First Kraang Invasion

The **First Kraang Invasion** was a big alien invasion battle from *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*. It deals with the Turtles fighting to save New York City from being invaded by the Kraang. The battle takes place in the two-part Season 1 finale, "Showdown."

## History

### Background

It all started with a group of interdimensional brain squid-like aliens called the Utroms who were a benevolent and peaceful race that lived in another dimension called Dimension X. But then one day, an Utrom scientist named Kraang discovered a powerful substance called Mutagen from a worm creatures that lived in Dimension X called Kraathatrogons. The Mutagen had the power to transform and mutate anything it touched so Kraang used it to mutated himself in a powerful Utrom with a powerful hive mind which he used to mentally enslave millions of Utroms to think and act like himself. They became known as the Kraang while Kraang himself became Kraang Prime who sought to conquer dimension X and wipe out the Utroms. Only a small number of Utroms managed to break away from the Kraang hive mind and set up a secret resistance to defeat the Kraang and reestablish the Utroms which led to the War for Dimension X which had lasted for centuries. They became known as the Utrom Tribe and were led by the Utrom Council who were smart and powerful Utrom that created robot bodies for themselves and were all named after chess pieces. They consisted by Queen, Bishop, Rook, Pawn, and Knight who was Bishop's brother but at some point during the fight against the Kraang, Knight betrayed the Utroms and sided with the Kraang. The Kraang even stole and copied the robot body designs for the Utrom Council and used them to weaponize themselves which they called Kraangdroids while Knight became Kraang Prime's second-in-command and changed his name to Kraang Subprime. However, the Kraang were also at war with another alien species called the Triceratons for control of Dimension X with the Kraang fighting using their intelligence while the Tricerations would fight using their brute strength and cunning. During the Kraang-Triceraton War the Kraang bought a powerful machine from an alien-like human scientist named Professor Zayton Honeycutt called the Heart of Darkness. The Heart of Darkness was a Black Hole Generator that had the power to destroy entire planets. The Kraang used the Black Hole Generator to destroy the Triceraton's home world but only a small number of Triceratons survived on a small rock-like ship. The Triceratons were able to establish themselves as an Empire and transformed their ship into a gigantic mother ship which became their new home. Ever since then, the Triceratons had swore revenge on the Kraang by hunting them down and wiping them out which led to them terrorizing other alien species across the Galaxy. Because of the Triceratons hunting them down, the Kraang decided to escape from Dimension X and hide on different planets and dimensions far away from the Triceratons. Eventually, some of the Kraang discovered Earth and tried to use the Mutagen to terraform it and make it just like Dimension X. However, because Earth's dimensional laws were different from Dimension X's the effects of the Mutagen on Earth were different making so that any living creature who touched it would unpredictably mutate into something based on the last thing the living creature came in contact with. The Kraang used the Mutagen to evolve monkeys into humans and created the mythical hybrid creatures that humans heard about in stories. The Utrom Tribe also did nothing to stop them because they had made a vow to not interfere with Earthly affairs

For centuries throughout Earth's history, the Kraang have stayed hidden on Earth using the human disguises they stole from the Utrom Council and tried to find a way to perfect the Mutagen so it could terraform the Earth into Dimension X but in order to do so they needed a specific chain of human DNA. So they spent years capturing people hopping to shape humanity's genetic code so the Mutagen could be perfected but have had little success. Until one day, a Kraang Stealth Ship landed in the forests outside of New York City during Earth's present years where a farmhouse was built over the ship and was the home of a farmer named O'Neil who discovered the ship and awakened the Kraang onboard it who later experimented on him and his entire bloodline thus making the entire O'Neil family the Kraang's guineapig test subjects. The O'Neil family's DNA became the key to perfecting the Mutagen the at one point years later they captured and experiment the wife of the present generation O'Neil, Kirby. Afterwards, Kirby and his wife had their Daughter April whose DNA could help perfect the Mutagen since she was part Kraang because of the experiments done to her mother which in the process gave April physic powers. But knowing that the Kraang would come for her, Mr. and Mrs. O'Neil took April to the old O'Neil farmhouse to raise her but the Kraang found them when April was just a little girl. Kirby was able to escape to New York City with April but Mrs. O'Neil was captured by the Kraang. They used her to create an infiltration experiment by combing her DNA with Kraang DNA but it was too dangerous to be used to the Kraang froze it up in the Stealth Ship under the O'Neil Farmhouse. Eventually, the Kraang were able to locate April in New York City but couldn't find her so they set up secret Kraang labs and bases in the city to try and locate her and perform experiments and plans to get April, perfect the Mutagen, and terraform the Earth to be like Dimension X. One of the bases was a scientist office building called the Techno Cosmic Research Institute or for short TCRI. There the Kraang would perform most of their main experiments and try to build a huge dimensional portal to Dimension X they can invade the Earth and terraform it. Some humans would also work at TCRI in the office section not knowing that it was a base for the Kraang. At some point during the Kraang's time in New York, they encounter a Ninja master from Japan named Hamato Yoshi who had just bought four baby Turtles from a pet store. Yoshi confronted some of the Kraang after feeling suspicious about them but the Kraang tried to capture him. He fought them off and defeated them but during the fight, the Kraang threw a canister of Mutagen on him which mutated Yoshi into a rat after one walked across his foot during the fight. It also mutated the four baby turtles into human-like being who Yoshi under his nickname Splinter adopted and his sons. However, the Kraang tried to captured them for their experiments so Splinter escaped into the sewers at an old subway stations with the Turtles which became their new home. Ever since them Splinter spent the next few years raising the Turtles and training them in the ways of the Ninja. He even named them after his favorite Italian artists: Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo. Also at some point, the Kraang found a baby alligator in the sewers after it was flushed by its owners parents, brought it to Dimension X, and mutated it into a giant human-like alligator who the Kraang perform torturous experiments on.

In the present day, The Kraang started capturing human scientists to help them perfect the mutagen with help from a small time crook named Snake. During that time, the Turtles who were now all teenagers ran into the Kraang during the Turtles first time on the surface. The Kraang were able to find April who was now a teenage too and tried to capture her along with her father, Kirby who was a psychologist. The Turtles tried to stop them but they failed and the Kraang got away with April and Kirby. The Turtles were able to find the Kraang base where the Kraang were keeping April and Kirby but in the process of getting into the base, Snake got covered in some of the Mutagen and was mutated into a giant plant mutant due to coming in contact with plants before touching the Mutagen. The Turtles were able to rescue April and defeat Snake who Michelangelo now called Snakeweed but the Kraang got away with Kirby on a helicopter. But the Turtles befriended April while Donatello got a crush on her then they vowed to help rescue April's father and stop the Kraang. Ever since then the Turtles have been dealing with the Kraang and their evil plans while in the process faced more mutant enemies. However, their actions in fighting the Kraang led to their presence being discovered by Splinter's old enemy, Oroku Saki also known as the Shredder. Who had come to New York to find and destroy Splinter and the Turtles with his army of Ninjas called the Foot Clan which caused to the Turtles to deal with both the Kraang and Shredder at the same time. First, the Turtles tried to spy on the Kraang when they tried to break into a lab to now where were but had to deal with a angry man named Vic who recorded them fighting the Kraang on his phone and tried to sell it for a fortune. Which resulted in the The Turtles trying to get the video back from Vic, the Kraang capturing Vic, taking them to one of their lab bases, and Vic getting covered in Mutagen which mutated him into a giant spider mutant due to a spider walking across his hand when trying to get his phone before touching the Mutagen. But the Turtles were able to defeat both the Kraang and Vic who Michelangelo now called Spider Bytez and were able to destroy the phone with the video on it. Next, the Turtles took on the Kraang at one of their warehouse bases then afterwards, Donatello reversed engineered one of the Kraangdroids into a turtle robot named Metelhead which Donatello tried to use to fight the Kraang remotely from the Turtle's lair. But during another fight with the Kraang who were planning to dump Mutagen into the city's water supply to mutate many humans in order to perfect the Mutagen, one of them took control of Metelhead and used it to attack the other Turtles until Donatello was able to beat it personally using his bo staff while the other Turtles defeated the other Kraang. Later, the Turtles and April investigated two scientists who were visited by the Kraang to help perfect the Mutagen named Dr. Tyler Rockwell and Dr. Victor Falco. During which, the Turtles figured out that the Kraang offered Dr. Falco a supply of Mutagen and a great deal of money to experiment with it. Dr. Rockwell used the Mutagen to develop a psychic neuro-chemical using monkey DNA but Dr. Falco turned on Rockwell and used him as a test subject for the neuro-chemical which mutated him into a mindless monkey and gave him psychic powers. When Dr. Rockwell escape and Turtles brought back to Dr. Falco after he tricked them into finding Dr. Rockwell for him. Dr. Falco then extracted the psychic neuro-chemical from Dr. Rockwell's brain and used it on himself which gave him the power to predict the Turtles moves. But Donatello was able to beat Dr. Falco by fighting without thinking then the Turtles freed Dr. Rockwell while Dr. Falco escaped undetected but would later return in the Rat Wars. Afterwards, Master Splinter started to teach April how to be a female Ninja called a Kunoichi. Sometime later, Kirby met a Pigeon who was mutated by the Kraang named Pigeon Pete while being held prisoner. Kirby was able to help Pigeon Pete escape to send out a message to April telling her to get out of the city because the Kraang were planning to do something big. But instead, the Turtle and April go save him so with help from Pigeon Pete the Turtles and April found the Kraang base where Kirby is being held. The Turtles were able to sneak into the place and split up into two teams with Leonardo and Raphael going to find Kirby while Donatello and Michelangelo hack a Kraang computer to find out what they are planning. Leonardo and Raphael were able to find Kirby in a prison cell who told them about where the Kraang come from and why they need the scientists for the Mutagen. Meanwhile, Donatello was able to hack the Krang computer and discovered that the Kraang were planning to set off a big Mutagen bomb downtown to disperse the Mutagen all over the city. When he tells Leonardo and Raphael about it, the Turtles all go to stop it after freeing Kirby but he chooses to stay behind and get captured by the Kraang again so the Turtles can stop the bomb and save the city. The Turtles were able to find the Mutagen bomb on the top of a hotel building where they defeated the Kraang and prevent the bomb from going off while at the same time dealing with two of Shredder's minions, Chris Bradford and Xever Montes who both get dosed with Mutagen from the bomb in the process. But then the Turtles fought off the Shredder and were almost killed by him until they were able to escape after Shredder got distracted by Bradford and Xever who had both been mutated into a giant dog and fish which were the animals they came in contact with before touching the Mutagen which Michelangelo later called Dogpound and Fish Face.

Afterwards, the mutant alligator that the Kraang held captive escaped back to Earth through the Kraang's dimensional portal and stole the Kraang power cell which was a crystal-like battery that could power the portal. Without it the portal wouldn't work and the Kraang wouldn't be able to invade the Earth and terraform it. The alligator then escaped into the sewers trying to keep the power cell away from the Kraang but because of the experiments that Kraang performed on him, it cause the alligator to developed an uncontrollable and destructive rage which the alligator would often try to control. Six months later, the Turtles heard about the alligator on the news so they searched the sewers for it and found it fighting the Kraang who were looking for the power cell. The Turtles were able to help him by fighting off the Kraang then at Michelangelo's request took him back to the lair where Michelangelo befriended the alligator and named him Leatherhead while the other Turtles looked for the power cell he had that the Kraang were after. Eventually, the Turtles found the power cell after getting through Leatherhead's traps then when they got back to the lair with it, Leatherhead went berserk, took back the power cell, and left the lair to his subway car home. When the Turtles followed him, Leatherhead told them about his origins and why the Kraang want the power cell from him. But suddenly the Kraang attacked them for the power cell so Leatherhead gave the Turtles the power cell and entrusted them to keep it from the Kraang. The Turtles then hooked up the power cell to Leatherhead's subway care which they used to escape from the Kraang while Leatherhead held them off and prevented them from ever telling the other Kraang where the power cell is. After that, the Turtles continued to fight the Kraang but one of their fights with the Kraang attracted the attention of Shredder's daughter, Karai. She tried to tell Shredder about the Kraang but he refused to hear anything about them for all he cared about was destroying the Turtles and getting revenge of Splinter. He was also busy dealing with a human scientist named Baxter Stockman who he recruited to help the Foot Clan with his first project being to help Fish Face walk on land. Meanwhile, April was doing a school project by sending in her DNA to a research group called the Worldwide Genome Project. But one day, April was attack at her school by a crazy woman named Ms. Campbell from the Worldwide Genome Project who tried to take her. But April was able to call the Turtles for help who fought off Ms. Campbell and discovered that she was Kraangdroid robot sent by the Kraang to capture April. After they defeated her, the Turtles went to the Worldwide Genome Project to investigate it with Karai secretly following them. There the Turtles discovered that the Worldwide Genome Project was actually a secret Kraang lab that have been collecting DNA samples of every plant and animal species on Earth. Eventually, Raphael discovered Karai and fought her off until Leonardo stopped them but their actions alerted the Kraang who attacked them. Karai helped the Turtles fight them off but when more Kraang showed up, Karai mixed all the DNA samples together for form a giant mutant that Michelangelo named Justin. Justin attacked everything around it which the Turtles were able to defeat along with the Kraang but in the process the Worldwide Genome Project building got destroyed. During the fight, Karai left the Turtles with a damaged Kraangdroid which she brought to Shredder and Stockman who planned to use it help Fish Face walk on land. While Shredder planned on using the Kraang technology to help the Foot Clan defeat Splinter and the Turtles. Later, Donatello reconfigured Leatherhead's subway car to be the Turtles mode of transportation which can ride on both the rails and the road that Michelangelo names the Shellraiser. Donatello even used the Kraang power cell as the Shellraiser's power supply and put it under a lead glass shield so the Kraang couldn't detect it. But while testing it out, the Turles ran into a wannabe super hero who tried to fight the Purple Dragons street gang named the Pulverizer who dressed up like a turtle after being inspire by the Turtles themselves who he thought were guys in costumes when he saw them fight against Stockman when he became Stockman-Pod. When the Turtles returned back to the lair in the Shellraiser they accidently took Pulverizer with him. But when Pulverizer revealed to them that the Purple Dragons were stealing Kraang tech, the Turtles realize that they were stealing it for Stockman. So Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo went to stop him and left Donatello in charge of fixing the Shellraiser and taking Pulverizer home. Meanwhile at Stockman's lab, the Purple Dragons delivered that Kraang tech to Stockman which he used to complete Fish Face's robotic legs so he could move on land. When the Turtles confronted Stockman at his lab, Fish Face appeared, fought them off, and bit Raphael which poisoned him with his fish venom. When Michelangelo called Donatello about it, he left for Stockman's lab in the repaired Shellraiser and reluctantly brought Pulverizer with him to drive the Shellraiser while Donatello made an antidote for Raphael. Eventually, Donatello and Pulverizer arrived and defeated Fish Face with the Shellraiser but in the process the lead glass on the Kraang power cell got cracked which alerts the Kraang. After Donatello cured Raphael of the fish poison using the antidote, the Turtles and Pulverizer try to head underground in the Shellraiser but the Kraang cornered and attacked them. The Turtles fought them off using the Shellraiser but the Kraang were able to get the power cell and escape with it. After saying goodbye to the Pulverizer, the Turtles had to push the Shellraiser back home and find a new power source for it.

The Turtles tried to get the power cell back from the Kraang by tracking it but had no success and the Kraang took it back to their main base at TCRI to power up the dimensional portal. The Turtles then went to Leatherhead for help on getting back the power cell he shows them the symbol of the Kraang which Donatello recognizes as the logo for TCRI so the Turtles planned to go into TCRI to take down the dimensional portal. With help from April, the Turtles were able to sneak into TCRI along with Leatherhead in a big box who fought off the Kraang to distract them while the Turtle snuck up to the top of TCRI while at the same time fought off any Kraang they encountered. When the Turtles got to the top of the building, they were knocked out by air from Dimension X and captured by the Kraang in a air filled dome without their weapons within the room with the dimensional portal where the Turtles found out about the Kraang's plan to terraform the Earth into Dimension X. The Turtles were able to escape and fought off the Kraang by holding their breaths then Donatello was able to break open a glass window which lets all the Dimension X air out and allowed the Turtles to breathe again. However, the dimensional portal activated which brought a giant lava rock monster named Traag who attacked the Turtles. But the Turtles were able to defeat him with help from Leatherhead and tried to destroy both him and the dimensional portal but it didn't work and was about to bring something else until Leatherhead pull both Traag and himself into the portal. Then the Turtles escaped from TCRI and planned to try and take down the portal again. After returning to the lair and telling April and Splinter about the Kraang's plan, April gets confused on why the Kraang took her dad in the first place because since he's a psychologist he wouldn't be much use for their plan. Until Donatello discovered on the Kraang storage device the Michelangelo took from TCRI after decrypting it with help from Metalhead that the Kraang were actually after April all along and that they only took her dad to use as bait to get her. Later, the Turtles tried to spy on the Kraang at TCRI using a cockroach that Donatello outfitted with a remote control camera helmet. During which, they discovered that the Kraang were planning to drill into the Earth using a special laser which would cause lave to spew all over the city. But in order for it to work the laser drill needed a diamond lens which the Kraang were planning to steal from a lab. However, Donatello accidently caused the Spy-Roach to fall into Mutagen which mutated it into a cyborg cockroach called Cockroach Terminator which attacked anything that got in its way including the Kraang. Meanwhile, the Turtles found the location of the lab where the diamond lens was but while they were going to it in the Shellraiser they ran into Cockroach Terminator who attacked them. After escaping from it, the Turtles drove to the location where the diamond lens was and confronted the Kraang who were trying to steal it. But then the Cockroach Terminator appeared and attack both the Turtles and the Kraang. The Turtles tried to fight off Cockroach Terminator and secure the diamond lens but because of Raphael's fear of cockroaches, he didn't help and the Kraang got away with the diamond lens. After losing Cockroach Terminator, the Turtles went to stop the Kraang before the used the laser drill which Donatello discovered which Kraang base it was located at but then the Cockroach Terminator attack the Turtles again on the Shellraiser and damages it. Donatello also discovered that the reason Cockroach Terminator was after them was because it wanted revenge of Raphael for trying to smash it back when it was Spy-Roach. So Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo went o to fight off Cockroach Terminator while Donatello fixed the Shellraiser. Eventually, the Cockroach Terminator got stuck in some cement then it molted into a new and grotesque form with wings. The Turtles managed to escape in the fixed up Shellraiser and head for the location of the laser drill but the Cockroach Terminator captured Michelangelo so Raphael went to save him in the Stealth Bike. After Cockroach Terminator let Michelangelo go, Raphael went to face it himself while the other Turtles went to stop the laser drill. The other Turtles were able to get into the Kraang base but the Shellraiser got stuck so Raphael rode the Stealth Bike into the base, stopped the laser drill from drilling into the Earth and used it to destroy the Cockroach Terminator. Then the Turtles regrouped and escaped on the Shellraiser back to the lair.

The Turtles then started spying on TCRI one night to see when the Kraang would begin to invade the Earth after Donatello discovered on the Kraang storge device that a Kraang Stealth Ship would would come through the dimensional portal. But then Karai showed up and started fighting off the Turtles where they revealed to her about the Kraang preparing to invade the Earth. Just then, the Kraang Stealth Ship arrived and started attacking the Turtles until they managed to escape to the sewers. Karai then reported to Shredder about the Kraang planning to invade the Earth and wants him to do something about it but Shredder wanted to receive a shipment of new weapons tomorrow to deal with Splinter and the Turtles. The Turtles tried to come up with a plan to stop the Stealth Ship when Donatello suggested that they take down the Stealth Ship using electromagnetic waves. After the Turtles put up some beacons to detect the Stealth Ship, Karai confronted Leonardo and offered to help take down the Kraang and the Stealth Ship but he refused the offer but later reconsidered it. The Turtles then detected the Stealth Ship and tried to take it down using the Shellraiser but failed and discovered that the Stealth Ship is after them. Then Karai arrived and helped the Turtles the Leonardo helped her in return. Karai then offered to help the Turtles take down the Stealth Ship using one of the new weapons Shredder is getting which are missiles launchers which Karai suggested using one of them to take down the Stealth Ship which Leonardo agreed on. However, after Karai left and the Turtles returned to their lair, Raphael suggested that they try to take down Shredder instead which Leonardo reluctantly agreed on. The next day when Shredder got the shipment of missile launchers at the docks, the Turtles planned to launch a electro grenade at Shredder but Karai saved him at the last minute. Angered at the Turtles treachery, Karai fired one of the missile launchers at them which attracted the attention of the Kraang Stealth Ship. The Turtles to hide from both the Stealth Ship and Shredder but Shredder corned him. Then the Stealth Ship started to attack them which Leonardo used to distract the Shredder and try to take down the Stealth Ship. The other Turtles tried to help him but they got stuck dealing with Shredder. Leonardo tried to get to the missile launchers but Karai confronted who was still angered at him for betraying her. Eventually, Leonardo was able to use one of the missile launchers to take down the Stealth Ship causing it to crash land into the docks and send Shredder into the ocean which Karai later went after. This allowed the Turtles to escape But after Karai and Shredder got out of the ocean they also got one of the surviving Kraang pilots from the Stealth Ship and take it hostage. They placed the Kraang in a broken Kraangdroid and interrogated it on why it was after the Turtles which it revealed to them that it was because they were protecting April who the Kraang revealed to them was important to their plans to Shredder ordered Karai to find April and bring her to him. Meanwhile, the Turtles went to an underwater Kraang base in the Turtle Sub to stop the Kraang from changing Earth's water into water from Dimension X which they discovered from analyzing some sewer water that had Kraang chemicals in it. On their way there they discovered an aquatic alien creature that the Kraang brought from Dimension X to guard the underwater Kraang base. After sending it away, the Turtles sneak into the Kraang base by creating a distraction for the Kraang then they fought off the Kraang untile they got a call from April telling them that Karai was after her. Turtles were able to blow up the underwater Kraang base by using the chemicals to set off an explosion while at the same time dealing with the aquatic alien creature who was apparently in love with the Turtle Sub. After they escape from the aquatic alien creature, they went to save April from Karai but found out that April beat Karai on her own. However, because of both the Kraang and Shredder after April, she is forced to stay in the lair for her own safety. Soon the Foot Clan started going after the Kraang because Shredder wanted to use them to help build a better and stronger army of mutant Foot Soldiers which the Turtles found out from one of the Foot Clan's newest recruits which was the Pulverizer who had joined to get better Ninja skills but was made into a cannon fodder. Pulverizer wanted to help the Turtles by being a spy which the Turtles refused but he wouldn't listen to them. Pulverizer then told the Turtles about the Foot Clan finding a Kraang lab who came to it to ounce again convince Pulverizer to leave the Foot Clan. But they were attacked by the Foot Clan and found out the the Foot Clan were also stealing Mutagen from the Kraang lab which made the Turtles realize Shredder's plans to build a mutant army. Later, the Foot Clan was preparing a mutation experiment at a warehouse but when the captive Kraang warned Shredder about the Mutagen being dangerously unpredictable, Shredder decided to have Dogpound and Fish Face test out the Mutagen using one Foot Soldier which the Pulverizer whose real name is Timothy told the Turtles about and volunteer to be the test subject. So the Turtles tried to save Timothy from being mutated by fighting off the Foot Clan at the Warehouse but Timothy was able to purposely dump Mutagen on himself which mutated him into a giant mindless blob with visible organs since he didn't come in contact with anything before touching the Mutagen. Because of that, Dogpound and Fish Face decide to blow up the warehouse along with the Turtles but they were able to get out and save timothy by placing him in the same containing as the Mutagen. Then the Turtles took him back to the lair where Donatello kept Timothy in his lab and promised to find a way to make him human again. However, while Shredder had lost the Foot Clan's Mutagen supply, he decided to form a partnership with the Kraang due to both of them having a common enemy.

Sometime later, the Turtles found another hidden Kraang lab where the Kraang had mutated a parasitic wasp which had stung Leonardo and died. However, it infected him with a virus which brainwashed him into protecting it's egg which caused Leonardo to become obsessed with guarding to the point where he took it back to the lair and threatened the other Turtles. When Raphael tried to get rid of the egg, Leonardo attacked him in a monstrous state, bit him, and passed the virus to him which also made Raphael obsessed with guarding the egg. When Donatello and Michelangelo found out about the parasitic wasp and the virus, they decided to find a way to cure Leonardo and Raphael from the virus before the egg hatched because when it did the new born wasp would eat them alive. But when they tried to make the antidote from a sample of Leonardo's blood, Donatello got infected by the virus as well when he got bite by Raphael. Forcing Michelangelo to make the antidote himself but the he got bite and infected too but was able to make the antidote and cure himself of the virus then he used it to cure the other Turtles just as the egg hatches in three mutated wasps which the Turtles were able to defeat. Then one day, April got an unknown encrypted email Donatello was able to decrypt and found out that it was a message from Kirby tell April where he was. So Donatello went to go rescue him alone to try and impress April. Donatello was able to find Kirby in a Kraang prison that was hidden in a auto shop and was able to free him but in the process also freed an insane alien newt creature known as a Salamandrian who was captured and experimented by the Kraang which Donatello named the Newtralizer who really hated Kraang and ruthlessly attacked them with his weapon gear. Eventually, the other Turtles came to help Donatello and Kirby and they were able to rescue them and defeated the Newtralizer. Meanwhile, while April was training with Master Splinter, she discovered a Kraang Communication Orb in the sewers using her psychic powers which the Kraang were after. Which she presented to the Turtles after they got back to the lair with Kirby who also had to stay in the lair for protection from the Kraang. After that, the Turtles decided to use the Communication Orb to listen in on the Kraang's plans and plan their next move on them. However, what the Turtles and April didn't know was that Kirby was secretly being mind controlled by the Kraang using a small device on the back of his neck who let the Turtles save Kirby as part of their plan with Shredder.

### The Battle

One day at TCRI, the Kraang get a call from Kraang Prime who tells them to begin their invasion on Earth starting with New York City so the Kraang prepare their fortress-like ship known as the Technodrome which will arrive through the dimensional portal. Meanwhile, Donatello and April intercept a message from the Kraang with the Kraang Communication Orb which Donatello is able to decode and find out the Kraang invading Earth which will begin in sic hours which Donatello tells the other Turtles about. So the Turtles decide to go to TCRI and shut down the dimensional portal and stop the Kraang from invading the Earth. The Turtles prepare and gear up to face the Kraang by getting lots of weapons, building gliders for themselves to use, and preparing Meteal. However, they are unaware that the Kraang are aware of them through Kirby who is still under the control of the Kraang through the mind control device on the back of his neck. After the Turtles leave in the Shellraiser, April asks Master Splinter why he isn't going to help them which Splinters states is because he is a teacher and that it is his job to prepare them for the challenges they face. When April tries to convince him, Splinter refuses and walks away claiming that he doesn't need to explain himself to a child. Meanwhile, the Turtles plan to destroy the dimensional portal by using a weapon Donatello built called the Microfission Omni-Disintegrator which he claimed is powerful enough to destroy the portal in one blast. However back the lair, the Kraang use Kirby to capture April by tricking her into thinking that the Kraang are onto the Turtles and that they have to go to TCRI and warn the Turtles themselves. Despite Master Splinter's warnings, April goes along with Kirby claiming that some people can't just sit around and do nothing. But when April notices that her dad isn't going to TCRI, April gets captured by Karai and two Foot Soldiers then Karai sends Kirby to deliver a message to Splinter with two Mousers while Karai and the Foot Soldiers take April to Shredder. At TCRI, the some Kraang prepare to face the Turtles led by a Ms. Campbell robot. When the Shellraiser crashed into the building, the Kraang attack it but then Metalhead comes out of the Shellraiser and fights off the Kraang as a distraction so the Turtles could sneak into TCRI from above using their gliders. The Turtles are able to sneak into TCRI after taking out the Kraang guards on the roof. The Kraang prepare the dimensional portal using the power cell and bring back Traag from Dimension X to guard the portal. The Turtles try to destroy the portal using the Microfission Omni-Disintegrator but it doesn't work due to the portal having a forcefield. This gives away their position to the Kraang and Traag who attack them. The Turtles fight off the Kraang and Traag where Leonardo uses the Microfission Omni-Disintegrator to blast off Traag into pieces but manages to reassemble himself while Donatello hacks into the Kraang system to deactivate the dimensional portal's forcefield which works. But then the dimensional portal is able to bring forth the Technodrome from Dimension X. Leonardo tries to use the Microfission Omni-Disintegrator on the portal again but it runs out of batteries so he instead orders the other Turtles to leave while he ruptures the power cell which destroys the dimensional portal and blows up the top level of TCRI. After Leonardo is save by the other Turtles using their gliders, the Turtles all think they have won but soon come face to face with the Technodrome which is now on Earth. But meanwhile back at the lair, Splinter is visited by mind controlled Kirby who delivers a message for Splinter from Shredder using the Mousers. Shredder tells Splinter that he has April and that if he wants her back, Splinter must come to Shredder's lair alone to save her. Splinter arrives at Shredder's lair where he fights off and defeats all of the the Foot Soldiers, enters the place, and defeats both Dogpound and Fish Face. But when he goes to free April, he discovers that she was a hologram created by a Mouser and that he was led into a trap by the Shredder who reveals to Splinter that he gave April to the Kraang then both he and Splinter begin to fight.

The presence of the Technodrome shocks both the Turtles and the people of New York City then the Technodrome starts firing lasers at the Turtles which causes them to crash land. The Turtles then return to the lair to talk to Master Splinter but find both him and April gone. Suddenly, they are attack the mind controlled Kirby but are able to subdue him and remove the Kraang mind control device from his neck. Kirby then tells the Turtles that Krrang and Shredder are working together and that Shredder gave April to the Kraang who took her to the Technodrome. Meanwhile on the Technodrome, April is strapped down to a table and presented to Kraang Prime who extracts April's DNA to gain her psychic powers and terraform the Earth into another Dimension X. While the Kraang on the Technodrome start capturing people and animals in the city using small transport pods and take them all to the Technodrome to be used as specimens. The Turtles try to figure out how to get onto one of the pods so they can get to the Technodrome to free April until Raphael defeats some Kraang and takes over one of the pods. The Turtles ride the pod to the Technodrome, when they arrive they get out of the pod but find out that the Technodrome has no gravity on it. The Turtles then go to find April while at the same time fight off all the Kraang onboard the Technodrome. But Kraang Prime is able to get enough of April's DNA to get her psychic powers which he uses to try and terraform the Earth using the Technodrome. But the Turtles are able to find April and save her before Kraang Prime could do it. Then they all try to escape the Technodrome while fighting off every Kraang in their path with Kraang Prime chasing after them in his giant Kraangdroid body. This causes the Technodrome to get damaged and start falling out of the sky while Kraang Prime attacks the Turtles to prevent them from escaping with April. The Turtles and April are able to find a pod to escape on but Leonardo stays behind to deal with Kraang Prime himself so the others can escape. The other Turtles and April are able to get out safely before the Technodrome crashes into the ocean while Leonardo shows up and reunites with them after managing to escape from Kraang Prime and the Technodrome too. Then the pods containing the captured people rise up to the surface and the people are released. Meanwhile, Splinter and Shredder fight each other at Shredder's lair until Shredder reveals to Splinter that he took his daughter, Hamato Miwa when she was a baby. This news shocks Splinter so much that he can't continue to fight Shredder but is able to regain his will to keep on fighting. Splinter soon gets the upper hand and is about to finish Shredder but is stop by Karai who Splinter recognizes as Miwa who Shredder tricked into believing that Splinter killed her mother. Karai tries to fight Splinter but he refuses to and leaves Shredder's lair.

### Aftermath

Afterwards, the Turtles and April celebrate their victory in the lair except for Splinter who is sad that his daughter is with Shredder but later hides his sadness by partaking in the festivities. However, the Technodrome survived its crash into the ocean and is still operational but it can't fly anymore. The Turtles would later continue to fight the Kraang again who would continue on with their plan to terraform the Earth as well as their partnership with Shredder and the Foot Clan which would lead to the Second Kraang Invasion and the Battle for New York. During that time the Turtles get a new human friend named Casey Jones, deal with more mutants, Learn about Karai being Splinter's daughter, and even manage to convince her about Shredder lying to her. But the Technodrome would stay under the ocean until the Triceraton Invasion of 2012 where the Kraang would eventually meet their end

## Belligerents

### Turtles

* Leonardo
* Raphael
* Donatello
* Michelangelo
* April
* Metelhead

### The Kraang

* Kraang Prime
* Ms. Campbell Bot
* Norman Kraangs
* Kraangdroid Kraangs
* Kraang Floater Kraangs
* Traag

### Other

* Master Splinter
* Kirby
* Spike
* Foot Clan
	+ Shredder
	+ Karai
	+ Dogpound
	+ Fish Face
	+ Foot Soldiers
	+ Mousers

* People of New York City

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