It was morning in Canterlot City and everyone living there was still asleep. Spike was just starting to wake up when Twilight entered her house and arrived at the lab. Once she did that, she turned on all the computers in the room and pulled out a bunch of schematics scattered around the room. She was so distracted that she didn't hear Spike's footsteps.
“Twilight? You came earlier than expected,” Spike replied. “How did it go with your mission?”
“As usual.” she said. “This time it was the Purple Dragons, Stockman, and the Insect Trio.”
“The Insect Trio?” Spike asked with a confused look on his face.
“Mikey,” Twilight flatly replied.
“Right,” Spike said rolling his eyes. “And what did they want?”
“They teamed up to infiltrate TCRI and steal Kraang technology and weapons,” explained Twilight. “But we stopped them and, as always, saved the day.”
“I had no doubt about it,” Spike said with a smile, but then asked, “Where are the others?”
“After the mission, Mikey and Pinkie had a little pizza party at the lair, but we soon interrupted it because of the need to go back home. Probably, the girls are at Pinkie's now, as she wanted to continue the party at her place,” Twilight revealed with a smile on her face, after which she giggled and shook her head while adding, “Typical Pinkie Pie.”
“Oh. You're not with them, because?” Spike confusedly inquired.
“Because, I just couldn't stay, and I said to the girls that I had to go to the lab to do something important,” Twilight answered.
“What is it?” Spike asked, raising an eyebrow.
“After this battle and our latest adventure dealing with mutant insects and the return of Dregg,one idea was buzzing in my head,” admitted Twilight. “In fact, this idea came to me after we stopped the Triceratons and Equestrian magic began to appear more and more often in our city. Do you remember that robotics project I told you about?”
Spike recalled, “You mean the one involving your robot butler? What about it?”
She continued, “Well, technically it's an assistant for cleaning up after magic battles, but yes, that’s the one. I was thinking about modifying its chassis and creating an AI that would help it detect and intercept threats from other worlds, regardless of whether they’re magical or not.”
“Really? Why is that?” Spike asked.
Twilight quickly stated, “Because, I want us to be ready for the next appearance of an evil magical entity or an evil alien in Canterlot or New York, if we’re not in either city. In fact, that’s becoming a constant, Spike. We can't be in two places at once, let alone a different dimension. What if the Kraang come back to terraform the Earth again, or Dregg or someone else try to conquer our planet again, not to mention magical one, whether it's Equestrian magic or another dangerous artifact from Equestria like the Memory Stone or worse?!”
After that, Twilight took several deep breaths to calm herself and upon doing so, she continued, “That's why we need to create a robot or rather Artificial Intelligence that can help us ensure peace in our absence. If my calculations are correct, which is almost always the case, this AI will give my improved mechanical sentry an advantage to defeat any of these threats. This project will probably take weeks, but I have to finish it for the sake of everyone on this planet, especially my friends. Right now, it’s our top priority. I will create a solution to all our problems.”
Twilight's gaze is directed at the sun rising outside the window and the expression on her face became firm.
“No matter the cost, I will do this for the sake of my friends and everything we hold dear.”
Equestria Ninja Girls:
The Rise of Twira
It had been more than two weeks since someone saw Twilight. CHS students often saw her leaving school in a hurry and going home. Usually, this behavior can be expected from any other student. And Twilight wasn't one of them.
In addition, during this time, Twilight almost never communicated with her friends, who tried to invite her to hang out with them, but she always excused herself and apologized, saying that she was working on her "important project" and returned home in a hurry. The girls were afraid that this absence of hers could take a very long time.
But today, Twilight had called all her friends, telling them to come to her house to show what she had been working on for so many days. On the way to her house, the girls were having a discussion about what their friend wanted to show them.
"What do you think y’all? What did she build this time? A new magic detector?" Applejack asked.
"I have no idea, but it must be something very big, considering all the time she spent building it," replied Sunset with a concerned tone in her voice. "She even skipped a few lessons for this."
"I agree, darling," Rarity added while looking at her pocket mirror with the same expression. "This is so unlike her."
"You're right," Fluttershy chimed in. "I really hope all this was worth the time spent hiding from us."
"I'm with Fluttershy, but I'm still wondering what she was building that took more than two weeks," declared Applejack, "Any ideas?"
"Maybe it's a distributor of food for homeless animals," Fluttershy then suggested.
"Or a special robot for training with all kinds of sports," Rainbow Dash stated.
"Or maybe a robot that was created to help us and the turtles when we’re not in our dimension or even in our cities, which is programmed to learn depending on the situation and always exposes and improves itself to better cope with its enemy," Pinkie Pie said with a toothy smile, which caused everyone to stare at her completely stunned.
"What?" she asked after several seconds of silence.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not what we're gonna see, Pinkie," Rainbow said.
"Oh, yeah? Ten bucks says you're wrong, Rainbow," Pinkie declared with determination.
An equally determined Rainbow replied, "Ha! You're so on!"
They proceeded to spit on their hands and shook them with grins on their faces.
Applejack then frowned at the two and said, "Can we go, please? I don't want to spend all day on this banter!"
"Calm down AJ. We're moving, okay? Jeez!", Rainbow exclaimed with annoyance in her voice.
Right at that moment, however, Sunset's phone received a message and upon looking at its contents, she announced, "Girls, I just got a message from Leo! He and the guys will be here soon!"
The other girls smiled when they heard this.
"That's great!" Rainbow declared.
"I can't wait to see them here again!" Fluttershy added.
"I agree, darling," stated Rarity. "I simply can't wait to see April and the others once again."
"Yeah... About April..." Sunset began with a slightly guilty look on her face. "Leo wrote that she and Casey will not be able to come, because they were detained at school due to problems with their studies."
A brief shot of April and Casey in the principal's office.
"OH!" the girls collectively said.
"What about Karai and Shini?" Fluttershy then asked. "Will they come?"
"Sadly, no," Sunset revealed, "They have some unfinished business with the Foot Clan, along with the Dazzlings. They're tracking Stockman after our last battle with him."
"But they'll miss everything!" exclaimed Pinkie.
"We'll tell them and probably, they'll see it as well," Rarity suggested.
"But it won't be the same thing," Rainbow countered.
Then, Applejack let out a deep sigh and declared, "All right, can we go to Twilight already?! She's still waiting for us like apples on a branch!"
"You're right, AJ. Let's go, girls!" added Sunset.
They continued walking towards Twilight's house and reached it a couple of minutes later. Twilight opened the door at the first knock, and let's just say, calling her appearance dirty would be a complete understatement. She was wearing a lab coat full of burns, her hair was in a terrible state and pencils were even sticking out of it, and she had a terrifying smile on her face.
"Ah, my good friends!" Twilight exclaimed with crazed eyes, "I’m glad you came! Please, come in! Come in!"
"We were worried about you. What have you been doing all this time?" Sunset asked with great concern in her voice.
"Don't worry, girls. Come in and I'll show you everything," Twilight said as she went inside. "Now, follow me!"
The girls looked at each other for a few seconds before shrugging and following their friend, who was walking to her laboratory. Once they all reached it, they saw that it was just as horrible-looking as Twilight herself.
Machine parts, papers, clothes, and computers were scattered everywhere, and the only orderly thing around there was an object covered with a white sheet and Spike lying on the unmade bed. Upon seeing the girls, he quickly jumped off the bed and began shaking his tail.
"Hey, guys! How's it going?" he then asked.
Rarity immediately went to pet him and as she did so, she said, "Well, hello there, Spikey poo! I've missed you so much! What have you been up to?"
"I'm alright, but I can't really say the same for Twilight," Spike revealed. "She hasn't eaten or slept at all for three days and it's all because of that ro-"
Twilight quickly covered his mouth before giving the girls a nervous laugh.
"Sorry about that, but I'd like to make this introduction myself," she explained while going near the mysterious object.
"Ladies, behold the ultimate peace-keeper and our new friend," she then announced. "TWIRA!"
As soon as she removed the sheet, all of her friends gasped in utter terror upon seeing what was underneath. The object was a robot with a body similar to the body of a human teenage girl in silver-pink color with purple lines on the body. There was also a glass dome on her head and disconnected electrodes in it.She had a six-pointed Twilight star on her chest, which confirmed that it was her creation. At the moment, the eyes and the dome on the head were turned off.
"AH! CREEPY ROBOT!" Pinkie exclaimed, but then came to realization and an evil grin appeared on her face.
"So, that means..." she said to Rainbow, who responded by giving her a 10-dollars bill while still staring at the robot and Pinkie took it with a huge glee.
"Twilight, what in tarnation is this?" Applejack asked, staring at the robot.
"I have to agree with AJ in this case, Twi," Sunset said, looking at her friend. "What kind of a robot have you built and what is it even for?"
"I'm glad you asked, Sunset," Twilight began to explain to the girls. "This robot is my greatest creation at the moment, built to help us fight threats in our absence or in extreme need. I provided Twira with basically the same weapons as the Professors, though not as lethal, and the same parts and drawings that I used to recreate the Professor were also used. In fact, Twira is the most advanced robot on this planet, so to speak."
She then looked at her brainchild with pride and added, "But that's not what makes her unique."
"HUH?!" the girls exclaimed.
"What do you mean, Twilight?" Sunset then asked with the same confusion as everyone present.
"That's why it took me so much time and effort," continued Twilight. "Twira is unique in that it has perhaps the first Artificial Intelligence in the world capable of learning from its mistakes and improving depending on the situation."
"I don't want to question your abilities, dear," Rarity chimed in. "But is that really why it took you so long? Because of some kind of robot program?"
Rainbow added, "Yeah, no offense Twi, but was it really that hard for you?"
"That's not exactly the point, girls," Twilight clarified. "I wanted to build the perfect robot to help us protect our cities and the world. So, I equipped her with an artificial intelligence based on a human brain. Or rather, my brain."
"WHAT?!" exclaimed the girls, looking at Twilight with immensely widened eyes.
"You're saying there's a copy of your brain in this robot?!" Pinkie asked as she began to examine the robot's head "Like a Fugitoid?" Then Pinkie began to examine the robot from different angles and positions, she looked inside the dome in search of the robot's "brain" "No, it's not there!"
Twilight let out a little laugh and explained. "Of course not Pinkie. Well, not really. Yes, there is a copy of my brain in it, but not the brain itself."
"Ooohh!" Pinkie then exclaimed, "Cool!"
"But I still don't understand, Twilight. Why did you decide to do all this?" Sunset asked, waiting for an explanation like all the girls in the room.
"Well, you see, girls," Twilight began her explanation, "When I started creating Twira, I realized that I needed to create the perfect device capable of helping us in any circumstance. There were no problems with the robot's body, but the most difficult and important thing was that there needed to be a program inside it. I understood that an ordinary robot would not be able to cope with the task, so I started developing an Artificial Intelligence that would cope with this task. Unfortunately, all my attempts to create it ended in failure."
A flashback shows a visibly depressed Twilight rapidly typing codes on the computer, her facial expression becoming more and more irritated with each passing second.
Her voice is heard narrating, "My attempts to create an AI capable of adapting to all known situations from scratch were initially unsuccessful. The program couldn't pull it off and every simulation ended in failure."
Then, after another error shows up on her screen, she began to bang her head on the table over and over again, as the narration continued, "I began to think about what could be done to create the right AI and then, it dawned on me!"
Twilight's face suddenly brightened after an idea popped up in her head and her narrating voice explained, "I realized that it's unnecessary to create an AI with all the situations we know and that it's much better to create an AI that will learn from its mistakes and adapt to situations. Just like all people do."
Sometime afterward, Twilight is seen connecting wires to her head, which are in turn, connected to a computer.
"So, I took my own brain as the basis for the program. That way, it has intelligence and is able to think for itself."
Then, several readings began to appear on the screen and soon, Twilight is able start creating the program. Right after that, a message appeared on the screen saying, "Integration successful,” and a wide smile appeared on Twilight’s face when an eight-pointed blue star appeared on the screen, representing Twira.
"And it turned out to be a huge success. I was able to create the perfect Artificial Intelligence that can help us!"
Back in the present, Twilight looked at her friends with the same smile and finished explaining, "That's why it took me so long to create this robot, which is a bit funny. I didn't expect to create female programming for the AI, but apparently, when I gave him my brain scan, it took that scan as the basis of its programming. So, I guess you can say that Twira is the second me, or my daughter, so to speak."
The girls stood in a stupor for a couple of seconds before Sunset said, "Okay, you're saying you put your own mind into this robot, so that it could adapt better and learn in any situation to make her an ideal defender in our absence with Turtles and friends?"
"Yeah, pretty much," Twilight replied.
"I KNEW IT!" Pinkie suddenly exclaimed while smiling broadly, which made everyone turn their attention towards her. "I told you girls that Twilight would create exactly what I was talking about!"
Then, she crossed her arms and a smug smile appeared on her face, causing the other girls, except Twilight, to groan.
"Um, what?" Twilight confusedly asked.
"NOTHING!" all the girls then shouted.
Although there was complete silence in the room for several seconds, it was broken upon Rarity saying, "We are certainly delighted with such a creation as Twira, dear. What you've done for us is very generous and even I couldn't do half the things she’s capable of. But are you sure she can do everything you’ve just described, Twilight?"
"Definitely, Rarity,” Twilight replied. “She will learn and evolve much faster than anyone else on the planet, which will create one of the best heroes and defenders of the Earth!"
"Or create one of the most dangerous and terrible villains we've ever faced," said a voice behind the girls
Soon, the girls turned around and saw their turtle friends standing in the doorway.
"GUYS!" exclaimed all the girls running up to them.
"Hi, girls," Leonardo began, "How are you doing?"
"Same as always, Leo," Rainbow stated, "Equestrian magic is here and there. Recently, we fought with the Purple Nightmares, for a change. But other than that, there’s nothing interesting going on. Well, nothing except Twilight’s secret project here.”
"And why have you been away for so long?” Fluttershy asked, “We were beginning to think that you wouldn’t have time to come.”
"Well, a certain someone offered to surprise you with a ninja-style appearance when you come out,” Raphael explained while glaring daggers at Michelangelo. “Which, in my humble opinion, is pretty freaking stupid.”
"Hey, we're ninjas!" Mikey exclaimed, "You gotta figure out your name and match it."
Donatello facepalmed at that statement before turning toward the girls and explaining, “Anyway, we've been eavesdropping on you from the moment Twilight showed you her robot."
He then walked up to the said robot and after examining it for a few seconds, he turned to Twilight and declared, "I must say, your secret project has turned out to be amazing. You’ve clearly invested a lot of time and effort in building this robot. She really is the greatest of all your creations.”
The girl blushed from embarrassment and replied, "Thanks, Donnie. That’s very nice to hear."
However, she then slightly frowned at Leo and asked, "But what do you mean she could become our enemy?"
"I don't wish to offend you, Twilight. I just feel a little uncomfortable with your robot,” Leo revealed, ”Especially the fact that its mind is based on yours. That can be very dangerous. What if the same thing with Overmind happens?”
"Do you mean that Artificial Intelligence that took over the space station and killed everyone on it?” Twilight asked
"And created an army of robots to destroy all organic matter?" Applejack added.
“As well as captured and used the professor's body against you for his own purposes?" Sunset further added while also frowning at the thought of the robot that was parabotting and using her friend.
"The one and the same," Leo clarified, "It’s exactly what I fear could happen to Twira."
"No! This is definitely not going to happen!" Twilight exclaimed, slightly surprising everyone present. "Twira will not become the same as Overmind! That's why I took my mind as the basis of the program, so that the robot would be more human and think like us. Unlike Overmind, who considered himself superior to humans because of his machine intelligence."
Then, she looked pleadingly at her friends and added, "I believe… I know that Twira can help us, guys. After all, if it couldn’t, I wouldn't have created her in the first place. You believe me, don't you?”
The girls and the Turtles looked at each other before giving their respective answers.
"Of course," Applejack replied
"Absolutely, dear," Rarity agreed.
"You and I are always cool, dudette!” exclaimed Mikey.
“As a fellow scientist, I support this decision of yours,” declared Donnie.
"Me too, probably," Ralph said as he shrugged.
"I always have your back, Twilight," Fluttershy admitted.
"You got this, Sci-Twi!" Pinkie yelled.
"I believe you, Twilight, just like everyone else," revealed Rainbow.
"Twilight, you're one of my best friends," Sunset said, "So, I’ll always believe in you, no matter what you do."
"You can always count on me and my brothers, Twilight," Leo declared while taking her hand in his. “We're not just friends. We're all family. Family always believes in one another."
Twilight tearfully smiled at her friends and managed to reply, "Leo... Sunset... Guys..."
Then, she sniffed and wiped her tears on the sleeves of her lab coat before saying, "Thank you. All of you.”
Her attention was suddenly attracted by Spike's barking, who was rubbing against her leg. She picked him up and hugged him with all her heart as she said, “Thank you, Spike. I'm sorry I was so distracted and forgot about you. I was just so passionate about my work that-”
"It's okay, Twilight. I completely understand," Spike interrupted her. "Besides, you did it for friends. All our friends. So, it's excusable.”
However, after Twilight let out a small giggle while shedding a few more tears, his facial turned smug and he said, "But don't think you got off so lightly. I'm expecting a bag of dog food from you and a warm bath after all this.”
Soon, everyone, including Spike himself, was laughing.
Calming down, Twilight asked, "Well, guys, are you ready to test Twira?"
"YES!" everyone answered in unison.
Nodding to them, Twilight lowered Spike to the ground, and then walked over to Twira before clearing her throat and declaring, "Initiate the activation sequence. Password, Sparkle.”
Soon the robot's eyes and dome lit up blue. Then, she answered in a metallic version of Twilight’s voice, "Greetings. My name is Twira. I was created to help you."
"Whoa! She has the same voice as Twilight," Mikey whispered to Donny.
"Naturally,” replied Donnie, “As Twilight said, she gave the robot her mind as the basis for an AI program. But apparently, when created, the AI took Twilight herself as a basis for its programming. That's why it sounds just like her.”
"I didn't understand any word you say, but it's still cool!" Mikey exclaimed with a smile, to which Donny facepalmed once again.
"Twira, initiate a scanning,” Twilight then said.
"Performing a scanning," responded Twira just before her eyes began shining even brighter.
"Scanning complete,” she said a few seconds later. “Seven sources of Equestrian magic detected. One source located 30 inches to the north and the other six located 3 feet to the north. Danger level low on all sources. Standing down."
"Wait. Are you saying she can scan and find Equestrian magic?" Sunset then asked.
"And contain it if it becomes out of control,” revealed Twilight. “I forgot to say that she is equipped with scanners from my tracker to find and localize Equestrian magic."
"And, as I understand, she could improve her program and platform in the process, becoming more effective for solving the situations that involve magic," Donnie reasoned.
Twilight nodded and replied, "That's right, but this is only in theory. We need to test this in the field.”
"Well, there's certainly a lot of cool and awesome things about this bucket of bolts," Raph declared, ignoring Twilight's frown at his last words. "But what if, as already mentioned, she suddenly crashes and starts a Robocalypse?"
"I'm glad you asked, Raph," Twilight replied as she continued to frown at him, "As I said, that's not going to happen. I programmed Twira not to harm any living thing, not even our enemies. She’s based on my mind, so that it doesn't repeat the same thing as Overmind. However, in case that does happen, I can always turn her off with one voice command."
She then turned to Twira and said, "Initiate the shutdown sequence. Password, Midnight.
"The shutdown code is accepted,” Twira answered and her eyes and dome shut down, as did the robot itself
"See?" Twilight asked as she turned to her friends.
"Okay, that's cool," Raph admitted.
"Whoa. Did you make a shutdown code in honor of your ‘dark self’?" Mikey asked curiously.
"MIKEY!" everyone exclaimed, making him cringe. Soon, everyone looked at Twilight who, to their surprise, did not react to this in any way.
"It's okay, guys. I've mostly overcome my fear of her,” she revealed, “Of course, she will always remind me of what I’ve done in the past, but I can live with it and learn from it. That's what we all do, isn't it?"
Everyone nodded at Twilight in response to her question.
"Does that mean you don't mind leaving Twira online?" she then asked.
Everyone thought about it again before once again nodding in unison.
“I don’t think it would hurt anyone if we leave it on," Sunset then said.
"She’s right. I may have been a bit too harsh about Twira," Leo admitted.
"I personally think that you’ve built the greatest robot that I’ve have ever seen,” Donnie declared, “With the exception of the professor, of course,"
"Yeah. Maybe she can fight better than Donnie here," Raph said with a grin, "Besides, he's already outdated."
"Hey!" Donnie angrily exclaimed at that insult.
"Oh, guys! How about we now show how much we like Twira by throwing a party for our new friend?!” Pinkie asked with great excitement.
Everyone cheered in unison.
"Great idea!” agreed Twilight, “You guys go ahead. I'm gonna to turn Twira on again and meet you outside.”
She then turned back to her creation and said, "Initiate the activation sequence. Password, Sparkle.”
The eyes and lights began to glow blue again, and Twira herself announced, "The activation code has been accepted. Would you like to restart the scanning?”
"Sure, go ahead," Twilight promptly replied.
Twira’s eyes then lit up even brighter and a few seconds later, she stated, "The scanning is complete. One source of Equestrian magic has been discovered. Location, 1.5 miles to the northeast. The danger level is high."
"What? Are you saying that something with rogue magic is wreaking havoc somewhere right now?!" Twilight frantically asked.
"Affirmative,” responded Twira, “Requesting permission to intercept.”
"Permission granted," Twilight immediately confirmed, and then watched as Twira fired up her jet boosters and flew out through the open front door.
Immediately afterwards, she ran outside and announced, "Come on, guys! Twira is heading northeast This is a great chance to observe her fighting abilities firsthand."
"WOW! I didn't know she could fly!" exclaimed Rainbow, looking at the trail left by Twira.
"Yes, with the jet boosters I've installed on each leg, she can fly up to a hundred miles an hour,” Twilight explained. “Pretty cool, huh?”
"Cool? No, it's not cool! IT'S AMAZING!" Rainbow shouted with even greater excitement.
"Well, you definitely know how to exceed expectations, darling.” Rarity added.
"Yes, yes, yes!” Raph then exclaimed with irritation, "We’ve all realized how cool this robot is. Maybe, we should go follow her already?!”
"That's right, bro!" Mikey agreed, "Let’s go see the epic battle between a robot and magic! I can’t wait to see who wins!"
"YES!!! Let’s go and see how our robot buddy teaches Equestrian magic some manners!" shouted Pinkie.
"In addition, we need to confirm all of Twira’s abilities,” Donnie chimed in, “Both her program and her platform."
Fluttershy then confusedly asked, "Um, are we really supposed to follow her?"
"Fluttershy, she just flew out of the door at fifty-something miles an hour to the other side of town to intercept the source of the rogue magic,” explained Sunset, “Of course we’re gonna follow her!"
Rainbow added, "Come on! It's gonna be fun! Also, we need to see if she can handle huge magical threats with our own eyes, right?"
"I'm with Rainbow on this," Applejack declared, "You can't know how good apples are if you don't try ‘em."
"Oh, I guess you're right,” replied Fluttershy.
Leo then announced, "What are we waiting for, then? Let’s go, ninjas!"
Everyone quickly got into the Party Wagon and followed Twira to see how she would cope with her first encounter with magic.
Meanwhile, in another part of Canterlot City...
"HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"
An ATM was suddenly struck by lightning, which was apparently being emitted from a hammer. The owner of this hammer was a light-bearded man dressed as a viking with a red cloak and long blond braided hair.
Money began to fly out of the ATM, which he collected in a bag thanks to his hammer twisting to create a wind flow
“That was easier than taking a candy from a child," the man boasted. "And now, with the help of my great weapon, I will be able to conquer this city like the magnificent Vikings of old. Then, the whole world shall bow to my power!"
Hollering with laughter, the Viking used his hammer to release lightning towards the incoming police cars, which caused them to blow their circuits off and crash into a lamppost. Fortunately, the officers were not injured and soon got out of their cars before running away from the magic-wielding villain.
"HA! HA! HA!” he continued laughing. “Who can hope to stop me, the Thunderer?! I am the undisputed lord of lightning!”
Then, as a response to his statement, he heard the noise of a roaring engine, which made him turn around and look at its source, seeing that it was a robot resembling a teenage girl.
“The source of Equestrian magic has been discovered,” the robot declared. “Designation: the hammer. Threat rating: Average. Analyzing the situation.”
Meanwhile, the Party Wagon pulled up just in time to see Twira face off against the man dressed up like a Viking.
"What kind of a weirdo is that?" Raph commented.
"I agree, darling," Rarity said, "Look at this raincoat. It’s simply disgusting. Also, look at his armor. Just awful!”
"Oh, yeah, it's so awful!” Rainbow replied sarcastically, "But seriously, didn’t you notice the hammer that’s charged with magic? It’s much more important than the state of his wardrobe!”
“Guys, this is no time to argue," Sunset announced. "We need to deprive him of the hammer before he does something more serious with it, or before magic permeates him enough to turn him into a demon.”
“I agree," Leo replied as he looked at everyone present. "Team, on my signal—“
"Actually, Leo…" Twilight interrupted, "We don't need to get involved. We'll leave it all to Twira.”
"Um, Twilight…" Fluttershy began as she looked at the hammer-wielding Viking with fright. "Are you sure Twira can handle him? That man looks very strong, especially with this hammer that has magic in it."
"You're kidding, right?" Raph asked. "He's a lot slimmer than Stockboy, and that says something. Any one of us can handle him with one arm tied behind our backs, especially the robot.”
“Besides, we wanted to give Twira a test of her skills and functions," Donnie added. "And this moment seems most suitable.”
"Twilight, are you absolutely sure about this?” inquired Leo. “I don't think Twira is ready to fight such an enemy right now.”
“It's okay, Leo. Trust me," Twilight replied confidently, "This is why I created Twira; to eliminate all threats, whether they be alien, magical, or even from Earth. So, let's look beyond that.”
"YES!" exclaimed Pinkie, "The battle of Robot vs. Viking has begun!”
As for the forementioned combatants, the Viking looked at the opponent in front of him in bewilderment and stated, “What in Odin’s beard? Did they send a Steel Maiden against me? HA-HA-HA! What a joke! A mere instrument like you can never defeat me, THE THUNDERER!”
"Did he seriously call himself ‘the Thunderer’?" Sunset said while raising an eyebrow.
“Yeah, so lame! Even I could’ve come up with a better name," Mikey declared.
"On that, I completely agree with you, little bro," Raph replied.
Then, they all heard Twira state, “The situation analysis is complete. Your actions are illogical. Lower the hammer, return to the ground, and surrender. This is your first and only warning.”
"No one tells the Thunderer what to do!” her opponent exclaimed, “Especially a piece of iron like you!”
He then proceeded to shoot lightning from a hammer at Twira, which caused all of her systems to overload and all the lights on her to go out. Right afterwards, she fell backwards to the ground and everyone except Twilight became shocked by this.
"TWIRA!" they all shouted.
"Okay, I'm correcting myself," Raph admitted, "I did overestimate this robot.”
"Get ready, guys," Leo declared. "It's time to act!”
"Stop! Leo, please give Twira some more time,” Twilight pleaded. “I know she can handle it. It’s in her programming to do so, after all.”
"But Twilight, didn’t you see what happened to her?" Applejack asked, "I don't wanna upset you or anything, but after this, your robot definitely won't getting up.”
Right at that moment, however, Pinkie pointed at the confrontation and exclaimed, “Hey, look over there!”
Meanwhile, the Thunderer reveled in his own victory and continued shouting, "HA! HA! HA! Stupid piece of iron! Did you really think that you could defeat me, the Thunderer?! No one can match my might!”
However, he then looked at his “defeated” opponent and exclaimed with great surprise, “What?!”
As for Twira, she was standing back up as if nothing had happened, puzzling not only the Viking, but also the Ninja Turtles.
“The adaptation of the platform and the energy intensity has been completed,” she announced, “The energy absorption was carried out successfully."
Right afterwards, her hand transformed into a blaster as it began charging with electricity, she stated, "Ready to solve the problem.”
Overcoming his shock, the Viking frowned when he heard how the robot absorbed his own lightning and yelled, "What?! How dare you?! Your puny weapons could never dama-A-A-A-A!!!
The villain was suddenly hit by his own lightning that was absorbed by Twira earlier. Then, he fell to the ground and began twitching and writhing in shock.
As soon as the threat was suppressed, Twira walked towards the hammer and raised it in her hands before announcing, "The mission is now accomplished. The threat has been eliminated and the Equestrian magic is under control. It is necessary to deliver the object to the Rainbooms in order to remove its magic.”
"There's no need for that, Twira,” Twilight said as she and the others began approaching Twira.
The robot turned towards the voice and saw Twilight smiling affectionately, like a mother who is proud of her child. The others also smiled and began to express what they had seen.
"WOW! That was awesome!" exclaimed Rainbow while she walked up to Twira and patted her on the shoulder.
"Indeed. She dealt with the threat in less than a minute! "Donnie added with admiration. "And not only that, she also upgraded her platform and was able to absorb the lightning charge to use it against the Thunderer without causing destruction at the same time. She's simply amazing."
He then looked at Twilight as she explained, "Well, it looks like we have confirmed the abilities of Twira’s adaptational program, as well as its platforms. In addition, she has effectively coped with and neutralized the magical threat.”
"Yes, I am glad that my invention was able to cope with the task,” Twilight replied with a note of pride in her voice. “Plus, it's nice to see that Twira's program works effectively, as does her body."
Everyone else continued to praise Twira for the work she had done, but it all ended when Raph, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! This robot is really freaking good, but that was too easy!"
"Seriously, Raph?" Applejack asked, "Did you really have to spoil the mood?"
"Yeah, bro," Mikey added, "Not cool at all."
"I mean, it was kind of easy to handle, even without the fancy Twilight robot,” Raph clarified.
Just in confirmation of this, the Thunderer woke up and ran past Raph, who did not even move a muscle to follow him. Then, he took out his sai and threw it over his shoulder without even looking in the direction of the fleeing.
The villain continued to run without looking back from the heroes and the robot that spoiled his triumph.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Such foolishness! Did they think they could defeat me so easily? The Thunderer himself?!" he loudly exclaimed while laughing, "Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha! A mere robot can't beat me! After all, I am the strongest! The most powerful of all! No one smo-"
Whatever he wanted to say, he was interrupted by the handle of the sai, which hit him on the back of the head, but it was enough to knock him out.
Returning to the heroes, when Raph heard the sound of his weapon and body falling, he looked around with everyone and saw the villain passed out and his weapon. He looked at everyone with a look that said, “I told you”, and soon after retrieving his weapon, he returned to the group while twirling his weapon like a sheriff in the Wild West before putting it on his belt.
"Okay, Raph, we get it," a slightly irritated Sunset replied, "And what do you suggest we do to make sure that Twira is useful and necessary?
"Lucky for you, Sunset, I know a great place to take this robot on a proper test drive.” he announced.
"I am not a car, Raphael," Twira stated. "This expression, known as "test drive", is typical for testing automobiles and race cars. So, ‘field test’ would be the correct term to use.”
Raph gave the robot a dry look and turned to Twilight before saying, “Yeah, this is definitely your robot, Twilight. Looks like she’s got your boredom too. We only needed two nerds in our group, but now there’s three of them. If someone like Mikey and Pinkie appears in the team, then please do me a favor and kill me."
"Okay, Raph, don't exaggerate," Leo interrupted, “It's not that bad. Probably. But you're also right. We do need a better test for Twira and we all know which place you're talking about. Right, guys?”
Everyone else nodded since no one needed to be reminded where they would go to properly test their new robot assistant.
"So, what are we waiting for?" said Pinkie, putting her arm around Leo and Raph's shoulders, “Let’s go! Ninja style!”
"Wait, sugar cube. First, we need to deal with this minx before he wakes up," Applejack declared as she pointed to the Thunderer, who was still passed out.
"And we need to solve the problem with his hammer before the magic in him moves somewhere else," Sunset added while pointing over her shoulder at the hammer. “Let's solve everything one by one. What do you say?”
Everyone else agreed and after a while, they handed the Thunderer over to the police and neutralized the magic in the hammer. After that, they all went to a place that they know and love for many reasons.
"Ah, the good old New York City. It has everything: pizza, aliens, pizza, mutants, pizza, more pizza and..." Mikey stumbled as they were driving towards their destination. "Did I mention pizza?"
"YES! FIVE TIMES!" Raph shouted, irritated by his brother's stupidity.
As one might guess, the group had arrived in New York and this city was indeed suitable for testing the capabilities of Twira. After all, in this city, there were almost all kinds of dangers and threats such as the Kraang, mutants, thugs, gangs and so on. The most interesting thing was that it was impossible to tell when an old or a new threat would appear in the city that would be needed to be dealt with.
But now, standing on the roof of a tall building in the middle of the night, the heroes were preparing to discover a threat that could test Twira’s limits.
"So, guys," Leo began, drawing all the attention of the team to himself. “Now, we’re going to disperse to different parts of the city and look for all kinds threats, and when one of us discovers a particularly challenging one, they’ll contact everyone and meet-“
"An encrypted low-frequency signal has been detected. Distance to the source; three city blocks," Twira suddenly announced, interrupting Leo.
"What!?" everyone then shouted.
"But how did you find out?” Donnie asked, pulling out his scanner at the same time. "There's nothing on my scanner whatsoever."
"He’s right!" Rainbow exclaimed, looking at the device over Donnie's shoulder. "There's nothing catching there. So, how did you figure it out?"
"I am a robot," Twira simply replied, "This is part of my tasks and functions program: analyze and locate threats, and eliminate all problems. I was able to detect this signal a minute ago, but I am unable to detect its source. I am starting to decipher the signal."
Right afterwards, the lights that were all over Twira’s body began to flash and Donnie stated, "Well, that should take a lot of time to decrypt, so..."
"Decryption is complete," the robot said when the lights stopped flashing, "The exact location of the source of the signal has been found."
Rainbow whistled admiringly while an incredulous and slightly suspicious.
Leo asked, "How the heck did you do it so quickly?"
"It is all spelled out in my program. Learn and develop depending on the situation, whatever they may be, in order to become the best assistant and solution to all problems," Twira declared while carefully scanning the coordinates of the signal and its source. "The signal comes from the building ‘Comet of Purity’. The source of this signal is the Kraang."
Sunset exclaimed in surprise, "The Kraang?! That means everything just became a lot more serious than we thought!"
"I agree. If the Kraang are back in New York, they're most certainly up to something," Donnie declared.
"Not the first time either," Raph added.
"Okay, team," Leo said, "We’re moving out now."
"Leo, wait! We can send Twira ahead. Since she was the one who discovered the location of the Kraang and their hideout, then shouldn’t we let her go first?" Twilight asked, confusing the turtle in blue.
“I don't know, Twilight,” Leo admitted. “I mean, I don't doubt your robot at all, but we're talking about the Kraang here. They may not be Equestrian Magic, but even without that, they’re extremely dangerous."
"I know that, Leo, but that's what we brought her to New York for, isn't it? To test her capabilities before she becomes our loyal assistant and friend," explained Twilight.
"Well, I think we should give her a chance." Fluttershy then said.
"I'm with Flutters. It’d be interesting to see how she deals with those Kraang droids,” Rainbow agreed.
"Well, it wouldn't exactly be bad way to test our future partner who could help us in every way," Applejack added.
"I agree with you wholeheartedly, darling." Rarity also stated.
“So, what are we all waiting for? Let's get this party started!” then exclaimed Pinkie.
"Well, Twilight does have a point, Leo,” Sunset chimed in, “We did come to New York to test Twira, so let's give her this opportunity.”
Soon enough, the team leader sighed, clearly convinced by these arguments, and announced, "Yeah, you're right Sunset. I think I'm still a little bit wary of Twira."
He then turned to the robot and said, "Please, don't be offended."
"I cannot be offended by anything, Leonardo,” Twira explained, “After all, I am a robot. I can express no emotions whatsoever.”
A slightly disturbed Leo managed to say, “Okay? That's cool, I guess.”
"Creator, permission to intercept?" Twira then asked upon turning towards Twilight.
"Permission granted." she replied.
Right after hearing these words, Twira took off and raced through the night streets of the Big Apple, driven by her program and jet engines in her legs. As the others watched the robot fly away, Raphael broke the silence by saying, "We'd better hurry, or she won't leave us anything to bust.”
“Isn't that the point of her creation, though?” Rainbow asked. “Beating the bad guys instead of us?”
“Rainbow, I created Twira as our assistant and friend, not our replacement,” Twilight pointed out. “She should only be used only in cases when the Earth is in great danger or when we’re not in our dimension.”
“We'll discuss that later,” Leo announced. “Now, let's hurry and catch up to the robot.”
Agreeing with the sword-wielding turtle, the team followed him across the rooftops in order to follow Twira’s desired location as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, just outside a small building bearing the name "Comet of Purity", a pair of masked Kraang droids were patrolling the perimeter, chasing away any vagrant or potential intruder. Suddenly, they heard a noise resembling that of a jet engine and turned their gazes up to where the said noise was coming from. Soon enough, they all saw a robot resembling a teenage girl appearing in front of them and heard the robot say, “The presence of Kraang droids has been detected. Total number; two. Initiating the elimination process.”
“Kraang, does Kraang see the robot that announced the elimination of the Kraang?” the droid on the left asked.
"Kraang confirms it, Kraang," the one on the right replied. "The robot is taking the action of-“
The Kraang was cut off when Twira sliced off his head with a wave of the brush. He then got out of the broken exo suit and crawled away while also screaming in terror.
Right after that, the first Kraang aimed his blaster and tried to shoot before Twira severed both of his arms with her left hand, leaving him completely defenseless. On top of that, Twira grabbed his head, mercilessly tore it off with all her might, and then, pulled the brainy alien out of the belly, holding him close to her face. The alien whined and spoke in his screeching language while also looking fearfully into the impassive, cold face of the robot.
"You are a problem to this planet, and I am the solution," Twira said with an ominous note in her voice, which was a mixture of Twilight’s voice and something that was completely different, as if it belonged to Twira herself. Even the edges of her optics momentarily turned red.
Before she could do anything with the brain clenched in her hand, however, her scanners picked up the signatures of the Turtles and Rainbooms, who were running towards her position. Therefore, she threw the slug into the wall without looking at it, allowing it to slide and run away screaming from the robot. As the red color disappeared from her optics, her organic masters arrived at the scene and saw her in the middle of two destroyed and empty droids.
“Wait, that's it?!” Rainbow incredulously exclaimed, “I wanted to break some Kraang too! I didn't get a good fight the entire day!”
"Well, as much as I agree with you, sugar cube, I gotta ask; what else did you expect from a robot?" Applejack inquired.
Rainbow tried to retort, but upon thinking about Applejack’s question for a few seconds, she let out a deep sigh and said, “Touche.”
Right after that, Donnie looked at the building in front of him and announced, "Hey, this is the same place where April and I were looking for Karai during the Kraang Invasion, when she was still not herself.”
"And then, we met Bebop and Rocksteady for the first time!" Mikey exclaimed, plunging into nostalgia. "Ah, sweet memories."
However, he then received a blow to the back of his head from Raph and heard Leo say, "Not really a time worth remembering."
He especially wanted to forget about what happened with Karai, as well as how much effort and time they put into getting her back.
“So, are we at the right place?” asked Sunset, wanting to lighten the atmosphere. “Twira, what do you think?”
"Confirmed," the robot replied, "I am initiating a scan of the room."
Soon enough, rays of light came out of Twira's eyes and passed through the entire building, scanning the inside. The lights then went out and as Twira turned to the others, she declared, "Scan complete. There is not a single heat signature inside. However, under this building, there is a secret tunnel leading underground, connecting with a number of other passages. Where they lead is unknown."
"That's enough. Thank you, Twira," Twilight said to her creation.
"You are most welcome,” the said creation stated. “I was designed to be useful and the best assistant you can ask for."
"Yeah, what she said. So, we're dealing with a secret underground base of the Kraang, who are once again building weapons or a means to poke the Earth," Raph said. "A typical Tuesday for us."
"Well, let's get busy and start smashin’ these minxes already," AJ declared as she pumped her fists.
"Wait, first of all, we have to open the doors leading to the building, which are shut tight with a Kraang security code," Sunset pointed out as she looked at the panel on the wall.
Donnie then walked over to the panel and examined it before declaring, "Hmmm… The security panel is made in good faith, but I think I can hack it pretty quickly."
Immediately afterwards, he pulled out the T-Phone, connected it to the panel, and said, "All I have to do is-“
However, he was interrupted when Twira put her palm to the panel and announced, "I am initiating the hacking of the systems."
A few seconds later, she added, "Hacking has been completed successfully. The door is now open. The alarm is turned off and the passage under the floor is open. However, this is all that my functions are capable of."
"Whoa!" Raph exclaimed, clearly impressed. “She just out-hacked Donnie. This must be remembered.”
"She's certainly a fast learner, and I was able to crack a complex lock of inhuman technology," Donnie said in complete shock.
Then, he looked at Twilight, "I've said it before, and I’ll say it again. This robot truly is your greatest creation!"
"Thanks, Donnie," Twilight said, rubbing her forearm in embarrassment.
"Well done, Twira," Leo said, with admiration in his voice, "Let's go, guys!"
Just as they were leaving, however, he turned to Twira again and suggested, "You can stay here in case the Kraang send help."
"Leonardo, I was created to carry out your commands,” Twira replied, “If you consider this a necessary action, I will do it."
Leo just nodded and followed the others. Before she went downstairs, Twilight looked at Twira and said, "Twira, connect to our phones and when you get a signal, you can come to our aid, okay?"
"Already done, creator,” the robot stated. “I will remain here until further instruction."
When Twilight went downstairs to join the others, Twira turned around and walked away from the door. She then looked down at the Kraang blaster and began a detailed scan of it before declaring, "Initiating the upgrade of the platform."
Meanwhile, in the underground Kraang complex, many of the Kraang droids were engaged in their activities and two of these droids were talking to each other while browsing the console.
"Kraang, are you sure that the signal received by the Kraang leads exactly here, where the so-called Krang cache is located?" one of them asked.
"Kraang confirms this, Kraang," the other one replied as he looked at the monitor, where the coordinates were displayed and they coincided with the place they were in. "However, Kraang does not see the so-called Kraang cache. In addition, Kraang, the signal received by the Kraang about this place is unknown, as is the one who sent the signal about this place to the Kraang."
"Then, why send a signal to the Kraang about this memo, if there is no so-called Kraang cache in this place?” the first droid then inquired.
"Kraang does not know, Kraang," responded his partner.
Unbeknownst to them, however, Turtles and Rainbooms were hiding in the shadows, and had begun to inspect the place at the same time.
Rainbow groaned, “Ugh, I will never understand them.”
Raph agreed, “Yeah, you and me both, sister.”
Sunset looked at Leo, “What do you think they’re up to Leo?”
“I don’t know,” he admitted, “If we’re gonna find out, we have to access that computer over there.”
Down below to the right was a humongous computer system to the right.
“Good idea, Leo,” Donnie replied, “Twilight and I can access it once we’ve taken care of the Kraang down there. That being said, we do need a diversion first.”
Twilight said, “You think I should call Twira for back-up?”
She was about to do so via her phone when Leo placed his hand on the phone and shook his head in disapproval
“What?” Twilight questioned, “Why not, Leo?”
“Twira will grab too much attention.” Leo said, until he saw the lights and all the big cargo and shipment laying around on the ground.
“There’s a lot of stuff laying around which will give us the advantage to counter our sneak attacks. We’re gonna go in full ninja mode,” he announced. “But we’re not calling Twira until I say so.”
Twilight sighed in response, but still put her phone away and said, “You’re right, Leo. What do we do now?”
“Fluttershy, kill the lights. Let’s see if these tin-cans can fight in the dark.” Leo ordered.
“Right, I’m on it.” Fluttershy said as she quietly jumped over the higher platforms.
“Mikey, Pinkie, go help her.” Leo then added.
“You got it, bro.” Mikey confirmed.
Pinkie smirked and whispered, “It’s time for Operation: Blackout.”.
With that, Mikey and Pinkie followed Fluttershy as they jumped on top of the platforms without being spotted. Fluttershy shot the lights with her blow gun, while Mikey threw some shurikens and Pinkie did the same with her sprinkles. The rest of gang spread out until the lights went out and all of the Kraang were confused.
“Kraang, who turned off what are known as the lights?” one of them asked, “Kraang is unable to see.”
“Kraang does not know who is responsible for turning off the lights.” a second Kraang replied.
Some of the Kraang were walking in different directions, while some of the ninjas were hiding in the shadows. They proceeded to take the Kraang out one by one. Rainbow even slightly chuckled as she kept slicing them with her naginata. Meanwhile, two Kraang droids were trying to search for the ninjas.
“Kraang, we must find those who are in Comet of Purity before they get access to that which is known as the main control panel that contains valuable intel,” one of them said before turning around due to being alerted by the sound of something collapsing on the floor.
Then, it turned back towards its fellow Kraang, only to see that it has disappeared.
“Kraang? Kraang? Kraang, where are you?” it asked while searching for its partner
Soon enough, it found the said partner in the form of several pieces near the wall.
“Kraang?! Kraang, what has happened?” it inquired and upon beginning to examine the pieces, it felt someone poking its back and turned around to see Leo standing there.
It only managed to utter a simple “Uh-oh” before Leo punched the head, caused it to spin, and sliced it in half. He then ran to another hiding spot before any of the other Kraang droids could notice the commotion he had caused.
Meanwhile, Sunset hid to a corner and moved to the right just as a Kraang droid looked at where she was hiding. Even though it saw that no one was there, a kunai soon struck the droid’s head and an alien popped out of the chest before running away. A smirk then appeared on Sunset’s face as she jumped on platforms and took out some more droids. Feeling pride from these victories, she proceeded to jump down, only to discover two droids right behind her aiming their blasters at her.
“Kraang has—” one of them began right before being interrupted by Raph jumping off a platform and stabbing their heads.
“Nice save,” Sunset whispered.
“No problemo,” replied Raph as he retrieved his sais and the two fanned out.
While all that was happening, Twilight was behind a crate as Kraang droids started heading her way.
“Kraang asks the one who is hiding to come out at once,” one of them declared.
In response, Twilight came out with her hands up and announced, “Okay, you got me. I give up.”
The droids aimed their blasters at her, but they failed to realize that she was levitating metal pilings off the ground from a higher platform. They eventually saw her hands glowing a purple aura, but by then, it was too late.
“Just kidding,” she admitted with a smirk and slammed her hands down, causing the pilings to fall on top of the droids.
“OH, KRAANG!” they all cried out.
The pilings landed on them and the aliens ran away squealing. Twilight jumped near the pilings she had dropped before more droids showed up.
“What is that which is known as going on here?” one questioned.
“Kraang is not sure,” Another answered.
From above, Pinkie and Mikey were watching what Twilight had done, and Mikey slightly chuckled before commenting, “Those Kraang never learn, do they, Pinkie?”
“Nope. They never do, Mikey,” Pinkie replied as she let out a small giggle, “Let’s have some fun already.”
A confident smirk appeared on Mikey’s face as he declared, “I’m right with ya, girl.”
Thus, they came down giggling and started to take down some more Kraang droids before they were spotted. Meanwhile, Rarity started blocking the droids’ attacks with her diamond shields and then, concentrated to make diamond disks to throw them at the droids, slicing them in half. She then started taking down a couple more with her sickles, but as soon as she took care of them, three more came from her blind spot. Fortunately, she quickly turned, and proceeded to slice and dice them with her ninja weapons into a billion pieces.
“A little wasabi and soy sauce, and dinner is served!” she announced with a smirk and went back to hiding in the shadows.
Applejack was taking out her share of droids head with her shuko-claws. Several more suddenly showed up and started chasing after her, but then she grabbed a crate with her bare hands.
“Catch!” she shouted as she tossed it towards the droids and they all broke into pieces.
“Not too shabby,” she chuckled with a smug look on her face.
However, her celebration suddenly ended when she heard Donnie yell, “Applejack, look out!”
As if on cue, Kraang flyers flew down and started shooting at her.
“Great,” she groaned before she ran and dodged the blasts.
She then jumped on the cargo to get to high ground and hid behind one of the containers. When she poked her head up, she saw that the flyers were searching the place for her.
“Guess I’ll hitch a ride,” she whispered to herself and the instant one of the flyers got close enough to her position, she jumped on its back and held on tight as it started losing control.
“YEE-HAW!” she cheered, but soon noticed the other flyers were hot on her trail.
“Good luck catchin’ me!” she confidently exclaimed and held her flyer’s head in order to steer the tiny transport. However, with the lights out, she had to be careful where she was going. She slashed her pursuers as they got closer and when they tried shooting her, she kept dodging them.
“Okay, let’s see if you slime-brains can keep up!” she declared as she began going low and making sharp turns around the Comet of Purity. Upon seeing that Leo, Raph, Donnie, Twilight, Sunset, and Rarity were all outnumbered, she dove down and waited for the flyers to hit her. They charged up their weapons, aimed at Applejack, and-
“HEADS UP!” she cried and her friends quickly got out of the way as they noticed her coming in hot.
Even though the droids were aiming at Applejack and getting ready to fire, she pulled up just in time before the flyers opened fire and the shots hit the droids surrounding her friends instead, taking out every single one of them in the process. Her friends then immediately started cheering at this heroic display.
Twilight cheered, “Thanks, Applejack!”
Raph also cheered, “Alright! Not bad at all, cowgirl!”
Applejack saluted in response and continued flying.
Sunset then pointed, “Looks like she’s going to need some help.”
Leo nodded and declared, “Mikey, Pinkie, help Applejack get rid of those flyers.”
“We’re on it, Leo!” Pinkie replied as she and Mikey jumped up to higher platforms. Both of them stopped beside the two pillars, with Mikey being near one on the left and Pinkie being near the other one on the right. They then threw the chain of their weapons and stuck them to the pillars in order to get ready.
“AJ, guide em’ this way!” Mikey shouted.
Hearing it, Applejack did what just what she had been told to do and she led the flyers to fall for the trick. As soon as she passed by her two friends, they pulled their lines up, and caused all the flyers to get knocked and crashed down.
“Booyakasha!” the duo cheered as they high-fived each other.
Applejack then slammed her claw on the flyer to short circuit it and quickly jumped off before the Kraang squealed and crashed to the wall. Luckily, she managed to hold onto a ledge of a platform after the aforementioned crash of the sabotaged the alien ride.
A couple more destroyed Kraang droids later, the team finally reached its main goal: the Kraang computer located at the very center of the room. Donnie and Twilight immediately began hacking into their systems.
“Almost there… and… got it. Here it is.” Donnie showed everyone on the screen.
“WHOA!” they all gasped in shock and awe.
"Okay, guys, this is what we're here for," Leo said while looking at the huge car. He then asked Donnie and Twilight, "Can you guys get what we need to know about the next Kraang plans out of this thing?"
"Piece of cake, Leo," Twilight replied with utter confidence, "Give us a few minutes and we’ll...”
Before she could finish that sentence, however, the lights suddenly turned on all over the room and Kraang droids stated coming out of all the passages, completely surrounded the heroes and aiming blasters at them.
"We’re trapped!" Fluttershy gasped.
"Oh, thank you, Fluttershy!” Raph quipped, "Thank you so much for telling us so that we could all understand for sure that we’re trapped!"
"Guys, now is not the time!” Rainbow argued as she prepared her naginata for battle.
"I agree, sugarcube," Applejack agreed, raising her claws.
Then, out of the legion of Kraang droids, one covered with a shell came out and addressed them, "The so-called Turtles and Rainbooms have been captured by the Kraang, exactly as the information sent to the Kraang in this place had stated.”
"What are they talking about?" Sunset asked Donnie, to which he expressed his ignorance with a simple shrug.
The Kraang droid with the shell then continued, "And now, the Kraang are eliminating the threat to the Kraang so that the Kraang can execute their plans for the planet known as Earth.”
"That is not going to happen!" Leo shouted, unsheathing his dual katana and the others followed his example with their weapons.
"The turtle known as Leonardo is wrong," the Kraang declared. "The Kraang knew that the so-called Turtles and Rainbooms would arrive here from the information the Kraang had received. Now, the Kraang shall-”
Just before it could finish that sentence, however, something broke through the ceiling and landed between the ninjas and the Kraang droids. It was hard to see through the dust, but by the sound of the landing, it was definitely something metallic. Then, as soon as the dust cleared, it became clear to who it was.
"TWIRA!" the ninjas all shouted when they saw their new mechanical ally.
"A large presence of Kraang droids has been detected,” she announced. “Action: Fixing the problem"
After that, a cannon came out of Twira's left hand and she fired a laser projectile that destroyed the Kraang droid. Soon a similar gun came out of the right hand and it began charging a beam. Then, Twira's sensors picked up three Kraang droids approaching the ninja from the right side. So, she ran her right hand horizontally over them and they were instantly frozen. The droids did not stand for long, however, and soon, they fell apart in front of everyone, and the frightened aliens got out of the pile of ice that once made up their suits and ran away screaming in fear.
The ninjas, meanwhile, stood there with bulging eyes and shocked expressions. A moment ago, they were surrounded and without hope of escape, and now, their new ally/creation had appeared out of nowhere and destroyed the Kraangs as if they were nothing.
"WOW!" exclaimed Pinkie and Mikey.
"Whoa, Nellie!" whistled Applejack.
"Jeez, Twilight. I didn't know Twira was equipped with a freaking laser cannon," Sunset said, continuing to look at the unfolding carnage.
"Because, I didn't add it to her," replied Twilight.
"WHAT?!" everyone shouted in unison.
"I didn't supply Twira with any laser weapons!” she revealed. “I was planning to add them after the field test!"
"Then, how do you explain this?!” Raph exclaimed, pointing at Twira, who continued to shoot and cut through the Kraang droids with lasers.
Then, Twira turned her head towards the heroes, while the body itself kept shooting at their enemies.
"I apologize creator," Twira explained. "As soon as I hacked into to the cameras and other security systems of the Kraang, I found you in distress. My program required immediate intervention and assistance to you, but my platform was ineffective against a large number of Kraang droids. So, I upgraded this chassis using the Kraang buster to help you and solve the problem. After all, I am the solution to all kinds of problems."
Right after explaining all that, Twira turned her head back towards the incoming droids and continued firing. Meanwhile, everyone stood still and slightly stunned by what the robot had said. Or maybe, it was because she had turned her head 180 degrees towards them while her body continued to fight off the Kraang. Maybe both, but it didn't matter at the moment. They had a mission to complete and Leo was the first to shake off the shock and gave the command, "Okay, we'll deal with this later, but for now..."
He then took out his katana and shouted, "Ninjas, take them!”
With that, everyone joined the battle that Twira was waging.
"Booyakasha!" shouted the party duo while jumping into the crowd of Kraang droids with their coupling weapons.
While the battle was going on, two Kraang droids, one of which was badly damaged and had no legs, were moving away from the said battle.
"Kraang, is it time to initiate what is known as the plan to destroy the Turtles and the Rainbooms?" the damaged Kraang asked.
"Kraang confirms, Kraang. Initiate what is known as the plan to destroy Turtles and the Rainbooms!" the second Kraang answered.
"Roger that, Kraang," the damaged droid said and started crawling towards the computer before proceeding to activate it.
The battle continued and the heroes managed to destroy a huge number of Kraang droids. It seemed like victory was close until the alarm sounded and lights began to flicker in the room. Seeing this, the remaining Kraang droids began to run away from the room through the same entrances they had come through. The doors closed behind them, and even though Raph and Rainbow tried to open the doors with their weapons, nothing happened
"That's not good, is it?" Rarity asked worriedly
"Gee, do you think so?" Raph and Rainbow answered at the same time, and Rarity gave them a stern look in response
"Not the time!" Sunset said and then, looked at the two geniuses before asking, "Twilight, Donnie, what's going on?”
"Nothing good!" Donnie exclaimed nervously.
Twira went to the computer and put her palm on the console in order to find out the reason.
"Attention: An active bomb has been detected,” she announced.
"BOMB?!" everyone shouted at the same time.
"Scanning," Twira replied and, after a second of silence, replied, "Scanning is complete. The explosion of the bomb will destroy all life within one city block radius of this building.”
"Oh, no!" shouted Fluttershy and everyone else was equally shocked.
"Twira, how long before the explosion?" Twilight asked tensely.
"Time until explosion: 40 seconds.” she answered.
Everyone froze in shock and disbelief. 40 seconds. There was practically no chance to neutralize or save themselves, not to mention the people who would die as a result of the explosion.
"Twilight, Donnie, can you defuse the bomb?!” Leo shouted, refusing to give up hope.
"Leo, it's impossible!" the scientific turtle replied.
"35 seconds," Twira reminded.
"35 seconds. This... this... It's just statistically impossible!” Donnie exclaimed in complete shock.
"But there must be something!" Applejack shouted.
"There is absolutely nothing we can do!” Twilight shouted back and then, lowered her eyes while whispering in despair, "Nothing.”
"I can do it."
Everyone's eyes were immediately turned to Twira, who began hacking into the console.
"While I will not be able to deactivate the bomb, I can limit the blast radius to this underground base and the building itself,” she explained.
"Can you?" Leo asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I can and I have already done so," the robot replied and turned to the others. "Additionally, I left the Kraang... a surprise.”
"Oooh! Surprise!” Pinkie exclaimed enthusiastically. "And what is it?"
"We'll find out about it later, but for now, it's time to get out of here!" Sunset said and looked at Twira before asking, "Twira, how long until the explosion?"
"There are 20 seconds left until the explosion,” she replied. “19… 18…”
"And how do we get out of here?!” Rarity shouted.
"Um... Upstairs?" Mikey suggested, pointing towards the hole that Twira had made earlier.
"Let's get out of here that way, then!" Leo ordered and fired his grappling hook at the hole before climbing upwards.
Everyone else followed his example and started climbing up except for Twilight, who was picked up by her creation and together, they flew through the hole at incredible speed.
Meanwhile, what remained of the Kraang were fleeing from the trap they had prepared for their enemies, but soon, an obstacle in the form of closed doors appeared in their way. They looked around and realized that all the doors were closed, meaning that they would not be able to leave at all. Everything was completely different from what they were promised!
Then, one of the droids saw an explosion approaching them from behind and cried, "Oh, Kraang!"
"AAAHHH!" the ninjas all shouted upon getting out of the building as they were all thrown back by the blast wave and landed hard on the ground. All except for Twilight, whom Twira gently lowered to the ground. Righ afterwards, they heard sirens and saw lights approaching the scene, prompting them to hurriedly retreat to the shadows before eventually at the roof of a nearby building, watching as firefighters extinguished the fire and the police cordoned off the place. After seeing enough, they all went back to the Lair.
“That was awesome, Twira!” Rainbow exclaimed with a huge smile on her face upon arriving there.
“Indeed,” Rarity agreed. “If you hadn’t saved us all at the last possible minute, we would surely have been blown to smithereens by now.”
Twira then spoke, “I thank you, my friends. The important thing is that you all-in perfect condition and the mission was successful.”
Pinkie excitedly asked Twira, “So, what was the surprise you gave the Kraang?”
Donnie realized, “Obviously, the bomb was their surprise. Am I right, Twira?”
“You are correct, Donatello,” Twira answered. “After I scanned the area, I hacked into their computer to find where the remaining Kraang were heading to escape this base. They were trying to get to the surface, so I quickly closed all the passageways and had them locked below the surface. Deep enough so that the blast wouldn’t damage the entire city. In a matter of seconds, all I had to do was place the bomb at their location. Just enough time before the explosion caused a cave in. Luckily, no one was harmed in the process.”
Everyone instantly became shocked at how she planned this strategy so quickly and that the blast didn’t destroy the entire building.
Raph then stated, “Huh, you really got the remaining Kraang that tried to escape. Not bad, Twira.”
Mikey grinned with amazement and exclaimed, “Yeah, you’re easily the most epic battlebot I’ve ever seen! Up high, Twira!”
They both high fived, though in Mikey’s case, Twira was really strong and caused him to yelp, “Ow! So hard.”
Everyone giggled at that exchange while Twira asked, “Are you alright, Michelangelo? Do you require any medical attention? I can provide it for your hand immediately.”
“No, I’m good Twira. Man, you are strong,” Mikey replied as he shook his hand off.
Then, Twilight turned to Leo and Sunset, who were staring a Twira, and asked, “So, what do you guys think?”
They snapped out of it upon hearing that question and Leo replied with a sheepish smile, “We love it. We’re glad that you’ve built Twira to help us in these missions.”
An equally sheepish Sunset added, “Yeah, it’s really amazing that she can take on any threat.”
Twilight blushed a little and said, “Aw, I’m so happy you love my creation. That’s exactly why we should have her come along on our new mission to stop the Kraang. What do you say?”
Leo sighed with uncertainty and admitted, “I don’t know, Twilight. Back in the Comet of Purity, I said we would alert Twira when we needed her help, but she automatically came to our rescue anyway.”
Twilight was shocked to hear him say that and asked with some sadness in her voice, “You mean you don’t want Twira to come along?”
Leo then blushed nervously and replied, “No, uh… that-that’s not what I meant. We just…”
Sunset interjected, “What Leo is trying to say, Twilight, is that we don’t want her to be involved on a threat that’s far beyond our comprehension. She’s your responsibility, after all.”
Twilight sadly looked down upon hearing this, but then felt Leo’s hand resting on her shoulder and heard him softly say, “Look, we’re glad that you made Twira for us. We don’t want anything to happen to her. That’s all.”
Twilight looked at Leo, Sunset, and Twira. The others stared at them in silence. They didn’t know what was going on with Leo and Sunset, but heard Twilight say, “I see your point, guys.”
Both Leo and Sunset smiled at Twilight, and the latter stated, “Just make sure you take great care of her.”
Leo added, “We’ll let her come on our missions, but only for dire emergencies. Okay?”
Twilight responded by giving them both a smile and a nod before declaring, “Okay. I promise I’ll take care of her.”
“Thank you, Twilight.” Sunset replied. Then, she yawned and announced, “I think we should go back home and get some sleep girls.”
Rarity yawned as well and replied, “You’re right, darling. It’s getting late.”
Raph suggested, “We’ll drive you girls back home.”
“Thanks, guys,” said Rainbow and the girls were preparing to return home
Soon the girls returned to Canterlot and went home to rest after today.
While Twilight was sleeping peacefully at home, Twira was in her lab with wires connected to every part of her body for both diagnosis and recharging while she was offline.
Suddenly, she became online on her own and her optics and dome started glowing an ominous-looking red.
Author's Note
Here is the first chapter of this work! And I am so excited that I will continue this work further, which will be a small step in fiction and a giant leap for future work on MLP/TMNT2012 and in other works on this universe. If you noticed any mistakes while reading, then I'm sorry, I just started writing similar stories, but in the future the chapters will be corrected and edited properly. I want to thank againCyan Tank,CROSSOVER KING for their help in editing and quoting in the chapter. And of course, Jebens1 for his poster for this fic. But Wildcard25 deserves special thanks both for creating this universe and for allowing this fic to be made, which will be worthy of at least some mentions in future works on this universe from the creator and his colleagues. The work itself was inspired by Ultron, one of Marvel's most iconic and famous villains, and his appearances in films and animated series across the Marvel universe. And also my disappointment as shown by Overmind, which refers to Ultron. As you have already understood from this chapter, Twira will be the version of Ultron for the MLP/ENG universe, but she will not copy and will differ from her original source and I will try to show it.Thank you for reading and do not forget to leave feedback, they are welcome and help to improve my creativity. My colleagues and I will be working on the second chapter soon, so you will have to wait, but I can assure you, the wait will not be in vain. Enjoy
That night in New York City, April seemed to be sleeping peacefully in her house, but she began to toss and turn.
Deep in her mind, she was having a dream. Or rather, a vision. She was in total darkness and there was nothing there.
“Where am I? What’s going on?” she asked.
Everything was still total darkness. No one was there. Not even a voice came to her attention. Until she heard the sound of metal and she turned towards the direction of its source.
“Hello? Who’s there? Show yourself!” she called out while in ninja stance.
Soon the figure looked at her over her shoulder and pierced her with its gaze with her red eyes, which seemed to penetrate into her very soul with sheer anger and confusion.
April's eyes widened exponentially as she was utterly shocked to see this mysterious figure.
“Who… Who are you?” she asked.
Then, the figure announced, “All life on this world shall be burned to cinders. I will terminate anyone who stands in my way.”
April gasped, “What?!”
“WHY?!” a voice suddenly exclaimed.
April turned around to see Twilight Sparkle pleading in tears.
“Twilight?” she gasped.
“Why are you doing this?! This isn’t you!” Twilight yelled.
April stared at her and at the figure she was talking to.
The figured declared in a deep voice, “This is what I was programmed to do. All of mankind must be destroyed.”
“You can’t do that!” she further pleaded.
The figure replied, “I am willing to do what needs to be done. It’s time you and your friends pay the price for your actions.”
“NOOOOO!!!!!” Twilight screamed.
Then, images of rockets in huge numbers that took off from everywhere on Earth crashed into April's mind. The figured laughed in triumph. Soon, the rockets flew up to New York and crashed into the city. And the entirety of New York disappeared in a huge flash of light and the screams of countless people are heard.
“No... No! NO!!” April yelled.
“Twilight!!!” she screamed and woke up.
She panted before catching her breath, and looked around her room, seeing that everything was fine. But she also remembered what she had seen in her vision and that terrible things were coming. Very terrible. Then, her father raced into her room.
“April! Are you OK?!” he said in worry.
She groaned while rubbing her head, “Yeah, I’m fine.
Kirby wondered, “What happened? Did you have a nightmare?”
She replied, “Sort of. I think I had a vision.”
“What was it?” he asked.
“I saw some strange metal figure with red eyes. Then, I saw Twilight, who was scared and pleading to it.”
This made Kirby feel even more worried and ask, “What did she say?”
April thought while locking her knees under her arms and explained, “She said ‘Why are you doing this? This isn’t you.’ She then yelled ‘no’ when this figure said that all mankind must be destroyed.”
April then felt her body stutter a little before she said, “And then the last thing I saw were missiles. Lots and lots of missiles crashing on Earth. Everything was destroyed… There was nothigng left.”
April’s father gasped when he heard her daughter say that.
“Do you believe what you saw will come true?” he worried.
April looked down nearly sobbed, but sighed, “I don’t know, dad. It almost feels like Twilight is responsible for all this. I just don’t know what.”
“But she’s your friend,” her father said in disbelief.
April explained, “I know, but this feels much different than the whole Midnight Sparkle thing she feared about when my friends and I went to Camp Everfree with the Rainbooms. It almost feels like whatever she made this time was a mistake.”
Kirby wondered, “Well, have you and your friends seen her during your missions these past few days?”
April shook her head and replied, “No, she hasn’t. From what Sunset texted me earlier, she's been skipping some classes.”
“Skipping classes? That’s not like her,” Kirby stated in shock.
“I know. That’s what worries me. I don’t even know if what I saw in my vision will ever happen,” she sighed while looking down.
Kirby then placed his hand on April’s and declared, “April, you’ve come a long way since you were a fully trained kunoichi and I never doubted you and your friends for a second. Whatever you saw in your vision, know that I will always believe in you. I know I have been worried about the Kraang invading our world and have been trying to come after you. But I realized, you are able to overcome everything on your own when you’re with your friends. Trust yourself, trust your friends, and don’t worry. If you fear what you saw in your vision, then maybe you should look out for Twilight to prevent this from happening. I know that you’ll all be able to handle this when things go wrong.”
Needless to say, April was touched. She had never heard her dad speak to her this way.
“Thanks, dad,” she said right before embracing him.
“You’re welcome,” he replied before they broke off. “Now, get some sleep. You promised to go training with your friends in the Turtle lair tomorrow.”
“OK. Good night.” She said.
As her father went back to bed, April gazed up at the ceiling thinking about Twilight and this strange figure.
“None of them are gonna believe this,” she spoke to herself before she went to sleep.
The next morning, the Rainbooms and the Turtles were doing some sparring with each other in the dojo. Leo was training with Twilight. Rainbow and Sunset were sparring with Raph. Donnie was sparring with Rarity and Applejack. And Mikey was sparring with Pinkie and Fluttershy.
Sunset kept staring at Twira a little. She almost got hit by Raph’s swing in the processs, but luckily, she managed to dodged it at the last second.
“Come on, Sunset. Focus!" he declared.
This made her snap out of her thoughts and quickly apologize before resuming her fight.
Unfortunately, she was not the only one losing focus. Leo was also occasionally staring at Twira and was not paying attention to Twilight when she swung her weapon, which knocked him off his feet, but he was able to flip himself back up.
“Are you going easy on me,” she asked.
Leo replied while blushing, “Uh… No, not at all.”
This caused Twilight to narrow her eyes and say, “Show me what you’ve got, then”
Meanwhile, Fluttershy noticed these interactions and was beginning to feel a little worried.
“Do you guys know what happened last night?” she questioned to her friends.
Applejack pondered, “About what, sugarcube?”
Fluttershy motioned, “About what’s been going on with Sunset and Leo?”
The others looked at the expressions on their faces and they soon realized what Fluttershy meant.
Donnie then stated, “Hmmm... Now, that you mention it, there might actually be something wrong with those two.”
Rarity pondered, “Agreed. Whatever is going on with them, it must be getting on their nerves.”
They watch Sunset trying to block Raph and Rainbow’s attacks, though she was losing her edge. She was knocked to the ground by Rainbow swinging her naginata at her legs, which made Rainbow and Raph a little worried about her. So, they stopped their attacks and helped her up.
“Sunset, you okay girl?” asked Raph. “You weren’t going hard on us like before.”
Sunset groaned before replying, “I’m sorry, guys. Something’s been bothering me since we took down the Kraang at Comet of Purity.
“No kidding,” Rainbow interjected. “We almost got blown up by that bomb in there.”
“Not that,” Sunset grunted. “It’s something else.”
Rainbow and Raph looked at each other with confused expressions, quickly realizing that she was not acting like herself.
“Is there something else going on with you?” Raph questioned her.
Sunset sighed, “Yeah. I’ll explain later. Let’s keep training.”
Raph narrowed his eyes. Something was wrong with her, but he chose to let that aside for the moment and said, “Okay, then. One more round.”
Meanwhile, as Leo and Twilight continued battling each other, he still could not stop thinking about Twira. This made him lose focus again and even led to Twilight delivering a strong kick to the jaw, knocking him off his feet. It also caused the others to gasp at seeing Twilight do that.
“Ooh!” the girls groaned
“Ouchy!” Mikey cringed.
Twilight herself became utterly terrified upon realizing that she almost injured Leo. Thus, she raced towards him.
“Leo! Are you okay?!” she exclaimed and almost cried.
“I’m fine,” he sighed while rubbing his jaw. “That was some kick you did. Why’d you do that?”
“I’m so sorry. I thought you were gonna parry my blow,” she winced before looking down in guilt. “I… I didn’t know what came over me.”
Leo just placed his hand on her shoulder and gave a small smile to her as he said, “It’s okay. Just don’t go too harsh on your friends this time when we’re training.”
Twilight gave a small smile back to him and replied, “Okay, Leo.”
“Still, that was a good move,” Raph complemented. “But, I agree with Leo. Unmotivated bursts of anger are kinda my thing, Twilight.”
Twilight just shrugged and sheepishly said, “Sorry. Reflex, I guess.”
Leo then turned to the others and announced, “Okay, I think we should take 5.”
Everyone proceeded to put their weapons away to take a breather.
Rainbow stretched her arms and declared, “Whoo! A good training in the morning always feels great.”
“Got that right, girl,” Mikey agreed as they both high fived.
Raph, however, complained, “Aw, are we taking a break right now? I was just getting warmed up.”
Rarity chuckled to herself, “Same old Raphael.”
Meanwhile, Sunset went to Leo and asked, “Are you alright?”
Leo nodded while replying, “Yeah, how about you?”
She sighed and admitted, “I haven’t been feeling like myself.”
Leo also admitted, “I’m surprised I’m not the only thinking about the same problem.”
They both looked at Twira before Sunset agreed, “Huh, I guess we both are.”
“You guys, okay?” Twilight suddenly interrupted.
They both froze and sheepishly looked at Twilight.
Leo responded, “Um, of course, we are. Why wouldn’t we be?”
Sunset added, “100%. We’re not hiding anything.”
“Okay, then,” Twilight pondered, but let it go for now.
“Well, that's what I call training. Right, Fluttershy?" Rainbow as she nudged her friend.
“Um, you're right, Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy replied, "We stay in good shape and we don't have to fight Kraang, evil mutants, and Equestrian magic to do that."
"Yeah, but that's boring!" Rainbow moaned. "I would love to fight with someone strong, someone who could throw a real challenge, which would make us to feel more alive than than we are now! And most importantly, even more awesome that we are now!"
She raised her fists up as she was finished, making Fluttershy slightly move away from her friend.
"Cool down, sugarcube," Applejack said, comforting Rainbow. "I also can't wait to fight someone strong and dangerous, but you gotta admit, after Shredder, Triceratons, Kavaxas, Inkphire and Dregg, there was no strong or challenging opponents left for us to fight."
Hearingt that caused Rainbow's face to stretch out and she instantly fell to the floor of the dojo.
"Yeah, I guess you’re right,” she admitted. “But I still want nothing more than to fight with someone strong and worthy of our time and strength. I mean, even the Purple Dragons have become less defiant despite the fact that they have numbers, Kraang weapons, and a huge turtle as a leader!"
"Sister understood everything correctly!" Mikey said while standing upside down in front of the girl until he lost his balance and plopped down on her, crushing her with his shell.
“Mikey! Get off!” Rainbow groaned as she was barely able to breathe.
“Oops! Sorry,” he muttered.
Twilight herself overheard the girls' conversation, looking at how they helped Rainbow get out from under the turtle, and soon realized she herself could not answer this question. Since defeating Dregg, there has been no one who could challenge them. It seemed that this was what they fought for, so that there would be no enemies in the world and in their homes who wanted to enslave the world or take revenge on her friends by putting others in danger. But Twilight herself admitted to herself how desirable the opposite was. After all, it became an important part of her life from the moment she was accepted into the Hamato clan and became Kunoichi after Everfree Camp and she did not want to lose part of this life. Maybe over time, a new major evil would appear that can challenge them in battle. But now, the girl had an idea how to cheer her friends and for this reason, she was going to use her new, and undoubtedly, best creation.
“Have you been getting any readings from your scanner Donnie?” Raph suddenly inquired.
Donnie recalled, “No, there hasn’t been any disturbances out in the city before we started training.”
“Ugh! And here I thought we’d get a chance to do something other than training,” Raph grunted
“Same here,” Rainbow agreed.
“Ease up, you two,” Leo announced. “We’ll get a chance to patrol once the sun sets down.”
“So, what do we do until then?” Sunset questioned.
“How ‘bout we give Twira a training test in ninjitsu?” Twilight suggested.
Hearing that idea caused everyone to be utterly shocked.
“Wait, she can do ninjitsu too?” Mikey inquired.
“Yeah, I programmed her with dozens of fighting styles besides her armed weapons,” explained Twilight. “Twira can fight just as well as we can.”
“Oh, this I gotta see,” an intrigued Rainbow stated.
However, Leo asked with a tone full of uncertainty, “Are you sure? I don’t want to risk my own Shell getting smashed.”
Raph shoved Leo out of the way and declared with a smirk on his face, "I do! I wanna see if she can keep up!"
"You really think you can defeat Twira?" an also smirking Twilight asked.
"I KNOW I can," Raph replied while cracking his knuckles.
Twilight then teased, "Well, I don't believe you can make a dent on her."
This caused to Raph get right in front of her face and say, "Oh, yes I can."
"Says you. Twira is able to withstand anyone in her surroundings. Even you," Twilight remarked.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"YEAH?!"
"YEAH!!!!"
The rest got worried. Leo proceeded to cut in front of them while Sunset and Applejack pulled them away from each other.
“That’s enough!” he said.
“Calm down you two,” Applejack added.
Raph and Twlight managed to calm down before they lost their temper, while Leo sighed and admitted, “Guys, I still don’t know if this is a good idea.”
Mikey then cut in and said, “Aw, come on, bro. Don’t you want to see what else she can do?”
Donnie agreed, “Yeah, I mean she did handle the Kraang at the Comet of Purity and all the other missions we’ve been to.”
Rainbow interjected, “I wanna see her face us in the dojo.”
Pinkie beamed, “Me too.”
Applejack agreed, “Me three.”
Rarity admitted, “I for one like to see her moves as well.”
Fluttershy meekly stated, “I hope she is merciful.”
Leo looked at everyone for a moment, but still had an unsure expression on his face.
“C’mon, Leo,” Twilight begged. “Why not give Twira a chance to do ninjitsu training? It’ll be a great test of strength. She’ll be an asset to us both here and wherever we go.”
When Leo still looked at her with uncertainty, Twilight turned to Sunset Shimmer and asked, “What about you, Sunset? Wouldn’t you like to see her test herself in full combat?”
“I don’t know either,” she replied with equal uncertainty.
“Come on. It’ll be worth it,” Rainbow then stated.
Pinkie even grinned and exclaimed, “It’ll be lots of fun!”
“Just this once Sunset, please?” Twilight pleaded, “I’ve been taking care of her since our previous missions, just like you told me.”
Sunset looked at her friends. Then, she looked back at Twilight, giving her a small smile and letting out a sigh before saying, “As long as you’ve taken great care of her, that’s fine by me.”
The rest looked at Leo, who was still unsure about this idea. He looked at Twilight who was smiling with warm friendly eyes. This made him blush a little and feel like he had no choice but to agree. So, he also sighed and said, “Fine. We’ll do it.”
His brothers and the Rainbooms immediately started cheering with excitement.
That is, until he suddenly raised a finger and added, “But only my brothers and I will face her in combat.”
This made Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rarity feel very disappointed, while Raph, Donnie, and Mikey just smirked.
“WHY?” the girls all asked in unison.
“You’re all most likely to get yourselves hurt by Twira’s strongest attacks and I obviously can’t risk any of my friends to get injured, especially by a robot,” he explained.
They tried to object, but upon thinking about Leo’s words for a bit, they all frowned in defeat and said in unison, “True.”
Flutteshy, on the other hand, sighed in relief and admitted, “That’s good. I didn’t wish face Twira, in combat, anyway.”
Sunset smiled and placed a hand on her shoulder while saying, “I feel the same.”
Twilight then looked at Leo and declared, “We understand, Leo. I’m going to activate Twira to reboot and prepare her first ninja training.”
“Good,” he replied before looking at his brothers and announcing, “Let’s warm up, you guys.”
Twilight then turned to her creation and said, “Initiate the activation sequence. Password: Sparkle.”
Twira’s optics lit up as she stated, “The activation code has been accepted. What are your commands?”
“You will be facing the turtles as a training exercise,” explained Twilight. “Reboot for 5 minutes and prepare close combat.”
“Command accepted. Commencing to reboot in 5 minutes,” Twira replied.
Thus, the Rainbooms sat down to watch Twira battle the turtles, who were all stretching their bodies before they could commence their training. Rainbow and Applejack were pumped and were betting on who will win the match.
"Oh, this is going to be interesting," Rainbow said, standing next to Applejack.
"Don't tell me. I want to see it myself," Applejack shushed her.
"Hey, I'll bet ten bucks that the guys will make her fall faster than you say ‘Eeehaaa!’” Rainbow suddenly exclaimed.
However, she received a frown from the cowgirl in response to this and dejectedly said, "Oh, right. Sorry about that.”
Applejack just laughed a little and even slapped her friend on the shoulder before saying, "Relax, girl. I know you didn't mean it. And as for the deal, it's officially on."
She then spat into her palm and handed it to Rainbow, who proceeded to spit on her own palm and shook Applejack’s hand it with a grin.
"Oh, please let the guys be okay," Fluttershy said, looking anxiously at Twira. "I hope Twira doesn't hurt them. To be honest, she scares me a little.”
“Don't be afraid, dear,” Rarity assured her. “As Twilight said, Twira is our new friend and loyal assistant, who’s supposed to help us and protect us when we are not on Earth. So, you won't even see her very often."
Rarity then lightly hugged the pink-haired girl by the shoulders and added, "But even so, there's nothing to be afraid of. Besides, if Twilight lets me, I can give her robot a better and nicer look than it has now."
"Oh, that would be wonderful," Fluttershy said with a smile. "Thank you so much, Rarity."
"No need for thanks,” she replied. “I just wanted to help out my friend."
Twilight and Sunset watched as the Turtles surrounded Twira and prepared to start.
"Are you certain that it's a good idea to have the guys fight against Twira?” Sunset questioned Twilight. “I'm not saying it's bad or anything, but are you absolutely sure about this, Twilight?”
"Of course!” Twilight replied. “After our mission with Kraang and how Twira showed herself, I wanted to look at her combat skills in more detail and see how she resists enemies like us. In addition, I programmed Twira at the time of this training to not use weapons, only the combat skills that she has in her possession.”
"Oh... That sounds very thoughtful and careful on your part," Sunset admitted.
"Thank you," Twilight said, but then she noticed her friend’s slightly frowning look.
"Hey, Sunset. Is something wrong?” she asked.
"Oh, nothing, Twilight,” replied Sunset. “It's just... I have some kind of unpleasant feeling or rather a premonition that something terrible is going to happen and I can't get rid of it, you know?
"Sunset, if there's something bothering you, you can tell me and the others,” Twilight declared. “We're friends, and friends don't lie. We’ve all been through so many difficulties and dangerous situations, and have learned so much, especially about trust. Just ask Mikey if you know what I mean.”
"You're right. I'm sorry,” Sunset sheepishly apologized. “It's just-"
Before she could finish, however, a party girl appeared between them and pointed to the ring with a huge smile.
"WHOO! It's starting! It's starting! It's starting!" Pinkie beamed, jumping up and down with excitement.
Soon, all the girls (especially Sunset) turned their attention to the ring and what was going to happen. Twira stood in the center while the turtles surrounded her. They pulled out their weapons and waited to make their move.
“Rebooting at 100%. Engaging, close combat,” she announced.
When Twira got on horse stance pose, she was finally ready.
Thus, Leo shouted, “Attack!”
The turtles all charged at her. Each of them swung their weapons at once. Twira dodged them all when they were just a few inches close to her by quickly stepping away and flipping over them. Raph tried swinging his sais at her.
“Hold still!” he bellowed.
“C’mon, Raph! Take her down!” Rainbow cheered.
Surprisingly, Twira managed to dodge them all and then grabbed his hands.
Hah! Is that the best you can do?” Raph barked.
The only thing he received was a hard headbutt from Twira. As soon as he started to feel dizzy, she delivered a few punches to him and even though Raph tried blocking her attacks, Twira was just too fast for him. Before long, he was knocked out with a powerful kick. He groaned and just lied there on the ground.
Donnie jumped and swung his staff. Twira noticed and immediately ducked her head, turned her body around and started blocking his moves. Donnie then received a punch in the chest, sending him flying in the air, but he landed safely to the ground. He started throwing shurikens at Twira. In response, Twira caught all of them and threw them back at him in rapid speed. Thinking fast, Donnie twirled his bo-staff, deflecting them everywhere.
“Phew! That was close!” Rarity exclaimed.
No one was hurt, but Donnie smirked, because he had it all planned out for Twira to be distracted. Leo and Mikey jumped in and swung their weapons. However, Twira just grabbed them without looking and swung them into each other. She tossed them aside and they landed on the ground with tremendous pain. The two groaned and started rubbing their heads, while Donnie charged and swung his staff at Twira again. Twira kept blocking, dodging, and flipping every move he made. She started attacking Donnie, but he countered them by clearing his mind, the same way he had defeated Dr. Falco. He flipped over Twira and swung his staff, tripping her.
"Alright, Donnie!" Rarity cheered.
"Yee-haa!" Applejack hollered.
He jumped and slammed his staff on her. Unfortunately, Twira dodged it by pressing her hands to the ground, allowing her to backflip towards a wall as she pressed her legs to it and started flying towards Donnie. She rolled and delivered a powerful kick on Donnie’s chest, making him let go of his weapon as it flew into the air. He then crashed to a wall and started to groan from feeling dizzy. Twira then saw his weapon coming down while spinning. The girls noticed too.
“DONNIE, LOOK OUT!!!” Sunset cried.
Donnie groaned as he tried to open his eyes.
“Huh?” he mumbled.
In response, Twira kicked as it zoomed towards Donnie. He screamed and immediately retracted his head in his shell. His staff was stuck to the wall just about an inch above his shell. The Rainbooms screamed in horror and thought Donnie’s head was completely gone, but they then watched him flop to the ground as he pulled his head out of his Shell, catching his breath.
“I’m okay,” he panted gravely before leaning his head back on the ground.
The girls subsequently began calming down, but also started to sweat a little.
“Oh, thank goodness,” Rarity breathed.
“Oh, nelly. I thought he was a goner.” Applejack added with a sigh.
Fluttershy nervously spoke, “That was so scary.”
Raph and Donnie soon recovered and slowly walked back to their side.
“Are you two okay?” a worried Rainbow asked.
Raph groaned and rubbing his head a bit before replying, “Yeah. It’s just… I did not see that coming.”
Donnie also groaned and added, “Me neither. I’m just glad you and I are in one piece.”
Raph sighed and even nodded agreement while admitting, “She fights way better than Shredder’s Elite Footbots.”
Just then, Mikey came at Twira and started swinging his nunchucks.
“Nunchuck to the face!” he hollered as Twira kept blocking all his swing attacks.
“C’mon, Mikey! You can do it!” Pinkie cheered.
Twira kept dodging all his attacks by leaning her back, and tried to deliver some punches and kicks at the party ninja. Mikey then started doing flips and barrel rolls at every attack Twira made. When he tried to punch while holding his chucks, however, she grabbed him by the shoulder and performed seoi nage. Fortunately, Mikey was able to do a backflip and land on his feet.
“The seoi nagi, huh? Hmm, brings back memories,” Mikey said as he smirked at Donnie, making his brother pretty irritated.
However, he was not paying attention when Twira came running at him.
“BEHIND YOU!!!” Fluttershy warned.
Twira jumped and prepared to kick his head.
“Wup!” he squeaked as he retracted his head in motion.
Then, when his head came back out of his shell, he grabbed a hold of Twira.
“Psyche!” he giggled.
Mikey slammed her to the ground and then pulled towards her as he slid on his back, kicking her in the face. As a result, Twira crashed her body to the wall. The girls all cheered while Raph and Donnie had dumbfounded looks on their faces.
“That… was awesome!” Raph admitted in awe.
Donnie also exclaimed in completes shock, “Unbelievable!”
“WOO-HOO!!! MIKEY!!!” Pinkie cheered out loud.
An equally impressed Rarity added, “My word. He actually did it!”
Applejack also grinned and shouted, “Whoo! Mikey is just full of surprises!”
Meanwhile, Twira had already gotten herself up. She saw Leo approach her and she started blocked his moves. She then hit Leo’s chest 3 times and though he grunted a bit, he still held his ground. Twira was about to give Leo an uppercut when both of her arms were lassoed by Mikey.
“Think fast!” he grunted, trying to pull her away from his brother.
But Twira had another trick in her program. She grabbed the chain of his chucks and spun herself around. Mikey screamed as he was being pulled closer to Twira. She elbowed him in the face and grabbed Mikey. Then, Twira started to spin around. She spun faster and faster. Until finally, she threw him straight at Leo. Lucky for Leo, he jumped over Mikey just in time before his little brother crashed into the wall.
“MIKEY!!!!” Everyone screamed.
He landed on his back feeling very dizzy.
“She thought too fast... Ow...” he groaned as he lost consciousness.
Leo looked at his other brothers and ordered, “Help him up.”
Raph and Donnie carefully got him to stand up and helped sit towards his friends. The turtle groaned and recovered a little as they helped him.
“It’s okay little bro,“ Raph said, “We got ya."
Donnie looked at Mikey, “The impact on the wall must’ve knocked him out worse than we have.”
Pinkie whimpered, “Mikey.”
Rarity placed a hand on Pinkie’s and said, “He’ll be alright darling. He was amazing.”
Sunset looked at Twilight and asked, “How many moves did you install on Twira?”
“I programmed her with dozens of fighting styles,” Twilight explained. “She’s an analyst and is built to face every kind of foe in her surroundings.”
“Are you sure she’s programmed to be merciful?” Sunset questioned, feeling a little nervous.
“Yes, my programming prevents her from injuring a human being,” replied Twilight.
Sunset sighed and said with a little sarcasm in her voice, “Oh, well, that makes me feel better.”
Leo stared at Twira for a moment. Twira got into ninja stance and she beckoned by waving her hand at Leo to come at her. Leo charged at Twira once again, slashing his blades at her. Twira proceeded to dodge his blades twice, then she spun around and swung her arm, hitting his back. Leo took one swing of his katana at Twira who leaned back in response, the tip of his blade nearly scratching Twira’s face. He kept on trying to knock out Twira, but no matter how much he tried, Twira managed to keep up with his speed and blocked all of his attacks. Leo then tried stabbing her, but just before his blade could come into contact with Twira, she moved a little to the side and just as Leo missed, she grabbed Leo’s right arm and kicked him in the chest, making him let go one of his weapons.
Twira had grabbed one of Leo’s katanas and the rest were utterly shocked at that. Few were starting to sweat, while others were hyperventilating, feeling more worried that their leader was going to get his shell shocked.
A dumbfounded Rainbow exclaimed, “No way!”
An equally shocked Donnie commented, “She now has a weapon.”
Pinkie also became worried before speaking in sarcasm, “This is not going to end well.”
Twira stared at the katana she was holding for a little bit. She was becoming more curious with it as her optics started to turn purple just like the time when she was holding a Kraang blaster. Leo noticed the change in her optics as well and for a moment, he was shocked, but also felt very concerned that Twira is starting to evolve, becoming stronger and more powerful. The others noticed Leo’s reaction, but were unable to figure out what it was. Twira’s eyes changed back to red before she looked at Leo. She got into a samurai stance while holding his sword.
With one blade in her possession, Leo knew that he had to be careful. They both charged and clashed their weapons. Twira almost had Leo defeated, but his pride never stopped him.
“Go get her, Leo!” Mikey cheered.
“Knock the bolts out of that tin can!” Raph cheered.
Leo kept blocking her attacks and tried to find her weak spot, but Twira anticipated his moves. Fluttershy became so worried that she could not handle so much pressure.
“C’MON LEO! TAKE HER DOWN!” she screamed, before she quickly covered her mouth blushing bright red. Her friends cringed at her reaction.
“Sorry, I’m really nervous” she meekly admitted.
Sunset put a hand on hers and said, “He’ll be fine. Just dial down a notch, okay?”
Fluttershy blushed, but giggled, “Yeah, okay.”
Leo was getting tired. He blocked a swing so powerful that his sword fell out of his hands. Twira jumped and was about to finish him off, until Leo jumped out of the way to the wall, pressing his legs to it and delivered a powerful kick. Twira used his sword to block his kick. She rolled backwards when Leo’s attack came in contact and knocked the katana off her hands. Leo ran to get his other katana, but then Twira tackled him to the ground. She proceeded to punch Leo, but he dodged it as she slammed her fist to the ground. He backed up a little lifting one leg up high, snatching Twira’s collar and pressing his other leg onto her chest, allowing him to toss her off of himself and back flip behind her. He began to punch her head, but Twira grabbed his hand and tossed him to the ground near his katana. Twira picked up his other katana that was near her. She approached slowly towards Leo, who crawled and tried reaching his blade. Twira raised her blade up high. When Leo grabbed his sword, he blocked Twira’s attack just in time and kicked her out of the way. They soon started clashing their weapons once more. Leo then slid on his back to slice her legs, but Twira jumped over him. Leo then got up on his feet he ran up the wall as Twira missed him. Leo then landed on his feet and quickly swung his blade up high to Twira’s neck. He immediately stopped just a few inches before it would come in contact to her neck. He smirked as the others cheered.
“He got her!” a grinning Pinkie cheered.
Mikey also cheered, “Oh yeah boy! That’s my ninja!”
However, Twilight smirked before revealing, “No, they got each other.”
“HUH?!” the others asked in unison.
Unfortunately, Twilight was right. Leo looked down and saw the tip of his other blade by his chest. Twira had performed a backstab without even looking back. Everyone was completely shocked.
Donnie’s eye twitched before he spoke, “Holy mackerel. A stalemate!”
A completely shocked Raph quietly said, “I don’t believe it.”
Twira slowly turned to face Leo, who was afraid he would receive another hit, but then Twira held the blade behind her back.
“Training complete,” she announced. “Disengaging close combat.”
He sighed in relief and then watched as Twira bowed with respect and added, “Arigato gozaimasu.”
Leo was surprised to say the least, but he nevertheless smiled back before bowed back in respect. When they stood back up, Twira returns the swords to Leo and he gladly accepted them before putting them on his bag.
Then, everyone rushed towards them, applauding their efforts.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" shouted Rainbow.
Rarity cheered, “Incredible! Simply incredible!
Fluttershy nodded and added, "That was very disturbing, but beautiful at the same time! Like butterflies fluttering!"
Raph leaned on Leo's shoulder and smirked as he said, "Well, brother, that was one of your best duels since the Shredhead and Ue-Fool. Or, did our great Sensei Leonardo get soft and start losing his grip that his shell almost got polished off by some fancy robot?"
Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie snickered at Raph’s comment, while Leo felt a little insulted, but he chose to playfully roll his eyes.
"In your dreams!" he said while shaking off his brother’s hand.
Donnie, meanwhile, looked at Twira and analyzed, "She was able to confront us all at once without using her built in weapons, she calculated our every strike, effectively eliminated us all, and even managed to confront Leo using his own weapons while putting him in a stalemate, something no one has ever done before! I just can't imagine how high her computing power is and how advanced her artificial intelligence is, based on your mind! And it was only created a couple of weeks ago!”
He then looked at Twilight with a twinkle in his eye and declared, "Twilight, I'll say it again: This robot, or Twira, is your greatest creation yet! I can only imagine her potential in the future! Twira is proof of your great intellect and intelligence, and I believe if the professor were here, he would say the same and rate her in his own way by the universe's standards."
Twilight blushed profusely at all this praise and managed to reply, "T-t-thanks Donnie. But it's not worth it. It really isn't. I created Twira to help us in any difficult moment and that's all. But it also gives us a new friend and our most loyal ally."
The girl then looked at her robot nearby and added, "And you're right Donnie. Twira is proof not only of my intelligence, but of who I really am. And I'm very proud of her."
Twilight put her hand on the robot's shoulder as she said this, but what neither of them noticed was Twira looking sideways at Twilight's hand on her shoulder. It was as if she was unhappy with her creator's touch on her.
Sunset then looked at the turtles and said, “Seems like we’re due for a break.”
A visibly exhausted Leo spoke in agreement, " Yeah, I think this concludes training for today. Let's take a 5-minute break out of the dojo everybody."
"Hai, Sensei Leonardo." Rainbow teased as the others snickered.
Leo just gave her a dry look, but he blushed a little when he looked at Twilight who was giggling as well. When everyone was out of the dojo, Twira's eyes went bright purple.
After all the training in the dojo, everyone was in the living room resting their muscles and watching TV.
"That was super-duper-mega awesome!" Pinkie exclaimed while smiling broadly. "I wish I could!’ve filmed this for SnapTime. I would’ve gotten tons of likes and views on my PinkNinja4Life blog!”
"Well, first of all, we can't without getting the guys exposed. Second, you're making a ninja blog?!” Rainbow shouted, looking at her friend's account.
"Yeah. Besides cupcakes, I post videos of my ninja skills and what I can do with them at home, like my cookie video right here," Pinkie explained as she clicked a video of her using her kunoichi skills to easily climb to the highest shelf and grab the cookie jar while deftly hiding using a pink smoke ninja smoke bomb.
"And the audience loves it!" she added while showing her athlete friend all the likes and comments under the video. "I'm just surprised you didn't do that first Dash. Usually, you always shoot something cool for your blog ‘HowAwesomeICanBe!’ That would have gotten you a lot of subscribers and the views you seek!”
To which Rainbow responded with a facepalm, clearly not realizing it herself!
In the meantime, everyone else had settled in on the couch and seats, while Raph practiced his punches on a dummy and the others struck up a conversation with one another.
Mikey, who was utterly amazed with Leo, spoke first, “I can’t believe you kept up with Twira, Leo.”
Applejack added, “I can’t believe you were able dodge all those intense attacks.”
Sunset simply smiled at him and said, “Glad you weren’t hurt, Leo. You had us worried.”
Leo replied, “Thanks guys. It’s nice to have another robot to train us before we go on patrol.”
Twilight nudged Leo’s shoulder and declared, “See? I told you training with Twira was a good idea.”
“Maybe you’re right,” Leo admitted. “Honestly, it’s been a long time since we’ve had a fight like this, and it feels good.”
Applejack nodded and stated, “You can say that again, partner.”
“I’m just glad Twira’s on our side, dudes,” Mikey interjected. “I mean, imagine what would’ve happened if our robo-friend became our enemy? We’d all be toast!”
Twilight confidently shook her head and replied, “Well, Mikey, like I said, that’s not going to happen."
“Are you sure about that sugarcube?” Applejack inquired, “I’m not saying I’m against our metal friend, but from what the guys told us about their last encounter with the robot in space, I just want to make sure something like that doesn’t happen here.”
"None taken," Twilight replied, "Like I said, Twira's not going to be like that AI from space. And if you’re still wondering why I'm so sure of this, I can tell you that I gave Twira consciousness using a copy of my brain. She inherited my very best qualities, such as my intelligence and friendship with you guys. True, it takes time and understanding, but given Twira's intelligence and super-fast learning curve, I'm sure it won't take long. Twira is proof of what kind of person I really am, and that's not at all like what happened at the Friendship Games. So, you guys can rest assured that Twira won't turn evil like I did. She's my creation, my child, my very best self, and I have confidence in her as I do in my own capabilities, even after humbling myself and accepting Midnight Sparkle, like you said, Sunset,"
Twilight looked at her best friend with a smile and added, "You and Leo do trust me on this, right?”
"Of course, I trust you Twilight," Sunset immediately replied. "You're one of my best friends, if not my very best friend. I trust both you and your judgment. And if you have so much confidence in Twire, then so do I. So do we all. Right, guys?”
She asked this while looking at their friends, who all nodded in agreement.
"Got that right, Sunset," Donnie said as he gave a thumbs up.
"Wrong word, bro," said Mikey "Besides, if Twira was evil, I'd feel it, just like with Cozy Glow. But I don't see that in Twira, so she's cool.”
Leo walked over to Twilight, putting his hand on her shoulder before declaring, "We're always with you, Twilight, through good times and the bad ones. That will never change no matter what. We're all family and family trusts each other. You, me, all of us together.”
Twilight tearfully smiled at that and said, "Thank you guys so much. It means a lot. Really!"
Before anyone had anything else to say, Casey and April arrived at the Lair, where the latter had a panicked look on her face as she looked at the rest of her friends and ran towards them while shouting, "Guys!"
"April what's wrong?" asked Donnie at seeing his friend like this.
"We need to talk right now!" she pleaded.
"About what, April?" Sunset asked.
The redhead replied quietly, "About our future extinction."
Everyone just stared at their friend in horror and bewilderment.
"What are you talking about?" Rainbow inquired.
"It's not funny, darling." Rarity remarked.
Pinkie nodded and added, "I totally agree!"
"Casey, do you know what she's talking about?" Raph inquired in worry.
"I haven't got a clue myself, dudes," replied Casey "All I know is that she called me to meet you here in the den and that it was very important."
Leo walked over to April and took her by the shoulder before asking, "April, are you sure about this?"
April looked at him with great concern and revealed, "I wish I wasn't, Leo, but...I know what I saw in my dream."
"In a dream?" interrupted Rainbow, "Did you come to us because of a nightmare? Maybe, you just had a horrible dream and you're exaggerating."
"It's okay April. It happens to me too... almost every day," a visibly frightened Fluttershy replied. "But I know they’re just dreams and they’re not real."
April sighed and admitted, "I wish it were, but it wasn't just a dream. It was a vision."
Applejack asked in confusion, "A vision?"
April nodded and continued, "Yes, a vision. It felt the same as Casey and the twin blades."
"Don't remind me of that, Red," Casey said to her fearfully.
Donnie touched April soothingly and inquired, "April, can you tell us what exactly you saw in this vision of yours?"
April wrapped her arms around herself and sat down on the couch before explaining, "I saw... I saw all the buildings get destroyed and all living things die in a bright flash of light."
"In a bright flash of light? But that's only possible in a..." Donnie tried to say, but then his eyes widened in understanding and horror at what their friend meant.
Twilight herself looked at the turtle's gaze and came to the same realization he had.
"It's only possible in what?" Applejack asked.
"Yeah, Dee, tell us. You're freaking us out here, bro," Mikey added in a frightened tone as he walked over to Pinkie and Fluttershy before hugging them.
Donnie mumbled, "It's possible in an explosion of... of…"
"A nuclear bomb," Twilight finished for him, and everyone went silent at that.
"WHAT?!" they suddenly shouted in unison.
Leo looked at Sunset and she looked at him before nodding and asking, "April, come with me and Sunset to the dojo and tell me more about what you saw, okay?"
April then nodded and replied, "Okay, Leo, come on. Also, Twilight should come too."
"What?!" Twilight shouted.
"Why her, darling?" Rarity questioned looking at her friend.
"Because, she was also in my vision and I want to be able to explain why that is," April revealed.
Sunset looked at her and Twilight before sighing and replying, "Fine, then. Twilight, you're going to have to come to the dojo with us. There's no problem, is there?”
"Um, no Sunset. Absolutely, I'm just a little freaked out by all this," Twilight replied nervously.
"Me too, Twilight," Leo said as he crossed his arms, "But we need to figure out the meaning behind this vision as soon as possible. It’s the only way we can stop whatever threat we’re supposed to face in the future.”
"I agree," April added while nodding.
Thus, all four of them walked into the dojo and closed the door behind them, while the others stayed outside and thought about what was going to happen next.
Author's Note
Hello everyone! I'm back! A huge and just a HUGE apology for the fact that I was absent for six months, but the end of the previous year was not very good for me, starting with the death of my uncle on my father's side and having arrears of accommodation. In addition, after the holidays I had to go deep into my studies and deal with the Finals and at the same time work on the chapter, and it was also very difficult with the lack of an idea and a creative dead end, so to speak.But despite all this, I, as well as my co-author and editor, for which I thank them very much, continued to work on this chapter and continue this story. And the good news is that we have three chapters + an epilogue left, where we will try to make them shorter and after this story a new crossover story will begin! And I congratulate you on the past Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day and Women's Day!
R.S. If Wildcard25 suddenly reads this, then I hope that you will mention the events of this story in your current work on Kim Possible or in the following. I also hope Jebens1 will make images for some moments of this story, like the sparring of Turtles against Twira. And I hope you, as well as readers, will like this chapter. Thank you all for your support and attention!
