TMNT 2003 S1: Four Turtles More

by Fanficteller

Fifteen years have passed since the accident. Now, eight turtles, six brothers and two sisters, born as mutants in the sewers and trained as ninjas by a rat, are forced to leave their destroyed underground home and take the first step into a surface world where they face many adventures and meet new friends and foes, until they meet their toughest opponent ever, The Shredder.

41. The Shredder Strikes, Part 2, Part 1

animegamefanatic: Well, I actually have a plans for Arcee falling ill at some point, though that won't happen yet any time soon.

I may take the idea of the episode based on the Aladdin series' Galifem warriors into consideration, but no promises, though.

It is left to speculation whether Arcee joins the others in making fun of Mikey when he is challenged for the rematch in the Grudge Match or not. Sure she will get annoyed by Mikey's boasting about his victory in his family's face but her personality for so far would tell that she doesn't wish to see her family members to get hurt and may see the challenge to the rematch as an acts of utterly vain person. But there will be episodes, either canon or fanfic, based on both Mikey and Arcee.

And as for the plans of Ultimate Drako episodes for my OCs. So far, I've planned one turtle to be sent into another alternaty reality of their world, two turtles will be sent into completely new alien planets and the place where the last turtle is sent, will put him/her into a huge and dangerous test. But I will put your ideas into a consideration. No promises, though.

Guest1: Not bad ideas. I'm actually planning to give some characters, who have either only one or two episodes or not many major appearances since their debut, some extra episodes of my own. These include the characters such as Quarry/Sydney, Angel Bridge, Garbageman, even Necro Monster (2003 incarnation of 2012 series' fingus humungous) since he survived and gained a new host, and perhaps even Kirby from "King" episode. I've also planning some new episodes based on the turtles' time at Casey's grandmother's farm. I'm not sure will I include Wingnut and Screwloose in my fanfiction, but we'll shall see, and I'm also planning to give Dom his own episode based on him.

CT311998: Thanks for the information.

animegamefanatic: Okay, nice! I've never even bothered to watch Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, so I have had no idea if Louie reminds you a lot about Leo's Rise's counterpart. If I had, I would've indeed at least considered of Ben Schwartz to voice Louie in my fanfiction. However, I already chose Simon Pegg to voice Louie, because I was more inspired by his roles as Buck from Ice Age franchise & Reepicheep from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader film. I kinda like it how his voice sounds alternately louder and energetic, and low, soft and smooth. The former fits perfectly for Louie's personality.

That's exactly how I wanted to make Arcee. She loves her family so dearly that she cannot bear to see any of them to die.

Like I earlier said, I don't yet know will I mutate Jennika at some point of the story or not at all, but I still have a lot of other plans for her.

Originally, I was actually planning to add Venus De Milo into my story as part of the mutant family, with the nicknamed 'Ve' and armed with Naginata instead of Tessens because I already gave them to Arcee, but I eventually decided to make the another half of the turtles completely my OC characters, and so I replaced or renamed Venus as Marietta 'Mary'.

---

The turtles are seen stanting on Saki's warehouse's rooftop in the standoff situation with the small army of Foot Ninja, led by Tatsu and Oroku Saki, a.k.a the Shredder himself, as the lightning in the stormy sky gets even more and more intensified in his presence.

"My name is Leonardo. And yesterday I nearly made a terrible mistake in my life."

In the flashback, Leo is seen walking inside of Oroku Saki's Dōjō, before we see Saki standing in the shadows.

"I was invited to the meeting with the man, who was a leader of the ninja clan called Foot we've been battling lately."

Saki steps out of the shadows.

Oroku Saki: "My name is Oroku Saki"

"Oroku Saki told me about some so-called evil force lurking in the world he was at war with and asked me to join him in fighting against it."

Oroku Saki: "You have been caught in middle of the war that is so much bigger than yourself. There is a force, a corrupted and evil force, that is out there right now working its insidious tentacles into every aspect of our world. The only thing brave enough to stand against this evil force is me and my humble army of ninjas. I was hoping that you would find it in your heart to join me and fight against this evil. We could stand together."

"I first thought him to be a man of honor, but I was wrong."

Turtles are then seen standing in their individual battle-ready positions on the rooftop, holding their weaponsin their hands while glaring at the Shredder, who raises his hands above of his head, as another lightning went off, illuminating his full-armored form.

"Sure it took me a while, but I managed to see Oroku Saki for who he really is: The Shredder."

In the flashback, in Master Splinter's Sensei's, Hamato Yoshi's home, Yoshi is seen practicing his Ninjutsu skills, until his appartment's door is breached by Tatsu and Foot Soldiers who attack him. Yoshi fights bravely against them, but he was eventually restrained and put into a brutal torture via the electric cables tied around his wrists and ankles.

"I learned from my master, that the Shredder had laid an attack on his beloved Sensei, Hamato Yoshi's home and murdered him dishonorably and in cold-blood fifteen years ago, before he found us."

Hamato Yoshi: "He who lives without honor, shall die without honor."

The Shredder: "BAH! I'll kill you myself!"

The Shredder towers over downed Yoshi and raises his left arm's gauntlet's claws high in the air, before he brought them down on the screen, mercilessly killing Yoshi and the screen fades into white.

"So I called for a retaliation for what he has done."

Then we seen the turtles charging weapons in hands towards the Foot soldiers on the rooftop of Saki's warehouse.

"Of course, to get to this point, we had to fight a bunch of Foot Ninja, which wasn't easy."

Leo charges at two Large Foot Ninja, before the turtle in blue starts slashing them with his Katanas.
Arcee is seen flying in the air and shooting with her Yumi-bow two arrows downwards, which knocked the swords off from the hands of two ninja.
Raph blocks two ninjas swords with his Sais before kicking away one in his right and then the second one on his left.
Mary jumps over the ninja's Naginata's horizontal swing, spins around in the air and whacks the ninja in the head with the flat side of her Naginata's blade.
Mikey swings his Nunchucks wildly from side to side, whacking several ninjas away as they charge at him.
Dom, having caught two ninjas by their sword-scabbards' belts with his Tonfas' handles, spins around and throws first the ninja on the right and then the ninja on the left in opposite directions.
Donnie spins his Bo-staff rapidly in front of him before knocking few ninjas off their feet to the roof.
And finally, Louie flips onto his swords to the roof and, balancing on his swords, spins around and starts kicking the attacking ninjas around him.

Then, Hun emerges and charges at the turtles.

"Then, we had to go up against our old enemy, Hun again."

Hun first jumps in the air and punches Donnie, sending the turtle in purple flying to the roof.
then Hun spins around, swinging his right leg at Raph, tripping him up and sending him on his shell-back to the roof.
Hun then brings his fists up and slams them hard on downed Dom's shell-back, knocking him on his stomach to the roof.
Hun then uppercuts Mary, as the turtle in turquoise was about to land a kick on him, knocking her off the air.
Leo tries to kick Hun in the guts, but Hun grabs him from his legs and throws him face-first to the roof.
Hun then dodges Mikey's attack before picking him up ny his shell and throwing him away.
Hun then grabs Arcee from the legs, lifts her over his head and violently slams her onto the roof.
Louie then hops over Hun's shoulders, wrapping his left arm around his neck and starts to hit him in the head with his right fists, only for Hun to grab from his right arm and pull him over his shoulder and slamming him face-first onto the roof. Hun then lifts Louie up by his arm and starts slamming the turtle in black repeatedly against the roof.

"Definitely not easy."

Hun then lifts Louie up and prepares to punch him, only for Raph to land crouched down behind of his back before Leo kicks him in the chest, knocking him back and causing him to trip over Raph's shell, knocking him down.

Hun then picks up the sword Saki had given to Leo earlier and pulls the blade out of its scabbard. Then Hun dropped the sword's scabbard and grabbed from the sword's handle with both hands, raised it over his head and charged to battle.

Leo then charged forward and flipped at Hun... then he began to send a series of kicks into Hun's chest, which forced the giant back step by step.

Leonardo: "Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! YA! HAA!"

And with the very last kick, Leo sent his enemy crashing through of the skylight's glass and into Saki's Dōjō!

The turtles are then seen facing the Foot army from the Foot's point of view, with the Shredder standing in front of his soldiers and Tatsu by his side.

"But the real nightmare is about to begin."

The Shredder then raises his arms in the air as the lightnings flashes in the stormy sky, and the light of the lightning reflects from his gauntlets' Tekkō-kagi claws' blades.

"Not only we're facing Tatsu again and a new bunch of Foot Ninja, but now we have to face the Shredder himself! And something tells me, this is really not going to be easy."

---

(The camera screen pulls away from New York City with couple light beams waving above the town. Then a four green letters forming the word TMNT towers over the city.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen rises to the edge of the roof, on which is standing eight green shadowy humanoid creatures with the turtle-like features. Two of them were crouching/bending down and all of them had by colors individual ninja masks; One (Named Leonardo) had blue, second one (Named Marietta) had turquoise, third one (Named Raphael) had red, fourth one (Named Domenico) had white, fifth one (Named Artemisia) had pink, sixth one (Named Lorenzo) had black, seventh one (Named Donatello) had purple and the last one (Named Michelangelo) had orange. Then, as the light beam passed them, all eight turtles leap off the edge of the roof.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first one, Michelangelo is holding his Nunchucks in the air. In the second one, Raphael is holding one Sai above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third one, Donatello is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth one, Leonardo has crossed his sword-holding arms over his chest.)
(TURTLES!)

(Leonardo is seen fighting two Foot Ninja wielding Naginata-spears. The turtle slices both ninjas weapons' staves in two with his swords before kicking both one by one away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Donatello is seen driving a Sewer Slider down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple turns to smirk to the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Raphael is seen making couple of flips; one over the fence and one towards the screen, before he delivers the kick at the camera, blackening it for a second.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning Michalengelo is seen standing on top of the Battle Shell that's speeding along the street, while spinning his Nucnhacku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(As the turtle in orange leaps off, the Battle Shell flies in arc over the street before landing back to the ground. Then its back doors open up and two of the turtles, Raphael and Lorenzo, rocket out of the car in the backs of red and avocado green bikes before skidding them sideways to a stop.)

(In the alleyway, next to the blue armored car, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping to attack towards the camera, with Michelangelo taking the lead and kicks the screen with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen: the upper screen shows a blue-masked face with into a glare narrowed eyes while lower screen shows eight turtles standing in line in front of the gray-furred humanoid rat dressed in the brown robe, Master Splinter by name.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a purple-masked face with lightly frowned glare while upper screen shows Master Splinter swinging his wooden staff down at the couple of attacking Mouser-robots.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a red-masked face with the deep frown, while the lower screen shows a large and muscular blonde-haired man, named Hun, leading a group of silhouetted street gang thugs from the ablaze background towards the screen)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a orange-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Hun sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards it, blackening the screen for the split second.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(A red-haired young woman, named April O'Neil, is then seen winking at the camera from the cockpit of the helicopter with the rope hanging from its undercarriage, which she flies past of the blue tower with the Japanese style palace on top of it. On top of it, two turtles, Donatello and Domenico are seeing battling six Foot Ninja on the edge, until they're knocked off the building. Falling down, Domenico grabs from the helicopter's rope with one hand and grabs with his free one from Donnie's hand, cutting his falling, and they're both lifted up in the air.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell to shell in middle of the bright spotlight, while they're surrounded by the dozens and dozens of in the darkness standing and heavily armed Foot Ninja that keep coming from the darkness and rooftops above of the alley. The turtles fearlessly demonstrate their skills with their weapons before taking their respective battle stances.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Artimesia jumps from the left with her legs bent under, while spinning around and swinging her sharp Tessens around, and at the same time Michelangelo jumps from the right. With the smirk on his face, the turtle in orange makes the flip in the air while spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)
(Then, Donatello jumps from the right, spinning his Bo-staff with his left hand while swinging it over his head before grabbing it with both hands and bringing it down hard. At the same time, Marietta jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in her right hand, before spinning around and sending a horizontal slash with her weapon's blade forward.)
(Then, Domenico jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting his right Tonfa forward like a stabbing movement. At the same time, Leonardo jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them to the sides as he delivers the kick forward with his foot.)
(Raphael then jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais to flash. Right after him, Lorenzo jumps from the right, holding his left Butterfly sword in front of him and his right Butterfly sword over his head, before swinging them forward to slash with them the air in front of him.)
(Then a 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, named Angel, jumps from the left after the turtle in black and shoots the punch towards the screen with her left fist. Then a tall blue-haired and -eyed man with the hockey mask on his face, named Casey Jones, jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Leo, with swords in hands, is then seen landing onto one ninja's back, knocking him down.)
(Donnie is then seen whacking another ninja off his feet and out with his Bo.)
(Raph is then seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left arm while holding his Sai in his fist.)
(Mikey is then seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist while holding a Nunchuck.)
(Marietta is then seen kicking the fifth in the chest while holding her Naginata up.)
(Domenico is then seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Lorenzo is then seen blocking seventh's sword with his left hand's sword while thrusting his right towards the ninja as if to stab him in the chest)
(Artemisia is then seen with her arms crossed in front of her white holding her opened pink Tessens in her hands.)
(Raph is then seen again, this time surrounded by several Foot Ninja, until he spins himself around with his hands clenched into fist around of his Sais' hilts spread out, knocking all ninjas away from him.)

(Cut to the wide shot, where seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops, water towers and chimneys, as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain with one hand like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in blue's and purple's masked faces above and the line of turtles in red and orange's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. Leonardo is in the middle, Donatello, Marietta and Domenico are in his right side while Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia are in his left side. All seven then ran towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, Raphael races over the building in the back of the bike and jumps off it towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first one, Marietta is pointing her Naginata's blade at the screen. In the second one, Lorenzo is holding his Butterfly-swords upside down in his arms, while holding the left one horizontally in front of his face and right one over his head.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third one, Domenico is holding his Tonfa-holding arms crossed over his chest. In the fourth one, Artemisia is holding her right hand's Tessen opened in front of her face, partially covering them behind of her weapon, while pointing with her left closed one at the screen.)
(TURTLES!)

(Marietta is seen standing in the dead end of the alley, spinning around while spinning her Naginata with her hands in front of her, before she pulls it behind her shell-back and holds her left hand forward as two two hands, one holding a knife and one a fire-axe, appears from both sides of the screen.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(Lorenzo is seen riding on top of the subway car, with his Butterfly swords sunk to its roof. And as he approaches the camera, the turtle in black pulls his swords up and jumps forward towards the camera and kicks the screen into black.)
"OUT OF MANHOLE"
(TURTLES!)

(Domenico is seen stabbing with his left and then his right Tonfa at one practice dummy in his right to the head, knocking it back. Then he turns around and spin-kicks the other dummy in his left in the head with his right foot. Then the turns around and whacks the camera with his left Tonfa.)
"BEWARE, THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back, showing Artemisia skating with the pair of pink roller skates along the rooftop as she is being chased by the dozen Foot Ninja with the swords. Four more ninjas appears from the sides of the screen, chasing after the skating turtle in pink. She peeks over her left shoulder at them, smirks and then picks up the pace, skating into the camera.)
"MUTANTS NINJAS ARE ON THE MOVE!"

(Arcee then skates towards a pretty large ninja with the sword held up and ready to strike (with her pursuers' running feet showing in the sides of the screen). However, as the Large Foot Ninja tries to strike at the turtle in pink horizontally, she grabs from both of his wrists, spins around and throws him over her shoulder at her pursuers. The ninja flies towards the camera face-first.)

(Arcee then turns around and somersaults over the edge of the building. The screen then moves down in front of with the wooden boards boarded doorway, before the Battle Shell - with Domenico in the driver's seat and Marietta in the passenger's seat - smashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink to land onto its roof.)

(Screen then turns to the back-doors of the Battle Shell as it is chased by two Foot Ninja on motorbikes, until the back-doors fly open and Lorenzo jumps out with the barrel-roll, landing on his shell to the street, somersaulting back to his feet and then lunging at the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies face-first at the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again: the upper screen shows a turquoise-masked face with lightly frowned glare, while lower screen shows Artemisia, Leonardo and Marietta in the snowy woods, staring at the five silhouetted canine-like humanoid beings with various colored face-paints (dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green) standing in line. They all hit their fists with their fist before bowing to each other.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a white-masked face with deep frown while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with white fur and dark purple face-paint. Wielding a single Kama in its right had, the figure fights two hunter-looking men with the hunting rifles: kicking away one standing front of it with the left foot before elbowing the second one standing behind the back in the face with its right elbow. The figure then turns around, snarls ferally at the camera before slicing the screen in half with its Kama.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'LL ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL!"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a black-masked face with the wide eyes, while the lower screen shows Lorenzo and Angel standing back to shell-back in middle of the ring of the silhouetted enemies.)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a pink-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Louie and Angel turning to each other and taking each other from hands, before the turtle in black swings the girl around him in the air. As Louie swings Angel towards the camera, she kicks the screen with her foot.)
("SIX!")
"WE COME, STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(A next shot shows two buildings standing next to each other, until Donatello and Marietta appear from the left side of the screen and jump over the gap between the buildings (with Marietta pole-vaulting over the gap with her Naginata). Then four turtles, led by Leonardo, followed by Raphael and Artemisia and lastly Domenico, are seen rushing forward along the streets, weapons in hands. Michelangelo and Lorenzo are then seen following them right behind: the former by zipping along the rope with his Nunchaku and the latter by swinging by the chain like Tarzan while spinning the other one wildly around with his free hand.)
("SEVEN!")
"AS A TEAM, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHER'S SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the light in the darkness, with their backs turned to the camera as it pulls away from them. As they all turn around to the camera, they draw out their weapons and take their individual battle-stances, ready to face whoever is standing in front of them.)
("EIGHT!")
"AND WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(Out of darkness appears Baxter Stockman, with the black eye-patch over his right missing eye, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of menacing-looking Mousers, snapping their jaws. Stockman points at the camera with his finger as if ordering the attack and the Mousers lunge forward, snarling menacingly.)

(Camera moves to the right, showing Tatsu backed up by the group of Foot Ninja behind him. The scarred man draws out a sword from his X-shaped scabbard in his back and raises it with both hands up and next to the scarred side of his faces, pointing its tip at the camera while glaring himself darkly at the camera.)

(Camera moves then to the right again, this time showing a strange female creature with the pale yellowish skin, huge red eyes, long elf-like pointy ears, slightly hooked nose, shoulder-length black hair and wide grin that shows her mouth full of sharp teeth. She was dressed into black dress and a hooded cape, dark-blue and white-stripped pantyhose, ruby-red elf-like slippers and a long and slithering elf-like black hat. With the mischievous grin on her face, the creature waved its hands over, followed by the glowing aura and the flow of glowing various-colored stars in her left hand and the various-colored lightnings in her right hand, as if it was the magic.)

(Camera moves to the right once more, this time showing a mobster-like barrel-chested man with the thick eyebrows, mustache, double chin and tidy haircut. He was dressed in the blue shirt and a red black-spotted cravat, over which he wore a mafia-like olive green suit with the golden stripes. He had a same style pants and the shiny black-tipped brown shoes. He wore on his head a grayish-brown fedora hat and he had a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several tough-looking guys in the mafia-like suits and fedora-hats - all armed with various guns or melee weapons - the man took the cigar out of his mouth and, with the nasty sneer, he pointed with his finger forward.)

(The screen turns back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several robots away with his staff while Raphael lands on one, crushing it, while stabbing his Sais through of two other)
(Domenico then moves to stab with his left Tonfa in one ninja's guts, before he turns around and whacks with his right one in the second ninja's chest, knocking him away, after which Artemisia slices the third ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spinning around and kicking him in the chest with her left foot.)
(The strange pointy-eared creature then flies over to strike them with the magical lightnings, only for Marietta to pole-vault with her Naginata towards the creature before she lands a kick to her right side, knocking the creature off the air.)
(Three mafia thugs: one in the white shirt, black cravat, turquoise suit and reddish-brown fedora-hat, second one in the black shirt, green cravat, the brown suit and with the golden fedora-hat and third large, muscular, slightly hunchbacked, broad-shouldered and big-nosed guy with the thick eyebrows, shaven face and protruding lower jaw, who was dressed in the checkered blue-white shirt, red black-spotted bow tie, dark purple suit and a small dark blue bowler hat on top his head, rushed towards the turtles, only for Michelangelo to snap-kick away the turquoise-suited thug in the left, while Lorenzo kicks the brown-suited thug in the right in the guts before the big thug in the middle ends up being kicked away by Leonardo, who then spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot, where two silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running along the sewer pipe: One turtle is on foot while another turtle is skating along the pipe's rounded walls.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen moves upwards to the street level, where three silhouettes of three turtles are running along the streets: One is running on foot down the street, while second one is riding on the bike and third one is hopping along both the driving and parked cars' rooftops.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in turquoise's and white's masked faces above and the line of turtles in black's and pink's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Shot moves upwards again, to the roof level, where two silhouettes of two turtles are either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Three turtles (Raphael in the left, Leonardo in the middle and Domenico in the right) are seen running towards the camera along the streets. Then Artemisia and Michelangelo jumps out of the open manholes, landing on their feet to the street and join the run next to Raph and Dom. Then they're joined by Marietta and Donatello, who land down from the rooftops to Leo's both sides. All seven then run towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then moves up towards the building with the full moon glowing behind of it, showing Lorenzo jumping off the building and towards the camera, spinning the chain wildly above his head before throwing it away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing Leonardo's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined-looking face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing Michelangelo's shadowy goofy-like face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing Raphael's shadowy yet fierce-looking face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"

(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy yet calm-looking face. sixth then appears next to it from above, showing Domenico's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"

(Seventh appears from beneath, showing Lorenzo's shadowy wildly hilarious-looking face. Then final eights appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined-looking face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the tall blue tower with the red Japanese palace style on top of it, which towers over all the other buildings of the town. With the weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Donatello, then Domenico, then Michelangelo and finally Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the same tower, that is above of the Foot symbol in middle of the bright light blue circle, the Shredder is seen staring down after them, as his black cape floats in the blow of the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves closer of his helmet-covering face, before the Shredder turns towards the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two sharp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are then seen standing in middle of the rooftop. With the weapons in hands, they briefly demonstrate their weapons-skills before taking their individual fighting poses: Donatello is seen standing in the middle, pointing his staff's end at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo are standing in his right, Marietta and Michelangelo are standing in his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo are standing behind of them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding or skating on the various human equipment along the underground tunnel: Donnie is in the lead, wheeling with his purple-gray foldaway bike as he rode past the camera. Artemisia followed him afterwards on her own turquoise tuned dirt-bike, waving at the camera. She was followed by Leonardo on foldaway kick scooter with the blue board, hopping over the handlebar with his hands. He was then followed by Domenico on the white-tuned road bicycle, who made the high backward flip over the camera. After them, Raphael and Artemisia were roller skating along the wall of the tunnel with their red roller blades and pink roller-skates. Lorenzo then skated after them with his oversized green and black skateboard pair of rocket boosters and he was followed by Michelangelo, who skated along the tunnel's wall with his orange skateboard, going higher and higher along the wall before he jumped off it, landing in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(First Donatello, then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally Artemisia landed onto the rooftop with weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charged forward towards the camera, with Leonardo taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"

---

= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE SHREDDER STRIKES PART 2. PART 1.=

As the rain kept getting heavier and lightning struck against the sky more and more often - as if the weather itself was reacting to the Evil One's presence - the Turtles and Foot Army, along with their respective leaders, Leonardo Splinterson and Oroku Saki A.K.A Shredder, were standing in standoff, waiting one side to make the first move.

Shredder confidently showed off his Tekkō-kagi claws at the turtles - as the lightnings flashed behind of his back - while the turtles tightened their grips from their weapons and gritted their teeth as they all kept staring at their newest nemesis.

Shredder then gave the turtles a brief but intimidating speech.

"The time for games has ended. No more charades." Shredder said, before the evil Foot Master took his helmet off, revealing himself to the turtles in confirmation that they'll be fighting him personally... and not some other person impersonating him in the Shredder's armor as a distraction while the real Shredder was waiting in the shadows for the right moment to reveal himself.

The turtles didn't move a muscle, but they narrowed their eyes as they stared at the Shredder like he was their life-time nemesis, even though they have only known him for a couple of days and have never fought with him face-to-face before... until now.

"Look me in the eyes, turtles. Look at my face. Look at me closely. You see me as I am, and it will be the last thing you'll ever see." the evil Foot Master declared, grinning evilly before he put his helmet back on and crossed his wrists over his chest.

"Prepare to face your destiny... and your doom." Shredder warned.

"For the Foot! For the master Shredder!" Tatsu let out, as he raised one of his swords high up and turned to the army of Foot Ninja behind him and the Shredder.

"FOR THE FOOT! FOR THE MASTER SHREDDER!" the ninjas cheered with one voice, waving their weapons above of their heads.

In the other side, the elder or more determined turtles managed to keep their cool, while the younger members of the family couldn't help but feel a little nervous of their soon coming very first fight with the Shredder.

"Well..." Arcee began, as the turtle in pink was standing with Louie next to Leo and Donnie. "... at least he has no trouble of making himself heard. I don't even know is he just boasting or does he really mean what he just said." the turtle in pink nervously said from to the others.

"Easy, sister. Everything will be fine." Mary said, putting her hand encouragingly on her nervous sister's shoulder. "I promise you that."

Hearing that, Arcee tried to give her big sister a reassured smile, but she found herself unable to do so, thinking that maybe this time Mary wouldn't be able to keep her promise.

"Nah! He looks more like a big wuss to me, sis. Wasting his breath to the meaningless boastful words, just like Tatsu." Louie said, as if the turtle in black wasn't intimidated by the Shredder's fear-instilling presence, his malicious attitude and menacing speech, or else he was just trying to hide his own nervousness in front of this enemy.

"I bet he's already wet his metallic underpants at seeing us." Louie added with an insult.

"Don't push your luck, bro." Dom lectured, before he turned nervously back to the Shredder. "But I gotta confess that now even I am fully convinced that diplomacy does not seem to be helpful with this one."

"Not with 100%, bro." Mary retorted, as she readied herself.

"Unless..." Donnie gulped, before the brainy turtle turned to Leo. "Well, uh... mind to ask him reconsider this, Leo? After all, he-he's your friend, bro."

Leo frowned at Donnie over his left shoulder, not liking of the brainy turtle's choice of words to call Shredder as his "friend."

"And... he certainly has a strong sense of a personal style." Mikey admitted, before Raph shot at him a look. "I mean, nice outfit."

Louie eyed briefly at Shredder's armor and saw a point in Mikey's words. "Hmm... even for once, bro, I'd say that you're correct. He certainly has a wicked cool armor." the turtle in black admitted in agreement.

"Yeah, but something tells me he didn't get all dressed up for nothing." Raph snarled, crossing the blades of his Sais.

"Good! I have plenty of room for the Samurai armor on the wall of my collection of trophies." Louie said with the smirk, revealing his out of nowhere found interest in the Shredder's armor and that he actually planned to have it as part of his collected trophies.

"Oh, for crying out loud! Make the turtle soup out of me!"" Dom deadpanned at what Louie had said. "Your hobby of such of items will be the end of you, one day." turtle in white muttered under of his breath.

"Guys, focus!" Leo said, before he and his siblings turned back to Shredder and his army. "Prepare yourself, because we're in the fight of our lives. And if we die, we'll die with honor." the turtle in blue added valiantly.

"For our Sensei's Sensei." Mary declared.

"Except... I'm not quite fond to the word "die". I'm too young and beautiful to die." Mikey gulped.

The standoff kept going between of two sides, until Shredder finally lifted his right arm up.

"Foot Ninja, ATTACK!" Shredder ordered, holding his arm downwards diagonally. "KILL THEM ALL!"

The ninjas around of him obediently either ran or jumped past their master and charged at the turtles. Only Tatsu remained his master's side.

"LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!" The turtles let out their battle cry as they charged at Shredder's army.

However, it became obvious that the battle's gore had turned even darker, as if the mere presence of the Shredder had an influence on it too and not just to the current weather. The turtles didn't usually leave victims behind, especially in their regular fights against the street thugs such as the Purple Dragons and even in their previous encounters with the Foot, but the Shredder's presence - as well as his dishoroable and in cold-blood committed actions in the past - had noticeably changed that. This was no longer a mere street fight or simple struggle for sport. This was All-Out-War: Fighting for survival. This was seen as some of the turtles didn't even hesitate to give a lethal blows with their blade weapons. Only other half of the turtles, mostly the younger ones armed with the wooden weapons mostly, resorted to the fighting without killing their enemies.

Leo jumped over and landed behind of four Foot Ninja, whom instantly turned around and charged at the turtle in blue. However, Leo turned around and split-kicked the first two ninjas, knocking them back. Leo then swung his Katanas from side to side before he pulled them back and swung them at the next two ninjas as he bent down, slashing the deep and fatal gashes across their chests and spilling blood to the watery surface of the rooftop.

Elsewhere, Mary engaged the Foot Ninja armed with the Naginata into a fierce duel. Both the turtle in turquoise and the ninja exchanged the fierce blows with each other, which they alternately either blocked, turned them away or clashed their weapons' blades together but only a short of a time. Mary, however, emerged victorious after a few clashes with the ninja as she struck the ninja to the stomach with the blunt end of her weapon's haft, making the ninja to accidentally stumble into another ninja that was standing behind him, before Mary finished them both off by swinging her Naginata over her head and then towards the ninjas, cleaving their heads off from their shoulders with her weapon's blade.

Donnie meanwhile was facing one ninja. First the ninja attempt to split his head in two with his sword, but Donnie moved to the left and out of the strike's way. The ninja then attempted to slice the brainy turtle's head off with horizontal swing, but Donnie dodged the ninja's strike again by jumping over his head, before the turtle in purple struck him in the back with his Bo, knocking the ninja down to the roof.

Dom meanwhile was surrounded by three ninjas, two of which wielded the pair of Ninjato-swords while the third one wielded the Three-section-staff. As the ninja with the Three-section-staff swung his weapon at the turtle in white, Dom raised his Tonfas up so that the ninja's weapon would wrap around of his weapon's hafts. Dom then kneed the ninja in the stomach before the turtle in white spun around and pulled with his weapons the ninja off the ground and over himself before sending the screaming ninja flying into two other ninjas, knocking all three into the pile to the roof.

Louie meanwhile was running towards two ninjas, both armed with the pair of swords, while he was pursued by the third ninja that was armed with the pair of Masakari axes, and the fourth one armed with the pair of Tantos was coming towards him from his right.

As the first ninja charged at him, Louie put away the Butterfly sword from his right hand and sent a slice at the ninja with his left one, making the ninja to bend over to evade Louie's blow before he attempted to stab Louie in the stomach with his left hand's sword. As the blade came towards him, Louie held out his free hand forward and grabbed by the ninja's left wrist before it could hit him, after which the turtle in back turned around to his left and hopped on his shell-back onto the bent ninja's back at the same time as the third ninja with Masakari axes charged, raising his axes over his head and prepared to bring them down on Louie. After hopping onto the first ninja's back, Louie lifted/directed his left arm and the sword upwards and towards the third ninja as he was about to bring his axes down, causing him to be skewered through the stomach by the first ninja's sword. Even though the ninja did manage to spot the sword that was pointed up at him, it was already too late for him to halt his charge. After being skewered by the first ninja's sword, the third ninja's axe-wielding hands fell limply downwards at the same time as the fourth ninja moved forward to stab Louie through by his torso with his Tanto. Louie, however, snap-kicked him in the face with his right foot, knocking the ninja off his feet and sending him flying onto his back to the roof and making him to toss both his Tantos from his hands and into the air. Afterwards Louie threw his left hand's Butterfly sword at the second ninja, hitting him to the forehead with the pommel of his weapon, which knocked the surprised and slightly stunned ninja's head slightly back, exposing his throat. With that, after stabbing the third ninja and kicking the fourth ninja out, Louie let go of the first ninja's wrist and rolled off his back, landing crouched down to the ninja's right side before the third ninja's axes came down on him instead of Louie. The falling axes' blades sunk into the first ninja's neck and the back, both decapitating him and cutting his spine in two, thus killing him immediately. As the limp bodies of two recently dead ninjas fell over each other to the roof, Louie picked his dropped Butterfly sword from the roof before he jumped up, turned around to the second and last ninja before he slit his throat open with the one swift and clean slice, making the ninja gasp hoarshely in pain before he fell over to the roof.

Arcee meanwhile leaped into the air and lunged at the lone ninja armed with sword. The turtle in pink crossed her arms in front of her face before pulling them back, opening her Tessens at the same time to impress her opponent with her skills.

Upon landing on her feet in front of the ninja, Arcee began alternately swing both of her Tessens at the ninja, though without intending to lay any killing blow but only to find a weak spot to use it against the ninja. The ninja was cornered in the defensive mode, dodging various of Arcee's slices with her Tessens, in middle of which Arcee managed to block one or two of the ninja's own attempted slices: One by stopping from her right side in coming horizontal sclice with her Tessens before kicking with her left leg to beneath of the ninja's sword-wielding arm's wrist, and the second one by spinning around after another slice and then blocking with her left wrist from her left side incoming slice before swinging her right Tessen at the ninja in retort.

The ninja then swung his sword at the turtle in pink for the third time, aiming this time her stomach, while Arcee was at the same time swinging one of her Tessens towards the ninja, aiming his head. However, both of them were forced to dodge each others' attacks: Arcee by pulling her stomach in and out of the ninja's blade's way and the ninja by crouching down and out of Arcee's Tessen's way. The ninja, however, noticed then an open spot in Arcee's defense and seized his chance. The ninja caught Arcee by surprise by jumping upwards and snap-kicking the turtle in pink in the face with his right foot, knocking her onto her shell-back to the roof and causing her Tessens to fly out of her hands and out of her reach. With the turtle in pink was down and defenseless, the ninja lunged through the rainy air towards Arcee and raised his sword above his head, ready to bring it down on Arcee to kill her.

"NO!" Arcee cried and as the ninja landed on his feet over her and covered herself with her arms against the incoming blow.

However, before the ninja could lay a blow on Arcee, Raph suddenly appeared to the scene and caught the ninja's sword with his left Sai's guard, blocking the ninja's strike and saving his sister's life.

"You better keep your guard on properly in the future, sis!" the turtle in the red snarled through his gritted teeth.

Raph then moved the ninja's sword out of his way before the turtle in red thursted his right Sai into the ninja's stomach, mortally wounding him, before he proceeded to stab the ninja multiple times in nearly savage and berserk-like rage, much to Arcee's shock and horror. And while doing this, Raph accidentally splattered blood onto Arcee's face from both his Sai and the dying ninja's multiple stab wounds in his stomach. In his blind battle rage, Raph didn't notice this, but neither did Arcee react to it due to her mentally and physically petrified by the shock caused by her brother's bloody work.

After stabbing and mortally wounding ninja for multiple times, Raph then pulled back and roundhouse kicked him in the chest, sending him flying to the roof before he ran away to resume the fighting, leaving Arcee sitting there, and not noticing how visibly and deeply mortified and disturbed the turtle in pink was of what he had just done.

The turtle in pink, with her face covered with the recently killed ninja's blood, looked around her, seeing her brothers and sister fighting against the Foot Ninja all over the rooftop, with some of them even badly wounding or even killing the ninjas all around of her, leaving their mutilated bodies where they last stood and the blood soon covered the entire rain-soaked roof.

All of this war-like fighting, killing and blood-shedding didn't just made Arcee severely sick from her stomach, but also confused. They were originally and meant to come here only to give the Shredder Leo's answer - and at the same time beat up some of his Foot Ninja and Hun as an act to enforce Leo's anwer's meaning - which had soon gone out of control and turned into a bloody and savage ninja-vs-ninja war.

"How... how did it... how did it all... how did it all come to this?" Arcee asked from herself, feeling that this is not what they as turtles and more honor-bound ninjas should be doing at all in the first place.

However, the turtle in pink knew that even if all of this was shocking and disturbing, this was not the right place or time to get stuck in this state, as her family needed her help.

With great mental effort, Arcee fought out of her sense of shock and pulled herself together. Wiping the blood off her face with her hand and letting the rain do the rest, Arcee stood back up to her feet, picked up her dropped Tessens and resumed the fighting.

Meanwhile, Mikey was facing a three ninjas armed with the swords. The ninjas held their blades up and ready while glaring menacingly at the turtle in orange, who glared them back in return. Mikey then lifted his Nunchucks up and began spinning them wildly, ready for action.

However, before he could do anything, the Shredder suddenly lunged at him from behind with the high leap and, roaring loudly into the stormy sky, kicked the unsuspecting turtle in orange hard in the shell. The kick's force was incredibly powerful enough to not just knock Mikey off his feet but it also sent him sliding along the roof's wet and slippery surface to the other side of the rooftop with a fast pace.

AHHH!" Mikey cried, until he hit shell-first against the brick railing of the roof, knocking the wind out of him and leaving him there briefly stunned.

After defeating Mikey, the Shredder turned his attention to the other turtles from whom he was dying to beat the lives out.

He turned his attention next to Raphael, who was at the moment battling two of his soldiers.

The turtle in red roared fiercely as he ferociously sliced and stabbed his Sais alternately at the ninjas while pushing them back and towards the edge of the roof. The ninjas were cornered and forced into defensive mode without any chance for the counter-attack and the sparks flew when his Sais contacted with the ninjas' own blades. One of the two then tried recklessly bring both of his swords down on Raph, only for his blades to be caught by both Raph's Sais guards, which was followed by Raph kneeing the ninja straight to the face, probably breaking his nose in the process due to the cracking sound following the blow, which also sent the ninja flying over the edge of the building. Another ninja tried to move upon him from his right when the turtle in red's focus was elsewhere, but Raph saw him coming and spin kicked him with his left foot to the left side of his head, making him turn to his right with his back turned to Raph. Raph then lunged at the ninja when he was about to turn around to face him again and thursted both his Sais into the ninja's chest, making him to gasp loudly in pain before he slowly fell limp. Raph then kicked him away with his foot, pulling his Sais out of his dying opponent's chest and the ninja landed on his back over the brick railing of the roof.

However, nearly right after Raph had finished off both of his foes, the Shredder lunged at the turtle in red from behind and rammed with his right shoulder into Raph's shell-back with the great brutal force, which sent him flying towards the edge of the rooftop.

"AHHH!" Raph cried as he flew over the edge of the roof and started to fall down to his certain end.

It would've been so if Raph hadn't thought fast and stabbed both his Sais into the wall beneath of the edge by the same way he had saved himself from falling to his death yesterday when he and Leo were fighting over the Katana the Shredder had given to Leo, thus cutting his fall short though slamming a pretty hard against the fall.

"Agh!" the turtle in red moaned for a moment after the painful impact against the wall, though he quickly ignored most of the pain and started to climb back to the roof by stabbing his Sais against the wall one at the time. "Ugh! Tricky move to come from behind! Ugh! But now that Mr. metallic scarecrow will pay for that!" the turtle in red swore angrily.

Either thinking that he had already finished off Raph or not bothering to check if he had survived or not, the Shredder then turned his attention to the rest of the turtles.

Meanwhile, Leonardo was battling against four ninjas, one of which was armed with Naginata, one with one with Kusarigama, in the end of the chain of which was a three-tipped blade that resembled the Foot's symbol instead of the regular weight, and the rest two ninjas were armed with the swords.

Leo was battling two of them with the swords while other two tried to sneak upon him from behind. The one with Naginata attempted to stab Leo in the shell-back and the one with Kusarigama grabbed to the Foot symbol-shaped blade in the end of his weapon's chain and attempted to stab Leo in the head with it. Seeing this, Leo, however, pulled his swords hard upwards as the sword-ninjas attacked and attempted to bring their swords down on him. The force of his counter-attack was powerful enough to knock the ninjas' swords off their courses, much to the ninjas' surprise, and knocked or threw both ninjas away from him. With the first two distracted for a moment, Leo spun around to his left and pulled his left Katana behind his shell-back while raising his right Katana in front of his faces, knocking with his left sword the Naginata-ninja's weapon off its course while blocking with his right sword the Kusarigama-ninja's blade from reaching his face, before the turtle in blue spun around to his right and punched/elbowed both ninjas in their faces: Kusarigama-ninja got punshed in the face by Leo's right fist and the Naginata-ninja got elbowed in the face by Leo's left elbow, knocking them both back and away from him. Leo then resumed his fight with the two previous ninjas, after they had recovered from Leo's earlier counter-attack and attacked him again, and the turtle in blue exchanged a couple of blows with the ninja on his right before kicking him in the stomach with his right foot and knocking him away, and dodging at the same time the ninja in his left's horizontal swing at him with sword from his left ninja's at his head aimed slice while dodging at the same time a horizontal blow to the head by the ninja in his left and just narrowly avoiding of getting decapitated or his head getting split in two from the middle.

Leo then re-positioned himself and prepared to engage the ninja into one-in-one combat. However, before they could engage each other, the ninja suddenly crouched down, much to Leo's confuse at first, until he realized that the ninja was merely a dodging his master, the Shredder, who flew over the ninja and towards Leo. The evil ninja master delivered the series of kicks into Leo's chest- similar move to Leo's which he performed on Hun earlier, though much faster and harder - forcing the turtle in blue back with several steps before the Shredder kicked Leo away with the final kick to the chest.

Shredder's kick sent Leo flying backwards and towards the two ninjas whom Leo had fought off earlier. They jumped over him immediately to avoid being hit by Leo as the turtle in blue landed on his shell-back to the same spot where the ninjas had been standing a moment ago. Leo was about to roll over and land onto his stomach to the roof, but the turtle in blue quickly placed his arms beneath of him before pushing himself off the roof, flipping back onto his feet. Once back on his feet, Leo ignored the aching pain in his chest and the Foot ninjas around him, before he shot a glare at the Shredder, determined to take him down no matter what.

Arcee was meanwhile battling against two Foot ninjas who had got her cornered to the edge of the rooftop. The turtle in the pink swung her Tessens at both ninjas alternately to keep them away while backing away. Arcee then flipped onto the brick railing as one of the ninjas attempted to run her through with his sword, only to hit the empty air and some bricks. The second ninja lifted his sword up in attempt to slice Arcee but missed as the turtle in pink jumped out of the way again, leading him to strike a brick plate in Arcee's spot hard enough to nearly split it in two from the middle. Arcee flipped over the ninja's heads and landed behind them before she turned back to the ninjas, who turned around to face her again. Both of them charged at Arcee and tried to slice the turtle in pink again, but he quickly put away her Tessens and jumped over the blades, flipping onto her hands to the roof in front of the ninjas and bent her legs together. As the ninjas attempted to slice her again, Arcee pushed herself off the roof with her hands and shoot her legs up and towards the ninjas, kicking them in the heads and knocking them off their feet and over to the roof as she flipped back on her feet to the roof.

However, Arcee didn't get time to catch her breath when she felt someone landing heavily behind of her shell-back, and before she could both reach for her Tessens and turn around to face whoever was behind of her, she felt a painful kick to the backside of her right.

"AGH!" Arcee cried painfully as she fell on one knee to the roof, before a strong arm wrapped around of her neck, capturing her into a chokehold.

"URGH!" the turtle in pink gasped, as the arm around of her neck squeezed even harder, blocking her respiratory tract and making the turtle in pink gasp for breath while grabbing with both hands from her assailant's arm in attempt to rip it off from around of her neck.

"I originally planned to slit your throat from behind, Kapa!" the infamous voice of Tatsu whispered to Arcee's right ear-hole, revealing himself as her assailant as he kept holding the turtle in pink in the chokehold. "But squeezing the life out of you is a lot. More. Fun." the ninja master chuckled sadistically as he tightened his grip around of Arcee's throat even more harder.

Mary meanwhile was battling two ninjas, one armed with the pair of swords and another armed with Kyoketsu-Shoge, which handle and blade were linked with the metal chain. The latter ninja threw his weapon's blade at Mary at the same time as the ninja with swords charged at her. As the blade was about to hit her in between of her eyes, Mary raised her Naginata in horizontal position upwards and managed to capture the ninja's weapon by its chain, allowing it to wrap around of her Naginata's haft, before the blade could his her in the face. Mary then yanked from the chain with her weapon, pulling the ninja holding from the chain towards her. As the ninja stumbled closer, Mary whacked him hard into the face with her Naginata's blunt end, knocking him out and over to the roof. And as another lightning struck again behind her shell-back, the lightning's flash revealed to Mary a shadow of another ninja as he was falling down from the sky and towards her, sword held high up and ready for strike to the back of Mary's head. However, Mary quickly lifted her Naginata over her head, blocking the ninja's sword, before she spun herself around and swung her Naginata with her right hand towards the ninja's legs, sweeping them off from under him and making the ninja to fall down. Mary, however, spun around again till she crouched down, facing the ninja, and caught him onto her Naginata's haft as she held it up in horizontal position. The turtle in turquoise then stood up, bodlily lifting the ninja off the roof and throwing him off over her head and on his back onto his downed comrade.

Before Mary could do anything else to the downed ninjas or to take a look around of the battlefield to check on her family's faring or to search for a new opponent, an arrow suddenly flew out of nowhere at her, hit and got stuck to the left side of her frontal plastron that served as her "natural bras" over her breasts. Luckily the turtle in turquoise's frontal plastron stopped the arrow from doing any serious damage that could've been lethal.(1)

"WOW!" Mary yelped in surprise as the impact of the arrow nearly knocked her off her feet, though it just caused her to step back for a couple steps. After re-gaining her balance and ripping the arrow off, Mary she turned to look from where the arrow had came from.

More than dozen Foot Ninja armed with the bows were aiming their arrows straight at her and had their strings pulled tight backwards, before they released them all at the same time and fired an volley at the turtle in turquoise.

Thinking quickly, Mary began to flip backwards about seven times, narrowly avoiding first eight arrows that flew past her either from underneath or above of her, though three of them managed to leave a slight scratches in her arms and sides. Fourth individual arrow did hit her, but it bounced off from her shell. After the eighth flip and back on her feet, Mary began to swing her Naginata's blade instinctively to the seven remaining arrows's flying routes, chopping in two and knocking off the air four arrows that were aimed at her head and left shoulder before she started to spin her Naginata rapidly in front of her and thus caught three arrows aimed at her legs and stomach into her weapon's haft, before she finally brought her weapon's blade down and knocked with its flat side the last arrow, that was aimed at her heart, off its flight and to the roof.

Louie, meanwhile, was battling against two Foot Ninja, one armed with the pair of Kamas and one armed with the Katar-like knives (Indian dagger). The turtle in black had earlier knocked out one ninja and was carrying his limp body over his shell and shoulders. The ninja's body served as Louie's "second shell" as its backside was full of bleeding cuts and stab wounds, shot arrows, thrown Shurikens and throwing knives (Kunai) and couple of thrown spears. Caring nothing about the extra weight he was carrying, Louie had engaged the Foot Soldiers by using the ninja on his shoulders like a puppet by maneuvering his arms, which were ironically wielding the pair of Butterfly swords just like he does, with his own hands. With their own weapons, the ninjas constantly sliced and stabbed Louie from both sides, but the turtle in black fended off their attacks by moving his ninja-puppet's hands and the Butterfly swords alternately from side to side, blocking and knocking his enemies weapons away... all the while the ninja's backside kept taking more lethal blows from the other ninjas' swords, arrows and throwing weapons.

"This almost makes me eager to find out how usually boring hand-controlled-puppets work." Louie said to himself as he kept battling the ninjas.

After dancing with the ninjas some time, Louie finally decided that enough was enough. So, as the ninja wielding Kamas attacked him by bringing his scythed weapons up and then down on Louie, Louie lifted his ninjas' arms and Butterfly swords up to block the attack and moved them to his left at the same time as he spun around, moving the ninja on his shoulders to the second ninja as he lunged at Louie and stabbed his Katar-like knives into Louie's ninja's back instead of the turtle in black. Louie then moved the ninja on his left shoulder at the same time as he slyly lifted his left leg up and shot it through between of his ninja's legs and kicked hard the Katar-knife-ninja in between of his legs! The ninja let out a loud and pained groan before he dropped his Katar-knives and fell on his knees to the roof, holding from his groins with his hands.

With him out of the way for now, Louie moved his ninja back in place on his shoulders and resumed his battle with the Kama-ninja. Maneuvering his ninja's arms and Butterfly swords with his hands, Louie swung the short swrods wildly and repeatedly at the Kama-ninja, not allowing him any chance to fight back, forcing him into defensive mode and back away from him. After a few rounds, Louie spun around and sent two slices with his ninja's swords at the Kama-ninja, with his right hand from above and from below with the left one, and managed to slice the ninja's Kamas' hafts in two, from the underside of the ninja's left Kama's blade and from above of his from Kama's haft holding right hand, thus disarming him. Louie then sent with his ninja's right hand's sword a third slice from below at the ninja's head, leaving a long bleeding cut across his face and knocking him on his back to the roof. The turtle in black then turned back to the ninja he had kicked in the groins earlier and slit his throat open with his ninja's left hand's sword, killing him.

After Mary and Louie had defeated their foes, with Louie throwing off the ninja from his shoulders as he no longer needed him, they both turned to look around for a next opponent, and it was then when they both spotted Tatsu having caught Arcee into the chokehold and was squeezing his grip even harder around of their sister's throat, with the sadistic glee in his eyes, while the turtle in pink tried frantically get off from Tatsu's grip as she kept coughing and gasping for the air.

"HEY!" Louie yelled, getting angry at the sight in front of his eyes.

"ARCEE!" Mary frantically yelled in worry for her little sister.

Determined to help their sister, both the turtles in turquoise and black charged across the rooftop towards the Tatsu and Arcee, only to be instantly halted by the group of four-five of Tatsu's Large Foot Ninjas, who were wielding the large crossbows in their hands.

"I GOT THIS, MARY! GO!" Louie urged his sister as he pulled out both his Butterfly Swords and, letting out the loud battle cry of his own, charged at the Large Foot Ninjas, two of which raised their loaded crossbows and aimed their bolts at Louie while the rest three aimed their own at Mary, as she raised her Naginata over her head as held it in the position as if intenting to run its blade through of one of the Large Foot Soldiers before the bolts of their crossbows could struck her down.

As the Large Foot Ninjas fired their crossbow bolts at the turtles in turquoise and black, Mary struck her Naginata's blade into the roof and pole-vaulted herself into the air and over both the fired bolts and the ninjas heads, while Louie threw himself on his knees and leaned his head and torso backwards, skidding along the watery surface of the roof and beneath of two flying bolts, narrowly avoiding them.

Two of the Large Foot Ninjas then abandoned their crossbows and drew out their large Ninjato-swords before they lunged upwards and towards Mary in an attempt to cut her down in the mid-flight. However, their attempts were thwarted when Louie leaned forward and somersaulted back to his feet in a crouched down position before the turtle in black pounced upwards like the rocket and towards the ninjas threatening his big sister, holding out his Butterfly sword forward and aiming them towards the ninjas' unprotected chests.

The turtle in black managed to catch both Large Foot Ninjas first and both tackled them off the air and stabbed them both through their hearts with his short swords before they could slash Mary with their raised swords, thus allowing his sister to advance. The ninjas let out a surprised and throaty gasps in pain upon feeling Louie's short and ice-cold blades running them through by their chests, before they fell limp and dropped their swords off their hands. Louie then flew through of the gap between of stabbed ninjas and started to fall back towards the rooftop, dragging the ninjas down with him.

Both mortally wounded ninjas then thuded their backs on the watery roof, splashing the water beneath them, while Louie himself landed onto his shell to the roof and somersaulted back to his feet, while Mary herself landed back on her feet a small distance ahead of Louie.

Once back on their feet to the ground, Mary kept charging at Tatsu and Arcee while Louie turned around to face the three remaining Large Foot Ninjas, whom turned to face him, abandoning their crossbows and drawing out their large swords.

The Large Foot Ninja then charged at the turtle in black, all three at the same time, though Louie had already predicted their moves. As the ninjas in his left and in the middle lunged at Louie first and prepared to brought their raised swords down on him, Louie moved his Butterfly swords to his left side before he raised them upwards and clashed them together with the ninjas' swords, blocking them from reaching him. The third ninja in his right then attempted to take advandage of Louie's unguarded right flank and prepared to strike him with his own sword, though Louie was prepared for this and kicked with his right foot the ninja's right left off from under him, thus causing the ninja to fall on his right knee and miss him as he brought his sword down to the roof. Louie then lifted his right leg high up and sent the kick in the third's ninja's face, knocking his head back and sending him flyng onto his back to the roof, knocked out cold. Louie then proceeded by pulling with his own blades the ninjas' swords down to his left before he spun himself around again and butterfly kicked both ninjas in the heads - first the middle ninja under his chin and then the ninja in the left to the face - knocking them both off their feet and sending them flying over to the roof and out cold. After knocking the Large Foot Ninja out, Louie turned around and rushed after Mary to help her to fight Tatsu.

Back with Tatsu and Arcee, the evil scar-faced Foot-lieutenant grinned sadistically as his attempts to kill the turtle in pink began to bear a fruit. As he kept tightening his hold around of Arcee's neck and pretended her from gasping for air, Arcee's struggles to get free were getting more frantic and desperate, like an animal that was caught by its neck in the snare and was slowly and painfully suffocating to death while trying to vainly get free, which only motivated Tatsu to squeeze even tighter.

True to this, Arcee was squirming and struggling against Tatsu's chokehold in near panicked state, letting a pained grunts and hoarse gasps out of her mouth as the evil Foot-lieytenant kept choking her. But no matter how hard she struggled, the rapidly increasing lack of oxygen resulted her struggles becoming weaker by any second.

"GET... OFF... ME!" the turtle in pink managed to let out with a hoarse wheeze.

"Not till I've squeezed the life out of you, my dear. Not until then." Tatsu retorted, letting out a dark chuckle at his own words and at the sight of Arcee's hands falling limply from his arm wrapped around her neck.

"YOU HEARD HER, TATSU! GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY SISTER!"

Hearing his name being called, Tatsu turned his head up and saw Mary falling down towards him and Arcee from the skies, aiming her raised Naginata's blade at the Foot-lieutenant's head, as a new bright lightning went off across the sky behind of the turtle in turquoise, illuminating the sky momentarily and casting her shadow upon Tatsu and her sister.

Though greatly tempted to use Arcee as a living shield against Mary's incoming attack by moving her in the way of her Naginata's blade and make Mary to accidentally kill her own sister in order to hurt her psychologically, Tatsu eventually decided against it and roughly threw the turtle in pink away from him like a limp rag doll. After falling over to the watery roof with the splash and finally free from Tatsu's chokehold, nearly suffocated Arcee burst into a violent fit of coughing and gasped hoarsely for much needed air like a crazy..

At the mere seconds when Mary's Naginata was about to hit Tatsu in the face, Tatsu drew out his own pair of Katanas and clashed with his left Katana with Mary's Naginata's blade and pinned it to the roof with one hard swing before he swung his right Katana over his head and then attempted to swing it horizontally at Mary to cut her head clean off her shoulders. However, the turtle in turquoise dodged it narrowly by bowing her head down and out of the blade's way, revealing Louie charging at them both from behind, catching Tatsu off guard. Before Tatsu could react in any way, Louie leaped over his sister, spun around and roundhouse kicked with his left foot Tatsu in the face, sending him flying backwards.

However, Tatsu flipped over in the mid-flight before landing back on his feet to the wet roof. The ninja master's nose was bleeding slightly and he had received a small bruise in the left corner of his mouth, but otherwise there was almost no other signs left on Tatsu's face from Louie's kick.

Snarling at Louie and Mary angrily, Tatsu took a battle-ready pose, mockingly mimicking one of Leo's poses by bending his right leg down and extending his left leg forward while holding out his left Katana forward and lifting his right Katana over his head, pointing them both at the turtles. Neither Louie or Mary took approvingly of Tatsu mocking them by copying Leo's fighting poses, but they accepted the scar-faced ninja master's challenge nonetheless.

Teaming up against Tatsu, both Louie and Mary began by briefly demonstrate their skills with their weapons - Louie spun his Butterfly swords rapidly in his hands before taking a hold from them and held them both upside down, before he then crossed his arms in front of him, aiming his swords tips at Tatsu before he then pulled them back. Meanwhile, Mary spun her Naginata with her left hand on her right side, before moving it to her left side, but quickly switched it to her right hand and then she swung her weapon in arch over her head until its blade hit to the watery roof on her right, causing a stinging CLANK-sound upon impact - before both turtles charged at their nemesis at the same time.

Mary made it to Tatsu before Louie did and made the first move by swinging her Naginata over her head and then downwards towards Tatsu in attempt to slash him, but Tatsu stood up and moved his left Katana behind him while bringing his right Katana downwards, clashing his blade with Mary's weapon, before he pulled his left Katana from behind him and swung it over his head and towards Mary to slice her. But before he could lay any harm on Mary, Louie jumped in and stopped Tatsu's Katana by clashing his right Butterfly sword with it, thus stopping it and allowing Mary to pull her Naginata back. Louie and Tatsu then tried to slash each other, Tatsu with his right Katana and Louie with his left Butterfly sword, and clashed their weapons together before any serious hald could be done. The turtle in black and scarred ninja master gritted their teeth as they tried to push each other back with all their strength, while glaring each other bitterly through of their together locked blades.

As the two kept struggling for gaining the upper hand over each other, Mary moved in and tried to stab Tatsu in the stomach from under of his defense, but Tatsu managed to detect her intentions before she had time to execute it and responded to it by unexpectedly and sneakily stepping backwards, out of Mary's Naginata's reach. Turning back to Louie, whom Tatsu had caught by surprise with his move, the scarred ninja master pulled his Katanas off from Louie's swords before he spun them backwards and then swung them upwards towards Louie from beneath of his defense, slashing him in his frontal plastron and leaving there two vertical scratch lines, while the force of the impact knocked Louie several steps back and away from Tatsu, making him to wave his arms up in order to regain his balance and thus leaving his guard open. This did fit well for Tatsu, as the scarred ninja master seized this opportunity and charged at the turtle in black. Tatsu then flipped onto his hands to the roof before pushing himself up and towards Louie, landing a powerful double-kick with both of his feet that knocked both the wind out of Louie and the turtle in black himself off his feet and sent him flying onto his shell to the roof.

With Louie down, the wind knocked out of him by Tatsu's double-kick in his chest and at the mercy of his enemy, Tatsu then moved forward and towards the downed turtle, grinning at the opportunity to kill at least one of the turtles himself before the rest of them would follow a suit either in his, his master's or his soldiers' hands. Once he was upon Louie, Tatsu raised his swords up, ready for the death blow, before he brought them hard down on Louie to kill him. But before they could hit Louie fatally, Mary's Naginata's blade came out of nowhere in the way and blocked the swords from reaching to the killing range, thus saving Louie's life and allowing him to roll away.

Taking the turn in fighting Tatsu, Mary swung her Naginata wildly from side to side and towards Tatsu in attempt to slash him, though the scarred ninja master leaned his head backwards to evade the first slash aimed his head, then he clashed with her couple next slashes with his Katanas before Mary aimed her fourth slash towards Tatsu's legs, though the ninja master managed to evade it too by jumping over it with the butter-fly jump while swinging his Katanas around himself. Mary then charged forward and attempted to stab Tatsu in the stomach, though Tatsu knocked it off the course with his left Katana. Mary attempted to slash him again, but Tatsu blocked it with both Katanas, before pushing Mary's Naginata away from him to her right, before he quickly thursted his swords towards Mary as she turned back to Tatsu, stricking her in the face with their pommels. The impact knocked Mary's head back and caused her to step a couple steps away from Tatsu. With Mary distracted for a moment, Tatsu then leaped into the air, spinning around, and delivered a powerful kick on top of Mary's forehead with his left leg, which forcefully knocked Mary off her feet and onto her shell to the roof.

As soon as Mary was down, Tatsu turned his Katanas upside down in his hands before he lunged up in the air, flipped around and then started to fall back down and towards downed Mary, raising his Katanas over his head and prepared to run them through of Mary by her stomach. However, before they could harm her, Louie springed in and timely caught Tatsu's swords with his own short swords a mere inches above of Mary's heart. Louie then lifted Tatsu's swords up and knocked them away, before the turtle in black started to push Tatsu back by slashing him with both his Butterfly swords, sending the series of horizontal slices at him, but Tatsu managed to easily match his attacks by clashing his Katanas with Louie's shorter swords at each round, either blocking the attack or turning it off course. Louie stubbornly kept slashing, but no matter how many times and how hard he tried to lay at least a one mortal blow on Tatsu, he always kept blocking them.

After blocking Louie's last attack, Tatsu unexpectedly spun around to his left, and as he turned back to Louie, the scarred ninja master lunged forward and swung his left sword forward while swinging his right sword in wide horizontal arch towards Louie in attempt to hack him in the head with both of them, but Louie moved out of Tatsu's attack's way by bending his right knee down and falling on his other knee to the roof while bowing his head down, narrowly avoiding Tatsu's swords, though his first Katana cut off his mask's black tails just ten inches above from above of the back of his head.

Tatsu then swung his Katanas over his head and was about to bring them down on Louie for another death blow, if it wasn't for Mary, who, after recovering from Tatsu's attack, swung her Naginata horizontally at Tatsu and clashed her weapon's blade with Tatsu's, stopping them still. And as soon as Mary pulled her weapon back, Louie jumped up from the roof and lunged at Tatsu, swinging first his left, then his right and then his left sword again hard and fast against Tatsu's swords, forcing the surprised ninja master into defense and sending briefly lasting sparks flying with each strike. Louie then knocked Tatsu's swords aside with the last slash against them with his right sword and at the same time pulled his right leg upwards and kicked with it Tatsu to the back of his left flank.

"AGH!" Tatsu gasped from the impact of Louie's kick, slightly surprised that Louie had been able to lay at least one kick on him during of this battle.

Now very angry for this, Tatsu attacked both turtles in turquoise and black with the doubled effort in both his skills and speed: moving around, spinning around and swinging his Katanas around like wings of the wind turbines in the powerful wind, yet fighting with a berserk-like rage and blood-lust, forcing both Mary and Louie into defensive and to double their efforts to at least stay alive!

Meanwhile, Dom was battling against two ninjas at the same time, alternately turning from one ninja to another while fending off their attacks with his Tonfas. As the ninja in his right attacked him, Dom blocked his sword with his right Tonfa before whacking with his left Tonfa the ninja in his right wrist, making him groan in pain and back away from Dom while holding shaking his sore wrist. With the first ninja's attention briefly elsewherem Dom was able to focus on the ninja in his left. Dom blocked the second ninja's two attempts to slash him with his sword, before he swung his left Tonfa at the ninja's hands around his sword's handle and whacked him in both of his knuckles, causing him to yelp in pain and drop his sword to the roof, afterwards he too started to shake his hands. This momentary break allowed slightly exhausted and heavily panting Dom to have a moment for himself to catch his breath and gather his strength before resuming the fight. After recovering from the blows to their wrist/knuckles, the ninjas leveled their swords up and pointed them at the turtle in white for a moment before lunging at him and swinging their swords towards him from both sides at the same time. However, before their swords' could hit him and cause any serious damage, Dom crossed his arms against his chest before turning around and crouching down out of their swords' way, which blades flew over his head harmlessly. Seeing this, the ninjas raised their swords up for another attempt to strike Dom down. But before they could, Dom jumped back up and whacked both of them across the faces with his Tonfas hafts, knocking them both out and down.

Dom then turned his head to right and then to the left, seeking for a new opponent to fight and knock them out. His eyes soon found Arcee, who had recovered from Tatsu's chokehold enough to at least breath somewhat better now and was right now slowly getting back up to her feet. However, the turtle in white's eyes went wide from horror as he saw the Shredder was suddenly looming over still downed turtle in pink, without her even knowing he was standing right behind of her.

"ARCEE! LOOK OUT!" Dom screamed before the turtle in white rushed towards them both, desperate to get to his sister's aid in time.

"Huh?" Arcee muttered, a bit confused of what Dom had cried about. However, the flash of the lightning behind her revealed an ominous shadow that was looming over her. Gulping nervously and, with the 'fearing-the-worst' look on her face, Arcee turned around to look behind her to see who it was, only to meet the Shredder's dark figure standing right behind her.

"AHH!" Arcee cried in horror at the sight of the Shredder himself, as the another lightning flashed in the sky behind of the evil Foot lord, silhouetting his armored figure and casting his shadow down upon a terrified turtle in pink.

Unable to move or even to anything to defend herself as if she was petrified from fear, Arcee breathed rapidly and anxiously as she stared into the Shredder's eyes, while the evil Foot Lord stared at him with the sharp ice-cold eyes, with no pity or empathy at all, only murderous, malicious and sadistic luster in them. The Shredder also snickered silently yet sinisterly, clearly amused by the look of utter fear in Arcee's eyes.

As another lightning went off in the stormy sky, the Shredder suddenly lunged at Arcee and thursted his right hand's gauntlet's Tekkō-kagi claws towards the turtle in pink for the apparent death blow. This snapped Arcee out of her paralyzed state but it was too late for her to do anything before the Shredder had her captured in the gap between of his claws by her throat, causing her to let out a throaty gasp. The evil Foot lord dragged the turtle in pink forcibly off her feet and roughly pinned her to the roof by her throat.

In panic, Arcee grabbed with both hands from the Shredder's arm that kept her pinned to the roof and tried to pull the claws off to free herself, but the Shredder's arm didn't budge! With her trapped and helpless, the Shredder raised his left hand's gauntlet's Tekkō-kagi claws over and prepared to strike them down on Arcee and kill her with one swing.

"Your time is up, turtle!" the Shredder sneered.

"NO! NO! NO!" Arcee screamed as she kept futilely struggling to get free before incoming deadly blow.

But at the very moment when Shredder was about to kill Arcee, several Shurikens flew past his head while several hit him in the helmet, left shoulder guard and chest armor, though they bounced off him without any effect beside of catching the Shredder briefly by surprise before turning his attention away from Arcee and to the one who threw the throwing stars at him. The Shredder frowned angrily as he saw Dom charging at him with determination in his eyes. The turtle in white then jumped into the air and dived towards the Shredder, preparing to lay a dive kick in his armored chest and knock him away from his sister.

The Shredder, however, countered this by lunging himself towards Dom with the rocket-like speed and gave Dom a fierce kick in the face with his left leg, knocking the turtle in white off the air. The brutal force in the Shredder's kick could've sent Dom flying away to the other side of the roof, if the Shredder hadn't grabbed him from the ankle with his left hand. As the Shredder landed back on his feet to the roof, he slammed the turtle in white really hard against the watery surface of the roof, causing Dom to let out a pained gasp. Unsatisfied, the Shredder then grabbed with both hands from Dom's ankle and started to swing him from side to side like a rag doll, slamming him hard against the roof for three-six times, causing Dom to let out more pained groan and forcing much of the air out of his lungs upon of each impact.

Falling limp from the soreness in his body, Dom couldn't do anything to defend himself from the Shredder, who eventually let go from his ankle, letting him to fall on his stomach to the roof in the evil Foot Lord's feet. Then the Shredder grabbed from his shell with both hands and lifted him off the roof and high into the air without any effort in it, as if Dom weighed almost nothing, or then the Shredder himself was physically as strong as Hun... if not even stronger. The Shredder lifted Dom's limp body over his head before pulling him hard down and slammed him chest-first against his knee, causing the turtle in white to let out another pained groan before the Shredder allowed the turtle in white to fall over to the roof, beaten and defeated. And as if he was still not yet satisfied, the Shredder slammed his right foot hard down and onto Dom's chest, making him groan in pain again and pinning him to the roof.

After beating up Dom, the Shredder turned back to Arcee. The turtle in pink had at least got up to sit down, but she was still too shaken and terrified after being nearly killed by the Shredder a moment ago if Dom hadn't interfered in time, to stand up and fight. All she could do in this state was to watch helplessly as her brother was getting the hellish beatdown in the hands of the Shredder. The Foot Lord saw the horrified and helpless look in the turtle in pink's eyes and relished on it.

"Now, where were we, little one?" the Shredder asked mockingly as he took his foot off from Dom's chest before picking him up from the roof by his frontal plastron with his left hand. "Oh, yes. Back in killing you, turtle!" he added sinisterly, before he threw Dom towards Arcee, causing him to thud on his shell-back in front of Arcee, letting out a pained grunt upon landing.

However, seeing her brother brutally beaten in front of her stirred in Arcee's head the very memory of the Master Splinter's tragic story of his master Hamato Yoshi's cold-blooded murder in the hands of the Shredder, the very same man who was just now about to beat Dom to death. Yoshi's death and Dom's beating up caused Arcee to feel out of nowhere emerged anger that was boiling in her veins and the strong instinctive need to help her brother helped her to conquer her initial shock, horror and fear and granted her with the second wind, which she was about to put into the action now.

Arcee hadn't quite fully recovered yet, as he was still struggling to get back to her feet, but the turtle in pink eventually managed to push herself up from the roof with the sheer willpower, with the help of which she also turned to face the Shredder himself, no matter how powerful he was.

"Then bring it on, Shredder! But leave... my family... ALONE!" the turtle in pink cried from the top of her lungs as she took a step towards the Shredder, somehow ready to fight him.

The Shredder found himself amused by Arcee's defiance and anger, which pushed her up and to make a stand against him even if she wasn't fully recovered. However, paying no mind to it, the Shredder mockingly accepting Arcee's challenge and began walking towards her, before the evil Foot Lord suddenly dashed forward towards the turtle in pink with the with the incredible speed.

"Wow!" Arcee gasped in shock and surprise of the Shredder's incredible and nearly superhuman-like speed and backed away, though it was futile as the Shredder was already upon her before she could get far, with his Tekkō-kagi claws readied for the death blow!

"ARCEE! MOVE!" shouted the voice behind her shell, before Leo arrived to the scene and pushed stunned Arcee over to the roof and out of the Shredder's claws way.

After pushing Arcee away, Leo quickly raised both his Katanas over his head before pulling them both forward in attempt to slice the Shredder as he thursted his Tekkō-kagi claws forward and towards the turtle in blue, only to switch his move from the offensive to defensive and he shielded himself with his left hand's gauntlet against Leo's Katanas that clashed against his gauntlet's spikes.

The Shredder then sent a punch into Leo's unprotected chest, nearly forcing the air out of him and making Leo gasp in shock and bend over in pain. Then the Shredder grabbed from his swords scabbard's belt and bodily lifted him off the roof with one hand before he threw the turtle in blue roughly against the roof, leaving Leo lying on his left side while slightly moaning from pain.

But the Shredder wasn't done with him yet. The evil Foot master then kicked Leo in the stomach by the same way as the football player would kick the ball away, and the kick's force sent him effortlessly flying into the air... and directly towards Dom, as he was slowly getting back up to his feet after recovering from the beatdown the Shredder gave him enough to do it. The turtle in white, however, didn't see his beaten brother flying shell-back first towards him before Leo eventually slammed into him, knocking him over. Both turtles in white and blue then landed with the rough thuds and splash to the watery roof in the other side of the rooftop and remained to lie there in a pile of two defeated turtles, groaning in pain and defeat.

Even though they were at the moment an easy prey for him, the Shredder turned his attention away from them to the other turtles.

He first turned to where Leo had pushed Arcee out of his blow's way, but she wasn't there anymore. The turtle in pink had crawled away from him while his attention was in Leo and she was already far out of his reach... but as she was still on the same rooftop helping her brothers and sister, it didn't matter if she managed to evade him for now.

His attention then went to Louie and Mary, who were alreay having their hands full in their fight against Tatsu. The turtles in turquoise and black put in the fight all their effort and teamwork, but no matter how they kept trying, they failed to overpower Tatsu and ended up getting their shells kicked.

Louie tried to send a roundhouse-kick at Tatsu in the face with his right leg, but Tatsu moved under of it by spreading his legs wide and bowing his head down, causing Louie to miss him and turn his shell to Tatsu. Tatsu then stood up and sliced Louie across his shell with his right katana, leaving there a long but otherwise harmless scratch, before the ninja master kicked him in the shell hard enough to knock him down on his knees to the roof. Tatsu then turned to face Mary who was charging towards him while holding her Naginata over her head, ready for stike. The turtle in turquoise brought her weapon down on Tatsu to split his head in two, But Tatsu moved out of Mary's strike's way, leading her to miss him and strike her Naginata to the watery surface of the roof instead. Tatsu then spun around to the left and raised his Katanas over his head before he brought them hard down on Mary's Naginata, knocking the weapon out of Mary's hands and to the roof.

Tatsu then turned back to Louie, as the turtle in black had gotten back up and was charging at him again and was about to slash him with his short swords, but Tatsu swung his Katanas up and clashed them with Louie's weapons, blocking his attack, before the ninja master spun to his right, turning back to Mary and snap-kicking her right in the face with his left foot, knocking her head back and causing the blood and saliva to burst out of her mouth. Tatsu's kick also caused Mary to fly off her feet and onto her shell to the roof.

With Mary knocked down to the roof, slightly dizzy and the face bloodied from Tatsu's kick, the ninja master turned back to Louie. The turtle in black tried to attack Tatsu again, but the scarred ninja master kicked Louie's left leg off from under him, causing him to groan in pain and to fall onto his knee to the roof. Tatsu then raised his swords up and tried to bring them down on Louie to kill him, but the turtle in black quickly crossed his arms over his head while holding his Butterfly swords up in a horizontal pose, thus blocking Tatsu's swords before they could hit him. Louie then uncrossed his arms and pushed Tatsu's Katanas out of his way, before the turtle in black tried to lunge upwards and slice Tatsu's throat. Tatsu, however, moved faster than him and punched Louie hard in the chest with his right fist.

"AHH! Louie gasped upon feeling the impact of Tatsu's punch in his chest, which forced a good amount of air out of his lungs and caused him to bent over in pain and feel slight dizziness in his head. Dropping his swords to the watery roof, Louie grabbed from his aching chest with one hand, panting heavily, and backed away from Tatsu step by step. The scarred ninja master stared after Louie, grinning evilly at his sufferings from his strike, but didn''t follow after him right away as if allowing him to make to take a distance from him. This was proven true, because as soon as Louie was far enough and vulnerable for Tatsu's next attack, the scarred ninja master lunged towards the turtle in black, and once close enough he spun around and jumped in the air with the butterfly-jump and kicked Louie in the head with his right foot, knocking Louie off his feet and sending him flying on his face and stomach to the roof.

Knowing that Tatsu, as one of his most skilled and trustworthy lieutenants and servants, could easily hold his own against two of the turtles, the Shredder turned away from them and left to prey on the other turtles who were still on their feet but not "too occupied."

Elsewhere, Donnie was facing off the pair of Foot Soldiers, spinning his Bo-staff in front of him while forcing the ninjas to back away from him step by step, while another lightning went off above of them in the stormy sky.

One of the ninjas attacked him first, but Donnie blocked his sword from landing on his head with his Bo before he spun around and stabbed the ninja to the stomach with the blunt end of his staff, making him gasp from the pain in his stomach as he bent over and then fell over to his left side on the roof, lying there in pain. Another ninja then jumped on Donnie by his turn, with his sword raised up for the strike. Donnie, however, took the hit with one end of his Bo-staff before he moved the ninja's weapon out of way and then he whacked the ninja hard in the face, snapping his head back before the brainy turtle in purple finished the ninja off with the kick in its chest, knocking him away and over to the roof.

After beating the ninjas, Donnie turned around to seek for a new opponent, while spinning his Bo-staff wildly in front of him.

He instantly got one when the Shredder landed with the loud thud right behind of him, making Donnie to cease spinning his staff and turn towards him.

Donnie tried to whack him to the head with his staff, but Shredder dodged it by bending down before he lunged at the brainy turtle and sent in a couple of punches in Donnie's face, knocking him back slightly, before he kneed him in the chest with his right knee and then flip-kicked him in the face with both feet, causing Donnie to fly with the somersault onto his stomach to the roof. Though slightly stunned by the Shredder attacks, the turtle in purple stood back up, spat the slight amount of blood out of his mouth and rubbed his bruised left cheek with his hand before he charged at the Shredder again, spinning his Bo-staff wildly.

Donnie sent in a various blows at the Shredder with his staff, both in order to lay an effective blow on him and to force him to back off. The Shredder, however, didn't even budge and he effortlessly blocked Donnie's blows with his wrists' gauntlets before he suddenly slashed Donnie to the chest with his right hand's Tekkō-kagi claws and the gauntlet's curved blades, knocking the turtle in purple back and leaving into his chest several scratches from his claws and gauntlet's blades, deep enough to almost penetrate his frontal plastron. Even a momentary inspection of the damage out of instinctive ensurance whether he was hurt or not caught Donnie's attention off this fight with their deadliest opponent, and the Shredder took advantage of this and lunged into Donnie, sending a hard dive into Donnie's chest that sent him flying him away from him.

Donnie landed on his shell-pack into the small pool with the pained grunt. But when he opened his eyes, he gasped in horror as a lone Foot Ninja was falling down from the sky and towards him, with his Ninjato-sword raised up and ready to kill the downed turtle with one blow.

Donnie closed his eyes and wainted for the ninja to bring his blade down on his head. However, the brainy turtle heard then a loud 'CLANK' above of his head and opened his eyes in confusion. His confusion was turned into a relief when he noticed that he had been saved from getting killed by Raph, who had lunged between of him and the ninja's strike just in time and blocked with his Sai the ninja's own blade before it could've landed a killing blow on his downed brother. As Raph began to lift the ninja's sword up, safely far away from his brother's face, Donnie rolled away from under of the locked blades of Ninjato and Sai.

"Mind to watch your back in the future Braniac?" Raph grunted as he struggled with the ninja's blade, locking it in both of his Sai's guards.

"Isn't that what you're for, Raph?" Donnie questioned with the smirk before he leaped away to rejoin the fight around of them.

"Yeah! Whatever!" Raph snorted, before the turtle in red tore the sword off the ninja's grasp with one hard pull and sent it flying in the air, causing the surprised ninja to look at his blade as it flew away from his reach, allowing Raph to finish him off with the swift stab in the chest with hbis left Sai, making the ninja gasp from pain and bent over, before the turtle in red snap kicking mortally wounded ninja off his feet to the roof with his right leg.

The ninja's sword flew spinning across the roof, heading directly towards Mikey and Arcee, whom were fighting shell-to-shell against two Foot Ninja in the other side of the roof. Mikey was spinning his Nunchucks wildly in front of him to keep the ninja's sword at bay as he kept slicing the turtle in orange with it while Arcee was swinging her Tessens at the her own opponent to keep him away.

Mikey managed to catch the sight of towards them flying Katana from the corner of his left eye and his eyes widened in surprise.

"ARCEE! ROW-RIDGE!" Mikey shouted as warning.

"WHOA!" Arcee yelled after turning her eyes to her right and realizing what Mikey meant.

The turtles in orange and pink then ducked down from the sword's way as it flew over them, allowing them to resume their fighting with the ninjas and quickly defeated them.

However, the sword hit by accident directly to the warehouse's power generator and managed to penetrate its surface, allowing the pouring rain water to pour along the swords blade and through of the breach into the generator. The generator started to spark as soon as the rain water hit to the circuits. The generator's sparking worsened till it eventually blew up into the huge storm of fire, that quickly spread up all over of the whole building.

With the building ablaze, Donnie and recently recovered Dom backed away from the couple of Foot Ninja as they approached the turtles in purple and white, swords in their hands. They were soon joined by Mikey and Arcee, who landed on their hands in front of their brothers before they pushed themselves off the floor and flipped over their brothers' heads, landing behind of their shell-backs, as a new and fresh pair of Foot Ninja, who were chasing after the turtles in orange and pink, landed side by side their comrades that were battling Donnie and Dom.

Donnie then struck his Bo-staff to the roof and pole vaulted with it out of the one ninja's sword as he tried to slice him horizontally with it, which happened at the same time as Dom leaned his head back to evade the second ninja's slice to his head and rolled sideways to right side to avoid the ninja's attempt to roundhouse-kick him in the chest. And as this happened, Arcee found herself wrestling with the third ninja after locking their arms into each other, both the ninja and the turtle in pink groaned through of their gritted teeth while trying to get the upper hand over one another, while the fourth ninja moved in to slice Mikey with his sword.

Donnie then landed behind the ninja who had tried to slice him and then swung his Staff horizontally towards the ninja, whacking him in the chest, while Dom was blocking his ninja's sword with his left Tonfa before knocking with his right Tonfa's haft the ninja directly in the face, until Donnie's staff inadvertently struck him in the chest while whacking his own ninja, knocking both his and Dom's ninjas a step back.

And as this happened, Arcee, who was still wrestling with her ninja, hopped off the roof and flipped over the ninja's head while holding from the shoulder pads of his suit's vests. Arcee then pushed herself off from the ninja's shoulders before she landed on her foot onto Donnie's and Dom's ninjas' heads and ended up to balance on them for a short time. The fourth ninja, meanwhile, attempted to send the slice at Mikey again, but the turtle in orange crouched down to evade the slice before he spun around and struck with both his Nunchucks to the ninja's chest, sending him wobbling back and into two others.

"Little help, Dom!" Arcee shouted as she hopped off the ninjas' heads dived towards her brother in white while holding her hands out for him.

"Got it!" Dom said with the nod, before he held out his Tonfas forward, allowing Arcee to grab from their hafts. The turtle in white then spun himself around, swinging his sister in pink around of him and towards the ninjas who were all at this point rounded up together. And as she flew towards them, Arcee send a kick with both of her feet into hers and Dom's ninjas chests, knocking them into the others behind them and causing all four ninjas to fall into a pile over to the roof.

Elsewhere, as the fire kept rapidly spreading, the Shredder had found himself in the standoff with Leo and Raph, who stood in the other side of the rooftop opposite of him. The evil Foot Lord was joined by Tatsu, who was standing by his master's side, while Mary and Louie standing as a reinforcements by their brothers' side.

Each side, the Shredder and Tatsu and Leo, Raph, Mary and Louie, stared each other with the hatred and determination to fight to the death.

Leonardo and the Shredder stared at each other with even deeper hatred. Leo's blood in his veins was boiling for the knowledge of the Shredder's bloody and dishoroable deed in the past and also for shamelessly lying to him about everything yesterday, while the Shredder's face under of the mask of his helmet formed into a bitter and angry frown from the disappointment he held for Leo for his refusal of his offer and for daring to challenge his power like this. However, despite his angry frown and disappointment, a sadistic grin made its way to his legs for the pleasure of this opportunity to kill Leo and his entire family personally and end their being a thorn in his side once and for all.

Tatsu, however, gave the turtles yet another cocky and sadistic grin that bared his pearl-white teeth from under of his lips, making the turtles, especially Mary and Louie, to narrow their eyes deeper and grit their teeth even harder as they stared at the scarred ninja master angrily. Both ninja turtles in turquoise and black were fed up by Tatsu's cocky grin and wanted so badly to wipe it off his face.

And then, letting out the war cries from the top of their lungs, both sides lunged at each other at the same time.

The Shredder lunged at Leo and Raph, who lunged at him together, while Tatsu charged on foot towards Mary and Louie, who charged towards him, ready for another round.

Leo raised both of his Katanas over his head with the intention to strike the Shredder anywhere where the impact would leave a devastating effect, while Raph prepared to kick the Shredder to the chest and knock him off the air in mid-flight as Leo was opening the way past of the Shredder's guard for him. Mary meanwhile lifted her Naginata up and prepared to thrust it through of Tatsu's chest from above while Louie moved in from above by leaping over his sister's head and lifting his Butterfly swords up to strike them onto Tatsu's head, hoping to cause at least some damage now that Tatsu's attention was in his sister.

However, as Leo and Raph met and engaged the Shredder in the air in middle of the ablazing battlefield, the Shredder blocked with his left gauntlets' claws Leo's Katanas as he swung them at him, while knocking with his right gauntlet Raph's incoming kick off its course, After blocking Leo's and Raph's attacks, the Shredder split-kicked both the turtles: Leo in the chest and Raph in his right flank, one at the time, sending both turtles flying to the opposite sides of the rooftop, defeated. And the Shredder landed on his feet back to the roof, victorious.

At the same time, as Mary attempted to stab Tatsu, the scarred Foot master suddenly halted still and moved to his left side to avoid Mary's incoming attack, causing her to miss her target and accidentally strike her Naginata's blade into the roof, leaving it stuck there. With Mary briefly occupied in trying to pull her weapon off the roof to resume the fight, Tatsu turned to Louie as he ell towards him from the sky and brought his Butterfly swords down on him. The scarred ninja master then spun around and swung his Katanas horizontally around him before swinging them upwards to meet with Louie's incoming blades. The strong impact between of the blades caused Louie to lose control and make himspin around wildly in the air, allowing Tatsu to finish him off with the upwards aimed sharp kick, which hit its mark in middle of Louie's turned shell and sent him flying away, till he landed with the splash on his stomach to the roof.

With Louie defeated, Tatsu turned his focus back to Mary, who had at this point got her weapon loose and attacked Tatsu yet again while his back was turned to her, swinging her Naginata horizontally towards the scarred ninja master's head to behead him. However, Tatsu evaded Mary's Naginata by spreading his feet wide and crouching down onto his all fours as Mary's weapon's blade flew over his head. Then Tatsu spun around in crouched down and down on all fours position, turning toewards Mary. Before the turtle in turquoise could resume her attack, Tatsu was faster to stand back up and strike Mary hard in the face with the left palm-strike, which knocked her for a couple steps back and away from him. Tatsu then finished her off by spin-kicking the turtle in turquoise in the face again with his right foot, which knocked Mary off her feet and caused her to roll wildly in the air before she landed on her left side to the roof, defeated.

The Foot side had won this round, while the fire in the building was getting even worse.

TO BE CONTINUED...

---

TRIVIA

1) = There is a difference between of the turtles' shells and frontal plastrons in 2003 and 2012 series. In 2003 series, the turtles' frontal plastrons are part of their bodies while their shells are like the backpacks on their backs, while in the 2012 series, the turtles' frontal plastrons are linked with the turtles' shells and protect the turtles' bodies from both the front and the back, which is why Raph's 2012 incarnation has a lightning-shaped crack in the left side of his frontal plastron. In my fanfic, I've re-designed all the turtles', both canon and my OC's, to have their frontal plastron's and shells to be linked to each other, which is why the turtles receive merely the scratces to their front and backside instead of the lethal wounds and why the direct hits from the arrows and the small throwing weapons like shurikens cannot kill them. With the female turtles, their frontal plastrons upper parts have been shaped into the bras over their breasts.