Author's Note
- Here we are, in one of my favorite episodes of 2003 series, The Fallen Angel. During of this four-part saga, there will be one of the biggest plot twists I've prepared for my version of the 2003 series, which includes one of my OC characters.

- There will be the several new but minor Purple Dragon characters in this chapter beside the official ones that were in the beginning of the episode. They are frequently seen during of Casey's infiltration into the Dragons fighting club, but you can find them from the concept art gallery in Purple Dragons (2003 TV series)/Gallery on TMNTpedia.

SulliMike23: We'll see whether Raph and Louie did tell the others about Jennika's bloody deed and her part in helping/letting them escape from the Foot's clutches or not. Raph seemed to be indifferent about her while Louie was kinda curious of her for what she did.

animegamefanatic: I think I'll keep both Jennika, John and the Guardians as humans in my story.

Marietta is seen standing alone in middle of the spot light inside of the gigantic cage. The turtle in turquoise had dressed into a pair of blue torn jeans and black sleeveless shirt, over which she was wearing a dark purple hoodie with the torn sleeves and white skull with the crossed bones branded in front of it. She was also wearing a shoulder-length dark-brown dreadlock wig, over which she had tied a dark blue bandana to keep the wig in place. Mary had also put on X-cross chains to hang over her chest, tied her arms with the gray bandages and finally, to finish her new street attire, she was wearing the red sunglasses.

"My name is Marietta, and right now I'm feeling myself very disturbed!"

Standing in the battle-ready pose, Mary looks around of her, while there's a huge number of silhouetted people shouting and waving their arms outside of the cage.

"I'm being locked inside the cage. That's one thing, but another thing is that I have to wear these ridiculous clothes to make myself look like some sort of low-life street punk!"

Behind of Marietta's back, the camera rises over her head to show the arching border line of the spotlight, behind of which, within the shadows, was standing nine silhouetted people facing Marietta.

"Not to mention about being forced to fight these low-life knuckleheads, the Purple Dragons, inside of the same cage I've been locked in like some kind of gladiators, forced to fight to the death... or rather break some bones, knock out some teeth out and bash the lights out from me all of this just to the audience's enjoyment! Savages!"

One by one, the shadowed people step into the light, revealing themselves to be the Purple Dragons!

Among of them were the turtles' old acquaintances, such as Fatso, Redhead, Blue-face, Green-shirt, Cap-head and Spikyhead. Among them were three new Purple Dragons.

One was a pretty tall and tough looking guy, who was bald-headed, except a small part of grayish-green hair on topside of his head. This guy had dark blue business shirt with the sleeves torn off, knee-length gray shorts, crimson belt around his waist with the gray skull as an ugly ornament and stripy blue-orange tie. He also had his arms bandaged and he was grinning widely like a crazy, revealing his teeth from his mouth.

Second was a slender guy, who had a long blue-dyed hair, which he had tied into one small and one long ponytails behind of his head. He also had a long blue-dyed eye browns (with the ring pierced through his right eye brown) and a blue-dyed chin beard, which he had also tied together. This guy had dressed into a crimson red shirt and black pants. This guy also wore a metallic shoulder armor on his left shoulder, as well as the metal studded elbow pads in each of his elbow. He was also wearing the pair of metal studded gloves in his hands.

And third was tall and a pretty muscular man with white sleeveless shirt and the camouflage pants and military boots. He had a brown parting hair and a red sunglasses.

All these Dragons were glaring at disguised Marietta while holding up a bare fists or melee weapons, and the turtle in turquoise was glaring back.

"HEAR, DRAGONS, HEAR DRAGONS!" the announcer then spoke to the microphone somewhere. "TONIGHT'S EVENT IS EVERY TRUE PURPLE DRAGON'S FAVORITE MATCH: THE CAGE MATCH! TONIGHT, WE GOT ON THE RIGHT NINE OF THE BEST FIGHTERS OF THE PURPLE DRAGONS, AND ALL OF THEM ARE SET TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS NEW NEWBIE LOSER, WHO IS SOON GOING TO FIND OUT HOW THE PURPLE DRAGONS TREAT THE NEWBIES!"

The Dragons all over this place then began to cheer loudly to their own while booing spitefully and throwing all shorts of insults at Marietta, who ignored all of them as she kept her eyes on the Dragons she was set to fight against.

"However I got myself into this barbaric sports in the first place, that's the long story. But if these lowly human garbage want the piece of the turtle, they have to go through my shell first."

Camera is now in front of Marietta's face.

"But in case if the ninja turtle with the years of ninjutsu training... they will soon learn that the turtle's shell will not be so easily broken, but I will break with it some of their noses, knuckles and knees."(1)

Marietta grimaces and lets out of the snort of disgust towards her own words.

"Oh, great! Now I'm starting to sound like Raph!"

There is the sound of the bell-ring as if to signal to the fight to begin. And with that, all the nine Purple Dragons let out the battle-shout and charged towards Marietta all at the same time, while Marietta fearlessly charges towards the Dragons as well.

"LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!" Marietta let out, before she leaped in the air, spun around several times in the air as she flew towards the camera (and the off-screen Dragons), and then swung her left foot towards the camera screen in the form of the kick!

"HII-YAA!" Mary cried as she kicked the camera and the screen went black.

(The screen pulls away from New York City with couple light beams waving above the town. Then a four green letters forming the word TMNT towers over the city.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen rises to the edge of the roof, on which is standing eight green shadowy humanoid creatures with the turtle-like features. Two of them were crouching/bending down and all of them had by colors individual ninja masks; One (Named Leonardo) had blue, second one (Named Marietta) had turquoise, third one (Named Raphael) had red, fourth one (Named Domenico) had white, fifth one (Named Artemisia) had pink, sixth one (Named Lorenzo) had black, seventh one (Named Donatello) had purple and the last one (Named Michelangelo) had orange. Then, as the light beam passed them, all eight turtles leap off the edge of the roof.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first one, Michelangelo is holding his Nunchucks in the air. In the second one, Raphael is holding one Sai above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third one, Donatello is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth one, Leonardo has crossed his sword-holding arms over his chest.)
(TURTLES!)

(Leonardo is seen fighting two ninjas wielding Naginata-spears. The turtle slices both ninjas weapons' staves in two with his swords before kicking both one by one away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Donatello is seen driving a Sewer Slider down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple turns to smirk to the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Raphael is seen making couple of flips; one over the fence and one towards the screen, before he delivers the kick at the camera, blackening it for a second.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning Michalengelo is seen standing on top of the Battle Shell that's speeding along the street, while spinning his Nucnhacku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(As the turtle in orange leaps off, the Battle Shell flies in arc over the street before landing back to the ground. Then its back doors open up and two of the turtles, Raphael and Lorenzo, rocket out of the car in the backs of red and avocado green bikes before skidding them sideways to a stop.)

(In the alleyway, next to the blue armored car, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping to attack towards the camera, with Michelangelo taking the lead and kicks the screen with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen: the upper screen shows a blue-masked face with into a glare narrowed eyes while lower screen shows eight turtles standing in line in front of the gray-furred humanoid rat dressed in the brown robe, Master Splinter by name.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a purple-masked face with lightly frowned glare while upper screen shows Master Splinter swinging his wooden staff down at the couple of attacking Mouser-robots.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a red-masked face with the deep frown, while the lower screen shows a large and muscular blonde-haired man, named Hun, leading a group of silhouetted street gang thugs from the ablaze background towards the screen)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a orange-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Hun sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards it, blackening the screen for the split second.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(A red-haired young woman, named April O'Neil, is then seen winking at the camera from the cockpit of the helicopter with the rope hanging from its undercarriage, which she flies past of the blue tower with the Japanese style palace on top of it. On top of it, two turtles, Donatello and Domenico are seeing battling six ninjas on the edge, until they're knocked off the building. Falling down, Domenico grabs from the helicopter's rope with one hand and grabs with his free one from Donnie's hand, cutting his falling, and they're both lifted up in the air.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell to shell in middle of the bright spotlight, while they're surrounded by the dozens and dozens of in the darkness standing and heavily armed ninjas that keep coming from the darkness and rooftops above of the alley. The turtles fearlessly demonstrate their skills with their weapons before taking their respective battle stances.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Artimesia jumps from the left with her legs bent under, while spinning around and swinging her sharp Tessens around, and at the same time Michelangelo jumps from the right. With the smirk on his face, the turtle in orange makes the flip in the air while spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)
(Then, Donatello jumps from the right, spinning his Bo-staff with his left hand while swinging it over his head before grabbing it with both hands and bringing it down hard. At the same time, Marietta jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in her right hand, before spinning around and sending a horizontal slash with her weapon's blade forward.)
(Then, Domenico jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting his right Tonfa forward like a stabbing movement. At the same time, Leonardo jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them to the sides as he delivers the kick forward with his foot.)
(Raphael then jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais to flash. Right after him, Lorenzo jumps from the right, holding his left Butterfly sword in front of him and his right Butterfly sword over his head, before swinging them forward to slash with them the air in front of him.)
(Then a 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, and dressed in a sleeveless, teal hoodie and red baggy jeans jumps from the left after the turtle in black and shoots the punch towards the screen with her left fist. Then a tall blue-haired and -eyed man with the hockey mask on his face, named Casey Jones, jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Leo, with swords in hands, is then seen landing onto one ninja's back, knocking him down.)
(Donnie is then seen whacking another ninja off his feet and out with his Bo.)
(Raph is then seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left arm while holding his Sai in his fist.)
(Mikey is then seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist while holding a Nunchuck.)
(Marietta is then seen kicking the fifth in the chest while holding her Naginata up.)
(Domenico is then seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Lorenzo is then seen blocking seventh's sword with his left hand's sword while thrusting his right towards the ninja as if to stab him in the chest)
(Artemisia is then seen with her arms crossed in front of her white holding her opened pink Tessens in her hands.)
(Raph is then seen again, this time surrounded by several ninjas, until he spins himself around with his hands clenched into fist around of his Sais' hilts spread out, knocking all ninjas away from him.)

(Cut to the wide shot, where seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops, water towers and chimneys, as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain with one hand like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in blue's and purple's masked faces above and the line of turtles in red and orange's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. Leonardo is in the middle, Donatello, Marietta and Domenico are in his right side while Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia are in his left side. All seven then ran towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, Raphael races over the building in the back of the bike and jumps off it towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first one, Marietta is pointing her Naginata's blade at the screen. In the second one, Lorenzo is holding his Butterfly-swords upside down in his arms, while holding the left one horizontally in front of his face and right one over his head.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third one, Domenico is holding his Tonfa-holding arms crossed over his chest. In the fourth one, Artemisia is holding her right hand's Tessen opened in front of her face, partially covering them behind of her weapon, while pointing with her left closed one at the screen.)
(TURTLES!)

(Marietta is seen standing in the dead end of the alley, spinning around while spinning her Naginata with her hands in front of her, before she pulls it behind her shell-back and holds her left hand forward as two two hands, one holding a knife and one a fire-axe, appears from both sides of the screen.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(Lorenzo is seen riding on top of the subway car, with his Butterfly swords sunk to its roof. And as he approaches the camera, the turtle in black pulls his swords up and jumps forward towards the camera and kicks the screen into black.)
"OUT OF MANHOLE"
(TURTLES!)

(Domenico is seen stabbing with his left and then his right Tonfa at one practice dummy in his right to the head, knocking it back. Then he turns around and spin-kicks the other dummy in his left in the head with his right foot. Then the turns around and whacks the camera with his left Tonfa.)
"BEWARE, THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back, showing Artemisia skating with the pair of pink roller skates along the rooftop as she is being chased by the dozen ninjas with the swords. Four more ninjas appears from the sides of the screen, chasing after the skating turtle in pink. She peeks over her left shoulder at them, smirks and then picks up the pace, skating into the camera.)
"MUTANTS NINJAS ARE ON THE MOVE!"

(Arcee then skates towards a pretty large ninja with the sword held up and ready to strike (with her pursuers' running feet showing in the sides of the screen). However, as the large ninja tries to strike at the turtle in pink horizontally, she grabs from both of his wrists, spins around and throws him over her shoulder at her pursuers. The ninja flies towards the camera face-first.)

(Arcee then turns around and somersaults over the edge of the building. The screen then moves down in front of with the wooden boards boarded doorway, before the Battle Shell - with Domenico in the driver's seat and Marietta in the passenger's seat - smashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink to land onto its roof.)

(Screen then turns to the back-doors of the Battle Shell as it is chased by two ninjas on motorbikes, until the back-doors fly open and Lorenzo jumps out with the barrel-roll, landing on his shell to the street, somersaulting back to his feet and then lunging at the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies face-first at the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again: the upper screen shows a turquoise-masked face with lightly frowned glare, while lower screen shows Artemisia, Leonardo and Marietta in the snowy woods, staring at the five silhouetted canine-like humanoid beings with various colored face-paints (dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green) standing in line. They all hit their fists with their fist before bowing to each other.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a white-masked face with deep frown while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with white fur and dark purple face-paint. Wielding a single Kama in its right had, the figure fights two hunter-looking men with the hunting rifles: kicking away one standing front of it with the left foot before elbowing the second one standing behind the back in the face with its right elbow. The figure then turns around, snarls ferally at the camera before slicing the screen in half with its Kama.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'LL ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL!"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a black-masked face with the wide eyes, while the lower screen shows Lorenzo and the same purple-haired and ponytailed teenager human girl standing back to shell-back in middle of the ring of the silhouetted enemies.)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a pink-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Louie and purple-haired girl turning to each other and taking each other from hands, before the turtle in black swings the girl around him in the air. As the turtle swings the girl towards the camera, the girl kicks the screen with her foot.)
("SIX!")
"WE COME, STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(A next shot shows two buildings standing next to each other, until Donatello and Marietta appear from the left side of the screen and jump over the gap between the buildings (with Marietta pole-vaulting over the gap with her Naginata). Then four turtles, led by Leonardo, followed by Raphael and Artemisia and lastly Domenico, are seen rushing forward along the streets, weapons in hands. Michelangelo and Lorenzo are then seen following them right behind: the former by zipping along the rope with his Nunchaku and the latter by swinging by the chain like Tarzan while spinning the other one wildly around with his free hand.)
("SEVEN!")
"AS A TEAM, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHER'S SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the light in the darkness, with their backs turned to the camera as it pulls away from them. As they all turn around to the camera, they draw out their weapons and take their individual battle-stances, ready to face whoever is standing in front of them.)
("EIGHT!")
"AND WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(Out of darkness appears Baxter Stockman, with the black eye-patch over his right missing eye, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of menacing-looking Mousers, snapping their jaws. Stockman points at the camera with his finger as if ordering the attack and the Mousers lunge forward, snarling menacingly.)

(Camera moves to the right, showing Tatsu backed up by the group of ninjas behind him. The scarred man draws out a sword from his X-shaped scabbard in his back and raises it with both hands up and next to the scarred side of his faces, pointing its tip at the camera while glaring himself darkly at the camera.)

(Camera moves then to the right again, this time showing a strange female creature with the pale yellowish skin, huge red eyes, long elf-like pointy ears, slightly hooked nose, shoulder-length black hair and wide grin that shows her mouth full of sharp teeth. She was dressed into black dress and a hooded cape, dark-blue and white-stripped pantyhose, ruby-red elf-like slippers and a long and slithering elf-like black hat. With the mischievous grin on her face, the creature waved its hands over, followed by the glowing aura and the flow of glowing various-colored stars in her left hand and the various-colored lightnings in her right hand, as if it was the magic.)

(Camera moves to the right once more, this time showing a mobster-like barrel-chested man with the thick eyebrows, mustache, double chin and tidy haircut. He was dressed in the blue shirt and a red black-spotted cravat, over which he wore a mafia-like olive green suit with the golden stripes. He had a same style pants and the shiny black-tipped brown shoes. He wore on his head a grayish-brown fedora hat and he had a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several tough-looking guys in the mafia-like suits and fedora-hats - all armed with various guns or melee weapons - the man took the cigar out of his mouth and, with the nasty sneer, he pointed with his finger forward.)

(The screen turns back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several robots away with his staff while Raphael lands on one, crushing it, while stabbing his Sais through of two other)
(Domenico then moves to stab with his left Tonfa in one ninja's guts, before he turns around and whacks with his right one in the second ninja's chest, knocking him away, after which Artemisia slices the third ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spinning around and kicking him in the chest with her left foot.)
(The strange pointy-eared creature then flies over to strike them with the magical lightnings, only for Marietta to pole-vault with her Naginata towards the creature before she lands a kick to her right side, knocking the creature off the air.)
(Three mafia thugs: one in the white shirt, black cravat, turquoise suit and reddish-brown fedora-hat, second one in the black shirt, green cravat, the brown suit and with the golden fedora-hat and third large, muscular, slightly hunchbacked, broad-shouldered and big-nosed guy with the thick eyebrows, shaven face and protruding lower jaw, who was dressed in the checkered blue-white shirt, red black-spotted bow tie, dark purple suit and a small dark blue bowler hat on top his head, rushed towards the turtles, only for Michelangelo to snap-kick away the turquoise-suited thug in the left, while Lorenzo kicks the brown-suited thug in the right in the guts before the big thug in the middle ends up being kicked away by Leonardo, who then spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot, where two silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running along the sewer pipe: One turtle is on foot while another turtle is skating along the pipe's rounded walls.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen moves upwards to the street level, where three silhouettes of three turtles are running along the streets: One is running on foot down the street, while second one is riding on the bike and third one is hopping along both the driving and parked cars' rooftops.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in turquoise's and white's masked faces above and the line of turtles in black's and pink's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Shot moves upwards again, to the roof level, where two silhouettes of two turtles are either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Three turtles (Raphael in the left, Leonardo in the middle and Domenico in the right) are seen running towards the camera along the streets. Then Artemisia and Michelangelo jumps out of the open manholes, landing on their feet to the street and join the run next to Raph and Dom. Then they're joined by Marietta and Donatello, who land down from the rooftops to Leo's both sides. All seven then run towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then moves up towards the building with the full moon glowing behind of it, showing Lorenzo jumping off the building and towards the camera, spinning the chain wildly above his head before throwing it away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing Leonardo's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined-looking face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing Michelangelo's shadowy goofy-like face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing Raphael's shadowy yet fierce-looking face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"

(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy yet calm-looking face. sixth then appears next to it from above, showing Domenico's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"

(Seventh appears from beneath, showing Lorenzo's shadowy wildly hilarious-looking face. Then final eights appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined-looking face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the tall blue tower with the red Japanese palace style on top of it, which towers over all the other buildings of the town. With the weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Donatello, then Domenico, then Michelangelo and finally Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the same tower, that is above of the blood-red three-toed symbol in middle of the bright light blue circle, a menacing-looking man in the full samurai-looking armor and helmet looks down after them, as his black cape floats in the blow of the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves closer of his helmet-covering head, before the man turns to the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two charp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are then seen standing in middle of the rooftop. With the weapons in hands, they briefly demonstrate their weapons-skills before taking their individual fighting poses: Donatello is seen standing in the middle, pointing his staff's end at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo are standing in his right, Marietta and Michelangelo are standing in his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo are standing behind of them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding or skating on the various human equipment along the underground tunnel: Donnie is in the lead, wheeling with his purple-gray foldaway bike as he rode past the camera. Artemisia followed him afterwards on her own turquoise tuned dirt-bike, waving at the camera. She was followed by Leonardo on foldaway kick scooter with the blue board, hopping over the handlebar with his hands. He was then followed by Domenico on the white-tuned road bicycle, who made the high backward flip over the camera. After them, Raphael and Artemisia were roller skating along the wall of the tunnel with their red roller blades and pink roller-skates. Lorenzo then skated after them with his oversized green and black skateboard pair of rocket boosters and he was followed by Michelangelo, who skated along the tunnel's wall with his orange skateboard, going higher and higher along the wall before he jumped off it, landing in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(First Donatello, then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally Artemisia landed onto the rooftop with weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charged forward towards the camera, with Leonardo taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"

= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE FALLEN ANGEL PART 1 =

Two and half weeks later after the showdown with the Foot-Tech-Ninjas in the sewers.

It was another night upon of New York City, when everybody was back in their homes sleeping and everything was quite peaceful.

However, it soon turned out that the night was not going to be peaceful after all, as the group of twelve shadowed figures arrived in front of the closet store.

And the shadowy figures were the Purple Dragons. Who else?

One of them was a pretty tall and tough looking guy, who was bald-headed, except a small part of grayish-green hair on topside of his head. This guy had dark blue business shirt with the sleeves torn off, knee-length gray shorts, crimson belt around his waist with the gray skull as an ugly ornament and stripy blue-orange tie. He also had his arms bandaged and he was grinning widely like a crazy, revealing his teeth from his mouth.

Second one was a quite muscular guy, who had a sleeveless gray tank top, X-cross bandoleer, brown shorts and heavy-looking black boots with the white shin guards. Unlike the first guy, this one was totally bald and he had a quite wicked-looking scar that went down from his forehead to his left cheek, running across his left eye in the process, which was blind.

Third one was a woman with a dirt blonde hair that was tied into dreadlocks. She was wearing a red belly shirt and green pants. She was also wearing the long-skirted trench coat. She had a small S-shaped dragon tattoo in her bare abdomen and scar in her left cheek.

Fourth one was a slender guy, who had a long blue-dyed hair, which he had tied into one small and one long ponytails behind of his head. He also had a long blue-dyed eye browns (with the ring pierced through his right eye brown) and a blue-dyed chin beard, which he had also tied together. This guy had dressed into a crimson red shirt and black pants. This guy also wore a metallic shoulder armor on his left shoulder, as well as the metal studded elbow pads in each of his elbow. He was also wearing the pair of metal studded gloves in his hands.

Fifth one was the group's largest guy (or the bulkiest) with thick muscular arms but obese body-shape. This bald-headed African-American man was wearing the orange sleeveless shirt and blue sweat pants. He also had the brass knuckles in his hands. He also had two big S-shaped dragon tattoos in both of his shoulders.

Sixth one was slender man with a green shirt with the torn sleeves, chain-belt, brown pants, black shoes and military camouflage cap on his head. He also had the S-shaped tattoo of the dragon in his left shoulder.

Seventh one was a quite young man with blonde hair, who had dressed into the green jeans and blue shirt, over which he wore the orange torn sleeveless shirt. He also wore orange beanie hat over his head.

Eight one was a slender and tan-skinned woman, who had a red and a flaming-like hair, black or dark blue tank top shirt with S-shaped dragon branded on it, blue jean shorts and orange gloves in her hands. This woman had nose ring and three ear rings in each ear. She also had the scar in her right cheek.

Ninth one was tall and a pretty muscular man with white sleeveless shirt and the camouflage pants and military boots. He had a brown parting hair and a red sunglasses.

Tenth one had a large mane-like brown and curly hair and he had tied around of his head a dark yellow bandana. He was dressed into dark yellow sweater with the gray sleeves and collar, and he had the S-shaped purple dragon branded in the front side of the shirt, and the golden-brown sweater pants.

And eleventh one was the youngest member of the group. 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, and has piercings on the left eyebrow, lower lip and ears. She also wore a sleeveless, greenish-blue hoodie, red baggy jeans, light purple bands with two starting from the wrists and stopping just below the elbows, and the other two above the purple metal studded elbow pads, two black spiky bracelets, purple studded biker gloves, and buckle shoes.

The group was led by, who else than Dragon Face himself, having escaped from the custody - or set free - after being caught and arrested by the police back in the Central Park several weeks ago. However, it didn't matter however he managed to escape now. He was a free man and on the streets again, ready to continue his career in crime tonight.

The group's Tie-thug, camouflage cap-headed dude and Beanie-Blondie moved forward towards the store and used crowbars to pry open the shutter in front of a store.

And with the shutter pried open, Dragon Face turned to the purple-haired girl.

"Clutch time, kid." the thug leader said with the smirk, before he knelt down and picks up a brick off the ground. "Think you got the juice to be a Purple Dragon?"

Dragon Face handed the brick over to the girl, who took it from her mentor with the smirk.

"Oh, yeah! I got the juice." the wanna-be Dragon girl said, before she proceeded by throwing the brick with all eagerness and without the hesitation at the store window, shattering it.

After doing that, the girl jumped into the store through of the broken window and opened from inside the store's door for the rest of the Dragons.

The Dragons stormed into the store and began immediately loot the place, robbing all kinds of expensive electronical stuff they could carry from the selves, while Dragon Face took a cash register from the desk and smashed it with force against the ground. The evil criminal then started to take the cash out of it and put it in a bag. While all this was happening, the purple-haired girl watched this with unsure and slight disapproving look on her face but quickly hid it with the tough-looking one.

"Nice work, kid." Dragon Face smirked, as he got up with the bag full of money and walked to the girl, while the rest of the Dragons run out of the store with the ill-gotten stuff.

"One more test, and you're in." Dragon Face said, before tossing the purple-haired girl the stolen money.

The purple-haired girl looked at the money bag in her hands for a moment, the look of uncertainty returning to her face for a short moment before she followed the Dragon gang.

Once the place was looted, the Dragons escaped from the store through of the back door that led to the alleyway.

Dragon Face opened the door and walked out first. Once out in the alleyway, where the criminal looked around to ensure that the coast was clear. As it seemed like the coast was clear, Dragon Face signaled for the rest of the Dragons to come out.

One by one, the Dragons stepped into the alley, the girl being the last one.

However, before the Dragons could make the getaway with the stolen goods...

"Psst!" somebody suddenly whispered behind of Dragon Face's back, prompting the criminal to turn around to check that who was there.

However, after doing so, he instantly came face to face with the two-toed bottom of the sewer-smelling foot.

"HAI YAA!" a shadowy figure let out before kicking Dragon Face to the face, sending him flying into Dread-haired woman and Beanie-Blondie, knocking them over.

The rest of the Dragons and Angel turned their attentions into the alley's darkness, seeing nine shadowy figures with the weapons in their hands.

Leonardo, Marietta, Donatello, Domenico, Michelangelo, Artemisia, Raphael, Lorenzo and Casey Jones.

"Nice kick, Mikey!" Arcee commented with amused giggle.

"Why, thanks, sis." Mikey replied, spinning one of his Nunchucks over his head. The turtle in orange then turned back to the Dragons. "See, guys? You never know what kind of fun you're gonna find on the old nightly training run."

Louie then opened his mouth to speak, pointing with his Butterfly swords at the Dragon Face that was lying on his back in the ground.

"Dragon Face... long time no see after our little show off back in the Central Park if you remember, buddy." the turtle in black greeted with mocking tone. "Also, you're out on the streets surprisingly earlier than what I did expect. Didn't the cops have any room left for the scum like you in their custody?"

"I guess we need to clean up the streets of New York from the ones like you once more." Mary stated, holding her Naginata ready.

"Attention, class." Leo spoke up next. "Who can tell me, what he did wrong?" the turtle in blue asked from his siblings, sounding and acting like the teacher as he pointed with his Katana at Dragon Face

"You mean besides being a badly-dressed, law-breaking, good-for-nothin', low-life street punk?" Raph said while spinning his Sais.

"Well, let's see. Breaking and entering. Trespassing. Robbery and assumed jailbreak." Dom listed off. "Stupidity and inappropriate dressing may go through yet but the jailbreak and burglary are punishable acts, Dragon Face!" the turtle in white added with a criticizing and despising tone to the Dragon Face.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. And bad boys always gets what they deserve." Arcee added, swinging elegantly her Tessens in front of her.

Growling, Dragon Face stood up from the ground.

"Bust 'em up, Dragons!" the evil criminal ordered and the Dragons charged towards the turtles and Casey.

Only the purple-haired girl stayed behind with the Dragon Face, though the criminal boss quickly ran into the store like the coward, slamming the door shut.

Casey got the honor to deliver the first blow.

"WAHOO!" the vigilante let out as he whacked with his hockey stick the thug with the red sunglasses, sending him flying over to the ground, in front of the purple-haired girl.

"Good old late-night thug-fight! Never getting bored of that!" Louie declared with the smirk as he spun himself around and roundhouse kicked scar-faced bald thug and mane-haired thug to the faces, sending them both against the wall, stunned.

Donnie was meanwhile battling with hulking African-American thug, who swung his massive fists towards the brainy turtle time after time, but the turtle in purple managed to dodge them with ease and often gave a quick yet snappy whacks with the end of his staff to the thug's wrists and the backs of his hands, making the thug to wince in pain and pull his hand back after each whack to rub the sore place where Donnie had landed his blows, but only for a moment before the hulking thug resumed his attack. And when the thug swung his fist towards Donnie again, the brainy turtle dodged the thug's blow by jumping over it. And when he landed back to the ground, Donnie struck his staff's blunt end on the thug's foot/toes.(2)

"OUCH! Me foot!" the thug moaned.

"Temper, temper!" Donnie advised jokingly.(2)

"And nighty night!" Mary added, as the turtle in turquoise struck her Naginata's bladed end to the ground and pole vaulted herself over Donnie and kicked the Hulking thug straight to the face, causing him to wobble around, clearly dazed from Mary's kick, before he tumbled over to the ground with the loud thud.

Leo then attacked next. "When are these Dragon goons gonna learn?" the turtle in blue said as he kicked the Beanie-Blondie, sending him flying to the ground next to the purple-haired girl.

"That the green beats purple every time." Mikey stated, as the turtle in orange whacked with his Nunchaku the Tie-thug against the wall in the purple-haired girl's right side.

"Then we just need to teach them that the "crime doesn't pay!"" Dom said as he jumped to face off the Pony-tailed thug. The thug attempted to punch the turtle in white, but Dom leaned back to evade the first swing before bend down to evade the straight punch. He then blocked a couple of punches with his Tonfas, before he spun around and delivered the uppercut to the thug with his right hand's fist, sending him flying into the air.

Raph then split-kicked both the Dreadlock-woman and Flame-haired woman aside. "They'll all be black and blue by the time I'm finished with them." the turtle in red declared, spinning his Sais.

"Last one is mine!" Arcee demanded as she charged towards the Camouflage Cap-headed thug, who, after seeing his comrades getting beaten up one by one, attempted to flee from the scene.

However, before the thug could get far, the turtle in pink jumped over the thug's shoulders and hooked her legs around the thug's arms, putting her feet under his armpits. Then, Arcee flipped over, landing on her hands to the ground and bodily lifted the thug off the ground with her feet before she sent the thug flying away.

"AHHH!" the thug screamed as he flew head-first into the nearby empty trash can, that was without the lid.

"Bullseye with one shot!" the turtle in pink cheered.

The thugs didn't seem to have enough yet, as they slowly got back up to resume their attacks on the heroes. The whole alley was filled with the sounds of the delivered punches and kicks, the whacking sounds of the wooden weapons, various loud and pained grunts, groans, moaning and gasping in pain, the heroes' laughing, wooing, cheering and the battle-cries, the thugs' wild screams when they were sent flying around and the crashing sounds when they landed against the trash cans and boxes. But no matter how the Dragons just kept coming and how hard they kept trying to lay even a single punch on the mutant ninjas and their vigilante friend, they got beaten up and knocked down by them over and over, and defeating the Dragons didn't require even much of the effort.

And while the thugs and turtles kept fighting, the purple-haired girl seized the opportunity and took run for it, the bag full of money with her.

"Hay! We've got a runner!" Donnie informed to the others.

"Don't worry! Already taken care of! No one leaves till the cops get here!" Raph declared, as he kicked aside Beanie-Blondie and then elbowed Sunglass-thug to the chest, knocking him down and out.

"Arcee! Louie! Go to check that that bonehead won't screw up in stopping one runaway girl!" the turtle in red ordered.

"You got it, bro!" Louie replied, as the Flame-haired woman, Scar-face and Hulking African-American thug attempted to charge at the turtle in black.

However, Louie hopped onto the Flame-haired woman's shoulders and wrapped his legs around her head before he flipped backwards, pulling the woman off the ground at the same time as he landed on his hands to the ground and slammed her into the wall, knocking her out. Louie then turned to the Scar-face and snap-kicked him in the face with his right foot, sending him flying into the pile of garbage cans and bags, and then double-kicked the Hulking thug to the head, knocking him out cold.

"I'm on it, bro!" Arcee declared, before the turtle in pink then leapt towards incoming Dragons; Ponytailed thug and Dreadlock-woman.

Arcee engaged the Ponytailed thug first, blocking with ease the couple of his attempts to punch her with her wrists, before she took the Dragon by surprise by suddenly kneeing him in the chest with her right knee, causing the thug to gasp in pain and fall over to the ground. After falling over, the thug rolled over in the ground while holding from his aching chest with one hand and moaned in pain from Arcee kick with her knee in his chest. It was hard kick enough to force small amount of air out of his lungs. Leaving the Ponytail thug in his misery to the ground, the turtle in turquoise turned to Dreadlock-woman, who was holding the knife in her hand and attacked before Arcee could be prepared for her.

"WOW!" Arcee yelped as the Dreadlock-woman slashed her in the plastron shell, leaving there a scratch but nothing severe. Dreadlock-woman then started to swing her knife wildly at the turtle in pink. aiming at her head, throat and chest. Arcee, however, managed to dodge or block with her wrists few of the thug woman's attacks, including her couple attempts to stab her to the stomach and face, before Arcee crouched down to dodge the next swing from under it. Then, Arcee spun around and swept with her outstretched leg the thug woman's legs from under her, sending her flying over to the ground. But before she could, Arcee quickly jumped back up and flipped backwards, kicking the woman in the face with both of her feet that sent her flying into a big garbage can.

Arcee was then confronted by Tie-thug and Mane-haired thug.

"Sorry, boys! Time to go!" Arcee teased before she jumped onto the thugs heads before jumping up towards the fire escape. She was immediately followed by the turtle in black, who kicked the Mane-haired thug into Tie-man, knocking them both over, before leaping towards the fire escape after his sister.

Arcee and Louie followed the fleeing purple-haired girl from above by jumping along the fire escapes and jumping from wall to wall or even briefly running along the walls. The turtles eventually positioned themselves to the railing of the last fire escape and remained there to observe their plan to take the action.

Unaware of being followed, the purple-haired girl kept running through the alley and turned around the corner to the left, trying to find a way to escape. She briefly peeked over her shoulder to see if she was being followed by anyone, not noticing Arcee or Louie who stick in the shadows, until she bumped right into Casey's chest and fell over on her back to the ground.

"Going somewhere?" Casey questioned as he pointed his hockey stick at the girl, who then looked up at him.

Casey then became shocked once seeing her faces.

"Angel?"

"Whatta?" Arcee silently exclaimed, confused by this sudden turn of events.

However, before this could get any further between Casey and the purple-haired girl, the Tie-thug suddenly emerged from the side alley and attacked Casey, who was apparently still shocked of this girl, whom he apparently knew, being amongst of these thugs that he was almost caught off guard by the Tie-thug, forcing him to deal with him first. This bought to the girl time to get up and make run for it. The thug attempted to punch Casey, but he blocked it and pushed the thug into the wall, knocking him out, before he chased after the girl.

The purple-haired girl ran to the fence in the other side of the alley and started to climb it up, but Casey managed to catch her before she could climb over it and grabbed from her foot to prevent her from escaping, causing her to drop the bag of money.

"Let go of me, creep!" the purple-haired girl demanded and started to fiercely kick Casey with her left foot.

"Angel, wait!" Casey snapped as he dodged the girl's second kick before grabbing from her foot at the third kick, preventing her from kicking him again. "It's me! Casey!" Casey said, taking off his mask, revealing himself to the girl.

"Casey?" the girl, Angel by name, gasped with surprise and immediately stopped kicking Casey

Arcee and Louie, who were witnessing the whole scene from the shadows, realized much to their surprise that Casey and this girl, Angel, seemed to know each other and decided to stay out of this by staying there where they were in hiding and observe.

"Well, this is interesting." Louie whispered.

Angel then dropped down from the fence and turned to confront Casey.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I could ask you the same thing." Casey replied. "However, I'm here to stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life."

Angel scoffed at this claim. "What? The Purple Dragons? They're my posse. My family." the girl claimed with the shrug.

"What? Your family? But you got real family at home." Casey protested. "Your grandmother... your brother, Ryan. Remember them?"

"Yeah..." Angel turned her head for a moment away from Casey, before she then turned back to Casey with the firm and determined attitude. "Well, I left that deadly boring life of middle-class society behind for the more cooler life on the street. Besides, who asked you what I can do what I can't do, loser? If I wanna be a Purple Dragon, it's none of your damn business!"

Louie, while hiding in the shadows, couldn't help but smirk at Angel's attitude.

"That girl has a spunk. I like her." the turtle in black whispered, only to be elbowed in the chest by Arcee, who scowled at her brother with disapproval.

"What?" Louie said with the shrug, only to be silenced when Arcee pressed her finger against her lips and hussed.

The turtles then turned back to the situation between Casey and Angel.

And unlike Louie, Casey didn't like at all what he had just heard.

"Until you start breaking the law." Casey pointed out as he drew out his hockey stick and pointed with it at the money bag lying on the ground. "Then it's definitely my business."

Angel then picked up the bag and turned back to Casey. "Yeah, well I don't see no badge on you!" she pointed out.

"And I don't see no dragon on you." Casey retorted as he put his hockey stick away. "Not yet. So why don't you quit while you still got a chance?"

"I ain't quitting nothing!" Angel snapped angrily. "Tonight was my first test. Tomorrow I pass my initiation. And then I'm gonna wear my dragon with pride." the teen girl declared pridefully, before she began to walk away from Casey.

Casey immediately walked after the girl while he kept trying to speak some sense into the stubborn girl.

"That dragon comes with a price... and heavy price. You don't know what you're getting yourself mixed up in." he warned.

Angel refused to look back at him and kept walking, though she didn't completely ignore Casey.

"Yeah, maybe you're RIGHT!" she started with the sarcasm before shouting out the last sentence as she suddenly spun around and hit Casey to the face with the money bag, knocking him down to the ground before running towards the fence again.

"But I can still take care of myself, thanks!" Angel yelled as she hurriedly climbed over the fence and ran away.

"ANGEL! WAIT! COME BACK!" Casey attempted as he got up from the ground, but the girl ignored him and disappeared to the alley.

"OH, SHIT!" the downed vigilante swore out of anger and frustration as his banged his fist against the ground.

Arcee and Louie decided that it was time to quit hiding, so the duo jumped down from the railing of the fire escape and rushed to Casey's aid.

"Are you okay, Casey?" Arcee questioned, as she and Louie helped Casey back on his feet.

"I'm fine, guys, really. It takes more to take down Casey Jones than the mere bag full of money... though that came out of surprise." the vigilante said.

"That recent one ironically reminded me of our first met, Casey. Remember when me and Raph tried to talk some sense into you when you were in berserk-mode, and you didn't listen us through of your anger and stubbornness." Louie reminded his vigilante pal with the smug smirk.

"That was different!" Casey claimed angrily. "This is now about of her joining them."

The turtles were taken aback by this information.

"She's joining those cabbage-brained, good-for-nothin' street punks?!" Is she out of her mind?!" Arcee exclaimed in shock.

"Just misguided, just like I was back then... which needs to be fixed." Casey replied.

That was then when the other turtles joined them.

"Guys! What happened? Are you okay?" Leo questioned.

"We're okay, but the girl got away with the money." Louie informed.

"What about you?" Arcee asked. "Did you got the rest of the thugs?"

"No, we didn't, sis. Due to the police's arrival, we were forced to retreat from the scene and Dragon Face and his thugs got away too... though without the loot." Mary informed.

And we should be gone too before the place is swarming with cops." Dom said.

Raph, after hearing that the runner got away from Casey and his siblings, couldn't help but to burst into laughter with the thought of all three of them getting their shells/butt kicked by one little girl. "I Can't believe you three got your butts kicked by one girl! Some ninjas and vigilantes you three are!" the turtle in red said sarcastically.

Casey, Louie and Arcee shot at the turtle in red a warning glare.

"Actually, there wasn't even a fight at all, Raph." Arcee informed before the things would get ugly between her brothers and their best friend. "More likely the tense reunion of old acquaintances. And Casey actually knows that girl."

"What are you talking about?" Raph questioned, confused.

The turtle in red turned then to Casey. "Casey. Who was that girl?"

"Her name's Angel. Angel Bridge. I know her from the neighborhood. She was taken in by her grandmother, Ellie Bridge, along with her brother Ryan, after their parents died in a sudden car accident less than a couple months ago." Casey explained.

"Then what she was then doing with the Dragons?" Leo questioned.

"I wish I knew." Casey said. "I've been looking for her for some time since Ellie called me and told me that she had one night ran away from home without leaving any note."

"She ran away from home?" Arcee exclaimed in surprise and disbelief.

"Yeah. You see, guys, Angel has not been herself after the tragic accident. Beside me, she doesn't have many friends who could guide her in life, support her and comfort her for her loss. I even made a promise to Ellie I'd keep an eye on her. Keep her outta trouble."

"Well, I guess you didn't do a very good job in keeping your promise, Casey. Without father or mother guiding her and you sparing more time in venting your own anger on the Dragons instead of watching after her, she has ended up with a very bad company under your watch" Dom said, putting the pieces together.

"I know, Dom." Casey replied grimly. "Before running away from home, Angel had started showing some worrisome changes in both her behavior and mental state and was starting to drift off from the right path because of her grief, but I could never dream of her lowering herself so low that she would actually consider willingly about joining the Dragons!"

"So she's a Purple Dragon?" Leo questioned again.

"Not yet and she'll never be. Not if I can help it." Casey replied with determination.

"Can we do something to help?" Donnie asked, offering his family's help.

"Thanks, guys, but I'll handle this myself. Angel knows me better." Casey replied. "Besides, It was my mistake to let her fall to the wrong path, and it's mine to fix."

"How can you be sure she will ever even listen to you? She firmly and stubbornly denied and ignored everything you just said to her a moment ago." Louie questioned.

"Well, I'm not gonna give up on her, just like you guys didn't give up on me. I'll make her to listen, even if it means going deep into the Dragon's lair and turn the whole place upside down to find her from among of those scum." Casey declared.

The turtles were left nearly shocked by this.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Casey?! Did you actually mean that "you'll go deep into the Dragon's lair after her" literally or were you just bluffing?" Mikey questioned.

"Of course, I meant what I said, Mikey. You got overdose of ear wax in your ears or what, shell-for-brains?" Casey shot back.

"Hey!" Mikey exclaimed, slightly offended by Casey's words.

"Are you sure about this, Casey? I mean... going in the Dragon's den just like that. It's a very bad idea... if not even suicidal." Dom warned strictly.

"Especially when you're not on their good side." Donnie warned as well.

"So if I were you, Casey, I'd seriously reconsider it or stay completely out of this." Dom added, with his normal pessimistic manner.

"But the problem is that I ain't you, Dom." Casey shot back stubbornly. "And I have no choice here, for Angel's sake."

Dom wasn't gonna give up that easily.

"Are you nuts, Case?! You understand that every last one of those street punks are all too willing to even trade their own mama to have a piece of you. Even you should know that." the turtle in white reminded.

"Trust me, Dom, I know that all too well, but that's the risk I'm willing to take." Casey said, and was about to turn to leave, but not before turning to the turtles one more time.

"Besides, I'd love to bring them a disappointment, like I always do." Casey said smugly before he turned around and started to walk towards the entrance of the alley.

Dom frowned after their vigilante friend, a bit irritated by his stubbornness that mirrored an awfully lot to Raph's and Louie's.

"Alright, Casey, for Angle's sake of course." Arcee said, relenting to Casey's final decision, though a bit reluctantly out of worry for their friend. "Just be careful out there. You might be tough but that doesn't make you physically invulnerable." the turtle in pink cautioned.

"Yeah, but that makes him a lot of crazier, I can tell you that." Raph joked.

"Especially with the skull so thick from both inside and out that it leaves a little space for the brains." Louie joked as well.

Louie's joke got both him and Raph to burst into hilarious laughter, into which Mikeyjoined as well.

"Har, har, har, very funny, guys." Casey shot back over his shoulder, before he turned to Arcee. "And don't worry about me, Arcee. Remember, I've lasted on my own half of my life with these lame-for-brains before I ran into you, guys. I'll be fine. It needs more than just a bunch of idiots to take down Casey Jones."

Though a bit unsure of this, Arcee nodded. "Okay, if you say so."

"Trust me, fellas. That's what the friends are for, right?" Casey said as he reached to the entrance of the alley.

"Right. Do what you need to do for your friend, Casey. Just watch for yourself." Leo called after, supportively.

"I will. See ya later, guys." Casey said before exiting from the alley to the streets.

The turtles remained in the dark alley for a moment, staring at the entrance of the alley and the corner behind of which Casey had just disappeared. The turtles were undoubtedly a bit concerned for their friend's intention but decided to trust Casey's word that he's able of taking care of himself no matter what situation.

"C'mon, guys. Let's go home before the cops get here." Leo said as the sirens of the police cars began to sound even closer, calling it for tonight.

The turtles then left to search for the nearby manhole to slip back into the sewers.

"What do you guys think? Will Casey be alright?" Arcee asked innocently. The turtle in pink was still quite worried for Casey's well-being.

"Sure he will be, sis." Raph scoffed. "He is Casey Jones after all. That bonehead doesn't need a babysitter everywhere he goes."

"I hope you're right, bro." Dom muttered matter of factly. "I hope you're right, for his sake."

TO BE CONTINUED.

TRIVIA

1) = This is the reference to the scene in the Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, where Mutant Bane attempts to break Donnie's back with his knee, only to have his knee hurt/broken/shattered by Donnie's hard shell.

2) = This is based on the scene in the final battle in TMNT 2007 movie, where Donnie brings his Bo-staff onto the bulky stone general's foot saying "Temper, temper." afterwards. It was kinda pity that Donnie was left without action in that fight scene due to the limited number of the Dragons, so I added that said Donnie-scene from TMNT 2007 movie into this story, where Donnie does the same to the added bulky African-American Purple Dragon member.