As every floor of T.C.R.I. exploded into rubble behind him, Leo flailed through the air. The busy streets of the city grew closer and closer. There was nothing to break his fall, no chance of surviving a drop like this.

But then a small aircraft streaked across the sky and caught him. It was Raphael, piloting his homemade hang glider!

“Gotcha!” he said. Once Leo was safely secured, Raph shouted, “Woo-hoo! In your face, gravity!”

A look of relief came over Leo. There, hang gliding alongside them, were Donnie and Mikey. All of the Turtles had survived and succeeded! T.C.R.I. was history. The portal was no more. Earth was safe. Mission accomplished!

“Thanks, Raph!” Leo said finally.

“Anytime, buddy!” Raph said.

As the smoke from the explosion cleared, streaks of pink-orange light illuminated the sky. None of the Turtles could believe what he was seeing. After a life of living underground in the darkest sewers, and patrolling the city at night only, they were about to experience their very first sunrise.

Not as freaks, not as strangers, but as heroes!

The Turtles looked at one another, beaming over their victory.

“I can’t believe it! We saved the world!” Donnie said enthusiastically.

“Yeah.” Mikey smiled. “That wasn’t so hard, was it?”

But as he spoke, an ominous shadow covered his face. Sensing something was very wrong, he looked at his brothers in midair, and then to the streets below. Darkness was covering everything. They all looked to the sky in horror. Something colossal was eclipsing the sun.

It was the Technodrome!

The Kraang airship from Dimension X had somehow made it through the portal before the blast.

In that moment, the truth of the situation dawned on the Turtles. They hadn’t stopped the invasion at all. In fact, the planet was in more danger now than it had been at the start of their mission.

Mikey immediately regretted his earlier comment. He was stunned, disappointed, and afraid. “I gotta stop saying stuff like that,” he mumbled.