For the rest of the day things were calm, too calm for the group, as they had been for hours resting, hanging out or some of them, patrolling, knowing that Shredder could attack at any moment.
Leo and Raya were walking through the streets of Heart, where people treated Leo normally due to the fact that his appearance wasn't that weird and that he had saved the kingdom along with his brothers and friends a couple of times.
"It's things like this that we fight for." said Leo.
"I know. It's nice to see people living normally, like nothing bad is happening. I can't believe he wants to destroy all this and just to have Sisu." said Raya.
"That's just how Shredder is, he has no mercy on anyone as long as he gets what he wants. I'm so sorry your kingdom got involved in all this." said Leo.
"Don't be. It's true that it's partly your fault that Shredder has Sisu in his sights, but I don't regret meeting all of you and I'm not just saying that because you saved my life earlier." said Raya with a smile.
"Thank you, Raya. I don't regret meeting you either." said Leo with a smile.
BOOM
Suddenly, several explosions happened in different areas of the kingdom.
"Looks like they decided to attack sooner than I thought." said Raya drawing her sword while Leo sent a message on his T-Phone.
"I've already warned the others." began Leo before drawing his katanas. "Let's split up to cover more ground."
"Understood. Good luck." said Raya.
"Same here." said Leo before the two went their separate ways.
Leo quickly ran through the streets of the kingdom, helping any straggling civilians and as he crossed a corner, he ran into a squad of foot-bots.
The foot-bots drew their weapons and went on the attack, but Leo was able to dodge some blows while others he blocked and then smashed the foot-bots with his weapons.
He was like this for a while until, then, he noticed something incoming and jumped to the side in time to dodge a swipe from Rahzar.
"Wow. What a surprise not to see your minions with you, leader." said Rahzar.
"Rahzar. I thought I told you we weren't going to let you take Sisu." said Leo.
"Well, obviously, I didn't hear you." said Rahzar before launching into the attack.
Leo dodged another swipe before kicking him backwards and then leaping towards him with his katanas at the ready, but Rahzar blocked the attack with his bone claws before throwing him backwards.
"You may have beaten me before, but you're on your own now." Rahzar said.
"Think before you speak."
Suddenly, Raph appeared on the scene and punched him, knocking him back.
Before long, the other turtles, as well as April and Casey, arrived on the scene.
"Are we late?" asked Mikey.
"No. You're right on time." said Leo.
"Of course. We weren't going to leave all the fun to you." said Casey.
"Grrr. By the time I'm done with you, there won't even be the bones left." said Rahzar.
"We'll see about that, stupid dog." said Raph pulling out his sais.
At the foot of the stairs leading to the palace, stood Splinter and Karai, helping people to safety as they took care of the foot-bots with their skills learned from both the Hamato clan and the Foot.
Suddenly, just as they took down the last foot-bot, several Chrome Dome appeared.
"Oh, cool. Those things again." said Karai.
"Don't let your guard down, Miwa. They're better than the foot-bots." said Splinter.
"I know, I was there when they created them." said Karai remembering her time with the Foot.
One of the Chrome Domes lunged towards them, but in the next instant, a dragon claw stepped on it, being shattered in the process, courtesy of Sisu.
"Do you need any help?" asked Sisu.
"We can always use it." said Splinter, accepting the dragon's help.
"But don't wander off. Remember they're coming for you." said Karai.
"Of course." said Sisu preparing to fight along with the father and daughter duo.
Namaari and the others of Kumandra's group were scouring the streets, looking for straggling civilians and annihilating any foot-bots that got in their way with the help of their weapons, though in the case of Noi and the ongis, they were using the weapons of the fallen foot-bots as they set up the tower they used the first time they fought them.
Namaari had just smashed another foot-bot with her swords before noticing that there were no more around.
"Area clear." said Namaari.
"It's amazing they don't learn that they can't beat us." said Tong.
"Well, it's just that we're hard to learn."
It was then that Boun noticed something falling toward them.
"Look out!" shouted Boun as they all moved out of the way in time to avoid a hard stomp from Fishface.
"Wow. We meet again, beautiful." said Fishface to Namaari.
"I would have preferred not to see you again." said Namaari.
"Oh, you hurt my heart." said Fishface dramatically.
"Go back to the puddle you came from. You're not taking Sisu with you." said Tong as he readied his axe while the others prepared to fight.
"I guess I'll have to do this the hard way." said Fishface pulling out his butterfly knife.
It wasn't long before Raya ran into a squadron of foot-bots who, as soon as they saw her, jumped into the battle.
With her agility and speed, Raya was tearing apart any foot-bot that came her way.
There was a moment when she was surrounded by them, but she turned her sword into a whip and spinning it like a propeller, she smashed all the foot-bots.
No matter how many foot-bots she knocked down, she still had a strange feeling.
She felt as if someone was watching her.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the time to think about that, she had a home and a friend to protect, so she set off to find and shoot down more foot-bots.
Rahzar swung his claws back and forth hoping to hit one of his opponents, but they all dodged his attacks easily.
"You know, Rahzar? I knew I'd find you here, why? Because you smelled like a wet dog." said Mikey before taking a couple of swings with his nunchucks at the mutant wolf before dodging out of the way to avoid a bite.
"Goongala!" shouted Casey skidding towards him with his taser at the ready, but Rahzar saw him coming and grabbed him by the arm holding the taser before tossing it aside.
April threw her tensen and used her powers to manipulate it and thus, hit Rahzar from several sides.
However, Rahzar dodged the last blow before charging towards April, who moved out of the way before Rahzar crushed her with his claws.
That's when Donnie jumped on his back and put his staff on his neck to pull him back, causing him to tilt his head back.
Raph took advantage of that to walk up to him and punch him a couple of times in the chest.
With one more punch, he sent the mutant wolf backwards as Donnie got off him.
Rahzar let out a furious roar before he began to attack them all with his claws and fangs.
He was about to strike Mikey with his claws when suddenly, Leo stood in front of him and blocked his claws with his katanas.
The two got into a duel of strength, with one trying to push the other.
"You were very lucky before, but this time, you're out of luck!" said Rahzar putting on more pressure.
"You're wrong. Raph, now!" exclaimed Leo before quickly pulling away, causing Rahzar to stumble just as Raph reached and punched him in the face knocking him down.
"You know? I liked you better in your old form, it made you less pathetic." said Raph with a smirk.
With a growl of rage, Rahzar stood up to glare at his opponents with deep hatred.
"I'll show you who's the pathetic one." said Rahzar before launching himself at them with a roar of rage.
Splinter set about dodging the attacks of a pink sword-wielding Chrome Dome before drawing the hidden sword from his staff to block another attack.
With a thrust, he caused the Chrome Dome to stumble backwards before slashing at the arm with the sword.
However, because it learned from that Chrome Dome he did the same thing to, it created another pink sword in its other hand and tried to attack the mutant rat, only for him to easily dodge it.
Splinter tried to slash it, but the Chrome Dome managed to block all the attacks.
After that, it tried to lunge at him, but Splinter used his sword to deflect the trajectory a bit just before thrusting his sword into the Chrome Dome's head, piercing it in the process and causing the robot to shut down.
Karai was moving back and forth quickly to dodge the lashes of two Chrome Domes.
After dodging another whiplash, he charged towards one of the Chrome Domes and tried to attack it with her sword, only for the Chrome Dome to pull out a pink sword to block her attack.
As they remained neutral, the Chrome Dome switched its whip from the other arm to another sword and tried to stab it, but Karai quickly dodged it and before the Chrome Dome could react, Karai cut it off at the waist before the upper part fell to the ground followed by the lower part.
The other Chrome Dome, seeing the first one being knocked down, pulled out another pink whip and used both whips to attack.
Karai had a harder time due to the speed of both whips and that's when she decided to change her strategy.
Now that everyone knew and accepted it, she had no problem transforming into a mutant snake and quickly slithered between the whips towards the Chrome Dome.
Before the robot could react, Karai grabbed it by the arms with her snake-like mouths for hands and, with one yank, yanked both of its arms off.
Soon after, she wrapped herself around it and began squeezing until the Chrome Dome was squeezed like a tin can.
Seeing that, Karai released him and returned to her human form before going to take care of the other Foot robots.
Meanwhile, a pair of Chrome Dome, with their pink swords, tried to attack Sisu, only for the dragon to use her lanky body to dodge all the attacks.
"You want some of me? Then take this." said Sisu before swiping at a Chrome Dome, sending it flying in the process, though it landed on its feet and charged back.
As she dodged their attacks, she went about hitting them with her claws and tail, but though she managed to finish off the first one that way, those two proved to be more resistant to her attacks due to the fact that they had learned.
The two Chrome Domes charged from both sides with their swords at the ready, but Sisu stood still with a smile.
Just as the two robots were about to reach her, Sisu took a big leap, causing the two Chrome Dome to collide with each other while Sisu remained in the air thanks to her dragon abilities.
"Ha. You can't catch me from here." said Sisu with a smile.
However, the two Chrome Domes activated the thrusters on their feet and took flight towards the dragon.
"Wait, they can fly? Why didn't anyone tell me they could fly?" asked Sisu.
"Sorry!" said Karai from a distance.
As soon as the Chrome Dome began to approach her, Sisu had no choice but to fly away while being chased by the two robots.
No matter how fast she went or how many immediate turns she made, she was unable to shake off the robots.
It was then that she saw the huge mountain in the center of the kingdom and smiled as an idea formed in her mind.
"So you want to play catch, huh? Well, catch me if you can." said Sisu before picking up speed, which the Chrome Domes also did.
Sisu continued to accelerate in a straight line, with the Chrome Dome slowly closing in on her until they were half a distance from her tail.
However, that was what Sisu intended, as she was flying straight towards the mountain.
She kept going straight for a while and just when it looked like she was going to crash into the mountain, she launched herself upwards at a 90-degree angle to avoid the collision.
Unfortunately, the two Chrome Domes couldn't react in time and ended up hitting the mountain wall, getting smashed in the process.
"Looks like I've won the game." said Sisu before flying off to join the others.
Tong swung his axe down towards the mutant fish who blocked it with his metal foot before pushing it backwards.
Boun lunged towards him with his knives, but Fishface blocked his attacks with his knife before trying to cut him, only for the boy to jump backwards.
"Just know that, because of you, I'm going to stop eating fish for a season." said Boun.
"You see that matters to me?" asked Fishface before leaping towards him with an outstretched leg, but Boun dodged it before he was hit.
It was then that Noi and the ongis, in their 'tower of blades' formation, rushed towards him with great bravery.
However, Fishface let out a roar at them as he bared his large fangs, causing the baby and the ongis to scream in terror before backing away.
"Hahaha. Oh, this brings back memories of the past." said Fishface laughing at what he did just before ducking to the side to dodge an attack from Namaari.
"You'd better get going. We outnumber you." said Namaari as Tong and Boun stepped to her side.
"I've faced all four turtles on several occasions. Do you think you three are going to scare me?" asked Fishface.
"No, but that will change soon enough." said Namaari before lunging towards him.
The two entered into a sword duel, with each blocking the other's attacks.
They were both in a stalemate until, finding an opening, Namaari kicked him in the chest that knocked him back.
Before Fishface could act, he felt something grab him from behind and turned his head to see Tong grabbing him by the tail.
With a groan of exertion, Tong threw the mutant fish towards a wall against which he impacted, but the evil mutant got up soon after just as Tong lunged to hit him with his axe, but Fishface managed to fend off his attacks with his metal legs.
It was then that, leaning on his hands, he swung his metal legs around, hitting Tong in the process and knocking him down.
Soon after getting up again, he saw Boun running towards him from one side with his karambit knives and Noi and the ongis running towards him from the other side.
As they were about to catch up to him, Fishface gave a loud jump, causing them to collide with each other before looking up to see Fishface falling towards them with his metal legs at the ready.
Luckily, Tong pounced on them, grabbed them and rolled away from the area where Fishface landed, leaving a crater in the process.
"What was it you said earlier about what would change?" asked Fishface getting ready to fight as the others did as well.
Raya wrapped her whip around a foot-bot before giving a jerk to throw the foot-bot towards herself so, kicking it to knock it down and before it got up, Raya stabbed its head with her sword.
After drawing her sword, she glanced around to see that the whole area was littered with the remains of the foot-bots she had fought.
For a moment, she came to think she was done, but then, she felt something incoming and quickly dodged to the side, managing to avoid a laser shot that, upon impacting the ground, left a small explosion of ice.
Looking to the side, she saw a humanoid tiger flying in the sky with a Jetpack on his back and a gun in hand.
The mutant tiger went down until he landed on the ground.
"You have good reflexes, princess." said Tiger Claw.
"Who are you?" asked Raya without letting her guard down.
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tiger Claw and I am Shredder's right-hand man." said Tiger Claw putting away his gun.
Raya was shocked, for she wasn't facing just any evil mutant, but the second in command of the Foot, which meant he must be very strong.
"Did you come for Sisu too?" asked Raya trying not to show how nervous she was about the situation.
"Not this time. We've come for something… different." said Tiger Claw.
"And what is it?" asked Raya.
"You'll have to get the answers out of me yourself." said Tiger Claw drawing his machete before quickly lunging towards her.
Reacting quickly, Raya used her sword to block the attack, but Tiger Claw's strength was so great that she ended up being dragged backwards.
Mentally preparing herself, Raya lunged to attack with her sword, only to be blocked by the mutant tiger's machete.
Raya tried to attack him several times, only for the mutant tiger to block all of her attacks.
That's when, finding the right moment, Raya quickly circled around him until she was on his back and gave him a kick that sent him stumbling forward.
However, Tiger Claw quickly flipped over with a gun in his other hand and began shooting.
Raya moved back and forth to dodge the shots before turning her sword into a whip with which she tried to hit the mutant tiger, but he dodged some whips while others she blocked with her machete.
Just as he blocked another whip, he shot from his gun a laser beam that Raya was unable to dodge and the shot ended up hitting her leg, although instead of exploding or burning, what it did was freeze the leg in place, to Raya's surprise who tried to free her leg which was frozen to the ground.
Tiger Claw took advantage of that moment to launch himself at her and punch her in the face that knocked her to the ground while freeing her frozen leg in the process.
"You have skills. I'll admit that, but in front of me you're nothing more than a beginner." said Tiger Claw as Raya was getting up.
"A beginner can do this?" asked Raya before extending her sword forward like a chameleon's tongue, causing Tiger Claw to duck to the side to dodge it.
What he didn't expect, however, was for Raya to lunge at him and deliver several punches and kicks to his face and chest.
She was about to throw another punch when suddenly Tiger Claw grabbed her fist with his hand, much to the girl's surprise.
"Impressive, but not impressive enough." said Tiger Claw before kneeing her in the chest, causing her to gasp for air just before the mutant tiger gave her, with his other hand, a punch in the face that ended up knocking her down in the process.
Tiger Claw gradually moved closer to Raya, keeping his guard up in case it was a bluff and, upon closer inspection, he could see that she was completely unconscious.
"Our mission is accomplished." began Tiger Claw before drawing another gun. "It's time to leave." said Tiger Claw pointing his gun skyward.
Rahzar stood, panting, in front of the turtles and his two human friends, who didn't look so tired unlike him.
"Oh, tired from playing? If we've only just started." said Mikey.
"You're at a disadvantage, Rahzar. You'd better leave." said Leo pointing a katana at him.
Rahzar growled in frustration at the situation before he and the others heard something and turned his head to the side to see a flare fly into the sky before exploding in a large cloud of red smoke.
That made Rahzar grin mischievously, for he knew who shot that flare and the reason for doing so.
"You know what? I'll do it." said Rahzar before quickly walking away, leaving the others confused.
"Okay… What was that?" asked Raph.
"It looked like a flare." said April.
"Ha. That'll be the retreat signal. That's us winning again!" said Casey.
"Either that or maybe they got what they wanted." said Donnie with concern.
"We can't be sure. Let's go meet up with the others right away." said Leo before he and the others quickly left to make sure Sisu was okay.
"It's over, Fishface. Surrender right now." said Namaari.
"Yes, we may be benevolent to you and put you in a pond all to yourself." said Tong.
Fishface growled at both the situation and the comment and before he went to say anything, everyone noticed the flare from a distance, which made the mutant fish grin mischievously.
"I'd like to stay here and chat with you, but apparently I have some important business to deal with." said Fishface before scurrying off.
"Hey, come back here if you're a man. Or a fish. Whatever." said Boun.
"What was that signal for?" asked Tong.
Namaari thought about it for a moment before an answer flashed through her mind.
And she didn't like that answer.
"They may have Sisu. We have to go with the others. Hurry!" said Namaari before she and the others rushed off to join the rest.
The flare was also noticed by Splinter, Karai and Sisu.
"What is that?" asked Sisu.
"A flare. It's something we use for warning." said Karai.
"If it's the Foot who used it, I wonder what they used it for." said Splinter.
It was then that the others arrived on the scene.
"Sisu, are you all right?" asked Leo.
"I am, but I wouldn't say the same about those robots I turned into scrap metal." said Sisu.
"We thought you were captured as soon as we saw the flare." said Namaari.
"No. Miwa and I have been with her the whole time and nothing has happened." said Splinter.
"Something doesn't feel right about all this. Who did you take on?" asked Karai.
"We took on Rahzar." said Mikey.
"And we took on Fishface." said Boun.
"That just makes it weirder." said Karai.
"What do you mean?" asked Tong.
"Think about it for a moment. Rahzar and Fishface already attacked us once and couldn't pull it off. Why would Shredder bother sending the same squad that failed once?" asked Karai.
"Maybe because he's a psychopath who doesn't learn anything?" asked Raph in a sarcastic manner.
"No, Miwa is right. It's precisely because he's a psychopath that Shredder doesn't usually make the same mistake twice in a row." said Splinter.
"Besides, there's that flare from earlier and I'm beginning to doubt they used it as a retreat signal." said April.
"But if they didn't come for Sisu, why would they have attacked?" asked Casey.
It was then that they noticed something.
"Wait a minute, where's Raya?" asked Leo.
"Wasn't she with you?" asked Namaari.
"Yes, but we had to split up as soon as the attack started to cover more ground." said Leo.
"And how come she's not back yet?" asked Sisu.
Silence flooded the area, everyone wondering where their friend was and that's when the realization hit Leo, causing his eyes to widen in horror.
"No…" began Leo before he ran off.
"Leo, wait!" said Karai before they all took off after him.
"May I know where you're going?" asked Raph.
"To the place where the flare came from. I have a bad feeling." said Leo.
"Wait, you don't mean…?" asked Namaari.
"I hope not." said Leo.
Namaari began to understand what was going on and began to increase speed with the intention of getting there as soon as possible.
By the time they arrived, all they saw was an empty area of people.
Leo noticed something, however, and moved in for a closer look.
When he discovered what it was, he let out a gasp of horror.
"Leonardo, what's wrong?" asked Splinter.
Leo turned around to see them, showing, in his hands, Raya's sword.
"They didn't come for Sisu, they came for Raya." began Leo before tightening his grip on the sword. "And they took her."
Namaari's eyes widened in horror at hearing that.
"No. No, it can't be true!" said Namaari in shock.
"I don't understand, why would they take Raya when I'm their target?" asked Sisu.
"That's exactly why they took her." began Karai drawing the attention of the others. "From what you have told me. You and Raya are close friends. They probably took her away with the intention of using her as bait to lure you."
Hearing that, Sisu began to feel an intense rage inside her and all she could do was scream in rage at the top of her voice.
"That guy… How dare he do that?!" asked Sisu angrily.
"That's exactly the way Shredder works." said Donnie.
"Yes. It's not the first time he's done something like this." said April.
"How could we not have seen that coming?" asked Boun.
"Don't blame yourself, buddy. None of us could have predicted this." said Raph.
"We can't leave Raya in the hands of that monster! We have to save her!" said Namaari.
"But we don't know where they've taken her." said Tong.
"We do." began Leo getting everyone's attention. "They've taken her to their lair. In New York."
"New York? You mean the world you come from?" asked Boun.
"Then let's go there. The fact that she took my friend was the straw that broke the camel's back." said Sisu with determination.
"That's right, we're going to get her out of there whatever it takes." said Namaari with determination.
"I admire your determination, but you must not be hasty. We must think calmly and come up with a plan." said Splinter.
"But we will rescue her. I promise you." said Leo.
Despite his words, Namaari was still worried about Raya.
She couldn't bear the thought that her friend, the most important person to her was in the hands of a man as cruel and ruthless as Shredder.
Both she and Sisu wanted to go there directly to save her, but they knew it would be too risky considering the kind of person Shredder and his mutant minions were.
All they could do was wait and think carefully about how to save her, though they hoped it wouldn't last long.
"Raya, please stay safe." thought Namaari.
