Chapter 9

With the end of classes for the day, the four brothers were quick to return to their dorm room. After the midnight run, they decided they would have to prepare themselves to begin their espionage mission the next day.

Leonardo spoke up first once they'd settled in, standing close to the center of the room. "Alright everyone, starting today, we're going to try and get to the bottom of this spike in crime as well as where the White Fang are getting these technological goodies. To start, I'm going to try and convince Blake to tell me anything she might know. Informants, hideouts, dealers, anything like that. It might not be the most current information, but it could be something."

Donatello than spoke up. "I'll keep looking closer into the recovered tech. At the same time, I'll wander the streets to see if I can find anything similar, and of course I'll do some online research to see if I can find any news on experimental tech."

"An' speaking o' patrolling the streets, I'll be out huntin' any a dem White Fang wackos." Raphael said, before turning to his younger brother.

Said younger brother, however, wasn't paying attention, his eye gazing out the window. When Raph went to smack him, Mickey spoke up. "And I've got a couple of suspicious trespassers sneaking to RWBY's room." The goofball turtle said, pointing out.

The other three widened their eyes and ran over to the window to take a look. And sure enough they could see see Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias near team RWBY's window. Sun was climbing on a branch while Neptune was inching his way sideways on a very small ledge on the building's side. How he got there, they couldn't tell. Sun then grabbed the branch he was on with his tail and hung upside down, looking into the girl's window.

"What the heck are they doing?" Donnie asked, an eyebrow raised in confusion.

Raph growled and stepped onto the window. "I dunno, but I get the feelin' it ain't about respecting their privacy." He said, before leaping out of the window and onto the tree.

Micky chuckled and got up. "He's right, let's go make sure Mr. Weapon Idea Thief is on the up and up." He said, before following Raph.

Leonardo sighed, and looked to his brother. "We should follow them and make sure they don't get in too much trouble, shouldn't we?" He asked, to which Don nodded.

The two got up and scooted on the ledge like Neptune, although more confidently and quickly. Neptune quickly caught sight of them, and looked confused. As the two got closer to the window, they could hear Ruby from inside.

"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!"

"What we found?" What're they planning? Leonardo thought, before Sun spoke up.

"Yeah!"

Leonardo could hear the surprise from the team inside, as Raphael climbed up to where the monkey Faunus was.

"Ah, it's easy, I do it all the time." Sun said, and at that point Raph leaped out.

"Aha, not anymore ya ain't!" Raphael said as he kicked out towards the thief and knocked the two flying into RWBY's dorm room.

Mickey chuckled and leaped across, grabbing ahold of Neptune and pulling him in with him, causing the blue haired boy to cry out in surprise. "He's not the only one up here too!"

Leonardo and Donatello both shared a wince as they saw it, before sighing and leaping into the room to hopefully provide a good chunk of damage control.

As Raphael and Sun squirmed on the floor, Yang was the first of the stunned girls to speak up. "Raph? Mikey? What're you all doing here?"

Raph, having somewhat pinned Sun's arms down looked up. "Hey Yang, was just checking out what dese boneheads were doin' creepin' around the dorms an' why he was snoopin' in."

"Snooping in? What, I was just trying to see what their plan was in going after the White Fang!" Sun said, struggling, before having his tail wrap around Raph's arm and yanking him off.

As Raph was about to get back up, Leonardo spoke up. "Wait, you're going after the White Fang too?"

Ruby nodded slowly. "Um...yeah I guess we-wait...what do you mean...too?"

After having had everyone calmed down, both teams found out the other was simultaneously wanting to go after Roman Torchwick and the White Fang. So, upon realizing this, the two teams decided to work together. With, to the reluctance of Raphael, the help of Sun and Neptune too.

Ruby spoke up as she looked at the now ten person group. "I'll go with Weiss, and Donnie you can come with us too, to make sure Weiss asks about those extra parts you found."

Don nodded and spoke up. "While we're there I might be able to try and get some extra information."

Leonardo spoke up, pointing to Raph and Mikey. "You two can go with Yang, some extra muscle in a shady part of town could do good." After seeing them nod, he looked at Blake and Sun. "I'll go with you guys as well."

Blake's eyes widened with concern, but as she was about to raise her concerns, Leonardo gave her a knowing look, hoping to discuss his reasoning more privately. Slowly nodding back, she relented.

Ruby then pushed Neptune towards Yang. "And because Leo brought up a good point, Neptune can go with you Yang. Plus it'll even out the bikes."

Weiss didn't seem to agree with that logic and raised her hand. "Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister. And I suppose Neptune could come with me, oh and Donatello, instead."

Ruby seemed to think for a moment, before brushing it off with a snort. "Hahah, nah!"

Donatello and Mikey both chuckled at the Ice Queen's annoyed look, and Don brought it up as he walked past her. "Smooth moves, Ice Queen." He said, as Ruby dragged the protesting heiress away.

Leonardo sighed and shook his head. "Alright everyone, let's go to it." As the groups split up, him, Sun, and Blake began to walk down the hall. The latter two slowed down a bit so they could whisper without Sun hearing.

"Okay, what is the plan? We both know you'd never be able to pass off as a Faunus in a full crowd of them. And besides, even if you did, you're so unique looking you'll just draw attention to us."

"I know, which is why I was going to be staying in the shadows as back up, in case things went wrong." Leo said. "Besides, I suppose if I'm out of the way but closest to you guys, I could coordinate with my brothers easier." He reasoned. Then he held out his hand with a small, black disc.

"What's this?" Blake asked, taking it.

"An earpiece, I snagged it from Donnie. That way we can be in constant communication. Plus I could hear anything going on in there as well." Leonardo explained.

Donatello (in disguise now), Weiss, and Ruby walked out of the dorms and towards the base of Beacon Tower and where the CCTS was. Ruby was, of course, excitedly squealing at it.

"Wow! I forget how big the Transmit tower looks up close!" Ruby said, smiling as she looked up.

Weiss smirked and added in. "You should see the one in Atlas."

Donatello spoke up, having read about them sooner. "The first one, right? Where right after the Great War, Atlas gifted the Cross Continental Transmit System to the world, right?" He asked Weiss, although was fairly certain about it.

Weiss nodded, seemingly almost impressed. "Someone's been brushing up on their history."

This caused Don to rub the back of his head in slight embarrassment. "Yeah, sorry I'm a bit of a history guy." That and I needed to learn as much about them as I could when setting up our Shell Cells to it...and that was a pain enough as is.

Ruby rolled her eyes and chuckled. Weiss crossed her arms. "Oh please don't act like that, we're only here because of you, we could've done this just as easily in the library."

Ruby brightened up, excited once again. "I know, but it's just so cool! I've gotta take a picture!" But in her excited rush to pull it out, she accidentally tossed it away. It bounced on the ground until it landed at some...familiar feet.

Bending down to pick up the Scroll stood Penny. "Oh! You dropped this." She said with a smile.

"...Penny?" Both Ruby and Don asked in unison.

Seeing and realizing who they were, Penny's smile formed a frown and her eyes went wide. "Uh..."

"Where've you been, we haven't seen you since the night at the docks!" Ruby said, and Donnie walked besides her to Penny.

"Where you that busy? We couldn't even catch up and let you know what happened." Don said. Sure they hadn't known each other for very long (even if she had insisted on referring to the two as friends) but still, vanishing right after a big battle like that was odd.

Penny looked back between the two and she seemed to get somewhat...nervous. "S-Sorry but I think you two are...confused." She said, before hiccuping, which launched Ruby's Scroll back at her. "Uh...I-I've got to go!" With that she quickly turn around and left.

"...The heck was that about? She seemed very...defensive and nervous for some reason." Donnie said, resting his hand on his chin.

"I don't know...but I'm going to find out!" She said, before rushing to catch up with Penny.

The surprised Weiss tried to call out to her partner, but Donatello interrupted her. "Hey Weiss, you got my list of additions to ask for, right?"

"Yeah, why-" Weiss started before he interrupted her.

"I'm gonna catch up later, go on without us!" He said, rushing after Ruby and Penny as Weiss's futile protests faded behind him. As he caught up he saw Ruby was already trying, and failing, to talk to Penny.

"Look, I don't know what's wrong, but you have to listen to me! Those guys we fought at the docks, we think they're up to something big, something bad!" Ruby pleaded as Donnie nodded once he caught up.

"Yeah, and we don't know what they're planning on doing, or how they're involved with anyone. Maybe you know something, but please...you can help us."

"As a friend." Ruby added, to Don's nods in agreement.

Penny sighed and looked around, before walking closer to the two and whispering. "It isn't safe to talk here."

After having split off from Penny, they agreed to meet somewhere else. Donnie could understand the reasoning for this. She seemed like she was being followed, and if she was than that meant if they went with her, it might arouse suspicion. The two found Penny in front of a diner, looking incredibly nervous. Ruby smiled and put her hand on her shoulder, which after surprising her seemed to calm the strange girl down.

The three walked down the sidewalk as Penny explained. "I wish I could help you two but I don't know anything about those men." She said, somewhat remorsefully.

"It's fine, I suppose it was a bit of a pipe dream. Maybe you could tell us what happened to you?" Donnie suggested.

"I've never been to another kingdom before. My father asked me not to venture out too far, but...you have to understand, my father loves me very much; he just worries a lot." Penny clarified.

Donnie chuckled and nodded his head. "I think I can understand that very well."

Ruby nodded in agreement with a knowing smile, before it fell. "But why not let us know you were okay?"

Penny thought for a moment and started to word her words carefully. "I...was asked...not to talk to you. Or Donatello. Or Blake. Anybody, really."

"Well...glad to know I'm regarded so highly by your father..." Don said with a small sigh.

"No, it wasn't my father-" Penny started before a voice around the corner interrupted her, one that seemed to catch her attention too.

"The AK-130 has been a standard security model of Remnant for several years, and they have done a fine job. Wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree?" The voice came from a raised platform in a town square. On the platform stood two lines of three robots that were currently bowing. Ahead and in between them was a hologram of a man in an Atlas military uniform.

Donatello raised an eyebrow. "Isn't...that General Ironwood, the leader of Atlas's military and the Headmaster of Atlas Academy?" He'd heard how he was in Vale with the small fleet of massive Atlas Airships that had arrived yesterday. "What's he doing?"

Ironwood seemed to be hosting some kind of demo. "But, he kingdom of Atlas is a kingdom of innovation, and "fine'"..well, that's just not good enough, is it? Presenting... the Atlesian Knight-200!" He exclaimed, as behind the rows of older robots, newer and sleeker models were revealed, kicking down the older models, as the audience clapped.

Donatello meanwhile watched as Ruby was enthralled by the new models, while Penny seemed very...apprehensive. "Penny...you doing alright?" He asked, before the general's words caught him again.

"However, there are still many situations that will undoubtedly require... a human touch." He said, grinning.

Ruby's attention was now fully on the demo, while Penny seemed to try and get her attention.

"Ruby…? Um, Donatello..." She said, turning to him, but Don had to admit...he was curious.

"So, our kingdom's greatest minds, in cooperation with the Schnee Dust Company, are proud to introduce...the Atlesian Paladin!" And with that said, his hologram vanished and in its place a hologram of a massive mech appeared, two large arms outstretched.

Donnie widened his eyes. "Oh boy...mechs don't usually mean good things for us..." He mumbled, before looking over at Ruby who was awestruck. He sighed and tapped her shoulder. "Ruby? Come on, you're gonna start drooling."

That's when Penny tried to get their attention again, baking up. "Ruby, Donatello...maybe we should go somewhere else..."

Don looked back over to her. "Why, what's wrong?" Looking back he saw two Atlas soldiers who were standing guard look their way and point. Donnie raised an eyebrow and looked back...but Penny was gone. Looking back to the stand, he saw the guards rushing their way. "...Ah shell!"

The two quickly ran across the street after the girl, as a she ran down an alleyway. Ruby stayed ahead of Donatello, who looked back to see the soldiers gaining. As they ran around a corner, they saw she'd run across the street into another alleyway. Donatello was incredibly confused as to what was going on as they ran across, him leaping over a honking car that got in the soldiers' way.

As the group ran down the alleyway, Ruby saw Penny run past a wooden structure holding up a number of crates. As she ran past, she quickly pulled out Crescent Rose and slashed at a leg before putting it back, causing the crates to fall.

Donnie widened his eyes and ran towards the boxes, before kicking off the ground, leaping back off of it ahead of the boxes, while also throwing smoke pellets at the ground right behind them. "A little heads up would've been appreciated!" Don called, causing Ruby to wince as she looked back.

"Oops, sorry!" Ruby said, before looking ahead and seeing how Penny was still so much further ahead. Leaping up, she quickly ran along the wall, to Don's amazement. Then she quickly launched herself almost in a flash to where Penny was. Grabbing ahold, she launched herself and Penny down the alleyway.

Donatello ran ahead and around the corner to try and catch up, and as he ran around the corner he saw Ruby fall to the ground with Penny and roll out into a busy street. Feeling his eyes widen, he quickly ran faster. "Ruby, look out!" He yelled as he saw a truck barreling down the road towards her. He ran to try and get to her, but he knew he wouldn't make it.

Fortunately, he didn't have to. Penny ran into the road and pushed Ruby aside, before putting her hand out in front of her. Then, to his surprise, she stopped the truck, lifting it into the air, before setting it down. Donatello stopped and stared, as did many other people, with some whispering. Penny noticed this, and as she looked down at her hands, her eyes widened and she quickly ran off.

Don could hear the soldiers behind him, so he ran ahead and helped Ruby up. "Come on, we gotta help her, something's wrong." Don said, as they ran after her. Fortunately they'd finally come to an alleyway with a dead end.

"Penny what's wrong? How did you do that?" Donatello asked, as he looked at the increasingly erratic girl. Sure if it'd been someone like Yang, Don could see the truck getting stopped. But he hadn't gotten the feeling that Penny was a brute strength user.

Penny, was getting increasingly nervous and worried. "I-I can't! Everything's fine! I-I don't want to talk about it!" With every sentence, she began to hiccup, which Donatello found...interesting, but put aside that at the moment for maybe something being caused by stress.

Ruby shook her head and walked forward. "Penny, if you can just tell us what's wrong, we can help you!" She pleaded, looking back at Donatello, who stepped forward to help her.

Unfortunately, Penny was beginning to panic, shaking her head and looking away. "No! No, no! You wouldn't understand..."

Don shook his head. "We just might, you never know, and even if we can't we can still try and help you."

Ruby nodded, turning to her. "Please Penny...as a friend."

Those words seemed to spark something in Penny, who after a moment turned to the two quickly. "You're my friends, right? You promise you're my friends?" She asked, no begged, the two, who quickly nodded.

"We promise."

She sighed and looked down at her hands she'd been clenching tightly at once. "I'm...not a real girl..."

Donatello's eyes went wide, as did Ruby's as they looked down.

"Penny I...I don't understand..." Ruby said, slowly as the shock kicked in.

"I do...you're a robot, aren't you?" Don asked, slowly and calmly.

Penny nodded at Donatello's words, before looking down slowly. "The first one capable of generating an Aura...I'm not real..."

Ruby shook her head, before grabbing and softly closing her hands. "Of course you are. You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me?"

Donatello nodded in agreement, as he remembered a certain robotic genius.

Penny looked up, then looked at the two somewhat confused. "You're both...taking this...extremely well..."

Donatello chuckled and nodded. "Yeah...you could say I'm kinda used to strange stuff happening." And by his definition, he's not sure this counted as strange. Besides, it made an odd amount of sense in hindsight. "Besides, you said you can generate an Aura, right? That means, scientifically, you do have a soul. You are a person." He said, smiling, as Ruby smiled with him.

Penny smiled widely, before pulling the two into her arms. "Oh Ruby, Donatello!" She said, as she gave the two a crushing hug. Don was surprised as this tiny girl gave him a hug more comparable to one from Leatherhead. "You two are the best friends anyone could ever have!"

Ruby was barely gasping for breath as Don was once again thankful for his shell. "I think...your father might've been...a bit too worried for you..." He gasped out, thankful when she finally let the two go.

"Oh, he's very sweet! My father's the one that built me! I'm sure you both would love him!" She said, smiling.

Don nodded, as he brushed himself off. "I'm always happy to meet another genius."

Ruby nodded and turned to Penny. "And he must be really smart if he built you all by himself."

"Well, almost! He had some help from Mr. Ironwood." Penny said, the fully happy, go-lucky girl back.

"The General? Wait, is that why those soldiers were after you?" Ruby asked.

Donatello put his hand on his chin as he thought. "That would...make a lot of sense actually. Both of those." He said, wondering if Penny was really supposed to be some secret military project.

"They like to protect me." Penny confirmed, which Ruby scoffed at.

"What, do they think you can't protect yourself?"

"They're not sure if I'm ready yet. One day, it will be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot left to learn. That's why my father let me come to the Vytal Festival. I want to see what it's like in the rest of the world, and test myself in the Tournament." Penny explained to the two.

Don nodded. "I suppose that would make sense...a tournament like this would give a lot of experience and knowledge..." He mentioned.

Ruby found something else odd in her words.

"Save the world from what? We're in a time of peace!" Ruby said, somewhat confused. However, this also caused Penny to look confused.

"That's not what Mr. Ironwood said..." Before their discussion could continue, they heard a voice that caused Penny to flinch.

"Check down here!"

Penny quickly turned to the two. "You have to hide!" She grabbed Ruby and picked her up, carrying her to a dumpster.

Ruby was struggling, trying to escape. "Penny, wait! What are you doing? You don't have to go with them! We can help you!"

Penny then dumped her in the dumpster, and smiled. "It's okay, Ruby. They're not bad people. I just don't want to get you in trouble. Just promise me you won't tell anyone else my secret. Okay?" Penny asked, with Ruby agreeing. Then Penny turned to Donatello.

Donatello widened his eyes and shook his head. "Uh, no thanks, trust me I can hide myself." He said, looking up and climbing up the corner of the alleyway. He'd learned a long time ago in New York that very few people looked up.

As Penny smiled, seemingly satisfied, she turned around as the soldiers came to her. Making up some story about how she was not alone and not with another guy and girl. The soldiers didn't seem to believe her, but, they didn't want to argue and just kindly yet sternly asked her to go with them. After leaving, Donatello leaped down by the dumpster Ruby had been peaking out of. As Don looked down, he saw Ruby suddenly fly back into it in fear, after hearing a rat.

"...Oh come on, what has a rat ever done to you?" Don asked.

It'd taken some time to get there but two motorcycles, one red one yellow, raced down the road before stopping in front of a club, one that seemed oddly vacant for being the early evening. Raph sat up and took his helmet off, Mikey on the back of the Shellcycle. Looking over at Yang on Bumblebee, he shrugged his arms.

"This dat place you told me you took apart? Heh, I seen betta clubs." Raph said, while Mikey was busy poking the seemingly winded Neptune on the back of her bike.

Yang shrugged. "Come on, my friend's in here." She said, while Raph smirked.

"Oh, one ah these "friends". I can't wait." He said, while cracking his knuckles.

As the group of four walked up to the gate. As they did, they saw two guys standing out front, dressed just like the goons that were with Torchwick that first night the turtles came here. Seeing Yang, however, they immediately panicked and ran inside, and the doors were pushed shut.

"Must be invitation only." Mikey said, pushing on the door to feel it not budge.

"Seems dey don't want ta give ya a warm welcome." Raph said, arms crossed, reaching for his sais.

However, Yang shook her head, putting her hand on his arm to stop him. "Nah, trust me it's cool." On her right arm, her bracelet unfolded into her weapon. "They're just playing hard to get!" On that last word she threw a punch, the explosion from it knocking the doors open, and the guards onto their stomachs. Yang walked in, like she owned it. "Guess who's back?"

As Raph followed, he got his warm welcome alright...around a dozen or so guns of it. Reaching down, Raph put his hands on his sais, Mikey did the same with his nunchucks, but Yang didn't seem to notice. As this tense situation went on for a few seconds, a skipping record seemed to finally annoy Yang, who turned to glare past the guns at the DJ, who wisely pulled the needle off.

"Boy, tough crowd..." Mikey said, as the guns were readied.

However before one of the trigger happy goons set off Yang or Raph's temper, a large man walked past them, clearly the head honcho. "Stop, stop! Nobody shoot." Clearing his throat, the man looked to show he was in control. "Blondie you're here...why?" However, his voice revealed he was both confused and nervous. "And who're the frea-er, friends?"

Yang smirked and walked past the armed guards. "You still owe me a drink. And my friends, that's my pal Raph and his brother Michelangelo, and that's Neptune. As for who they are, well...Raph's kinda like me. But with more anger issues." She said, which caused some of the guards to widen their eyes and back up slightly, as she dragged the man away.

Raph smirked and looked at the guards. "Boo." He said as he followed Yang, causing the guards to jump back.

In another area of town near the warehouse district, Blake and Sun were following symbols to lead them to a White Fang recruitment meeting. Meanwhile, Leonardo was hanging back across on another warehouse's roof, looking through some binoculars into a window. "Yep, that's the place alright." Leonardo said into the earpiece as Blake and Sun moved in.

"Alright, we're in." Blake told Leo quietly as the two were given their masks and entered with the other potential recruits.

"Alright, I'm getting it, I should be able to hear what they say. Good luck." He said, as he looked in to see what was going on. Inside he could see two sections, one filled with ranks of members in their uniforms, and another filled with regular Faunus with just a mask. On the stage stood a giant of a man, incredibly muscular that almost reminded Leo of a less fat Hun. And of course behind him was a flag of the White Fang.

As the people entering slowed to a halt, the man spoke up. "Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for, for so long!" As he said that, Leonardo could see none other than Roman Torchwick walk on stage.

"Well...wasn't expecting him to be here..." Leonardo muttered, unsure if this was a stroke of luck, or if this was the opposite. Knowing how their turtle luck usually went…

Roman walked onto the stage to mass booing. "Thank you, thank you! Please, hold your applause!" He said sarcastically, as behind him a fairly short girl with both pink and chocolate brown hair follow him. As the new recruits began to question what a human was doing there, he decided to explain. "Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans...are the worst." He saluted to himself as an example. "Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed!"

Hmm, lovely crowd. Leonardo thought, wondering what his game was.

Roman continued to explain. "Before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!" At this point the crowd began to turn to his side. "Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life! And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around..."

With that said, he snapped his finger, and the White Fang curtain was tossed away. Behind Roman stood several rows of weapons, swords, hammers, axes, all with a similar design to the electric swords that the brothers had been finding them using. Not only that were some strange rifles. They looked similar to the normal assault rifles, only sleeker and more compact. But the biggest attention grabber was the massive mech behind it all.

"Leo...are you seeing this?" Blake asked, somewhat worried. Leonardo swallowed and nodded. "Yeah...that's uh...that's a lot more than I was expecting us to find."

Roman wasn't done, however. "As some of you may have heard, this right here is Atlas's newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my "employer", we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, "hit the shelves". Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine, we do have some major operations in this district, but if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?"

Leonardo heard that last bit, and talked back into the earpiece. "Okay, they've got a base or something in this section and I the southeast. We also see they have all kinds of toys I think we'd rather not have you be the tests, so get out of there now."

With Yang and Raph the club owner, who Raph and Mikey learned was named Junior, slammed down a shot glass as he looked as frustrated as Raph and Yang did.

"I don't know!" He exclaimed, to which Raph growled.

"Your type always know somethin' and you ain't an exception, how could ya not know?!"

"I haven't talked to him! I haven't even seen him since the night you first came in here. He paid up front, I lent him my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back." He said, pointing to the two with each word. He then pointed to Raph. "In fact, if there's anyone you should be asking it's him, he saw them last, not me!"

It was at that moment that Neptune tried to be "helpful". "So where did they go?"

Michelangelo was forced to smack himself in the face at hearing that, while Junior, Yang, and Raphael looked at him for asking that. Raph sighed and smacked him upside the head, surprised it wasn't Mikey.

"C'mon dude, have you never seen a crop movie before! They never came back! They got whacked! They're swimming with the fishes." He said.

Raph tugged on his bandana and sighed. "Yeah yeah, idiots aside you better tell us what we want 'fore we get mad."

Junior looked down, very low on patience. " I already told you everything! Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them." Then he turned to shout at the guards in the club. "Which is something I can relate to!"

Yang sighed and looked down, before turning around, Raph following, with Mikey and Neptune quick to follow.

"Utter waste a time." Raph grumbled.

Yang nodded as they headed out. "Well guess we can only hope the other teams had more luck."

While Leonardo felt they had more luck in finding information, that's about where it ended.

"He sees us..." Sun said, which Leo caught in his earbud.

Looking down into the window, he could see Roman angrily marching in their direction. That's when Blake spoke up. "He can't see in the dark."

With that said Leonardo heard a loud gunshot, making him flinch and cover his ear in pain, before pulling his katanas out. The warehouse had gone dark so he couldn't see a thing in there. "Guys, what's going on? Do you need help?" His question was answered in the form of Sun and Blake leaping through the window. Then the giant mech from earlier smashed through the wall.

As the two leaped up with him, Leo ran with the two as he sheathed his blades, keeping up easily, as they ran across the rooftops. However the mech was very easily capable of keeping up with them on the ground.

As the three ran, Leonardo looked back. "Blake, call everyone, we need their help!" As she did, the three ran across the rooftops with Sun and Blake trying their best to explain the situation while keeping ahead of the mech.

Eventually they came across a highway, leaping onto the cars. However the mech, piloted by Roman Torchwick, followed them, and charged, knocking cars aside as it rushed to get them.

"Ah, shell..." Leo growled as him and the others were forced to leap from car to car to stay ahead.

Raph and Yang had split off to try and attack the Paladin from multiple angles. Yang and Neptune where coming up behind the mech, but before Neptune could take any shots, Roman started throwing cars back behind him to force Yang to focus on dodging, keeping Neptune from making a clear shot.

Meanwhile, Raph was driving on a lower level below the highway, and as he saw a ramp, he smirked. "Ready Mikey!" He said, as he pulled his sais out and combined them into their alternate form, holding it in one hand while steering with the other. As Raph revved the Shellcycle up the ramp he launched it up and over the Paladin, screaming Mikey behind him, firing on it as he flew up, over, then next to. However the small bullets didn't seem to do anything, so he turned to his passenger. "Hey Mikey, blind him!" He said, as he drove the Shellcycle right next to him.

Mikey nodded and pulled his nunchucks out, and aimed one of the ends up at where he assumed the cockpit was. Then a torrent of flames spewed out and coated the front. While it didn't do much to damage the Paladin, it did shock Roman and force him to stop throwing cars, while slowing down.

Behind them, Neptune was able to pull his weapon off and aim it at the back, firing several times, this seeming to do some damage. However it wasn't enough, so he leaped off Bumblebee and onto the mech, his weapon a trident now, piercing into the "shoulder" joint.

Raph smirked. "So ya really are useful, huh?" He shouted up.

Leonardo stopped with Blake and Sun as they heard this, with the mech trying to shake Neptune off. As Leonardo drew his katanas, Sun looked to his partner. "Neptune, hang on!" He said, before a couple of shiny, yellow looking pseudo clones of himself were formed. Rushing out they leaped at the Paladin and exploded. However when Sun tried to do the same thing, the mech finally loosened Neptune and sent him flying right into Sun, knocking the two off.

Raph and Mikey winced. "Nevah mind..." He said, before seeing Weiss leap off ahead of them from an upper story. Raph slowed down, as Weiss stabbed her rapier into the ground, creating a thin sheet of ice. As the Paladin ran across it, it slipped and was sent flying off the edge and onto the ground under the highway.

Down below, Donatello and Ruby Rose awaited, weapons ready. Soon the other six joined them, weapons at the ready.

Mikey turned to Donatello. "So remember a while back when you said for once we get the cool toys instead of the bad guys? Yeah, don't ever tempt fate again." He then turned to Leonardo. "Hey dude, got a plan?" He asked, twirling his nunchucks as Roman stomped towards them.

As Leonardo looked around, he tried to think of a plan. "We need to distract it, try to find a weakness."

"I got that." Ruby said, then turned to her team. "Freezer Burn!" She said. At hearing that, herself and Blake leaped back. Weiss created another sheet of ice, while Yang leaped into the air before slamming her fists into the ice, creating a thick fog over the area.

Mikey's eyes widened. "That's so cool! Why don't we have attack names?" He asked, before Raph smacked him.

"Shut up and get to bein' a ninja!"

After that was said, the four also vanished into the mist. However, the Paladin still had some tricks. Several orbs on it produced some lasers which cut through the fog, letting Torchwick know if there was any movement. This caught Blake and Weiss, but the turtles were able to nimbly dodge pass them until they were right up in front of it.

Once there, they began their attack. Raphael and Donatello went for stabbing the laser producing orbs to effectively blind it, while Mikey and Leo attacked it t several spots, unable to scratch it.

"This isn't working!" Leo said.

Donatello looked it over. "...The joints, go for the joints!" Looking around by now the fog had dissipated enough for everyone to see each other. Ruby nodded when she heard Don's words.

However, Roman could also see them. Growling, he tried to kick at the braniac, but Don felt a sudden energy to him. Looking down, he saw a black glyph form under him, before he was sent flying backwards next to Weiss. "Ugh...thanks..."

Leonardo looked over at Mikey, before grabbing ahold of one of his nunchucks before launching himself upwards. However it was at this point that on the top of the mech, several missiles fired up. Leo widened his eyes. "Ah shell!" One of the missiles hit him, and knocked him flying. But at that point he saw Gambol Shroud in pistol form fly past him, connected to Blake's ribbon. Grabbing ahold, she turned and launched him at it like what he tried to do with Mikey. Yelling out, he slashed his two swords at the joint, slicing right through.

Using the distraction, Yang ran up to the mech and leaped onto the back, punching into it.

Raph smirked and ran towards it from the front. "Save some for me!" He yelled as he leaped up. However, the mech's arm came up and smashed right into the hot-headed turtle, knocking him back.

"Raph!" Leonardo called out, as he ran over to check on his brother. Helping Raph up, the two met up with the rest of their team.

With one distraction out of the way, the mech ran backwards through several pillars, smashing Yang through them, before leaving her in one. Turning around Torchwick sent the mech's fist right into the blonde bruiser, knocking her right through the pillar and onto the ground.

Mikey winced as he saw that. "Oooh...that's gotta hurt." He said.

But Raph smirked and shook his head. "Yeah...for Torchwick!"

"Er...what do you mean?" Mikey asked, confused.

Ruby spoke up, as the other two members met up with her. "With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special."

Mikey's eyes widened as he turned around. Looking over, he saw Yang catch the next punch from the mech, stopping it cold, before punching back, shattering the arm. "...Dude, your sister is way cool." He said, seeing the girl with practically flaming hair. "Heh, and I though Raph was a hot-head!"

But Torchwick wasn't defenseless. Looking down, he kicked the mech's leg, sending Yang flying past the two teams.

"Bumblebee!" Ruby cried out, with Blake throwing Gambol Shroud to Yang, who caught it. As Blake started twirling Yang like a living flail. However, the Paladin was too fast and agile to be hit. "We have to slow it down!" Ruby yelled.

Leonardo turned to Don. "Anything on it?" He asked.

The braniac nodded, having been studying it this whole time. "This is only a theory, but in order to power everything, there has to be power running along the various parts to power the whole thing. Which means if we cut the ones to the legs..."

"We cripple the whole thing!" Leo said, before turning to his brothers. "Alright, go in and target the legs, try to stab as deep as you can!" He then turned to Blake. "Keep him moving towards us, and we'll get him stuck for you!"

The four charged in. Normally Torchwick would be more comfortable in either staying away or fighting back, but the Yang-flail limited his options. He was forced to leap in the direction of the turtles. Leonardo and Raph took the left leg, while Michelangelo and Donnie took the right. Each one leaped into the air and using the bladed parts sank them as deep into the metal as they could. And it turns out Don's theory was right. The mech's legs stopped moving, even as the top kept trying to move.

"Now, get the shell outta here!" Raph yelled, as the four pulled off to avoid the Yang-fail as she smashed her fist right into the cockpit, sending the whole thing flying and smashing into pieces.

Torchwick rolled out from the wreckage before standing up and dusting himself off. Looking back, he saw the eight warriors, weapons drawn, and ready to take him in. It was clearly not a fight he could win.

Yang started the attack off by firing with her gauntlets. However at the second before they would've hit him, something else got in the way. It was the small woman Leo, Sun, and Blake had seen with him at the White Fang rally. She was holding what looked like parasol up, having deflected Yang's shots.

Roman, now smirking confidently, nodded at the eight. "Ladies, freaks, Ice Queen, always a pleasure! Neo, if you would..." He said to his associate, who just bowed.

After a few seconds of waiting for someone to make a move, Raph snarled and charged the two. "Think one more lackey's gonna help?! Well I don't think so-" He said, but as he thrust his sais forward and Neo raised her weapon to block, the two...shattered like glass. The eight looked around, and caught a Bullhead flying off with both Neo and Roman inside.

As Raph angrily yelled out at how that was cheating, the rest discussed what happened.

"Well, now we know who she was." Leo said to Blake.

"Yeah, I-" Mikey started before Weiss of all people interrupted him.

"Guess she made our plans...fall apart?" She tried joking weekly.

Mikey widened his eyes. "Wha- oh come on, that was my joke!" He grumbled, before Raph smacked him upside the head. "Wha-she said it, not me!"

"Yeah, but it was your joke she stole, right?" Raph said.

Meanwhile, Leonardo turned to Ruby. "We learned some stuff, Blake'll tell you our end. Weiss can let us know tomorrow. But for now...I think we all could use some rest."

Author's Note:

Well...I finally did it. And I kept a deadline for once too! I don't know why it took so long, but there it is. I apologize if the quality is lower, this was the first chapter in a while I haven't had a Beta Reader for, so I apologize if there's more mistakes than usual. I'm not much of an editor, and it is 5:40 AM when I went over, but here it is! I thank you all for your continued support and patience with my fic.