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Chapter 9:
New World Order, Part 2
As the battle between acolytes and heralds along with daughter verses demon were about to begin there were civilians at the base of the building putting out a fire that started after Demon Shredder blew a hole in the building. "You decrepit ghost. Did you not think that I would be prepared for your arrival. I have developed weaponry that will destroy you." Karai said while holding a run of the mill katana in hand.
"Is that so?" He questioned back to her as he powered up once again.
"Allow me to demonstrate." She said back and charged. As soon as he saw her coming at him Original Oroku launched three mystic blasts. All of which were canceled out by the sword the imposter was using. At this time the turtles were starting their fight as well.
"Inazuma, kyah!" Michelangelo shouted before jumping into the air, did a small spin, and sent a small blast of power to the wind herald.
'These two are mine.' Raphael thought as he charged up his weapons and fired twin beams - one for water herald and the other for fire herald. Seeing three out of five fall the earth herald poured dirt into the room through his arms. The dirt was so compressed that even though the four were half buried they found it difficult to be free.
"You shall not interfere." The mud monster said to them in his usual gravelly voice.
"The usurper will pay for her irreverence." The metal one added since he wanted to justify his master desires.
"You have defiled my name long enough." The Demon said to her as their battle continued on the other side of the room. Using a mystic version of telekinesis he lifted her up and threw her to a pillar with such force that it snapped, but did not fall.
"Karai!" The field leader of the turtles shouted as he saw the person they were trying to rescue lye there with her helmet rolling off to the side.
"Weep not for her. After all you are the ones who sealed her fate." The metal one said to the four as a hint to what they once were, but the heroes did not understand.
"What the shell? Are you talking about?" The field leader questioned them since he wanted them just to say what they meant instead of beating around the bush.
"Have you not yet realized?" The flaming creature questioned in shock.
"Without you. We could never have freed the Shredder." The water based weird boy stated to them, but the green skinned men still seemed confused so the wind herald continued where his friends left off.
"For it was you that freed us." He said before spinning the wind that gives him life, and became a familiar form. Fire, Water, Metal, and Earth followed his lead to be in a form the others have seen.
"I would not have predicted this." Leo found himself whispering before returning to the fight. "The mystic ninjas? NO!" He questioned and shouted once coming back to the fight and remembering their first encounter with these beings.
"When you took that crystal from Karai on behalf of Agent Bishop. You set us free." The earth herald said to them: pointing out that if they did not help Bishop none of this would be happening.
"No. NO!" Leonardo shouted at them in anger and rage.
"Yes. You set a chain of events in motion that led to our master's rebirth." The psychopathic cyclone said to the ninja causing them to get even more angry.
"Wrong." Leo shouted before using his mystic might on the dirt to free his legs. "We're stopping it here." He shouted once he was free. In an instant he unsheathed Gunshin and fired on the rock spirit. The others freed themselves just like Leo did, and returned to the fight.
'I got them.' The wind spirit thought as he shot a blast of air through his mouth. The blast knocked them down, and dissipated their earth prison, but they were far from beaten.
"On your feet, little girl. I am not done with you yet." The demon said to her as the female slowly stood up. Karai saw that the pillar she hit finally fell, but she had bigger concerns at the moment.
'I may just need backup.' She thought before activating the video com link on her left arm. "Chaplin? Where are you, Chaplin? I need you. Here. Now." She said to the screen with worry in her tone.
"We're almost ready Mistress Karai. I'll be there. I promise." The scientist said to her as he tried to hurry on his work. She ended the feed on her end as he foe began to speak.
"Calling for help?! Pathetic." The Shredder said to her before throwing a punch which she ducked successfully.
"It is you, relic, who is the pathetic one." She said back to him before dodging another blow.
"I beg to differ." He said to the one who evaded him while grabbing her shoulder pads and through her to another pillar. "Wretched imposter! You are nothing! A spineless weakling." He said to her as she was trying to get back up.
'My one chance.' She thought while reaching for a small blue jar on her belt. He grabbed and lifted her upward, but as soon as he did she smashed the container on the helmet. Inside it was unstable ectoplasm energy - a prototype energy source for the new tech, and it seemed to be damaging him.
"What is this weapon?" He shouted at her after dodging a couple of sword slashes from a new sword. She slashed at him a few more times, and finished with a kick to the gut.
"No. No. Don't. Please. Show me mercy." The demon said to her with his back against the wall. Unknown to her he was already creating a fallback plan. She did not listen and shoved the sword into his chest causing him to scream in pain, and fall down.
'I guess I didn't need Chaplin, the Foot, or even the Turtles help. This guy is nothing more than a wannabe.' Karai thought with a smug smile on her face. "You are finished. Good riddance, demon." She said to the fallen warrior. Once his helmet fell, and he showed the woman the head beneath a familiar feeling washed over the girl. "Father." She said in awe at seeing Oroku Saki's face.
"My child." The former human said back to her with a soft smile on his face. She knelt down to meet him at eye level.
"Father, I…" She stopped when the face turned a ghoulish white and his eyes were red. The feeling of reunion was crushed from Karai causing her to back away in fear.
"You humans are such fun to toy with. It is almost a shame I have to destroy you." He said to her as he pulled the sword from his gut, and using his magic turned into a deadly snake.
'How could I have let my guard down.' She thought as a self bash while her body was still terrified over what was happening before her. Luckily she dodged the snake's first strike, and rolled over to the sword display in the room.
'Now this is entertainment.' Shredder thought as he beckoned the helmet back to him. He then floated down to the floor and washed from a better angle of the fight between imposter vs. demon snake.
"Guys we've got to help Karai." Leo said to the others as they saw her backing away from the snake out of fear. Mikey charged up his mystic energy, and used his speed factor once he was all lit up.
"Um…awkward." The jokester said after dashing her away from the fangs, and was holding her bridal style. To try to keep some of her pride intact the daughter of their enemy slammed her palm on his chest - forcing him to let her go. "I guess that means: no thank you." He said while rubbing the back of his head after hitting the floor so hard.
'Get back here, punk.' The wind herald thought as he formed a cyclone around the interceptor and tossed him back to his brothers causing a bowling pin effect.
"You were warned not to interfere." The red skinned creature said before surrounding the four survivors with a ring of fire.
"It will not happen again." The wet one said before creating a thick wall of ice that went from the floor to the ceiling and from wall to wall.
"Alone at last. Just the three of us." Shredder said to the girl that ran to the ice wall. An attempt to go to the turtle's side since she had a feeling that she really can't take this guy alone.
'Really should have taken Leonardo's advice.' Karai thought as she fled from the serpent with his creator floating after them, and laughing at her plight. On the other side of the wall the turtles have begun another round with the heralds.
"Fight fire with mystic fire, I say." Their field leader said as he snuffed out the ring with the flames of the dragon king, and followed that by firing on the fire herald.
"Cleaving wind!" Donatello shouted as he saw the wind herald launch an attack, so he countered with a purple shock wave.
"Heads up." Raph said as he saw two more coming at them.
"Here come the other two." Leo pointed out to the rest of the team.
"I got `im." The angered one said before spinning his sickles and slamming them into the ground. Which caused two strong shock-waves to form and slam into the earth and metal heralds. As water was doing everything in his power not to get hit, so was Karai in her fight.
'Impressive, but I'm getting bored.' Shredder thought as he watched as Karai dodged his snake's attack with such grace, but it had quickly became boring. He intervened with a strong kick that sent her to another pillar.
'Stupid.' She bashed herself while rubbing her head out of pain. Before she knew it the snake constricted her to the pillar she was leaning against.
"What will it be Kara? Will it be the claws? Or the fangs?" The demon questioned, but before she could answer both came at her.
'Gotta hope for the best.' She thought before leaning forward causing the two forces to run right into each other. The body of the serpent fell to the ground with the girl following after.
"What?!" He shouted in alarm. Once the snake was dead it changed back into a sword, but the blade was broken. With his surprise she trick a swift attack with her claw, but he stopped her with his magic. "If you refuse to stay still then I will just have to force you." He said to her and slammed her to the hidden section of the wall, and kept her there.
"Release me! Demon!" She shouted back as she felt that tough girl side start to come back to her.
"Such a course young woman. I wonder if someone more well mannered lurks beneath that rough exterior." The creature said after floating up to her, and shattered her armor. "There. Perhaps I should let you live after all. You would make a fine slave." He said after getting a look at the woman he was fighting as she was now in a skin tight black suit.
"Let her go!" Leonardo shouted up at the demon after he and his brothers burst through the ice barrier.
"Ah, the little kappa. Serving your ladyship to the very end, how noble." Shredder said after floating down to meet the four warriors. Raphael knew what he meant since April brought over knight movies on movie night, but he wanted to clarify something.
"The only thing we're serving is your cronies on a plate…well done." The angered one said and gestured to the hole, and when the smoke cleared showed that the elemental monsters have fallen in battle.
"Fools! Those are but the lowest of my minions." He informed them after an evil laugh. With his focus on his new game plan his first target was able to peel out of the energy that was holding her. "I have had centuries to amass my army. From this world and the next." He added while creating a dome of dark energy.
'Run fast. Run fast. Run fast.' Karai thought as she was running on the brim of the expanding bubble, but was able to reach her four protectors. The dome surrounded them and then exploded.
'Now what?' The five thought as they were looking through the fog, but was able to see tombstones being brought to the surface, and all of them had a bad feeling about those chunks of stones.
"Now, fallen Foot Soldiers, and archfiends of the Ancient Past: rise and serve your master once again." Shredder said to the enchanted earth beneath the heroes' feet. Creatures of various sizes along with zombie warriors rose up, and ready to fight the five before them. "Let the entertainment, begin." He said as the members of his team slowly walked up to the five.
"Yet another unexpected twist - bummer." Leo found himself saying as he saw them slowly be surrounded.
"I will enjoy greatly of letting Inazuma hit them in the tushies." Michelangelo said to the others just off the top of his head.
"Don't be a weird turtle." Donatello found himself saying since his canine friend often said something like that to Blitz.
"Anyway…" The orange one started to speak as he tried to get back on the task at hand, "Next time I wanna go see a monster movie. Remind me = I hate monsters." They nodded in agreement since this seemed a little freakish even to them.
"We must work together to destroy these monstrosities." Karai said to the four as if they were back on good speaking terms.
"Oh, now you're all buddy-buddy, huh?" Raph questioned; insulted that she was speaking to the four as if there was no friction between them.
"For the time being." The daughter said to the turtle to her right.
"Well then, let's get to work." Leo said to them and the four accessed their mystical markings and went off fighting. At first they seemed to be doing good: the creatures weren't all that strong against the fangs of the dragon.
"Hey, maybe we actually got a shot at this." The party animal shouted as he kicked down a few armored zombies. The foe laughed at the minor victory before re-resurrecting the fallen soldiers. "Or maybe…not." Mikey said after he was kicked to a large tombstone by one of the zombie soldiers. Right when two of them were about to hack the teen apart a pair of laser blasts took out both undead soldiers. "Huh?" Mikey exclaimed before looking to where the shots came from.
"Mistress Karai, I'm here." Chaplin said as he and a few soldiers walked into view. "Sorry I took so long , but I had to recalibrate the ionic pulse modulator, and…" The man explained while putting a new canister into his gun, but was interrupted by his employer.
"Never mind all of that. Just do your job." She said while punching down the ghouls that were coming at her. The head of the science wing knew that she knew best and walked the soldiers into how to use their new toys.
"Weapons armed. Ectoplasmic perimeters set. Prepare to fire." He said and at the last part they all aimed at the things that weren't the turtles or Karai.
"What is this feeble little monkey chattering about?" The demon questioned since he was not understanding what this mortal was speaking of.
"I'm talking about giving you a taste of what science can do when applied to magic." Chaplin informed the fiend with his weapon locked on the main man.
"Impudent cub, prepare to be torn limb from limb." Oroku stated as he beckoned graveyard ghouls to attack right in front of them. Sadly they were able to blast away at the creatures.
'Time to try these new grenades.' One soldier thought as he took flight and threw a few projectiles at some on coming sword zombies, and they were gone. Seeing that the area around them was safe their boss rushed over to the builder of her team.
"Weapon." She demanded to the builder. He took the new energy sword off his back and handed to her, but not without some words as well.
"It was just a matter of creating a special chemical elixir that could polarize the arcanian flux of the…" Chaplin said as he handed to her, but she simply strapped it on, pulled the sword from the back, and ran back to her target. "Can I tell you the rest over dinner?" He shouted as she ran off, but decided to focus on the fight.
"Do you think you can mimic true magic with your toys?" The Shredder questioned the girl, who had slain three sword-zombies with ease, before summoning his own sword. They exchanged blows, and seemed even until the female scored a horizontal slash on her opponent's chest.
'So, I can wound him. Good.' Karai thought as she saw the wound in his armor.
"Never forget our time together." The demon said after destroying her sword, and had her held by some of his skeletal minions.
"NO! Don't you touch her." Chaplin ordered and fired a powerful beam at the fiend. The beast turned just in time for his stomach to be blasted through. The sewer dwellers heard the man and saw what happened.
"Whoa. Didn't know a tech head can get that emotional." Raph said before slashing away at a winged fiend. Back to Oroku he was not happy from that surprise attack, but seemed amused because this is how Juto once was around Chikara: quick to blows when the strong woman was in danger.
"You care for her?" He questioned after taking the time to heal the hole in his torso. "Ah, star crossed lovers. Too bad it will end so tragically." He said with a laugh of evil before slashing her.
"Karai!" Chaplin called out as he saw her fallen body. Not wasting anytime Shredder destroyed his sword which made the Foot Soldiers of modern to be flung to the ground. To top it off the minions of the demon came out and went after Karai's followers first.
"The Shredder took out Karai." Raph pointed out, and actually felt bad over what he saw.
"And all her magic based weapon technology." The field leader said as he, and the others, watched as the troops had to dump their gear, or be destroyed themselves.
"Aw man, we're all alone, and here comes big, dark, and scary. There's no way we stand a chance now." Mikey said as he watched as the minions and their boss circled around them.
"You know Mikey, I'm not sure we ever did." Donatello confessed that he believed this was going to be their outcome on this mission.
"Yo, what happened to our plan: get Karai and get out?" Raph shouted to his brothers in anger since he thought on the drive to Foot HQ that that was plan B.
"That's what we're doing. It just got a little complicated is all." Donatello said back to the angered one: creating a cover story for this blunder.
"Come on! Let's do this!" Leo said to his brothers as he accessed his mystic side and fired a beam from Gunshin on their boss. "Center yourselves." He commented as Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael followed his lead.
"Poor, pathetic little nothings." Shredder shouted back as he countered their four in one attack with a chest beam of dark magic. They stumbled on the ground but quickly recovered.
"Come on, guys. Remember what the Ninja Tribunal taught us. This isn't about how much power you command. It's about the strength you have inside. We have to focus." Leo said to them before activating his marks, but this time there was a calmer glow to them.
"Leo's right. Remember our training." Donatello said as he activated his marks as well.
"Well, I didn't read all them books for nothin` I guess." Raphael commented as he too glowed with his markings.
"I didn't even read any of those books." Michelangelo said with fear in his voice as he saw that his brothers were glowing and ready to fight. Leo saw this and decided to put his mind at ease.
"It's okay, Mikey, just focus." The blue turtle instructed to the young one.
"Got it, bro. Focus." The young one said and joined the others with his markings.
"Farewell, cretins." Their foe said as he created a big ball of energy and threw it at the kappa. "What! What trickery is this?" He shouted in alarm after seeing that not only did they survive, but a new golden energy surrounded them.
"Leo, what's goin on? I'm feelin really weird here." The angered one said as he saw the golden energy that surrounded them earlier was now circling around them.
"Just keep focusing." He instructed before putting his hands together and added, "Just like Kon told us…" It was then they recalled what the ninjitsu master of spirit told them.
"Quiet your mind to release your spirit." The man said, but his statement was interrupted by the panicy one.
"Wh-what's happening?" Mikey questioned as he felt something happening to his body.
"Don't ask. Just keep doin it." The second oldest ordered to the young one as he too felt something odd. As the transformation was happening the turtles remembered the rest of his statement:
"If you are of the highest plane - it will manifest into a dragon." Kon said to them, and it was then a blue dragon, red dragon, purple dragon, and an orange dragon were in the sky after a bright flash of white light occurred.
"Dragons?! It's not possible. I will not be defeated again." Shredder said after the four turtles became dragons just as his former friends did. He channeled his might and fired two beams which they met with four. Once the attacks collided a shock-wave shook the battlefield that took out the demon's minions. On the ground the fire was out and the police were doing crowd control.
"There's nothing to see here. Come on, move. There's nothing to-." The officer said before an explosion caused him to look up and he saw four mythical figures. "Whoa. Dispatch, you gotta see this." The officer said on his walkie talkie. Back on the battlefield the fiver were just now getting back on their feet, and were walking to their master.
"No, this is not possible!" The metal herald shouted as he looked up and saw the bringers of their masters destruction the first time - dragons.
"Dragons?" The earth herald questioned; wondering if he was seeing things.
"Four of them? The fire herald questioned and looking by the color of their scales he knew who they were.
"There is no reason to fear these tiny manifestations." The leader of the elemental men ordered to them.
'Let's see what he thinks of this.' The four thought as they fired an all in one beam at him which caused the ground to give way, but only just around them. After see them fall down all those floors the four powered down from their dragon forms after landing around the hole.
"That was AWESOME!" Mikey shouted with joy as he enjoyed the feeling of being in that form.
"What just happened?" The brainy one questioned while rubbing his head. Wondering if all that he felt and saw was just an illusion.
"I don't know, but I liked it." The rude one said as he felt as though he could really tap into his savage nature in that form. As the four were enjoying how it felt to be a dragon a groan interrupted the swords-turtle's thoughts.
"Come on. Let's grab Karai, and go." Leo instructed to the others as he picked up her body bridal style. "It's not too late to save her." He informed them after standing.
"Think our ride knows where's to find us?" The comical one questioned out of curiosity.
"Well, we gave `em a big enough signal flare." The brawler said to the others as he did recall that the sky turned bright yellow as they began the melding process.
"April, ready for pickup." Don said on his shell-cell just to be on the safe side. The lady in question flew in the helicopter that the turtles…liberated from the EPF, and saw the damage that they did to the top of the building.
'At least they left me the helicopter pad.' April thought as she landed the aircraft. Their six foes burst out of the rubble, that came down around them after they hit bottom, and flew up, but once they landed on the roof they saw a flying machine flying away with the five warriors no where to be seen.
"They have escaped. With Karai." The wind warden commented even though he knew that his brothers and master can see that as clearly as he can.
"I'm finished with Karai. I have grander plans than her. This world is very different than the one I once knew, but I will not change to suit it. It will change to suit me. Soon the glory day of my feudal empire will be restored. Soon, this city will be my citadel, and I will change all the world into a dark chaos." Their boss informed them and finished with an evil laugh. Back on the chopper as the four were checking Karai's vitals Casey, Splinter, and Ancient One were looking through the rather large windows on the aircraft.
"Looks like a storm's comin." Jones said as he heard the boom of thunder and the flash of lightning in the sky.
"No, it is already here." The father figure of the team corrected with his head hung in defeat, but he was grateful that his sons were alive.