Tides of Reality| Ninjago | Monkie Kid | ROTTMNT

Chapter 53 - Making the plan

They escaped. Barely.

Dad's smoke bombs saved them. If not for that, they could already be dead.

They'd want to be confused and surprised that Sky knew about the pesticide. They'd very much prefer torturing their brain with that question over the doubt if all of them will even survive, the image of Sky breaking the vials in her hand, her smile not faltering a bit when her forearm was being actively burning with whatever chemicals were used in that pesticide.

And now they were all standing on a roof, looking at the giant spaceship, the Technodrome if they're right, hovering over New York, the burning city below their feet.

One sentence, one statement, despite not spoken, was weighing down the silence between the six of them.

We lost.

There is no hope.

"The Kraang are too powerful." Dad stated with a morbid expression on his face, while Donnie's twin fell to his knees dramatically.

"Let's face the facts. We can't change the future." They were sure of their words. Countless theories and paradoxes backed it up.

They've lost.

The only thing they could do now, was take a deep breath and try to live through it.

"But, we already did. Raph never got kraangified in my time." Casey's words were full of hope, but foolish. He must've remembered wrong because there was literally no way it could be true.

"That's impossible. According to the Grandfather Paradox, Physical Determinism, the Space-Time Continuum! You must be wrong." There was no hope! Why didn't Casey just accept it?

"Wait! What if we are in a different... you know... that thing where the timeline splits and does this weird thing-" Leo clearly had no idea how such a simple concept was called.

"Bifurcated time-" Wait, if they were in a bifurcated time branch that means they can change the events of the future! There could be hope. "branch."

"You're right. This might change everything!"

"Yeah. We still have hope!"

"A ninja's greatest weapon."

"I like that! Look, I'm done thinking I have all the answers." Character development? Leo's character developing? Unheard of. But welcome nonetheless. "I don't know how to beat the Kraang, but I know that our future isn't written until we write it, as a team."

Now that was a spirit lifting speech right there!

"So, what do we got?" Leo asked, and April responded quickly.

"Maybe we don't have to beat them. Can't we just send them back to the prison dimension?" That was an idea so simple yet genius, Donnie was a bit jealous that they didn't think about it.

"There's an idea! Donnie, what do those big, beautiful eyebrows have to say?" Leo asked them.

Good question. Let's see. The portal open in the sky does lead both ways, the Kraang are sucking the energy to power the portal from the city somehow, but if they close the portal now the Technodrome will stay in New York.

So they have to send it back. It should be controlled in some way... Let's just hope it isn't any kind of neuralink specific to the species.

Although even if it was, they could always either torture one of the Kraang into sending it back or do an experimental surgery with a paper clip and implant the part with neuralink into someone on Earth.

"If we got control of their ship, we could send it back through the portal." They settled on the simplest and most non-lethal idea. No one ever liked their lethal ideas :(