Ever since Karai had taken over the Foot Clan, she had called the turtles her allies and she would not fight against them. But, there had been some men among her soldiers that had always deemed the turtles their enemies, and were always going to see them that way.

One of the men was determined to see the Foot clan as an enemy to the turtles for as long as they existed. He would rise above his new leader! He began to organize and rally his own troops among the Foot. He was deemed a high honored ninja, and had been there a long time.

He called himself Yogami. He was of Japanese origins. He had always had martial arts training in his family background and had been proud enough to become part of the Foot clan. He had loved working under the Utrom Shredder, but his daughter as the Shredder? There was no way he was going to stay under her rule.

On one evening's so-called practice run, he and all his allies were organized and ready to leave the Foot clan and become their own clan. Karai had no idea they were splitting off from her.

Yogami had about sixty men alongside him. They had a place of their own to go to. Karai was not going to be giving them orders anymore.

They went to the upper east side of Brooklyn to their new hideout and where they donned new garbs. And they had a new symbol on it too. It was a dragon symbol.

Yogami wore dark green to tell him apart from his comrades. He was now standing on a podium in front of his sixty allies. He had a very, deep growly type voice. Not entirely like the Shredder's, just a tad lower than that, but still deep enough.

"Listen up, my new clan. We are now called the Dark Dragon Clan! We will never again follow that wench, Karai! She called those demons, the Turtles, her allies. We will never call them our allies. They will be forever, our enemies!" Yogami announced.

"Yeah!" His men cheered.

"We will take the turtles down, one way or another!" Yogami declared.

"Yeah!" The men yelled again.

It was clear Yogami had a good bunch following him, and were loyal. He would make sure to get more men to join his clan. If there was one thing for sure, he didn't think women had a place in these arts. They seemed to ruin everything. That's the way he saw Karai, that she wasn't fit to lead the Foot clan.

Over the coming weeks, Yogami was growing his ranks before he would get at the turtles, for good this time.

They had also stolen some items from the Foot's stock supplies like Foot Tech invisibility gear, and other weapons supplies as well. Guns, arrows, knives, shurikens, and many others.

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When Karai found out that some of her clan was missing, she got suspicious. Usually, once they joined the clan, they were in it for life, and there was only one way they could leave, and that was through the grave.

But Karai usually had more honor and would gladly let some people leave if they had to, generously. If they had to step out because of their family or something, it was generous, but it was when there were betrayers like Yogami, where she would see fit to end their misery existence if they sought to betray her.

She had no idea at this moment that Yogami had broken off to start a new clan.

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Yogami went to the leader of the Purple Dragons, Dragon Face, and even secured ties with him. The Purple Dragons would work with the Dark Dragons as requested. Even they wanted to get some revenge on the turtles too, as they had killed their original leader, Hun. Well, they had just known it to be caused by them, though it had been their lizard friend who had killed Hun.

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There were still times when Leonardo still wanted to get out on his own to clear his head and get away from his brothers being obnoxious, especially Michelangelo. He would always love him though. He loved all of them.

Donatello was probably the one that got on his nerves the least, since he was so quiet and did his own things. But he did worry about Don too, when he got too preoccupied in his projects and didn't get enough sleep.

Raphael was the one that got on his nerves the most really, always challenging his orders. Leo only ordered him not to do things so recklessly because he wanted him to be safe, and he would never forgive himself if something happened to him.

All his brothers deemed him like a worrywart or a mother hen kind of figure because he cared so much about them. Leo also cared about their human friends, Randall, and all their other friends too that they didn't see very often.

Leo knew that Randall, of other friends of theirs, had become a big part of their lives. By now, he couldn't count how many times Randall had helped them, and he had been proud to help Randall when he had needed them in his time of need in his former world.

On this night, Leo was by himself, just going out for what would be a training run, and clearing his head. He had just wanted to get out and away from Raph and Mikey's jeering from Mikey having talked Raph into playing video games with him. Don was busy in the lab and his father was busy meditating before bed.

Leo made sure to bring his phone with him before he left. He had told Don he was going out to get some air.

"Be careful, Leo." Don said.

"I always am." Leo replied.

Once topside, Leo began running over rooftops gracefully. He loved having this feeling, like he was free. And he didn't have any concerns about the Foot Clan either. For a long time, he hadn't heard anything from them, or seen them about the city.

But, on this night, there were some ninjas out and about, a new version of them, and they knew the blue masked turtle well. They had spotted him running alone. They knew he was the leader. They had done this under their old leader's rule once and had hurt him real good, almost having finished him that time, but hadn't been able to finish the job. But they were more than willing to do it now!

This group had about seven, and they took off after the lead turtle. They weren't letting him get away. One of them was even armed with dart drugs. They didn't care about playing dirty.

Out of the corner of his eye, Leo saw the ninjas get behind him. What the? The Foot clan should not be doing this.

The ninjas took out their weapons and were ready to do battle with him.

Leo thought that Karai was honorable. Why would she send her ninjas after him? But right now, he had to believe what he saw. These ninjas were enemies.

He ran for a few many rooftops, hoping they would get off his tail, but they never did and kept up with him pretty good. They were making their intentions clear, that they wanted to do him in.

Leo finally pulled up and growled angrily at them. "What do you want? Your leader said that you wouldn't come after us anymore!"

"Not our leader. Attack!" One in the front said.

Leo immediately took out one of his katanas and it clashed with another sword first. He tested his skill against this ninja and then, used his left fist to strike him in the head, knocking him away. He then took out his other katana as well.

One of the other ninjas in the back called for back up. They knew the lead turtle was often more than a match for them and would need more numbers to subdue him. They wanted a good fight out of him before they planned to take him prisoner. Without their leader, the turtles were a lot weaker, they thought.

Twenty more ninjas got the call to assist for help with one of the turtles that had been sighted this night.

Leo soon saw more ninjas coming in a large number. He was sure he could take them. He had fought off much more than that before.

But these ninjas had been trained a different way and didn't fight like they used to, a lot more like Karai. Perhaps they could use this to their advantage, to make him think that their former leader was betraying him.

With many of the fighting techniques they had come to perfect from Karai before departing her clan, they soon had the blue turtle starting to break a sweat. And fifteen more joined them from another that called. This time, even Yogami came.

Leo had never wanted to face this kind of situation again. As brave a face as he could put on, he fought with all he had in him. As he began panting more, one ninja swept his feet out from under him, making him land on his shell. He had been so busy fighting that he hadn't had time to reach into his belt and call his brothers for help.

Now that the turtle was on his back, panting hard for breath, Yogami stepped forward.

"You are now in the presence of a new ninja clan, Lead Turtle. We are the Dark Dragon Clan." Yogami proclaimed.

Leo looked up at him. He saw this one wore dark green, different from the black ones around him. He started to push himself up onto his knees. "So what do you want from me?"

"To take you and your miserable family out of the picture for good."

"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Leo said and attacked Yogami.

Yogami fought back with Karai's speed, if not more. Getting Leo to change his direction towards a wall not far off, with one back flip and a good kick to the turtle's chest, he went flying back into the wall, his shell hitting the wall, knocking the wind out of him.

Leo was on his left side, coughing when the ninjas approached him again. He looked up and he heard a click. One of the ninjas now had a gun in his hands. He glared up at the ninjas angrily. If this was the end of him, he knew they would soon face the wrath of his family, but he would gladly let them take him instead of his family.

The ninja fired the gun and the turtle was darted three times. Once in the arm, one in his thigh, and another in the neck.

Leo felt the effects of the drugs take over rather quick. His vision faded and he fell onto the pavement, unconscious.

"Check him over for anything that might let his family track him down." Yogami ordered. He knew they kept phones on them.

Two ninjas checked him over and one found the phone. "Smash it!" Yogami ordered.

It was smashed and left on the rooftop, along with Leo's swords. A big sized ninja came forward and picked up the unconscious turtle.

They carried him back to their hideout, where they took him down to a basement and cuffed his wrists and neck. The neck chain was connected to the wrist cuffs. There wasn't much space for him to be able to spread his arms far apart. His sword sheath and belt were also taken off, in case of him being able to use something in them to be able to pick the locks on his cuffs.

As the ninjas looked down on the sleeping turtle, one of the men behind Yogami asked, "Boss, now that we have him, what are we going to do with him?"

"We are going to torture him and make him wish he was dead before we kill him. We will also await his family too. I know they will try to find him, so be prepared." Yogami warned. "For right now, leave him be." He ordered, and he and his men left the basement to let the turtle wake up.