Evil April

"There is no more April. JUST ZA-NARON!!!!!!!"

## Character

Evil April is April after being possessed by a female creature of the Aeons species called Za-Naron and never regaining control of her body.

## Backstory

When a storm begins to brew over New York City, in the Turtles' lair, Donnie prepares to examine April regarding her recent increase in her psychic powers while Leo watches. April assures him that she is fine, using her previous battle with Super Shredder to prove that she has things under control, but when Donnie tries to take the Aeon crystal to analyze again, April refuses to part with it, assuring him that she is fine and that the crystal is safe with her. When Donnie begins the test, he tells April to warn him of anything strange that happens to her during the test, but as April tells him with great annoyance that she is fine, she does not manage to complete her rant before suddenly going crazy, grabbing the crystal tightly and causing much of Donnie's lab equipment to be levitated and thrown across the room. Leo realizes this was a bad idea to begin with, before April glares at him and then releases a psychic blast that sends Leo, Donnie, and the equipment flying away.

Raph goes inside to see what all the fuss is about and is surprised to see his brothers stunned by what just happened. Mikey joins them, and as Donnie removes April's Aeon crystal to place it somewhere away from her, the crystal fights him off and tries to return to April, but is caught by Raph before it can reach her, and then was tied up by a nail that is capable of containing it for now. Splinter enters to see what is happening, and once informed of the situation with the Aeon Crystal, he realizes that it has become very dangerous for the Crystal to be around April. He then takes April to the dojo to be treated with the healing mantras, but the crystal appears to levitate towards her as she is carried away.

On the surface, Casey is bored from being left on foot patrol alone by Raph, before noticing Tiger Claw, Fishface, and Rahzar carrying a van full of mutagen to help maintain Super Shredder's mutation. Although shocked to see this, Casey decides to warn the Turtles about this. Raph receives the call but warns Casey not to do anything rash until they get there, but Casey makes it clear that he won't stay out of trouble until they get there. After Raph hangs up, he warns his brothers of the situation, and while Leo and Mikey go with Raph to help Casey, Donnie stays behind to deal with the Aeon Crystal and try to sever its connection with April.

Casey waits impatiently for the turtles, but they don't come. Tiger Claw and the others soon finish loading the van and take off, and with no sign of the Turtles, Casey decides to try and deal with them alone, however, as he is soon clinging to the back bumper for dear life, two Elite Foot-bots that were in the back with Rahzar come out to deal with him, but Casey climbs aboard and manages to drive off Rahzar, then take out Tiger Claw when he cuts one of Casey's photon disks in half, causing them to hit the Elite Foot-bots. Then Tiger Claw is caught in the explosion and ultimately shocking Fishface and throwing him out of the driver's seat, allowing Casey to commandeer the van, but Tiger Claw and the Elite Foot-bots continue their pursuit, despite the Elite Foot-bots now being on fire by the Tiger Claw photon disk cut in two.

Back at the lair, the Aeon Crystal continues to be analyzed by Donnie, while Splinter helps April at the dojo, only to be plagued by visions of Xaava-Dal and the Aeons, ending up watching as an Aeon is devoured by the Aeons' darkness, before this darkness attacks him. Shortly after, April wakes up and begins to panic when she realizes that her crystal is missing. Splinter tries to hold her and reason with her, warning her that she needs to break the crystal's hold on her, but April simply lifts him into the air with her psychic powers and tries to crush him, at the same time her crystal tries to escape from Donnie. When he realizes this in shock he tries to stop him from reuniting with her, but his efforts are in vain.  Once reunited with April, Donnie wonders what the hell she is doing, April then begins psychically choking him while levitating out of control. Splinter frantically yells at April to fight the evil influence as it is controlling her, but April fears it is too powerful for her to overcome, so she loses control again, knocking Splinter and Donnie to the ground, before slowly rising into the air, laughing evilly and then diving at them as Donnie screams in fear. Soon after, the evil influence controlling April lifts a manhole cover and climbs towards the place where the storm clouds are and they began to revolve around a central point as if they had become a supercellular storm capable of producing a tornado. While the evil influence despises New York, April tries to fight the evil influence, but the influence says that it wants to purge the city of all evil. April seems to agree with this, wanting to destroy the evil to save everyone, until she spots the van that Casey commanded running through traffic as Casey loses both Elite Foot-bots engulfed in flames but is unable to avoid a dumpster which causes the van to turn sideways and crash. Casey kicks the windshield to escape but is soon confronted by Tiger Claw and Fishface, as they overpower Casey and prepare to finish him off. April comes down to confront them, Fishface goes after her first, but thanks to the evil influence of the Aeon Crystal, April overpowers Fishface and knocks him out. Rahzar tries to attack her from behind, but is psychically hit by a dumpster, leaving only Tiger Claw, who is simply held aloft and psychically suffocated before being thrown into the wall and knocked out. Casey is surprised to see April defeat all three of Super Shredder's henchmen alone. Shortly afterwards, Leo, Raph, and Mikey arrive at the scene and ask what happened, but before they can talk to her, the evil influence takes control again and she leaves their side. Surprised, the turtles and Casey go after April, leaving the three mutants defeated and passed out.

Back at the lair, Donnie emerges from the rubble and helps Splinter out as well, but as they both realize the danger April is in because of the Aeon Crystal, Donnie blames himself for experimenting on the Crystal, but knows he needs to leave the crystal away from April and destroy it. Splinter warns him to be careful, but Donnie knows that if he can get to April, he can help her fight the evil influence.

Back on the surface, the other Turtles and Casey chase April to the Channel 6 building and confront her on the roof. However, when April regains control and wonders what is happening since she cannot remember recent events, the evil influence begins to try to take control again, and Mikey realizes that the Aeon Crystal is to blame. The evil influence takes full control of April again and, introducing himself as Za-Naron, prepares to face the Turtles and Casey while Donnie tracks April to the Channel 6 building, Leo then asks what Za-Naron wants, Za-Naron reveals himself to be one of several ancient Aeon elders whose physical body was destroyed, but their spirits were transferred to the Aeon Sol Star for protection, but when April received the Sun Star fragment for helping purify the Aeons of dark influence from the Heart of Darkness, Za-Naron was slowly taking control of April in mind and spirit, but at the cost of being corrupted because of Earth and all the corruption that Za-Naron felt in humanity and the planet, and now Za-Naron wants to purge the Earth of all this corruption, even if it means exterminating humanity to do so.

After psychically throwing the Turtles and Casey off the roof, they stand up and watch Donnie go up to face April herself, but Za-Naron warns him to stay out of her way.  Donnie tries to get to April, but April is unable to fight Za-Naron's influence, apologizing to Donnie. April allows Za-Naron to regain control, and fed up with Donnie's attempts to make April destroy the crystal and fight her influence, Za-Naron lifts Donnie into his hands and furiously reduces him to atoms for his interference, leaving Donnie and Casey's brothers to great shock and horror. As the rain begins to fall, Za-Naron lets out a triumphant roar as he hits the Channel 6 broadcast tower with lightning, knocking the Turtles down. By the time they recover, April has disappeared, while Casey and the Turtles mourn Donnie and fear he is gone forever. April is soon given control of her body again as she collapses onto a rooftop, exhausted, and realizes that, to her horror, by letting Za-Naron help her with his psychic powers all this time and protecting her Aeon Crystal in the process, she has now murdered the only Turtle she loved because of her obsession with her Aeon Crystal and her belief that she needed it from him to help her psychic powers. But before she can suffer any more guilt for what she did, Za-Naron regains control and tells her that she made her choice by choosing the crystal over the Turtles and Casey, and tells her to abandon their connection with them and help Za-Naron with cleansing Earth's corruption, starting with New York.

After Za-Naron beats up the Purple Dragons, the Turtles and Casey arrive at the scene. Leo tries to reason with Za-Naron again, but she warns them to stay out of her way, or she will purify them like she did with Donnie. Casey worries that they can't attack Za-Naron if April is still in there somewhere, but the Turtles agree that after what happened to Donnie, April is gone and they must destroy her, leaving Casey devastated. Raph restrains her, but Mikey is unable to attack April, allowing Za-Naron to break free and try to crush Raph, but is restrained by Leo and Mikey, saving Raph. However, this gives the Turtles and Casey the chance to try to get to April, reminding her of everything they've been through together, like Mutagenic Man, his adventures with Fugitoid, Master Splinter, Ice Cream Kitty, everything, but despite his best attempts to get to April, Za-Naron refuses to let April resurface, so Za-Naron blows them all up, and after throwing Casey aside when he tries to protect Raph, she prepares to destroy Raph.

In the original, when Raph begins to feel himself being torn apart on a molecular level, he tries one last time to reach April, reminding her of Donnie. As visions of Donnie, along with her guilt over killing him run through her mind, April is able to regain control, stop Za-Naron from murdering Raph, and also restrain Za-Naron long enough for Leo and Mikey to come together. Leo tells April that she is the only one with the power to destroy the Aeon Crystal once and for all. By fighting Za-Naron long enough, April rips the Aeon Crystal from her neck and, with a final furious scream, she throws the crystal onto the sidewalk, breaking it. This results in Za-Naron being exorcised from April's body, now that her bond with April has been destroyed. She resumes a physical form like the corrupted form of the Aeons seen in Xaava-Dal, furious that April chose her friends, family, and humanity over having all the power in the universe. Za-Naron attacks her in retaliation, but furious at what Za-Naron put her through, April draws her Tanto blade and attacks Za-Naron back. When the two collide, April kills Za-Naron once and for all, tearing her physical form to pieces and letting Za-Naron's energy disperse as Za-Naron lets out one last anguished cry of defeat before being silenced forever. April sees several shards of energy coming out of the broken remains of her Aeon Crystal and realizes that Donnie isn't actually gone forever, picking them up, she realizes that his molecules were just scattered around, and concentrating as hard as she can with the broken pieces, she is able to recover all of Donnie's molecules and restore him to his complete, corporeal physical form. April hugs Donnie relieved that he is alive and she is sorry for what she did. April finally runs out of energy and faints from exhaustion.

In the Bad Ending, Za-Naron kills Raph before he can make April return, spreading Raph's molecules. The Turtles and Casey are in shock, soon after, Za-Naron kills them one by one, after doing this, Za-Naron goes after Splinter and kills him too. Now nothing and no one can stop Za-Naron from destroying the human race. April regains her consciousness for a moment and is in shock with everything she did, April starts crying in despair, Za-Naron starts laughing and says that it is too late for April to have regret, and April is left with a completely broken and disturbed mind. Za-Naron then completely possesses April's body, both in mind and spirit, causing April's spirit and mind to cease to exist. Za-Naron begins to laugh and says he will "purify" humanity.

## How and why he would join Bad End Friends

After three months, Za-Naron (now Evil April) had already destroyed more than half of the human race. While Evil April continues "purifying" the human race, a red portal opens in the sky, King Robin and Demon King Tanjiro comes out of the portal. Evil April tried to kill them both with her telekinesis but they were prepared for that situation. King Robin throws a light grenade, leaving Evil April temporarily blind, Demon King Tanjiro grabs Evil April by the neck and was about to kill her there, but King Robin stopped Demon King Tanjiro and thought of a better idea. King Robin says that they are recruiting members for their group and asks if she wants to join them. Evil April, realizing that she couldn't beat them both, accepts the invitation by King Robin, and thus, Evil April joins the BEF.

## Appearance

Evil April is a thin, fair-skinned teenager with shoulder-length red hair, her hair is always flying, white eyes (sometimes they turn blue), long thin eyelashes and freckles on her face. Evil April wears a black jumpsuit, with yellow stripes on her arms and sides, in addition, she carries her Tantō Sword on her lower back and a black belt.

## Personality

Evil April believed she was doing good by cleansing the world of evil and corruption, yet Evil April was still a delusional psychopath as she committed murder to get rid of anyone who stood in her way, as shown when she killed Donatello. Despite her desire to cleanse the world of evil by justifying it to herself claiming that her ends justified the means, she was shown to be evil and corrupt. She was also ruthless and sadistic towards her enemies, taking pleasure in painfully trying to get rid of them when they tried to stop her, and was perfectly willing to destroy humanity at any cost.

## Abilities

•Telepathy (Evil April can mentally read minds, communicate with others across great distances, project mental blasts and perceive visions of the future)

•Extrasensory perception (Evil April possesses an idiosyncratic ability to sense emotions in certain areas (similar to Splinter), and she can apparently "see" the person's or mutant's soul)

•Telekinesis (Evil April is able to use her psychic powers to levitate or crush people and extremely heavy objects. She can also split people or objects at a molecular level. Her power also allows her to release various telekinetic blasts/blasts that can damage, repel, crush, or destroy targets and create telekinetic force fields of different sizes and intensities)

•Flying/Floating (With her Telekinesis, Evil April can levitate and fly at immeasurable speeds)

•Storm Creation (Can create storms and rain, can throw lightning at enemies and victims through storms)

•Human-Kraang Mutant Physiology (As a result of her mother being experimented on by the Kraang, Evil April was born half-human and half-Kraang mutant, giving her greater strength and endurance than ordinary humans. As a half-Kraang, she has a lifespan longer than normal humans by Earth standards)

•Tantō Sword (Evil April is skilled with the Tantō Sword. She uses it with her hands or with her Telekinesis, but Evil April prefers to use it with Telekinesis)

## Weaknesses

•Lost Knowledge (Za-Naron only took April's body, so he has no Ninja knowledge, but he knows how to use the Tontõ Sword very well with his hand or with Telekinesis)

•True Body (If Evil April's body is destroyed, Za-Naron will remain in her true form, which for some reason is much weaker than when she is possessing someone, as she died after only being cut by April)

## Interactions with the BEF

Evil April joined the BEF for a reason, to "purify" other worlds, killing all those she deems to be "corrupt and evil". Evil April destroys cities alongside King Robin, Joker Jr, Demon King Tanjiro, Borushiki, Evil Jake or Bipper. Evil April prefers King Robin and Joker Jr and loves their sadistic and psychotic side.

## Behind the Scenes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American cartoon series developed by Nickelodeon Animation Studios, inspired by the franchise of the same name and first shown on September 29, 2012 on Nickelodeon in its home country. Evil April appears in the twenty-second episode of fourth season: "The Power Inside Her".

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## Trivia

•Interestingly, this is the first incarnation of April to be a teenager

•After Za-Naron completely possessed April's body, Evil April destroyed the Crystal Aeon, after all, she no longer needed it due to the fact that she completely possessed April's body