Warning: contains spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #116!

The future looks bleak for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and if they want to have any hope of staying together, they had better start rocking out hard. The four shinobi brothers learn of their fate when a turtle named Lita Ford travels back in time to prevent horrible events in her world from transpiring in the present. And although she doesn't know for sure what will make things right, she knows that everything went to hell when the fifth turtle and former human Jennika gave up on her dream of forming a metal band.

It's understandable why Jennika originally decided other matters took precedence in the future. Currently, the entire human population of a massive portion of New York City are mutants thanks to Old Hob's mutagen bomb, which heralded the creation of Mutant Town. And the conflict that has risen as a result of this has been quite substantial. In Lita's timeline, the Splinter and Foot Clans begin battling over the city, and after a successful attack against the turtles' dojo, the Splinter Clan dissolves. Raphael sells his ninja skills as a mercenary for hire, Donatello becomes a war-cyborg, Michelangelo exposes the secrets of the clan as a journalist, and Leonardo just up and disappears.

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Lita's arrival may be an attempt to save the turtles, but it also destroys the progress Jennika has made in feeling like part of the Splinter Clan. With no experience of time travel and her concerns about Lita brushed aside, Jennika is resistant to the time-traveler's message, but that all changes when Rocksteady and Bebop enter the picture. After crashing Mutant Town's underground music club, the two villain refuse to leave and want to make it their own, so Lita challenges them to a battle of the bands, and the music-loving Jennika rises to the challenge. If Jennika's band wins, Rocksteady and Bebop must leave and never come back. But if Rocksteady and Bebop win, they get the whole music club and can play every night.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #116 - from Sophie Campbell and Ronda Pattison - sees Jennika forming her band, preparing for a concert that has the potential to defeat the longtime mutant villains Bebop and Rocksteady, but also to change the very course of history.

Incredibly, if Lita is right and the future of the Splinter Clan is contingent on Jennika's band, then Rocksteady and Bebop are the saviors of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Given her distrust of Lita's warning, it's possible Jennika would never have formed her group if Rocksteady and Bebop hadn't arrived on the scene and threatened to take over the music club, so thanks to the two mutant villains, Jennika is creating the most important band of all time. While it would be nice if her band wins against Rocksteady and Bebop, it's far more important to save Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Leonardo from their dark future.

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