It was midnight, Leo and Raph were running on top of the rooftops, racing each other. They stop as they came across a billboard with a target on it. Leo draws one of his swords and flips over to it before jumping stabbing his sword into it. He looks up and sees that he was a little off from the bulls eye. He groans in disappointment.

"Leo, I don't know all about those fancy moves." Raph said as he jumps onto the roof and throws his sai which hits the bulls eye right on the mark. He jumps over to Leo, retrieving his weapon. "I prefer just getting the job done."

Leo reaches up and removes his sword from the sign. "Master Splinter says that grace and form should flow together in beauty, creating true power."

"That's a little too intense, bro. You gotta relax a little. How about a little game of Follow the Leader?"

" And since when did you become leader?"

"Since right now!"

Raph jumps off from the rooftops, onto the next one. "Not for long!" Leo calls out as he follows after him. They continue to run and Raph jumps onto a water tower and grabs a wire but it snaps and he swings on it instead.

"Just your Friendly neighborhood Turtle-Man!" Raph exclaimed. Leo does the same.

"You look more like Raph-zan, Lord Of the Jungle to me!"

"Well, what's that make you, Jane or Cheetah?" Raph jokes.

Suddenly, Raph hears something and looks towards the direction from where he had heard it. "Whoa." The two swing onto a rooftop and Raph looks down into an alley. He shushes Leo and gestures him to come over, pointing down.

"Some kind of deal going down." Raph whispers and the two look down to see the mob and a Foot Elite.

"You got the stuff?" The mob leader asked.

"Do you have the payment?" The Foot Elite asked.

"Right here." The mobster answered as he holds up a case and then tosses it over to the Elite.

The Elite catches it and sets the case on the ground and opens it up. He takes out a stack of cash.

"Hey, you actually gonna count it?" The mob leader asked nervously. "We ain't got all night."

"This is only half on what we agreed." The Elite replied as he closes the case. Leo and Raph looked at each other. If there's one thing they knew, its that you never double cross the Foot, especially a bunch of ninjas.

"You get the other half of the money once we leave with the stuff."

The Elite stands up and kicks the case to the side, stepping out into the light. "You are not going to leave." The Elite draws his weapons. "Foot ninja!" A swarm of Foot ninjas appear out from the shadows, surprising the mobsters.

"Exterminate these insects!"

"Exterminate me?" The mobster leader asked. "We'll exterminate you, pal! Let him have it boys!"

The mob shoots lasers at the Foot. A couple of Foot soldiers manages to knock some of the mobsters out while dodging the lasers. A stray laser miss fires and nearly hits Leo, instead, it hits the ledge he was leaning on. "Hey!" Leo exclaimed as he draws his swords. He was about to jump in but Raph stops him.

"Whoa, Leo, where're you going?" Raph questioned. "Those are all bad guys down there."

"But...it's not right." Leo argued.

"Right or wrong, its not our fight!"

"I'm not too sure about that."

A helicopter flies above the alley shining the spotlight. "This is the police! Freeze!" Police cars can also be heard, as they show up and block the alley while the two gangs scrambled to get away.

"There, you see? Here come the good guys." Raph said as he turns to leave. "A happy ending."

"I don't know, Raph." Leo said, worried. "I don't know."

Somewhere in Japan, inside of a building. A dummy was hanging from the ceiling. Someone sneaks around within the shadows. They flip over to it, revealing themselves to be a woman.

She had long shoulder length black hair and emerald green eyes and was wearing a red and black training outfit. She begins kicking at the dummy.

Suddenly her communicator beeps and she flips over to it and answered.

"Report?"

"It is as we feared Mistress Karai. The word on the street is that the Shredder is no more. Several different factions are fighting for territory. The city...is at war."

She puts down her communicator and turns to her two aides. "Fuel the jet." She ordered. The two bow to her.

"It is time to bring order to the chaos."

Then she jumps and kicks the dummy to the floor, completely demolishing it as she did.

"My way."

Back in the lair, Leo was sitting on the couch watching the news on the TV. He flips through the channels and every single one is talking about the city at war.

"These innocent victims in unprecedented gang activity...increased violence...imposed curfew has failed to stem the tide of violence...several innocent bystanders were rushed to the hospital after they have been caught in the crossfire of more gang violence. It's the fifth wave of gang activities...Victoria, your inability to recognize the truth when it hits you over the head never ceases to flabbergast me! This is obviously a gang war on a citywide scale with the factions vying for total control! Ivan, your scare tactics amaze and amuse me simultaneously. This is no more than a few random clashes between gangs in a small-scale turf war! You once again proven yourself to be a complete and total loser!"

Leo turns off the TV and sighs. He turns to the target lying against the wall and walks over to it. Leo draws his swords and flips over towards it and stabs his sword into the target. His aim was off again, as his sword was away from the bulls eye. He growls in anger.

"You are troubled my son?" A voice asked.

Leo looks up, surprised to see Splinter.

"I...I'm confused, Master Splinter." Leo starts. "I guess I hoped things would change when we finally got rid of the Shredder, you know, for the better. But it seems that everything just got worse."

"Are you out of your green gourd?" Raph questioned as he runs towards the leader. "We did the city a favor!"

Mikey , Donnie, Yuuki, Mona and Venus walked over as well. Yuuki steps up to the turtle in blue.

"I actually have to agree with Raph on this one, Leo." Yuuki commented.

"Did we? Did we really? Don't you two see what's going up there? The city's at war! Don't you feel just a little bit responsible?" Leo argued.

"No, it's not our deal!" Raph argued.

"It is! Even if we didn't mean to make worse, we did!"

Mikey and Donnie look at each other silently. "Don't ask me to explain how, but it feels like our fault."

"I kind of know what he means." Mikey speaks out loud.

"Nobody asked you, Mikey!" Raph exclaimed as he pushes Mikey back.

"Raph, we can't afford to fight each other right now." Yuuki said.

"Well, tell that to fearless leader." Raph growls. "He shouldn't get involved in something he has no business being in!" Yuuki could see that Raph was trembling in anger. Suddenly, Raph felt something brushed against his hand, holding it tightly. Raph looked to see Mona. He noticed that she was shaking slightly. Realization suddenly hits him. He was upsetting her.

Raph sighs. "Sorry, kid."

"Leonardo," Splinter speaks as the light green turtle puts his swords away. "If one shoulders the weight of the world, all one will accomplish is to be crushed under the worlds weight."

"I don't understand, sensei. We set out to do something good. It turned out bad, but the truth is we started it. How can we just walk away?"

Splinter sighs. "I do not wish to discuss this, Leonardo. You must listen to me and let this go. It is too dangerous for you to get involved in this war going on up there. For now, you must do nothing." He turns to everyone "That goes for you all as well."

Yuuki places her hand on Leo's shoulder "Leo, sometimes these things happen. People are stupid. Eventually, within time the fighting should subside. It's not your fault. It's not anyone's fault." She said.

Leo shakes his head. He brushes her hand off his shoulder then turns to the old rat "I'm sorry, master, but I can't just do nothing!" He shouted as he begins to walk away. "I can't!"

"Leonardo!" Splinter calls out to him but was ignored. "Leonardo!" Leo stops and looks back for a second before walking out of the lair.

"Teenagers." Splinter sighs as he shakes his head.

"Dude," Mikey sighs and walks off.

"What a bonehead," Raph groans going in another direction.

"One big happy family." Donnie sighs.

"Are you going to go after him?" Venus asked.

"No." Yuuki said, shaking her head. "He needs his space." She looks to where Leo had left.

"I just hope he doesn't do anything reckless." She murmurs.

On a rooftop, sitting on a water tower, Leo was lost in deep thought thinking about the conversation he had with Splinter.

"I don't get what Master Splinter's thinking on this one. Do nothing? Innocent people are getting hurt, because of us...because of me."

He sighs. "I just wish I knew what the shell I was going to do." He was about to leave when he spots something, Foot ninjas.

"Well, I guess I'm going to find out." He growls as he trails after them.

He follows them to a warehouse at a bay. Leo watches as the Foot approaches the warehouse. An Elite come out from the double doors. The soldier closes the door and places a bar through the handle.

"A Foot Elite?" Leo questioned. "What are they doing in there?"

"There must be something big."

He waits for a second, making sure the Foot were gone, then jumps down towards the warehouse. He draws his swords and jumps into the skylight of the warehouse, shattering it as he did. He sees mobsters lying on the floor unconscious. But, that was not all. Right in the middle of them was a bomb and it was ticking down to only a minute.

Quickly, Leo starts to grab the mobsters one by one and runs towards the trash shoot throwing them down it. As the mobsters were all gone, all that was left was the bomb, which was now down to forty seconds.

"Okay, here goes," Leo said as he draws his swords. He places it into the bomb to open it up. "Easy."

He is shocked to see many wires inside it.

"Right."

"Donnie does this kind of stuff all the time," Leo nervously tries to reassure himself. "How hard can dismantling a bomb really be?"

He reaches out and grabs a wire, hesitantly, before ripping it out. But the bomb was still ticking, it was nearly down to ten seconds. Suddenly, the bomb shuts off. Leo lets out a sigh in relief and wipes the sweat from his forehead.

"See, no sweat." He said.

But, suddenly he hears a noises and looks down to see the bomb has started back up and was ticking down again. He makes a run for it.

"This day just keeps getting better and better!" Leo exclaimed. He jumps over some crates. The bomb explodes and it sends him flying out the window and into the river.

The Foot Elite and some soldiers stood watching the explosion."Mission accomplished." They began to run away.

After they were out of sight, Leo resurfaces.

Back in the lair, Mikey was playing with some action figures on a map of New York City.

"This town ain't big enough for all of us!" He said as he plays with a robot toy, placing it down in front of a bobble head toy of a ninja and a duck. He rolls a pair of dice and picks up the ninja bobble head. "I am Foot ninja, you cannot stand against me! Muhahaha!"

Donnie walks by until he sees what the dark green turtle was doing. Not so long after, Yuuki walks over to see what the dark green turtle was doing.

"Uh, you feeling okay, Mikey?" Donnie questioned.

"I'm figuring out what's going on with the gangs courtesy of table top gaming. See, this guy's the Foot," Mikey explained as he flicks the head of the bobble head ninja. "They used to own the whole map, but with the Shredder gone, the others had started to grab for territory. Near as I can guess from the news reports, the Purple Dragons have made a power play," Mikey grabs the duck toy and hits it against the ninja bobble head. "and grabbed a bunch of territory. The Foot Ninja are losing territory to the mobsters," Then he grabs the robot toy and hits the ninja bobble head as well. "And the Purple Dragons," He begins to hit the bobble head with both toys. "It's chaos."

"Thank you for that informative and concise explanation." Donnie murmurs.

"The real question is, what are the mobsters gonna do now that they're in third place?"

"You might actually be on to something there, Mikey." Yuuki commented.

The lead mobster is at his desk with his goons in front of him. He was not happy. "This is an insult! We've been left behind whiles the Purple Dragons and the Foot is dividing up the city! We need to take action, now!"

"But what more can we do?"

"We gotta do something. My own mother is giving me disrespect!"

"It's downright criminal, I tell you."

The door slams open revealing the mob boss. "Enough whining. The new player, who won that just got us all the high-tech fire power, guarantees that if we follow his battle plan, we'll kick 'em all off the map. Just so we're clear, I hate this new guy. But given the situation, we don't have a choice. Get ready to move! Tonight, the city will be ours."

Leo continues to follow after the Foot and Elite until he sees them jump down a giant hole in an warehouse. He peeks over to see an army of ninjas training.

"So," Leo speaks. "This is what happened to the Foot since we got rid of the Shredder? How the mighty has fallen."

He draws his swords "I guess it's just me against them," He said nervously "All of them."

He was about to jump in but someone grabs him and pulls him back. He breaks free of their hold, and sees that it was his brothers, as well as Yuuki, Mona, and Venus.

"Jeez, anybody think you weren't happy to see us?" Mikey comments.

"What are you guys doing here?" Leo questioned, shocked.

"Making sure you, don't get into something that you can't get out of on your own." Donnie answered.

"We're like the cavalry," Mikey jokes. "But without the horses."

Yuuki steps up. "You were taking a long time getting back. So Splinter sent us." She said. "You had us all worried!"

Raph groans as he kneels down the ledge of the roof. "We shouldn't be here, Leo. This ain't our war."

Before anyone could say anything, they see Foot ninjas come out from the roof door and from behind. They were surrounded.

"Uh, looks like it's our war now." Mikey said gravely.

Nobody moved a muscle until the Foot attacks first. The brothers, Yuuki, Mona, and Venus, defended themselves. Mikey finds himself standing near the edge of the giant hole. He swings his nunchucks at an Foot ninja. "Say, haven't we met? At the big fight at Shredder's. Oh, come on, you have to remember. I knocked you right on your," He knocks the Foot ninja down. Three more jump at him. "Uh-oh." They kicked him down into the hole.

"Mikey, no!" Raph shouted as he fends against two ninjas. He kicks them down and charges at the three ninjas that kicked Mikey and tackles them down below. Raph stands up and walks over to Mikey, helping him up.

"I'm okay," Mikey reassured. "I'm okay."

"You better be, bro," Raph said as he sees the Foot beginning to swarm and surround them. "You ain't alone."

"Mikey and Raph went down inside," Leo said as he stands back-to back with Donnie.

"We need to stick together!" Yuuki shouted as she pushes an ninja away from her. Another comes up from behind but she ducks as Mona kicks them away. The two brothers, Yuuki, Mona and Venus rushed over towards the hole and jumped in to help Raph and Mikey.

"Heads up!" Donnie called out.

They land in front of Raph and Mikey, knocking down the Foot that they were fighting. They regroup and more ninjas came out, corning them in.

"Wait a minute," Donnie said as he knocks away another Foot ninja. "A bo staff and a crowd of guys who all look the same? Time to try out one of my favorite movie stunts!" He jabs his staff into the ground as more ninjas appear. He tries to spin around on his staff but doesn't hit any of the ninjas until he stops spinning and lands on the ground.

"Well, that didn't work." Donnie murmured.

"You need a refresher course, on reality, Donnie," Raph said as he jumps in to assist him.

Everyone was starting to get tired out. The ninjas were coming in nonstop. If it keeps up this way, it was not going to be good.

"I don't want to complain," Mikey pants as he tries to catch his breath. "But there seems to be an awful lot of these dudes."

Just outside of the building, a van suddenly pulls up. "Alright, a whole army of ninjas are holed up in there. Is it really going to work against that many?" The mob boss said, talking to someone in the back.

"Oh, ye of little faith. I have an ultimate knowledge of the Foot. They will have no way of dealing with what your'e going to unleash on them," The person steps out, revealing to be Baxter Stockman. He laughs evilly and rotates his head towards the machine.

The mobsters open the door to the van. Deep from within the van, a red light scans the area and a giant bug-like robot climbs out. They step back in surprise as the robot walks towards the building. It uses its lasers, blasting a hole in the wall.

"Now what!?" Yuuki exclaimed, irritated.

The brothers, Yuuki, Mona, and Venus see a giant robot as it had blasted through the wall. Everyone takes cover from the flying rubble.

"Cool," Mikey said in awe. The robot begins to fire everyone and everything. The lasers almost hit him "Not cool, not cool!"

Leo peeks from behind the rubble and sees the robot had a search light. So it fires based on movement. He envision the light like a target, taking a moment to gather his thoughts. Please work. Then he makes his move. Leo charges towards the robot, dodging the shots that it fired. As he got closer, he jumps and twirls around in midair as well as dodging the lasers. His sword makes contact as he stabs his swords right through the search light.

Leo jumps back as the machine starts to go haywire and spark. Everyone quickly took cover as the robot begins to fire wildly out of control. The mob boss and Stockman watched from the van on screen. "Hmm, time for Plan B. I'm afraid it lacks the finesse in my robotic creation, but we really have no choice. It's a rather...messy alternative."

"Messy?"

"Observe." Stockman takes out a remote and presses a button.

Bombs that were set around the building, began to explode.

The vibrations of the explosions causes the ceiling begin to cave in. Large pieces of rubble began to fall. Raph pushes Yuuki out of the way from an oncoming rubble.

Now he's gotten her involved in this. Raph growls in anger.

He then turns to glare at someone. He storms over to them. Leo uses his swords to avoid some of the rubble. He feels someone grab his wrist. He turns and sees Raph.

"I hope you're happy, Leo," Raph scolds, furious. "I hope doing the right thing was really worth it." He said bitterly.

The building begins to crumble before it finally collapses, with everyone still inside.