TMNT 2003 S1: Four Turtles More

by Fanficteller

Fifteen years have passed since the accident. Now, eight turtles, six brothers and two sisters, born as mutants in the sewers and trained as ninjas by a rat, are forced to leave their destroyed underground home and take the first step into a surface world where they face many adventures and meet new friends and foes, until they meet their toughest opponent ever, The Shredder.

32. The Fallen Angel Part 4

animegamefanatic: XD And more of it is on its way after several chapters! XD

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Author's note: So sorry for taking so long with this chapter. Had been long days at work and interest a bit low due to tiredness. However, I've finally managed to finish this chapter. I also made some changes in The Fallen Angel P1 chapter regarding to the added plot in the end of this chapter. So from my part, enjoy and review!

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= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE FALLEN ANGEL PART 4 =

Back at the ring, the butt-kicking had started between of the disguised turtles and the Dragons once the bell rang.

Raph at first lunged at Tie-thug, kicking him to the chest and knocking him down, before the turtle in red ran to the cage's wall and jumped up, grabbing from its bars and turned around. When the next thug, Blue-face, charged at him, Raph moved out of the way by flipping upwards, causing the Dragon to crash face-first into the cage's bars and knock himself out cold. Raph then threw himself off the wall to either look for a next opponent or check that how things were going on with the others.

Louie was meanwhile facing off three Dragons, Green-shirted Dragon, Fatso and Pony-tailed Dragon at the same time. All three of them had got the turtle in black surrounded from three sides and started to throw at him a series of punches. However, using his agility and wit, Louie managed to either dodge or block every one of their attacks with relative ease.

"Primitive, guys. Reeeeally primitive. Try something impressive for a change, will ya? Something like this!" Louie exclaimed as he jumped up, spun around and kicked all three Dragons away with the spin kick of his right leg. Green-shirted and Pony-tailed Dragons fell on their sides or backs to the ring's floor and remained to lie there, knocked out and moaning in pain. However, Fatso Dragon, who was standing closer of the cage's wall of all three, flew against the wall's bars with all his weight and the impact left the large round dent into the cage's wall.

"Well, I guess that the cage has took that more often than once to end up in such of condition." Louie commented.

Mary was meanwhile about to get cornered by Hulking African-American Dragon and Scar-face. Hulking African-American Dragon lunged at the turtle in turquoise in order to capture her into the crushing bear-hug, but Mary dodged him by jumping out of the corner and flipped over the Dragon before landing behind of his back. As Mary landed back on her feet, the Scar-face Dragon attacked her next and attempted to throw a punch or couple at her with his fists.

Scar-face Dragon swung one fist at Mary, but she dodged it by leaning backwards and out of the fist's way. The Dragon tried again, but the turtle in turquoise dodged under it by bowing her head down. Angry and frustrated of missing her, Scar-face attempted to throw the straight-right punch at her, but Mary knocked it aside with her left wrist before kneeing the thug in the stomach, making him gasp in pain and bent over in , however, grabbed from his X-cross belt and somersaulted backwards, pulling the thug with her and placed her legs under his stomach before kicking him off, sending the thug flying into Hulking Dragon. Both the Dragons ended up getting slammed against the cage wall, and their combined body weights left even bigger dent into it than what Fatso Dragon did, before they fell over to the floor, knocked out cold.

"I have to agree with you, Louie. And no wonder. They are too lazy to take care of the condition of their property." Mary said.

Leo was meanwhile battling the Redhead, who swung his crowbar at the turtle in blue wildly, though Leo dodged each swing rather easily. After dodging the last swing by bowing his head under it, Leo kicked the Dragon in the stomach, sending him flying away.

The Dragon with the red sunglasses attempted to ambush Leo from behind with the pipe, until Raph arrived to his brother's aid by lunging at the Dragon and kicking him in the chest with both feet, sending the Dragon tumbling over to the floor. Raph then turned around and saw the Cap-headed Dragon coming towards him from behind and threw at him several punches with his fists. Raph dodged the first and second one easily, before he unleashed a barrage of punches on the thug, causing him to wobble dizzily back for a couple steps. And as this was happening, Louie jumped on the cage's wall and pounced from it towards Raph and Cap-headed Dragon. The turtle in red crouched down as the turtle in black flew over him and kicked with his left leg the Cap-headed Dragon to the chest, knocking him off his feet and sending him flying over to the floor.

The turtles then regrouped and formed the shell-to-shell circle in middle of the ring, with Leo joining them as last, while dodging and blocking the attacks from the Spiky-head Dragon with green goggles.

"Okay, guys! Maybe you're a little unclear on the whole concept of "buying time." We gotta leave... a few Dragon... STANDING!" Leo reminded them, as he dodged a few more attacks from the Dragon before he kicked him away.

Raph, Louie and Mary observed the downed Dragons in their feet and realized that there wasn't any Dragons left on their feet. They had beaten all eleven thugs who had participated in the competition and it didn't even take a one minute.

"Oh, sorry." Raph apologized.

"Kinda got a bit carried away." Louie explained.

"Well, what can do, Leo? How are we supposed to stick to the plan if all of them keep coming and attacking at the same time?" Mary questioned.

"She got the point." Raph added.

Meanwhile, back at the catwalk, the three Dragons guarding Casey, Beanie-Blondie, Disco-haired African-American Dragon and the Dragon-lady with green Mohawk were watching the fight so keenly that they didn't notice Angel, who had sneaked to the off-turned spotlight that was next to them.

"Psst. Hey guys." Angel whispered, getting the Dragons' attention.

The Dragons turned to look at her with a confused looks on their faces. But before anyone of them could say "Hey, kid! You're not supposed to be here.", Angel turned the spotlight at them.

"Smile." Angel whispered with the sly grin on her lips as she turned the spotlight on and the light hit with the full blast the Dragons' eyes, blinding them both and forcing them to cover their eyes with their hands.

"NOW!" Donnie let out as he jumped at the Disco-haired Dragon and whacked him with his Bo-staff, sending him tumbling over to the catwalk. The Dragon slid along the catwalk a some distance away from the group before he skidded to halt.

The Mohawk-headed Dragon-lady took out the pair of baseball bats and prepared for counter-attack, until her bats were suddenly sliced in pieces by Arcee's Tessens, which the turtle in pink had tossed towards the Dragon's bats like the pair of Shurikens. Arcee's Tessens then flew in arch in the air before they flew back towards their owner, who snatched them back from the air in each hand. After that, the turtle in pink then lunged at the Dragon lady and kicked her in the chest, sending her over to the catwalk, though that wasn't enough to knock her out cold.

The Dragon lady hurriedly got back up to her feet and attempted to make a run for it, but before she could get far, Dom moved after her and slid with his shell along the catwalk towards her legs. And after he reached to her, Dom swung his left leg in front of the fleeing Dragon lady's legs, hooking it around of them, before kicking her to the back of one leg with his right one, causing it to bend over and making the Dragon lady fall with the thud on her nose to the catwalk.

Deciding to show off his skills before the action, Mikey spun his single Nunchaku with his left hand for a moment before he swung it over his left shoulder and grabbed it from its other handle under his armpit with his right arm. And then, Mikey leapt into action with "HAI-YA!" cry while spinning his Nunchaku wildly over his head and whacked with it the Beanie-Blondie Dragon in the head, knocking him over to the catwalk, but he flipped back up and hit against the catwalk's railing.

However, Mikey had whacked him unnecessarily hard that it almost knocked him over the catwalk's railing, causing the Dragon to wave his arms frantically. He could've fell over the railing if Angel, almost without hesitation, hadn't not hurried to his aid and pulled him away from the railing, after which the Dragon passed out almost immediately.

Elsewhere, the Mohawk-headed Dragon Lady was recovering from being tackled face-first to the catwalk and was about to get up. But before she could, Dom knelt next to her and grasped from her shoulder and made her turn around to face him. Dom then grabbed from her belly shirt and lifted her up from the catwalk before clutching his free hand into a fist and pulled it back, ready to punch her in the face.

"Don't! Please don't! No more, please! Don't hit me!" the Dragon lady begged pathetically, pleading Dom not to punch her.

"You know what? I don't like punching the ladies. It's a very rude." Dom admitted, until the turtle in white shrugged after a moment. "Oh, what the shell." he muttered before he proceeded to punch the Mohawk-headed Dragon lady to the face nonetheless, knocking her out cold.

"Once a Purple Dragon, always a Purple Dragon." the turtle in white pointed out, releasing the unconscious Dragon lady's shirt, letting her fall over to the catwalk.

After the guards were taken down, the turtles and Angel turned to Casey.

"Angel, thanks for dropping by. And you brought company." Casey said, glad to see both Angel and the turtles.

"Hey, that's what the friends are for." Donnie remarked.

"Okay. Let's get you down from there. I bet you've had enough of hanging upside down all night, buddy." Dom said with the smile, before the turtle in white took over the crane remote control of the trolley that was holding the metallic X and Casey up in the air.

Managing the remote control, Dom maneuvered the trolley and Casey towards to them.

And as soon as Casey was close enough to the edge of the catwalk for them to reach him, Donnie spun his Bo-staff for a moment before whacking it against a circle wheel of the metal X, undoing the cuffs that kept Casey strapped on and freeing their vigilante friend at last. Once he was freed, Mikey, Arcee and Angel caught him from falling off the X and gently laid him down on the catwalk, after which Mikey took his mask off from his face.

After being freed from the metal X and stripped from his mask, Casey lifted his hand over his right temple and moaned in discomfort, implying that he was suffering from dizziness, mild headache and maybe from a little nausea after hanging upside down from the ceiling who knows how long.

"What took you guys so long?" Casey moaned.

"Sorry, buddy. We had to progress cautiously and with stealth. There are lots of unfriendly eyes and ears everywhere that made it kinda difficult." Arcee explained honestly.

Casey nodded slightly, convinced enough by Arcee's explanation.

"I think I need some time to recover, before I can be any help to you, guys." he said apologetically.

"Take all time you need, Casey, but not too long. We're leaving here as soon as possible." Arcee said.

"Here, buddy." Mikey said as he pulled the baseball bat out of his jacket and handed it over to Casey. "I brought you a present. Usable as soon as you think you feel better."

The smile appeared on Casey's lips as he accepted Mikey's "present" for him. The vigilante was deeply touched by the turtles' fraternal care for him as if they were his little brothers and sisters he never had. That kind of feeling got him to shed a tear of joy.

As this was happening, Angel walked to the catwalk and looked down to the cage, where the other half of the turtles were still kicking the Dragons' butts and bashing their heads. The teen girl was impressed by the turtles' cunningness and fighting skills with which they outsmarted and defeated their opponents quite easily.

Speaking of which, her eyes turned to Louie, as the turtle in black was facing off Green-shirted Dragon, Fatso, Cap-headed Gragon and Redhead Dragon at the same time.

Green-shirted Dragon attempted to swing the pipe at Louie's head, but Louie dodged under it at the same time he spun around and elbowed the Dragon in the chest with his right elbow, making him gasp in pain and step back from Louie, as he turned towards the Dragon. However, Louie quickly crouched down when Fatso charged at him and swung his baseball bat towards the turtle in black's head, only to miss him and accidentally whack the Green-shirted Dragon with it, sending the Dragon over to the ground. Fatso Dragon then attempted to bring his baseball bat down on Louie's head while his shell-back was turned to him, but Louie sensed it coming and swiftly front flip-kicked Fatso's baseball bat out of his hands.

"HEY! MY BAT!" the Dragon whined.

"Sovvy, fatty-boy!" Louie teased, before he jumped on top of the Fatso's head and then jumped upwards towards the bat that was spinning in the air, snatching it from the air. Louie then landed next to Fatso, spinning his baseball bat wildly in his hands before poking with it hard to the Fatso's stomach.

"OHHH!" the Dragon gasped in pain and bent over, holding his sore stomach with his arms, before Louie spun around and swung the baseball bat towards the Dragon's legs, sweeping them off from under him and sending the Dragon flying on his back to the ground.

Redhead Dragon then charged towards Louie, holding his baseball bats up before he brought them down on Louie, though the turtle in black quickly made his plans empty by whacking the baseball bats away with his own, one by one, before he headbutted the Dragon in the forehead. Thanks to the helmet he was wearing on, the heatbutt caused Redhead Dragon to go reeeeaaaally dizzy and he started to wobble around dizzily. However, instead of defeating his foe right away, Louie dropped the bat from his hand and turned to face off the Cap-headed Dragon, who was charging towards him with his right fist pulled back and ready to give a punch to Louie in the face.

"TAKE THAT, NEWBIE!" he roared as he throw the punch towards Louie.

However, the turtle in black grabbed from the Dragon's fist with both hands before he started to maneuver it towards his own head, making the Dragon punch himself out of fun.

"STOP HITTING YOURSELF!" (PUNCH!) "STOP HITTING YOURSELF!" (PUNCH!) "STOP HITTING YOURSELF!" (PUNCH!) "WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF?!" Louie teased.

"WHATTA...?" (PUNCH!) "OUCH!" (PUNCH!) "OUCH!" (PUNCH!) "OUCH!" the Dragon yelped.

However, as Louie tried to punch the Dragon fourth time, the Dragon was better prepared this time and held his fist back. Then he caught Louie by surprise by pulling his arm out of his hands and attempted to wrap it around of Louie's neck to get him into headlock. However, though caught by surprise, Louie quickly recovered from it and spun around, seized the Dragon's arm with bith hands once more, catching the Dragon by surprise, and pulled him onto his back to the ground.

Groaning, the Dragon then attempted to get up, but before he could, Louie came to him and wrapped his left arm around of his neck, getting him into headlock.

"Smart move, Dragon-boy, but not smarter enough! HA-HA! You got noogied!" Louie laughed as he took off the Dragons cap and started give him noogies, making the Dragon squirm in pain.(1)

Amused of Louie's antics while beating up the Dragons, Angel let the chuckle escape from her mouth, which she quickly covered with her hand. "Well, that lover-boy really is something... Wow." Angel said to herself while keeping gazing down at Louie admiringly.

Elsewhere in the cage, Mary was being chased by the Red-Sunglass Dragon and Pony-tailed Dragon, till the Camouflage cap-headed Dragon ran towards her from the front in an attempt to stop her. However, Mary threw herself on her shell-back to the ground and put herself to spin rapidly around as she slid towards the Cap-headed Dragon's legs. The turtle in turquoise's surprising technique swept the feet from under the Cap-headed Dragon and threw him at the feet of the other two Dragons chasing Mary, causing them to trip upon him and fall faces-first down to the floor.

Elsewhere, Leo was being chased by a Spiky-head Dragon as well, till he was approached by the Fatso Dragon from the front side. As the Dragons were about to bring their weapons down on Leo, the turtle in blue cunningly slid under of the Fatso Dragon's feet, causing the two Dragons to crash into each other and knock themselves over.

After defeating the Dragons, Leo got up to his feet and adjusted his outfit. And while he was doing this, Scar-face Dragon was about to attack him from behind, only for Mary to land onto his shoulders from above and pin the Dragon face-first to the ground, knocking him out cold.

Suddenly, the air of the whole place was filled with loud boos from the audience. Apparently the Dragons were starting to get bored or displeased how the turtles as "newbies" were beating the shell out of the Dragons and not other way around.

"BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BOO!"

"Well, at least I'm the only one who is disgusted by this." Mary muttered in matter of fact.

Louie, after the turtle in black knocked the Green-shirted Dragon and Redhead Dragon out by bashing their heads together near Leo, took the audience's boos as an insult.

"DON'T YOU DARE TO BOO AT US! ISN'T THIS WHY YOU'RE ALL HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" turtle in black complained loudly, tossing the Dragons away.

Leo snorted in disgust. "Ugh! Who cares about that, Lorenzo?! I can barely move in this stuff." he complained. "Oh, come on! What is the deal with humans and clothes?"

Raph meanwhile was a little busy in blocking and dodging the attacks of the Blue-face Dragon. And after a final dodge, the turtle in red kicked him to the guts with his right foot, sending the Dragon bend down in pain and fall over to the ground.

The turtle in red then turned to Leo.

"Well, you ever seen a human in skivvies? Trust me, that ain't a pretty sight." Raph said with the knowing smirk.

"Well, I don't know, Raph. In case of the teen girls in bikinis and underwear, I think that would make them to look quite... horny sight." Louie stated with the wide grin, making Mary scowl at him under of her sunglasses.

"Really, bro? You're looking way too mu- RAPH! LOOK OUT!" Mary suddenly cried, as she saw the Striped-Tie-Dragon and Hulking African-American Dragon moving in towards Raph menacingly from behind of his shell-back.

Raph turned around, but before he could do anything, the Striped-Tie-Dragon grabbed him from the collar of his jacket and started to spin Raph around and then back and forth like the rag-doll, laughing maliciously.

Mary immediately rushed forward to help Raph by jumping up and landing onto the Hulking Dragon's shoulders and began to bang the bald topside of his head with her fists, turning the Dragon's attention away from Raph.

However, Mary wasn't capable to defeat the Hulking Dragon in time to be able to help Raph as the Striped-Tie-Dragon kept shaking the turtle in red, until the Dragon inadvertently threw the turtle in red out of his outfit and sent him flying against the bars of the cage, next to his brothers. And when the Dragon took a look at Raph without his clothes, save for his sunglasses, his eyes shot wide open in surprise at the sight in front of him.

Also the Hulking Dragon and on his shoulders sitting Mary stopped instantly struggling with each others after seeing what the Striped-Tie-Dragon saw.

"Uh, oh." Mary muttered in worry.

Raph's turtle identity has been revealed! Much to the other disguised turtles' shock.

The turtles looked awkwardly at the audience outside of the cage.

All the Dragons in the place fell speechless and their eyes widened and mouths dropped in shock and surprise at what they saw. The puzzled crowd began instantly to mumble amongst themselves, as majority of the entire city's Dragons hadn't ever seen the giant humanoid turtle before. However, among them were those who were from their earlier encounters and they recognized Raph instantly... including the Dragon Face.

"Hey! That's not even a human! That's one of those freaking karate frogs and kung fu lizards!" Dragon Face shouted from the audience.

Raph took Dragon Face's claim as an insult.

"IT'S TURTLES! TUR-TLES!" Raph corrected in annoyance, as he got up and took his now-useless sunglasses off. "DON'T ANY OF YOU LAMEBRAINS RECOGNIZE A TURTLE WHEN YOU SEE ONE?!".

YEAH! WHAT GIVES?!" Louie bellowed. "HAVE YOU IDIOTS FAILED IN THE BIOLOGY LESSONS AT SCHOOL OR DO YOU HAVE NATURALLY THE NUT-SIZED BRAINS?! OR ARE YOUR TINY BRAINS OTHERWISE JUST MADE OF PORRIDGE OR ROTTEN CABBAGE?!" Louie insultingly asked from the crowd.

The Dragons, not taking kindly of Raph's and Louie's insults, started to roar furiously at the turtle in red.

The Hulking Dragon raised his arms up in an attempt to grab on Mary and drag her off him, but the turtle in turquoise was a step ahead and flipped off the Dragon's shoulders. And as Mary landed on her feet in front of the Dragon, she jumped up and spun around, hook-kicking the Dragon to the face, making the spit fly out of his mouth. Mary then spun around and punched the Dragon into the guts, making him bent down in pain, before Mary finished him off with the butterfly kick, sending him flying while spinning sideways into the group of four from the earlier defeat recovering Dragons, knocking them all over to the ground into the pile.

After defeating her opponent and realizing that it was pointless to wear their street clothes now that the Dragons already knew who they are, Mary took off her own street clothes, throwing them away in disgust. And Louie followed his sister's example by taking off his own disguise.

"Finally out of this stuff." the turtle in turquoise said with the relief.

"Why do we have to remind those lamebrains that we're turtles and not some frogs or lizards, every single time we encounter them?!" Raph roared as the Striped-Tie-Dragon charged at him only to be kicked in the face by Raph and knocked away.

Leo, who was still wearing his own disguise, then spotted something ominous incoming.

"Uh, Raph? I think the biology lesson's the least of our problems right now." the turtle in blue said with concern.

"And why's that, bro?" Mary asked, until Leo pointed as the cage's door.

"Here's your answer, sis." Leo said worriedly.

The turtles then turned to the cage's door and saw Hun approaching. The mountain of muscle grabbed to the bars of the door and tore the door off its hinges with relatively easy, as an demonstration of his massive physical strength, which was something the turtles had never seen before. After forcing his way in, Hun threw door away, walked in and turned to the turtles. The oversized man growled angrily as he menacingly approached the turtles. The crowd of the Dragons cheered at Hun from outside of the cage, encouraging their gigantic leader to kill the turtles for trespassing and mocking their "honor".

Raph and Louie walked bravely towards Hun, who recognized the turtles in front of him quickly.

"You two!" Hun snarled venomously, before he threw a punch on Louie with his left fist. However, Louie turned it away with the hook-kick.

"Hello there, Muscles for Brains! Did you miss us since the last time, huh?" Louie greeted mockingly. "Aww. So sweet. Somebody has missed us."

Roaring furiously, Hun attempted to throw in another punch at the turtles again, this time with his right fist, though this one was blocked by Raph.

"What's the matter, Lard-Butt? Still mad after me and Louie dumped you and walked away from your little Q and A?" Raph questioned mockingly.

Suddenly, Hun grabbed both turtles by their shoulders and pretty roughly pinned them both next to each other against the bars of the cage.

"In case you haven't figured it out, you over-sized geckos, that time I let you two escape!" Hun snarled at Raph's and Louie's faces.

Behind of him, Leo had taken off his own outfit and both he and Mary were ready to leap to their brothers' aid.

"I see that you three are overjoyed to see each other again. That's why I really hate to break up tearful REUNION...!" Leo said as he leapt towards Hun from behind.

"...BUT UNHAND OUR BROTHERS!" Mary added, as she jumped even higher than her brother did.

Leo landed onto Hun's shoulders and slapped him in both cheeks with his hands pretty hard to make the hulking villain to cry in pain. A stunned Hun then let go of Raph and Louie and put his hands on both side of his head.

And as this was happening, Mary flipped over Hun's head while spinning around till she landed on her feet to the bars of the cage. Mary then jumped off the wall of bars and dived towards Hun, flipped around to bring her feet forward and kicked the villain to the chest, sending him wobbling backwards. Leo then threw himself to the ground and rolled at Hun's legs, tripping him over and sending the giant loudly tumbling over to the floor.

However, Hun didn't stay long in the ground and quickly recovering, the hulking villain got back up and engaged the turtles to the round two.

Back in the audience, Dragon Face gave to the crowd the signal to attack.

"Dragons, get 'em!" the evil criminal ordered, and the large group of armed Dragons charged towards the ring to aid Hun.

However, Donnie, Mikey, Dom and Arcee, having ditched their own disguised after witnessing the whole turn of events in the cage from above, jumped down from the catwalk and landed in front of the crowd, blocking their access into the ring and the cage.

"Hold it right there, you filthy waste of the underworld!" Dom demanded strictly, as the turtles landed in front of the Dragons.

"Sorry, dudes. But Appreciation Day is next week." Mikey sarcastically apologized.

"GET 'EM, DRAGONS!" the Dragon Face roared as the Dragon horde lunged at the turtles.

"LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!" Donnie, Mikey, Dom and Arcee cried all in unison as they all jumped into action.

Donnie lunged at the incoming Dragons and swept with his Bo the legs off from under of the Dread-headed Dragon-lady, sending her on her back to the floor.

Arcee clashed with the Blue-haired Dragon that tried to hit her with his chain, though the turtle in pink slashed his chain-weapon into pieces with her Tessens, before she roundhouse-kicking the Dragon in the face, sending him flying away.

Dom spun himself around and whacked alternately with both of his Tonfas the Shortie Dragon in the face, sending the punk flying away in barrel roll with the second whack.

Mikey jumped towards the Dragons while spinning his Nunchaku wildly with his left hand, before he sent a hard kick at Dragon Face himself, knocking him against the cage's wall of bars, knocking the criminal out cold.

Back in the cage, Raph and Louie were doing teamwork to battle against Hun. Both the turtles in red and black sent alternately various kicks and punches at the hulking villains to bring him down: Louie covered his brother by snap-kicking the massive villain in his left arm's wrist before the turtle in black jumped up and spin-kicked his right hand's palm, blocking Hun's attempts to punch Raph with his left fist and then grab on him with his right hand and opening at the same time the way for his hot-headed brother. Raph at first hook-kicked the giant in the chest, then he spin-kicked him in the chest again and finally jumped on his hands and kicked Hun in the chest one more time with "donkey-kick" technique, after which Louie sent a spinning hook-kick at Hun's chest and then a spinning roundhouse-kick at Hun's face. However, despite their teamwork, the turtles' combined efforts had little to no effect on Hun due to his size, which was twice of the size of the mutant turtle's own, his physically massive build, the superhuman strength and high durability.

Mary even tried to lunge at Hun and strike him with her Naginata, but Hun managed to grab from her weapon's haft before the blade could even touch him. After seizing Mary's Naginata, Hun grabbed from its haft with both hands and, using it in the manner of gold-club and/or baseball bat, swung it and Mary with it down and towards Raph and Louie.

Raph managed to evade his sister by crouching down out of her way, but Louie wasn't fast enough to dodge towards him flying Mary before she hit him, and the turtle in black was sent flying away. The impact also caused Mary to lose her hold from her weapon and she was thrown to the other side of the cage.

Hun then threw Mary's Naginata away before he turned back to Raph, who was still trying to bring him down by punching him many times over in the chest.

"Do me a favor, will ya?! "Be a cooperative little mountain and just..." the turtle in red shouted as he kept punching the villain, until he was cut off when Hun raised his right hand and brought it hard down on Raph, whacking him in the head and sending him flying aside.

"GO-OOOOO...!" Raph howled as he flew into Louie, who was at the moment recovering from the previous attack and getting back to his feet.

"UGH!/ARGH!" Both Raph and Louie grunted in pain as they both slammed against the bars of the cage, leaving another big dent to it.

"Ugh... Down." Raph mumbled, finishing what he was about to say earlier.

As Hun started to walk towards downed Raph and Louie, Leo was helping Mary back on her feet behind the giant's back and gave her her Naginata back he'd fetched from the floor after Hun had thrown it away.

As the turtles in blue and turquoise prepared to attack Hun, they noticed a loose piece of the cage hanging right over Hun.

"Mary! I got an idea! Follow my lead!" Leo said, before he rushed forward and leapt up towards the loose piece. Mary, realizing what her brother was up to, quickly nodded and followed her brother's lead.

The turtles in blue and turquoise then sliced with their Katanas and Naginata two bent bars that held the piece in the air, cutting it loose and causing it to fall straight on Hun. Hun heard the sharp sounds of metal slicing metal from above and looked up, only to see the metal piece falling towards him before it hit him in the head with the loud "KLONK!", knocking the hulking villain down.

"Ouch! He's gonna feel that in the morning." Mary stated, before hurrying with Leo to their downed brothers to help them up.

However, Leo and Mary were only able to reach to Raph and Louie before momentarily stunned Hun got back up from the ground, much to the turtles surprise.

"Huh?! How's that even possible?! That should have crushed his head, and yet he's like he's just got away with a little bump?!" Louie exclaimed in surprise.

Roaring angrily, Hun grabbed from the piece of cage, raised it over his head and hurled it at the turtles in retaliation, knocking all four turtles off their feet and sending them tumbling over to the ground, leaving them stunned from the piece of cage's painful impact against their chests.

Hun then approached a downed turtles as they were recovering from his painful counter-attack and slowly getting up from the ground.

Outside of the cage, the rest of the turtles had managed to fend off the Dragons for now, until they turned to the cage and saw their brothers and sister in distress.

"Looks like our bros and sis could use a hand. Come on!" Donnie said to his brothers and sister.

"All together!" Arcee encouraged.

And then, Donnie, Mikey, Dom and Arcee, all jumped into the cage, shouting "HYAAAAH!" as they prepared to deliver together the four-person kick on the giant. Hun only managed to notice them before he was sent flying to other side of the cage by the four turtles, where he slammed against the cage's bars. His landing against the bars left to it yet the most biggest dent of all.

"Who would have known that together can make a miracles to happen... such as bringing down a cabinet-sized hulks like him." Dom commented with the smirk after seeing their attack being successful.

However, the turtles' defensive victory was short-lived, as Hun got back up once more.

"Don't look now, bro, but this hulk still wants to dance." Mikey said a bit nervously.

However, instead going aft6er the turtles, Hun turned his attention to the cage itself. Growling angrily, the giant grabbed to the bottom of the cage wall and tore it off the ground by force. Hun then twisted the cage wall to the point of literally tearing it off and causing the entire cage to come crashing down onto the turtles. The turtles were instantly pinned against the ground by the falling cage walls.

The turtles groaned and moaned after this surprising counter-attack as they pulled themselves from under of the debris, while Hun was throwing debris out of the way as he headed towards the turtles.

"Hey, boss! We got something." someone from outside of the ring suddenly called to Hun.

Hun halted his advance towards the downed turtles and turned towards the voice with confused look on his face.

The turtles, who were still half-buried under the debris, gasped in shock of what they saw.

Three Dragons, Shortie Dragon, Redhead Dragon and Blue-head Dragon, were roughly dragging Angel, whose hands were tied, through of the crowd and headed towards the ring. Angel attempted to struggle back to free herself, but the Dragons' grasps from her already bound arms were too firm.

"ANGEL?!" Louie gasped, before he tried harder to get out from under of the debris.

"Let go of me!" Angel demanded as she kept fighting back her captors and even tried to kick one, but she missed her original target and ended up to kick Red-Sunglass-Dragon in his leg. In retaliation, the Dragon brutally slapped her to the cheek with the back of his hand.

The turtles winced in shock at this brutal act against the girl. Each one of them, especially Louie, was instantly filled with urge to lunge at the Dragons and beat them up for roughly manhandling and hurting Angel like that in front of them.

"Hey! Leave the girl alone, you bastards!" Louie snapped at the Dragons.

Ignoring Louie's demands with the laugh, the Dragons roughly showed Angel at Hun's feet. Hun eyed the downed girl in his feet with slight confusion for a moment before turning to his goons.

"Ain't this girl our newest recruit and Dragon Face's protegee? What's this then?" Hun demanded.

"We found the girl attempting to sneak away from the club under cover of this mayhem." the Redhead Dragon informed. "And that's not all, boss. This girl was among of those freakish frogs when they came here. And yet those frog-freaks have been seen with that vigilante-freak."

"TURTLES! IT'S TURTLES, FOR THE SHELL'S SAKE, YOU CABBAGE-BRAIN!" Raph angrily corrected.

"Maybe they're all in league with each other." the Red-Sunglass-Dragon suggested, glaring angrily down at Angel.

The confused look on Hun's face turned instantly into furious one after this revelation. The Mountain of muscle then turned back to Angel before he crouched down and wrapped his left hand's fingers into a painfully squeezing grip around of Angel's together tied hands, making her groan in pain when her arms were squeezed together, as Hun lifted her roughly off the ground.

"HEY! UNHAND HER! NOW!" Louie, who had finally managed to pull himself our from under the debris, demanded as he took the step towards Hun, holding his Butterfly swords in his hands. The rest of the turtles, after finally getting themselves and each other out from under of the debris, backed up their brother with weapons in their hands.

The turtles were about to charge at Hun to rescue Angel, until Hun took out a big-bladed knife and placed its sharp edge against Angel's throat, threatening to slit her throat open if the turtles came any closer.

"STAY BACK! OR I'LL CUT HER THROAT OPEN! AND I'M NOT BLUFFING!" the villain demanded.

The turtles instantly skidded to halt, finding themselves once again in a hostage situation.

Each turtle's attention was locked at Angel in Hun's hands. They were all greatly worried for Angel's life... especially Louie... now that her alliance with them as well as her friendship with Casey had been revealed to the Dragons.

Not only finding themselves from the hostage situation, the turtles quickly notized that they were quickly surrounded by the large number of the armed Dragons, outnumbering them with fifty on one.

Louie, ignoring the horde of the Dragons around them, locked his with worry filled eyes with Angel's. Angel looked back at him, breathing rapidly and nervously, but even in the face of the life-threatening situation, there was no fear in the teenage girl's eyes, which Louie noticed very well.

Brave girl. Louie thought, impressed.

Still, seeing the girl in the life-threatening situation caused him to feel an unfamiliar anxiousness building inside of his body and shell. His heart began beat faster with race-like speed and his breathing became more rapid. Even the several drops of sweat began to form on his forehead and temples. Every bit of him, every instinct, his inner voice, even the good-self of his conscience screamed at him to charge forward to save Angel, yet the turtle in black did not want her to get hurt, or even killed as an result of any reckless move. And the fact that there was a whole horde of Dragons blocking his way to her didn't help to ease his anxiousness, for Hun would slit her throat long before he even got past the Dragons. And so, Louie couldn't do anything but to stand down, which he did begrudgingly. And he hated it... to the point of gritting his teeth hard, narrowing his dark scowl at Hun and tightening his grip harder around of his swords' handles!

Leo, taking the situation into his hands as the leader, turned to Angel.

"Angel! Angel! Look at me! Look at me! Turn your eyes in me!" the turtle in blue demanded strictly.

Though a bit reluctantly, Angel turned her gaze away from Louie towards Leo.

Just like Louie, Leo also saw that Angel had no fear in her eyes. But nonetheless, Leo was sure that the thought of knife steel pressed against her throat and the idea of having her throat slit open was obviously building the nervousness inside Angel despite her courage. Leo even saw that Angel was struggling hard against the urge to lose her nerve under the pressure of the situation.

"Angel! Just stay calm! Stay calm! Everything's gonna be fine!" Leo said encouragingly to the teenager in the hope that he could further help her to stay as calm as possible and not go into panic, even in the such of perilous situation.

"I'm sorry, guys. I just wanted to secure the escape route." Angel apologized.

"It's okay, Angel. You did what you could. It's okay." Louie gently said from behind Leo. "Just try to stay calm. Listen to Leo and everything will be fine." the turtle in black said with the soothing voice, earning from Angel a nod and for his care for her touched smile.

Hun then, furious of Angel's betrayal against the Dragons and her defection to the turtles, lifted Angel even higher that her head was in the same level with his.

"I heard from Dragon Face that you got a spunky attitude, and that you got a juice to be a Dragon, little girl. You could have made a perfect member of the Purple Dragons. But making friends and being with the enemies of the Dragons tells me that you're not the Purple Dragon material after all." Hun snarled at Angel's face.

The teenager remained fearless and defiant in front of the gigantic villain's furious face.

"The Purple Dragons do not have place for a wusses... least for traitors!" the oversized villain declared, before he lifted Angel even higher for every Dragon in the room to see.

The leader of the Dragons then grabbed to the microphone to have a speech to the crowd.

"LET EVERY DRAGON IN PRESENCE KNOW THIS! ANGEL BRIDGE, WHO WAS OUR NEWEST RECRUIT AND SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF US, HAS DECIDED TO BETRAY US BY HELPING OUR ENEMIES INTO OUR DEN. WORSE, SHE IS EVEN A FRIEND OF THE VIGILANTE!" Hun informed.

The information caused every Dragon in the whole place to boo at Angel and call her with various degrading insults.

"BOO!" "BOO!" "TRAITOR!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "SLUT!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "BITCH!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "WUSS!" "BOO!" "BOO!" "DISGRACE!"

All of that got Louie to give a venomous glare at any Dragon who dared to spit all of those filthy insults towards Angel.

Hun then continued speaking into the microphone.

"AND BEING FRIENDS WITH THE ENEMIES OF THE DRAGONS IS THE VIOLATION OF THE RULE AND HONOR OF THE DRAGONS! AND ACCORDING TO THE RULE OF THE DRAGONS, EVERY VIOLATOR OF THE RULES MUST FACE THE PUNISHMENT!"

"YEAH! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL! KILL ANGEL!"" the Dragons cheered in unison.

"COWARDS!" Raph let out angrily.

"SLIMY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING BASTARDS!" Louie roared.

Hun then roughly threw Angel to the ground, before he crouched down and grabbed from Angel's head, squeezing his fingers hard around of her skull to make the girl scream from pain, while the giant roughly lifted the teen girl off the ground and forcefully put her on her knees to the ground. And then, the gigantic villain placed his knife's blade on Angel's throat again and prepared to slit her throat open while the crowd cheered at him, encouraging him to do it with "KILL, KILL, KILL!" chant.

"NO!" Louie cried and was about to charge forward, only to be blocked by three Dragons: One was slender and muscular with the thick eyebrows and he was wearing a greenish-brown sleeveless vest and the beanie hat. The second one was slender and he had full lips and into dreads braided blonde hair and he was wearing a dark-toned turquoise shirt and the third one had a green-dyed mohawk over his shaved head and he was wearing dark-brown sleeveless shirt and black pants. All three of them were holding a bit knives - machetes - in their hands and were ready to face Louie.(2)

Nearly accepting her upcoming fate, Angel closed her eyes, bracing herself for the worst.

"STOP!" Mary shouted from the top of her lungs, demanding Hun to stop. Her scream got Hun's attention and the giant halted himself from nearly killing Angel with the knife.

"Hun... if that's your name. Angel independently decided not to join your club because she felt it was not good for her. But whatever rule of yours it violated, she is not worthy of the consequences of his own choices. So please, don't hurt her." Mary pleaded.

"You heard my sister, Hun. Let her go! Now!" Leo demanded, pointing with his Katana at Hun while glaring at the giant furiously.

"Or else we'll kick your sorry butt to such of condition that you won't sit for a week." Raph promised, twirling his Sais in his hands.

"That's the promise, and we turtles always keep our promises." Louie added with the threatening voice, rubbing his Butterfly swords' blades together, causing the shivers-giving screeching sound from the contact of the blades and sending some sparks flying.

"You'd better listen while you're still standing!" Dom added.

However, Hun merely scoffed at the turtles' demands and threats.

"HA! You freaks foolishly think that you are in the position to give the orders!" the giant snapped,. "By the Dragons' rule: no one who turns their backs to the Dragons shall leave this place to tell the tale! So this brat has to pay the price for her betrayal against the Dragons!"

"Do it and then it's your throat who has a next date with the blade!" Louie snarled, before the turtle in black exposed his own throat and made a slitting throat gesture with one of his Butterfly sword to give a warning message to the Dragons. "And trust me, we ain't bluffing!"

Louie then pointed his Butterfly swords towards the hordes of Dragons standing between them and Hun, casting at every member standing in the front lines a very dark and nearly murderous scowl he ever had.

"And if any of you pea-brained street punks even dares to stop us, we'll send every one of you to meet your maker! So who wants to play a hero?!" Louie warned the crowd before he turned his Butterfly sword upside down in his hands and took a fighting posture. The turtle in black looked like he was ready to dive head-on into the crowd of the Dragons to get to Hun and Angel while waving his swords left and right and towards anyone who dared to stand on his way, almost without caring about the consequences (such as killing them by cutting off the heads from all nearby Dragons and/or slashing open the throats from anyone within the reach.)

The Dragons all around of them nervously backed away from the turtles, as if Louie's message went through.

Hun, however, burst into a mocking laughter. The giant then removed his knife from Angel's throat and pointed it at the turtles.

"Ha! Your threats mean nothing in here, freaks! No matter what your next move is, I'd still be able to slit the girl's throat long before you even get to me! Besides, in case of you haven't noticed, you're surrounded by fifty or seventy-five Dragons per freak. With this many of my boys standing between you eight and me, it would take you an hour to get through all of them to get to me and the girl. Unfortunately within an hour it'll be all too late and the girl will be goner." Hun taunted with the evil laugh.

Suddenly, someone tapped Hun on the shoulder, prompting Hun to turn away from the turtles to see that who was it.

Much to his surprise, Hun saw over his shoulder a fully recovered Casey standing right behind of him, while batting his baseball bat in his hand.

"That's nine guys, Hun. And that ninth guy happens to stand right behind your back and merely about two-three seconds away from you!" Casey declared before the vigilante immediately whacked Hun in the face with his baseball bat, causing him to let go of Angel and drop the knife.

Casey's blow sent a stunned Hun to wobble backwards into the crowd of the puzzled Dragons, whom scattered all around to get out of the giant's way, though he knocked over some Dragons that weren't quick enough to get out of his way. This opened the way to Hun for the surrounded turtles.

Seeing that Angel was safe with Casey and that the path to Hun was free, the turtles immediately seized their opportunity.

"COME ON, GUYS! LET'S FINISH THIS! ALL TOGETHER!" Leo shouted and the leader in blue put his Katanas away and ran through of the scattering Dragons and towards still stunned Hun. The other turtles followed their leader's suit and charged towards Hun as well

Hun recovered quickly from Casey's blow and shook his head to get his thoughts clear. However, when Hun turned back to the turtles, he gasped in surprise and shock when he saw all eight of them running towards him to deliver him the finishing blow.

"Oh, crud." the giant gulped.

"LET'S TURTLEIZE HIM!" the turtles let out in unison as they leapt all at the same time in the air and flew directly towards Hun.

"MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELLUJAH!" Louie added with loud voice.

"HAIIIIIIII YAHHHHHHHH!" the turtles cried loudly as they delivered the combined eight-person kick at Hun in the chest.

"AGH! AHHHHHHHH!" Hun cried as the force of the turtles' combined kick sent the criminal mastermind flying out of the ring and across the air, until he landed with the loud crashing thud onto the wooden benches of one of the club's bleachers, causing it to break under of the giant's massive weight. After that, Hun was left to lie on top of the pile of the wooden debris, beaten and moaning in pain.

After Hun was defeated, Casey and Angel regrouped with the turtles.

"Whoa! That was one wicked move, guys." Angel commended.

"Thanks, kid." Raph smirked, giving both her and Casey a thump up.

Louie then turned to Angel with the slight worry for her in his eyes.

"You okay, Angel?" the turtle in black asked, cutting her hands free with his Butterfly sword.

"I'll live." Angel assured, much to Louie's relief. "Don't worry about me, lover boy. I can take care of myself. Besides, I've been through a lot of worse case than this." she added with the determined pride, earning an amused chuckle and smile from the turtle in black.

Casey scoffed at this, knowing that Angel was just bluffing to save her face in front of the turtles. "Ha! You might fool Louie right in the face, but you cannot fool me, young lady. Besides, don't forget that I got pummeled because I saved you from getting your head bashed in with the pipe!"

"Hey! Give the lady some slack, Casey! Mistakes happens to everyone." Louie said and playfully punched him in the shoulder. "Besides, if the lady here says that she is capable to take care of herself, then she IS capable of taking care of herself."

Touched by Louie's words, Angel gave Casey a sly smirk before she gave Louie a grateful smile for defending her independence.

In your dreams, young lady." he said with the chuckle.

"Guys?" Dom then called the others. "I hate to be a party pooper, but we ain't clear yet."

The turtles and their human allies looked around of them and saw the crowds of armed Dragons approaching them from all directions with the menacing looks on their faces. Even though their leader had been defeated, their superiority in numbers kept their fighting spirit still on

"Come on, you filthy human garbage! I'll take you all down one by one!" Louie dared the approaching Dragons, drawing out his Butterfly sword and prepared for the next round with the Dragons.

"Yeah! You wanna piece of me, you lousy cabbage-brains? I'll pile you all into a one big heap!" Raph dared as well as he took out his Sai, standing side by side with his brother.

"Guys, enough! Our mission here is accomplished! Hun is defeated, we got Casey back and Angel is safe! I think it's time for us to book!" Mary said to his boastful brothers.

"Mary's got a point! That'll be enough for tonight!" Leo agreed before turning to Donnie. "Take us outta here, Donnie."

Donnie then took out the remote for the Battle Shell. "I have just what the doctor ordered." the turtle in purple said before he pressed a red button in the remote.

"OH, TAXI!" Mikey called jokingly as the turtle in orange waved his hand towards the closed doorway like waiting for the taxi.

And suddenly, there was a screeching sound of the tires coming from outside of the doors, before the turtles' Battle Shell broke through of the doors and drove inside, surprising and scattering the Dragons all around of the place. Donnie even went so far to direct the Battle Shell to circle around the boxing ring, smashing several more wooden bleachers into pieces on its way.

"About time that thing busted up somebody else's place for a change." Raph commented.

"You said it, Bro." Louie agreed with his brother. "In fact, we should destroy our enemies' places more often in the future."(3)

As the turtles prepared to take off, Casey turned his attention to Hun and approached the unconscious and in pain groaning giant, with the vengeful look on his face.

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this sweet moment since you torched my father's store and took him away from me. So this one's for my dad." Casey snarled venomously and prepared to kill Hun with one hard strike to the head.

However, before he could do it, Angel rushed in the scene and stopped Casey from killing Hun.

"NO, CASEY! DON'T DO IT!" Angel cried as she pushed Casey away from the downed giant, much to Casey's surprise and shock.

"Angel, what are you doing?!" Casey asked angrily.

"Stopping you from making the biggest mistake of your life. And if you'll do this, you'll end up becoming as bad as they are!" Angel said sternly, reminding her friend of his very own lesson he had told her back in the alley, along with the very inspiring lesson she had heard from the turtles' story of their very first encounter with Casey.

Though still a bit angry at Angel for preventing him from killing Hun as revenge for his evil deeds against him and his dad, Casey realized that Angel was actually using his own words he'd tried to tell her few days back, as well as Raph's and Louie's own words of wisdom from their very first met.

And so, Casey calmed down and smiled at Angel, glad that the teenager had not only learned her lesson but she'd also reminded him of his own.

"Thanks." Casey said gratefully.

Angel shrugged though smiled back. "Hey, that's what the friends are for."

"Hey, guys!" Mary called for Casey and Angel from the backside of the Battle Shell, where the turtle in turquoise was standing with Mikey and Louie who kept one back door open for their human allies. "Shouldn't we get out of here before those Dragon wusses can regroup and attack us again, if they still have a guts to do so?"

Both Casey and Angel nodded and hurried to inside of the Battle Shell.

At the same time, Hun was slowly getting back up from the pile of wooden debris. However, he only had time to get to his knees, taking support from the ground with his hands, when the turtles' Battle-Shell, with everybody onboard, drove out of the Dragons' den and hit to the streets. Hun followed its going with the dark scowl in his face, furious at his defeat at the hands of the turtles and that Casey managed to escape from him.

"This ain't over, freaks and Jones. Not by a long shot!" the giant growled angrily.

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As Battle-Shell sped across the streets of New York, Angel sat in the back of a truck surrounded by Casey and the turtles (except Donnie because he was behind the wheel). A sad look on her face, her head dangling from her shoulders and her gaze on the floor, no doubt still ashamed that she had ever even considered joining the Purple Dragons after what they were going to do to Casey, Angel told the turtles and Casey a little more specific reason for the biggest mistake of her life.

"I admit that I wasn't quite myself after my parents died in the car accident. Yet my actions lately don't excuse my foolish choices." Angel lamented.

"They definitely don't. Such of choices were foolish indeed." Dom said strictly, earning from Mary and Louie a wide-eyed looks in disbelief about their brother's words, which could have a more negative effect on Angel's conscience and worsen her quilt.

The turtles in black and turquoise then proceeded to punish their brother for his words, with Mary giving him a sharp slap to the left cheek and Louie giving a firm punch to his right cheek, leaving a small black mark in there.

(SLAP!)

(PUNCH!)

"OW!" Dom yelped, rubbing both his sore cheeks with his hands while scowling at his brother and sister.

"Don't mind about Dom, Angel." Raph said. "He always wants to express his negative opinion, no matter the place and time."

"No kidding!" Louie added with the scowl at his white-banded brother.

With that matter out of the way, the turtles went back to the subject at hand.

"I remember you saying that you chose the life as one of the Purple Dragons because you were bored with the life of middle-class society." Arcee said, recalling Angel's words back from that alley. "But something tells me that ain't the true reason to it, am I right, Angel?"

Angel turned her gaze at the turtle in pink for a moment before lowering her eyes down again. After thinking Arcee's words for a moment, Angel confirmed her thoughts to be correct with the small nod.

"No it isn't." Angel confessed quietly.

"Then what was?" Leo asked gently.

"Well..." Angel started, looking for the right words. "I... kinda did not wanted to lose anyone else close to me."

"Like I told you back in the alley, Angel. You still got a family out there. Your grandmother, Ellie? Your brother, Ryan?" Casey said, reminding the teen girl about his words about her true family.

"Yes, I know. Angel said humbly. "But the pain and grief I felt after losing my parents felt so unbearable that I was close to consider even suicidal thoughts. Of course I changed my mind before I could go too far because I didn't want to hurt my grandmother and my brother that way, but neither I wanted to feel such of pain of loss ever again.

"So you decided to run away from home? Is that what you meant with "not wanting to lose anyone else close to you."?" Leo asked.

Angel lowered her gaze down again, giving the turtle in blue a small nod as an answer.

"Then what does joining the Purple Dragons have anything to do with that?" Arcee asked with the quirked eyebrow, yet sympathetic look on her face.

"That's what I want to know too." Casey said with the small frown.

"Well, I don't know." Angel started. "I guess it's because they have minds of steel and that they're pretty hardened kinda guys who are unable to feel pain physically and mentally, and that they're too tough to shed tears and so on. So I thought that maybe spending enough time with them would make me feel so hardened from inside that I wouldn't feel the pain and sorrow over losing my loved ones ever again. They even said that they have a soft spot for the tough guys like them and would gladly welcome one amongst them with the open arms."

"Yeah. Soft spot indeed." Raph scoffed sarcastically. "Enough of soft spot to beat the lights out from their own."

"Angel?" Mary started, taking the attitude of a slightly scolding mother, before she continued. "Purple Dragons might be a tough guys, but they lack at least three things that distinguish normal civilians from them."

"And they are?" Angel asked hesitatingly.

Mary then raised her left hand up, showing Angel her three fingers, which at this moment represented the "three things" she had claimed to be completely missing from the Purple Dragons. She started her explanation by lowering one of her fingers down.

"One: morality. These guys don't care if stealing and threatening or maybe even harming other people is wrong." Mary said. The turtle in turquoise waited for a moment for Angel to swallow her point before she lowered down her middle finger.

"Two: conscience. These guys have super weak conscience and they won't hesitate to do the wrong things, whether it be either stealing or even severely harming people, whether they be weak and defenseless men, women and even elder people and children." Mary continued, and after a moment, she lowered her thump down.

"And three: empathy. The Purple Dragons do not care what their actions may cause to other people. If they brutally kill someone, they do not care if it deeply hurts and even traumatized the victim's loved ones. If they destroy someone's property or business, they do not care if it brings ruin to the victim's life. And if they torture someone just out of their own pleasure, they do not care of their victim's sufferings, injures and traumas afterwards."

"So, not that kinda posse that would've been very good for you, kid." Raph said.

"No kidding! You already know what they did to Casey's father in the past... and you already got the taste of what they were trying to do with Casey tonight, and you couldn't stand the thought of it." Arcee agreed with her hot-headed brother.

"And what about they had at some point targeted your grandmother and your brother? You definitely wouldn't have seen them in that way anymore after they would've hurt or even killed the only family you got left, wouldn't you?" Leo pointed out.

After hearing from the turtles that what kind of price she nearly had paid by joining the Dragons, Angel's eyes went wide from shock and the sickening feeling of dread and guilt started to form in her stomach. The thoughts of her becoming a heartless monster without morality, conscience or care for those innocent people she would hurt, especially if amongst of those innocent were her grandmother and her brother, hit her harder than the sharp and cold blade of the knife. All she wanted was to feel herself hardened enough to be unable to feel both pain and grief over losing the ones close to her, never to go that far of actually hurting or even killing someone.

"I-I never wanted to hurt anybody. All I wanted was just to be unable to feel pain and sorrow over the loss of my loved ones, not to give any of those to the other people who do not deserve that." Angel said miserably.

"But you still did..." Dom was about to say, until the turtle in white noticed that both Louie and Mary had lifted their fist/palm up without even looking at him, getting ready to punish him again with the punch and slap to both his cheeks if he even dared to says what they correctly thought he was about to say.

"Uhh... nothing! Nothing" Dom said hastily while holding his hands up in surrender and quickly dropped what he was about to say, prompting Louie and Mary to lower their arms down, smirking in satisfaction.

Angel sighed, aware of what Dom was going to say. "I know what you were going to say, Dom. I've broken the law by taking part in that burglary in that shop and got away with the loot." the teen girl said sadly.

"Hey, don't sweat it, Angel." Casey said comfortingly, as he got up from his seat and walked to Angel to put his hand on the girl's shoulder.. "I'm actually very proud of you for, you know, realizing that that kind of the people weren't good for you and turning away from them and their miserable life of theft and violence before you went too far."

"Yeah. All it required was Casey giving himself up to them as their newest punching bag." Raph teased, earning amused chuckles from nearly everybody around.

Raph's joke lightened Angel's mood enough to get her to smile and even let out a chuckle along with the turtles.

Casey, however, gave Raph a scowl, until it turned into a sly smirk. "Oh, yeah? Except that it was you guys who got to serve as Hun's newest punching bags for me. Take that, shell-for-brain."

Raph scoffed at this. "Yeah. Whatever."

"But look at the bright sight, Angel!" Louie exclaimed. "Even if you didn't get what you wanted from the Purple Dragons, or not in the way you wanted it from the Purple Dragons, you instead got it from us! You're one of US now!"

"Yeah! We are kinda your new... friendly neighborhood green posse from now on!" Mikey declared happily.(4)

"So welcome to our little vigilante club, Angel Bridge." Leo said.

"And you can consider us as your big brothers and sisters if you want." Raph added with the wink.

Angel smiled softly and gratefully at her new friends for welcoming her in with open arms. "Thanks guys. I really appreciate that... though it still doesn't erase the pain I still feel for the loss of my parents."

"Angel?" Arcee started, as she walked to and sat next to Angel to give her some sisterly advise. "What happened in the past, it can hurt. But neither running from it nor denying it is the best solution, although it is, of course, instinctively always the first option. And from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... you can learn from it."(5)

Angel tilted her head and quirked her eyebrow in confusion, as if she'd once heard that one somewhere before.(5)

"My point is that the bad things happen all of time, and we sometimes don't have control over it, but we cannot let them affect us and hold us back. Sooner or later comes the time when you will learn to accept your parent's passing away and move on in your life. Wouldn't your parents want that from you?" Arcee asked, but she continued before Angel could respond. "It won't be easy at first, I assure you that, but in time you'll learn to live with it. Trust me." the turtle in pink added with the wink.

After hearing the turtle in pink out, Angel started to ponder her words seriously. Could she at some point learn to accept the death of her parents and focus on moving forward in her life as Arcee had advised her. Of course it wouldn't be easy at first, that's for sure, but maybe in time it could eventually happen. And now that she has a new friends, a lots of unusual but good friends who are more than willing to give their hand to help her in her problems, just like they helped her to rescue Casey, she felt more confident about the fact that she would get over the past and move on.

"Arcee's right, Angel." Leo said, catching the teen girl's attention. "And besides, as Casey already told us, you still got a family back home, of which you must hold on. No matter what."

"Yeah. And they must be worried sick about you." Mike added sympathetically.

"Something tells me you hadn't kept in touch with them for days after you ran away from home, right?" Mary asked.

Angel turned her head away from them and rubbed her arm embarrassedly. "Well... no." she admitted.

"You do understand, Angel, that while you did not want to hurt your family by committing the suicide over the grief over the loss of your family, but by running away from home for days without leaving them a message and not keeping in touch with them, thus leaving them without knowledge if are you okay or even alive, you're hurting them even more along with the loss of your parents." Mary told her.

Angel didn't respond or looked up at Mary while hearing her out, but kept her gaze down in the floor in shame.

"You do understand they could have called the police to search for you?" the turtle in turquoise added strictly.

"Actually, they did." Angel confessed. "They did sent cops after me. But I couldn't let them catch me while I was with the Dragons. I could've ended up in a lots of trouble from both sides if I did. So I had to evade the police the best I could. And so far I did manage to evade them."

Louie was rather impressed by this. "Well, well well! If you ask from me, I'd say that you'd make a fine Kunoichi, Angel-cake."

"Kuno-what?!" Angel asked, confused of what Louie was talking about.

"Kunoichi. Female ninja." Louie explained short.

"Ahh, I get it." Angel nodded in understatement. "What about it, lover-boy?" she added with the sly smirk.

"Well, depending on how long you've been away from home and on the run in the streets without being detected and caught by cops and managing to stay a step ahead of them so far... I'd say that I am rather impressed by your skills to stay unnoticed in the shadows like an ninja. You go, Angel-cake!"

Louie's touching compliment got Angel to blush slightly, prompting her to give the turtle in black a soft smirk.

"Well, I'm not impressed at all, young lady. Rather dismayed!" Dom exclaimed, not liking what he'd heard so far and thus ruining the moment between Louie and Angel.

"I mean... Running away from the cops like the wanted criminal, while they were looking for you to take you back to your family, who are definitely worried sick about you?! Is it a ticket to the juvenile jail you're-...?!"

Dom was immediately silenced when Louie gave him a pretty hard slap in the face with the back of his left hand.

(SLAP!)

"OUCH!" Dom yelped, before turning to scowl at Louie while rubbing his bruised cheek with his hand. "STOP HITTING ME!"

"You idiotic shell-for-brains! We just got her in the better mood instead of thinking bad about herself because of her poor choices that should be put behind your back! Don't spoil it now!" Louie snarled.

Dom was about to shoot something back, likely to criticize his brother for defending Angel's bad choices and Louie got ready to shoot something back, including some really dirty insults he'd got up in his mind and which he intended to target to his brother, depending on what he was gonna say next. However, Leo quickly jumped up from his seat and went between his fighting brothers before their argument would lead into a tensed verbal war.

"Guys! Calm down!" Leo demanded strictly while holding his at each other glaring brothers away from each other. "The day has already been rough enough for all of us, so there's no reason to make it even worse by starting to fight amongst ourselves now, okay?"

Both Louie and Dom turned from glaring at each other to look up at Leo, and, after thinking it for a moment, eventually agreed to calm and back down, albeit a little grudgingly. However, Leo had a good point in his words, given everything that has happened today: The Battle-Shell's destructive rampage in the lair, Casey's dangerous rescue mission in the Dragons' den, the cage match, their fight with Hun and so on. They were all rather tired, so there indeed was no reason to start fighting with each other.

"Okay, okay, okay. Whatever you say, fearless leader." Louie said, holding his hands up as a submissive manner.

Leo then turned to Dom. "And Domenico? While I agree with you that Angel's past choises have been morally bad choices, I agree with Louie that we should just leave the past behind our shells. Angel has already paid for her mistakes, so there's no need to remind her about them any further tonight."

With that said, Leo returned to his seat, leaving the turtle in white to stare after him with the dumbstruck look on his face. Once again, much to his disbelief and chagrin, Leo had sided with someone else's opinion over his own. Dom slightly turned his head to the right to side-glare at Louie when noticing that he was smugly smirking at him.

Once he was back on his seat, Leo turned to Donnie. "Donnie? Let's head back to the Lair. I think we're all in the need of well-deserved rest."

"And ladies and gentleman, our next stop will be the warehouse at the corner of Eastman and Laird and home. Thank you for choosing "airturtle"." Donnie joked as he turned from the next intersection to the route that led faster to their home.

"Wait! Hold on a second!" Dom suddenly exclaimed, gaining everybody's attention, before the turtle in white continued. "Shouldn't we make a small bend along the way?"

"Why the heck? And where exactly?" Louie questioned.

"Well, can I at least explain it without you and Mary punching and slapping me across my face again, please?" Dom requested, casting at Louie a scowl for him punching him twice earlier.

"No promises, bro." Louie simply shrugged, before the turtle in black leaned lazily against the wall and lifted his hands behind of his head, resting his head on them.

Dom rolled his eyes at his brother because of his words, as he strongly suspected that Louie was definitely going to hit him again due to the subject of what he had to say. However, paying to it no further mind save for staying alert for his brother's upcoming attempts to punch him, Dom turned back to rest of his family and friends.

"Well, about what I meant about "a small bend along the way" before heading back home, It's about Angel in here." Dom started.

The turtle in white's suspects proved to be correct at the moment when he mentioned his speech involving Angel, as it provoked Louie, even though he didn't even turn his eyes at him, to pull his right hand down from behind of his head, squeeze it into a fist and then pull it hard upwards in an attempt to hit Dom in the chin with the uppercut.

However, this time Dom was better prepared for this, so he quickly raised his right hand up in Louie's fist's way and grabbed to it, stopping it before it could hit him underneath of his chin. This sudden turn of event surprised Louie enough to make him to turn to look at his fist and then up at Dom, dumbfounded look on his face. Dom then caught his brother by surprise by suddenly pushing Louie's own fist back to him, making it to punch Louie in the peak of his nose.

(PUNCH!)

"OW! My nose! WHOA!" Louie groaned, before he yelped in surprise and alarm as he fell off the bench from the impact of back to him thrown punch.

Mikey leaned forward from his seat to look down at Louie, as the turtle in black was lying on his back on the Battle Shell's floor, holding from the bruised peak of his nose with both of his hand, and smirked to the irony of the recent turn of the expectations.

"Isn't this kinda ironic, Louie? Like in that old saying. "Whoever digs a pit will fall into it yourself". Hee-hee!" Mikey chuckled.

"Very funny, Mikey." Louie groaned.

With Louie out of the way, Dom continued. "Well, what I was saying was that maybe we could go the straightest way back home and take Angel with us, but remember we haven't told Master Splinter anything about our her, and he won't be pleased if we once more bring in our home another surprise guest without asking him first... if you remember what happened with our last surprise guest who came without invitation." Dom said, shooting a quick side-glance at and nodding his head slightly towards Casey to make his point clear, earning from their vigilante friend a slightly offended scowl with the quirked eyebrow.

"And secondly..." Dom continued. "The cops might be still looking for Angel in behalf of her family, and they surely have sought her out wherever her family supposes she is. But now that Angel is with us, safe and sound... I'll say that we save the cops from a needless searching and return the girl back to her family, so that they do not need to be worried about her anymore and won't bother the cops with this matter neither."

After Dom had finished, Mary elbowed him hard in his left arm, making him wince in pain.

"Ow! What?" the turtle in white asked, confused of Mary's actions. "Why did you do that for?"

"Don't make it sound like Angel is some lost puppy or something." Mary chided.

"Hey! I never said anything like that." Dom shot back.

"Guys?" Casey called, getting everybody's attention. "I think that Dom's right."

The turtles all turned to look at Casey with the surprised wide-eyed gazes, though Dom's own surprised look on his face got quickly mixed with the smug smirk.

"Well, well, well. Finally at least someone agrees with my opinion... although it is both a surprise and a disappointment because that someone didn't happen to be the one I expected to agree with me." Dom muttered, shooting a side-glance at Leo's direction.

Paying no attention to Dom's mumbling, Casey continued. "I think that we should take Angel back to her home, back to with her own family, and thus spare the police from now-futile effort to find her, just like Dom suggested. I know where her grandmother lives. It's not far from here, so it shouldn't take long to drop the young lady at hers."

The turtles exchanged the glances with one another, thinking about it for a moment, before they all turned to look back at Casey, nodding to him in approval of his suggestion. However, Dom shot a scowl at his family for apparently crediting Casey for his own suggestion.

"Then that's what we'll do." Leo declared, before the turtle in Blue turned to Angel. "Don't worry, Angel. You'll be soon with your family."

"W-well..." Angel stammered, the look of deep sadness, shame and fear on her face. "I... I don't know. I'm not sure can I go back to my grandmother and my brother after all of this. I've been a quite awful to both of them because of my grief. I kept pushing them away, isolated myself from them, even though all they wanted to do was to help me. And in the end, I abandoned them by running away from home. I stayed on the streets for how long, I don't know, and deliberately stayed out of their reach and haven't been in touch with them."

The turtles and Casey looked at the girl with sympathy, especially Louie and Casey.

"I don't know do they even want me back anymore after all of this." Angel confessed miserably, keeping her gaze down in the floor.

After a moment, Louie then jumped up from his seat, walked to the girl and knelt in front of her. The turtle in black then lifted his finger beneath of Angel's chin and gently lifted her head up so that she could look at him. Both Louie and Angel then locked eyes with each other, with Angel's eyes welling from tears.

"That cannot be true, Angel. Of course they'd want you back. That's how the family does. As long as the police is still looking for your in they behalf, it means that they haven't given up from you." Louie said with gentle and warm voice.

"You don't know that, Louie!" Angel protested, calling Louie by his name(nickname) instead of "lover-boy" this time.

"Everybody do make mistakes sometimes, Angel. But it's never too late to make it up your mistakes." Mary advised.

"And if that makes it easier, Angel, your grandmother has been keeping in touch with me over the phone for weeks since you disappeared. And she has asked me in every call if I have seen you recently. And so has your brother. As Mikey said, they're both worried sick about you." Casey told her.

Those words surprised Angel lightly. "They are?"

"Yeah. And I've regretted to tell them at the every call that I haven't seen or heard anything of you." Casey said before letting out the soft sigh. "But I have also told them that I won't give up looking for you to keep their hopes up."

"See, Angel? They haven't given up from you. The family never does that." Louie asked with the reassuring smile. "The true family always has each other's backs, yours included, no matter what. That's what we turtles do all of time. We stick together as if glued."

"Well, not literally glued." Dom commented.

"And speaking of which..." Leo started as he recalled something from the past. "Our master Splinter once said that the family is like the vase, that is first broken and then fixed afterwards, but it won't be complete until every last missing piece of it is back together."

"That's true." Mary confirmed.

"Affirmative!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Definitely." Raph added with the nod.

"No doubt of it." Dom said, shaking his head.

"And the best of all... our father's never wrong." Arcee said.

"Even if we don't always understand at first what he means by his words." Donnie remarked.

"Tell me about it." Casey chuckled, before he turned back to Angel. "So, what do you say, kid? Shall we finally complete that so-called incomplete vase together?"

Thinking about everything what she'd heard from the turtles and Casey, Angel paid a quick glance at every turtle (sans Donnie) and Casey, who were all looking at her with the reassuring smiles, and some of them even winking or nodding their heads at her encouragingly. Moved by her new posse's support for her, Angel smiled back to all of them, as a single tears escaped from her eyes.

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Later, Donnie had parked the Battle Shell in an alley outside of Angel's grandmother's house. After stepping out from the Battle Shell, Casey and Angel started to walk up to the door of the building while the turtles remained in the entrance of the alley, watching from the shadows.

When they were standing in front of the door, Casey noticed that Angel was still a bit nervous, but doing her best to keep it together.

"You ready?" Casey asked.

"Yeah." Angel said with the nod.

Casey nodded to her and then proceed to knock on the door for a couple-three times.

A few minutes passed before the door finally opened, revealing from behind it an old woman with the curly graying brown hair. She was dressed in a purple jacket and was wearing glasses. Her name was Ellie Bridge. Much to the turtles' delightful surprise, they noticed that there was clear family resemblance between Angel and her grandmother, as she looked much like the older version of her.

"Ah, Mr. Jones and..." Ellie started, until her words died upon seeing Angel standing next to Casey, nervously rubbing her left arm while being near unable to make the eye-contact with her grandmother out of shame. The old woman's eyes went wide from shock and stepped outside and towards Angel.

"Angel?" Ellie gasped.

"Grandma." Angel said quietly as she waited for her grandmother to say something strict about her awful behavior before running away from home without telling her anything and not keeping in touch with her at all.

However, Ellie hesitantly reached for Angel's face, taking them in her hands and turned her head gently towards her so that she could look at her. For a moment, the old woman couldn't say a word. She only looked at her granddaughter while caressing her cheeks with her thumbs. And when Ellie tried to say something, she got choked up from the growing feel of relief and happiness of seeing her granddaughter back and well.

Ellie then pulled her granddaughter into a warm and welcoming hug, to which Angel returned by hugging her as well. Both of them held from each other tightly, almost not wanting to let each other go, while the tears of deep relief and happiness ran down both their faces.

In the alley across the street, the turtles smiled happily as they watched the heartwarming reunion between Angel and her grandmother.

"Happy endings. I really love them." Arcee said with the teary eyes, as she was most touched by the heartwarming sight in front of them, before the turtle in pink swept with her away the tears away.

"There, there, sister." Dom said soothingly, gently patting the turtle in pink in the shoulder.

Louie too was moved into tears, very happy of seeing Angel being brought back to her family, though the turtle in black quickly wiped his eyes dry.

Ellie then broke off the hug and looked at her granddaughter, but kept her hold from Angel's shoulders.

"Where have you been, dear? I've been so worried about you. And your brother has been searching for you from everywhere ever since you disappeared from home for days without leaving a note." she said with gentle but slightly stern voice.

Angel lowered her head slightly down. "I'm sorry for running away, Grandma. I just... I wasn't thinking straight after what happened to mom and dad. I wasn't in my right mind and did some ill stuff and..." she sobbed, as more tears started to run down her cheecks.

Ellie, however, cut her short by pulling her into another comforting hug. "There, there, sweetie. It's okay. It's okay. It doesn't matter anymore. You're back and safe in my arms. That's what matters now." she said soothingly. Sobbing softly, Angel clutched to her grandmother as she hugged her back again.

Ellie then turned to Casey, and gasped at the sight of his condition.

"Oh my god! Arnold?! What has happened to you?" she asked near-frantically.

"A long story, but it's not important right now, Mrs Bridge." Casey assured, secretly winking at Angel and Angel winked him back. Before they'd arrived here, Casey and Angel had agreed to keep Angel's crazy attempt to make a friends from the Purple Dragons and to join into their gang as a classified secret between of them.

"But lets us say, I found her alone from the streets. She was both desperate and misguided after spending some time at the streets. So I decided to give her a few little pieces of advice that should guide her down the right direction in her life before I brought her back here. Told ya I'd keep an eye on her." Casey added with the smile.

Grateful, Ellie parted from Angel and turned to hug Casey. "Thank you, Arnold. Thank you for bringing back my Angel." she said.

In the alley, the turtles exchanges the smug smiles with each other after hearing Angel's grandmother unknowingly revealing them their friend's first name.

"Arnold? As if "Arnold Casey Jones"?" Donnie asked with the chuckle.

"Junior. You forgot add "junior", bro. "As if Arnold Casey Jones Jr."." Louie corrected. "Casey told me and Raph his father's name not long ago. It's Arnold Casey Jones, Sr. That's makes our Casey "Junior"." the turtle in black explained.

"Well, I'm gonna get so much mileage out of this." Raph said with the sly smirk.

"Tell me about it, bro. Maybe we should make some small restrictions on our little junior. To make him, you know, more well-behaving little kiddo." Arcee joked.

The joke caused some turtles to chuckle, though they held it back so that they wouldn't reveal their presence to Angel's grandmother.

Unfortunately, somehow their chuckling reached to Angel's grandmother's ears and she looked past Casey towards the alley across the street. Luckily for the turtles, the shadows of the alley and the darkness of the night covered them from sight.

"Did you bring some friends of yours with you, Arnold? I thought I heard some voices coming from the alley." Ellie asked.

Casey immediately held his hands up in denial. "Nah! Gotta be just some punch of youngsters having some midnight fun in the alley. That's all." he explained.

Raising her left eyebrow and tilting her head slightly to the right, Ellie gave Casey a look while staring at him sideways.

"Really?" she questioned, as if she didn't fully bought Casey's claim about the "bunch of youngsters" wandering in these streets. "I don't remember the last time there had been the gangs of youngsters roaming in this part of the town."

"Well, one time can be first." Casey simply said with the shrug.

Ellie continued to look at Casey for a while, still a little skeptical of his claim about the so-called youngsters moving on these streets. However, she eventually decided to let it be because it didn't matter now that her granddaughter was safely back home again.

"Well, I guess it is." Ellie said. "Now, I've got a pie and I insist you come in and join us." she added and started gently pull Casey into her home.

Casey agreed to come in without objection, but he managed to shortly look back at the turtles and gave them a quick thumbs-up before he was pulled inside. And once Casey was out of the sight. Angel remained to stand at the door, staring at the turtles with the smile.

"Honey? Are you coming? The pie won't stay warm forever." Ellie called for Angel from inside of her house.

"In a moment, grandma. I was just closing the door." Angel called back, before she looked back at the turtles.

"Thank you for the help, guys." Angel said to the turtles gratefully.

Louie gave Angel a thumps-up with the wink. "To the next time, babe." he added with the flirting smirk.

Angel blushed slightly at Louie's remark, with the amused chuckle escaping through her lips, before she gave to the turtle in black a thumps-up as well, before heading in and closing the door.

"Well, I guess that the broken vase is complete again." Mary commented once the door was closed.

However, one single word from Ellie's mouth earlier had caught the interest of one particular member of the green team.

"Did I hear right? Pie?" Mikey muttered, both excited and hungry, before the turtle in orange turned hurriedly towards Ellie's house's door. "Yo, Angel! Wait up! How about introducing your Grandma to your newest green friends and ask her invite them too for the pie?" the turtle in orange said half-hopingly and half-jokingly.

Raph laughed at the idea. "Forget it, Mikey." the turtle in red said as he playfully elbowed Mikey to his left arm. "She'd nothing but pass out instantly at the sight of the giant talking turtles in front of her."

"That's right!" Dom agreed. "And never forget, Mikey, that who we are. We're mutants, ninjas. Shadow warriors. And we're meant to stick in the shadows."

"Like our saying goes: We appear out of nowhere, we strike hard, protect the weak, punish the wrongdoers, defend the justice, and fade away into the night." Mary concluded in a deeper dramatic voice, amusing everybody.(6)

"My point exactly, sis." Dom complimented with the approval smile as the turtles started to head back to the Battle Shell waiting for them deeper in the alley.

"Yeah. After all, we're Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... the mysterious green shadows in the night, completely unseen." Louie joked dramatically with the deep Batman-like voice, as the turtle in black climbed into the Battle-Shell.(7)

"Yeah. The unsung heroes of the urban jungle." Leo added as he followed Louie into the Battle Shell.

"The team of Nightwatchers." Raph added as he stepped into the Battle Shell.(8)

"A green guardian angels, who hate bullies but love this city." Arcee added as she was helped to climb into the Battle Shell by Dom.(9)

"The silent protectors of the Way of Bushido." Donnie finished, as the turtle in purple moved to the driver's seat and started the engine.

The back doors of the Battle Shell then closed up and the Battle Shell drove into the night.

"So, what kind of pie you think it was? Blueberry pie? Apple pie? Or even better, pizza pie!" Mike wondered, still thinking about the pie Angel's grandma mentioned.

As response, one of the turtles - Raph most likely - smacked the baby brother to the top of his head to snap him out of it.

(SMACK!)

"Ow! What?" the turtle in orange complained.

THE END

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TRIVIA

1) = Louie giving a "noogie" to the Dragon during the cage match is the reference to the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror Episode XI's story (G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad), where ghost Homer gets noogied by both Nelson and later by the Devil. Also, the shout "HA, HA!" is also Nelson's catchphrase in the series.

2) = There's not official concept art about these three Dragon guys, but they can be seen in the shot that comes right after Raph's identity is revealed and before Dragon Face shouting "Hey! That's one of those kung fu lizards.".

3) = Louie's quote here ironically foreshadows the upcoming destructions of Oroku Saki's headquarters in "Shredder Strikes, Part 2" and "Return to New York Saga", including the sinking of Foot freighter in "Rogue in the House, Part 2", the destructions of the Tribases in "Space Invaders, Part 3" and "New Blood", the destruction of Bishop's laboratory in "Bishop's Gampit", destruction of Oroku Saki's mansion in "Exodus, Part 1 & 2" and so on.

4) = Mikey's original quote "friendly neighborhood green posse from now on!" is based on the quote "Friendly neighborhood Spiderman."

5) = Arcee's advice to Angel is based on the similar advice Rafiki gave to Simba in 1994 The Lion King.

6) = Mary's quote here is based on part of Raph's last lines in 2007 cgi movie "We strike hard, defend, protect, and fade into the night."

7) = Louie's line here is Raph's line from Teenate Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 movie.

8) = Reference to Raph's role as the Nightwatcher from 2008 cgi movie.

9) = Arcee's last lines are Raph's lines from Teenate Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows movie.