animegamefanatic: Oh, Louie will be colder towards Dom particularly, but less so to Splinter, even if he enforced the decision that Louie and Angel cannot see each other again.

And yes, it was totally uncalled for from Dom to have Louie and Angel separated because of his weariness of the new things that don't suit him well.

And yes! Dandelion got his house blown to the kingdom come by Louie and Angel during of their escape, and that is what set in motion all the action in the following chapters of the third part of this saga.

About the love interests for Arcee and Mary... I don't know, but I'll keep that in mind in the future.

Girl Anime Club: There will be an arguments between of Louie and Splinter, especially in this chapter, though I doubt Louie will ever argue with Splinter becaue of that, because like his brothers and sisters, Louie is fully dedicated to his life as a mutant turtle and a shadow warrior.

Screen opens to Angel standing right in front of the turtles' warehouse after being sent there by Casey several weeks back. She looks around in wonder, until the warehouse's slid doors open up, bathing the purple-haired girl with the bright leadlights of the Battle Shell.

"My name is Angel Bridge, but call me Angel."

Angel is forced to cover her eyes from the light, before she looks forward and gasp slightly at the sight before her.

"And this is Louie, one of my buddy Casey's really cool friends... and so he's a best friend of mine."

All eight turtles, silhouetted by the Battle Shell's headlights, standing before her, before two of them walks forward towards her. One of them revealing himself as Louie.

Angel is then seen leading the turtles, disguised as street punks, into the Purple Dragons' den with the three-finger salute to gain access.

"We met each other some time ago when I asked his and his brothers' and sisters' help at Casey's request to rescue him from the Purple Dragons' death trap."

In the den's caged boxing ring, Casey is hung upside down, strapped to a metal St. Andrew's cross, while Hun puts his hockey mask on his face to reveal his identity to the other Dragons who wants a piece of him.

"And some time after that, Louie appeared on my life again, rescuing me and my grandma from some mobster punks at the dark alley that threatened to take us away."

In the alley, Louie is seen falling over his shell while pulling a thug named Marcus down with him, before Louie kicks the thug over him with both feet as he jumps back to his feet. Then he is seen duelling with the female thug named Helga, uppercutting/palm-striking Helga under the chin, knocking her head back and stunning her. Then he is seen tossing his Manriki-Gusaris at the legs of the third and fleeing thug named Johannes, before he cracks his chains upwards, sending the thug flying through the air and over his stomach to the ground. All the while Angel and her grandmother Ellie are cowering nearby, witnessing this.

"Later, we started spending more time with each other at nights, taking turns of taking each other to our own places of interest."

Later, Angel and disguised Louie are later seen ar Madison Square Garden watching L.J. Alcatraz' rap concert, before the mick falls from Alcatraz's hands into Louie's hand, leading to Alcatraz challenging him to the rap battle.

Alcatraz: "Yo, newbie, drop down my mic if you're afraid for a challenge. This is big boys' zone, not newbie's playground, so don't cry "mommy" to me."

However, Alcatraz ends up losing to Louie in his own game when the turtle in black quickly wins the favor of the cheering audience over him.

Lorenzo: "Hey, dudda, don't yo push me down, will ya? Me no afraid you, punk'a. I've seen much of worst'a. That maxes you just one amongst everybody elsa."

And later, Louie and Angel are seen bringing some pizza to the bunch of homeless children living in the attic room of the abandoned hotel, which turn out to be Louie's long-time friends.

Lorenzo: "HEY! ANY LITTLE NINJA HERE IN THE MOOD FOR SOME PIZZA?!"

The children: "HEY, IT'S UNCLE LOUIE! AND HE'S GOT PIZZA!"

Louie gets stampeded upon by the horde of the hungry children, who immediately jump on the laughing turtle in black, pinning him to the floor, while the other children began to rather messily wolf down the pizza.

Later, in front of Angel's place after their date night, both Louie and Angel stood there in silence while still staring into each other's eyes with the small smiles, before Angel turns her gaze away from Louie, and began to rub her right arm with the other a little shyly, clearly showing that she has some feelings for him.

"And I gotta admit it. For a ninja turtle, Louie is such of sweetheart."

Later, Louie and Angel are sitting on the driver's and passenger's seats of the money transfer truck after saving it from being hijacked on the highway... only to have Johannes, Marcus and Johannes holding them at gunpoint.

"However, what we didn't expect, was that we ended up being lured into a trap, set up for us by the same people who had ambushed us earlier."

The next shot shows William Dandelion's mansion in its former glory, before the shot cuts to the large hall inside, where Louie and Angel, their hands tied behind their backs, have been brought in the middle of a birthday party before William Dandelion, the owner of the mansion and the leader of these gangsters known as Dandelions.

William Dandelion: "Dandelions always win!"

"They took us to the mansion owned by William Dandelion, a guy who was gradually released from pre-trial detention and had previously been accused of counterfeiting money."

Louie and Angel are then seen crawling in the air ventilation ducts in attempt to escape from Dandelion mansion, until they peek out from the air vent into the room, where they find plenty of evidence of Dandelion's shady dealings, including a money printing machine and tons of dirty cash.

"Which me and Louie discovered of being true."

Angel is then seen launching the barrage of the rogue fireworks upon an army of Dandelions in the Dandelion Mansion's garden, causing the crooks to scatter, before Louie and Angel are seen escaping from the mansion, with Angel riding on Louie's bike and Louie driving on the "borrowed" buggy from the garden's garage.

And as they flee into the night, Dandelion's mansion exploded into the air, to courtesy of Angel's fireworks, one of which had managed to find its way into the building's armory.

KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

However, at Angel's place, Louie and Angel turn swiftly around in alarm, and notice Dom leaning against the lamppost, staring disapprovingly at both of them, before he takes out his Shell Cell to answer to the call from Leo to relieve the news of Louie and Angel's recent doings.

"We managed to escape, only to be get caught by Louie's brother, Dom, who ratted us out to our respective parents."

Louie and Angel are then seen being scolded by both Master Splinter and Ellie Bridge, who unanimously decide that Louie and Angel shouldn't see each other like this again, much to the two's chagrin as they exchange a sad looks with one another, before Ellie escorts Angel to their house, and Louie boards miserably to the Battle Shell.

"And as a result, we were forcibly separated and banned from seeing each other like this."

Some time later, Ellie and Angel open the door of their house and allow Angel's idol from the concert, L.J. Alcatraz, to enter in the surprised visit, only for him to turn his guns on both of them.

"But just when the things couldn't get any worse, L.J. Alcatraz, the rapper I used to idolize, turned out ot be a crook, who threatened to have me and grandma executed if we didn't give up Louie over to him."

Alcatraz: "Where is he? Louie?"

Alcatraz eventually lowers his guns when Angel managed to convince him to spare their lives after telling that Louie will come for them, thus inspiring the former to take them both as prisoners instead.

"I managed to talk him over of sparing our lives. But at the price."

Alcatraz: "For we already have two kinds of plans to outwit him, two kinds of goods to lure him out, two kinds of planned meeting spots where to ambush him, one of which he likely knows himself already, which means we're two steps ahead when he gets the wind of all of this."

Angel and Ellie are then tied up by Alcatraz's stage dancers, who put the bags over their heads to blindfold them.

Ellie: "Angel? What have you done?"

Tied up and blindfolded Angel and Ellie are then escorted into Alcatraz's limo, with Alcatraz stepping last out of their home after having left in there something for Louie.

"But I'm afraid that I may have at the same time hand Louie over to him and his boss, Dandelion, like on the plate."

(The screen pulls away from New York City as the light beams ripple above the buildings, illuminating the four towering green letters that form the word TMNT.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen raises up and we see eight turtles standing on the edge of the building. First Leonardo, second Marietta, third Raphael who bent down, fourth Domenico, fifth Artemisia, sixth Lorenzo who was crouching down, seventh Donatello and eight Michelangelo. As the light beam passes them, all eight turtles leap off the edge.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

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

(Leonardo is seen fighting two Foot Ninja. He slices their staves in two with his swords before kicking the ninja on his right and then the one on his left away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

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

(Raphael is seen jumping over the fence, landing on his hands. Then he pushes up and lands on his feet, crouched, before he kicks the screen black with his foot.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning Michelangelo is seen riding on the Battle Shell as it speeds down the street, while spinning his Nucnhaku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(Michelangelo leaps off as the Battle Shell flies across the street. Then its back doors fly open and Raphael and Lorenzo jump out on the red and green bikes before skidding sideways to a stop.)

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

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen.)
(The upper screen shows Leonardo's narrowed gaze. The lower screen shows all eight turtles standing in front of Master Splinter.)
(Second one.)
(The lower screen shows Donatello's light frown. The upper screen shows Master Splinter swinging his staff down at two attacking Mousers, destroying them.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(Third one)
(The upper screen shows Raphael's deep frown. The lower screen shows Hun leading a silhouetted Purple Dragons from the ablaze background.)
(Fourth one.)
(The lower screen shows Michelangelo's the soft stare. The upper screen shows Hun sneering before he throws a punch at the camera.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(April O'Neil winks at the camera as she pilots a helicopter past the Foot Tower, where Donatello and Domenico are fighting six Foot Ninja on the ledge until they're knocked off. Falling down, Domenico grabs to the rope hanging from the helicopter and catches Donatello's arm and they're both lifted up.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell-to-shell under the spotlight as they're surrounded by a dozens of heavily armed Foot Ninja that emerge from the darkness and leap down from the rooftops. The turtles fearlessly take their respective battle stances and prepare to face the ninjas.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Artemisia jumps from the left with her legs hooked under her, and spinning around, she slashes forward with her Tessenes.)
(Michelangelo then jumps from the right with the flip and smirks at the camera as he falls down, spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)

(Donatello jumps from the left, spinning his Bo-staff in his left hand over his head before he swings it down with both hands.)
(Marietta then jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in the right hand, before turning around and slashes horizontally forward.)

(Domenico jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting first his right and then his left Tonfa forward.)
(Leonardo then jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them aside and kicks his right foot down.)

(Raphael jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais flash.)
(Lorenzo then jumps from the right and slashes his left Butterfly sword horizontally forward and swings his right Butterfly sword down, slicing the air.)

(Angel Bridge then jumps from the left and throws a punch towards the screen with her left fist.)
(Casey Jones then jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Leonardo is seen landing onto one ninja, knocking him down.)
(Donatello is seen whacking with his Bo the second ninja off his feet.)
(Raphael is seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left wrist.)
(Michelangelo is seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist.)
(Marietta is seen kicking the fifth in the chest.)
(Domenico is seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Lorenzo is seen blocking seventh's sword with his crossed swords.)
(Artemisia, surrounded by ninjas, is seen holding her Tessens horizontally open in her crossed arms.)
(Raphael is seen again, this time surrounded by several Foot, but he spins around and knocks them all away.)

(Cut to the wide shot.)
(Seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of blue and purple masked faces above and the line of red and orange 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 in the middle, Donatello, Marietta and Domenico on his right and Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia on his left. All seven run towards the camera that moves through them between Leonardo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, Raphael races over the building on the back of the bike and jumps off 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, Marietta is pointing her Naginata at the camera. In the second, Lorenzo is holding Butterfly Swords upside down in his hand and horizontally in front of him.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third, Domenico is thrusting his Tonfa at the camera. In the fourth, Artemisia is holding one Tessen in front of her face, partially covering it, while other one is closed.)
(TURTLES!)

(Marietta is seen in a dead end, spinning her Naginata before she pulls it behind her shell and holds her left hand out as two arms holding a knife and a fire axe appear in the view.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(Lorenzo is seen crouching on the roof of a moving subway car that brings him closer to the screen. The turtle in black smirk at the camera before his face fills the screen.)
"FROM THE UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Domenico is seen stabbing the practice dummy with his Tonfas before spin-kicking the other dummy with his foot. Then he turns to whack the camera with his Tonfa.)
"BEWARE THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back to show Artemisia roller skating on the roof while being pursued by Foot. She looks at them over her shoulder, smirks, and picks up the pace as camera pans behind her.)
"CAUSE THE TURTLE TIME IS ON!"

(Artemisia skates towards the Large Foot Ninja who tries to strike her with the sword, but is caught by his wrists by the turtle in bink who turns around and flips him over her shoulder, throwing him face-first at the camera.)

(Artemisia then drops off the building as the screen pans down to a boarded doorway before the Battle Shell crashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink land onto its roof.)

(The screen then pans to the back of the truck as it is been pursued by two Foot Ninja on the bikes, until the back doors fly open and Lorenzo jumps out, landing onto his shell to the ground, somersaulting back to his feet and then diving towards the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies towards the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again.)
(The upper screen shows Marietta's light glare, while lower screen shows turtles in the snowy woods, staring at five silhouetted canine-like humanoids with the face paints: dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green.)
(Second one.)
(The lower screen shows Domenico's deep frown, while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with dark purple face-paint, snarling while slashing a single Kama at two hunters, forcing them to back off.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'RE ALWAYS FIGHTING AGAINST EVIL!"

(Third one.)
(The upper screen shows Lorenzo's wide eyes, while the lower screen shows Jennika, with her mask off, standing on the edge of the rooftop, flanked by several Foot Ninja.)
(Fourth one.)
The lower screen shows Artemisia's soft stare, while the upper screen shows Jennika glaring at the camera before she wields two Katana to slice across the screen.)
("SIX!")
"WE'LL STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(In the next shot, Donatello and Marietta are seen running along the roofs, the former jumping and the latter pole-vaulting over a gap. We then see Leonardo leading Raphael, Artemisia and Domenico forward at street level. Michelangelo is then seen zipping along the line and Lorenzo swinging by the chain in Tarzan-style after them.)
("SEVEN!")
"WE'RE ALWAYS THERE TO HAVE EACH OTHERS' SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the spotlight in a dark space with their shells to the camera as it pulls away. They then turn to face the camera, drawing out their weapons and taking their individual stances, ready to face whoever is standing before them.)
("EIGHT!")
"WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(First we see Baxter Stockman surrounded by dozens of Mousers. With the glare, Stockman points at the camera and the Mousers lunge forward, snarling viciously.)

(The camera pans to the right to show Tatsu. Backed up by Foot Ninja, the man pulls out a sword and raises it next to his face, pointing the tip at the camera with a dark glare.)

(Camera pans to the right again to show a strange and ugly goblin-like female creature floating in the air while grinning mischievously at the camera. The creature raises its hands up as the glowing supernatural light began to flow through them, as if magic.)

(Camera pans to the right once more to show William Dandelion with a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several goons, Dandelion takes the cigar out of his mouth and points at the camera with the nasty sneer.)

(The screen pans back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several Mousers away with his staff.)
(Raphael lands onto one, crushing it, and stabs his Sais through the heads of other two Mousers.)
(Domenico strikes one Foot Ninja in the guts with his Tonfa, before turning around to whack the second ninja with his other Tonfa.)
(Artemisia slices the third Foot Ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spin-kicking him away with her foot.)
(The goblin-creature flies over and strikes the turtles with the magical lightning bolts, until Artemisia pole-vaults upwards and kicks the creature away.)
(Three Dandelion mobsters charge at the turtles, but simultaneously first one on the left is kicked away by Michelangelo, the second one on the right is knocked down by Lorenzo, and the third in the middle is kicked away by Leonardo, who spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot. The sever level.)
(The silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running down the pipe: One turtle on foot while another one on the skateboard.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen pans up to the street level.)
(The silhouettes of three turtles are seen moving down the street: One running on foot, the second one riding on the bike and third one hopping along the driving and parked cars.)
(Then two narrower screens appear above and beneath of the street screen, showing the repeating line of turquoise and white masked faces above and the line of pink and black masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen pans up to the rooftop level.)
(The silhouettes of two turtles are running and either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Raphael, Leonardo, Domenico run on the street level, before Artemisia and Michelangelo jump out the manholes and Marietta and Donatello land down from the roofs to join them. All seven then: Raphael, Artemisia, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Marietta, Donatello and Domenico then run towards the camera that goes between Leonardo's legs again.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then pans upwards, showing Lorenzo jumping off the rooftop before throwing his chain 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 face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

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

(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy calm 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 smirking face. Then eighth appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the Foot Tower. The weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, Marietta, Donatello, Domenico, Raphael, Lorenzo, Michelangelo and Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the tower, above the Foot symbol, the Shredder is seen staring down after them, as his black cape blows in the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves close of his face, before he turns towards the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two sharp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen standing in middle of the rooftop, with the weapons in hand. They briefly demonstrate their skills before taking their individual poses: Donatello stands in the middle, pointing his staff at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo stand on his right, Marietta and Michelangelo on his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo behind them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding/skating on the various human equipment along the tunnel. Donatello is in the lead, wheeling past the camera with the foldaway bike.)
(Leonardo follows on foldaway kick scooter, hopping over the handlebar with his hands.)
(Marietta follows right behind on her roller skis, making the backward flip over the camera.)
(Domenico follows on the road bicycle, while giving the wave at the camera.)
(Raphael and Artemisia roller-skate along the wall of the tunnel with their roller blades and roller-skates.)
(Lorenzo skates after them with his longboard skateboard with the pair of rocket boosters.)
(Last but not least, Michelangelo skates up along the wall with his skateboard, before he jumps off and lands in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(All turtles, first Donatello then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally aftemisia, land onto the roof, weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charge towards the camera, with turtle in blue 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 Girl and the Turtle Part 3, Part 1=

Five days later, elsewhere.

Night had fallen upon New York City again, but like all the other nights before this one, this one wasn't going to be any where near of being just ordinary night.

With that being said, there was some suspicious activity right about now at the corner of Eastman and Laird right about now, where was the warehouse above the turtles' Lair.

There, the warehouse was being spied by two small shadowy figures that stood around the corner of the opposite building.

"Is this the place?" one of the figures, who was standing behind and over of the another figure that was crouching down, said.

"Well, "He" did say something about the abandoned warehouse at the corner of Eastman and Laird." the second crouching figure said. "And since there ain't other warehouses around, I guess that this is it."

the figures then scoured the street from the left and right to see if there was anyone in sight. And when they didn't see anyone, the two sprinted out from around the corner and across the street towards the warehouse.

But as they crossed the street, they ran under the light of the lit lamppost, which revealed the shadowy figures identities.

The light of the lamppost revealed the two figures to be the two of Louie's homeless kid friends from the abandoned hotel, namely Edward and Conrad, with the former wearing the blue hoodie and the latter a yellow hoodie.

The two were panting breathlessly, as if they had been running across the whole town to get here.

And not just that, but the two also appeared to have a quite urgent, incredibly worry- and even dread-filled looks on their faces, as if they have been pursued through the town by something or someone very dangerous.

The two ran to one of the boarded up windows of the warehouse and, with Conrad kneeling down under the window and Edward climbing on his back, peek inside through the gaps between of the boards.

"Do you see anything? Do you see him?" Conrad asked with slightly strained voice.

However, all Edward was able to see was darkness and all kinds of trash inside the warehouse.

"I don't see anything, except trash." Edward told him, sounding strangely yet increasingly worried about this. "Maybe this isn't the right place. Maybe we should keep searching."

"But... but it can't be! This has to be the right place! It has to be! This is the only warehouse in this block and there's no any other! He has to be here!" Conrad said with the nearly panicked voice.

"How can you be even sure?" Edward said, looking down at him. "Remember that we have never even visited here before."

"I know." Conrad admitted. "That's why there's only one way to find out. And we must hurry, because a mere getting here too us too much of a time and we're running out of it already!"

"No need to remind me." Edward pleaded, his face cringing with uneasiness... and even with fear.

After Edward got off of Conrad, the both boys then began thinking of what they should do next now that they were practically in the dead end here. And whatever it was what they needed to do, they needed to do it and fast.

It wasn't until after a moment when Conrad got an idea. Upon noticing a box nearby, he went to fetch it and pushed it undr the boarded window, before he climbed onto it.

"C'mon! We have to go in there!" Conrad said and began to pull the first board off from the window to get inside the warehouse, even though the board was nailed tight, making the boy grunt from the struggle to rip it off.

Edward wasn't sure about this plan, as he didn't immediately help his friend to pry the boards off the window.

"Are you sure about this plan, Conrad? I mean, if he lives here, we might be practically breaking and entering his house." he pointed out.

"Any port in a storm, remember?" Conrad said as he kept prying the board. "Now help me here!"

Edward, seeing no point in arguing here , let alone having time to it, merely shrugged his shoulders before he climbed onto the box next to Conrad and began to help his friend in prying the boards off.

Together, the two friends managed to pry off the very first board, which they tossed away before they focused on prying the next one off, and then the third.

After a moment of some effort, the two had managed to pry off enough boards off the window to create the gap wide enough for them to crawl through.

Edward looked behind them to ensure for a one last time that they were alone and hadn't been followed or watched by anyone, before he began to help Conrad through the gap of the boarded window and inside the warehouse.

And once Conrad was inside, he stuck his hands out through the gap, reached out to Edward and helped him through the gap and inside.

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Inside the Lair.

Leo was at the moment walking towards Louie's room in the upstairs, for the Master Splinter was about to hold another training session at the Lair's Dōjō and had demanded the presence of all of his children... even Louie's.

For the past five days since being separated from Angel by both Dom, Ellie and Master Splinter, Louie hasn't been in a very good mood. He had been a quite quiet, surly and reclusive when it came to the common family times, such as training sessions, hanging out with the others at the living room area, or the trips on the sewers or up in the surface, a he preferred to spent most of his free time alone in his room doing whatever he ever liked to there.

In fact, Louie had even demonstrated it that he didn't need the company of others right now by having placed several signs in front of his room's doorway, in each of which read of course all kinds of warnings he had made for others to stay out of his room.

Such of signs were the traffic warning signs reading "KEEP OUT," "STOP," and "DO NOT ENTER." A crude drawing of the three-fingered hand held up in middle of the red circle and the crossline over it to signal "STOP," and another crude drawing of himself wearing an angry look on his way, white underneath of it read "I GUARD HERE!" There was also a picture of the shell that was shaped into the shape of the skull with cross-bones as a warning.

Leo didn't really pay any mind to the warnings and stepped in nonetheless... but at least alerted Louie, whom he thought was still in his room, of his presence.

"Louie? It's me, Leo. Are you here?" Leo called as he looked around of Louie's room in search of him.

However, the turtle in blue cringed uncomfortably when he saw a new decorations in his brother's room.

He saw that on the wall where Louie had five upright lines of target boards hanging on the wall with the crude images of Stockman, Tatsu, Dragon Face, Hun and the Shredder, there was sixth line of target boards, over which Louie had made the crude image of - not surprisingly though - Dom himself.

And those target boards as well as the whole image of Dom were being full of spears, Kunai-knives, Sai-daggers, Shurikens and crossbow's bolts... way more than what the other five images of the villains were.

And in Louie's basketball field next to his personal karaoke club, Louie had dressed all the practice dummies into green shirts and hoods that matched Dom's skin color, including the elbow and knee pads, the belts, bandages and black shoes to resemble the turtles Iga-bakama pants, and each dummy was wearing the white ninja mask.

They were definitely a crude images of Dom.

Leo knew that neither Louie nor Dom had been on very good terms in the past five days since Dom informed them about his and Angel's affair - or mostly because of the two's running recklessly afoul with Dandelions and nearly got themselves killed - which had prompted both Ellie and Master Splinter to declare that they can't see each other again.

And for that, Louie was still blaming Dom for ruining his time with Angel.

So whenever there had been family moments together, Louie had kept his distance particularly from Dom, though he had more than often glared daggers at the turtle in white for what he did... and apparently taken his anger at him on the dummies by dressing them like him.

And unlike the previous practice dummies dressed as the Foot Ninja and Purple Dragons, these dummies were riddled with way more of cuts and stabbing wounds, with more of heads severed, limbs amputated and they were gutted and disembowled in a quite brutal way.

And even now, Louie was practicing his skills by beating the air out of the dummies... with the manner that made Leo even more uncomfortable.

Louie was hammering one of the few still intact dummies with the series of punches while wielding his Butterfly swords upside down in his hands, without sparing any blows, until he swung his left sword horizontally and then his right sword upwards, disembowling the dummy and then decapitating it.

Then Louie spun around and hook-kicked a quite brutally another dummy in his left in the head with his left foot before snap-kicking the third dummy in his right, making them rocket back and then forward, until Louie swung his right sword down at the dummy in his left, splitting it half from head to the waist, before he quickly sliced the third dummy in the pieces down from the head to the legs, causing them to fall to the floor.

Louie then turned around and stuck his sword deep into the fourth dummy's head, before he spun around and kicked it off the dummy's shoulders, making it fly towards Leo.

Leo ducked the dummy's head as it flew past him, before the turtle in blue turned to his brother.

"Whoa! Louie? Are you okay?" the turtle in blue asked with concern.

Louie was panting heavily after his workout, yet he didn't look at Leo right away as he put his swords away.

"Can't you read the signs, bro?" the turtle in black questioned, referring the signs at his room's doorway. "Or can't you even knock on the door or ring the bell before coming in uninvited?"

"First of..." Leo said, holding up one finger. "... you got no door or the door bell. None of us does."

Leo then held up the second finger. "Secondly, I did notice the signs and I don't care about them. This brooding in your solitude self-pity is starting to get ridiculous."

Louie responded to this with the indifferent shrug of his shoulders. "That's why I'm taking it "indirectly" on the guy that's the true cause of it." the turtle in black said, gesturing towards the remains of his Dom-dummies.

"And besides, if you were him..." Louie said as he finally turned to Leo, pointing a finger at him. "I would've thrown you out of my door and downstairs without the second thought."

"Yeah. Whatever." Leo said, crossing his arms.

"And the third?" Louie inquired, believing that there was a reason why Leo was here in the first place.

"And the third," Leo said, holding up his thump. "Master Splinter is asking everyone to Dōjō for the next training session, including you. And you know all too well that he won't take "No" for an answer."

Louie shot at Leo a narrowed frown/scowl and frowled frustratingly, because he wasn't really in the mood to join the training session with the rest of his family right now, especially if Dom was going to be there too.

That was until a one very devious thought crossed the turtle in black's mind.

"Is "he" going to be there too?" Louie inquired curiously, referring to Dom.

"Yes." Leo said with the quirked eyebrow, confused by Louie's frustrated growl turning so suddenly into suspiciously low-voiced curiosity.

"Great! Let's go then!" Louie said, suddenly so eager to go to the training session, punching his palm the whole way out of his room.

Leo pursed his lips uncomfortingly, suspecting and knowing where this might lead, before he followed after his brother.

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ln the Dōjō, all eight turtles were standing in front of Splinter, as he faced his children.

"Now, my children, in tonight's training session we will improve your sense of teamwork by dividing you into groups of two fight each other." Splinter instructed. "But this time you won't be using your weapons, and you won't rely just to the physical force, but you also rely on your combined focus of your mind, your speed and the element of surprise to defeat your opponents."

"So in the other words... you've gotta be cunning, full of surprises and tricks, and be unpredictable, together, so that your opponent cannot conquer you, no matter how strong they are." Donnie theorized, while recalling all of their past fights with the various big bads in the past months.

"Exactly, Donatello." Splinter said.

"Oh, goodie! I love doing something unpredictable." Mikey commented eagerly.

This, however, earned him an annoyed frown from Raph, for the turtle in red believed that Mikey was referring to the fact how he was always able to predict all of his moves when bidded against him while he wasn't able to predict any of the turtle in orange's moves.

"Yeah, sure you do." Raph muttered sarcastically.

Arcee, however, shot a look at Raph's direction, as if the turtle in pink had somehow managed to read his thoughts.

"You know, Raph? You would be able to predict Mikey's moves much more easier if only you wouldn't let him get under your skin all of times." she advised, her arms crossed.

Raph scoffed at Arcee's advice, annoyed. "Yeah! Like I am not even trying!" he added, waving his hands at her dismissively.

Meanwhile, Leo had set his sights on Louie, who was impatiently glancing sideways at Dom while the turtle in white was paying full attention to Splinter's teachings.

Still suspicious of Louie agreeing so eagerly and so quickly to join this training session unlike during the past five days the turtle in blue had decided to keep an eye on his brother and monitor his every move in case he had any ulterior motives for Dom.

"Now. Leave your weapons to the sidelines, if you please." Splinter said, pointing his staff at his children.

The turtles then took out their weapons and put them down to the floor behind their shells... though Raph was initially reluctant to do so, for he liked to practice with his Sais in hands, until he eventually dropped them to the floor.

Leo, however, grew worried when he saw Louie just pulling out his Butterfly swords and impatiently tossing them to the floor, making them to clang loudly upon the impact against the floor, before he dropped his Manriki-Gusaris loudly to the floor as well.

"I will select the pairs that will practice together." Master Splinter said, before he pointed his staff first at Donnie.

"Donatello? You'll team up with Marietta."

Donnie and Mary bowed to their Sensei before they moved out of the line to Splinter's left.

"Leonardo? You team up with Michelangelo."

Leo and Mikey bowed before they left the line to Splinter's right.

"Artemisia? You you team up with Raphael to fight Leonardo and Michelangelo"

Arcee and Raph bowed, before they moved to Splinter's left to stand next to Donnie and Mary and opposite to the turtles in blue and orange.

Arcee saw that Raph was eyeing Mikey impatiently, probably because he was dying to wait to settle some scores with his little brother.

"Remember, Raph. Keep your cool and don't let Mikey to get to you, and we will win this." the turtle in pink whispered.

"I intend to." Raph muttered in response, though Arcee took this as Raph's intent to aim for victory at any cost.

Then came what Leo had been dreaded for.

"Domenico? You team up with Lorenzo to fight Donatello and Marietta."

Dom and Louie bowed, though Louie once more glanced at Dom's direction with the devious grin in the corner of his lips, which Leo noticed, before the turtles in black and white walked up to stand next to hin and Mikey and opposite to the turtles in purple and turquoise.

Before Master Splinter could tap the floor with his staff to begin, Leo quickly stopped him drom doing so by leaving his spot next to Mikey and walked up to his father.

"Sensei? A little word, please? In private?" Leo pleaded, quietly but urgently.

Though surprised and a bit confused, Splinter nodded his head, before Leo pulled him aside so that the two can discuss just them two alone.

"What is it, my son?" Splinter asked.

"Sensei. I'm not sure if it's really wise to put Louie to practice with Dom right now. You know they haven't been in a good terms with each other for five days since... well, you know." Leo told him.

"I know that, Leonardo." Splinter said.

"And you really should have seen how Louie has practically turned Dom into a target and his practice dummies in his room. And the way how he's been handling them... well, I'd rather not describe it." Leo added uncomfortably.

Splinter didn't say anything, but allowed Leo to continue.

"And Louie joined this training session pretty eagerly and surprisingly faster than what he has done these past five days... especially after hearing that Dom too would be joining in this one." Leo informed. "I have a feeling that he might have done that only so that he can take his anger on him for real."

Splinter still didn't say anything, so Leo got to the point.

"So is it really wise to put Louie and Dom with each other right now?" the turtle in blue reasoned. "Would it be wiser if you put me with Louie and Dom with Mikey, so that this won't turn up into another incident similiar to one between of Mikey and Raph that one time?"(1)

"Hmmm." Splinter mumbled as he put his finger over his chin, thinking this over.

"I appreciate your concerns, Leonardo, but this strain between Lorenzo and Domenico must be eradicated or it might yet prove to be fateful to them in the real battle." Splinter said to his son. "They need to learn either easy way or the hard way that they cannot properly fight the evil, if they continue to fight each other."(2)

However, Leo wasn't anywhere near of being convinced that this won't end up badly between his brothers.

"I'm still going to keep an eye on Louie just in case." Leo said, before the turtle in blue returned to resume his place next to Mikey.

Splinter didn't say anything positive or negative about this, even as he nodded his head before turning to his children.

Each and every turtle in their respective groups then took their stances and prepared to the fight, sizing each other while trying to anticipate their first movements and at the same time come up with something unpredictable from their side.

"HAJIME!" Splinter said, tapping his staff to the floor.

"Mikey! High ground!" Leo ordered as he charged forward.

"ON IT!" Mikey whooped as he jumped in the air with the flip.

"Raph! Wait till I..." Arcee tried to, but...

"HYAAAAAAAAH!" Raph roared and charged forward.

"NO!" Arcee yelled after her, before the turtle in pink facepalmed in annoyance with her brother's impulsiveness, before she charged forward.

Raph charged towards Leo in attempt to tackle him down when the turtle in blue wasn't looking, but halted when Mikey all of the sudden landed right in front of her.

"Peekaboo, I see you, bro." Mikey teased, giving Raph a wide-eyed goofy face.

Though initially surprised of Mikey's sudden appearance right in front of him, Raph eventually shrugged it off before he swung his left and then his right fist at Mikey, who dodged them with ease.

"Remember what the doctor said, Raphie-boy. "No head-first charging or you'll bump your head into something." Mikey chuckled.

Raph growled before he jumped in the air, spun around and attempted to bring his foot down on Mikey, but Mikey flipped backwards to avoid it.

"Hee-hee-hee! And I thought that "high-ground" was supposed to be my technique." Mikey teased further.

Angered over Mikey's teasing, Raph grabbed to the round target and hurled it towards Mikey in the manner of frisbee, only to miss when Mikey literally pulled his head inside his shell to avoid getting hit by it, before popping it back up.

"Whoa! Close but no dice, Raphael." Mikey teased.

"HYAH!" Raph roared and dived at Mikey in attempt to tackle him, only for Mikey to jump up, spreading his legs, causing Raph to fly underneath of him and then land flat on his plastron to the wall.

"Whoa! Hee-hee-hee! You call that a charge, Raphie? It looked like a nose-dive on the hard ground." Mikey laughed.

Having had enough, Raph jumped up and turned around to charge at Mikey.

Raph then swung his fist repeatedly at Mikey in attempt to lay a blow on him, but the turtle in orange kept dodging them easily.

"Whoa!" Mikey said as he dodged the first swing.

"Whoops!" he said as he dodged Raph's second swing

"Missed! And..." he said as he bowed under Raph's backhanded swing, before jumping up in the air and spin-kicked Raph in the face.

"Oohhhh! Right in the kisser!" Mikey teased.

Recovering and ticked off, Raph tried to kick Mikey with his left leg though the turtle in orange blocked it. Raph then tried to punch him with his right, though Mikey grabbed from it with his left hand and moved it away, and then grabbed with his right from Raph's left fist as he attempted to punch him, before the turtle in orange pushed Raph away.

Raph then spun around and tried to sweep Mikey's legs off from under with his foot, but Mikey jumped out of the way and then attempted to punch him with his right, only for Raph to block it with his left before he punched Mikey in the face, making him step back and shook his head.

Elsewhere, Leo and Arcee met each other, and the latter immediately began to repeatedly swing her fists at the former, though Leo blocked them with easy.

Arcee then tried to roundhouse-kick him with her right foot, but Leo ducked under it, before Arcee jumped up in the air and tried to spin-kick him in the head with her left foot as Leo stood up, only to miss when Leo leaned his head back.

Leo then counter-attacked and hammered his little sister with his own attacks, which Arcee just barely managed to block with her arms, though Leo's attacks were much harder that they pushed the turtle in pink back step by step.

Leo then spun around and raised his left foot up before he brought it down on Arcee, who blocked by crossing her arms over her head, before she pushed her brother back, roaring from the strain. Leo, however, flipped onto his hands to the floor and then onto his feet before he jumped backwards with the couple flips in the air before landing back on his feet.

He and Arcee then held their fists up as they took their respective stances. The turtle in blue and pink then locked their gazes with each other, sizing each other for a moment, before they charged at each other.

Back to Raph and Mikey, Raph was repeatedly sending punches and swings at the turtle in orange from his left and right, and grew more and more frustrated when Mikey just kept dodging or blocking them without breaking the sweat... while he kept teasing him verbally, ticking him off even more and thus making Raph's attacks sloppier and predactable after each attack.

"You know... Raphie-boy... though I find... the stereotypic belief... of you being slow... as a turtle... but when I... fly like the butterfly... and sting like a bee..." Mikey said to Raph between of dodging and blocking his attacks.

But in middle of his sentence, Mikey jumped over Raph's punch, and all of the sudden vanished from Raph's sight without the trace.

Raph looked frantically to the left and right and behind his shell, trying to see where Mikey could've gone, unaware that when he turned around, Mikey appeared standing right behind him, before he leaned forward to whisper to Raph's ear.

"... you'll never see Michelangelo coming before it's too late."

Alarmed, Raph turned around to swing his fist at him, only for Mikey to dodge him and vanish from the sight again. Now desperate, Raph looked around again to see where Mikey had gone now before looking down.

And there Mikey was, smirking triumphantly at him while being ready to finish him off.

"READY, LEO! HERE COMES!" Mikey let out, before he jumped up and uppercutted Raph in the face, sending the turtle in red flying in the air.

Leo then swung his left arm horicontally at Arcee, knocking her own arms out of the way and thus breaking her guard. Leo then swung his right fist at Arcee's head, which the turtle in pink dodged under, until Leo spun around and palm-struck his little sister in her plastron with his right palm, knocking her back.

"NO!" Arcee cried desperately, seeing that the defeat was inevitable.

Then Arcee was hit by Raph after Mikey knocked him into her, knocking both the turtles in red and pink over to the floor, with Arcee being pinned onto her plastron and Raph lying on top of her, groaning and growling in defeat.

"WOO-HOO!" Mikey whooped as Leo walked up to him.

"Oh, yeah!" Leo cheered as he held his hands up.

Mikey and Leo then high-threed with their both hands, congratulating each other.

"Way to go, Mikey! Well done!" Leo praised, as the two brothers shoulder-bumped each other.

"Winners and champions: Leonardo and Michelangelo!" Mikey cheered.

Seeing that he and Raph were being defeated by Mikey and Leo, Arcee let out the sigh in annoyance - knowing thanks to whom this went bad for them - as she rested her head on her right palm and tapped her fingers against the floor.

"Congratulations, Raph. You just had to let him under your skin, again." Arcee said sarcastically to Raph.

"You try to ignore him and his non-stopping big mouth if you were me, Arcee." Raph complained back as he rolled off Arcee's shell and got up to his feet.

"That's the problem, because I'm not you, bro." Arcee retorted, before she hopped onto her feet.

Meanwhile, Louie and Dom had engaged Donnie and Mary to the fight... though the turtles in purple and white, and turquoise and black happened to be a quite equally matched - exchanging blows and dodging or blocking each other's attacks both from above and low - that none of them didn't get the upperhand over another for a while.

However, while duelling with Mary, Louie glanced repeatedly at Dom, as if seeking for a perfect opportunity to do something sneaky in his brother's expense.

However, after Louie ducked under Mary's next swing, the turtle in black swiftly kicked with his left leg to the back of Dom's right leg while his focus was in Donnie. The turtle in white grunted in surprise and pain as he fell on his knee to the floor... though this caused Donnie to miss him when the turtle in purple attempted to spin-kick Dom with his right foot.

When Donnie, thinking that Dom had managed to dodge his kick, tried to bring his left arm down on him to strike him, the turtle in white, though suspecting who it was that had kicked him in the back of his knee and why, didn't have time to turn to chide the real culprit for his sneaky move when he had to raise his both arms in a cross over his head to ward off a blow from the turtle in purple.

However, this left his lower guard open, because at the same time when Donnie attempted to knee him in the plastron, Louie swung his right fist in the wide horizontal arc at Mary but missed her as the turtle in turquoise jumped back... and ended up to punch Dom instead and a pretty hard right in the chest, making him gasp and bend slightly over.

Sideways look at his direction from Louie, along with the sly smirk in the corner of his lip confirmed that it wasn't accidental but actually a deliberate.

Mary then attempted to deliver the kick at Louie with her left leg, but Louie dodged it with his right own, only to move his foot under her sister's own to maneuver it upwards, causing her sister to accidentally kick Dom in the face hard enough to knock his head back and flung the turtle in white onto his butt to the floor.

"Louie!" Dom shouted, rubbing his jaws that had taken the hit.

"What?!" Louie called, without looking at him as the turtle in black kept duelling with Mary.

"Stop hitting me, will ya?!" Dom chided as he stood up and resumed his fight with Donnie.

"I don't know what you're talking about, bro!" Louie said innocently.

"Don't take me as a fool, Louie! I know it was you who kept hitting me here, even though we were supposed to work together as a team!" Dom chided some more, shooting a brief narrowed glares in his direction.

"You want me to cover your shell?" Louie asked.

But before Dom could answer this either positively or negatively, the turtle in black didn't give him time to do so.

"Alright! I'll cover your shell!" Louie said with the nod.

The turtle in black then jumped high up to avoid the incoming leaping kick from Mary and flipped backwards in the air before he landed on his feet behind of Dom's shell, with Mary turning around to face him again.

Dom was still suspicious that Louie was once again planning on something dirty for him, but the turtle in white couldn't really focus on him properly due to him having to defend himself against Donnie's new attacks.

Louie paid a sly smirk at Dom behind his shell, seeing that his next trick was all set, before he turned to Mary and dared his big sister to come to him with his hands.

Mary complied and swung a right straight punch at Louie, which the turtle in black knocked away with his left hand, causing Mary to spin around to his left and sent a kick with his left foot at Louie's head, only to miss when Louie ducked his head ground, leading Mary to accidentally kick Dom in the back... with Louie giving an extra boost by kicking Dom in the shell with his right own as well.

"HEY!" Dom cried in surprise as Louie's and Mary's combined kicks made him stumble forward, only to meet the kick in his plastron from Donnie, that knocked him back.

Donnie's kick caused Dom to fall backwards and over Louie's shoulders, as the turtle in black had bent down on one knee behind his brother to catch him, as if to prevent him from falling over the floor, which wasn't the case.

"LOUIE!" Dom shouted again, knowing that this was all his doings.

"You wanted the teamwork, right? Then let's do this with the teamwork!" Louie said.

Carrying the turtle in white over his shoulders, Louie spun around and used Dom's flailing legs at Mary away as she tried to knock them both over with another leaping kick, knocking the turtle in turquoise away.

Then Louie turned and spun around for a couple times to pick up the speed, before the turtle in black, letting out a strained roar, summoned his all strength to throw the turtle in white off his shoulders and into Donnie, knocking them both over.

"YES!" Louie cheered, triumphantly raising his fist in the air after taking out not only Donnie and Mary, but also Dom as well.

"YA ME!" Splinter ordered.

All the turtles then turned to their master as he walked up to them, with Dom, Donnie and Mary picking themselves up from the floor.

First, Splinter turned to Leo and Mikey, with the proud smile on his face. "Leonardo and Michelangelo. You have done well."

The old rat master and his two sons then bowed to each other, before the former turned towards Raph and Arcee. "Raphael? What part in working together as a team don't you understand?" he asked sternly.

"Because I aim straight for the win." Raph answered confidently, making Arcee to facepalm herself again in annoyance with her stubborn hot-headed brother.

"Mm-hmm. But through of more rash than well-thought methods." Splinter clarified. "Which is why I suggest that in the future you improve your way of thinking beforehand of acting."

Raph let out a disappointed groan as Splinter walked away.

"And Lorenzo!" Splinter said as he adressed his son with way more sterner voice. "I thought I'd said that you and Domenico were supposed to work together to defeat your brother and sister."

"And we did, Sensei." Louie protested with the innocent shrug. "We did beat Donnie and Mary by using our combined skills and teamwork just like you said."

"More likely, YOU went solo on them by using ME as a leverage!" Dom growled as he pointed his finger accusingly at the turtle in white, finally being able to focus on chiding his brother now that the training practice was over. "And don't think I didn't see how you were constantly directing some of your attacks on me when my eye avoided!"

"Still don't know what you're talking about, Dom, which is my heart cries blood for your accusations." Louie said with mock hurt look and his hand over his heart.

"Besides..." Louie added, holding up his finger at Dom. "I was just trying a new techniques. You got something against that? Or don't answer to that. I know you're against anything considered as "new."

Dom growled as he narrowed his eyes into a hard scowl at his brother, knowing that he knew what he did, yet was deliberately covering his actions with excuses.

That was then when Leo stepped in. "No, Louie. Dom isn't exactly wrong in here."

Both Louie and Dom then turned to look at their older brother with the mixed looks.

"You pretty much aimed some of your attacks, and even some of Mary's, on Dom on purpose." Leo stated. "And don't bother to deny it, because I saw it."

"He's no kidding here, bro." Mary agreed, scowling at Louie. "I never even aimed either of my kicks at Dom. You made me to kick him twice."

Unrelenting, Louie just brushed their accusations off. "You're guys all overreacting. Is it really my fault if I accidentally kicked him in the back of his leg, hit him in the guts, directed Mary's kick in the wrong way or got her to kick him instead?" the turtle in black protested.

"Besides, he wanted the teamwork, so we used the teamwork in a completely a new way. But as is his way, he is always against anything new. Haven't you noticed it yourself already?" Louie asked from everybody while gesturing at Dom with his hands.

However, Dom knew all too well that Louie was lying in all of their faces, and he knew what worked as his special motivation to it.

"Is this all about it, Louie? Isn't it?" Dom said accusingly.

Louie's innocent facade turned swiftly into a lightly hardened frown, knowing where Dom was going here, which was why he refused to look at him.

"Dom, don't go there." Raph cautioned, knowing already where this might led, due to having been there himself before.(1)

"I don't know what you're talking about, Dom." Louie said deniably with a barely moderate voice.

"Oh, I beg to differ, because I know you do. This is all due solely to your anger over your breakup with Angel five days ago." Dom said as he grabbed from his brother's left shoulder with his right hand.

However, that was a mistake from Dom when Louie, ticked off by his words and thus dropping all of the innocent-guy-act, swiftly grabbed Dom's arm with his left hand and forcibly yanked his hand off his shoulder before the turtle in black pulled him down hard by his arm, causing a surprised Dom to bend over.

And then, Louie swiftly and without the second thought turned around and snap-kicked Dom right in his face pretty hard with his right foot, knocking his head back - and causing some blood and saliva to fly out of Dom's mouth - and causing him to fly over his shell to the floor.

Everyone stared at what just transpired in front of them with shocked looks over their faces.

"LOUIE!" Leo chided as he along with Mary ran to Louie as he towered menacingly over downed Dom.

The turtles in blue and turquoise quickly restrained their brother by grabbing from his arms, even though Louie didn't resist their grips. All he did was to glare venomously down at Dom, as the turtle in white moaned in pain and couched both blood and saliva out of his mouth.

"Well, what else you think this was all about, shell-for-brains!" Louie spat. "And we didn't broke up! We were separated forcibly! And why? Because you wanted so badly to rat us out about something that wasn't even our fault in the first place!"

However, before Louie could either say or do anything else, Master Splinter lowered his staff in front of his son while shooting him a stern glare.

"Lorenzo! This behavior is unacceptable!" the old rat master snapped, tapping his staff to the floor. "You and Dom are brothers and you should be fighting side by side, not against each other!

Louie shook off his brother and sister holding his arms, before he turned to confront his master.

"Oh! My behavior? You say that my behavior is the problem here?!" the turtle in black questioned, referring to himself. "What about his own behavior?" he then said, referring Dom, as the turtle in white slowly picked himself off the floor.

"Dom is the very reason why I'm acting like this because of what he did, and you're taking his side?! All of you?!" Louie said to his master, before he turned to look at the others.

The others didn't say a word. They either gave Louie a silent neutral looks, while few of them gave him somewhat a sympathetic looks.

"Dom drove me to this with his annoying obsession with keeping things in the way that suit him and him alone!" Louie ranted angrily, pointing his finger accusingly at Dom.

"That's not true, Louie." Dom protested, still rubbing his jaw before wiping the blood and saliva away. "My whole point in the whole thing was to remind you, Louie, that we're better of just being ourselves."

Louie shot him a dark look.

"Like... being a ninja turtle destined to live forever in the shadows and never allowed to interract with the human being like how I did with Angel?" the turtle in black said.

Louie then swiftly took out a black bandage, before he swung it over Dom's head and around his neck, before the turtle in black yanked his brother to him by the bandage, making the turtle in white fall on his knees before him.

"I know exactly who I am, you little slimy slug!" the turtle in black snarled through his gritted teeth as he glared daggers down at his brother. "I am a ninja turtle who is almost disgusted of being brothers with such of CONTROLLING FREAK! Whose selfishness cost me my friendship with Angel, and ruined my life!"

Upon finishing, Louie raised his free hand up and clenched it into a fist in an attempt to pummel Dom for real, but Raph was quick to grab a hold of his brother's arm before he could.

"Now, now, Louie! Don't you go through the same mistake as I nearly did." Raph advised.(1)

Master Splinter then pointed his staff at Louie. "Let your brother go, Lorenzo."

Louie frowned in anger for being stopped from taking it out on his brother for what he did to him, but begrudgingly agreed... though by throwing his brother over his shell to the floor unceremonially like a rag doll.

"Like I told you back then, Lorenzo. It was for the best of both of you, especially for her." Master Splinter said with a bit more gentlier voice.

Splinter then turned around and walked slightly away from his children as he kept lecturing his Lorenzo.

"Not only you two won't be putting yourself and each other so recklessly in the harm's way anymore, but this is also the best way to prevent you from bringing any form of danger upon both of our families." Splinter added.

"Again with this same old thing? Pfft!" Louie scoffed boredly. "Sensei? Can't you cut me some slack? It ain't my fault that I inadvertently brought Angel into something that turned out to be a trap."

Splinter then whipped around and, aiming a grim look at his son, pointed his staff at him.

"Well, it never would have even been your fault if you'd known better than to take her with you on that car chase!" Splinter snapped, making Louie flinch and jump back in alarm of his father's raising temper.

Splinter then took a deep breath to calm himself, before he tapped his staff to the floor.

"You got an hour a break, then we'll continue your training." Splinter declared.

The other turtles, including Dom who had climbed back up to his feet, bowed to their master in return.

However, Louie didn't follow the others' suit, because the turtle in black's mindset was currently completely elsewhere in his head, while he looked down to the floor with the deep frown while pursing his lips seethingly.

And then, much to the other turtles' and Splinter's surprise, Louie turned his shell to everybody before the turtle in black stormed towards the front door leading down to the sewer tunnels.

"Louie?" Leo called after him bemusedly.

"Lorenzo!" Splinter called sternly after his son. "I said you have an hour break. I never said you were allowed to leave the Lair. Come back here at once!"

"Sorry, Sensei." Louie said as he reached to the ramp leading up to the front door and walked it up. "But I need some time to be alone and to think... and to be FAR AWAY FROM HIM!" he added, pointing angrily at Dom's direction.

Dom responsed to this with an angry frown of his own, before Louie walked out of the door and disappeared into the tunnel.

"Sheesh! And I though I was the one who had the stormings out of the Lair in anger." Raph said, shaking his head.

"Well, if it makes you feel better, Raph, you do that a way more often than anybody else here." Donnie reminded him.

This earned him an unamused frown from Raph, though Mary quickly jumped in to Donnie's side.

"He's got a point here, bro." the turtle in turquoise said.

"Should we send someone to go after him?" Arcee suggested. "You know, to make sure that he won't end up into a trouble out there, especially in this state of mind of his."

"No." Leo declined. "Maybe it's best to give him some time to cool down. Maybe he'll accept the things the way they are later after he has calmed down. Hopefully."

"Hmph! Good riddance, I say." Dom spat indifferently.

However, this only earned the turtle in white a disapproval scowls from everybody around, including Master Splinter.

"What?" Dom protested with the shrug.

TO BE CONTINUED...

TRIVIA

1) = References to the scene in the episode "Meet Casey Jones" after Mikey's teasing during of their training ticks Raph off to the point of him attacking him in blind fury and nearly harming him with the pipe.

2) = This is based on what Splinter said in TMNT 2007 film "We cannot return to the surface to fight evil...if we continue to fight each other."