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.

69. The Girl and the Turtle, Part 3, Part 6

Guest: Hmm... given to Angel's own history with the Purple Dragons and how the circumentances of the "Fallen Angel" episode/chapters led to her realization of the bad choices she had made and how much harm they brought upon those people she cares about... that sounds an interesting idea.

Guest: Making the Ninja Tribunal season, with Saki as a member of it rather than a Tengu Shredder, is still pretty much under the consideration because I ain't anywhere near of the fifth season yet.

UniGeek16: I'm glad that you have both liked and followed my story so far. And Arcee's name is likely pronounced as "Ar-See".

animegamefanatic: Yeah. Edward indeed deserves the place where he can rest in peace undisturbed.

And yeah. I guess that Master Splinter, Leo, Donnie, Dom and Mary were quite surprised of how much of Master Splinter's teachings Louie had inflicted on these children, and how much of his own courage in the battle had inspired these children as well.

And you will see the children fighting in here... as well as Dandelion's well-deserved defeat.

Girl Anime Club: Most of those children's ages were varied between five, seven and ten, so I believe that Edward's age was somewhere between of seven and eight.

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=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=The Girl and the Turtle Part 3, Part 6=

In the upstairs, Mr. Nosy, Alcatraz, Johannes, Marcus and the others had positioned themselves behind the door frames of the room that was above of the dining room.

The room was littered with tarps that blocked the view to the opposite side, though the work lights shone through of them.

And thanks to that, the villains managed to spot the shadowy figure with the turtle-like shape moving behind the tarps.

"There is that freak!" Alcatraz snarled and raised his automatic rifle up, carefully aiming his killshot directly at the shadow's head. "Now I shall have my revenge for him beating me in my own game back at MY rap concert!"

"Not before I blast his ugly head off first!" Marcus told him as he took the aim at the shadow with his shotguns. "I got way more than just a one score to settle with this giant frog for kicking my ass up!"

"Quiet, you two morons!" Mr. Nosy snarled at them. "Or you'll alert him of our presence!"

"Yes. Besides, Mr. Dandelion clearly ordered us to capture him alive for him!" Johannes said, reminding both of them about their orders.

Both Alcatraz and Marcus sighed with disappointment of their chances for the revenge agasinst Louie being denied because of Dandelion wanting Louie all for himself, before they both reluctantly lowered their guns down.

"Well, at least we can beat him to half-death before we can take him to the boss or just shoot him there which won't kill him right away." Gabriel commented while wielding the assault rifle.

"Anyway, we must first catch him." Mr. Nosy told his men.

"Any ideas then, Mr. Nosy?" Johannes asked from him.

"Move into the room quietly a into the formation, from the left wall to the right wall. We'll corner him into the corner from all sides. And when I'll give the signal, we'll charge on him and shoot him in the legs. Remember! Shoot him only in the legs, nowhere else! With the luck, we'll manage to both cut off his escape and incapacitate him." Mr. Nosy instructed.

"Sounds good to me." Marcus shrugged.

"Alright! Let's go!" Mr. Nosy said.

Moving as quietly as they could, the villains sneaked into the room and formed up a long line that reached from one wall to the other, starting from Mr. Nosy's turquoise-suited mustache-goon and the yellow-hatted hook-nosed goon, then Alcatraz's "Turquoise" and "Red" dancers, then Gabriel, then Alcatraz's "Blue" and "Green" dancers, then Marcus, Mr. Nosy, Johannes, then Dandelion's shortie mustache-goon and the tall baldie goon, and lastly Alcatraz's "Pink" and "Purple" dancers.

They all aimed their guns at the shadow's legs and prepared themselves to move upon Mr. Nosy's signal.

The shadow then began to move to the left and right, apparently becoming aware of their presence was was looking for the way out.

"NOW!" Mr. Nosy ordered, and opened the fire upon the shadow's legs with his handguns.

Every Dandelion then opened the fire upon the shadow's legs as they charged in the in tight formation towards the shadow.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA!

Tarp got torn from the gunfire, with all the bullets from all sides hitting directly to the shadows legs.

But for some confusion reason, no matter how much bullets they spent on the shadow's legs, the shadow still stood still instead of falling like it normally should have.

Realizing this, the villains ceased their fire and stopped dead in their tracks, staring at the shadow in wide-eyed confusion.

Marcus, however, dismissed this and kept charging towards the shadow. He hadn't fired a single shot from his shotguns unlike the others, because he wanted to savor this moment by shooting Louie at close range, even if it meant to disobey Dandelion's orders to capture Louie alive.

"I GOT YOU NOW, YOU CURSED FREAK! I GOT YOU NOW!" Marcus roared, aiming his shotguns up to the shadow's head.

"Marcus! Wait!" Johannes called, but Marcus ignored him and fired anyway, hitting the shadow in the head.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Marcus' shooting tore the tarp off the ceiling of the room to reveal his victims' body, only to reveal NO ONE lying there at all.

"HUH?!" Marcus gasped in confusion.

The other Dandelions gathered around of him to stare wide-eyed at the pot where the shadow had been standing and where they had been shooting at, only to find it empty, which left them totally baffled.

But when they all looked up at the bright work lights, they frowned in surprise when they saw the rat, Mike himself standing next to it while holding a turtle doll in front of the lights with his teeth, thus explaining the turtle-shaped shadow.

"The rat?!" Marcus gasped in bewilderment.

Dropping the doll from his mouth, Mike squeaked at them in the manner of laughter, before the small rodent clawed into the wall through of small hole before the villains could open the fire.

"BOSS! BOSS!" Mr. Nosy called down to the dining room through the hole, while still staring at the empty spot, the work lights, the turtle-doll and the hole Mike had crawled through in bafflement.

In the dining room, Dandelion, Japanese-American goon, Mr. Lasse, Dimitri and the leader of the death squad looked up through the hole in the upstairs.

"THE TURTLE! HE'S NOT UP HERE!" Mr. Nosy called down. "IT WAS JUST SOME STUPID RODENT HOLDING THE TURTLE-DOLL IN FRONT OF THE WORK LIGHTS!"

Dandelion was taken aback by confusion upon hearing these news.

"WHAT?! NOT UP THERE?!" Dandelion gasped. "THEN WHERE IS HE?!"

None of his men knew how to answer to that, until the sudden new voice spoke up for them.

"Right under your nose."

With the frown, Dandelion and his men looked down from the ceiling's hole and found themselves staring straight at Louie, with the turtle in black standing casually right in front of them, his narrowed eyes fixed on Dandelion in particular.

"You summoned me, didn't you?" Louie asked rhetorically.

The two archenemies then stared at each other for a some time in deep silence, sizing each other up while glaring one another with reasonable contempt.

"So, Mr. Lorenzo... you came at last." Dandelion said with the low voice as he and Louie began to circle each other in middle of the dining room. "You're drastically late by the way."

"Nah, Dandelion." Louie countered with the shake of his head. "The ninja is never late, nor is he early. Ninja arrives precisely when he means to."(1)

Dandelion frowned, annoyed, by the turtle in black's quoting and raised his submachine gun up, holding the turtle in black at gunpoint.

"Well, no matter. I got you right there where I wanted... in front of my gun!" he snarled.

Louie, however, narrowed his eyes even harder when he looked deep in Dandelion's eyes challengingly. "You really are gonna kill me in cold-blood just like you killed Edward?!"

"A necessary sacrifice of the disposable goods, nothing more." Dandelion shrugged indifferently. "Mr. Edward and Mr. Conrad already served their purpose what I asked them to do."

"With the gear up of plastic explosives?!" Louie spat with disgust.

"How else they would've done so?" Dandelion shrugged again. "And besides, blowing them to bits was in fact a benefical to me because you're apparently the only one in your freakish family who knows the location of this place. So they'll never find us in time. And by then it'll be too late. So technically you're on your own here."

"That's why I am here, Dandelion. To finish this between of us personally, once and for all." Louie retorted.

"So am I, Mr. Lorenzo. And I'm gonna do it quickly as possible... by blowing your brains out with one shot." Dandelion spat.

"Then go ahead. Do it. Just shoot an unarmed turtle standing just two meters away from you." Louie dared him, spreading him arms in "go ahead" manner.

"And I gladly will." Dandelion said with the psychotic smirk as he prepared to pull the trigger.

"But if you do it, I'll come back to haunt you in your dreams as a ghost. And I will repeatedly tell you every night that Dandelion was too scared to lift a finger against me, because he was too petty man driven by vanity and downright too soft-hearted and cowardly weiner who won't stand a thought of getting his own hands dirty." Louie taunted. "In other words, you're nothing without your tiny peashooter."

Dandelion frowned harder and growled, angered over Louie taunting him in such of manner, while Louie's taunting him made the children to chuckle amongst themselves.

As if provoked to prove Louie wrong about him, Dandelion lowered his gun down and dropped them both from his hands. Then he reached out his hands towards the leader of the dead squad, who handed to him two machetes.

"You have an insolently sharp tongue, you know that, Mr. Lorenzo." Dandelion spat as he braced himself. "Prepare to meet your end, and let these words be the final words you'll ever hear again from me, that I am more... than meets the eye."(2)

"Very well, Prime..." Louie said with the smirk, playing along with the deepened voice. "Let's DO THIS!"(2)

With the lightning fast move, Louie drew out his Butterfly swords and attacked.

First Louie clashed his right sword with Dandelion's left machete, then his left with Dandelion's right before he moved the machete out of his way as he spun around and swung his right sword at Dandelion's head, who dodged under it and moved behind Louie. Dandelion tried to strike him, but Louyie turned around swiftly and blocked the attack with his left sword before he sent four slashes at Dandelion, two per each sword, which Dandelion blocked with his right machete. Dandelion then swung his left machete at Louie from under of his defense, but Louie leaped over it onto his right hand and then pushed himself up, flipping over Dandelion's second swing, before the turtle in black swung his both swords at Dandelion from his left, though Dandelion managed to block them as well, before the gangster boss pushed Louie back.

"Not bad, from the old man." Louie tauntingly praised.

"ARGH!" Dandelion growled and charged again.

Louie met his attack by leaping at him and bringing his both swords down at him, though Dandelion raised his machetes over his head to block them, before he attempted to once more swing his left machete at Louie, though the turtle in black leaned back to duck the swing from under until he flipped onto his hands and then back on his feet as Dandelion swung his right machete at him. He tried to swing his right machete at him for the second time, but Louie jumped over the swing. And as Dandelion tried to bring his left machete down on him, the turtle in black moved to his right side before he jumped with the barrel roll over his head, but not before whacking him in the back of his head with the knuckle-guard of his right sword, knocking Dandelion onward.

However, as Louie landed on his feet, Louie found himself being surrounded by Dandelions' men, who had heard both gunshots and the clanking of metal from upstairs during Louie and Dandelion's duel and rushed up to the dining room to their boss' defense.

At least one hundred of them - and more just kept coming from both upstairs and downstairs - gathered densely around of Louie to prevent him from escaping, aiming their guns at the turtle in black and prepared to shoot him from all sides.

"NO! LEAVE HIM!" Dandelion barked at them. "He is mine!"

"Well, don't worry, guys." Louie shrugged, non too worried. "There's enough of us for all of you."

"Us?" Mr. Lasse repeated in confusion from behind the lines, as he glanced up at frowning Dimitri with the raised eyebrow.

"That's right. Us." Louie confirmed, before turning to the prisoners. "LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!"

And after a few seconds...

"LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!" the children shouted simultaneously as they all sprung up from the floor and raised each of their respective weapons, with Angel springing up from amidst of them, her fists raised up.

The Dandelions were caught by surprise, for they hadn't expected the prisoners having somehow freed themselves, let alone armed themselves.

The children, both boys and girls, began then wildly and repeatedly whack the villains with their weapons, taking all the anger they felt for Edward's death out on the ones responsible for it. Their smaller size gave them some advantage, for the Dandelions had mostly to lean down to try to grab, only to get whacked in their arms, backs of their hands and their fingers, thus making them to wince in pain and pull back, opening the acces to their feet and groins, where the children aimed their next attacks.

Dandelion was momentarily stunned to see his prisoners revolting against him, which he deduced of being Louie's doing.

"Come on, Dandelion! We've just got warmed up." Louie called, daring Dandelion to come to him.

Turning his attention at Louie again, Dandelion charged at him and the two resumed their duelling.

Dandelion began wildly hack his both machetes at Louie, first with the left, then with right, then again with left, then with right and so on, while Louie, still smirking, backed away from him while casually and skillfully meeting his attacks with his own swords.

And meanwhile, one of the goons approached Angel and attempted to whack her with the metal pipe, only to miss when Angel dodged it before she punched the goon right in the kisser and then kicked him in the face, knocking him back. Another goon then tried to hit Angel with the piece of wood, but Angel jumped over it and kicked the goon in the shoulder, knocking him over. Another goon then tried to swing the metal stick at Angel twice, but she dodged both of them before kicking the thug in the guts, making him gasp in pain and bent over, before Angel flip-kicked him in the face, sending him flying flat on his back. Angel then dodged the next thug's swing at her head with the wrench, before she kicked him in the back of his knee, causing him to fall on his knee, before Angel dealt with him with the couple punches in the face, knocking him out. And finally, Angel dodged the punch from a new goon, before she grabbed to the goon's arm and flung him over to the floor.

Laura whacked one goon in the head repeatedly with her shovel to keep him at bay, before she jabbed him in the stomach with its blunt end., causing the goon to gasp and bent over in pain. Laura then finished him by bringing her shovel down on the goon's head, knocking him out.

Buck swung his wooden sword over his head and brought it hard down on the second goon's leg. Then he swung his sword at the goon's leg again, sweeping his leg from under and thus tripping him over, and then whacked the goon in the stomach.

Jake whacked one goon in the forehead with his wooden ladle, leaving there a bruise as the strike knocked the goon's head back. Jake then charged at another goon with his head down, and thanks to his little overweight, it wasn't difficult for him to knock the goon off his feet to the floor.

"COME ON!" Oliver dared as he swung his frying pan, including his headwear: the saucepan, here and there with the wide and powerful swings, whacking the goons in the heads, faces, chests, knees or feet here and there.

Oliver even banged one goon in the knee, making him to scream in pain before he fell over his knees, leaving him at Oliver's mercy as the boy marched towards him. The goon held out his hand in surrender, but Oliver ignored him and whacked him in the face with his frying pan, knocking him out.

Jessica was hitting her wrench at the goon's metal stick repeatedly, giving the goon no time for the counterattack. However, the goon then pushed his way past Jessica's defense and knocked her over. He was about to hit downed Jessica with his metal stick, if Minnie hadn't interfered and brought her hammer hard onto the goon's foot.

"ARGH!" the goon groaned in pain.

Angie then charged at another goon that tried to reach out to grab on her, only to get whacked in his hand by her rolling pin, knocking it away from her before she slid from under the villain and between his legs to his other side. She and the goon turned around to face each other, with Angie hitting him in the stomach, making the goon bend over in pain, before Laura came to her aid and whacked the goon in the head, knocking him over.

Tito and Dino teamed up against another goon, with the latter whacking the goon in the face with the cricket bat and the former sweeping the legs from under with his baseball bat, knocking the goon down, and then they both brought their respective weapons hard down on the goon's stomach, knocking the air out of him.

Meanwhile, Dandelion attempted to swing his right machete at Louie's head, only to miss when the turtle in black ducked under it, before he jumped up and spin-kicked Dandelion in the face as he turned around to attack Louie again, which knocked him slightly back.

Louie then charged at Dandelion on his turn, before he began to spin himself around and swinging his both swords alternatively over his head and down at Dandelion over and over again with the rapid pace, forcing Dandelion to go into defensive, until Louie finally and suddenly spun in the other direction and swung both of his swords from below at Dandelion, and the impact of their weapons' clashing together knocked him back.

As the fighting kept going, Mr. Lasse and Dimitri, due to them being a counterfeiter and the lawyer, tried to sneak away so that they wouldn't be caught in the fighting. Unfortunately...

"Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh! You're not going anywhere, punks!" Jake said, holding his wooden ladle at the two villains.

"Aahhh!" both Lasse and Dimitri gasped in fear, as if the overweight boy's weapons was any kind of deadly weapon.

One goon was overpowering Jessica, hacking his crowbar at her while Jessica barely managed to block the attacks with her wrench while backing away, while another goon was overpowering Tito with the nightstick, making him to back away towards Angie. The two then bumped into each other that caused them to turn around to see who it was.

This momentary distraction allowed the goons to raise their respective weapons over their heads to strike the children, who upon noticing this quickly cowered down, shielding each themselves with their arms... only for the goons to comically bang their respective weapons into each others' heads, knocking each other out.

Dandelion then got kicked in the chest which knocked him against the wall, leaving him momentarily stunned, which Louie took advance of and charged at him, thrusting his right sword forward to stab him in the stomach, which Dandelion just narrowly managed to dodge by stepping out of the way, leading Louie to stab the wall instead.

Dandelion then brought his left machete down on Louie's arm to cut it off, but Louie, upon seeing this, let go of his sword and pulled his arm back. As Dandelion was going to renew his attack with his right machete, Louie switched his left sword into his right hand and pulled his other sword off the wall with his left, then he spun around and blocked Dandelion's attack with both of his blades.

Jake had meanwhile forced and cornered both Mr. Lasse and Dimitri onto the plank onto which he himself had been nearly forced a moment ago. He even smiled at the two crooks deviously, satisfied of being on the safer side of the plank himself this time.

"Now, now, boy! Take it easy! Take it easy! Uh, we surrender, okay! We were never even part of the Dandelion's crime family. We are just unwilling participants in his plots." Mr. Lasse said nervously, feigning innocent.

"Careful, boy!" Dimitri warned strictly, albeit a bit arrogantly. "I'm a lawyer! And if you even try as much as to hurt me with that ladle, I shall sue you for attacking the lawyer."

"Then you two stay here and right where you are, and I'll stand guard at the other end." Jake said before backing away into the building. "And don't try to come back down the plank, because otherwise you'll face with a four-story drop down below."

Both Mr. Lasse and Dimitri glanced down and realized that Jake was right, for the two of them were standing at the end of the springy plank and above of the four-story drop, so the two crooks tried NOT to move too much so that they wouldn't lose their balance and drop off.

Like the two crooks did, Ellie also was trying her best to avoid getting caught up into the fight herself. Walking slowly along the wall towards the exit, she looked back and forth at the progress of the fight in fear. Her hands shaking uncontrollably while tightly gripping the cane Louie had given her, wincing every time she heard a cry of pain from the crooks and jumping whenever one of the fallen and battered goons fell to the floor near her.

That was, until at least six Dandelion goons approached her, wielding the machete, crowbar, baseball, metal pipe, metal stick and the chain as weapons as they cornered her against the wall, making Ellie to gasp in shock.

"Ahh! Help!" Ellie cried, shielding herself from the goons with her arm as she backed against the wall.

"Grandma!" Angel gasped upon seeing the peril Ellie was in.

However, she had to dodge the swing of the bat from the next goon before she sent him back with the roundhouse-kick with her left foot, before Angel charged at the second thug on her left and jumped onto his stomach, then stepped onto the right side of his chest, then his left shoulder and then onto his head, before she jumped off towards her grandma and the Dandelions cornering her.

As the goons with the baseball bat and metal pipe were about to charge at Ellie, Angel flipped over in the air and kicked them both in their faces, sending them flying over to the floor.

Picking up one of the goon's dropped baseball bat, Angel used it to block the third goon's swing with the chain, allowing it to wrap itself around the bat before she pulled the chain out of the goon's hands, and then she whacked the goon in the head with the bat, knocking him down.

Angel then raised the bat over her head to block the fourth goon's attempt to cut her in half with the machete, which sunk half-way into the bat and got stuck there, before Angel kicked the goon away with her right foot. Then she turned around and back-handed the fifth goon who was about to sneak on her with the metal pipe across the face, knocking him down and out cold.

Angel then clashed her baseball bat with the sixth and last goon's crowbar, trading blows with one another before with one hard swing, the goon caused the bat to break from the middle and knocked it out of shocked Angel's hands. And as the goon attempted to swing at her again, Angel held her hands out and grabbed with both hands from the crowbar, preventing it from hitting her.

Not wanting to engage her in tug-of-war, the goon pushed Angel hard backwards, causing her to trip on her own feet and fell backwards, while pulling the goon with her too. Landing on her back to the floor with the goon on top of her, Anel put her feet against the goon's chest and somersaulted backwards onto her feet, but not before kicking the goon off her, sending him flying crashing through the window and out of the building.

"Angel! Are you alright?" Ellie asked worriedly, as she dropped the cane from her hands and knelt by her side, wrapping her arms around her granddaughter.

"I'm fine, grandma. You?" Angel asked back, equally worried for her.

"I would be better if we'd just get out of here!" Ellie told her, aloud in the midst of all of the noise of the fighting and yelling.

However, the Bridges' relief was short-lived when they saw the leader of Dandelion's death squad with the really big machete and really big and nasty-looking knife, growling angrily as he approached them.

Picking up Ellie's cane from the floor, Angel quickly got back up and pulled her grandma up as well.

"Grandma, I need you to go. Get away from here as fast as you can. I'll cover you and hold him off as long as I can." Angel said, pushing Ellie away from her and towards the exit without giving her even a chance to protest against this, before Angel let go of her and turned to face the leader of the dead squad.

"Angel! No! Angel, come back! ANGEL!" Ellie cried after her in panic.

The leader of the death squad roared as Angel faced him. First the leader swung his knife in his left hand at Angel's head to stab her, but Angel ducked under it, and then she moved to the leader's right side after he tried to bring his machete down on her, which created the opening in his guard, and Angel used it by whacking the leader in the face with the cane.

Elsewhere, while fighting kept going, Mike the rat had crawled out of the wall and into the room, but so far the rodent had avoided of getting caught up by the fight as he ran towards Flow, who was still trashing around in the corner to get both the muzzle off her muzzle and get herself loose from the leash so that she could do something to help.

However, the collie calmed almost immediately upon spotting Mike running up to him, before the rodent climbed onto her back and began to gnaw the bonds of the muzzle with his sharp teeth, before he then moved to the leash to gnaw it loose as well.

Meanwhile, one goon had caught a hold from Laura's shovel and had engaged her in a tug-of-war, before Laura kicked the goon in the guts, causing him to bent over, before Tito came from behind and wrapped his bat around his neck, pulling the goon back and away from Laura.

Minnie tried to charge at another goon and hit him with her hammer, but she ends up scooped up from the floor by the goon. But before he could do anything to her, Angie ran over to them and knelt on the floor next to them, taking support from the floor with her hands.

"BUCK!" Angie called for him, before the aferomentioned boy jumped onto Angie's back and then towards the goon holding Minnie and hacked him in the arm with his wooden sword, causing the goon to yelp in pain and let go of Minnie. The goon was then whacked in the head by Angie's rolling pin and then struck in the leg by the swing of Buck's sword, which knocked the beaten goon over tyo the ground.

Jessica moved behind of the next goon and swung her wrench in between of the goon's legs. The goon stiffened still and let out a wheezing shriek in pain, before he fell on his knees to the ground. Dino then charged at the goon and swung his cricked bat at the goon's head, knocking some teeth out of his mouth in the process, before Oliver brought his frying pan down on his head, BONG! knocking him out.

Angie, Laura and Buck soon found themselves surrounded by the three goons, the American-Japanese goon being amongst them while fighting Buck.

The goons had gotten the children boxed in and kept pressing on them step by step, pushing them back to back and closing in on them, leaving the three even less and less of room to move.

But as the things started to look a pretty bad for them, a dog barking caught the children and the goons' attention and they all turned towards it, only for the goon that had been facing Laura to let out a terrified scream when Flow, freed both from her muzzle and the leash and baring her teeth at the goon, lunged at him, knocking the goon away from Laura.

"FLOW!" Laure gasped happily, as Flow attacked the downed goon, pinning him down to the floor while tearing the back of his suit into shreds with her teeth, while the goon himself squirmed in attempt to get away from the angry dog.

Mike, who had been riding on Flow's back, jumped off as soon as Flow knocked the goon away from Laura, and jumped onto Laura's shoulder and from there to her Angie's as the goon she was facing reached his hands out for her and grabbed with the steel-hard grip from her shoulders, catching Angie's attention.

"MIKE!" Angie gasped, relieved to see her pet rat being still alive even after he was thrown out of the window.

Mike then ran off from Angie's shoulder and along the goon's left arm, with him being so focusing on Angie that he dod not noticed the large rodent crawling on him until Mike, hissing aggressively, attacked the goon's faces with teeth and claw.(3)

"ARGH! OH, MY GOSH! I'VE BEEN BITTEN BY THE DISGUSTING RAT!" the goon cried out as he let go of Angie and stumbled back, crying out in pain as Mike was mauling his face, before he dropped to his knees, holding his bleeding face with his hands.

Mike, however, jumped off the goon and ran up to his mistress, squealing happily as Angie bent over and scooped her pet rat into her hands, lifting him up to her eye-level, smiling fondly to the rodent.

"Oh, Mike! I'm so glad to see you again!" Angie said and hugged the rat tightly.

"You fiend!" Buck cursed as he swung his sword wildly at the American-Japanese goon, forcing him back with every swing. "Ne'er-do-well! Libertine!"

Jake, who was still guarding Mr. Lasse and Dimitri at the plank, noticed American-Japanese goon and Buck coming on this way and continued clashing with each other without noticing that they were going straight towards the plank.

As they walked past him, Jake moved his ladle in between of the goon's legs, causing him to fall backwards and land on his back to the blank.

His landing caused the plank to spring up and down, disrupting greatly both Mr. Lasse's and Dimitri's balancing on it.

"No! No! No! NO! NO! NO!" both crooks cried out panickedly as they ended up to loose their balance and very nearly fell from the plank into the yard four stories below.

However, they narrowly managed to save themselves by grabbing the plank with both hands, which left them hanging on to it with dear life.

"Help! Help!" they both cried, pleading for help.

However, Jake and Buck simply turned their backs to them and left them to help themselves, deciding that saving the two crooks who along with all the others were supportive towards Dandelion's idea of forcing them to walk the plank to their deaths wasn't worth it.

Back with Louie and Dandelion, the two were still fiercely and intensely trading blows with one another.

"If I were you, Mr. Lorenzo, I'd just give up!" Dandelion spat as he sent a couple of slashed at Louie with his left machete, which the turtle in black blocked.

"Oh, really?" Louie questioned before he spun around and swung his right sword over his head at Dandelion, which he blocked with his right machete. "If you were me..."

Louie then spun around again, this time swinging his left sword horizontally at Dandelion who blocked it with his left machete. "I'd be hideous poopy-face." Louie said, shaking his head with the cringe face.

Dandelion snorted angrily at the taunt and attacked with even wilder and savage swings at Louie, first by bringing his left machete down on Louie, which he blocked with his right sword, before Dandelion knocked it away with his left. Then Dandelion swung his right machete over his head and down at Louie, which he blocked with his left, before Dandelion went to stab him in the guts with his right machete.

Instinctively, Louie brought his right sword down to knock Dandelion's machete off its course, only to sense the clash between of the blades coming from above his own rather than below and looked down. Louie's eyes grew wide from surprise upon seeing Dandelion having trying to stab him with the pommel of his left machete instead of with the blade.

Dandelion smirked at Louie as he looked up at him in surprise, knowing that he had caught the turtle in black off guard.

"HA-HAA!" Dandelion laughed smugly, before he brought his left machete up and struck Louie hard under his chin with the pommel of it, knocking Louie's head back. Dandelion further seized this opportunity by kicking Louie in the guts with his foot, knocking him back, though the turtle in black flipped onto his hands and then back to his feet.

Dandelion then turned his left Machete back upright as he smirked psychotically at the turtle in black. "I think I'll be dinning turtle-soup tonight."

"Too spicy one! I guarantee it!" Louie countered.

Dandelion then attacked him again, bringing his left machete down on Louie, only for the turtle in black to block it. Dandelion then knocked Louie's swords out of the way before he spun around and swung his left machete at Louie's head to cut it off, only for Louie to jump with the cartwheel over both Dandelion's swing and his head, before the turtle in black kicked Dandelion in the chest with both feet as he turned to him.

The kick knocked Dandelion's machetes off his hands and sent him flying onto his back to the floor, with the impact knocking his hat off his head.

"HA-HAA" to yourself, Dandelion!" Louie said as he walked up to Dandelion.

Dandelion's eyes grew wide with shock upon realizing that he was down, defenseless and literally at Louie's mercy, Dandelion began crawling backwards to get away from Louie, as the turtle in red approached him dangerously.

Louie's smug smirk soon turned into a furious and hate-filled frown and his breathing grew more heavier, before he turned his right sword upside down in his from anger shaking hand and towered over the downed gangster.

"And now... This... This is FOR EDWARD!" Louie snarled through of his gritted teeth in the seething rage he'd been holding back this whole time, but not anymore after he'd got Dandelion exactly where he wanted him to.

Dandelion grew incredibly worried, even utterly horrified, when the turtle in black raised his sword high over his head, ready to deliver the death blow on the man responsible of Edward's tragic death.

However, just before Louie could bring his sword down and run Dandelion through with it, he was all of the suddenly hit from behind by the brute force that knocked him off his feet and sent him flying over cowering Dandelion.

It was Mr. Nosy, who had arrived quite unexpectedly back in the dining room to see Dandelion in peril, and had run to his aid just in time to prevent Louie from killing his boss.

"NO!" Mr. Nosy roared as he brutally tackled Louie from behind.

The force of the impact threw both the oversized gangster and the turtle in black flying over Dandelion's head, before they both landed with the heavy thud to the floor and rolled along the floor, tangled with each other.

Louie and Mr. Nosy then got up to their feet to face each other face-to-face.

"You can get Mr. Dandelion only over my dead body, turtle!" Mr. Nosy snarled as he wrappåed his sleeves up.

"With the pleasure, Mr. muscle-brain! I was looking forward for the rematch with you anyway." Louie smirked.

Louie then made the first and swifty move, uppercutting Mr. Nosy hard in the chin before he could've even blink his eyes. Shaking this off, the big gangster roared as he lunged at Louie and tackled the turtle in black again, sending them both rolling along the floor again.

The two didn't stay down for long, and continued fighting once they were back on their feet, with Mr. Nosy swinging his fist at Louie, who dodged it too easily.

"Slowpoke as slug!" Louie taunted as he picked up and swung the chair at Mr. Nosy's head, breaking it as the impact knocked him back.

Mr. Nosy tried to return to that in kind by picking up the table and swung it at Louie, only for the turtle in black to duck under it.

"Decrepit old-timer!" Louie taunted again as he punched with his left fist Mr. Nosy hard in his back, making the big gangster jolt upwards and groan in pain.

Mr. Nosy tried to retaliate by swinging his right fast at Louie's head, which Louie dodged it again.

"A total waste of muscles!" Louie taunted as he spun around and spin-kicked with his left foot Mr. Nosy in the head so hard that it knocked him off his feet and to the floor.

Louie then charged at Mr. Nosy again as he got back up, while retrieving one of his dropped swords from the floor. Mr. Nosy tried to hit him again, this time with his left fist, but Louie caught his arm before ne maneuvered it behind of the big gangster's back and twisted it painfully, causing Mre. Nosy to groan and drop on his knees.

"Oversized stupid ape-man!" Louie taunted as he spun in front of Mr. Nosy and elbowed the gangster in the nose, knocking his head back.

"A rotten bone-yard crap!" Louie taunted as he grabbed fom Mr. Nosy's suit and flipped him over his head and slammed him onto his back to the floor.

"Cabbage-brained, sausage-fingered slob!" Louie taunted as he charged at Mr. Nosy, who has just got up and turned to face Louie, only to get kneed right in the kisser by the turtle in black, which splashed saliva out of Nosy's mouth and sent him flying back.

"REINFORCEMENTS!" Mr. Nosy called as he was overwhelmingly getting his ass whooped up by Louie.

His call for help was answered by Gabriel, armed with the couple of thick wooden truncheons, Alcatraz who was armed with the pair of golden brass-knuckles, And Marcus, who was still wielding his double-barreled sawed-off shotguns.

"C'mere, turtle!" Marcus dared, all too eager to get his revenge against Louie.

After having delt with Mr. Nosy for now, Louie turned to face the three of them.

Although he had previously been surprised to his core to learn that even Alcatraz, the rapper he had once favored and idolized so much, was in league with the Dandelions just as Angel had been after he had revealed his true colors, the turtle in black certainly wasn't going to hesitate to beat the crap out of him for being directly responsible for kidnapping Angel and Ellie per Dandelion's orders.

Wanting to teach his former idol a lesson about consequences for allying himself with the wrong side of the law, Louie set to quickly dispatch both Gabriel and Marcus.

First he blocked Gabriel's attempt to whack him with the truncheon with his left arm before palm-stricking him in the chest, knocking Gabriel back, and then - BLAM! - he jumping over the Marcus first shotgun blast aimed at him with the three cartwheel spins before he kicked Marcus away with both feet and then jumped with the flip right towards Alcatraz and landed right in front of him.

Alcatraz then swung his fists at Louie four times in attempt to land a hit on him, but Louie ducked under the first swing and leaned his head backwards out of the second swing's way. Then he ducked Alcatraz's third swing to the left and his fourth swing to the right, and as Alcatraz swung his fifth swing at Louie, the turtle in black jumped at him from under the swing and, wrapping his right arm around Alcatraz's waist, scooped the rapper off the floor and slammed him to the floor.

Though momentarily stunned by this, Alcatraz got quickly back up to face Louie again, and this time tried to spin-kick him with his left leg, only for Louie to grab from it with his left hand before he slammed his right fist down on the back of his knee, causing Alcatraz to fall on his left knee, before Louie snap-kicked him in the head, sending him flying away.

Marcus then charged at Louie from behind and tried to hit him in the head with his shotgun's butt, only for Louie to turn around to face him, before the turtle in black grabbed with his left hand from Marcus' right wrist and pulled him to the other side in front of him. Then Louie turned to Gabriel as he charged at him and back-handed him in the head with his right fist - and at the same time elbowed with his right elbow Marcus in the left side of his head - before he gave Gabriel a left hook in the face, and then Louie spin-kicked him in the head again with his right foot, sending Gabriel flying to the ground with the barrel-roll in the air.

Alcatraz and Mr. Nosy were then charging at Louie from both sides, forcing Louie to grab a hold from Marcus with both hands, before he lifted him off the ground and slammed him into Alcatraz from his right first, knocking the rapper away, and then into Mr. Nosy from his left, knocking him away as well.

And afterwards, Louie lifted Marcus up in the air upside down, before the turtle in black kicked him hard in the head with his right foot, knocking a teeth or two out of him mouth and sending him with backwards-flip crashing to the floor.

"ARGH! OW! AGH! UGH!" Marcus grunted upon his pretty rough landing.

"Come on! Try at least! Dandelion's top guys a lot of you and I feel like I'm fighting bunch of DAISIES!" Louie complained.

"Daisies, eh? Come on, then, fellas! Let's show this to this braggart what the Dandelions are really made of!" Mr. Nosy said.

Gabriel attacked Louie again, trying to swing his truncheon at him again, but Louie knocked the weapon off its course with the right palm-strike before he uppercutted Gabriel in the face, knocking him away.

However, he was caught off guard when Marcus charged at him from his left and whacked him across the face with the butt of his shotgun in his right hand, knocking Louie's head to the right, before he whacked him again in the stomach with the shotgun in his left hand, knocking Louie back.

Alcatraz then came from behind and grabbed Louie by his head with his left hand, pulling it back. This act earned him getting punched in the nose by Louie, leaving his nose bleeding as a result, but Alcatraz shook this off and punched Louie with his free fist hard in the waist on the back side, causing Louie jolt upwards and groan in pain, before he albowed the rapper in the chest, knocking him back.

Afterwards Louie raised his left arm up to shield himself from Marcus' attempt to hit him with his right shotgun again, blocking it, before he knocked Marcus' arm away and grabbed with his left hand Marcus from the head, and slapped with his right Marcus' left shotgun away as he tried to aim it at Louie to shoot him at close range, making him to fire the shot out of reflexes - BLAM! - before Louie palm-struck him in the face, knocking him back.

But before he could do anything else, Mr. Nosy caught him by surprise by bringing his huge fist down on his head from behind, knocking the turtle in black on his knees to the groun, just before the huge gangster bent over and grabbed Louie by his shoulders, before he lifted him up and pulled him over his head, slamming Louie onto the table, which smashed into pieces under his weight upon landing.

And as Louie, lightly stunned by quickly recovering from it, got up from the floor, Mr. Nosy spun around and brought his right leg up towards Louie, brutally kicking him in the head and knocking it back, causing both blood and saliva to fly out of his mouth.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Louie grunted aloud in slow motion.

Hearing him out, Angel turned her focus away from her fight with the leader of Dandelion's death squad and let out a horrified wide-eyed gasp upon seeing what just happened.

"HUH! LOUIE!" Angel cried out.

As Louie pushed himself back up, each one of the three Dandelions wanted the piece of him: First, Marcus struck him in the stomach again with his left shotgun, before he whacked him twice across the face with his left, before he struck him in the forehead with the back of his shotgun's butt.

Alcatraz then jumped at Louie and brought his fist hard down on his face, knocking him back, before the rapper began to repeatedly and brutally beat up the turtle in black's face, giving him several bruises, a black eye, bleeding nose and some bleeding from the corner of his mouth, before he kicked Louie in the face, knocking him back.

Gabriel then came towards Louie from behind and struck him hard in the back of his head, knocking his head down, before he swung his truncheon from below to the turtle in black's face, knocking his head back.

And all the while, Dandelion watched with sadistic satisfaction while witnessing Louie getting his shell whooped up by his top guys.

And finally, Mr. Nosy walked up to Louie and spun his right fist around, before he gave Louie a stone-hard and rather brutal uppercut with his gigantic fist in Louie's face

PING!

Mr. Nosy's punch sent Louie flying backwards, far away from them to the other side of the room, until the turtle in black crashed heavily to the floor and rolled a short distance more away from the Dandelions before he came to stop, lying on his left side, back turned to the villains, before he spat out a tooth from his mouth.

"Ohh! That hurt." Louie moaned.

As Mr. Nosy, Gabriel, Marcus and Alcatraz approached downed Louie, Dandelion joined them, but stayed behind his men for his own protection.

"What part in "Dandelions always win" just don't you understand, Mr. Lorenzo." Dandelions questioned as he walked towards Louie behind of his men.

Angel gasped, horrified again to see Louie down while Dandelion and his men were closing in on him to kill, until she was once again forced to duck the swing of machete at her head from the leader of Dandelion's death squad, after which she somersaulted twice away from him and landed in kneeling-on-one-knee position as she stared out at Louie.

"LOUIE, GET UP! GET UP!" Angel urged, before she was forced to roll sideways out of the way of the machete, which the leader of the death squad tried to bring down on her.

"How many times over and over must we make you to understand this? Or how many more of your friends we must kill to make you realize this truth?" Dandelion continued.

"I'll tell you when I've learned that." Louie spat as he pushed himself off the floor by using his sword for the support.

The dandelion stood still, looking at Louie expectantly.

"On the day when you'll learn how big mistake you made when you came to mess with the ninja turtle!" Louie said, before he drew out his both Butterfly swords, turned around and charged at Dandelions with the new energy. "IT'S DANDELION-MOWING TIME!"

Shocked, Dandelion jumped back while Nosy, who pulled out two big knives, Gabriel, Marcus and Alcatraz all charged forward.

At first, Gabriel tried to swing his truncheon at Louie from the left while Mr. Nosy attacked from the right, but Louie sliced the truncheon in half with his left sword and clashed his right sword with Mr. Nosy's right knife, as be moved past them and behind Gabriel, striking him hard in the back with the pommel of his right sword while blocking Mr. Nosy's knife with his left sword. Louie knocked Mr. Nosy's right knife aside with the couple of slashes with his left sword before he spun around, capturing Gabriel by wrapping his left arm around his throat while slashing his right sword behind of Mr. Nosy's right shoulder, knocking the big gangster aside for a moment before throwing Gabriel into Alcatraz, distracting him.

Louie then turned to Mr. Nosy and they wildly clashed their swords/knives against each other, sending sparks flying from the contact between of their respective metal blades. Spinning around again, Louie knocked Mr. Nosy's left knife aside with his right sword, and his right knife with his left sword, before he spun around again - kicking Marcus in the head in the process - and both backhanded with his right hand, punched with his left fist and then spin-kicked Mr. Nosy in the head with right foot, knocking him back.

Marcus then tried to once again shoot him with his left shotgun, but Louie brought his left sword down on it, slicing the weapon in half, before he grabbed Marcus from the left wrist with his right hand and rolled over his back, landing to the crook's right side before he pulled Marcus around him and threw him into Gabriel and Alcatraz again, before he turned to Mr. Nosy and threw his right sword at him, stabbing it in the big gangster's right leg, making him cry out in pain, as Louie turned to deal with Marcus, Gabriel and Alcatraz again.

Gabriel tried to swing his remaining truncheon at Louie again, but Louie sliced it in half too with his right sword before he elbowed him in the face with his right elbow, then punched him in the chest with his left fist and then snap-kicked him in his chin, knocking Gabriel back a bit. Louie then flipped over his head to behind him, before he grabbed from the hem of his jacket and then flipped over his head again to in front of him and pulled/wrapped the hem over Gabriel's head and face, blinding him.

And as Gabriel squirmed wildly in order to get out of his jacket, Louie threw him away, causing Gabriel to wobble fast and uncontrollably backwards towards the window, before he crashed through of both the glass and the boards and flew out of the window, which sent him falling screaming down from the building.

Marcus then lifted up the chair and tried to smash it on Louie, but the turtle in black caught it before he could and punched his right fist into Marcus' face, again, knocking him away before Louie turned his attention to Alcatraz. As Alcatraz tried to kick him with his left foot, Louie stabbed his left remaining Butterfly sword into his leg, causing Alcatraz to cry out in pain, and then Louie struck him in the stomach, causing him to bent over before Louie brought his both fists down on his back, knocking Alcatraz down on his knees. As he looked up, Louie brought his right fist down on his face. And as he tried to get back up, Louie uppercutted him with his left fist, sending him flying back.

Marcus then grabbed his remaining shotgun in his right hand and tried to shoot Louie once more, but the turtle in black, caught his arm with his left hand before he could, and then he head-butted Marcus in the forehead, knocking it back, before he brought his right hand on Marcus' arm - CRACK! - and likely broke it.

"AAGGHH! MY ARM!" Marcus whined, dropping his shotgun and grabbing from his broken arm with his good left hand, before Louie interlocked his hands and - PIFF! PAFF! POFF! - batted Marcus in the head three times, knocking him over with the third.

Limping with Louie's sword still stuck in his leg, vengefully fumming Mr. Nosy approached Louie while he was distracted, before he pulled out Louie's blood-stained sword from his leg in attempt to use it against its owner.

But after dealing with probably now-dead Gabriel, unconscious Alcatraz and broken Marcus, Louie turned his attention in Mr. Nosy again and jumped at him, catching the big gangster by surprise and grabbed a hold from the collar of his suit to hang on, before the turtle in black climbed him up to sit on his shoulders.

"Still too slow? Still too weak? Still pathetic? Still disappointing?" Louie questioned, reminding Mr. Nosy's own words from their last face-off, which he won through of cheating.

"Well, how about this then?!" Louie said as he whipped his hands down on the sides of Mr. Nosy's neck and jabbed his pressure points with his fingertips.

"NNNGGGRRRHHH" Mr. Nosy groaned as he stiffened still like the statue: with his shoulders nearly touching his ears, arms pinned against his chest, fingers spread or hooked like spider's legs, and the face frozen in pained expression, the lower eye lid covering half of his left eye and the right eye twitching.

Louie then flipped off Mr. Nosy's shoulders and landed next to him. "Pathetic piece of rotten meat." he commented, before kicking the petrified Mr. Nosy over to the floor in contempt.

After dealing with Dandelion's top guys, Louie then turned his attention back to Dandelion and, narrowing his eyes into a nasty glare as he picked up his swords, charged at the gangster boss again.

"Don't just stand there, you fools! Stop him!" Dandelion barked at both his bodyguard and Mr. Nosy's bodyguards, along with Alcatraz's stage dancers and Johannes, who all stood behind him as Dandelion himself backed away from Louie and towards them.

The goons and the stage dancers then all charged at Louie, and due to Louie being so distracted with his hunt for Dandelion, the turtle in black didn't notice the tall baldie goon charging at him, not before the goon had already tackled him off his feet, sending the two rolling back.

"No matter how many of your "boys" you'll throw between me and you, Dandelion..." Louie called as he and the baldie goon got up to face each other. "I will GET you!"

The tall baldie goon then swung his weapon, the crowbar, at Louie, but Louie blocked it with his crossed swords before he knocked the crowbar away, before he punched him twice in the face with his swords' knuckle guards, first with his right and then with his left one, before he spin-kicked him with his left foot and then jumped up and spin-kicked him again with his right foot, before he pulled his arms back and double-punched the goon in the chest, knocking him back and down.

Yellow-hatted hook-nosed goon then charged at Louie from behind and attempted to swing the fireplace poker at him, only for Louie to caught it with his left sword, before he caught the goon's arm and used his fireplace poker to block the turquoise-suited mustache goon's wing of metal stick meant for Louie while the turtle in black clashed his right sword with the shortie mustache goon's swing with the table's wooden leg. He blocked again the shortie mustache goon's swing at his head, before he let go of the yellow-hatted hook-nosed goon's hand and puched him in the face, knocking him back, before he punched the turquoise-suited mustache goon in the face, knocking him back. Louie then clashed with the shortie mustache goon, both of them spinning their locked weapons in a wide circle in between of them couple times, before Louie knocked the pipe out of the goon's hands and round-house kicked him away.

Alcatraz's stage dancers, each armed with big knives, came next, thinking that they'd do a lot better job than Dandelion's and Mr. Nosy's bodyguards.

In mock-gentlemanish manner in order to not to hit/injure the lady, Louie caught the first stage dancer's, "Turquoise's" kick aimed at him before he pulled it high up, making "Turquoise" to wobble on her other leg to maintain her balance, before Louie tossed her away, making "Turquoise" to fall onto her back. Louie then blocked with his right sword the next dancer's, "Red's" knife before he moved behind her and pushed her by her back away from him, making her hit into "Pink" dancer who had tried to sneak up to him from behind. Louie then duck under of the next dancer's, "Blue's" swing of knife at his head before he swept her legs from under, causing her to fall.

Louie, however, reached out his arms and caught the dancer in them in bridal style.

"Cotcha!" Louie said to "Blue" with the smug smirk, before he looked up to see turquoise-suited mustache-goon and the tall baldie goon recovering and getting up from the floor.

"Hey, boys! Mind to hold the lady a bit!" Louie called and tossed the screaming "Blue" at them, though they were ill-prepared and were knocked over to the floor again once they'd caught "Blue" in their arms.

The next dancer, "Green" then tried to stab Louie in the head, but Louie caught her by the wrist and pulled her to his left side, before Louie pulled her arm up and spun her around as if the two were dancing. The "Green's" spinning was so rapid that afterwards she fell dizzily over Louie's awaiting arms, before the turtle in black lifted her up upside down and flipped her into the last dancer "Purple" who was standing on his right, knocking them both out.

As Louie was handling Alcatraz's stage girls, the yellow-hatted and hook-nosed goon and the shortie mustache-goon, recovering from the beat up Louie gave to them, rose back up to their feet and sneaked towards Louie in attempt to get him by surprise, with their weapons held high up and ready for strike.

But just when they were about to strike Louie, a two spinning Tonfas all of the sudden flew from behind the crooks in the same manner of boomerangs, hitting the goons in the backs of their head as they go, crossing each other before they turned about and flew back, crossing each other again before they whacked the two goons again in their foreheads.

Upon seeing that, Louie, Dandelions, the goons and stage dancers followed the boomeranging Tonfas as they flew back into the hands of their owner, who was standing behind of all of them.

It was Dom, holding his Tonfas in his hands and glaring angrily at the goons surrounding Louie.

"Hey!" Dom barked at them. "You mess with my brother, you mess with me!" the turtle in white declared as he pulled his left Tonfa next to his head and held out his right Tonfa forwards as he braced himself for the fight.

"WHATTA...?!" Dandelion gasped in surprise upon seeing Dom, but not because of his appearance, for he had already gotten used to the existence of the giant talking turtles and thus recognized this one to be one of the ones with Louie, but rather because of him appearing here undetected despite all the guards he had all over the house.

Even Louie stared in wide-eyed surprise to see his brother here.

"How did he got in here?! How did he find us?! Why haven't I been notified of that one already?!" Dandelion barked in rage and disbelief.

"I don't know, sir." Johannes said honestly, baffled as well. "We never see anyone entering the main hall door or moving along the passages to the dining room."

Dandelion, however, wasn't really interested of learning how Dom had managed to find them and got in undetected. And he definitely wasn't going to let this minor setback to hinder his plans for revenge against Louie.

"Bah! I don't care! KILL HIM!" he barked, pointing a finger at Dom.

The yellow-hatted and hook-nosed goon and the shortie mustache-goon, along with the "Red", "Pink", "Green" and "Purple" dancers aggroached the turtle in white and began to swing their weapons at him.

Dom swung his Tonfas alternatively at the goons and stage dancers, clashing his weapons with theirs' and blocked/dodged several other attacks from them as they circled around of each other. For example, after dodging under the "Red's" swing at him with the knife, he caught the yellow-hatted and hook-nosed goon's fireplace poker with his right Tonfa and swung it over his head before pinning it to the floor, and then he whacked the goon in the face with his left Tonfa, knocking him back. Dom then caught the "Purple's" swing with her knife aimed at his throat with his left Tonfa and moved it aside, before he whacked with his right Tonfa onto the back of the dancer's knife-wielding hand, making her yelp in pain and drop the knife to the floor, before she backed away while holding her sore hand. Shortie mustache-goon attempted to swing his pipe at Dom, but Dom blocked it with his left Tonfa and then - TOOT! - poked his right Tonfa's head into the goon's nose, causing the goon to groan in pain and withdraw, holding his nose with his hands.

As "Red", "Pink" and "Green" approached Dom, helding their knives up, the turtle in white backed away from them and bumped into Louie, making the two to stand shell-to-shell as even more Dandelions surrounded them from all sides.

"Dom! What the shell are you doing here?!" Louie barked at his brother, for he was still pissed with his brother for interfering his and Angel's relationship for his own gains. "I did not ask you to come here, so stop following me!"

"You're my brother, Louie! Somebody needs to watch after your shell!" Dom retorted to his brother over his own shoulder. "But we can settle this matter later after we've you helped to clean up this waste!"

"We?" Louie repeated with the quirked eyebrow.

"Yes! I brought a little reinforcements!" Dom said, before the two brothers kept fighting Dandelion's goons.

Oliver was meanwhile backing one of the Dandelion goons towards towards one of the smashed up windows, unaware that two emerald-green three-fingered hands appearing over the window frame before they pulled Raphael himself in sight.

The fighting between Oliver and the goon stopped when the latter got a sensation that he was being watched and turned around, until his eyes grew wide upon seeing the turtle in red glaring intimidatingly up at him with the gritted teeth.

"You better get away from that kid before I'll bust up some skulls." Raph snarled. "And believe me! I'm seriously on that mood when I get mad!"

The goon let out the frightened gasp and ran away from Raph as he jumped inside through the window.

In the other side of the room, as Dandelions stared at Dom and Raph's sudden appearances in surprise and confusion, a couple of doors, which were barely hanging on their hinges, were suddenly busted in and they landed on two Dandelions per each, pinning them down and making the rest of them to turn around to see what had happened.

To their surprise, Casey Jones, wearing the hockey mask on his head and spinning two baseball bats in his hands, while Arcee somersaulted along the kocked down door before she jumped up and flipped in the air before landing crouched on the floor, her razor-sharp Tessens open in both of her hands.

"Hey there, hi there, ho there! Casey Jones is in the house!" Casey announced. "And by the way, a little turtle-bird peeped in my ear that you guys are beating up children. Now that's bad, and it makes Casey Jones mad!"

Arcee rolled her eyes at Casey. "A peeping turtle-bird? Seriously?" she said with slight annoyance with Casey's choice of words.

Wendy then ran up into the room behind Casey and Arcee, looking around worriedly. "Kids? Jake? Laura? Angie? Minnie? Jessica? Oliver? Buck? Tito and Dino?" she called.

Upon hearing their names being called by the voice familiar to them, all nine kids turned to look at Wendy and gasped upon seeing her back.

"WENDY!" Jake, Angie, Jessica and Buck cried out in unsion.

"YOU'RE BACK!" Laura, Minnie, Oliver, Tito and Dino cried happily.

Dandelion and Johannes gasped in surprise upon seeing more of enemy reinforcements arriving literally out of nowhere without even a single warning of them and backed away.

However, both of them failed to notice how fifth turtle, Michelangelo, lowered himself silently down from the ceiling upside down like Spider-man behind the Dandelions.

"BOO!" Mikey shouted, alerting both unaware villains and making them jump screaming away from him. "SURPRISE!" the turtle in orange said with the chuckle.

Then, three more boarded windows were suddenly smashed inside, sending the shards of glass and the pieces of wood flying at the Dandelions who either shielded themselves with their arms and jumped for cover, as the three last turtles, Leonardo, Marietta and Donatello, swung by the ropes into the dining room after jumping down from the rooftop, with the turtle in purple carrying Conrad - who was wielding the slingshot rifle in his hand - in his shell. And upon landing their feet, Leo and Mary pulled out their Katanas and Naginata, while Donnie put Conrad down and took out his Bo-staff.

And last but not least... As three Dandelions stood by one of the holes in the floor, the one in the middle yelped in surprised when he was all of the sudden pulled down into the hole from his legs, surprising the other two who then peeked down into the hole to see where their comrade had gone, only to be split-kicked in their heads by Master Splinter who flew upside down up from the hole, knocking them back, before the old rat master flipped onto his feet onto the floor, completing the reinforcements.

"Whoa!" the children gasped upon seeing the mutant rat for the first time, even Mike on Angie's shoulder was taken aback by the sight of Master Splinter.

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE, YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS!" Dandelion raged, clearly panicking that his chances for revenge against Louie were slowly falling apart. "KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL BUT NOT MR. LORENZO!"

After some hesitation, the remaining Dandelions charged at each turtle and their allies in numbers.

"Guys?" Leo called as he crossed his swords. "Shall we?"

"SHELL YEAH!" Dom, Raph, Arcee, Casey, Mikey, Mary and Donnie let out, before Leo and even Conrad joined in. "LET'S TURTLEIZE/CASEYLIZE THEM!"

"MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELUJAH!" Louie let out.

"MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELUJAH!" Jake, Laura, Angie, Minnie, Jessica, Oliver, Buck, Tito and Dino repeated, raising their fists and weapons in the air.

The turtles, Splinter and Casey then joined in the fray to back the children up in the fight against the Dandelions.

Spinning his swords, Leo faced at least four Dandelions who charged to attack him.

Leo blocked with his right sword the first Dandelion's long pipe aimed at his head before he slashed it three times with his left sword, letting the sliced pieces to fall down before he kicked the goon away with his left foot. Leo then ducked under of the next goon's swing with the metal stick before he spun around and kicked the goon in the back with his left foot again. Leo then crossed his arms, blocking with his left sword the baseball bat of the third goon on his right and the machete of the fourth goon on his left with his right sword, before he pulled his swords back and clashed them with the Dandelions' own again, before the turtle in blue swung them over his head while moving his blades over the Dandelions' weapons and then pinned them against the floor, slicing the baseball bat and machete's blade in half in the process. Leo then finished them off with the split-kick in their heads.

Raph grabbed with his hands from two Dandelions' heads, before he began banging their heads together over and over, over and over, over and over, over and over again, thus fulfilling his promise to bust some skulls, before he let them fall over, knocked out cold.

Raph then pulled out his Sais and caught the next two goons' crowbar and the metal stick, and growled through of his gritting teeth as he fought over the dominance with the goons, just before the turtle in ripped with with his weapons the metal stick out of the hands of the goon on his left, before he slashed, before he blocked the goon's on his right attempt to swing his crowbar at him again and slashed his left Sai at him, knocking the weapon out of his hands. Raph then crouched down before he leaped at the two goons, his feet still hooked under him, before he unhooked them and snap-kicked both goons in the heads, knocking them out.

Arcee charged at the four Dandelions who charged at her, with their weapons held high above their heads and ready to strike the turtle in pink. However, Arcee jumped at them and kicked the first one on her right and then the second one on her left away, before she hooked her legs underneath of her and then spun around, swinging her Tessens at the other two Dandelions and sliced their weapons in half before split-kicking them in their chins, knocking them back. Arcee then found herself surrounded by some Dandelions more, who all raised their weapons over their heads and then brought them down on her, but the turtle in pink spun fast around, swinging her Tessens around like a blurly pink tornado, which sliced their weapons in pieces, before Arcee stood on her on her one leg and spin-kicked each Dandelion away with her other leg, sending them flying all across the room.

"Alright! Michelangelo's on the move!" Mikey cried out as he dropped on his feet from the ceiling and, spinning his Nunchucks, charged towards three incoming Dandelions-

As they met, Dandelions attempted to bring their weapons down on Mikey as the turtle in orange crouched down on one knee and wrapped his Nunchucks around of their ankles, before he jumped upright and pulled his weapons high up, pulling his surprised opponents off their feet and sending them flying in the air, which caused one Dandelion to hit into another Dandelion and the second one to hit two others, knocking all of them down. Afterwards, the turtle in orange clashed his Nunchucks with the third Dandelion's machete three times, before he whacked him in the head with his right Nunchaku, then he swept his legs from under with his right leg, sending the goon flying upside down in the air, before Mikey got back upright and kicked him away, sending the goon flying in the feet of the five previous Dandelions, which tripped them all over like bowling pins.

Donnie, meanwhile, raised his Bo-staff over his head to block the fire-axe from the Dandelion that attacked him and struggled to push him back, before Donnie leaned his staff a bit down from the right to maneuver the axe's position closer to his staff's end, before the turtle in purple grabbed with both hands from the other end and spun around, pulling the axe off the Dandelion's hands and sent it flying into the wall, causing it to get stuck in there. Donnie then whacked the goon in the head couple times, before he spun around and, spinning his staff for a moment, whipped with its end the goon in the rear end.

"AAAHHHH!" the goon cried out in pain.

After having witnessed both Edward's death and Dandelions attempt to force the kids to walk the plank to their deaths, Marietta had gone into the same state of anger she'd gone back on the Garbageman's island upon witnessing Olivia being tortured to near-death by his guards. But only this time she didn't kill Dandelions for the sake of the children, but she did leave them with her mark.

Spinning her Naginata in her right hand above her head as the Dandelions came at her, the turtle in turquoise slashed her Naginata at them twice: with the first round, she slashed the four Dandelion's weapons, the metal pipe, foot of the table, the metal chain and the shovel into the pieces, and with the second round, she slashed the first Dandelion across the chest, the second one across his arm, the third one across his left cheek and the fourth one in the leg, drawing blood and knocking them all down, where they moaned over their wounds in pain. Two Dandelions then tried to tackle her, but Mary held them back with her Naginata's shaft before she pushed them back, and then she moved past them before she slashed the one on her right in the back, before she slashed the second one on her left in the front of his left shoulder and then in his leg, knocking him over.

Even if Conrad stayed mostly in the sidelines and out of the harm's way, this didn't mean that he couldn't help as well. Using the slingshot rifle, the superballs, and his impressively good aim, Conrad provided the cover fire for the turtles who were too occupied with the Dandelions they were currently facing off while failing to notice the other Dandelions coming at them from behind.

As Leo was clashing his Katanas with the couple machete-wielding Dandelions and managed to push them back with his superior skills, the third Dandelion charged at him from behind in attempt to smash the chair on the turtle in blue, only for Conrad to shoot the first ball in the goon's forehead, knocking him back.

As Raph was clashing with the Dandelion, blocking his metal stick with his Sais, two Dandelions attempted to strike him from behind with the metal pipe and chain, only for Conrad to shoot the ball in one goon's head, before it pounced off him and hit the other Dandelion next to him, knocking them both down.

As Arcee slashed with her left Tessen one Dandelion's metal stick in half while sweeping the second one's legs from under with his right Tessen which was closed, before she roundhouse-kicked the first one with her right foot, third Dandelion tried to bash her head in with the hammer, only to be shot in the back of his head by Conrad's fired superball. "Agh!" the goon cried out in pain, which alerted Arcee of his presence before the turtle in pink snap-kicked him in the face, knocking him off his feet to the ground.

Mikey spun his Nunchucks as he faced two Dandelions, until he saw four more came at him from behind in attempt to tackle him in numbers. But before either them of Dandelions could do anything, Conrad's fired superball hit the first Dandelion in the row and knocking his head to his right, making him to hit his head to the second Dandelion in the row, causing him to hit his own head to the third one and him to hit his head to the fourth, knocking them all down in the manner of dominoes.

"Good shot, kid!" Mikey praised him with the smile, to which Conrad responded with his thump up.

As Donnie whacked the weapons out of the several Dandelion's hands, one Dandelion charged at him from behind in an attempt to hack him to death with the fire axe. But as he swung the axe at Donnie, Conrad's superball hit him in the head and knocked him back, and the swinging axe's blade missed Donnie's head with the few centimetres.

Conrad then fired the next superball at where Mary was being surrounded by three Dandelions, two standing in front of her and the third one behind her. The turtle in turquoise blocked the first two Dandelion's attacks with her Naginata's shaft before she struck its blade to the floor and then spun around it, kicking both Dandelions away fom her one by one till she kicked the third behind her before landing back on her feet in his spot. And without even looking, turned around, raised her left arm and caught the superball in her hand - which Conrad had aimed at the third Dandelion - before the turtle in turquoise turned to Conrad with the raised eyebrow, and a scolding smirk on her lips.

"Sorry." Conrad apologized sheepishly.

Master Splinter was about to face at least ten Dandelions at once.

Master Splinter first clashed his staff with the first goon's fireplace poker before he maneuvered it down and then whacked the goon hard in the face, knocking him off his feet. And then he raised his staff over his head to block the second one's fire-axe, before he poked the goon in the face with the end of his staff, distracting him before the old rat master kicked him in the guts, sending him away.

He was then approached by three more Dandelions who attacked him from three sides. Master Splinter then used his staff to block each one of their weapons before he jumped up and roundhouse-kicked the first one in front of him in the face with his left foot, then spin-kicked the second one on his right in the head with his right foot and spinning around for the second time, he whacked the last one behind him in the head with his tail, knocking them all out and down.

The seventh goon then charged at Master Splinter in attempt to tackle the old rat master over. He managed to knock Splinter off his feet, only for the rat to land on his hands to the floor before he placed his feet to the goon's chest and kicked him away as he flipped back on his feet.

When the eighth goon tried to hit him with the pipe, Splinter blocked it with his staff before he uppercutted the goon under his defense before kicking him away with his left foot. And as the ninth goon charged at him with the chair in attempt to hit him with it, Splinter swept his legs from under with his tail, causing the goon to fall flat on his face to the floor and get knocked out when the chair fell on top of him. And as the tenth goon swung his metal stick at him, Splinter flipped over it to the goon's left side, and then to his right side as the goon tried to hit him again, before Splinter jumped up at him and side-kicked him in the chest, which sent the goon flying backwards till he hit in the wall and was knocked out.

"GOONGALA!" Casey let out as he charged at the Dandelions and swung his bats at them, hitting two of them and sending them flying back. Casey then sent the couple whacks to his right side, sending the other two Dandelions flying away, before he did the same thing on his left side, sending another two flying away, and then he swung both his clubs in wide arcs upwards, whacking yet another two Dandelions in their chins and knocking them back.

Casey then spotted Angel, who was still being chased by the leader of Dandelion's death squad.

Angel tried to defend herself by throwing a punch in the leader's face - OW! - only to yelp in pain when she felt like she'd only punched the stone wall instead of the face.

"Is this guy's face made of stone?!" Angel asked through iof her gritted teeth as she pulled her hand back and held it with her good one.

However, the leader of the death squad then violently pushed Angel against the wall, next to the window with curtains. The leader then swung his machete over his head before he then aimed it at Angel's head, only for Angel to grab from the curtains and pull herself up as the machete sliced through the lower part of the curtain.

Flipping onto her feet to the wall, Angel then jumped off it and flew over the leader's head, flipping into a crouched position on the floor. Angel then looked over her shoulder behind and saw the leader towering over her, raising her machete over his head and then brought it down to kill her with one strike.

However, before the leader could kill her, Casey jumped in between of the leader and Angel and blocked the villain's machete with his baseball bat, thus saving her life.

"'Ello Angel!" Casey greeted her over his shoulder. "Long time no see."

"Casey!" Angel gasped, surprised and delighted to see him. "Am I glad to see you here too!"

"Yeah, had a run in with our pals in the Central Park until I heard what's going on, so I decided to pay a visit." Casey said as he turned back to the leader. They both tried to push each other back with their weapons until Casey swung his other bat from underneath at the leader, striking him and knocking him off his feet to the ground.

Seeing Louie's brothers and sisters and his seinsei and their friend Casey in the action, the inspired children fought back with even newer energy.

Jake swung his wooden ladle at the next goon's leg, sweeping it from under and causing the goon to fall on his knees, before Jake whacked him in the back of his head. Laura impressively whacked the row of three Dandelions down with a broad sweep with her shovel. One goon caught Angie's rolling pin when she attempted to hit him, but he let go when Mike the rat attacked his face as a distraction. Barking and growling, Flow pounced on two goons as they were about to attack Minnie, knocking them over, before Minnie struck one Dandelion on his knees next to her in the forehead, knocking him out. Jessica brought her wrench down on another goon's leg, causing the goon to groan in pain. Oliver had caught another goon on his feet before him and banged him in the head by swinging both his fry pan and saucepan at the goon from both sides, knocking him out. Buck, who was getting the hang of the swordfighting, managed to skillfully disarm the Dandelions from their weapons by twisting their hands into a painful angles to make them drop their weapons. And finally, Tito and Dino defeated a plenty of Dandelions by working together: with one blocking and one striking, one defeating and one finishing and so on.

Still shell to shell, Louie and Dom kept fighting Dandelions' and Mr. Nosy's bodyguards and Alcatraz's stage dancers... together.

Louie initially threw several punches at the tall baldie goon's face, leaving the goon dizzy, before Dom, who initially blocked "Pink" and "Green's" attempts to knife him with his Tonfas, before he knocked "Pink's" knife out of her hands with his right Tonfa and "Green's" knife out of her hands with his left Tonfa, before he turned around and whacked them both in the face with his Tonfas which he held in upright position, knocking them back, before he jumped over Louie who moved beneath him towards the stage dancers as the turtle in white kicked the tall baldie goon down, while Louie somersaulted between of "Pink" and "Green" and swept their legs from under with his foot, knocking then down.

Having switched sides, Dom then blocked the turquoise-suited mustache-goon's attempt to whack him with his metal stick, while Louie caught a hold of "Red's" leg when she attempted to kick him in the head, before he put his hands under her thighs and lifted her up from the ground again in the manner of the ballet dancers, before he tossed her over both his and Dom's heads. Louie them ducked down as Dom, who pushed the turquoise-suited mustache-goon back spun around and spin-kicked the yellow-hatted hook-nosed goon in the face right hwne he was about toi whack Louie with the fireplace poker, knocking him back, while the "Red" landed screaming onto turquoise-suited mustache-goon, knocking him out.

Switching sides again, Louie drew out his swords to block the "Turquoise" and "Blue's" attempts to stab Dom in the shell while Dom knocked the shortie mustache-goon's attempte to whack him with the pipe before the turtle in white knocked it out of his hands and locked his Tonfas around of his throat, before Dom flipped him over and tossed him towards Louie. But the turtle in black jumped up and flipped over the flying goon before he could hit him, making him to hit into "Turquoise" and "Blue" instead, knocking them down. Jumping onto Dom's shell, Louie flipped up in the air again and landed right in front of the last attacking standing stage dancer, "Purple", who stopped instantly after finding herself face-to-face with Louie.

"Boo." Louie said with the low voice.

"EEEEEEEEK!" "Purple" screamed in fright and stepped away from the turtle in black hastily, not noticing that she was backing right towards the hole in the floor before she eventually slipped and fell screaming into the hole.

Even more of Dandelions got their butts whooped up by the turtles, children, Master Splinter and Casey, which got all those Dandelions who hadn't yet been beaten up to become incredibly demoralized.

And fearing of getting beaten up too, Dandelions were starting to think that trying to capture a single one turtle, and now there were already eight of them here, plus one giant rat and the hockey-masked vigilante, who were making that job even more difficult than it already was, wasn't worth the trouble.

With that in mind, a few Dandelions began to sneak out of the room and into the stairs to get out of the building, until a few turned into even more and more, until way more than half of them, and eventually all of them decided to retreat out of the building, leaving behind all those who were either killed or knocked unconscious.

Johannes, in the midst of the Dandelions' chaotic retreat, ran up to Marcus, who was still lying on the ground while clutching to his arm Louie had broken earlier and helped his brother up from the floor.

"Come on, Marcus! We're out of here!" Johannes said and helped his brother out of the room and into the stairs.

Dandelion watched his men's retreat in pure shock. "HEY! WAIT! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! WHERE YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING?! COME BACK! COME BACK AND FIGHT, YOU COWARDS!" Dandelion roared, but his men chose to ignore him and kept running.

Dandelion, growling furiously at his men's cowardice, turned back to the fight between his men and the mutants and their allies. His remaining men who had stayed were dwindling drastically and sooner or later they would be after him next... especially Lorenzo.

And Dandelion knew that without his top guys or anyone to back him up, he stood no chance against all of them all by himself.

Not wanting to be beaten like this, Dandelion began quickly and desperately look for the way to escape from here before the mutants would turn their attentions on him.

But even so, however, his desire for revenge against Louie was still burning strongly, and he decided not to leave just yet until he had had at least some form of revenge against the turtle in black for everything he had done to him.

But then, his eye caught the sight of the gas can and the matches lying nearby, likely meant for burning the entire building after they had dealt with the children, as well as the submachine gun and the belt full of grenades.

Dandelion also spotted Angel who was quite close to him, where she roundhouse-kicked one of the remaining Dandelion in the face, knocking him away, before she then elboved the another Dandelion coming from behind her in the chest before punching him away.

An idea formed up in his mind, as he picked the gas can from the floor and opened it, before he turned his attention to Louie, who defeated the last Dandelion he was facing by front-flipping over the swing of his weapon before he brought his foot down on the Dandelion, knocking him out.

"MR. LORENZO!" Dandelion called out loud, getting the turtle in black's attention. "I SHALL HAVE MY REVENGE TONIGHT! NO MATTER WHAT!"

With that, Dandelion threw the gas can with all his strength at Louie, causing gasoline to splash out of the can and spread all over the room, both on the floor and the walls. Louie stared at the can and out of it splashing gasoline in wide-eyed shock before the turtle in black duck for cover, causing the canister to hit the floor where he had just stood.

And as Louie pushed himself back up and looked at Dandelion, he gasped in horror when he noticed Dandelion reaching out for the belt of grenades lying next to him in the floor.

Realizing what Dandelion was about to do, throwing first the can of gasoline and then about to throw the grenades at them, Louie turned to his family and screamed from the very bottom of his lungs.

"GUYS! GET THE CHILDREN OUT OF HERE! NOW!"

The guys got only a few seconds to turn around, see and realize what was about to happen...

"GUYS! THE CHILDREN!" Leo ordered, before the turtle in blue jumped to and scooped Laura - who was still waving her shovel at the last couple Dandelions - up in his arms before jumping away.

With the lightning fast speed, the rest of the turtles set on to get the children out of the harm's way.

Raph landed near of Oliver and Buck before the turtle in red dove at them, picking the boys up under his armpits and ran away, carrying the boys to safety.

Mary then landed next to Flow, who was biting another Dandelion by his leg, before the turtle in turquoise made the collie to let go of him before she scooped her up and jumped away.

Lorenzo flew over the cowering Minnie and kicked the Dandelion, who was just about to strike Minnie with the machete, away from the little girl, before the turtle in black scooped Minnie up and leaped for safety.

Donnie scooped Conrad up and put him to hang on his shield, before the turtle in purple put his staff away and jumped away.

Dom then ran to Jessica and scooped her up in his arms, running away with such of haste that Jessica accidentally dropped her aviator pilot hat from her head to the floor, right there where the gasoline had already spread.

"Wait! My hat!" Jessica called and reached out for her hat.

"Leave it!" Dom said to her and kept running.

"Up you go, kid!" Mikey said as he walked up to Jake from behind and lifted the overweight boy up and placed him on his shoulders, but not without letting out a strained groan. "Ohhh! How much do you even weight?" the turtle in orange asked as he leaped away.

Arcee ran up to Angie, who was hugging Mike in her arms, before the turtle in pink scooped her up into her arms and ran away with her and Mike.

"Get into cover, kids!" Casey yelled as he escorted Tito and Dino away from the danger zone, pointing his baseball bat at the entrance he, Wendy (who was still waiting there) and Arcee had first came.

Last but not least, Master Splinter spotted Ellie standing in the other side of the danger zone along with several other Dandelions, who had crowded around of her and were ready to attack her, while the old woman held her hands up in fear.

"Miss Bridge!" Master Splinter let out before he leaped at Ellie and the Dandelions, kicking one of them away from her, making him hit hard against the wall which knocked him out, before Splinter whacked the two others with his staff, one at the time, knocking them out with the audible loud "CRACK!", "CRACK!" and then punched the fourth and last one hard enough to make him fly away.

"Master Splinter!" Ellie gasped, stunned by the old rat master's sudden arrival and even stunned by his ferocity in beating up the Dandelions.

"Come, Mrs. Bridge! Hurry!" Splinter said, ugring her to move quickly to the others.

The turtles and Casey had already got the children safely gathered up to the entrance Casey, Wendy and Arcee had came from, where the Children had the happy reunions with both Wendy and Conrad.

"CONRAD! YOU'RE ALIVE!" the children squealed happily.

Conrad was welcomed back with open arms by his relieved friends who shared the hugs with him, along with Flow who gave him a lick in the face, just before Wendy scooped as many of them as she could into her arms and hugged them all tightly, while the children hugged her back.

"Oh! Oh, thank goodness! You're all safe! You're all afe, thank heavens!" Wendy said, overjoyed and literally driven to tears that they were all alright.

"We thought we'd never see you again!" Minnie said, crying lightly in Wendy's shoulder.

"Everything is going to be alright, Minnie. Everything is going to be alright." Wendy promised.

"Conrad!" Louie said, overjoyed to see him alright against all the odds as well as the turtle in black knelt down in front of the boy after Donnie had put him down. "Am I glad to see you're alright."

"Thanks, Uncle Louie. I'm glad to see you alright as well." Conrad said smiling, until the smile dropped from his face. "But Edward. He... I..."

"I know, Conrad." Louie said, cutting him off. "I know what happened to him and I'm sorry for that. But he won't remain unavenged. This is the promise."

At this point, Ellie and Master Splinter had already rejoined the others at the entrance.

"Is this everyone?" Master Splinter asked, particularly from Louie.

"Yes. This is pretty much everyone, Master Splinter. And now that everyone is here, we can..." Louie said, making a quick headcount with his family, friends, and children in his mind to make sure everyone was included, but he gasped with dread when he quickly realized they were one person short. "Hey, wait a minute! We're one person short! Where's Angel?!"

"Angel?" Ellie gasped with dread when she realized this as well. "Angel!"

"Over here!" Angel called from behind them, and they all turned and saw Angel making her way towards them. "Wait up! I'm coming!"

However, much to Louie's further dread, he saw that Angel was actually running towards the spot where the gasoline had been leaked all over to the floor, and looking back at Dandelion, the turtle in black spotted that he had already gotten the belt of grenades in his hands.

The villain then removed the pin from one of them, before the villain threw the whole belt to where he had thrown the gas can.

"NO, NO, NO, NO! ANGEL! GET BACK! GET BACK!" Louie tried to warn her.

The belt of grenades then landed in middle of the leaked gasoline, and then...

"ANGEL!" Louie cried and ran towards her, but he was too late to reach her before...

KA-BOOOOM!

The grenade then exploded, causing all the other grenades to explode as well, which sent the sharp shards flying all over the room, causing both the turtles and their allies as well as the remaining Dandelions to duck for cover or shield themselves from them. Most of the turtles, Casey and Master Splinter stood in front of the children, Wendy, and Ellie with their shells/backs turned to the explosion, shielding them from the shards, while several Dandelions who happened to be too close of the explosion were wounded or killed by the shards.

PWHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!

The explosion also caused the spilled gasoline to ignite into a giant storm of flames that engulfed much of the dining room, and spread the fire through of the holes to the upstairs and downstairs.

The explosion also set several other Dandelions standing near the puddles of gasoline on fire, causing them to run screaming around the room in a mad panic, trying to put out the flames in their suits before they either burned to death or threw themselves out of windows or holes in the wall and floor of the room.

And as both the grenades and the gasoline exploded into flames, Angel and Louie each reached out their hands towards each other, but the shockwave of the explosions pulled/threw them apart before their fingertips could even touch.

"LORENZO!" Master Splinter gasped.

"ANGEL!" Ellie gasped as well.

Angel landed roughly onto her side to the floor while Louie flipped onto his hands and then onto his feet, before they both looked up and saw that they were cut off from each other by the burning gasoline, that was fed by the burning bodies of the Dandelions caught by the explosions.

Both the the purple-haired girl and the turtle in black locked their eyes, momentarily relieved that despite some cuts from the grenades' shards and the bruises all over their bodies, they were okay... until Dandelion suddenly came up to her and grabbed Angel by her hair, forcibly hauling her up from the floor.

"AGH!" Angel gasped in pain.

"Hey!" Louie shouted, angered over Dandelion's treatment of Angel.

The gangster boss then pulled Angel close of him and placed the barrel of his submachine gun under her chin before locking his eyes with Louie's, threatening to shoot her if Louie tried anything.

"ANGEL!" Ellie gasped in utter horror of seeing her granddaughter in danger, but was held back by Casey, who narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth angrily at the gangster boss.

"Let her go, Dandelion!" Louie demanded, glaring at the villain furiously as he drew his blades out. "This is between you and me!"

"You're right, Mr. Lorenzo! This is between you and me!" Dandelion spat as he backed away towards the entrance along with Angel. "But so is young miss Bridge here from your side! She was involved in the destruction of my family's house and the property as much as you were, and she too has to pay for it!"

"Lay a one finger on her, Dandelion," Louie dared as he dipped his Butterfly swords in the burning gasoline, making his blades flammable. "And everything but that finger won't be spared. I swear it!"

"Then which one you are going to choose over another, Mr. Lorenzo?" Dandelion questioned slyly. "Your adorable girlfriend - though I wonder why such of pretty girl like her would've picked such of nauseating reptile like you - or your FAMILY AND FRIENDS!"

With that, Dandelion pulled the submachine gun's barrel from Angel's chin and turned it to Louie's family and friends before he opened fire, much to Louie's and Angel's shock.

BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA!

"GET COVER! GET COVER!" Leo ordered everybody as he and his brothers and sisters, Casey and Master Splinter pushed the children, Wendy and Ellie out of the way, as the wild gunfire from Dandelion ripped the walls, floor and the doorframes around of them.

When everybody was safely in the passage and out of the gunfire's way, Dom turned to Louie.

"LOUIE! COME ON! WE'RE... AGH!" Dom cried out in pain when he was hit in his left arm by one of Dandelion's stray bullets, which knocked him over to the floor.

"DOM! NO!" Louie gasped in shock upon seeing Dandelion gunning his brother down.

Even though things weren't very good between them right now, that didn't mean Louie wasn't worried about Dom's well-being and his life right after he was shot.

"Leo! Mary! Raph! Help me! Dom is shot!" Arcee cried as she rushed out of the passage to her brother's side.

Leo and Mary immediately emerged out of the passage and stood in front of the turtles in pink and white as they began to spin their weapons rapidly around in front of them, deflecting Dandelion's gunfire.

By this, the turtles in blue and turquoise provided cover for Arcee and Raph, who had emerged out of the passage to help his sister, as the turtles in pink and red began to drag wounded dom into safety, while Leo and Mary followed them close behind.

Relieved that Dom was taken to safety but angered over him getting shot by the man he hated now even more than anyone - though not as much as he hated the Shredder - Louie turned to Dandelion, his eyes narrowed into a burning glare.

"LOUIE! LOOK OUT!" Angel cried with Dandelion turned his gun at Louie and fired.

BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA! BRAKKA!

Louie rolled out of the way and hid behind the corner for cover, as the villain kept spending rounds and rounds of gunfire at his location to get the turtle in black, either killed or wounded and then killed afterwards, it was all the same for Dandelion.

However, Dandelion eventually ran out of ammo, but he was unfazed by it.

"Come along, sweetheart!" Dandelion said as he dropped the gun and picked up the fire-axe in replacement - but not before he too dipped its blade into the burning gasoline, making the axe flammable - before he began to drag Angel along with him as he escaped the room. "We're gonna have a little fun at the rooftop!"

Angel struggled against Dandelion's grip as he dragged her towards the stairs leading upstairs.

"LOUIE!" Angel cried. "The rooftop! The rooftop!"

After hearing no more gunfire, Louie half-cautiously peeked from around the corner and saw that Dandelion and Angel were both gone. But judging by the screams he'd heard from Angel, they were heading for the roof of the building!

Wasting no time, Louie ran out of the corner and flipped over the flames of the burning gasoline and landed in three-point pose in front of the entrance of the dining room Dandelion and Angel had gone.

But instead of simply following them directly up the stairs, Louie began to suspect that there were traps set on the stairs - such as wired explosives that only Dandelion was aware of - to cut off the stairs and preventing Louie from following them that way.

Whether that was true or not, Louie wasn't too keen to find that out... and instantly turned his attention towards the boarded window next to him.

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Right on the top floor of the building, on the stairs leading directly to the roof, the smoke from the fire in the dining room had already reached there as Dandelion and Angel made their way up to the stairs.

The smoke made Angel to cough, though Dandelion remained mostly unfazed by it and kept going... likely due to being driven mad by his plans getting ruined by Louie and his family and friends while being hellbound for revenge.

Upon bursting out through the door at the top of the stairs and entering to the rooftop, Dandelion immediately dragged Angel to the edge of the roof and roughly tossed her flat on her stomach to the roof, before he towered over her, holding his burning axe down at the girl.

Angel turned around to glare up at Dandelion with no fear but defiance. "Give it up already, Dandelion. You're all on your own and Louie's coming for me. And when he gets here, he'll do whatever he wants to with you."

"Not until I get to do whatever I want to do with you first!" Dandelion spat back. "And the explosives I rigged to the only fastest and direct way from the dining room up here will slow him down long enough."

"Your booby traps ain't enough to stop him." Angel said confidently. "And when he gets here, you've already lost this fight."

"Maybe, but I will have my revenge against Mr. Lorenzo with one way or another, starting with you!" Dandelion growled, now holding the axe above Angel with both hands. "And once I'm finished with you, I will kill all of Mr. Lorenzo's loved ones and friends till only he remains so that I can kill him myself!"

Dandelion then kicked Angel hard in the chest with his left foot, knocking her flat on her back to the roof.

Angel then rolled around on her stomach and tried to crawl away from the maddened gangster, but Dandelion put his left foot down on Angel's back, pinning her to the ground and holding her still, as he held the axe up, ready to chop off Angel's head.

"I bet that Mr. Lorenzo is going to love to see my trophy." Dandelion said deviously, before he held the axe over his head and prepared to bring it down on Angel's neck.

Angel, while holding on to hope that Louie will make it here in time, closed her eyes and praced herself for decapitation.

But as Dandelion was about to bring his axe down, someone suddenly grabbed from the hem of his coat and pulled the surprised gangster boss back and away from Angel, making the villain to miss his target with the axe.

Both Dandelion and Angel then turned around and saw Louie standing there behind them, holding with his left hand from the hem of Dandelion's coat, giving Dandelion a smug smirk, while holding his flaming sword in his right hand.

Seein gthe turtle in black here made Angel to smile, before she looked smugly up at Dandelion, knowing that he was gonna get his butt kicked.

"Hey, Dandelion! I want this dance!" Louie declared, as he let go of Dandelion's coat and took his other flaming sword in his hand.

Though initially surprised to see that Louie had managed to get up here through of the booby-trapped stairs this fast, Dandelion nonetheless shook it off and held his flaming axe at the turtle in black.

"And you shall have your very last dance, Mr. Lorenzo." Dandelion spat and braced himself for the fight. "I ain't afraid of you!"

Louie shook his head and clicked his tongue reproachfully. "I think you are, Dandelion." Louie corrected, before his voice took a much more sinister turn when the last words left his mouth. "And you should be."

Dandelion growled and made the first move by swinging his fire-axe at Louie's head, which the turtle in black dodged from under before he somersaulted past Dandelion to his other side. Turning around, Dandelion tried to bring his axe down on Louie, who this time caught his archenemy's weapon with his flaming swords before he re-directed/pulled it to his left, making Dandelion to stumble forward, before Louie spun around and past the gangster before he spin-kicked him in the back with his left leg, knocking him further onward.

Growling angrily, Dandelion turned around and swung his axe at Louie from below, which Louie blocked with his swords before the turtle in black went in for the attack and slashed his flaming swords at Dandelion, only for Dandelion to block them with the axe's handle before he struck Louie in the face with its blunt end, knocking his head back. Dandelion then used this as a distraction as his advantage to sweep the turtle in black's legs from under with his own, causing Louie to fall flat on his shell to the roof, with the gangster boss pinning him down with his axe.

Dandelion then pulled out the knife from his coat with his left hand and, glaring murderously down at Louie, raised it over his head and then pinned the knife down in attempt to stab it in Louie's head and finally kill him.

However, Louie retracted his head inside his shell, making Dandelion to strike his knife in the empty spot where the turtle in black's head had been.(4)

"Huh?! Whatta...?!" Dandelion gasped in surprise at such of ability, that he absentmindedly pulled his knife back up.(4)

"Hee-hee!" Louie chuckled smugly as he peeked out of his shell, looking up at surprised Dandelion. "I love being a turtle."(4)

The turtle in black then put his legs against Dandelion's chest and kicked him off him, making the gangster boss flail his arms as he stumbled backwards off balance, allowing Louie to get back up to his feet.

As Louie and Dandelion were about to resume their duel, Angel, who was refusing to just sit still and wait for the duel to end like some damsel in distress, and determined to help Louie to defeat Dandelion once and for all, looked around the rooftop in searching of something that might prove to be helpful.

And eventually, her eyes landed on the piece of the metal pipe, one bucket and the pieces of rope, from which an idea formed up in her mind.

After maintaining his balance, Louie and Dandelion kept trading blows to one another, with the latter swinging his flaming axe repeatedly at Louie in attempt to lay a severe or even a mortal blow on his enemy, though Louie didn't even break the sweat when blocking or deflecting the blow after blow. But when Louie moved in to attack, he slashed his swords at Dandelion repeatedly alternately from both sides, which both pushed the gangster back and forced him to block Louie's blows with his axe, though the hacking of the turtle in black's flaming blades created a quite lot of notches in the axe's handle, barely missing the villain's hands.

Louie even managed to land a kick in Dandelion's chest which knocked him back a bit, though Dandelion immediately returned ot it by thrusting his axe directly at Louie's face to force him back, though he only successed of making Louie to lean his head backwards to avoid it. Angered by this, Dandelion began to wildly swing his axe at Louie again, though the turtle in black dodged his one swing to the right, and the next one to the left, before he pulled back and out of the next swing aimed at his waist.

"HOLD... STILL!" Dandelion demanded in frustration and impatience as he swung his axe at Louie's head, which the turtle in black dodged as well, afterwards Louie swung both of his swords upwards and at Dandelion, which he once again blocked with his axe.

Dandelion tried to strike Louie in the stomach, but Louie blocked it, which allowed Dandelion a chance to split his head in two, but Louie blocked that as well.

And as Dandelion attempted to bring his axe down at Louie again, Louie blocked it before he pushed Dandelion back, and went in for a lightning-fast counterattack and slashed both of his swords from his left at Dandelion, slicing through his axe's handle from below the flaming blade and between of his hands.

"Agh!" Dandelion gasped in surprise at the destruction of his axe, just before he looked up at Louie and saw that the turtle in black was already upon him and swung his right sword down at him in berserk-like fury.

Instinctively, Dandelion raised his right arm up to shield himself, though this only led his right hand being chopped off by Louie's flaming sword, causing the hand to drop down to the roof in Dandelion's feet.

"AAAARGH!" Dandelion screamed in pain and clutched to his arm's bleeding stump.

Louie then charged at Dandelion again, spinning around and slashed his swords at his chest, slicing through his suit and his shirt before leaving there a couple long superficial wounds running across Dandelion's chest, making him gasp, grimace and bent over in pain.

Louie then jumped at Dandelion one last time, and rather brutally snap-kickked him in the head with his right foot, knocking his head back, before he spun around and spin-kicked him in the head again with his left foot, causing Dandelion to do a barrel roll in the air, before Louie raised up and then brought his right leg down on Dandelion, knocking the villain flat on his back to the roof, before he himself landed on top of him and struck his right flaming sword to the roof, a few centimetres away from the gangster's head with the loud KLANK!

Dandelion stared at the sword in wide-eyed horror before looking up at Louie, who towered over him, breathing heavily while glaring down at Dandelion with nothing but burning and vengeance-desired hatred for him, while holding his left flaming sword up, ready to deliver the final death-blow on his archeney.

"AAAHHH! No! No! No! No! No!" Dandelion cried in fear, holding his hands out in surrender while shielding himself from the potentially upcoming blow. "No! No! No! No! No! Please, Mr. Lorenzo! Please, do not hurt me! Have mercy on me! I'm begging you! Have mercy! I'll... I'll do anything! Anything!"

"Mercy?! Mercy?!" Louie questioned, dumbfounded that Dandelion would be so low enough to beg for mercy even after everything he had done and was going to do: the murders of Edward and nearly Conrad, forcing his friends the orphans to walk the plank to their deaths, nearly had Wendy killed in the trap he set for him back in Central Park, him planning to kill Angel and Ellie just to get back at him, he recently shot Dom in the arm and him being all too willing to kill him too given the chance.

"What mercy you think you deserve after everything you did and what you were going to do?!" Louie spat furiously, holding his flaming sword close of Dandelion's neck.

Feeling the burning heat of the blade's flames on his neck's skin, Dandelion began to frantically beg for mercy once more, completely ignoring Louie's question.

"Please, please, please!" he begged. "Aren't you... aren't you a way more better than me, Mr. Lorenzo? Aren't you better than me? This... this doesn't make you any better than me! Killing me won't make things go back to way they were. And besides... surely you value the human life! Don't you?!"

Louie growled angrily at Dandelions' attempt to appeal to his better side just so that he himself can get away from everything he had done alive.

For a moment, Louie paid no heed to Dandelion's pleads but raised his sword up to end Dandelion's life here and now.

However, his own conscience held his hand back, begging him to reconsider Dandelion's words about him being better than him.

It told Louie that even though Dandelion was a rotten man and a murderer who deserved to be punished for what he did, what he said was true: Killing him in revenge for Edward's murder wouldn't make things right, nor would it bring Edward back or make Louie any better than he was.

His conscience also warned Louie that his intention to kill a defenseless man as he lay defeated on the ground was a perfect match to Master Splinter's own master's death at the hands of the Shredder as he was lying dishonorably defeated, wounded, and defenseless on the ground before the killing blow.

So his conscience tried to urge him to give up his murderous and vengeful intentions against Dandelion to be better than him or the Shredder himself.

Calming down a bit, Louie let out a deep sigh, knowing that he can't end his life without suffering the major consequences to his conscience.

The turtle in black then pulled away from Dandelion, much to the gangster boss' surprise.

"Unlike you... I do." Louie said coldly to Dandelion, before he tossed his flaming swords away.(5)

"Ohhh!" Dandelion let out a deep sigh of relief for the fact that he was going to live nonetheless. "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lorenzo. Thank you." he said gratefully.

Louie didn't say a word but only glared coldly down at Dandelion as the defeated gangster boss pulled himself up to his feet with great difficulty due to being reduced into a one-handed man now, before he turned to face Louie.

"You are truly noble. Noble and honorable." Dandelion said breathlessly as he reached his healthy hand inside of his coat.

"Noble... honorable..." Dandelion repeated.

However, the gangster boss' relieved face then twisted into a devious smirk, before he drew a pistol out of his coat and aimed it at Louie's forehead.

"... and too weak-willed and gullible." Dandelion taunted as he took the safety off his weapon.

However, an unfazed Louie merely shrugged and rolled his eyes at this sudden turn of events. "Why I ain't surprised." he said sarcastically, before glaring up at Dandelion. "I've seen this happening too many times in too many movies that I almost hoped for you to spare from this cliche."

"If so... then why did you decide to show mercy instead of having it your way?" Dandelion asked tauntingly.

"Because there's no honor in killing an enemy who lies in the ground wounded and defenseless... but neither there is honor in stabbing your opponent in the back when his back is turned." Louie answered.

Dandelion scoffed at this. "Hmph! In the underworld of this city, the nobility, honor and mercy are for the weak, while the cunningness, pitilessness and the spare card in your sleeve are the traits of the strong."

Dandelion then began backing Louie towards the edge of the roof, still holding the turtle in black gunpoint.

"You've been a real thorn in my side, Mr. Lorenzo, but I still managed to get you where I wanted you to regardless of everything. It only further reinforces my family motto, "Dandelions always win"." Dandelion boasted victoriously.

"And now, for your "crimes" you've committed against the Dandelion family, I'll sentence you to death. So, goodbye, Mr. Lorenzo." he finished and prepared to pull the trigger.

Louie, however, only smirked at his archenemy while shaking his head.

"No goodbyes tonight, William Dandelion. More likely... Toodles." the turtle in black said, tauntingly waving his hand at him.

"Huh?" Dandelion muttered, dumbfounded.

Suddenly, the end of the rope with the piece of pipe tied up in the end of it flew over Dandelion's good arm, wrapping around of his wrist, causing surprised Dandelion to drop his gun from his hand before the rope sharply yanked him away from Louie and to where the rope had came from.

Looking up, Dandelion saw that Angel was holding from the rope that had been wrapped around of his good wrist by her.

Glaring up at Dandelion with hatred, Angel spun around while swinging around her another rope with the bucket tied in its end, which she then swung over her head and then at Dandelion, making the bucket to hit him right in the face.

BONK!

"Agh!" Dandelion yelped in pain, as the impact made him back away and towards the edge of the roof.

Angel swung the bucket-weighted rope over her head again and then at Dandelion, hitting him once again in the face.

BONK!

"AAAHHHH!" Dandelion screamed as the next impact sent him flying over the edge and down to a six-story drop, with only the rope wrapped up around his right wrist saving his life when Angel pulled it back.

Two floors down, Dimitri, Mr. Lasse and Japanese-American goon, who were all still hanging for their dear lives from the plank, while their floor was ablaze. Upon hearing the screaming above of them, all three Dandelions looked up and saw their boss hanging from the edge of the roof by the rope just above of them.

"Whatta...? The boss?" Mr. Lasse muttered, dumbfounded.

Louie peeked over the edge to see Dandelion screaming in fear while dangling in the air by the rope, before the turtle in black looked back at Angel with the proud smile on his face.

"Well done, Angel-cake!" he praised.

"Well, lover-boy..." Angel shrugged with the strained voice as he kept struggling to hold from the rope by which Dandelion was hanging on. "Live long enough with the ninja, you'll learn a thing or two from him."

Louie chuckled before he looked down on Dandelion, kneeling down to the edge while picking up one of his still-flaming swords.

Dandelion looked up at the turtle in black and reached his hand out to him. "Please! Please, please, please, Mr. Lorenzo! Help me! Help me back up! I'm begging you!"

Louie, however, shook his head with the eyeroll at Dandelion once again trying to appeal to his conscience

However, according to Louie's calculations, Dandelion had already had a chance at mercy. And yet, he had thrown that chance away due to his inability to let go of his desire for vengeance just like he(Louie) did regarding Edward.

"The nobility, honor and mercy are for the weak, while the cunningness, pitilessness and the spare card in your sleeve are the traits of the strong." Louie said, repeating Dandelion's own words right in his face.

Dandelion's eyes widened from horror, seeing that Louie had no intentions to show him mercy for the second time.

And with that, Louie raised his sword up and struck it on the rope, chopping it off and letting Dandelion to fall down.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Dandelion screamed as he fell, still looking up at Louie who waved his hand at him in mock-goodbye.

Below him, Dimitri, Mr. Lasse and the Japanese-American goon's eyes went wide with dread upon they saw Dandelion falling down towards them... though it was more due to their concern about what would happen if Dandelion landed on the plank they were all holding onto than for their boss's well-being, as the plank was already bending downwards under the weight of three of them, and a fourth weight could potentially snap the plank in half and drop them all the rest of the way down.

"No, no, no, no, no! NONONONONO!" Mr. Lasse, Dimitri and the goon shouted worriedly.

Dandelion eventually landed in middle of the plank with his full weight and the speed of his fall, which caused the plank to bent down in 70 degree angle, thus causing it to snap in half - just as the three Dandelions were worried about - and drop all four of them the rest of the way down.

"AAAHHHH!" all four of them screamed from the top of their lungs as they fell four stories down until - CRASH! - they all crashed with the heavy thud in the huge dumpster standing next to the building's foot.

Louie kept looking down to where Dandelion and the others had fallen with rather indifferent look on his face, which, however, quickly turned into a smile when Angel walked up next to him, and looked up at him with the fond face on her lips.

"You alright, Angel?" Louie asked in concern if Dandelion had already managed to harm her before he had made it up here.

"I'm good, Louie. I'm good." Angel assured him, before looking at him with equal concern for his well-being. "What about you? Are you alright?"

"Never better, Angel-cake." Louie replied, as he lifted his right hand over Angel's shoulders and gently pulled her against him, which Angel accepted and leaned her head to rest in turtle in black's shoulder.

"It's over now." Louie muttered, all satisfied that Dandelion and his crime family had been defeated. "It's over."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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TRIVIA

1) = Reference to Gandalf the Grey's first line in the Fellowship of the Ring.

2) = Reference to the Transformers movies, from Optimus Prime's line "We are more than meets the eye." to Louie mimicking Megatron's voice while calling Dandelion "Prime".

3) = Reference to how pre-mutated Master Splinter attacked Hun's face (Tatsu's face in my story) in a vain attempt to save Master Yoshi from death.

4) = Reference to the turtles' ability to retract their heads into their shells in several TMNT universes, as well as the reference to Louie having used this ability once earlier when defending Angel and Ellie from Johannes, Marcus and Helga in the first parts of my "The Girl and the Turtle" saga.

5) = Louie may sound hypocritical for claiming to value human life even after having previously killed a good number of Dandelions in cold-blood in Central Park, in a hotel, and earlier in Dandelion Manor, but that doesn't mean that Louie, or any other of the turtles who have in the previous chapters killed their enemies (mainly Leo, Raph and Mary), actually enjoys of killing their enemies, unless the said enemy is the one who possess the major threat to them, such as the Shredder and the Dandelion here, or the Garbageman due to his minions torturing a homeless people, including children. But even there they have their limits, because even though Hun possess them a major threat, the turtles so far haven't killed any of the members of the Purple Dragons. And when Mikey and Arcee faced the Dr. Malignus with Silver Sentry as Turtle Titan and Turtle Sis Titan, they didn't bring themselves to kill his minions (who justifiably were brainwashed citizens) even if he too possessed a great threat upon them.