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Chapter 13:
Enter the dragons, Part 2
"Prepare, all of you. For a slow, agonizing end to your small and worthless lives." Demon Shredder said as he stood on one side of the clearing on horseback staring at the soon to be dead foursome.
"All right, let's not give him an easy target. Spread out and get ready." Leo issued to his brothers to be on the safe side. Just as they were about to do so stopped when they heard a voice coming from behind them.
"Your friends are right with you. Till the very end." The rough collie said in a serious tone as she and the other Acolyte Road Rovers stood ready with the turtles.
"Remember the plan. We have to try and weaken him by separating him from his helmet and gauntlet. It's our only chance." The lead turtle said to the group even though he had a feeling saying their plan aloud probably wasn't the wisest move, but anyone carrying that mantle were not dumb.
"There are no chances left." Their foe said before having the horse charge at them. As the boss with the leader of the demons began the fight with his minions was at it's usual stand still.
"Commandos, hit `em with everything you've got. We don't have to be nice. Remember, these are undead ghouls." Bishop said to his men after arriving back on the battlefield. A couple of the Purple Dragon soldiers were carried off by the flyers, but there was one moment that made the loner smile.
'At least there's one good part of this whole thing.' Nobody thought as he saw Roughington flee from a river demon before tossing a few mystic/tech pellets onto the battlefield.
'Undead, foot soldiers too.' The master fighter thought as he shot down some ninja zombies before leaping up before being overrun. Once he was in the air two flying demons caught him, but one of his men shot down one of the two. His boss not only took care of the other flier but corkscrew spun and blasted through one of the rock beasts. "Commandos, rally to me." He issued after blasting away some zombie samurai.
'We hear and we obey.' The soldiers thought before racing back to him as swiftly as possible. Two of them didn't make it: one was taken by a river demon and the other one was knocked down and almost finished by an undead samurai's mace.
'I think not.' Raptarr thought before taking the archaic weapon, and then used it to smash another one of the stone creatures. Sentry who pulled himself out of his soaring trip and rejoined the battle decided to get back to the fight, but when the white outfitted man got close enough the savior of New York was punched hard by a stone Oni and into a building.
"Sentry, hang on." Nobody said after seeing what just happened and raced over to the fallen building with Metalhead right behind him. The two dug until they found the man they were looking for. "Silver Sentry, what's happening?" The loner questioned after pulling his fellow hero out of the hole.
"We're losing." Silver Sentry answered back before going back to the battle. There was one warrior left in the base of the stronghold, and he was getting back up after being slammed by the main demon.
"Forget this nonsense. Nothing is worth fighting demons." Hun said after coming too. The big man was about to walk away until a glow, coming from behind him caught his eye. "Nothing…except this." He said as he eyed gold and jewels that filled even his darkest desires. "If I'm gonna risk my life I might as well be rewarded for it." The blonde man added with a smirk before collecting his share of the goods around him.
"Mistress? Mistress Karai!" Chaplin called out once he regained conciosness and saw her down and out leader. "Mistress?" He questioned after running over to her lying body and feared the worst. "Thank goodness, you're alright." He said with relief in his voice when she opened her beautiful green eyes and looked up at him. "Let me help you." He offered and began to pull her back to her feet.
"Help me." The brain of Baxter said as he tried to get back on his treads, but was failing.
"Stockman." Bishop, who just walked into the blown room, said after kicking the mechanical body which caused the man's hologram face to reappear. "On your feet. There's work to do." He issued before seeing the two Foot Warriors at the far end of the room.
"Why can't I be left alone to expire in peace." Baxter said while using one of his arms to send him back to his treads. His latest employer ignored his whining and focused on their current problem.
"Karai, your alive. Now, if you haven't noticed: we're losing. You've got to use your link with the Shredder and continue your assault." He issued to the fighter and liked that fire in her eyes; it told him that she wasn't finished yet.
"Stand back." She issued to the three after freeing her right arm from her friend, sat down in Indian style and began to concentrate.
"You two: protect her. I need to see if we have any other forces left." The ageless one said before racing out of the building to see about their battlefield.
"Dr. Stockman, this is so great. You and I are a team again. Isn't it just so awesome?" Chaplin said to his idol. The young man believed since the head hancho wasn't around, and it didn't seem any demons were after them this gave him the time to geek out about this alliance.
"Thrilling beyond words." He answered back in a dry tone before adding under a whisper, "This day couldn't possibly get any worse." The older scientist remembered the movie bit of that line, but prayed it couldn't happen in reality. Back with the dogs and the turtles they were getting ready for the horseman.
"Here he comes." Leo warned the others as the trident wielder came at them. "Everyone focus." He called out before activating his marks just as the others did as well.
"Run, but you can't hide." The evil human said to them after his first lunge toward the red turtle failed.
"Yeah, bring it on." The fighter said since there was a part of him that was going to have fun in this fight. He then lunged at the opponent, but was fended off by the staff part of the trident.
'Now, while he's distracted.' Colleen thought as she leapt forward only to be slammed by Raphael's shell since Shredder tossed him aside with ease. Blitz charged at him, but was denied Tennis-like backhand with the three pronged weapon.
'He's mine.' The fourth of the brothers thought as he leapt with Inazuma in hand, but the Shredder used his mystic might to stop the fighter, slam him on the ground, and slid him toward a tree.
'I got him.' Donatello thought as he leapt in the path as a means to stop him, but ended up being slammed into the tree as well.
"Rush him all at once. Now." The swords-turtle said to the remaining members of their forces. He, Exile, and Hunter all leapt up, but the demon stopped them by channeling his power into his trident, and had his magic stop all of them.
"Ah, the Mystical fang of the dragon. Children should not be allowed to play with such powerful toys. The consequences could be…deadly." Oroku said as he grasped Gunshin, and channeled his power into the sword and sent more pain to the turtle and the Siberian Husky.
"My sons." Splinter, who landed in a different section of the forest, said once he saw a bright green light, and when he turned to face the direction of the flash the rodent saw smoke. "Oh no." He said as the sensei saw the four canine Acolytes out cold, but to make sure the rodent checked their pulse on their necks. To his relief they were all still with them, but his heart sank again once he saw his worst fear come to life. "It cannot be! Not my sons! Not my sons!" He called out, and when he checked their pulse: he felt nothing. "No, my nightmare has come true. My children, they have all been…THIS CANNOT BE!" He cried out and sank to his knees.
'I better do something to help him.' A person behind him thought and placed his hand on the rodent's shoulder.
"Ancient One." Splinter said as he saw the elderly human behind him. All of a sudden the mortal in question screamed in severe pain, and then fell over: dead. "No! Not you too." He said to the next fallen one.
"And your next." The former human said to the mammal once the rat was looking right at him with fear stricken eyes. "Now, it is your turn to perish, nesumi." The creature said before charging. With his belief that his children and oldest friend have left him Splinter stood his ground, but the avatar's within the turtle's would not allow that, so they called forth an old friend.
"Master Yoshi?" Splinter questioned as a man that looked like his fallen master appeared before him with a golden glow surrounding him. The man positioned himself in between the two warriors and faced a foe he recognized.
'This creature doesn't fight with honor either.' Yoshi thought about the charging man before grabbing the trident, threw him off his horse(which the horse slammed into some trees), and finished by slamming this familiar creature to the ground.
"I do not know who you are, but know this you shall suffer greatly by my-." The demon started to say, but was interrupted by the warrior, who was now floating in the air, as he sliced a good chunk on the beast's chest.
'My work here is done.' Yoshi thought as he returned to the spirit plane he returned the four avatars that gave him this opportunity to their proper handlers.
"My sons." Splinter said as he walked over to the now rising foursome happy that they were with him.
"This changes nothing." The wounded warrior said as he walked over to them; ignoring the huge crack in his armor.
"He is re-concentrating his powers." Splinter informed as the madman was healing himself by reabsorbing all the energy in New York. Back on the battlefield Bishop and his commandos were fending off the low ranked creatures from entering the stronghold.
"Hold the line, men. Hold the line." Their boss said as they were all shooting the creatures down as best as they could. "What is happening? Why are they retreating?" The marksman said as all the Shredder's forces were all disappearing.
'What's going on here?' The Purple Dragons, Nano, Tsunami, and others were thinking as they all saw the creatures leaving the battlefield. In another part Muzzle was still bashing while Shag was hiding behind the mad dog until…
'Huh? Where are they going? I was just starting to have fun.' The Road Rover prototype thought as he watched the creatures vanish in green/black flames.
"Are they gone?" The scardey-dog whimpered before peeping through his fingers and saw that the coast was clear. Even the landscape was starting to go back to its modern form which concerned the three in the wrecked building.
"What's happening?!" Baxter exclaimed in alarm since he did not like where this was going.
"The tengu Shredder is pulling his energy back into himself." Karai informed the misunderstood doctor since she could feel the wound in the beast's chest begin to seal.
"Aw crud." Hun said after seeing the area around him, along with the loot in his arms, begin to disappear. Back on the turtle's battlefield they were watching as round 2 was about to begin.
"Everything's changing back. Do you think? Do you think it's over?" Donatello questioned after he and the others watched the demon pull his energy back and the egghead was praying their opponent would simply self destruct, but instead…
"Not by a long shot." Leonardo said as he, and the guys watched as this Shredder transformed into a dragon.
"Now, my sons, reach deep within yourselves manifest your avatars and fight." Their father figure said to them, and they knew he was right - the fangs weren't going to cut it with him in that form.
"We can do this. Remember what the Tribunal said we have to work together." The eldest said before they all began to concentrate, and in a bright yellow light they became one with their dragon forms.
'I will not be stopped by dragons again.' Shredder thought before roaring in defiance to the four before him. He took a stand on a building and created a firewall around himself. Donatello and Michelangelo fired at him but orange was wing smacked away and purple was smacked by the back of the other wing.
'My turn.' The blue dragon thought before channeling his might and fired a massive blue blast that sent the fiend through three buildings and ended in a crater in the streets.
'This punk's mine.' Raphael thought in anger, and charged at the dark dragon with full force. He was sadly backhanded so bad that the battle crazy brother slammed into a boat that was sitting in the dock.
'Okay, let's try that again.' Donatello and Michelangelo thought as they got up close to him, but the tengu sent them away with a dark flamethrower.
'Guys!' The eldest thought as he watched them fly through a few building in two different directions. Sensing another blast behind him the swords-turtle flew up before the attack could reach him.
'You won't escape.' The original Shredder thought as he flew up and gave the turtle gone dragon a twin flame attack. As the blue one tried to weather the attack Karai felt something as she continued to meditate.
"I feel it. I have linked with the Shredder's energy, and now he'll pay." The woman said aloud as she could now truly feel the link, and began to drain him as a way of getting him back for defeating her in combat.
'This feeling. Karai is still alive.' Shredder thought; seasing his attack as he felt his energy leaving him again. Blue saw this as his chance, so with all his might the dragon charged the creature through a few buildings.
'These cretins can wait. I must destroy Karai.' The evil one thought as he flew away and left a defenseless hero alone in the process. Back at the home the two men continued to watch over her as the newest Shredder did her thing.
"OH!" Stockman shouted at the three horned dragon came down, and held him in his mouth. "I guess this day could get worse." He admitted since this seemed worse than being with his fan.
"Dr. Stockman." The young scientist said and fired two shells before being slammed into a wall. Once that was done the dragon closed his mouth, but Baxter's mind survived.
'Now with them gone. You are mine.' Shredder thought after dealing with the young woman's defense with ease, but just as he was about to eat her a red tail and a purple tail stopped him before pulling him up - away from their ally.
'Got him.' The orange dragon thought as he air-tackled the beast to the ground. 'Wow, so it's still working.' The young one thought as he saw the Shredder's energy leaving him again. The drain was so great that he reverted back to human form.
'That won't save you.' Leo thought as he tackled the human sized threat, and carried him on his talons until coming to the red one.
'My turn.' The angered one thought as he baseball swung his tail once their foe was close enough. He slammed into a wall, but was still willing to fight until he looked at his left arm and saw that his forearm was bare.
'Where is it?' The demon thought before seeing the item in the distace, but the orange one picked it up and crushed it in his mouth.
'Your next.' The youngest dragon thought before charging at their enemy, but the charge was only a means to grab the armored one and throw him to a different spot of the clearing; doing this also removed his helmet.
"You're done, Shredder." The lead dragon roared to the demon after stomping the helmet into non existence. This angered the former human so much that he charged at the leader, but purple, who was high above the field of battle, slammed the weakened warrior with a belly flop of sorts.
'Time for him again.' The four thought and began to focus on Guardian Prime to deliver the final blow even though it destroyed their amulets in the process. Their efforts succeeded and Hamato Yoshi was back on the field, but this time with a sword of his own.
"I will fight you. To my very last breath." The man formerly known as Oroku Saki said as he pointed to the reappeared man, but the warrior was not bothered at all by the threat.
"This demon is your very last breath." The swordsman said back before swiftly slicing the fiend in half. 'They are all fine warriors.' Yoshi thought as he looked at the four that beckoned him to the physical plane.
"Master Yoshi?" A voice called out causing the man in question to turn about. The man smiled at his former pet, gently placed his hand on the sensei's back, and faded away in blue flames. Once he was gone the four were conscious, and stunned over what just happened.
"Wow, that was beyond amazing. We totally kicked shell bros." Michelangelo said with a big grin before his brothers were also expressing their joy over what just happened. With the fight done their foes resumed their usual motives - esspessily Bishop.
"Come along, Dr. Stockman, that brain of yours is still intact and I'm not finished with you yet." The soldier said to the brain that was being carried by two of his commandos.
"It seems the pain will never end." Baxter said as he saw himself be brought aboard one of their choppers. Once inside the Earth Protection Force flew away, and those on the ground were welcomed to another sight in the sky.
"Well, it looks like you did it. You turtles saved the world, and I thought that was our job." Silver Sentry said to the seven warriors before him.
"We all did it - together." The eldest son said to the superhero who saluted as a response to the comment, and flew away. The next to arrive were the Road Rovers complete with Muzzle, back on his dolly, and Shag.
"Man, am I glad you guys made it." Raphael said once the canines were close enough.
"You better be, Raphy. You blokes owe us." Colleen said as she and Blitz were carrying Exile over to the rest of their group. The team seemed happy over how this had all came out, but that was when a voice interrupted the good vibes of the group.
"You have all done well. We are very proud of our Acolytes. You have done great things." The voice sounded like Kon-Shisho, and the eleven had their doubts until they turned and saw the Masters of strength, speed, spirit, and weapon walk right up to them.
"HELLO! Where'd you guys come from?" The slacker questioned as he gave the four an accusing finger for arriving late to the fun.
"Didn't we see you get destroyed?" The brainy one questioned even though as he recalled they only assumed the worst - since he and the others were forced to flea, and leave them alone.
"Have you soon forgotten you first lesson?" The master of weapon questioned to the warriors before them. Not waiting for an answer one of the four answered for them:
"Perception is not always truth. All you think you know…" The master of spirit spoke before letting another continue.
"About this world. About yourselves. Even about reality itself." The master of strength continued to where her friend left off, and this time their most promising student finished it:
"All this and more will be challenged." Leo said, and knew that he remembered that speech correctly.
"In deed." Kon said back before summoning Ancient One before them.
"Feh! My back is killing me." The summoned one said before adding, "Huh?" It was then he saw his four masters - alive and well. "Ah, honored ones, I felt you were near." The human confessed to the entire group which angered the second oldest.
"If you were so near why didn't you jump in when we were getting our shells kicked?" The sai handler questioned with an edge in his voice.
"We knew that the karmic wheel of fate had to turn unhindered by our interference. We were forced to let events unfold as they should." Kon said to them before his green clothed friend continued:
"Yoshi's demise was a part of that." Chikara said and the fellow female fighters could hear a form of sadness in her tone, but didn't speak of it.
"As was his coming here to New York as a guardian of the Utroms for without that - you, Splinter, would not exist." The silver haired man informed the mammal of that fact.
"Nor would your sons." Juto said as the four in question along with the Road Rovers gathered behind him.
"What will the Tribunal do now?" The rodent questioned since their main objective - watch over the three artifacts has been taken care of.
"It is time for us to move on." The female of the four said after she and the others flew into the sky and levitated there.
"We would be honored, young one, if you would join us on the Tribunal?" The master of spirit offered to the round one below them.
"The honor would be all mine." The man in question said before turning to give his old friend his final farewell. "Splinter, you are family. I will miss you." He confessed to the mutated mammal.
"And I you, old friend." Splinter said after kneeling before the newest member of the Ninja Tribunal.
"And I trust you four will stay out of trouble." The father to Hamato Yoshi said while pointing to the four green skinned teens.
"Hey, it's us - we hate trouble." The chucker said with a smile as he rubbed his round melon out of embarrassment.
"Of course you do. Feh!" The new member of the dragon answered back before he and the others floated into the sky, and out of sight. With them gone the group on the ground were clueless on what to do next.
"What now, oh mistress?" Chaplin questioned after all of their forces have left them. She took his hand, and spoke.
"It is a new day, Dr. Chaplin, let us see what it brings." She said as the both of them walked hand in hand into the sun risen city. The eleven others followed their lead and walked too.
"So…who's hungry?" The goofball of the turtles questioned once all were ahead of him, but his question was heard by one.
"Michelangelo, my sons, what ever you would like - it is on me." The father said with a good natured laugh at the beginning. "All of you, come, let us celebrate. Together." Splinter added since he would like the company of the canine's as well. With nothing else to say the last of the heroes walked over to the turtle's home for a well deserved Breakfast.