MASTER SPLINTER: Sometimes you re-visit the past…..

A glass jar with four baby turtles falls to the ground and breaks, and then suddenly a canister filled with green ooze with the letters TCRI on it, falls right on top of them spilling everywhere.

A two year old boy was sleeping, when a kind shadow picked him up. The ooze clears to show the Turtles and Danny standing together.

Other times the past re-visits you.

They all pulled out their weapons and Danny changed into his ghost form, finding themselves surrounded by Foot Ninja, Purple Dragons, the Shredder's Elite Guard, Skulker, Fright Knight and ghost skeletons.

As Danny and the Turtles fought against them, each of their opponents just disappeared into thin air after one strike from each of their weapons.

Those moments can blur the boundary between memories and reality.

Danny and the Turtles suddenly found themselves standing on the giant hand of the Shredder, standing with Vlad Plasmius, laughing in the air as they glared at them.

There was a flash of light and Master Splinter opened his eyes from mediating.

Yet sometimes the past is a mirror in which we can see the reflection of what danger the future holds.

Master Splinter looked at his sons in front of him, mediating in the warm sun. His thoughts on one thing, with everything that has happened to them all lately, what does the future hold?

REFLECTIONS

The Battle Shell was parked out the front of Casey's grandmother's farmhouse. After the fight with the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius and reuniting, Master Splinter thought it would be a good idea to go to farmhouse for some rest and recuperation.

However at the moment, Danny, Leo, Raph and Donnie were standing with their masks as blindfolds around their eyes. Except for Danny who instead, had a cloth around his eyes and was training in his human form. Each of them had a bamboo staff in their hands.

"Master Splinter, when you said we were coming up here for a little rest and recuperation, I thought you meant well, rest and recuperation." Donnie said, confused as they were in their training session.

"Ah Donatello, there is nothing more restful for a ninja than rigorous training." Master Splinter said wisely. "It brings focus and….huh?"

He stopped and turned around hearing the noise of something going on behind him. He looked to see Mikey, instead of standing with the others in the training session, he had his mask up, his staff leaning on his shoulder and in his hands was Game Dude.

He laughed quietly as he continued to play, but then suddenly it was whacked out his hands by Master Splinter. He gasped and held the game console in his hand, worried it might be broken.

"Game Dude! Speak to me Game Dude!" Mikey shouted, hoping that it wasn't the case.

He yelped as Master Splinter dragged him back to the others, placing his mask around his eyes and blindfolding him. Sam, Tucker, Casey and April were all sitting down on a picnic rug at a tree. Tucker was on his PDA, April was reading a book, Casey was relaxing and Sam was watching them train.

"Now, defend yourselves." Master Splinter instructed them.

"Uh sensei, we got zero visibility here." Raph said.

That did not matter as Master Splinter began his attack. He flipped over them, landing first in front of Leo who blocked his strike from above with his staff, before swinging at his legs to try and trip him over his feet, but Master Splinter flipped over him and landed in front of Raph. Raph blocked his walking stick with his staff from the side before Master Splinter flipped over and aimed at Donnie's head with his stick, but Donnie managed to sense the strike coming and blocked it with his staff.

Master Splinter landed in front of Danny and tried to strike him in the chest, but Danny blocked the attack with the middle of his staff and almost managed to knock his walking stick out of his hands, but his sensei pushed back and then flipped over them before Danny could try and attack.

He landed in front of Mikey who also managed to block his attack at his legs with his staff. He stood up straight with a smile and asked, "Not bad huh sensei?"

"Yes, not bad at all." Master Splinter answered. "We are finished for today."

Danny, Mikey, Donnie and Raph dropped their staffs and began to remove their blindfolds, but then suddenly Master Splinter whacked Mikey's feet with his walking stick, causing him to fall on top of Donnie, which made him fall on top of Danny and made him fall on top of Raph, causing all of them to fall down like they were dominos. Leo however sensed them coming and before he too could be pushed down, he flipped out of the way and the others fell down to the ground.

"Master Splinter! You told us we were finished!" Danny complained.

"A true ninja should never believe everything he hears." Master Splinter said.

Leo finished fixing his mask and stood in front of Master Splinter. They both bowed to each other as his sensei said, "Well done Leonardo."

"There goes Leo making us look bad again." Donnie groaned as Leo helped him stand up.

"Yeah well Leo doesn't always get it right." Raph pointed out as he sat up and fixed his mask.

"What was that Raphael?" Master Splinter asked.

"Uh….nothing sensei." Raph answered, not wanting to make a big deal out of what he was talking about.

"Come, let us sit down and talk." Master Splinter said as they joined the others on the rug.

Raph then decided to just tell them what he meant, "It's no big deal really, but I was just thinking about the first time we met the Shredder and Plasmius and how they almost had Leonardo here, going over to the dark side. It's a good thing Danny could see right through them and didn't believe their story."

Leo groaned and then looked down in guilt, "Here we go again. You know, I still feel like an idiot about that whole thing."

"It wasn't your fault Leo. He and Plasmius sounded very convincing." Danny said, patting him on the shoulder.

"Yeah. He almost had you believing he was a good guy, remember?" Raph said and began retelling what happened.

FLASHBACK

"The Shredder and Plasmius invited you and Danny to a little party, and like a sucker you two went."

Danny and Leo walked around the empty room but there was no sign of anyone anywhere. They both suddenly gasped at the sight of the Foot symbol hanging down on a wall and growled believing this was a trap.

Suddenly a blue glowing net grabbed Danny and electrocuted him a little causing him to yelp in pain.

"DANNY!" Leo shouted and then a few Foot ninja came out of the shadows and circled around them followed by a robot looking person with a green flaming mow hawk grinning at the sight of Danny as he said, "Hello ghost child"

Danny changed into his ghost form and phased out of the net. He pulled out his katana blade and charged it up with his ecto energy ready to fight alongside with Leo. Donnie, Raph and Mikey watched from above through the rooftop window.

Danny sent a powerful blast straight at Skulker which hit him dead on and sent him crashing into the wall, Skulker let off a predatory growl with his grin. Leo rolled underneath three of the ninjas as they tried to attack him head on and then back kicked them to the ground. Skulker sent multiple daggers at Danny but he quickly put up a shield and blocked them, Danny then went through the floor intangibly and grabbed Skulker by his leg and started dragging him around everywhere as he flew.

"LEO HEAD'S UP!" Danny shouted as he threw Skulker towards Leo who leapt in the air and sliced Skulker's suit in half completely destroying it and revealing Skulker was nothing more than a small little green ghost.

Danny picked him up and flicked him away and then helped Leo take care of the other ninjas. Both he and Danny stood back to back and using their swords cut the ninja's swords in half and then blasted and knocked them all to the ground. The ninjas and Skulker groaned in pain and then they both heard someone clapping behind them.

They turned to see walking out of the shadows was a man wearing a white and grey Japanese fighting uniforms with the same red foot symbol on them and also another man wearing a black business suit with grey hair that was tied back in a ponytail. They both were smiling impressed by the skills they both had shown.

"Impressive. Very impressive. My agents said you two were good but their description doesn't do you justice" The first man said. The second man then said, "And sorry about Skulker there. I had ordered him to lead the attack to test both your skills, especially you boy since they had also described you as very skilled with both your ghost powers and the art of ninjustu"

"I am Oroku Saki. Eighth generation master of ninjustu" The first man introduced himself. He gestured to the second man and said, "This man here is my associate and ally Vlad Masters, owner of DALV companies. And you two are?"

Leo and Danny put away their swords but remained suspicious especially Danny as he felt spectral energy radiating off Vlad Masters. Leo then answered, "I am Leonardo and this is my brother Danny"

"We both felt it was urgent that we meet" said. "There are things you need to know. I too am like you. A half ghost. "You and your brother have been caught in the middle of a battle that is so much bigger than yourself. You must know that there is a corrupt and evil force that is out there right now working its insidious tentacles into every aspect of our world"

Saki sighed, "Unfortunately the only thing standing against this force is me and my humble army of ninjas. I was fortunate to meet Vlad years ago who joined my organisation and although it has made our army stronger, we still stand alone against them as my master did and his master before him. It has been my destiny as well as Vlad's to fight for the side of good"

"We were hoping you both could find it in your hearts to join us and fight against this evil and I could teach you young Daniel everything I know and have learned about my ghost powers" Vlad said. "We could stand together"

FLASHBACK ENDS

Imitating Darth Vader from Star Wars Mikey said, "Join us Leonardo and Daniel. We are your fathers."

"I can't believe you bought the whole Shredder's twisted story." Raph said to his older brother.

"Neither can I." Leo said, looking down in regret.

"Leo, it's okay. You shouldn't feel bad about this." Sam said. "The thing about bad guys, they always manage to twist their words to make you think what they're doing is good."

"Samantha is right my son. You hoped their words were true. It is the nature of a good heart to hope." Master Splinter agreed.

Leo smiled and said, "I'm just glad you guys opened my eyes. Especially you sensei. I should've seen through their lies. I should've seen them coming."

"Yeah well, I'm just glad that the Shredder and Plasmius didn't see Master Splinter coming." Mikey said, remembering the battle that took place.

FLASHBACK

"Remember that first time we went to face the Shredder and Plasmius? They pretty much kicked our shells all over the place!"

Leo, Raph, Donnie, Danny and Mikey stood in front of the water tower while Master Splinter sat on top of it and that's when Shredder, Plasmius and the Foot came onto the roof.

Shredder then jumped in front of Donnie and with just a few palm strikes and punches he knocked him right into the wall and caused him to drop his staff.

Plasmius, Danny and Raph stood face to face with each other. Plasmius created a sword out his energy and jumped up to strike right at them only to have his attack blocked by Raph's sai and got kicked in the back by Danny. Plasmius grabbed Raph by his arm as he tried to punch him, twisted his arm behind his back and then kicked him away. He grabbed onto Danny's arm only to scream in pain as the power of the Spectre Deflector zapped him hard and he fell to the ground. Danny stood before him and smirked.

Danny pulled out the metal thermos and pressed the button.

The energy hit Vlad dead on and with one final scream he was sucked right into the device and Danny closed the lid on it. Danny groaned a little weakly as he was forced to change back into his human form from lack of energy. Shredder jumped behind him and was about to strike him when Danny saw him coming and blocked the attack with his sword while accidently dropping the thermos to the ground. Luckily it wasn't hard enough to break and allow Plasmius to escape. Shredder continued to throw strikes at him with his blades but Danny kept blocking him until he swept his legs and he grabbed him by his ninja belt and delivered a powerful kick right into his stomach sending him flying and into the wall, landing next to Donnie.

Leo blocked the strikes and fought against a Foot ninja, he kicked the ninja away but didn't know that Shredder was behind him and was about to finish him off with his blades.

"NO!" Raph shouted and immediately blocked the strike with his sais but Shredder picked him up and threw him to the wall causing him hit it hard and cause a dent in it.

Mikey spun around and knocked down the ninjas surrounding him with his nun chucks but Shredder came up and punched him right into the wall right next to the others. It wasn't long before he delivered a powerful punch to Leo's face and sent him into the wall. Danny, Raph, Mikey and Donnie weakly moved over to check on their older brother and looked up with slight fear as Shredder walked up to them and raised his gauntlet high ready to deliver the final blow.

"None of you will leave here alive!" Shredder sneered at them.

"For a moment there, I thought the Shredder was going to finish us all off." Danny said, shaking a little at the memory.

"Yeah. Too bad that both he and Plasmius forgot about one thing. A little ninety pound weapon of mass destruction we like to call, dear old dad." Raph said.

Master Splinter jumped in front of his sons in defence and blocked his blow with his walking stick.

"You destroyed my family once! I will not allow that to happen again!" Splinter shouted.

Splinter let go and then knocked him in the back with his stick. He jumped over Shredder and landed in front of the water tower. Splinter looked behind him and got an idea as he taunted Shredder to attack him.

Shredder charged straight for Splinter just as the thermos lid exploded and Plasmius came out in his human form, he saw Shredder fighting against Splinter and changed into his ghost form and ran over to help him fight.

The two delivered multiple series of punches and kicks but Splinter blocked each one and ducked as Shredder tried to strike him with his gauntlet only to slice one of the beams holding the water tower instead. Splinter then carried out his plan, he jumped in front of each beam and watched as Shredder and Plasmius sliced or blasted each one in half.

With one beam only holding the water tower, it began to tilt and lean and before Vlad could notice Splinter pinched a nerve on his shoulder causing him to change back into his human form.

"THIS IS FOR MY MASTER YOSHI!" Splinter shouted as he jumped in the air and kicked one of the broken beams.

Shredder and Plasmius both gasped as they realised what they did and before they could get away in time as Splinter, Danny and the Turtles moved out of the way, the water tower fell and all the water fell right on top of them sending them over the roof in a massive tidal wave. They landed on the streets and suddenly before they could do anything else, the water tower fell right on top of them.

"I thought I had avenged my Master Yoshi, but the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius was not finished." Master Splinter said.

Shredder's hand sprung from the debris as well as an intangible hand, belonging to Vlad Plasmius.

FLASHBACK END

"Finished? From what you guys told me about him, I wonder if they'll ever be finished." Tucker said, putting his PDA down for a moment.

"They definitely have a habit of coming back." Leo said, agreeing with Tucker.

"Yeah. Remember what happened at April's place a few weeks later after that fight?" Donnie asked.

"I wish I could forget it." Mikey said, remembering all too well what happened, especially when Leo was gravely injured by the Shredder's and Plasmius's forces.

FLASHBACK

Suddenly Leo and Danny screamed as they came crashing through the living room window causing them all to gasp in shock as they landed on the floor hard and unconscious.

"Danny! / Leo! / what happened?!" They all shouted in fear, shock and concern as they saw Danny had a cut on his leg and Leo was seriously injured.

"WHAT?!" Raph shouted as they all knelt down to them. "Who did this to you?!"

Mikey held Leo's head up as Raph asked again, "Bro who did this to you?"

"Danny's been cut on the leg by some kind of weapon." Sam said as she looked at the cut. Danny groaned as he woke up slowly and said, "It was an ambush."

Raph growled in anger and pulled out his weapons and stood at the window, "I'm gonna find out who did this."

"No Raph! It was the Foot!" Danny shouted.

"What?" Everyone said still in shock.

"Wait." Leo's weak voice spoke.

Raph came back and knelt down beside Leo as he spoke, "They're back…..The Shredder….Plasmius."

the door was kicked down right of its hinges and entering the shop was none other than Shredder and Vlad Plasmius.

"Oh crud!" Raph exclaimed.

"It's really them. Like Leo and Danny said." Mikey said still in shock.

"Did you really think you had seen the last of us?" Plasmius sneered. "And here I thought in your training, you five learned to never underestimate your opponent."

"You freaks have been thorns in my side long enough." Shredder then sneered.

Master Splinter stood beside his sons as Shredder finished, "No-one opposes the Shredder or Plasmius. And now I will have my revenge for our last encounter. Say farewell to each other while you still can"

"Oh yeah Mr Spikeypants! Well you're the one who should be saying….uh…farewell to….to yourself." Mikey retorted back nervously.

"Oh yeah Mikey. That got him." Raph said sarcastically.

"Guys I say we shred their butts once and for all, for Leo!" Raph said as he held up his sais.

Raph and Mikey took on Shredder while Donnie and Danny took on Plasmius, unfortunately it wasn't long before he took them both down with just one punch to the face and one strike from his gauntlet.

Plasmius grabbed Donnie's staff and kicked Donnie straight into the pole by a kick to the stomach, he then used the staff to block a strike from Danny's sword and then quickly pulled out a device from his pocket that had two metal prongs on the top part of it and hit Danny in the side, it immediately electrocuted Danny causing him to yelp in pain and suddenly he was forced back into his human form.

The assassins immediately charged straight at the turtles, Danny stood up as Plasmius charged straight at him with a sword made from his own ectoplasmic energy and Shredder charged straight at Master Splinter with Donnie's staff.

Mikey saw the door and jumped over to it, he opened it up and called out to the others, "Everybody in here! We can hold them off!"

Raph, Casey and Danny kept the Foot Ninja back as Sam and April took Leo inside the storage room, Master Splinter, Mikey, Donnie, Danny, Raph and Casey then entered inside and locked the door from the inside, cutting the Foot off as Shredder and Plasmius broke free from the cabinet.

Shredder said to Plasmius, "Get out that explosive you made Plasmius"

Plasmius pulled out a small black and yellow techno ball as Shredder walked over to the door and picked up a metal pole and placed it between the door handle and the gas pipe.

"Now activate it and set this place in flames" Shredder commanded.

Plasmius then got the idea and grinned as he activated the explosive device and threw it to the ground, the wooden floor immediately set alight in flames.

"Like the phoenix, we have risen from the ashes!" Shredder said as he cut the gas pipe in half and the room immediately began to fill with gas.

"And into our fire, you shall fall" Plasmius finished and then the two powerful enemies, disappeared within the flames.

Danny then smelled something and said, "Uh I can smell smoke"

Everyone then began to smell the air and could smell the smoke as well. Donnie then said, "I smell gas"

Mikey then suddenly felt the door and said, "This door's getting hot"

He then tried to open it up but found he couldn't and exclaimed, "It's jammed! It won't open!"

"Gas plus flame equals….." Casey began but then his eyes widened in horror and shouted, "LET'S BOOK NOW!"

"WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Raph shouted as he, Mikey and Danny started using their weapons to try and force the door open but it wouldn't budge at all.

A few moments later the entire store exploded, destroying the entire building and leaving it engulfed in flames.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"That definitely wasn't a good day." Sam said, as they all looked down on the memory.

Especially April, since it was her apartment and her father's antique shop that got destroyed. She sighed in sadness and asked, "I really miss that old place. Do you think they're gone? For good? The Shredder and Plasmius?"

"I don't know. I sure thought Leo and Danny finished them off that night at Foot Headquarters." Raph answered, remembering when they returned to New York after Leo recovered and faced the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius once again.

FLASHBACK

"DANNY USE YOUR NEW POWER! WE HAVE TO WEAKEN THEM TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO GET THE SWORD AWAY!" Leo ordered as they dodged several blasts from Plasmius and Shredder from their swords.

Danny nodded and stood up. He took a deep breath, concentrated and then released another powerful wail. Shredder and Plasmius both screamed as they were pushed back but Danny did not stop as they were pushed back against the debris behind them.

The Guardians had finished defeating the skeletons and the Foot Ninja and watched in amazement at Danny and the Turtles fighting against Plasmius and the Shredder. Vlad was suddenly forced to change back into his human form from the wail and the Sword of Tengu was suddenly forced right out of Shredder's hands and into the air.

Danny stopped the power surge and then Leo dug his swords into the ground and jumped in the air for the Sword of Tengu.

"LEO CATCH!" Donnie shouted as he threw the protective glove to Leo.

Leo quickly grabbed the glove and placed it on before grabbing the Sword of Tengu. Danny grabbed his own sword and jumped with Leo right towards Shredder and Vlad.

Shredder and Vlad both jumped out of the way just before Leo and Danny could hit them with their swords. They both stood side by side each other as they faced the Shredder and Vlad Masters who had very little energy to change back into his ghost form.

Vlad and Shredder grabbed one of Leo's swords each and stood face to face against Leo and Danny. All of them holding their swords up high, both of them glaring at each other as they tightened their grips on their weapons.

They both then jumped in the air and charged straight at each other. The sounds of swords was the only thing the others could hear as they watched them pass each other and landing on opposite sides. There was nothing but silence for a moment and then suddenly, Shredder's helmet fell off along with his head inside and his body fell to the ground. Vlad said nothing except fall to ground and took one last breath of life.

Danny groaned a little weakly from using his new power twice and changed back into his human form and turned with Leo and faced the now lifeless bodies of the Shredder and Vlad Masters AKA Vlad Plasmius.

Leo picked up his swords and Raph, Donnie and Mikey joined their brothers and stood in front of the flames in victory.

FLASHBACK END

"Yeah, but it wasn't the end of him that's for sure." Danny said, remembering their fight with them just recently back at TCRI.

FLASHBACK

"Remember the night the Utroms were finally going to beam themselves back home and my mother and sister were going with them? The Shredder and Plasmius came back into the TCRI building, badder than ever."

"You all better leave the building while there's still time." Maddie said as she stood on the platform.

Mortu climbed out of his robotic suit and asked Donnie as he got onto the platform, "Donatello, would you do me the honour of powering up the Transmat?"

"Sweet! I'm all over it Donnie said heading for the controls, but before he could power up the Transmat, a couple of shuriken were thrown at the controls, hitting them dead on and causing sparks of electricity to fly out.

They turned to see it was Shredder, Vlad Plasmius, Skulker, Fright Knight, the Elite Guard and Hun once again back.

"As long as either of us live, you will not leave this place alive!" Shredder roared.

"It seems like they're always trying to make sure we never leave any place alive." Leo added, remembering the device that destroyed TCRI.

Some kind of device fell from Shredder's hands and landed on the floor in front of them. It dug its claws into the floor and a timer with ten minutes began ticking down. Red lines like veins began to spread across the room.

Donnie and Jazz were about to touch it to see what it was, but Maddie immediately warned them, "Don't touch it!"

They backed off from it as she continued, "It's an Utrom Implosion Device! If you touch it, the techno-organic virus it contains will destroy you."

Mortu checked the computers and said with fear, "Already it has infected the system! The entire building will implode, in less than ten minutes!"

Jazz, Danny, Master Splinter and the Turtles gasped in shock.

"Bomb, schomb! You guys are forgetting the freakiest part of that whole ordeal. The Shredder's true identity!" Mikey said, remembering the final secret that had learned that night.

Vlad landed in the middle of all of them and blasted them all back with an ecto-blast. Shredder and Plasmius walked up onto the platform and stood in front of them all.

"It's time to end your pathetic lives once and for all / Our thousand year struggle comes to an end Mortu." Shredder and Plasmius sneered and were about to attack them.

However, Leo, Raph, Mikey, Master Splinter and Donnie kicked the Shredder right off the platform with a couple of powerful dragon kicks and double phoenix punches. Danny landed in front of Plasmius and blasted him right in the face, knocking him right off the platform as well.

Hun, Fright Knight, Skulker and the Elite Guard followed their masters' orders and began to head out of the building to track down Stockman. Since the Shredder and Plasmius were distracted, they watched as Donnie finally powered up the Transmat and activated.

"We will meet again / See you again someday my son." The head Guardian and Maddie spoke as they were being transported.

"After so long, I will not be denied my vengeance again! / No! Maddie must die!" Shredder and Plasmius screamed and tried to stop them, but it was too late.

They had finally been transported all the way to the Utrom Home World. Shredder and Plasmius turned and glared at the ones responsible for stopping their plans of revenge.

"You! You have been little more than thorns in our side." Plasmius sneered. "But now, you all have robbed us of our triumphs and for that, you shall all pay with your lives!"

Shredder raised his gauntlets and Plasmius fired deadly ecto blasts at them all, but Danny quickly formed an ecto shield around all of them and protected them from the oncoming strikes.

"Shredder, Plasmius there is no time! The building is about to implode! Even you two could not survive." Master Splinter tried to reason with them as Danny dropped his shield and they back off a bit.

"Then we shall all perish together!" Shredder roared.

Donnie tried to hit him with his staff, but Shredder simply cut his staff in half with his gauntlets and then kicked him in the chest. The clock was still ticking! There was only a minute and twenty seconds left!

Vlad started firing blasts at Danny and Leo. Danny grabbed Leo and moved him out of the way. As Mikey, Raph and Master Splinter took on the Shredder, Leo noticed a large missile looking weapon on the ground next to him.

He looked on the side and read Ecto-Foamer and thought it might help them take down Plasmius. He picked it up and fired it at Plasmius, Vlad suddenly gasped when he was hit by the sticky substance and stuck to the wall.

Vlad tried to phase from the stuff but found he couldn't and roared, "What in blazes?!"

"Looks like your mum left behind something useful Danny." Leo smiled at the invention.

Danny smiled back and then said, "Now to take down Shredder as fast as we can."

They all tried every single type of attack, but Shredder proved to be still the fast and strong ninja he was. Raph threw his sais at him, but he caught them both in his hands and kicked both Master Splinter and Mikey in the stomach knocking them back a few feet.

Leo jumped up and hit the metal of his armour with his sword, making him fall backwards and dropping Raph's sais.

"Thanks bro!" Raph called out as he grabbed his sais back from the floor. As Shredder stood up, Raph acted quickly and sliced at his armour with his sais, suddenly Shredder's armour started sparking with electricity and he writhed in pain.

Leo then sliced at another part of his armour and more sparks of electricity started flowing from the suit.

"Guys, use your weapons to penetrate his armour! I think we can stop him for good!" Donnie called out as he got an idea on how to defeat Shredder.

Leo handed Splinter one of his swords, who then immediately leapt up and attacked, the others followed suit. Leo with his other sword, Raph with his sais, Mikey with his nun-chucks and Danny with his own sword.

After the attack, all their weapons were now stuck in his armour. Shredder roared at them in pain, "You pathetic….creatures cannot….hurt….me!"

"Don't be so sure! Now Danny, Ghostly Wail time!" Donnie called out.

Danny took a deep breath and fired his Ghostly Wail straight at Shredder, his body sparked even more once the raw energy hit and even forced Vlad to change into his human form as the energy hit him as well.

Danny stopped as he was feeling weak from his using his newly developed power. Shredder fell to the ground once again like he was unconscious. Danny panted and changed back to his human form as he fell down to his knees feeling slightly weak.

Mikey and Raph helped him stand up as he said, "Out of power, but worth it to take him down."

They all looked at the unconscious form of the Shredder, but then suddenly heard a hissing noise coming from his stomach area. The front of his armour suddenly opened up and suddenly a very familiar alien came emerged from what now was revealed was a robotic body.

"The Shredder's…..an Utrom?!" Donnie shouted in complete shock. It's true. Oroku Saki is an Utrom.

"Man! When we found out the Shredder was an Utrom, I nearly soiled my shell!"

"Nasty little bug!" Raph commented, remembering that too.

"Dude, did you know about this?" Danny asked Vlad who was almost off the wall from the substance.

"As a matter of fact Daniel, yes I did." Vlad answered as he continued his way through the goo.

"He ain't so tough now! Let's just squish him." Raph suggested to the others.

Suddenly Shredder leapt right up and grabbed right onto Raph's head! Raph ran around trying to get the alien off him, his voice was muffled by his tentacles.

"What did you say?! Ha! Ha! Ha! I can't seem to hear you!" Shredder taunted as he held on.

There was only thirty seconds left on the clock as they tried to get Shredder off of Raph. Leo grabbed hold of Shredder and tried to pull him off with all his might.

"Get it off or there's gonna be a tiny little Shredder alien busting out of Raph's chest!" Mikey panicked, which Raph just managed to slap him for.

As Leo continued to try and pull Shredder off him, the Shredder suddenly snapped his teeth at Leo trying to bite his hands off, causing him to jump back. Master Splinter used his walking stick to finally pry the Shredder off, sending straight into the wall.

The Shredder got back up and hid behind one of the containers. Donnie finished at the controls and said as the final ten seconds approached, "Guys quick! I got the Transmat recalibrated!"

Danny, Master Splinter and the Turtles headed to the Transmat and began teleporting out of TCRI.

Vlad finally freed himself from the wall, he and Shredder ran as fast as they could to be transported out of the building with Danny, Master Splinter and the Turtles but they were too late and missed the transport beam.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Shredder and Vlad screamed as the clock reached zero.

There was a blinding flash of light, everyone outside took cover from the light. Sam, Tucker, Casey and April took cover behind the Battle Shell and as soon as the light from the implosion was gone, they all looked to see that there was no longer a building standing there. There was nothing except now a huge crater in the ground where the building once stood.

FLASHBACK END

"How come every place we go, things get blown up?" Mikey asked.

Raph shrugged and answered as he lit the campfire, since night had fallen, "Just lucky I guess."

"Lucky? Yeah. But that last time wasn't so lucky for the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius." Donnie said, wondering as well if the Shredder and Plasmius had survived that explosion.

"But, there's way they could've survived that right?" Sam asked. "No one could have."

"I don't know Sam. The Shredder and Plasmius may play rough, they may play dirty, but they don't play dead." Mikey said.

"Yeah, but they sure leave a path of destruction wherever they go." Leo said, remembering two brave people they had learned about. "I can't help but think of Master Yoshi and Danny's father, Jack Fenton. Not only was Master Yoshi Master Splinter's sensei, but both he and Jack were Guardians along with Maddie. Sworn to protect valuable secrets about the Utroms. Secrets that Shredder, Plasmius and their forces would stop at nothing to learn."

"Yeah, and then both of them were attacked by Shredder and Plasmius." Danny continued, remembering how his mother told him the truth of what happened to his father and to Master Yoshi by Master Splinter.

"They didn't go down without fighting though. Your father Danny, especially fought to protect you and your mother as well." Raph said, also remembering both stories.

"And from what both Maddie and Master Splinter says, Master Yoshi and Jack Fenton were a couple of really tough dudes." Mikey said, agreeing with his brothers.

"I wish we could've met them." Donnie said. "You have to admire their courage, they were defiant to the last."

"They really threw it back in the Shredder's and Plasmius's faces, even at the cost of their lives." Leo finished.

Danny and Master Splinter looked down in sadness. Master Splinter then said, "When I think of my Master Yoshi, my heart aches. But I know that Master Yoshi kept his honour to the end. The same for Jack Fenton. They were both true warriors and Guardians."

"Danny? Are you okay?" Sam asked, looking at Danny with sympathy, knowing what it's like to lose a parent.

"I'm doing fine. I mean, I wish he was still around, but he wouldn't want me to be sad about his death. He would want me to move on." Danny answered.

Sam placed her hand on his shoulder, hoping it would provide some comfort for her friend.

Suddenly Casey roared in anger and frustration, "The Shredder! Plasmius! Hun! And those Purple Dragons!"

He stood up and smashed the picnic chair as he continued to roar, "Bunch of heartless goons! I…I just wanna….ARGH!"

They all looked at Casey strangely, until April grabbed his hands and sat him down calmly as she said, "I think what Mr Jones is trying say here is, we're sorry for your loss Master Splinter and Danny."

"Thanks guys." Danny said, smiling in appreciation.

"Thank you. We have all suffered at the hands of the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius." Master Splinter said.

Suddenly, April and Casey looked to see that they were still holding hands. They quickly let and blushed a little. Danny then noticed Sam's hand on his shoulder, Sam and Danny both looked away from each other as she removed her hand and both of them blushed.

"Love-birds." Tucker said in his hands, while smirking at both Casey and April and Danny and Sam.

Donnie then thought of something, "You guys wanna know the funny part?"

"There's a funny part?" Raph asked.

"Well….not 'ha, ha' funny, but kinda ironic." Donnie answered. "I was thinking that both the Shredder and Plasmius had a bigger hand in our lives than we know. Without the Shredder and Plasmius, Danny wouldn't be half-ghost and we'd still be pet turtles in a glass jar right now."

That made everyone's eyes widened. Mikey then asked in a deep voice, "What ya talkin' about Willis?"

"Well allow me to explain." Donnie said and began his explanation of his theory. "As you all recall, we all got mutated by that strange ooze when we were only babies and it wasn't long until Master Splinter found Danny and discovered he was half-ghost caused by ectoplasmic radiation. The same ingredient that stabilised the ooze that mutated us in the first place."

"I remember it all as if it were yesterday, you were all so cute." Master Splinter said, causing them all to blush in embarrassment.

Donnie then continued, "The ooze and the ectoplasm that changed and mutated us came from the TCRI building right? And why did the TCRI building even exist? Because the Utroms were trying to build their Transmat so they could go home. And why did they have to go home and why did the Transmat even exist in the first place?"

"Because they were going to be late for dinner and they needed a quick way to get home?" Mikey guessed.

"No. Because one, Danny's parents had been experimenting to help build the Transmat with the Utroms, using ectoplasm that caused the ectoplasmic radiation that gave Danny his powers and because of an accident Vlad got into during one of their experiments of creating a ghost portal, thus causing him to become half-ghost." Donnie answered and continued. "And the Utroms needed to go home, because an evil prisoner they were transporting across the galaxy sabotaged their star-ship, causing them to crash-land on Earth centuries ago."

"And who was this evil prisoner who caused the Utroms so much trouble? Who were the two that spent years trying to find the Utroms and destroy them for revenge? They were in fact…..The Shredder and Vlad Plasmius! Ergo, the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius had a direct hand in our creation." Donnie finished as they were sitting around the campfire in a circle. "See what I mean?"

None of them spoke, for they were really clueless to what he was trying to say. Tucker then said, "Uh dude, you might want to clear that up, because none of us understand what you mean."

"Ladies and mutants, how not to tell our origin story." Mikey joked, as he placed a marshmallow on his stick to make smores.

"No. Listen. If the Shredder hadn't made the Utroms crash in the first place, then they never would've developed the ooze, and if they never developed the ooze, Jack and Maddie Fenton never would have perfected the ooze with the ectoplasm, and if they didn't use ectoplasm then Vlad never would've had his accident and Danny wouldn't have never been given ghost powers and we never wouldn't have never been mutated. And if we've never have been mutated, we'd be eating fish flakes in some kid's aquarium right now and Danny would've just been a normal kid." Donnie said, re-phrasing everything he said and finally, making his point.

That definitely made everyone understand everything Donnie had said to them. Danny then said, "Woah bro! That's really deep. I never would've thought of it that way."

Raph shivered and said, "Being that closely related to the Shredder and Plasmius makes me feel kind of….dirty."

"Hmmm…The Shredder and Vlad Plasmius may be a part of our origin, but it is we who choose our fate." Master Splinter pointed out.

"And even if the Shredder or even Plasmius is still out there, no matter what they throw at us, no matter how he messes with our lives, nothing they do will change the most important thing; that we're family." Leo said with a smile.

"Well said bro." Danny said, agreeing with Leo.

Mikey suddenly laughed and said to Leo, "Leo that was off the charts of the sap-o-metre. You've been watching way too many after school specials bro."

"Just eat your smores and keep quiet Mikey. Leo's got a point." Raph said, frowning at Mikey for mocking Leo's speech.

Mikey suddenly threw a marshmallow at Raph's face, causing it to stick in the middle like he had a nose. He growled in annoyance and frustration as he wiped it off, but Mikey laughed and mocked him.

"You are so dead laughing boy!" Raph growled as he got up and headed towards Mikey.

"Watch the gram crackers!" Leo warned, but it was too late.

Not only did Raph crush the gram crackers, he shoved Mikey across the grass and began to wrestle with him. Leo, Donnie and Danny then jumped in, trying to pull them apart but ended up getting caught in the rustle themselves.

As they rolled around in their rough play, they accidentally crashed into Tucker who no was tangled up in their rumble. Casey smirked and joined in as he shouted in glee, "PILE ON!"

Sam, April and Master Splinter merely watched from the sidelines as they wrestled around. April sighed and asked, "Well, it's definitely a family. But do you two think we'll ever be able to teach the kids some manners?"

"I wouldn't count on it April. It's basic typical male behaviour." Sam said as she continued to watch them.

"She has a point Miss O'Neil. And teaching my sons the ancient art of ninjustu is hard enough. I'm afraid even I cannot work miracles." Master Splinter said as they watched the boys continue their wrestling.

THE END

Author's note:

I've been thinking on three possible scenarios for the next chapter. I'm gonna put a poll up for each one and I would like you all to vote for which way you would like the chapter to go.

Here are the options:

Danny VS the Ultimate Ninja

Leo VS the Ultimate Ninja

Both Leo and Danny vs the Ultimate Ninja

The poll will be open tonight after I post this chapter and will close at the end of this week, so vote for which one you would like to see!

Hope you enjoyed this new chapter and remember to read and review

Mikaela2015