Along Came Some Turtles

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

Post Spectacular Spider Man season 2. Peter's life is more or less falling apart at the seems, but meeting some new friends, who just so happen to be mutant turtles armed with ninja weapons, might just be what he needs to turn things around. And a good thing too, given the new threats that are lurking in the shadows. Crossover/ continuation of Spectacular Spider man with TMNT 2012.

3. New Friend, Old Enemy

(New Friend, Old Enemy)

TheUltimateMediaDude: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. I came across a lot of fics that had Spectacular Spider-Man crossover with numerous series and franchises, and so I was inspired to try and do my own. I decided that the 2012 version would be the best one for what I had planned, and I tried to incorporate numerous events and characters from both series. Also, as far as the crossover you mentioned goes, let me know when you do write it. I look forward to reading it myself.

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Even with the Kraang lurking throughout New York, other forces were mobilizing as well, given that the Shredder had arrived in the city, and had mobilized his prized student (Bradford), as well as his other top lieutenant (Xever), not to mention the army of ninjas that Bradford had assembled as commanded, to find Splinter and his new disciples, and wipe them out. Of course Bradord and Xever would start squabbling with each other, but the Shredder was quick to shut that down and flat out order them to work together, which they agreed to, albeit reluctantly.

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The night was somewhat calm over the skies of New York City.

'No sign of anything so far, but that's usually just preluding into something worse.' Spider-Man stood atop a certain rooftop overlooking the city, his thoughts drifting 'It's only been about a month since school let out for the Summer… and by extension, a month since the last time I saw any of my friends or the others… including Gwen. I haven't had a lot of time to think about that though, not that I really want to given everything that happened back then. About two weeks into my Summer vacation, I discovered that apparently an organization of alien robots that call themselves the Kraang are invading the city, and now I'm working to stop them any way I can. There is one other thing to mention about me fighting off the Kraang…'

"Hey Spidey, come and get a load of this one!"

'That other thing being that I have help.' Spider-Man glanced over to see the Turtles rushing along the rooftops on the other side of the street 'Yep, the night I first encountered the Kraang, I also came across a quartet of 15-year old giant mutant turtles armed with ninja weapons. For the sake of the greater good and all of that good stuff, I agreed to partner up with them, at least until we took care of the Kraang. Not like it hasn't had its benefits though, especially since last week they helped me take down the Beetle, this high-tech assassin that was hired to kill me. Plus being able to hang out with them, training or just patrolling or talking about nerd stuff, made me realize that I've spent so long being surrounded by women, I had forgotten how good it felt to be surrounded by other guys, and I really need to make more guy friends.' he tensed up at the thought 'Yeah, guy friends being the operative phrase here. We've only been at it for about a month, and I haven't actually told them anything too serious about myself, and I sure as hell haven't told them who I really am. Then again, I never told any of my other friends or even Aunt May either. But the thing about that is that even they are my friends, they'd be friends with Spider-Man, not Peter Parker. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much about this. Tonight there doesn't seem to be any sort of Kraang activity, but all the same I still went out patrolling, and god only knows what the four of them are doing right now. Well, time to find out.' so on that note, he promptly swung his way over to the other side of the street and stopped on the rooftop ahead of the Turtles "What's going on, did you find out anything about what the Kraang are going to do next?"

"Not tonight, this time we're just doing a training exercise in the way ninjas do. Speaking of, come and check this one out!" Mikey suddenly leapt off the edge of a watertower and rolled in mid-air over to the rooftop where Spider-Man was standing, just as Donnie did his own flip "How do you like that one huh?"

"Not gonna lie, some pretty fancy dance moves. You making a contest out of this whole thing or what?"

"Kinda but I doubt it, no way those other two Turtle chumps are gonna top that one!"

"Famous last words."

"Go ahead and check this out you guys." Leo then went next as he did a series of forward flips and leapt over the alley onto the other rooftop with surprising levels of gracefulness.

"And then there was one."

"Cute kiddies, but I prefer results over flash, so check this one out." Raph braced himself, then charged over the alley and promptly crash landed into the three Turtles "And that makes four."

"What the shell was that, you didn't do any flips." Donnie pointed out.

"Like I said, I was going for results, so I think I win."

"And speaking as the unbiased party over here, not a lot of those around in the city, I'm personally voting for Leonardo taking the win." Spider-Man noted dryly, but then his expression hardeend from underneath his mask "Okay no more screwing around you guys, my Spider Sense is going crazy. There's something nearby."

"Going into ninja mode then." Leo's expression quickly hardened as he gripped his weapon, with the others doing the same, and then he rounded a corner as he drew his katanas from their sheaths, only to falter when he saw a small cat sitting in front of him "Oh. Not gonna lie, that's actually kind of embarrassing."

"Don't let down your guard, those things can be lethal if they get you in the wrong spot. I've still got this one scar on the back of my… You know what, nevermind."

"Hey check it out, it's just a little kitty." Mikey knelt down and picked up the small cat in his arms as he started petting it "Let's see, I think it's name is…"

"Mittens!" came another voice.

"Good guess, it says right here on- Wait, who said that?"

"I'm pretty sure it was just him." Spider-Man jerked a thumb at where some random guy was poking his head out of the window of his apartment "The cat probably just wandered out onto the fire escape while the window was open."

"Oh okay, just give me a second."

"To do what exactly?"

"What, I'm just gonna return Mittens to her owner."

"Okay dude, saying this as a form of constructive criticism, I've only known you and these guys for a few weeks and I'm pretty sure that's one of the dumber ideas you've had."

"It is." was the simultaneous chorus from Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello.

"Just making sure."

"What's the big deal?" asked Mikey.

"You do realize that if people see you then they're gonna freak the hell out."

"No they won't, I'm not so scary."

"You're a 5 foot green turtle armed with ninja weapons in a city that's spent the last year or so being overrun by lunatics in costumes with a variety of superpowers, and I'm not just talking about me."

"You're overreacting Spider-bro, give me a minute and I'll show you that this dude is gonna get that I'm just a regular dude that loves cats like he does. The next thing you know, we're gonna be best buds and all that good stuff. This is gonna be totally awesome." and so he leapt off the edge of the building and onto the guy's fire escape.

"Famous last words." Spider-Man then glanced over at the others "Am I the only one who thinks that we should be stopping this?"

"Don't count on it." Raph told him dryly "One thing I've learned growing up with Mikey is that the stupid ones usually have to learn stuff the hard way."

"Dude I've gone through three years of high school, I understand that way better than you think I do." this was followed by the sounds of screaming, angry meowling, more screaming and then a lot of loud crashing "And chances are he does too now."

"Meh." Mikey gave a shrug as he climbed his way back onto the roof of the building, and then gestured to where the cat was still clawing away at the back of his shell "Any of you guys wanna give me a hand with this?"

"Not really, but I will anyway." Spider-Man promptly plucked the cat off of Mikey's shell, webbed it a line and sent it back up onto the fire escape "You good?"

"I guess, thanks dude."

"Face it Mikey, humans are never gonna understand you." Raph told him flatly "Hell I'm pretty sure that the rest of us don't even understand you."

"Yeah maybe, but…" Mikey then looked up, and his expression lit up with excitement "Maybe you guys don't, but I bet that guy would!"

"Who?" Spider-Man glanced up at a billboard above them, and beneath his mask his expression turned into one of clear skepticism "You're talking about Chris Bradford, that martial arts champ that's basically ripping off Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, with his own chain of dojos across the whole country? You really wanna go with some bigshot celebrity like that?"

"Shell yeah I do, we've got so much in common as it is!"

"What about when you're not doing the pose from his billboard?" Donnie asked dryly.

"...Okay, we might have a little bit less in common." he promptly dropped the pose he was in the middle of doing "But we're still gonna have a lot, and take a look at the thing up there. It says that he's in town for this big martial arts expo. Maybe he'll show me how to use his secret kata, the Death Dragon. Then I can show him my secret kata, I call it the Secret Kata."

"Catchy." Spider-Man gave him a thumbs up.

"Check it out." so he started doing his Secret Kata, including a series of jabs, punches, kicks and a little bit of dabbing "Now don't tell anyone you saw that."

"I can't because I have no idea what I saw."

"Forget it Mikey, you might as well just face it." Raph rolled his eyes "This Chris Bradford guy has to be the last person on Earth that would wanna be friends wit you. Tied for last now that I think about it."

"With all of the normal people in the city that fear and hate what they don't understand?"

"You talking from experience?"

"In some ways, but I'm actually referring to the other kind of mutants. Seriously, it's like it's the 1950's all over again." Spider-Man was about to continue in, only for his gaze to harden once more as he took a look around "You'd better get ready guys, Spider Sense going off again and I'm pretty sure this time it's for real."

"You're right about that." Leo and the others braced themselves and drew their weapons just as a group of ninjas from the Foot Clan dropped down onto the scene "Wait, there are ninjas in New York? I mean aside from the four of us."

"Does that mean that this is gonna end up turning into some kind of trend?"

"I'm hoping not, one would think the four of us would have some sort of originally on comparison to the enemies we have to-" Donnie was cut off by a shuriken from a Foot ninja being jammed into his bo staff as the ninja began charging at the five of them, and thus the battle began.

"You wanna go, well let's go!" Raph barred his sais and began fighting off a few of them by himself, only to be met with a series of attacks that ended with him getting knocked into a few garbage cans behind him, and he braced himself when one of them mopved in for a follow up attack.

"Hey dude hold up, you've got something on your face!" Spider-Man suddenly shot a web at the Foot ninja that was about to attack Raph, hitting him in the face and then webbing him to the wall, and then he went on to do the same to a few others around him "Oh yeah, it's my webs."

"And a fair amount of us kicking you in the head!" Leo proceeded to kick one of the ninjas in the head, along with several others, with a huge grin spreading across his face.

"Not gonna lie that's kind of creepy dude, I'm pretty sure that's the exact same grin that people saw from Jack Nicholson in the Shining."

"Not the intention, it's just that it's so nice to finally be fighting actual people for once."

"In comparison to what exactly?"

"In comparison to stuff like alien robots, or some kind of freaky weed monsters hell bent on getting revenge on us or something." the two of them continued their conversation as they nonchalantly punched out, disarmed or webbed up most of the ninja that were coming towards them "You know what I mean right?"

"Take it from a voice of experience, fighting actual people sure as hell isn't all it's cracked up to be when you actually experience it for yourself."

"What do you mean normal people? You told us that you've fought about a dozen supervillains over the course of the past year."

"Yeah well normal people is how they started out, then it's either some crazy lab accident or an experiement gone horribly wrong turning them into bloodthirsty savages (Electro and Lizard), or a dude putting on some high-tech suit either for revenge or to make some cash (Vulture, Shocker and Beetle), or dudes that start out as petty thugs but get powers and use them to try and get revenge on me for putting them in jail or bruising their pride (Sandman, Rhino and Kraven) or to clear a debt or something (Molten Man). Then there's the ones that are crooked businessmen that do god only knows what to make themselves ridiculously strong, not to mention that they're ruthless and more than likely insane (Tombstone and Green Goblin), or some mad scientist that tries to use some crazy invention of his and tries to take over the world (Doctor Octopus and Mysterio)." he paused, then started counting on his fingers "Let's see here… Vulture, Electro, Lizard, Shocker, Sandman, Rhino, Tombstone, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Mysterio, Kraven and Molten Man… Who else am I forgetting?"

"Didn't you mention some alien guy made out of black goo?" asked Mikey from where he was in the middle of hitting one of the Foot ninjas with his nunchucks.

"Oh right, I never mentioned Venom. Actually yeah, I think the rest of them are just some ordinary people with fighting chops or crazy weapons. Well except for Hammerhead, god only knows what that dude has in that skull of his."

"Your skills are impressive." this was when Bradford dropped down onto the scene, his ninja mask covering his face as his overall demeanor hardened "But they're not going to be enough to save you from me." and so with surprising levels of speed, he dealt Leo a solid punch to the chest that knocked him into a wall, leapt over Spider-Man to avoid the stream of webs thatwere being fired at him, dealt Raph a roundhouse kick that knocked him to the ground and grabbed Donnie's bo staff and used it to smack him into a set of trash cans.

"Booyakasha ninja man!" Mikey hurled one of his nunchucks forward, only for Bradford to catch it and use it to pull him towards him "Oh shell."

"What the hell are you?"

"They're One Direction trying out a new look, what the hell do you think?" it was at this moment that Spider-Man latched onto a nearby trash can with his webs and swung it around to hit Bradford square in the head, knocking him to the ground just as police sirens began blaring in the distance, which prompted him and the other Turtles to vanish from the scene, with Bradford and the rest of his ninjas doing so as well just before the police arrived on the scene.

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An hour passed, and the group returned to the Lair.

"You saw it just as much as the rest of us did." Leonardo was ranting about the fight to the only one that was present that actually bothered to listen to it "The leader of those guys was crazy good, by which I mean he was good and seemed a little bit crazy."

"Crazy and evil ususally go hand in hand." Spider-Man told him without looking up from where he was loading his web-shooters "I would know."

"I know, but the point still stands. Besides he had all of those guys with him and ambushed us out of nowhere, it wasn't a fair fight."

"And what classifies as a fair fight in your opinion?"

"You know a fair fight, where either side could win."

"So basically you're saying a fair fight is one where you could get your shell handed to you and you wouldn't complain?"

"Well I wouldn't say that but-" Leo was cut off by Spider-Man grabbing him by the arm and throwing him to the ground, then pinning him with some webbing "What the hell was that?!"

"Was it fair?"

"No!"

"Did I win?"

"...Okay, I'm starting to get your point."

"Good." he promptly ripped off the webbing and helped Leo to his feet "Speaking realistically and from personal experience, you think every guy you meet is gonna fight fair? Pretty sure most of them just team up to take down the guys they hate because they know they've got better chances in a group. That's what most of the guys that hate me do. Hell about a month ago, I was testing out the new max security prison to make sure it was inescapable, and then some wise guy dressed like a flying green elf-" he cringed at the memory for a number of reasons "He decided to release every single guy in the place, all of whom hate me by the way and want to see my head mounted on a bloody pike, and they all tried to gang up on me."

"And you beat them?"

"I got out of there by the skin of my teeth, and truth be told it was in pretty large part thanks to the guy that killed the only man I could call my father. He was pretty much the Count Rugen to my own Inigo Montoya." he tensed up considerably as his demeanor hardened at the memory of who that man was, but then he took a moment to compose himself "Aside from that I've fought at least a full dozen battles where most of my enemies ganged up on me. The point I'm trying to make in all of this is that I don't think about fairness when I go into a fight with these guys. I think about winning and making sure that nobody gets killed. Those are the most important things, you really oughta keep that in mind."

"...I won't forget that, I promise you."

"Good." he then reached into the fridge and pulled out a slice of pizza "To be fair I haven't eaten all day, a spider's gotta keep his strength up."

"Fair enough."

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Meanwhile, out in the living room…

"Woah man, that is so rad…" Mikey was in the middle of fawning over a certain magazine, and I'll give you one guess who was on the cover of it "Oh man I can't tell you how bad I wish I really was friends with Chris Bradford!

"Hey come on Mikey, you already have a human friend." April pointed out "What, don't I count for anything?"

"Nah April, not really. I mean we saved your life, you pretty much have to like us."

"I can tell you from a full year of personal experience, no she doesn't." Spider-Man noted dryly as he made his way out of the kitchen, and subsequently hid a pizza slice behind his back "But I'm not here to vent about the story of my life, because truth be told I don't wanna think about any of that right now."

"I'll tell you one thing is a shame, and I'm being sarcastic when I say that." Raph looked up from where he was in the middle of doing a set of pushups "It's a damn shame there isn't some kind of place where a turtle can meet people that don't have to see how hideous they are."

"I'm pretty sure you just described any and every form of social media to a T."

"Wait a minute, that's it!" April's face lit up as an idea came to her.

"What's it?"

"What you just said, about social media. Hey Donnie, you mind if I use your laptop?"

"What- Oh yeah sure, just hold on a second." Donnie was quick to remove his screen saver (which just so happened to be a picture of April) and handed it to her "So what are you doing?"

"I'm showing Mikey this website where you can make friends with anyone online."

"Holy shell this is awesome." Mikey was quick to start typing away, and his face lit up in a rather unsettling way "Check it out guys, Chris Bradford is on here! I totally gotta make him my first friend!" and so he pushed the button and started waiting with anticipation as he started intently at the screen.

"Hate to break it to you dude, but I'm pretty sure they're not gonna-" Spider-Man was cut off by a pinging noise coming from the computer "Then again, it's not like I really know the first thing about social media to begin with."

"No way, no freaking way! Chris Bradford went and accepted my friendship, I've got an actual human friend! Thanks guys, you're totally the best!" he pulled Spider-Man and April into a hug and threw the laptop into the air, leaving Donnie to catch it, before he started walking off.

"Where exactly are you going?"

"Where do you think dude, I'm gonna go and hang out with my new friend."

"Dude this guy is famous, and there's a pretty fair chance he's gonna have a stick up his butt the size of the Empire State Building. Besides, chances are he's already got thousands of friends."

"Oh he does, and I'll give you one guess who's 5,286 out of all of them."

"Let me guess, you?"

"Nope, that's Daniel Ramirez, and I'm right next to him so I'll see ya!" and so Mikey bolted out of the lair.

"This can't possibly end well."

"It ougtha be interesting if nothing else." April gave a shrug.

"You think we should go after him?"

"I say don't bother." Raph rolled his eyes in the middle of a pushup "The little moron is gonna have to learn somehow."

"If you say so. In the meantime, I'm gonna go see if I can scout for anymore Kraang activity, or find out who those ninja guys were."

"You do that."

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As it turns out, it went better than Raphael would've expected, somewhat at least. Mikey ended up confronting Bradford, resulting in him being attacked with a volley of shuriken, but once he was able to explain himself, Bradford ended up inviting him in, though it was clear he was fairly uncomfortable about it, at least clear to anyone but Mikey that is.

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Later that night…

"Okay, so from what I can tell they were probably watching us from here." Leo and Donnie stood on the edge of a rooftop overlooking a certain alley way "This would be the perfect spot to launch an ambush attack on the enemy."

"Doesn't seem like it would be very fair when you think about it." Donnie noted, only to be met with a fiere glare from Leo "What?"

"It's not about fairness, it's about victory and making sure to come out alive."

"And making sure nobody else gets killed either." Spider-Man noted from where he was perched on the edge of the rooftop "Big picture here guys, that's what matters."

"And you know what else matters?" Mikey on the other hand, he was ranting about other stuff and annoying the hell out of everyone else as he did so "Chris Bradford put on his hakama earlier, and holy shell I never knew a guy could rock a hakama so awesome."

"Assuming I know what a hakama is."

"It's kind of a uniform worn by martial artists and stuff. But then he-"

"Oh for the love of god, will you shut it already!" Raph finally lost his temper, which isn't really anything new for him "We've been listening to you going on about this for three hours, just give it a freaking rest already."

"Sounds to me like somebody is a little bit jealous. You've just got way too much pride to admit that you were the R word."

"You're trying to say wrong aren't you?" Spider-Man asked dryly without looking up.

"Yep!"

"I figured."

"But that's not- How did you know he was gonna say that?" Leo shot him a raised eyebrow "That wasn't-"

"Dude come on, you think that's the first time I've had to correct someone who can't even spell that word right? It's not even the third this week alone."

"And I'm not wrong either." Raph shot a glare at them.

"I never said you were, even if you could stand to downsize your ego by a fair amount."

"And that's the other thing bro." Mikey suddenly leapt over to Spider-Man and the others "If you don't wanna talk about my new buddy then I've got two other brothers and a dude in a mask that totally do."

"Tempting as that might be, we're in the middle of scouting for evil ninjas and alien robots that wanna potentially terraform the Earth."

"Fine, go ahead and be that way. I'm gonna go and talk to a guy that actually likes to talk about guys like Chris Bradford more than anyone else."

"...It's Chris Bradford isn't it?"

"You know it bros, later!" and so he promptly took off.

"Yeah, this can't possibly end well. Anyway, back to Kraang activity, do we have any new leads on that right now?"

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So with all of that in mind, Bradford ended up once again begrudgingly acting as Mikey's friend, though he did use the opportunity to try and get information on Splinter out of him, though once this failed, he offered (once again begrudgingly) to teach Mikey his professional move, the secret kata known as the Death Dragon, though he did make him swear to not show it to anyone.

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And now for what anyone who knows Mikey would expect…

"And then he kicks, gives a twist and then sweeps the leg!" of course with Mikey being Mikey, the first thing he did once he got back to the lair was show it to the others "And that my bros, and my Spider bro, is the Death Dragon."

"That was… Holy shell that was amazing!" Donnie and the others shared a few looks "That sort of technique is as devastatingly effective as it is complex, and yet even you were able to master it in such a short amount of time."

"Thank you. Wait… hey!" Mikey was about to give a retort, only for his attention to be attracted by the sound of his computer beeping, and he was quick to answer "Alright it's Rad Brad, that's the little nickname I came up with for him."

"So what's he want?"

"He says he wants the two of us to get together for a little bit of b-ball. I can't wait to find out what the b stands for."

"Well given the number of sports that start with b… actually there's a pretty fair amount of those now that I think about it."

"No worries bro, I'll let you know which one it is when I get back."

"What, you mean you're going now?" Leo shot him a raised eyebrow (even though they didn't have actual eyebrows).

"Sorry bros but it's human friend stuff, you know how it is. Oh wait no, I guess you wouldn't know about that." and so with a rather smug grin, he took off out of the Lair.

"...You were right Spidey, this isn't going to end well."

"Normally I like to be wrong about stuff like this, which I plan to keep in mind after I reward myself for actually being right about something." Spider-Man promptly walked out of the room, only to poke his head back in a few seconds later "Just throwing this out there, if he asks then it was the angry one in red that ate the last of his pizza."

"Duly noted."

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Of course the others were right to be skeptical about Bradford's intentions, seeing how this was part of a plan he and Xever had in way, in which they were luring Mikey there to ensnare him in their trap, so they could lure in the other Turtles and use them to find Splinter, and then finish him on behalf of the Shredder.

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Meanwhile, at the Lair…

'Well still nothing up there, at least nothing that I'm really needed for.' Spider-Man glanced down at the phone in his hand, a certain app playing on his phone in silence 'Nothing too significant on the police scanners, not even any sort of remnants of the Green Goblin minions. It's like since he's been gone, all of the real big bads I faced in the past have up and vanished. Maybe the Kraang has something to do with that, and now this ninja clan too. Whatever the case, I do have a lot of work ahead of me.'

"I take it you're enjoying yourself?"

Spider-Man looked up to see Splinter pulling a frozen block of cheese out of the freezer "I don't know if I'd say that, but I had forgotten how it felt to be around actual guys like this."

"So I take it you consider my sons to be your friends after all?" that one question was enough to make Spider-Man tense up, and a brief silence to overtake the two of them.

"I… I hadn't really given that a ton of thought. I mean we're partners sure, we agreed on working together to take down the Kraang and all."

"But?"

"But friends are the kind of people you wanna hang around with and have your back when you really need them, at least that's what I was taught growing up."

"So do they meet those qualifications in your opinion?"

"Well I actually do enjoy hanging around you and the guys, they're pretty easy to talk to, at least most of the time. They even had my back when the Beetle came to take me out… Yeah, yeah I guess they are my friends. Spider-Man's friends anyway, I guess Peter Parker is still pretty much out of luck in that department right about now.'

"I see." Splinter gave a small smile of approval as the two of them started walking their way out of the dojo "So I take it my sons are participating in their own activities at the moment?"

"Mikey went off to meet up with his new friend, who just so happens to be this bigshot martial arts superstar so I still think that's pretty shady. He did teach Mikey this new martial arts move though, he taught it to the guys. They're probably practicing it as we speak." they made their way towards the entrance to the dojo and noticed Leo and the others practicing the Death Dragon "I've never had any real interest in that sort of thing myself, most of the stuff I learned about fighting came from one or two of the Rocky movies I saw when-" he cut himself short when he noticed how shocked and enraged Splinter looked "What's the matter?"

"Where did you say they learned that technique from?" Splinter gritted his teeth, as if to keep from losing control of his brewing anger."

"That martial arts superstar Chris Bradford, aka Mikey's new best friend."

"The man who taught him that kata is no friend. It comes from the teachings of the Shredder." and that was enough to get a reaction out of the others.

"Okay, admittedly I'm still a little bit shaky on the details of your backstory, but the Shredder is the guy that…"

"Yes. The one responsible for the events of that night so many years ago."

"So what then, you mean Bradford is one of his lackeys?"

"He is more than likely one of the Shredder's students."

"Wow, that… that's not good is it?"

"It's definitely not." Leo's tone was grim "That means Bradford must be pretending to be Mikey's friend so that he can get to Splinter."

"That's what I was hoping you weren't going to say." Spider-Man gritted his teeth "This guy is just playing him like a sucker, and that means that Mikey is probalby walking right into a trap even as we speak."

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Around this time, Mikey was just making his way into Bradford's dojo, blissfully unaware of his true intentions, only to be confronted by both Bradford (wearing the mask) and Xever, and though he did put up a good fight, the two of them managed to overwhelm and defeat him, with Bradford revealing himself as they left Mikey tied up on the ground. Xever then suggested that they just finish off Mikey, and while Bradford wanted to do so, they needed him as a trap for the others, and then left him alone tied up in the dojo, as well as hurt from the betrayal.

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And now for the rescue team…

"This is the place." fortunately it didn't take too long for Spider-Man and the other Turtles to make their way to Bradford's dojo, the group moving around the area in silence to maintain stealth "Any of you have any ideas on how to get in or should we just start busting in through the windows?"

"We'll call that plan B, or plan R since I'm pretty sure that's the sort of thing that Raph would've come up with." Donnie noted dryly as he pulled out a protractor.

"It would work to be fair."

"Probably but keep in mind that this is a rescue mission, we're not her to start an all our brawl. In the meantime, can I borrow some of your webbing?"

"How much?"

"About the size of a quarter's worth."

"Got it." he squirted a small amount of webbing out of one of his Web-shooters and promptly handed it to Donnie "You doing what I think you're doing?"

"Yep, and given what I've seen from your webs up until now, this is going to be so much better than just using gum." so Donnie stuck the small clump of webbing onto the pencil hooked onto his protractor and used it to carve a circle out of the window, then poked his hand in and opened the window all the way "Okay we're in, are there any of the Foot ninja down there?"

"Is that really what we're calling them now?"

"They're in service of the Foot clan, so yeah that's what we're calling them." Leo told him.

"I'm assuming it sounds a lot more eloquent in Japanese?"

"In Japanese they're referred to as the Oroku clan."

"And I was right."

"Yeah now focus, we've got our little brother to save."

"What's our plan?"

"You don't have any proper ninja training, so we'll head down and take out the ninjas guarding the place, then once they're down you web them up so they can't move."

"Works for me, then I'll swoop in and help you guys free Mikey."

"Agreed." and so Leo and the others dropped down through the window and disappeared into the shadows of the dojo, where they quickly got to work on the Foot ninja present.

'Great, lucky for me I just had to design my suit to be as stealthy as one of the many guys that have tried to kill me over the past year. I probably could stand to work on that though. If only I could work out something with my web-shooters where I could web the enemy up without having to latch onto them directly. Yeah that could work, something like a Trip Mine where an enemy gets close to it, then it shoots out a web and pins them down. Sounds pretty good in theory, but it's not like I can afford the materials I would need to build something like that.'

"Spidey we're done, go ahead and web them up."

"On it." so Spider-Man shot out a series of webs that bound the unconscious Foot ninja to the floor and the walls, and then he leapt down to join the others "Now for the actual rescue."

"Holy shell dudes, that was totally sporadic!" Mikey's face lit up at the sight of them, only to soon be shushed by the others.

"Not even close to what that actually means, but points for effort." Spider-Man quickly used his immense physical strength to rip off the ropes and free Mikey "Okay come on, let's get out of here already." he was about to web a line to let them get back up to the ceiling, only to stop when a certain sensation rang through his head, and his expression hardened "Guys-"

"Quiet." Leo held up a hand, his own voice low "Of course they're watching us, we'll lead them down into the sewers and ambush them. Just don't alert them that we know they're there."

"Alright. Well come on guys, rescue mission successful, I say it's pizza time, and I swear that's going to be a meme at some point." and so they left the dojo and started making their way along the rooftops.

"Remember, we don't want them to know we're onto them."

"You think this is my first time luring a being hunted by a pack of bloodthirsty suckers and playing them like suckers as I lure them into a trap."

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Meanwhile, with the bloodthirsty suckers in question…

"And there they are." sure enough, Bradford and Xever were watching the Turtles and Spider-Man from afar, and witnessed the five of them making their way into the sewer through a manhole in the middle of a random alley "Like I told you before street rat, you use the stupid one among the freaks to lure the rest of them here, then follow them back to wherever they live so we can find Splinter and finish him off for good."

"Yes yes rich boy, go ahead and rub it in." Xever rolled his eyes, but then gave a smirk "I have to admit though, getting the chance to face off against Spider-Man along with these tartarugas isn't something I was expecting."

"It's nothing to get too excited about, if he's an ally of these turtle creatures than it makes him an ally of Hamato Yoshi, and that makes him an enemy to Master Shredder. It's no more and no less than that."

"Whatever, the fact is that we've got them."

"For once we agree on something, now let's go." and so they, along with a small squad of Foot ninja, made their way down into the alley and followed their prey into the sewers.

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With the prey themselves…

'And here come the tough suckers now.' Spider-Man glanced up to the top of the sewer tunnel to see the manhole being uncovered, and so he shared a quick glance with the Turtles (being in their own hiding spots) and promptly disappeared into one of the tunnels 'Bright red and blue don't mean a ton in the darkness like this, so it does work to our advantage. Still though, maybe adding some kind of stealth function to my suit, or maybe a stealth suit as a whole, doesn't seem like too bad of an idea. Maybe if I can scrounge up some materials for it.'

"They're down here, make sure to keep your guards up." this was when Bradford and Xever, as well as their group of Foot ninja, dropped down into the sewers and started making their way forward in search of their prey.

'And now it's time for Spider-Man to become Spider-Ninja.' and so Spidey started silently webbing up one Foot ninja after another, leaving them webbed to the ceiling of the sewer tunnel 'Huh, you know Spider-Ninja has a pretty nice ring to it. From his elevated position atop the dark and damp sewer tunnels, Spider-Ninja spots his unexpecting prey, a group of ninja from an organization that has a really stupid name.'

"You better not be narrating to yourself again." Raphael hissed at him from within the shadows, which was enough to snap him back to reality.

"Hey, I'll have you know that I've only done that once." a brief pause "Okay, I've only done it once out loud. Now quit it, back to webbing them in the shadows like a Spider-Ninja." and so they got back to it, as he continued webbing up the Foot ninja in silence.

"Wait a second." once Bradford caught wind of something being wrong, he quickly stopped Xever and the two of them looked back "Where are the others?"

"Hold on a second." Xever pulled out a lighter and held it up, allowing them to see the missing Foot ninja strung up to the tunnel ceiling by webs "What the-"

"That has to be the doing of Spider-Man, there's no mistaking it."

"Come out and show your face you fool!"

"Dude I'm wearing a mask, if I showed you my face that would kind of go against the whole thing about being the anonymous superhero." Spider-Man dropped down from the ceiling behind him as his overall demeanor hardened and ready for a fight "My new shell-backed buddies on the other hand…" he gestured to where Leo and Raph were emerging from within the water, and Donnie and Mikey from within the shadows "Case and point."

"Dammit, you lured us into a trap. Then that just means we have a prime opportunity to take the five of you down here and now." Bradford made the call, and then he and Xever split up, picked their opponents, with Bradford taking on Leo and Raph two on one.

Xever on the other hand focused on Donnie and Mikey, as he batted off Donnie's attacks from his bo staff using his legs, then grabbed him by the shoulders using his legs and took the opportunity to throw him into Mikey, sending both crashing to the ground while he bolted back onto his feet, a confident smirk spreading across his face "You're clearly far out of your league tartarugas."

"Yeah well, the same goes for you dude." Spider-Man suddenly bolted behind Xever and landed a solid spin kick to his back, sending him hurtling forward and leaving him to rebound "I do have to give credit where it's due though, here I thought I was the only one who knew better than to skip leg day."

"He's not the only fool that's out of his league." Bradford on the other hand stopped Leo's assault with his twin katanas using his bare hands, then dealt him a sharp kick chest that sent him crashing into Raph and both of them crashing to the ground.

"Okay, this isn't gonna work." Donnie glanced over at Leo and Raph and gave a simple message via hand signs 'Let's switch enemies.' and so the two groups retreated to opposite sides of the sewer tunnel, leaving Donnie and Mikey to take on Bradford in place of Raph and Leo, and vice versa "Mikey!"

"Got it!" Mikey dodged a series of attacks from Bradford as he led him towards a pipe and used his nunchucks to bind him in place, allowing Donnie to sweep Bradford's legs out from under him and bring him to his knees, allowing Mikey to deck him in the face and knock him to the ground in a heap.

"Hold still you little-" Xever wasn't having much luck on his end either, as he dodged a sweep of the legs from Raph, only to be kicked in the chest by Leo and knocked to the ground, but once he rebounded and was forced to retreat backwards, until he and Bradford found themselves stuck back to back with each other "Oh mierda."

"Dammit, I didn't think it was possible." Bradford let out a snarl "These freaks knew that we were following them."

"You got that right Rad Brad, now you're messing with real ninjas!" Mikey went on to dodge and block a series of attacks from Bradford, and then he launched his own offensive, which included a palm strike to the face, a fist to the stomach, a knee to the jaw, and then he swept the leg and ended with a kick to the chest hard enough to send Bradford crashing into Xever, leaving both of them to hit the ground with a loud crash "Hey Spidey, you wanna hit this one?"

"That's the plan!" so Spider-Man promptly latched onto the nearby valve with a web and yanked it open, flooding the sewer drain and leaving both Bradford and Xever to be flushed down it and washed away "And then there were none. I would've gotten involved sooner but it looked to me like you guys had it covered, and it didn't seem particularly fair to begin with."

"No it wasn't." Leo shot him a grin "I suppose there's only one thing left to do."

"And I can finally say this for certain… it's pizza time!"

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And now for pizza time…

"Oh yeah, now this is how to celebrate a win." Donnie pulled out a slice alongside Spider-Man and the rest of the Turtles, only to look up and notice how unsettled Splinter looked "Hey sense what gives, aren't you hungry?"

"My appetite has waned significantly from recent events." Splinter looked over at the group "And I fear that we've begun to celebrate far too soon."

"What do you mean too soon? Those two evil blowhards got their butts handed to them and were swept away in a river of raw sewage, so as far as I'm concerned, that just about makes it the best time to celebrate." Raph caught Leo in a fist bump.

"He means because they're still out there, they did get away in the end." Spider-Man finished with his slice of pizza and lowered his mask "They're gonna be back, and knowing how these kinds of things usually go, they're probably gonna be even stronger next time they show up."

"So what, we beat them once and we can do it again."

"That's not the point."

"But our masked comrade here speaks the truth." Splinter's tone was grim as he turned to the rest of the Turtles "The Shredder knows that I am still alive. What makes it worse is that he now knows about the four of you. This is my worst nightmare come to fruition."

"Which means that whatever this is between you guys, it's not over. It's just getting started, and it's only going to get worse from here."

"Exactly."

"Which means that the only thing we can do about it is make sure we're prepared for it. Case and point." Spider-Man promptly grabbed two more slices of pizza, one of which he downed himself, and then he went over to where Mikey sat dejectedly in front of the laptop "I'm kind of surprised you didn't go for half the box yourself."

"I'm not really hungry." Mikey glanced over at Spider-Man, only to see the dull look that he was getting from him, and so he snatched the pizza slice and subsequently downed it "Okay that was a big fat lie."

"I'm surprised you were able to say that with a straight face. But seriously man, what's on your mind right now?"

"Not much, it's just… This is all my fault. I really screwed this one up."

"Hey don't give that too much thought, I've done way worse screw ups."

"I just wanted to prove that I could be friends with a human."

"Hey look at this way man, if big shots like that don't see a good guy when they see one, that's their loss. Trying to buddy up to people like them isn't worth it, and I would know. The best thing you can do is find a few good people that will have your back when you really need them, and you'll be set for a good long time." Spider-Man then grimaced underneath his mask 'At least until one of them essentially goes on drugs and leaves for Europe for 3 months to get help with that, the other one kisses you, you try to reciprocate those feelings only for one of the only nice popular girls at school to get to you first, you date her for a few months until you realize that you like the first girl more, you two confess and try to break it off with your partners so you can be together, only to find out that the other guy's dad is a supervillain, you fight him to the death and win, the other guy vows revenge against your superhero persona and the girl you want to be with has to stay with him so that he doesn't go back onto super drugs and become a new supervillain dressed like a flying green elf. Wow my life is screwed up on so many levels."

"What?"

"Nothing, just… Like I said, find a few good people and stick with them, and you're gonna do just fine."

"You think so?"

"I know from experience."

"Huh." Mikey looked up and finally gave a smile "Thanks Spidey, really."

"No worries. After all, that's what… friends are for. Anyway I gotta go." Spider-Man patted him on the back, then made his way out of the lair and started web-slinging down the subway tunnels, his mind drifting with each swing 'As has pretty much turned into the status quo, Peter Parker is pretty much out of luck on just about every front, but at least Spider-Man is doing well enough, at least given the circumstances. Not only does he have new partners to take out an alien invasion or something, but he actually has people he can call friends. I guess that even with the typical Parker luck, things have to get better on some level for yours truly right? Now I have to make sure that they stay that way.'

A/N:

Of course the Kraang isn't the only big bad the Turtles had to deal with over the course of their series, and now the other big bad of the Turtles has finally made himself known to our heroes: the leader of the Foot Clan, one of the greatest living martial artists alive, a notorious criminal mastermind more dangerous than the Big Man himself. Oroku Saki, the Shredder himself, has arrived in New York, and now the struggle with him and the Foot Clan is just beginning.

Oh yeah, and in case it wasn't obvious, Spider-Ninja is going to be a running gag that I'll be including throughout the story. I'll be honest, it does take a pretty heavy amount of inspiration from the Spider-Cop joke from the PS4 game, but with my own unique twist on it. If you leave a review, go ahead and let me know what you think of it.