"Yes, you did. This is a different world, one where your reality is someone's story. The universe is just that infinite, you know. Every reality is a story in some world somewhere and every story is someone's reality. I myself live in a world with certain rigidly defined rules that is an action movie to one world, and a movie about an action movie to this one. But your story ends now. Those collars will block any power that you might have gleaned from the children of this world and I've put in a call or two to the right authorities. Made some arrangements."

He stood up and crossed over into Raph's line of sight, lowering his eyeglasses so he could see the smiley face false eye, too.

"They children will see you beaten and battered. And then they'll see you dragged away, doomed to die in some government lab somewhere. That's all that it will take to destroy the idea of you and your brothers."