The assassins began to close in on the two. Usagi and Donnie got into a fighting stance, to defend the Daimyo.
"We must protect the Daimyo," Usagi said.
"And if we can't?" Donnie asked, worried.
"Then we shall perish with honor."
"Let's try and leave the whole perish bit out, okay?"
The assassins attack, it was a bit of a struggle as there were too many of them. Donnie knocks one of the assassins down, he sees that Usagi was surround. He looks over at the futon beds.
"Usagi!" Donnie calls out. He uses his staff and lifts one of the beds and throws it at the assassins, knocking them down.
Donnie hears a groan and looks to see Leo moving around.
"Leo!" Donnie calls out in relief.
But while he was distracted, an assassin jumps at him from behind and knocks Donnie down.
While Usagi finishes off two assassins, he sees four more sneaking into the private room.
"The Daimyo!"
Back in the arena, there were only four contestants left: Mikey, Alopex, Gen, and Kluh. The Ultimate Ninja stands on top of a perch with Gyoji standing behind him and he raises a hand to silence the cheering crowd.
"Friends, warriors, and noble creatures," The Ultimate Ninja announces. "It is a sad office that I must perform: the healer say my father, our revered Daimyo, will not live."
The crowd gasps in shock. 'But we must continue the Battle Nexus Tournament, it is what my father would have wanted. It is with a heavy heart that I assume his place and duties...with Yuuki as my queen."
"What?!" Mikey exclaimed in shock. He looks up at the Ultimate Ninja and Yuuki beside him, who was hugging and clinging to his side. She smiles and looks up at the Ultimate Ninja, staring at him lovingly.
Okay, now I know something's not right...
"We have our final five combatants, hoping to compete to become the Battle Nexus Champion," The Ultimate Ninja continues. "And so I say, in honor of my father, let the Battle Nexus Tournament proceed!"
The crowd cheers and the Ultimate Ninja turns to Gyoji. "Gyoji, I must attend to affairs of state. Continue the contest."
"Yes, young master," The Gyoji appears beside the four contestants. He waves his paddle and a portal appears. "Step through the portal. Fate will pair you randomly. Fight well and with honor, warriors."
As, Kluh and Gen steps through the portal, Alopex notices Mikey hadn't moved. She turns to him "Are you coming?"
"Huh?" Mikey shakes his head, breaking out of his thoughts, and turns to her "Um, yeah." He answered.
Alopex gives him an concerned look then looks back towards where Yuuki and the Ultimate Ninja once was standing. She turns around and walks through the portal. Mikey hesitantly walks towards the portal. "Well, here goes nothing," He jumps into it and sees that he was facing Alopex.
Mikey looks over to see Gen was fighting the big purple alien. He turns back towards Alopex and draws his nunchucks, she pulls out her butterfly knives. They charge at each other. But, something was wrong, Mikey couldn't concentrate. All he could think about was seeing Yuuki with the Ultimate Ninja. Suddenly, a kick snaps him out of his thoughts as Alopex kicked him right in his plastron, making him stumble back.
"You seem distracted by something?" Alopex asked as she lands on her feet. "Are you going to fight me or are you going to stare blankly into space?"
"Something doesn't feel right," Mikey replied.
Alopex stares at him for a moment. She agreed something wasn't right. Alopex places her knives back into their sheathes.
"Michaelangelo, knock me out of the contest." She said.
Mikey's eyes widen in shock. "Wha?!"
While the fight was going on, the Ultimate Ninja was walking down the hall with Yuuki. Drako stands in front of him. "My lord, a moment. All is going according to plan. I think now would be an appropriate time to fulfill your promise and give me your father's war staff."
"Patience, Drako, patience. The staff's in a safe place and I will give it to you when all is done, and I am officially declared Daimyo," The Ultimate Ninja walks away with Yuuki.
Drako growls, his eyes glowing green.
My patience, young lord, is at an end."
Raph leans against the wall while Traximus pins someone, interrogating him.
"So what's it gonna be?" He asked twirling his sai with his finger.
"I already told you, I don't know where this Master Splinter is!" The man protests as Traximus hold him up.
"I guess there's no reason for me to keep my hungry friend from eating ya," Raph calls out and Traximus growls. The man stares at him in fear.
Raph smirks. "Go ahead, Traxi, dig in." He tells Traximus and the Triceraton licks his lips.
"No, no, w-wait, wait! Don't eat me. Your Master Splinter is being held in the palace dungeon," The man answered and Raph chuckles.
Back in the healing chamber, many assassins make their way into the private room where the Daimyo laid, still unconscious. One of them raises a sword.
"Stop assassins!" Usagi yells as he stands in the doorway.
Usagi charges at the assassins, engaging in battle with them. He dodges and defends himself against their attacks, also knocking out some as well.
Donnie knocks down an assassin and lands near Leo and checks him. He hears noises in the private room and jumps into the room to help Usagi. He punches an assassin from behind, knocking him out. Usagi sees Donnie and smiles. While distracted, an assassin throws a chain with an heavy weight at Usagi and knocks him back into a pillar. He throws the chain to restrain Usagi to the pillar.
"Time to skewer the rabbit," One of the assassins with a spear said.
"Usagi," Donnie gasps in shock. "No!"
Just as the assassin was about to strike Usagi with the spear, swords blocked against it. Leo kicks the assassin back.
"Glad to see you are feeling better, Leonardo-san," Usagi calls out to him.
"Maybe not better, but at least I can breathe." Leo tells him. He cuts Usagi free with his swords.
Usagi kicks up his sword and catches it and gets into a fighting stance against the assassins. "Now let us finish these foes."
Leo looks over and sees Donnie was unarmed, trying to defend himself against the assassins. "Donnie!" Leo calls out. "Incoming!" He kicks Donnie's staff towards him and he catches it.
Leo, Usagi, and Donnie continue to fight against the assassins.
Realizing that they weren't going to win, the assassins back off and retreated.
At the entrance to the dungeon, Raph and Traximus peek around a corner to see that it was being guarded.
"Well, the front door's out. How good are Triceraton's climbing?" Raph asked. The two of them look up to the second floor and look at each other.
Back in the fighting arena, Mikey gave Alopex a wary look.
"Why do you want to help me?" Mikey asked.
"Listen to me," Alopex said. "We both know, something is not right here. Knock me out of the tournament so I can do some investigating. My friend, Usagi, was one of the contestants, but he was knocked out in an earlier match. There was no way he could be defeated so easily, not after all that training we went through together. So please, will you help me,"
Gen and Kluh were both in an intense sword fight. "I wonder if its too late to change my bets and put it all on this guy," Gen mutters as he dodges a punch from Kluh which a hole in the wall. Gen cringes and backs away.
"Look, you're obviously a marginally intelligent warrior," He leaps over Kluh. "I stand to rig some serous cash if I can win this thing. I can cut you in for twenty percent," Kluh growls as the clash swords against each other. "60-40?" He growls again.
"50-50?"
"You know what, I'll cut you into 50-50, top half and bottom half. Or maybe, right half and left half." Kluh said.
"No need to be a jerk about it," Gen answered and leaps to the right, trying to land a hit. However, Kluh strikes him down before Gen could, winning the match.
"So do we have a deal or not?" Alopex asked.
Mikey nods and swings his nunchucks at Alopex, she vanishes before he strikes her, winning the match. The crowd cheers.
Mikey smiles, if he keeps this up then he could become the Battle Nexus Champion! He bows until he hears someone one approach behind him.
Mikey turns around to see Kluh, glaring at him. "You gotta be kidding me. I have to fight the big purple guy?!" He exclaimed.
Kluh growls and Mikey cowers, sheepishly. The Gyoji appears between them.
"Come, it is time."
The three disappear and reappear in an different arena.
"The two final contestants in the Battle Nexus tournament are Kluh of Dimension Levram and Michaelangelo of Dimension third Earth." Mikey smiles sheepishly and waves to the crowd.
Raph and Traximus crash through the window. "Okay, that was settled," Raph murmurs and they approach the dungeons. They hear someone approaching and Raph looks back at the curtain lying on the floor.
"Yo, Traximus, bring me that curtain. I got an idea."
In the throne room, Drako is finishing off the guards watching over the war staff. He makes his way over towards it.
"Now to fulfill my destiny," He said as he starts to reach for the staff. But, before he could take it, someone snatches the war staff. "What?!"
"Ah, Drako," The Ultimate Ninja said as he steps out from behind the curtain. "I knew you would betray me, I simply wanted to see the look on your face as you failed to achieve your plan. And now, you will pay for your treason with your life!"
The Ultimate Ninja attempts to use the war staff on Drako but it begins to move on its own. "What? The war staff!" It lets out a blast, knocking him back. "It fights me?!" He tries to control it but the staff fires more blast at Drako.
"You always were an incompetent fool," Drako murmurs and knocks the Ultimate Ninja down, the war staff flies out of his hands. It lands on the floor and Drako picks it up.
He looks over at Yuuki. "My puppet, come to me," He ordered. Yuuki walks over to him.
" What is the meaning of this!?" The Ultimate Ninja demanded.
"You forget who gave you the bracelet in the first place," Drako laughs. "The bracelet answers to me. "
The Ultimate Ninja glares at him.
"It's a shame, really. You should've spent more time learning how to use the war staff. I, on the other hand, have spent years of my life studying it's ways and immense power!" Drako uses the war staff on the Ultimate Ninja, who was running away. He fires a blast and the Ultimate Ninja falls to the ground. Drako laughs evilly.
Then Drako sees someone lurking in the corridors. It was Alopex. "Ah, I see we have a lost guest," He smirks evilly "Allow me to show you the way out."
Drako raises the war staff and fires a blast directly at Alopex.
Down in the dungeon, two guards were guarding Splinter's cell. Splinter is sitting on a bench meditating. The guards look to see someone coming down. They are confused when they see it was someone wearing red robes but were made out of curtains.
"I have come to question the captive," Raph speaks.
"By order of the new Daimyo, none shall pass," One of the guards speak as they hold their swords.
"Hey, watch it with those pick-stickers, I don't want no trouble," Raph said as he raises his hands in the air.
As the guards walk closer, a pair of fists shoot out, knocking them out. Raph laughs and pulls off the curtain to reveal him sitting on Traximus' shoulders.
"It's old shtick, but it works." He jumps off and runs to the bars.
"Master Splinter!"
"Raphael, my son," Splinter said, relieved.
"Raph?" A voice calls out. Raph looks to see Venus and Mona in a cell beside Splinter's.
"Kid, your in here too? Venus?" Raph asked, shocked.
"Allow me," Traximus replied as the steps closer to the bars and bends both of them, setting them free.
"Master Splinter, what the shell's going on around here?" Raph asked. "This place is crazy."
"I will explain on the way," Splinter tells him. "But now, we must hurry, we must get to the Daimyo and Yuuki."
Back at the tournament, Kluh and Mikey were about to fight. "Begin!" The Gyoji announces and disappears.
They circle each other and Mikey spins his nunchucks. "Get ready to feel pain, little turtle. Lots and lots of pain." Kluh growls down at him.
"Has anybody ever told you that purple looks good on you? It says rage," Mikey replied, sheepishly. But he cringes when Kluh growls at him and then charges. "I'm going to crush you, turtle boy."
Kluh tries to swing his sword at him, but Mikey jumps out of the way. He dodges a punch and the audience cheers.
The Ultimate Ninja and Alopex were blasted out of the balcony by Drako. "So, still believe yourself destined to be the Daimyo of the Battle Nexus?" Drako blasts them again and the Ultimate Ninja ends up landing on Kluh in the arena. Alopex crashes into Mikey.
"Let me dissuade you of that notion once and for all," Drako, holding Yuuki in one of his arms while he carried the staff in the other, jumps down into the arena in front of Mikey and Alopex, while Mikey tried to help her up.
"Drako, you fool! The war staff is my birthright!" The Ultimate Ninja protested. "And give me back my wife!"
The Gyoji appears, intervening, holding his hands out. "Hold the contest. Battle Nexus rules clearly states-" Drako blasts him with the war staff, knocking him down.
"Any more rules you'd like to state?" Drako asked, sarcastically.
Splinter and Traximus help the Daimyo to the arena, Leo, Raph, Donnie, Usagi, are following.
"You must be strong, Daimyo, there is a urgent matter which needs your attention," Splinter tells him and the Daimyo sees Drako with the war staff.
"Drako has returned? The war staff! In Drako's hands, it must not be. The war staff focuses power from the heart. If through able to use it, there's no telling what horrors it might unleash. Come, we must stop him," The Daimyo makes a water bubble and it engulfs everyone. They reappear in front of Drako.
Drako growls. "I've grown tired of you insolent pests," He turns to Yuuki "Destroy them."
Yuuki's eyes glow violently red and she charges at the group with her tessen drawn. Splinter quickly ushers the Daimyo to safety while the brothers, Venus, Mona, Alopex and Usagi got into a fighting stance. Yuuki jumps into the air and lands behind them, spinning around and kicks and punches everyone knocking them down.
"Shell, Yuuki's been holding back on us," Raph groans as he rubs his head.
"Remember, " Leo tells them. " This is Yuuki. We can't hurt her."
"Tell that to her," Mikey groans, sitting up "I can't feel my shell."
Mikey looks up to see Yuuki coming down on him. He screams as he dodges out of the way as her foot slams into the ground.
Yuuki tries to swing her tessen at him but Mikey blocks it with his nunchucks. He wraps his nunchuck around her wrist then grabs her other wrist as Yuuki tries to throw a punch at him.
"C'mon, Yuuki! It's me! Your old pal, Mikey!" Mikey said as he dodges a swing. "You have to remember!"
Yuuki paused, as she stopped her assault, looking at him. She lowered her weapon. A look of recognition flashes in her eyes as she stares at the turtle.
"That's it!" The Orange masked turtle said, smiling. "Mikey! Remember?"
But, Yuuki shakes her head and she growls, glaring at him. She kicks Mikey in the plastron, knocking him away.
"Mikey!" Donnie exclaimed. He tries to run over to him but Yuuki blocked his path. She swings her weapon at him and Donnie blocks it with his staff.
"Yuuki, I don't want to fight you!" Donnie shouted.
Yuuki ignores him, and spin kicks him. Donnie quickly backflips out of the the way.
He uses his staff and he leaps over her, to try and get to Mikey as Yuuki throws a punch at him. As he lands, Yuuki kicks Donnie on his shell sending him flying into Mikey, crashing into him.
Raph growls. He grips his sais and twirls them. "That's it! I've had it!" He screamed. "If you're not going to remember, guess I have to beat it into you until you do!"
He charges at her.
"Raph, No!" Leo shouted.
Raph leaps into the air and throws his sais at Yuuki. She dodges as she jumps out of the way from the incoming weapons. Looking up, Yuuki had no time to react as Raph lands on top of her, knocking her to the ground. She struggles trying to break free.
Raph throws a punch, connecting with her cheek, hard.
"C'mon, you have to remember," Raph said as he throws another punch. Then another, then another...
Raph stops, panting heavily. He looks down to see Yuuki staring up at him, growling as she squirmed underneath him. "Please, you have to come back to us." He murmurs.
Leo walks up to them. He places a hand on Raph's shoulder.
"Raph, stop," Leo said "Let me try to talk to her."
Raph looks at him for a minute before getting up.
"Your stronger than this, Yuuki," Leo said. "I know you are. Which is why you have to fight it. Come back to us. Master Splinter needs you, my brothers need you...I need you."
Yuuki stares at him, silently, neither not making a move.
Moments go by, until Yuuki trips Leo as she quickly sweeps her leg from under him, knocking him down. He lands on his shell and the next thing he felt was a foot being firmly pushed down on his plastron. He glared looking up to see Yuuki holding her tessen, ready to bring it down on him.
"Leo!" Raph, Mikey, and Donnie exclaimed.
"Leonardo-san!" Usagi shouted.
Leo stared directly into Yuuki's eyes not looking away, narrowing his eyes in to slits.
Then he notices something, he sees that Yuuki's hands were shaking as if she was fighting back.
"Fight it!" Leo shouted.
Yuuki shuts her eyes tightly, gritting her teeth.
"What are you waiting for?" Drako ordered. "Do it!"
Yuuki grabs her head in pain as she struggles struggles.
Suddenly, while Yuuki was distracted, Alopex jumps onto her shoulders, while Mona and Venus charge from behind, tackling Yuuki to the ground. Leo rolls out of the way. Yuuki struggled underneath them trying to shake them off.
Alopex reaches for the bracelet, but it was difficult, as Yuuki was struggling and jerking violently underneath, until she manages to pull it off.
"Got it!" Alopex shouted.
Leo takes the bracelet from her and slices it, completely shattering it.
Yuuki stops struggling. She closes her eyes and she passes out.
Drako growls in anger gripping the war staff, tightly.
"Drako! Stop!" The Daimyo orders and the war staff turns red. "What? What is happening?" Drako demands and lifts up the staff.
"No, Drako!" The Daimyo calls out. The red light forms a black and red hole in the sky. "With his evil heart, Drako has torn a rip between worlds. A multi-dimensional wound that will destroy all it touches!"
Drako tries to control the staff, but is knocked back and the staff falls to the ground.
"The war staff! I must have it!" The Ultimate Ninja shouted.
"What!? No!" Drako exclaimed.
The turtles, Usagi, Alopex and Traximus run towards the staff. "No! My war staff!" Drako shouted as he and the Ultimate Ninja runs for it as well. "It will be mine!" The Ultimate Ninja yells as they all dive for the staff, but they knocked it farther away.
Suddenly, the air begins to shift as the rift gets bigger. The staff begins to lift in the air as it was about to get sucked in the rift.
"The staff!" Raph yells and dives for it, stabbing it back to the ground with his sai.
He suddenly gets pulled upwards. Mikey lets out a girly scream as he is being pulled towards the black hole. He uses his nunchuck to stab the ground, holding him in place. Kluh gets pulled in as well and Mikey saves him using his other nunchuck. Gyoji, however, gets sucked into the rift.
Drako and the Ultimate Ninja starts to get pulled in as does everyone else. Alopex stabs the ground with her Butterfly knives. She catches Mona by her foot. Mona catches Venus. Venus sees Yuuki and she grabs her just in time before she is getting pulled into the vortex.
Traximus uses his axe to hold him in place. "Turtles, grab on!" He calls out. Traximus catches Donnie, who catches Leo. Leo catches the Ultimate Ninja and Drako grabs onto his feet.
Raph manages to pull the staff out from under his sai. "Master Splinter, catch!" He throws it to Splinter and he catches it.
"Here, my friend, hurry." Splinter tells the Daimyo, giving him the staff.
"Yes, I must close it immediately."
Leo feels the Ultimate Ninja's grip beginning to slip from his hands. "Hang on, I got you!" He calls out. "You will not be rid of me that easily!" Drako declared as he grips on to the Ultimate Ninja, climbing up him, trying to get him to let go.
"You fool! You'll kill us both!" The Ultimate Ninja shouted and he starts to slip more from Leo. "Stop fighting! You're slipping!" Leo calls out.
"Drako! Rot in the abyss where you belong!" The Ultimate Ninja yells as he tries to kick Drako off of him. He slips out of Leo's grip and the two of them get sucked into the rift.
"NO!" Leo shouted.
"My son, no!" The Daimyo cried out.
"Daimyo, you must act now!" Splinter tells him, urgently.
"Yes," The Daimyo concentrates, the war staff turns blue and he shoots it towards the rift, closing it. Unfortunately, gravity was a problem, as everyone fell down to the ground, landing hard and on top of each other.
Leo groans, sitting up, holding his head, until he hears Yuuki stir as she moans. He gasps and runs over to her.
"Yuuki!" He calls out.
She groans as she slowly opens her eyes. "What happened?" She asked, confused.
Leo signs in relief and he pulls her closer, hugging her tightly. "It's a long story," He said. "I'm glad that you're back."
Yuuki gives him a confused look but then smiles and returns his embrace.
"I love you," She tells him.
Mikey struggles to pull his nunchuck free. Kluh stands up and starts to reach out towards Mikey. But, Mikey manages to get his nunchuck free and when he does, he accidentally hits Kluh in the face, knocking him down.
Mikey turns around. "Yo, ugly, do you think we're supposed to fight now?" He asked, spinning his nunchucks. He looks down to see Kluh on the ground, unconscious. "Uh, yo?"
"Oops."
The turtles, Yuuki, Mona, Venus, Splinter, Usagi, and Alopex stand on the balcony with the Daimyo.
"Michaelangelo of third dimension Earth, I crown you the Battle Nexus Champion!" The Daimyo declared as he places a silver laurel wreath on his head and presents him with a trophy. Leo pats him on the shoulder in congratulations, Raph was a little upset, Donnie was smiling, Usagi and Alopex were smiling, Yuuki hugs Mikey tightly.
"Way to go, Mikey!" She cheered.
"I can't believe I actually won!" Mikey exclaimed, and Donnie pats him on his head.
"That makes two of us," Raph mutters, crossing his arms. Mona pokes him with her elbow "What?"
"Don't be a sore loser, Raph." Venus scolds.
"Congratulations!" Alopex cheered.
Mikey looks over at her "Thanks!" He smiled.
Alopex looks away, blushing. Usagi notices. He had seen that there was something going between Alopex and Mikey.
Splinter walks up to the Daimyo. "My son was rash and foolish, but I mourn his passing."
"Perhaps he is not completely lost. The mutli-verse holds many mysteries. There is always hope," Splinter explained.
"Perhaps...but come, gather your children. I must let you go home."
Leo and Yuuki, and Usagi bow to each other. "It was an honor battling beside you and your brothers Leonardo-san and Yuuki-san. I hope that someday our paths will cross again."
"It is I who is honored Usagi, you saved my life," Leo tells him.
"I wish the two of you happiness," Usagi smiles. "And stay out of trouble." Leo and Yuuki look at each other and blushed.
Then Usagi turns to Alopex "I'm proud of you, my student, " He said.
Alopex looked at him surprise "Well, I had a great teacher." She replied.
Usagi smiles then he bows. Alopex stared at him confused, wondering why he was acting like this.
"I have nothing left to teach you, " He said. "You're training is complete."
"W-What?" Alopex stammers as she asked, shocked.
Usagi gestures towards the turtles. "If You wish to go with them, I understand,"
"Usagi...I," Alopex didn't know what to say.
"Farewell and good battle to you all," The Daimyo tells them as he raises his war staff, Mikey's trophy glows brightly.
Everyone says their goodbyes and the water bubble forms over them, disappearing. "Farewell my friends, live with honor."
They reappear back in the lair.
"We're home," Leo said.
"Wow, it's almost like it never happened," Donnie adds.
"Oh, it happened and I have the trophy to prove it," Mikey said. "Check it out, see what it says: Battle Nexus Champion, which is me, the greatest warrior of the trans-dimensional multiverse, which is me."
"You only won on a technicality," Raph argued.
"Um, technically, I kicked your sorry butt in one of the bouts, remember?"
Raph growls and tackles Mikey, which causes him to knock Leo and Donnie as well. All of them started to shout and punch and fight with each other.
"So, I guess this happens a lot?" Alopex asked.
"Oh, yeah," Yuuki answered.
"Yes, it is good to be home," Splinter said with a small laugh.
Meanwhile, not to far off in space a Triceraton ship makes its way towards the Milky way. Mozar steps up to someone and bows to him.
"Prime Leader, we have traced the transionic particle beam from the Fugitoid's teleportation. The final destination is the third planet from the sun."
"Excellent, prepare for a full-scale invasion. We will crush the inhabitants of that world and claim the Fugitoid and my bride for the glory of the Triceraton Republic!" Zanramon declared.
"Starting with Donatello,"
He laughs evilly.