Leo and Usagi arrive at the Battle Nexus.
"We made it!" Leo exclaimed. "The Battle Nexus."
"I assured you that I would bring you to this honorable place," Usagi answered as they started to walk. "My sensei, Master Katsu Ichi, taught me the ritual for entering the realm of the Battle Nexus. And I have made this journey many times. Yet, no matter how many times I come to the Battle Nexus, it never ceases to amaze me with it's grandeur." The two finally stop at the stadium, to find it quiet as there is no tournament on right now.
They enter it and walk past the hall of past heroes. "Just think of all of the honorable warriors that fought in this arena over the years," Leo commented.
"But it's odd to find it so quiet," Usagi added as he and Leo walked up some steps. "Of course, I have never been here when the Battle Nexus Championship was not in progress." The two stop in front of doors that were left unguarded, surprisingly.
"Still, shouldn't there be guards or something?" Leo questioned. Usagi frowned, wondering the same as well. They enter the Daimyo's throne room to find it faintly dark, as a few doors to the side towards the stadium let in some light. In front of them was the Daimyo, but who also looked old and weak. Gyoji was floating next to him and the war staff was right next to him as well.
"My lord, it's is Miyamoto Usagi, he has come to see you," Gyoji told the Daimyo.
"So dark, no use." he murmured in despair.
"Surely, you remember Usagi. And he has come with Leonardo, Hamato Splinter's pupil." Leo glances over at Usagi before stepping up and kneeling down in front of the Daimyo.
"Honored Daimyo, I have come to ask for your help," he started. "My family, my brothers, and my father, Master Splinter are in trouble." The Daimyo made no response and Gyoji moves closer towards Leo.
"Please, Leonardo, continue. Tell the Daimyo everything." he urges him to continue.
"It was Drako...and your son," Leo answered, hesitantly. "They're still alive, if you can call it that. The two of them merged somehow, combined together to become one being, sort of an Ultimate Drako. He scattered us throughout time and space. That is why I am here, to ask you, most honored Daimyo, please use your war staff to retrieve my family and my master," Leo finished. "If you do, I will forever be in your debt." and he bows to him.
The Daimyo stirs. "You, Leonardo, will be in my debt? You would put yourself in my services? What would you do for me? Would you return to me my son?" His voice began to grow angry. "My son that you took from me? My son that you and your friend there and your master and your vile brothers took destroyed?" Leo and Usagi both had their mouths open in shock. "I will help you. Yes, I will help you to learn the meaning of pain and loss as you rot in my dungeon!" He stands up. "Guards, seize them!"
The two gasp in shock as guards came into the room and started to surround them.
"Lock them in the dungeon forever!" the Daimyo declared.
Leo and Usagi both pull out their swords as the guards rush towards them. Leo blocks an axe and jumps, kicking away the guard before fighting against two more. Usagi was fighting against a guard until Leo and him were now back to back.
"We're a little out numbered!" Leo pointed out.
"And I do not wish to harm these fine warriors!" Usagi called out.
"Time to get out of here and rethink things!" Leo told him.
"You will lead, I will follow," Usagi answered. Leo quickly moves away from a guard as he strikes. He jumps on one of their weapons and leaps over them. Usagi does the same and follows after him. The two both sheathe their swords.
"Stop them!" the Daimyo shouted. "Do not let them get away! Stop them!" He sits back down as he started to have a coughing fit. Leo pulls out his shunko spikes as the guards ran towards the two. He and Usagi jump out of the window. The guards look out of it down to the stadium below them towards the water.
"No one can survive a fall from this height,"
"We must be sure of it! Come on!"
As they ran off, Leo and Usagi, who was hanging from Leo's leg, were dangling from the wall as Leo climbed up it, using his ninja tool.
A few minutes later, Leo and Usagi jumped up into an opened window.
"I'm beginning to think hanging around with you is turning me more ninja than samurai, Leonardo-san," Usagi commented. "All this sneaking about."
"We have to steal the Daimyo's war staff," Leo explained.
"And we must help the Daimyo, Clearly, he is under some kind of spell," Usagi pointed out. "At the very least, he is not himself."
Then the two heard guards approaching and they jump inside and ran off. As the two arrived at the throne room, Leo and Usagi saw two guards guarding the door. They take out the guards and steal their uniforms, putting them on and walked into the room.
The Daimyo was sleeping in his throne room. The two guards were guarding the war staff. Leo and Usagi walked inside, the two holding each guard's weapon in their hands. They walked up to the guards.
"We've been sent here to relieve you," Leo tells them.
"But our watch isn't over yet?" One of them replied.
"It is now!" Leo shouted as he and Usagi both quickly took out the two guards. They looked over the Daimyo to see that he was still sleeping.
"My son...my son." he murmured. The two both removed their hoods and Leo was about to grab the war staff when Gyoji suddenly appears.
"Leonardo," Leo turns to him.
"I don't want to hurt you Gyoji, but I have to have the war staff," he whispered. The Gyoji quiets him.
"I wish to help you. Take the war staff and follow me," he told Leo. Leo took the staff and he and Usagi followed the Gyoji until he lead them into a chamber. The Gyoji turns to them, holding up a hand.
"I have witnessed the malaise that has befallen my master. And I have heard your story, Master Leonardo. Something is not right. Something must be done. And I will help you do it," he backs up and uses his paddle to create a mirror. "Use the staff, concentrate on your missing father, call him to you." Leo holds the staff and raises it to the air. It begins to spark. "The staff will do the rest." Leo closed his eyes concentrating on Master Splinter.
"Master Splinter! Master Splinter, where are you?" the mirror revealed that he was in a dungeon.
"Why, that is the dungeon! In this very castle!" They see an unconscious Splinter, who was chained up.
"Master Splinter, no!" Leo said, worried.
"Concentrate, Leonardo," Leo tried to concentrate as he sees Splinter begin to shift, but his attempt was unsuccessful.
"Huh? It didn't work." Leo replied, confused. "What did I do wrong?"
"I do not know," The Gyoji answered. "Perhaps, you will have better luck summoning one of your brothers? Try again, Leonardo."
Leo tries again and the mirror reveals the Shell of Justice, the home of super turtles.
"Mayor O'Neil," Graviturtle said. "The Super Turtles will stop him."
"That sounds pretty wicked," Mikey commented, stepping up. "Can I come?" He starts to shift.
"Whoa, it's happening again. I'm in flux! This is it, I'm going home!" Mikey sees a three shadowy silhouettes. "Thanks for everything! Bye! Bye now!" But, they soon disappear as Mikey returns back to normal.
"Guess I'm staying?" he shrugged.
"Perhaps your mind is unsettled in some way. Try again, you must concentrate harder, Leonardo," The Gyoji tells Leo and the mirror began to show an ice world. Raph was riding on a motorcycle with Falcon. He begins to shift and soon starts to phase through it.
"Oh, this ain't good," he commented. "It's like I'm fading away."
"We're drifting, get control!" Falcon shouted.
"I...I can't! I can't grab hold of the bars!" Raph answered him as he tried to grab the handles. He sees the shadowy silhouettes for a second.
"Raph, look out!" Falcon warned. The bike was falling off of the track into a deep chasm.
"Raph, no!" Leo shouted.
"You must try again, Leonardo. Try to save at least one of them." The Gyoji urges again. The mirror now revealed a dark New York as the Shredder had taken over it.
"Beware of what you do," Karai warned. "The Shredder is watching, always watching."
Donnie crawled out of the manhole. "Where are all the people?"
"You mean the one's that survived?" The older Mikey asked as they ran into the woods. "They're forced to work 18-hour days in the Shredder's labor camps. No one's allowed out at night."
Donnie starts to shift and he sees the silhouettes as well, for a second, before returning to normal. "What the shell?" He shakes his head and runs after Mikey.
Leo concentrated one more time, now focusing on Yuuki. The mirror changed as it revealed a bedroom. He saw Yuuki curled into a ball as she leaned against the locked door. Leo heard two voices pounding on the other side as they tried to call out to her.
"Yuuki, open the door this instant!" Leo heard a woman's voice shout. Next, he heard a man's voice call out.
"Princess, I don't know what's going on, but open the door. We need to talk!"
Yuuki shook her head as she tried to block the voices out.
"You're not real!" she cried. "You are not my parents! I just want to go home!"
Then Yuuki felt herself begin to shift and she saw two silhouettes. As she stood up and looked closer, she gasped and immediately ran towards them. Yuuki threw herself from out of the mirror and crashed right into Leo's arms.
"Leo!" she cried out. Leo immediately hugged her tightly.
"Yuuki! Finally, something goes right!" Yuuki noticed Usagi beside her and Leo.
"Usagi? You're here too?" she asked, confused but also happy to see him.
"Nice to see you too, Yuuki-san," Usagi smiled.
"Leo, where are the others?" Yuuki asked. "Where's Master Splinter?" Leo sighed.
"Master Splinter is in the dungeon of this castle as for the others," he clenched the war staff tightly in his hands.
"We'll figure something out," Yuuki told him.
"I don't get it." Leo said in frustration. "I just don't get it. I was so close I could feel them."
"It is not your fault," Gyoji takes the staff from him. "Someone very powerful is blocking your attempts and is enjoying watching you suffer thus."
"What?" Leo murmured.
"Enjoying it very much, relishing your pain and frustration," Usagi and Leo look at each other as well as Yuuki as the Gyoji voice began to change, sounding more familiar. "Taking pleasure in your absolute ignorance!"
The three gasp as he began to laugh evilly, his face breaking into piece, revealing the Ultimate Ninja.
"We have enjoyed watching you suffer, Leonardo, as we have enjoyed watching your rat master suffer! And bringing Usagi here is an extra gift to us. He shall rue the day he returned to my Battle Nexus." the Daimyo's son eyed Yuuki, which Leo stood in front of her, blocking him from her. "And Yuuki will finally be my bride as promised!"
"You will never lay a hand on her!" Leo shouted in rage.
"The Battle Nexus will never be yours, villian!" Usagi exclaimed as he and Leo charged towards the Daimyo, taking off their cloaks. The Ultimate Ninja freezes everyone with the time scepter.
"Pathetic creatures, I control both the Daimyo's war staff and Lord Simultaneous time scepter! I am a god!" There is a flash of light and Leo and Usagi appear in a desert.
"Where has the fiend sent us?" Usagi demanded. Leo felt himself begin to panic. Yuuki was not with them. She must be back there with the Ultimate Ninja. Leo gripped his swords in frustration. He was getting really tired of this.
"I don't know, but it can't be good," he answered as a purple cloud began to circle around the two, trapping them in it. Zombie like creatures began to advance towards them as they pulled out their swords.
"Usagi, I'm sorry that I got you into this," Leo said to him.
"Do not say such things, my brother. I stand by you no matter what happens," Usagi insisted as the warriors charged at Leo. He blocks one's flaming sword with his own. Usagi growls and jumps over the flaming blade and clashes with another as well. But, Usagi was knocked down as a creature charged at him from behind, knocking him unconscious.
"Usagi!" Leo shouted as he tried to defend both him and Usagi. "No!"
"Soon, Leonardo will be destroyed," The Ultimate Ninja declared as Leo ducked from a weapon. "Glorious, glorious!" He uses the war staff to summon the Daimyo. "And now, no more distractions. We must finish the Daimyo once and for all. His ruling is at an end. He shall suffer horribly as he perishes." The beast hovered over the Daimyo with the two weapons above him, ready to finish him off.
Splinter appeared on the ground, near the Daimyo as well as Yuuki. She sees Splinter and rushes over to him, trying to wake him up. "First the Daimyo will perish and then the rat." the Ultimate Ninja laughs evilly and the Daimyo starts to wake up.
"My son...my-my son is that you? I...thought I heard your voice." he murmured. The Ultimate Ninja begins to falter as he heard his voice and saw his face.
"Father?"
"Is that sentiment I hear in your voice?" Drako demanded.
"He looks so...frail," The Ultimate Ninja murmured.
"Do not soften on me now," Yuuki smiled in relief as Splinter began to wake up. He tells her to be quiet and to follow him as the two sneaked towards the Ultimate Ninja. "He must be destroyed."
"Must he?" the Ultimate Ninja questioned. "We have all we want. We have power, we have the war staff. He is no longer a threat. He is old and weak. We could let him live in exile."
"We haven't come this far to simply let the Daimyo live," Drako argued. "He must suffer. He must pay! All must pay! Now!"
"No!" the Ultimate Ninja shouted as well as Splinter and Yuuki as the two jumped up and grabbed the war staff.
"You shall not harm him! No more destruction, no more!" Splinter yelled. The Ultimate Ninja slammed Splinter and Yuuki to the ground as they held on to the war staff.
"Fools, have you forgotten who is the master of this race?" the Ultimate Ninja responded. "We hold the power. We command-" Suddenly, the war begins to activate as Splinter and Yuuki attempted to use it. "What? They have activated the war staff? No!"
My children!...My children!
In Megatroplis, Mikey was surrounded by the super turtles as he helped them defeated the Sliver. He begins to phase out. "Oh no, not now!" He exclaimed. "Sorry guys, look's like I'm already on my way, out of this world! If they write a comic about this, make sure they call me the Turtle Titan!" he tells them before fades away.
Come to me, my children.
Raph manages to finish the race with Falcon. "Yes, Team Fitts has won the USP RA charity race event!" The alien crowd cheered as Raph jumped down from the bike. Falcon shakes his hand.
"Way to win the race, partner." he tells him, but Raph begins to shift again.
"Hey, it's happening again," he explained as his voice became more distorted. "It's pulling me way from here."
"Raph, listen," Falcon told him. "Just remember that if you do nothing else in your life, you were once a planet racer. Not everyone can say that." Raph places a hand on his shoulder.
"And you remember, race with honor." He fades away.
My children...
In the dark world of New York, the Shredder had been defeated. Donnie and April were the only ones to make it out of the fight.
"My brothers, my poor brothers, this world, this future. It's a nightmare." he lamented lost in thought.
"It was a nightmare, Don. But, you, Leo, Raph, Mikey, Yuuki, and Venus, you gave us back our future." April told him. Then Donnie begins to phase.
"April, it's happening again! Something's pulling me away. It's stronger this time!" he screamed as he disappeared.
You are now needed more than ever!
"My children, my children, my children!" Splinter shouted. A flash of green energy emits from the staff and everyone appeared as they landed on the ground. Splinter and Yuuki glance over at them.
"Guys! You're back!" Yuuki shouted.
"What the shell?" Raph questioned and Donnie hugs him.
"Raphie!" Mona shouted as she ran over to hug him. Donnie moved out of the way before she could crash into him and Raph.
"Mikey, Raph, you're young!" he exclaimed happily. "And alive!" He runs over to Mikey, taking his hands. "And Mikey, you have both arms!"
"Good to see you too, Donnie," Mikey commented, nervously. "I think."
"Donnie?" Donnie gasped as he heard Venus voice, behind him. He turned to her and immediately ran over and hugged her tightly.
"Venus!" he exclaimed as he felt tears begin to burn his eyes and wiped them away. "You're okay! You're really here!" Venus looked at him with a shocked look and looked over towards Raph and Mikey mouthing to them "What's going on?"
The two shrugged their hands, confused as well.
"What have you done, rat?" The Ultimate Ninja demanded as he lifted Splinter and Yuuki up. "What have you done?" He throws them down to the ground, trying to shake them off of the staff. The others notice them.
"Enough reunion, Master Splinter's and Yuuki are in trouble!" Raph called out. "Come on!"
The group runs over to them as the Ultimate Ninja tried to make them let go of the staff.
"Insolent rat! Let go!" He slams Splinter and Yuuki down while the others charge at him and tackled the Ultimate Ninja down. He lets go of the war staff as Yuuki and Splinter fall to the ground, the two holding it in their hands. The time scepter was released as well.
"My war staff! My time scepter! No, no, no!" he smacks Mikey, Raph, and Alopex off of him while Donnie and Venus grabbed onto his tail. He smacks them back as well. Donnie looks over towards the time scepter.
"We have to keep the time scepter out of his hands!" he called out. As the Ultimate Ninja moves towards the scepter, Donnie kicks it away.
"Yo, ugly!" he turns to see Raph and Mikey holding the scepter. "Looking for this?"
Splinter and Yuuki walked up, holding the war staff. "You fools!" he yells at them. "There is no way you can defeat us! You do not have the power to use the war staff or the time scepter!"
"Perhaps not," Splinter spoke, as he gripped the staff tightly in his hands. "But you will never get your hands on them again! I swear it! I-" A strange energy began to erupt between the time scepter and the war staff as they collided with each other.
"What sorcery is this?" Drako asked.
"Master Splinter?" Mikey commented, confused.
"What's going on?" Raph murmured.
"I don't know," Splinter answered. "I-" the energy began to grow stronger as the four were lifted into the air. "Everyone, hold on! Hold on!"
Leo and Usagi gripped their swords as they tried to defend themselves against the creatures. "They just keep coming, Usagi!"
"Then we will just keep fighting, Leonardo!" Usagi yelled back to him. Suddenly, the creatures disappeared and the two reappear in the throne room of the palace.
"We're back," Leo murmured.
"This should not be possible!" The Ultimate Ninja shouted as they appeared in the room. "You do not have the power!"
The energy directed itself and fired at the Ultimate Ninja tearing him and Drako apart from each other. Soon, the two began to turn into stone.
"I don't understand," Drako said. "How can this be? No, no!"
"Father?" the Ultimate Ninja turned towards the Daimyo, stepping to him. "Father!" he held out his hand towards him before he starts to turn to stone as well. "Forgive me. I-"
The Ultimate Ninja and Drako fall to the ground as they crumbled to dust.
"My son?" the Daimyo murmured. "Did I hear my son? What is going on here?"
The four were lifted down as the energy began to subside. Leo and Usagi walk in to see them. "Master Splinter! Yuuki!"
"You're alright!" he exclaimed as he ran up to all of them. "You're all okay!"
"Um, sensei, what the shell just happend?" Mikey questioned, confused. "How did we do that?"
"I...truly do not know." Splinter answered. Suddenly, there was a bright blue light as Lord Simultaneous stepped out of it.
"It's quite simple really. It's like I told your kids here when I met them last time," he levitates the time scepter to him. "This time scepter has a mind of it's own. It read everyone's thoughts, weighed good against evil, and set everything to right, with a little help from the war staff." He groaned as he turned around seeing the two ash piles on the ground. "What a horrible mess. No one ever learns," He lowers himself and walked over to it. "I get so tired of cleaning up after megalomaniacs and mad men."
"No, no," he hears the Daimyo stirring in front of him. "My son, no."
"Let me show you the true and good powers of the time scepter, controlled by the right hands." The time lord turned to everyone and he sprinkles some blue dust over the fallen Ultimate Ninja, turning him into a little boy. He shakes his head as he wakes and rushes over towards the Daimyo, hugging him.
"Father, father! I had the most horrible nightmare! Oh, father!"
The Daimyo wakes and sees him. "My son? Oh, my son!" He hugs him as he cried. "Do not cry. I too had a horrible nightmare, but it's over now. It's alright, it's going to be alright."
Simultaneous turns back to the others. "And it's high time I put you all back where you belong. You've given me quite a headache fitting all over time and creation like that."
"Usagi," Leo bows to him. "Thank you." Yuuki bows to him as well.
"It was great seeing you again!" she replied then lunged out towards him, hugging the samurai tightly. Usagi smiled.
"And me as well, Yuuki-san," then he turns to Leo.
"Leonardo, it is a great honor to be your friend."
"Until we meet again, Usagi-san," Splinter tells him. "Farewell."
Simultaneous returns everyone back to their time lines and they soon find themselves back in the lair. Casey walks over to them.
"Where did the heck did you guys go? I've been looking for you for at least ten minutes. Elizabeth's been crying nonstop and I even had to change her diapers!" he told them with a disgusted look on his face. Mona had a horrific look on hers. Elizabeth has been alone this entire time...with Casey.
"I have to go check on her now!" she shouted, running off.
"You guys been goofing on me? Is this some kind of game, like hide and seek or something?" Casey asked as he watched run off with a confused look on his face. Raph smiled as well as everyone else.
"Yeah, something like that." he told him.
"Let's just say it's good to be home." Leo commented.