Turtles of Terror is the second story appearing in TMHT Adventures #27.
Appearing in Turtles of Terror[]
Major characters[]
Minor characters[]
- April O'Neil
- Homeless men
- Krang
- Shredder
Species[]
- Human
- Mutant rat
- Mutant rhinoceros
- Mutant turtle
- Mutant warthog
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Synopsis[]
Shredder proposes to Krang that he finally has a solution to take out the Hero Turtles once and for all - he has found a parallel dimension identical to this one, except for small differences - an important one being that the Turtles are criminals! Shredder uses the portal to transport these "Evil" Turtles to the Technodrome and tells them if they want to return home, they will impersonate the Hero Turtles of this Earth and destroy them. These Turtles reluctantly agree.
Meanwhile at the Turtle Lair, this dimension's Turtles prepare to go out and get pizza. Master Splinter, however, tells Raphael that he must stay behind and meditate, as he had caught him dozing off during meditation lessons earlier. The others leave and rather than monitor Raphael, Splinter goes elsewhere in the lair. Naturally, Raph fell asleep again, but is awoken by Evil Donatello and Evil Leonardo entering the lair. They try to get him to go with them, but he is concerned with defying Splinter. They tell him that Splinter is asleep and make fun of him for wanting permission to go out, as they hoist them onto their shoulders. They take him to his doppelgänger and then back to the abandoned warehouse the Evil Turtles were holed up in and tie him up, upside down.
Meanwhile, Evil Raph goes to the lair and pretends to be the "regular" Raph when the other Turtles return. Donatello realizes that he forgot to give April O'Neil an update regarding their most recent adventures. He asks "Raph" to accompany him, with Evil Raph asking Splinter's permission to come along. He is granted permission and Don apologizes to "Raph" for eating all of the pizzas he intended to bring back for him, to which Evil Raph thinks that the Turtles from his universe hate pizza. Evil Raph takes Don to the other Evil Turtles; they assault him and he is beaten and strung up alongside his dimension's Raph back at the warehouse. Evil Raph and Evil Don return to the lair (with Evil Don having stolen "regular" Don's fedora and trenchcoat), and find April has paid them a visit since they failed to rendezvous with her.
Michaelangelo asks Evil Don if he can fix the television, since it is on the fritz. Evil Don mentally notes that his universe's Leo is the tech wizard, not him, and fakes a dizzy spell to get out of trying to work on it. Splinter gives him an "herbal concoction" to soothe his ills, but becomes suspicious when Don favors his left hand to hold the drink, as he is supposed to be right-handed....
The next morning, Evil Don and Evil Raph discuss a plan to get Leonardo and Mike out of the lair. Evil Don suggests jogging, which Mike is absolutely not crazy about, but Splinter is down with, so the Turtles put on tracksuits and go out. Evil Raph radios the other Evil Turtles, and they soon find their prey and confront them. The Evil Turtles leave this dimension's crew tied up in their warehouse with intent on capturing Splinter so that they can deliver them all to Shredder. After the villains leave, a couple of homeless men looking for a place to sleep arrive and see the Turtles. They convince the men to free them so that they can take on the Evil Turtles.
Back at the lair, the Evil Turtles tie up Splinter. The Hero Turtles return and take out the Evil Turtles - or so they think. Leo goes to untie Splinter and Evil Don, who was not the Donatello that was defeated, goes to hit Leo from behind. Splinter warns him and he and Raph throw him into the pile of defeated Evil Turtles, in time for this dimension's Don to recover. The Evil Turtles are suddenly beamed away, and the Turtles hypothesize that Shredder did it.
Leo and Don point out to Splinter that it weren't for a couple of homeless men, they would not have escaped. As a token of tribute, the Turtles put their tracksuits on and host a martial arts exhibition for charity.