I'm back! Whoo! This chappie's a doozy! It's long! I put a few pics of where I went on my DA account if anyone wants to see! I couldn't wait to get to this story again! Soon we're gonna get to Exodus, and then SEASON FOOOUUURR! Can't wait to experiment with that! Enjoy! Also, I'm starting school on Wednesday, so updates will definitely be slower, and my Sneefee One-Shots has been finished, as well.

"Take this scum to Lord Hebi," the lead soldier ordered. One of the samurai obeyed, putting Usagi's hands behind his back and leading him (another soldier led Tomoe Ame) towards Hebi's throne room. "The master will be quite pleased indeed."

As the two prisoners and three dishonorable samurai (one to guard them) left, Leonardo stuck his head down from the ceiling.

Usagi and Tomoe Ame arrived at the throne room, two of the Neko ninja stepped out of the way, revealing Gen and Lord Noriyuki. "My Lord! No!" Tomoe Ame exclaimed as she and Usagi were pushed forward next to them.

Hebi uncurled from his spiraling form, facing the prisoners. "Those with honor; so predictable. So easily maneuvered. So... pathetic," he hissed, slithering forward.

Noriyuki stepped forward. "Lord Hebi, it is me you want! Please, spare the others! I beg you!" he exclaimed, getting to his knees and closing his eyes.

Hebi slithered around him, not yet crushing him. "Silly child. With you gone, I shall pillage your clan's land and all its treasures." He got out from around the young panda and went back to his place in front of them. "It will be... beautiful."

A figure jumped down from the ceiling, landing intentionally on Hebi's head. The figure leapt a few feet away and took off his mask. "It's guys like you that give honorable reptiles a bad name!" Leonardo exclaimed with a snarl.

Taking advantage of the guard's shock, Usagi and Gennosuke attacked the guards holding them, and Gennosuke sat on the one he knocked out to get the spear to cut his binds. A few more guards charged at Usagi and Tomoe Ame and the former mentioned used the guard's spear to cut his own binds, then grabbed it to cut Tomoe Ame's, as well. He then used the spear to block another one and knocked him out, giving his spear to Tomoe Ame, who accepted it gratefully.

Leonardo, on the other hand, was constantly in front of the child as they circled around Lord Hebi, Leo making sure the child was an arm's distance away behind him for safekeeping. He'd felt protective of this child from the start. He loved kids. Always had. Any time he was sent on a solo murder mission for Shredder (he nearly shuddered at the thought), he'd spare the children and put them in an orphanage. He couldn't help it. They were so innocent, even the young panda lord behind him. No matter how much war and fighting and anything a child saw, they still had this innocence in them. That was why he'd also held a special love for Mikey. He had that same innocence.

'Back to the matter at hand,' he thought to himself as Hebi started talking.

"The kame! You will pay for this affront!" the snake hissed hatefully.

"Sorry to point this out," Leo started, taking out his katanas, "but you have no legs! This isn't gonna be much of a fight!" He didn't point out the fact that the snake had no arms; he'd fought many without arms and they'd been good fighters. He'd even himself trained with no arms, but not with no legs. Seriously? How was this guys going to even-?

The snake coiled around him as Noriyuki ran away, wrapping him tightly, and then threw him into a wall. He groaned as he slid down, hitting his head hard. "Note to self: Legs are overrated!" he half-exclaimed, half-groaned as he rubbed his head, getting back up, katanas somehow still in hands.

"You do not fight alone, Leonardo-san!" Usagi exclaimed, pointing his spear at Hebi.

"Nor do I, ronin!" Hebi exclaimed with a hiss.

Two sliding doors, one of which Leo had crashed into, opened, and five guards and two Neko ninja joined the fight.

The two Neko attacked Tomoe Ame and the guards attacked Usagi, who took his blade from one of their belts and pinned him and another to the wall, cutting off the tufts of hair sticking up from their heads. They passed out from fright as Usagi unsheathed his blade with a smile, grabbing his other one from the other passed out guard and smirking.

Lord Hebi had a whimpering Lord Noriyuki in a corner, but then Leo leapt in front of the snake with a snarl. He swiped Hebi, who coiled on the other side of the... bed (?!) he'd been on before the prisoners arrived. The latter mentioned reptile flipped the bed on top of Leo, who groaned in pain as he tried to lift the heavy thing off of him. When that didn't work, he propped it up with one of his swords and rolled out of the way, almost getting crushed by the snake.

He used his remaining sword to try and cut Hebi, but the snake was too fast. "As I said before... Pathetic."

Leo snarled at the snake.

Gen cut a spear in half, and it landed on his broken horn on his nose and he threw his head back, knocking out the two guards approaching him from behind.

Tomoe Ame was sort of holding her own. She threw her spear down where a Neko ninja had been, but missed, and found herself pinned on the ground, her newly acquired sword the only reason she wasn't being cut in half. She looked to her left and saw Noriyuki against the wall. "Tomoe Ame!" the panda exclaimed, reaching his hand out.

Tomoe Ame growled at her attacker and kicked him off her, disarming him. Usagi came over and kicked him unconscious into a wall. The other Neko ninja discretely took out three shuriken, but Usagi took out his bigger sword and blocked them as Tomoe Ame took out another guard. The two samurai stood back-to-back and smiled at each other, then blocked another attack on their own side.

Leo had taken to a bit of a defensive as he dodged Hebi's ail. He gasped as something finally coiled around his right ankle and lifted him upside down. He kicked Hebi in the face before the snake could bite him in half, getting released in the process. Hebi charged at him again, jaws open, but Leo put his only remaining sword in the legless reptile's jaws. Hebi sent the sword across the room towards the young panda without realizing it.

Leo was thrown against the wall again, landing on his ass as he held Hebi's jaws away from himself, having a bit of trouble. He leaned away. "Nice... breath," he grunted sarcastically.

"Leonardo!" Usagi exclaimed from the other side of the room.

Just as Hebi's jaws were about to close around Leonardo's head, a sword was tapped against his throat. He recoiled as Leo let go of his mouth, wiping the spit on his clothes.

Noriyuki was holding the sword. "I will not stand by and watch you harm my friends!" he exclaimed as he stepped away a bit, letting Hebi look at the room. "Look around, villain! You are defeated!"

Gen stepped on the last conscious one of Hebi's warriors as he stood next to Tomoe Ame and Usagi.

Hebi cackled madly. He turned back to Leo and Noriyuki. "You think me defeated?! Even if you should make it out of the fortress, you are surrounded by hundreds of my ninja!"

At that, Usagi and the others turned to the main doorway, where a bunch of Neko ninja appeared. "I decide who is defeated!" Hebi cackled.

He was interrupted by a horn blowing outside. Noriyuki smiled. "Do you hear that, Hebi? It seems as if the Shogun wish to speak with you!" the panda sneered as he and Leonardo backed away from the window so Hebi could see.

"What?!" the snake demanded. "NO!"

His entire camp was being invaded by hundreds upon hundreds of Shogun, powering through.

"The Shogun Army? No! NO!" Hebi screamed as the Neko ninja in the door ran away. "Stop! Come back and fight, cowards!"

He turned back to the panda. "Noriyuki, the tables may have turned, but you will not leave here alive!" he vowed, slithering towards Noriyuki with purpose. Leo kicked him out of the way, sending him yards away. "This is not over!" Hebi exclaimed, opening a door with his tail subtly and slithering out quickly.

Leo growled, already running after him, but Usagi's calm voice stopped him. "Let him go, Leonardo. With the Shogun's army outside, there is nowhere he can hide."

Tomoe Ame ran towards Noriyuki, hugging him. "My lord! I thought I'd never see you again!"

"If you are to thank anyone, Tomoe Ame," Noriyuki started as they broke, "thank Usagi and Gen and Leonardo-san." He walked next to Leo and gestured to him. "Were it not for him, the Geishu Clan would've been destroyed!" He turned to Leo and bowed deeply. Usagi and Tomoe Ame followed in suit.

Leo blushed and rubbed the back of his head, turning back to the panda when the latter resumed talking. "You are an honorable warrior, Leonardo-san. I am forever in your debt."

Leo beamed at that. He'd never been told that he was honorable. His family hinted at it, but he himself had never really believed it. "Thank you, my friend," he thanked, bowing back.

"I'm done with adventures for today," Gen cut in, turning away. "I need food."

Leo smiled to himself. Gen still wasn't his favorite guy, but he was really just a dumb rhino and he couldn't help that.

"Now Leonardo," Usagi's voice cut though his thoughts, "there is the matter of your predicament."

Leo rubbed his still-aching head from where he'd hit the wall as Usagi finished drawing the markings for the Battle Nexus on a rock. They both chanted the chant together and looked at the watery portal. Leo gaped for a second before the shock went away as he faced his friend. "Usagi, I can't ask you to come with me-"

"You do not have to ask, my brother," Usagi argued. "I am coming with you. As you say," Usagi smiled, "what are friends for?"

Leo smiled gratefully as he leapt into the portal, Usagi following close behind as it closed.

Whoa! Long one, like I said! So, it turns out that I have swimming when I start school, starting the 11th, and I'm gonna be there 5-6 days a week after school, for at lest 3 hours, I'm pretty sure. I will have a lot less time to update anything, so please be patient! I apologize in advance! Review, rant, flame, give requests, check out my community, and vote on my poll! BYE!

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