CT311998: Thanks. And such of "detailed" fights will happen every time when the turtles face bigger bad guys that could give them a real challenge in defeating them. So far, I've have made such of "detailed" fights with Stockman's Giant Mousers, Nanobot-robot, Tatsu, Foot-Tech-Ninjas, Hun, the Garbageman and now with the Shredder.
GUEST1: Thanks, though it's left to be a speculation whether this is an error or made in purpose, because Tatsu mostly views the turtles' as Kappa (an amphibious yōkai found in traditional Japanese folklore), he doesn't care or bother to check which gender each turtle is.
animegamefanatic: Not gonna be the first and last time when there's gonna be a brutal bloodshed.
Just a Guest: Thanks!. And yes. I kinda gave Arcee a pretty rought time during of this bloody battle, but good that her older brothers and sister are there for her whenever she needs them. And about of dating-stuff, that's yet to be seen.
animegamefanatic: Tatsu has such a big ego, which has already suffered greatly from his two humiliating defeats at the hands of turtles, who still lack years of long and hard training than what Tatsu does.
animegamefanatic: Thanks, though I do sometimes wonder that am I making the battles too long, too detailed and rather confusing.
And yes. This battle is far from the not-too-violent sport fights the turtles occasionally have with the low-life criminals and less threatening villains. This war-like battle and all the bloodshed is definitely gonna have a negative effect on Arcee's natural innosence and even her moral compass in the future.
That's who Louie is, a guy who likes to collect the trophies from their defeated enemies, and he is not above of his wish to add the Shredder's armor into his collection. And though were still so far away from that moment, I do believe Louie will be both horrified and enraged to lose his collection of trophies.
= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE SHREDDER STRIKES PART 2. PART 2.=
Back in the Lair, while the turtles were away to deliver Leo's answer to the Shredder, Master Splinter has been meditating for hours in peace in his room while waiting for his children's return, unaware that their trip to Saki's warehouse had led into all out war.
While meditating, Splinter was still troubled by many things regarding yesterday's events, like the Shredder's shadow that has fallen upon his family once again after fifteen years, questioning himself as to whether revealing the tragic death of his beloved late master and the Shredder's connection into their lives was the right choice from him, and how did it affect to his sons and daughters. And finally, how they should deal with the Shredder: should they take care of him once and for all or simply keep hiding from him, which has been his purpose for the fifteen years to ensure his second family's safety from him.
Coming up eventually with the final but difficult conclusion about this matter, Master Splinter then stood up from his meditation pose and walked to his room's doors and slided them open. Then he entred into the living room of the Lair, expecting his sons and daughters having already returned from their trip.
"My children? I have been in deep meditation regarding the Shredder, and..." Splinter started.
However, he was cut short when he looked around the Lair and noticed it being empty and silent and his children were nowhere to be seen, indicating that they hadn't yet returned.
"Still gone?" Splinter gasped, before he let out a sigh and walked towards Donnie's workshop. "I can't take even a few minutes for meditation without those kids running off."
As he walked, Splinter took out his Shell-Cell to see has anyone of his children sent any text messages for him. Sure he still had a little trouble in handling even such of simply piece of technology, even after Donnie has been showing how to handle the Shell-Cell for several times, but he still managed to open it up and get to the page of the text messages.
There was at least one text message from Arcee.
"Hi, Sensei. I sent this message to let you know that we've delivered Leo's answer to the Shredder and we're on our way home now. See you soon. Artemisia." the message read.
"On their way home now?" Splinter questioned in confusion before he checked the time when the message was sent before checking the time from the clock. It has been already over two or three hours since Arcee had sent her message. "Then where are you? Surely it shouldn't take this long to deliver one simple answer."
Splinter then checked the message again and noticed that Arcee had sent another message afterwards.
"PS: We also successfully defeated a bunch of his Foot Ninja, including Hun, as our way to teach him a lesson for his ill deeds in turtle style. See you soon." the message read.
Something in that final message stirred an uncomfortable feeling inside Splinter, and his instincts immediately told him that something was definitely wrong. When Arcee wrote in her message about "teaching him(the Shredder) a lesson," Splinter grew suspicious of what his children have once again done behind his back.
"Hmm... Of course, I have denied them from doing many things for their own good... but what is the one thing I did not want them to do?" Splinter asked from himself, scratching his ear as he tried to remember it.
And then, putting all pieces together, a dreadful realization hit him.
"FACE THE SHREDDER HIMSELF!" Splinter bellowed, his eyes going wide from shock and dread.
No! They couldn't ...! They couldn't have gone that far!" Splinter said, but his fatherly instincts told him otherwise.
Whether or not his children had done so on purpose didn't matter now. They were all in grave danger, leaving Splinter with only one option which he seized immediately: To go to the surface for the first time in years to search for them before it was too late.
"I must find them quickly!" Splinter said as he put his Shell-Cell away and turned to head back to his room to gather some items first before going to find his children.
However, something caught his eye from Donnie's desk and he turned to it. It was the remote control for the Battle Shell, which Donnie had either forgotten on his desk or then he had deemed it as unnecessary on this trip, which was supposed to be brief visit at the Shredder to deliver the message and then head back to the Lair. Feeling that it would come in handy tonight, Splinter picked it up from the desk before he rushed back to his room.
Once in his room, Splinter turned to the one particular wall in his room, where he was holding a several precious artifacts: One of which was the picture of Hamato Yoshi, which he had recovered from his apartment some time after Yoshi's death and his mutation. Along with it, there were the dark-brown Yumi-longbow with a reddish-brown ribbon wrapped around of its handle and a dark-brown Japanese quiver full of the red-feathered Kyūdō-arrows. Next to them was a sword-stand, where was resting in fine-looking Katana in the black and golden scabbard. The sword's blade was shiny silver and two-handed hilt and the guard golden-brown. The sword's guard was crafted into the shape of a five-petalled flower and the handle was wrapped with the emerald-green ribbon with the three lines of darker-toned diamond-shaped patterns. Next to it was standing another stand, in which was resting a Wakizashi-sword, that looked like the identical but smaller version of Yoshi's Katana.(1)
This sword, along with the Yumi-bow, quiver and the arrows, once belonged to Master Hamato Yoshi back when he was still alive. Splinter had retrieved all of them too from Yoshi's home and kept them in his possession and care. Until this day, Splinter had not removed them from the wall for any purpose other than checking their conditions and performing a needed maintenance on them to keep them from decaying. This is why he himself has preferred to use his long staff as a manner of walking stick, training stick and as his weapon of choice.(1)
But today, this was going to change.
Splinter put his staff aside for a moment before he took the quiver from the wall and made a quick inspection on each arrows' condition, before he lifted the quiver's leather strap over his left shoulder so tha tthe quiver was resting on his right hip. Then he took the Yumi-bow from the wall and held it up with his left hand while pulling its string back to see was it still tight enough and that the bow itself was strong enough to endure the tension so that it can be used in tonight's battle. After ensuring that the string was still tight and the bow strong enough, Splinter put it on his back. He also took with him a small set of throwing knives(Kunai), throwing stars(Shuriken) and a Tanto-knife, which was also a small copy of his master's sword by its design.(2)
Then, Splinter turned to his late master's Katana and carefully removed it from its stand. Splinter then grabbed from the sword's hilt with his right hand and pulled it partially out of its scabbard to check its beautiful silver glossy blade's condition.
Before Splinter put the sword back in its scabbard, his eyes caught the Japanese writings on the blade's flat side, which were written with the inspiration of Hamato Yoshi's last words before death claimed him.
なしではなく、名誉をもって生き死ぬ
Live and die with honor, not without
Splinter read the writing in his mind for a couple times, before he lowered his head slowly down and sadly closed his eyes, with the tear escaping from the corner of his eye and rad down along his left cheek, because this writing and its meaning brought to Sprinter's mind so many fond memories of his and Hamato Yoshi's times and that last day they spend together as an owner and a pet, as an teacher and a student, as a family, before that tragic night when he was taken from him.
But this time... this time he wasn't going to allow his second family to be taken away from him as tragically as before.
"Master Yoshi." Splinter started, still with his eyes closed, and hoping that his master's spirit could hear his prayer. "Let your spirit, wisdom and honor guide my hands that will wield your sword, so that I can save my second family from the same tragedy we both were forced to go through all those years ago."
After saying that, Splinter put the sword back in its scabbard and put it in his back. Then the old rat master picked up his staff and exited from his room and headed towards their elevator's doors, which opened once he was close enough.
"I hope I'm not too late." Splinter said as he entered into the elevator chamber and the doors closed behind him.
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Back in Saki's warehouse, as the battle between the turtles and the Foot kept going, the fire that erupted from the power generator's malfunction had at this point nearly engulfed the whole building. The fire had already made various breaches in the building's roof and across the rooftop, thus leaving very little room for maneuver for the both sides. And what comes to the fight, the turtles were dangerously close to lose it. There was still about half of the Shredder's small Foot army left and they kept pushing the turtles back harder and harder, surrounding and cornering them between their bloodthirsty swords and the impassable walls of fire. But despite how badly the odds were against them, the turtles kept valiantly fighting back.
In other side of the rooftop, in middle of the flames, Mikey, while spinning both his Nunchucks wildly, was facing the solo Foot Ninja with Ninjato-sword. Both the turtle and ninja stood in standoff while glaring at each other, sizing each other and waiting for one of them to make the first move first. Mikey eventually made the first move before the ninja could and sent a kick to the ninja's chest, sending him flying away.
However, the next ninja jumped in right after Mikey had landed on his feet and looked around for the next opponent, only to spot this new ninja standing right next to him before the ninja kicked Mikey in the guts before the turtle in orange had a chance to prepare himself for the counter-attack.
"WHOAAAA!" Mikey screamed as the ninja's kick sent him flying across the air to the other side of the rooftop, where Donnie had another standoff with two other ninjas.
Before the ninjas or Donnie had a chance to make the first move on each other, Mikey unexpectedly and literally crashed into the ninjas, knocking them both off their feet to the roof and out cold while landing himself on his shell-back onto their knocked-out carcasses.
Donnie, who was initially surprised of Mikey's inadvertent stunt, gave an approval smirk to his little brother as he walked over to him.
"Nice landing, bro." Donnie remarked, offering Mikey his hand so that he can help him up.
"Yeah. They don't call me "Air Flight Mikey" for nothing." Mikey joked, as he accepted Donnie's help and the brainy turtle pulled his brother back on his feet.
Elsewhere, Dom was literally breaking the sweat as he found himself in a trouble. The turtle in white was doing his best to block with his Tonfas the attacks coming from two sword-wielding Foot Ninja, who relentlessly kept pushing him back and attempting both to slice or stab the turtle in white with their blades. The exhaustion also started to affect in Dom's focus and moves as he missed the ninjas' several slices or didn't react fast enough to block them, ending up getting small cuts into his sides, chest and in the arms.
"GET BACK! BACK!" Dom shouted at the ninjas with the panting voice, but they only doubled their efforts and the pressure in their attacks on him.
And as if the the ninjas' doubled efforts in their attacks wasn't enough, the growing temperature he felt in his neck and the backside of his head prompted Dom to peek for brief moment over his shoulder. The turtle in white gasped in shock when he realized that the ninjas were trying to push him straight into the fire that raged right behind him.
"No good! No good! NO GOOD!" Dom muttered frantically under his breath, as the heat of the fire that was getting uncomfortably closer caused the multiple drops of sweat... along with the sweat of distress... to run down along his green skin.
Thinking quickly as both ninjas were ready to slice him again with their swords, the turtle in white jumped into the air and flipped over the ninjas' heads as they swung their swords at him, narrowly avoiding their swords from chopping off his legs from the thighs, knees or ankles.
Dom then landed back onto his feet and turned to face the ninjas again, spinning his Tonfas for a moment before taking another battle-ready pose, ready for the round two. The ninjas turned back to him and leveled their swords up, pointing their tips at the turtle in white, as they started to slowly approach Dom.
Despite their masks, Dom could see that the ninjas had the confident smirks on their lips, perhaps for knowing that he was tired and that his exhaustion condition was affecting on his focus, and that they could use it as their advantage against him. However, Dom just couldn't let them see that, despite the fact that they had seen it already.
So Dom decided to use the technique to make them believe that he still got a wind.
"Alright! C'mon, you lousy punks! Who's wanna be next?! I'll turn you all into... uh... what was it called again? Haggins? Oh, yeah! Haggins! All who wanna piece of me, I'll turn them into haggis! Don't be pushy, 'cause there's one for everyone! So come on and get me! And no need to worry! I can keep doing this all day!" Dom said, attempting his best to impersonate Louie's usual perky and boastful attitude to fool the ninjas into believing that he still got a fighting spirit both physically and mentally.
However, his very obvious exhaustion had also its effects on his confidence as his impersonation of his brother's boastful attitude turned out to be pretty poor. The ninjas were not buying one bit of it and kept approaching the turtle in white with their swords still pointed at him.
Dom rolled his eyes, frustrated and feeling like a complete idiot. And not the mention about totally embarrassing himself in front of the enemy.
"Sheesh! What an idiot I am! How does Louie do that all of time?" Dom muttered under of his breath, failing to notice that a third ninja was sneaking up on him from behind of his shell-back, before the ninja lunged at him and kicked him in the backside of his right leg, causing it to bend.
"AGH!" surprised Dom cried out in pain as he fell on his right knee to the roof.
Seeing their chance, the ninjas in front of him lunged forward while the ninja behind of Dom's shell-back prepared to drive his Ninjato-sword into his throat from the neck.
However, as one ninja's blade came horizontally towards Dom, the turtle in white leaned out of instincts backwards to evade the blade. He managed to avoid getting beheaded, though he accidentally head-butted the ninja behind him in between the legs hard enough to make it hurt.
"AGH!" the ninja gasped in surprise that he dropped his sword to the roof and pulled his hands over his groin after it took hit from Dom's head and bent his own head slightly down while falling on his knees, groaning in pain.
Bad mistake, though, because as soon as he fell on his knees and bent his head down, he met with the first two ninjas' horizontally towards him flying swords which were originally meant for Dom. The first ninja's sword accidentally slashed his comrade's face, causing his head to fly backwards and the blood to splash in the air from both the hideous cut across the ninja's face and from his comrade's bloodstained blade, before he was finished off by the second ninja to accidentally slit his throat with his own sword, killing him.
As this was happening, Dom had leaned even further backwards that he had put his hands down to the roof before he pushed himself off the roof with his left leg, snap-kicking with his right bent leg one of the ninjas under of his chin, knocking his head back and the ninja himself away.
Dom then flipped backwards and eventually landed back on his feet. However, as soon as he was up again, the second ninja had already lunged at him, before he spun himself around and sent with his left leg a roundhouse kick into the turtle in white's chest before he got a chance to prepare for it.
"WHOA!" Dom yelled as the kick sent him flying across the air and towards Arcee, who was at the moment walking a circle with another ninja with the pair of Kamas, until they both reached to the standoff situation and glared each other angrily.
However, Arcee's angry expression switched immediately into surprised one when he saw Dom flying towards them from the reflection of her Tessens blades and quickly crouched down, leaving from this sudden act confused ninja on Dom's flying route. Before long, the turtle in white crashed into the ninja and knocked him off his feet and onto his back to the roof, while he himself landed on his own stomach onto the ninja's knocked out form.
"I think the role of babysitter is not fit for you, bro, if we have to look after you and not other way around." Arcee joked as she walked to her brother and offered her hand out to help him up.
"Cut me some slack, will ya, Arcee!" Dom retorted in annoyance, before accepting his sister's hand and allowing her to pull him up. "You try to look after others while trying to stay alive or to keep your frigging head on!"
Elsewhere, Louie and Mary were still battling against Tatsu, but the fighting was still going bad for the turtles.
Tatsu still kept emerging victorious after every round with the turtles despite their efforts and teamwork and he didn't even seem to tire up at all... not the mention about breaking the sweat despite all the fire raging all over of them. And as for the turtles, both Mary and Louie were covered with the nasty bruises and bleeding cuts, along with the scratches all over of their shells and frontla platrons. Their already battered bodies were screaming for them to have a break so that they could. But they fell to the deaf ears.
"AGH!" Louie groaned as the ninja master kicked him hard into the guts and knocked him over onto his side to the roof. The turtle in black remained to lie there from both the pain in his guts and from the pressing exhaustion, while still fresh Tatsu walked over to him and stopped when he was standing right next to his feet.
"Pathetic! I can't believe that I got defeated twice by you little green amateurs back at the docks and in the sewers!" Tatsu taunted, partially pleased for having beaten the wind out of the turtles and partially disappointed that they didn't give him much of the challenge. "Where did you lost your wind from the two last times?! I know that you still got it from somewhere! SO FORCE IT OUT OF YOUR PATHETIC CARCASSES OR I'LL FORCE IT OUT OF YOU MYSELF!"
Then, from Tatsu's previous attack recovered Mary attacked the ninja master again when his attention was still in downed Louie, nearly managing to slice the backside of his right shoulder if Tatsu hadn't sensed her coming in time. The ninja master spun to his left and turned to Mary, swinging his both Katanas at her and knocked her Naginata out of its route and off her hands. Tatsu then sent a slice with his right Katana at Mary, leaving in her frontal plastron yet another horizontal scratch before he attempted to stab Mary in the head with his left one. Mary dodged her nemesis' blade by tilting her head to her left before she knocked it away with her right arm and sent a snap kick with her left leg at Tatsu, only for the ninja master to tilt to his right to avoid the turtle's kick.
However, Mary afterwards flipped backwards and flip-kicked with her right leg beneath of Tatsu's chin, knocking his head back.
With Tatsu distracted for a moment, Mary lunged at him before the turtle in turquoise bent over and raised her right leg up and over herself in a similar manner of the Ballet move called Arabesque penché, kicking with her leg's heel Tatsu in the forehead when he had recovered enough to turn back to Mary to face her again, only get his head to knocked back yet again by Mary's heel.
Snarling angrily, the ninja master attempted to slice Mary's thighs wit hhis Katanas to both chop her legs off or to cripple her, only to miss her when the turtle in turquoise turned her shell-back to the ninja master and then back-flipped over his blades, landing onto the ninja master's shoulders. Mary then hooked her legs under Tatsu armpits and then flipped backwards again, landing on her hands to the ground before pulling Tatsu off the roof over herself with her legs and then tossed him away while she landed back on her feet. The scarred ninja master let out the scream as he flew across the rooftop, until he landed with the heavy thud and a big splash on his stomach to the big puddle of rain water, grunting in pain from the impact.
However, Tatsu wasn't out of the woods yet. The scarred ninja master, gritting his teeth in pain and anger, crawled to his swords he had lost during of his flight and reclaimed them before slowly standing up while Mary herself used this brief respite to reclaim her own Naginata. With her weapon back in her hand, the turtle in turquoise lifted her Naginata up with the blade downwards and lunged at Tatsu, who at at this point in attempt to ran him through. However, Tatsu side-stepped backwards and to his left to evade Mary's Naginata's blade, leading her to miss her target and strike her weapon in the roof at a 40-degree angle. Tatsu took an advantage of this and snap-kicked Mary in the face with his right leg, knocking her head back and causing her to let go of her weapon. Tatsu then spun around and spin-kicked Mary in the chest with his left foot, knocking the turtle in turquoise off her feet to the roof.
After knocking Mary down, Tatsu turned around to see Louie, whi had recovered from Tatsu's kick and was back on his feet, charging towards him again. The scarred ninja master retorted this by tossing his Katanas at Louie, making them spin horizontally like frisbees, aiming one at Louie's neck and another at his legs in the level of thighs. However, Louie managed to avoid them by jumping in the air and barrel rolling sideways between of the spinning swords before he landed back on his feet.
Resuming his attack, Louie tried to first spin-kick Tatsu with his right leg, only for the scarred ninja master to lean to his left and out of Louie's kick's way. Louie then tried to roundhouse-kick him with his left foot, only for Tatsu to spin around to his left and block Louie's kick with his left wrist before he elbowed Louie hard into his chest with his right arm's elbow about 5-8 times before afterwards he turned back to him and struck him in the chest again with the left palm strike, pushing him back.
Not allowing Louie to recover again, Tatsu grabbed him from the head with his both hands and brought it roughly down before kneeing the turtle in black hard in the face with his right knee, which snapped his head back and knocked the turtle on black back. After kneeing Louie in the face, Tatsu then flipped forward and, after landing back onto his feet on front of Louie, spun around and double-punched the turtle in black in the chest again with both his fists.
This time, Tatsu's brutal attack sent the defeated turtle in black flying in arc across the air before he landed with the heavy thud on his shell-back to the roof. And after defeating Louie, Tatsu's swords flew back towards their owner, who skillfully snatched them both from the air, crossing his arms at the same time when grabbing from his blades' handles.
Mary, having recovered from the kick to her face, then leaped into the air and towards Tatsu, spinning her Naginata wildly over her head before she tried to bring it down on Tatsu with all her strength. However, sensing her incoming again, Tatsu swiftly sheathed his Katanas and spun around, grabbing from the haft of Mary's weapon as its blade was a mere inches away from reaching to the basement of his neck, before he kicked Mary to the stomach hard enough that it forced a lot of air out of her lungs.
"AGH! Not again!" Mary groaned in pain.
Gasping hoarsely for breath, in pain and the seel of sudden dizziness, Mary fell on her knees to the roof, with her hands squeezing even tighter around of her weapon's haft.
After lowering Mary's Naginata's blade away from his neck and taking a new and better grip from the haft, the scarred ninja master surprised Mary by suddenly pulling the turtle in turquoise off the roof and started to swing her around him by her own Naginata for a couple-three times. At the fourth swing, Tatsu swung Mary's Naginata forward so hard that she finally lost her grip from her weapon and was sent flying away and straight towards Louie, as the turtle in black was slowly recovering and getting back up on his knees. Mary then crashed into her brother, knocking them both over to the roof yet again.
Elsewhere, Raph and Leo were doing even worst while battling against the Shredder.
Leo was swinging furiously his both Katanas alternately at the Shredder in hope to cause some damage into him, but the Shredder effortlessly blocked each swing with his gauntlet's claws, sending the sparks flying everywhere from each impact between of the steel weapons. Leo also attempted to send some kicks into the Shredder but he dodged most of them with very fast moves or blocked them with his gauntlets. The impacts between of the Shredder's gauntlets and Leo's kicks left the turtle in blue's legs bruised and sore. At times, the Shredder send at Leo his own strikes with his claws, slamming them down on Leo, who lifted his into X crossed Katanas over his head to block the blows, with the rapid speed and with so much heavy force that it made Leo to think that something really heavy stuff was intentionally dropped onto him.
The Shredder then crossed his arms over his chest, before he pulled them back so that his gauntlets' claws were rubbing against each other, sending a large wave of sparks into Leo's face and eyes.
"AHH!" Leo yelled in surprise and pain as the sparks hit him in the area of his eyes, causing the turtle in blue to instinctively close his eyes and turn slightly away from the Shredder before he lifted his right wrist over his eyes to protect them.
However, taking an advantage of this, the Shredder moved forward and whacked Leo hard on the right side of his face with his left wrist, forcing saliva out of his mouth and leaving a few scratches across Leo's left cheek from his left gauntlet's blades. Then the Shredder lunged forward and kneed Leo hard in the chest, causing the turtle in blue to gasp is pain as the air was forced out of his lungs by the Shredder's knee. The Foot Lord then spun around and kicked Leo directly into the face with his right foot, sending Leo flying and barrel rolling into the air before he landed roughly onto his left side to the roof.
"HAAAARGHH!" Raph roared as the turtle in red lunged to attack the Shredder from behind, holding his twin Sai back and ready to thrust them both forward and into the Shredder's unguarded back, now that his attention was elsewhere.
However, the Shredder turned swiftly around to face Raph and crouched down to avoid Raph's Sais as he thrusted them forward, missing the bad guy. The Shredder then lunged up and forward, passing Raph on his right side, before the evil Foot Lord suddenly snatched Raph from the roof by wrapping his right arm around of his waist and dragged him along wit hhim as he flew into the air. The Shredder, with Raph in his grasp, flew across the rooftop until his feet hit the roof again and he slammed Raph hard onto his shell-back to the roof, making Raph groan from the impact.
The Shredder then stomped his leg hard down on Raph's stomach, causing another groan of pain to escape from Raph's mouth. The Shredder then began to whack his claws down on Raph as rapidly and with the heavy pressures as he did with Leo, which gave Raph a difficulties in both fending off the Shredder's attacks and himself staying alive.
After four-eight violent strike which Raph barely managed to fend off, out of act of desperation, the turtle in red thursted his right Sai upwards in attempt to either force the Shredder back off from him or to stab him to any available weak spot in his armor. It did force the Shredder back off for a step or two, after which Raph attempted to stab in his unprotected thighs with his left Sai at the same time as he rolled onto his all fours. However, the Shredder dodged Raph's attempted strike by jumping and barrel rolling over the turtle in red.
As the Shredder landed on Raph's right side, the turtle in red stood back up to his feet and turned to the Shredder to fight him once more. However, the Shredder was already upon him and swiftly snap-kicked Raph into the face with his right foot before the turtle in red had time to prepare himself for a new attack. The Shredder's kick both forced both the saliva and blood out of Raph's mouth and sent him flying backwards and towards Leo, who had at this point recovered and was charging at the Shredder again.
However, seeing his brother flying straight towards him, Leo quickly turned his Katanas upside down in his hands and braced himself for the impact, before before the turtle in red eventually crached into him. The impact knocked Leo back for a few steps though he managed to prevent himself from falling over and managed to caught Raph by under of his arms with his hands and swords' hilts to prevent him from falling over to the roof.
"Got you, brother!" he said as he lifted his bro back up.
"Yeah, whatever!" Raph said dismissively, noticeably irritated for being beaten up like some sort of Piñata that it nearly reached to his temper's infamous 'red zone'.
"Let's just burst this walking tin can open and we're done!" he swre angrily, taking another battle-ready pose. Leo couldn't agree more. Switching his swords back upright in his hands, the turtle in blue took a new fighting pose as both he and his brother prepared to take on the Shredder once again.
There was a short standoff between two turtles and the evil Foot Lord before Raph made the first move. The turtle in red jumped at the Shredder and attempted to either slash or stab him in the head with his right Sai, but the Shredder jumped quickly aside, leading Raph to miss his target, before the Shredder kicked the turtle in red in the shell-back with his right foot, sending him flying away.
Leo then attacked the Shredder next with the "HAIII-" cry as he lunged at him with his Katanas raised up for the blow, but his attack and the battle-cry were both cut short as the Shredder sent a kick into Leo's chest wit hhis left foot, knocking him off the air and on his shell-back to the roof.
The kick's force was powerful enough to make Leo skid along the roof's wet surface till he slammed a pretty hard to the edge of the rooftop. The impact caused U-shaped portion of the brick railing to crack off and fall down to the street... and it also caused Leo's swords to fly out of his hands, over the edge and fall down to the street as well, where they bounced off from the parked car's roof and clattered to the road.
Leo tried then to get back up, but before he could, four Foot Ninja suddenly came to the downed turtle in blue from everywhere and seized him by grabbing from his arms to hold him still. Leo tried to struggle out of their grasps, but he couldn't due to his his exhaustion and the overwhelming number of ninjas, who held their grasps around of his arms firm.
Then, to Leo's horror, the Shredder appeared, walking through of the wall of fire as if the fire and the extreme heat were nothing to him, even within the armor, while laughing maliciously at Leo's helpless state.
"I'll take a great pleasure of killing you first, Leonardo." he declared, while holding up his gauntlet's claws.
Elsewhere, Tatsu, while holding from Mary's Naginata, walked towards downed, battered and defeated Louie and Mary. The turtle in black was lying on his stomach near the edge of the roof while the turtle in turquoise was leaning her shell-back against the brick railing, both moaning in pain from the beatdown Tatsu gave to them.
Tatsu then moved Mary's Naginata's blade's tip under of Mary's chin and lifted her head slightly up so that they could look into each other's eyes. Mary gave Tatsu the deep frown full of scorn towards the ninja master.
"Too bad this had to end so quickly. But that's what you get when you're fighting a mere school children rather than ninjas." Tatsu mocked, before he either carelessly or purposely moved Mary's Naginata's tip along her skin under of her chin, cutting her skin and shedding the blood from the cut he made, while making the turtle in turquoise grunt from the stinging pain.
"If it was up to me, I would let you go so that we could compare the skills of a true Ninjutsu master and a pathetic low-grade students again next time, but you Kappa have crossed your line with my master and violated Foot's honor beyond of that chance!" Tatsu declared, before he raised Mary's weapon up and prepared to bring it down on Mary to kill her first and Louie next.
"Honor of Foot? What honor of Foot?" Mary rebuked, spitting the last line out of her mouth with disgust. "You be delusional if you think the Foot has any idea of honor, Tatsu?"
"Yeah!" Louie agreed as the turtle in black got on his knees, glaring defiantly at the scarred ninja master before them. "And you Foot scum were the ones who crossed your line with us first. So, what if you scar-faced bastard just get it over with us and then go to Hell yourself, you ugly rat's chewing toy?!"
Louie's defiant and rather insulting words, as well as his mention of his scar and the mention of the rat, which reminded him of the incident with the particular rodent that had attacked his faces fifteen years ago, kindled Tatsu's boiling fury within him.
"YOU INSOLENT KAPPA! HOW DARE YOU..." Tatsu roared through of his gritted teeth and turned away from Mary and towards Louie with the intention of skewering him first in Mary's stead for his "insolence", while both turtles kept their defiant and fearless glares locked in Tatsu's rage-filled eyes.
However, before he could bring Mary's Naginata's blade down on Louie...
"YOU HEARD WHAT MY BROTHER SAID, SCAR-FACE! GO TO HELL!" Raph's voice roared, as the bruised turtle in red lunged at Tatsu from behind.
Tatsu was able to halt his killing blow on Louie for inches away from his forehead before he turned to peek over his shoulder, seeing Raph lunging at him from above in the corner of his right eye. However, Raph was already too close enough, leaving Tatsu with no time to turn around to fend off his attack before the turtle in red successfully laid a diving-kick on the scarred ninja master's back with both of his feet, which knocked him forward.
While Tatsu's attention was drawn elsewhere due to Raph's timely interference, Louie and Mary took advantage of this distraction to devise the plan on their own to defeat Tatsu. Just before Raph's dive-kick landed on Tatsu's back, the turtles in black and turquoise quickly jumped back on their feet and stretched out their hands in front of them as if waiting for something to land on them.
That was correct, because when Raph's kick landed on Tatsu's back, the force of the impact knocked unprepared ninja master to stumble uncontrollably forward, and making hjim to drop Mary's Naginata from his hands, until he tripped over and fell on his stomach onto Louie's and Mary's out-stretched hands, which cut his fall short.
"WHATTA...?! WHAT'S HAPPENING?! WHAT ARE YOU KAPPA DOING?!" Tatsu barked, as this started to feel too familiar to the ninja master.
"PREPARE FOR THE PANCAKE LANDING, TATSU, 'CAUSE HERE YOU GO AGAIN!" Louie warned, mockingly reminding their nemesis of his earlier defeats in their hands back in the docked ship at South Street Seaport and in the drainage junction two months ago.(3)
"THOUGH THIS TIME THERE WON'T BE WATER TO CUT YOUR FALL SAFELY!" Mary stated before she and Louie together flung the ninja master over the edge of the rooftop.(3)
"AAHHHHHHHHHH! NOT AGAAAAAAAAIN!" Tatsu roared as he fell down from the rooftop after being thrown over the edge.(3)
At first, Tatsu slammed back-first and upside down against the wall of a building standing next to the Shredder's, before he resumed falling all the way down to the alley before landing into the dumpster bin with the open lid. His landing caused the bin to shake so that its lid fell down, closing the defeated ninja master inside of the bin.(3)
"Cursed Kappa!" his muffled and clearly disgusted sounding voice - though not for the turtles themselves but rather for the smelly contents of the bin - snarled from inside of the bin.
Knowing that Tatsu was defeated for now, the turtles in black and turquoise did not bothered to look over the edge to see the "obviously ugly mess" down in the alley. Instead, the two turned instantly back to Raph.
"Thanks, Raph." Mary said with the nod.
"And perfect timing, bro." Louie added with the grin.
"Any time, guys." Raph said, before he tossed from behind of his shell-back Louie's Butterfly swords, which he had lost after being beaten by Tatsu and which Raph had then picked up from the roof before attacking Tatsu, back to his brother. As Louie caught his blades from the air into his hands, Raph picked up Mary's Naginata with his leg and flung it back to his sister, who snatched it from middle of the haft from the air.
"Better keep your weapons close, fellas. We're not in the clear waters yet." Raph cautioned, referring the fire and the Foot all around of them.
"Yeah, but now that one big bad is out of the commission, we only got one even bigger bad to go." Louie stated, eager to resume the fighting.
Mary was about to say something in response to Raph's cautioning words, until something in Louie's recent words snapped her out of those thoughts and instead brought a dreadful realization in her, which was pressed further by Raph's sudden appearance to their rescue.
"Speaking of which..." the turtle in turquoise began before turning to Raph. "Raph? You were fighting with Leo against the Shredder while the rest of us were dealing with Tatsu and the rest of the Foot Ninja, right? So if you're here, where's Leo?"
"Well, the last I saw him, he was..." Raph began as he turned back to where he had been fighting against the Shredder alongside with Leo until he got kicked aside by the Shredder himself, until the turtle in red was cut short by the horrifying sight that was taking the place in the corner of the rooftop and the turtle in red was instantly filled with dread.
Louie and Mary immediately turned their eyes in the direction where Raph was looking and gasped in horror at the sight of what Raph saw.
"Oh, no!" Mary exclaimed with dread.
All three turtles saw Leo, stripped from his weapons and being forcibly held still by four Foot ninja while the Shredder himself approached their defenseless brother and raised his left gauntlet's Tekkō-kagi claws to lay a killing blow on their brother.
"LEO!" Mary and Louie cried in unison.
"C'MON!" Raph urged with the furious snarl, and the turtle in red charged at the Shredder and Leo, Mary and Louie following close behind of him.
Leo, not aware of the help being on its way, kept struggling against the ninjas' firm grasp while glaring defiantly and fearlessly at the Shredder, who prepared to gut the turtle in blue open with one slash of his Tekkō-kagi claws.
And as the Shredder brought his claws down for the blow, Leo gasped in shock and braced for the blow's deadly impact, until...
"OH, NO, YOU DON'T, YOU RUSTY TIN CAN!" Louie cried as he quickly switched his Butterfly swords into his Manriki-gusari and spun his chains' weighted ends wildly and widely in each hand before throwing them towards the Shredder. The chains quickly wrapped themselves around of the Shredder's raised arm and got tangled with the gauntlet's blades before Louie started to pull them back, stopping Shredder's arm and thus preventing him from laying a lethal blow on Leo.
"WHAT?!" the Shredder roared as he felt something pulling his arm back in the midst of a fatal blow and turned around to see what was the matter.
The Shredder growled as he saw Louie having wrapped his chains around of his arm's gauntlet and was pulling his arm back by his chains, thus preventing him from killing Leo, while both Mary and Raphael were charging towards him together.
"LET GO OF HIM, SHREDDER!" Mary bellowed as the turtle in turquoise pole-vaulted herself off the roof and sent herself flying towards the Shredder, during of which she spun her Naginata wildly while moving it over her head in preparation for her incoming blow against the evil Foot Lod.
"HAAAARGHH!" Raph roared as the turtle in red charged in blind fury at the Shredder, attempting to aim the kick onto him with all the strength he got in hope to kick the villain over the edge and off the rooftop.
The trio's attack turned the Shredder's attention away from Leo, but just for a moment.
As Raph was about to reach the Shredder first and lay his kick on him, the Foot Lord simply shot his right hand forward towards Raph and struck him straight in the face with a brutal palm-strike. The brute force of the blow made Raph's head fly backwards (which also knocked one tooth out of his mouth), and caused the turtle in red to fly backwards in the air, flipping over, before he landed roughly onto his stomach to the roof.
Mary then fell down from the sky and towards the Shredder, during of which the turtle in turquoise grabbed from her Naginata with both hands and brought it down on the Shredder, in hope to cause some harm on him. But the Shredder forcefully raised his left arm up, that was still seized by Louie's chains as the turtle in black struggled against the Shredder's immense physical strength to keep his left arm from being used against both Leo and Mary, in the way of Mary's weapon, blocking it from reaching him with his arm's gauntlet. After blocking Mary's blow, the Shredder sent a powerful kick into Mary's chest with his left foot, which sent her flying away, even past Louie, till she hit the roof and rolled along it the rest of the way till she skidded to stop.
Louie, however, refused to let the Shredder's victories over his brother and sister to affect his own fighting spirit, not now while Leo was still at his mercy. So the turtle in black pulled from his chains even harder, with all the strength he got, in order to drag the Shredder far away from Leo as possible.
NGGGHHH! THAT'S THE... NGGGHHH... THE WORST YOU... NGGGHHH... GOT, SHREDDER?! NGGGHHH! C'MON, YOU... NGGGHHH... RUSTY TIN MAN! GIMME YOUR... NGGGHHH... BEST SHOT, WILL YA?!" Louie taunted between of grunts as he struggled with his chains against the Shredder's strength, hoping to tempt the Shredder into coming after him instead of Leo.
However, Louie got to find out that tempting the Shredder with taunts wasn't such an good idea.
More than wanting to grant Louie his wish, though not admitting it, the Shredder grabbed with his seized hand from Louie's chains and pulled from them with full force, causing the turtle in black to be pulled off the roof and making him fly across the air and towards him.
"WHOAHHHH!" Louie screamed out of surprise as he flew towards the Shredder.
With his right hand's gauntlet's claws, the Shredder cut Louie's chains off from his left arm, before he brutally struck the turtle in black with the uppercut punch to the stomach, knocking the wind out of him, before he raised his both arms over his head and then brought them hard down onto Louie's shell, knocking him down and onto his stomach to the roof next to his feet.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Louie moaned while lying in pain in the Shredder's feet.
Not paying an attention to downed Louie, Raph and Mary - at least, not yet - the Shredder turned back to Leo who still struggled against his captors' grasps, to resume his attempt to kill Leo.
"NO!" Raph cried before the turtle in red suddenly jumped back to his feet and attacked the Shredder's by jumping onto his back and wrapping his left arm around his neck before he could harm Leo, catching the Foot lord by surprise but only momentarily.
Raph struggled to have a firm hold from the Shredder as he tried to find a perfect spot where he could thrust his Sai he held downward in his right hand. However, at the moment when he finally found the open spot: The Shredder's throat and attempted to stab him in there, The shredder grabbed with both hands from Raph's left arm and shoulders before he pulled him over his shoulder and slammed him onto his stomach to the roof.
The evil Foot Lord them proceeded to do the same which Hun had done to Louie earlier, by swinging the turtle in red from side to side and slamming him hard against the roof for four times, causing Raph to let out a pained groan at each impact against the roof. The Shredder them lifted Raph off the roof and over his head with both hands, before the Foot Lord violently hurled him towards the flames.
"RAPH!" Leo cried in horror as he saw Raph disappearing out of the sight into the wall of fire!
"NO!" Louie cried after witnessing the Shredder throwing Raph into the flames.
Despite not being fully recovered from the Shredder's counter-attack, Louie, fueled by vengeful anger for the Shredder for what he'd done to Raph jumped back up and took out his Butterfly swords. Louie sent a few slices at the Shredder with both of his swords, which the Shredder both blocked or deflected with both his claws and his bladed gauntlets.
However, after a few traded and blocked blows, Louie attempted to stab the Shredder in the guts with his right sword, only for the Shredder to step out of the blow's way before he, much to Louie's surprise, grabbed from Louie's right arm with both hands. Shredder then lifted Louie's arm slightly up before he bashed it hard against his knee.
"CRACK!"
"AARRGGHHHHHHHH!" Louie let out an cry of agony as he felt his bones below his elbow snapping after his arm got bashed against the Shredder's knee. A huge wave of pain was set in motion from Louie's arm after the Shredder broke it and it moved rapidly to every corner of his body, robbing Louie from his remaining strength and causing him to feel dizzy from his head. Weakly, the turtle in black dropped his Butterfly swords from his hands before he fell limply onto his knees to the roof. He soon clutched tight to his busted arm with his good hand after the Shredder let go of it, groaning miserably from pain and dizziness through of his gritted teeth.
"YOU BASTARD! YOU BROKE MY ARM!" Louie roared angrily through of the unbearable pain when he was able to do so.
"Then allow me to put you out of your misery..." Shredder tauntingly suggested. "...with something that DOESN'T EVEN BELONG TO YOU!"
The Shredder then reached out his right hand towards master Toshi Kurahawa's Katana, which was still resting in its scabbard in Louie's shell-back, where the turtle in black had carried it throughout the battle. The Shredder grabbed from the sword's hilt and pulled it out from its scabbard and lifted it up above his head to the sky. The sword's unsheathed blade glowed purely white in the bright flash of the next lightning as it went off in the sky.
Louie's eyes went wide from shock and horror as the Shredder turned to look down on him, with another flash of the next lightning silhouetting his dark armored figure, before the evil Foot Lord all of the sudden swung the Katana down at him. Startled by this attack, Louie's willpower forced its way through of his weakened state caused by the burning pain in his busted arm and he forced his legs to cooperate enough to push himself back up and quickly step back to avoid the Shredder's attack with the sword he took from him.
The Shredder then attacked with another slash at Louie and repeated his attacks one after another, while occasionally trying to slash him with his left hand's Tekkō-kagi claws. With one arm busted and defenseless without his weapons, all Louie could do was withdrawing backwards from the Shredder's attacks, some of which he managed to evade out of mere luck, though most of the attacks managed to leave superficial scratches on his arms and frontal plastron from the sword's and claws' hastily retreating away from and out of the way of the Shredder's attacks, Louie didn't realize that he was getting too close to the edge of the roof.
However, Mary, who was recovering from Shredder's attack, saw the peril her brother was unknowingly stepping towards and gasped in shock.
After Louie dodged the Foot Lord's another slash aimed at his head by leaning backwards, the Shredder pulled his Katana back and thursted it forward towards Louie in attempt to stab him in the stomach, causing the turtle in black to make a hastily made jump backwards to avoid getting skewered by the sword's blade.
"LOUIE! LOOK OUT!" Mary tried to warn her brother, but it was too late.
Though the Shredder's sword did not hit him, Louie's hasty retreat nearly made Louie take one step too far back that could've sent him falling off the edge of the rooftop and down to the street level and to his death.
"WOW!" Louie gasped in surprise after realizing how close of the edge he was and he nearly lost his balance on the edge, but managed to just barely maintain his balance and prevent himself from falling off the roof.
However, his attempt to maintain his balance on the edge took his attention away from the Shredder and he did not see him approaching him menacingly, until it was too late.
After maintaining his balance, Louie turned back to the Shredder, only to see that the evil Foot Lord was already upon him. The Shredder granted Louie no chance to even brace himself before he lunged at him, spun around and sent a hard kick with his left foot into Louie's chest, knocking the turtle in black off the edge and sending him to fall down!
"AHHHHHHH!" Louie cried as he fell towards the street level bellow.
Mary's and Leo's eyes went wide from shock and horror after bearing the witness of this.
"LOUIE!" Mary cried in horror.
"NOOO!" Leo cried in horror as well.
The Shredder stood near the edge of the roof, raising his arms and the sword up in the air triumphantly and let out a malicious laughter as several lightnings went off in the sky.
"MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!"
However, the turtle in turquoise's shock and horror of her brother's apparent demise turned soon into boiling anger and she locked her enraged eyes at the Shredder.
"You... YOU MONSTER!" Mary snarled, before she picked her dropped Naginata up from the roof, jumped back on her feet charged towards the Shredder, letting out an angry scream from the top of her lungs, which echoed in the stormy sky.
"AARRGGHHHH!"
When Mary reached to the Shredder, she furiously swung her Naginata horizontally at the Shredder, aiming him neck in order to decapitate him, though the evil Foot Lord was already alerted by the turtle in turquoise's furious scream and he readily blocked her attack with both his sword and his Tekkō-kagi claws.
Both Mary and the Shredder then started to circle each other clashing their weapons ferociously against each other with the rapid speed and fierce determination to hit one another. Spinning her Naginata wildly like the windmill's wings, Mary attacked the Shredder with various vertical and horizontal blows from above, below, from both sides and from the front, doubling her speed, skills and efforts and putting in everything she got to cause at least some sort of effective damage on the Shredder. However, the odds were five or even ten times higher against her than what they were with Tatsu, who himself was the Shredder's student, while Shredder here, as a teacher and master, was at least two or maybe even five steps ahead of Mary and thus easily blocked her every attack alternately or at the same time with his sword and Tekkō-kagi claws, without himself attacking Mary with too devastating attack as if he was toying with her for a moment.
The Shredder then lunged forward and aimed his left gauntlet's Tekkō-kagi claws at Mary's stomach, forcing her to pull her stomach in and jump back to avoid it, only to get kneed right in the face soon after by the Shredder's left knee, which flung her head back and got her to step a couple step backwards. The Shredder then slashed at her exposed torso with his sword, leaving there a long scratch which ran from her left hip over the frontal plastron and all the way to the right side of her breast.
"AGH!" Mary gasped as she felt the sword scratching her frontal plastron.
However, shaking this slight shock off, Mary spun her Naginata around while moving it over her head and then brought it down on the Shredder with both hands. However, the Shredder swung his sword from below upwards at Mary's incoming weapon's blade, knocking it off its course and moving it to his right side until he pinned it down to the roof with his own blade. Then, the Shredder brought his left Tekkō-kagi claws down on Mary's weapon's haft and sliced it in two from beneath the blade.
"WHA...?! NO!" Mary gasped, shocked of seeing her weapon broken.
The destruction of her weapon caused Mary to stumble forward, still in shock of losing her beloved weapon, until the Shredder sent the brutal uppercut punch to the turtle in turquoise's face, which sent her flying into the air. And before she could even hit on her stomach to the roof, the Shredder sent the kick into her shell, sending Mary flying a distance away from both him and Leo, till she landed roughly on her stomach to the roof and remained to lie there, defeated and moaning in pain.
After defeating Raph, Louie and Mary with ease, the Shredder turned back to Leo and stepped towards him to resume his deed with him.
"I thought and expected you to be fine and worthy warriors, and is this all you have against me?! Maybe I was wrong about you. Maybe I was wrong about you too, Leonardo." the Shredder snarled, clearly disappointed with how easy it was for him to defeat the turtles that had caused him so much trouble in his operations for past months.
"This... Splinter, you call your master... HE DID NOT TEACH YOU WELL!" the Shredder added, further expressing his disappointment in the turtles' poor efforts to stand a chance against him.(4)
The Shredder was now standing right in front of Leo, as the turtle in blue, maintaining his defiant and fearless expression, kept struggling against his captors' grasps. The Shredder then raised Toshi Kurahawa's Katana's blade to the eye-level, showing Leo his reflection in its blade's flat side, wanting him to see the hopelessness of the situation he was in before he'll stain this masterpiece's pure white blade with the turtle in blue's blood.
"Well then, I will do him a favor and remove his shameful burden from his shoulders permanently, STARTING WITH YOU, LEONARDO!"
Meanwhile, Mary was starting to recover from the Shredder's violent attack and started to get back up from the roof. However, when she turned back to where the Shredder was, Mary gasped in shock when she saw the Shredder raising his Katana over his head and prepared to bring it down on Leo to kill him.
The turtle in turquoise despaired, knowing that she'll never reach to her brother's aid in time. And even if she did, she was no match for the Shredder alone.
However, Mary's attention was then caught by the cracking sound beneath of her and she looked down to see what was making such of noise. The turtle in turquoise noticed that the rooftop was starting to crack from the extreme heat of the fire that was raging within the building, which had probably burned all the rafters inside.
If the cracking gets worse, the rooftop will give in and the whole building will collapse.
However, this brought an idea in the turtle in turquoise's head. A risky plan but necessary if she wanted Leo to survive.
All she needed to do was to somehow contribute the building's collapse.
And turning to the slowly yet certainly widening crack that ran across the rooftop and past her position, the determined turtle in turquoise put her plan into motion.
She grabbed to her broken Naginata's haft with both hands and raised it over of her head, before she locked her eyes to the Shredder and Leo.
"NOT… MY… BROTHER!" Mary bellowed from the top of her lungs, before she struck with all her strength her Naginata's haft deep into the crack and then twisted it hard.(5)
It worked! One portion of the roof crumbling into the burning building resulted the cracking to spread all around, till the entire rooftop eventually gave in and started to collapse under everybody's feet with the rapid pace. The loud cracking and crumbling sound caught the Shredder's attention just when he was about to land the finishing blow on Leo.(5)
"WHAT?!" he exclaimed as he turned around to see what was happening.
The cracks opened around the roof, letting the fiery furnace out of the building. Even the larger portions of the roof began to collapse inside of the building, taking with it a large number of the Shredder's army of Foot Soldiers. More than two dozen of them fell into their fiery deaths, while others who were fast enough and who had noticed the inevitable collapse of the roof beforehand were able to escape and avoid the fate of their unlucky comrades who burned to death.
One of the cracks approached rapidly towards the corner of the rooftop, where the Shredder, his four Foot Ninja and Leo were still standing on, threatening all of them.
TO BE CONTINUED...
TRIVIA
1) = I based the designs of Splinter's Yumi-bow, quiver, arrows and the Katana to the ones he used in the finale episodes of the Season Three, Exodus P1 & P2, and I made them Hamato Yoshi's former possession until they were passed to Splinter, inspired by Splinter's line in the Exodus P2 "May my Master Yoshi's sword taste vengeance today" when fighting Ch'rell a.k.a the Shredder.
2) = In original series, Splinter had no other weapons beside his walking stick when he left to search for the turtles in the episode 'The Shredder's Strike'. But in my story, Splinter is using a Bo-staff (or a wooden quarterstaff) as a manner of walking stick and a weapon, which was inspired by one of his concept arts for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 life-action movie. I also decided to make Splinter to grab some weapons of his own before he leaves to look for his sons and daughters.
3) = Tatsu's third major defeat at the hands of the turtles. Originally, this was going to be his second defeat with the reference to his earlier defeat at the docks, because I did not originally planned to include Tatsu in the turtles fight with the Foot-Tech-Ninjas earlier. However, adding Tatsu in Foot-Tech-Ninja-fight in the sewers was an act of the last minute when I started to re-edit my story for the better.
4) = The Shredder's line "HE DID NOT TEACH YOU WELL!" is taken from his line in 2014 live-action movie "The rat... DID NOT TEACH YOU WELL!", which he said when he fought against Raphael.
5) = Mary breaking the roof and causing the whole rooftop to collapse to save Leo is both inspired by and a referense from the similar scene in the Brother Bear movie, where during the fight against the bear(Koda's mother), Sitka breaks the glacier with his spear and causes it to collapse, taking him and the bear along with him down in order to save his brothers, Kenai and Denahi.