(Extra #7)
In the jungle kingdom, Lucifer opened the chest to find his evil ingredients. But he heard crocodiles emerging from the lake.
"Heh, I should've known you'd still be here." Lucifer chuckled.
Lucifer took down the crocodiles with his magic. After defeating the crocodiles, Queen Absinthe stepped out of the shadows.
"Mother." Lucifer greeted.
"My fifth son, why have you returned to the jungle?" Absinthe questioned.
"I have come home." Lucifer responded.
"This is no longer your home, you are dangerous." Absinthe said.
"But I have succeeded in my quest. I have brought to you; the jewel of great power." Lucifer said as showed the jewel to his mother.
"You come back with a dangerous jewel to destroy this family? You're not the son I loved." Absinthe questioned, with disbelief.
"Maybe, mother." Lucifer answered.
Lucifer used the jewel to trap his mother in vines from the ceiling. Absinthe struggled as she was trying to break free.
"But this is my destiny. It's time to make this world feel my pain." Lucifer said with a cruel laugh. "It's going to be quite a show."
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Meanwhile at the ruined pieces of the temple, two hyper cubes fell down to the ground and opened up to release the team after the temple's destruction.
"And you said it was useless." Vee said to Raph.
"I told you this would come in handy." Ezra said to Camilla.
"What happened?" Mikey asked with a groan as he got up from the ground.
"I think we know exactly what happened." Talia replied as she looked at the ruined temple.
"Lucifer." Leo said with narrow eyes.
"He took the jewel and left us here." Kirana explained.
"And the temple is destroyed." Shinigami added as she looked at the ruined temple.
"Oh no." Bruce said in utter fear. "With that jewel in his possession, he could destroy the Earth."
"Then we have to stop him!" Nixie gasped.
"There's no telling what time he'll start." Donnie said.
"Or where he will begin the spell." Ariana added.
"Not if we can track him." April announced as she concentrated on her mind. "I've been learning to track things without the Aeon Crystal."
"So what are we waiting for?" Raph questioned. "Let's go save the world."
"Couldn't agree more." Camilla smirked.
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As both teams were on their way to the kingdom of Junglina, they came to a stop at a long wooden bridge.
"Is it safe?" Karai asked.
"I'll find out." Kuro said.
"Wait." Leo said as he stopped Kuro. "I'll go first."
"Be careful, Leo." Kirana pleaded.
Leo gave her a reassuring smile before he carefully walked across to make it to the other side.
"Alright, come on across." Leo shouted to his siblings, girlfriend, and friends. "But not all at once."
"Okay, my turn." Kirana said before she walked across the bridge and made it to the other side next her mutant boyfriend.
Raph went next, then Camilla, Donnie, Ariana, Mikey, Talia, April, Karai, Kuro, Shini, Gumko, Mona, and Blade.
"We must keep moving if we'll be able to make it to the lost kingdom." Mona said.
"Right." Blade agreed with a nod.
"Vee, Ezra, Bruce, Nixie, come on!" Raph and Camilla shouted.
"You go first, Vee." Ezra said. "I'll be next after you."
Vee gave her mage boyfriend a nod before she walked across the bridge and stood by her brothers. Ezra walked across the bridge and stood by his sisters before he motioned Bruce and Nixie to come over.
"Let's hurry." Bruce said to Nixie, who nodded her head at him.
Suddenly, Lucifer jumped right behind them that made the young sorcerers turn around.
"Going somewhere, kiddos?" Lucifer asked before he snapped his fingers that made the bridge break.
"No!" Vee and Ezra shouted in worry.
The others look at Bruce and Nixie in worry and fear. Bruce and Nixie heard hissing as they were now surrounded by snakes.
"This is cute, trying to stop me?" Lucifer said coldly. "It's not gonna happen."
"You're wrong." Nixie said with a glare.
"Am I?" Lucifer questioned before he looked at the turquoise masked turtle and teal mage ninja from the other side. "Tell me this, Vee and Ezra. You bring an even bigger problem by bringing a team with you. You're putting them in danger. Besides, look at the sky."
Everyone sees a constellation beginning to line up.
"Look, we know how you feel about what happened in your past." Bruce said, slowly. "We've all had bad experiences."
"But not everyone gets back their love." Lucifer replied.
As Bruce was distracting Lucifer, Nixie silently signaled April to use her powers to fix the bridge. That caught the red head kunoichi's attention and concentrated on her powers to lift the bridge without Lucifer noticing.
"Besides, what would you do if you lost something important?" Lucifer asked.
"It's just what your mind is telling you." Bruce said. "But your heart knows what's right for you."
"You're right." Lucifer said with a smirk.
Before Lucifer could summon his weapon, Shinigami and Gumko fired several bats and pumpkin bombs at him. Nixie used her magic to clear away the snakes and April held up the bridge for them. Bruce and Nixie ran across but Lucifer shot a beam at April, that caused her to fall on the ground in pain. The bridge collapsed with a screaming Bruce and Nixie, but Mikey used his grappling hook for Nixie to grab on as she grabbed it and Bruce's arm to stop them from falling. Lucifer teleported himself away as Donnie and Ariana went to check on April.
"She needs healing." Donnie said.
"I have a medical kit." Mona said as she pulled out her medical supplies from her armor pockets.
"I can use my magic too." Ariana added.
"But what about Bruce and Nixie?" Blade asked.
Nixie looked up to see the rope slowly breaking.
"It's not gonna hold for much longer!" Talia gasped.
"Dudes, I need help!" Mikey urged as he and Talia held onto the grappling hook.
"Bruce, hang on!" Nixie said.
"It won't hold us both!" Bruce said in alarm.
"It will, Bruce!" Nixie reassured, fearfully. "Just keep holding on."
"Hang on, guys!" Raph shouted as he and Camilla helped pull.
"We'll get you up!" Leo added as he and Kirana helped pull.
"Come on, pull!" Camilla said as she was struggling.
"We're trying!" Kirana snapped as she struggled.
The rope began to break some more. Bruce looked up at Nixie with tears in his eyes as he knew what he had to do.
"Nixie, I'm sorry." Bruce apologized.
"Please..." Nixie begged, tearfully.
Bruce closed his eyes and let go of Nixie's hand before he began to fall into the dark plummet.
"NO! BRUCE!!!" Nixie screamed.
Everyone looked down to see Bruce falling straight into darkness voyage and disappeared at the bottomless pit.
"Vee..." Ezra said softly, before he pulled the weeping Vee into his arms for an embrace.
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As a few minutes passed, April started to wake up from her injury.
"Oh, my head." April groaned as she sat up. "What happened?"
"Lucifer knocked you out with his magic, Mona quickly gave you first aid." Karai explained.
"Blade also came to help as well." Kuro added.
"Yes." Mona nodded. "But now all of us are alright."
"Well...not everyone." Blade sighed sadly, as he and the others looked at Nixie on her knees near the edge of the trench.
Nixie did nothing but stare at the darkness with tears pouring down from her eyes. Vee and Ezra walked over to comfort the young sorceress.
"She blames herself for Bruce." Shinigami sighed sadly.
"We need their help on this." Gumko said as he mentioned Vee and Ezra.
The Turtles and the Big Five walked over to Vee, Ezra, and Nixie for comfort.
"Nixie, we're so sorry." Mikey said, sadly.
"He was a good kid." Talia added.
"It's all my fault." Nixie sniffed. "I never should've let him go."
"It wasn't your fault." Ezra said. "It was an accident."
"It's my fault...for all of this." Vee admitted with a heavy sigh. "Lucifer was right. If I hadn't brought everyone, Bruce wouldn't have..."
Vee covered her eyes in sadness, trying to stay strong, but a hand was placed on her shoulder to make her look up at her older brothers.
"This isn't your fault, Vee." Raph said. "Bruce protected all of us and would want us to save the world."
"We're gonna do this together for him." Camilla added.
"Raph and Camilla are right." Leo nodded. "We're family and we do everything for our home and friends."
"Even carry on his wishes." Kirana agreed. "We'll carry on his wish for his honor."
"So, are we back in the game?" Donnie asked.
"It's your's and Ezra's call, Vee." Ariana said.
Vee looked at both Ezra and Nixie, who gave a nod with a sad smile. The turquoise masked turtle smiled back with a nod and looked at the team.
"Yes." Vee declared as she stood up before pulling out her mother's sword. "For Bruce and our world."
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And so the team continued the trail. They went across rivers, swung on vines in high trees to avoid quicksand pits, and climbed over both mountains and hills.
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Meanwhile at a river, things were quiet. Then the elephant baby, whom Bruce rescued, walked over to grab a drink but stepped back as a familiar figure was swimming to land. It was Bruce! He took a few breathes as the elephant pulled him up on shore. When the young sorcerer looked around, he saw the young elephant with a smile.
"Hey, it's you." Bruce said, before the baby elephant nuzzled his head to the young sorcerer's chest in happiness, that made him pet the creature.
"I gotta get back to the Turtles and the K-5 fast." Bruce thought as he looked at the high waterfall.
He looked at his hands, which were bruised up, before he looked at his elephant friend.
"Hey little guy, know anyone who can help?" Bruce asked.
The elephant called out for his parents with his trunk, that made the elephant's parents head over. The mother elephant picked up Bruce with her trunk and placed him on her back before the elephants rushed out to find the team.
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After passing through difficult obstacles, the team had finally reached their destination upon finding the ancient ruins of the once beloved castle. They walked inside the throne room and found all kinds of unique royalty treasures.
"The Queen's wonders." Vee whispered in shock.
"I can't believe all this treasure was here." Ezra said in wonder.
"Everything is so cool." Mikey said as he looked around with an amazed smile.
"And beautiful too." Talia added as she looked at fancy necklaces.
"Ancient artifacts from a hidden world we didn't know about." Donnie said in amazement.
"It's all so beautiful." Ariana said with a smile.
Mikey snuck up behind Raph with a huge fake spider, that made the red masked turtle turn around to scream at the sight that caused Camilla, Mikey, and Talia to laugh. Raph growled at his brother and began to chase Mikey around in circles. April used her powers to detect the area for any threats.
"I'm sensing another person here, I can't detect the gender but I don't know who it is." April said as she concentrated on her powers.
Suddenly a hand emerged from the mud puddle that immediately spooked Mikey and Raph. The hand climbed out to reveal a person with mud all over herself. The person wiped the mud away to reveal Queen Absinthe herself.
"You're...you're..." Talia stuttered in surprise.
"Queen Absinthe." Camilla muttered in utter shock.
"Your highness." Mona said.
"It's an honor to meet you." Blade said as he took a knee down to bow.
Karai and Shini helped her up on her feet as Kuro and Gumko helped clean her up.
"What happened to you?" Karai asked.
"Yeah, who did this to you?" Kuro asked.
"My son, he is here and he's planning for the end." Queen Absinthe replied.
"Not if we can stop him." Shinigami said.
"But where is he to begin with?" Gumko asked.
"You're going to need my advice on the jewel." Queen Absinthe said as she looked at the team. "I have kept it as my treasures as I brought my children to the world. My sons respected our gift but Lucifer saw darkness in the power. He wanted that jewel but I refused. In his rage, he burned our kingdom and fought me for the jewel. I used all of my magic to beat him and exiled him. I fear my son will use that power to destroy everything I created in the jungle."
"We've all had to lose our loved ones." Vee said, as she looked at the queen reassuringly. "But we can try together."
"Yeah, we came to save the world and your kingdom." Ezra added. "We're not giving up yet."
Suddenly the floor began to collapse to a downstairs floor, that made the team look across the room to see Lucifer with the jewel in his hands.
"Trying will only make you suffer." Lucifer said, evilly.
The Turtles, April, Karai, Mona, Blade, and Shinigami pulled out their weapons while the K-5, Kuro, Gumko, and Nixie summoned their magic before they stood in their stances as the queen stepped back.
"It's over, you've all lost." Lucifer said as he set the jewel hovering over the glowing cauldron. "In a matter of minutes, this world will crumble in my grasp. But I'd hate to miss a chance to kill you."
"Not if we kill you." Vee threatened.
"This ends tonight!" Ezra agreed with a glare.
"I'm going to enjoy this." Lucifer chuckled as he summoned his magic.
The team charged forward to fight Lucifer. Leo dashed forward to deliver a round of slashes from his katana toward Lucifer, who blocked the slashes with his magic and delivered a dark energized punch to send the blue masked turtle to the wall. Kirana dashed forward to send out bolts of blue psychic energy at Lucifer, who created a dark energy shield and forced the blue mage kunoichi flying next to Leo. Mona blasted five aquamarine lasers from her wrist laser as Blade fired five blue blasts from his laser gun at Lucifer, but the dark prince avoided the blasts and sent out a powerful clap to blast them crashing into a pillar. April ran forward with her tanto blade, but Lucifer back flipped behind the red headed kunoichi and slapped her down to the ground. Mikey swung his nunchucks to attack, but Lucifer managed to grab the weapons and used his magic on the weapons to lasso the orange masked turtle's legs and knocked him down with a whip. Talia cartwheeled forward in orange psychic energy towards Lucifer, but the dark prince kicked the orange mage kunoichi on impact and knocked her straight next to Mikey. Raph charged forward with his sais, but the dark prince used his magic to freeze him in place. Camilla growled and dashed forward with her red psychic energized fist, but Lucifer caught her fist with one hand before he used his strength to throw the red masked turtle and red mage kunoichi towards a giant stone pillar. Karai charged forward with her tanto blade, but Lucifer delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to send her to the wall. Kuro dashed forward with his magic, but the dark prince fired a massive dark energy ball to send the black mage ninja next to Karai. Shinigami launched out her kasuigama towards Lucifer, who grabbed it to yank the witch kunoichi towards him and kicked her down. Gumko sent out two pumpkin bombs at the dark prince, who grabbed them both and threw them back at the pumpkin mage ninja to knock him out. Donnie charged forward with his bo staff, but Lucifer dodged the attack and used his magic to send the purple masked turtle towards a cracked pillar. Ariana charged forward with rapid blasts of purple psychic energy hailing towards Lucifer, who dodged the blasts and sent out multiple dark energy blasts at the purple mage kunoichi to knock her next to Donnie. Nixie fired three sky blue energy balls at Lucifer, who froze them in midair and sent them back at the young sorceress to knock her off guard. Vee shot three arrows at the dark prince, who dodged them and held her a force choke that made the turquoise masked turtle to drop her bow and clutch to her neck. Ezra quickly threw his shield hard enough to hit Lucifer, that made him drop Vee and release her. Ezra ran up to his mutant girlfriend to help her up as everyone was recovering quickly. After everyone delivered their attacks, Lucifer used his magic to tangle everyone in vines.
"No more games." Lucifer glared. "I want what I came for."
Suddenly a blast of psychic green energy blasted straight at Lucifer's face. That action made the team look at the source to see Bruce, who smiled at his friends before he used his magic to free everyone. Nixie ran over to engulf her sorcerer friend in happiness, who hugged her back in happiness as well. They both stared at each other before Bruce pulled in Nixie for a kiss. Nixie kissed back before they separated to look at the team's reaction.
"Well, it's about time." Vee smiled.
"I'll say." Ezra agreed.
"My guess is that Soultouch brought them together." Talia grinned.
"Wait a sec." Mikey said in surprise. "You two were in love?! But you're too young!"
The team looked at Mikey with blank or confused expressions on their faces.
"We're young too." Donnie said.
"Kick Lucidork's butt now, kiss later?" Raph asked, sarcastically.
"Yeah, he's not done yet." Camilla nodded as she saw Lucifer getting back up to fight again.
"Great." Ariana groaned.
The team got up and stood in their fighting stances to face Lucifer again. Kirana dashed forward to strike Lucifer with her twin tessen, but Lucifer blocked the attack that bought enough time for Leo to sneak behind the dark prince and hit his pressure points to catch him off guard. Mona fired six aquamarine blasts at Lucifer that managed to hit him and gave Blade the perfect time to use smoke pellets to blind the dark prince's surroundings. April used her powers to deliver rapid slashes from her tessen telekinetically towards Lucifer. Camilla dashed forward to deliver several rapid punches with her gauntlets and bought enough time for Raph to perform a high kick to send the dark prince in the air. Talia used her whip to grip Lucifer tight before she slammed him to the pillars three times and Mikey used his nunchucks to hit the dark prince in the groin. Ariana threw her spear to pin Lucifer to the wall before Donnie dashed forward to wack the dark prince with his staff five times. Karai turned into her serpent form to hold Lucifer in a tight grip before Kuro turned into his wolf form to deliver rapid slashes with his claws at the dark prince before he kicked him hard toward the pillar. Shinigami sent out multiple bats to surround Lucifer that bought time for Gumko to fire three pumpkin bombs toward the dark prince. As Lucifer got up feeling undefeated yet, he looked up to face Vee, Ezra, Bruce, and Nixie. Bruce fired two green energy balls toward the dark prince, who blocked them with ease until Ezra back flipped behind Lucifer and used his magic to blind the dark prince's eyes. Vee quickly shot four arrows to pin Lucifer to the wall before Nixie performed a sky blue energized roundhouse kick towards the dark prince. The four friends backed away as Lucifer got up again and summoned a dark energized sword to end the fight once and for all. Suddenly, a silver sword was impailed into his chest that shocked everyone and Lucifer turned around to see that Queen Absinthe had stabbed him. He looked at his mother as tears began to fall down both of their faces.
"I feel...cold." Lucifer said before he fell back and landed on the floor dead. His body then disintegrated into ash before they flew away.
The team heard more rumbling before they looked at the Jewel becoming more stronger by glowing brighter.
"Now all we have to do is destroy the Jewel." April said.
"The only way to destroy it is if one of us puts it in the eternal flame." Absinthe explained as she pointed to the large blue flame on the huge torch display behind the cauldron. "The only problem is if you touch it over 30 seconds, you'll die."
"So one of us has to take it out of the source." Mona said as she looked at the flame.
"But who?" Blade asked.
The team looked at each other for any responses until Leo decided to step forward, but his younger siblings and mage girlfriend stopped him.
"Leo, no!" Kirana pleaded. "You can't do this!"
"Dude, think clearly!" Mikey said.
"Don't do this!" Talia pleaded.
"Think about this!" Ezra said.
"That Jewel can corrupt you!" Donnie added.
"We ain't letting that happen to you!" Raph retorted.
"We'll find another way." Camilla said.
"Together!" Ariana added.
"A leader has to make a decision." Leo said.
"Not every leader has to make a difficult choice." Vee reminded with a sad smile before she turned to her mage boyfriend. "Ezra, get my family out of here."
Ezra's eyes widened as he watched Vee run toward the cauldron to grab the jewel.
"VENUS!!!!" Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey screamed.
"Vee! Come back!" Ezra cried out.
Vee grabbed the Jewel from the cauldron as the bricks of the place began to collapse, that blocked a path that separated Vee from the team.
"NO!" Ezra shouted as he tried to push the huge rocks, but he couldn't move them.
"No, Vee!" April cried out. "No!"
"We have to get out of here now!" Absinthe said as she held April back.
"Vee!" Leo shouted in despair as he tried to run in, but Karai and Kirana stopped him.
"We have to go, Leo." Karai said. "Now!"
Everyone made their way out of the palace before the palace began to crumble, that made the team step back.
"The palace!" Bruce said in surprise.
"What about Venus De Milo?!" Shinigami asked in concern.
The palace crumbled down in pieces before the team looked at the ruins in shock and sadness.
"No..." Ariana whispered as she covered her mouth.
"Vee..." Donnie said in despair.
"Sis!!!" Mikey shouted as he tried to run back inside, but Raph stopped him. "She's gone..."
Mikey cried as he hugged Raph in sadness, as he was crying as well. Talia began to cry as Camilla wrapped her arms around her younger sister and looked down in despair. Leo fell on his knees to mourn while Kirana kneeled next to her mutant boyfriend to hug him in sorrow. Ezra looked down in sadness before he put his hands on his face in despair.
Suddenly, a turquoise hypercube came out from the ruins to land in front of the team before it opened to release Vee, who got up weakly and smiled warmly to her family and friends.
"Vee!" Leo smiled as he got up to hug his younger sister.
"You're alive!" Donnie cheered as he joined in the hug.
"Little Sis!" Raph smiled as he joined in the hug with Mikey.
After her brothers hugged her, Ezra ran over to embrace Vee in a hug before they shared a kiss. When they separated, Vee passed out in exhaustion as Ezra caught his mutant girlfriend.
"Some kiss." Mikey whispered to Raph, who smacked him on the back of the head. "Ow."
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At the lair, Vee woke up on a bed in Donnie's lab. She groaned as she sat up to see her brothers and friends staring at her in concern.
"You're up." Ezra smiled in relief.
"What happened?" Vee asked.
"You saved the world, Vee." Karai answered.
"You used your magic and that cube to save yourself before the explosion." Mona explained.
"And the Queen is grateful that we helped." Shinigami added.
"I'm sorry I almost cost everybody their lives." Vee sighed as she lowered her head down. "Especially you, Bruce. I thought you were..."
"Killed at the bottom of a bridge?" Bruce finished. "Yeah, still got a bruise but I'm alright."
"But you're never alone on a mission." Mikey said as he sat next to Vee. "We're your family."
"And this family will always stay together." Leo added as he placed a hand on Vee's shoulder.
The Turtles hugged each other.
"Awwwww!" Kirana, Camilla, Ariana, and Talia said.
"Even if Donnie screams like a girl, he's family." Raph joked.
"I do not scream like a girl!" Donnie said.
Everyone laughed while Vee looked at her mother's sword by the door.
"As long as I've got them, I can do anything." Vee thought with a smile.