Chapter 1
Ninja Tribunal
"No. No. I don't think so. It just doesn't speak to me." A teenager said to his two brothers commented as he helped them move their couch to just the right spot in their underground home, but couldn't find the right spot for said sitting device. "A little to the right." The teen informed while moving his camera posed arms to his right, but the two brothers moved it the other way. "No. No. My other right." The director corrected them.
"Oh, I'll give you another right, Mikey. A right hook." The brother to the right of the sofa, who had a fondness for red, said to the director. He was about to do so until the fourth of their team spoke from sitting on the moving furniture.
"Guys let me get up and help. This is just silly." The sitting brother, who wore purple, commented to them since he hated felling useless around his three siblings.
"No. You stay right there and rest." The eldest, who wore blue, said to the genius while holding the couch since the fourth had yet to tell them not to.
"But I HAVE rested." The third oldest informed them in an annoyed tone before adding, "I've been resting for weeks. I've rested when you guys fixed up the lair." He continued even when the two put the couch down since this was going to take a while. "I've rested when you moved furniture. Heck, I'm resting on the furniture you're moving?! I'm done resting." The third one said to them as he finished his little rant.
"It's just that we don't want to take any chances of a relapse." The oldest said to the brainiac, hoping that he would see the logic in their concern.
"Yeah, no offense Donnie, but you weren't too much fun when you were…sick." The second oldest, Raphael, said to the post cured creature with his arms crossed. He stalled because he and the others knew that it wasn't their bro's fault. 'But I still owe Bishop a serious shell kicking next time I see him.' The angered one thought before catching what the youngest one had to say about what they were talking about.
"FUN?! He was a monster! An absolutely, horrible, drooling, big nasty fanged monster!" Michelangelo said to the shot tempered teen before adding something only Donatello would get, "You tried to eat my leg?!" After hearing that and the anger in the comical one's tone only made to fixed turtle feel worse.
"I'm…I'm sorry Mikey. Guys I-I don't remember any of that." The former monster said to the others in an honest tone, showing them that he was truly sorry for what he had done when his logical mind was in…a hibernation cycle.
"It's okay, Donnie." The oldest of the four said with a hand on the hurt one's shoulder, and then added, "Come to think of it. We have been cooped up in here for a long time. Who's up for a little late night entertainment?" The blue masked one questioned to the others, and in a flash all three of them rose their hands. With that decision made the four used the tunnel that Leonardo, the oldest sibling, used to show them their new home, and then did some building hopping in New York City.
"Huh?" Michelangelo questioned after grinding off a side of a pointed roof, grabbed onto someone's hanging laundry, and landing on the roof of a nearby building. "Ha. Ha." He said while doing a little dance, but his show was cut short as the second oldest body checked him onto a lower rooftop.
'That felt good.' Raph thought while getting off the professional chucker, and then saw the other two jump off the roof that they were just at to meet up with them.
"Man, it feels good to be out of the lair." Donatello said as they got a chance to catch their breaths. The red turtle then played a game of leapfrog on the youngest who countered that by grabbing and jumping off his older bro's shoulders to land to the smart one's left side.
"Are we sure Donnie's all better?" The comic lover said and then decided to use a reference that he saw on an old black and white flick. "See the full moon Donnie? Do you feel the monster inside? The monster taking control? Mwhahahaha!" He said to the bro, and waited for an answer. The scientist knew of the movie he used, and was about to dismiss it, but he knew that this was his brother's way of showing him that he was cool over what happened, so he decided to meet him the rest of the way.
"Oh No." He said in a joking manner as he grabbed his throat with both hands and then added, "I'm-I'm changing. ROAR!" He then got ready to chance his younger sibling.
"Aah. Help me. Help me. He's trying to eat my leg again, Aah!" Michelangelo said and then proceeded to run away which started a small chase between brothers. As the oldest two were wondering if they too should join in on the fun or not none of them realized that they were being watched by four new comers.
'This both represents my master and our enemy.' An elderly mouse thought while sitting on his heels in a deeper section of their lair while staring at a three pronged logo on a black cloth.
"Pardon this intrusion, Splinter-san." A voice said in the tunnel that led to his room. The creature in question turned to see who it was and saw a small round man wearing a red vest, black sumo pants, and an old Japanese hat.
"Ancient One? You have come all this way" Splinter questioned to the visitor since he knew this was not the bearded man's style. The man in question took a few steps before making a little leap to land in front of the humanoid animal.
"I am afraid so." The traveler said back with a slightly grave tone in his voice.
"Then it has begun again." The rodent said after a moment of silence between the two of them.
"Where are they? Where are your sons?" Ancient One questioned since he knew that there was a powerful team out there that wanted the four to fight for them.
"Out taking exercise." The rodent said back to his friend believing that this attack he was waiting for would happen later in the night, but he was really praying that it would never come.
"NO! No, I am too late. Too late." The elder said with his hands on his cheeks. The four were all in the chase with Donatello still being the chaser unaware that they will soon have company. The four continued for an hour longer and then stopped and laughed at what they had just done.
"Man, it feels great to be out and about again." Donatello informed the others as he enjoyed the New York air which he hasn't smelled in weeks thanks to his inner demon day. The four teens were about to start chasing again until they all heard something overhead.
"Huh?" The team questioned while looking around. Another sound from overhead was heard and that was when they got their weapons out, ready to fight whoever it was this time. The bad thing was that two of the creatures from before and two others landed behind the four shell heads.
"Now, maybe it's just me but I think these guys plan to stick it to us." Raphael said after he and the others turned to face the enemy, who were a head or two taller than them, and all of them started banging their tonfa sticks together. The four turtles were about ready to fight until the four enemy members bowed to them with their arms crossed.
"What do we do now?" Don questioned to the field leader since as far as he knew none of their normal enemies would be this formal to them.
"Bow, I guess." Leo answered back with one sword drawn and ready. He ignored his younger brothers, 'Have you lost it?' look, and did as he said by sheathing his sword and crossing his arms on his chest, Donatello held his staff with his right, but crossed with his left, Mikey and Raph crossed their arms while holding their weapons; with that they all bowed.
'Shell, that was close.' Raph thought after he leaped over his attacker as did Don and Mikey, but Leo tried using throwing stars which he hid in his sash, but those failed.
'That was a dumb move.' The blue clothed one thought as he fended his attacker off with a sword that he was able to unsheathe once his stars idea failed. The three glanced over at the new enemy and several questions appeared before them.
"Maybe we should have run instead?" The jokester questioned to the others since the four new guys seemed to be tougher than the Elites.
"Who are these bozo's?" The fighter questioned to them after their fleeing tactic. As he questioned it his mind wondered, 'Which one should I kick shell with first?' The third of the three pronged fleeing fighters had a different observation to point out.
"They don't look like the Foot." The genius said to them since he knew that the others have noticed that the Foot had some sort of muscle to use, but these guys were just skin and bone. One of the fighters immediately went after Raph, but he blocked a sweep the feet tonfa strike with his left sai, and blocked another strike with his right sai. With a flick of the wrist the enemy disarmed the turtle's right hand.
'I can kick your butt with one sai anyway.' The turtle thought as he let out a defiant growl and his free hand still raised over his head. "Huh?" The angered fighter questioned as he saw his opponent bow to him. The teen took this time to backstep to his weapon, and picked it up. "They sure don't fight like Foot either." The second oldest said since he knew that Karai's lackey's wouldn't have done such a thing to them. That said his fight continued as well as the others.
'Man, I can't catch a break with this one.' Donatello thought as all of his strikes were blocked by the tonfa sticks. The opponent tried to leap attack, but the young fighter fended it off, pole vaulted before another strike when the sticks were off his staff. The purple clothed one tried to attack, but the creature he was facing not only turned it's waist up to face him, and then bent down before the attack reached; after the green man landed he watched as his enemy bent all the way back to normal. 'That's not normal.' Don thought before going back to it.
'This guy's good.' Leonardo thought as he was fighting his opponent on the building's ledge. Michelangelo decided to try a move that he may have done at a different place, different time.
"So you got some moves?" The comedian questioned his target after watching the same show he just did but with tonfa sticks instead of nunchucks. The turtle then spun his chucks on his right arm, and then had it spin on his neck. "Huh? Huh?" The stunt turtle questioned believing that his move could not be topped. After he stopped his trick to watch the copycat he was shocked that not only did it copy the move, but it tossed the sticks into the air, and caught them from behind his back. "Show-off!" He shouted and then screamed before fighting on the roof entrance structure.
"What is up with these jokers? Talk about you rock hard abs." Raphael questioned and said to the others once he tried a gut punch after having two sai strikes blocked.
"It's their rock hard kicks, I'm worried about." The staff expert said to them after taking a tumble from being kicked as soon as his weapon made contact on the enemy's chest.
"Huh?" The oldest said after his head slice strike uncovered something disturbing about their attackers. The attacked enemy let his split in two head gear fall to the floor, put his weapons away, take out his sword, heal the wound, and the presented the opponents weapon back to the owner. "They're made of wood!" The eldest said to them after seeing the evidence in the full moon light.
"That explains the lack a weak spots." Raphael informed the others, and realized that this explains everything.
"OW! And why my hand hurts when I punch `em." Michelangelo said to them after trying a double knuckle punch to the stomach while standing on the slope of the roof entrance.
'I guess it's okay to get my sword.' Leo thought before taking his sword to the offering opponet. As soon as he took a few steps away the fight resumed. The down side was that these unusual targets now defied them effortlessly - Leo: kick to the edge of the building and two arm thrusts to the shell. Mikey: grab wrists and knee kick. Raph: tried close range punch, but flung and foot pressed into unconsciousness. Don: concerned for the three tried a solo job, kneed to gut and elbow to shell. When the four were down the creatures picked them and their weapons up before heading back to their masters.
"Huh?" Donatello questioned aloud after seeing that his surrounding changed from open New York skies to some form of wooden room with straw to either side of them. As three of them tried to collect themselves and figure things out the fourth one went toward the only door in the room. "Oh man." Don said after he stood up.
"Where are we?" Leo questioned while being held up by Mikey and looked to see if anything seemed familiar, but no luck.
"Where ever we are…" Raphael said to the others before banging on the door and added, "We're locked in." As soon as he was going to try a different knocking tactic the door opened up. "Huh?" He muttered in an off guard manner.
"Or not." The staff handler said to them after seeing the same thing.
"Okay. More freaky-weirdness, anyone?" The chucker said to the others while straining 'okay'. The New Yorkers walked out of the room with red in the lead and purple bringing up the rear.
"Uh, guys our weapons don't usually float in the air by themselves, do they?" The egghead questioned to the others while gesturing over to the far wall. The other three followed his finger and saw their weapons in surrounded by some energy.
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder." The leader of the four said as he saw the strange sight. The three watched as the hands on turtle stormed over to the wall, right for their weapons.
"Weird or not, I'm getting my gear." He said to them and grabbed his sais from the wall. The others followed his lead in this order: Donatello, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Once their weapons were back to the proper owners the leader saw something off on the same wall, but different spot.
"Um, if we have all our weapons then who's weapons are those?" He asked the other three while motioning to where he meant. They saw three large and powerful guns along with one hand gun on a different section on the wall.
"Maybe…theirs." Mikey said to the group while gesturing to the four doors that looked like theirs. The first door opened to reveal a blue and white furred husky in humanoid form wearing: dark brown pants, light brown vest with long sleeved white shirt under it, and yellow brown boots. This man sneered at them before going to the wall.
'That was friendly.' Don thought as he and three others watched the next door open. The second one was also humanoid, but female and a red Rough Collie to boot. She was sporting: green and white long pants, with a loose fit sleevless white and green shirt. This girl also glared at them while walking to the wall.
'She MIGHT scratch my shell.' Raph thought before the third door opened revealing a Doberman wearing a white suit with a maroon vest, and red bandages on his palms and were tied to his sleeves.
'I bet I can make him laugh.' The orange one thought before they all saw the fourth door open up. The fourth one was a Golden Retriever that wore dark blue pants that went a little higher than the waist, gray/black vest and bands that covered his lower arms.
'Why do I having a feeling that they are a team and he is their leader.' Leo thought as he watched the fourth go up to the wall.
'There you are my big, red friend.' The Husky thought as he picked up a rather large red gun with a strange barrel at the end.
'Hello to you too.' The Collie thought as she grabbed what seemed to be a handgun of sorts.
'Ah, the Biting Blaster.' The Doberman thought as he took his gun after her; grateful that the master designed a gun after what he likes to do best.
'Your no Tennis Ball Blaster, but you'll do.' The Golden Retriever thought as he took a green bazooka that seemed to have a Pit-bull at the barrel of the gun. When each of them had gotten their guns the turtles took out their weapons, ready to fight in this narrow passage.
"Are you the blokes who abducted us?" The red furred one question while taking a fighting pose with her hand firmly grasped her small gun.
"Hey, we haven't got a clue as to what your talking about, you red furred fleabag." The red masked one commented in anger while also keeping a firm grip on his sais.
"Alright Green-guy then who sent you?" The black furred one questioned in a German accent while keeping them in sights for his gun.
"We weren't sent by anybody?" The purple bandana one said with a confused expression present on his face.
"Some wooden mannequin guys beat the snot out of us and we woke up here." The orange bandana one informed them before another question could be asked by the canines.
"Really? Same here, weird huh?" The golden furred one said and that was when he and the others lowered their weapons. "But…who are you guys, I don't remember the master talking about making Turtle Sapians?" The Retriever said to them while trying to recall if the man in question really has or not.
"Me either comrade, so that is making the question…" The blue furred one commented, and was about to finish it if it wasn't for the England accented one.
"What are you lot then?" The red manned one asked while standing there.
"That's kind of a long story." The blue masked one said to them, and decided to ask them about the 'master' business later.
"We're ninjas." The red masked one informed them bluntly.
"And Turtles." The purple masked one said to them after the second turtle spoke.
"Ninja Turtles." The orange masked one said while putting his weapons away and flexing his arms. The red and purple one just looked at the energetic one after he said that.
"This is Raphael." The blue one said after putting his sword away and placing his free hand on the second turtle's shoulder.
"Hmm." Raphael said to them with a nod.
"Michelangelo." The swords-turtle continued by pointing to the next on mentioned.
"Over here." Michelangelo said to them while waving.
"Donatello." The introducing turtle said and the purple one nodded without sound. "And I'm Leonardo." The blue one finished by placing a hand on his chest.
"Cool names. Well, I'm Hunter, and these are my friends." The bazooka carrier said and then let his friends speak for themselves.
"Exile, comrades." The Russian speaker said while lowering his gun.
"I'm Colleen, hello." The Englishwoman said to them in a very friendly manner while waving her fingers the same way she did to those 'aliens'.
"I am Blitz, the tough one." The German speaker said to them after activating a strap option to his gun from his left shoulder to his right though, and finished by crossing his arms on his chest.
"Well, we're gonna find out what going on here, and since you guys were abducted too, so you can follow us if you like." Leonardo said to them and just like that the four turned and walked down the hallway.
"Maybe we should find another way, and let whoever dog-napped us take care of them." The Doberman complained to the leader of their small group.
"Play dead, Blitz. Besides these guys seem pretty cool." The leader said back and with that he ran after them. The canine of England and Russia followed.
"It was worth a shot." The German said before chasing after them. The canine four soon caught up with the turtle four, and they stayed like that until they came across a door. The eight went in, and were surprised at what they found.
"Well, this is a cool feature." Colleen said sounding somewhat impressed at what was before them.
"Looks there are no more doors." The Husky said as he saw what the others were seeing.
'Now that they are distracted that we have no more doors I will run away.' The Doberman thought and was about to turn and scream away until he saw something that he had to tell the others. "I'll say. The door we came in through - is gone." The other seven heard his comment and turned to see a new wall where they just saw a door.
"Okay, I'm not enjoying this whole haunted mansion motif. I want a door and I want it now, please." The knucklehead said aloud in a completely freaked out tone. The three out of four of the canines believed that the orange one was like their Doberman, and as soon as that was said a bright light came from behind them.
"This is like a house of fun-ski." Exile said to them after the group turned to face the rather large doors.
"Yeah, but without any of the fun." Michelangelo added after hearing the canine's comment. The second oldest on the other hand has had enough of these tricks and wanted answers right now.
"Well, let's find out who's running this freak show, and lodge a complaint." He said to the others while walking up to the doors. Donatello and Michelangelo joined him, but no sooner that they stood there than the doors opened by themselves. When they opened the eight walked down the path provided, but as they did the red one noticed something on the walls. "Hey, Leo, check it out." The sai expert said to the one walking beside him.
"Stay on your guard. Be ready." The swords-turtle said to the group after seeing that the wooden soldiers were around them in bulk. The team kept going, and saw some stairs, but that was when a voice spoke, so they stopped to listen.
"Bow when you enter this sanctuary." The voice said to them and as that was said lights brightened the room allowing them to see five chairs on the steps, but in four of those chairs was one familiar helmet.
"What the shell!" The angered one shouted after seeing the sight and felt his brother's hand on his chest. Leo knew that Raph would leap first and never ask questions when it came to that helmet, but the field leader could tell that there seemed to be something off with these four compared to their usual Shredder. "Four Shredders?!" Raph questioned in anger after seeing them stand up.
"This doesn't look good." Donatello said to them with his staff ready and able.
"Yeah. We could barely handle one shredder." The comic expert informed them; reminding them of their previous near defeats.
"Stand you're ground. Be prepared." The leader of the turtles said to them with his swords drawn, blades facing the Shredders.
"Silence." A gray cloaked Shredder said to them before adding, "We are the Ninja Tribunal. Prepare to be judged." The eight were a little worried about the 'prepare to be judged' part, but they didn't have time to consider it as another one spoke.
"A great evil is coming." A blue cloaked one said to them, the same one that gave them the bowing order. "Darkness beyond your worst imaginings." He added to his second comment to the humanoids before him.
"We require warriors to combat it, and as pathetic as you are: you eight are our best hope." A green cloaked Shredder said to them, sounding surprisingly female to all of their ears.
"You will battle each other, and only the most worthy will survive. Warriors left standing will become our acolytes to aid us in our battle with the coming darkness." The blue Shredder said to them, but they were looking at one another after hearing the in a nutshell rules by the four before them.
"You expect us to fight each other." Leonardo questioned to the four of them after hearing what they wanted from them. He didn't like it since it didn't make any sense to him, but luckily his brother was there to express what they were all thinking.
"Forget it, bucket heads." Raphael shouted up at them with unsheathed sais: ready for battle.
"You will fight." The silver cloaked one stressed to them, and then added, "Or you will be destroyed." The threat did not seem to phase them since they stopped caring for themselves since the start of their careers. The man in the helmet already knew that, and that is why he glanced over at the wall to summon more wooden soldiers - seven or more from their sides and from the rear.
"I would not have predicted this." Hunter said casually as he saw them and the fact that all of them unsheathed a small blade on their tonfa sticks. Back to a city bound battlefield of the same followers two were trying to find out what happened to New York's ninjas.
"Yes. See? Mokusei-no-Bushi were here." Ancient One said as he examined the battle torn roof.
'Hmm?" The rat said praying that his 'off spring' made a break for it instead of fighting them.
"And here." The bearded man said after seeing one half of a mask a few steps away from some carved in cuts on the roof. "Signs of a struggle." He added to his first comment and knew exactly what his old friend was wanting to do as soon as he said that.
"The Ninja Tribunal has taken my sons." Splinter said with an…unpleasant expression on his face. The fighter saw the fellow Yoshi friend sniff a piece of the wooden soldier that had fallen off, but he did not care for that. "Ancient One, you must take me to the Tribunal." He ordered since he knew that the man before him knew where that location was due to a past encounter.
"You know what you ask is simply not permitted." The other said, hoping that the mouse man would listen to reason.
"Permitted or not: I WILL PROTECT MY SONS!" He said with determination and headed off. As their rescue team was on the move the turtles and the Rovers were still up to their necks in problems.
"Fight! Be judged. Prove your worth. The Ninja Tribunal commands it." The blue cloaked one said to them in a warning tone.
"If you do not fight others will suffer. The world will suffer." The gray cloaked Shredder commented calmly.
Those that you care about…" The blue one started to say, and then that was when the female continued for him while sugar coating it for two of them.
"Like your 'Aunt' in England, Colleen?" The green one offered and saw the shocked expression on the Collie's face. "Or you're brother figure in Russia, Exile." She added and then said one thing in disdain due to previous memories of these four. "Or the rat you four call your father." She saw that the four of them did not like that idea any as much as the two did.
'What should we do?' The four thought since none of them wished any harm on their canine friends.
"If you will not fight to save yourselves; fight to save your loved ones." The green cloaked Shredder commanded to the eight. The two groups separated by teams - none of them like this: fighting against their new fast friends, but they had to…didn't they.
"This is crazy." Leo said to the canine he fought as his sword was blocked by the bazooka's side.
"I know. I don't really want to fight you guys." The Retriever said while relaxing his grip on his gun. There was another one on one that was feeling as the leaders were.
"Da. You guys seem okey dokey…for turtle sapiens." Exile said to Donatello while relaxing his grip on his big, red gun. Even though that seven of them felt the same there was one that knew that they needed to do this.
"Yah. Yah, we all like each other, but you guys heard them to save our families we have no choice." The Doberman said and, using retractable claws, attacked Mikey with a downward thrust.
"There's always a choice." The youngest of the four said while using the chain of his chucks for defense when attacked twice. The second oldest heard the comment, but decided to be blunt again.
"Yeah, instead of fightin each other we ought to be fighting those four goons." Raphael said to the others while staring down Colleen's hand gun without fear.
"You're right, Raph. This is one dog that will be judged by the likes of them." Hunter said after hearing the red one's comment.
"Then if we're all agreed - Let's kick some shell." Leonardo said to the seven after hearing the golden furred canine's comment.
"HAH!" The eight shouted as one, and that was when the four dog creatures tried to fire off their weapons. The dog humanoids were able to fire, but they hit the wooden soldiers: not the Tribunal.
"Not these guys again." Michelangelo complained when he saw the guardians of the Shredders all around them. As always it was the Turtles secret weapon that was happy to see this.
"Don't know about you Mikey, but I welcome the rematch. I got a score to settle with these walking tree trunks." The angered teen said as the soldiers kept walking toward them.
"Do not worry. My team can handle this." The Husky said to the four and just like that the canine four were about to open fire again. As soon as their targets were locked on a great few puppet creatures some of them were able to shoot out the daggers on their tonfa: rendering their guns useless.
"You sure about that, mutt-face." The cocky turtle said after seeing their weapons beginning to spark.
"Not to worry, the master came prepared." Hunter said to them and then added, "He upgraded these Rover weapons to hold old school weapons. The Turtles watched and were impressed that Exile pulled out a mace from the trigger of his gun due to a secret compartment. Colleen's gun split in two allowing her to unveil a spear/whip combo. Blitz's weapon revealed two slits on the sides which gave him sickle-like weapons. Hunter's bazooka had a slit open on the top and launched a black sword with an Anubis figure on the hilt.
'That's impressive.' The purple turtle thought before going into battle. The fight started out good: Exile score a clean hit with his mace, Donatello was able to fend an attack off, but even with all eight of them the lackeys of the Tribunal were still winning and the fall of Hunter and Leonardo was proof of that.
"Raphy-Waphy, give me a hand." The red furred Collie said, using a similar pet name that she uses on her leader since this brother she likes, when she noticed that they were being surrounded. He did so and the knocked two down, but one grunt got wise and chopped away their connection: without hurting them.
"Colleen, no." The red masked hero said right before tripping into one who, just like the canine, got KO`ed with one hit. With that done only four remained, and they seemed to be loosing ground in the fight.
"I am loving being Road Rover." The strength of the team in question shouted after spinning his archaic weapon overhead, and threw: earning a direct hit on the soldier.
"You know if you guys weren't made of wood I would bite all your tushies'." Blitz said while trying to defend with his weapons, and unfortunately his line was heard by the one that can't stand it the most.
"Don't be a weird boy." Exile said which caused his focus to be lost for a moment, but it was only a moment that the soldiers needed to gain the advantage. The canine's damaged foe grabbed the chain that was connected to the big, metal ball, and gave it a yank. When the Husky felt his chain leave him he knew what was going to happen.
'What the?' The brainiac turtle thought right before the back of the dog fell on the turtle's shell: making them both caught. The biter was doing good against one of them, but as he was about to score a victory slash: a Mokusei-no-Bushi sucker punched him causing his muzzle to meet the ground.
"Blitz." The sole survivor said with great concern allowing, but just like the second to last Mikey was also done in by a sucker punch.
"Hold!" The gray Shredder said to their obedient warriors with a minor hand gesture. The group did as they were told just as they were about to finish the eight off.
"So, this is your choice." The blue Shredder said after watching the whole thing, like the others did as well.
"You would attack this Tribunal before you would each other." The green Shredder questioned to them as the wooden warriors had their bladed tonfa pointed at the participant's necks.
"Yes." Leonardo said first, making sure that they heard the certainty in his tone.
"No question about it." The Golden boy said, not fearing the sharp weapons on his fur in the slightest. The eight watched the four, waiting for an answer as they laid there.
"You have been judged." The blue Tribunal member said to them after a moment of silence. The other two spoke after him - giving to them in a nutshell, what they had just agreed to.
"All eight of you have passed the first trial." The gray Tribal member said which was a sign for their sparring partners to go back to their stand-by spots.
"The first of many." The green Tribunal member said to them.
"You are now Acolytes of the Ninja Tribunal to be trained in the most secret techniques of ninjistu art." The blue Tribunal member said to them, and by then their recruiters sheathed their blades and stood at attention.
"A great honor has been bestowed upon you." The silver Tribunal member said to them as the eight warriors stood up from their lying posses.
"But know this - the training will be hard. The weak will be separated from the strong, and the battle you are being prepared for will be fought against an enemy unlike anything you have ever faced before." The green Tribunal woman said and that was when yellow stairs appeared before them spiraling up to an open window on the ceiling.
"Take this time to reflect on all you have seen and heard thus far." The grave speaking man said to them. Seeing that they could no longer do anything else where they were the eight started to climb, but after Leo's say-so.
"Okay." He said in an uncertain tone before walking.
"I am not liking this. Not liking this one bit." The bruiser of the green ones said to them as they walked up the steps.
"I'm with you Raphy." The Collie said as she too climbed up the stairs. The group got to the surface and all of them saw that it was a past time village, but to Leo something was still off.
"Whoa!" Exile shouted in surprise when he saw the old buildings.
"What is this place?" The Doberman questioned since he was unfamiliar with these kinds of buildings either.
"Let's find out." The oldest turtle said after seeing a path that went to the end of these structures. The eight heroes kept on walking until there was no more ground.
"Whoa." The group said along with other gasps of surprise.
"We're…We're…" The purple turtle stuttered to say as he looked at the dragon figure head along with the endless blue around them.
"In the middle of the ocean." Exile continued for him.
"We've been shanghaied." The orange turtle said to the others after making to the guardrails at the end of the boat.
"Yet another unexpected twist…cool." The leader of the canine team said as he too looked at the unending sea.
"What is the deal Hunter you usually say 'bummer' after you say your line." Blitz commented after the antonym of his usual word was heard.
"Yes, that's what I usually say, but…" The Retriever said to his friend, trying to explain himself, but was interrupted by the hot-headed one.
"This is messed up! I say we find a way off this tub and forget we were ever here." He said to the others while motioning to the boat that they were on as a tub. Colleen heard him and decided to stay serious for a counter comment.
"What makes you think the Tribunal would allow us to escape. They are powerful blokes." She said to him, and knew that he heard her since he was looking over his shoulder right at her.
"What do you think, Leo?" Michelangelo questioned, trusting the eldest's advice at a time like this.
"I don't know what to think." He started to say with a stutter at the beginning and then added, "They say there's a great evil coming…maybe we should…" He stalled because he was still uncertain and because Donatello had his own announcement.
"Hey, guys. Land-Ho!" He said to them while pointing at what he saw.
"That sure as shell aint New York." Raphael said when they all saw the image coming into view.
"And it doesn't smell like DC." Hunter commented after taking a whiff of the air.
"So, where are we? Where did those helmeted fools take us?" Blitz questioned since he was getting a little annoyed.
"Well, fellow Sapiens, welcome to Japan." Colleen said to them since her partner spent a few weeks here at a temple for a little R&R so she knew what the location smelled like.