[Fanfic] Seven Shredders

[IcyKali]

Author's note: Hello! This is the fanfiction I was talking about in my intro thread. Before the story, I'd like to say that this takes place after the old cartoon ended, so Dregg is gone, but the tone is more like the earlier seasons of the show. If the tone doesn't fit, let me know. I will try to keep everyone in character, though. First time writing the TMNT; critique is welcome! Um, also, is there a way to indent paragraphs? This formatting looks kinda ugly to me....

Anyway, let's begin!


Seven Shredders

“In other news, researchers everywhere are still puzzled by the mysterious multi-colored lights sighted over our city last evening…”

“Aw, come on! I’m sick of old news. When’s April’s live broadcast gonna be on?”

“Raph, don’t you think that unexplained stellar phenomena are fascinating? Why, if I were a researcher…”

It had been a slow time for our favorite turtles. Lord Dregg was long gone, and now the normal criminal activity in the Big Apple just didn’t seem like enough to test their newfound skills. All they had to do on a summer night was wait for a new report from their friend April, hoping for a crime they could stop, or consign themselves to watching Killer Artichokes from Outer Space III for the fifth time.

Suddenly, Michelangelo came out of the kitchen. “Dudes,” he said. “Come taste my new pizza recipe! You guys are going to love it!”

“What is it, Michelangelo?” asked Leonardo, who had been attempting to meditate on the floor.

“I call it Meta-Pizza! It’s a pizza, with smaller pizzas on top like pepperoni! I would have put even smaller pizzas on those, but I can’t find small enough pizzas. Hey, maybe you could invent a pizza-shrinking ray, Donny!”

“Oh, let it go, Michelangelo, April’s live news report is finally on!” said Donatello.

Indeed, there on the TV was April, and she looked nervous. The turtles knew it had to be bad, considering that she always said that danger was her middle name.

“This is April O’ Neil reporting! No-one can believe their eyes, because on top of the Scientific Research Center building, not just one, but two Shredders have been sighted fighting with each other! That’s right, everyone, the old public enemy number one is back, twice! We can only sit and hope that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can help us in our time of need!” Then, she added, softly, “That means you, guys!”

“I don’t believe it! How can this be?” Leonardo leapt to his feet.

“I feel the same way, dude,” said Michelangelo. ”I thought April stopped breaking the fourth wall like that ages ago!”

Splinter had been watching the report as well. “It appears that the Shredder has learned an ancient Ninjitsu image-splitting technique, my sons. It will be difficult to stop him!” he said, gravely.

“We can deal with that later, Master Splinter. What I’m wondering is, how did he get back from Dimension X?” said Leonardo.

“Oh, boy, this is just the sort of insanity we needed,” said Raphael. “I’ve got a feeling that this’ll be a long fanfiction.”

“Now isn’t the time for sarcasm, Raphael,” said Leonardo. “To the Turtle Van!”

[BubblyShell22]

Nice start on this. No, I can't think of a way for you to indent paragraphs in this format. You'll just have to leave it as it is, but that isn't a bad thing. I like the tone of the story, and I didn't spot any grammar mistakes, which is a good thing. Nicely done. I'll be eagerly awaiting an update.

[IcyKali]

Author's Note: Next part! The plot threads will all connect soon!

The turtles ran out of the lair. They piled into the van, and off they went to the Scientific Research Center. Thankfully, there wasn’t much traffic. In fact, the road they were on had no cars on it at all, when they saw a certain someone in metal gauntlets run across the road.

“Shredder!” they said in unison.

“How did he get here from the top of the building so quickly?” said Leonardo. “Oh well, let’s get him!”

Unfortunately for the turtles, before they could do anything, Shredder threw a handful of makibishi from out of nowhere at their van’s wheels! They careened out of control and had to stop. Shredder escaped.

“Major bummer, dudes!” said Mikey.

“There could still be another Shredder on the loose,” said Leo. “Let’s head to the building on foot.”

They got out of the van and started running towards their goal. “Hey, guys,” said Donatello, “did that Shredder seem off-color to any of you?”

“Like, Shredder’s always off-color.” answered Michelangelo.

“Well, I mean he looked, bluer than normal,” said Don. “Eh, maybe I’m just imagining it.”

The turtles made it to the building sometime later. They saw the Shredders fighting on the building like in the news report.

“There’s no way that the Shredder we saw on the streets could be either of the Shredders from the report!” said Leo.

“You know,” said Raphael, “we really should have taken the Turtle Blimp.”
The turtles entered, and ran up the stairs to the roof.

[BubblyShell22]

Oooh, this is very good. So, Shredder's blue? That's different. I wonder how they all got cloned? Nicely done. I'll be eagerly awaiting an update.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Can't wait for the continuation. I'm a sucker for TMNT fanfiction based on the 1987 show.

[IcyKali]

Yikes. I guess I'd better pick up the pace on my writing! I'll give you guys a little tidbit; these Shredders are not just clones. They are not all the same. Also, those multi-colored lights mentioned in the beginning will be important.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

[Bad Guys Lover]

Oh, my... I hope we`ll find out soon who are those Shredders! Keep up the good work!

[Redeemer]

I am going sketch 7 shredders and then post it on here if it turns out any good

[IcyKali]

Author's note: Next section is here! I'm so glad people like this!


What they saw on top of the building shocked them; there were indeed two Shredders fighting, but not only that, one seemed to be tinted red, and the other orange! Bebop and Rocksteady were on the roof as well, but they seemed to be lying on the ground in pain more than fighting.

“Alright guys,” said Leonardo quietly. “We have the element of surprise. Let’s sneak up on—“

“Take this, frying-pan face!” yelled Raph, leaping on the red Shredder, sais out. The Shredder blocked him with his gauntlets, but fell over onto his back. He then threw Raphael over his head by using his knees as a springboard.

“So much for strategy,” mumbled Don.

The remaining three turtles then went to defeat the red Shredder with their sheer numbers. He started to run, but was easily trapped by Mikey’s grappling hook. Raph got up, and the four of them surrounded the now tied up, red Shredder. By that time, however, the orange Shredder was nowhere to be seen.

“You imbeciles!” red Shredder yelled. “You let the orange one get away! Don't you know that's he's dangerous?”

“We can deal with him on his own,” said Leo. “Now, tell us all you know!”

“Fine,” said red Shredder. “If I explain everything, I’m sure you’ll see things my way.”

“Fat chance,” mumbled Raph.

“Oh man, dudes,” said Mikey. “Does this mean we’ll have to have a ton of exposition dialogue?”

“Oh, don’t worry about it,” said the Shredder. “I have a flashback handy….”

Earlier that day, in Dimension X…

[Bad Guys Lover]

“So much for strategy”... Good old Raphael... Can`t wait for more!

[BubblyShell22]

Ah, Raph, always so quick to jump into action. I liked the little flashback quote from Shredder, too. Good job. I'll be eagerly awaiting an update.

[IcyKali]

Author's Note: Alright, here's the first part of the flashback, or the fourth story post, I think. Sorry this one took me an extra to day get done.


“Shredder! Get over here, we’re going to be going on a little ‘field trip’ to Earth.”

“But Krang, I thought we finally gave up on Earth. Anyway, I like being on vacation from conquering that accursed planet.”

The Technodrome may have been abandoned a long time ago, but the Turtles’ nemeses were far from done with their evil ways. They had moved to another 'fortress' with the help of the Rock Warriors. Oddly enough, in Dimension X, a place full of monsters and general galactic scum, Krang and Shredder were more successful at being evil overlords than on Earth, where there were only four mutant turtles in their way. Offstage villainy is weird that way.

“Please, Shredder….” said Krang. Honestly, he wondered why he always surrounded himself with complete morons at times like these. “We aren’t trying to take over Earth, we’re only going on a short mission to retrieve alien technology.”

“Alien technology? I’m from the Earth—it isn't alien to me.”

“No, you fool! Not technology from your planet! Oh, whatever, just look at this viewscreen.” Krang said, and gestured to a screen similar to radar. It showed an object that looked like a meteoroid. “This, Shredder, is a piece of technology from an ancient civilization of the Sirius system.”

“Really? What does it do? How is it of any use to us?”

“You don’t even know anything about your own universe, do you?”

“Dammit, Krang, I’m a ninja master, not an astronomer! If I had known I’d be working with an alien from another dimension, maybe I would have studied!”

“Oh, stop complaining. Get Bebop and Rocksteady. We’re going to New York City.”

“N-New York City? Don’t you know I have a lot of painful memories of that place?”

“I can’t control where alien technology lands.”

Eventually, after quite a bit more bickering, Krang, Shredder, and their two bumbling mutants finally took the dimensional transporter to Earth.

[BubblyShell22]

That's hilarious. I like how Shredder says he's a ninja and not an astronomer. Nicely done. I'll be eagerly awaiting an update.

[Jephael]

Awesome story! I can't wait to read more!

[IcyKali]

Author's Note: Thanks for all the nice comments, everyone! It's making me very motivated! This is the end of the flashback. Now the plot should make much more sense!


It turned out that, conveniently, the alien technology would be landing in an out-of-the-way junkyard. Even so, Shredder was less than happy about the excursion.

“Krang,” he said. “Don’t you know that we’ll be caught by those blasted turtles if we try this?”

“All we’re doing is taking a piece of ‘space junk’ to study. How would that get their attention?”

“It’s their story, you know! They’ll show up to thwart us somehow!”

“You’re much too paranoid, Shredder. Whatever happened to the you that would leap into danger no matter how idiotic of an idea it was?”

“Oh, I’m sure he’s in here somewhere.” Shredder grumbled.

Meanwhile, Bebop and Rocksteady were playing Space Invaders with their laser-blasters.

“Ooh, ooh,” said Rocksteady. “Enemy Blaardornians sighted at 2 o’clock!”

“Let’s blast em’!” shouted Bebop.

Shredder turned around at this. “Stop doing that,” he said. “Those aren't toys! Don’t you know that you could put someone’s eye out?”

“Duh, sorry, Boss,” said Bebop.

They eventually located the technology. It was very strange looking; it looked like a small meteorite, but it contained crystals. Not just any crystals, however. They appeared to be many different colors, which suggested that it was more than just any random meteorite: it looked a piece of technology that had been assembled from many different crystals, not like a naturally occurring meteoroid.

Krang looked pretty delighted at finding it, but before he got look at it closely, a red laser blast shot past him, ricocheting off the reflective surfaces of different pieces of junk. Then, it hit the technology, causing the crystals to glow and vibrate!

“You malcontented mutants! What did you do?” said Krang.

“Duh, my finger slipped, honest,” said Bebop.

With no warning, a giant white stream of light shot from the technology! It blasted Shredder in the chest, and he screamed in agony. There was a flash, and when the light dimmed, there was not one Shredder, but seven, each tinted a different color of the rainbow.

“You idiot,” said Krang to Bebop. “Look what you did! We had an episode like this already!”

“Well,” interjected blue Shredder, “we should make the best of this situation. It will be easier for us to rule different planets with more forces.”

“We will rule?” said purple Shredder. “You mean I will rule! I’m better than every one of you! I deserve to rule.”

“You shouldn’t be so cocky! I’ll wipe that smile off your face with my sword!” yelled orange Shredder.

“I’d like to see you try.”

“Stop quarreling, you cretins!” blue Shredder tried to get the attention of the others. “We shall each attempt to take over this city. Whoever manages to come the closest to that goal will be crowned the best one of all of us.”

The yellow Shredder jumped up at this. "Ooh, that sounds like fun! I just love competition!" he said.

Most of the other Shredders seemed to agree that this contest was reasonable. They stopped fighting among themselves, and left the junkyard, each in a different direction. The only ones who remained were the red and green Shredders.

“So,” said Krang, “you two are the only ones with any loyalty?”

“L-loyalty?” said green Shredder, “I just don’t want to try to take over the city. I’ll just fail and humiliate myself!” he curled up into a little ball on the ground. Red Shredder didn't even bother saying anything.

“Stop dilly-dallying, you two!" Krang commanded. "Go round up the others.”

Red Shredder immediately took Bebop and Rocksteady with him to fetch the other Shredders, but the green Shredder was too afraid to do anything useful, and just stayed on the ground, shaking.

“Great,” muttered Krang. “Now I’m forced to babysit.”

[BubblyShell22]

Awesome flashback. Now it all makes sense. I liked Krang's last line the best.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Two questions

1. Is Krang using his bubble-walker (since the bigger robot was last seen inside the Technodrome)?
2. How do Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady go back to Earth when they aren't inside the Technodrome? Teleported via some other dimensional portal, in Krang's fortress?

[IcyKali]

Originally Posted by Swedenfan 1982

Two questions

1. Is Krang using his bubble-walker (since the bigger robot was last seen inside the Technodrome)?
2. How do Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady go back to Earth when they aren't inside the Technodrome? Teleported via some other dimensional portal, in Krang's fortress?

Yes, Krang is always in his bubble walker unless I explicitly state otherwise later at some point.

I decided that a warlord like Krang wouldn't only have one vehicle. Considering that Donatello could have his own dimensional portal, I assumed that the villains could construct a new one with enough time.

Thanks for asking!

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by IcyKali

Yes, Krang is always in his bubble walker unless I explicitly state otherwise later at some point.

I decided that a warlord like Krang wouldn't only have one vehicle. Considering that Donatello could have his own dimensional portal, I assumed that the villains could construct a new one with enough time.

Thanks for asking!

Nice. Yes, dimensional portals/teleportation seem common in Dimension X, just check ou the Neutrinos. I always thougth Donatello was taught by the Neutrinos, or/and stole some equipment from the Technodrome when he created his own.

Check out the "Big Trilogy" ending, where you see a huge Death Star-like fortress, haning around in space, where the Technodrome is sent from the Earth to Dimension X and crashes (the Technodrome must have left drifting through interstellar space then before crashing again, since it ended up on a tropical asteroid later). So it's easy to argue that Krang has some more fortresses and starships in Dimension X.

[IcyKali]

Originally Posted by Swedenfan 1982

Nice. Yes, dimensional portals/teleportation seem common in Dimension X, just check ou the Neutrinos. I always thougth Donatello was taught by the Neutrinos, or/and stole some equipment from the Technodrome when he created his own.

Check out the "Big Trilogy" ending, where you see a huge Death Star-like fortress, haning around in space, where the Technodrome is sent from the Earth to Dimension X and crashes (the Technodrome must have left drifting through interstellar space then before crashing again, since it ended up on a tropical asteroid later). So it's easy to argue that Krang has some more fortresses and starships in Dimension X.

Thanks for the information! I was wondering, do the turtles know that the villains could be ruining other innocent people's lives in Dimension X while they're sitting around eating pizza? This may actually come into play in another story in the future; it makes me a bit uncomfortable that even after "Shredder Triumphant", where the turtles saw that Krang had a slave-operation in Dimension X, this never seemed to occur to them.