A/N: Eclipse, Genevieve, Josephine, Johnathon, and Pollyanna belongs to GeekyCookie1. Maya belongs to MayanTheSerpentine. Mara, Zane, Calista, Cameron, Noelle, Tyson, Soren, and Isabella belongs to MariChat3.

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"Once upon a time, Oroku Saki was just Saki. He was an adoptive son to Hamato Yuta, an adoptive brother and best friend to Hamato Yoshi as well as to Quill Sentry and Flash Sentry. But that was a long time ago, and that version of Oroku Saki is gone."

"WE'RE DYING TOGETHER, SAKI!" Quill shouted as he pulled Super Shredder down with him into the dark and vast chasm below. The two of them wrestled against each other as they continued to fall and as they did, Quill managed to avoid one of Super Shredder's punches before slamming a fist into his face. But then, Super Shredder pressed his back against the rocky wall as they fell, causing Quill to let out a sharp hiss of pain.

"You fall to your doom, Quill!" Super Shredder cursed as Quill continued to resist him, fighting back.

"That's where you're wrong, Saki," Quill said firmly. "I'm not doomed, not if my family survives, because one of the greatest lessons that Master Yuta taught the four of us was something you never bothered to fully learn or understand: family is power."

With those words said, Quill used his own momentum to spin himself over Super Shredder, pushing himself away from the wall. Determined not to let one of his hated foes escape, Super Shredder grabbed his ankle to stop him from escaping. However, they came to a ledge that was strutted out from the wall, breaking Super Shredder's fall while Quill continued to plummet into the dark chasm below.

Awaiting for his fate, Quill simply closed his eyes as he continued to fall. However, what he didn't notice was that a purplish aura formed around him, slowing his fall while the silhouette of a person's spirit held their hands out, steadying his fall before gently laying him on the ground.

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MEANWHILE; EVERYONE ELSE found themselves face-to-face with the Foot Bots, Stockman-fly, Bebop, and Rocksteady. The mutant rhino laughed. "You should have run when you had chance! Now I will be doing all the squishes!" He punched his fist into his palm.

"No way, dog, we talked about this!" Bebop argued with his partner. "I want to blast them!"

"Hey, we got a job to do! We don't have time to argue!" Stockman-fly buzzed.

"But I want to squish them!" Rocksteady whined as if he was a child. "It's fun!"

As the mutant trio continued to argue with each other, Derek felt an eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "My, god, they're idiots..." he mumbled to himself.

Leonardo, Raphael, and Henry moved around the sides (as Kaz and Casey took Raphael's and Henry's spots to help Splinter stand) while Michelangelo got the enemy's attention as he crossed his arms. "Yeah, but guys, if you squish us, you won't get the secret information."

The three evil mutants shared a glance. "What do you mean, secret information?" The mutant rhino questioned.

"There's some things you don't know about us," Michelangelo responded. "We have... salmonella!"

"What?" Bebop yelled. "That's nasty!"

"You all are disgusting." Stockman-fly buzzed.

"Uh, says the mutant fly who eats garbage." Mara retorted.

With the three evil mutants distracted, Henry come in and slugged Bebop across the face while Leonardo delivered a flying kick to knock Stockman-fly down, and Raphael leapt to grab Rocksteady by his horn.

"Watch the skull!" Rocksteady shouted before Raphael rode him back up the tunnel the way they originally came just as shurikens were thrown into the Foot Bots.

It didn't take long for everyone to exit the tunnel back outside and enter the wide clearing where they had faced the other Foot Clan goons. Raphael continued to ride on Rocksteady before the mutant rhino had enough and threw the mutant turtle off him. Rocksteady proceeded to charge at him before he was tackled by Scott, the two rolled across the ground for a minute before Rocksteady punched Scott off, but not before Eclipse managed to kick the mutant rhino's face.

Rocksteady glared at Eclipse, who regrouped with Raphael and Scott. The mutant rhino drew his hammer and charged at the three of them.

Stockman-fly chased after them, using his wings to fly toward them. But before he could even grab one of them, Karai leapt up and kicked him across the face, sending him flying away from the group before crashing onto the ground.

Bebop was performing 'dance moves' while delivering some lasers at the teens that they avoided. Soon, everyone was backed together as the three evil mutants and the Foot Bots had them cornered.

"Your time is up, little ones." TigerClaw stated.

Oh-oh-oh

Right when Briana heard the voice, she looked past the mutants and for a split second, she could've swore that standing there was a silhouette of a person— a woman that she couldn't make it out. Then, before either side could attack, the woman lifted her hands towards the evil mutants and Foot Bots before waving her hand, lifting them up into the air.

"Uh... did we do that?" Michelangelo questioned.

"Who cares who did it! The path's clear!" Raphael said.

Taking their chance, everyone retreated out of the tunnel and for a split second, Briana looked back at the tunnel with a mixed expression of confusion, anger, and there was a hint of grief in her eyes.

'Who was that woman? Is she the one that I'm hearing, and why?' Briana thought secretly to herself.

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SHE DIDN'T KNOW but there was a sinking feeling in Twilight's gut. Ever since she learnt that the Foot Clan was here, the feeling hadn't disappeared and it only grew in her gut, getting worse and worse. The thought of Oroku Saki being in the Crystal Empire... she could feel her blood boiling with a anger that she thought she was past, an anger that happened on one of the worst nights in her life.

"Please stop!" Tang Shen's voice reaches Twilight Sparkle's ears as the woman keeps a protective hand on her baby bump, carefully making her way through the burning dojo.

But by the time that she arrives to the scene, her eyes widened as she spots Oroku Saki delivering the final killing blow onto her best friend.

"Shen!" Twilight Sparkle cried out, tears forming in her violet eyes as the body of her best friend went limp, falling into Yoshi's arms.

"SHEN, NO!"

Oroku Saki was about to run over, to rip Tang Shen out of Yoshi's arms and into his own. But he never makes it because a blast of magic pushes him back and onto the ground. He looks up to spot the pregnant woman glaring at him with tear-filled eyes that held anger and hatred in them.

"You did this, Saki! This is your fault!" Twilight Sparkle yelled at him.

But not wanting to admit it, Oroku Saki only glared at her and with his blades, he charged.

"Twilight!"

Flash Sentry wraps his arms around his wife's waist and pulls her out of the way in time. But before Saki could run at them, part of the burning ceiling collapsed nearby Saki, burning the side of his face. The only sounds that filled the air were Saki's screams of pain and the grieving sobs over the loss of Tang Shen.

After losing her best friend because of Oroku Saki, it left her a burning hatred for the man that caused it. However, the burning hatred wasn't the only thing that the older woman was left with since that night.

Guilt.

With every time that she thought back to that night, all she could was the overwhelming sense of guilt that reminded her of how she failed to do the one thing that her best friend had asked her to do; to take Miwa and run and now, because of that night, she didn't just lose her best friend.

She lost her goddaughter the night of the fire, the child of her best friend.

Someone that she promised to keep safe.

"Mom?" Diana asked, getting her attention. "Dr. Rockwell says that they're back."

"Thank you, sweetie."

The mother and daughter duo made their way outside where the guards, Daniel, David, Natalie, and the Mighty Mutanimals were already waiting. It didn't take long for the group to come into sight with Kaz and Casey helping Splinter, but it was clear that someone was missing from the group.

"Where's Uncle Quill?" Diana asked.

At first, nobody said anything but their faces held either grief or worry. Once again, Briana found herself looking away from everyone, biting the lower half of her lip as she was unsure of what to say.

"He... he fell," Leonardo tried his best to explain. "He fell into this dark chasm... in the mountains."

At the words, everyone felt their eyes widened in shock but none looked visibly more upset and worried than Diana and Twilight.

"But that doesn't mean he's gone," Michelangelo said, trying to find the bright side of the situation for them. "I mean, Quill's gotta be alive still, right?"

But nobody offered a response, not even Briana, who would normally be looking for the bright side of the situation as well. As much as she wanted to and she really did— to give Diana and Twilight some hope on Quill still being alive, but for some reason, Briana found it hard to do so because she was also worrying about her uncle that she had just met.

"Even if he is alive, how are we gonna stop Shredder?" Raphael questioned. "We didn't stand a chance against him!"

"He's become stronger, but he's not invincible," Splinter stated, getting everyone's attention. "When Quill and I fought him, he seemed to be in some kind of intense pain."

"It could be the mutagen doing a number on his physical body," Donatello said. "And since Jake mixed Briana's blood with the mutagen somehow, he's gotta have a weakness too. Maybe that's how we can stop them."

"We're going back," Leonardo said with a look of determination setting on his face. "Shredder caught us off guard last time, but not again. This time, we'll be ready."

"We're gonna need help though." Natalie reminded.

"Yeah, well, lucky for us, all the help we need is right here." Raphael stated, gesturing to everyone that had gathered around them.

With those very words, the allied group of their friends and family, the guards, the Mighty Mutanimals, David, Daniel— everyone stood there together as a united front, each one of them was determined to defend their home and their family.

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HAVING CLIMBED ALL the way back up to where he front his enemies, Super Shredder struggled to pull himself out of the chasm that Quill had pulled him into. As he continued to struggle, he was approached by both Soren and Isabella.

"Master Shredder!" Both Soren and Isabella helped pull their master back up to solid ground. "You survived! Is Quill... gone?"

"Perhaps... there is no way for him to survive the fall," Super Shredder stated, only to suddenly cry out in pain when a wave of agonizing pain flow through his entire body as he grabbed his right arm. "Help me...! I need... more power!"

Isabella shook her head when she saw his right arm shrinking. "Master Shredder, with all due respect, more power is the last thing you need. We warned you that the mutagen may be unstable and you injected yourself with our entire supply!"

"It's only a matter of time before Master Jake starts to feel the effects of the mutagen mixed with Princess Briana's blood as well since they're incompatible with each other," Soren added. "And like you, Master Jake injected himself with the last remaining bit of our supply."

"Do not lecture me!" Super Shredder snapped, silencing the two of them. "I was called here for greater power! We'll regroup with everybody else; have Zeck and Steranko search every inch of this chasm! We must... be sure... Quill is gone! And I will eliminate every last one of them and capture Princess Briana and Henry Hart myself!"

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THE QUEEN HELD up her hands to Splinter's leg that Super Shredder had broke during the fight as a pinkish aura formed around the leg. Twilight Sparkle kept her hands hovering above his leg for a while until she lowered them to her side. Karai was standing by her father's side as she watched the scene, not wanting to leave her father's side until she knew that he would be alright while Diana was standing by her mother's side.

"There we go, it'll heal on its own now. All you have to do is rest your leg." Twilight Sparkle told her friend.

Splinter nodded, a thankful smile on his face. "Thank you, my friend."

"Of course, Yoshi," Twilight Sparkle said, a soft smile on her face. "I do wish that our reunion was under better circumstances."

"As do I, my friend."

"Are you alright, father?" Karai asked.

Splinter nodded. "I am alright, my daughter."

Then, Twilight Sparkle couldn't help but let her eyes move over to the teenaged girl, clearly being able to see the resemblance to not just her friend, but to her best friend— to Tang Shen.

The older woman smiled sadly, memories of her best friend resurfacing in her head. "You look so much like your mother."

Karai felt her eyes widened slightly at her words as her lips parted a bit. "You knew... you knew my mother?"

Twilight Sparkle chuckled softly, warm tears filled her eyes at the memories that filled her head but, she held them back. "She was my best friend, and she was like a sister to me." She smiled softly at a memory that resurfaced in her head. "When I told her that I was pregnant with Briana, she got all excited and say that we were gonna raise you and her together and that you two would be best friends."

Karai blinked, trying to hold back her own tears. "She... she did?"

Twilight Sparkle nodded. "Oh, Miwa... she loved you so much. That night, I... she gave you to me, wanted me to get you away from there, but I couldn't leave without her so, I... I tried to stop her. I placed you underneath a chair outside and I went inside to stop her. I was going to come back for you after I stopped your mother from going in there, but Saki..." she stopped herself from finishing that sentence and closed her eyes for a second.

For a second, Karai couldn't help but clenched her fists tightly by her side. Her blood was boiling at the knowledge of her mother being dead because Shredder was the one that had killed her. It only made her resolve stronger, wanting nothing more than to kill the man.

"When I didn't find you, I... I thought you were dead and I blamed myself for it. If I had known that, Oroku Saki had you the whole time, I..." she reopened her eyes to look over at the teenaged girl that was her goddaughter. "I would have gone to war with Oroku Saki if it meant to get you back."

Karai bit the bottom half of her lip, fighting against the urge to let her tears fall with what she was hearing. "You... you'd do that... for me?"

The older woman nodded. "Oh, Miwa..." she slowly walked over to her and wrapped her arms around her for a gentle hug, one hand resting gently on the back of her head that made Karai freeze. "I know for a fact that your mother would've loved to see how strong you are— and that she'd be so proud of you."

That was all it took for Karai to let her tears silently fall down her cheeks. The pair of arms that were wrapped around her for the hug felt so motherly, safe, and warm— something that she's never had growing up.

Something that she was deprived of for her entire life and damn it, did it feel really good.

It felt really good, and she couldn't help but like the feeling.

And for the first time since learning of what really happened to her mother, Karai had let herself broke down in her arms before returning the hug as she wrapped her arms around the woman that was her godmother's waist tightly while the soft, quiet sobs left her lips.

Diana couldn't help but smile softly at the older teenaged girl that she supposed was her god-sister, sympathy washing over her for the older teenaged girl. Splinter, on the other hand, couldn't help but smile softly, knowing just how much this meant to not just his daughter, but to his dear friend as well.

Because now, Twilight wouldn't have to live with the guilt of believing that the child of her best friend was gone because of her.

But what nobody seemed to realize was that Derek had overheard the entire thing and once again, a pang of sympathy was washing over him for Karai. But with each time that his ears had pricked at one of her sobs, he could've swore that it felt like his heart broke because all he wanted was to see her happy.

And he had no idea why Karai, a girl he just met, was suddenly making him feel like this.

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AT THE BOTTOM of the chasm, it was complete silence and dark since he landed there. Quill opened his eyes before slowly sitting up, not expecting for him to have landed softly on the hard ground beneath him. He pressed his hands against the hard ground and tried to stand up, only to hiss sharply in pain before quickly sitting back down and grabbing onto his left ankle.

"It's probably sprained," Quill muttered to himself. "Damn you, Saki." He looked around to see if there he was anything that he could use as a makeshift cast and frowned lightly when he didn't spot anything. "Great, now I'm stuck here."

"Quill..."

Quill felt his eyes widened at the familiar voice and spotted a person's silhouette in front of him as the spirit started to turn clearer, making it easy for him to recognize who it was that stood in front of him.

"Twilight... Velvet?"

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WHILE THE HEROES had their plan and teams all ready to go, they weren't the only ones that were busy and getting straight to work. Both Bebop and Rocksteady gazed down into the bottomless chasm and neither one of them looked too excited about going down there.

"No way, dog! There is no way that I'm going there!" Bebop protested. "Come on, we're playing rock-paper-scissors." The two mutants proceeded with their game. "One, two, three..." Rocksteady had rock while Bebop had paper. "Ha! Paper beats rock, son!"

"But paper no good against rock! Rock destroy paper!" Rocksteady argued.

"Dudes, this place is huge!" The two suddenly heard Michelangelo's echo throughout the area, causing them to look in the direction to find Briana, Michelangelo, Donatello, Casey, Raphael, Kaz, and Maya entering the area. "How are we gonna find Quill?"

"We'll find him, Mikey." Donatello reassured.

Bebop quickly pushed Rocksteady around the corner so they wouldn't get spotted. "Oh, oh, oh, this is good," he said.

"Uh, how?" Rocksteady questioned.

"They're here looking for Quill," Bebop explained. "So, we'll wait here, let them do the work for us, and bring Quill's body back up here."

The mutant rhino nodded in approval and before he knew it, the mutant warthog had grabbed onto Rocksteady tightly before activating his invisibility as it turned them both invisible just as the group arrived onto the scene.

Maya took a peek over and got a good look at the walls around the chasm. "Are you guys even going to be able to climb it? It looks way too steep."

"That's why I've got these." Donatello reached into his bag to pull out three pairs of grappling hooks. "I've added a secondary hook attachment to these, which should allow us to find another place to latch onto without dropping the first hook."

"Time to go spelunking!" Michelangelo called out before looking over at Briana. "Ready, little sis?"

"Let's do this."

"We'll stay up here and keep a look out for any of Shredder's goons," Raphael said. "Be careful."

"See you guys on the other side." And with that, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Briana shot their grappling hooks to the other side of the chasm and began their descent, leaving the other four on top. However, just as they left, something already felt off to the four of them.

"Uh, is it me or does it feel like we're being watched?" Casey asked, looking around.

"No, it totally does." Kaz said, looking around the area as well.

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"IT WAS YOU, wasn't it?" Quill questioned the recognizable spirit that stood in front of him. "You're the one that stopped my fall?"

Twilight Velvet nodded, a soft smile on her face as she stared at him. "It was. I'm also the one that called Briana here in the first place."

Quill shook his head, a small chuckle leaving his lips. "Even as a spirit, you can't help yourself, can you?"

Twilight Velvet shared a chuckle of her own at his words, nodding along to it. "It was time."

"Time for what?"

"For the lost princess and her eleven guardians to come home."

But this time, Quill couldn't help but let the confusion shown on his face. "Wait, eleven? But what about—"

Twilight Velvet shook his head, interrupting him. "No, it's eleven. Leonardo Hamato, Raphael Hamato, Donatello Hamato, Michelangelo Hamato, Eclipse Hamato, Henry Hart, Kazimieras Smith, Mara Sparks, Zane Carson, April O'Neil, and Casey Jones are the eleven guardians that the prophecy spoke of."

"So, that means..."

"Yes, Calista Diaz is not one of them."

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BACK AT THE top of the chasm, the four of them continued to wait. Casey was casually balancing a puck on his hockey stick while the three other teens seemed a bit more anxious. Kaz was the one that seemed a the most anxious, occasionally looking behind them as if he was expecting to see who was watching them.

Maya was standing next to Raphael as she could easily spot the worry expression on his face. "I'm sure they're okay."

"Yeah, I just hate how quiet it is." Raphael said.

"It's too quiet, and too boring!" Casey complained, tossing the hockey puck into the air. "I wish something crazy would happen!" He used his hockey stick to hit the puck, watching it go flying to the other side of the chasm before falling down below.

Kaz looked behind one more time before he frowned slightly. "Casey, give me one of your pucks."

Casey blinked, confused as he took one out. "What for?"

"Just give me one."

Casey shrugged before tossing the puck to him and Kaz caught it. Then, he threw the puck in a random direction, only for the puck to hit Bebop and Rocksteady, knocking them onto the ground and out of the invisibility mode.

"Ow! You jerk!" Bebop called out, glaring at Kaz. "You hit me in my piggy snout!"

"I knew it!" Kaz said, readying his fire powers.

"Bebop and Rocksteady!" Raphael glared at the two mutants as the four of them got ready.

"Now, you will bring us Quill," Rocksteady said as he drew his hammer. "Or we will break you like dancer!"

"Bring it, you freak!" Casey said.

Rocksteady roared as he and Bebop charged at them while Bebop threw one of his laser-Mohawk projectiles at them that the four of them dodged before joining the fight.

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DESCENDING FURTHER INTO the chasm by using their dual-grappling hooks to make their way to the bottom were none other than Donatello, Michelangelo, and Briana.

"Quill! Hello!" Michelangelo called out.

Donatello glanced around. "I'm positive that this is the general area where Quill fell but... oh, without knowing just how far this place goes, he could be anywhere!"

Oh-oh-oh

Briana felt her eyes widened as she looked toward in the direction she heard the voice coming from. "I think I know which way to go."

"How?"

Oh-oh-oh

Briana looked back over at her brothers. "I can hear the voice again." She took the lead and followed the voice. "Come on, this way!" Both Donatello and Michelangelo didn't hesitate to follow her.

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EVERYBODY ELSE WAS waiting for their enemies to appear on the outside. April was even using her Aeon crystal to widen her powers in order to track them down, reaching out in every direction.

Then, she found him.

"They're coming!" April warned. "They'll be here any second!"

"Stick to the plan," Leonardo told everyone. "We bait them away from the mountains and into the forest."

"And away from the Crystal Empire." Henry added.

"No, we take them down in the forest," Karai stated. "We finish them today!"

"Guys, they're here." Eclipse said, spotting the villainous group that was made up of TigerClaw, Razar, FishFace, Stockman-fly, Isabella, Soren, Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson being led by Super Shredder and Jakestiltskin.

"Let's go!" Leonardo ordered. "Into the forest!"

They quickly turned and ran into the forest, knowing full well that their enemies would follow them. "Master, they're leaving!" TigerClaw said.

"Oh, don't worry," Jakestiltskin said with a lowly chuckle. "They won't get far."

It didn't take long for the Foot Clan to follow them into the forest, unaware of the trap that they were walking right into. Henry, Leonardo, Karai, April, and Eclipse turned to face them as Super Shredder stood in front of them.

"There is nowhere left for you to run." Super Shredder said.

"Who said anything about running?" Henry questioned. "We got you right where we want you."

The ground beneath Super Shredder suddenly exploded as both LeatherHead and Slash jumped out of their hiding spots, delivering their surprise attacks with Slash's mace and LeatherHead's tail slamming into Super Shredder followed by a powerful psychic blast that came from Rockwell that sent Super Shredder flying back into his goons.

The Foot Clan looked up to see the Mighty Mutanimals, David, Daniel, Derek, Scott, Natalie, Mara, Zane, Calista, Genevieve, Josephine, Pollyanna, and the Crystal Empire guards had joined the four teens, each one glaring at them.

"ATTACK!"

And with that, both sides charged at each other.

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THE MUTANT RHINO managed to gained the upper hand as he slammed Raphael against the wall. Right before Rocksteady was about to charge at him, Maya used her powers to make the ground underneath the mutant rhino shake, making the mutant rhino struggling to keep his balance while giving Raphael the chance to deliver a kick to Rocksteady's face and knock him back before punching the rhino's face and sending him crashing to the floor.

At the same time, both Casey and Kaz were dodging the Mohawk-laser projectiles that Bebop was firing at them. Kaz threw a punch with his free while also sending a blast of fire at the mutant warthog, who dodged both attacks and spun around to kick him, sending him rolling close to the edge of the chasm but Kaz managed to stop himself in time. Casey tried to get the jump on Bebop from behind, only for the mutant warthog to turn invisible, much to Casey's frustration before Bebop appeared at a higher ledge.

"Missed me!" Bebop sang as he shot more lasers at both Casey and Kaz, who once again dodged them.

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"IF YOU LEAD Briana and the rest of them here, why do the same for Saki?" Quill questioned, raising an eyebrow at the spirit. "Why would he be allowed to come in?"

"Because, Quill," Twilight Velvet explained. "The past Destroyers believe that it is time that Oroku Saki accepts responsibility for everything he's did."

"With all due respect, you can tell them that I say that they lost their damn minds," Quill stated. "It's Oroku Saki, the last thing he's capable of taking responsibility for what he's done. If he reaches the Temple of Destroyers, he won't stop till he gets what he wants. Power."

But Twilight Velvet didn't seem concerned, as she only chuckled.

"Well, it's a good thing that the last Destroyers and I don't intend on letting him get what he wants."

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IT WAS A full-on war zone within the forest as the guards battled the Foot Bots. Although the guards definitely had the numbers on their side, the Foot Bots were a lot more quicker than them.

"Cowabunga!" Mondo Gecko slammed the end of his skateboard into the face of one of the Foot Bots while Muckman ripped the robot's head off.

Pigeon Pete hovered in the air as he faced off against Stockman-fly. "We meet again, my arch enemy!"

"Yes, but you won't be so fortunate this time!" Stockman-fly buzzed as the two flew at each other to attack, only to slap the other in the face as their usual squabbles.

FishFace ran towards Mara, aiming a kick in her direction, which she dodged before throwing a punch into the mutant fish's face. FishFace growled and charged at her again, only to get struck by a psychic blast that sent him rolling back.

Mara turned towards her with a smirk on her face. "Thanks for the save, Cupcake."

April smirked at her. "Oh, I'm sure you had it cover, Sparks." She ignored the glare that she was clearly getting from Calista.

Rockwell appeared by the two teenage girls. "Miss. O'Neil, perhaps it would be best if we combined our powers to rid ourselves of this foul fish."

"Fine by me." Together, both Rockwell and April combined their psychic powers to produce a single, powerful, psychic blast that sent FishFace flying and crashing through several trees, sending him further away from the battlefield.

"Now, that was even more awesome." Mara said with a smirk, sharing a high-five with them.

Jakestiltskin sliced his own sword at Henry, who blocked it with his twin swords and with each attack, their swords blocked each one. Then, Jakestiltskin delivered a kick that knocked Henry crashing into a tree. Before Jakestiltskin could charge at him, Eclipse raised her kamas and tried to attack from behind, only for Jakestiltskin to block the attack. However, Eclipse only smirked as Jakestiltskin wasn't expecting the roundhouse kick that came from Henry from behind him.

The couple shared a smirk and a fist-bump before charging at Jakestiltskin for the attack together.

Leonardo was locked in a fight against TigerClaw while dodging the lasers the mutant tiger shot at him with his blaster. Then, TigerClaw kicked the blue masked mutant turtle back and aimed his blaster at him but before he could pull the trigger, Genevieve, whose eyes were glowing yellow, slammed a fist into the mutant tiger's face that sent TigerClaw crashing back into the ground and rolling to a stop.

"Need a hand?" Genevieve asked, holding her hand out toward the blue masked mutant turtle.

Leonardo accepted it, letting her help pull him up onto his feet. "Thanks."

But as he stood up, his eyes met directly eye contact with Genevieve's eyes and for a split second, the two couldn't help but stare into the other's eyes.

Leonardo quickly snapped out of it, suddenly feeling nervous around her as in that very moment, his heartbeat raced faster in his chest. "Uh, shall we teach him a lesson?"

Genevieve smirked, her own heartbeat seemed to be racing faster in her chest from her own sudden nerves of being around him before she nodded. "Let's do it."

And with that, the two of them charged in to attack the mutant tiger that was getting back up onto his feet.

Super Shredder was tackled by LeatherHead, who ran as he crashed the villain through several trees, knocking them down. But then, Super Shredder dug his feet into the ground, halting the attack before grabbing the mutant alligator by his sides, forcing LeatherHead to loosened his grip as Super Shredder lifted him up and threw him away, crashing into other tree.

Slash then appeared at Super Shredder's side with a roar of his own, slamming his mace into his side to knock him back slightly before going in for the attack. At first, Super Shredder struggled to block the attacks that came from Slash with his mace but after having enough, Super Shredder caught his mace with his claws before throwing it away and then grabbing Slash by his face, lifting him up and slamming him into the ground before throwing him away as if the giant mutant turtle was a rag doll.

"SHREDDER!"

The Super Shredder was suddenly blasted back by a powerful psychic blast that was delivered by April, who stood alongside Karai, Leonardo, Henry, and Eclipse.

"Go at him from all sides! He has to have a weak spot!" Leonardo ordered as they all charged at Super Shredder, who only roared and lashed out at them.

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ABOVE THE CHASM, Bebop continued to blast his lasers at Kaz and Casey, forcing them to dodge while Rocksteady attempted to hit Raphael and Maya with his hammer, only for the two to keep avoiding it. Rocksteady raised his hammer to slam it against Raphael when once again, Maya used her powers to make the ground underneath him shake, knocking the mutant rhino off his balance but this time, she added in throwing a fire blast of her own at the mutant rhino's face, which he dodged.

However, it left Rocksteady open for Raphael to leapt onto his face before delivering a kick against his face and knocking him back while he leapt away from the mutant rhino.

"That's it! Now, you get the horn!" Rocksteady charged at the two teens with his horn and Raphael pushed Maya out of the way so she wouldn't get hit by it before barely being able to dodge, rolling out of the way but stopping when he came too close to the edge. However, it gave Rocksteady the chance to slam his hammer against Raphael, knocking him back against the wall.

But with Rocksteady standing near the ledge, Maya took it to her advantage and used her powers to make the ground underneath him shake, once again knocking the mutant rhino off balance. "Now!" She called out.

Before Rocksteady could even try to regained his balance, Raphael kicked the mutant rhino off the ledge as Rocksteady fell and crashed onto a ledge twenty feet below them. The mutant rhino struggled to pull himself back up but was knocked unconscious when his own hammer fell on top of him.

Raphael looked over at Maya, who moved to stand next to him, almost getting lost in her indigo purple eyes that looked so pretty to him as his heart skipped a beat. "You handled it pretty well for your first time up against Rocksteady."

"Thanks," Maya said, almost getting lost in his emerald green eyes that also looked so pretty to her as her heart skipped a beat. "I'm just glad I was able to lend a hand."

Kaz was able to stuck up on Bebop from behind and wrapped his arms around his neck, keeping the mutant warthog pinned. "Casey, now!"

Casey was able to skate in and slam his hockey stick across Bebop's face with enough force to knock him out as well.

"Aw, yeah! Casey Jones and Kaz for the win!" They shared a high-five, along with Raphael and Maya who regrouped and exchanged high-five and fist-bumps.

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LEONARDO, ECLIPSE, AND Henry came at Super Shredder from multiple sides to slash at him with their weapons, but their attacks didn't do much damage before he went on the attack. Super Shredder slammed Eclipse into a tree, grabbed Leonardo by his throat before slamming him onto the ground, and throwing a punch into Henry's side that sent him crashing into a tree.

Suddenly, Super Shredder was picked up by an invisible force and kept in mid-air. April, whose eyes were glowing white, was using her psychic powers to keep Super Shredder lifted in the air before throwing him back into a tree. However, it only fueled his rage as Super Shredder charged at the teenaged girl, quickly grabbing April and throwing her into another tree where she slid down in pain.

Karai, in her mutant snake form, attempted to wrap her entire body around him and pinned his arms to his side, hopefully giving Derek, Scott, Josephine, and Pollyanna the chance to attack with their claws. However, Super Shredder broke free from Karai's grip, grabbed her by her throat and threw her into Derek, sending the two crashing back onto the ground. Then, Super Shredder grabbed Josephine and Scott, slamming them into each other before throwing them away. Super Shredder then grabbed Pollyanna, slammed her into the ground, and threw her away.

Suddenly, he was kicked in the back by Leonardo, who tried to rush at him with his katana blades, but Super Shredder smacked him into a tree, causing him to drop his swords. Then, Super Shredder picked him up by his arms.

"Goodbye, turtle." Super Shredder began to squeeze hard against his arms, trying to crush him, which made Leonardo cry out in pain.

However, he was forced to drop Leonardo when he gets kicked from behind. Super Shredder glared at the teenaged boy before charging at him, raising his claws that Henry managed to block with his twin swords. But then, Super Shredder delivers a hard kick into Henry's stomach that knocks the air out of his lungs and causes him to fall onto his knees, dropping his swords. Before he could react, Super Shredder raises his fist and slams down onto Henry, knocking him onto the ground. Henry gives out a small groan of pain before Super Shredder lifts him up into the air, only to slam into the ground repeatedly before stomping on his right leg, making Henry cry out in pain.

Henry doesn't even try to move as there's nothing but a wave of agonizing pain running through his body while the bones in his right leg feel like they're snapping back into place, no doubt already healing. Super Shredder grabs Henry and lifts him up, going to slam him down onto the ground again but before he could, a voice stops him. "Stop!"

Super Shredder drops Henry onto the ground as he turns to face Karai, who was back in her human form, cautiously approaching him. "Don't do this! You could do something good for once, Saki! Something without the malice! Without the hate! Without the need for revenge!" Karai shouts.

"Karai... I... I never meant to hurt you," Super Shredder said. "Please... call me father... not Saki."

The moment those words left his lips, Karai could feel the boiling storm of anger inside of her and that very anger grew tenfold when she recalled something else— something that Twilight had told her.

"Oh, Miwa... she loved you so much. That night, I... she gave you to me, wanted me to get you away from there, but I couldn't leave without her so, I... I tried to stop her. I placed you underneath a chair outside and I went inside to stop her. I was going to come back for you after I stopped your mother from going in there, but Saki..."

All those years of growing up without her mother, she had grew up believing in a lie that Shredder, who she had thought was her father, had told her and because of that, she had a burning hatred for her actual father when the person really responsible for her mother's death was standing right in front of her.

No, she wouldn't give him what he wants.

"You were never my father!" Karai slammed her fist into his mutated heart, causing Super Shredder to cry out in agony as he spit out a bit of the green substance. He grabbed onto his arm again when he felt it start to shrink again.

"No... not now! Not now...!" Super Shredder stumbled backwards.

Karai knew that this was her chance to put an end to him once and for all. She pulled out her sword and moved forward, charging at him. However, a series of blue lasers blasts from TigerClaw created a barrier of ice that separated her from his master.

"No!" Karai shouts as the Foot Clan goons and Jakestiltskin regrouped.

"Come, master! We must leave!" TigerClaw said as he tried to help him get away from the battlefield.

"We can't let them escape!" Karai shouted. She was about to run after them but a hand grabbed her wrist, stopping her from running after them.

"As much as I hate letting them escape, they're not important right now." Derek told her.

"He's right, Karai," Zane said, helping Eclipse get Henry back onto his feet while April and Mara did the same with Leonardo. "Everyone needs help right now."

Karai took a quick glance in the other direction to find that they were already gone, but at the same time, she also knew that they were right. "Alright, next time." She and Derek then went back to help anybody that needed help in getting back.

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OH-OH-OH.

Briana continued to lead the way with her brothers following her as she followed the voice, moving deeper into the chasm.

"Over there!" Briana says, pointing over in the direction where she spotted somebody.

"Quill!"

Quill looked over just as Donatello flashed his flashlight towards the ground to find Quill sitting on the ground. The three of them quickly leapt down and ran over to him.

"Oh, man, thank shell we found you!" Michelangelo said.

Quill only smiled as Briana and Donatello helped him stand up. None of them noticed that in the far distance, the spirit of Twilight Velvet watched with a soft smile on her face before disappearing.

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IT FELT LIKE hours but the Foot Clan finally made it to the mountains, standing at the very bottom of the tallest one. "So, why are we here again?" Tyson asked.

"This is it," Super Shredder said. "I can hear it... calling me."

"Yo!" Everyone turned to see Bebop and Rocksteady running over to them.

"Dah, Quill alive! We saw turtle-boys and Princess Briana pull him up!" Rocksteady reported.

Jakestiltskin rolled his eyes, a look of disgust was written on his face. "Of course, he's too stubborn to die." Then, at the sound of a woman's voice singing, he smirked lowly. "There it is... listen."

Noelle blinked before she leaned over to Cameron and whispered. "I'm starting to think he's even more crazier. I don't hear anything."

"Pretty sure the serum just made him even crazier," Cameron whispered back to her.

"Power... more power..." Super Shredder stood up, preparing himself to climb the mountain. "And it rests at the very top of this mountain."

"Master Shredder, you cannot—" TigerClaw's protest was cut off by Jakestiltskin using his magic to squeeze his throat, cutting his oxygen off.

"That's enough, TigerClaw," Jakestiltskin ordered. "We're going and that's final."

He released the mutant tiger, letting him breathe freely again before he and Super Shredder turned back to the mountain, already starting to climb it to the very top where their power awaits them.

"Oroku Saki died a long time ago, and the only thing left is a monster."