The turtles ran in a nearby cave while the giant roamed the land. Each step he took seemed like a mini earthquake.

"What do you mean we're in a story book?" Raph asked Donnie.

Don explained, "Well, none of the things happening here could be real! Healing water, giants, a desert with tons of plants, all that kinda stuff would never happen on Earth..."

"You mean we're not on Earth?" Mikey asked, who had actually been listening to his genius brother.

Donnie shrugged. "It depends... if the book is on Earth, we're still on Earth; otherwise, we're somewhere else. And also, some of the things happening come from real books, like the giant probably comes from Jack and the Beanstalk. That mutant wolf Leo saw might come from The Three Little Pigs."

"Well, what do we do now?" Raph asked.

"Ask Leo, he's the leader," Donnie answered simply.

"Hey Fearless! What do we-" Raph stopped. "Hey, where's Leo?"

Donnie frowned. "Didn't he come in the cave with us?"

Raph and Mikey shrugged. "LEO!" Mikey called as he peeked out the cave. He gasped, and immediately went back inside.

"What? What did ya see?" Raph asked. He figured it was nothing important; Mikey was the youngest so of course he got scared easily.

"Sh- Shredder... he was fighting Leo!" Mikey whispered.

"SHREDDER?" Raph and Donnie looked outside the cave, and saw that Mikey was telling the truth. Leo was dodging Shredder's attacks, but he looked awfully tired. He couldn't strike the enemy once whereas Shredder had struck the poor turtle many times.

In a blink of an eye, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey had gathered their weapons, ran out of the cave, and began to help Leo fight Shredder.

"I don't- get it- Donnie," Raph said between kicking Shredder's hard armor and ducking just as Shredder was about to bring his blades down on him. "If we're in- a story book- how is Shredder- in it?"

"I don't know Raph, but- AHHHHHHH!" Donnie screamed as Shredder kicked him hard in the chest, sending him backwards and crashing into a tree trunk.

"You fools! You will never defeat me!" Shredder said as he sent Mikey nearly flying in the air as he landed near Donnie.

Raph gritted his teeth. No one got away with hurting his brothers, especially not the villain who named himself after a device that tore up paper.

"Come on, Raph, let's do this," Leo said as he got ready to attack. He managed to land hard blows on his stomach and feet, with the help of his younger brother. Raph and Leo managed to sweep Shredder his feet, causing him to fall to the ground with a loud thud, knocking his helmet off in the process. He looked up at the turtles, revealing his face filled with ugly scars and bruises.

Leo place his sword near Shredder's throat. "Let's end this!"

As quick as he could, he swiped his sword across Shredder's throat. His head rolled off the rest of his body and stopped near some flowering bushes.

Mikey, who had gotten up along with Donnie, was already celebrating. "We shredded Shredder! We shredded Shredder!"

Suddenly, a voice filled the air as the face of Shredder appeared in the air. "You fools! You have only defeated my clone. Defeating me will be much harder!"

Leo glanced at his sword. It was clean, without a single trace of blood or anything to show that Shredder was finished. "He's right," he said sadly. Then, more firmly, he said, "But we will finish him one day! We will!"

The other turtles cheered along, especially Mikey.

"But first, we have to go home," Donnie pointed out.

"How? Mikey's the one who brought us here first place," Raph said, glaring at the orange-masked turtle, who mouthed 'sorry' in reply.

"If the journal brought us here at first, it should bring us back home," Donne thought aloud. "Do you still have the journal, Mikey?"

Mikey bit his lip. "I- I kinda dropped it when we were in that wind thing..."

"MIKEY! YOU LOST OUR ONLY WAY HOME!?!" Raph shouted. He smacked Mikey on the head hard.

"Ow! Sorry..." Mikey said, looking down.

"Well, there could be other ways to get home," Donnie said thoughtfully.

"Alright then," Leo said. "We don't know how long we'll be staying here, so we should gather food, water, and other supplies..." He began to give out orders. The other turtles obeyed, wondering when and how they would go back to New York City...