As dark storm clouds gathered over Winters Tower, the lobby ceiling opened itself for the brewing electrical storm. The large Aztec-like calendar on the entire lobby floor suddenly slid open, causing the antiquated stone disk in the tower cell basement to raise up to the lobby area.
Thirteen creature cells surrounded the disk in a somewhat ceremonial manner. One of the cells has an unconscious Leo hunching over inside.
Meanwhile, Casey was gearing up with his sporting gear. He put on his black fingerless gloves, knee pads, and two baseball bats in his bag behind his back. His jaw dropped with wide eyes as he saw April emerging in the room.
"Wow." Casey said with a smile.
April was now wearing a yellow sleek-looking Japanese combat bodysuit equipped with a katana sword on her back.
"I got it on my last trip to Japan." April said. She spun around to model her Japanese bodysuit. "You like it?"
"Oh, yeah." Casey replied.
April held out a black stainless steel hockey stick in her hands.
"No way." Casey breathed.
April then handed the mask to Casey, who looked down at it with astonishment.
"You can't go trick-or-treating without your mask." April said.
"Oh, babe. Thanks." Casey said with a grateful smile.
Outside, the electrical storm began swirling in motion above the Winters Tower. Karai and Kage walked down the center path of the garden flanked by dozens of Foot and Shadow Ninjas behind them.
"As ordered, no one gets into the tower." Karai ordered. "No one interferes, no one bears witness."
Suddenly, the security alarm buzzed from the front gate.
Karai pointed her right arm and Kage pointed his left arm, motioning their ninja soldiers to take position for the act of surprise. They walked forward to the security panel and Karai opened the gate to see Casey standing in front of her with a big smiling turtle head. Kage stood behind his wife and covered his mouth to prevent him from laughing.
"You've got to be kidding me." Karai said coldly.
"Cowabunga, dude." Casey greeted. "I'm here for little Maxie's 13th birthday party."
Unknown to Karai and Kage, the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas along with April, Splinter, and Saldana stood onto the wall before jumping down long enough for Casey to keep distracting two clan leaders from noticing.
"Well, this is somewhat amusing." Kage said in amusement.
"Leave now." Karai demanded.
"Oh, but you don't understand, lady. I got..." Casey said.
Back in Winters Tower, Winters was walking forward to look over the ceremonial lobby in his ancient golden armor that he wore years ago. Up through the building and over New York City through the clouds into space, all eight stars began aligning into position. As the final star drifted into its position, the bursting light traveled down each star and headed straight towards Earth. The light burst flew into the tower lobby and hit the disk in the middle of all the monsters' cells. The pieces of the disk suddenly started to move around and randomly sink further into the ground as light poured out of them to create a large portal.
"At last. After 3000 years, the time is finally at hand." Winters said with a satisfied smile.
Winters then heard a soft groan and turned around to see Lee slowly waking up from the marble throne chair. She was now wearing a long dark navy blue dress with one long, wide sleeve hiding her left arm that has black edges on the collar and the opening for the right arm. She also wore black tights under her dress and a long black glove on her right arm.
"Where...where am I?" Lee asked.
"Oh, you're finally awake, Asteria." Winters said with a smile.
"Asteria?" Lee repeated. "I remember that was my time from a long time ago."
"Dear Asteria, you and your sisters have been reincarnated many years ago." Winters said as he began walking towards Lee. He let out a gentle smile and lifted his hand in front of her. "But now, you will be witnessing the event of the lifetime."
"By conquering the world?" Lee questioned with narrow eyes. "I don't think so."
"It's not what it looks like, Asteria." Winters explained calmly. "I'm been suffering this curse long enough. I wanted to get rid of my immortality to redeem myself. You have to believe me please."
Lee looked at Winters with a soft face and knew that he was telling the truth when her eyes glowed in pulsing blue energy. She slowly placed her hand in Winter's palm and Winters directed the blue mystic kunoichi to look down at the ceremonial lobby. They both examined all thirteen cells lighting up to acknowledge their contents in sequence.
But the last monster cell didn't light up in sequence that caught Winters and Lee's attention. Lee lifted her hand in front of her and focused on her aura sense to perceive a familiar aura inside the cell.
"The thirteen monster is not in there!" Lee gasped in shock. "It's Leo! He's unconscious but he's okay!"
Winters turned to the Four Generals with an angry look on her face.
"What? What have you done?" Winters demanded angrily.
"Your time for giving orders is over." Aguila said as he pointed his finger at Winters.
"You don't understand." Winters explained. "I want to send these creatures back to where they came from. To undo the damage that was done so many years ago."
"Time has done nothing but made you weak. We have our own plans." Aguila retorted.
"Immortality is a curse, brother." Winters pleaded. "Trust me, I've lived long enough to know. We have to find that 13th monster. It's time to end it."
"No." Aguila said. "Our time is just beginning."
Outside, the Foot and Shadow Clan began fighting against the Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, Casey, Splinter, and Saldana. April was fighting against Karai and Kage as Casey, Mikey, Raph, and Splinter fought the Foot Ninjas while Ellie, Ella, and Saldana fought the Shadow Ninjas.
The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, Splinter, and Saldana hopped up on some of the Foot and Shadow Ninjas to keep them away from April and Casey, who were standing behind them.
"Guys, front door's open now!" April shouted.
"Two minutes for high sticking." Casey added.
April ran off straight the tower entrance as Casey, Donnie, Donna, Mikey, Ellie, Splinter, and Saldana followed her. Raph and Ella stood in front of the Foot and Shadow Ninjas as they threw smoke bombs at them before running after the others.
"Dudes, that rocked. Let's go again." Mikey said with a smile.
"Maybe next time, Mikey." Ellie said.
As everyone spotted one Foot Ninja and one Shadow Ninja coming their way, Raph kicked the Foot Ninja away and Ella did the same with the Shadow Ninja. The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas charged inside the tower lobby, but they turned around to see an army of the Foot and Shadow Ninjas closing in on them. The Turtles drew out their weapons and the Lotus Ninjas summoned their magic in their battle stances.
"Dudes, what do we do?" Mikey asked in worry.
"I'm working on it." Donnie replied.
"I can't even think of a spell to counter them." Donna added.
Casey looked at an antique vase and reached into his back.
"You break it, you buy it." Casey muttered as he took a hockey stick from his sporting bag.
Casey swung his hockey stick and broke the antique vase, causing an alarm to sound off. The giant building security shutters quickly closed the entrance that locked the Foot and Shadow Ninjas out.
"Yeah. All right." Raph smiled.
"All right. Nice." Casey said as he gave Ellie and Mikey high fives.
"Nice work, Jones." April said as she pinched her boyfriend's bottom.
"I have my moments." Casey said coolly as he smoothed his hair back.
"Whoa, check it out." Donna said.
Donna and the others are staring at the large portal in the center of the glowing cells inside the lobby just when Casey followed them.
"That would be the swirling vortex to another world, I assume." Donnie said.
"Cool. I want one." Mikey said in amazement.
"Let's look through the cages if we're gonna find Leo." Donna said.
The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas ran over to look through the cell cages. Mikey lifted himself up to look through the cage.
"Leo, is that you?" Mikey asked.
A large fur-covered monster's face suddenly appeared in his view that startled Mikey fall back to the floor.
"I guess that would be the wrong cage." Ellie said.
Raph walked up to the other cell cage and pulled himself up to see an unconscious Leo inside.
"Leo." Raph muttered. He turned to the others. "I got him."
"Out of the way, please." Donnie said.
Raph hopped down to watch Donnie placing a bomb to the door of the cell cage and then pushing four buttons to activate it. Three mutant brothers and three mystic sisters backed up a little while covering their heads as the bomb started beeping and exploded the door right off the cell cage.
"Hey, buddy. Come on, man." Raph said gently. He stepped one foot forward and slowly helped Leo out of the cell. "Up we go. There you go."
Leo stood carefully on his feet and started coughing while keeping his balance. Casey took out two katana swords from his sport bag and handed them over to Raph. Two older mutant brothers looked at each other.
"You're gonna need these if you're gonna lead us out of here." Raph said with a small smile as he held the katana swords up to Leo.
Leo took his katana swords in one hand and looked back at Raph.
"I'm gonna need you too." Leo smiled back.
Suddenly, everyone heard screaming that turned their hands to see Winters being thrown from the elevator office and crashing hard onto the lobby floor.
"Winters." April said.
"Looks more like fall. Get it?" Mikey joked as he and the others walked up a few steps to keep their distance from an unconscious Winters.
"Mikey, remember our talk." Donnie scolded.
Everyone looked up to see the Four Generals looking down at them from the balcony.
"Looks like someone got to him before us." Casey said.
As the four generals walked away from the balcony, everyone turned back to Winters in wonder.
"Is he dead?" April asked.
"Well, I'm not gonna touch him." Donna replied.
Mikey pulled out one of Casey's hockey sticks and walked over to Winters with it as he crouched down to poke Winters on his shoulder, but Winters didn't move as his body was still immobile.
"Not so immortal, huh, dudes?" Mikey said.
"Well, there you have it. He's dead." Ellie remarked.
Suddenly, Winters gasped with wide eyes that quickly startled everyone just as he stood up to take deep breaths.
"Okay, I did not see that coming." Ellie said with wide eyes.
"Your time's run out, Winters." April spoke.
Winters turned his head towards April, Casey, Splinter, Saldana, the Turtles, and the Lotus Ninjas.
"Miss O'Neil. I must have hit my head pretty hard. I'm seeing giant turtles." Winters said in slight surprise. His eyes moved to Ellie, Ella, and Donna in awe. "Selene? Ceto? And Lyssa?"
"Wait a minute. He knows us?" Ella asked.
"Well, we are popular in ancient times with godlike magic." Donna remarked.
"We know what you're up to, Winters." April said with a stern look on his face. "We know about the portal and we think that it's time you sent all these monsters home."
Lee unexpectedly teleported between her teammates and Winters.
"Guys, wait. It's not what you think." Lee said.
"Lee!" Ella exclaimed. She quickly ran up to hug her older sister tightly. "You're okay!"
"I miss you too, little sister." Lee said with a smile as she hugged her younger sister back and released the hug to look at the others. "But you have to believe him. I've sensed his aura and he's not here to destroy the world. He wants to save it."
Suddenly, the large entrance doors opened, and the Foot and Shadow Ninjas quickly ran inside the lobby.
"I couldn't agree with you more." Winters said to April. He wasn't paying attention to Karai and Kage walking in front of their ninja soldiers as they stopped to listen his words. "It is time to put an end to the curse that I have brought upon myself and this world. That's what this is about, Miss O'Neil: penance. I must return all 13 beasts or our curse will continue. And that is a torment I can no longer bear."
"Then you should be put out of your misery." Aguila spoke.
Everyone saw the shadows of the Four Generals that caught their attention as they started walking closer to them.
"I think we walked in on a family feud, guys." Leo said.
"Oh yeah." Lee agreed with narrow eyes.
The Four Generals walked forward in front of Winters.
"The time has come to reopen the portal and rain destruction upon the Earth." Aguila said.
"Nothing will stand in our way when we have an army at our command." Gato added.
"My brothers, I..." Winters spoke.
"We are no brothers to you!" Aguila yelled.
"With one monster still free, the curse will never be broken." Gato said.
"We shall finish what we began all those years ago. And we will finally have our victory." Serpiente added.
"Join us. Join us, Foot Clan and Shadow Clan." Aguila said to Karai and Kage. "Swear your allegiance to us and no harm will befall you."
Karai and Kage immediately raised their hands up to stop the Foot and Shadow Ninjas from accepting Aguila's offer.
"The Foot and Shadow ninjas are not without honor." Karai said.
"We work for Winters, not you." Kage added.
Karai motioned her hand again to her Foot Ninjas, who dispersed around out of the tower building. Kage did the same thing to his Shadow Ninjas and they obeyed his command to follow the Foot Ninjas.
"Okay, what does that mean?" April asked in slight confusion.
"It means we're going to help you." Kage replied.
"Kage will find the last monster and you will bring it back here." Karai explained. "Hurry, we don't have much time."
Karai and Kage ran off out of the building. Winters looked over at April and Casey with a nod. April and Casey nodded their heads to Winters as April took off after Kage and Karai, leaving Casey behind for a bit.
"Hey. I got shotgun." Casey called out.
Casey quickly followed April out of the building. Winters turned back to the four generals with a glare.
"Forget about them." Aguila said. He, Gato, Serpiente, and Mono walked closer to Winters. "By the time they return, the portal will already be closed with you inside it."
"I hate to see brothers fight like this." Donnie said to Leo, Mikey, and Raph.
"Unless it's together." Raph said with a smile.
"With extra girl power." Ella added with a small smirk.
The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas ran forward to stand between Winters and the Four Generals in battle stances.
"Hate to rain on your parade, pal, but we thought we'd even the odds." Raph said with a smirk.
"If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us." Ella added with a grin.
"We're going to enjoy this." Aguila said.
The Four Generals began attacking the Lotus Ninjas and the Turtles with their weapons. Aguila fought against Raph and Ella. Serpiente fought against Donnie and Donna. Gato fought against Mikey and Ellie. And Mono fought against Leo and Lee.
Winters moved forward to help the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas, but Splinter stopped him with his stick.
"If you please." Splinter said. "They can defeat them."
"They are a team after all." Saldana added.
Splinter, Saldana, and Winters turned around to see one cell was being lifted and sucked into the portal.
"Let's hope so, because if not, Aguila will use the portal to draw forth an army of evil and the world will be lost." Winters said.
Suddenly, small fish-like demonic creatures with scaly blue skin and wings along with large black eyes made its way out of the portal.
"More beasts. Let's send them back where they belong." Winters said.
Mikey and Ellie are fighting together against Serpiente. Donnie and Donna are fighting together against Mono. With quick speed, Donna leapt towards Mono in an arc and swung her purple energized arms downward to attack the stone generals. Donnie then stumped his bo staff on Mono's foot that made the hammer-wielding statue yelp with a glare.
"Temper, temper." Donnie teased.
Donna giggled at her boyfriend's comment.
Lee fought against Gato with her magic and blocked the stone general's blade with a blue transparent shield as Leo leapt onto an artifact while blocking Gato's blade and then kicked him to the floor. Leo ran towards Gato, who kicked him away towards Lee that sent them flying to the large glass display case. Leo and Lee sat up with a groan as Leo looked to see bunch of swords and steel tessen lying around them before looking at his mystic girlfriend with a thoughtful smirk.
Gato took slow steps forward with his blade until he saw Leo and Lee stood up on their feet in slight confusion. Leo was strapped with ancient swords all over his back while Lee was strapped with ancient swords all around her waist.
"Come to mommy and daddy." Leo smirked.
Raph and Ella continued fighting against Aguila while going up the stairway. They quickly ducked down to dodge Aguila's blade and kept blocking his weapon as they continued up the stairs.
"Thing about you immortal stone guys is...You know, you're immortal and made of stone." Raph said. "I sound like Mikey."
"Now's not the time to be making jokes, Raph." Ella said.
Ella sprinted forward to block Aguila's blade and Aguila then locked his blade with Raph's sais.
"You two fight well. You two should join us." Aguila said.
Raph pushed Aguila back from him with his sais.
"No, thanks, I'm good." Raph said as he motioned Aguila to come at him.
"Yeah, not interested." Ella added.
Aguila charged forward towards Raph and Ella, but Ella and Raph quickly flipped Aguila over them that sent him falling below. They stood on the edge of the balcony and looked down to see Aguila standing on the ground while looking up at them. Raph groaned in annoyance and Ella rolled her eyes as they both jumped down towards Aguila to continue fighting him.
"Dang it. These guys really don't die." Ellie said with a groan as she and Mikey kept fighting Serpiente.
"Sensei, Saldana, are you guys all right?" Mikey asked Splinter and Saldana.
"We must do this more often." Splinter replied with a chuckling smile.
A winged portal monster flew in the lobby from the portal as Splinter jumped into the air to kick it back into the portal. Saldana created a white lotus flower-shaped emblem made of magical energy and began firing several white energy bolts at some winged portal monster to send them back into the portal one by one.
"We still got it." Saldana grinned.
Donnie and Donna kept fighting Mono as Leo and Lee kept fighting Gato while Raph and Ella kept fighting Aguila.
"They'd better hurry with that last monster!" Leo said to Raph and Ella as he swung his katana swords at Gato.
"I'm sure my man Casey's got it all under control!" Raph assured as he kept dodging Aguila's blade.
"That's what I'm afraid of!" Leo said as he locked his katana blades with Gato's blade.
"Have faith in him!" Ella said as she was delivering punches from her red energized fists at Aguila. "I'm sure Casey and April are focusing on their objective just fine!"
"Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong?" Lee questioned sarcastically as she was blasting blue energy beams at Gato from her hands.
Meanwhile, the Cowabunga Carl van rushed through the streets of New York City as the vehicle was taking sharp turns on the road.
"Can't this piece of junk go faster?" Casey asked impatiently.
"Wanna drive?" April questioned in annoyance.
"I would, as a matter of fact." Casey retorted.
Karai and Kage were sitting on the back seats of the van while watching April and Casey arguing in the front seats.
"You would think they would be more concerned about the 13th monster." Karai said to Kage.
"More or less." Kage replied with an amused smile.
April continued driving the van as a large, quadrupedal sea monster was chasing after the vehicle, not being aware that the van was luring it to the Winters Tower.
Back in Winters Tower, the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas kept fighting against the Four Generals. Splinter swatted the winged portal monster back into the portal with his stick while Saldana blasted three-winged portal monsters back into the portal with her white magic.
"Boys, girls, we must finish this now!" Splinter yelled.
"You all got one shot at this!" Saldana shouted.
As Splinter and Saldana moved out of the way from the portal, the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas kept fighting the Four Generals to move them closer to the portal. The Four Generals stood close enough to the portal that gave the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas knowing looks at each other. They launched high in the air in a sync and kicked the Four Generals that knocked them into the portal, causing the swirling vortex to unleash out a small blast that sent the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas flying back to the ground.
The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas got up from the ground to stare at the portal along with Winters, Splinter, and Saldana.
"So, did we win?" Mikey asked as he tried to take a peek through the portal.
Suddenly, Aguila's arm rose out of the portal as he started climbing out along with Gato, Serpiente, and Mono following behind him.
"Foolish creatures." Aguila laughed with an evil smirk. "We are immortals made of stone. Without the final monster to break our curse, we will never be stopped."
Then, the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas heard loud knocking that made them look behind in slight confusion.
"About time." Ella smirked.
The Cowabunga Carl van drove through the building entrance while being trailed by the thirteen monster.
"Special delivery!" Casey called out.
April made a sharp turn that caused the van swerve out of the path and tipped over to the wall. The thirteen monster tripped over onto its right side on the marble floor and slid itself towards the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas.
"Look out." Winters yelled as he ran to push the Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas out of the way.
The thirteen monster knocked into the Four Generals and they fell together into the portal as the stone generals screamed once they had entered inside. As everyone stared at the portal, they gasped to see the building starting to shake a little. The Four Generals continued screaming while reverting into humans inside the portal. The beam of the portal headed up towards the sky and disappeared completely before turning the sky back to normal.
Everyone looked back at the destroyed disk in front of them.
"So, did we win now?" Mikey asked.
"Yeah, I think we did." Donnie replied.
"We won!" Mikey yelled as he held his hands in the air and fell to the ground.
"All right." Leo said with a smile as he gave Raph a fist bump.
"Yeah! We rule!" Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie cheered as they gave each other high fives.
"All right! That's what I'm talking about!" Raph said with a smile.
"Yeah!" Mikey and Donnie said as they bumped their chest together.
"Nice parallel parking." Casey said. He began kicking the door of the van. "Next time, I'm driving!"
As the door popped off, Casey and Karai climbed out of the van. They both sat on the van until they fell off when April accidentally bumped them as she and Kage came out of the van.
"Hey. Watch the hair." Casey said.
April landed on the ground and Kage landed next to Karai. Casey looked at April and quickly kissed her. April's eyes widen for a second, but she closed her eyes and kissed him back.
"Typical. We do all the work, he gets all the thanks." Raph scoffed.
April and Casey pulled away from their kiss as Mikey and Ellie were looking at them.
"Aww." Ellie and Mikey said a smile.
The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, Splinter, and Saldana walked up to Kage and Karai, who were walking up to them.
"You are every bit the warriors we were informed you were. You have passed." Karai said with a smile. "Savor your victory tonight. For soon, we will have further business together. The kind that involves familiar faces from your past."
The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas looked at Karai with surprise faces before looking at each other.
"She doesn't mean...?" Raph asked.
The Turtles and the Lotus Ninjas looked back at Karai and Kage.
"Until next time." Kage said with a smirk. "We'll have more fun real soon."
With that, Karai threw a smoke pellet to the ground that caused everyone to start coughing.
"Come on. What is it with ninjas and smoke pellets?" Casey said with coughs.
After the smoke disappeared, everyone stopped coughing and saw Karai and Kage had vanished without a trace. April then walked towards Leo and Lee.
"Looks like you two picked a good time to come home." April said with a smile.
"Thanks for bringing us back." Leo smiled back.
Lee nodded with a small smile and gave Leo a kiss on the cheek.
The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, Casey, Splinter, and Saldana turned their heads to see Winters sobbing barely on the ground.
"Winters?" Raph asked with a concerned look.
Winter's sobbing then turned into laughing happily.
"I'm never usually that happy to be in pain." Mikey said.
Winters stood up on his feet as everyone walked up to him.
"He's happy because he's mortal again, Mikey." Donnie said.
"April. I've had my eye on you for a long time." Winters said to April.
"I knew it." Casey said as he looked away with an unhappy face.
"Zip it, Casey." Ellie and Donna hissed as April elbowed Casey slightly.
"I've always known that you'd be the one to help me find my way home." Winters said. He looked at the Turtles, Splinter, the Lotus Ninjas, and Saldana. "And thank you...brothers and Dragonesses. You've made a very old man very, very happy."
"So, what happens now?" Mikey asked curiously.
Winters looked outside behind him and turned his head back to the others with his eyes closed. When Winters opened his eyes, he looked up and his entire body started to glow and lifted into the air as he began aging into thousand years in front of his allies. Raph and Ella were about to walk towards Winters, but Splinter stopped Raph with his stick and Saldana stopped Ella with her left hand. Winter's entire body slowly turned into golden dust with a small orb of light glowed through the blowing dust.
"Okay...Just a little bit creepy." Mikey said.
Mikey suddenly let out a loud squeeze through the dust.
"Oh, gross." Mikey said. "I think he's in my no...My no...My no..."
Mikey then squeezed again that made Ellie back away from him
"Gross! Don't squeeze around me, Mikey!" Ellie yelled.
"Somebody give me a hankie." Mikey said. "Now he's in my mouth. Tastes awful."