They ran as fast as their feet would, carrying the bags of money in their hands or hanging from their shoulders. They were heavy and bulky, but they were young and strong, they could carry measly bags of money.

The new young Purple Dragons made their way to Chinatown to the abandoned fortune cookie factory, the old headquarters of the Dragons when the turtles were young. Now there were things like old couches, some mattresses lying on the floor, Christmas lights lit up the place and there was a lot of neon paint graffiti on the walls, mainly purple oriental dragons devouring turtles in blue, red, orange, purple, aqua and yellow. They probably painted them in yesteryear.

In addition to that there were several young people, boys, girls and people of indefinite gender, dancing, drinking, playing arcade or card games and smoking, while metal music was playing quite loud. They all wore at least one purple garment.

From the upper deck, two young men of less than 20 years old watched the kids pass through the crowd. One had close-cropped hair and was fairly stocky in muscle, while the other was scrawny, dyed-blond curls were sticking out of a black beanie, and he had piercings. They both had tattoos and were African American.

The blond curly-haired man set his drink can aside and tapped his companion lightly to get his attention.

"Look at that, Keshawn, the brats are back," he said in a mocking tone. "Aaaand it looks like they got the job done,"

"Mhm. It seems so, Myron," Keshawn replied with little interest. He got up from the railing. "Come on, the boss will want us around when they come,"

The five youngsters climbed the stairs to the upper floor, finding six grown men: Hun and his henchmen.

Hun had some gray hairs, but he still looked in pretty good shape for a 50-something. Fong had grown a fuller beard, Sid had a low ponytail, Tsoi shaved off his mustache, and Keshawn and Myron were there too.

"I see you brought back a loot," Hun spoke in his thick voice, smiling with pleasure. "Were there any complications?"

"Um..."

"Nothing to worry about, Hun," assured Kim, the Korean, interrupting Andy, the Latin kid of indefinite gender. He proudly displayed two bags of money and placed them on the ground. "We practically emptied the bank,"

"I heard sirens from over here, is there something you're not telling us?"

"Well, Myron," Raven, the girl with the dreadlocks, spoke to the young man with blond curls. "Now that you ask, Feng was the one who set off the alarm,"

"Now it turns out it's my fault?!"

"Silence!" bellowed the leader of the Dragoons. He stood up, since he was sitting on a kind of throne, and approached the kids. "Open them,"

Fong reached out with a knife and cut the knot of each bag that the youngsters brought, but what came out of them were not bills; what fell were dirty diapers, banana peels, empty cans, garbage to summarize.

The kids were terrified when they saw that they hadn't brought the money that cost them so much to steal, but above all it was Hun's look that made them nervous along with the barely concealed laughter from Keshawn and Myron.

Hun walked over to Kim and put a hand on his shoulder, squeezing it.

"I want the truth, what happened?"

"Some kids in black jumpsuits and masks came to ambush us," explained Curtis, the big blond, nervously.

Hun was confused by the description. Black jumpsuits and masks?

"Be more specific," Fong ordered.

"One claimed to be the son of one of the Turtle Warriors," Andy explained nervously. Hun glared at them, and Andy ducked behind Feng out of reflex.

"Just when we thought we got rid of them..." Sid grumbled in his gruff voice. Feng, the Japanese girl, was not afraid to cheekily ask the following:

"Have you fought with them before?"

Kim sometimes wished he wasn't so chivalrous, at least enough not to hit girls, because there were times when Feng really deserved it.

"Yes," the leader of the Dragons replied calmly, as calmly as he could muster, considering how he had lost a lot of money, not because of the turtles, but because of their nosy children. "They messed with us many times, while we worked with the ancient Foot Clan. The one that wasn't leading that mindless brat Karai," he clenched his fists. He took a breath and looked at the kids. "This time I'll forgive you for losing my money on one condition," he held up a finger to emphasize his point. "I want you to investigate them, I want their information. I want to know everything they do, if they get a pimple, if they are eating, even if someone has an itchy head, I want you to inform me,"

"How are we supposed to approach them?" Raven asked.

"I have a question, one of them was an afro girl with braids?" Keshawn asked.

"Yes."

"We know her. She's the daughter of a disgusting mutant and her parents are fagots," he said with disgust in his voice. "She and her brother go to Roosevelt High School. The others have to go there too,"

"And conveniently for us, you too," Hun said, folding his arms.

"Um, we don't even go to school," Kim replied.

"That changes starting tomorrow," the Dragons' leader stated, glaring at him. He took Kim by the face and made him look into his eyes. "I want no excuses, ryokai shita?"

Kim swallowed hard and nodded, the others following. Hun released the Korean boy and looked at Andy.

"You, to my room, now," he pointed to them. Andy's nerves got the better of them and they froze, but before they could respond, Kim cut in.

"Don't worry... I'll go," he said crestfallen. Hun didn't care and took the young boy to his room, putting his arm around his shoulders. Andy hugged Feng crying and she reciprocated as Fong, Sid and Tsoi walked away laughing at Kim's fate. Keshawn and Myron stayed with the others.

"Don't worry... he'll be fine," Keshawn said, trying to convince the others, and himself, of his words.

"That'll make him stronger," Myron continued, also unconvinced.

"Those who also suffered the same thing say it and now one is out of his mind and the other is a fucking aggressive animal," Raven claimed.

They both glared at the girl, but said nothing.


"And that's all that happened,"

The Turtles and Karai listened to the story their children told them with concern. To recap: Stockman was back and seeking revenge, and the Purple Dragons were expanding by recruiting minors. This was bad.

"This is not good," Leo said worriedly.

"Not all of us will be able to handle this," Raph spoke in the same concerned tone of voice. "We already have important jobs to begin with, and as urgent as the matter of Stockman and the Dragons is, we can't handle so much at once,"

"Why don't you let us handle it?" Ryan asked innocently, making his cousins' eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

"Um, come again?" Mikey asked, thinking he had misheard.

"Let us handle it," Ryan repeated, his mask raised to his forehead. The brothers and sisters looked at each other, considering it.

"I don't know, you're too young," Donnie commented as he crossed his arms. "But...we started our ninja adventures when we were younger, we were barely 15,"

"I've been 15 for one day! And the others are quite a older than me, we're ready," before he could say more, Tori covered his mouth.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about, dad, he's got a lot of pepperoni on his brain," the chesnut girl spoke up, still covering the blond boy's mouth.

"Give us a moment to talk about it," Venus declared. The adults filed out of the dojo and closed the sliding door, while the kneeling youths glared at Ryan.

"Ryan, have you lost your mind?" Zack asked quietly, but loud enough for Ryan to hear. "They won't give us permission and aside from that we have no experience dealing with someone like Stockman or the Dragons,"

"They didn't have it either, what's stopping us?"

"I never thought I'd say this, but Ryan's right," Jay spoke up, causing the others to look at him in surprise. "I know, I usually appeal to common sense, but this time I'm going for realism: Stockman and the Dragons aren't gonna disappear on their own and our parents have other obligations. We could put ourselves in their shoes from when they were young and take matters into our own hands,"

"When you put it like that, it doesn't sound so crazy," Tori muttered, considering the possibility.

"You're not seriously considering this," Zack challenged them.

"I actually think we should take care of it, too," Bryton said.

"Me too," his sister continued.

"Me too," KJ said.

One by one, the others were accepting reality... well, all except Zack, who was still stubborn enough not to accept. Eventually the adults came back in with their answer.

"Well, we already have an answer," Leo announced. Zack expected him to say no. "We talked about it, we voted and... the majority of us agree with you guys doing it,"

Everyone except Zack celebrated in their places, but seeing their parents looking at them strangely, they regained their composure.

"We will give you the necessary instructions to deal with Stockman and the Dragons, but you must take this seriously, do you understand?"

"Hai, sensei Leo," they all said, Zack included, bowing to their sensei.

The turtles and Karai smiled, especially Leo, who felt like Splinter when they themselves were young.


The next day at school, the kids each went to their classrooms. Tori and Red, to avoid being bullied again, changed to their human forms, as they were retro-mutants like Karai, which was somewhat uncomfortable for them, as they were not used to being human for long periods of time. Aya and Bry noticed that.

"I know what you're gonna say, and we're just doing this so that assholes like Alex and Taylor don't mess with us," Tori explained, grumbling.

"We didn't say anything," Bryton scoffed, causing his sister to give him a shove.

Ryan and Kathy went to their classroom, KJ, Red, and Jay went to theirs, while Tori, Aya, and Bry went to theirs. Everyone sat in their place, but as soon as the teacher entered, they saw two kids that they didn't expect to find:

Kim and Raven, though they didn't know their names yet.

"Attention, students, we have two new classmates," the professor said in a muffled voice; he probably missed his morning coffee. "This is Kim Parsons and Raven Simmons. I want you to treat them with respect, understand?" questioned the teacher. The students said a very vague 'yes', since they were already tired of school, and it was only the second day. Kim now had a jacket hiding his tattooed arm, which for now hid the fact that they were Purple Dragons.

Victoria and Ayana, who were sitting next to each other, looked at each other with concern, as they recognized both members immediately. They only hoped that the others would not cross paths with other members.


Remember that the author said that the girls hoped that their friends wouldn't find the rest of the Dragons in their school? Well, their prayers weren't enough, since Curtis was in Jay, Red, and KJ's class. He had introduced himself as Curtis Mueller.

"This is bad," KJ muttered to his friend. Jay nodded, took his T-Phone and typed a message in the group chat, which said 'Purple Dragon in our classroom, it's the big one'.

Shortly after Tori replied with an 'X2, the leader and the afro'.

Not long after, Cody also spoke through the group chat.

'There are two new kids in my class and they look the same as you described them, they're the Japanese girl and the Latin boy... or girl, I don't know :P I think they're also Dragons'

Jay typed back into his T-Phone 'See you at break for a chat, until then keep an eye on them'


Classes passed slower than a fat snail on the moon, but eventually the bell rang and everyone filed out of their classrooms. Via message, Jay told them to meet at the fence that divided the middle school from the high school, so Beverly, Cody and Shadow would hear what they needed to know. Beverly would be 15 in December, so she wasn't far from joining the team. The twins were just turning 14 in September, giving them a year to join the elders.

Gradually everyone reached the meeting point, Jay being the one who spoke.

"Listen, last night we fought with some new members of the Purple Dragons and now they're in the school, it's obvious that they're looking for us," said the black-haired boy in a whisper. "We better don't do anything suspicious, which includes not talking about being part of the Hamato Clan. For the time being, use your mothers' surnames and keep a low profile as best you can, understand?"

"But we're still Jones, right?" Cody asked innocently. Shadow bumped her forehead on the fence on purpose at her brother's question and Jay sighed.

"Yeah, you're still Jones. Just drop the Hamato last name, okay?"

"Understood," the twins said in unison. Tori was looking at Bev through the bars and their fingers were intertwined.

"Take care, okay?"

"I will, dolly," Beverly leaned over to Victoria and, through the bars, kissed her.

"Aww, so adorable," Ryan said softly and Tori turned around, looking at him with fury in her eyes, for which the blond boy reflexively hid behind Kathy.

"We have the names of the supposed Dragons, they're Andy de la Cruz and Sekai Imahara, although she said she prefers to be called Feng," Shadow explained.

"It's them, Kim called out for Curtis, Feng and Raven, it has to be them," Ayana said. Jay showed his T-Phone with a call on speaker, it was Zack he was calling.

"Listen well, we're not going to face them until it's really necessary. We're more, but we don't know their strengths or weaknesses, so we're going to do this calmly, got it?"

"Does that mean I have to decline Feng's date invitation?" Bev asked.

"Say what?!" Tori exclaimed.

"Oh yeah, she kind of saw me and hearts came out of her eyes like a cartoon,"

Tori gritted her teeth furiously, wanting to rip the ponytails off that cheeky girl.

"You can skin her later, Tori, for now focus on the matter at hand," Kathy reassured her. Tori took a deep breath to relax.

"Okay, okay,"

"As I was saying, don't goof around, capisce?"

"I capisco, trust me," Ryan assured, doing finger guns. Zack was heard sighing and smacking his forehead.

"Okay, let's get to work,"


Feng and Andy were walking through the halls of the middle school while not far away, Cody, Shadow and Beverly were following them. And Shadow had to admit that hearing Feng laugh at everything Harley Quinn-style was irritating her.

"I don't know how Andy tolerates her, she's unbearable, especially her laugh," Bev muttered.

"I agree with you," Shadow said.

"You think they noticed we're following them?"

"You wanna shout it out for the whole school to know, Cody?"

"I was just asking,"

"Shut up and follow them," ordered the girl with fuchsia tips.

The three of them followed Feng and Andy into the ladies' room. Shadow pulled out a vial of spy-roaches that her Uncle Donnie provided them with, and using the remote on her T-Phone, she sent it into the bathroom.

"Let's see what Tokoyami has to show us,"

"Tokoyami?" Cody and Bev asked.

"Oh, it's because of the character from My Hero Academia,"

"You watch too much anime, sis,"

"Silence,"

They looked at the cockroach screen and the bug hid under the sink far enough that Andy and Feng didn't see it. Inside the bathroom, Feng took out her cell phone and made a video call.

"Did you have any luck? Cause we didn't,"

"We suspect of some of our calculus class classmates and others in science, we saw two girls and a boy very similar to the ones we faced last night,"

Cody, Shadow and Bev heard that and their suspicions were confirmed: they were Purple Dragons.

"We better keep digging, we don't know if it's really them. The masks they had on don't help," Raven complained over the phone.

"Keep looking for someone, maybe we'll get lucky next time," Curtis suggested.

"Today I found a cute girl and asked her out, but she told me she had a girlfriend, so I told her she could have two and then she said-"

"Feng, no one cares about your love life"

"And certainly not me," Bev said to herself.

Andy took the floor.

"What do we tell Hun when we get back home?"

"We'll tell him what he needs to know," Kim declared and ended the call. Feng and Andy decided to leave the bathroom, so Cody, Shadow and Bev moved away from the door so as not to look suspicious. They both left the bathroom without worries and Shadow's cockroach returned to its jar.

"We have to show this to others,"


After school, the group of young Dragons walked away from their new institution to Chinatown, back to the abandoned fortune cookie factory, and went straight to talk to Hun.

"Do you have any news?"

"It was kind of hard considering whoever ambushed us last night was wearing masks, but we have a suspicion who the Turtles' children might be," Kim reported.

"Speak," Hun commanded, fiddling with a knife.

"We have a few names, but only a few," Raven walked over to the table and put down a piece of paper with the names written on it. Hun leaned forward, for he was sitting at an office table, and took the paper. He read aloud.

"Ayana Jones, Katherine O'Neil and Ryan Tilley... aren't you short on more? I doubt three brats caused you enough trouble that you guys lost my money," he said with some venom in his voice.

"The mutant girl didn't show up at school today, we couldn't ID her," Kim excused himself. "And if there were more of them we didn't see'em,"

Hun considered his answer for a few seconds and sighed wearily.

"Well, I suppose this will do," he said reluctantly. "I want you to try a new altercation tonight,"

"What?"

"What you will do is cause chaos to attract them. If they are anything like their parents, they will be drawn to trouble like moths to flame. Was I clear to you?" he waited for them to nod, which they did, and he smirked. "Everyone but Raven, get out. I want her now,"

Before Raven could say yes or no, Kim interfered again like he did with Andy.

"Don't worry, I'll stay,"

"It's noble of you, Kim, but considering the way you bled last night, I doubt you want to go through the same thing now," Hun said the last bit with a sneer in his voice and Kim lowered his head. Raven took his shoulder.

"Don't worry...I'll be fine. Just get out,"

The others decided not to complain and left. Hun smirked and stuck the knife into the table.

"Your pants, off,"


Shadow finished showing the video to the older ones and they looked at themselves worried.

"This is bad,"

"Should we call Uncle Casey and tell him that Purple Dragons come to our school?" Kathy asked

"And risk the school being jeopardized for it? Besides, we have no evidence to prove they're Dragons,"

"Also we left our anonymous testimony to the police last night, Uncle Casey already has notice to look for them,"

"Tori and Jay are right, Uncle Casey is too impulsive, if we tell him, he'll want to jump into action recklessly," Zack said, cupping his chin thoughtfully.

"Let's try looking for them tonight. Knowing the Dragons, they'll try to get our attention to find out our info,"

"You wanna put on some glasses and braces and call yourself a nerd by the way? That plan ain't gonna work," Red scoffed, flicking KJ in the forehead.

"No, wait, maybe it'll work," Zack said.

"Uhh, explain yourself," Bryton spoke up.

"We'll break up into small groups to cover more ground and follow the trail of disaster the Dragons are sure to leave behind. We'll make them think we're outnumbered, but in the end we can set a trap for them and catch them,"

"Hey, that's not a bad idea," Kathy said, smiling.


Kim, Curtis, Feng, Raven and Andy stood in the middle of a deserted street not knowing what to do. How were they supposed to get the attention of the kids in black jumpsuits and masks without the police seeing them too?

"Do you have any ideas?" Kim asked wearily.

"How about painting graffiti?" Feng suggested. "I want to paint the girl with the pink shaved hair that I saw today," that last part she said it with a loving smile.

"One, you can't draw, two, we don't have spray paint, and three, you need therapy, because if that girl tells you she already has a girlfriend, there must be a reason," Raven reproached her.

"Awww..."

"Oh, oh, what if we rob another bank?" Curtis suggested.

"And risk the police coming back? No thanks,"

"You're not being very cooperative, you know? At least we're suggesting ideas," Feng crossed her arms as she said that.

"Why don't we just mug some people?" Andy suggested this time. "We corner them in an alley and they won't be able to do anything but scream, and then we can lure the kids in the black jumpsuits,"

"Finally an idea we can work with," Kim spoke with some relief in his voice. "Do you have a weapon?"

Feng took out her knife and proudly showed it, Raven had a baseball bat in her hands, Curtis showed his fists and Andy took a rusty pipe from a dumpster. Kim smiled and took a cutter out of his pocket.

"Now we just have to wait,"


Zack divided the team into three teams of three members, since they were nine in total. Him with Ryan and Jay, to make sure the blond didn't get away from them, Tori, Ayana and Bryton in team two and Kathy, Red and KJ in the third one.

Team one, Zack, Jay, and Ryan, was near the Chinatown area, keeping an eye out for any Dragons passing by. However, there were more than expected, coming in and out of the Dragon Gate.

The three of them were on a rooftop and Jay had a telescope.

"I count about fifteen Dragons," the young boy in blue reported.

"How are we supposed to deal with an entire legion of Purple Dragons? Our parents only had four counting Hun,"

"We'll manage," Zack assured, taking Ryan's shoulder. "They may be more, but we know how to fight and we're probably smarter than those knuckleheads,"

"That's a very big 'probably,'" Jay said, still using the telescope. Zack noticed the sarcasm of that comment.

"Is there something you want to share with the class, Jayson?"

Jay pretended not to notice and didn't even look at him.

"I have nothing to say," Zack didn't believe it and clenched his fists.

"No, come on, tell us what bothers you so much,"

The sapphire-eyed boy saw himself between the sword and the wall, so he put away his telescope and looked at his leader.

"I think the plan's not gonna work,"

Zack clenched his fists even tighter until his knuckles turned white.

"Tell me the reason for your insecurity,"

"To begin with, we should put a perimeter around the areas of most attacks caused by the Dragons, dividing into groups of three is risky if the Dragons bring more members and besides that Ryan is easily distracted, it would've been better if he stayed with Kathy who is almost as inexperienced as he is, so they both learn at the same pace,"

"Okay, I see your point," the honey-eyed young boy crossed his arms. "You think I do things wrong,"

"I was just giving you advice, I'm not trying to question your authority,"

"That sounds like you question my methods,"

"Um, guys?" Ryan called, but they ignored him.

"I'm telling you I not questioning anything,"

"Seriously, guys,"

"If it bothers you that much, you can be the leader,"

"What?"

"Enough, guys!"

"What?!"

"I hear a girl screaming," he pointed north.

"KJ and his team are over there, they'll take care of it," Zack dismissed Ryan's interruption. The blond worried about the tension between the two black-haired boys.


The young girl was running as fast as she could with her mini bag slung over her shoulder. She had straight blonde hair with pink streaks and brown eyes. She ran as fast as she could, as she was being chased by Kim and Feng, who with their bladed weapons in hand were ready to hurt her in order to get the attention of the kids in black jumpsuits.

KJ, Kathy and Red were talking on a rooftop when they heard the girl screaming not far away. KJ looked around and saw the girl running away from Kim and Feng about one block away. He looked at his team.

"Put your masks on, that girl's Demi Roberts, she's from school," KJ said pulling his black bandana up to his eyes.

"How do you know it's her?" Red asked, pulling his bandana down from his forehead to his eyes.

"I'd know that blonde hair with pink streaks anywhere," he jumped down from the building and using his grappling hook he swung.

Demi was cornered into an alley, where she eventually found Andy, Curtis and Raven waiting for her. She stopped in her tracks and tried to catch her breath, but turning around she saw Kim and Feng approaching. She swallowed hard and felt her heart pound.

"It's nothing personal, cutie," Kim reassured, snatching the mini bag she was carrying. "But we're looking for someone and you're the bait,"

"Well you found us, Kim," said a voice behind him. Kim turned around, only to be punched in the face which drew blood from his nose.

Kim fell to the ground in a daze and the others looked at the person responsible, a masked KJ, with fury in their eyes.

Feng, who was closer, started giggling as she swung her knife aggressively at KJ. Though he deftly dodged her attacks, she managed to slash his cheek, but nothing too serious. Eventually, with a swift maneuver, KJ took the knife from Feng and tossed it away. She smiled nervously, but it didn't stop KJ from pushing her, because he didn't hit women, no matter how crazy they were.

Raven, Curtis and Andy were going to attack him, but someone behind Andy and Curtis knocked them both out in one hit, leaving only Raven with her baseball bat.

She spotted Kathy and Red, though she didn't recognize him, and she got into a fighting stance.

Raven started swinging her bat hard, wanting to hit Kathy, who was blocking with her bo staff. Red ran towards Demi, who fell to the ground in shock, and grabbed her like a princess, then used his grappling hook to swing away.

"He's taking the girl!" Raven exclaimed, struggling with Demi.

"Leave her, we have two now," Kim assured, standing up with a bloody nose. He raised his two fists still a bit shaky and bleeding, and prepared to fight KJ. KJ cracked his neck and got into a fighting stance.

Kim ran towards him and started throwing punches which KJ blocked, however he was also throwing punches at Kim's face, who dodged as best he could. Kim managed to grab KJ by the shoulders and kneed him in the stomach. KJ resisted as best he could and grabbed Kim by the waist, crashing him into a dumpster. Somewhat stunned, the young Korean stood up and attacked the young Latino (KJ) again.

From atop a rooftop, Red checked on Demi.

"Are you okay? Were you hurt?"

Somewhat confused, Demi shook her head and hurriedly checked her mini bag, which thankfully still had all her things inside.

"Okay, stay here, I'll be right back," Red grabbed his T-Phone and sent a locator signal, as he jumped down from the building.

Demi reacted and took her phone starting to take photos of the fight that was taking place between KJ and Kim, which ended up in the middle of the street, fighting bare-knuckle. KJ, aside from Feng's gash on his cheek, had a black eye under his black bandana and his mouth was bleeding, while Kim's nose was still spurting blood, he had a nasty bruise on his left cheek, and some scrapes on his face.

Before KJ could hit Kim again. Curtis appeared from behind and hugged him like a bear, holding his arms tight so he couldn't break free. KJ reflexively slammed the back of his head into Curtis's nose to disorient him, then pushed free. However, he found himself surrounded by Andy with their rusty pipe and Feng, who had retrieved her knife. KJ looked around, seeing Kathy fighting Raven, so he pulled out a knife, pressed a button on it and the handle unfurled, becoming longer, becoming a naginata. But before doing anything, some bowlers caught Andy and Feng together.

KJ looked up, seeing the rest of the team running up and throwing their Utrom tech bowlers, which were super hard to break free of. Tori threw other bowlers and caught Kim, Jay caught Curtis, and Bryton caught Raven throwing the bowlers behind her.

They all went down and checked the perimeter, making sure no one was looking at them, and gathered the group of Dragons, leaving them all huddled. Kathy walked over to KJ and handed him a tissue.

"Are you okay, KJ?" Kathy asked worriedly.

"Easy peasy," KJ replied, wiping the blood that trickled from his mouth.

"It's good to see you again, and now we see that there are more than just four of you," Kim spoke wearily.

"Shut up," Tori bellowed.

"What do you want with us?" Ryan asked innocently.

"Well, our boss is an old enemy of your parents and he wants you and them out of our business," Curtis explained briefly, to which Raven gave him a nudge. "What? He asked,"

"Doesn't mean you have to answer, you moron," she claimed.

"We know the names of Ayana, Ryan, and Katherine, but we couldn't identify the mutant girl," Feng laughed, smiling goofily at Tori. "And the mutant boy, is he your brother?"

"That's none of your business, Harley Quinn 2.0," Red bellowed.

"Red, shut up," Tori whispered.

"Oh, you flatter me, Red," Feng giggled. "By the way, I recommend you crouch down,"

"What?" asked Zack, but Jay got in front of him and with his Odachi deflected several knives that were thrown at them by young Dragons who were approaching angrily, apparently they heard all the noise and came to see what was happening, finding the young Hamatos fighting with their comrades. "Shit," Zack said, and they all got into defensive stances. "Make no sudden movements,"

Ryan was close to Feng, and she, thanks to her knife that she used to cut the circuits of the Utrom bowlers, tried to attack him from behind, but Tori noticed this and attacked Feng. The other Dragons saw this and ran with pipes, chains, baseball bats and knives in hand to attack the Hamatos.

Out of sheer reflex, Kathy pulled out a smoke bomb and tossed it to the ground, just as the Dragons were about to attack them. They coughed from the smoke, and when it cleared, the boys in black jumpsuits were gone.

"Dammit!" Kim yelled, still tied up.


The team watched from a roof as the Dragons escaped with Kim and the others and Zack didn't say anything. After all, who would blame him? The whole plan failed and it was because no one paid attention to him.

The young prince of the Foot Clan had to make an effort not to show his snake arms against his cousins, however he did look at them with viper eyes. The drop had filled the glass.

"Is this a joke for you?! We almost had the Dragons, but you had to ruin everything!"

"Oh, you want to blame us for your plan failing?"

"Yes, Victoria, I do," the ponytailed young man clenched his fists. "All you had to do was keep them tied up, but Ryan strikes up a conversation, you neglect the tie-up and they run off with more information from us! You know what they're gonna tell Hun?!"

"Maybe if you'd made a less crappy plan, this wouldn't have happened," Tori complained with a roll of her eyes.

"Okay, I've had enough of you!" Zack reflexively transformed one of his hands into a snake and it was going to bite Tori, but just in time Jay used his Odachi to block the snake's fangs.

"Enough! Arguing doesn't fix anything,"

"Don't intervene, Jayson, this is none of your business," Zacariah challenged him with a look.

Jay kept his gaze steady as he pulled Zack away from Tori.

"I'm part of this team just like everyone else, so it's everyone's business. What happened happened, Zack, but instead of taking it easy like a true leader, you're being childish and capricious,"

"Oh, I'm the childish one? And what about Tori? She's being childish too by evading her share of the blame,"

"Hey, I was protecting Ryan from getting hurt by that bitch Feng!"

"Passing the blame is no use!"

"You know what, Jay?!" If you think I'm doing such a poor job as a leader, you can handle it! Because I quit,"

Everyone gasped.

"Hey, wait, Zack..."

"No, since you guys resent my leadership sooo much, I'll work myself alongside my Foot ninjas to catch Stockman and the Dragons. And I don't need your support, so good riddance," Zack stomped away, leaving the others on that roof. The others watched their former leader walk away with concern in their eyes.

"What do we do now?" Kathy asked Jay worriedly.

"I guess we'll handle ourselves...let's go home. We have a lot to say to our parents,"


All the Dragoons arrived at the abandoned factory, where Hun and his five minions waited idly. Hun approached Kim and waited a few seconds to give him a slap that knocked him to the ground, made his nose bleed again and scared the other young men and women. Kim wiped away the dripping blood and looked back at Hun.

"What the hell did you do?"

"We set the Hamato Clan kids up, thank you very much," Raven replied, helping Kim to his feet.

"You guys compromised your situation, now they know your identities,"

"We have the names of a few more, they are Red and KJ. But we don't know if they are their real names or if they are aliases," Andy informed with some fear.

"That doesn't work for me!"

"I think I can help,"

They all turned to the entrance, seeing Stockman, aka the brain-encased robot, and his pet cyborg Bigfoot experiment standing there. Stockman, followed by his pet, took a few steps towards Hun and offered his hand to shake.

"I don't know if you remember me, Hun, but I'm Baxter Stockman, the scientist who worked for Shredder,"

"I'm afraid not," replied the Asian man dismissively. "I see the weather was not on your side,"

"Quite the contrary, my friend," Stockman showed one of his metallic arms and transformed it into a flamethrower. "I've never felt so alive,"

"Let's get to the point, what do you want'"

"I see you had to deal with the turtle disciples, and I am willing to help you if you help me,"

Hun laughed lightly.

"What makes you think we need your help?"

"Well, your brats didn't manage to catch the Hamato children, I'm afraid you do need me," Stockman sneered, wiping Hun's smirk away. "Here's the deal, your guys will keep robbing banks with the help of my pet, so we can finance my experiments to create anti-mutant guns,"

"Can you create anti-mutant guns?!" Feng exclaimed in surprise. Stockman would have smiled smugly if he had had lips.

"The mob had the original weapons, if I can get the original blueprints for these, I'll be able to make them,"

"Don Vizioso's mob was disbanded over twenty years ago, what makes you think we'll get the blueprints?" Hun questioned.

"Vizioso's in prison, someone has to go to jail to ask him for the blueprints and piece of cake," explained the robot.

Hun thought of the plan. It was good, if he got Stockman to make the anti-mutant guns, he could use them against the turtles' children, because even if it was a small percentage they would be weak against these weapons. The Dragons would gain the advantage necessary for their empire to prosper.

"I see we have a deal, Stockman," Hun offered his hand to shake and Stockman took it.

This was just the beginning.