Before we dig into this long overdue chapter, I want to apologize to everyone, including my co-writer on this story. I kinda fell off the face of the earth to you guys. Long story short, the last year + has been shit. Big piles of stinky, nasty, raunchy, moldy shit. One thing right after another with no room to breathe it seemed. I didn't abandon any of my stories, I promise you this. It's just taking me a very, very long time to recover from all the bullshit. Thank you for still sticking with me and being patient. Here is your reward.

Somehow Ty and Lavi managed not to get squished in the initial tackle roll, but they now found themselves in a forest of large stomping dragon legs as the bodies wrestled above and all around them. No matter which way they turned, a leg or tail came slamming down to block their path. Ty was getting desperate now as he struggled to find a way to get his sister to safety, and couldn't. And it was with a fair amount of despair when he noticed Donnie's leg coming down, and this time they had nowhere to go.

The boulder that came from somewhere behind them to slam into the descending leg, knocking it off course, gave someone a chance to tackle the teens and roll with them out of harm's way. "What the hell are you waiting for! Christmas?" Cris snapped at her stunned and tired niece and nephew. "Move! Get the hell out of the way!"

Ty and Lavi both stared at her, both surprised by the fact she was here and by the fact that she had somehow managed to maneuver two fully grown turtles quite a distance on her own. How in the hell...

It just added onto their confusion when their mother ran past them, her eyes firmly locked onto her mate as he still tussled with his brothers. What made their eyes want to pop out of their sockets was the severely bloody wings she had coming out of her back, then they turned to Cris who was sporting a pair of her own. She just gave them a shrug as an answer, which really didn't help. "Long story, will explain later, kinda busy right now!" And with that she followed Vicky out to the dragons. "Stay put! I don't feel like saving your asses again!" she called over her shoulder as she went.

The twins just dumbly nodded. What else could they do?

Vicky knew firmly what she had to do however. Her eyes never left Leo as she twisted and dodged around the stomping and slamming limbs until she was close enough. Then, with a slight snarl of determination, she leaped high, her new wings aiding her with a mighty flap, and settled in a crouch onto Leo's back. She took a moment to fight off the dizzy spell that washed over her before getting to her feet and running along the large spine, towards his head. Which was a precarious situation on it's own since the fight never stopped to allow her to do so in peace. "Oh shit...oh shit...oh shit... Not a good idea...nope. Not at all...gonna get squished..."

Bre and Jess casually were repairing damage as the newbies went along, then they both went into their bot forms again, cracking their joints, ready to fight, they looked like twins, Bre being taller, she was sporting gold and pearl colored armor while Jess had the agressive black and pink scheme. Jess went after Leo holding him down but not knocking him down, seeing as Vicky was making her way along his back, she kept her weight on him to make squirming far more difficult.

The tall, still unsteady on her feet brunette dropped between the horns, hands placed firmly on the massive head that was still snapping and snarling as he tried to fend off his own brothers. She firmly pushed the danger around her out of her mind and concentrated on one thing, and one thing only. Her husband.

"Please Leo." She gritted through clenched teeth, her desperation clear to see on her face. "Please let me in this time."

Then she reached inside herself, and plunged to where he normally should be. Unsurprisingly, she found that blockade that had been in place since he had been gifted, and it was just as firm as it had been since the first time she felt the gentle closing of that door. But it also felt weaker than before, already giving under her first gentle push. Then she felt something, not Leo, but something else that was very familiar to her. A presence she couldn't forget even if she had only met him twice face to face.

'Mizuchi?'

There was what felt like a shocked silence, then 'Water companion?'

'Mizuchi! Let me in! I need to get to him!'

'I can not. This, I have no control over. The power is being forced through me into him by an outsider. Here on the mortal realm, he has the control over what we have given him and someone controls him. I can do nothing to stop it.'

Vicky groaned in her frustration, then snarled at the mental barrier that kept her separated from her turtle.

'So quick to give in? I sense something different about you child. You now have the means to reach him yourself. The barrier does not belong here anymore, and it is time you removed it.'

A calming breath was taken by the frustrated and tired woman, then she gathered herself and dove in again. This time not tentatively reaching for the barrier, but intending to smash right through the son of a bitch. The strain was clear to see on her face. Eyes closed as she held onto him for dear life physically as she waged this tremendous mental battle. She. Would. Not. Lose! Not this time!

And Leo stopped in mid lunge. Body froze in place, one paw lifted slightly off of the ground, as his head snapped sharply upwards. His eyes now flickering from the dull void that had taken over to filling with his own inner fire. Wavering between the two as his nostrils flared, head tilting as if trying to listen for something he couldn't quite hear.

It didn't go unnoticed. The twins watched wide eyed, both still in shock over their Mother's appearance and in hope once they saw their Father still. Lavi clung to her brother, her own face filled with desperation as tears of hope gathered in her eyes. "Please. Please god, let her get through to him this time."

Jess also seemed to sense the shift and backed off, watching intently but with a small smile. Ready incase the dragon made a move to throw the stubborn woman off.

They weren't the only ones who noticed the lag in the eldest dragon. Three other snapping maws closed in on the blankly staring Leonardo. Their eyes still dull and lifeless.

Then the large clearing lit up with light and heat as a massive fire ball flew across the empty space, missing Raph by inches to slam into the trees behind him, and promptly ignited a large forest fire.

"Dammit!" Cris snapped, her face twisted with embarrassed frustration. "This shit is harder than it looks. Hey stupid! Over here!" She picked up a safer item to throw, a big stick, and that aim was more true despite the incredible force behind the swing. Again the twins stared. There was no way in hell that throw would have connected under normal circumstances. Raph's head was too high and out of her reach...but there he was, swinging his head around because he just got slapped with the silly stick. Opening his mouth to let out an irritated roar at his tiny mate. Tiny mate that fluffed her blood soaked wings in irritation. "Oh, shut up Big Mouth!"

By now Marina and Caitlin were there also. Both scrambling around feet and tails as they single mindedly went for the other two. Marina managing a horizontal roll over Mikey's foot as it stomped to the ground, her new wings hindering her only slightly. When she landed on her feet, her eyes were already glowing and she snapped a hand up, and the response was a pillar of earth that shot up and nailed Mikey right in the snout. "Dammit! I was trying to pin his feet!" She almost screeched as she dove out of the way of Raph's incoming tail.

"I told you this shit was hard!" Cris yelled back, now trying to concentrate harder. This time red glowing eyes resulted in another fireball that flung from her hands, and this one slammed right into Donnie's gaping maw. He actually looked stunned for a moment, shaking his head as it pulled back, letting out a small confused snort. That lasted only for a second then he snapped his head forward again, and this time Cris met him with a stream of fire. "Vicky! An idea of what you are doing would be-" She cut off as Caitlin hit the ground unceremoniously on her bottom, hard, right next to the fire throwing woman. "What the fuck? Where did you come from?"

"Oww..." Caitlin struggled to her feet, rubbing her bottom. "Flying is harder than it look too."

"Move!" Marina pushed Caitlin out of the way as Mikey breathed dragon fire at them. Caitlin screamed in fright and the fire was pushed up and over them by a gust of wind that suddenly sprouted from the blonde's hands.

"Mikey!" Caitlin screamed. "If you don't knock that off you aren't going to get laid for a month!" Mikey paused in the act of snapping at them, his eyes looking confused for a moment before he shook his head and came in again. Caitlin squealed now instead and scrambled with Marina out of the way.

"Vicky!" Marina snapped this time as she looked up at her friend. "We need you!"

Vicky couldn't help them. Her attention given only to the dragon she was still holding onto. Ty and Lavi just stared at their aunts a moment. Not sure what the hell to think any more before they moved their eyes to their parents, and their mouths dropped open in wonder. Vicky's eyes were glowing brightly, wings flared as the glow exploded from her and surrounded Leo. Massive trails of water formed in those tendrils of light, snaking around the pair as Vicky's face now began to snarl from the effort. Still the large dragon didn't move, but his own eyes began to glow to match hers.

"What in the hell is going on?" Ty held his awed and frightened sister even closer. Neither one of them daring to move. This was out of their league, and they knew it.

Jessica watched the snarling Raph calmly as he circled her, finally he pounced and she fell back with him, grabbing his legs and kicking him over her, he hit a nice sized tree knocking it down. He got up to charge Jessica again but instead Cris made her second advance, which immediately got his attention. It was frustrating how the turtles kept going after their families. The Elemental girls could take the hit, their mates especially right now and their children? couldn't. Jessica was about to charge Raph, but wouldn't make it in time.

"Will you quit you idiot!" Cris snapped, now close to panicking since she knew there was no way to get past him this time. "Snap out of it already!"

And he did stop, but not because Cris told him too. There was a thunderous roar in the clearing. One that had the twins and most of the mates wide eyed. They knew that sound, that particular loud pitch. They had heard it before. And knew it to be a roar of victory. Only a moment they had to register it before Leo slammed into Raph, jaws clamped tight as he bowled his brother over, tail lashing, claws digging in to hold, and his eyes fully clear as he glared his snapping brother down.

Vicky had leapt from the back of him mere moments before he had collided and scrambled to get out of the way. Stumbling as she tried to make her over tired body get the hell out of the way of a fight she couldn't fight anymore. She didn't have too. The happy smile on her face, though still tinted with worry, proved along with her own tears of relief that she had succeeded. She had finally gotten through to him. And now he was one pissed mother fucker. Raph didn't stand a chance against that. Especially when Jessica came to help hold him down. "Cris! Hurry dude!"

Cris nodded and ran up to Raph as he thrashed. Still trying to fight both his brother and the female bot holding him down. Jessica wrapped an arm around his head, forcing it to remain still so Cris could get her hands on him. And that is all it took. Once again, the dragon stilled and the Mate started to glow, fire flaring around them this time instead of water. "You better be glad I fucking love you...you large pain in my ass..." Cris growled through the strain, then grew quiet with her own struggle. Both Leo and Jessica released the large dragon, then set their sights on the remaining two.

Bre on the other hand was already set on Donnie, the turtle dragons were outnumbered, even more so now with two back to normal, Donnie by some grace of god, smart little fucker, got Bre off balance and tackled her, she was about to make another move when a massive rock swatted Donnie upside the head. He was stunned and froze at that, like a cat that knew he did something bad or something. 'Don't fucking laugh Bre, or at the minimum, laugh later. get your shit together' she quickly regained the upper hand, and got a now frantically squirming Donnie to the ground. But he was putting up too much of a fight for Marina to get too close. That's when Jess got back into the scene, tackling him again as he breathed more fire. Bre easily threw a hand up, dissipating it before it scorched her sister.

It sucked, the whole situation sucked. She couldn't hurt them, she fully understood why they were the way they were right now and would never hurt innocent lives, especially when they were being controlled by someone else. It just made things a little difficult is all. She kept the dragon busy with Jessica while Marina was doing what she could to gain her bearings and figure out how things worked. Bre was fairly good at dragon wrangling, especially in her bot form. And with the aid of her sister to help hold him, Bre pretty much hogtied his feet by grabbing them with her hands "Marina! Your turn!"

The black haired woman wasted no time in running up to the large dragon, her hands clamping down on his head. Donnie too, grew very still after a few moments, spirals of dust and rocks now circling the air around the pair as Marina concentrated with everything she had.

Bre quickly went after Mikey again while her sister handled Donnie, both tapping into some godly strength as they tussled. Mikey managed to pounce on Bre's back, but with a clean forward rolling fall and using the momentum for a throw after getting up, she threw him to the ground and went for a pin. The pearl colored femme nodded at Caitlin. And the cycle repeated itself. Caitlin was the last one needed to make that connection, and the wind that sprung up into the now much larger clearing told everyone that she was trying her damndest to do just that.

It seemed to take forever, fire, earth and wind filled the clearing in an awesome spectacle as Leo watched with narrowed, wary eyes. Wings slightly bent. On the alert just incase one of the women couldn't push through. But his worry was unfounded. One by one the girls let their hands fall, their expressions weary, but happy as they looked up at clear eyes dragons. They all blinked in confusion, then anger. Wings flaring out as all four looked back towards shore. With swift beats of those massive wings, they lifted off again, heading back to the coast, and back to a fight that wasn't over just yet.

"That...was the hardest thing I've ever had to do..." Caitlin murmured as she collapsed to her knees. Her sisters didn't look much better, Vicky was even leaning heavily on Ty who had now moved forward. But even in this state, they refused to just collapse, their intent now to make it to the ocean, and a long overdue reunion.

Ty gently guided his Mother towards the water, and the only thought on his stunned mind at the moment was: "Dad is going to lose his shit when everything calms down..."

Lavi just nodded dumbly as she followed, guiding her exhausted Aunt Caitlin.

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Megan looked back out to shore, she was back on the beach after she ensured the twins were ok, but man, what a time to come back, she cursed when Tidalwave made it to shore, and let out many, many, many Bishop goons, and Steves, and started to transform.

"Well, on the bright side, we can hurt them" Maranda pointed out as she sent a massive wave of fire at some Bishop goons.

Carrie casually made the sand turn into quicksand and caught a strike from one of the goons, getting into hand to hand combat with one of them, which was very, very quick. She reached to her back and threw her AK in the air so Megs could snatch it in mid front flip, land in front of a goon, shoot him in the chest, take a weird spiked grenade, slammed it on his his skull, and kicked him into a crowd of Bishop goons and Steves. The sight after that was not so pretty, everyone turning to ash and dissipating into guts on the farther radius of the blast.

"Wheeljack's invention works." Megs stated in her usual droned out voice.

"Well at least one does!" Carrie snarled, butt hurt still by that stupid as shit GPS.

Megan looked at the dead Bishop pawns. That calm, heartless expression sitting on her face with much familiarity as she made sure not a single one was moving, then looked up at the Steves that just keep freaking coming. She was able to get out of the way of the next airstrike, barely, but she was taking what she was getting at this point. She was slowing down, yes, but she wasn't going to stop fighting until their mission was complete.

Carrie shot a large chunk of earth into the air, hitting a steve to break him to pieces and a couple other Steves ran into those perfectly timed, flying debris, destroying them too.

Megan turned her attention back to Tidalwave, raising a hand into the air. As she did, it made a very large wave, one that easily towered over the massive Tidalwave, then slammed into him with such force it rips a decent amount of body armor off of him. Megan started to look more pale with the more of her abilities she's using in such close proximity of chaos crystal. And by close proximity, she was talking about the shrapnel both in her and covering the beach around her. It was beginning to affect her and her cousins all. Not the first time they may need to fight without powers, they were still deadly without the abilities. But they were getting weaker, they needed to start making their abilities count.

Meg's cousin was catching on to how sick she was getting, and it was starting to show. She needed to help her, she sent a massive blast of fire at Tidalwave to shoot him into the air before he could land, keeping him down and buying them more time. He may make the turtle dragons look like puppies (by size alone) but getting thrashed around like he was, he was looking like a rag doll. In a blender.

Bailey, on the other hand, found Bishop, giving him a right hook into his face, knocking him to the ground

"Found you." she cracked her knuckles and stalked up to him. But, of course, Bishop pulled out a handgun and popped Bailey in the chest, not a good place to get hit. Bailey growled in pain as she hit the ground, not expecting Bishop to be able to muster up chaos crystal rounds that small. Why did he even pack them? It made no sense, the Elementals didn't get involved until a couple days ago. How did he get materials to take them down so quickly? She was snapped out of her thought process when she heard Bishop cock the hammer of the gun, and she looked up to see the barrel was eye level with her. This shit... Was gonna hurt.

All of a sudden Ari came out of nowhere, jumping high enough to get land on his shoulders, allowing herself to fall back, her move reminded the air pusher of a catapult. She flung Bishop away from the brown haired, brown eyed woman. Who forced herself back up, ignoring the burn of the round he used. Bailey gave a grateful nod of thanks to the young pink masked turtle who brushed it off in a: "don't mention it" fashion. The commotion they heard shortly after made Bailey run back out with Ari, the other turtle younglings at her side. She spread her wings and took off after the flying Steves. Unfortunately, the crystal was doing a large number on her too, but not as bad as poor Megan though, who was still creating tempests from hell at Tidalwave.

Dante wasn't liking what he was seeing, running to the water pusher with the concern clear on his face. "You seriously need to stop! Even i can see what is happening to you!"

"Maaaaan..." Thane whined as he looked around at the ongoing chaos. "This shit storm just keeps getting stinkier!"

Dante paused in the middle of trying to tend to Megan, staring incredulously at Thane. "The crap that comes out of your mouth sometimes...you are as bad as Ari."

"I heard that, and I'm insulted!" Ari hollered as she sauntered easily along the debris littered beach. "No one is as bad as me! Except for Daddy... " The blonde looked off into the treeline and sighed. "I hope they got something figured out..."

Thane just rolled his eyes before laying a hand on Megan's shoulder. Both to hold her down and to try and comfort her pain in some way. That quickly turned into a harder grip as he pulled her out of the way of more incoming fire. Dante was already dodging in another direction.

Megan gave a nod at Thane. "Thank you." and back into the fight she went, she was taking what Dante "suggested" now, just sticking to weapons instead of using her powers. But she was not going to stop fighting, that is not how she has survived for as long as she has.

Maranda was now getting very, very irritated. Ok she started the day out like that when she burned her waffles this morning, but right now? Very much so. Tidalwave was starting to get back up

"How about you stay down, you fucking dick wizard!" She growled

Bailey willed the air between the parts of a Steve to make him just break apart violently, then physically got her hands on another flying vehicon and ripped him clean in half. These weren't innocent turtle dragons, she can and will tear them the hell apart. After that session, she growled in irritation when more fliers were coming in, the air strikes made it dangerous for the younglings and the elemental girls did what they could to steer them clear of the fight.

But she had to pause, then dove out of the way of the large, very hot stream of Dragon fire that suddenly exploded past her. Leading the charge of the four massive dragons. Roars were heard next as claws were extended and flexed. Catching Steves and just clean ripping them apart even as they flew on. Maranda was next to be passed, Raph eyeing her hard before he focused back in on the bigger threat around them, almost casually swatting the foe the fire girl was engaged with far out to sea.

Carrie was ready for round umpth with the turtles but seemed a little relieved when they went after the enemy, the two beaten to hell N.E.S.T girls went back to the ground to ensure their relatives were ok. Their attention was turned casually to their leader and their second command who were returning in their bot forms with the tired new elemental women, also Lavi and Ty, because why not? were secured in the arms of their bot forms.

"Ok, now take it easy, no more fighting on your end, you are going to be exhausted. If you aren't already" Jessica said as she and her sister ever so gently set the exhausted women down in a safe area in the treeline, ready to defend them. Which would probably be the only time they would ever really need to protect them.

Bre watched the battlefield with irritation, right before blasting an enemy to ash near a beaten to hell Megan. Fortunately for everyone besides Megs, Jessica saw her condition and stubbornness.

"Megan! Stand down!"

Megan gave a large, seething glare at her cousin

"With all due respect, I am fine Supereon." she huffed.

Jess rolled her eyes and muttered: "Half fucking dead over there." Jessica raised her voice from the mumble tone to something louder. "I know you're not, because A. you are arguing with a direct order from your Supereon, and B. you look like a beaten to hell ghost, now find a place to sit or I will come over there!"

Megan's blue eyes glared a hole into Jessica's soul and her glower intensified. To any other person, she would look terrifying, but to her cousin and leader? Not so much, she did indeed sit down, exhaustion truly hitting her after that, and the pain, holy crap, at least while she fought she was distracted from it.

"You're impossible sometimes you Hydro" Carrie huffed. Crossing her arms and watching the turtle dragons go to town on the enemies, which was satisfying in so many ways, especially with the fact they had control and could take out that seething anger on the ones that had them in collars.

Thane was cheerfully watching the dragons tearing into the massive Decepticon, slowly but surely ripping Tidalwave apart. He turned and, grinning, said to Maranda. "Just think...that coulda been you."

"Knock it off..." Ty popped Thane on the arm before looking at his mother with the concern he obviously still felt at her appearance. Vicky and the others needed to rest, or...something. But it was just as obvious that they weren't going to do that. Not until they could for certain say they had gotten what they had came for.

Even now, Vicky watched intently. Her eyes glued to Leo as his own tail slammed into a drone hard enough to send it towards shore, past them, and it landed quite some distance behind them in the forest.

The whole family winced at that one.

"Think he is mad?" Ty asked.

"Maybe just a little." Lavi answered mildly, still trying to support her Aunt.

Finally, what was left of the large robot succumbed to the onslaught of the four wrathful Dragons. Only then did Mikey reach out to snag the last drone, ripped the head off and tossed it to Donnie, who happily slapped it with his tail towards Raph, he bopped it to Leo. And Leo slammed the ever living hell out of it with a derisive snort, sending it flying waaaaaaaaay the fuck out there. The look Mikey gave him clearly told everyone that he wasn't happy about losing his new ball.

Leo just snorted again and banked towards shore.

One by one they slowly lowered themselves to the sand, four sets of eyes now carefully watching the scene if front of them, not quite sure what to make of this group of newcomers. Wings twitched a few times as the dragons began to walk closer, looking a bit tired, but obviously in full control of themselves.

Well, obvious to their family anyway. Maranda wasn't so easily convinced, especially when Leo let out a low warning growl, his tail thrashing back and forth in his agitation.

That is when a now furious Maranda stood in front of her downed cousin who was looking at Leo with confusion, and something else that was unreadable in her cold ice blue eyes, she did turn away as she held her injuries with a wince. Maranda was assuming it was because of her injuries anyway, whatever it was it was seriously hurting her. Megan had no adrenaline or strength left to hide her pain at this point and hated feeling and looking vulnerable to anyone, especially strangers. Bre saw it, unnerved, both Leo and Inferna can cause a lot of damage and they were both tired and weak and in no mood for bull shit.

"Stand down Inferna, they are back to normal" Bre assured.

"Him fucking first" The fire pusher snarled, she felt her cousin's distress and pain through their large family bond, the water pusher was too weak to hide that too at the moment and Maranda wasn't scared on acting on the protective instincts for her family. "We are no threat to your family, but if you make a move on mine I will fucking destroy you. She's down, she's hurt, back off" Maranda hissed at the dragon.

Leo's eyes narrowed more at her, but his gaze quickly shifted to Lavi who was now running up to him, Ari was already on the move towards Mikey. Both females seeming to easily glide over the sand as they ran towards their fathers. Leo lowered his head to his daughter, and she clung tight to his snout, crying as she hugged it firmly. Mikey had scooped Ari up in his paw and held her close to his chest, his own snout gently nudging the second crying girl.

The rest of the turtle family now started to follow, the sons trying to hold the weakened mothers up on their feet as they closed the distance. The women were stumbling, tripping and just over all having a difficult time with the sand, but god damn it they wanted their husbands and nothing was going to stop them at this point. The air shimmered around the dragons, revealing the true forms of the turtles mere moments before the wives slammed into them. Leo was now struggling to hold onto both daughter and wife. But he managed. Holding them both tight against him as he rested his head on theirs, eyes closed to hold back his own tears. Mikey didn't even try to stay on his feet. When Caitlin crashed into him, the whole family just toppled over into the sand and another massive hug fest ensued.

Thane was a bit more subtle in his observation, watching his parents quietly, but with a small smile. Then quickly wiped a tear away before anyone could see it.

"Thank you." Ty said quietly to Jessica, his own eyes misty as he watched. "I don't think words can express how much this meant to all of us."

"No need for thanks Ty. It's appreciated, but think of it as a makeup for being ass holes upon our first encounter." Jess was just happy things weren't as tense. She shot the teen a sheepish and amused smile.

Dante gave his parents a moment of privacy that they obviously needed. Smiling as he watched the long hug. Then walked over to Megan. "You look like shit."

"I'm fine. I have had a lot harder hits in the past, go spend time with your father." Megan just wanted Dante to leave her alone, for several reasons. A. she already drew waaay too much attention, she hates drawing attention to herself with (despite being a water girl) a fiery passion. B. she knows she'll be dealing with Carrie and Ratchet and really doesn't want another one on her plate.

Speaking of which...

Carrie smacked her upside the head and snarled in a foreign language that almost sounded like Cybertronian, but not quite.

"I knew you weren't feeling 100% before the mission, but on top of that, why would use your powers when you got 10 flipping pounds of shrapnel in your chest!"

"I think you're being a little over dramatic." Megan gave her an irritated huff at the smack, already banged up enough without it. She watched Carrie get on her comm link and call for a ground bridge

"We have more pressing matters to deal with. The turtles still have foreign tech in them, and the turtle angels need energon and to be cleaned up." Megan insisted. She's been through a transformation before, and didn't want them to go through it alone without any guidance whatsoever.

"Supereon!" Carrie hollered

"I am not getting involved... Handle it" Jessica raised a brow. But her earth wielding cousin and Water pusher cousin were both vicious in their current states, and one was going to just have to out stubborn the other.

Bre snickered at her sister. "Coward."

"Damn right." Jessica wasn't going to deny that one, her cousins were scary.

Carrie hauled Megan up to support her, Baily following close to them, knowing better than to argue with her already riled up medic. Megan batted away her help, she was so irritated.

"Aquarius what is going on with you, why are you acting like this?" Carrie let the name slip, they really had nothing to hide at this point anyway.

"I should have known better" Megan muttered lowly, almost too quietly for Carrie to hear, right before she felt a strange betrayal going through her cousin via the bond for a moment. Then her end of the bond was dampened up tightly, but didn't miss the quick glance her cousin shot at the turtles, mainly the blue masked leader. That confused the shit out of the N.E.S.T medic.

The turtle Family couldn't focus on that argument at the moment. Each Father was still up to his ears in wife, and in some cases, daughter. Vicky was clinging to Leo with a vise like grip. Her face buried in the crook of his neck as her body shuddered with her relieved sobs. He did what he could to sooth her, all the while staring at her new, bloody, wings with wide blue eyes.

"You guys ok?" Ty inquired, stepping closer to his father and trying to gauge him for any injuries that might have been carried over to his normal form.

"We are fine son." Was the quiet reply from a somewhat bewildered Leonardo. "As fine as can be expected. What happened?" His voice was soft as he held Vicky closer against him, a finger tentatively reaching towards one of the new appendages. But before Vicky could even begin to explain, her body went limp in his arms. Days worth of exhaustion filled searching combining with the stress of her change finally pushed her over the edge. Now that Leo was safe, she could let herself go. That did not sit well with the leader, his lips tightened into a thin line as he raised his eyes from the woman he now held bridal style against his chest to the new figures roaming the beach. "What. Happened!" His tone wasn't so soft this time.

"Somebody better tell me who I can hit!" Raph roared from right behind him. "Because I'm gonna to hit someone! Very fucking hard!" The largest turtle's eyes were also aimed at the strangers. And Cris was in just as bad shape, passed out and draped in his arms.

"I knew it..." Ty muttered quietly to Lavi, right as Leo's eyes began to flare up. Indicating a serious beatdown on anyone whom he perceived to have caused his family any kind of harm. And the blood on the new wings was a large indicator that there had been harm done in his eyes.

"Daddy...please..." Lavi intervened, stepping in front of him and the possible targets of his ire. "Don't do anything to them. They really did help."

"Then somebody better start talking!" Leonardo's eyes flared even brighter. It wouldn't take much more to push him into dragon mode again at this point.

Jessica ran up to Megan and Bailey once her watch duty of the turtle angels wasn't needed anymore. "Hey you guys o-..." she was cut off by an angry glow eyed blue masked turtle, her shoulders slumped and her expression looked fucking done. "Oh for the love of God what did we do now?"

"They want to know what happened to their mates." To which, all the girls looked at Jessica, pursing their lips in a non verbal "Yeah, I'm not telling them."

"Oh you guys suck." she said mildly at her family before turning to the turtles, she was so not in the mood for this bull shit, not today.

"So we were in Canada and lost reception-" and for that smart ass remark she got a nice, expected, swat upside the head and she gave her cousins a flat look.

"Ok. Calm down Leo. So. Our fathers, were all like: hey, turtles are brainwashed. No shit. But you can't fix them. But your buddies here can. Referring to your girls. They told them they can give the abilities to save you guys. So, naturally, your girls took the chance to enhance all their properties so they could connect to you guys mentally and spiritually and fight the corruption/brainwashing that was taking over your entity-er, totem spirit. They aren't used to their powers yet. Not to mention the transformation into becoming wing sabers/demigods is extremely taxing on the body. And as for the blood, wings will rip out of your back when you first get them. That's why they're bloody." Jessica chipped in at the end, nodding.

"You couldn't put that more delicately?" Bre raised a brow at her leader.

"Ok, scratch that last part yo-"

"Just shut up while you're behind" Maranda huffed, speaking from experience. They were all still grouchy and high on adrenaline, but it was wearing off gradually.

"Ok." Jess sighed.

Bre or Starblast as she's was becoming known as, looked at her sister and started to speak to her in a different language, the same strange language as before. "Had to add that tidbit that they were our dads right?"

Jessica looked at her sister tiredly "A. Keeping information from them just leads to trouble. The more details the easier later on B. Us disowning them changes nothing biologically. And C. Not going to be the first time we get an ass beating because of who our fathers are. So you might as well get over it/ used to it"

Leonardo looked at Jessica long and hard, listening to Lavi as she still quietly murmured reassurances to her concerned father. His eyes traveled from Jessica, to Vicky and back to Jessica again. Still very, very angry. "There was no other way? Your all powerful fathers couldn't do anything?! They had to go through this? My god the damn pain!" Leo lifted his eyes to the heavens, a sneer of hate and disdain clear to see on his face.

"Oh they could have, but they are pure bread ass holes. So." Jess simply replied, but watching the large turtle with a hint of wariness. Lord she really didn't want to fight any more today.

"Leo?" This voice was also familiar to him, and sounded so very, very weak. Caitlin was being cradled by Mikey. And by the looks of her it was a wonder she wasn't passed out cold herself. "It's ok...really... she knew the stakes, we all did."

"I'm still gonna hit someone!" Raph bellowed, not at all calmed by the explanation.

"Get in line bitch." Inferna muttered under her breath, getting an elbow to the gut by Bre.

"Join the club." Leo growled from between clenched teeth. "I can imagine the pain they must have went through, I know what our transformation felt like." He looked back down at Vicky, his eyes softening as he reached out to gently touch a wing.

"Tell you what." Maranda nodded to Raph. "Next time we get summoned. We'll bring you up with us. By the by," she slapped a $100 in one of his pouches like she just gave a waiter a tip. "Give that to Cris when she wakes up. We made a bet and she did it, for the most part."

That earned her a warning growl for getting to close, and an eyeroll from Thane. The son had to quickly place a restraining hand on his father's arm to keep him from lashing out. "Easy Dad. They really don't mean any harm."

Raph grumbled instead. "I'm too scared to ask what the bet was."

Maranda or "Inferna" got an evil grin on her face when Raph decided so be stand offish. Her leader cousin of course ruined the fun by giving her a scolding glare.

"Behave yourself, they've been through enough."

"Fine fine. Any other circumstance I'd blow that order off. But. You're right, They've been through enough. And for the record," Her words now aimed back at Raph "it was to punch a god in the face, she threw a couple Kunai knives at him. Close enough. Would have hit him too."

"I don't know...I kinda like the wings." Ari spoke up from where she was sitting on a tree branch, casually swinging her legs.

"Me too cupcake." Mikey grinned up at her.

Ty shook his head over it all before letting out a soft sigh. He figured at this point, it would be wise to turn the strangers into, non strangers before someone got decked. "Guys, this is my father, Leonardo." His expression turned a little rueful. "I'm sure you've heard of him. And his reputation. Also, my Uncles Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello."

Bre smiled at the turtles very warmly, trying to disarm them a little from their ruffled stance. "It's a pleasure to meet you guys. Sorry it was on these terms though. I'm Starblast, this is my sister Starstriker. And that is our cousin Inferna. We can introduce you to the others after they are treated."

Inferna waved at them, a serious expression on her face.

Dante walked up behind Donnie and looked curiously at the back of his neck. Obviously ready to move the conversation past the tense moment. "What happened here?" He reached out and carefully touched a large bump on the back of his father's neck.

"Bishop happened, that's what."

"Alrighty then. Looks like you guys need to be looked over too."

"Them first." Leo interrupted firmly. Which them he meant was pretty obvious to everyone at this point.

Dante rubbed the back of his head a he looked everyone over. "Not sure Tony is equipped to deal with...um...well...this. I know I'm not."

Jessica, or starstriker as she was also known, smiled reassuringly. "I'll get Jolt to treat the turtle angels. Ratchet and First Aid can work on you guys. There's not much to be done for the ladies. Any damage their bodies sustained should healed by morning. They need to be cleaned up and get some energon. We'll get everything figured out once we get back to a base. Ratchet is probably doing some quick spark shock therapy on our cousins and that doesn't take to long so we'll send him over right after."

Leo pulled his wife even tighter against his chest, if that was even possible. His eyes on the verge of flaring again. "She can't have energon, it will kill her!"

Ty just calmly rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry. They are very over protective. Hence the reason they are so...short and snappy right now. Just give them time to adjust to the situation."

"Except for Raph." Mikey grinned. "He's always an ass." That earned him a kick since Raph's arms were full of knocked out Cris. "See what I mean?"

Ty called Kyle for a bridge, listened...then winced a little as he turned to his twin. "You are in some serious trouble sis."

"It was worth getting yelled at." Lavi sighed.

Once more it was Dante that moved the conversation forward. "Um...would it inconvenience one of you too much to hang out with us for a bit?" He was looking at his newly transformed mother, who was also dead to the world right now. "There are obviously some things we need to know."

"I'll come with you." Jessica offered before turning to her own crew. "Guys, can you bring wing solution when you switch bases?" Jessica asked, looking at her family to which she got a quick Okie dokie symbol from her sister as she continued to keep walking looking chill like nothing happened.

Jessica followed everyone through but hung back a bit as the turtle family lead the way to the med bay. She couldn't help the barrage of stress going over her, not liking this family getting dragged into her affairs. Her family could handle themselves but she didn't even like for them to get dragged into everything. She had so much to do, and had to help the new women just turned elemental out in figuring out their new bodies. She had too much on her plate and despite years of practice, she still didn't know if she would be able to handle taking care of everyone, especially when she currently couldn't take care of herself.