The next morning, Crystal was the first to wake up. Suddenly, there was a loud noise that woke everyone else up.
"What was THAT!?" everyone except Crystal exclaimed.
Crystal rushed outside.
"You..." Crystal said as the others ran outside.
"Who is that ugly guy?" Rose asked.
"My old friend, Shred-head," Crystal replied, her eyes still focused on Shredder.
"Who?" Nikki asked.
Crystal didn't answer. Instead, she took out her katanas as Shredder's army, a mix of normal Foot and Foot Tech Ninja along with the Elite Guards, attacked.
"Prepare for your demise, Turtle!" Shredder exclaimed.
"In your dreams, Shred-head!" Crystal yelled back.
The group just stood there with confused looks on their faces. In a matter of minutes, Crystal was pinned down by the Elite. The group was about to go help her when suddenly, an army of zombies and werewolves attacked them.
"Looks like we have our own fight to deal with," Nikki said.
Nikki turned into a green wolf with red stripes on her back, her underside was dark brown and the back of her neck was red and one ear was dark brown. The tip of her tail was red and on top of that was black and her snout was red and the dark brown fur
and a feather covered one eye. Nikki attacked one of the zombies while being tackled by another werewolf.
Rose and Cordelia were both wondering what to do when suddenly the zombies were circling around them.
"Cordelia, I'm scared," Rose whispered.
"It's ok, Rose. I am too," Cordelia whispered back, "but you know what we have to do."
"Kill them with fire!" Rose exclaimed.
At that moment, a fireball appeared in both Cordelia and Rose's hands.
Meanwhile, Crystal was struggling with the Elite. Just as an Elite was about to kill her, someone jumped out of the shadows and knocked the Elite off of Crystal. She quickly got up and began fighting the Foot again. Soon, Crystal's rescuer was fighting
right beside her.
"Leo!?" Crystal said, shocked, as soon as she saw his mask. "But I thought you were training with the Ninja Tribunal in Japan."
"I'll explain later, Crystal. For now, let's focus on defeating Shred-head and his goons," Leo replied.
Crystal just smiled.
Nikki struggled to get the werewolf off her. After many minutes of biting and scratching he finally retreated. She looked around and realized all the werewolves retreated. She fought off a couple more zombies and they also retreated. Nikki thought, "Guess
I'm too strong for them." She began to pick off the Ninjas one by one. They were strong.
Cordelia and Rose fought the zombies and picked them off one by one. As they started to die from the fireballs, many of the zombies got the clue and retreated. They soon caught up with Nikki and went to help Crystal and the mysterious Turtle who was fighting
alongside her. Sonic, coming from the woods, where he chased the remaining werewolves away, came to fight alongside all of them.
Crystal saw the others coming to help and said, "Guys, stay there. This is our fight."
"Why can't we help, Crystal?" Cordelia asked disappointedly.
"Because you don't know the Foot like we do," Leo replied, still focused on fighting Shredder.
"Let them come. That way, I can destroy you and your friends as well," Shredder replied.
"No way, Shred-head! You will have to get past me before you can get to them," Crystal replied.
"As you wish," Shredder said as he knocked Leo off his feet and headed for Crystal.
Crystal then ran at him with all her strength. All she could think about was not to have Shredder get to her friends. Crystal wanted to protect them, no matter what cost.
With Crystal's katanas swinging, she fought the Shredder. I won't let him get to my friends or Leo. Crystal thought. She knew the Shredder was tough; she had fought him before, alongside Leo and his brothers, Donnie, Raph, and Mikey. Then, Shredder had
Crystal's katanas between his "claws"; they were locked in a death grip. Out of nowhere, Shredder somehow got a sudden burst of strength and slashed Crystal across the chest.
"Crystal!" everyone screamed.
After Shredder slashed Crystal, he went up to Cordelia, Nikki, Rose and Sonic. Shredder looked at all of them and thought to himself, "I will capture one of Crystal's friends as bait to make her surrender."
But what Shredder didn't realize was that Leo was creeping up behind him. The others became quiet. Then, Leo slashed Shredder in the back with his katana. Shredder yelled in agony. While all this was happening, Cordelia, Nikki, Rose, and Sonic ran
to Crystal's side while Leo was dealing with Shredder. Rose and Cordelia froze when they saw all the blood. Sonic tried to keep them away while Nikki turned back into a human and tried to pick Crystal up to take her back to the cave and out of danger.
"No, let me at her!" Cordelia exclaimed while being held back by Sonic.
"No!" Sonic yelled, "I won't let you."
"Awe, come on," Rose said, "just one bite?"
Crystal was knocked out on the side of the path.
Nikki and Sonic then yelled, "No!"
Suddenly, there was a loud and painful scream. Leo had stabbed Shredder in the arm.
"I guess he won't be bothering us for a while," Nikki said as she saw Shredder staggering away.
Leo put his katanas away and ran straight over.
"Let me see her," Leo said calmly.
Nikki backed away. Leo bent down by Crystal. He saw the huge slash across her chest.
"We have to get her out of here," Leo said as he picked Crystal up. "And away from those two," Leo said as he pointed at Cordelia and Rose.
"I agree," Sonic said, "and I will stay here and make sure Cordelia and Rose don't go anywhere near Crystal."
Leo nodded his head and went back to the cave with Nikki, while Sonic tried to keep the vampires from following him.
When the cave was in sight, Crystal started to moan.
"Leo, what happened?" she moaned.
"Shredder got you pretty good, but don't worry. He's gone now. I stabbed him in the arm and he retreated," Leo replied.
Crystal remained silent.
