Over the next three weeks, there was a party thrown for Randall once again. Don was allowed to participate in it, but he had to be sitting down. Randall was grateful for the few gifts he did get, but most proud of the meal that had been made for him, but the best gift of all was Don being there, as himself.
Don was allowed to train, at least just the basic katas for self defense. But Leo didn't want him stressing out. He still needed a lot of rest.
One month later from the curing, it was a beautiful night out. Randall was back at April's tonight. Down in the lair, the guys had just gotten some new furniture and were moving it around.
At April's place, she was surprised to get a surprise visitor. It was the Ancient One. He had an address label with him to help him remember and he had gotten there by sailing there by ship. He had tried to find her house on his own.
"I need to find your friends, Miss O'Neil." Ancient One declared.
"I'm rather busy right now, but I have a friend that lives in the basement that could take you to their lair." April said.
"Good. Time is of the essence right now." The old man said rather urgently.
"Alright. This way." she directed him. She led him to the basement door and downstairs. She knocked on Randall's door.
"Yes." the lizard replied.
"Randall, we have a visitor." April said.
Randall had been watching a program, but got off the bed to get the door. His door had been replaced too since Don had destroyed the old one.
When he opened the door, he saw the redheaded woman and a little old fat man. He had definitely never seen him before. "Who's this?" he asked.
"Randall, allow me to introduce you to the Ancient One." April introduced him. "Ancient One, this is the one and only, Randall Boggs. I'm sure Leo told you about him."
"Yes, he did indeed." The Ancient One declared. He looked the lizard monster up and down. He could sense this lizard had had a tough time in his life. He could sure teach him some things, but from way back when, with another of his adopted sons, he could also sense that Randall had a hardness within him, although he appeared reformed.
"We must make haste. I need to reach the turtles right away." The old man said again.
"Alright." Randall replied. He went to turn his TV off first.
"Randall, I'm busy upstairs right now, can you take him to the lair?" April suggested.
"Sure." Randall replied. "This way." He was nervous about being alone with this guy. He didn't give his full trust out to just anyone, but he had been told about this old man.
The Ancient One followed Randall through the sewers.
…
"No. No. I don't think so." Mikey was saying. He was trying to direct Raph and Leo while they were moving a new couch for their living room. Don was sitting on it. "A little to the right." They began moving the couch to his right. Then he said, "No, my other right."
"I'll give another right, Mikey. A right hook!" Raph warned Mikey that he was ready to punch him. He was incredibly annoyed by Mikey's directions.
"Guys, let me get up and help. This is just silly." Don suggested. He wanted to be up and doing something.
"No. You stay right there and rest." Leo said.
"But I have rested. I've been resting for weeks. I rested while you guys fixed up the lair. I rested while you moved furniture. Heck, I'm resting on the furniture you're moving. I'm done resting!" Don proclaimed.
"It's just that we don't want to take any chances of a relapse." Leo stated.
"Yeah, no offense, Donny, but you weren't too much fun when you were sick." Raph said with his arms crossed.
"Fun? He was a monster! He was an absolutely horrible, nasty, big fang monster! You tried to eat my leg!" Mikey exclaimed to Don as he pointed at him.
"Um… I'm sorry, Mikey." Don closed his eyes sadly. "Guys, I don't remember any of that." he admitted.
"It's okay, Donny. Come to think of it, we have been cooped up in here for a long time. Who's up for some late night entertainment?" Leo asked with a smile. He had gotten an idea.
All three of his bros raised their hands. They all agreed to go topside and have some fun.
Leo went to tell his father that he was taking his brothers out for exercise. While he did that, Don went to the lab and took his bandages off his leg. The cut on his leg looked healed enough. He was sick of bandages. He would let it out to the air.
They all made sure to go to the bathroom before heading out. Don was happy to be joining them this time. It had been so long since he had been out with his brothers and not seem to have a bad head cold.
The guys were soon hitting the rooftops. They had so much energy to let off, but at least it was in a positive way. Even Raphael. Even he was glad Don was healed and back to normal.
Mikey stopped to toy around with some heart boxers. He giggled and then Raph grabbed him from above, making them both go flying over to the next rooftop. Mikey landed hard on his shell. Raph fell off of him. Then Leo and Don jumped over to the same rooftop.
"Man, it feels good to be out of the lair." Don admitted.
Raph and Mikey flipped back over to their brothers. "Are we sure Donny's all better? See the full moon, Donny? Do you feel the monster inside, the monster taking control?" Mikey laughed like how a lunatic would.
Don smiled. He knew how to play along with this. They were all in a playful mood. "Oh no! I'm… changing!" Don held his throat, then let out a "ROAR!" He then began to chase Mikey around the rooftop.
"Help me! Help me! He's trying to eat my leg again!" Mikey screeched in a playful, female-like voice.
Little did the turtles know that they were being watched by four shadowy figures.
Back at the lair, Splinter was just relaxing in his room. He had a pond in his room and a hole in the wall. He had salvaged what he could from his room in the old lair to try to make his room more comfortable. He also preferred keeping his room lit with firelit candles. He also had a shrine made for his sensei.
Master Splinter was currently examining the old Foot clan symbol. Then he heard a voice behind him. "Here it is." It was Randall. Splinter looked behind him.
"Pardon this intrusion, Splinter-san." The Ancient One stepped and jumped forward, a faster way to get over to him.
Randall was perplexed how such an old human could move like this one could. Most old humans he had seen on the streets couldn't even move half as good as this one he had only just met.
"Ancient One? You have come all this way?" Splinter asked.
The man got in front of him. "I am afraid so."
Splinter knew why the Ancient One had come. "Then, it has begun again." He looked down sadly. His sons were not here.
Randall didn't like the sound of that. What had begun again?
"Where are they? Where are your sons?" The Ancient One asked urgently.
"Out… Taking exercise." Splinter admitted.
The Ancient One's face turned into one of panic. "Oh no! I am too late! Too late!"
"What? What's going on?" Randall demanded. "You have been in a hurry since I met you."
"We have to hurry and find them!" Splinter said. "Randall, you can come too."
"What's this all about?" Randall demanded to know.
"We'll tell you later, I promise." Splinter said. "Right now, we must find my sons."
Randall would be happy to help find them, but he asked, "Are they in danger?"
"Yes." The Ancient One replied. "No more questions. Just go!"
The three of them hurried out of the lair. Both Splinter and Randall would use their sense of smell to track the turtles down. The Ancient One was surprised that the lizard didn't carry weapons.
"I assume you know how to fight, Randall?" the man asked.
"Yes. I may not be like the turtles, because of my body's anatomy, but I have my own ways of fighting too." Randall stated.
Splinter was leading the way, but if he needed back up on tracking, Randall was there to back him up.
…
Back on the rooftop, Leo, Raph, and Mikey were all playfully running away from Don now, pretending he was a monster again. It was brief. Then they pulled up, laughing hard. Leo and Raph held their stomachs, they were laughing so hard. It had been a long time since they had played and laughed like that.
Don rubbed Mikey's head. Mikey was laughing just as hard as the two oldest ones. "Man, it feels good to be out and about again." Don said again.
Then, all of a sudden, there was a sound of rushing wind, as if someone had flown by them. The turtles all froze up and looked around. It made them draw their weapons in case they were under attack.
The shadowy figures jumped down to the roof they were on and showed themselves. The turtles turned around and saw four tall figures approach them. They took out some tonfas, the same weapons that Randall had chosen for his weapons. If only he was here now. He might have vanished for sure.
The figures started pounding their tonfas together.
"Maybe it's just me, but I think these guys plan to stick it to us." Raph remarked.
The turtles all got into battle stances. The figures bowed to them honorably.
"What do we do now?" Don asked nervously. He looked over at his brothers.
"Bow, I guess." Leo replied. He put his one katana away, and then, he and his brothers bowed respectively back to the figures.
That was when they attacked. They jumped into the air, surprising the turtles. Leo threw some shurikens at one and it caught them on his tonfa. Leo quickly drew a katana to block the tonfa from striking him. His brothers jumped as one over the other three and turned around.
"Maybe we should have run instead." Mikey suggested.
"Who are these bozos?" Raph asked.
"They don't look like the Foot or the Dark Dragons." Don replied.
One of the figures got Raph to face him. He locked one of his tonfas with a sai and he made it go flying and landing behind Raph. Raph growled and was ready to fight with just the one sai he had left. But the figure bowed to him.
"Huh?" Raph questioned. He backed up and was allowed to get his other sai. "They sure don't fight like 'em either." Then the figure charged him again, making him jump away.
A third one was now taking on Don. He tried taking some whacks at his figure, which he blocked efficiently. He leaped over him. The figure twisted around in some weird way that wasn't normal. Don gasped. Then the figure reconnected and stood tall. It went on to test him more.
Mikey was also taking the last one while Leo was taking on the first one.
Leo and his figure were fighting on the edge of the rooftop.
Mikey jumped onto the entrance shed on the roof. He started showing off some moves to the figure, which the figure was able to copy about just the same. "So, you got some moves?" Mikey asked. He did some twirling of one of his nunchukus from his wrist to his neck. The figure copied him.
"Showoff!" Mikey shouted at him. Then the figure jumped up after him, nearly hitting him, making the youngest scream.
Raph was still fighting his figure pretty good, and he punched him. He instantly felt a hard surface. "Oh! What is up with these jokers? Talk about your rock hard abs." he stated as he held his sore hand.
Don took a swing at the rib section on his figure. It retaliated and did the same to him. It made him roll a ways. He cried out in pain. "It's their rock hard kicks I'm worried about." he grimaced in pain. His ribs hurt.
Leo was fighting his figure real hard now. He finally leaped into the air and brought one of his katana down on the figure's head, thinking he could kill him. That was when the head gear fell away, revealing a wooden head without a face.
The wooden figure pulled Leo's sword out of its head and the split in the middle healed itself. Then it held Leo's sword out for him to reclaim.
Leo was shocked. "They're… made of wood." he exclaimed.
"That explains the lack of weak spots." Raph declared.
Then Mikey punched his figure to test it. "Ow! And why my hand hurts when I punch him."
Leo walked forward to reclaim his katana. The figure went on fighting him some more before he kicked Leo in the chest, knocking him back. Leo fought to not go down completely. He glared back at the figure.
He got up and charged at the wood figure again. Then it hit him on the back at the top of his shell, flattening him onto his stomach. He tried to get up again, but before he could, a hit came to the back of his head. He cried out and he fell off the edge of the roof, onto the roof's floor onto his shell, unconscious.
Mikey tried his luck to beat his, but he got a kick in the chest, knocking him over and out too.
Raph began a series of furious punches and kicks, but it did no good. He was kicked away too, but the figure came over to him and stepped onto his plastron, crushing his ribs. Raph tried to resist, but it put enough pressure there to make him konk out too.
Don was the last one standing. "Raph! No!" he cried out. He tried to keep fighting to defend his brothers, but he too, was bashed on the shell and in the stomach, knocking him out too.
The figures stood over the fallen turtles, then picked them up gently. They also picked up their weapons and carried the turtles to the dock, where there was a dragon-like ship waiting.
The turtles were all put into a cell to wake up on their own. Their weapons were secured outside, by a magic spell.
The owners of this ship expected the turtles to come out of unconsciousness soon. It set sail immediately now that they had what they had come here for.
…
Splinter, Randall, and the Ancient One were now standing on the same rooftop the turtles had been on when they had been fighting and taken away. Both Randall and Splinter had tracked the turtles' scents here. They watched as the Ancient One was looking around for clues.
Randall could taste his friends' scents here and he tasted something else, more like wood.
The Ancient One came across some scratch marks in the roof, along with some cut pieces of a mask. "Yes, the Mokusei no Bushi were here." he said.
Splinter glared angrily.
"And here." Ancient One went on. "Signs of a struggle."
Randall wished he could have been there to help his friends. But he would gladly be there to help track them down.
The Ancient One held up a piece of wood, one that Leonardo had sliced.
"The Ninja Tribunal has taken my sons!" Splinter growled angrily. Randall looked at him in shock. He knew who had taken his sons? "Ancient One, you must take me to the Tribunal." Splinter demanded.
The Ancient One glared at Splinter, "You know that what you ask is simply not permitted." he replied.
"Permitted or not, I will protect my sons!" Splinter exclaimed.
They continued to follow the scents to the docks, where the trail ended. "So what do we do now?" Randall asked.
"We will go back and set forth for Japan immediately!" Splinter ordered.
They went back to the lair first to get supplies. The Ancient One would take him there.
Randall was ready to go too, but then, Splinter stopped him. "Randall, no. You need to stay and look after things here."
"I can still fight. I want to know who these criminals are that took my friends!" Randall demanded.
"I suppose I owe you that." Splinter agreed. "They are a group of four powerful and ancient humans, immortal in fact. I met them a long time ago, when my sons were real small. And they knew of my master, Yoshi. It was because of them that they didn't help against the alien Utrom why my master was slain in the first place! And now, they want my sons to take on an evil that they can't possibly take on!" he finished in anger.
Randall had never seen Splinter so angry before.
"We must go now if we are to catch them in time." The Ancient One decreed.
"When will you be back?" Randall asked.
"I don't know, Randall. That is why you must remain and take care of things here. Protect April and Casey. And the lair. I promise, we will be back as soon as we can." Splinter ordered.
"Alright." Randall said hesitantly. "Good luck."
"Thank you, Randall. I know you will do me proud." Splinter said. He had some different clothes and they were going to go to grab another boat at the docks that was due to leave. He even had on some shoes, Japanese shoes. Splinter would hide in the cargo below.
Randall was welcomed to follow them as far as the docks. He saw the Ancient One get on the ship the regular way, while Splinter snuck up a rope and went for the cargo area. He could have just as easily snuck aboard, but what Splinter said made sense. Someone had to stay behind and help April and Casey take care of things here.
This was the biggest kidnapping that Randall had even encountered from his friends before, and this was an enemy he didn't even know. He trusted Master Splinter would get his sons back and bring them home. Plus, he was leaving in such a hurry there would be no time to tell April where he had gone.
After the ship departed the dock, Randall took to the rooftops again. He always made sure he wasn't being followed. He couldn't afford to get captured at a time like this.
It had taken awhile, but he reached Central Park again and he went down to the lair to look things over. The lair was empty now of all its occupants but him. But he didn't live here. He was just a visitor, but it was like a second home.
Randall couldn't believe this was happening. Donatello had just gotten well again from the monster incident, and now, there was another challenge to the mutant family. He turned off what needed to be turned off. He would come back from time to time to make sure the place stayed in working order. At least he knew where Splinter was going off to. He went into Splinter's room to head back out and he saw the globe in there.
He looked at the map of the Earth, and he saw where New York was and he saw Japan on the other side of the world. Ships could take a long time to get there. They should have flown on an airplane. He didn't know where in Japan this place was, but he would let things go as needed.
Randall went back to April's after that to tell her that the turtles were kidnapped and that Splinter had gone after them. Splinter had ordered him to stay behind and help her out.
"You could have gone with them, Randall." April declared.
"I tried to, but Splinter said to stay here. And you wouldn't know where he went if I had gone too. I'm sure they'll write if they stay for a long time. Or it's possible not to. I don't know where this place in Japan where he went." Randall explained.
"Okay, well. Thanks for telling me." April said.
This was going to be a long wait for them to come home again. Randall was still concerned about what had been said that his friends would be taking on a great evil, and that the Ninja Tribunal was immortal. Could they be the enemy? They had to be if they had taken his adoptive brothers.
Randall would love to fight at their sides to bring these enemies down.
…
It had been a few days and the turtles all finally awoke from their enforced sleep. They all moaned and rubbed their heads as they began to get up. Their bodies were still a little sore from the beatings they had taken.
Raph immediately noticed they were in a cell. He walked up to the door.
Mikey helped Leo up. "Where are we?" Leo asked.
"Wherever we are…" Raph knocked on the door. "We're locked in!" Then he wanted to punch a hole in the door. But it was much to his shock that the door just opened up. "Huh?" his temper softened.
"Or not." Don said with his arms crossed.
"Okay. Anymore freakiness anyone?" Mikey asked.
Raph pushed the door open and all the brothers silently made sure they were accounted for. Don was out last. He smiled a bit, but then noticed something was off at what he saw behind his brothers.
"Uh, guys, our weapons don't usually float in the air by themselves, do they?" he asked as he pointed at the weapons that were waiting for their owners to pick them up again. There was a white light that held them up.
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder." Leo admitted.
"Weird or not, I'm getting my gear." Raph stated. He grabbed his sais, and the magical light around them vanished. His brothers proceeded to get their weapons too.
"If we have all of our weapons, then whose weapons are those?" Leo asked about some other weapons that were hanging behind them.
"Maybe… theirs." Mikey pointed out some other cells. The doors all began to open and four different humans stepped out of each one.
A big, tall muscular bald man came out of the first cell. He grabbed a mace on a chain.
The second cell had a blonde-haired woman with shoulder length hair and green clothes on. She got the long yellow weapon. It also had a blade on the end of it.
The third cell had a Japanese man, who got some hooked-like blades.
And the fourth cell had a black man. He got the sword that was there.
The four humans didn't know each other, but they all got into defensive stances, just as the turtles did. They were all just being cautious.
"Are you our abductors?" the woman demanded.
"Hey, Goldilocks, we don't have a clue as to what you're talking about." Raph replied.
"Who sent you?!" the asian man demanded.
"We weren't sent by anybody." Don stated.
"Some wooden manican guys with tonfa knocked the snot out of us and we woke up here." Mikey exclaimed.
The humans seemed to understand that the creatures before them weren't their abductors and relaxed a little more.
"Who are you?" the black man asked.
"What are you?" the woman asked.
"That's kind of a long story." Leo replied.
"We're ninjas." Raph said.
"And turtles." Don added.
"Ninja turtles!" Mikey said happily, waving his arms proudly.
Leo put his sword away that he had out before introducing his brothers. "This is Raphael. Donatello. Michelangelo." Don and Raph had nodded.
"Over here." Mikey said, waving.
"And I'm Leonardo." Leo gestured to himself.
"Greetings, Leonardo. I am Joy." the woman replied.
"Adam," the big muscular man waved.
"Furachi." the black man said.
"Tora." the asian man said. "We too were abducted."
"Well, we're going to find out what's going on here. You can follow us if you like." Leo offered. He and his brothers turned around to take the lead. The humans followed them.
Everything about the aisles was really colorful. They soon came to a door and opened it, revealing a dark, bluish room. But after they all stepped through, the door vanished.
"This is different." Joy admitted.
"I'll say." Tora said. "The door we came in through, it's gone!"
"Okay, I am not enjoying this whole haunted mansion motiff. I want a door and I want it now! Pleeeease!" Mikey begged.
Then there was a sound behind them and a new set of doors appeared.
"This is like some kind of funhouse." Adam said.
"Yeah, but without any of the fun." Mikey replied.
"Let's find out who's running this freak show and lodge a complaint." Raph declared. He went up to the doors to open them first. The turtles pushed the doors open and all eight of them entered the new room.
The new room was huge and open spaced. There were lots more of the wooden figures in the room. There were snake or dragon drawings on the walls, and all lit with fire for lighting.
"Hey, Leo, check it out." Raph pointed out the wooden figures that lined the walls.
"Stay on your guard. Be ready." Leo whispered to the others.
They all came to the bottom of a staircase that was before them at the end of the room. Up above, there were five thrones on it, with four of them having occupants. Some special lanterns lit up, making the occupants more visible to them.
"Bow when you enter this sanctuary!" a deep, male voice demanded. He wore a blue cloak.
"What the shell!" Raph exclaimed, Leo holding him back. The occupants stood up, wearing garb that seemed awfully familiar to the turtles. "Four Shredders?!"
"This doesn't look good." Don admitted fearfully.
"We could barely handle one Shredder." Mikey added.
"Stand your ground. Be prepared." Leo stated.
"Silence! We are the Ninja Tribunal. Prepare to be judged." another male voice took over. It was a little softer than the other one who spoke first. He wore a grayish green cloak.
"A great evil is coming." The deep voiced one spoke next. "Darkness beyond your worst imaginings."
"We require warriors to combat it. And, as pathetic as you are, you eight are our best hope." a female voice now spoke. She was the one in green.
There was also one in more darker, golden garb too up at the top, bigger than the rest, but he didn't speak.
"You will battle each other, and only the most worthy will survive." Deep voice said. "The ones left standing will become our Acolytes, who will aid us in our battle against the coming darkness."
The others couldn't believe what these strangers were saying. The eight new friends gave each other concerned looks.
"You expect us to fight each other?" Leo demanded.
"Forget it, bucket heads!" Raph exclaimed.
"You will fight, or you will be destroyed." the softer voiced male said.
The wooden figures came to life on the shelves and jumped down, taking out their tonfas. Some blades came out of the tips. It was same on both sides. They were all surrounded.
"Fight! Be judged!" the deep voiced male ordered. "Prove your worth! The Ninja Tribunal commands it."
"If you do not fight, others will suffer. The world will suffer." the soft voiced male said.
"Those that you care about." Deep voice male said.
"Like your aunt in Komodo, Joy." the female said. Joy gasped. "Or your brother in Miami, Adam." Adam gasped. "Or the rat that you four call your father."
The turtles were all concerned now. How did she know about him?
"If you won't fight to save yourselves, fight to save your loved ones." the female ordered.
The turtles and humans lined up on each side. They all had their weapons ready. Then each one of the turtles took a place along with a human. Leo went with Furachi. Adam and Don went together. Mikey and Tora. And Raph and Joy.
Leo and Furachi clashed their swords. "This is crazy!" Leo declared.
"Yes, I have no wish to fight you." Furachi agreed with Leo.
"Yeah, me neither. I thought you guys seemed alright. For giant turtles and all." Adam admitted. Don smiled at him. It was nice to hear a human say that.
"To save our families, we have no choice!" Tora exclaimed. He put one of his blades toward Mikey, who caught it with his nunchuku chain.
"There's always a choice!" Mikey proclaimed.
"Yeah, instead of fighting each other, we ought to be fighting those four goons." Raph decreed. Joy agreed with him.
"I agree. I will not be judged by the likes of them." Furachi admitted.
"Then, if we're all agreed, let's kick some shell." Leo said. He led the charge and he and the others tried to get to the Tribunal, only to be blocked by the Bushi figures.
"Not these guys again." Mikey complained.
"I don't know about you, Mikey, but I welcome the rematch. I got a score to settle with these walking tree trunks." Raph stated angrily.
They all began fighting the Bushi figures. Leo and Furachi were smashed down from behind.
Raph and Joy stood beside each other. "Raphael, give me a hand." Joy said. He took her hands and let her go. She was going to try to knock some down, but she got knocked to the ground. "Joy, no!" Raph cried out.
Adam threw his mace into one and got a little cocky for a moment. The Bushi ended up taking his mace away and knocked him down on top of Don. Don grunted at the fall.
Raph, Mikey, and Tora were the last ones to go down. They were all on the floor, and just when the Bushi were just about to move in for the kill, they were stopped.
"Hold!" the soft voiced male ordered.
"So, this is your choice?" deep voice demanded.
"You would attack this tribunal before you would each other?" the female demanded.
"Yes!" Leo exclaimed.
"Without question!" Furachi added.
The Tribunal looked at them all. Their decision was then made. "You have been judged." the deep voiced male said.
"You eight have passed your first trial. One of many." the female spoke.
"You are now our Acolytes, to be trained in Ninjitsu arts." The deep voiced one finished. The Bushi were also backing off, back to the walls, where their tonfa blades were put away.
The eight Acolytes stood up. The soft voiced male continued, "A great honor has been bestowed upon you."
"But know this; the training will be hard. The weak will be separated from the strong. And the battle you are being prepared for, will be against an enemy unlike anything you have ever faced before." the woman explained.
Then, some golden steps appeared magically in front of them, heading upwards to where a grate opened up for them. "Take this time to reflect on all you have seen and heard thus far." the deep voiced man said.
Leo shrugged and he began to lead the way upwards. "Okay…"
"I am not liking this. Not liking this one bit." Raph admitted.
"I'm with you, Raph." Joy agreed.
When they all got to the top, it looked almost like a small village. "Wow. What is this place?" Furachi asked.
"Let's find out." Leo said.
They all walked a ways, until they came toward the end of the floor, and saw that they were on a dragon looking boat!
"We're-" Leo was in shock. "In the middle of the ocean!" Furachi finished for him.
Dolphins were swimming and jumping beside the ship.
"We've been shanghaied!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Oh, this is messed up! I say we get off this miserable tub and forget we were ever here!" Raph said angrily.
"What makes you think the Tribunal would allow us to escape? They're very powerful." Joy asked.
"What do you think, Leo?" Mikey asked.
"I don't know what to think. They say a great evil is coming. I…" Leo said.
"Hey, guys. Land ho!" Don stated, as he saw land ahead.
"That sure the shell ain't New York." Raph stated.
"Where are we?" Furachi demanded.
"My friends, welcome… to Japan." Joy stated.
The ship continued to carry them towards shore. Leo didn't remember his trip to Japan like this. Well, he could take the others to see the Ancient One maybe when they were allowed to leave here, or try to escape there, if possible. But they had to worry about this first, to find out if the Ninja Tribunal really wasn't an enemy first.
….
Back in New York, Casey was now finding out that all of friends had been taken to Japan.
"When are they gonna be back?" Casey demanded. Randall was standing in front of him.
"I don't know. When Leo left, he was gone for over two months. Might have been longer if it wasn't for his family being in danger. Splinter didn't tell me much before he left to go get the turtles back. He's with the Ancient One." Randall explained.
"It'll be up to us to patrol the city then, Randall." Casey said.
"Sure. I'll see what I can do. I still have a score to settle with the Dark Dragons, for my friends." Randall stated.
"You guys just be very careful out there. You won't have the back up you need for awhile." April expressed her concern.
"We will, April." Casey said.
And of course, there was Leatherhead too. Randall left to go tell him too of the situation. It was just so he could be on standby should he ever be needed.
Randall hoped his friends were going to be alright, as did April, Casey, and Leatherhead. If there was one thing he was vowing to do for the turtles while they were gone, it was to get rid of the Dark Dragon's leader. He was fed up with Yogami. He would think up a plan and go with it.
I know I loved the scene in the show where the guys were goofing off on that rooftop. It was so hilarious!