Previously...

With no time left to think further on his choice, Donatello grabbed the green wire and hastily re-routed the Technodrome laser's power. "Well, here goes nothing..." He pressed the activation button, and watched the smothered view screen intently.

Outside, a powerful emerald beam of energy lanced out from the Technodrome, sinking into the bulging turtle flesh that surrounded it. Not that it could miss, of course, considering Michelangelo's size. Energy crackled along his immense body, making him shudder, stifling his next belch. He could feel the power well up inside of him... and then release. Michelangelo's swollen, bloated form began to shrink like a steadily deflating balloon, drawing back in on itself. He could watch the horizon of his cheeks, chins, chest and then his belly all slowly recede as the ceiling of the cavern rose up and away from him. His sunken limbs re-emerged, regaining their mobility as the tons of reptilian blubber melted away. It was only another few moments before he was even able to get his fat feet back underneath him, and haul his heavy belly off the ground! Pressing his hands into his stomach, he felt himself finally shrink back down until he was back to normal! Well, almost. He still felt kind of tall, and he had quite a bit of muscle under the thick layer of fat that remained, but at least he was mobile!

"Aw, awesome!" Mikey grinned, looking over his un-blobby body. "Not that being huge wasn't kinda cool, but it's good to be able to walk and stuff again, right, Raph? Mondo? ...Guys?"

Mikey looked up, and found himself stunnedby the sight of the Technodrome, half-crushed, and apparently completely out of power after firing that last energy beam. "Whoa! Did I do all that?"

Raph and Mondo moved closer to Mikey, the two of them having been reduced in size as well. Mostly. Raph's rear end was still wider than the rest of his thick frame, and it rolled and shook with every wide-spaced step. "You sure did bro. Well, most of it, and unintentionally, but yeah, I guess you could say you just beat up the Technodrome!" He smiled, resting a hand on Mikey's shoulder, which was at eye level to him now. He didn't really mind, considering the size Michelangelo had been before, though. "It's good to have you back. I mean, in a way we can see all of you at once, anyway."

Mondo grinned wide, walking up to Mikey's other side. His torn shirt showed off a potbelly that hadn't completely disappeared, but again, he didn't seem to mind. "Yeah! I mean, while it was pretty cool with you being a lard-scape and all, It'll be way easier to hangout and play video games with you this way, too!"

Raph let himself chuckle. "Come on, let's go find Donnie and the others. They must've handled themselves okay if they could get us all down to size, right?"

Inside the Technodrome's control room, Donnie marveled at his own reduced size while Bebop, Rocksteady, and IRON Chef rounded up the disgruntled Krang and the unconscious Shredder. Somehow, the reversed energy signature combining with Mikey's massiveness had brought everyone affected by the strange fattening technology down to more comfortable levels. He still seemed to be retaining quite a bit of muscle, though. Not that he could complain about that, really. He flexed an arm to watch a bicep bulge under the soft layer of fat that remained, but quickly lowered it in embarrassment as Leonardo waddled back in. The older turtle's stomach was still almost too large to get his arms around, but not so large he couldn't give his genius brother a big hug in celebration! "You did it, Donnie! I'm pretty sure you just saved New York from... whatever could have happened."

Donnie laughed rubbing the back of his thick neck. "Well, it wasn't a -complete- reversal, obviously, but... Still, better than nothing, right?"

"You are right, Donatello..." The two brothers turned to see a large figure filling the doorway. Leatherhead squeezed through to greet his friends, thick body soft and shaking, but at least he wasn't a gigantic mass of flesh and scales anymore. Just less so. The three reptiles exchanged stories on what had happened, and Leatherhead confirmed that the Technodrome was going to take a very, very long time to able be usable again. It had been crushed, gutted, and depowered to the point it wasn't much more than a huge metal paperweight. Shredder and Krang would have to find some other way to take over the world. "And since we have little to worry about from either of them," continued the gator, "I think it is time to leave. I want to make sure Mondo is alright..."

Leonardo smiled. "Sounds fair. We just have to get Bebop and Rocksteady's, uh, attention. They wanted to come back with us, after all." the pig and rhino were celebrating the victory in their own way, lips locked, and Leo had a feeling that had been a long time coming, anyway.

The party of nine eventually made their way back to the surface, using one of the larger entrances into the sewers since most of them were still too big to fit down a manhole. Leatherhead and Mondo had yet to separate themselves from each other since they had reunited, exchanging hushed words and gentle belly rubs between kisses. Donnie didn't pay much attention to let, happy to let Leo lead the way while he marveled over Michelangelo's larger self.

"It's really fascinating, though, to see you so much bigger than the rest of us, Mikey. It's like the energy couldn't dissipate completely and left you... large!" He tried not to blush as he rested a hand on Michelangelo's stomach. "..I'd really like to examine this further. You know, in my lab. if you wanted to."

Mikey grinned, pulling Donnie in close fro a one-armed hug. "Sure thing, Donnie! I guess we're all gonna need more sumo lessons now, huh?"

Raphael glanced back at his brothers as he waddled along. "Yeah, well, I just hope Master Splinter 'll understand that none of us're exactly in ninja-training shape anymore. He's probably been worried about us."

"Oh, not to worry!" IRON Chef chirped. "I predicted that your teacher might worry about your safety while you were away, so I made sure to help keep his mind occupied with some pizzas before we left to go find you!"

Leo paused at the entrance to the lair, looking back at the robot. "Ronnie, how many pizzas did you make for him...?"

The robot's digital eyes smiled merrily. "Only a few dozen, Leonardo! Or to be more precise, fourteen four-cheese pizzas, a dozen double-pepperoni, eight sicilian with extra pepper, ten --"

Leonardo groaned a bit, not only because IRON Chef was making him hungry again, but because he could already guess what they'd find inside the lair. Sure enough, the brothers found their sensei propped up against a wall, the rat swollen round and incredibly fat, surrounded by dozens of empty pizza boxes. His eyes were glazed in a reverie of recent gluttony, and he let out an uncharacteristic belch as he looked past his huge belly at his students. "Ah, my sons, you've -hrrp!- returned! Wonderful! I think this calls for a -brrrp- celebration. Unfortunately, we seem to have run out of pizzas. Perhaps your -bwrrp- robot friend could make a few dozen more...?"

THE END

FOR REAL THIS TIME


And there ya have it, folks! The third ending! Hopefully everyone's enjoyed themselves reading and voting for this series as much as I did coming up with it. A little somethin' for everyone, right? But that's it! Big project over! Time to do other stuff!


OR IS IT?


Mmmmmaybe I could do a few more things. A few endings we wouldn't have seen unless we'd all chosen a different turtle to focus on way back at the beginning of the story. Can't guarantee they'll be happy endings, but I can promise more fat turtles, which is really what you guys wanna see anyway, right?

So how about it? Who's ending do you wanna see first?

1) Raphael
2) Donatello
3) Leonardo

Polls close in 48 hours! you know the drill!