Something had shifted. Ty noticed that right away as he rolled back to his feet. He watched his father warily, fully intending to start dodging and rolling again in an instant. Even as the other three dragons closed back in on the group trying to help them, those blue eyes looked up, his eyes locked onto the squadron of Cons as they circled around, tail twitching slightly at the tip in agitation. Then, with a thunderous roar, Leo unleashed a massive blast of dragonfire at the seekers as they closed in again.

The formation they had been flying in broke rapidly as they broke apart to scramble out of the way of the dragon fire that suddenly wasn't on their side. For the moment anyway.

"Leonardo!"

Ty whipped his head around, his eyes narrowing as he tried to find the owner. He knew that voice, it was the one who had taunted his Mother the last time they had tried to bring the elder turtles back around. His lip twisted into a snarl. "Bishop..."

"Stop attacking those drones and focus on the targets I've already specified! Attack these interlopers!"

Leo was trembling violently as he fought against that command, but ultimately lost as once again his head turned towards the turtles and elementals around him.

"Dammit!" Ty hissed quietly as he once again lost the advantage to try and snap his father out of it.

"You know...I am really, really, really starting to hate that guy. Bad dude whose name I can't fucking remember!" Maranda called to Bishop. "You will be a grease stain on the pavement, if not by me, then by one of my cousins! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow! But it is a promise!" she continued with a huff, then dodged out of the way of a dragon attack. Bailey stepped in for her as the Pyro girl ran to her cousin to make sure the water pusher was ok.

Megan wasn't looking too good as she struggled to sit up, her shrapnel impaled body shaking with the effort. "God damn it..." She growled out before her glare snapped up to the Steves as they came back in again. "Fucking pieces of shit." Yeah she looked done. Megan gently pulled her bloodied hand away from her side, looking at the injuries. That wasn't going to be healing any time soon, stupid chaos crystal missiles.

Maranda landed lightly next to her cousin. "Hey Aqua. You uh, having a good time on the ground? Yeah? Having a fun time playing hero? Yeah? Gonna beat up the Steves now? Huh? Yeah? Gonna-"

"I will punch you in the god damn face!" The Hydro snapped back.

Maranda snickered at the tone, then checked over the damage to her relative "Hmm. Yup. That's an injury."

"Thank you, I thought is was a fucking rainbow tattoo. Cauterize me, and hurry, we have a lot more company coming."

"Okie" Maranda held a hand out, and without a second of hesitation quickly placed her hand directly on the blistering and heavily bleeding injuries.

Megan growled and at some points of time, yelled some not so nice words as the chaos crystal burned into her skin, the fire trapping it. Yes, probably not helping the pain in the slightest, at the same time though, it was stopping the bleeding, that's all that needed to be done for right now. The intensive burning and metal sliver can be dealt with later. Megan forced herself to take a few full inhales and exhales, then gave Leo a flat look upon realization that she got his attention.

"Shit." she huffed again. Ty was already hot on the blue banded dragon, but she needed to get up and prepared for a fight now.

"Welp. You got his attention. You did bad." Maranda sighed.

Megan sent a water blast at Leo getting a decent shot in on him, sending him to the ground. Then, much to her irritation, she watched as Tidalwave began his trek towards the shore. The Hydro wiped some sweat off of her pale and growing more pale face as she shot a very irritable expression that should have been able to blast a hole in the massive vessel.

"Man cuz, you do not look good." Maranda watched her cousin, taking on how sickly she looked. If she was honest, it was making her a little antsy and a little protective. She usually didn't get to the: "I will fucking skin a mother fucker if they breathe in her direction" mode until a little later. In the mean time, Megan went after the blue trimmed dragon, sword drawn in defense, she might be a little more slow, but she would still be efficient, and until she hit the ground exhausted, Maranda would help her fight.

"Meh, fuck it" she decided, for now she would be ok for a little longer, the Pyro has fought alongside her for long enough to know that. In the meantime Maranda turned her sights back on Raph, cracking her neck, and charged at the biggest of the turtle dragons.

The red banded dragon's reply to that was to bring a massive paw down ontop of her, full force. The stomp made the soft ground give way under her, and instead of squishing his target, who had her arms crossed over her head to try and ward off the blow, he slammed her into the sand, straight down, until only her head and arms were sticking out. Of course it didn't help Maranda's temper any when Thane was laughing, hard, from somewhere nearby.

"Thane, I hope Mikey sits on you! And farts on you, you lil shit!" Maranda called to him, she made her wings erupt from her back, causing an explosion of sand, leaving a large hole where she was standing.

But hey, the fire girl got a few good hooks in on Raph, knocking him around in a bunch of directions, then finally her knee came up to meet him in the chest hard enough to knock the wind out of the red trimmed dragon. A little hard to breathe fire in that condition.

Raph shook the hit off and headbutted the fuck out of Maranda in retaliation, making her skid in the sand a bit. Then when he was breathing steadily, he shot a large fireball at the woman in front of him

Maranda didn't care about the fire ball and she let it hit her since fire is harmless to her. She was too busy holding her head, that freaking hurt! "God damn, why the hell do you have a skull that fucking thick? You over sized scaly hot air balloon!" Maranda huffed in sort of a pout.

Ari would have been laughing with Thane too if she hadn't been so busy trying to keep out of range of her own father's teeth. She calmly flipped around Mikey's snapping jaws before she hopped onto his head and slid down his neck. Then the blonde turtle girl ran over his back and down his tail before she stopped, perfectly balanced and waited for the head to come in again before she jumped out of the way at the last moment. The result was Mikey biting his own tail. He let out a half squeal, half roar sounding noise as his eyes began to water a bit. "Payback for all those pranks Daddy!" Ari grinned, then her eyes went wide as his head came back around again after spitting his tail back out. This time she squealed as he chased her.

"Oh please," Bailey sighed "I may not know much about who you are, but I know 100% it sure as hell isn't a Bishop minion. Snap out of it!" The woman of air maneuvered away from him, getting in pressure points here and there to make him spaz out and become tired and drag.

Mikey growled in frustration before he managed to pop the hell out of Bailey with his wing. But this distraction gave Ari the time and distraction needed to get back on his head and she tapped it to get his full attention. "Hey! You be nice Daddy!" Bailey caught herself in the air, she was flying again, but was too curious as to what Ari was up to to intervene just yet, the creative ones were always the most efficient in battle.

That stunt earned Ari a wild ride as Mikey shook his head, trying to shake the stubborn teen off who held firm to his horn. "Nope! Not letting go!" He decided to ram his head on the ground instead in an effort to get her off. The nimble youngster quickly dove off of his head, rolling as she hit the sand, and watched with amusement as Mikey's head hit the sand also, and kept going until it was fully submerged. He looked not unlike a large, reptilian, ostrich as he struggled to get his noggin free again. "Ok, I lied. I let go."

"It's like watching Tom and Jerry, Turtle and dragon version instead of cat and mouse." Baily snickered and gave Ari a high five for not disappointing

Carrie dove out of the way, dragging Donnie with her as more Steves were bringing in air strikes like dooms day. Carrie sent roots at the aircraft, getting them to snag on the wings and vital components, she got them caught in their engines and forced them to be grounded. When Donnie started to become an issue for her again, she quickly brought a hand up, some very large and very thick wooden roots trapped him. Carrie tried to keep him down so he wouldn't hurt himself, and so she could focus on grounding more fliers. These air strikes were becoming severely inconvenient, though that didn't stop Donnie from snapping at Carrie, much to her irritation as she kept a close eye on him and kept going after the Steves.

Lavi watched it all unfold. Frustration eating at her as she was continuously forced onto the sidelines by Ty. She should be out there, helping, and her twin kept getting in her way and forcing her back every time she tried, even as he worked with Megan to keep her Father occupied. The teen literally had tears of frustration in her eyes and her clenched fists were shaking. She was so upset she didn't notice the approach of someone behind her until a hand slapped over her mouth and she was dragged deeper into the tree line. And tried as much as she did, she couldn't break the hold. Mainly because she was too upset to focus. She could only helplessly struggle as she was pulled away from the fight she wanted so much to be a part of.

When the hand finally released, Lavi spun angrily, more than ready to knock the teeth out of whoever dared to drag her away from her family. Lavi caught her own strike in stunned recognition once she saw it was Jessica, mere inches from the non flinching woman's face. "Where did you come from?" She squeaked out, obviously startled to see her here. So far she had been MIA for the whole joyride.

Jessica merely drug her further into the tree line "Look, I've got an idea to isolate your dad and uncles, but I'll need your help. Mk? You ready for this?"

Lavi studied her a moment, then her eyes narrowed with determination and she gave a quick nod.

"Alright, trust me on this. Just run, in that direction, towards your babbo. I have a very stupid idea."

Fully trusting Jessica Lavi nodded again, spun and ran at top speed back to the beach turned battleground. Lavi was used to stupid ideas, her own family was full of them. Sad thing was they always worked.

She changed her course a bit, needing to come out of a different area that where Ty had firmly told her to stay...numerous times. If she was going to get past her brother, she needed surprise on her side. This was the reason she closed her busy twin out of the bond, so he was more than a little shocked, and angry, when she darted out of the treeline about a hundred and fifty feet further down. And there was no way in hell Ty was going to be able to intercept her from this distance before their father spotted her. Of course it helped that Ty was busy distracting the water dragon from a slowing down Megan. He didn't see her until Lavi shot past him like a shelled bullet, running right for her father.

And when Ty did notice, the reaction was expected. "God dammit Lavi! Stay in the damn woods!" Came his frustrated order, which she ignored. Her attention was on the dragon now looming in front of her.

Lavi was thrilled that it worked. His large blue eyes snapped to her and his head came around, leading his body that was stalking towards her now. It was at that point Lavi changed course and ran parallel to the woods. She had to give Jessica time to set what ever she had planned into motion. And she had to stay ahead of her rapidly closing in, cursing, brother. Now wasn't this fun...

The teen wasn't quite sure what she expected, but the large, elaborately painted pink and black female Cybertronian crashing out of the woodline wasn't it. Her eyes grew wide with shock before she rapidly calmed as she received a quick wink. When it reached for her and snagged Ty as well, Lavi's lack of resistance was mainly due to the shock that her new friend could even do this.

To keep up appearances the large hand tightened around Ty force out an irritated, and slightly surprised cry of minor pain. But not enough to seriously hurt him. And Lavi immediately understood what the crazy plan was when there was a low, warning growl from behind all three of them as the bot turned back towards the woods.

"You will be good experimental test subjects for my master Shockwave." Jessica said loudly, watching the twins and keeping sight of Leo from the corner of her optic.

Megan watched her cousin and leader, wondering how she could say that Shockwave was her master without busting out laughing, and keep a straight face.

Carrie gave Donnie a flat look at the continuous attempted nips, and in retaliation, she put several more vines around his snout, also watching her idiotic leader attempt suicide with her stunt.

Ty still didn't get the memo of what was going on. His anger and frustration now interfering with the quiet words his sister was trying to send to him through the bond. "Ow! You fucking bitch! The hell you are!" He somehow managed to pull a sword out as he glared at the to him strange individual. "I'll take your damn hand off first if you don't turn us-oompf!" Lavi just gave up and elbowed him to get him to shut the hell up a moment so she could fill him quietly in. He just stared at her in disbelief as she just shrugged slightly back at him and jerked her head towards Leo who was watching intently, another low growl coming out of his throat as his head lowered, eyes narrowing. Ty still had to seriously resist a facepalm though, even as the dragon shook it's head. A moment of confusion washing over him.

Lavi felt it very prudent to bring something very important up to Jessica then as they all watched Leo struggle. "Be very, very careful. He knows how to deal with bots..." Shit, she didn't have to tell Jessica, she read plenty of files on this family, it was her duty to know what she was up against at all times, to keep her cousins and others under her leadership safe.

Leo growled again, his head lowering a little more as he continued to watch. Even stepped one foot forward, but still struggled to commit to the chase.

Lavi's eyes narrowed again, he obviously needed a firmer prod. "Put me down!" Jessica got ready to move but she kept a taunting expression at Leo, she forced a good snobby and cocky expression at the dragon.

Ty was looking very unthrilled over the whole idea as he rested an elbow onto a large robot finger and dropped his chin into his palm. Then he added in a flat tone. "Yeah...put us down..."

Thane found somthing else to laugh his ass off about. Even Ari's chuckles reached the twins, causing Ty to roll his eyes before he murmured quietly. "I'm never going to hear the end of this..."

Still Leo struggled with the conflicting emotions, still not quite there yet as his head weaved back and forth, another low growl sounding out.

"Shockwave isn't getting my baby!" Lavi then screamed, more than loud enough for her father to hear. Jessica froze at that.

"Well, I guess that is one way to tell him" Jessica mumbled causally.

Ty just turned his head to stare at his sister, full well knowing the shit storm she had just unleashed with that one statement, and a bit shocked she would risk Jessica like that. The look she gave him in return told him clearly what she was thinking. "What else is there left to try?"

And it worked. Leo's head snapped up, his eyes going wide with shock before he let out a thunderous roar, then his wings flared and he charged. Jessica was already turning around and taking off, knowing damn well what was going to happen now, without a doubt.

"Move!" Lavi snapped to Jessica. "Or he'll rip you apart!"

"So, dancing with him is out of the question?" Jessica couldn't help it. She had a tendency to have a smart mouth under a little, or a lot, of pressure.

"Leonardo!" Bishop's voice rang back out again. "Get back here!"

This time the command went ignored, and his furious charge continued after the stranger who was threatening to harm his children. Ty and Lavi exchanged hopeful glances, maybe this would work. If they could keep his focus. He only seemed to be able to break free for short times though, and they had no idea how much time they had. Again Ty wished his mother were here, the one they needed the most was missing. He was so frustrated over the fact that he almost missed hearing Bishop call the other dragons to retrieve their brother, just as another wave of Steves were coming in. Ty also missed Maranda's heavily irritated statement upon the retreat.

"Oh. My. Freaking. God! Tidalwave! I don't know what to compare your lard ass to first! A clown car for Steves or octomom with babies!"

Jessica lead him towards an outskirt, not stopping, especially when she felt the breeze caused by the snapping of jaws, but the large femme was fairly fast.

By that point Lavi was seriously growing concerned. Leo was close, very close, and he would not hesitate to turn Jessica into a pile of scrap parts.

Jessica quickly set the twins down out of the way and made sure to be careful with the carrying turtle especially. Upon setting them down, she quickly performed a forward rolling fall, in the middle of the roll, she changed back and shot blasts of light at Leo to make him see spots, that was followed by a relentless pulse of balance aura at him to knock him plenty far away, skidding across the ground. The dragon was stunned from the blast, Jessica wasn't trying to hurt him after all, he took the time to shake his head a few times to clear the fuzz. It also seemed that what ever ground they might have been able to gain with him had been lost again when he finally looked around again, his eyes once more empty and flat.

"Mk. Could have planned this through, like, a lot better." Jess quietly admitted to herself. She needed to set things into motion with her sister and she needed to move very quickly. She needed to find the vital components to this plan.

Ty caught the change immediately and pulled his sister deeper into the vegetation. "Fuck!" Ty snapped, barely able to restrain his frustration and anger anymore. "We lost him again!"

Lavi just let out a quiet, sad sigh of agreement as Leo stood still, his nose sniffing the air, obviously searching for them.

"Who's bright idea was this again?" Ty sarcastically mumbled to Lavi as they watched their father stalk in on them.

"Jessica's." Lavi shrugged even as they backed farther into the thick underbrush.

Ty just rolled his eyes. Why was he not surprised...

Leo was now dangerously close, a snarl on his face as he tracked the twins relentlessly down. The only thing that stopped him was the sound of Raph's roar as the large dragon flew directly towards his older brother. Leo turned to meet that charge, raising his front half up to catch the incoming flying dragon, obviously seeing that a fight was going to happen, and more than ready for it by the way it looked. The two collided and slammed into the ground hard enough to shake everything nearby. And their path took them towards the twins as they easily flattened trees around them.

By the time Donnie and Mikey hit the now larger clearing, Ty was wondering if they were ever going to make it out of this mess alive, because this shit storm just kept getting worse every time they turned around. Now the youngsters had to worry about staying hidden while also trying not to get flattened by the three on one melee that suddenly sprouted up.

Just a normal day in the turtle family, full of bad luck...