Tides of Reality| Ninjago | Monkie Kid | ROTTMNT

Chapter 57 - Finale

Thanks to the fact that no one was seriously injured during the run of the invasion, Sky and Tello were able to jump right back to finishing the portal to Ninjago.

For the first test showed up everyone who helped. Donnie's lab was a bit crowded with scientists from various dimensions, but it didn't seem like anyone was especially bothered.

Tello and Lunella turned on the machine and waited in anticipation.

Everyone else was standing 4 meters away from the portal and everything and everyone inside that 4 meter perimeter around the machine has been screwed tightly to the floor. The two main geniuses calculated that the gravitational pull from a rift in the fabric of reality might be great, but the one who made them take all these safety measures was Stanford Pines.

The portal swirled to life in a mix of purple and pink. The pull into it was strong, but the safety measures, in the form of an ankle cuff and chain screwed to the floor, were enough to keep Tello and Lunella from flying into an interworldly portal in the beta testing phase.

After approximately 20 minutes of various tests, notes and equations, the main geniuses turned off the machine and took off their 'safety cuffs'.

These 'hangouts', as Leo described them, happened five more times before Sky was finally let in on the role of 'dummy' who would cross to the other side and confirm it was her world. Safety measures were taken here also, in form of an actual crash test mannequin with a camera strapped to its head roped to the nearest screwed to the floor table and thrown into the portal. Three times.

After confirming, four times, the other side of the portal was, in fact, Ninjago, the Hamato siblings prepared for a mandatory session of interdimensional tourism.

But when they stepped out in the Monastery all that welcomed them was eerie silence.

"No one's here." All of Sky's friends and family either got captured by the CEO or ran. She was really praying it was the second option.

She tried calling Kai, with no result. The same with Lloyd. Finally, after a while, Mei answered. "Who is it?" Her voice was... not quite hostile, but very hesitant and sounded a bit like a growl.

What happened? Has someone else called Mei trying to imitate Sky?

"Mei?" She settled for the safest and simplest option.

In response a hitched breath came from the other side of the call.

"Sky? Is- Is that you?" Mei almost whispered. Now Sky regret not having any kind of special password with Mei.

"Yeah. Where are you? The Monastery is completely empty." Sky asked, her tone matching Mei's as closely as it could, while ignoring Tello in the background exploring the huge space.

"In the city. Where the resistance." So garbage truck base. Got it.

"Got it. I'll be there shortly with some friends. See you." That must've been the softest 'see you' she's ever given anyone.

"Just. Look out and don't get crystallized. Okay?" Oh, so it was season 16. It made sense.

"Thanks for the info." She hung up and sighed. The overlord's army is made of vengestone which blocks any body tied powers. That, of course, includes shapeshifting. Yay.

"Okay, I know where my family is. Also the city's been taken over by an army of warriors I can't beat and what are basically zombies. You wanna go back home?" She did account for the possibility that the turtles might not want to stay in Ninjago.

"Nah." Okay, that was not a response she was ready for. "It would be irresponsible to let you go alone. Besides, I wanted to explore this world and explore I will."