Summary: When the Lotus find their inner Dragoness, they must defeat Lady Shade once and for all.
Note: I have finished this story. It was a blast. Enjoy and review.
The Shadow Clan arrived at the most sacred shrine that is located at the center of the Hidden City. They landed on a giant statue of a stone pillar topped by a hand with an upward palm and splayed fingers.
"Welcome to the Crying Titan." Luna said.
"The source of Empyrean." Nova said.
"Excellent." Lady Shade grinned. She looked over at Saldana, Raven, and Azalea over her shoulder. "Once I absorber your Dragoness essence, I will be unstoppable with maximum power."
Lady Shade lifted her arm and unleashed a powerful bolt of black lightning at Luna and Nova. Two Shadow Clan members cried in terror as the lightning hurled them away into the sky.
"Mistress, what are you doing?" Shadow Recruit asked in a panic.
"They served their purpose." Lady Shade said with narrow eyes. "They are no use to me anymore. You are my new general. Be grateful."
Shadow Recruit's eyes widened in horror, but she squeezed her eyes shut and did what her master said.
But Lady Shade detected that they aren't alone. She turned her head to a large, hulking demon landing on another giant hand statue that was set six feet away from where she's standing with a huge crash. One mutant, one yokai, and a human girl then fell behind him.
The hulking demon noticed Lady Shade and sprang over to land right in front of her. He has a slightly hunched, heavily armored body with purple skin and throbbing pink veins, an elongated neck, fanged teeth, and clawed hands and feet. He also has a smaller head and two long, thin dark red ribbon-like strips of cloth on his back.
"Lady Shade." Shredder spoke.
"Shredder. Good to see you." Lady Shade said calmly. "You're here for the Empyrean, I assume."
"With its power, the world will be ruled by fear." Shredder said. "We'll ruled it together."
"Like old times." Lady Shade grinned.
In the underground temple, Azazel pulled up a digital map of the Hidden City with his magic.
"Raven told me everything telepathically." Azazel said. "She and the others are being held at the most sacred place in all of the Hidden City...The Crying Titan."
Kage's ghost exited out from Angel's body.
"That's where Lady Shade plans to extract Raven, Saldana, and Azalea's essences like she did with me." Kage explained.
"In order for her to do that, she needs to harness the very source of yokai power: Empyrean." Azazel said.
"Then that's where they're headed!" Ella said as she placed her hands on her hips with determination.
Alisa noticed that her glowing Dragoness mark started glowing on her left eye. She closed her eyes and levitated herself in the air while being surrounded by a grayish-green glow. That light caught everyone's attention, making them turn their heads to stare at Alisa. When Alisa opened her eyes, she was wearing a long-sleeved grayish-green leotard with regular navy-blue cuffs, hooded grayish-green cloak, and grayish-green ruffled ankle-boots with grayish-black soles. Her hairs are now styled made out of pure magical energy and she has glowing white eyes and dark gray skin.
Alisa smiled with a giggle as she slowly landed in Azazel's arms.
"Oh, dear. You look beautiful." Azazel smiled. He looked back at his family. "Let's go save the world."
Back at the Crying Titans, Shredder stood in front of a large statue while Lady Shade watched from above.
"General, stay and prepare the spell circle while I'll extract the Empyrean with Shredder." Lady Shade ordered Shadow Recruit.
Shadow Recruit nodded her head and held her hand up to summon her mystic parasol.
Lady Shade enveloped her hands in black energy and Shredder transformed his right arm into a large drill. They sprang forward in the air as Shredder slashed his drill and Lady Shade fired a black energy beam at the eyes of the giant face statue. But the giant statue was protected by a force field. Shredder and Lady Shade aren't giving up yet. They kept piercing through the force field with every strength they got.
Shadow Recruit waved her closed parasol around and outlined a large magic circle filled with different ancient symbols. She then levitated Raven, Saldana, and Azalea in the center of the circle. Saldana noticed the regretful look on the young human kunoichi's face.
"Starting to feel guilty, kunoichi?" Saldana spoke up.
"I have no doubts." Shadow Recruit snapped as she turned away from Saldana. "I'm already fulfilled my duty. I have everything I...have wanted."
"Is that so?" Saldana asked skeptically. "We always make choices that sometimes take us in the wrong direction. When I lost my husband, I lost my way. But it's not too late to change your path."
Shadow Recruit shakily gripped her parasol with narrow eyes.
Then, Shredder and Lady Shade have finally destroyed the force field. They stared at the skeletal remains of a squid-like alien that was surrounded by green liquid substance pouring from the giant statue's eyes.
"Yes." Shredder said. "The Empyrean...is ours!"
Shredder soaked his drill with green liquid and jumped out to return his female general. Lady Shade swung her hands around in circle and manipulated the green liquid into a medium-sized sphere in between her hand before descending in front of Raven, Saldana, and Azalea.
"With this, I will extract the Dragoness's essence and become unstoppable!" Lady Shade said.
Lady Shade infused an Empyrean sphere on the magic circle, causing it to glow intensely. Shadow Recruit recoiled back from the magic circles in alarm.
The magic circle flared Empyrean energy surging around Raven, Saldana, and Azalea. Three Dragoness mystics screamed in pain as their essences soared above them.
Lady Shade outstretched her arms and summoned black energized chains coming out from her hands that wrapped around the three Dragoness essences.
"Your very existence has now come to an end." Shredder said.
Suddenly, a powerful blast of red magical energy attacked Lady Shade to the ground. Lady Shade rose off the ground and brushed herself off. She then turned around to the source of the energy blast.
Ella fell from the sky and flipped in mid-air before landing on the stone finger.
"Sup, Shady!" Ella declared as she levitated down in the air and crossed her arms. "We've got a message for ya."
Ellie and Lee flew down from the sky and landed on the stone fingers from Ella's left side while Donna and Angel flew down from the sky and landed on the stone fingers from Ella's right side.
"It's time for the main attraction." Lee said as she placed her hands on her hips.
"We've had a magic upgrade." Angel said as she swung her mystic katana.
"We're gonna bust open a can of you!" Ellie said with a wink.
"We'll show you how we deal with evil." Donna said as she placed her hands on her hips.
"Dragoness style!" Ella finished.
The Lotus Ninjas and Angel posed together with their magic.
"Yo, Ella!"
The Lotus Ninjas and Angel turned their heads to see the Turtles and April standing together below with a giant drill behind them. Donnie, Raph, Mikey, and Leo had black arm guards and knee pads, and long tails of their masks.
April's hair is styled in a high ponytail tied back with a yellow hair tie as she wore a short cropped yellow zip hoodie with white accents that reached her elbows, a green double-slit skirt over her black capris leggings, long black fingerless gloves, and yellow high-tops.
"Hey, guys!" Ellie called out as she waved at the Turtles and April.
"Whoa! You girls look hot!" Leo shouted with a smile.
"We know!" Lee smiled back with a flirtatious wink.
Lady Shade levitated forward next to Shadow Recruit.
"Guard the Dragoness." Lady Shade ordered. "The ritual must continue."
Shadow Recruit squeezed her parasol with a hesitant frown.
Lady Shade looked back at the Lotus Ninjas and Angel.
"Pathetic children...you would challenge against the Great Lady Shade?" Lady Shade said.
"Sadly, you haven't met Lotus Dragoness 2.0." Donna said.
"We're stronger." Ella said.
"Faster." Ellie added.
"And better than ever." Lee finished.
"Let's get her, girls." Angel smirked.
While the Turtles and April focused on the Shredder, the Lotus Ninjas and Angel sprang high in the air as they handled Lady Shade with incredible speed.
Lady Shade soared up high in the air and glanced around for her enemies, but the Lotus Ninjas and Angel dashed around to strike the mystic witch repeatedly in every different direction with remarkable speed, which gave Lady Shade a difficult time defending herself.
Lee propelled herself upside-down and spun her legs to attack Lady Shade repeatedly. She then swiped her arms and sent out blue scythe-like blades of magical energy at Lady Shade.
"You're, up big sis!" Lee shouted.
Lee gestured two peace signs and teleported away, leaving Ella propel forward and flip into the air.
Ella sprang into the air with a twisting reverse back flip and launched a large red multi-hitting energy sphere at Lady Shade. She then unleashed a sudden barrage of red energy bolts at her while dashing back and forth.
"Show her what you got, Angel!" Ella shouted.
As Ella teleported away, Angel fell down towards Lady Shade with her mystic katana.
"Hiya!" Angel greeted.
Angel performed multiple sword slashes on Lady Shade in quick succession while rising higher up from every strike. Once they reached at the peak, Angel's eyes glowed and Kage's spirit rose out of Angel's back.
"Kage?! How can that be?!" Lady Shade exclaimed in shock.
"It doesn't matter!" Kage said. "You will be defeated!"
Kage grabbed Angel's katana and attacked Lady Shade with rapid multi-hitting slashes.
"The hits just keeps on coming!" Ellie cried out as she spun herself around towards Lady Shade.
Ellie charged her legs with orange magic and dashed forward to strike Lady Shade with six backflipping orange energized kicks in a fast succession. She then transformed her right hand into a long orange whip composed of magical energy to wrap Lady Shade and drove her into the ground.
Ellie backflipped and grabs Donna's hand.
"She's all yours, D!" Ellie shouted.
Ellie spun Donna around rapidly and threw her older sister towards Lady Shade.
Donna delivered spinning kicks from an upside-down position and finished Lady Shade with a flying upward drill kick with both legs. She then called down a barrage of glowing purple meteors from the sky, raining down all over Lady Shade in a huge explosion.
The Lotus Ninjas and Angel landed in front of the explosion.
"Yay! We beat Lady Shade!" Ellie cheered.
Saldana, Azalea, and Raven screamed quickly made the Lotus Ninjas and Angel turn around to see their essences floating in the air while being passed out to the ground.
"Mom!" Ella cried out in alarm.
Before the Lotus Ninjas and Angel can rush over, Lady Shade erupted out of the ground.
"Enough!" Lady Shade cried dangerously with glowing black eyes.
Lady Shade created a black force field and expanded rapidly from her body, exploding it at the Lotus Ninjas and Angel on contact that knocked them away. She floated forward past Shadow Recruit and lifted her arms up as she started extracting the essence from the three Dragoness mystics, who started to wither away out of existence.
"With this power...the world will kneel before me and the Shredder!" Lady Shade said.
Shadow Recruit looked hopelessly at Raven, Saldana, and Azalea. She closed her eyes with a deep breath and opened them up to glare at Lady Shade. She ran up and started firing a powerful energy beam at Lady Shade's stomach, causing her to scream in pain.
Lady Shade blasted Shadow Recruit towards the circle with laser beam from her eyes. Shadow Recruit spun around and slid to a stop in front of the magic circle as she was gripping her parasol tightly in her hand.
"You dare betray me, general?!" Lady Shade growled.
Shadow Recruit charged her parasol with bluish-grey energy at full power and spun it around in her hand before taking off her metallic mask.
"My name is Irma!" Shadow Recruit said. She rose her parasol and opened it. "Irma Langenstein!"
Irma turned around and fired out multiple bluish-gray rings of energy to slice one of the chains seizing Azalea, Raven, and Saldana's essences.
"NO!" Lady Shade shouted.
Suddenly, Azalea's essence kicked Lady Shade powerful enough to send her flying into the water.
Irma's eyes widened in a mix of shock and surprise. She turned around to see Azalea, Raven, and Saldana have broken free from the chains.
Then, Lee and Donna reappeared as they sliced the last remaining chains with their magic. The essences then returned back to Azalea, Raven, and Saldana.
"Thank you, Irma." Saldana smiled to Irma.
"Irma?" Donna exclaimed in shock.
"Donna?" Irma exclaimed in shock.
"You and I need to talk when this is all over." Donna and Irma said in unison with deadpan faces.
Suddenly, black energy beam and metal spikes hurled out of the water straight at the hand statues, causing everyone to jump out of the way in the air as the mutants, the mystics, and four humans joined together.
"Come together!" Splinter called out. "If we don't stop them, they will destroy humanity!"
Splinter, Saldana, Leo, Raph, Lee, Ella, Donnie, Mikey, Donna, Ellie, April, Casey, Angel, Irma, Raven, Draxum, and Azalea charged their outstretched kicks towards Shredder and Lady Shade while being surrounded by blazing flames.
Shredder and Lady Shade noticed them from below and hopped into the air, rising their fists at the flame-covered heroes as a strong counterstrike.
"It's 17 on 2! How is this not working?!" Leo exclaimed.
"We don't have enough power of our own against them!" Lee called out.
"We must protect our family!" Saldana hollered to Splinter. "No matter what!"
Suddenly, a Hamato symbol triggered within Splinter in a white pulsing glow. Green mystical flames submerged Splinter. His brown yukata altered black with white trim and his white hair extended a little bit longer.
Then, a Lotus symbol appeared on Saldana, Raven, and Azalea's foreheads in a heartbeat motion. Their eyes glowed white in determination as a powerful surge of magical energy swirled around them. They wore a white qipao dress with slits that reaches to their hips and long poet sleeves surmounted by a black yoke decorated with a glowing Lotus symbol, black leggings, and black laced boots. Their hairs are now styled made out of pure magical energy and have glowing white eyes. Saldana has dark white skin, Raven has dark violet skin, and Azalea has snow-white skin.
"Check out dad!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Pop's unlocking Ninpo!" Raph cried.
"And mom's unlocking her Majedite forms!" Ella shouted.
"So did Azalea and Raven!" Ellie exclaimed.
Splinter and Saldana's eyes flashed with intense rage. All of their Hamato and Dragoness essences took forms with determining faces.
"Join your mystic powers!" Splinter and Saldana instructed.
The Turtles conjoined their weapons together to form a giant spear. The Lotus Ninjas combined their magic that brimmed the giant spear into full power. Everyone grabbed onto the spear and directed it towards Shredder and Lady Shade, causing the giant weapon to burst into massive greenish-white flames upon contact.
"You think you can pierce our armor?!" Shredder yelled.
"You don't stand the chance!" Lady Shade yelled.
Shredder transformed his hand into a drill and spun it against the giant spear. Lady Shade manifested dark energy in the shape of large fist-shaped tentacles behind her back and started thrashing the giant spear.
"You are no match for us!" Shredder and Lady Shade hollered.
Shredder and Lady Shade's attacks strongly neutralized the giant spear. The Hamato Clan and the Lotus Clan screamed with determination just as Shredder's armor was altered into more demonic embedded with pink blazing flames.
"Mad Dogs/Dragoness! Give it all ya got!" Raph and Ella cried out.
Alisa suddenly appeared out of nowhere and reached out to grab the giant spear next to Raven, who immediately noticed her sudden arrival.
"Alisa!" Raven exclaimed.
"Hi, mommy." Alisa smiled.
"Hi, sweetie. Don't you look lovely." Raven smiled back.
Everyone kept gripping the giant spear as tight as they can, but the weapon was still not strong enough against Shredder and Lady Shade's combined power.
"Pathetic!" Shredder and Lady Shade hollered.
Shredder and Lady Shade's combined power managed to push the giant spear that slightly knocked everyone back.
Splinter and Saldana looked up at their family in alarm.
"Oh no. It is not enough. I have failed." Splinter said.
"No, Dad! We can do this! You may not have taught us everything!" Leo shouted.
"But you did teach us the most important thing." Mikey added.
"Being there for each other!" Donnie yelled.
"Remember what your mom said to you that day in the park. You are not alone!" Raph called out.
"My children. I..." Splinter said.
Splinter closed his eyes as tears started streaming down on his face.
Out of nowhere, a green spiritual hand touched Splinter's gripping hand.
"Yoshi." A female voice spoke.
Splinter's eyes widened in surprise.
"Mom?" Splinter said. He slowly turned his head around and saw the spirit of his mother Atsuko. "You're here!"
"I have always been here." Splinter's mom said with a soft smile.
"She's right." Another female voice spoke as she placed her hand on top of Saldana's gripping hand.
Saldana gasped sharply. She turned around to see Camellia's spirit, who was smiling at her.
"Mother!" Saldana said as she teared up with a soft smile.
"And we'll always be by your side." Camellia smiled back.
Shredder and Saldana then turned around to see the deceased spirits of the Hamato and Lotus Clan hovering above them.
"We all have." The spirits of the Hamato and Lotus Clan spoke collectively.
"Alright, fam!" Raph cheered. "Looks like we got some back-up!"
"The more, the better! Let's do this!" Ella shouted with a huge smile.
Four giant spiritual hands rose up out of the water and revealed themselves an ancient Hamato soldier and an ancient Dragoness sorceress.
"NOOO!" Shredder and Lady Shade cried out.
Splinter and Atsuko clutched the giant spear together. Atsuko looked at her mutant son with a warm smile.
"HOT...!" Atsuko spoke.
Splinter smiled widely at his mother with soft eyes. He looked at Shredder and Lady Shade with pure determination.
"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUP!" Atsuko, Splinter, Saldana, Camellia, Draxum, Casey, Azalea, Raven, April, Karai, Angel, Kage, Raven, Mikey, Donnie, Ellie, Donna, Lee, Ella, Leo, and Raph hollered.
The Hamato soldier and the Dragoness sorceress finally slammed the giant spear down at Shredder and Lady Shade. That greenish-white energy crackled all the way up the surface and flared out a huge burst of mystical power that reached out to the city and outer space around the planet's atmosphere.
After the smoke cleared out, the Hamato Clan and the Lotus Clan landed safely on the ground.
Shredder and Lady Shade landed in front of their enemies. Shredder was altered in black and red while Lady Shade's skin was altered in crackling white energy. They reached out their hands, dissolving their armor and revealing two spiritual human hands.
Leo, Ella, Lee, and Raph stared at the spiritual beings in shock. April and Angel floated briefly in mid-air as Karai and Kage exited out of their bodies.
Karai and Kage hovered straight towards their parents as the Hamato Clan and the Lotus Clan spirits encircled their future descendants.
Karai hugged her father Oruko Saki while Kage hugged his mother Burakkurōzu Rōzu. Calluna's spirit and Azalea levitated forward as they joined the hug with Kage and Rozu. Two black armors floated above the hugging family, deteriorating into ashen pieces and exploding in a glowing greenish-white light.
"My daughter." Oruko Saki murmured with a soft smile.
"Oh, my son." Rozu muttered gently. She turned to Calluna and Azalea. "And my daughters."
Oruko, Karai, Rozu, and Kage turned around to the Hamato Clan and the Lotus Clan descendants.
"Thank you, my young Hamatos." Karai said to her Hamato Clan descendants.
"And thank you, my young Dragoness." Kage said to his Lotus Clan descendants.
"We will always be with you." Karai and Kage said.
Karai, Oruko, Rozu and Kage bowed respectfully before disappearing out of thin air. The Hamato Clan then disappeared as well.
Calluna and Azalea turned to each other.
"Calluna...after everything I've done to our family...I'm so sorry." Azalea said sadly.
"It's alright." Calluna said as she placed a comforting hand on Azalea's shoulder. "Despite your past mistakes, I'm still proud of you, sister."
Azalea watched Calluna fading away with teary eyes and a smile. Cameilla also hugged Saldana and the Lotus Ninjas tightly before fading away out of thin air. Magnolia and Ophelia walked up to Raven and Alisa. Ophelia picked up Alisa and they hugged tightly with tears in their eyes before Ophelia placed her older sister into Raven's arms. Magnolia placed her hand on a smiling Alisa's cheek and Ophelia then hugged Raven warmly. Raven looked at her mother and her younger daughter with a teary-eyed smile. Magnolia and Ophelia smiled back at Raven before fading away. The spirits of Lotus Dragonesses bowed respectfully and faded away out of thin air.
Raph walked up and placed his hand on Splinter's shoulder.
"We did it, Pops." Raph said.
"Yes, we did." Splinter said. He looked up at Raph with a proud smile and placed his hand on Raph's giant finger. "Let's go home, my family."
"Well, before we go..." Leo spoke.
Leo looked over at Lee and swiftly carried her in her arms.
"This calls for a pizza celebration." Leo said with a smile.
"Couldn't agree more." Lee said with a smile as she leaned against Leo's shoulder.
Then, Leo and Lee planted a soft kiss together. Raph suddenly picked up Ella and pulled her into a pleasant kiss, leaving Ella surprise and enjoy the moment as she wrapped her arms around Raph's neck. Ellie and Mikey smiled as they kissed each other on the lips. Donna and Donnie looked at each other and kissed each other on the lips.
Splinter, April, Casey, Irma, Angel, Draxum, Raven, Alisa, and Azalea watched the romantic scene between the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas with smiles across their faces.
Meanwhile, the Hamato Clan and the Lotus Clan members stood on the rooftop of a building. They watching the shining sun coming to the sky that symbolized their ultimate victory against the Shredder and Lady Shade.
"One last thing." April said as she was holding up an orange orb that was covered in tape in her hand. "Hey, Barry, go on and crack this egg and bring home the people of New York City!"
As April threw the orb at Draxum, the orb bumped onto Draxum's head and fell over the rooftop. Everyone screamed with panicked faces while Casey and Irma looked calm.
"Heh, psyche." Draxum smiled as he safely caught the orb with a purple vine.
Everyone sighed in utter relief.
"Not. Funny." Angel said with a deadpan glare.
Draxum twisted the orb, causing it to release yellow mystical energy. That mystical energy then sent out a huge wave throughout New York, returning all the citizens back to the streets. But none of them seemed to remember being contained inside the mystical orb as they went on minding their own usual business.
Later that night, the Lotus Ninjas vaulted across the building rooftops. Donna and Ellie flipped on every rooftop ground while Lee and Ella sprang over them. As they continued jumping across more building rooftops, the Lotus Ninjas sprang high up towards Rosa Draconis Tower, where they meet Saldana on top of the roof.
"My daughters." Saldana said with a soft smile. She turned around to look at her grinning daughters. "I am proud of each and every one of you. You all have truly heroes for our family's clan. And as your mother and sensei, nothing has made me prouder than that." She pointed her finger at Lee. "Oh, Lee will be the next leader of the team."
"Say what?!" Lee exclaimed in shock.
Ella, Ellie, and Donna gasped shockingly.