Dagger From the Mirror (ROTTMNT/TMNT 2012 Crossover Fic)

More Problems Arrive

Donnie solved problems.

That was just what he did. It was his role in the Hamato family, simple as that. Mikey messed up the TV? Go get Donnie. Raph ruined another punching bag? Donnie will fix it. Leo broke the toaster again? You guessed it: just tell Donnie. It didn't matter what the issue was; if it existed, Donnie could solve and fix it, and he was confident in his ability to do so. In fact, he used to think there wasn't a problem in existence that he couldn't solve.

But that was before that little extra factor called "the multiverse" was thrown in.

"Come on!" Donnie shouted, slamming his fist onto his desk in frustration, his stolen Kraang portal device sitting in front of him, hooked up with various wires and such to his laptop. "This is impossible!"

It was the night after their battle with the other world's Mikey and Raph, and under Splinter's orders, they were forced to stay home at least for one more night to give Raphael more time to heal. Raph had, of course, hated this plan, and insisted he was fine. But Splinter wasn't having any of it. The mission to save the other universe's turtles was put on hold for one more night. Or at least it was in the eyes of the rest of the team.

Donnie, however, knew there was plenty to still be done that could be researched from the comfort of his lab. If they weren't allowed out, then now was as good of a time as ever to work on it. The first task? Figuring out how they'd get the alternate turtles and April back to their own universe when this was all over.

Before he'd heard the full story, Donatello had assumed they'd have to break into a Kraang facility and find the specific portal used from before to get them all back home, but after April told him how they'd gotten here in the first place, he reconsidered. The triangle portal appearing out of nowhere sounded like the typical Kraang portal that they used to get everywhere—he even stole one not too long ago, and had it in his lab! If he could figure out how to wire it so its default location was not Dimension X, but the alternate world, then they wouldn't have to stress about that later. Or even better, maybe New April could bring in reinforcements from her universe.

But none of that would happen if he couldn't even figure out how to do that.

Donnie groaned again, tongue sticking out in concentration as he stared at the screen in front of him. Picking apart the device itself had been fruitless, though he was happy to find out that you can, indeed, change the destination. But he didn't even know where the other dimension was located—no, scratch that, he didn't even know how you would show the location of a universe anyways! Was there a map? A compass? Maybe something like interdimensional coordinates? Donnie wasn't sure, but he'd have to figure that out and where the other universe was before he could go further.

And that took the teen to where he was now, dying in frustration and glaring at letters and numbers on a screen that wouldn't let him win. Donnie had had the genus idea of hacking into the Kraang databases to try and find out some information from there. He'd done it before, so maybe they had a file on the portals or something of that nature.

But the security was so high now, and had obviously been vastly upgraded. If the tech was advanced before, the security now was just plain futuristic, like it'd been taken straight out of a science fiction novel. He didn't even know where to begin to crack it. When had the Kraang even taken the time to upgrade it? It had to have been recent, he'd gotten in just fine only a week ago...

Donnie looked to the portal device again, and sighed. He'd spent so long analyzing it, and all he figured out was that it could work for his plan. He still didn't know how. The how was the most important part, too! Obviously, plenty of things could work, but without a proper plan on how to make them do what one wanted... all knowing the possibilities did was create disappointment.