A/N: I've had to change the title of this one due to Elisa and Cath's involvement.
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15 years ago, in Japan, the Turtles at age 3, all lay in the Ancient One's temple, resting their heads on pillows. While Mikey lay awake, his siblings were all asleep, with Leo snoring.
Mikey: My siblings are always making fun of me 'cause I'm still scared of the dark.
Mikey looks around worriedly while holding a blanket, laying on his left side. Leo sleeps on his chest, Donnie his shell - with a thumb in his mouth - Elisa on right side, Raph his left, Cath her shell.
I can't help it!
A bright light pops up near Mikey.
Sometimes I think I see real spooky stuff at night...
He looks at a wall, as a red portal hole opens up.
...like the Boogieman or monsters or scary skeleton-faced ghost men!
A ghostly phantom comes out of the wall.
But I'm pretty sure that tonight...
"AH!" Mikey screams, sitting up.
"Ah!" Donnie gasps, waking up.
"What?" Cath mutters, waking up.
Raph, Elisa and Leo all wake up and look at the ghost.
...my siblings are just as scared as me!
They all gather together in the middle of the room, as the ghost comes towards them, all whimpering nervously.
And whatever that red, bat-winged, floating nasty thing is...
The ghost growls, as the Turtles hold each other in pairs, Leo and Raph, Cath and Elisa, Donnie and Mikey.
...it's so not helping my fear of the dark.
The ghost comes closer to the Turtles and roars, scaring them.
Above the city, clouds formed in the sky, some covering the Moon, as thunder roared in them, before lighting began to go off from some.
In April's apartment, Leo, Raph and Elisa were both watching from a window each, while Splinter and the Ancient One were mediating on a mat each. Mikey sat near them, looking bored as he rested his head on his hand, while April sat on the couch where Karai lay, as Cath and Donnie stood near them.
"The Shredder really beat the shell outta Karai." Donnie said.
Cath sighed and looked at her, as she had plasters on her forehead and right cheek, while her legs and arms were all bandaged up.
"I know what you mean." she said, as she'd patched her up. "He's defiantly more evil than her father was."
"Well, d-do you know if she'll make it, sis?" Donnie asked.
"It's hard to say right now." Cath sighed.
"She's right, all we can do is wait, and prepare for the battle to come." the Ancient One said.
Splinter nodded as Leo turned to them all.
"Masters, we don't seem to stand a chance against this Mystic Shredder." he said, approaching them, before he crouched down. "You should have seen him. It's impossible."
"Leo's right." Elisa agreed. "We barely managed to stop him back there so we could escape."
"My children, you six have faced impossible odds in the past, and like David facing Goliath, you overcame the challenge." Splinter explained. "Ancient One, do you remember when I brought them all to your home in Japan years and years ago?"
"Heh, eh." the Ancient One laughed. "How could I forget? They were such a pain."
"Years and years ago?" Mikey questioned, turning around confused.
"What are you talking about, Sensei?" Donnie asked, turning around.
"Yeah. Can you tell us please?" Cath asked.
"Long ago, just after my beloved Yoshi's passing away..." Splinter began.
(Flashback)
15 years ago, a huge cargo ship moves away from New York Harbor.
Splinter:...I took you all on a journey to Japan.
Inside, the six young Turtles were all playing around in a room, all without their masks - as it was before they got them. Leo and Donnie both played in a box filled with hay, as Mikey drew a picture with a crayon, while Raph came over, while Elisa chased Cath around the room.
"I'm gonna get you." Elisa teased.
"Catch me if you can, sis?" Cath teased.
They both laughed, before Raph bent down near Mikey and began to fight with him over the crayon.
"Ah!" they grunted.
Raph pulled the crayon out of Mikey's hands, before he banged his shell against a crate.
"Uh!" he grunted. "Nah, ha, ha, ha-ha."
He held up the crayon and snapped if in half, making Mikey cry and put his hands over his eyes. Donnie laughed as he rose up from the crate and lay down on top of the hay, before Leo rose up beside him.
"Whee!" he said.
Donnie began to make hay angels in the hay, as Elisa and Cath both came over to Raph and Mikey respectfully.
"What's wrong, bro?" Cath asked.
"He snapped my crayon!" Mikey cried.
Elisa slapped Raph's arm as he looked at her.
"Ow!" he yelped.
"That was just mean, bro!" Elisa scowled. "He didn't do anything to you!"
Raph glared at her, when Splinter came into the room.
"Shush!" he hissed, his finger to his lips.
Mikey stopped crying as Leo and Donnie stopped laughing, while all six Turtles turned to their father. He began moving his right hand up and down as he heard a noise, before he hid behind a container. Leo and Donnie ducked under the hay, as Mikey picked up his drawing and hid with Cath behind the crate, as Raph and Elisa hid behind another one. A man walked by on the other side of a fence, looking around with a flashlight, before he walked off.
Leo and Donnie got up from the hay as their siblings got up to their feet.
Splinter: You see, with great difficultly...
They all turned as Splinter came out of his hiding spot, with a urn full of ashes.
...I had procured Master Yoshi's ashes, and I was...
He turned and sat down, putting the urn in front of him.
...determined to honor his wish, that he be buried in the land of his birth, and near the home of his Sensei and adoptive father, th Ancient One.
He touched the urn as his children all looked at him.
Another day, the ship reached Japan and headed for a harbor dock.
It took all of my skills as a ninja to keep us from detection, but we made it.
Later, in the Ancient One's garden, the Ancient One - wearing his current outfit, but still bore his old moustache - was standing near a clothes horse full with his laundry and a bucket. He put a blanket into it, then took another from the clothes horse and put it in the bucket as he hummed, then he grabbed another and did the same. When he grabbed another however, he saw Splinter and the Turtles standing on the other side - Splinter holding the urn. (Cath was on Donnie's right, while Elisa was on Leo's left)
"AH!" he yelped, backing away slightly.
"Ancient One, is it a great honor to-" Splinter began, bowing his head.
"Bah! Be gone, Nezumi, I have no time today for a rat monster's mischief." the Ancient One said harshly.
He turned around and began folding up the blanket near the basket.
"Wise one, please, I know I must look strange. I am Splinter." Splinter explained, as Raph and Mikey grabbed his sides worriedly.
"Splinter?" the Ancient One questioned, shocked.
The Turtles all ran off to play - expect Mikey - as the Ancient One turned around.
"Splinter? You are the rat Yoshi and Tang Shen kept as a pet? How?" he asked, approaching the edge of the clothes horse.
"It is a long and strange tale." Splinter assured. "I have gone through changes since Master Yoshi..."
His children - expect Mikey - all ran around him and Mikey, chasing each other playfully - Elisa being between Leo and Donnie, while Cath was behind Raph.
"...since he..." Splinter said, unable to find the words.
"Since Yoshi what? How is my Yoshi?" the Ancient One asked desperately.
"I am sorry. He has been slain." Splinter explained sadly.
The Ancient One gasped.
"His life was taken by the Shredder." Splinter explained.
"No! This cannot be!" the Ancient One cried, turning away.
He walked away and fell to his knees near some rocks.
"No. No!" he cried, clutching some grass.
He turned around to Splinter.
"This tragedy would not be if Yoshi had heeded my wishes, stayed in Japan, and joined the Ninja Tribunal." he said, putting his right forefinger on his left hand repeatedly.
"As I remember, the Ninja Tribunal is to blame." Splinter recalled. "They were asked to fight the Utrom Shredder and did nothing. Perhaps Yoshi would be alive today if the Tribunal had not been so dismissive."
Raph came over and ran past Mikey.
"Tag, you're it." he said, tapping Mikey's shoulder.
"No way, Raph." Mikey said, as he started chasing his siblings.
They all laughed as they ran past a pond with rocks in.
Unknown to them, a ghostly skeletal figure called the Bone Demon popped up behind a bush near the entrance, who wore an amulet around his neck.
"Can't catch me?" Raph said.
"Whoa!" Donnie said.
"You can't catch us, bro." Cath teased.
They all laughed as the Bone Demon moved to the other side of the entrance, which Raph ran towards.
"Huh?" he muttered, skidding to a stop.
"AH!" Donnie mocked.
"I'm gonna win this race." Mikey said, as they started racing each other.
"Not if I can help it." Elisa teased.
"Ah..." Raph said, seeing the Bone Demon's hand.
"Ha! Eat my dust." Mikey mocked. "Last one there's a rotten..."
Raph held up his hands as they all came towards him.
"Hey, guys. Time out?" he said.
He began to approach the Bone Demon, as his siblings looked amongst each other. (Elisa and Cath were both on Leo's left)
"What's up, Raph?" Elisa asked.
"Look, there's a man in the bushes over there." Raph explained, as he stopped.
"What do you think he's doing?" Mikey wondered.
"Maybe he's lost or something." Donnie suggested.
"Well, I hope he's friendly." Cath gulped nervously.
"Hey, Mr.!" Raph called.
The Bone Demon moved away into the shadows, pulling his hand away as he did. Donnie shrugged as Leo and Cath turned to him, as the others kept their eyes on Bone Demon's hand, before he popped out from behind the wall and growled.
"AHHH!" the Turtles screamed, all but Raph hugging each other tight.
The Bone Demon growled again as they all turned around and ran towards Splinter and the Ancient One.
"G-G-G-Ghost!" Cath cried.
"It's the boogieman!" Mikey cried.
Raph stopped in front of Splinter and pointed to his left.
"There's a ghost!" he cried.
"Come quick!" Leo cried.
"He's a skeleton!" Donnie cried.
"He's scary!" Elisa cried.
Splinter crouched down as they all stood near him.
"Quiet, please?" he asked. "One at a time?"
"Master Splinter, there's a scary man in that bush." Leo explained.
He pointed at it as he turned around, along with the others.
"He's a ghost!" Cath panicked. "Really scary."
Splinter put the urn down and walked over to the bush, as his children stared at him. Once at the bush, he pulled it open, but saw nothing, so he closed it up and turned around.
"I see nothing here." he said.
"But he was right there." Mikey swore, as Splinter approached them and the Ancient One.
"I am sorry." he told the Ancient One, wrapping his arms around his children. "They have had a long journey."
The Ancient One turned to the urn.
"As have you, and I truly appreciate your having come all this way on my behalf." he said, before he approached the Mutants. "Splinter-san, we both loved Yoshi very much. Let us pay our last respects and lay him to rest next to the woman he loved."
The Bone Demon looked down on them from the branches of a tree, before they all turned and walked off with the urn.
At sunset, Splinter and the Ancient One stood before the grave of Tang Shin, with the Turtles all standing behind them.
That night, in the Ancient One's temple, the six Turtles were all lying together in the same room together, that was lit by candles, resting their heads on blankets. Mikey and Raph lay on their left side, Leo lay on his chest, Elisa her right shell, Donnie and Cath on their shells. All but Mikey lay asleep, who looked around nervously, as he was scared, before he saw a red light coming from the wall he faced. (Elisa lay between Leo and Raph, while Cath lay between Donnie and Mikey)
"Uh..." he stuttered, sitting up.
He turned and held up his hand as his siblings all woke up, then he pointed at the wall.
"Huh?" Donnie and Cath muttered.
They all looked at the light, when the Bone Demon came out of it.
"Uh..." they all whimpered.
They all slowly moved towards each other, looking terrified, all hugging each other.
"Uh..." they whimpered.
"Silence, kame." the Bone Demon said, his finger near his mouth. "If your scream, I will eat your souls."
He wiggled his left fingers as the Turtles all cried, before the elder three and younger three all turned to each other.
"AHHH!" they screamed.
They all ran off, Leo and Raph breaking a hole each through a slide door, followed by the girls, then Mikey and Donnie.
"Run for it!" Raph screamed.
"Father, where are you?!" Cath cried.
"Sensei, help?!" Elisa cried.
Downstairs, Splinter was mediating when he heard them scream.
"Huh?" he muttered, turning around to a set of stairs.
"Ah, this way!" Mikey screamed.
Splinter got up as his children all ran down the stairs.
"Children..." he said.
Leo and Donnie both hugged him, followed by Elisa and Cath.
"Splinter..." Raph cried, joining them.
"It is alright." Splinter assured, as Mikey joined them. "Shh. Alright, little ones. It is all right now."
He looked up as the Ancient One came in.
"My apologies, Ancient One. They are not used to sleeping alone just yet." he explained Come along, children."
The Turtles all pulled apart, then turned and slowly walked up the stairs.
"I will stay with you." Splinter promised, before he followed them.
"Heh. Kids." the Ancient One said, scratching his head.
He turned around and walked off.
The next morning, at sunrise, the Turtles and Splinter all stood in the courtyard of the Ancient One's home, all following him as was walking off towards the gate.
"Bye, Ancient One." Leo said.
"Don't forget to write!" Mikey called.
The Ancient One opened the gate and left his home grounds.
"What are you talking about? You can't even read yet." Raph reminded Mikey.
"Oh, yeah." Mikey said, as the Turtles and Splinter walked through the gateway.
The Ancient One turned right and walked off down the road.
"Well, my friends, I suppose this is it." he said.
He turned around to Splinter, then they bowed to each other with their hands together.
"Safe journey, Splinter-san." the Ancient One wished.
"Until we meet again, Ancient One." Splinter said, as they raised their heads up.
The Ancient One turned around and walked along the path, as Splinter turned his children and walked in the opposite direction. They all kept on walking, when Donnie - who was in the rear - turned around and saw the Bone Demon following the Ancient One.
"Huh? Guys, look!" he panicked, pointing at him.
Splinter and the others all turned around, Splinter not seeing the Bone Demon.
"There it is again!" Donnie freaked.
"It's the ghost." Raph said.
"And he's following the Ancient One!" Elisa panicked.
"What are you doing on about?" Splinter asked.
"Master Splinter, we see a ghost." Leo explained, getting his attention. "We really do!"
"He's like, right there." Raph said.
"Master Splinter, can't you see him? He's right there." Mikey said.
"He could be trying to hurt the Ancient One!" Cath freaked.
"I see nothing, my children." Splinter said, before he sniffed the air. "But there is a dark scent in the air. Come, let us see that no harm befalls the Ancient One."
The Turtles all turned around, before the family all began to follow the Ancient One.
Later, the Ancient One was walking along the bridge that led to the Ninja Tribunal's Monastery, unaware the Bone Demon was following him. They both stopped by the door, before the Ancient One put his hands together, before opening them apart, then the door opened. He walked into the grounds of the Monastery, as the Bone Demon followed, who soon stopped by a wall and stared at him. He watched as a door opened up, which the Ancient One then walked through, before the door closed.
The Bone Demon turned and walked off, before he stopped and crouched down, touching his amulet as it glowed.
"Dark Masters." he said.
Spiritual images of the Foot Mystics popped up around him, wearing their Mystic Ninja forms.
"The Ancient One has finally led me to the Ninja Tribunal Monastery." he explained.
"Excellent." Fire said. "The amulet we have granted you will cloak your presence there."
"You will remain invisible to all who encounter you." Water explained.
"Masters, the six kame children resisted the amulet's spell." the Bone Demon explained. "They were able to see me. What if—"
Wind cast a gust of wind, which made him turn away.
"Ah!" he yelped.
"You need not concern yourself with children." Wind said, stopping his wind. "They are powerless."
"Find the Pool of Sorrow. Part its waters with the amulets energy." Water instructed.
"Beneath it lie the Master's gauntlet, helmet, and sarcophagus." Earth explained.
"Use them to fulfil your only purpose for existence; resurrect the one true Shredder." Metal said.
"Yes, raise our Master from his long sleep so that he may once again rule in limitless power, over all the world." Wind declared.
Meanwhile, the Ancient One sat in the Oratory, in front of the fountain, where the Ninja Tribunal all sat upon their thrones - out of their Shredder armor. He took his hat off as he looked up at the Tribunal.
"We did not send for you. Why are you here, young one?" Chikara asked.
"My Masters, I bring grievous news." the Ancient One began. "My adopted son, Hamato Yoshi, has been slain by the by the alien bug falsely bearing the mantle of the Shredder."
"We know." Kon said.
"You...know?" the Ancient One questioned, confused.
"It is as it must be." Juto said.
"If I may, Masters-" the Ancient One began.
"Do you question our judgment?" Chikara asked coldly.
"Ah...no. Never." the Ancient One assured.
"All is as it must be." Juto said.
"If there is nothing of consequence you wish to share, leave us. We have no need of you." Chikara said harshly.
The Ancient One lowered his head and closed his eyes, before he got up. He turned around and began walking towards the door, before he stopped and turned to the Ninja Tribunal, hurt by their words. He turned back and approached the door, but before he could open it, it opened up, and the six Turtle tots fell in.
"AH!" they yelped.
They fell onto their chests as Splinter stared at them, while the Ancient One looked confused.
"Huh?" he muttered.
The Turtles all laughed nervously.
"What are you doing here?" the Ancient One asked.
"The children have seen a phantom stalking you." Splinter explained. "The same ghost they encountered at your home. We followed to see that you came to no harm."
Raph turned around, then pointed at the Bone Demon, which crossed the courtyard.
"Ahh! There he goes now." Raph said.
Everyone turned around, but Splinter and the Ancient One couldn't see him.
"I see nothing." the Ancient One said.
"Nor do I, but there is a presence in the air." Splinter reasoned, as the Turtles got up. "Something is not right."
"He's heading for that house right there." Raph explained, pointing forward.
"The Pool of Sorrow! The Artifacts! Curse me for a donkey's bottom!" the Ancient One gasped.
"What?" Splinter asked, confused.
"Huh?" Cath muttered, confused.
"Come, we must make haste. Hurry!" the Ancient One said, walking off, putting his hat back on.
The Turtles and splinter all slowly followed.
"I wonder what that ghost wants?" Elisa asked nervously.
"I have no idea, but I have a feeling it's not good." Cath shuddered.
A little later, in a room which had the Pool of Sorrow, which had a dragon statue on each wall, with water falling from the eyes like waterfalls towards it, the Bone Demon entered it via stairs from one of the statues. He held up his amulet as he moved towards the pool, which then glowed as he held it up.
"Ah..." he said.
A beam shot from the amulet and hit the pool, which agitated it, before it split in half, showing a secret set of stairs. The beam on his amulet vanished as he walked down the stairs, which led to a chamber. Once in the chamber, he saw the Demon Shredder's helmet, gauntlet and sarcophagus, stopping as his eyes widened.
"Ah...the Artifacts. At long last, I can fulfil my mission and resurrect the Shredder." he said.
He approached gauntlet, just as the Ancient One, Splinter and the Turtles all showed up.
"There he is!" Leo panicked.
The Bone Demon turned around to them all.
"He's right by that sharp glove." Donnie whimpered.
"I think he's gonna pick it up!" Elisa panicked.
"The gauntlet?" the Ancient One questioned. "I still see nothing?"
"But his bony butt is right there." Raph insisted.
Donnie held onto Splinter's Kimono as the Turtles all whimpered.
"Uh...uh..." they said.
"You will pay for your interference, little kame." the Bone Demon swore.
His amulet glowed bright, which shot a beam which wrapped around its body.
"What's...what's he doing?!" Cath panicked, shivering with fear.
Wings came out of the Bone Demon's back as his body got longer, before he grew two extra heads.
"Uh..." the Turtle boys whimpered.
"AH!" the girls screamed, hugging each other tight.
The Bone Demon roared, causing the room to start shaking, as small rocks fell from the ceiling.
"Look out!" Mikey screamed.
"But we see nothing, my children." Splinter said, as the Ancient One looked around.
The Bone Demon extended its two extra heads out, one of which then bit and grabbed Splinter by the shoulders.
"Uh!" Splinter grunted.
"No!" Raph gasped.
Splinter got pulled away from his children, causing Raph, Mikey and Leo to fall to their knees.
"Sensei!" Leo and Raph cried.
"Father!" Cath cried.
"NOOO!" Elisa cried.
"Master Splinter, no!" Donnie cried.
The second extended head grabbed the Ancient One and pulled him away.
"Ah!" he moaned.
The Bone Demon held them both up by his extended heads, as the Turtles all watched and cried in horror.
"He's got them both!" Donnie panicked, pointing at him.
The Bone Demon had his extended heads on Splinter and the Ancient One's chests, biting them tight.
"I warned you, meddlesome brats. Watch as your masters perish!" the Bone Demon hissed.
He laughed as he held up Splinter and the Ancient One, as the Turtles all cried.
"Master!" Donnie cried.
"NOOO!" Cath cried.
"No, no!" Mikey cried.
"No!" Leo cried. "Don't hurt him?!"
"Please, let them go?!" Elisa cried.
The Bone Demon laughed as he shook his secondary heads, moving Splinter and the Ancient One up and down.
"Ah!" the Turtles gasped.
"Their suffering will be great." the Bone Demon hissed, slamming Splinter and the Ancient One to the floor.
"OH!" Splinter moaned.
"Ugh!" the Ancient One moaned.
"But I promise, yours will be worse." the Bone Demon promised, as the Turtles cried.
"NO!" Leo cried.
He frowned with anger, before he picked up a rock from the floor.
"Leo, what are you doing?" Cath asked.
Leo answered her by throwing the rock at the Bone Demon, hitting his normal head right between the eyes.
"AH!" he gritted. "You dare?"
All the Turtles picked up a rock each.
"Cut it out!" Donnie demanded, throwing his.
"Leave them alone!" Leo demanded, throwing his.
"Put them down, you big bully!" Elisa roared, throwing hers.
"Get away!" Mikey yelled, throwing his.
"Let them go!" Cath demanded, throwing hers.
"Stop it, you boneheaded freak!" Raph demanded, throwing his.
They all threw more rocks as the Bone Demon, who raised his head up at laughed. Donnie picked up a bigger rock from the floor as his siblings kept throwing smaller ones at the Bone Demon. He grunted as he raised the rock up, as his siblings all searched for more, before he threw it at the Bone Demon. It hit the amulet and cracked it, making it glow bright as they all watched.
"What?" the Bone Demon gasped, looking at it.
Splinter and the Ancient One - both free from his extra heads - got up and looked at the light, as a beam hit a wall, creating a large hole on it, before the Bone Demon became visible to them.
"Well, looky what I see. Hey, nice shot, little kame." the Ancient One remarked, turning to the Turtles.
Donnie rubbed the back of his head, blushing with embarrassment.
"He's right. Nice throw, Don." Cath teased, elbowing him playfully.
The Ancient One approached the Bone Demon.
"Now that the playing field has been leveled, phantom, let us see just how scary you really are." he said, looking up.
He cracked his knuckles out, then jumped up as the Bone Demon moved its extra heads down to grab him. He spun around in mid-air as he dived down, kicking the Bone Demon repeatedly, knocking him down.
Splinter jumped up and sliced the Bone Demon's left wing off with his stick.
"AHH!" the Bone Demon cried, getting up.
He sent one of his spare heads at Splinter, who turned around and blocked its mouth with his stick.
"OH!" he yelped, as the Bone Demon pulled him up.
Splinter got swung around as he moved his body, before the head detached itself from the body.
"OH!" Splinter yelped.
He and the head landed on the floor, then he tried to pull his stick from the mouth, but he couldn't. He then slammed the head into the floor, then pulled his stick free and slashed the head with it, smashing it to pieces.
The Ancient One jumped away as the Bone Demon sent his other spare head at him, making it miss and hit the floor. He turned around to it, then jumped away again to avoid the head, then he back flipped to avoid it again, then he jumped up and landed on the head, smashing it up.
"Yeah!" the Turtles cheered.
"All right!" Donnie whooped.
"That's the way to do it." Leo cheered.
"Teach that bonehead a lesson!" Elisa whooped.
"Yay!" Raph whooped.
The Bone Demon's body lit up, as he got covered back in his cloak.
"Ancient One, look!" Splinter said.
"His magic is failing, let's end this." the Ancient One said.
He jumped and somersaulted towards the Bone Demon, then flipped sideways, then grabbed his left arm as he landed near him.
"Ah!" the Bone Demon growled.
Splinter grabbed his right arm, before they both tried to keep him still as he moved away.
"You are finished, ghoul." Splinter said, ripping his arm off.
The Ancient One pulled its other arm off, then kicked him away, hitting the Demon Shredder's sarcophagus.
"Yeah!" the Turtles whooped.
"All right, yeah!" Mikey said.
"Get him, father!" Cath cheered.
"Way to go!" Donnie whooped.
The Bone Demon turned around as Splinter and the Ancient One dived down and both kicked him, knocking him down onto the floor hard. He lifted his head up, before his skull cracked and his eyes rolled back, then his body fell onto the floor, no longer alive, as smoke came up from his body.
"Yeah!" the Turtles cheered.
Mikey stood on one hand as the others punched their fists up.
"Way to go!" he whooped.
"All right!" Donnie cheered.
"Aha, yes!" Elisa whooped.
"All right, yes!" Cath whooped.
"Wahoo!" Mikey whooped.
Splinter walked through the smoke and stared at his children, who all ran towards him.
"Yeah, Master Splinter." Leo said.
"Father, you did it." Cath said happily.
Raph stopped near the Bone Demon's remains, before he kicked a stone at it.
"You destroyed him." he said, running towards the family.
"You're the best." Mikey said, hugging Splinter with Donnie.
"Way to go, Dad." Leo said, holding Splinter's stick.
"You're amazing." Elisa remarked.
"Sweet shell-kicking action." Donnie said.
The Ancient One came towards them all, when Chikara came floating down the stairs.
"Well done, young one." she said, impressed. "You have crushed a Bone Demon."
Kon and Juto came down on either side of her, then Hisomi showed up behind her.
"Only with the help of Splinter-san, and his young Turtle Ninja." the Ancient One said, pointing at them with his hand.
The Turtles all blinked as they stared at the Ninja Tribunal.
"We sensed the Foot Mystics would strike to retrieve the Artifacts, but knew not when." Kon said. "Their cunning is boundless."
Splinter looked up at the Ninja Tribunal.
"We owe you thanks, rodent. You and your kame children." Juto said, turning around.
The Turtles all stood near the Bone Demon's remains, Donnie and Cath examining it by picking up a small piece of bone each, while Leo and Elisa watched, as Raph blew a raspberry at Mikey.
"Masters, how is it that the children could see the Demon, yet we could not?" the Ancient One asked, turning to the Ninja Tribunal.
"The amulet it wore blinded the wise and world weary. Only those pure of heart, children, were immune to its powers." Chikara explained.
Mikey threw a rock at the remains, as Raph and Elisa kicked it, laughing.
"Still, not all children would resist its magic." Juto said, turning around. "These six are unique. We will have to watch them for the future."
Leo, Cath and Donnie all covered their mouths as their siblings kept kicking the remains, before smoke came out of it and went into Mikey's face.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha." Raph laughed.
"However, at present their knowledge of this night is a danger to them and to us." Kon realized, floating towards the Turtles. "Their minds must be relieved of these memories."
"I...suppose." Splinter said.
"Be purged." Kon said, his eyes glowing.
The Turtles eyes all glowed.
"Huh?" they muttered, confused.
Their eyes stopped glowing as they started to stumble around goofily.
"Ah..." they said.
"Oh..." Mikey said.
A portal opened up between Juto and Chikara, showing Splinter's burrow on the other side.
"My burrow." he said, surprised.
"Wait?" the Ancient One said.
He walked over to Splinter, who turned to him.
"Splinter, before you go." he said, before he took out six Ninja masks from his vest - the ones the Turtles would wear during the childhood. "I have something for your little ones."
"Ninja masks." Splinter said happily.
"I made sure the girls' look different from the boys." the Ancient One assured, holding up the pink one, showing the bun at the back.
He walked over to Elisa and put it on her head, then he approached Donnie and put the purple mask on his head.
"Oh..." Leo said, wobbling around.
The Ancient One put the blue mask on his head, before he turned it so the eyeholes were over his eyes. He approached Cath, then put the white mask on her head, then he approached Mikey - who sat down - before putting the orange mask on his head. He then got behind Raph and put the red mask on his head, before he walked off, before he turned and stood beside Splinter.
Splinter smiled at his children as they were all in front of the portal, the elder three sitting down, the younger three standing up.
"This is cool." Donnie said.
"Enough foolishness. Enter the portal." Chikara instructed.
The Turtles all turned and walked into the portal one-by-one.
"Goodbye little kame, goodbye Splinter-san." the Ancient One said.
Splinter followed his children through the portal, before it closed behind him.
"Take care of yourselves." the Ancient One said, turning away.
(Flashback ends)
The Turtles all sat on the floor, staring at Splinter and the Ancient One, as April watched from the couch, all surprised by the story.
"Wow." Donnie said.
"It's...unbelievable." Cath said.
"To think, we'd been to Japan and met the Tribunal when we were just kids." Leo said.
"Yes, my children, and even though you were very small, you helped win a very big victory." Splinter assured.
"And we'll do it again." the Ancient One said. "We will find a way to defeat the Shredder. All of us."
"I hope you're right, Masters." Leo said, getting up. "I hope you're right."
He turned to the sky, as thunder and lighting went off in the clouds, hoping there was a way to defeat the Demon Shredder.