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Rise
3rd POV
“Why don’t we just portal home. I don’t want to keep walking,” Leo whined. The bros, and their dear friend April, had just hung out at the junkyard for the day. They were all on their way back to the lair. “If you guys would just let me do one hachi machi then we would be back home in no time,”

“Leo, last time you did the Hachi Machi it did not end well,” Raph commented.

“Nardo, stop suggesting that we teleport home, the last time you used Hachi Machi we got sent to Tahiti!,” Donnie retorted.

“Yeah, but that was last time Don,” Leo defended.

“I agree with Donnie, I’d rather not get separated,” Raph states.

“Come on guys, we'll get home faster!” Leo says, “You know what, Ima do it…” Leo gets out his Odachi and waves it in the air above them. “Hachi Machi!”

“No no no-” Everyone yells before they get cut off by being dropped into the portal that appeared under them.

2012
3rd POV
The boys were out on their nightly patrol. They were wrapping up, unfortunately finding nothing useful on the Kraang.. They were meeting up on a roof when Mikey noticed that there was a blue light coming from a far-off alleyway. “Hey guys, what’s over there?” Mikey pointed over to where the blue light was. Everyone looked over but the blue light was no longer there.

“What are you pointing at Mikey? Is this another one of your jokes?” Donnie groaned.

“No, I actually saw a light coming from over there,” Mikey said.

“Yeah sure you did and I saw the tooth fairy,” Raph says, punching Mikey's arm.

“Ouch, I’m not joking, Raph,” Mikey says, rubbing the spot Raph just hit him in.

“Let’s just drop it, Mikey was probably just seeing things. And there's nothing out today anyway, let's just go back to the lair.” Leo says. Then the four brothers hopped off the roof back down to an alleyway to get back to the lair.

Rise
3rd POV
“Ouch.” When they made it through the portal they landed on top of each other with a thump. They seemed to have landed in a dark alleyway.

Then April spoke up “LEO, where did you send us!?” Leo was still getting his head together, he just hopefully responded with “Home?”
“Home?! This is not home Leo, look around.” Raph said in annoyance. Leo looked around for a second. “You're right, this isn’t home. It’s a lot less colorful here, wherever we are…” They all got up and looked around.

“Hey Donnie, do you have any idea where we are?” Mikey asks. Donnie looks at his tech watch.

“Well my watch says that we are in New York and that's all it’s telling me. That’s weird, it’s not giving me the same amount of information it usually gives me.”

“Well this isn’t my New York, mine is colorful and bright, not bland and boring,” Mikey says.

“Let’s go up to the roof to see the city from a better view,” Raph says. Raph gets up onto the roof of the building, scoping the area, as the others follow.

“We’re in New York, but not our New York,” Mikey said with confusion in his voice. It did have colors around but they were much more muted than what they were used to.
“Are you sure your watch isn’t busted, Don?” Leo asks.

“Cause this definitely isn’t New York. What if we’re in Jersey!”

“No Leo, I don’t believe my watch is broken. And we’re not in Jersey. If you were to look around, the billboards say New York.” Donnie retaliates. The twins bickered over where they were, and April was trying to get them to stop. Mikey, and Ralph were looking around for more clues of where they could be. Mikey saw a TV through an open window. It was playing on some weather channel.

“Today on April 25, 2012, the weather will be slightly cloudy with a 8% chance of rain. So maybe consider taking an umbrella out. That’s the weather for today.” Mikey turned back to his brothers.

“Guys, I think we went back in time!” Mikey yelled. His brothers stopped bickering, and everyone turned to look at him. They had all faces of confusion.

“Mikey, what are you talking about?” April asks.

“Well, I saw the weather on TV through…” Mikey points to the TV through the window. “that window and the TV broadcast said that today is April 25, 2012, and that there is gonna be a slight chance of rain.” They all had a shocked face.

“Wait, you’re meaning to tell me that Leos Odachi has the power to send us back in time?!” Donnie exclaimed.

“How is this possible, I know Leo can teleport us but I never thought he could send us back in time!”

“Well if we just went back in time we should be able to go back to the lair right?” Raph pondered.

“I mean, yeah, but we still don’t know what will happen if we were to come in contact with our past selves. We could change the future in drastic ways or it would tear a hole in the time continuum.” Donnie replied.

“But what other option do we have, Mr. Science?” Leo retorted.

“Donnie, do you think you could figure something out at least in your lab?” April asked.

“Yeah I mean if we can make it back to the lab, I should be able to piece together something to find a way back home.” Donnie replied.

“Well for now let’s see if we can find the lair.” Raph lifts up the manhole cover for all of them to go into the sewers. They all hopped in one after another.

2012
3rd POV
“I’m telling you guys I saw some blue light coming from that alleyway.” Mikey pushed.

Leo rolled his eyes before asking “If we go see what it was or what you think it was will you stop talking about it?” Mikey nodded his head aggressively.

Raph rolled his eyes and got up. “I swear if this is just a waste of time, Mikey.”

Mikey runs off to get Donnie. “DONNIE, are you gonna go see the light I saw?”

Donnie walks out of his lab. “The light you think you saw?”

“The light I know I saw.” Mikey retorts. “Now come on so I can show you that I was right!” Mikey rushes out of the lair, the others following behind.

When they reached the surface they went to the roofs. “Okay Mikey, where did you see this blue light?” Leo asked.

“Well, let me retrace my steps real quick.” Mikey went back to the place he was in before they went back to before they went back to the lair. He scopes around for a bit, then points. “I think I saw it over there.”

“You think?” Donnie says in a questioning voice.

“Yup!”

“Well let’s go check it out, then go back to the lair” Leo starts going towards the direction. The others follow after. They quickly made it to the alleyway. After looking for a while for any clue for what had passed there Raph turns to look at his brothers “See nothing! Mikey was just seeing things.”

“Was not, I really saw something here! You believe me, don't cha D.” MIkey looks over to Donnie with pleading eyes.

“I would if you had evidence that there was really some here.” Donnie answers.

“Maybe it was a glare that you saw.” Leo tries to calm down the others.

“No, I really saw something here.” Mikey says.

“Let’s just go home. Like I said, this would just be a waste of time.” Raph growls before heading back to the lair.

Rise
3rd POV
They had been looking for about an hour when Raph finally spoke up. “Guys, we are lost. I guess these tunnels are more confusing than I remember.”

Donnie chimes in “Yeah, it seems like the tunnels aren’t the same as before.”

“Well, how about today we stay in a clearer area of the sewers and then keep looking tomorrow?” Mikey suggests.

Raph nods his head in agreement, “Yeah, that sounds good for now little man.” They kept walking for a bit until they came across this small clearing. “Looks like here's where we’re gonna rest until tomorrow,” Raph sighs.

“Well I don’t know about you guys but I am tired so good night.” Leo walks into the clearing and sits down, back against the wall. Raph sits close to leo. Raph leaned on the wall, while Mikey and April leaned on Raph. Donnie sat close to them but not on them.

“Good night guys.” Mikey mutters out sounding exhausted from the day they had had.

“ Good night.” Everyone else responded.

2012
3rd POV
They arrived back at the Lair. “See it was nothing!” Raph groaned and walked off to his room.

“Let’s just go to sleep. We have training in the morning,” Leo was trying to calm down everyone so they could go to bed and rest.

“I know I saw something. If you guys don’t want to believe me, Good Night.” Mikey walked off to his room to go to bed.

“Well Good Night guys… See ya tomorrow.” Donnie said before going off to his room.

“Good Night” Leo says and also walks off to his room.

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2012
3rd POV
“Dudes, I swear I saw a light.” Mikey, Donnie, Raph, and Leo, were all in the dojo training for the day. Donnie and Mikey had already gotten out of the round. Leo and Raph were against each other.

“Mikey, there was no evidence that showed that anything unusual had gone through there.” Donnie rolled his eyes. Leo was listening in on their conversation.

“Mikey just let it go.” Leo commented, being sick of Mikey's constant pushing about the “blue light”. Right before he got hit in the face with Raphs foot.

“Ya Me,” They all go to kneel down in their usual spot “What is all this bickering about?”

“Well Sensei, yesterday Mikey said he saw a blue light coming from an alleyway. We went to go check it out and there was nothing there. It must have been a reflection of something. But Mikey won’t shut up about it.” Donnie glared his eyes at Mikey with annoyance.

“Dudes, I promise you I saw a blue light. Something weird is happening. I can feel it.” Mikey defends himself.

Raph turns his head towards Mikey. “So you're wasting your very few brain cells thinking, on a feeling?!”

“Yeah, basically.” Mikey just shrugs. “MIKEY!” The others yell in unison. “Ya Me. We may not know if that light was their or not but at least keep an eye out just incase”

“Yes, sensei” They all respond.

“You are dismissed”

They all walk out one after another.

Rise
3rd POV

They had all woken up early in the morning due to discomfort from sleeping on the hard concrete. They kept looking for the lair, to see if there was a chance that Donnie could get to his lab to figure something out. But so far they have had no luck.

“Donnie, are you sure we're in New York? Cause we’ve been walking around for a while with no idea where we are.” Leo looked over at Donnie.

Donnie glared over at Leo. “Yes, I’m sure Leo. Every time my watch scans the area it says New York.”

“Maybe it broke from the fall?” April chimes in. Donnie starts explaining how it isn’t broken. They were rounding the corner, Raph in front. When they all get to a small clearing, there is a living room with a TV, a couch and a weird stairwell hanging down from the ceiling.

“Hold on.” Raph stuck out his arm making them all stop in their tracks.

“What is it?” Donnie looks over Raphs arm and sees a lair. “This isn’t our lair?”

“No it’s not, but it’s still a lair.” Raph looks at his brothers.

“Do we know of anyone else who has a lair in the sewers other than us?” Leo looks at Donnie for a response. When suddenly four turtles walk out of a room all with matching bandanas with the same colors as them.

“They’re turtles,“ Leo whispers, pointing at the other turtles, then he points at himself “Like us.”

Raph quickly regains his composure. “We have to go now.” He pushes his brothers to quickly get out of the area. They all rush out quickly and quietly. Going to the surface.

2012

3rd POV
“Now we're gonna have to look for an imaginary light. Thanks a lot Mikey!” Raph walks over to the couch and sits down.

“It’s not imaginary. If you guys don’t believe me. I’ll go look for it myself.” Mikey started to walk out of the lair, before Mikey’s stomach growled. “After I eat though.” He turned around and walked over to the kitchen.

“Splinter just said we had to keep an eye out. We are not going out looking for it.” Leo says, trying to calm his brothers down.

“I was right about the Kraang wasn’t I?! Well I’m also right about this too!”

“That was a one time thing Mikey.” Raph retorted.

“Well what about leatherhead?” Mikey pointed out with his mouth full.

“Okay, okay, A two time thing” Raph rolled his eyes

“Soon to be three times, bro. Like a turtle do!”

Rise
3rd POV

They ended up on the roof tops, minds going crazy. “Tell me I wasn’t hallucinating. Everyone saw that too, right?” Leo felt he was going crazy looking for some reassurance from his brothers.

“Yeah. We just saw a group of four turtles. With matching bandanas. THAT HAVE THE SAME COLOR SCHEME AS US!” Mikey blurted out.

Donnie was pacing, mumbling to himself, scratching his arms in a nervous manner. April was stunned and she didn’t know what to say. She was in disbelief. Raph was sitting down, with just a shocked expression on his face. Mikey was also pacing, shaking his hands out frantically trying to release pent up energy from the excitement and shock.

“Donnie, do you have any idea who they were?!” Leo asked, trying to keep his cool. Donnie got out of his muttering spell at the sound of his name. “I didn’t think it was possible but…”

“Well what is it!” Leo was itching to know who the heck the other turtles were.

“I’m thinking that maybe your odachi doesn’t have the power to send us back in time but perhaps another dimension. Which also means that my theories were correct! Might I add. But my reasoning is, first off this place has very dimmed out colors unlike our well known New York. Second, there are no bright billboards, and if I remember correctly there were bright lights in New York in 2012. Cause remember when we would look out from the sewers and see the bright lights. Third, the sewers are completely different. Why didn’t I see it before! And most importantly there are other turtles who are similar to us in a way but not us.”

The others' faces shifted from shock to confusion. “They looked so dull. There's no way that was us. Alternate universe or otherwise.” Mikey's energy seemed to calm down a bit after a bit of hopping, and pacing around.

“Well if there you shouldn’t they be good guys. Can’t we ask them for help?” April asked.

“Well I’m not sure yet. It could destroy this universe due to this dimension not being able to handle something from a different dimension. It could cause this universe and our universe to fold into each other causing mass destruction. Or nothing could happen. But do you guys really want to take that risk?” Donnie looked over to his brothers and april. All of them shook their heads. “Didn’t think so. All we can do now is lay low until I can salvage enough materials to make or figure out something.”

“Why don’t I just try using my odachi again?” Leo took out his odachi pointing it at Donnie.

Donnie pushed it away with his finger. “Leo, your odachi is what got us into this mess. I would rather find a more logical solution. You might get us trapped in another dimension or send us each into a different one. With no way of getting out.”

“You're right, that doesn’t sound like a good idea.” Leo puts his odachi away. They all started thinking about what they could do about the situation.

“Hey, maybe if I’m able to find some spare parts I could make something.” Donnie suggested.

“Okay but where would we get the materials?” April asked.

“I’m not sure, there has to be a junk yard around here somewhere right?” Raph pointed out.

When suddenly they hear a familiar voice. Leo turned his head trying to figure out where the voice was coming from. “Maybe I am hallucinating. Cause it’s like I hear Dad.” Leo looked over to his brothers and April. With a really confused face.

“No, I can hear it too.” Mikey starts looking around at where the voice is coming from. Everyone else does the same.

“Well over there looks suspicious.” April points towards an alleyway close to where they were. There was a pinkish glow coming from there.

“It also sounds like the voice is coming from over there.” Donnie points out.

“Well then let’s go check it out! Maybe it is dad?! Maybe he found a way to find us? I mean who else can sound like dad?” Raph got up from where he was sitting. They all started going to where the light and voice were coming from. As they got closer their suspicions of their dad somehow finding a way to find them grew stronger. They did other voices here, robotic ones.

“Dad?” Mikey peaked over the ledge only to see a tiger and a few robots carrying things through a portal. Leo pulls him back.

“That is not dad,” Mikey whispers to his brothers. “He may sound similar but I guarantee you it’s not dad.” Donnie looks over the ledge looking closely to what they were carrying. He saw a glimpse of metal.

“Guys whatever is in those boxes I could use to find a solution out of here.”

“Okay then guys. Let's get out of here.” Raph says quickly. They all hop down grabbing the attention of the tiger and the bots. “Hello, we were wondering if we could take some of that tech off your hands?” Raph wanted to see if they could do this quickly and peacefully.

“Does Kraang also see the ones known as the turtles, but are not the turtles the Kraang knows of?”

“Yes Kraang, Krang does see the ones known as the turtles, but are not the turtles the Kraang knows of.”

“Does the one known as Tiger Claw also see the ones known as the turtles, but are not the turtles the Kraang knows of.”

“Yes, now let us see how strong these turtles really are.”

“Okay, then. Let’s get Donnie the stuff he needs.” Everyone rushed in to beat up the group robots there.

Leo sliced through a robot when a brain-like thing fell out of it. It got up and started scurrying away. Leo got a look at it and sliced it in half. Parts of it flying up into the air, parts of it landing on the walls and sticking on. There were parts landing on the floor with a splat, and pink blood lining the wall. It fell to the floor one half landing near Leo and the other side near Donnie. “Ew ew ew!” Donnie gagged at the sight of it. Blood still leaking out of both halves.

“Leo what did you do?!” Raph looked over seeing the bloody mess.

“It was moving weirdly. I panicked!” Leo defended himself.

Mikey was beating up the robots with his nunchaku, throwing them against the walls of the alley way. Donnie was studying the robots on how they were made. April was bashing through the robots with her bat. When suddenly Tiger Claw pounced onto Raph. Raph used his mystic powers to give him a bit of defense. Tiger Claw landed on top of it trying to claw away at it. When suddenly it flickered off causing Tiger Claw to fall off but quickly regained balance and stood up again. He had a face of determination as he went rushing towards Raph again.

When Mikey yelled over, “We got the stuff!” Both April and Mikey had their hands full, each carrying a box. April and Mikey jumped up to the roof quickly. Leo followed after finishing beating the rest of the robots. They sat down for a second, when Leo looked over the ledge to see why his other brothers had not followed them.

Donnie was still studying the robots on the ground and picking up a few pieces. Leo looked over at Raph, Raph was fighting Tiger Claw. Tiger Claw gave absolutely no mercy clawing at him. Leo hopped down again and struck his sword down Tiger Claw’s back. He thought nothing of it. He had used that move before against Meats Sweats, nothing major happened, just a simple push back. Until he saw the glistening streak of blood dripping down Tiger Claws back. He had a face of confusion and of horror. Tiger Claw looked over to face him anger tracing his face. Raph got up quickly and punched Tiger Claw in the back causing him to be slammed against the wall. Raph quickly grabbed Leo and Donnie and jumped up to the roof.

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2012
3rd POV
“Guys we have to go out for patrol!” Leo was walking out of his room ready to go on patrol for the day.

“One more round Leo, I promise” Mikey called from the living room. Raph and Mikey were playing some video games. Raph was winning

“Yeah, let me beat Mikey again.” Raph snickered. Both brothers shoving into each other wanting to win.

“I’ll go get Donnie, and you guys better be ready to go, when I come back” Leo starts walking towards the lab.

“Of course, fearless leader.” Raph mutters as Leo walks towards the lab.

Leo walks into the lab. Donnie was hunched over his desk working on something. “Hey Donnie, we're going on patrol ya ready?”

Donnie's head lifted up with the sound of his name being called. “Yeah, I’ll be out in a second. Just have to put away some stuff before we go.”

“Okay then, we’ll be waiting for you.” Donnie just hums out a response, as he starts putting some things away. Leo walks out, Raph was just leaning against the wall, waiting. Mikey was on the floor sitting crisscross applesauce. Just rocking back and forth. “Donnie’s on his way, just cleaning up a bit.”

“I’m here,” Donnie walks out of his lab and goes towards his brothers.

“Let’s get going guys.” Everyone gets out of the sewer quickly. They head to the roofs and start going on their usual patrol route. They were going around looking for any suspicious activity. They passed by an alleyway and instantly stop in their tracks. They looked down at the alleyway horrified. They hopped down carefully. They looked around and they saw pink blood lining the wall in a slashed motion with pink bits all around. Two halves of what they think is a Kraang. Pink puddles around both of them. On the other wall there was an indent with a bit of blood in the middle. A small trail of dried crimson blood on the floor.

“Hey, Donnie, do we know of anyone who would go this far with a fight?” Leo looks over at Donnie.

Donnie just looked up to Leo and shook his head. “Not anyone that we know of. I don’t even think Leatherhead would go to these extremes.”

“What does this mean then?” Mikey looks over at Donnie for an answer.

“It means that there is now a rogue mutant out on the streets of New York that could be hostile towards humans! Because they're definitely not kind to the Kraang or whoever was with them.”

“Well all we can do now is find whoever or whatever did this and try to restrain them before they cause any more damage. We also have to clean this up.” Leo signaled to the giant mess in front of them.

“Ugh, do we really have to, we didn't make the mess did we?” Raph asked annoyedly. “We could look for this troublesome mutant and teach it to clean up after themselves” Raph pulled out his Sai’s wanting to fight whatever caused the mess.

“Yes we do. If we leave this mess here, and someone else found it. I wonder how someone would react if they saw blood all over the walls and bits of pink stuff all over the alleyway. It would cause a great panic.” Leo started picking up the small bits of Kraang, all around putting them in a dumpster nearby. Donnie started picking up pieces of the Kraang, finding a few pieces still intact that he could use, noticing that a few pieces were missing. Mikey and Raph found fabric scraps and started scrubbing the blood trying to get it off of the walls and floor. They quickly finished cleaning up.

“Now we need to find whoever did this.”

Rise
3rd POV

The bros in their state of panic went back to the sewers quickly. They found where they slept last night and deemed it their temporary hide out. They set the boxes of pieces down. The walk there was quieter than usual. Leo and Raph were in major shock of what happened. The other three had no idea why they were so quiet. After they sat everything down, Leo finally spoke up, “What just happened?”

Donnie, Mikey, and April looked over at Leo confused. They had no idea what Leo was talking about.

“What happened Leo?” April walked over to Leo and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

“I struck him with my sword and he bled. I have never made anyone bleed with my sword before. It’s never cut someone. Usually all it does is give them a push. But that didn’t happen this time, he bled?! DONNIE WHY DID HE BLEED?!” Leo had started to breathe a little quicker. His breathing became a bit irregular but he had some control over it.

“Well technically we are in a different universe. Different universe means different laws of physics, different ways that things happen. In our universe all your odachi does is give the enemy a push back. In this universe it looks like you will do actual damage to the person you are fighting against.”

Raph gained his composure, finally getting an answer. He goes over to Leo and April and encloses them both in a hug. “Hey we made it out of there safe and sound didn’t we? You didn’t mean to hurt him that bad, your good bro relax. “

Mikey went over to join the group hug. “Well now we know for next time, bro! Plus he was the one trying to attack us first” Mikey was trying to cheer up his brother.

“Yeah, I guess you're both right…” Leo started to calm down..

Donnie walked over to his brother and rested a hand on Raph's shoulder, Leo being trapped in the middle of the hug. “Yeah don’t worry.”

“Thanks guys.” Leo’s breathing had calmed down to a normal pace.

2012
3rd POV

“If I were a crazy mutant where would I be?” Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey were on the lookout for what mutant made the Kraang mess.

“I would hide. I mean Leatherhead hid away in the sewers after escaping and attacking the Kraang.” Mikey commented.

“Well whatever it is it has to be big because, I don’t know what else could cause that much damage. And whatever it is, it’s strong. I mean there was a slight cavern in the wall.” Donnie started muttering about what it could be. Being lost in his own mind and theories.

“Well whatever it is, I’m ready to pound him.” Raph was excited to have a mutant to fight with.

“Maybe we should tell Master Splinter?” Leo asks. “I mean maybe he can help us catch whatever this thing is.”

“We got this in the bag Leo. Us four against one simple mutant? We are definitely winning! Keep your chill “Fearless Leader” We’re beating whatever we’re up against.” Raph pats Leos back a bit more aggressively than he expected.

“Yeah, maybe you're right.” Leo chuckles.

“I can’t find any trace of the mutant. You would think due to their probable size they would be easier to find.” Donnie is looking around to see if they can see absolutely anything. “If I at least got a bit of their DNA I could find out what it is. Then we could know exactly what we are looking for.”

“Well the blood was slightly dried up so that means that it happened earlier in the night. What if we call it a night for now, and tomorrow we see if we can find any clue about what it could be. Or where it is”

“Oh, we can also contact April and Casey to keep an eye out during the day!” Donnie commented.

“Yeah, but for tonight it looks like the mutant won’t be coming out any time soon.” They all quickly head back down to the layer.

Rise
3rd POV

“How is everyone feeling now?” Everyone was calmer after just relaxing for a bit.

“I mean I’m a bit hungry.” Mikey chimes in.

“It is gonna be a bit harder to navigate around town now. We usually blend in with the mascots but there are barely any mascots to blend in with.” Leo points out. “What if we find disguises and go get some food real quickly?”

“Yeah, let’s go!” Raph quickly hopped up to the surface, the others following after him. They were just in an alleyway.

“Where are we gonna get the disguises though.” Mikey asked. They think of what they could do. April starts looking around for things and spots a box across the alley way. She heads over to the box and looks inside.

“Well there's a donation box right over here.” The others scurry over to where April was. Raph and Mikey start looking through the clothes.
“I am not wearing donation clothes without washing them first,” Donnie says. “I don’t know where they've been or who wore them.”

“Yeah, you're right.” April starts thinking about what other options they have.

Raph goes back to where Leo, Donnie, and April were talking.

“Yeah and I don’t think anything in there is gonna fit me. Let’s just scrap the donation’s idea, plus there for people who need it.” Raph decides.

Mikey starts walking over already in a Hotdog costume. “Hey bro’s look what I found.” He was posing in the costume. The others started laughing.

“We decided to scrap the donation’s idea Mike.” Leo said through chuckles.

Mikey put on a fake pout. “You guys are missing the chance to see The New York Hotdog. He’ll be the next big thing I tell ya.” Mikey then starts dancing.

Knowing that his brothers were all stressed out. He wanted to bring some laughter in a hard time. After a bit Mikey takes it off and puts it back in the donation box. “Well I guess we need to find food a different way.” Mikey walks back to his brothers.

“I mean I’m human.” April motions to herself. “I bet the currency we use in our universe is the same here. I can go get us some pizza if you guys want?” April pulls out her wallet and takes out a few dollar bills.

“Yeah that actually sounds really nice. Thanks April.” They all agree and say thanks to April.

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Rise
3rd POV
April walked out of the alleyway and towards a store with a flashing sign that read “Antonio’s Pizza”. When she went inside she went up to the cashier and asked for two pepperoni pizzas. When she tried to give the cashier the money the guy looked at her like she was crazy. “Sorry ma’am but the currency that you’re giving me isn’t valid here.”

“Oh.” She looked back at her wallet in a panic. "Guess the currency here is different." She chuckled.

She was about to cancel the order when this girl behind her spoke up. “I can pay for you!” The girl had red hair tied up in a ponytail, with a yellow headband.

“Thank you!” April slightly nodded in thanks.

The girl paid for April and smiled. “Yeah, sure.” April grabbed the pizza and walked out of the pizza place. The girl who paid for her right behind walking towards a guy in all black with a bandana. April and the other girl waved bye to each other. April then walked back into the alleyway.

“I got the pizza, and the currency here is different.” She held out the pizzas in her hand.

“Thanks April! But how did you get the pizzas if you didn’t have money?” Mikey asked.

“Well there was this nice girl who paid for it.” April responded.

“Well thank you random girl who paid for it.” Leo grinned. They quickly hopped on to the roof. They all sat down and started to eat. They really felt hungry after the long day they had.

2012
3rd POV
The turtles had invited April and Casey to tell them what was going on. April and Casey went to get pizza before coming to the sewers. Casey had been waiting outside for April. When he saw her walking out with another girl. “Hey Red, who was the girl who walked out with you?”

“Oh, she was this girl who had some type of different currency. So I paid for her. I think she is new here.” April looked back to the direction the other girl had walked.

“Probably, maybe we’ll see her at school?”

“Yeah maybe.” She looked back at Casey.

“Well we have to get to the turtles. They said it was something important.” April just nodded and they started walking towards the opening closest to the layer. They walked for a few minutes before arriving at the manhole. Casey lifted up the manhole cover. April set down the pizzas, hopping down first then grabbing the pizza’s. Then Casey hopped down.

“Hey, April you good?” Casey put his hand on her shoulder, knocking April out of her thoughts and making her turn towards him for a second before looking forward. They kept walking for a bit.

When April spoke up. “Yeah I’m good. Just that girl, I don’t know. She gave me a weird feeling. Like I know her somehow but I don’t know why.” They arrive at the layer walking in.

“Maybe it’s just your mind playing with you?”

“Yeah, maybe.”

Mikey came rushing at them giving them both quick hugs. “Hey guys! How are you?”

“We’re good, how are you guys?” Casey responds.

“Pretty good, a bit tired but nothing some pizza can’t fix!” He said before grabbing the pizza and taking it to the living room. He called out to his brothers. “APRIL AND CASEY’S HERE!”

The other turtles walked out of their rooms and Donnie from his lab. “Hey guys.” Everyone walked towards the living room. “You guys are probably wondering why we called you here about something important.”

“Yeah, what is it?” Casey said with his mouth full.

“So, we were patrolling like we usually do. When we came across this alleyway with a mutilated Kraang, Kraang bits and blood all over, an indent in the wall caused by something being thrown at it, and a small trail of blood.” Leo explained. Casey had his mouth wide open, he was mid bite. April’s eyes were wide in shock. She looked over at Casey for a second before her expression changed from shock to disgust. April shut Casey’s mouth, and looked back at Leo.

“Okay, do we know who or what did it?” April asked.

Donnie was the one to reply, “That’s a bit of the scary part. We have no idea what caused this. We suspect it was big, strong and hostile. While we can patrol during the night to see if anything like this happens again. We can’t really be patrolling during the daytime. Do you guys think you could keep an eye out for anything suspicious. If you do, do not engage.” Donnie shot a quick annoyed glance at Casey before continuing. “Please contact us and we will get there as fast as possible.”

“Okay.” April responded. Casey was looking at Donnie sourly, from the look Donnie had given him. April slightly elbowed Casey so he would respond.

“Yeah, sure.” Casey sounded annoyed.

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“We got food for now. But now that we know that our currency doesn’t work here we have to find how we can get food and supplies.” They had all finished eating and were coming up with ideas on what they could do, during the time that they were trying to figure out how they could get back home.

“I mean it’s not our dimension. Crime can’t really follow us.” Donnie took a shot with his idea.

“Don-Tron’s right, and technically it’s to help us. Steal from the rich give to the poor kind of business. And it’s only until we find out how we can get home or until April can get a job.” Leo chimed in.

“What do you mean until I get a job?” April asked.

“I mean it would help a lot, please Apes.” Leo begged.

“Okay okay, but it is gonna take a while for me to find a job. So we might have to steal, even if it’s for a bit.” Everyone looked at Raph for his answer.

“I mean if it’s just for a bit, I don’t think it will be that bad.” Raph answered.

Leo and Donnie hopped up in happiness. April and Mikey gave each other a fist bump.

“We will have to do it at night though, we don’t want to be caught.” Raph looked back at his brothers. “So we can do it now or tomorrow.”

“I say we do it now and then set up for the night.” Mikey said, standing up.

Leo walked over to Mikey and put his arm around him. “I think me and Miguel got this tonight. Donnie, can you tell us where the closest convenience store is?”
Donnie looked down at his watch, “It’s two blocks down.” Raph gave a quick nod, with that Mikey and Leo went off. They hopped from building to building before Mikey spotted a building with a flashing sign saying open.

“I found it!” He landed on the roof of the building. Leo landed right next to him. They looked around for a second before Leo saw a small vent, he signaled at it. Leo propped it open with his Odachi. Mikey slid in quietly, Leo right behind. They looked through the cracks of the vents opening to the shop. They found one near the back and there were no cameras. Mikey fiddled with it until it opened. Mikey hopped down quietly. The only person there was the cashier, he had his headphones in and was on his phone.

Mikey and Leo quickly snuck over to the snack area. They grabbed a few and stuffed them into the vent, before going back down and getting the small fruit and vegetable trays. They put those in the vent as well. They went back down one more time getting water and a few juices. They grabbed those and climbed back into the vent. Mikey closed the vent carefully. Leo pushed the food behind him, in front of Mikey. Mikey pushed it until they got to the opening to the roof. Leo hopped out first and started pulling food out, Mikey pushing the food out. After all the food was out Mikey hopped out. They looked at the amount they had.

“I don’t think we’ll be able to carry this.” Leo looked over at Mikey.

“Well I can grab the others and we all carry it back?” Mikey looked at Leo.

“Yeah! Go do that, mi hermano.” Mikey quickly hopped back to where they left their brothers. Raph, and April were just talking while Donnie was looking at his watch commenting from time to time.

“Hey, guys we need a bit of help carrying the stuff we got!” Mikey walked over to the others explaining the predicament.

Raph got up and so did the others. “Okay, lead the way Micheal.” Mikey hopped towards the building, the others following.

“I got them!” Mikey waved at Leo.

“Yeah! Let’s take this stuff to our temporary base and go to bed. Cause I don’t know about y’all but I am ka-poot.” Leo grabbed some stuff and hopped off the building. Everyone did the same and hopped down.

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“Actually Cave mouth if you see something suspicious, or really big, contact us.” Donnie looked at Casey hoping to get a better answer.

“Okay, okay if I see anything suspicious I’ll contact you guys.” Casey rolled his eyes before grabbing another slice of pizza.

“I think it’s connected to that blue light I saw.” Mikey chimed in.

“Oh, come on Mikey I thought you let that light shenanigans go.” Raph groaned.

“Well I didn’t, so too bad for you.” Mikey stuck his tongue out for a second.

“What blue light?” April asked.

“Well, yesterday on patrol, Mikey said he saw a blue light from a far off alleyway. But when we checked there was nothing there. There was also no trace of something being there. But Mikey won’t stop pushing that it was something.” Donnie explained, having a slight annoyed tone.

“Well what do you think it was Mikey?” April asked, wanting to get more information on what Mikey was thinking.

“Well I’m reading this comic called the different realms and this exact same thing happened to them. There was a flash of light and then there were people who were like the people but weren't the people. And that they were from a different realm, that was similar to theirs.” Mikey explained.

“Mikey, that can’t possibly happen here. We might be able to cross into different dimensions, but a whole nother universe. You would need magic to do that, or really high tech that would be beyond our time probably.” Donnie retaliated.

“You never know bro you never know.” Mikey shook his head, before grabbing another slice of pizza.

“Actually I do know a thing or two about this.” Donnie looked over at Mikey. “I’ve studied these things, Mikey.”

“Well you clearly haven’t studied enough.”

“Reading fantasy comics is not research. Those are all fantasy, that's why they're called fantasy comics!”

“I think you're just jealous of me. Cause I thought of it first.”

“Guys, let’s calm down. We don’t know what that light was. Or if it was even there. But now it’s not really a concern. The real concern is the Mutant that is loose on the streets.” Leo spoke up trying to calm down the situation, while also trying to get it back on track about the Mutant.

“Leo’s right, we have to think about the real problem at hand, the mutant.” Donnie calmed down.

“Well now that whatever it is, is on the streets. We’re gonna have to patrol longer to see if we can find any clues or anything. Maybe even train more, we don’t know what this mutant is, it could be anything.” Raph, Donnie, and Mikey groaned.

“Do we really have to? I mean I think that we can take down whatever it is, easy peasy.” Raph had a glint of fire in his eyes. He felt ready to fight whatever this beast was.

“Hey it won’t be that bad. It’s just for precaution.” Leo was trying to mellow out the reactions of his brothers.

“Fine” Raph eventually answered.

“Well, me and Casey have to go. We do have school tomorrow.” April and Casey had gotten up. “We’ll contact you guys if we see anything suspicious, and I’ll make sure Casey doesn’t do anything stupid.” April and Casey walked to the opening of the layer and walked out.

The other’s just cleaned up before they also went to bed. Well most of them, Donnie did stay up “a bit” later working on his project. Before eventually going to bed.

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They had set up the night before. They had been tired from yesterday’s events. But even with that they still decided that they would still patrol, and train with what they could. The next day they had woken up early from the uneasy feeling they had been having being in a new place and all. They woke up and thought they would get a head start on the day/night. They all went up to the surface. Donnie also wanted to see if they could scavenge any more tech, from those weird robot alien things. They started going off jumping, and looking around before they saw the pink light they had seen a couple days before. They approached there with a bit more caution than the first time. They got to the alleyway, and looked down. This time it wasn’t Tiger Claw they saw a few days ago, instead it was a Fish dude and a skeleton looking dog thing. The Kraang were also there like the last time, still carrying materials.

“They got more materials!” Donnie jumped up for a second before being pulled back down by Raph.

“Yeah, but now they also have two mutants and more Kraang bots.” Raph was trying to keep a hushed voice so the mutants and the Kraang couldn’t hear them. But the dog mutant started sniffing the air a bit before calling out to his fish mutant friend.

“I smell turtle.” He growled out. The four brothers and April hopped down after the comment.

“You smelt right, skeleton thing?” Leo spoke the last part of the sentence more as a question. The skeleton dog lunged at Leo. Raph blocked the Skeleton dog from hurting Leo with his tonfā.

The Fish mutant went for Donnie and Mikey. Donnie uses his bo staff to push the fish back. Mikey quickly wrapped his kusari-fundō around the fish, throwing him against the wall. The fish hit the wall, and then fell to the floor, limp.

April was taking care of the Kraang. She was beating them left and right. She took them down pretty quickly, before grabbing a box. Donnie rushed over and grabbed the other ones. He and April went up to the roof.

Leo ran behind the dog mutant who was fighting Raph. Leo was about to strike him but hesitated for a second. Flashbacks of the gashing wound of Tiger Claw popping into his mind. He knew that Tiger Claw attacked them first, but if he could land that much damage on him, what could he do to the other.

Leo was broken out of thought when Mikey wrapped his weapon around Leo, pulling him back. When the fish mutant woke up again, charging at Mikey again. Leo pulled out his odachi again and cut off one of the metal legs the fish mutant had. The fish fell from the unbalance.

Mikey made Leo turn to him. “Hey, you’re not gonna hurt us okay. But you can hurt people who hurt us. Okay!” Leo felt like Mikey had just read his mind. Leo just nodded and turned back to raph. He used his odachi and grazed the dog mutant's face, in a warning type of way.

The dog turned and looked at Leo with anger in his eyes. Raph used the opportunity to push the mutant making him topple and land right on his fish friend. The dog got up quickly, picking up the fish and running off.

The turtles and April also went back and decided to keep patrolling around for a bit more. To see if they could find anything else.

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Donnie woke up to loud noises coming from the kitchen. He got up grogally and walked to the kitchen being greeted with Mikey making Breakfast.

“Heya, D. How did you sleep?” Mikey was just making some pancakes for breakfast. Adding gummy worms and jelly beans into his own. Also making some plain ones after his brothers refused to eat his.

“Pretty good.” Donnie walked over, grabbed the syrup, grabbed one of the plain pancakes and sat down.

“Now the real question is when did you sleep.” Leo walked into the room grabbing some pancakes and sitting down.

“Not too late.” Donnie shrugged.

“Yeah, sure.” Raph walked in.

“I’m telling the truth. I was so tired from cleaning up the whole Kraang mess that I went to bed earlier than usual.” Donnie finished eating and put his dish in the sink. He walked into his room and got his bo staff. His brothers did the same, grabbing their corresponding weapons.

“Let’s train so we can go patrol and see if the mutant did anything or if we can find any clues on what it is.” Leo walked into the dojo. Master Splinter was already there sitting under the tree meditating. He got up when he heard his sons walking into the dojo.

“Hello my sons, I trust that you all slept well.”

“Yes sensei.” They l sat down in their corresponding spots.

With April and Casey 2012

They had gone to the ice rink cause Casey wanted to practice. April had nothing else to do so she just tagged along. They had just finished and were walking towards April's house. When they passed by an alleyway with beaten up Kraang. April and Casey walked into the alley. April picked up a metal piece on the floor. “Hey, doesn’t this look like Fishface’s leg part?” She showed Casey.

“Yeah I think it is.” Casey took it out of April’s hands. April took out her T-phone and contacted the Turtles. It rang for a bit before Donnie responded.

“Hey Donnie, we found something suspicious.” She talked into the phone.

“Okay, we’ll be right there. Is whatever it is still there?” Donnie responded.

“No, but their mess is. I think they had an encounter with Fishface. His leg is here.”

“Okay.” Donnie hung up on the phone.

With the Turtles 2012

“Guys April says she found another mess caused by the mutant thing.”

“You must go my sons, see what it is.”

“Yes, Sensei.” They all get up. They all get up to the surface.

“Donnie, where did she find the mess?” Leo was waiting for Donnies response. Donnie pulled out his T-phone and typed up some things before answering.

“She’s near the ice rink.”

“Okay.” They ran in the direction of the Ice rink before stopping upon seeing April and Casey in an alleyway.

They all hopped down. Seeing the mess. Donnie walked over to Casey and grabbed Fishface’s leg. “This is Fishface’s leg. It looks sliced through.” Donnie ran his finger over the smooth cut.

“This means that whatever this thing is, it has weapons. Sharp weapons.” Leo said looking at the smooth cut that was through it.

Mikey walked over to Kraang's beaten bodies deeper into the alleyway. “Hey guys,” he called over to his brothers. “And whatever it is also has access to fire.” Mikey picked up a robot Kraang head. It was slightly burnt and melted.

“Okay so whatever it is, is strong, big, good with swords, or has sharp claws, and has access to fire?!” Donnie groaned in annoyance. Wondering what else this thing has in store for them.

“Well this looks newly burnt, maybe whatever made this is still nearby.” Mikey held the Kraang head higher.

“Yeah, you’re right Mikey.” They all quickly climbed up to the roof tops.

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They settled down on a rooftop after running for a bit.

“Okay we took care of them, is that enough tech for now Donnie” Raph looked over at Donnie who was rummaging through the boxes of tech. Some of the tech falling out.

“Yeah, I think so. I can at least make a few things right now with this. And if I need more we can just fight those alien things some more and get their stuff.”

“Okay.” Leo got up and stretched a bit. “Well my hermanos, what are we gonna do now?”

Mikey got up quickly. “We should see if we can find a skate shop and get some skateboards and skate around like back home!”

“Yeah!” Leo did finger guns towards Mikey. “Get a little taste of home!”

“Don’t you guys think we should spread out our “shopping sprees” so people don’t get suspicious?” April said adding air quotation marks when she said shopping sprees.

“Yeah, April's right.” Raph nodded his head. “Let’s just go back to our little hideout for now. Maybe tomorrow we can get some blankets to cushion the area we’re staying in”

Donnie picked up his boxes with his battle shell. Leo and Mikey had slightly disappointed faces. But just hopped down from the roofs. They all went back down to the sewers.

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They all got to the roof. “Let’s spread out and see if we can find anything. Raph with Donnie Me with Casey and April and Mikey. If you guys find anything contact us on the T-phones. Okay” Before anyone could respond Leo responded himself “Okay.” They all go off in different directions.

After a while everyone gets a call from April.

“Hey April, did you find anything?” Leo asked.

“I mean I’m not completely sure if it’s that suspicious but there are random Kraang parts on the roof we are on.”

“Yeah I would say that’s suspicious.” Raph answers, Leo can almost hear his eye roll through the phone.

“We’ll all be right there soon.” Leo hung up the call and started heading towards the direction Mikey and April looked in.

They all get there and look at the Kraang technology that was just chilling on the roof.

“I don’t think Kraang technology should be up here.” Leo picks up a chunk on Kraang tech looking it over.

“They now use Kraang technology?!” Donnie muttered.

“Donnie, what does this mean?” Raph was getting irritated on how long it was talking for them to find this mutant.

“It means that whatever made that mess, grabbed parts of Kraang tech. And they must be doing something with it. Now that they have access to Kraang tech we need to find them as soon as possible. We don’t know how this thing is going to use the Kraang tech.” Donnie explained.

“So we gotta beat up whatever this is faster?” Casey asked Donnie.

“Yeah basically.”

“Okay let’s do this.” Mikey punched the air in triumph.

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The next night they decided they should go out and get blankets to make the area comfier. They went out and decided to go to a supermarket. It was closed, they had decided to sneak in through one of the back doors. They got to the control room Donnie turned off all of the cameras before they all entered the building. Leo and Raph went and got blankets. Donnie went and grabbed some first aid kits. Due to them having gotten in two fights already.

Mikey went over to the food area grabbing some fruits and vegetables. He grabbed a reusable bag to put them all in. He was walking out before he passed by the department area. He saw a bunch of spray paint lined up. He stood there for a second, wondering what he could do with all of that spray paint. He was quickly taken out of his thoughts when he heard his name being called. He quickly went to the back of the store. “I got the stuff.”

“Oh good, cause the cameras are about to turn on again.” They all went through the backdoor and back down to the sewers.

They get back down to the area and just set it down. “Okay we got the supplies. Now we go on patrol. And hope we don’t encounter Tiger Claw or the other mutants.” Raph sighs at the end of his sentence.

“Hey, how about we just chill down here for today. Our other selves can handle all of that can’t they? I mean it is their dimension.” Leo flops down on the pile of blankets that they got.

“Their dimension, their problem.” Donnie was in the corner tinkering with the kraang technology.

“Yeah, and we can set up this space and make it more comfortable. Since we don’t know when we’re gonna get back home?” April put a reassuring hand on Raph.

Raph looked at April. “Yeah, you’re right. We can set up and rest a bit.”

April walked over to the pile of blankets Leo was on. Snatching one of them and starting to lay it down on the floor. Raph started helping April. Leo felt the sudden fall of his head, from the banket being taken off of his pile. He got up and started helping April and Raph set up the blankets.

Mikey walked over to Donnie. “Hey, Donnie, how's the tech coming along?”

“It’s different. The way things are set up has a different order. Nothing I can’t handle but it might take me a bit longer to get it perfectly right.”

“Oh, nice. I’m going out for a bit. I’ll be safe, I promise. I just have to go do something.”

“And what is this something?”

“SO at the store today there was an array of spray paint. I thought it could liven up the area a bit. So I wanted to go see if I could get some.”

“I think you should ask Raph before you go.” Donnie looked up at Mikey, then looked at Raph.

“I’m sure that he might let you go. Maybe.”

“I’ll try.” Mikey walked over to Raph, he stood right in front of Raph. “Raph, I have a question.”

“What’s up Mikey?” Raph looks up at Mikey.

“Can I go back to the store and get some spray paint?”

Oh, well I don’t know. Do you promise to be sneaky? And watch out for the other us? And come home as soon as possible?”

“Yeah! I promise!” Mikey’s eyes lit up. Raph looked over at the others for a their approval as well. Donnie just slightly nodded, working on the tech. Leo gave a thumbs up, April gave a smile and a nod.

“Okay, you can go. But be quick.”

“Yeah of course.” Mikey rushed out of the sewers and made his way over to the store they were at earlier. He snuck in there really quickly. Swiped one of the reusable bags and went back to the department area. Avoiding any cameras. He got to the spray paint area. He quickly grabbed a few colors he liked. He picked out two of each color he needed. He grabbed black, white, red, orange, purple, blue, and green. Grabbing a few shades of each. Filling up the bag. He snuck back out a bit slower than coming in trying to make minimal noise with a whole bag of spray paint. He made it out and snuck back into the sewers making it back to the area.

“See, quick and easy!” Mikey walked into the lair bag in hand.

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“Ugh, what could this be?!” Donnie slammed his head on his desk. “What animal is this big? If it’s a mutant what animal could they be?”
Mikey was spinning in Donnies office chair. “What if it’s a bunch of different mutants?”

“Mikey, then we would have at least spotted one of them. If it was a group it would have been easier to find them cause at least one of them would have accidentally dropped something. But no nothing!”

“What if they are ninjas, just like us dude.”

Donnie just rolled his eyes. “Why would more Ninjas be in New York? The Foot Clan were after us but found us pretty quickly. So why hasn’t it found us and attacked us?”

“But it could totally happen.” Mikey did a big spin before Donnie stopped him.

“I mean if I can find a bit of its DNA maybe I can find out what animal mutant we are looking for. But so far there have been no noticeable traces of DNA being left around. The best clue was the blood at the first alleyway that we found. Sadly I didn’t take any of that cause it was already dried up. But if it left fur, a scale, some blood. Then maybe I could run some tests to see what it is.”

“Yeah, D whatever you just said sounds correct” Mikey gave Donnie a thumbs up of approval.

“But how will we know that it’s the mutant's DNA? I mean from the messes it leaves, it puts up a pretty good fight with Shredders goons.”

“I mean if you have the DNA of the other mutants can’t you just compare to see if they have the same DNA?” Mikey just shrugs getting off of the chair slightly dizzy.

“Yeah you're right Mikey, I can.” Donnie started looking through all his files.

“See I am a genius.” Mikey tapped the top of his head.

When suddenly from the living room Leo yelled. “Guys time for patrol.” Mikey rushed out, Donnie came out a bit slower. Raph was already there with Leo.
“Let’s go beat up some Kraang butt!” Raph sounded ready to beat something up. He’d been wanting to show his strength since the first encounter with the beaten up Kaang and mutants in the alleyways. They all headed up to the surface. They climbed up to the roof.

They did they’re patrol. Finding nothing new, nothing on the streets either. They sat on the roof for a bit. Looking for anything unusual for that night. Until they spotted something running out of the roof of a shop.

“What’s that?” Donnie pointed at the mysterious figure running off. It had a big bag in hand.

“Maybe it’s the mutant. Come on guys.” Leo ran towards the figure. The others followed. But they weren’t quick enough. All they just saw was it jump off the roof they were still a ways away from it. They made it to the roof it jumped off of. But it was nowhere to be seen. They hopped down and looked around.

“Where could it have gone?” They looked around a bit looking for anywhere it could have gone. When suddenly from across the street they saw Kraang.
“Is Kraang sure Kraang knows where it is going?”

“Yes, Kraang knows where Kraang is going.”

The turtles walked up to them. The kraang looked at them with confidence but, you could notice they were a bit more scared than usual.
“Kraang, the ones called the turtles, are here.”

“Kraang can see that Kraang.” The Kraang bots took out their lazer guns and started shooting.

“Kraang does not want to be beaten by the ones called the turtles, so early after our last encounter.”

The bro’s charged at them. Dogging the shots and making it closer to the Kraang bots.

While Donnie was avoiding the shots he spoke up “ We haven’t fought in a while. What do you mean early?”

“No, Kraang remembers being beaten but the ones called the turtles.” Donnie froze for a second in confusion before jumping back in the fight. After they took down the Kraang, Donnie thought over what they said.

“Why did they say that we beat them up recently? We haven't seen them in a while.”

“Maybe they're a bit busted. Maybe it’s one of the Kraang that escaped the mutant thing. I mean we are one of the big enemies of the Kraang. Maybe their programming is a bit jumbled up so they thought it was us. ” Leo points out.

“Yeah, maybe.”

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“Okay now that you got the paint. No more going outside.” Raph was eating some of the strawberries they had gotten.

“Okay, but can I go tomorrow? Cause have you seen how bland it is out there.” Mikey motions upwards referring to the surface. “I can’t live in a world without colors! I might actually die.” Mikey dramatically flops down onto the blankets on the floor.

“Yeah, yeah. But when we go on patrol you can probably do something.”

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’m bringing the color of the world back baby! The people of this universe won’t know what hit them.”

“Well muchacho, what are you planning to paint first?” Leo was just laying on the floor looking up at the ceiling.

“I’m not a hundred percent sure yet. But I know it will come in the moment!” Mikey looked over to where Donnie was working. “Hey Donnie, how's the tech going?”

“Different to say the least. But so far I have been able to tinker a bit with all of it. The possibilities with this are immaculate though! It has a different energy source. And it’s strong! I wonder what would happen if I got my hands on the energy source?! OH! The endless possibilities!”

Raph got up and grabbed Donnie. “Maybe it’s time to stop tinkering with the tech.” Donnie was squirming trying to get out of Raph's hold.

“No, if I can figure it out I can find a way home or at least something useful.”

“Don, you were just freaking out about the energy source. Time to take a break.”

“Noooo. I’m so close.” Raph set Donnie down on the blankets a bit ways from where Donnie was working.

“You can work on it tomorrow.” Mikey went over and sat with them.

“Guys do you guys miss home?” Mikey suddenly said.

“Yeah, I mainly miss Dad.” Leo said, walking over and sitting down.

“I miss my mom. I wonder what she thinks I’m up to.” April was already sitting down. She had her head down slightly.

“They're both probably worried sick.”

“Yeah probably.”

“I wonder how much trouble we will be in when we get back home.” Leo let out a small chuckle.

“What do you think he’s up to?” Donnie is curled up, knees to his chest.

“Probably looking for us.” Raph looks up at his brothers. He smiles before pulling them into a hug.

“Yeah, you're right.” Mikey’s eyes started watering a few tears escaping his eyes.

Leo rested his hand on Mikey’s head. “Mikey, we’re gonna get home don’t worry.”

Mikey sniffled tears slowing down from coming out. “I love you guys.”

“Love you too, Mikes.” They separate from their hug.

“I know it’s early but we should go to bed. We haven’t been sleeping the best for the past few days. And we need energy if we’re gonna go color the world.” Raph lays down. Mikey, April and Donnie laid on top of him. Leo laid down next to them. Everyone except Leo drifted off to sleep.

After a while, Leo sat up and looked at his brothers sleeping. He had been staring at the ceiling for hours. He thought back to the conversation that they had earlier. His mind wouldn’t shut up. It was like everything was banging on the edges of his brain. It was telling him that it was his fault that they were stuck there. Even if his brothers denied it he knew that it was true. That it was him and his recklessness trapping them here. With no way back home, for probably months, years, maybe even forever. He flopped back down, rubbing his eyes. He let himself sprawl out. He laid there feeling numb, before tears started to emerge. His tears streamed down the side of his face to the back of his head. He felt like he couldn’t move, all he could do was cry. It wasn’t a wailing cry but a cry that came from his chest. A silent cry, his breathing became deeper.

Leo finally got enough, but he didn’t feel like it was him getting up. But he was still moving. He pulled out his Odachi and made a portal, he hadn’t used it since they got trapped in the new universe. Scared that if he used it again they would get lost again, but right now he didn’t care if he disappeared. He didn’t care if he got sent to a whole new universe, if he got lost, if he had no way back. He walked through it, dragging his feet, he felt heaving walking. When he got out through the other side, he saw that he was just on one of the roofs. He hadn’t gone anywhere, he just went to a roof. Why couldn’t he have just gone home, and not here! He didn’t feel bad anymore, no he felt mad. That he couldn’t do something as simple as getting them home. That he got them trapped here. That he can’t do anything to help them. He wanted to be blamed for this, he wanted his brothers to be mad at him for doing this to them. His anger quickly became loud sobs. His knees became weak, he fell down to his knees, loud sobs escaping his mouth. He just kept telling himself why are you crying, you caused this, why are you trying to play the victim. It’s all your fault. It’s all your fault. IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! When suddenly something hugged him. He turned to see who it was and there were his brothers and April. “What are you guys doing here?” He managed to croak out.

“I’m not the deepest sleeper you know.” Donnie, nudged Leo. They all let go of the hug except for Raph.

“Sorry, it took us a while to find, you Raph was freaking out.” April comments. Raph was still hugging Leo tightly

“He’s my little bro, you want me not to freak out?!” Raph flipped his head to look over at Mikey.

“Hey, were your little brothers too.” Donnie shot back.

“I would freak out for any of you guys.” Raph hadn’t let go of Leo.

“What’s wrong Leo?” Mikey looked at Leo.

Leo just looked down at the floor, before speaking up. “Why aren't you guys mad at me?”

“Huh?” April and Donnie over to Leo.

Leo pried himself off of Raph. “WHY AREN’T YOU GUYS MAD AT ME?!” His voice sounded horse. The others looked at each other confused.
“Why would we be mad at you?” Raph tilted his head in confusion.

“Cause I’m the one who got us trapped here! In this place. For who knows how long!”

“But it’s not your fault.” Mikey tried moving closer to Leo. Leo stepped back.

“Don’t act like it’s not! I acted carelessly! You guys told me not to do the Hachi Machi, but I didn’t listen to you and now we're stuck here!”
“Did you know this was gonna happen!” Donnie yelled over.

Leo looked up at Donnie. Donnie looked in his eyes, guilt. Leo truly believed that it was all his fault that they were stuck there.
“No.” Leo muttered.

“No, exactly! None of us knew that we would end up here!” Donnie was mad but not mad at Leo but mad that he thought that of himself. Even though Leo annoyed him sometimes, he loved Leo, they were twins. Maybe not biological, but that didn’t matter, they were brothers. “So stop thinking like that!”

Leo’s eyes widened when Donnie said that. Leo got up without thinking and ran over and gave Donnie a hug. Raph, Mikey and April soon joined after.

“Thanks guys.” Leo let out a deep sigh, he felt all those thoughts he had early fizzle out.

“Yeah, okay can we stop hugging now.” Donnie was squirming.

Leo let out a small chuckle, before letting go. “Yeah, let’s go back down to our temporary home.” They all went back down to the sewers. The walk there was quiet but not a bad type of quiet, but a comfortable silence. They made it back to the hideout. They all just laid down, Leo was exhausted from crying. The banging voices from his head, gone. So he laid down and instantly fell asleep. April and the bros followed, all huddled together.

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Rise
3rd POV
They all got up much more rested than before. “The blankets sure helped a lot.” Leo yawned.

“Yeah, they sure did!” April got up stretching. Leo looked over to Mikey who was looking through his spray paints. \

“Hermanito, what are you planning to paint? Cause you seem ready to paint the whole town.”

“Shell yeah I am! I still have absolutely no idea what I am gonna paint but still!” Mikey gave a quick thumbs up to Leo before turning back to his paints.

April got up and walked over to where they kept the food and took out an apple. She took a bit before sitting back down on the floor. “Well are we going on patrol today or are we chilling?”

“I think we should patrol and get better accustomed to the area we’re in” Donnie said back in his corner tinkering with the things.

“AND, I can also paint around a bit!” Mikey said hopping up.

“It’s also nice to get some fresh air for the day” Leo chimed in giving a thumbs up. They make there way up to the surface. Mikey with his bag of paint.

“How about you guys do a quick Patrol and I stay here and paint. Then you guys come back and see the finished product?”

“I mean we did beat up Tiger Claw, the fish dude, and the dog thing. Plus those dudes usually stay in the alleyways not on the roofs so if Mikey sticks to the roofs then he should be good.” Leo was looking over at Raph trying to convince him to let Mikey stay.

Donnie spoke up, “And again, crime can’t really follow us.”

“Okay okay, but stay up on the roof don’t go down. If you hear something hide. Don’t talk to ANYONE.” Raph made sure to emphasize on the word anyone.

Mikey was already back to looking at his spray paints. He had stopped listening after Raph had agreed to let him stay. He heard Raph finish talking, he looked up and nodded.

Raph nodded with Mikey before turning around getting ready to leave. Leo, Donnie and April did the same. Before they left Raph turned his head to look directly at Mikey. “Be safe”

“I will!” Mikey gave Raph a thumbs up. The others left leaving Mikey on the roof. He started taking out the main colors that he needed. He looked down the alley way for a second seeing another donation box. He thought for a moment, usually when he spray painted he would go home and rinse off the paint that got on him. But now that he wasn’t home he didn’t want to peal off spray paint from his body tomorrow. He hopped down and found a black zip up jacket, a pair of baggy sweatpants. He put it on when he saw a mask with a cool teeth design, so he decided to take it. He found some fingerless gloves on the side of the box. He put it all on, he felt cool.

He went back up to the roof, he looked around for a place to put up his idea. From afar he saw a billboard. He picked up the bag and jumped over. He landed on the roof and looked at the back of the billboard. It had this weird dude named “Chris Bradford,” and about some martial arts expo. It was basically peeling off of the billboard. Mikey grabbed onto a peeling end and ripped the piece off. It ripped the man in half and Bradford off. He looked at the space he could use now . When he was hit with a grand idea. He wanted to make a small thing showing that they were “meant” to be there and so it felt a little more like home.

He started painting, feeling the flow. he painted different color splotches of paint. Red, blue, and purple splotches all over lapping. When he finished with those he pulled out the orange. He wrote “MAD DOGZ,” then he put black outline on the letters. He stepped back. It was a pretty simple thing, but he was proud of it. For his first thing it was nice and he felt like it was right where it was supposed to be.

He looked down at his clothes he had been wearing. It was now covered with different splats of colors. He knew it was a good idea to cover up a bit so he wasn’t coated in paint. Though he liked how it looked, he decided that every time he goes out to paint he would wear this. He was finishing up when he heard someone running. He froze for a second and looked at where the sound was coming from. He saw a guy with hockey sticks on his back running towards him. Mikey quickly ran back to the roof he and his brothers were going to meet at.

2012
3rd POV
WITH CASEY

“Who is he to tell me not to look for this mutant!?” Casey grumbled. “The amazing Casey Jones can take whatever this mutant is.” He was running across the rooftops. He was on his way to the lair but decided to take a look around to see if he could find the mutant. He knew he was told not too but did he usually listen? No. So he was scoping out the area to see if anything suspicious was going on.

“I’m technically not doing anything bad if I don’t engage in it.” He was going on until he saw someone spray painting on a billboard. He forgot about the mutant and decided to go check it out. He was getting closer when the person seemed to freeze in place before running off and hiding. He just went closer to the spray painted billboard. When he got there he looked at the art.

“Woah, this is sick!” He looked around for the person who did it. “They couldn’t have gone far could they? Well I’ll just take a quick photo.” While taking out his phone he realized the time. “Shoot! They're gonna get suspicious of where I am.” Casey quickly took a photo and climbed down the building. He lifted the man hole taking another quick look at the painting before hopping in. He ran quickly to the entrance of the lair. Before he got there he took a few deep breaths to get his breathing back to normal. After a second he walked in.

“The amazing Casey Jones is here!” He strutted in. Mikey was sitting over in the kitchen working with gummy bears, sardines, and jellybeans. He saw Casey come in.

“Hey, Casey!” Mikey gave Casey a big but short wave before going back to his concoction.

Raph walked out of his room. “What’s up jones?” He walked over to Casey and gave him a high five.

“You know the usual, being cool and everything.” Casey laughed.

Leo walked out his room going to the kitchen to grab something to snack on. “Hey, Casey.” Leo gave a quick wave to Casey.

Donnie walked out of his lab mumbling things to himself. He seems completely engrossed in whatever he is working on. Casey and Raph were already on the couch talking. Donnie looks up and acknowledges Casey’s presence with a simple head nod. Donnie had slight eye bags. He walked over to the kitchen. Mikey gave him a wave, Mikey pointed over to a glass of water. Donnie gave a nod before he grabbed the glass of water. He quickly chugged it before going back to his lab.

Donnie made it back to his lab, he sat down and hit his head on his desk, before sitting up and working a bit more. “What could this be…” He was looking down at his notebook then looking back to his screen looking at the data. He sat there with no idea what that thing was. “UGH” He let himself sprawl out on his desk. When he heard a knock on his door. “Come in.” Maybe it would give him a slight distraction on this. He lifted himself up looking at the door.

Mikey walked in holding a plate with a pp & j sandwich. “Heya D, I brought you something to eat.” He walked closer to his desk and set it down, before throwing himself on to the beanbag in the lab. “Soo, how’s figuring this thing out going?”

“Not well.” Donnie groaned. “I haven’t found a single trace on what this thing could be. And it’s itching away at me like, like an, an ITCH.” Donnie rested his hands on his head. “It’s like it’s taunting me that I can’t figure out what it is! That whatever it is, is smarter than me and can figure out whatever it is easy peasy.”

“Well technically it would know what it is.” Mikey tried lightening the mood. Donnie just shot a glare at Mikey. “Okay okay! Not the time… Why doesn’t the B team go take a quick look around for some clues?”

“First off, don't call us that. Second, I don't think Leo would like the idea of us going out to look for that mutant thing.”

“Well we aren't looking for the mutant thing, we’re going to be looking for clues about what it could be. Or we could just wait for patrol and look then.” Mikey hopped off of the bean bag and walked toward Donnie pushing the uneaten sandwich closer.

“Let’s just wait for patrol so we don’t get into too much trouble.” Donnie took a bite out of the sandwich. He shivered at the feeling of the peanut butter on the roof of his mouth. He smiled awkwardly at Mikey. Mikey noticed Donnie’s slight discomfort.

“There's pizza in the fridge that might work better.” Mikey took back the plate of sandwiches. And walked back into the kitchen Donnie followed after. Mikey took out the slice of pizza out of the refrigerator and popped it into the microwave. Donnie just sat at the table, drawing circles with his fingers. He was quickly shot out of his daze by the sound of the microwave.

Mikey took it and set it in front of Donnie. “Bone Apple Teeth!”

Donnie looked back at Mikey confused, “Don’t you mean Bon Appétit?”

“Yeah that’s what I said, Bone Apple Teeth.” Donnie gave a quick chuckle before turning back to his pizza. He ate it quicker that he expected. He hadn’t eaten in a while, being busy with finding out what the mutant was but he didn’t realize how hungry he actually was. He got up and put the plate in the sink.

“Thanks Mikey.” Donnie looked over to Mikey.

“Anytime Donnie!” Mikey smiled back.

Leo walked in and yelled “Time for patrol guys!” Donnie quickly walked over to his lab grabbing his bō staff, and a few small plastic bags. He walked out to his brothers, all of them were in the living room.

“Let’s move.” Leo said before going off. The rest followed after.

Rise
3rd POV

Mikey went back to the roof. His brothers and April were already there looking around for him.

“I’m here! No need to worry! I just wanted to find a better place to put the artwork. BUT now it’s up! I almost got seen, but I was Speedy Gonzales and ran away. I painted over a billboard about this weird dojo dude. Um yeah, how was the patrol?”

“Well Mikey to say the least it was boring.” Donnie chimed in.

“HOLD UP, you almost got seen?!” April pointed out.

“Yeah, but I ran away and hid, they saw nothing of me. I mean look at me right now,” Mikey motioned at himself, “I’m in human clothes, they were far away enough that if they looked at me they probably thought I was a human, just spray painting. So everybody chill. I think they're gone now if you guys wanna go see my wonderful art.”

“Shell yeah, Raph wants to see your work!” Raph says.

“Let’s go then! I’ll show you guys where it is!” Mikey quickly turned around and started going where he spray painted. The others followed after him. After they made it to the billboard they looked up at it.

“WOAH, this is sick Mikey!” Leo held his hand out to give Mikey a fist bump. Mikey saw and quickly gave Leo a fist bump. "I can also agree, Mikey this is SICK!” Donnie replied adding a little emphasis into the word sick.

“It’s for all of us!” Mikey was bounced in excitement.

“THE MAD DOGZ!” Raph yelled triumphantly.

“This is really good Mikey!” April went over to Mikey and pulled him into a hug. Leo, Donnie and Raph, joined as well. They hugged there for a bit, just peacefully knowing that whatever they were going through they were going through it together. And that they would get through it all together. No matter what.

“As much as I wish we could stay like this forever, we can’t. We have other variations of ourselves that also go on patrol almost each night.” Donnie said squirming out of the hug. He could take some physical contact for a bit of time but still not a whole lot.

“Yeah, Donnie’s right we should get going.” Raph said, slightly letting go before he gave them another quick squeeze. April let out a quick chuckle, before the hug finally ended. They all hopped down from the roof. They went down to the sewers.

2012
3rd POV
They were all on a roof. Mikey was laying down on a power box playing on his T-phone. Leo was scoping out the area. Raph and Donnie were both just standing there. “There is nothing going on right now, fearless leader. Let’s just go back.”

“We never know when the mutant is gonna come out. We need to catch it, and soon.” Leo retaliated.

“It’s actually kinda worrying how Shredder's goons haven’t been around in a bit.” Donnie spoke up. “We haven’t seen them in a while. All we’ve seen from them is Fishface’s leg, and that’s because it was cut off and just laying there. Seeing as it was the mutant, they must have been badly injured. I wonder if they used the kraang tech against them. Or if they uses more of a brute strength kind of thing, or if they used both. Maybe they have some sort of increased intelligence or strength with their mutation.” Donnie started mumbling. The mumbling slowly getting more and more intelligible.

Raph went over and hit him on the back of the head. “Shut it, Donnie. We get it, it's strong.”

“Ouch! No need to hit me! At least I’m trying to understand this thing. All you want to do is fight that thing.”

“Yeah, what else am I supposed to do? Talk to it nicely?” Raph rolled his eyes.

Mikey sat up, “What if it’s nice! We can take it back home and hang out with it. Go on patrol, imagine having it on our team!” He was excited now thinking of the possibilities of this mutant being their friend.

“Or it’s hostile and tries to kill us all?” Leo looks at his Mikey. “We have to catch it, maybe ask why it’s been going around attacking the Kraang. I mean they have to have a reason on why it left those Kraang in pieces.”

“What if it was self defense?” Mikey was trying to defend the mutant. “I mean if a robot thing tried attacking me I would also beat them up if I could. Especially if they got mutated into whatever it is. It’s probably scared.”

“Scared or not, it could really hurt people. "it was a person too until it got mutated.” Donnie pointed out.

“Well either way it’s dangerous. Did you see what kind of damage it can do?” Leo’s tone changed slightly. It was becoming a more serious tone. “We are the ones who can do something about it. If we leave it to the people it could get scared of them and attack them. And then what, it’ll be all over the news. We don’t need the next headline to be Giant Mutant Thing Has Attacked Countless People. We’re already feared if we are even seen. Imagine an angry horde looking for mutants. We don’t need people looking for us and trying to hurt us. We are going to find this mutant and lock it, so it doesn’t hurt anyone.” Leo turned away taking a deep breath and looked back at his brothers. “Am I clear?” He looked back at his brothers, he looked like he hadn't slept in days. Donnie, Mikey and Raph just nodded. Mikey put his head down in defeat. Leo pinched the bridge of his nose. “I’m sorry, guys. Let’s just go home.”

“Yeah, let’s” Raph grumbled. He was the first one to climb down from the roof, then Mikey and Donnie. Leo stayed on the roof for a second while he was looking around. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He stood there for a few seconds, before he climbed down as well.

When they went to the lair, Raph made a b-line to his room. Mikey walked to his room, but with his head down. Donnie just went to his lab as soon as they got there. Leo just stood there at the entrance watching, before he also went to his own room. He flopped himself onto his bed and laid there sprawled out just staring mindlessly at the ceiling. He had been thinking about that mutant for a while. Thinking of plans on how to catch it. But how could he come up with a plan for something they haven't even seen? He rubbed his eyes in distress. He was exhausted, but he had to get a plan. He sat up on his bed, he decided he would just meditate on it. Master Splinter always did it when he had a predicament. After a while he started dozing off, before he slumped back and fell asleep, small snores escaping his mouth.

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Rise
3rd POV

“How am I supposed to get a job?! I can barely keep a job in my universe! How can I get a job in a different one” April groaned. She was walking around the streets of New York looking for a job. “Wait… HOW CAN I GET A JOB?! I DON’T EVEN HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO GET HIRED?! No bank account, no social security number, no phone number, nothing!” April just kept walking around New York looking for anything.

“Maybe I can get a shady job that doesn’t need anything?” She shuddered at the thought. “What if I get a smaller job? Like a pizza delivery person.” She had been walking around for a bit when her stomach growled. “Not now, stomach.” It growled again, she looked around and saw a nice noodle place across the street. “Maybe I can ask them if I can get something to eat.”

She walked into the small noodle shop. “Hello?”

An old man came out from the back. He had sunglasses on. April looked a bit confused before he spoke up.”Hello, what can I do for you today?” The man asks.

“I was just wondering if I could get some food. I don’t really have money on me currently. I can work for food if that would work.” April explained to the man. The man just nodded before answering. “Don’t you worry, I can get you something.” He started cooking in front of her. He finished cooking quickly, placing it in front of April.

“Thank you so much!” She instantly dug into her food. The man just stood there, thinking. April finished eating quickly. When the man spoke up. “I have a question for you. Would you like to work here? I can’t pay you money but I can pay you in food.”

April looked at the man confused. “Yeah I could really use it but how did you know I needed a job?”

“An old man never reveals his secret.” The old man chuckles. “My Name is Mr. Murakami.” He smiled

“April O’neil.” She stuck her hand out for a hand shake.

Mr. Murakami laughed, “Sorry miss, but I'm blind I can’t see your hand.”

“Oh, sorry!” She quickly put her hand down.

“Well O’neil welcome. And thank you, could you be in charge of cleaning? Such as the dishes and keeping the restaurant looking clean?”

“Yes, of course! Thank you so much Mr. Murakumi!” April smiled with joy.

The old man walked to the back, coming back with an apron. “Here is your apron for the job.”

“Thank you! Thank you!” She yelled excitedly.

“You can start later in the day. Go home, get washed up and then you can start working. There should also be a small hat like mine in the front pocket of your apron.”

“Thank You, I’ll be back later!” She said, rushing out of the store. After she went out she turned into the alleyway and hopped into the sewer. She ran to the area they were staying in.

“GUYS I GOT A JOB” She yelled running in.

Mikey hopped up and hugged her, “YEAH!” Raph joined the hug, lifting them into the air.

“Where did you get a job?” Donnie asked. He was in the corner still tinkering with the Kraang technology.

“At this noodle shop. It’s run by blind old man.” She said holding up the apron. “I’m not getting any money though…”

“So you're working for free?” Leo asked.

“No, he said we would get paid with food. We won’t have to steal anymore.” April gave a thumbs up.

“Oooo, nice what food you gonna get?” Mikey spoke up.

“I’m not sure, but I think I will get to take some food after work. I have work in a bit of work so I should start heading there. Get there early and set a good impression.” She waved bye to the brothers before going to the noodle shop.
She got there and walked in. Mr. Murikami was cooking. “Hey Mr. Murakami! I’m here”

“Oh, wonderful. Just go back and start doing the dishes. Thank you so much.”

“Yeah of course.” April walked to the back, there was a sink with dishes, a stove, and a small cleaning closet in the back. She picked up the scrubber and started washing the dishes.

2012
3rd POV

It was the day after the patrol where Leo blew up. They were in the dojo training. Leo hadn’t said a thing, he was even late for training. It was quieter than usual. Mikey wasn’t making as many puns while training. Raph seemed to be taking his anger out in training. Donnie seemed tired. Everyone was off on how they were acting.

When training ended Leo called out to them. “Hey guys, can I talk to you?”

“What do you wanna tell us?” Donnie rolled his eyes.

“I’m sorry guys. I didn’t mean to blow up at you guys yesterday. I’ve been trying to understand what is going on.”
“We’ve all been trying to understand what’s going on Leo.”

“Yeah, but it’s my responsibility to keep you guys safe. I’m the leader, I’m in charge of catching this thing while keeping you safe. I’ve been trying to come up with plans on how to catch it. I’ve been staying up and trying to figure something out.” Leo took a breath before talking again. “It’s still not an excuse for blowing up at you guys, I know. But honestly guys, I’m sorry.”

“Well Leo, you don’t always have to be our fearless leader, ya know.” Raph walked up to Leo and patted his back.

“Yeah Leo, we’re a team.” Mikey chimed in.

“We can all figure out what’s going on. Together.” Donnie nudged Leo.

“Thanks guys.” Leo started to tear up as he chuckled.

“Don’t start getting all soft with us now Leo.” Raph hit Leo on the back.

“Yeah yeah.” Leo said, wiping off his tears.

“How about we go to Mr. Murakami's to celebrate, after patrol.” Mikey speaks up.

“Yeah that sounds like a plan.”

“Okay, but what are we celebrating?” Donnie asks.

“That we’re gonna catch that mutant. TOGETHER!” Mikey yelled, jumping up.

“That’s exactly what we’re gonna do. Well we should probably get going on patrol.” Leo speaks up.

“Yeah, let’s look for that mutant.” Raph was already walking towards the door. “Beat you guys to the top.” He said as he ran out of the lair.

“Hey, no fair.” Mikey yelled running behind him. Leo and Donnie rushed out right after. When they got to the surface they climbed up to the roof of the building.

“Let’s look around quickly. I’m hungry!” Mikey pipes up. “I need pizza Gyoza right NOW.”

“Let’s just do a quick patrol today.” Leo says before he starts going off. The others follow, right after looking at the alleyways quickly before going.

Rise
3rd POV

April was cleaning up for the night after the shop had closed. She was sweeping, when Mr. Murikami came up to her.
“Thank you so much Miss April.” He said, handing her a bag of food.

“Please just call me April, and thank you so much.” Taking the bag gratefully. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” She went back to the back and took off her apron. She had found a spot where she could put her apron so she wouldn’t lose it at the “lair”. She walked out of the shop and started going back to the lair.

She got back to the lair, “Hey guys, I got the food!” April yelled walking in, holding out the bag of food. She checked her back pocket for her phone. “Hold up, where did my phone go?” She patted her pants looking for her phone. “Shoot I must have left it in my apron at the shop. I gotta go back.”

“Yeah, go we’ll wait for you.” Raph said as he swatted Leo’s hand away from the food.

“Thanks guys! I’ll be quick.” April dashed out of the sewers again. She booked it towards the noodle shop. She slowed down before entering. “Hey sorry Mr. Murakami, I forgot something.”

“It’s okay April don’t worry.” April walked to the back of the store and picked up her apron. In the front packet was her phone.

“Thank goodness.” She quickly put her phone in her pocket. “Now see you tomorrow Mr. Murikami.”

“See you tomorrow.” She walked out of the shop when she saw the 4 turtle mutants. Her eyes widened in surprise. ‘April stay calm, they can’t know how you are.’ She told herself to calm down. She just turned her heel and started running. She ran before turning the corner into an alleyway. She turned around to see if anyone followed her. ‘No one followed me right.’ She looked around for any signs of the four mutants she had just seen, before hopping into the manhole. She ran back to the lair. “GUYS GUYS!” She said running in.

“What’s up?” Donnie said, looking up from his tech.

“I just ran into you guys!”

“Huh?”
“Well not you guys, you guys, but the other versions of you.”

“Shoot, did they do anything?” Leo said, walking up to her.

“No, I don’t think they recognized me.”

“Huh? Maybe you don’t exist in this universe?” Donnie said getting up and going to where they were gonna eat.
“Darn, I wanted to see how cool I was in a different universe.” April said, also walking over to the food. After everyone sat down she opened the bag. “Well Mr. Murikami said these were called Pizza Gyoza.”

“Oooo sounds good.” Leo said, reaching for one. “Let’s dig in.” They took a bite.

“WOAH” They all said in unison.

They all started eating quickly, “This is delicious.” Mikey says in between bites.

“Mhm.” Raph said, mouth full.

2012
3rd POV

After a quick patrol, they were on their way to Mr. Murikami’s Noodle shop. When they saw a girl walk out of the shop. She froze in front of them, before running away.

“Huh, hopefully she thinks we were some kind of mind trick. I have no energy to go after her.” Leo sighs.

“Dudes, she looked scared of us but not about what we were but WHO we are. OOOOOO What if she’s a fortune teller!” Mikey says, wiggling his fingers at the others.

“Why would a fortune teller have a fortune about 4 mutant turtles? Especially one as ugly as you.” Raph says walking into the shop. They all walk inside.

“Oh, Hello turtles. How are you today?” Mr. Murakami said, walking around.

“We’re good, just hungry.” Leo was sitting down on the bench.

“Wonderful, I just made Pizza Gyoza.”

“How did you know we were coming? Are you a fortune teller? What am I thinking right now?” Mikey said, leaning closer.

“No, no fortune teller. I made some for a new worker here.” Mr. Murakami said, setting down the plates of Pizza Gyoza.

"Oh, really that’s nice.” Leo said, picking up one of the gyozas.

“Yes, she helps me with cleaning.”

“Woah no wonder you gave her free food, it’s so clean here.” Mikey said in between bites.

“Well there's only so much a blind man can do, you know.” Mr. Murakami chuckled. “But she is a great help around here. The turtles finished their food, thanked Mr. Murakami, and went back home to the lair.

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Apes had just left for her job, and the brothers were on their way to patrol. They were just sitting on a rooftop. Angelo and Don were sitting and talking about Kraang tech. Raph and Leon were standing up talking about what they were going to do after patrol today. When they heard a scream from behind them. A small turtle with a red mask jumped on Raph. Right behind him were three other turtles they were going in to attack Raph as well. Angelo, Leon, and Don got up and blocked them from getting to Raph. Don hit the turtle on Raph's shell.

They stood in a line across from each other. Don looked closely and it was the turtles that they saw in the sewer which were them but from this dimension. He was about to speak up but Raphael came running at them. Don took out his bo staff and blocked him. In the chaos Leo then ran into the battle going after Raph. Raph blocked him off and launched him back. Mikey caught him before taking out his bo staff and going into the fight as well. Angelo quickly stopped him from getting to Raph. Leo got back into the fight, Mikey right behind him. Leo and Mikey went for Raph. Leon blocked Mikey from getting to Raph. on and Rapheal were fighting when Rapheal knocked Don off his balance, and held his sai to his neck.

“Donnie!” Raph knocked Leo off and ran over to Don, throwing Raphael off. Donnie looked over hearing his name being called. Angelo used Donnie being confused and kicked him in the face before running over to Raph and Don. Raphael and Mikey froze for a second hearing their brother’s name from the others. Leon ran over to his brothers.
Don got up and whispered “Guys, they don’t know we’re alternate versions of themselves. We have to try and talk to them.” Raph gave a quick nod before turning to the others who were getting up.

“We mean no harm.” Raph said.

“Yeah, then why did you attack? HUH?” Mikey said his nunchucks were ready to get back into fighting.

“Well technically you guys attacked us first.” Don said, pointing at Rapheal.

Raphael just scoffed. “Well you guys are the ones who slaughtered the Kraang right?”

“Kraang?”

“Yeah! The weird alien brain things in the robots.” Mikey said.

“Ohhhhh, the thing I sliced in half.” Leon said, waving his blade in the air. “Yeah, that was us. It was also us who sent that fish dude and the dog dude running. Your welcome for being so cool.”

“Okay but why did you yell “Donnie” when the purple guy fell?” Leo asked.

“Cause that’s my name? Well not my name but my nickname. And I didn’t just fall, red held his weapon to my throat.” Don said.

Donnie looked confused, “That’s my nickname?”

“Oh wow never would have guessed.” Don rolled his eyes.

“What do you mean?” Leo was putting away his swords.

“Look at you guys and look at us. Isn’t there some type of resemblance? I mean I’m obviously more handsome but still.” Leon said, leaning on his sword.

“Yeah, colored masks, but what does that have to do with anything?” Raphael was starting to get annoyed.

“Woah, you guys really are dense. We are you.” Don put it quite plainly. Donnie’s face looked dumbfounded.

Mikey looked excited, Leo looked confused, and Rapheal scoffed, “How are you guys us?”

“Bro… LOOK AT US!” Don said, waving his hands in the air. “Blue Leo, red Raph, orange Mikey, blue Donatello!”

“Blue Donatello?” Leon asked snickering.

“Oh shut up Leo you know what I meant. Purple Donatello.” Don said side-eyeing Leon when corrected his mistake.

The 2012 gang stood there dumbfounded. When Raphael spoke up, “That doesn’t explain anything, just because you guys look like us doesn’t mean you're us. Plus you guys don’t even look like us, it's just the colors!”

“And names!” Mikey chimed in.

They were in a standstill, both groups looking at each other back and forth.

“Well what are we supposed to do to make you believe us?” Leon asked.

“Explain how this is possible.” Leo said.

“Well uhhh, Donnie.” Leon said, looking over to Don.

“What we have been able to figure out is we were portaled here from another dimension. I’m not completely sure how it was able to happen, or how to get back. That is all we know.”

“So this is like Kraang dimension stuff.” Donnie responds.

“Again we don’t know. All we know is that we are you.” Don looked over at his counterpart.

“You guys didn’t happen to come out of a blue portal?” Mikey asked.

“Yeah we did?” Raph said a bit confused on how they knew.

“HA! I knew it! You guys were like “No, that light was just your imagination.” But it was them!” Mikey exclaimed. “I was also right about them being good! I’m on a roll bro.”

“You guys saw us coming in?” Raph asked.

“Not exactly Mikey saw a blue light come from an alleyway but when we went to go check it out nothing was there.” Leo explained

“Oh okay.”

“Yeah and then the next day we saw the Kraang massacre. Then we thought you guys were a savage mutant thing. Then we saw what happened with the other mutants. So we were on a hunt for the mutant. Which we now know is you guys.”

“Yeah, we didn’t fully mean to beat them that bad, but what you gonna do.” Leon said, shrugging his shoulders.

“Oh, shoot guys, it's a tad late April is waiting for us.” Don said, pointing at the time on his phone.

“April came with you guys?” Donnie asked, trying to hide his excitement but not really doing a good job.

“Yeah, she’s super cool.” Angelo said, hopping onto Raph’s shoulders. Raphael was sure that Raph was gonna knock Angelo off, but when he didn’t he was confused.

“Yeah, she is. Well maybe we can continue this conversation tomorrow.” Raph said.

“Oh maybe we can have it at the lair.” Mikey said excitedly.

“Maybe, we’re gonna have to ask Splinter.” Leo intervened.

The Rise brothers looked at each other with a bit of confusion on why they called pops Splinter, and not a fatherly nickname. But they decided to ask for it next time.

“We can meet up here again and see what happens. We also have to tell April that meeting them didn’t create chaos.” Don said.

“Yeah, that sounds good. Uh… see you guys tomorrow.” Leo said.

“See ya.” Both groups went in different directions.

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NVM SEGREGATION

When they made it back to the “lair” , April was waiting there.

“Where were you guys!?” April asked, with a stern look on her face.

“Well, uh… We got ambushed.” Mikey started, April had a slight worried look on her face, “By ourselves. Like the other us attacked us.”

“What?!”

“Yeah, but the end of the world or ours didn’t happen so that’s good.” Mikey gave a thumbs up at the end.

“Yeah, no kidding. Well let’s eat and we can keep talking about this.” April said walking to the food.

“Oh, and we are gonna talk again tomorrow about what’s going on.” Mikey finished sitting down.

“Huh?!”

“Yeah, so no work for you tomorrow.” Leo said.

“Well, I’m gonna have to let Mr. Murakami know before we go.”

“See, everything is gonna be good.” Raph said. They all dug into the food talking a bit. They were more focused on the food in front of them.

2012
3rd POV

They made it back to the lair. They all walked in confused.

“Do we really believe them?” Raph said.

“Well what else are we supposed to do?” Donnie asks.

“They are clearly not hostile so I’m not sure anymore. But if we find out more about them then we might find something that can fully confirm it. But for now we do believe it. Guilty until proven innocent.” Leo was slowly making a plan in his head about what they were going to do about the newcomers.

“Are we really gonna ask Splinter if they can come over?” Donnie said, knocking Leo out of his thoughts.

“Ask me what?” Splinter seemed to appear out of nowhere whenever his name was spoken.

“We wanted to ask if a group of mutants could come to the base tomorrow.” Leo said leaving out the part that the mutants kept saying it was them from a different universe.

“They're nice and probably won’t trash the place.” Mikey chimed in

“They can help us with the mutant situation.” Donnie said, technically he wasn’t lying.

“If it can help with the current mission I believe it is okay.” Splinter said.

“Thank you, Sensei.” Leo bowed. Splinter went back to the dojo.

“Yes!” Mikey exclaimed. They all went off to their rooms to go to bed.

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They both arrived at the roof around the same time. 2012 was being a bit more cautious around the new group. While Rise was more laid back and relaxed.

“So what did he say?” Raph asked.

“He said you guys could.” Leo answered.

“Oh, and this is April.” Angleo said, showing off Apes. Apes just smiled and gave a thumbs up. Silently praying that they wouldn’t remember how she acted when she saw them.

“Your April?!” Donnie said surprised.

“Aren’t you that girl-” Leo started.

“Nope, wasn’t me.” She quickly responded.

“I could have sworn-”

“Nope.”

“So you're April. Woah, you look completely different from our April.” Mikey said.

“Oh really?”

“Yeah, she’s shorter, has red hair.” Mikey started describing her.

“Why don’t we just invite her over?” Donnie asked, trying to act cool but failing.

“You just want to see her.” Raphael pointed out.

“Well kinda, but then she can also meet her counter self.” Donnie said fidgeting with his hands.

“Well I think we could.” Leo said.

Donnie took out his t-phone. “I’ll send her a message!”

Mikey was putting his t-phone away. “I already did!” Donnie looked over at Mikey, shocked. “You snooze, you lose brah.”

“What did you send?!” Donnie asked.

“I said “Do you and Casey want to hang out at the lair today? Bring PIZZA!” I want them to be surprised with other us” Mikey said, motioning to the others.

“Well then let’s go to the lair.” Leo said. The Rise group just nodded and they all jumped off the roof. 2012 ran to the edge of the building. Seeing that they were okay they climbed down as fast as they could.

“Woah, that was so cool!” Mikey yelled.

“How was that possible? How do you not have multiple fractured bones?” Donnie asked.

“Different universes have different laws of physics.” Don quickly said. “Because we are from a different universe the way our physics works is different from yours.”

“Yeah so we do cooler things than you.” Leon butted into the conversation.

“Anyways, we can do things you guys might not be able to do. We still don't know all the aspects of how it is different. So you guys climbing down was a bit of a surprise for us as well.”

“Okay well let’s go down I guess.” Leo opened the manhole and hopped inside first the rest of the 2012 crew following after. Then Rise hopped down as well. They walked for a bit in a kind of silence.

When they finally arrived at the lair Mikey welcomed them. “Welcome to our friendly abode. We have the kitchen,” he said motioning towards the kitchen, “the living room area,” motioning to the living room area, “Donnie’s lab,” pointing at Donnie's lab, “and the dojo!” He finished motioning to the dojo just as Splinter was walking out.

“Hello my sons.” Splinter said. The Rise group was surprised at how tall he was. He was taller than Raph. Also the way he spoke was more bone chilling. “Is this the group you guys were talking about yesterday?” He said looking at the four turtle mutants.

“Yes, Sensei.” Leo said.

“Hello!” Angelo said excitedly.

“Well sensei we have something to tell you.” Leo was trying to find a way to explain the situation. “They are no ordinary group of mutants.” Leo started

“How so?” Splinter asked.

“Well they are us, but not us. Uh…” He looked back to the others to see if they had a better way of explaining the situation.

When Raph stepped forward and spoke up. “We are your sons from a different universe. I am Raphael.”

“I am the one and technically not the only Leonardo.”

“I am Donnatello.”

“I’m Michealanglo!”

Splinter's face turned from a calm one into a shocked confused face. Before going back to calm. “Well welcome to our universe. I am going to go back to mediating.” Splinter walked back into the dojo.

“Well welcome? Well we have a few questions for you?” Donnie said, walking over to the living room area.

“We have questions for you.” Leon said, walking nonchalantly.

They all sat on the couch. Rise on one side of the couch. Raph was sitting on the floor, Angelo was sitting criss-cross applesauce on the couch above Raph. With Leon and Don on both sides of Angelo, April sat next to Raph on the floor. The 2012 group all sat next to each other.

“You muchachos go first.” Leon said, pointing at them.

“Well I've been thinking about this. But why do you act so casually as Leader?” Leo asked, pointing at Leon.

“Me? Leader? No, I’m the face man. Raph here is the leader.” Leon looked confused.

“What?!” The 2012 group said.

“Who’s the leader here?” Leon asked

“Me.” Leo said.

“What?! Why am I the leader? Why are you the leader?” Leon reacted quickly, and confused.

“Cause I’m the oldest and because Splinter said I was.”

“We are for sure from different universes. Because Raph is the oldest and the leader.” Leon said, patting Raph’s shoulder. “And he’s the best leader!”

“Aww, shucks thanks Leo. But I do lead like a BOSS!”

“Hey guys we’re here!” April walked in with Casey, both holding pizza boxes. Everyone turned to look at them. “AH!” April almost dropped the Pizza boxes upon seeing the other four mutant turtles in the living room.

Casey peeked his head over April to see what she just yelled at. “Who's our new friends?” Casey asked.

“These are us from a different universe.” Raphael answered. Mikey hopped up seeing the pizza, helping April bring it over to the living room.

“Huh?!” This time it was Casey almost dropping the pizza he had. Mikey caught it right before it hit the floor.

“Why don’t you use those skills when we are training?” Donnie asked Mikey.

“Cause it isn’t for pizza, anything for Pizza bro.” Mikey said, placing the other pizzas in the center of the living room.

“Continuing,” Donnie said, turning back to the conversation. April and Casey just stood there processing what was going on. Donnie was too invested into the conversation to care. “I’ve had a question that has been rattling in my brain. Why do you guys all look different from each other?”

“Good question. I expected nothing less from another Donatello. Well we are different species of turtles. Raph is a snapping turtle, Leo is a red-eared slider, Mikey is a box turtle, and I am a soft shell turtle.” Don answered

“Is that why you wear that shield thing on your back?” Raphael asked.

“Yes, my battle shell.”

April and Casey were still a bit stunned but finally sat down. “Follow up question: if Raph's the oldest, who's second?”

“Technically Me and Leo are twins so we are both second oldest.” Don said.

“Well, technically I am older than you.” Leon said, chopping the word technically into syllables.

“Yes, yes okay. So it goes, Raph, Leo, Me, then Mikey.” Don finished saying.

“You and Leo are twins?!” Donnie said surprised.

“Out of everyone I would have thought it would have been Raph and Leo.” Mikey said, already digging into the pizza.

April leaned over to grab a slice of pizza when she noticed Apes. “Hey, you're the girl from the pizza shop.” April said pointing at Apes.

“Oh yeah! You're that girl that lended me money.” Apes said pointing at April.

“I knew I had a weird feeling about you! You said it was just my brain playing a trick on me.” April said, turning to Casey and pointing at him. “But it was because you are me!” She said turning back to April.

“Thank you so much for that by the way” Apes said.

“Of course!”

“Well are you guys done with the group questions for us?” Raph asked.

“Where is your amazing Casey Jones?” Casey asked.

“I don’t think we have one?” Angelo answered in more of a question.

“You guys are missing out from the Casey magic.” Casey said.

“Not much,” Donnie mumbled. No one heard him thankfully.

“Now was that all the group questions?” Raph asked.

“Yeah.” Leo responded.

“Our turn!” Angelo said slightly bouncing in his seat. “What do you guys like to watch? Like Lou Jitsu and Jupiter Jim!”

“Who are they?”

The Rise turtles gasp. “Who are they?! WHO ARE THEY?! They are only THE cinematic masterpieces of the entire world. They were a wonderful treasure to the world!”

“I don’t think that exists here…” Donnie spoke up.

“WHAT?! WhAt?! This is where I pass away guys.” Leon said, pretending to faint.

“No Leo No!” Angelo said, very dramatically flopping himself onto Leon.
Don went over, “I have a way to revive him, don't worry.” Don raised his hand and slapped Leon. Leon jolted up.

“It’s a miracle he’s alive.” Apes said, trying to suppress her laughter.

“Hey!” Leon said. Raph started laughing, so did Apes, Angelo, Don followed after.

Leon was still acting dramatic. “How could you have ruined the face man. This is a crime to me!” Leon said before bursting into laughter. The laughter died down after a bit. And they all went back to their original seats.

“Well now that we know that the masterpieces do not exist here. I have no other questions.” Leon said, leaning back into his seat.

“I don’t think any of us have any other questions either.” Apes said.

“Yeah, plus we should get going to our temporary lair.” Raph said.

“What if you guys stay here!” Mikey spoke up.

“Yeah!” Angelo said.

“It would make it easier for us to find a way back home. And you guys do have a better living space than us. Plus we can get to know ourselves” Don said.

“We would have to ask Splinter.” Leo spoke up trying to calm everyone down. “I can go.” Leo got up from his spot and walked over to the dojo. He walked in, “Sensei.” he spoke.

“Yes, my son.” Splinter was just sitting under the tree meditating.

“I was just wondering if the other us could stay with us until they could get back home?” Leo was hesitant to ask.

“I believe that would be okay for me.” Splitter replied.

“Thank you Sensei.” Leo walked back out to the living room.

“What did he say?” Leon asked.

“He said that would be okay.” Leo said, sitting back down to his seat.

“YAY!” Mikey yelled, jumping up.

“We can go get our stuff tomorrow. Thank you so much for letting us stay.” Raph said, getting up.

“Well with that we should get going, me and Casey have school tomorrow.” April said getting up as well.

April nudged Casey who was sitting slightly distracted. “Huh?” He responded.

“We gotta go, we got school.” She repeated to him.

“Oh yeah.” Casey got up. “See ya guys tomorrow.”

“See ya.” They all replied. April and Casey walked out, waving bye.

“Turtle pile?” Angelo asked, turning to his brothers and Apes.

“Turtle pile.” Raph answered. Leon, Don, and Apes all gave a nod in approval.

“What’s a turtle pile?” Donnie asked.

“It’s where we all sleep in a pile sorta. It’s more comfortable than it sounds.” Leon answered.

“Hmm.” Donnie replied in a low hum.

“Well I am off to bed.” Raphael said going to his room.

“Same with me.” Leo said, also walking to his room.

“Good night bros!” Mikey yelled.

Donnie also got up but instead of going to his room he went to the lab. “Good night.”

The rise group just laid down in the center of the room and went to bed.

Mikey got up from the couch looking at the Rise group in the center of the room all together. He gave a sigh, a small tear going to the corner of his eye. “I wish.” He mumbled, before he wiped off the tear. He was about to keep walking before a hand grabbed his arm and pulled him into the pile. Raph looked at him with a smile. Mikey smiled back, laying his head down. Then they all drifted to sleep.

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The Rise group had just woken up pretty early, still not being fully comfortable being in a new dimension. They were all getting up. But they all still sat in the living room with no idea what to do. Until Mikey woke up from all the movement, “Good Morning.”

“Good Morning!” Angelo responded.

“Sorry, did we wake you?” Raph asked, keeping his voice down.

“Yeah, but it’s all good. At least I won'tI won't be late to training today.” Mikey shrugged, and got up. He rubbed his eyes a bit, and gave a quick yawn. “I’ll gladly show you how we do things work down here.”

That’s when Leo walked out he was still a bit dazed from the last few days events, “Oh good morning guys. Didn't know you guys would be up this early. Especially you Mikey.” Leo said pointing at Mikey.

“Thank you.” Mikey said, shooting Leo some finger guns.

Donnie was the next to walk out from his lab. He walked out seeing all of them except Raph awake. “Good morning (almost) everyone.”

Raphael walked out right after Donnie said that. He took a quick look at the Rise group not saying anything.

“Well we usually have training first.” Leo spoke up, pointing towards the Dojo. “You guys can train with us if you would like.”

“Yeah let’s see how you guys can fight.” Raphael finally spoke.

“Oh, yeah! I wanna see how cool I can fight in this universe.” Angelo said, excitedly, punching the air.

The Rise group had just set their weapons on the side of them on the floor to sleep. They picked them up. The 2012 group walked into the dojo Rise following them.

Splinter was sitting under the tree meditating. When he heard his sons coming in, he looked up. “Hello my sons, and my sons?” He finished the second part in more of a question tone. The 2012 group sat in front of him. The Rise gang was standing slightly awkwardly, until Mikey waved for Angelo to sit next to him. Angelo sat down, his brothers following suit. “Since we have some new guests I want to see how they fight.” Splinter spoke again.

“How are we going to do it?” Don asked.

“We will have this universe, going against one of you guys to see how you were trained. It will be one from here and one not, and they will fight. Let’s start off with both the Raphs.”

Raph got up going to the middle of the dojo. While the others went to the side of the dojo.

The Rise group followed the actions of 2012. Except Raph who went over to the middle of the dojo standing in front of Rapheal.

Raphael charged into the fight thinking that Raph was going to do the same. Since they told him it was him. Raph did the same and charged in. Raph quickly threw a punch at Raphael hitting him straight on knocking him to the ground holding his stomach.

“Sorry little man.” Raph held his hand out to help Raphael up. Raph swatted it away and got up by himself. He clutched his stomach in pain. And went back to sit down on the sides.

Splitter was looking a bit concerned for Raphael. Before choosing the next two up. “Well then the next two are the Leo’s.” He spoke.

Leo stood up quickly and walked over to the center. Leon was still congratulating his own brother. Before he got up and stood face to face with himself. “Are you ready to go down Muchacho?” Leon said, pulling out his odachi and waving it around like it was a baseball bat.

Leo also took out his Katana’s holding them properly. “Well that’s not gonna happen so no.”

Leon went in first waving his odachi around before it made contact with Leo’s katana. Leo quickly knocked it out of Leons hands. Leon jumped back before charging without a weapon at Leo. Leo was ready to counter attack when instead of Leon throwing a hit on him he slid under Leo’s katana and made it behind him grabbing his odachi. He quickly hopped back up, “You can’t beat me that easily. I got my rad skills.” Leon said before charging at Leo again.
Leo again counter attacked and pushed Leon a bit back, before giving him a kick in the face. “Oh shoot sorry dude.” Leo said, walking over to Leon.

“It’s all good. Don’t worry it takes more than a kick to ruin this perfection of a face.” Leon said, getting up. He walked over and picked up his odachi.

Raphael stood up, “I want to go again but against someone else this time. Other me is twice anyone of us’s size.”

“It is not all about size or strength, it is how you use the other person's abilities against them.” Splinter spoke up.

“Please Sensei.” Raphael said, keeping his ground on fighting someone else.

“I’ll do it!” Angelo said, raising his hand.

Rapheal and his siblings turned to look at him. A version of Mikey volunteering to train? Never would they have thought it was possible. But there was other Mikey raising his hand wanting to go against Rapheal.

Don and Leon were shaking their heads slightly barely noticeable but still there.

“Yeah, I’ll go against Mikey.” Raphael said, lightly scoffing.

“If he wants to, I believe it’s okay.” Splinter said. With the confirmation of splinter Rapheal went to the center again.
Angelo across from him. He was slightly bouncing on his feet. He had a bit of pent up energy in him that really wanted to get out. And what better way than through training. He shook his hands out a little bit before getting into position.

Raphael instantly went charging at Angelo with his Sais. Angelo jumped out of the way quickly. Right after Rapheal took a step back being surprised to see Angelo just dodge instead of fighting back. Raphael quickly gained his composure, going in for another punch this time Angelo jumped over it latching his weapon onto Raphael’s sais. Angelo pulled his weapon closer to his chest, flipping Raphael with the sudden force.

He landed on his shell. Raphael was getting pissed he already got beaten by himself. But he was not looking at Mikey. His version or any other type. He got up quickly but he had decided not to charge instantly that time.

Angelo was bouncing everywhere he wouldn’t stay still. It looked like he was doing side steps, moving quickly ready to dodge another attack.

Rapheal stood his ground just staying there waiting for Angelo to make the next move. Angelo did get the hint and started moving closer still slightly sidestepping. Until he got close enough to flip over him and kick his shell. Hitting it a few times with his weapon, before jumping back again putting some space in between him and Raphael. Angelo had been noticing that Raph in this universe was a bit of a hot head. He knew he could use that against him.

Raphael got up again, rushing at Angelo with pure anger. Before Splinter spoke up “Ya Me.” His voice was slightly cold, showing that he was completely serious.

“What?!” Raphael said angrily. “I was just about to show him who is the strong one here.”

“You were gonna try beating him out of anger and spite, not for training.” Splinter looked over at the others. “No more training for today.”

“Yes sensei.” The 2012 groups said. Raphael’s voice being slightly annoyed.

The Rise gang had no idea how to address the other dad. So they opted with calling him pops like they do back home. There was no one to confuse him with so they just decided. “Okay Pops.” the rise said walking out. Leon gave Angelo a quick fist bump. Before they walked out.

They went out of the dojo, Raphael huffed as he sat down on the couch. “We tried warning you dude. When Mikey gets jittery no one wants to fight with him. He’ll be bouncing off the wall. And use his agility in any way possible, he mainly does it to get his excess energy out.” Leon said, sitting down next to Raphael. Raphael just grumbled. “Hey I lost too ya know.” Leon said, giving Raphael a small punch on his shoulder. “Don’t beat yourself up.” Leon said getting up from sitting down. Stretching a little before walking to the kitchen, where the others were. They were all sitting on the table while both Mikey’s were making breakfast. Both Mikey’s were just chatting about how things are different.

“You are also incharge of cooking in your universe?” Mikey said, mixing the pancake mix that April had brought the week before.

“Not fully, we all cook, I just enjoy doing so I usually cook if I don’t feel like it one of my bros does it that day or we get pizza.” Angelo said. “Do your bro’s help you cook?”

“Nah, they’ve tried but it didn’t end too well. Like one time I couldn’t and they somehow managed to burn water. So I’m always on cooking duty.” Mikey says, shrugging his shoulders. “I also wanna say sick moves in training today!”

“Thanks I’ve been jittery for a while and training is always a good way to get rid of the excess energy! Especially because there hasn’t been anything going on when we go on patrols.” Angelo said, taking the already mixed batter and pouring it onto the pan.

“Yeah, I haven’t seen anything major since you guys got here.” They were almost finished with making the pancakes.

“Well we do like keeping the streets safe even if they aren’t our streets.” Angelo said, flipping the last pancake.

“Well thank you turtle bro.” Mikey said bring the food to the table. Angelo behind him bringing the syrup and utensils. “Dinner is served!” Mikey called everyone to the table.

They all sat down, a stack of pancakes in front of them. Mikey and Angelo were the first to grab some. Still chatting, about cooking and how they got into it. The others were more quiet, just talking when they wanted them to pass the syrup.

After eating, Apes got her stuff and had to go work. Don also reminded them that they had to get their stuff. They finished eating and the rise group, with Leo and Mikey going with them. They arrived it was slightly far from the lair but not that far.

Raph picked up most of the blankets, Don grabbed his tech in the corner, Angelo grabbed his spray paints, Leon grabbed the rest of the things that they had in there. “I think that is all of it!” Angelo said. They started walking out of the “lair” walking back to the lair slower cause they had to carry the things.

When Mikey spoke up, “So other me you do art?”

“Yup, I do it to express my creativity.” Angelo responded cheerfully.

“That’s awesome dude with us. Our Raph does art the most, he doesn’t like showing us though.”

“I bet it’s really good!” They made it back to the lair. Angelo set the spray paints to the side against a wall. Don put his tech stuff next to the spray paints. Leon also put his things next to the spray paints. Raph set the blankets in the living room.

Apes finally walked in from her job. “Hey, guys!” She said walking in with two bags of food. “Sorry for getting back later than I expected. I kinda lost my way getting here. I’ll get the hang of it but for now. It’s all good, who’s ready to eat?” She said holding up the two bags.

“I am!” Angelo said, jumping up. Leo, and Mikey looked at her still with a bit of confusion on how different both Aprils were.

“That’s good cause we made a lot!” Apes said, setting the food on the table.

“We?” Leon asked, walking towards the kitchen.

“Yeah, you are looking at a girl who now helps with cooking.” She said, with a slight smirk on her face. “Well… at least I’m learning to.” she trailed off.

The rise group went to the kitchen. “Donnie, Raph, April brought food!” Mikey yelled. Don and Raph turned their heads as a reflex to their names being called. When they saw he wasn’t calling them, they turned back to the food. Raphael came out of his room going to the kitchen.

After a bit Leo got up and went to Donnie's lab since Donnie hadn’t come out to eat yet. Leo walked in, “Hey bro?”

Leo said, trying to get Donnie’s attention.

“Huh?” Donnie said, not looking away from his work.

“April brought food.” Leo kept talking.

Donnie finally looked up, “Aprils here?!” He said, starting to get up.

“Well, the other April.” Leo said.

“Oh.” He said, starting to sit back down.

“You still have to eat it’s a necessity bro.” Leo said.

“In a sec, don’t worry.” Donnie said, waving Leo off.

“When you say that you usually don’t come.” Leo said, resisting the urge to roll his eyes. “Just come on, maybe you’ll get to know more about your other self and his tech.”

Donnie looked up in a bit of confusion. “How’d you know I was interested in his tech?” Donnie said.

“I pay attention to my team more than you think bro. Plus it’s tech. The only other tech lunatic I know is Baxter Stockman.”

“Okay, I’ll go eat.” Donnie said getting up. Leo gave a quick smile before walking out of the lab.

Donnie right behind him. “You guys better not have finished all the food.” Donnie spoke up.

“Nah don’t worry!” Mikey said.

Both Leo and Donnie sat down and started to eat. When Raph spoke up, “Hey guys should we set something up so we know who is who?”

“Yeah that sounds like a good idea.” Leo responded.

“So who’s going by what?” Don said.

“What if we go by our colors like dad says?” Angelo spoke up.

“Why don’t we just go by our other Nicknames, Angelo.” Leon said, adding the nickname Angelo already had.

“Yeah, that sounds good.” Raph said.

“So we are going by Don,” Don said, pointing at himself, “Leon,” he said pointing at Leon, “Angelo,” pointing at Angelo, “And Raphie?” he said pointing at Raph.

“I ain’t calling any version of me Raphie.” Raphael said scrunching his nose while saying Raphie.

“Why not Raphie?” Leo said, trying not to laugh. He calmed down before proposing his idea, “Okay, well. What if you get called Raphael huh?”

“Anything is better than Raphie.” Raphael answered.

“Well now that all of that is settled we should get going to bed.” Raph said, getting up from his seat.

“Yeah, what if tomorrow we got to know ourselves.” Donnie proposed.

“Yeah that sounds like a plan.” Leo said. “What do you guys think?” Leo said, looking over to the Rise group.

“Yeah, for sure.” Angelo said.

“I would like to get to know me.” Apes said.

“We’ll let her know.” Leo said, giving a quick nod. They all got up from the table. They walked over to the living room area.

“Well I don’t know about you guys but I am dead.” Leon said, flopping onto the blankets.

“Oh no, I think it’s contagious,” Angelo said, giving a few fake coughs before flopping on top of Leon.

“Yeah, yeah but first we need to set up.” Don said, robotic arms came from his battle shell. One of them pushed Angelo and Leo off of the blankets making them land on the floor with a thump.

All of 2012’s eyes widened in shock. Donnies mouth was slightly open, “What?” He muttered.

The Rise group looked over at them, “Why so shocked other bros?” Angelo said, getting up from the floor.

“Extra arms,” Donnie said pointing at Don's shell.

“Oh, yeah. My battle shell.” Don responded. “Like I said before I’m a soft-shell turtle. More fragile the shell, the more protection for it. But I did add a few more components.” Don explained, a slight smirk on his face.

“That’s so cool bro!” Mikey exclaimed.

“I know.” Don responded. “I can tell you more about it tomorrow, me.” He said pointing at Donnie.

Donnie nodded excitedly. Don nodded back, before turning back to his brothers to help set up the blankets.
After they set up the blankets Raph was the first to lay down. Going back to doing the turtle pile. The others flopped around him.

“Well good night.” Leo said, walking towards his room. Raphael gave a quick good night before walking to his room.
Donnie hadn’t slept in a while so he decided that today he would go to his room. “Good night.” He said before walking towards his room.

“Good night!” Mikey yelled so his brothers that had already left could hear him. He turned to the Rise group, looking a bit nervous before asking, “Is it okay if I stay with you guys again?” He said.

“Of course, little buddy.” Raph responded, waving Mikey over. Mikey’s face lit up before joining them on the floor. They all laid there, and went to bed.

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3rd POV

The next day they were all set up in the living room. Casey and April are also there. “So do we all want to talk separately to get to know ourselves and just ourselves.?” Raph asked.

“Yeah, let’s all get a chance to get to know ourselves.” Leo said. They all agreed, both Mikey's went over to the kitchen, Donnie’s went to the lab, Leo’s went to Leo’s room, April’s and Casey went to one end of the living room, and on the other end the Raph’s.

Mikey’s

In the kitchen Mikey and Angelo sat there looking at each other in silence before they burst out into laughter. “So what does the fellow me want to talk about?” Angelo asked.

“I’m not fully sure. Well yesterday we talked about food and our brothers. So why not continue that conversation?”

“Yeah, let’s! So far from what I have seen of your brothers they seem pretty cool.”

“Yeah, they are. They all have their quirks and differences, but that’s what makes them unique. But what I have seen from your brothers and mostly your Dad they all are a lot more serious, about everything. In training it was like the dojo had a slight breeze on how stiff you all were.” Angelo stiffened his shoulders and released them while talking.

“Ha, yeah they can be a bit tense at times but overall they’re pretty cool. How about your villains, what are they like? I mean you’ve met a few of ours but how about yours?”

“Well they got mutated with the Oozquitos. There’s Ghost Bear, he was a professional wrestler before he got mutated. And now he blames us for ruining his career. There's Hypno-Potamus, he was a hypnotist. Repo Mantis, he has a repo business he’s half and half I guess, but overall bad. There's this worm guy, I can never remember his name,” Mikey tapped on his chin thinking. “Yeah, no I can’t remember. And there's the ones who weren’t mutated. There’s the Purple Dragons,”

“We have the Purple Dragons here too!” Mikey spoke up.

“Really! Are they also a tech club made up of high school students that have something against Don for undisclosed reasons?”

“No, they’re this gang that hangs around here.”

“Oh, cool beans, well more like half cool beans. Well before I forget, the non mutated one is also Big Mama, this Spider Yokai who runs this Battle Nexus thing.”

“Battle Nexus? Yokai?”

“It’s a fighting arena where Yokai fight. Yeah so she runs that. She’s a spider yokai who has a human form which is pretty cool.”

“We also have a spider mutant but is a weird old guy.”

“He sounds funky.”

“He is.” Mikey laughed. Angelo laughed along. “He called us karate frogs. And called Raphael's sais salad tongs.”

“Ha, I bet your raph got mad didn’t he?”

“Yeah he was furious!”

“Oh what I'd pay to see that.” Angelo said, wiping his tears away from so much laughing.

“If you’d pay to see that. Imagine seeing his screeching from seeing a cockroach. Funniest thing ever! Cause he legitimately screeched when he saw it. It was hilarious.” Mikey said laughing again. “And it had a little camera on him. Because it was one of Donnie’s experiments so it caught it all on camera. It showed a clear picture of his face. It was absolutely hilarious.”

“Oh, imagine that on a shirt.” Mikey said, both of their laughs and speaking becoming louder the more they talked.

“I asked.” Mikey yelled over both of them laughing.

“And how did your raph react?” Angelo asked between laughs.

“He was furious, he started chasing me around the kitchen.”

“Oh shoot, sounds like your Raph is fun to mess with!”

“A little but everyone here is.” Mikey said, the laughter dying down. “The only one I’d advise to never mess with is Master Splinter.”

After they both finished laughing, Angelo spoke up, “Oh yeah by the way. Why don’t you call Splinter dad, or pops, or a fatherly name. You guys always call him sensei, or splinter.”

“Oh I’m not sure. I guess we never did? I think it’s a sign of respect to him as our sensei. I’m not a hundred percent sure. I think it was Leo who started calling him that I don’t remember why though. Best bet is to ask all of us together so you get a real answer.” Mikey tried steering away from the question, brushing it off like it was nothing, but he had his own personal reason.

“Yeah, maybe,” Angelo shrugged his shoulders. “I’m sorry if that was an awkward question.”

“It’s all good don’t worry about it dude, Oh yeah, and what are Yokai.”

“They are like mutants but weren’t mutated. They are an already set species.”

“Wow, that's sick. Are there a lot of them?”

“There's a whole underground city, where they live. It’s called the Hidden City.”

“That's pretty cool.”

“It is! There's this Yokai, that created us using my pops human DNA. His name is Draxum, he also created the Oozquitos who are mutating people.”

“Oozquitos? We just have mutagen here, if someone touches it they get mutated.”

“Woah, for us they get pricked, bitten? Something like that and then they get mutated.”

“Woah, so are there some who are mutated and some that are Yokai?”

“Yeah, pretty much!”

“So you guys are Mutated, right?”

“Yup, the one who made us was a Yokai.”

“Oh that makes more sense. Hey, do you wanna see my room?” Mikey said, jumping up.

“Of course!” Angelo said, also jumping up.

Mikey started walking to his room, waving for Angelo to follow him. Angelo gladly followed.

They walked by the April’s and Casey. Angelo gave a quick wave to Apes, Apes waved back before turning back to the conversation her and herself were having. They walked into Mikey's room, “Welcome to my room!”

“Nice?”

“Why the weird reaction?”

“It’s messier than I expected…” Angelo said softly, trying to not say anything offensive.

“A bit, but what are you gonna do?” Mikey said, shrugging his shoulders before throwing himself onto his bed.

“I mean it’s not that messy, just messier than mine.”

“Come on, let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about your lair!”

“Yeah, okay.” Angelo sat down on Mikey's bed. “Well our lair has more color, thanks to me. Uh we have a skate ramp, our own rooms. We got Donnie's lab as well. It has our rooms, a dojo, a tv room, and a kitchen. Basically your but instead it’s taller, add the ramp, and add colors.”

“You have a skate ramp?! One time we skated in the lair and Splinter wasn’t too happy.” Mikey gave a small chuckle.

“Yeah, we all have our own personalized skateboards. Oh and that reminds me we wanted to find a skate shop to grab some skateboards and go skate around the city!”

“Really! Me and my bros should totally join you guys. We also have our skateboards, we don’t usually go out and skate that much anymore but hopefully with you guys here they’ll say yes!”

“Yeah, that would be awesome!”

Leo’s

Leo and Leon walked into Leo’s room, Leon sat on the floor upon coming in while Leo went and sat on his bed. “Your room is really tidy ain't it little me?”

Leo was fidgeting with his hands, he had a few questions he wanted to ask. He looked at Leon for a second giving a simple, quiet, “yeah.”

Leon could feel the slight discomfort from Leo, so he decided to change the subject a little bit to ease the mood. “So little me, what do you want to talk about, huh?” Leon asked, finally breaking the silence after a while.

“Uh there has been a question that has been lingering in my mind for a bit. What are you?”

Leon looked confused and slightly offended, Leo saw the reaction he was given and immediately waved his hands in an X formation, “No no, I don’t mean it like that. Not what are you but who you are for the team. For me I’m the leader, that’s what I am and I can’t see myself being anything else.” He corrected himself.

“Well if you can’ tell I’m obviously the face man.” Leon said motioning to his face, but Leo didn't laugh, he just kept a straight face looking at Leon waiting for a real answer. “Okay, okay. Real answer is that we don't really have set roles. I mean yes, Raph is the leader, but he doesn’t fully do it alone. We all work together, we all kinda mush together. We’re brothers, we fight together, and we usually fight the same fight.”

“Yeah, but everyone is so different. How do you guys find plans that go all together?”

“Well I think we’ve known each other for so long, so well that we can just make it work naturally. We know each other better than anyone I think. Plus we usually plan things out all together anyways, so we all pitch in ideas and see what we can do.”

Leo looked a bit confused. “Huh, so you even hear Mikey’s ideas as well?”

“Yeah why wouldn’t we?”

“Cause he comes up with obscure things that are mostly all jokes. He doesn’t take planning all that seriously. He’ll get his ideas from his comics. Sure some of them end up going well, but is that really a whole solid plan? The plans that Mikey has come up with aren’t really the most secure, it's more childish than anything.”

“Yeah, but sometimes you need that. In the plans that whatever he said, they worked didn’t they? And would you or anyones else on the team be able to come up with the plan he came up with?”

“Well yeah they did work. But it was risky and things could have gone totally wrong on those missions, someone could have gotten hurt, or something else could have happened, because they were so obscure.”

“Well I think being a ninja in general is risky. Plus you still trusted his plans enough to go through with them. You saw the plans he gave out and even though they were obscure you still did them. Now, that’s saying something.”

“Yeah I mean he is my brother what was I supposed to do?”

“You could have not. But then that brings up the big question. If you wouldn't have done his plan would something else happen? Would it have not worked?” Leon was proudly defending Mikey. It might not be his brother exactly but it was close enough for him to feel the need to defend him.

“Probably not.” Leo was rubbing his arm in slight defeat.

“Exactly,” Leon said, sing songy. “You don’t always have to do everything to keep your title of leader you know. Your brothers are always gonna be there for you. That’s what brothers are, your friend that you don’t know how they got there but there and not gonna leave.”

“Yeah, they are.”

“So stop putting unnecessary pressure on yourself. It gives you wrinkles.”

“Ha, thanks.”

“No, it really gives you wrinkles. Then you’ll look older than you actually are.”

“Who exactly is gonna see and care if I look older than I actually do?”

“You, yourself, ME! Anyone who is me has to look amazing.”

“I do look amazing.”

“The more I look at you the more I can see that you're the oldest.” Leon said plainly.

“No, actually?!”

“Yup, my man you do.”

Leo’s face scrunched up for a quick second. Leon noticed, he knew something was up. “What was that?” Leon said, pointing at Leo’s face.

“What do you mean?” Leo hoped that Leon wasn’t referencing the motion that he unconsciously did.

“I mean the face scrunching thing. Right after I said “my man” that thing.”

“Oh, it’s nothing.” Leo swatted his hand at Leon.

“Are you sure? I mean I am you. So you can tell me, I won't judge.”

“You sure you won’t judge.”

“98% sure.”

“What do you mean 98% sure?!”

“I don’t know. I just think some things, I would judge you, like your wrinkles.”

“I don’t look older.”

“Sure ya don’t. ANYWAYS spill, tell me what’s up.”

“No telling the others.”

“No telling the others, this can stay between the Leo’s.”

“Okay, uh, how do I say this?”

“Just say it in a way that makes sense for you.”

“Okay, well then. Do you ever not feel like yourself in your own skin? When people call you one thing, but it just doesn’t feel right. But you're not sure why?”

“Yeah?”

“When people use he/him pronouns it doesn’t feel all that right to me.”

Leon’s eyes widened, “What?!”

Leo’s eyes welled up, he knew that was gonna be something he would be judged for. It didn’t matter who it was he was telling he was gonna be judged harshly for it. “So that was in the 2%, huh.” He lowered his head.

“No, no, sorry if I made it seem that way but that’s not it at all.”

“Huh?” Leo’s head shot up.

“Yeah, sorry. But just to make sure what pronouns you would rather be called.”

“She/her?” Leo said, in a more questioning tone.

Leon did a dramatic gasp, “You took my gender!”

“What do you mean?” Leo looked shocked at what Leon just said.

“This whole thing happened to me as well. But the other way around.”

“We switched genders. I used to be a girl.”

“What!?”

“Yeah, maybe there was a mishap with the universes that switched it up on us.” Leon gave a small chuckle.

“Yeah,” Leo gave a small chuckle as well.

Donnie’s

They walked into the lab, Don looked around for a second. Donnie walked over to his chair and sat down. Don just stood there before he spoke up, “Why do you fight with a stick?”

Donnie’s face lit up, “That’s what I’ve been saying.” Donnie went back to normal, before he talked, “With that being said, I wanna ask about your tech.” Donnie said, getting right into the point.

“Hmm?” Don hummed in response.

“So going off of yesterday, your battle shell. What do you have in it? I’ve seen the robot arm things. But what else is there? Also what material is it made out of? What do you use to program it? I’ve also seen your Bo staff. Is it made out of tech or is it just a style choice? If it is tech what components does it have?”

“My battle shell has a lot of different components. But the way it all works is that it is voice, or using yes me tech bo staff to do certain commands. I can take it off and all of that. It has a compartment for my bo staff when I am not using it. It’s near the bottom and I can call it out but using my tech watch, or voice command. I can fly with it, shoot lasers, it can have a small speaker set up. The robotic arms, with them I can also make them channel electricity to taser someone. With my tech bo it also has a lot of things, a grappling hook, selfie stick, a mallet, a tennis ball cannon, dual rockets, turtle tank tracker, a fire extinguisher, a drill head, chainsaw, circular saw, clothing rack, a laser gun, a tranquilizer gun, a multi tool, a concrete mixer, a cane, a feather, a jack hammer, ect. Ect.”
Donnies eyes were wide open, jaw dropped.

“Oh and they are all made out of titanium to answer your other question.” Don said.

Donnie's mouth closed but his eyes went wider. “T-Titanium?”

“Yeah.”

“How did you get titanium?” Donnie asked, trying to calm himself down from the shock.

“I have my ways.”

“What do you mean by ways?”

“I think that’s enough about me. So what about your tech?” Donnie said quickly changing the topic.

“Well my tech isn’t made out of any fancy material I get most of my things from the junk you find around.” Donnie said scratching his head nervously, he wanted to make a good impression on other him.

“Oh nice, I do that from time to time. Or we just go hangout at the junkyard. That’s actually where we were going home from. Then we ended up here.”

“That’s cool! Oh yeah about that, you guys never told us how you guys got stuck here.” Donnie said tilting his head to the side.

“Oh we were going home from chilling at the park when Leo was complaining about how his feet hurt from walking so he used his odachi to teleport us but then we got here and not home.” Don responded.

Donnie looked bewildered, “Did you say teleported?!”

“Yeah. You guys aren’t able to do all that, are you?”

“No. I don’t think that's a normal thing to be able to do in general. The closest thing we have to that is the Kraang portals. And we don’t have full access to them, we just randomly find them around town. Even then they don’t send you wherever you want to go but instead it takes you to a kraang place, wherever that might be.”

“Well you are right that it isn't the most normal thing. But it is pretty frequent in out universe.”

“So how does the whole teleporting thing work?”

“By using Mystic Energy, they are typically found in the Yokai community, but can be used by humans. Mystic Powers can range with a bunch of different uses. You can have supernatural powers, but it can also be used to make potions, mystical objects, and portals. The powers can range from powerful to petty. With us we have the Hamato Ninpo. When we unlocked it allowed us to tap into our mystic powers. We all have different powers, except we all are able to generate our weapons.”

“Woah.”

“Yeah. How about you how's your universe like?”

“Compared to yours, it's a bit boring. We have saved the earth and New York.”

“Yeah, that’s definitely boring.” Don sarcastically rolled his eyes.

Donnie tapped his fingers on his knees, “Well we also fight people such as the foot clan, The purple dragons, the Kraang, and the other mutants, like FishFace, Razhar, Snakeweed, Baxter Stockman. And the worst of all the Shredder.” Donnie had a tinge of distast in his voice when he brought up The Shredder.

“How about your tech? How's that?”

“Well like I said before, most of my things come from the junkyard or from the Kraang. I tinker around a lot making new gadgets for the team. I made a robot guy, Metalhead. He’s a pretty powerful fighter, but not the best Ninja. He’s pretty heavy, making it hard for him to move around quietly.”

“Sounds like my son!” Don spoke up, having starry eyes from mentioning his creation.

“YOU HAVE A SON?!” Donnie yelled, surprised.

“Well not exactly he’s a robot, S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. he’s my wonderful son. Now thinking about it, I wonder how he's doing. Hopefully he’s not too worried.” Don tapped his chin thinking about S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. “Oh, sorry I interrupted you. Continue.” Don motioned for Donnie to continue on what he was saying.

“Well that’s mostly all the big things I have on my tech currently. I have made some sort of retro-mutagen. Well Mikey made it, sorta.” Donnie muttered the last bit.

“Really? We haven't really thought of that. Since most of us have a place to go after you get mutated. It’s not a whole thing in our universe. Most people think it’s a costume.”

“Wait, so you've gone out in public? Not hiding?”

“Yeah, I went to school once. Didn’t make the best impression with certain people.” Don gave a slight shrug.

“You have gone to school! While school was going on?!”

“Yeah, sometimes I tag along with Apes to go to school. Rarely though, kids can be weird.” Donnie shivered at the thought of it. “But based on your reaction you don’t visit school do you?”

“No, but how cool would it be if I could. The things I would learn, I would probably already know all about it but still. The tech, the people, the tech, i think it would be an absolute dream come true.” Donnie had gotten up from his seat and had started pacing. Until he threw himself back onto his chair. “And going with April to school, wow just wow that would be a dream come true. Imagine spending a whole day with April, walking around with her, helping her with her books, eating lunch together, the whole shabang!” Donnie looked like he was love sick talking about it. Moving around all swiftly and acting it out as if it were happening right there.

Don had a face of disgust planted on his face, as Donnie talked, then he spoke up, “Huh?”

Donnie looked over to Don, “What? Why are you looking at me like that?” Donnie sat back down in his seat.

“Your whole spiel about April.” Don said pointing around the area Donnie was just pacing and acting in.

“Um, yeah? Sorry, another question: do you like your April?”

“Yeah I mean she's a great person but the way you're talking about your April. If your asking in that way, No. April is like a sister to me.”

“Ha, well different worlds I guess.” Donnie said, scratching his arms, and chuckling nervously.

“Yeah, guess so. Also don’t scratch your arms too much.” He pointed down to Donnies arms.

“Oh, yeah, sorry bad habits.” Donnie shot his arms down quickly.

“Hey, don’t worry. I’m talking from personal experience. If you scratch too much, red skin, slight peeling, a bit of blood. It’s not the funnest. Plus when your brothers see you they’ll interrogate you.” Don rolled his eyes in an endearing way.

“Ha, different worlds indeed.” Donnie mumbled, turning

April’s ft. Casey

The April’s and Casey sat on the stairs of the entrance. “Well then, tell me a little bit about yourself.” Apes started.

“Well what do you wanna know?”

“How about how you met the turtles?”

“Oh well I met them when me and my dad were being kidnapped. They tried helping us but didn’t do so well. But they later came to help me escape but it took a bit to get my dad back. When he did he got transformed into a bat mutant. I didn’t talk to the turtles for a while after that…. But then they found a retro-mutagen and brought him back! Which was wonderful. And yeah that’s basically it.”

“Woah, your sounds more interesting than mine. I just met them and became really close with them and now they’re my family. So how old were you when you met them?”

“I was sixteen.”

“Really?! I met them when I was a kid.”

“So you are practically family then.” April gave a small chuckle.

“I found out about the turtles when I was fighting the purple dragons.” Casey butted in,

“It was three against one. I took them all down with ease, Blam! Bam! When Raph came down and stopped me from finishing them. I was on board with the whole mutant business back then so we fought. Anyways after a bit I got to know the turtles and with April being their friend, I decided that they were cool enough for Casey Jones to know.” Casey, shooting finger guns at the end of his story.

“Woah, that's interesting. You fought a bunch of teenagers from a tech club.” Apes said, stifling a laugh.

“Huh?”

“The purple dragons, their teenagers who are all in a tech club at my school. Who all have a grudge against Donnie.”

“Who doesn’t have a grudge on Donnie.” Casey mumbled.

“Well here they’re this city gang.” April said, ignoring Casey's comment.

“Wow, crazy how so many things can change from one place to the next while still being similar.”

“Yeah, it is really weird.”

“So what other things are going on in this New York?” Apes asked.

“Well the foot, we got the kraang, we got shredder, and his goons. The guys go out and fight them. I don’t go out as much, cause I’m not fully trained yet. I usually stay here and train with Master Splinter.”

“Really?! I almost always go with them.”

“Really!? I wish I could, but they also have more stamina than me considering they are mutants.”

“True, but I usually just ride with Don, or at least try to keep up.”

“Ride with Donnie?”

“He has this tech that allows me to ride on his battle shell with him.”

“Huh, that’s really cool, Donnie really cares about you.”

“Yeah, he’s like a brother to me.”

“My Donnie keeps giving hints that he likes me, so does this kid.” Apes, points back at Casey.

“Of course, red. Of course I am obviously the better choice.” Casey said, hearing his name.

“Yeah Yeah,” April swats him away.

“Really?” Apes face contorts. “Don, would never. Plus I’m already dating someone.”

“Really! Who?” April leans in, intrigued on who she’s dating in the other dimension.

“My wonderful girlfriend, Sunita.”

April's eyes went wide, so did Casey’s. “You have a girlfriend?” April sputtered out.

“Yeah.”

“Woah, wouldn't think red would have a girlfriend.”

“Yeah, same a shock for me too, so how’d you meet her?”

“She was a new girl at school, I wanted at least one normal friend. But it turns out she was also a yokai.” Apes shrugged her shoulders, “But she’s still the sweetest person.”

“I had a sorta similar experience, where I had a friend but turns out she was a Kraang robot.”

“Woah.”

Raph’s

Raphael looked at Raph who was sitting on the floor, “Let’s get this straight, how do you manage to be leader? Cause I’ve tried and all I’ve managed to do was get someone hurt. And when I needed to lead I just froze there. I heard them asking me what to do and how to do it and I couldn’t do anything. It’s like my mind went blank, I couldn't think, I couldn’t speak. Mikey was knocked out, and I didn’t know what to do. I froze like a coward. My mind just couldn’t think under all the pressure.”

“Well yeah it’s hard being leader. You have to think quickly, and efficiently to make sure no one get’s hurt. The constant yelling in your head when you are leading. But I think the way I can do this without going completely insane is my brothers. They help me figure things out. I know the constant pressure you get when your leader. Taking care of everyone and always making sure they are okay. It’s a lot.”

“Yeah, but even when I don’t freeze my anger always gets to my head and I blow up.”

“Well anger is a common emotion. Everyone gets angry. It’s how you control that anger.”

“I’ve tried! But my brothers always push my buttons and get me all mad again! It’s like they enjoy making me mad!” Raphael huffed.

“I don’t think they enjoy making you mad. They all seem to care about you. I mean you guys are all brothers right? And brothers take care of each other. I mean sometimes you need a way to let out your anger instead of taking it out on someone. I like to knit, crochet, and sew to relieve my anger, pressure and anxiety after a hard day. Sometimes I can’t and I do blow up. But I try not to. That’s what my brothers appreciate the most about how I am trying. But anger is a regular everyday emotion. Some people just have a harder time trying to control it”

“Yeah, I guess”

“Do you have something that helps you calm down sometimes?” Raph asked.

“Well I like to draw sometimes.” Raphael shrugged,

“Well then you can channel your anger there. Draw or paint what you're feeling. Angelo does that too. Even here with all his nervousness being pent up about being here he decided to do a bit of spray painting to liven up your universe.” Raph said. “Everyone copes in a different way. You might just need time to figure out what works for you.”

“Yeah maybe you're right.” Raphael rubbed his arm awkwardly.

“Raph is always right. But actually, find your relaxer, whatever that may be.”

“Yeah, but if I’m not the angry, tough guy, who am I for the team?”

“You're a brother.” Raph leaned back.

“Yeah, but for the team!”

“Let me tell you something. Your team is your brothers and they are who is gonna back you up when times are tough. So it doesn’t fully matter what role you are, as long as you are doing what you can to protect your team. Your team, your brothers.”

“Thanks, I’ll try.”

“Of course. Any other questions?”

“Why are you so tall?”

Raph looked a bit confused on why that would be the first question. “Well I am a different type of turtle than my brothers. I guess it’s a big turtle.” He just shrugged.

“How come I’m stuck being this height!”

“Hey, being tall isn’t all it’s cut out to be.”

“I bet it’s better than being this height.”

“Yeah but you have to be a lot more cautious, trust me little man, it’s not all that great.”

Raphael glared up at Raph, “I know you did not just say that.”

“What did I say?”

“I may be short but I can bite your kneecaps.”

Both Raphs got up from where they were sitting, “Come at me little man. Or do you remember training earlier.”

“You did not just bring that up.”

Rapheal charged at Ralph’s legs. Trying to tackle him rugby style. Raph didn’t move until Rapheal stepped on his foot, hard. “Ouch.” Raph moved his foot to steady his ground. He knocked Raphael off his foot. Both Raph’s gave a small chuckle, before falling to the floor with a thump.

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3rd POV
“Why were my better men out for so long?!” Shredder's voice boomed. Fishface, Razhar, and Baxter Stockman were all kneeling down in front of the Shredder. Karai and Tiger Claw standing next to them.

“Sorry, Shredder. But there's these new mutants roaming around, they smell like turtles, but when they came down. They did not look like the turtles we know of. And they were also different in the way they are built.” Razhar said.

“But the reason they beat us is that, they caught us by surprise but it won’t happen again.” Fishface said, bowing his head a little further.

“It better not happen again, and what is this about new mutants?” Shredder asked.

“Yes, ones big mutant with hunger in their eyes. The others are agile crazy things. One was taking apart one of the Kraang. With no remorse, even with the human cover on the kraang.” Razhar looked up.

“If you don’t mind, the shredder.” Baxter stood up and started talking, “If I could go out and see what these new turtles are doing here. I could figure them out and bring the information to you.”

“I can go find them father and bring them back for you,” Karai spoke up.

Shredder nodded his head a bit before he spoke. “For now Karai go see what they are, and why they are here. Tiger Claw and a few foot soldiers will accompany you.”

Karai looked like she was ready to defend herself that she could do it herself. Until the shredder gave her a stern look. Karai put her head down before answering. “Yes, father.”

“Good, now go find them and bring them to me.”

“Yes father.” With that Karai and Tiger walked out.

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3rd POV
The next day they were planning to go on patrol. Apes had just left for her job at Murakami’s. The 2012 turtles were getting all their gear ready to go.

“You guys ready?” Raph asked his brothers. They all nodded, before sitting down on the couch waiting for the 2012 to finish getting ready. After a bit they were all in the living room.

“Let’s head out!” Leo yelled. (p.s. The name and pronouns are gonna stay the same until he comes out to everyone, btw!)
They all walked out of the sewers and quickly walked up to the roof. “What are we looking for?” Donnie asked, “Since we’re not looking for crazy mutants anymore.”

“We’re just keeping a lookout for anything suspicious.”

“What would you classify as suspicious?” Karai is standing on a roof opposite of the turtles, with foot bots, and Tiger Claw. The 2012 gang, eyes widened, while the Rise group looked confused on who this was. They all took out their weapons, and got into fighting stances. Rise recognized the tiger but not the girl.

“Karai, Tiger Claw” Raphael had malice in his voice.

“I would say it’s good to see you again, but it really isn't,” Leon said, leaning on his sword.

“You’ve met them before?” Donnie asked.

“Well, we’ve met the Tiger dude.” Angelo answered sitting on a power box.

“Yes, I remember you. You slashed my back.” Tiger Claw responded.

“Yeah, sorry not sorry.” Leon said, giving finger guns at him.

“Am I not here anymore, or?” Karai asked.

“Oh, how I wish you weren't,” Raphael said.

Karai lunged toward them. Tiger Claw and the foot bots following after. Karai went after Leo first. She swung at Leo, Leo quickly blocked. Donnie, Mikey, and Rapheal were all preoccupied, dealing with the foot bots. But Leo used his force to knock Karai back. She kept her ground and lunged at Leo again. “Why are you here anyways? You were obviously looking for us.” Leo asked, gritting his teeth.

“Not you but your friends over there.” She motioned her head towards the rise group currently fighting Tiger Claw.

“What do you want with them?” Leo was trying to distract Karai for a bit before the others could join him.

“I don’t want anything but, the shredder has other plans.”

There were about 20 foot bots. They came from different directions. Mikey, Donnie, and Rapheal, started fighting them. “Can’t catch this, I'm too smooth.” Mikey said, as two foot bots tried attacking him, but he dodged making them hit each other. “Booyakasha!” He yelled, going after more. Raphael kept bashing their heads against each other. Donnie was knocking them back. Until Mikey swung his weapon at them. One of them caught it and flung him against the roof wall. “Ugh,” He got up quickly and pulled his weapon back, throwing the bot against the wall.

Tiger claw got blocked by Raph from attacking the others. He landed still on the roof, but on his knees. Leon held his odachi to the side of him, instead of swinging it he made a portal. Tiger Claw looked stunned. Leo leo took a step and walked in. A portal appeared behind Tiger Claw. “Cat got your tongue?” Leo said. Tiger Claw turned around quickly, growling. With the distraction Raph came up and hit Tiger Claw from the side. Angelo caught him with his weapon, “Batter up, Don!” and tossed him to Don who baseball swung at him with his tech bo. Tiger Claw landed at the feet of Raph. Don walked up and tased him, “That should hold him.”

“We did that like a boss!” Raph exclaimed. They all looked back to the others, Mikey, Donnie and Rapheal were finishing up the bots. Leo was struggling a bit with Karai. Karai looked back, seeing that Tiger Claw was down. “Shoot.” She jumped back from fighting Leo. She knew she couldn’t take them down all by herself. She gave Leo one last kick in the stomach. She jumped back, helped Tiger Claw up. He was barely conscious, and ran off.

Leo recovered quickly looking around at where Karai went. The rise group was standing in front of him. “You good?” Leon asked.

“Yeah,” Leo answered.

The others ran over, “What was that about?” Raph asked.

“They’re here for you guys.” Leo pointed at the Rise group. They all looked at each other.

“Why?” Leon tilted his head slightly.

“We’re them from a different dimension; they probably want to figure out how to use us as their own personal weapons.” Don answered.

“Honestly I would too, with my looks it’s an obvious choice.” Leon said, batting his eyelashes.

“Not a good thing.” Don rolled his eyes.

“Well they are gonna keep trying with the others.” Donnie explained.

“We’re gonna have to be careful guys.” Raph said. “Especially on patrols.”

“We should let Apes know, so she knows what to do if they try attacking her. If they even know about her.” Angelo mentioned.

“Yup, we’ll tell her when she gets back home. I gotta get the networks on our Phones connected to this universe.” Don sighed.

“I can help with that!” Donnie spoke up.

“First thing we gotta do is get back to the Lair.” Raph said, “And you can’t go losing sleep, DON.”

“Brother you are clearly mistaken, when would I ever do that?” Don said. Raph just raised his eyebrow. “Okay, okay. I won’t lose too much sleep.”

“Good.” Raph nodded his head. Donnie looked a bit surprised, his brothers didn’t really care if he stayed up late as long as he was up and ready to train and go on patrol. “Now let’s go.” Raph said walking over to the edge of the roof and jumping off. The other Rise group following, 2012 climbed down.

Back at the Lair, Leo went to tell Splinter about patrol and what was going on. Both Donnies walked over to the lab. Raphael went to his room, while both Mikeys, Leon and Raph went over to the living room.

In the lab, they were thinking on how to connect to this dimension’s network. “I think we can connect one of our T-Phones to yours, we can transfer it, or we could also try connecting it to my computer.” Donnie was coming up with ideas.

“I think that could work, but we would have to do it separately on each phone.”

“Yeah, but I think it could work. If not, we can try something else.”

“Yeah Michel, can you pass me your phone?” Don yelled.

“Yeah, for sure D!” Angelo was in the living room but heard Don call. He got up and walked into the lab and handed Don his phone.

“Thank you.” Don said. Angelo gave a nod before walking back to the living room.

Both Donnies walked over to Donnie's computer. “What connection does your guy's phone have?” Donnie asked, rummaging through his cabled.

“The best one is a type-c charger.”

“Good choice.” Donnie took out a type-c charger. He plugged it into his computer, then connected Angelo’s phone. Then a little uploading screen showed up. “YES!” Donnie exclaimed.

“It worked!” Don said, “Now we just gotta see how long it will take to transfer.” After 5 minutes it finally finished loading. “Yes! Now we just have to do that to every phone and be done. We will finally be connected to the network.”

After all the phones were connected to the network, Don went back to the living room to go return their phones. “Hello my brethren, I came to return your phone. Still non-tackable, but now connected to this world.”

“Thank you D!” Raph said, grabbing his phone.

“Of course.” The others grabbed their phone and Don sat down on the couch next to Raph. Raph looked over at Don and saw that he still had his Battle shell on. He hadn’t taken it off since they had gotten there. Not even to go to bed. Being the older brother he knew what that meant. Don never takes off his Battle Shell if he doesn’t feel safe.

“Hey bud?” Raph nudged Don’s shoulder.

“Hmm?” Don was sitting, picking the skin on his arm. (hypocrite)

“You know you're safe right?”

Donn looked up from picking, “huh?”

“You know you're safe right?”

“Yeah? Why?” He looked back down and continued picking at his skin.

“Cause the whole time we have been here, you haven’t taken off your battle shell.”

“Well it’s just safer to keep it on.”

“But soon your shoulders will start to tense. We’re all here for you, you're safe, you got double the protection now technically.”

“I know but it’s not just for me, it’s for you guys too. What if something happens I wanna be ready to start fighting. Not waiting to put on my battle shell.”

“Hey it’s okay if you wanna keep it on. But at least take a break. It will get tense and then you’ll pull something. You could take it off right now. I’ll be here.”

Don stopped picking his skin. “Yeah, okay.” Raph had a smile on his face as he helped Don take it off. Raph put his battle shell leaning next to the couch.

“There. You feel better?”

“Yeah, actually.” Don rolled out his shoulder.

“See, Raph’s always right!”

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3rd POV

“What happened?!” Karai yelled at Tiger Claw who was coming out of unconsciousness.

“Those turtles are not normal.” Tiger Claw said, grabbing his head.

“Well then what are we supposed to do? We can’t just go back, Shredder’s already pissed.” Karai started pacing.

“I’m not sure, we are limited in our choices.”

”I know that! Let’s just go back and ask for more back up. It’s like having to fight double the turtles.”

”Yes the others we were supposed to catch were tough, they had these weapons that allowed them to teleport at least the blue one could, but the others could use those portals he made to teleport as well.”

”Really? I didn't get to see that, I was too busy actually doing many job.” Karai dragged her hands across her face. “Okay, well I’m guessing they have their hands on some sort of Kraang tech, that's how they were able to teleport.”

”It wasn’t Kraang technology all it used was it’s swords and then boom they were behind me.”

”So they used “magic” I think they just hit you on the head too hard.”

”I know what I saw if you don’t agree then fine but if you cost us the mission. I’ll make sure to let the shredder know.”

“Yeah, I get it.” Karai rolled her shoulders. “So then let’s just go back, if you want to report the magic turtles to shredder you can but I am gonna not sound crazy.”

Tiger claw just grumbled before turning away as he and Karai headed back to shredder's base.

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3rd POV

The next morning. Leon woke up first with a burning headache. I forcefully got up from his spot on the couch. He dragged himself to the kitchen and saw in the reflection of the toaster that his red marks on his face were glowing. But not like their usual glowing, it was like a burning red. He ran his fingers over them, but touching them just hurt more. He went over to the sink and splashed some water on his face trying to calm down the feeling of burning from his face. It cooled it down a bit but the headache was still very much there. He rubbed his temples to try to diminish it. But it still wasn’t working, so he picked up a glass and got some water. While he was trying to drink the water he felt like he couldn’t bring the glass to his mouth. His hands were shaking out of control. Leon was trying to get control over his hand to drink some water when it broke in his hand. Water and glass splashed all around, glass shard now in his hand. Leon winced in pain, seeing the mess that he made. He groaned, while picking out the glass shard in his hands. After he picked out most of it, he was planning to use tweezers for the smaller pieces but for now he just cleaned up the glass and water around. He picked up all the big pieces and threw them away. With the smaller pieces he swiped them into the trash with a napkin to not hurt his hand more. His headache was slowly going away, so was the glow. The headache hurt bad though, it felt like it was burning and splitting in half. He let his head flop down onto the table when Don came in.

Don was confused on why Leon’s head was just head down on the table. And why there was a slight light coming from his face. “Hey, Leon? You good?”

Leon lifted up his head and turned towards Don. “Not really… I feel like my head is splitting open.”

Don was surprised to see that Leon’s lines were glowing, but in a way they had never seen before. “What happened to your face?”

Leon looked offended and confused, “What do you mean?!”

“Well not your face but the lines they’re glowing an acid red.”

“I don’t know and they burn a bit.”

“Hmm” Don walked closer and touched the lines on Leon’s face. Leon hissed in pain. Don quickly pulled his hands back. “Sorry.”

“It hurts to touch them, it burns even more. The thing is that I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.”

Don lowered his tech goggles. The goggles quickly scanned over Leon’s body. Don let out a small gasp.

“What?” Leon asked, he wanted to know what was wrong so he could get the pain to stop.

“It’s your mystic energy, it seems to be destroying itself. I think when you used it yesterday to fight the universe fully pinpointed where the energy was coming from and knew it wasn’t supposed to be here so now it’s destroying itself. But that is still just a hypothesis.” Don explained, he still wasn’t 100% sure if that was the actual reason, but it was his best guess on what was going on. “I mean it’s not happening to any of us. The others seem to be sleeping peacefully and I feel fine. Plus you were the only one to use Mystic Powers yesterday.”

“Yeah, but Raph has used his before and he is fine. He hasn’t gone through this; he seems perfectly fine.”

“True, but Raph also used it very close to when we arrived here. So I don’t think it fully saw the Mystic Powers when he used it cause we had just barely got here. Now that we have been here a while things are different, it now sees it as something that isn’t supposed to be here. So the universe is telling it that it also doesn’t belong, therefore it is destroying itself.”

“Ugh, so how do I stop the pain?”

“Best bet is to find where the mind is still using Mystic Powers and tell it to stop.”

“Well how do I do that?!”

“You meditate, you focus and you look inside yourself to find it.”

“I don’t know how to meditate.”

“Good thing we are where we are, cause this universe’s papa meditates a lot. Ask him for help.”

“What?! I can’t just go ask him to teach me how to meditate. Plus he is way scarier than dad!”

“It’s either that or you stay with the glowing face and splitting migraine.”

“My migraine isn’t that bad actually, and I look cool glowing, don’t I?”

“Nardo.”

“But he’s spooky, he’s so different it’s weird he seems so stern and stoic. Can’t you ask him for me?” Leon batted his eyes at Don.

“No, I’m not gonna ask him about your problem. Plus it’s like I’m asking for a wet dog.”

“It won’t be like that, plus we’re twins he won’t even notice.”

“We don’t really look anything alike. So I think he will notice. Stop being a baby and just ask him.”

Leon was resting his chin on the table pouting, until an idea struck into his head. Leon put on a smug look on his face before saying, “Well Don if I’m a baby then I can’t possibly ask him to help me.”

“You know that is not what I meant.”

“But do I really need to meditate to stop this? Can’t you just stop it.”

“How would I stop it?”

“I don’t know!”

That’s when Splinter walked in, “What is this I hear about meditating?”

Leon slowly turned to see Splinter, “Oh, it’s nothing.” he gave an awkward chuckle.

Don looked down at Leon, they made eye contact. Leon was slightly shaking his head, pleading that Don wouldn’t tell Splinter about it. But Don knew that if he didn’t say anything right now. Leo wouldn’t say anything. “Leon needs some help with meditating.”

Leon looked deflated after Don said that. He looked back to Splinter and smiled.

Splinter finally looked down at Leon, and a shocked face formed on his face. “Why is your face glowing?”

“That’s what he needs help with. He needs to get into his brain and tell it to tell his body that his powers are supposed to be here.” Don explained.

Splinter stood there for a bit thinking, before speaking. “I am able to help with that, yes. After you are done eating your breakfast please meet me in the dojo and we can begin. Donatello, can you tell the others that we will not be training today?”

“I’ll let them know when they come.”

“Thank you, my son.” Splinter said, giving Don a short nod.

Don eyes widened hearing that. “Yeah, of course.” He said almost like a gasp. He fisted up his hands at his sides. And started waving them still at his sides. Splinter gave another nod and walked out. “Leo! Did you hear that! He said thank you, MY SON! He already sees me as his son! He sees me as helpful!! Ohohoho, this feeling I crave it” Don exclaimed.

“Yeah, I did. I also saw the part where I now have to go to the dojo and learn how to meditate. Because someone couldn’t keep their mouth shut.”

“Hey, you know that if I didn’t say anything you definitely weren’t going to.”

“I was! I was just planning to do it later.”

“Later meaning never.”

“True, but still. Now I have to meditate, with other dad. I don’t get to hang out with others! He even said to cancel training. What if I don’t even get to go on patrol!” Leon gasped.

“I mean it’s better than having that headache and to keep glowing.”

“Ehh.”

“Another thing I have to do is tell Raph and Angelo that we can’t be using our Mystic Powers unless we want to turn out like you. With a headache and to be glowing.”

“Yeah, yeah. While you go do that I’m gonna see if I can find anything to eat before I head to the wonderful meditating day I have ahead of me.” Leon said, ending his sentence more sarcastically.

“Yeah, you do that.”

Don walked out of the kitchen and walked into the living room seeing his brothers and April sprawled out. With Mikey also with them. They looked so peaceful, but this was crucial information. So he had to wake them up, he walked over closer before shaking them to wake them up. “I know it’s early guys but I actually have something important to tell you guys.”

Raph shot up, “What’s going on?” (he did the mom wake up)

Angelo, being surprised by Raph’s sudden jolt up, woke up a bit more groggily. He rubbed his eyes and groaned while stretching. “What’s up Dee?”

“New information about being here. We can’t use our mystic powers.”

“Wha, why?” Mikey said, getting fully up.

“Well what happened was that, Um. So me and Leon found something out. You guys know how Leon used his teleporting yesterday. Well today he woke up with a headache and his stripes are glowing. Then I scanned him and we found out we can’t use our mystic powers.”

“What happened to Leon, Don.” Raph said sternly.

“We found out the cause in the scan, it showed… that um…” Don scratched the back of his neck.

“Just spit it out, Donnie.” Raph said, pinching his nose.

“Leo’s mystic powers are being destroyed cause this universe can’t handle it so it’s trying to get rid of it. But we might have found a solution, so it’s not that bad when you think about it.”

“What!?” Raph jumped up from his spot and looked around. “Where’s Leon!”

“In the kitchen.” Don pointed towards the kitchen.

Raph started to move towards the kitchen without thinking, tripping on the top part of the couch. He quickly got up from the floor and ran into the kitchen. “Leo!”

“Huh?” Leon was eating a bowl of cereal, slowly but surely. He looked up at Raph. Raph ran over and grabbed Leon's face checking it. “Hey, bro what’s up?” Leon said, squished. Raph finally let go of Leons face.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure. Why?”

“Don told me what was going on.”

“Well I’m fine, I don’t know what Don told you. But I’m okay, plus we already found a solution to all of this.”

“What’s the solution?”

That’s when Don, Angelo and Mikey walked in. “I was about to tell you before you ran out.” Raph whipped his head around to look at them. “We were thinking that if he can find the point in where his body is destroying it, by meditating he can stop it.”

“I’m getting help from this Dad. He said he would help me meditate.”

“Which reminds me there is not going to be training today.” Don said, proudly.

Then Leo and Raphael walked in. Leo heard what Don said and had a face of confusion, “Huh? We’re not gonna have training today? Why?”

The Rise turtles and Mikey and looked at each other. Don really didn’t want to explain it again. Instead Leon spoke up, “I’m spending the day with Splinter?” He said more as a question than an actual answer. The others gave him a quick glare before turning back to Leo and Raphael.

“Huh, so he wants to hang out with the rip-off version of us but not the actual us.” Raphael muttered.

Leo elbowed him to shut up. “Well okay then. How about we go on an early patrol.”

Then Apes walked in rubbing her eyes. “Are we going on an early patrol?”

“Yeah.” Leo said, sternly.

“Neat, I can go today!” She said stretching.

“And I can't,” Leon said with a huff.

“Why?”

“Cause I will be spending the day with this universe's Splinter.”

“Again, why?”

“Cause I need to learn how to meditate. And he seems to do it all the time, plus he agreed to help me.”

“Well, okay then. I’m not gonna ask further or I am going to get roped into something, I probably won’t want to be roped into.”

“Good thinking.” Don said, turning to the others. “Wait, where’s me?”

“Probably still in his lab like a nerd.” Raphael motioned towards Donnie’s lab.

“I’ll go get him.” Mikey said, before booking it towards Donnie's lab. He had always been fascinated by the lab, but he wasn’t really allowed to be in there. But whenever he got the chance he would take it. When he got to the entrance he gave a small knock before coming inside. “Heya Donnie! They’re asking about you.”

Donnie looked up from his work, “Oh, really? Who needs me?”

“Well other you asked about where you were so I came to get you.”

“Okay, then I’ll be there in a sec.”

“Okee dokee, Donnie.” Mikey walked out of the lab and went back to the others. “He said that he would be here in a sec.”

“Okay, we’ll eat breakfast and then we will head out. We should also ask April and Casey if they want to tag along.” Leo sat down at the table and got himself a bowl of cereal.

Donnie walked into the kitchen, “What’s up guys?”

“Nothing much, we don’t have training so we are going on patrol earlier.” Leo explains.

“Oh okay.”

“We’re also asking April and Casey if they want to tag along.”

“You sure that’s a good idea cause we just got attacked yesterday by Karai, and Tiger Claw.”

“They can defend themselves, plus now we have double the strength.” Raphael motions to the others. “Plus the April already here is going with us.”

“Can she fight? Cause here April just started learning how.”

“Can I fight? Can I fight?! Yeah! Come on square up” Apes rolled up her sleeves, getting into a fake fighting stance.

Don quickly intercepts, “Yes she can fight.”

Leon finally got up from his seat. “Well I have to go meditate, see you guys later.”

“See ya.” They all said, some less enthusiastic than others.

Rise Leo
3st POV

Leo tried taking as long as he could to finish that bowl of cereal, but clearly it wasn’t long enough. Leo headed towards the dojo. Once he reached the dojo he was about to knock, but Splinter's voice stopped him. “Come in.”

Leo shuddered at the interaction. ‘I knew he was spooky.’ Leo then walked in.

Splinter motioned to a spot next to him. “Sit down.”

Leo sat down criss-cross applesauce and turned his head towards Splinter. “So what are we doing?”

“I’m teaching you how to meditate, am I not?” Splinter had his eyes closed and was just sitting there.

“Yes, so how are we starting?”

“Tell me why you need to meditate. It will help me know the best way to teach you.”

“I need to pinpoint something in my mind so I can stop it.”

“Hmm, so you need to find something within yourself?”

“Yes.”

“Well then, you will need to clear your head. But also think about what you want to find.”

“How am I supposed to keep a clear head, while also thinking about what I want to find within me?” Leo just looked confused about what they were doing.

”By concentrating on yourself and what you want to find within yourself. After a while you will realize that your mind will clear itself.”

“So to do this I just don’t think?” Leo tilted his head, trying to understand what Splinter was explaining. But the way he explained it made absolutely no sense to Leo.

“Well you do think just focus on the thing you want to do.”

“I have to think and my mind will make it so I’m not thinking?”

“Slightly. More like it will clear your mind.”

“I think about what I want to focus on and my brain will “clear my mind?” Is that what you're trying to explain?”

“Yes, now close your eyes and focus on what you are trying to find within yourself.”

Leo did what he was told and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath and tried to focus on his mystic energy so he could shut it off. But soon even though he tried focusing his mind was fogged by thoughts. ‘This is all your fault’ ‘How could you get you own brothers stuck her all because of your recklessness’ ‘This Leo’s the leader why can’t you even have a bit of that’ ‘Your not protecting your brothers your hurting them’ ‘Your brothers are better off without you’ ‘You are nothing without them’ ‘You are nothing’ ‘You are nothing!’ ‘YOU ARE NOTHING’ ‘YOU ARE NOTHING!” Leo’s eyes shot open, he was heavy breathing. Almost gasping for air, he put his hand on his chest to see if he could control it. But it just felt overwhelming. He knew those thoughts were there, but if he didn’t think about them they would leave on their own. At least that’s what he had been telling himself. His brothers had already comforted him about this. Why are the feelings still there? He looked down at the floor. When it suddenly dropped, a single tear fell to the floor. But it didn’t stop there, just more and more tears just kept coming out. He clung to his chest, the breathing not slowing down. ‘Your hurting them’ ‘Why are you crying when you're hurting them?’ ‘You’re just being an attention seeker’

Leo then felt a hand on his shoulder, he looked up with tear filled eyes. There was Splinter looking at him confused, and worried. “Look like there is something we need to talk about before you can find out what is going on. But for now, you're here. You're at the dojo, look around, you are here. You are not in your thoughts. You and I are right here.” Leo’s breathing was slowing down. Splinter talking distracted him, and his voice reminded him that his thoughts are just thoughts. Splinter just rested his hand on Leo’s shoulder. Splinter thought about what to talk about to distract Leo. Until he had an idea, “Our little family wasn’t always like this. Years ago when I was still human. I had gone to a pet store, and I had gotten four baby turtles. When walking on the street I bumped into a strange man. He seemed suspicious so I followed him to see what was going on. There was a small group of them all looking the same. They tried fighting me but I fought back all four turtles still in my hand. I fought back the best I could and won” Leo’s breathing had gotten way better at the point that Leo’s got a chance to chuckle at Splinter's blunt way of saying that he won. “But upon winning they dropped a canister filled with mutagen. Both me and the four turtles mutated into what we are today. Except they were babies at the time.” Leo’s breathing had gotten way better. His tears were mostly gone. Splinter looked at Leo, seeing that he was better asked, “So, what did your mind tell you?”

Leo was finally able to at least speak a little bit. His voice still brittle, “Things about my brothers.” Leo shrugged, “Nothing too important.”

“If it’s blocking you from finding what you need or want to find, then it is important.”

“Can’t I just get past them without actually dealing with them?”

“Not really, you have to deal with your own thoughts sometimes to really find what you are looking for. So tell me what did you mind say?”

“Well it said a few things.”

“Did any of them resonate with you?”

“Well one was repeated more than the others. It would also get louder than the others.”

“And what was it?”

“That I’m nothing.” Leo mumbled, scrunching his body closer to his chest.

“And why did it tell you that?”

“Well it started saying that us getting suck here is all my fault-”

Splinter cut Leo off by asking him a question, “Did you mean to bring them here?”

“Huh?”

“Did you want to bring you and your brothers here?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then how could it have been your fault?”

“Cause I’m the one who got us here. If I hadn’t been so reckless and listened to them we wouldn’t be stuck here in this universe”

“You didn’t want to bring them here. Has your sword ever taken you five to another dimension before?” Leo shook his head. “No, so how could you have thought that your sword was gonna take you to another universe.”

“Yeah but I mean I should have thought of the possibility of this happening, I mean donnie probably would have.”

“Are you Donatello?”

“No, but-”

“But, you're not Donatello, so why would you have the same thoughts?”

“True-”

“Exactly I’m right. You mustn't think of yourself in that way. If your brothers were telling that to themselves, what would you say?”

“I would tell them not to think about themselves like that. But it’s different.”

“How is that different?”

“That’s my brothers, not me. They have a purpose, they don’t need me!”

“Is that something else your mind told you?”

“Yeah, so what! It’s right.” Leo’s voice sounded so brittle at that moment. Like he himself was about to break.

“Oh, my boy.” Splinter gave Leo a hug. Leo was shocked at first, that the stern Splinter he talked to only the other day before, is comforting him. “Let me tell you something I learned, you are a brother before a teammate. And your brothers need you.”

“But what if they don’t?”

“I can assure you they do. Everyone in a team is needed, everyone in a family is needed. You are needed.”

Leo chuckles a bit, a tear falling down his face. “I’ll try to remember that.”

“Do you wanna try finding what you need to find again?”

“Yeah, let's do it.” Leo wiped his eyes, and nose, and got back into position. Leo closed his eyes, he thought about the mystic powers. Where they were and how to control them. A few thoughts came into his head, but were quickly blocked by a deep breath and thinking back to the conversation they had just had. It felt like he was swimming in his mind looking. Until he saw a blue light almost looking like it was in a fight with itself. He swam towards it, when he got closer it was a staggered blue light, it was so bright it hurt his eyes. But it did look like it was fighting itself, dimming itself. Leo reached out his hand to touch it. As soon as he did the light seemed to come back together forming a sphere. He went to touch it again, before it felt like he had gotten knocked back by the wind. Then he opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He looked around, he was still in the dojo. Splinter was right next to him also meditating. Leo got up and turned towards Splinter, “Am I still glowing?!”

Splinter opened his eyes and turned to Leo, and tilted his head. “No, it doesn’t look like you are.”

“It worked!” Leo tried getting up, as he tried his legs felt weak. When he did he fell back down, his legs giving out. He turned back to Splinter, “Why can’t I get up?”

“Whatever you fixed it was something that took your body a lot of energy to do. You will need rest.”

“Then can you help me to the couch?”

“Of course.” Splinter got up and helped Leo walk over to the couch. Leo fell onto the couch and after a few minutes was softly snoring.

Both
3rd POV

“We’re back!” Angelo exclaimed, walking back into the lair. Leon shot up. “Woah what did you go through today?”

Raphael spoke up, “Probably one of Splinter's crazy training sessions.”

“I know those all too well,” Leo says.

“So why do you look like you just went through a hurricane? Oh but the glowing stopped, did it work?” Don asked.

“Yeah, it did! It took a mental breakdown but I did it!”

“Mental breakdown?” Donnie asked.

“Yes, a mental breakdown.” Splinter said, walking out of the dojo. “Tears, a bit of yelling and everything.”

“Thanks for sharing that unneeded details, other pops.”

“My pleasure. How did the patrol go?”

The 2012 boys were standing there shocked at how Splinter had just acted. ‘They had been his sons for 15 years. But all it took was a knock off version of Leo a day to get all chummy with him?!’ Raphael was pissed.

“It went well,” Apes responded, looking at the other frozen turtles. “Nothing big happened.” Apes turned back to Splinter finishing the Patrol report.

“That’s good. I’ll be in the dojo if anyone needs me.” Splinter walked back into the dojo.

Raph walked over and picked up Leon giving him a hug, “I am so glad that worked. Plus during patrol I kept turning to tell you things and you weren't there, instead I was telling Leo. He did not find some of my jokes funny.”

“That’s cause they weren’t laughing out loud, kind of funny it was more of a chuckle joke.” Leo said walking towards his room.

“See!”

“Okay, I’ll try not to miss patrol.”

“Thank you.” Raph sat down next to Leon. Donnie on the other couch and Angelo on the floor. “So how did it go with Splinter here?”

“Not that bad actually?” Leo shrugged.

“See what did I tell you.” Don said. “He doesn’t seem that bad.”

“But you can’t deny that he does have a stern demeanor.” Angelo pointed out.

“A bit.”

“Well all that I’m glad about is that you're better.” Raph said give Leon another hug.

“Same, I don’t think I could have handed that headache any longer.” They all laughed together.

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Shredder
3rd POV

When both Karai and Tiger Claw had gotten back Shredder was a bit busy but they didn’t really care the more they could postpone the mission review the better. But the next day they had to, “What do you mean you didn’t catch them!” Shredder was mad. “I sent out my two best fighters and back up to catch four new mutants!”

“They had magic on their side, sir, portals.” Tiger Claw had his head down.

“Portals!? The only ones we know of who are able to make portals are the kraang. And that’s because they are from a whole nother dimension. So tell me Tiger Claw, how could they be able to MAKE PORTALS!” Shredder's voice boomed.

“I think maybe Tiger Claw might have been hit on the head too hard.” Karai said.

“Perhaps he has. But sometimes you just have to do it yourself.” Shredder got up from his throne, and walked out of the room. Fiery in his eyes.

Both
3rd POV

They were all in the kitchen, April and Casey were there today as well. Apes didn’t have work today. They were gonna do a quick patrol, so they could hang out/the Donnies wanted to figure out plans on how to send Rise back. They had been there for about 10 days now, and hadn’t really been working on finding a way to get back home which they needed urgently. “Everyone ready to head out?” Raph was already at the entrance.

“You know it hermano” Leon said, leaning on the side wall.

“Tonight it will just be a quick patrol.” Leo explained. Everyone gave a short nod of understanding. They all headed out.

They all got onto a roof and sorted things out. “Okay half of us go north and the others patrol the south end.” Leo and Raph were standing in front of everyone.

“Wait, who’s going with who?” Donnie spoke up, giving a slight glance at April.

“We can go with our usual teams, or we can mix it up.” Mikey said, sitting on an electrical box. Apes and April were also up there.

“True, I mean it’s up to the leaders. You guys pick” Don and Leon were leaning on the electrical box.

Everyone looked at Raph and Leo. “What do you guys think?” Angelo was sitting on the floor. Casey was sitting on the floor, Donnie and Raphael were standing on either side of Angelo and Casey.

“I’m good with whatever.” They both said at the same time. They both turned to each other.

“I think Leo should choose it.” Raph nudged Leo a but more forward.

“I think Raph should decide.” Leo took a step back. “You're basically our guests so you decide.”

“We are in your universe so you know how things go around here. More than me so I think you should definitely do it.” Raph nudged him forward again.

“Why don’t we just go half and half?” Leon pushed himself up from the electrical box. He motioned a line between everyone. “Leo, Angelo, Raphael, April, Don. Then there's Raph, Mikey, Casey, Donnie, and me. Apes you choose who you go with. We mix and boom we have our patrol teams.”

“Yeah that sounds good.” Raph agreed. “So Apes, who are you going with?”

“I’ll go with my homies Don and Angelo and myself.” Apes said, flinging her arms around April.

Leon gasped, “Am I not your homie?”

“You are but, fighting beside myself is gonna be pretty cool.” Apes said, she slightly shrugged.

“Valid reason.” Angelo chimed in.

“Fine,” Leon sighed.

“Let’s go then squad. We’ll take the North side and you guys take the south.” Leo turned from the team and towards Raph. “Does that sound good?”

“Yeah.” Raph gave a thumbs up. “I’m pretty sure we won’t get lost.”

“We won't, we got Donnie with us. That’s how I know I won’t be getting lost at least.”

“Thank you?” Donnie was confused on whether that was a compliment or not.

“You are very welcome, Dee!” Mikey said, hopping off the electrical box.

“Well we should start patrolling. Team let’s go.” Leo motioned to his side to go. “He leaped to the other roof, the others following after him. Raph went in the other direction with his team.

Leo’s Team
3rd POV

They were just patrolling when some foot bots were running off. Leo signaled them to follow them. The bots stopped at a roof and turned towards them. The team caught up to them. They were ready to fight when out of the shadows the shredder stepped out. “I see you’ve replaced your brothers.”

Leo was shocked, “I would never.” Raphael glared at him.

“Who’s this?” Angelo asked. Don and Ape were both wondering the same thing.

“He’s the shredder.” April said, malice in her voice.

“April, Apes get out of here.” Leo said, never turning away from the shredder.

“Not happening.” Apes said, standing firm.

“Let’s see how your new team does.” Shredder went charging at them. Leo charged at the same time. Raphael was right behind Leo. Then followed Don and Angelo. Shredder was able to block Leo, sending him back. He wasn’t able to block Raphael, but his armor lightened the blow.

Don was able to get behind him and hit him pretty hard with his bo staff, making him stumble. Angelo used his Kusari-fundo, to wrap around his leg. “Ha!” Shredder quickly noticed and pulled his leg forward. Angelo tripped forward. “I can’t do my pazzazz here! NO!”

“But I can, tech can’t fail me.” Don used his rocket bo attachment to swing at the shredder. Shredder was thrown across the roof.

Apes was ready, she launched herself at the shredder with her bat. “APRIL O'NEIL!” The shredder quickly turned around, and grabbed her bat. And chucked her back. She steadied herself, on her feet. With April distracting him Leo was able to launch at him again, nipping at his leg. Shredder kicked him back, throwing him. Don was about to help Leo get up. When the shredder turned and stabbed him with his steel claws. Right through his shoulder, piercing through his battle shell. Don fell down to his knees, he held his shoulder in pain. He felt blood streaming down his front and between his shell and battle shell. Not only was he in pain but also in disgust with how the blood felt. It was thick, and warm, it was on his hand and streaming down his arm. He looked up at the shredder who was going to go deal with the other turtles first, blood still dripping from his steel claws.

“DON!” Angelo ran to his side to help him up. He propped Don up against the wall of the roof. “Are you okay?”

“Ugh, I think my battle shell is in my shell.” He said, gasping for relief. “We need to call Raph and Leo.”

“Okay, okay, uh.” Mikey was trying to get his phone, but was shaking from shock. He fumbled for a bit before getting it out. He dialed Leo’s number. It rang for a few seconds, before going to his voicemail. “Leo’s not picking up.”

“Call Raph then.”

“Yeah, okay.” Angelo called Raph, the same thing. It rang a few times before going to voicemail. “He’s not picking up either!”

“What are they doing?!” Don was in a lot of pain.

“I don’t know, best bet is to leave you here, take down this guy or take you back to the sewers. Does your battle shell still work?”

“I’m not sure.” Don tried to sit up better to see. But he felt pain in every movement his arm did. He took a deep breath. His mechanical arms were able to come out. “Yeah they slightly work”

“Do you think they could take you down to the sewers?”

“I can try.” Don’s mechanical arms started carrying him down. It made it down to the sewers. I rested on the side of the sewers, breathing heavily trying not to think of the pain or the blood wedged in between his shell and his battle shell.

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Raph’s Team
3rd POV

They were just on patrol. They were taking a short break to see if anything weird was going on. When from behind them Tiger Claw, Rocksteady, and Bebop emerged. “You can’t go around dropping your guard turtles,” Tiger Claw said, standing tall.

“Dang they just pop up out of nowhere here? That sucks for you guys man.” Leon said, directing it towards Donnie, Casey, and Mikey.

“I know.” Donnie said taking out his bo staff. Casey took out his hockey stick.

“Similar weapons, pretty cool.” Leo pointed out.

“They are not that similar.” Donnie, and Casey said in unison.

“Tomato, Potato.” Mikey said.

“It’s tomato, tomAto.” Donnie corrected him.

“I thought you said they weren’t similar.” Leon said, wiggling his eyebrows at them.

“Our weapons aren’t similar.” Donnie gave a slight glare at Leon.

“Then why not keep it at tomato, potato? They are more different than tomato tomAto. Aren’t they?” Leon said, leaning on his sword again.

“They are, but-”

Donnie was interrupted by Raph, “Guys we kinda have three mutants here to fight us, so does it really matter if it’s tomato, tomAto, potato, potAto? No.”

“Oh right I forgot about those guys.” Leon said, moving his sword from leaning on it to resting it on his shoulder.

“How do you forget the people in front of you, who you’re gonna fight?” Bebop threw his hands up in confusion.

“I don’t know! You guys didn’t talk at all either. Plus I assume you have the ninja skills of stealth so I didn't really hear you guys after you guys stopped talking. Even when you were talking I was honestly not paying attention to you. So I guess that’s how I forgot you guys were there.” Leon explained.

“Me and Bebop have no Ninja skills except hurting who we are told.” Rocksteady answered.

“So are we gonna fight or are we just gonna keep talking?” Raph asked.

“We are gonna beat you, Turtle boy.” Tiger Claw answered, pouncing towards Raph.

Raph was able to get a hold of him before he did anything. Leon was about to make a portal to move him. But Raph stopped him, “No Mystic.”

“Oh yeah,” Leon decided to just swing at Tiger Claw but got intercepted by Bebop pulling him back. He had his invisibility on. “Who just grabbed me.” Leon turned around, looking around. He swung his sword again, being pulled back again.

But this time Casey used his Hockey stick to hit Bebop, causing him to fall down, his invisibility turning off. “You just got served the Casey Jones special. Breakfast in bed.”

Casey went to help Donnie and Mikey with Rocksteady. Leon went over to Raph who was struggling with TigerClaw. Leon managed to nick TigerClaw, taking his attention from Raph. Letting Raph tear away from TigerClaw’s grasp.

Donnie, Mikey and Casey were fighting Rocksteady. Donnie noticed Raph and Leon about to go head to head with TigerClaw. He looked at the situation he was in right then. “Mikey go help Raph and Leon, Casey and I can handle Rocksteady.” Mikey nodded and ran over to Raph and Leon, standing behind them.

“So what are we doing to take down this big cat?” Leon asked.

“Mikey, get his feet together and then we can attack him easier.” Raph explains looking at both of them. Both of them nod, Mikey instantly wrapped his kusari-fundō around TigerClaws legs, pulling and making him land flat on his back. Raph started punching him, Leon helping hold him down. It was going well until Bebop had been able to get up. He charged at Mikey, knocking him off of the building.

Mikey was able to grab the edge of the building. “GUYS!” He yelled. Raph looked to where the sound was coming from, he saw Bebop going closer to Mikey ready to knock him off. Raph got off of TigerClaw, and ran over to the edge. Bebop had already arrived there and was about to pull Mikey’s hands off. Raph pushed Bebop aside. But it was too late. Mikey was already falling. Without thinking Raph used his Mystic Powers to catch him before he fell.

Raph brought Mikey back up. TigerClaw, Bebop and Rocksteady already had fled seeing Raph’s Mystic Powers and not wanting to be beaten harder with those powers. “That’s gonna hurt tomorrow.” Leon said, running over.

“Better than letting him fall, and die.” Raph looked back at Mikey, “You okay bud?”

Donnie and Casey ran over. Donnie kneeled down next to Mikey “Are you okay?!”

“Yeah, I’m okay..” Mikey smiled, slightly lopsided due to the shock he had just barely gotten. Everyone was relieved knowing that Mikey was okay.

Leon was just about to make another joke but froze, “Don isn’t okay.”

“What do you mean?” Raph said, getting up.

“We gotta go now.”

Donnie helped Mikey up, before they all headed to the north side. “How do you know that Don isn’t okay?”

“Twin telepathy, and he called.” Leon showed Raph his T-phone.

“Why would him calling you be a sign he isn’t okay?” Casey asked.

“Don never ever calls.” Leon explained. “The only other time he called was when he was in danger. So the odds of him being in trouble again are high. I’m freaking out, I’m even talking about statistics.”

“Not only that but he called both of us.” Raph said, trying to stay calm for the team, but internally was absolutely freaking out.

“Do you guys know where we are going?” Mikey asked.

“Nope, going off of the twin senses.” Leon pointed to his head.

“I can track Leo and Raphael!” Donnie spoke up.

Leon came to a halt and whipped his head towards Donnie. “Why didn’t you say anything before?!”

“I thought you guys knew where to go!” Donnie raised his hands up in defense.

“Well where are they?!” Raph was ready to find out what happened and ready to hurt whoever caused it.

“Umm.” Donnie pulled out his T-phone and went to track his brother's T-phone. “They are near the Hent Convenience store.”

“And where is that?” Leon was getting inpatient.

“That way,” He pointed off into the distance.

“Let’s go.” Raph started off in that direction.

After a while of going they finally arrived. “The shredder.” Donnie, Mikey, and Casey all said in unison.

“The shredder?” Leon and Raph asked.

“He’s the big bad here.” Mikey answered.

“Wait where’s Don?!” Raph looked around to see if you saw Don at all.

“Let’s fight and see.” Leon jumped into the fight, the others following behind.

Together
3rd POV

“Guys!” April yelled, seeing the others arrive. They all rushed in. Raph was mad, and worried. Don wasn’t anywhere that Raph could see. He just see’s Angelo, Leo, Apes, Raphael going against a guy the others called Shredder. He went into fighting, ramming into him trying to knock the shredder of his balance. It worked out really well, it knocked him down to the floor but he quickly got back up.

Shredder saw that all the turtles and their counterparts were there. He was slightly confused as to why his henchmen weren’t there as well. “I knew I had to do this myself.” Shredder said charging at Raph.

Raph charged at him as well, Leon coming at shredder from the left and Angelo from the right. Raph thought and decided that if he was gonna have to reset his mystic powers anyway why not, go all out. Raph used his mystic powers to block the shredder. With shredder distracted with Raph, Leon was able to land a hit on him. Then Angelo from the right knocked his helmet off. They all jumped back to a safe distance. “Why didn’t you guys answer?!” Angelo yelled. “And Raph, I thought we weren't supposed to use our mystic powers!”

“I’m really sorry Angelo, but we got caught up fighting other people. And I already used it fighting the others, so if I’m gonna have to trick the universe then who not go all out? I guess. AND where is Don?”

“He went down, he got stabbed pretty badly. He was barely able to take himself down with his battle shell, He was bleeding like a lot.” Angelo explained.

“Dang it, we have to deal with this guy quickly, or find a way for all of us to get away. We shouldn’t have split up!” Raph was frustrated but was quickly knocked out of his thoughts, because of Leo yelling over.

“Guys! A little help here!”

“We’re going!.” They all took out their weapons to attack. Raph went in first trying to talk to Leo, while fighting. When he got close enough he pulled Leo aside. “How do you beat this guy?!”

“We haven't really done it, yet…” Leo explained.

“Then how did you guys get away?”

“We would use diversions, or our smoke bombs.”

“Then let’s do that.”

“But maybe with all of us we can take him down. This is our chance to take him down for good.” Leo was trying to persuade Raph to not go. That they could take him down now that they had double the strength.

“Or is this a chance for you to take him down.” Raph poked him in the chest, slightly pushing him back. “If you want to keep fighting him then your team can stay. We could all get hurt, my brother is already hurt and we need to get away. While we are here we are part of your team, as you all are a part of ours. If the way you lead the team is letting people get hurt, then I’m gonna take over. We need to get out of here. And i’m not discussing anything else.”

“Okay.” Leo nodded his head, before going back into the fight, getting close to his brothers and telling them the new plan. Raph told Angelo, Leon and April, what was going to happen. They kept on fighting until they found a perfect opportunity to escape.

They made it out and down into the sewers. When Raph got down he saw the horror that was his brother slightly conscious leaning on the sewer wall, holding his injury. He tried getting up to start heading but Raph motioned for him not to get up. Raph went over and gently picked him up. “Which way to the lair!?”

“Careful Raph.” Apes rested a reassuring hand on Raph’s shoulder.

Raph looked at Angelo and took a deep breath trying to be the calmest he could so he wouldn’t hurt Don.“I know.” He looked back at the others, “Which way to the lair?” Donnie pointed forward. Raph nodded before hurrying over in that direction. He kept following the directions of Donnie. Until they finally arrived. Splinter was just walking out to ask about patrol, until he saw Don in Raphs arms still bleeding.

Splinter ran over to them, “This way!” Splinter guided Raph to the lab, where they had the medical area as well. “Set him down here.” Splinter helped Raph set him down carefully.

Donnie rushed in with supplies, Leon behind. “We got this Raph.” Leon put a hand on Raph's arm in reassurance. Raph was just frozen there looking down at the crimson color on his arm.

Splinter tried leading him away, “Let’s get you cleaned up.”

“Yeah, Raph go with Tall pops, and get that blood. I promise I’ll be with him the whole time.”

Raph just followed the hand splinter was leading him with. Going into the kitchen to wipe off the blood from his arms. They arrived at the kitchen and Splinter set him down on a chair, and got a rag. He got it with some warm water, and gently cleaned off the blood that was residing on his arm. “Your brother is going to be okay.” Splinter reassured him. “Donatello is a great healthcare person. With blue he’s gonna be okay. I’m sure of it, no need of meditating.”

Hearing the name blue he was snapped out of his thoughts, he felt a sense of home when Splinter said that. Thinking about how sometimes his dad wasn’t there the most. But when they really needed him he tried to be there. That blue was going to be okay. Raph turned to Splinter and hugged him. “Thank you.”

“Of course my son.” Splinter gave him a pat on the back. “Angelo is in the living room. You should join him.”

Raph just nods and heads over to the living room. He sees Angelo silently crying facing the lab, Mikey hugging him. Raph went over and sat right next to them. He put his arm around Mikey, pulling him closer. They sat right next to each other looking at the door. Angelo hoped that it was all just a dream and both of his brothers would walk out laughing. Raph just hoped everything would turn out okay. They tried staying awake staring at the door. Tears slowly slowing down. Soon they fell asleep, dried tear stains down their faces, both sat there in front of the door. They sat there until they dozed off and fell asleep leaning on each other for comfort. Hoping that the next day everything would be okay.

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Leo

Leo’s POV

I woke up from, not the best sleep I've gotten. I kept thinking about yesterday’s mission. How we were faced with the shredder. How I had been in-charge and someone got hurt. I didn’t stop and retreat, I think that’s what really messed me up. I grabbed my head, getting up from my bed. I needed a glass of water. I walked out of my room and passed by the living room. Usually I would walk up and see the other versions of ourselves sprawled out on the couches. Or I could hear them in the kitchen. But today I saw Raph, Angelo, and Mikey all leaned against each other facing the lab door.

I looked at them and felt a rush of guilt flow over me. My thoughts took over for a second. I stood there frozen, I heard a voice ‘What if that was your brother?’ My head started to hurt. ‘Imagine one of your brothers bleeding, on a table.’

Images flashed through my head. ‘Another one of them was patching him up, blood staining their hands, and thoughts.’

I stood there feeling weak, not being able to move. ‘He was technically under your care.’

My eyes flashed towards Raph sitting in front of me. ‘He should be raging at you, calling you names, blaming you for his brother getting stabbed.’

I blinked a tear falling down my cheek. ‘But he’s not, you could never be half the leader he is’

Why were these thoughts coming, what was this. ‘He brought your brothers back to you safe and sound, oh but what did you do? Get his brother stabbed.’

I blink a few more times, seeing that Mikey had woken up and stood next to me.

He put his hand on my shoulder. “Leo, are you okay?” Mikey stood there looking at my face. I felt pulled out of my trance, and touched my face, tears streaming down my face. I wiped them off quickly, taking a deep breath, “Um, yeah. I’m good.”

“It’s not your fault.”

I turned to look at Mikey, “what?”.

“It’s not your fault.” He said again, but this time it felt more like an echo. But instead of getting quieter it got louder. It felt like the walls were shaking. Like everything was shaking, but Mikey just stood there not moving at all.

He just kept on repeating, “It’s not your fault.” I covered my ears, and scrunched down into a ball. I squeezed my eyes shut. When I opened my eyes again, it was all black. I looked around. There was nothing until I got up.

I saw Mikey running at me this time. He stopped right in front of me, I blinked and it looked like his face had been scribbled out. All he said was, “It is your fault.” Before pushing me down. I fell back and felt like I was sinking. I looked down and felt the emptiness start to consume me. I tried pulling my hands out, but they were stuck. It just kept taking me. It had gotten up to my neck, I took a deep breath and I was consumed.

I shot up and looked around. Seeing that I was in my room now. I woke up in a cold sweat. I was breathing quicker than expected. “I-it was just a dream” I mumble.

I got up from my bed, and stood in my room. I needed water, so I walked out grabbing onto the wall. My legs felt wobbly, weak. I made it into the living room. Just like in my dream I saw Raph, Angelo, and Mikey leaning next to each other falling into the lab. I shut my eyes remembering my dream, but unlike my dream I could still move.

I slowly made my way into the kitchen, my mouth felt drier than before. I grabbed a cup and filled it up with water. I chugged it down, the refreshing feel cooling my throat. After drinking my water I felt better, my thoughts, and the dream still lingering in the back of my mind. I leaned on the counter looking at the now empty glass.

And I heard it again, ‘it’s your fault.’ but this time it wasn't just Mikey’s voice it was a mixture of everyone. Everyone’s voices are overlapping each other telling me that it’s my fault. It made my head hurt, it felt like my head was pounding. My breath was shaky, a single tear escaping.

I was there leaning on the counter. Until I felt a hand on my shoulder. I slowly turned to see who it was. I saw Raphael, standing there with a reassuring smile on his face. “We all make mistakes, even fearless leaders.”

“But this is a mistake I shouldn't have made. I was supposed to know what to do, when to retreat, when to keep fighting. I thought we had it this time. I thought we could do it, I didn’t even notice that Don had gotten hurt. I should have noticed, I should have retreated.”

“If you invent time travel let me know.”

“What do you find funny about this? Someone got seriously hurt.”

“I mean that you are talking about things that you would change. Things that you would do better. You messed up, yes. But you can’t change the past, it already happened, you can’t change that. Unless you do have the ability to travel back in time. If you do, well then why haven't you let me use it before.”

“But they must hate me, I caused the injury basically. I hurt their brother, if I was them I would hate me. He brought Mikey, Donnie, and Casey back safe and sound. While I got Don stabbed, and now they are stuck in the lab. They haven’t come out.”

“It takes time to heal a wound, ya know.” Apes said, her voice coming from behind me. “Mutants may heal faster, but they still need time and patience to heal.”

Raph and I both whipped their heads around to look at Apes, she had sat down at the table. “I know but-” I started, ready to tell my side again.

“Then why are you talking like he isn’t gonna make it? Don might be a soft shell, but he is strong. One of the strongest people I know, mentally he can face this.”

“I trust your judgment, both of you, but I messed up. I got someone hurt. I’m trying to tell you guys that maybe I should talk to Master Splinter and ask if I can stop my role as leader.”

“Don’t do that Leo, mistakes happen, they are inevitable. They are there to help us see what we can improve on. Not to bring us down, not to get us to quit.”

“I disagree with Apes here.” Raph motioned to Apes. “I think you should just quit. Give the others a chance to be the leader. I mean you made a mistake, well then quit. I guess you really aren't cut out to be a hero, a leader.” Raphael shrugged.

“You're not helping.” Apes said.

“I’m not trying to.” Raphael rolls his eyes, and grabs his cup, drinking the rest and putting it into the sink.

“I mean I've been a good leader till now. I really thought we could do this, we could take him down yesterday. I thought we could defeat shredder once and for all. This town could be safe, we could be safe. We would only have to deal with the Kraang and no more them teaming up, or them trying to get to Splinter. We would be calmer, more focused on family like we used to be.”

“The bullying method always works, you finally saw that this might have been a mistake, but at least it was a mistake with good intentions. You weren't trying to purposely hurt Don. You wanted to accomplish something, it didn’t work out. But hey, just never do it again.”

“I swear I’m never pulling a stunt like that ever again.”

“While we are on that. You also need to learn that if you can’t sacrifice one of us, don’t go all out and about and sacrifice yourself.” Raphael turned to me. “Cause knowing you, you're gonna take my words and yours and Aprs, and apply them to everyone except yourself.”

“I’ll try.” I said taking another sip of water.

“None of your “I’ll try.” crap. Just say you're not going to.”

“I’ll actually try!” I said in defense.

“That’s the best I’m getting I guess.” Raphael said, sitting down now as well.

“Did you expect any more or less of him?” Apes leaned her face on her hand.

“Nah, knowing my brother nothing other then that.”

“I’m still here ya know.” I raised my hands in protest.

“Oh we know.” Apes said.

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The night in the lab
Don POV

I had been laid on the table, I could feel the coolness of it. I was still conscious, barely. I was trying to keep my eyes open. I might not be an expert in injuries, but I knew not to fall asleep. I knew that if I closed my eyes for too long then I just might fall asleep. So kept trying to force them to stay open. But I felt them fluttering, struggling to keep them open. I tried to talk to keep me awake, but all that came out were mumbles. Most of it was just pure nonsense.

“We’re back in the lab Don.” I heard Leon’s voice. “We got you.” I felt something close to my face. I swatted it away, not knowing what it was. With the sudden movement I winced in pain. Feeling the slight pressure in my arm. Until I heard Leon again, “It’s an anesthesia mask. Don’t worry, and stop moving so much or it’s gonna be more painful.”

“Okay.” I said, my mouth feeling dry. So dry I coughed a bit, my shoulders bouncing in response. I feel the pain sting through my shoulder again.

“No talking or moving, okay.” Leon restated. I moved my head a bit to signal that I understood. “Okay. We’re gonna put this mask on, you can sleep now.” That was the last thing I heard. They put the mask on, I breathed in a few times before completely knocking out.

Time Skip
3rd POV

After taking care of Don and stitching him up and pulling out small bits of metal from his shoulder, and a whole night of working on Don. Both Donnie and Leon had fallen asleep after Don was in a stable condition. They were basically knocked out, Leon on the bean bag and Donnie on his chair at his desk. It was getting to be morning. Both Leon and Don had been exhausted from working all night.

After a while Don woke up feeling groggy and gross. He tried sitting up, but as soon as he put pressure on his arm he winced, and fell back down to one hand. So instead he turned himself to look around the room.

His eyes adjusted to the dimmed room, and saw his battle shell on the floor, a hole in the area of the shoulder. Blood all around it. He didn’t enjoy seeing his work damaged. Plus blood wasn’t his favorite thing to look at. He turned his head a little and saw Leon on the bean bag, hands covered in blood… his blood. He turned his head queasy.

He looked around some more until he saw a rag, he slid off of the table he was on. Walked over to the rag and picked it up, it was damp. He picked it up and walked over to Leon. He sat down next to him carefully so as not to wake him up or hurt himself. He grabbed the wet rag and started to clean off the blood, trying not to think about it. He sat there for a while until Leon started to stir awake. Don took off the rag, and scooted back a bit. Waiting for Leon to wake up fully.

Leon woke up and saw the table empty. He shot up looking around to see where Don was. Until he looked down and saw Don sitting there. “Don!” He sat down next to Don and hugged him. Don winced at the sudden pain. “Sorry!” Leon quickly pulled away.

“No, you're good. I’d be surprised if you didn’t hug me after… all of that.” Don said.

“How are you doing?” Leon asked, looking at Don’s shoulder.

“It just hurts when I put pressure on it. I’m still a bit light headed but I’m sure it will go away when I eat and drink a bit of water.” Don shrugged, with only one shoulder.

“Oh that’s good.” Leon relaxed for a second before realizing something. “Wait, why are you up? You should be resting!”

“I felt bad for getting blood over you so I tried being nice. Last time I try to do something nice.” Don rolled his eyes, jokingly.

“You are nice, just in a different way. But still you have to rest. You just got stabbed yesterday.” Leon motioned to the bandaged area on Don’s shoulder.

“How are the others?” Don tried changing the subject.

“Worried about you, now get back on the table and rest.” Leon quickly shot down Don’s attempt.

“I’m fine really.” Don tried reassuring Leon.

“No you're not, I’m your twin. Plus I was one of the people who patched you up. And I really think you should rest. It will help you recover faster. Plus cause we’re mutants that should also speed up the healing factor. But you still have to rest.”

“Can I at least see the others first?” Don asked.

“Yeah, I’m sure they are awake.” Leon complied. Leon got up from the spot he was sitting in. And reached down a hand for Don to grab. Don gratefully accepted, pulling himself up.

Leon walked over to Donnie who was snoring lightly at his desk. Leon shook him a bit to wake him up. Donnie shot up. “Yes! What’s up?”

“Sorry dude, nothing much except. Don’s awake.”

“He is!” Donnie got up from his desk and saw Don standing in the lab, leaning on the wall. “Oh good. How ya feeling?”

“I’m doing good...” Don sounded unsure, but nodded a bit. “At least as good as you can be after getting stabbed.” Don smiled a bit.

“That’s good to hear, but why are you standing? You should really rest, you lost a lot of blood. If you were human you would be on bed rest for weeks. Just letting your body regain the blood you lost. Still you should rest and let your body rest and recover. Or if you tear your stitches it could cause permanent scarring and tissue damage. And we really do not want that.” Don walked around to the front of his desk.

“Okay, but quick rebuttal on why I should be standing is I want my brothers to know that I am okay. Raph, Angelo, and April deserve to know that I am okay.” Don sighed. “I saw how freaked out the three of them were. Angelo when he saw it happen, I thought he was gonna burst. And Raph when he carried me here. I could see the panic in April's eyes, and her genuine fear. She’s not afraid of a lot of things, but you could see it there. Also they are my siblings, they should get to know. That one I'm okay and two I'm awake.”

“Very true.” Donnie tapped his chin. “They are probably awake. Wait, what time even is it?” Donnie walked back to his desk looking at his computer. “It’s 6:00 p.m, yeah they probably are. I can go check and then bring them in here so my brothers aren't also crowding around you. Have a little family moment, ya know?”

“Yeah, that sounds good.” Leon responded, looking over to Don giving him a nod. Don nodded back in agreement. “And yeah can you go? I don’t want to walk out there and get them and then get crowded as well.” Leon chuckled. “Plus Don probably needs a shoulder to lean on.” He smirked. “Get it “shoulder to lean on”. Because he got stabbed in the shoulder.” Don and Donnie looked at each other with a disappointed look. “Too soon?”

”Oh I don’t know Leon, if I got stabbed YESTERDAY-“

”More like last night” Donnie spoke up.

Don nodded in agreement, “would it be too soon?” Don sighed. “How am I related to you?”

”Rude, but I get where you're coming from right now.” Leon scratched his neck awkwardly, He then turned to Donnie, “So Donnie, could you go get my brothers?”

”Yeah, for sure.” Donnie walked out of the lab.

“Sorry for making a joke about you getting stabbed so soon.” Leon turned to Don.

“I half expected it. I get it, it was one of your funnier ones so I’ll forgive you. Plus you get a voucher right now for patching me up and staying up all night to watch over me. So thanks.”

“Yeah I mean, you're my brother what was I supposed to do. Leave you to bleed.” Leon gave a slightly awkward chuckle.

“I’m here and I’m not leaving. Like you said when we were younger, since we are twins we will die at the same time.” Don tried reassuring Leon.

“You also told me that, “that is very improbable.” then started to cry” Leon rebuttal.

“I’m trying to comfort you.” Don rolled his eyes.

“I know.” Leon shrugged.

Don had a look of confusion on his face. “Then why won’t you let me.”

“As a twin I got to annoy you.”

“Maybe I should have bled out more.”

“No you really shouldn’t have. Because then you would have to do your least favorite thing for more time. Resting.”

Don gave a nod of agreement. “You make a valid argument.”

“Of course I do. I’m an intellectual.”

“Yeah, you sure are” Don smiled, throwing his arm around Leon.

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Rise
Mikey POV

Donnie had walked out of the lab. All that he told us was that Leo had asked us to go inside. I wonder what kind of news it is, good or bad. I don’t think I want any bad news. I don’t think I can handle that. I don’t think any of us could. I can’t stop thinking, I need to stop my brain, factory reset it or something. We all got up and walked to the lab.

As soon as I walked in there I saw Donnie and Leo talking. “DONNIE!!” I rushed over to him. About to tackle him with a hug when I saw the bandage on his shoulder. I pull my arms back and go over to his okay side and give him a side hug.

April then came over and gave him a side hug. “Boy am I glad you're okay.” She said, sighing, like she had been holding her breath the whole time. April then pulled away.

Raph was walking over more slowly, I knew my brother. He’s happy to see Donnie but he feels like it’s his fault that something like this happened. He’s both the leader and the oldest. He thinks that everything is on him. He thinks that this mistake was not the team's mistake but his. He feels guilty. Will he ever admit to it, probably not. He’ll probably blame the way he is acting on worry. But the way he is right now isn’t one of worry as much as guiltiness. Raph stood there for a bit, just looking at Donnie.

After a while Raph did get to Donnie’s side but hesitated to give him a hug. Until Donnie motioned for Raph to get closer and actually hug him. Raph gave Don a big but gentle hug even picking him up a bit. “I’m sorry” I heard Raph whisper.

Donnie patted Raphs back, “It’s not your fault.” Donnie gave small pats to the back of his shell, being careful not to hit one of the spikes. “Plus I’m doing pretty good, right now. I’m not in that much pain.”

“Probably from the medication that the other Donnie gave you.” Leo chimed in. “I believe it’s ibuprofen.” he gave a thumbs up.

“Dang that’s all it takes? I take it back home and it doesn’t work that well…” Donnie looked at Leo confused.

Leo just shrugged. “I think it’s because it has a higher effect on us due to our mutations, well different mutations from here.” He explained it, but I was kind of tuning everything out at that point. I was just hoping you were okay.” Leo smiled

“That’s nice, but did you all see what he did to my beautiful tech?!” Don motioned to his battle shell that was on the wall propped up next to April and me. “There's two holes in it from that monster's claws! I need to fix it! Do I have the correct pieces to do so? I’m not sure, but probably not! We can look but it’s another reason why I should start working on a way back as fast as possible!”

“With your hurt shoulder you are in no condition to be fixing or building stuff. We don’t need that wound re-opening.” Raph said, shooting down Donnie’s protest to the circumstances, to start working already. “We need that arm to fully heal. So no patrolling, no fixing, no building.”

“Gasp, you can’t rob me of my artistic skill!”

“More like autistic! Ha! Uptop!” Leo raised his hand towards Raph for a high five.

Raph smacked him on the back of his head, laughing, “Look who’s talking.”

“You know if you weren’t my brother, I would kill you.” Donnie looked at Leo and chuckled.

“As if you could.” Leo said confidently. Donnie lunged at Leon slightly. Leo jumped back in surprise letting out a squeal. The others laughed. Leo quickly calmed down. “Ha. ha. You think you're so funny don’t you?”

“Yes, I very much think that.”

“Well I’m afraid to tell you this, but… you're not.” Leo said as if it were a diagnostic.

“Then why are the others laughing?” Donnie pointed out. Leo looked at his brothers and April to see them all laughing. “Point proven.” Donnie snickered.

“Fine, I’ll let you have this one. BUT only because you're injured.” Leo joked.

“Good to see that the blood loss didn’t affect your sense of humor.” April joked.

“Very true!” I exclaimed. It was nice to have these moments as siblings. Then it suddenly hit me. Raph used his mystic powers yesterday. Why isn’t he in pain with a headache like Leon? I tilted my head a bit with confusion.

Donnie seemed to have noticed the confusion on my face. “What’s up Mikey?” Don asked.

“Sorry this is totally off topic, but… Well while fighting and with all of the events yesterday. Raph used his mystic powers. Why doesn’t he have a splitting headache like Leo had when he used his?” I was looking back and forth from Raph to Donnie.

“Yeah you're right,” Leo turned to look at Raph. “Why don’t you have the same slitting migraine that I got?”

“I do. But I’m handling it like a boss.” Raph said, confidently.

“Well you should get it fixed quickly or your headaches will continue as well as your Nympho is getting attacked and destroyed, as we speak.” Donnie explained.

“What happens if that happens?” Raph asked, sounding nervous.

“Well I’m not sure, but… it could kill your Nympho, so no mystic powers. Or destroy you. Both ending in bad ways.” Donnie explained.

“So that means I have to speak with other dad, right? Then badabing badaboom I’m good to go.”

“It’s not that easy bro.” Leo patted Raph’s shoulders, in dramatic pity. “You gotta go into like your brain, and find your Nympho. But do you wanna know what’s blocking you from getting there? Your bad thoughts about yourself. I gotta tell you I CRIED.” Leon emphasized the word cried like he rarely cries.

“You’ve cried over snakes back at home.” Raph crossed his arms.

“They had no arms…” Leo said, his face was like he was having flashbacks to snakes. “Plus this one was deep. It felt like it knew everything about me and that I was doing everything absolutely wrong. And that it was all my fault. And just bad thoughts about yourself in general. And it’s in your voice, just screaming and saying these things to yourself. It’s awful!.” Leo explained, throwing his arms around.

“Raph got this. I’m gonna do this like a boss!” Raph exclaimed.

“Like I didn’t.” Leo did a hair flip with his ribbons.

“You complained the whole time.” Donnie said, crossing his arms.

“I handled it great actually. I just like complaining, it makes me feel better.” Leo explained.

“I thought it was because you wanted us to “better understand” how you were feeling? Hmmm?” I raised my eyebrow at him.

“Yeah, yeah that too.” Leo waved his hand.

“Liar liar pants on fire!” I yelled.

“Nuh uh! If I was lying, why aren’t my pants on fire?” Leo motioned down to his legs. “The math isn’t mathing.” Leo smirked.

“This isn’t even math!” Donnie yelled.

“It is though. Liar plus pants equals pants on fire. It’s very simple math.” Leo scoffed, jokingly. “Maybe I’m the smarter twin.”

“The little voice telling me not to kill you is getting quieter the more you talk.” Donnie let out a laugh like scoff.

Chapter Text

Rise Raph
3rd Pov

They left him to rest. After a bit of talking and making sure Don wouldn’t start any new projects or work on anything. Leon looked at Raph before motioning his head towards the dojo door.

Raph sighed and dragged himself over to the dojo door. He was about to knock when he heard Splinter, “Come in my son.” Raph turned his head slowly towards Leon, eyes wide. He just shrugged, and gave him a thumbs up. Raph opened the door and walked into the dojo. Splinter was sitting there on the dojo floor next to the tree. Eyes closed, meditating. “Come sit.” He patted the area next to him. “What did you come to talk to me about?” Raph went over and sat down facing Splinter.

“I just want to learn the same thing as my brother, the meditation.”

“Ah you need to stop your magic from destroying itself?” Splinter opened his eyes and turned to look at him, raising a brow.

“How do you know about that?!” Raph's eyes went wide.

“I’m a father, even if it’s to a different version of you. I’m still a father, plus blue and purple weren’t that quiet about talking about it.”

Raph paused, hearing the way Splinter called them, ‘Blue.’ and ‘Purple’ it sent a sense of familiarity over him. ‘I guess how we are similar to our counterparts, dad’s similar to him too’ Raph thought. Raph smiled softly, just for a second. Until a piercing headache started. He closed his eyes in pain.

“Are you all right?” Splinter asked, making his body face Raph.

“Yeah, just a headache. But this one is worse than all the others.” Raph was squeezing the top of his pain, seeing if it would relieve it even just a bit.

“Hmm.” Splinter hummed, thinking.

“Hmmm? What do you mean Hmmm?” The headache was starting to die down just a little, but just enough to allow Raph to let it be.

“Seems like you and your brother are having a different reaction. He came in here more settled into his headaches. While yours seems to just be starting… I have an idea why, I just do not know if it is correct or not…”

“A theory is better than nothing… at least that’s what Don says. So what are you thinking?”

“Well I am wondering, if because you were under extreme stress, as well as your adrenaline was high. While Leons was under a calmer battle, with less dire circumstances. If that is what postponed the reaction. Due to your adrenaline, stress, fear, and worry. It causes your body to stop destroying itself to focus on those. Like when you get injured but your adrenaline kicks in so you don't feel the pain as much. With this your body just chose to focus on the fear, and worry. And now that those emotions have calmed after you got to see your brother up. It now just barely started taking its full effect.”

“That sounds reasonable enough.”

“Do you think you will be able to concentrate on what you are trying to accomplish? Or is the pain too overbearing to not think about?”

“I’m pretty sure I can get over it. It hurts but I can ignore it, at least try to ignore it enough time for this pain to go away. Plus it’s better to get rid of it now. I don’t want this to last longer than it should.” Raph sighed.

“Then let’s get started.” Splinter nodded. “So first you have to clear your head of any other thoughts, worries, concerns, fears, anything clouding your thoughts.”

“Is this gonna hurt?” Raph got into position and was breathing steadily.

“Perhaps.” Splinter nods, hand on his chin. “It’s more of a mental challenge than a physical one. At least that’s how it affected Leon. I’m sure he told you all how he cried over this. His thoughts took him over.”

“Yeah he did tell us about it. Wait, so you're basically telling me, you don’t know?” Raph said, connecting the dots.

“Yes, that is exactly what I am saying, my son.” Splinter nodded. “It’s not like my sons here have this type of problem… So you will be the second person that this has happened to. With that little information I can’t really make a proper conclusion. I would have to research and do more tests, as Donnie would do. But I wouldn’t want to put you all through that. So for now we are learning as we go.”

Raph just nodded in agreement. “Let’s do this! Do I stay here or do I sit in front of you?” Raph tilted his head, looking at Splinter.

“Whatever is most comfortable to you. I’m not the one that is going to be meditating, it's you.”

“I’ll sit here then.” Raph just stays sitting next to Splinter.

“Okay then the main thing we need to do is focus. You are seeking to find something within you. Since it seems you already have a connection with it then it will be a lot easier for you to find and connect with it again. With Leo it seems like there is a wall of things. Like your mind is a chamber of things you might have never realized that you thought about yourself. Those passing thoughts when things happen that are negative. Some of the stronger thoughts are ones that come more often. But if something is going on that is really affecting you then that is what your brain will try to put on you. This part isn’t one that hurts physically but emotionally, it’s like hearing a bunch of different things against you.” Splinter explained getting into a meditating position, Raph copying his moves.

“That’s what you picked up from when Leo did this? Dang I would have just picked up that he cried and it was hard.” Raph turned his head towards Splinter in slight awe.

“Not all of what I am saying is certain. It is more of an estimated guess.” Splinter moved his finger over and pushed his head to look forward again. “Now focus. I can’t do much to help you on this part, it's on you. You're the one looking.”

“What if your estimated guess is wrong?” Raph kept trying to turn his head to look at Splinter.

Splinter pushing his head back. “Then we will learn something new.”

Raph felt a jolt of head ache and squeezed his face in pain. Raph grunted, squeezing his eyes, feeling the pain. “Well let’s start learning cause these hurt!”

“It looks like it does.” Splinter says, taking a quick glance at Raph. Raph struggled trying to not pay attention to the pain in his head. It felt like his head was pulsing. “We could always try later.”

“Nope, right now.” Raph says, through gritted teeth.

“Let’s at least wait a little bit for this initial major pain to pass.” Splinter nodded. “Or else your mind will only be on the thought of the pain you are currently having.”

“Or, or, or we could do it now and stop the pain.” Raph quickly said before nodded rapidly, showing that he wanted to do his option

“I’d rather not risk anything, my son.” Splinter stood up and went out of the dojo. Before coming back with a cheesicle. “For now eat this. The cold will help your head.Seems like these headaches come and go, but it also seems like it’s hitting you harder than your brother. But for now let’s not think about that, you should rest all that you can for now and see if this pain will go away.”

Raph looked confused at the cheesicle before taking it. He just inspected it. “What is this?”

“A cheesicle.” Splinter points at it.

“Cheesicle? Um okay.” Raph started tasting it. “It’s actually not bad.”

“You think I would eat something without taste?” Splinter acts offended.

“No?”

“I’m guessing that you have never had these?”

“You guessed right. Very right. I usually have ice cream when I get a headache.”

“Well we have ice cream if you would like that instead.” Splinter asked.

Raph nodded, “Yes, if it would be no problem. Yes, I would like ice cream.”

“Then follow me.” Splinter got up and walked out of the dojo. Stopping outside of the door and turning to face Raph. “Are you coming?” Raph got up and walked over. Splinter started over to the kitchen again. Raph following after. Splinter walked into the kitchen going over to the refrigerator.

Opening the freezer. Then Raph heard a meow coming from the freezer. Raph peeked over Splinter to see why the freezer was meowing. Then Angelo jumped on his back behind him. “I heard a meow.” Angelo whispered in Raph’s ear.

“Gah!” Raph whipped his head around. “Mikey!”

Angelo was staring into the freezer, wide eyed. Raph looked confused before looking back into the freezer. “Oh me gosh!” Angelo exclaimed. “It’s an ICE CREAM CAT!! It’s a cat made out of ice cream!! Can you believe it Raph!!”

Raph chuckled. “I can, I’m seeing it right now.”

Mikey ran into the room. “I forgot to introduce you to Ice cream kitty!!” Mikey ran over and pulled ice cream kitty out of the freezer. “Raph, Angelo, meet Ice cream kitty. She was a cat who got mutated with ice cream that became the greatest mutant to ever live.”

“Ahem.” Splinter cleared his throat.

“Second greatest?” Mikey chuckled awkwardly, shrugging.

“We were hoping to get some ice cream for Raph here's headache.” Splinter explained.

“Oh yeah of course.” Mikey nodded and went over to the cabinets and pulled out a bowl. He grabbed a spoon and scooped a bit of ice cream into the bowl. “Here you are!” Mikey passed it to Raph.

“Thanks little man.” Raph smiled and patted Mikey’s head.

“Of course, big man.” Mikey nodded, and put ice cream kitty back in the freezer. “Well I am going to go read some comics. Peace” Mikey waved before heading to his room.

Angelo looked at Raph's ice cream, “You should give me some.”

“It’s for my headache. I’m not giving you some.”

“It’s for my joy and whimsy.” Angelo blinked at Raph.

“I think my reason is more important.” Raph rolled his eyes and smiled.

“Is my joy and whimsy not important enough for you? How rude.” Angelo flopped down on Raph’s shell dramatically, and chuckled. Raph picked up Angelo by the shell and placed him in front of him. “Don’t worry man I get it.” Angelo patted Raph’s arm. “How’s the meditation going?”

“We haven’t started.” Splinter spoke up.

“Really? Why not?” Mikey asked.

“Well my headaches started and they hurt bad. So Splints thought it would be better for me to take a break, so my mind isn’t focused on the pain.” Raph said, sitting down at the table eating his ice cream.

“You could always ask Leon if he has any pain pills, or Donnie. I’m sure someone has pain pills.” Angelo said, leaning on him.

“Maybe…” Raph said, taking another spoonful of ice cream.

“I know you don’t like taking pills, but if it really hurts so bad, maybe taking one would be a good idea. I know you think you’re gonna take the pain like a boss, but it’s still pain. Sometimes you gotta get some drugs in your system.” Angelo poked Raph’s cheek.

“It’s a pharmaceutical drug.” Raph stuck his head out at Angelo.

“All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicine. Take it from your little bro.”

Raph pushed Angelo’s head away from his playfully. “Oh get out of here.” Angelo laughed, and leaned his entire body weight onto Raph’s hand. “I’m gonna let go, if you don’t stop.”

“Nuh uh, you wouldn’t do that.”

“I warned you.” Raph moved his hand away. Angelo flapped his arms around before falling down. Angelo just laughed on the floor. Raph picked him up again by the shell and stood him up. “There you go buddy.”

“You all work together quite well.” Splinter nodded, sitting at the table.

“Well Dad, taught us a very important lesson since we were young. Family is the most important thing we have. Family is the center of it all. So we all think and do things together.” Raph nodded.

“Hmm.” Splinter hummed. “How about your training?”

“The Lou Jitsu training.” Angelo said with awe in his voice, panning his hand in the air.

“Lou Jitsu?” Splinter tilted his head a bit.

“Do you not know about Lou Jitsu?! Aren’t you Lou Jitsu?! Cause our Dad is Lou Jitsu, doesn’t that make you Lou Jitsu? Wait Wait Wait.” Angelo pulled out his cellphone. He started tapping rapidly on his phone. His eyes went wide and his mouth agape. “Raph, Raph, Raph!” Angelo shook Raph with one of his hands.

“Careful man, my head still hurts.” Raph chuckled. Looking down at his phone. “No. Lou doesn’t exist here!! What?!”

“This can’t be real!”

“Sadly this is the truth. No Lou Jitsu here.” Raph patted Mikey's shoulder. Before turning towards Splinter. “Basically in our universe, Our dad. Our Splinter was trained, but he used that to become an action movie star. His stage name was Lou Jitsu. So when we were growing up we learned from watching his old movies.”

“Really and this worked? You learned?” Splinter asked.

“Well we did become such great ninjas!” Angelo smiled widely. “We also did really well on the first training day we had. Why haven’t we trained again with you?”

“We’ve been wrapped up in it all, I think. I mean from meeting and fighting new people. As well as meeting ourselves, I think we just haven’t.” Raph shrugged.

“You are right. I’m an ex-movie star? How was I able to? Here I had to stay hidden because of The shredder. When he found me he did not hesitate to come to New York and start attacking me and my sons.”

“Oh the big scary dude? Well back home, he is an evil Mystic suit of armor. And he’s like the “Master” of the foot clan. That’s who is trying to bring him back, as well as Barum Draxum. To bring him back they got to piece the armor back together. So he’s not really a person?” Mikey explained.

“How strange.” Sprinter stroked his beard. “Oh how are you feeling now?” Splinter asked Raph.

“The headache has gone down. I think we should try meditating now.” Raph nodded.

“Are you sure? I don’t want you straining yourself.” Splinter asked.

“I’m sure, thank you.” Raph got up and put his bowl in the sink.

“I’ll wash your dish!” Angelo ran over to the sink. “You go fix your head.”

“There is nothing wrong with my head.”

“I would beg to differ.” Angelo started washing the dish.

Raph shook his head and smiled. “Thank you for washing my dish.”

“Of course, my kind sir.” Angelo stuck his tongue out to the side, and smiled. Both Raph and Splinter headed back into the Dojo.

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Both
3rd Pov

Raph and Splinter sat in the Dojo across from each other. “Close your eyes, relax, Think about why you used your powers. On where they come from within you.”

“I had to save Mikey from falling off of a building. I didn't really have a choice. I had to save him.” Splinter's eyes widened in surprise from this new information. But kept quiet not to break Raph’s concentration.

Mikey was walking past the Dojo when Raph said that. Splinter had his back towards the dojo door. When Splinter didn’t even seem to react to Mikey falling, Mikey stood outside the door hurt. ‘Does he not care? I get it that I got saved and am okay. But falling off a building? Even a little reaction would have been nice.’

Mikey sighed and walked away towards his room. 2012 were each in their own room, except Donnie, who was with the rest of Rise people. On his way to his room, Angelo walked out of the lab. His eyes instantly landed on Mikey, he had his head slightly down walking slower, in a disappointed and hurt way. Angelo tilted his head, before speaking up, “Mikey…” It felt weird calling out his own name but shrugged it off. “Hey man, you alright?” Angelo said, walking towards Mikey.

Mikey stopped in his tracks, turning towards Angelo, “Oh yeah. It’s nothing.”

“You sure? I’m not going to pry you, but if you want to talk about it, me and my brothers are here to listen.” Angelo smiled. “I just came out to get a drink of good old fashioned water. You can come with me and we can walk into the lab together. It’s mainly me, Leon, and Apes, talking together in a corner, while Don and Donnie are talking about tech stuff.”

“Sure, that sounds fun.” Mikey let out a small smile.

“Yeah, let me just get a quick drink of water and we will head right over. Or you can head right in already.” Angelo gave a small nod motioning to the lab door.

”No, I’ll wait for you.” Mikey said, rubbing his arm, looking down at the floor. Having a slightly shaky breath, as he stood there.

Angelo gave a small smile before going into the kitchen and getting a glass of water, drinking it and setting it on the table. He walked back over Mikey. Angelo patted Mikey's shell, pushing him slightly to the direction of the lab. “Are you sure I’m allowed to be in there? Donnie doesn’t always enjoy my company.”

”Well to bad for him, plus I think he will mind right now.” Angelo said, standing next to him. “Plus it’s always fun talking to you, and I’m sure you will get along with the others! You gotta talk to people to get to know them!” Angelo smiled, putting his arm around Mikey. “Now let’s go!” Angelo started walking slightly dragging Mikey with him.

As they walked into the lab, Leon and Apes turned to face them. “Hey guys!” Angelo ran up and sat down. Mikey stayed standing at the door, Angelo tilted his head a bit motioning for Mikey to come over and sit with them.

Mikey smiled and sat down, ”Hey! What were you guys talking about?”

“About the universe.” Apes made a rainbow motion with her hands, before laughing. “Nah, we were talking about different universes. How many of us there are, and how they look. Cause so far it seems like we are all pretty different! I mean personalities and such make sense but like races and species. There’s people who exist here but not where we are from. The bad guys also vary between cities. Like everything’s different but there are similarities. It’s like a clash of it all. Ya know!”

“Yeah I get what you are trying to say! It’s like it’s a puzzle but other pieces can go with others, and there is never really a finished product instead, it makes a bunch of different products.” Mikey nodded.

”Yes! It’s like that!” April exclaimed.

Don’s chair rolled over, “I hear you talking about the multiverse theory?” Don smiled.

Leon smiled and nodded, “We sure are my dear brother.”

”I know, because I was right! Other universes exist!! Praise me!” Don said, flopping back on the chair reaching out his hands. He jolted forward at the cold back of the chair.

”You figured it out, before you even got here?!” Mikey exclaimed, sitting up a bit more.

“Sure did!” Don nodded. “I even have a bulletin board with your faces on it!” Don stood up in triumph.

Leon, Apes, and Angelo slowly turned towards Don, jaw dropped. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!!”

“Oh… yeah… I forgot to tell you guys that.”

“How do you forget something that big?! About knowing about different realities! About there being more us’s! That isn't a simple, oopsies forgot to tell you guys that’s like a massive lore drop!” Leo exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.

“I thought you guys paid more attention to my board! At least you Mikey, you spend a bunch of time in my lab! It’s like in the corner of it.”

“I don’t look around the corner, plus I’m usually just doodling on the floor!”

“How about we don’t yell at the injured brother.” Don retaliated. “Plus it helped us not freak out when we first saw them! We didn’t rush in and fight them like they did to us.”

“I don’t know what fantasies you're playing in your own head but here in the real world I remember Raph just telling us we had to go.” Leon nodded.

“Wait, you guys saw us before we met you guys?” Mikey tilted his head looking confused.

“Yup! We were in the sewers and stumbled across here and saw you guys! We were all pretty freaked out but Don told us it was chill and that we should just leave. So we did!” Angelo explained, Don nodded as Angelo talked. Agreeing with what Angelo was saying.

“I wonder why we didn’t notice you guys?” Mikey asked.

“Probably because we are just that good.” April crossed her arms and nodded.

“Or it’s because they were annoyed about something. But we were too far away to hear.”

“It was probably when we got annoyed at mikey cause we had to go find some imaginary blue light, that turned out it wasn’t imaginary. It was actually you guys, specifically the blue light was Leon.”

“My eyes in fact didn’t deceive me and there was a blue light, and a bunch of new friends.” Mikey smiled.

“Yeah, yeah you were right” Donnie waved it off.

“Ooo you saw me! well… my light. Was it cool? Flashy? Like I wanna go check that out cause that light was actually so cool.”

“I don’t think your light was cool enough to get them to go check it out.” Angelo chuckled.

“No, my bro’s thought I was seeing things, and it wasn’t anything at all. I thought it was too bright and random for it to just not be anything so I wanted to check it out. Take a scope of the area to see what made the light. But no, I was seeing things.” Mikey rolled his eyes, and pouted.

“You do talk to yourself a whole lot.” Donnie sighed, rolling his chair over.

”Well it does get boring down here sometimes. It’s the same old same old, unless i have something else going on. Like the shredder, or the kraang stuff like that. Then we get to go out and do way more patrols, and scope out things and such.” Mikey nodded, rocking back and forth on his legs.

“Though usually when that happens we are in danger or the world is, so is it really all that fun?”

”If it gets me doing things, then yeah. Plus we always end up fine.” Mikey nods. “I’d rather be doing all of that then stuck here doing nothing.”

“Are we just gonna go over the fact that Don has a photo of you guys back in our universe?” Leon tilted his head.

”Yes.” Don nodded. “Aren’t we in danger now? Like with shredder and attacking us?”

“Yeah but it turns out we all have a very different style of fighting and different abilities. So Splinter will probably get us training all together so no one gets injured. Guess we are more different than expected.”

”Guess we are.” Angelo nodded, “When do you think we are going to train again?”

”I’m guessing that after Raph feels better. I think right after that we will be able to, or at least that is probably when splinter will want us to train.” Donnie shrugged, rolling back to his desk. So I don't know how long that would be. Do you guys have some estimated time?”

”Honestly I have no idea. The way that works is basically why you used it and how you feel using it, the thing is that it basically only describes what happened here, see everything you are feeling or have felt here it basically all comes back in a rush. K knowing Raph he has been thinking a lot more than he should have. With that most of it isn’t all that good. But since I have no idea how much he has been pushing on himself I have no idea. Honestly I wish I could read minds sometimes, but at the same time it could possibly be too much for me and then I would freak out from time to time. You know cause all of the thoughts rushing to my head all at the same time. Unless I could control who I was listening to, like pinpoint peoples thoughts. BSorry I’m rambling and going completely off topic.” Leon smiled and scratched the back of his neck.

”No, it’s all good man I get it you are worried and stressed about Raph. You get chatty when you’re nervous.” Angelo patted Leon’s back.
“We are all worried, honestly it feels like one thing after another. Then it is all wrapped in a blanket of we are in a different universe.”

”Hey thankfully we are here together” Apes pulled Angelo and Leon into a hug. “Don, get over here” Apes motioned for Don to come over.

Don was about to get up when Angelo spoke up, “Nope we are coming to you, you are still very much injured.” Angelo stood up the others following after him and hugged lightly so as to not put pressure on his wound. “Us Mad Dogz got this!”

“Plus we got extra help this time! Double the help, double the less time.” Angelo nodded.

“Do you mean half the time?” Donnie asked, walking over and standing next to Mikey.

”Sure,” Angelo smiled, pulling Mikey and Donnie into the hug. “Either way it’s together.”

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Rise Raph
3rd POV

“I had to save Mikey from falling off of a building. I didn't really have a choice. I had to save him.” Splinter's eyes widened in surprise from this new information. But kept quiet not to break Raph’s concentration. Raph kept taking deep breaths trying to get in the groove of meditating. “I think I’m getting it, yeah no I lost it.”

“Usually when you start getting it you don’t talk.” Splinter shook his head.

“Sorry.” Raph went back into position trying again. He shuffled a little in his seat, trying to make sure his positioning was correct. But he still did not feel anything, he sat there for a bit squeezing his eyes harder as if it was going to do something. He took one more deep breath before sighing.

“You have good form, but you're more worried about it than actually meditating.”

“Sorry, I just want to make sure that I'm doing it all right.” Raph relaxed for a bit.

“Don’t worry so much about that, it’s more in your brain. It’s more about you, and controlling what’s in your brain. The positioning just helps connect your body and your mind with each other.”

Raph took another deep breath and went back into the pose. “Into my brain,” another deep breath “into my brain,” another deep breath, he spoke quieter, “into my brain.” Raph’s body seemed to relax completely.

Rise Raph’s Brain
3rd POV

Raph opened his eyes, gasping for air for a second. Once he began to calm down, she looked around. But all he saw was pure darkness, “Where am I?!” Raph got up stumbling a bit from the sudden movement. Trying to adjust his eyes to the sudden darkness that enveloped him.

He felt like everything he saw was just darkness, as if blinking and having his eyes open blurred into the same thing. He tried walking but felt like he was going in circles, until he saw a little green light floating in the darkness. Raph didn’t hesitate, he finally saw light. He went up to it and tried to touch it, but it quickly moved away. “Where are you going little guy?” Raph tried getting even closer, but it started moving away even more. He needed that light, whatever it was.

It seemed to have started to float in a certain direction. “Come back little guy.” Raph went after it before it stopped. Raph stopped right in front of it. It glowed brighter for a second and then a scene of Angelo appeared. Though it wasn’t fully Angelo it was almost a transparent orange. Angelo was lying down and drawing. Raph was glad to have some sort of familiarity around, as he reached for Angelo, it seemed to fade and move away again. Raph got up quickly not wanting to lose sight of it. He chased after it, but it soon stopped again and created another scene: it was Raph and Angelo training. As soon as Raph reached for it, it faded again and whooshed away, going a ways before it created another scene.

It was Angelo on his shoulders looking happy as ever. Raph stopped and just looked at all the scenes and processed them. Raph smiled before the scene faded and an orange crystal fell into his hand. The Crystal had a calming glow, but that glow didn’t stay for long. It dimmed in his hand.

“What is going on?” Raph said before a purple hue floated right in front of him. “Looks like this is what we are going to be doing for a sec.” Raph went after it and it again showed a bunch of happy memories and it went on that way with every single one of his brothers before a green crystal appeared in front of him.

Raph reached for it, and a scene appeared: it was all of his brothers sitting around and not listening. He took a sigh before going after the crystal. The next scene was Angelo all beaten up looking up at a Raph in a pleading face. When Raph reached it he took a step back. Instead of it moving away it moved closer the image of Don’s limp body in his arms appeared. “Why is it showing me what happened yesterday…” Raph took a few more steps back. Raph started to feel a lot of emotions take over him. Nausea, confusion, anxiety, all hitting him like a bullet train. The light faded again and he chased it. He needed to know what was going on. Splinter told him to face it, he had to face it not only for him but for his team, for his brothers. Stopping again it showed Leo on that roof again crying his lungs out. He ran towards it, he tried to catch it to hold it. But it faded again.

Then it fully stopped; it was a hologram of himself standing in front of him. Though this time when he reached it, it did not disappear. It stayed there, when he tried to touch it his hand just phased through. Raph looked down at his hand in confusion and slight frustration. The hologram started speaking, “You couldn’t help them.” Raph looked up in surprise, he stayed still and just kept on talking. “You were supposed to protect them. You are supposed to watch out for them, care for them.”

Raph’s face seemed to contort for a second before he spoke up, “I do care for them. And I do my best to protect them!”

“Not enough, I mean they still got hurt. Don was hurt so badly, almost limp. How long will it take him to recover? Where were you? Nowhere to be seen, he had to sit there in such utter pain waiting for you.” The Raph hologram started to walk circles around Raph.

“You aren’t good enough, they are worse because you are here. They could be great but you are holding them back. You aren’t a good leader, you aren't a good brother. You are too overbearing, you are just a burden to them. You are the restriction to their greatness.”

“No I’m not. I am their older brother, they have never said that to me, why should I believe you?” Raph stood his ground. He tried to swing at the hologram but his hand phased through again.

“Oh are you mad? You aren’t strong. Do you train a lot to make up for your horrible caretaking? So you can “protect” them? What are you trying to prove, who are you trying to prove it to?” The hologram morphed into Angelo, Leon, and Don then separated surrounding him. “Is it for us? Cause you're not doing it very well.” They all smiled at him and he took a step back.

Before it morphed into Angelo but it did not look like a hologram this time, it looked like the real Angelo. “I’m not your little boy anymore, I've grown up. I don’t need you in my life anymore. Just leave me alone.” It smiled. “Come on Raph, why would I have a loser like you be my brother, let alone my leader. Come on! Anyone would be better than you.” His voice, stained with malice.

Raph tried to reach out again and grab it, “I’m still your brother, remember when we would hang out! Do our crafts together, bake together?!” Raph called out. The image rolled his eyes and scoffed.

Then it phased into Don, “Just leave me alone. You're bothering me.” it turned away from Raph.
Then a hologram of himself appeared walking in from behind him. “You have to eat.”

“And you have to rest, what’s the difference? Hypocrite.”

“Hey come on Donnie!” Raph sighed walking up to the light. Before he got there it turned into Leo.

“Yeah come on guys, listen.” The figure chuckled, “Or maybe he’ll make you train. Boss you around.”

“I don’t boss you guys around. I’m the leader. I help guide you guys to be better and to stay safe. I lead you guys.” Raph sighed.

“Sure, because falling off a building is keeping me safe. Is “leading” me” Leon said mockingly.

Then it seemed to separate and become Angelo, “That happened twice, even with someone who isn’t even your brother. Are you really taking care of us? You just really just like having control don’t you.” the Angelo figure leaned on Leon, “Do you really need all that training or is it to put us in our place? Hm?”

“Hey come on, when have I ever done things like that?” Raph took a step forward towards them.

It separated again and turned into Don, “Yeah, cause using your strength to stop me from working isn’t an example. Which you’ve done on multiple occasions.”

“Yeah, but I was watching out for your health.” Raph explained.

“Sure, let’s go with that, so we don’t damage your fragile ego. I think you just don’t want me to succeed to be the best that I could be, maybe even better than you. That’s why you don’t let me.”

“What are you talking about, it’s obviously about your health!” Raph was starting to get slightly irritated.

“Yeah, yeah sure.” Don rolled his eyes.

“What are you even looking for? Approval from Splinter? Come on, he could easily change the leader just like that. Plus when has he ever noticed you?” Angelo chuckled. The figures of his brothers seemed to be growing taller than him. “You just aren’t important. You are only the brute, you only come in handy from time to time.”

“You were too weak to save someone and keep going, you had to come here.” Don rolled his eyes, “How weak can you be?”

“I am not weak.” Raph said, closing his eyes. He hoped that when he opened then all of what was going on would be over.

“Keep lying, everyone here loves it. It totally doesn’t make us not trust you.” Leon walked closer.

“Shut up!” Raph finally opened his eyes. He looked around frantically. “Wha-” He was on the top of a building Mikey was pushed off of yesterday. He ran over and tried saving him again, but his powers didn’t work. It seemed to be changing scenes as they went through them. As if they were flickering back and forth with Leon and Mikey both falling down.

“Guess someone did not train enough. Can’t even save your brothers. Come on red, I thought better of you.” Raph whipped his head towards the voice and there stood Splinter. It sighed and looked at Raph emotionless. “I’m… disappointed in you.”

Raph was crying now and rested his head on the cold roof floor. He lifted his head, and it wasn’t a look of sadness. It was a pure look of utter frustration. “You're disappointed?! That’s rich coming from you.” Raph got up from the floor. “All you’ve ever done is disappoint. You’ve been a disappointing dad! You were never there for us. You’re probably not even looking for us right now!” The room around him glowed red and shook around him.”