Turtles Met Mice Page 12 (Finale)

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The final page of this prequel requested by .

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Biker Mice from Mars, during their first meeting, have looked for an evil weapon with the intention of destroying it before it can be used by any of their enemies.

They succeed in preventing Shredder, Krang, and Lord Dregg from getting their mitts on it, but unfortunately failed to stop Evil Eye Weevil from getting it, who was hired by Lawrence Limburger to get the weapon.

Raphael is pissed off at Evil Eye Weevil for using the Quantum Putridizer to make April O'Neil and Venus de Milo go topless against their will, so he gives him a vicious beating. Throttle proceeds to use the weapon to make April and Venus put their tops back on and then go out of their trance.

Throttle considers destroying the weapon now, but he finds a use for it and uses it to make Evil Eye Weevil deliver a detonator to Limburger Plaza, resulting in Lawrence Limburger's base once again being destroyed.

The Turtles part ways with the Biker Mice, with Leonardo stating that they intend to look into the resistance movement on Jupiter's moon Europa that Dregg talked about.

We end this story with Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo riding their bikes back to Chicago while Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Venus de Milo, and April O'Neil watch them.

The incarnation of April O'Neil seen in this picture is NOT based on her underage self in the 2012 CGI cartoon and is in fact based on her adult incarnations in the franchise's other continuities, mainly her counterpart in the 1987 animated series, who explicitly stated she was 28 years old in the episode "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamps".

The proof is in the fourth paragraph under this article's section on April's 1987 incarnation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_O'…

To this day, Venus de Milo's only official appearance in the franchise was in the live-action series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, and the Turtles were 18 in that continuity. Given that she was intended to be a love interest to one of the Turtles (my interpretation of the character is in fact their biological sister) and it's generally agreed that all the Turtles are around the same age, it is more than likely that Venus was also intended to be 18 years old.

The proof is in the first sentence of this article: turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Spl…

This story was an interesting concept, but I'm glad to be through with it. The story was fun initially, but I quickly got sick of making it because of how complicated and long the story was going to be. I'm just not used to doing prequels, particularly ones regarding past events I don't want to give the full details about.

The only reason this story was made at all was because my first TMNT and BMFM crossover established the Turtles and the Biker Mice as already being acquainted with each other and the requester apparently wanted to know exactly what circumstances led to their meeting one another. In lieu of prequels, I usually prefer to have unseen past events to be restricted to brief flashbacks or being left to the readers' imaginations.

However, that doesn't mean that there wasn't anything I had to cut from this project. Here is a list of planned events and such I had to omit in order to get this thing done sooner.

1. Charley Davidson and General Carbine were going to appear in this crossover.

2. Cataclysm was going to appear and get brutally injured to explain his appearance as a cyborg in my comic Tail-Whipping Time. The scene was even going to parody the ending of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith by having Cataclysm scream "NOOOOO!" after learning that his latest brawl with the Biker Mice has made him half-machine.

3. I considered having the Mighty Ducks make a cameo as a callback to my Might Ducks.TMNT crossover fic, which was also a request from the same person who asked for this prequel. I had the idea because some voice actors on the Mighty Ducks animated series also had roles on Biker Mice from Mars (e.g., Ian Ziering, Rob Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, William Morgan Sheppard, Jim Cummings).

4. The comic would have ended with the Turtles and the Biker Mice going to Europa and meeting Mantrix. In addition, a bandaged Harley would make the mistake of teleporting near Limburger and then get tied up, setting up the events for my TMNT/Biker Mice crossover comic Of Mice and Turtles.

This comic was such a chore. I know for sure that it's going to be a long time before I feel like making prequels again, but that doesn't mean you people can't ask me to do anthology stories about past events or flashbacks. I don't mind doing those. It's just the whole story taking place before my current ones that I find a pain in the ass.

TMNT (c) Nickelodeon

Biker Mice from Mars (c) Brentwood Television Funnies