Karai had stopped herself from really attacking just yet. "You decreped ghost! Did you not think I would be prepared for your arrival? I have developed weaponry that will destroy you!" she declared.
"Is that so?" he mocked her.
"Allow me to demonstrate!" she began to make her move. He started preparing himself for her blows.
He threw some balls of magic at her and she deflected them with a new kind of sword.
Mikey and Raph threw some of their power at the Mystics before the Earth one used his magic to come down and grab them all. He got them trapped from the waist down. The turtles tried to pull themselves loose.
"You shall not interfere." the Earth one warned.
"The usurper will pay for her irrevelerance!" the Metal one exclaimed.
"You have defiled my name long enough!" Shredder exclaimed and went to attack Karai again. This time, he got a hold of her with his powers, picked her up, and threw her into one of her own pillars, winding her. Her helmet came off her head, rolling away.
"Karai!" Leo cried out.
"If not for her, after all, you were the ones that sealed her fate." the Metal one proclaimed.
"What the shell are you talking about?" Leo demanded, trying to get loose.
"Have you not yet realized?" the Fire one questioned.
"Without you, we would have never been able to free the Shredder." the Water one said.
"For it was you, who freed us." the Wind one hissed. Then he changed into the Foot Mystic they would have been familiar with. The rest did the same, laughing as they did.
Leo couldn't believe this. "The Mystic ninjas. NO!"
"When you took that crystal from Yogami, who stole it from Karai on behalf of Agent Bishop, you set us free!" the Earth Mystic declared.
"No! NOOO!" Leo yelled in anguish.
"Yes! You set the chain of events in motion that led to our Master's rebirth." the Wind one explained.
Leo grunted and yelled angrily, then his chi marks appeared, "Wrong!" He slammed his fists down on the entrapment earth and he got loose finally. "We're stopping it here!" he yelled. He reached for the Gunshin and he fired at a couple of them, hitting the Earth one, knocking him out of the air.
Don, Raph, and Mike also freed themselves and moved to help Leo take the other four Mystics on. All of them had been shocked to hear this that they were the Foot Mystics. Of course, Don had known nothing about taking the crystal, but it had just confirmed what his brothers had told him.
The Wind herald blew some wind at that and it knocked them all down, but quickly got up again.
"On your feet, Little Girl. I am not done with you yet!" Shredder ordered.
Karai got up and called Chaplin again. "Chaplin, where are you, Chaplin? I need you here, now!"
"I'm almost ready, Mistress. We'll be there, I promise." Chaplin replied, finishing up the last parts of the new weaponry.
"Calling for help. Pathetic!" Shredder said as he tried to punch her in the head. She dodged.
"It is you, Relic, who is the pathetic one!" Karai retorted angrily.
"I beg to differ!" He picked her up and threw her into another pillar. She tried to prevent herself from collapsing altogether.
"Wretched imposter! You are nothing! Spineless weakling!" he kept insulting her, making her even more mad.
Karai picked up a jar of some magic weapon off her thigh as he began to pick her up again. Then, she smashed it down on his head.
He cried out and he backed away from her, giving her room to counterattack on him. He still dodged her moves. Soon, she had him backed against a wall. "No! Don't! Please! Show me mercy!" he begged.
Karai was too angry at this point. She stabbed the end of her sword into the demon's chest. He fell to his knees, his helmet coming off. "You are finished! Good riddance, demon!"
Then the head of the original Oruku Saki showed itself. He looked up at her.
Karai gasped. "Father?"
"My child." His voice greeted her.
She kneeled down to him. "Father, I-" she started to say, but the face turned back to the pale ghost face of the demon. She backed away, gasping. She had hoped she was seeing her real father.
The Shredder stood up, laughing, "You mortals are such fun to toy with! It is almost a shame I have to destroy you." He pulled her sword out of his chest and held it up, making it magically manifest into a fanged snake.
Seeing the transformation scared her immensely. She tried backing away. The snake started trying to get her. She dodged it.
Shredder magically pulled his helmet back to him and put it back on.
The turtles were seeing what was going on. "Guys! We have to help Karai!" Leo exclaimed.
Mikey then had an idea. He used his chi to save Karai on the next move by the snake. He was now holding her in his arms.
"Um, awkward." he noted.
She punched him in the chest. "You must not interfere, Michelangelo! I must face him alone!" she firmly stated.
"Okay." he sat up.
The Wind one then struck him and carried him back to this brothers and made him knock all of them over.
"You were warned not to interfere!" the Fire one stated, then he set a blaze of fire in a circle around them.
"It will not happen again." the Water one said next. He then used ice to make a wall so the turtles couldn't get to Karai.
Karai tried running for the turtles at the time, but was stopped. She turned to face her enemy.
"Alone at last, just the three of us." The Shredder said.
She gasped as the snake was getting closer to her. The snake continued to strike out at her. She kept dodging.
The turtles had enough adrenaline going that all of them had their chi energies going strong.
"Fight fire with mystic fire, I say!" Leo ordered fiercely. He stopped the heralds' fire blaze. He then aimed and blasted at the middle of the heralds and it struck the Fire one first, knocking him out. The others all scattered.
The Wind one tried to strike again, but Don retaliated. "Cleaving wind!" he struck back, knocking him out.
"Heads up!" Raph stated.
"Here come the other two." Leo said.
The Earth one and the Metal one were coming at them this time.
"I got 'em!" Raph stated, and he fired at them. He got them both.
Karai kept dodging the snake and the snake kept on destroying more of her personal quarters. Soon, she was by another pillar and just when she was ready to use her prongs to take the snake out, the Shredder came down and kicked her in the chest, making her get new the pillar, a little winded.
The snake then took advantage of that and coiled its body around her and the pillar, tightly restraining her. She tried to get loose.
"Tell me, Karai. Will it be the claws? Or the fangs?" Shredder demanded on how she wanted to die.
She grimaced in fear. She had never felt this afraid. Then, both the snake and Shredder tried striking at the same time, and she managed to duck her head. The Shredder struck the snake's head instead of her.
"What?!" the Shredder was shocked.
The snake transformed back into just a cut-in-half sword.
Karai tried again to fight him, but he got her with a burst of energy. "If you refuse to stay still, then I'll just have to force you!" he declared. Then he put her to the wall.
She tried to get loose, but to no avail. "Release me, Demon!" she ordered, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Such a course, young woman. I wonder if someone more mannered lies beneath that, rough exterior?" Shredder remarked. He used his magic to take off her armor, revealing just some black clothes underneath. "There. Perhaps I should let you live after all. You would make a fine slave."
Then, the ice wall was heard cracking. The turtles had gotten through. The Shredder snarled as he turned.
"Let her go!" Leo demanded.
The Shredder floated downward to the floor, landing. "Aw, the little Kapa, serving your ladyship to the very end. How noble!" he mocked them.
"The only thing is we're serving is your cronies on a plate!" Raph exclaimed. Looking back, the Mystics were all unconscious for the moment. "Well done."
The Shredder laughed maniacally. "Fools! Those are but the lowest of my minions." Then he floated back toward the ceiling. Karai finally pulled herself loose.
"I have had centuries to amass my army, both from this world, and the next!" The Shredder stated as his powers began to grow into a bigger ball of energy.
Karai tried running from it, but then she ran over to the turtles instead. It went over them, but the larger it grew, it quickly destroyed the top layer of the Foot building. Now it looked like an open graveyard wasteland instead.
Graves began popping up out of nowhere.
The Shredder floated above it all. "Now, fallen Foot soldiers, and Arch beings of the ancient past, rise, and serve your Master once again!" he ordered.
He used his powers to erect brown fat guys with sticks sticking out of them, grayish figures with green armor, and green winged creatures to come out of the ground. "Let the entertainment begin." Shredder ordered.
The monsters began advancing on the four turtles and human woman.
The more Mikey looked at these monsters made him reflect, "Uh, guys, the next time I want to go see a monster movie, remind me that I hate monsters!" Mikey told his bros.
"And don't forget, Randall's a monster." Raph pointed out.
"But he's not like these ones!" Mikey recalled.
"We must work together to slay these monstroucities!" Karai said sternly.
"Oh, now you're all buddy-buddy, huh?" Raph asked.
"Yes."
"Well, then. Let's get to work." Leo replied.
The turtles all used their chis and they all went to fight the monsters, Karai joining them.
Some monsters were knocked away into little pieces. "Hey! Maybe we actually got a shot at this!" Mikey stated.
But the Shredder reconnected them and made them more powerful. Mikey got knocked into a wall. "Or maybe, not." he said as he gulped nervously.
Two armored monsters were advancing on him when they were suddenly zapped and disappeared into thin air. "Huh?" Mikey gasped and looked around the wall.
Chaplin and a few remaining Foot soldiers were finally there. "Mistress Karai, I'm here! Sorry I took so long, but I had to recallabrate the ectoplasmic pulse modulator and-" Chaplin tried to explain why he was late.
"Never mind all that! Just do your job!" Karai ordered. She, like the turtles, were in the middle of fighting evil monsters.
Chaplin then ordered his men to get the weapons set.
"What is this feeble monkey chattering about?" Shredder asked.
"I'm talking about what science can do when applied to magic!" Chaplin answered.
"Impudent cub. Be prepared to be torn limb from limb!" Shredder warned.
More armored monsters rose around them and they fired at them, destroying them just as they would appear.
Karai appeared next to Chaplin. "Weapon!" she ordered. He handed her a new sword. He went on to explain something else while she ran off. "Can I tell ya the rest over dinner?!" he called out loud.
Karai went on to slash more monsters closer to the Shredder.
"Do you honestly believe you can mimic true magic with your toys?!" he demanded, and thus making a magical sword of his own.
The two of them went on to clash their swords. Karai soon got a slash on his chest. It just seemed to make him more mad. He slashed at her some more, hitting her sword, and it was destroyed as well. Now she knew she was in trouble. He advanced on her.
Three of his armored warriors came up and restrained her. She tried to get free, but she couldn't.
The Shredder was ready to do her in. "Never forget our time together." he said.
Chaplin saw the demon about to strike, and he thought he could stop him, "NO! Don't you touch her!" He fired and got the Shredder in the stomach, creating a huge hole in his middle.
Karai tried again to free herself.
The Shredder just laughed and healed himself. He then turned to Chaplin. "You care for her. Ah! Star-crossed lovers. Too bad it will end so tragically!" he laughed and made the final slash.
Karai gasped, and she was released so she could fall to the ground.
"KARAI!" Chaplin cried out.
The Shredder then blasted them away too, and monsters got a hold of them too.
The turtles had relaxed their chis, but were still fighting the monsters fiercely.
"The Shredder took out Karai!" Raphael exclaimed.
"And all her magic-based weapon technology!" Leo added.
"Aww, man! We're all alone, and here comes Big, Dark, and Scary! There's no way we stand a chance now!" Mikey exclaimed.
"You know, Mikey, I'm not sure we ever did!" Don said in a scared tone.
The four turtles were all trapped in a corner. It was their turn to face the enemy.
"Yo! What happened to our plan? What happened to get Karai and get out?!" Raph demanded.
"That's what we're doing. It just got a little complicated is all." Don stated nervously.
"Come on! Let's do this!" Leo ordered and he called on his chi again and fired the Gunshin at the Shredder. Mikey joined him next. Don and Raph adding theirs as well. "Center yourselves!" Leo ordered.
The Shredder was only minorly effected. "Poor, pathetic little nothings!" he snarled and blasted a surge of his own powers at them.
It knocked them all back, making their energy stop for the moment. But they got up and weren't going to back down.
"Come on, guys. Remember what the Tribunal taught us. This isn't about how much power you command, it's about the strength you have inside. We have to focus." Leo explained. He called on his chi again.
"Leo's right. Remember our training." Don added.
"Then I didn't read all them books for nothing!" Raph stated.
"But I didn't even read any of those books!" Mikey said nervously.
"It's okay, Mikey. Just focus." Leo said.
Mikey smiled. "Got it! Focus!" he called on his chi last. All of the turtles were glowing in their chi powers brightly.
"Farewell, crittens!" the Shredder mocked them and threw a bolt of power at them, but it was destroyed.
The turtles all had a mightly glow ball of power around them now. Their powers were growing!
"What?!" Shredder exclaimed in shock. "What trickery is this?!"
The power the turtles were manifesting was only growing stronger. "Leo, what's goin' on? I'm feelin' real weird here." Raph asked.
"Just keep focusing." Leo said. "Just like Kon told us."
They all put their hands together. Their mask tails were all pointing up from the wind. They remembered what the Shisho had said: "Quiet your mind, to unleash your spirit."
The magic started creating an almost tornado-like effect. The turtles were lifted off the ground and into the air. "What's happening?" Mikey asked in panic.
"Don't ask! Just keep doing it!" Raph ordered.
The feelings they were having were new and unusual, but they let it get stronger the more they focused, and then, so incredibly, the turtles were transformed into their avatars: all Dragons!
Leo knew that he was a dragon, but there had been no idea that his brothers were dragons too! But it was for all the better to take on the Shredder.
The new dragons all flew around to discover their new potential. They all wore the colors of which ones they were.
"Dragons!" the Shredder was shocked. "Impossible! I will not be defeated again!" he said angrily. He tried to blast them.
The dragons were all before him now and they fire blasted back at him in a rainbow of colors. His monsters were also destroyed.
Down below, on the street, police were trying to keep common citizens from seeing what was happening.
Splinter, the Ancient One, Randall, and April and Casey were on the way in the helicopter, but would wait for the turtles' signal to come and pick them up. They were already airborne.
The police kept the citizens from getting in. One officer was telling them there was nothing to see, but then, he saw a fire blast from above. "Whoa! Dispatch, you gotta see this!" He saw some dragon shapes above him. Other folks saw it too.
The Mystics awoke and went to try to help their Master, only to see that they were now facing some dragons.
"No! This is not possible!" the Metal one complained.
"Dragons!" the Earth one gasped.
"Four of them?" the Fire one stated.
"There is no reason to fear these, tiny manifestations!" Shredder exclaimed.
That's what they thought. The dragons blasted him again, knocking him back into the Mystics, sending them all downward into Karai's building, screaming.
The dragons all came down and circled the building where they went down. They looked down and then, they turned back into their original turtle forms.
They all rubbed their heads. "That was awesome!" Mikey yelled.
"What just happened?" Don asked.
"I don't know, but I liked it!" Raph smiled.
Leo looked at his brothers, then he heard moaning. It was Karai! She was still alive.
"Come on! Let's grab Karai and go." Leo ordered. He ran and picked her up, bridal style. "It's not too late to save her."
"Do you think our ride knows where to find us?" Mikey asked.
"Well, we gave 'em a big enough signal flare." Raph replied.
"April, ready for pick up." Don called April.
The chopper was now able to come in and get them. April landed it perfectly and the door was opened. The guys carried Karai on board.
The rest of them were able to see the outcome of the battle. Randall saw that Karai looked nearly dead. He knew the feeling from not too long ago.
Karai was set down on the table in the copter as April made the copter take off again.
Shredder and the heralds freed themselves and flew back up to the top in a rage.
"They have escaped, with Karai!" the Wind one said angrily.
"I am finished with Karai! I have grander plans than her!" the Shredder exclaimed. "This world is very different from the one I once knew. But I will not change to suit it, it will change to suit me! Soon, the days of my Feudal empire will be restored. Soon, this city will be my civigal! Soon, I will change all the world, into a dark chaos!" he laughed evilly.
In the copter, the turtles and Randall were all watching Karai cautiously.
Over by the wall, Casey, Ancient One, and Splinter were looking outside. There was lightning and thunder brewing.
"Looks like a storm's coming." Casey said.
"No. It is already here." Splinter said sadly.
April was going to take Karai back to her place. She landed the copter on top of a big building a few rooftops away, and the others all went into her apartment to take care of Karai's injuries.
Leo carried Karai into April's bedroom first and April got to work getting her out of her clothes. This first part was a woman's job. The guys were all out in the living room.
April attended to the big cut on her abdomen that the Shredder had given her, wanting to finish her off. She also had multiple cuts on her face and she felt all over her body. Both her legs had injuries too, as well as her arms. April gave Karai one of her green shirts and some blue shorts to wear. She sewed up the wound on the abdomen before Karai was moved back out to the couch to have help with the other injuries.
Don helped April set the bones in Karai's legs. The wounds on her face and arms were bandaged up too. Once everything was taken care of, they could only wait for her to wake up.
(Forgive any misspelled words. Some of the works I had seen spelled before, but forget how to spell them, or this crazy thing doesn't recognize them.)