the Bang Babies that are in custody, like Aron, are cured, Ebon could only be cured of his bulky form.” While Aron was sent to prison, some Bang Babies like Shiv and Slipstream were in securely locked up wearing inhibitor collars. Ebon was wheeled in a straitjacket and inhibitor collar in a highly secured prison. Anansi looks to see Osbebo being taken into custody as well.
“With only the knowledge of Kraang Subprime disappeared through a portal, we can assume he won’t be back anytime soon. In the meantime, our friends Bishop and Rook have escorted Armaggon, Bixolio, Kurosa, and the rest of the Kraang back into prison in Dimension X. Rook was even impressed by the containment unit Cyborg created.” Donnie and Cyborg stood by a portal as Bishop escorted the prisoners through with Rook behind them. Before she went through, Rook smiled at Cyborg who gave her a thumbs up.
“The remaining mutagen is being shipped towards Star Labs where it won’t cause any more harm. Bishop was reluctant at first but couldn’t argue with their officials so just as long as it does stay out of the wrong hands.” Bishop tried to reason with the driver before he shows him the official paper. Sighing, Bishop lets him take it and the driver heads out.
“The old juvenile station is now going to be a rehabilitation and training facility for those who decided to keep their powers. And Rubberband Man’s gonna be their teacher and leader when he's not busy with his music career. Snowstorm, Shot Cord, and Polarity volunteered to help out.” Donnie, Cyborg, and Gear were installing new security systems as well as upgrading the computers Donnie salvaged in the old juvenile station. Rubberband Man smiled as he looked from the balcony.
“The Vales are gonna help Tech with solving the Nightbreed’s blind problems. She Bang’s gonna make sure they still get food and clothes donated to them.” Jonathan Vale shows something under the microscope to Tech and the two smiled at their progress while Nightingale patted She Bang on the back.
“And Mauree- I mean Permafrost is going home with Blade Swipe?”
“That’s right.” Static answered his dad while Permafrost is seen hugging Reverend Anderson and saying goodbye. The reverend smiled at Blade who nodded at him, assuring that he will take care of the child.
After explaining what’s happening, Leo took a deep breath, “Well, Now that the Kraang are back in custody, it’s time for us to head home.”
“Yeah and we need to head back to Titan’s Tower to report back in.” Nightwing agreed.
“Not to mention bring some leftover pizza to Blue Beetle.” Beast Boy chimed in, holding up a pizza box.
“Same with me and the Justice League. I just heard Batman and the others are returning to earth.” Black Lightning added.
“Well then, I guess this is goodbye.” Gear shook Donnie’s hand.
Static shook Leo’s hand, “Thanks again for helping us.”
“You too. We made a pretty good team.” The lead turtle nodded.
“Yeah. We did.” The teen smiled.
“It was great seeing you guys again.” April hugged Batgirl.
“Same. And we still fought well together.”
“And great to meet you guys.” Keno fist bumped Cyborg.
“You’re okay with us, Keno.” The robot Titan smiled.
She Bang hugged each of the Rainbooms, “Thank you, guys, for saving my parents.”
“Thank you for helping us against the Kraang.” Sunset answered.
“Take care of those two.” Applejack pointed.
“Someone’s gotta keep an eye on those two lugs.” She Bang chuckled.
Raven walked up to Twilight who was holding Arachnid with Spike in her old backpack, “Sorry about your backpack, Twilight.”
“That’s okay, I can fix it as well as upgrade it. Goodbye, Raven.” Twilight hugged her.
“Good. Bye. Twilight,” Raven cringed, “Still not a hugger.” It didn’t help when Spike licked her cheek.
Rubberband Man walked up to Rainbow, “Rainbow Dash. Thanks.”
“Back at ya, RB!”
“Thanks to your loyalty, I can begin with a new slate.”
“You bet. And if you ever get in another rut, I gave Sharon my number.” Rainbow grinned.
“I think she alone’s gonna be plenty for me to keep going, but I’ll remember that.” Rubberband Man nodded before shaking Rainbow’s hand.
“Glad we got to see you guys again.” Casey locked hands with Nightwing.
“Likewise,” The former Robin agreed, “As promised, we’ll tell Robin you said hi.”
“Until we meet again, Friend Rainbooms and Ninjas.” Starfire said as she hugged Fluttershy.
“Hope we see you again, Starfire.” The shy girl added.
“Well, Mikey, Pinkie, it was fun.” Beast Boy told the two.
“It was great to see you, too, BB.” Mikey smiled.
“You take care.” Pinkie added as the three high fived.
“Thank you both for your help.” Rarity told Snowstorm and Shot Cord.
“Thank you for taking us in.” Shot Cord thanked.
“Static’s helping us to restrain our powers so we’ll be able to go back to our normal lives.” Snowstorm added.
“That’s great!” the fashionist smiled.
Raph walked up to Black Lightning, “I’m sorry we had a rough start. But thanks for the help.”
“I understand you had issues,” Lightning nodded, “But I also see why Batman trusts you kids so you’re all okay with me.”
“Before we go our separate ways,” Nightwing said as he, Cyborg, and Raven gave T-communicators to She Bang, Rubberband Man, Snowstorm, Shot Cord, Keno, and Blade Swipe, “She Bang, Rubberband Man, Snowstorm, Shot Cord, Keno, and Blade Swipe, consider yourselves honorary Titans.”
“Sweet!” She Bang gleamed.
“And I upgraded them so we can call you guys in your dimensions.” Cyborg informed.
“It is an honor to join your team.” Blade bowed.
“Sweet! Glad I’m in the club.” Keno grinned.
“We won’t let you down.” Rubberband Man assured.
“Okay. First we’ll send Blade and Permafrost back to Equestria.” Donnie pulled out his portal tracker, turned a couple nobs, and activated a portal.
Blade turned to his new daughter, “Are you ready to go to your new home?”
Permafrost nodded for hugging Static one last time, “Thank you again for everything.”
“Think you’ll come back here for a visit?”
“If there’s any way I could, I will.” Permafrost promised before she followed Blade into the portal.
After the portal closed, Donnie turned a couple more nobs and activates another portal, “Here’s our ride home, everyone.”
The Ninjas and Rainbooms each waved goodbye to their new friends before entering the portal. After Twilight entered, Leo was the last one as he turned to Static and gave him a thumb up, “Go put a shock to their system.”
Static answered as he thumbed up back, “Booyakasha.”
After Leo left, the portal closed. Static watched the sunrise with his dad and friends.
“It’s a new day, Virgil.” Robert patted his son’s shoulder.
“It sure is, Pops.” The teen smiled.
The Ninjas and Rainbooms then found themselves back in the Turtles’ lair.
“It’s good to be home.” sighed Raph.
“Sure is.” Applejack agreed.
“Oh! You’re back already?” Everyone looked to see Fugitoid walking up with Karai and Shinigami, “Karai and Shinigami arrived just after Donatello left with the ShellRaiser.”
“The professor just explained everything to us when we saw the ShellRaiser returned in the garage.” Shini pointed.
“You know, I’m really starting to feel left out outside of our trips to Equestria.” Joked Karai.
“Sorry, Karai. It was kind of an emergency.” Leo apologized.
Karai nodded, “You had to stop Kraang Subprime. It’s an understandable reason.”
“We’ll explain everything.” Sunset smiled as they all gathered the TV area to tell them everything as Chompy happily walked up to Raph who picked him up.
“I’ll make us some tea.” Rarity offered as she headed to the kitchen area as Mikey followed her to get Ice Cream Kitty.
“And then we headed back home and told Karai, Shinigami, and Fugitoid what happened.”
Leo was up in the dojo talking to his friend, Shine Boy, in Columbus on his T-Phone. After their battle with Ripley and Stockman, the two decided to keep in contact should they team up again.
“Wow. That Static sounds like a cool guy.” Shine Boy said through the T-Phone.
“Maybe you’ll meet him someday.” Leo smiled.
“That be great. Speaking of other dimensions, I also want to mention that Gamer made his own portal tracker through the notes Donatello gave him.”
“Really?” Leo grinned, “That could come useful later. Did you go anywhere with it?”
“As a matter of fact, we just got back from another dimension,” Shine Boy began his story as Leo sat down to listen. “It was a place called MegaKat City…..”
“And it is with great honor that I welcome Anansi to the Justice League.”
Anansi stood before a round table with a group of heroes, Batman included. Static was standing by the wall with Black Lightning as the spider hero spoke.
“I couldn't have received this great honor without the help of my young friend, Static. I have no doubt he'll be the finest member when he joins.”
When they finished, Batman was talking to Static.
“Black Lightning and Nightwing told me you were helped by the Ninjas and Rainbooms.”
“Yeah. They were everything Robin told me about them. And then some.”
Batman raised a brow at Static’s claim, “Tell me all what happened.” He instructed as he walked with Static as the teen began to explain everything.
The truck carrying the mutagen drove up to a fork in the road. On the left was it’s destination, Star Labs, but surprisingly turned right and stopped in a clearing. The door opened up while the driver took off his hat and coat, revealing he wore armor underneath. As he put on a metal mask, he turned to reveal he was Deathstroke.
“I got what you asked for, Luthor.” He spoke to another figure merging from the shadows. He was a bald man wearing a green robotic suit. Luthor walked up to the back of the truck and opened it, revealing the remaining mutagen.
“Excellent,” He smirked as he picked up a canister, “Our new partner will be pleased.”
Kraang Subprime flew out of the portal and landed in a dark room. when he regained his composure, he screamed in frustration.
"That back stabbing Metahuman! He thinks he can get rid of me that easily? I'm gonna find my way back, and when I do, I'M GONNA TEAR HIM TO PIECES ALONG WITH THOSE TURTLES AND RAINBOOMS!"
Suddenly, he noticed five shadows starring at him.
"What're you looking at?" he roared.
Then, as the lights turned on, Subprime was shocked to see what appeared to be the Teen Titans. Only these Titans looked more cartoonish than before. they looked at each other then smiled at each other before the Cyborg grabbed Subprime.
"TALKING HACKEYSACK!" He cried before the Titans began kicking him around and all Subprime could do was scream.
Back in Equestria, Blade and Permafrost walked through the portal back home. Permafrost was a blue unicorn with snow white hair and tail. She still wore her coat and scarf. Her cutie mark was an angel cross over a snowflake.
Blade then spoke to his new daughter. “Welcome to your new home, Equestria.”
Permafrost looked around in awe. “It’s so beautiful," Permafrost then looked herself over, "Well, I guess I gotta get used to not having hands and feet anymore. And how to use this thing." she felt the horn on her head.
"Don't worry, they got a school for unicorns in Canterlot." Blade assured her.
Just then, Princess Celestia walked up with Twilight and Spike, “Welcome back, Blade,” The princess greeted, “And welcome to you too, Permafrost. I am Princess Celestia, ruler of our land.”
Permafrost bowed in respect, “It is an honor to meet you, your highness.”
Twilight stepped us, “You know through my counterpart. I’m Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship. And this is my assistant, Spike.”
“Hiya.” Spike waved.
Twilight explained, “Princess Celestia messaged me after Donnie asked for your assistance, Blade. I hurried over with Spike and the journal to keep in contact with Sunset Shimmer just in case.”
“And a good reason to try the new donuts at Joe’s.” Spike smacked his lips.
“Speaking of which, me and my friends were gonna meet over there. You wanna come with?”
“I… would like that.” Permafrost smiled as Blade patted her shoulder.
“You go ahead. I need to talk to Princess Celestia. We’ll get you settled in later.”
Permafrost nodded as she followed Twilight and Spike.
Celestia walked up to Blade, “She seems like a nice girl.”
“When I heard about what she struggled with, it reminded me too much of what I went through in Dimension X. I felt she needed a loving shoulder and a family.”
Celestia placed a hoof on Blade’s shoulder, “Your mother and father would’ve been very proud.”
“Yeah,” Blade smiled before clearing his throat, “I also learned a thing or two helping the ninjas.”
“Yes?” Celestia listened.
“I’m starting to upgrade my arsenal should we face something like Shredder and Krang again. I’m thinking about training to use this,” He held up a small, curved blade attached to a rope, “It’s called a Kyoketsu-shoge. Once I’ve mastered it, I can teach the other gaurds as well as some of Twilight’s students at the School of Friendship.”
“That sounds like a good idea, Blade.” Celestia approved.
“Thank you,” Blade bowed, “But first, I need to write back to Fizzlepop. She was talking about maybe adopting a foal. Should tell her about Permafrost.”
Celestia nodded before the two headed back to the castle.
