I don't know if anybody will actually get any use from this (goodness knows you're all probably on non-Gaia TMNT forums
wink ), but I figured I'd put it up anyway. Also, please forgive me if this isn't 100% accurate, I had to go to work right after the episode so my memory may be a little fuzzy.
TEMPUS FUGIT
We start off with Viral waking up (as it were) inside some computer system somewhere. Her memory's a bit fuzzy as well, and so to find out where she is she plugs herself into the walls and works that virus mojo. She sees the Turtles and Cody working on the Time Window, and thus discovers that she's still inside Serling, and it all comes back to her. Cue flashback of Cody and Serling running the decompiler on her (from "The Day of Awakening"). A quick diagnostic reveals that Viral is now 94.003% restored, which is just enough for her to begin wreaking havoc again. She laughs maniacally, Serling's eyes spark, and we go to the theme song.
... Which, oddly enough, is the Fast Forward theme song. Oops.
Anyway, back outside Serling's body, Cody and Don have finally finished fixing the Time Window! It's stable and everything, and calibrated to as close to their original time as the geeks could get it. Mikey walks up with a huge plastic bag full of Helix merchandise, but Don tells him that they're not bringing anything back to Present Day if they can help it -- including their weapons. The Turtles and Splinter start putting their weapons and practically all their other "future gear" in a big ol' pile. A final goodbye from Cody, and one touching friendship speech from Splinter later, they're ready to go back through the window. However, after they all jump through, Viral takes over Serling and makes him grab the Time Window. Cody and Serling are momentarily perplexed as to how this is happening, but then Viral does that "magic portal in the sky" thing and makes her presence known. The Time Window starts malfunctioning, and despite Cody's efforts it is destroyed, and Serling is gone.
Back with the boys, in what for convenience's sake I shall call the "time tube," they're flying towards what looks like their lair in Present Day. Hooray! Serling appears behind them, but nobody notices. Then some red "Viral lines" appear and throw them backwards, causing much confusion, and Raph finally notices Serling. They all land next to a huge skeleton in an unfamiliar place. There's some bantering as the guys try to figure out what happened, and Serling explains that it was Viral's handiwork. Before they can talk much more, a giant dinosaur emerges from the nearby trees and starts charging the group. Don tells Serling to activate his weapons, but the 'bot says he can't, again due to Viral's interference. She momentarily appears in the sky to mock and gloat. Serling hides behind a rock, and the dinosaur takes out Splinter with his tail shortly afterwards. Mikey charges the dino with a branch, and while he's quite persistent it's obvious he's not doing any damage at all. The dino knocks him away, where another shadow falls over Mikey...
The rest of the group (including Splinter, who's okay now) are still trying to fend off the dinosaur, when Mikey comes charging in again, this time atop a triceratops, who he lured with the branch. The two dinos duke it out for a bit before the trike wins, and Mikey decides to name the trike "Zog II". The victory is short-lived, however, because Viral appears in the sky again and sends them to another time. The "other time" happens to be the Middle Ages, where Serling is mistaken for a knight before the whole group gets attacked by a whole bunch of actual knights. While everyone's fighting here, Leo and Don try to figure out how to get rid of Viral and get back to their own time (and may I say Don is quite handy with a mace). Don has an idea, but it won't work in the Middle Ages where there's no technology. Mikey overhears this part of the conversation and decides that he has a plan! He starts charging towards Viral's face-in-the-sky on horseback, while the others try to figure out what he thinks he's doing. Mikey starts yelling at Viral, a la "is this the best you can do". Once or twice it cuts back to the other boys, who can't quite hear what he's shouting. Whatever he said, it worked, because Viral swallows them up again, throwing them back into the time tube and spitting them out... sometime?
(This is the part that was shown in the "sneak peek" on 4kids.tv, but I'll go over it anyway.) The gang emerges in what looks like Present Day, but it soon becomes apparent that it isn't. There are at least two groups of people fighting it out in a laser-fest, including three Shredders -- Utrom, Tengu, and Cyber. Don asks Mikey just when the heck they are, and Mikey says that he thinks it's Present Day, because that's where he asked Viral to send them. Before much else can be said, Cyber Shredder leaps at them and scores a pretty bad hit on Serling, shutting him down. Cyber Shredder goes on about how the Turtles are doomed etc. etc., but then Tengu Shredder shoots Cyber Shredder down and says that they're his to destroy. Now the Shredders are fighting over which one of them will get to kill the Turtles. The gang has a moment to talk about how they're gonna fix Serling, and Don is stumped -- until he remembers that Utrom Shredder is an exosuit, with Utrom technology, and he can work with that. The gang all go after Utrom Shredder (who at some point in the battle declares himself to be the "one true Shredder," by the way), including Splinter getting Tengu Shredder to shoot Utrom Shredder, and despite difficulty Don manages to swipe the needed parts and fix Serling.
At this point (I think), a new guy steps forward, claiming to have already destroyed the Turtles years ago. However, none of the gang recognize him. (It's the bathrobe dude from M's blog.) He starts attacking as well, and he's actually a very good fighter -- good enough to take down Leo anyway -- but then Tengu Shredder blasts him into a metal beam for attacking the Turtles (i.e. "they are mine to destroy"). The battle gets confusing again, but now that Serling's got new parts his weapons are active again. He transforms into Turtle X and Don gets in, prompting the others to grab on as he flies upwards towards Viral. He then does something to the decompiler program to make it fire out of Serling's gun, and blasts Viral with it. It appears to have worked, as she disappears and the time tube remains open, and our heroes fly into it.
Last time in the time tube, honest: the gang are all flying towards home and Present Day again, when Viral reappears inside Turtle X, taking control of the 'bot. She aims the decompiler gun at the rest of the turtles -- Don says that they're just bits of data inside the time tube, and to be decompiled now would scatter them all throughout time (I think), so basically instant death -- and Viral mocks him for not thinking she'd try it. Don, still inside Turtle X, starts banging on the shield, trying to warn the rest of his family about the decompiler gun. His brothers are all blissfully unaware, but Splinter notices, and dives forward to take the shot -- and, like Don said, he is scattered all over. Now the rest of the Turtles finally realize something's up, just as they all exit the time tube. Don jumps out of Turtle X, but it's way too late. Splinter's gone.
Don: "And it's all my fault."
Turtle X, forgotten in the tragedy, sparks red as Viral escapes and makes her way to a PC tower sitting nearby in the lair. She's extremely confused by all the "ancient technology" at first, but then concludes that she must be on... *shudder* ... the INTERNET. She floats around for a while, complaining about how old and primitive everything is, but then she notices a black-and-red column in the cyberspace. For some reason it's much more powerful than anything around, and she decides to hijack it and use it to heal herself. However, she can't hack it -- in fact, IT hacks HER, and turns her into... *dun dun dun* Cyber Shredder! Cyber Shredder laughs maniacally and declares its vengeance on the Turtles.
And NOW we get the actual Back to the Sewer theme song. Yay!
To Be Continued...!
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"This must be... the INTERNET!"
I admit I laughed. XD Lots of Mikey (he is the popular one after all) and Don now has Issues. The theme song STILL reminds me of
Very Melon though. (But I'm just weird like that.)
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