"4277?" The Doctor muttered, observing the screen. His attention was diverted by the return of Goku and Sonic from their respective misadventures. He beamed at the sight of two more gems. "Great! That's four we have now." he leapt around the console of the TARDIS to press a couple of buttons and flip a switch. "So I've locked the TARDIS onto the locations of the final three gems. All you need to do now is walk through and collect them!"

Goku observed the doors. "This should be easy!" he grinned.

"Let's do this." Twilight cheered.

"Gotta go fast!" Sonic chanted.

"Al onsie!" Dr. Smirked.

They all laughed gleefully.

Each of them chose a door and went through. The Doctor looked back to his screen, observing an ever decreasing number. "4132," he sighed. "we're already more than half way."

Meanwhile, Twilight was dealing with being the centre of attention in a world where they don't see many talking ponies. 'These creatures' she thought to herself. 'I've read about these creatures. I thought they were just a myth, but here they are.' she pondered for a moment before coming to a shocking revelation 'Oh... Oh, this is bad... now I'm going to have to release Lyra from the mental asylum. That's going to be awkward...'

The crowd's attention was taken by the sound of gunshots and screaming. A group of men dressed in black with faces covered in balaclavas ran out of a nearby jewellery store, entered a car and sped off. Quickly following them were three green anthropomorphic turtles each wearing a coloured bandanna. "Stop, thieves!" they yelled repeatedly as the car drove off, but they did not stop for the turtles.

"Thieves?" Twilight frowned. The smart purple pony saw an opportunity. She used her long, hard, magical horn to levitate the vehicle and bring it back to the turtles who were clearly the local police force. The turtles tore the thieves out of their car and proceeded to beat the ever-loving shit out of them. One even went so far as to slam a guy's head in the car door. Twilight was shocked and outraged. She darted over to the turtles and threw them away from the thieves with her magic.

"Oh no you don't!" shouted the one wearing the red bandanna as he picked himself up and stormed toward Twilight. The Princess of Friendship blocked his path with a wall of magic. "Let me at him, let me at him!" the enraged turtle yelled at smart pone.

"No!" she snarled. "You could have apprehended the thieves in a civilised and non-violent manner. You have no right to call yourselves law enforcement."

The turtles looked at each other in bewilderment. The one with the blue bandanna stepped forward. "Who ever said we were law enforcement?" he held up his weapons "What kind of police carry daggers and swords? We're ninja turtles, princess, and those assholes right there just shot our friend."

Twilight saw behind the turtle into the store that had been robbed. The turtle wearing the purple bandanna was knelt on the floor, comforting his falling comrade. "It's okay, Mikey, we'll get you back to Splinter, we can fix you up there." he cried. The one wearing the orange bandanna looked back up at his turtle friend and he held up a hand. Purple turtle held Mikey's hand. "No. Don't waste your energy."

"Dude," Mikey groaned "it's alright," he coughed "I know..." he spluttered.

"Mikey..." purple turtle wept.

"I know I'm not going to make it."

"Don't say that, Mikey. We're going to fix you up, just hold on."

"It's alright," Mikey explained "you don't have to be afraid." he continued. "This is it for me, and I regret nothing."

"Mikey, no..." purple cried.

"I've lived a great life with the best of friends. I wouldn't have had it any other way."

"Come on, Mikey. You're going to be fine."

Mikey shook his head "No. Donatello, listen. I want you to take this." Mikey handed Donatello a white gem containing seven diamonds.

'Rarity's element!' Twilight thought.

Mikey used all of his strength to hand Donatello the gem. His hand fell to the floor and his head rolled back in Donatello's arms. Donatello shook Mikey. "No..." he choked, shaking Mikey to try and get a response. "Mikey?" he continued. "Come on Mikey, wake up." his friends looked on in horror. "Mikey!" Donatello shouted, holding his deceased friend tightly. "No..." he cried. "Noooooooooo!"

His friends wept for their fallen comrade. Even Twilight was struck by emotion. The skies darkened, a roar of thunder was heard and rain began to pour. The sound of the rain beating on the path outside and the windows of the store were broken up by the tearful cries of Donatello.

He stared eye to eye with Mikey. "I should have told you..." he spluttered, "I never took the chance, and now you'll never know how I feel, Mikey." he cried. "I love you." he embraced his friend in one final hug, "I fucking love you, man."

The turtle wearing the red bandanna knelt down beside Donatello and rested an arm on his back. "Come on, Donatello."

Donatello's moment of comforting had passed. He wailed upon hearing those words from his friend. He knew he had to leave Mikey and go on with life on his own. He was stricken with grief. He closed the eyes of his friend and placed him on the floor. As he got up and turned away, Twilight noticed his grief had turned to rage. He locked Twilight in his sights. "Get out of my way!" he bellowed as he stormed towards the princess. Twilight raised her defences. Donatello slammed into the barrier of magic, hammering at it with his fists. Twilight struggled to fend him off. Donatello continued to thrash away, but it was no use as Twilight's magic proved to be too strong.

"I won't let you near them. They are thieves, yes, they also killed your friend, I understand what emotions are coursing through you right now, but you must have a legal system that will give them an appropriate sentence for their crimes. If you take your anger out on them in an act of revenge, you'll also be punished by the legal system. Let the courts deal with them." Twilight reasoned.

"Don't be so dense!" scorned the blue bandanna. "We won't get any representation in court, and we certainly don't have rights. We're mutants - we live in the sewers. Besides, given the amount of corruption in the legal system, they'll be back on the streets in no time. We will have lost Mikey for nothing!"

The red bandanna stood forward "Look. You're either with us or against us. Hand those guys over or we'll take them from you." he growled.

Twilight intensified her defences. "No!"

The red one steam-rolled into Twilight's magic barrier, the other two followed suit. Twilight dug her hooves in, but the force of all three of them was pushing her back. Twilight put more energy into her defences to give try and level the playing field.

"Twilight!" called the voice of the Doctor. "What are you doing? We need that gem."

"I'm in the middle of something right now, Doctor!" Twilight groaned.

"Well hurry it up; we've got some trouble on this side, too, we need your help!" the Doctor explained.

Twilight dug deep into her reserves of strength to push all three turtles back. She saw the gem lying on the floor. The turtles were resilient. They quickly got back up and prepared another charge.

"Wait!" Twilight yelled. "That gem..." she pointed with her head toward the white gem. "I need that gem. You give me that gem, and..." she stopped herself mid-sentence. She couldn't bear to do this, but her new friends needed her "...and I'll let you have them." she sighed disappointingly at herself. The turtles contemplated her decision for a moment. The turtle wearing the blue bandanna walked over to the gem and picked it up.

"You want it? Here." he threw the gem at Twilight. Twilight immediately lowered her defences and grabbed the gem. The robbers took their opportunity and fled immediately. The turtles were about to give chase when they heard police sirens. They fled in the opposite direction. Twilight vanished, reappearing in front of the TARDIS doors. She got what she came for, though she couldn't help but think about the fact she was about to send a group of men to a potentially fatal beating.

Author's Note

You were expecting clever author's notes, but it was I, Dio!