Ascending Towards Justice part 1

In his office, Qin was sipping his cup of jasmine tea watching the city lights below him from the window when the doors burst open, revealing the thug Raph and Jet interrogated. The scared gangster rushed in, still holding his bleeding arm. Qin however looked furious.

"What is the meaning of this!?" Demanded the crime lord.

"Sir. It's those freaks! They got the other guys! Made me give out our hideout! They're on their way!" Reported the thug.

Qin softly growled and clenched his fists as well as glared harder at the minion, making the latter even more scared.

"Please, boss! One of them fucked up my arm with his knives!" The gangster pleaded.

"You are relieved." Qin said calmly but sternly.

The gangster breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the door only for the Rot to suddenly appear in front of him and grab his head. The man struggled for a few seconds as his skin immediately grew sickly pale then black as the flesh started to fall away. The Rot then crushed his skull then dropped the decomposed body causing most of it to break apart even more.

"Thank you, Rot." Qin thanked the undead assassin. "Incompetent pawns are really bothersome."

"So are these 'freaks'." Replied Rot. "The guy said they're coming here. Should I alert my comrades?"

"Yes, you do that. I shall make some preparations as well" Qin responded as the Rot went out the door.

Qin walked over to a glass display containing a jade jian sword on the right side of his office. He took the weapon out and looked at it with a smirk.

"It has begun."


At the back of the Triad headquarters, Jet, Raph, Leo and Ben are at a small building right next to the back door and windows. The mutants could clearly see down through the big windows that the first floor was full of gangsters in what looked like a delivery room, where all the goods were being moved around by the men, from drugs, to money as well as artifacts. Many goods were being placed in wooden crates and boxes for delivery. Leo and Ben turned to Raph and Jet.

"Ok, here's the plan here. Raph and I will go through the windows while Jet and Ben burst through the back door at the same time." Leo said.

"Heh, I can just simply smash through the wall and then immediately close it up to prevent unwanted attention." Bragged Jet.

"You always preferred dramatic entrances, my friend." Sighed Ben.

"Well what are we waiting for? I'm ready to bust some heads!" Said Raph.


On the other side in the delivery room, two thugs were socializing as they were working.

"We're gonna be making a lot of money this week, man." Said one thug.

"Yup! There's a high demand for drugs and weapons lately." Said the second. "Though I'm more interested in the new artifacts and antiques we got for the boss." Said the first.

"Yeah, I heard he's got this scroll of 'great power' and has been studying it lately, but I also heard of another trinket that's said to have 'unlimited power'." Said the second.

"Really? And what trinket would that be?" Said the first thug curiously.

"Well, I heard it's a ri-"

Just then the windows above were broken through by Raph and Leo while the back door was kicked open by Ben and the wall next to him smashed through by Jet with the latter raising his hand to raise a rock wall to fix the hole once he stepped through.

"What the fuck!?"

"It's those freaks!"

"Get them!"

The thugs opened fired their guns and the mutants scattered to avoid getting hit. Leo disarmed some of them by destroying their weapons with his katanas and slicing them down or kicking them to subdue them. Raph took down his share with his feet and sais, either knocking them down with the blunt pommel of his weapons or the sharp end to impale and kill them all the while he caught and yanked away his foes weapons with his sais. Jet took out twin butterfly swords and began cutting down and kicking away at his enemies, even kicking a wooden box from a table at one of the thugs with an uzi then elbowing another in the face when the latter tried to sneak up on him with a hatchet. Ben took down over a dozen with his lightning fast kicks and punches before bringing out his nunchucks as another dozen tried to overwhelm the azure dragon but with lightning speed, Ben used his nunchucks to knock them all down to the ground, with the last one hold his bleeding head in agony as he slowly falls.

"Nice, buddy! Way to give Mikey a run for his money!" Praised Jet.

Ben nodded in thanks.

As the mutants finished off the thugs on the first floor, they looked around to see how trashed the place was. Money and drugs were scattered everywhere and even several artifacts were broken. Not to mention it was littered with triad thugs on the ground either dead or unconscious.

"Well it sucks to be them huh?"

"It's about to suck to be you freaks." Said a voice.

The mutants looked over to see a large muscular tattooed shirtless brute coming down a flight of stairs. He was intimidating, but the heroes looked unfazed. With a smirk, the gangster walked over to a large wooden crate, then destroyed it with an overhead smash. Once again the heroes were unimpressed, especially Ben.

"Crates, don't hit back." Said Ben.

"But I will!" Raph shouted as he attempted a flying kick at the brute, only for the latter to grab the leg and throw him aside.

"Raph!" Leo shouted in concern.

"Oh his ass is mine!" Shouted an angry Jet about to rush at the enemy.

"No!" Said Ben as he blocked his friend. "I will teach him a lesson."

Ben stepped forward up to the muscle bound brute. He put away his nunchucks and looked up at his opponent.

"What aren't you gonna freeze me to death or something, little dragon?" Asked the thug.

"I will not use my elemental magic to win this fight." Replied Ben, causing the brute to laugh.

"Then this will be easy peasy!" Bragged the thug.

"For me." Ben said.

The brute began throwing the first punches, but Ben dodged his attacks. The enemy was very quick for his size. But Ben was not afraid.

"You're strong, fast." Said Ben as he continued to dodge attacks from the brute. "But strength and speed aren't everything."

It was then the dragon roundhouse kicked him in the back, followed by a punch to the elbow, shattering it and causing the thug to scream, and finished him with a palm strike to the face, launching across the room and taking him down.

"Well that was rather easy." Said Jet.


Just then the elevator doors near the stairs opened to reveal Spike. The large Asian assassin walked out menacingly with a smirk. The heroes glared at the Deathly Hazard.

"But this won't be." Stated Leo.

"This is gonna be sweet." Spike said sadistically.

"Ben, Leo? Why don't you both sit back?" Asked Jet. "Me and Raph got a score to settle with this asshole."

"As you wish, Jet. This is your chief rival after all." Said Ben as he and Leo stepped back.


Spike started off by taking out his crossbow which surprisingly had a repeating feature as he fired multiple spikes at Jet and Raph causing them both to jump and evade the shots, while Leo and Ben deflected them with their weapons. Raph then decided to erect an earth wall to block the spikes then launch it at Spike causing him to stagger backwards and drop his repeating crossbow. However as he regained his balance, Spike only smirked.

"Finally! A fun challenge!" Spiked bragged before he popped his thorns over his body and got into a fighting stance.

Raph and Jet surrounded their arms and legs with solid rock and concrete and charged. This time, they were ready. The two mutants clashed with the assassin in close quarters. The Hazard was still fast, but not fast enough to evade a punch in the gut from Jet followed by a knee to his spiked face from Raph. Raph and Jet continued to block and evade Spike's attacks, their earth covered limbs shielding them from spike damage while also allowing them to hit harder. After receiving a rock covered double punch strike to the torso knocking him down, Spike grunted in frustration and decided that enough was enough. He looked to his side and spotted a spiked Morningstar in a broken wooden box, and grinned. Spike rolled over to it and grabbed his new weapon then got up with renewed confidence.

"Aw shit." Said Jet while Raph just looked shocked.

Spike began swinging his Morningstar while Raph and Jet formed stone armor on their torsos. But that soon proved futile as Spike made his attack and swung his weapon at Jet who tried to block it with his armor but was easily smashed and launched backwards. Raph tried to jump to evade the next attack but was struck to the side, having his armor shattered as well.

"Raph! Jet!" Leo and Ben shouted.

Spike chuckled.

"Don't worry, I'll be right with you." Spike cackled. "Once I'm through with these two."

Leo and Ben glared hard at the assassin. Raph and Jet were on the ground groaning in pain. Spike was looking at them back and forth deciding who to kill first. Then he looked at Jet and decided to put down the Tiger first. He swung his Morningstar overhead, prepared to deliver the final blow.

"Any last words?" Spike asked.

Jet looked up at his enemy with a smirk. Then immediately took out one of his butterfly swords and sprung up to chop off Spike's weapon hand, causing the Hazard to drop his weapon and hold his bleeding stump in agony.

"Shell shock!" Jet commanded.

Raphael jammed his sais into the ground and channeled mystical energy to cause the ground below Spike to burst upward launching him into the air and landing into a group of crates, and knocking him unconscious, defeating him.

"Say good night, human porcupine." Raph mocked with a smile.

Leo and Ben walked over with proud smiles on their faces.

"That was amazing Raph! And I thought only Mikey would give names to his moves." Leo complimented.

"Yeah well, I just thought I'd try it at least once." Raph said.

"Indeed. Though you two may have overcome this foe, the rest are just as deadly if not more so. We must steel ourselves." Ben said.

"Yeah, I got you pal." Jet said seriously. "Raph and I will take the elevator."

"Then the stairs are our route." Leo replied. "We'll meet you at the top. And be careful."

Raph and Jet nodded and proceeded to the elevator while Leo and Ben took the stairs.

The heroes have cleared the first room and defeated one of the Deathly Hazards but things will only get more difficult from here. The battle has only just begun.

Stay tuned for more action!

This is MergingEmperor7, bowing out.