At the warehouse apartment, Onyx sat on the couch with a curious look on her face as she was staring at the glass container that has a darkish rough spherical object on the table. Her henchwomen were confused by their leader's curiosity.
"Is that thing really Shade's heart?" Marie whispered to her older sisters.
"And where did she even get something like that?" Carmen whispered back.
"You don't want answers to those questions." Serena said with narrow eyes.
"Hey, Onyx. What's with the freaky blob you got there?" Ana asked Onyx.
"It's from Lady Shade. I took her precious heart and now her precious territory as my trophies." Onyx explained. "Her soul resides in this heart, allowing me to claim this entire city for myself. And no mage or freak will stand in my way. Especially those mage ninjas."
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In an underground chamber, the Foot Cultists gathered together in front of Tiger Claw, Tigress, and Kavaxas that were standing on the pentagram above them. The Shadow Phoenixes stood behind their leaders in silence.
"The time is nigh, my fateful Foot and Shadow, for the resurrection of our masters is tonight!" Tiger Claw declared.
"Soon we will be graced by their presence once more." Tigress continued. "Long live the Foot and the Shadow!"
The Foot Cultists started chanting for the mutants' words. But everyone wasn't aware that Camilla and Talia were peeking quietly from the tunnel as they were trying to get secret information about Shredder's and Shade's resurrection. They wore a black headset with a microphone that connected to it and black wristwatch-type communication devices on their hands.
"Ariana, this is Talia standing by. Over." Talia whispered to her headset microphone.
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Outside, Kirana and Ariana were traveling on the building rooftops as they followed Crystallia in her black van.
"We're on pursuit of Crystallia's van right now." Ariana reported from her K-Phone.
Ariana and Kirana suddenly stopped on the fire escape, looking down at the black van and jumped down after the vehicle.
"Has Tiger Claw and Tigress mentioned what they're looking for?" Ariana asked.
"Negatory, Ariana." Talia responded from her headset microphone. "Zack, anything to report?"
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Zack was riding on a motorcycle with Kuro to chase Jinx, who was running across the rooftops above them.
"We're after Jinx right now." Zack responded
"Hang on." Kuro said.
Kuro revved his motorcycle and drove off to pursue after Jinx.
"Ezra, Nixie, you got anything?" Talia called from her microphone.
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Ezra and Nixie were using their gliders to fly over the van that Crystallia is driving.
"We see the van." Ezra said.
"Let's dive!" Nixie declared.
The teal mage ninja and sky blue haired girl flew down above the van.
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Back in the underground chamber, Camilla and Talia looked down to continue listening Tiger Claw and Tigress's announced
"Faithful followers, for Kavaxas to resurrect the great Shredder and Shade, we must obtain one final item: their hearts!" Tigress announced.
"Funny. I didn't think they even had a heart." Talia remarked with a smile.
Camilla snickered quietly under her breath for Talia's remark.
"I have already sent Zeck and Steranko to find Shredder's heart as well as Tigress's comrades to find Shade's heart." Tiger Claw said.
"If they fail me, I will have both of their souls." Kavaxas said dangerously.
"You mean, if they fail me, Kavaxas." Tiger Claw corrected.
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Kirana and Ariana continued running on the building rooftops to follow Crystallia in her black van.
"Okay, now we know what they're looking for something weird and totally gross, but we have to stop them." Kirana said through her K-Phone.
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Jinx raced across the rooftops until she saw Kuro and Zack riding a motorcycle below at the corner of her eyes.
"Hey, Crystallia, go for the heart. I gotta take care of two boys targeting me." Jinx spoke through her ear communication device.
Jinx jumped high in the air and turned around to shoot out a powerful blast of pink lightning-like energy at the boys, exploding the motorcycle that made Kuro and Zack fly in the air. But Zack's legs changed into a ghost tail and flew forward to catch Kuro in his arms at extremely high speeds before landing on his human legs and put him down on his feet.
"Thanks, Zack. Let's go." Kuro said.
With that, Kuro and Zack sped after Jinx in extreme speed. Jinx had spotted Ezra and Nixie flying in the air and shot a pink lightning bolt at the teal mage ninja, but Nixie created a cerulean force field shield to protect themselves from the blast in the nick of time.
"Nice save." Ezra said.
"I love my magic." Nixie chuckled.
With that, the two young sorcerers continued to fly over the van in speed.
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Crystallia stopped the black van and parked the vehicle next to the warehouse apartment building.
"Tigress, this is Crystallia. I've found the location of Shade's heart. That Onyx has it with her." Crystallia reported through her ear communicator.
"Get in there and retrieve it." Tigress said from her bracelet-like communicator. "Make sure Jinx assists you on your mission."
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Ezra and Nixie landed on a next door rooftop and set their gliders aside before they looked down in search of Jinx and Crystallia.
As Kirana and Ariana both finally arrived to Crystallia's destination, they saw a familiar warehouse apartment building right in front of them. Ariana heard a call from her K-Phone and answered it.
"Guys, the place was Onyx's lair the whole time." Ezra said from his K-Phone. "That's where Shade's heart is."
"Onyx's place?" Ariana asked in surprise. "It makes perfect sense for that black widow to want it."
Kirana sensed a familiar incoming aura coming around the area. She pointed her finger to the rooftop building in front of her that made Ariana follow the finger to see Jinx leaning on the rooftop ledge.
"I'm here, Crystallia." Jinx spoke through her ear communicator. She pressed one finger on her communicator and materialized a pair of pink piece-new glasses to zoom into the warehouse apartment for observation. "I see the heart. I think she's gonna absorb it to her gadget upgrade."
"Retrieve the heart and don't fail!" Tigress spoke from Jinx's ear communicator.
"No worries. We got this." Jinx grinned.
Jinx sprang her way to the fire escape as she climbed her way to Onyx's warehouse apartment.
"And if that fails, we always got plan B." Crystallia said with a devious smile from the van.
"So, the heart is the last item to resurrecting Shade. Let's go." Ariana said.
"Not so fast. We're kunoichis, Ariana." Kirana reminded. "We need to use a stealthier way for this mission."
"There's no time for that, Kirana." Ariana said. "Besides, I wanna give Onyx a painful taste of her own medicine when she tried to extract me."
"What?!" Ezra exclaimed. "Ariana, wait...!"
Ariana ended the call from her younger brother before he could say anything else. She engulfed her hands with purple psychic energy magic and sprang off the rooftop.
"Ariana!" Kirana exclaimed.
Kirana rolled her eyes in annoyance and jumped after her younger sister.
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Back in the warehouse apartment, Onyx was staring at the glass container with wondrous eyes. Ana, Marie, Carmen, and Serena were playing solitaire on the small table near the window. Jinx crouched her knees on the fire escape in front of the window. She snapped her fingers and all of the lights blown out inside the warehouse apartment.
"Hey, what happened to the lights?" Marie exclaimed.
"Just get them back on now!" Onyx ordered.
Jinx moved swiftly past the human women and grabbed the glass container in the room complete in darkness. But her eyes lit up in shock when the light went back on and the women stared dangerously at her.
"Oh, hi." Jinx greeted sweetly with a wave.
"Get her!" Onyx shouted.
Carmen started lashing green energy cords as combat-like whips repeatedly at Jinx, who avoided the attack with backflips and then extended her arms to both sides to perform a 360-degree twirl that threw off a pink wave of lightning-like energy that hit Carmen to the wall.
"Hey, Crystallia, ready for Plan B." Jinx said through her ear communicator.
Crystallia barged herself through the window and fired a rapid barrage of crystal shards throughout the room, causing the women to scatter out of the way.
"Let's have some fun, shall we?" Crystallia grinned.
Kirana, Ariana, Ezra, and Nixie entered the warehouse apartment through the window. They both watched Crystallia firing rapid crystal shards at Onyx's forces. Kirana took out a black smoke bomb and threw it to explode Crystallia's face.
"I had enough freaks and mages for one day! Destroy them!" Onyx yelled as she hid behind the couch with her crew.
Ana, Marie, Carmen, and Serena jumped out from the couch as they began firing energy spheres at the mage mutants, mage kunoichis, mage ninja, and lost girl. Ariana telekinetically levitated the couch aside that made Onyx startle in fear. She then launched purple orbs of psychic energy at Onyx one by one, but Onyx destroyed the orbs with a wave of pure dark energy. Ezra threw teal energy balls while Nixie used her spell bombs to strike at the mage mutants. Kirana caught a glass container sitting on the table out of the corner of her eyes.
"The heart!" Ezra exclaimed.
Ezra got attacked by a powerful energy blast from Ana.
"Don't even think it, ninja boy." Ana said with a wicked smile.
Crystallia kicked Ana hard to the wall. Ariana levitated high above on Onyx, making her crash to the ground as she clutched the glass container in her hands.
"You wanna know what makes me tick, Onyx? You got it!" Ariana exclaimed.
Ariana levitated the glass container out of Onyx's hands with her psychic energy magic and caught it in her hands with a smirk. But Serena shot a spreadshot of red energy balls from her gloves that made Ariana fall to the ground as she caught the glass container in her hand.
"Not so fast, ninja girl." Serena said.
Serena aimed her hands down to take an aim at Ariana, who gasped with wide eyes in fear. Kirana blasted Marie away with a blue beam of psychic energy and saw her younger sister in trouble.
"Ariana!" Kirana yelled.
Kirana quickly created a long chain made of blue psychic energy in her hand and wrapped it around Serena to hold her tightly before slamming her to the wall. Serena groaned in pain and dropped the glass container to the floor. Ana quickly picked it up from the floor, but Ariana fired a purple sphere of psychic energy that knocked Ana away and caught the glass container in her hands. But Jinx kicked Ariana back and caught the glass container in her hands. Kirana fired several volleys of three blue psychic energy balls that attacked Jinx to the ground and took the glass container from her, but Onyx knocked Kirana away with a wave of pure dark energy and grabbed the glass container with her rocket boots.
"Tick on this, witches!" Onyx yelled.
Onyx began firing waves of pure dark energy at the heroes, who dodged the way from the energy waves. Ariana looked to watch Onyx escape the apartment through the window with a dark laugh. Ariana quickly ran towards the window, but Serena threw two small bombs made of red energy to the ground that spread out dark red smoke around the area, making the mages and the mage mutants cough hard to the ground.
"This is crazy." Crystallia said to Jinx. "Let's bounce."
Jinx nodded her head as she and Crystallia sped to the nearby opening window to escape the smoke.
Ariana slowly looked up to watch Serena escape through the window with her rocket boots along with Marie, Ana, and Carmen.
"No!" Ariana cried angrily.
Ariana collapsed straight to the floor due to the smoke having strong effect on mages. Kirana, Ezra, and Nixie helped Ariana up in her arms and sprang out of the warehouse apartment to land on a nearby building rooftop. Kirana put Ariana down to the rooftop ground and fell on her knees with deep breaths. Ezra checked on Ariana while Nixie helped Kirana. Ariana growled angrily that caught Kirana's and Ezra's attention as if they knew that their sister was beginning to act vengeful.
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In the underground cavern, the Foot Cultists and the Shadow Phoenixes ran away through the underground tunnels from a booming green fire. Kavaxas was unleashing green fire in anger because Bebop, Rocksteady, Jinx, and Crystallia have failed to retrieve the hearts.
"Those incompetent mutant men and women of yours are responsible for losing the hearts!" Kavaxas hissed angrily to Tiger Claw and Tigress as he was pacing back and forth on the pentagram. "I cannot resurrect either Shredder or Shade without them. There is no other way!"
"You seem particularly invested in resurrecting our masters." Tiger Claw said suspiciously.
Kavaxas looked back at Tiger Claw with a dangerous glare. Tiger Claw clutched the ancient seal in his hand tightly.
"Also, not to mention, having an interest in Camilla Shioribara as well." Tigress concurred. "I might have something for that."
"Don't worry, baby, we already found 'em." Bebop said as he and the others walked up on the pentagram.
"Is just as we think, Vizioso hides in filthy Hignight Hotel like rat." Rocksteady informed.
"Also, Onyx is going there as well." Crystallia added.
"Looks like those fools are gonna skip out of town." Jinx said as she placed her hands on her hips.
"Better make a move fast!" Bebop said.
"You must capture the hearts!" Kavaxas said as he grabbed Bebop by the neck and lifted him up in the air. "Allow them escape and I will tear the entire city to pieces! And you as well."
Kavaxas let out a smile on his face with green glowing eyes as he was beginning to have an idea to drain Bebop's soul, but Tiger Claw held up the seal in his hand to prevent him from doing so.
"Stop this! You will do as I say, demon." Tiger Claw ordered.
Kavaxas dropped Bebop from his grasp and turned around to bow grudgingly at Tiger Claw's command. Tiger Claw walked over to the rising podium.
"Now, we will all prepare for the siege." Tiger Claw said.
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In the Crete Fortress, the K-5 sat on the dining table in the kitchen with Norbit, Kuro, Nixie, Yami, and Zack.
"Man, we almost had the heart until those female gangsta squad showed up in their possession!" Ariana sighed.
"Well, look on the bright side, the heart is not in Kavaxas's possession." Ezra said.
"For sure." Norbit agreed with a nod.
"I'm sure we can find another way." Nixie assured. "Maybe we can make a portal to..."
"No." Ariana said, sternly.
"Huh?" Nixie asked in confusion.
"Ariana, I know you hate Onyx." Ezra explained. "We all do, but we have to figure out how we can get the heart before anyone else can steal it."
"Planning doesn't matter!" Ariana said angrily. "We have to get that heart, so I can show everyone that witch Onyx is going down!"
Six mages gave Ariana worried looks on their faces as if they have never see Ariana acting so angry and vengeful before at all.
"Wow, Ariana, I really like the new side of you. It kinda does get your blood boiling." Camilla commented with a smile.
"That's the problem. It's your fault we blew the mission, Ariana. All because of you being ticked off with Onyx." Kirana said with a glare.
"You weren't there when she was about to extract me like a lab rat!" Ariana snapped as she got up from her seat.
Kirana and Ariana glared in each other's faces, but Kuro yanked them away from each other with his light magic.
"I wouldn't worry too much about Onyx." Kuro said. "But how do we stop Kavaxas?"
"I've done research on Kavaxas and he only has one weakness, which is the Seal of the Ancients that makes him obey anyone who wields it." Yami explained.
"If we can get the seal away from Tiger Claw, we can control Kavaxas." Zack continued.
"Exactly." Talia said.
"All right, we know Onyx is meeting with this Don Vizioso at the Hignight Hotel." Kirana said. "We'll infiltrate the hotel and get the heart before Kavaxas and his squad get there first."
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Meanwhile, Onyx and her crew arrived at the hotel safehouse, where they were greeted by Don Vizioso and the Fulci Twins.
"Don, good to see you." Onyx greeted.
"Onyx, still lovely as ever." Don greeted back. He looked at the glass container in Onyx's hands. "I see you have Lady Shade's heart."
"And you have Shredder's heart." Onyx said as she looked at the heart in Don's hands. "I see good news travels fast on us."
"But there's mutants everywhere." Don said in worry. "Can't stand 'em anymore."
"Heh, tell me about it." Onyx said with a sigh. "Except I've been dealing with those mages lately."
"What's taking so long with those fake passports? We gotta get out of the country!" Don demanded to the Fulci Twins.
"These things take time, Don." One of the Fulci twins replied.
"Who knew those hearts would be prized possessions to the mages and the mutants." Marie said.
"Go figure." Ana said with a shrug.
"I'll never give it up now." Don said as he was rubbing the heart carefully in his hands. He looked back at Onyx. "We'll just lay low for all this mutant-mage nonsense to blow over."
"I concur." Onyx agreed.
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The K-5, Kuro, Norbit, Nixie, Zack, and Yami looked across the hotel from a building rooftop. Kirana closed her eyes and focused on her aura sense to view surroundings on the streets.
"There are several guards on a lookout." Kirana said to her team. "Tiger Claw will show up with Kavaxas. Get that Seal however you can and I'm going to get the heart from Onyx full-stealth alone."
"Are you serious, Kirana?" Ezra questioned in disbelief.
"Going solo is getting a little secretive, sis." Kuro commented.
"You can't go in there alone. There's gotta be another way." Ezra said.
"Ninja stealth is the only option in every mission." Kirana said.
"Uh, looks like Ariana has gone solo, Kirana." Talia pointed out.
"What?" Kirana cried.
Everyone looked around to see that Ariana wasn't with them on the rooftop in realization. They looked up and saw Ariana standing on the hotel building rooftop with downed guards in her pre-Dragoness form. But she wasn't alone. Donnie was standing next to her.
"Well, if Donnie's here, we all know who else is here." Talia commented.
"Whoa! Angry Ariana might have a better chance of hitting Onyx after all." Camilla said with a proud grin.
"Ariana, what on earth do you think you're doing?" Kirana demanded from her K-Phone.
"What does it think look like I'm doing? I'm getting that heart and putting an end to Onyx for good!" Ariana answered her K-Phone.
"Ari, please listen." Ezra said from Kirana's K-Phone. "We can't have vendetta being focused on our heads right now. We need you to help get the heart."
"We have to fight, Ezra." Ariana responded. "It's our only option."
"Your hatred with Onyx doesn't matter. You're seriously jeopardizing the entire mission." Kirana said.
"Oh, get real, Kirana." Ariana argued. "She's building tons of the anti-mage weapons. If you're not gonna do anything about it, then I will. Ariana out!"
With that, Ariana hung up her K-Phone.
"I'm so gonna kill her." Kirana mumbled with an angry face.
"Uh, guys? We got company." Yami called out as she pointed her finger down the street.
Everyone looked down to see headlights from Bebop and Rocksteady's van. Don's thugs started firing their weapons and Onyx's masked guards began firing energy spheres from their mechanical gloves at the van, but Bebop turned the vehicle around that allowed Jinx, Crystallia, and Rocksteady pop out from the back of the vehicle. Rocksteady began firing lasers with his machine gun, Crystallia started firing rapid crystal shards, and Jinx blasted pink lightning-like energy waves at them.
Suddenly, Kavaxas came flying around and started taking out Onyx's masked guards and Don's thugs. He snatched one of Don's thugs and threw him away before kicking one of Onyx's masked guards. Kavaxas then threw a green fireball at one of the thugs, making him disappear when it hit him. He then began throwing green fireballs to take out Don's thugs and Onyx's masked guards one at a time. Tiger Claw entered the scene on his jetpack as Tigress appeared on the top of a car below.
"What now?!" Nixie asked.
"Ezra and I'll back up Ariana. Help the others get that Seal!" Kirana ordered.
Kirana, Camilla, Talia, Ezra, Norbit, Nixie, Kuro, Zack, and Yami sprang off the rooftop as they landed on the ground and jumped out of the way when Kavaxas threw green fireballs everywhere from his hands and his mouth. Kavaxas got hit by sudden missiles firing at him and looked to see the Hammer in his mech suit equipped with rocket launchers, a gripping claw, and a hammer.
"Hey, yo, I'm gonna kick this Dragon Man's tail in, yo!" Hammer said.
Hammer started firing missiles from his mech suit, but Kavaxas pushed the missiles away that made him hit the hotel behind him.
"Do you think such worldly weapons can hurt Kavaxas?" Kavaxas retorted.
Donnie used his grappling hook to climb on the side of the hotel building down while Ariana hung onto her mutant boyfriend neatly. Donnie noticed the incoming missiles coming in his direction and jumped away from the explosions before jumping onto the letter of the logo. But as the letter started to fall off, Donnie and Ariana fell straight to the ground with loud screams that caused Vee and Ezra to gasp at the sight. Ariana quickly focused on her magic and fused with the mutant turtle into Delilah, who was able to land herself safely on the ground. Leo and Kirana ran up to Delilah as they joined hands to fuse into Lila. Vee and Ezra ran up to Delilah and Lila as they joined hands to fuse into Victoria. Three mage mutant fusions ducked out of the way from Rocksteady's weapon.
"Outta the way, ladies!" Bebop said.
"So, the K-5 was able to fuse with the Hamato mutants after all." Jinx smirked. "Even the thought of that makes me wanna puke."
Bebop fired bright purple energy blasts from his belt at Delilah with his dancing moves, but Delilah dodged the energy blasts and jumped to a post before springing away from Jinx's pink energy blast and landed on top of the car. Delilah wrapped her mask tails around Bebop and Jinx, sending massive surges of purple psychic energy through them that gave Bebop and Jinx large amount of damage. Lila swiftly moved away from Rocksteady's horn and backflipped out of the way from Crystallia's crystal balls. Delilah flipped away from Bebop's energy blast and Jinx's energy bolts, dodging those attacks that hit Rocksteady and Crystallia to the ground.
"Dang. Rock and Crystal are gonna be so mad at us." Bebop said with a groan.
"Ya think?" Jinx cried.
Victoria then performed an upward drill kick that hit Bebop and Jinx multiple times, sending them flying on the final hit that landed them to the ground in pain. The mage mutant fusions silently opened the door and ran inside the building.
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Meanwhile, Kavaxas and Hammer wrestled each other before the Demodragon pushed the human to the ground. Kavaxas picked up the Hammer and pushed him to the wall. He ripped the mech suit's arms off, pulling the Hammer out of the battle suit. He started draining the Hammer's soul, dropping him dead to the ground.
"These mortals are not worth my time." Kavaxas said with a sinister smile.
Tiger Claw began firing red lasers from his pistols while Tigress unleashed massive burnt orange plasma energy spheres at the heroes. But Camilla cartwheeled herself through the air to hit Tigress with red psychic energy emanating from her boots multiple times, leaving Raph tackle Tiger Claw from behind that made the tiger mutant drop the seal out of his hand to the ground.
"The Seal!" Tiger Claw exclaimed.
Kavaxas threw April, Karai, Kuro, Zack, and Yami off of him as he quickly zoomed for the seal. But Talia teleported in front of him and kicked him hard in the face that knocked him back to the ground. Talia quickly picked up the seal in her hands and jumped up in the air, allowing Mikey to catch her in one arm as he moved around with his grappling hook.
"Cowabunga!" Mikey hollered.
Tiger Claw picked up Tigress in his arm and flew after Mikey and Talia.
"Mikey!" Macey exclaimed.
"Talia!" Norbit said in worry.
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Mikey and Talia landed on top of the moving train as Tiger Claw followed them and stood in front of them with Tigress.
"Do you two think you can keep the Seal from me?" Tiger Claw questioned.
"Well, duh!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Pretty much." Talia answered with a shrug.
Tiger Claw tackled Mikey and Tigress fired burnt orange plasma energy waves at Talia, causing the people in the subway train to stumble from the fight. Mikey and Talia were thrown to the ground from the brutal attacks from Tiger Claw and Tigress.
"Where is the Seal? Give it to me. Now!" Tiger Claw demanded as he stomped on Mikey's shell and started shaking the seal off the mutant turtle's hand.
The seal was dropped out of Mikey's hand and Tiger Claw picked it up, but his eyes widened in surprise when he and Tigress noticed that the seal was a mini pizza in his hands.
"What?" Tigress growled.
"Ooh, the ol' switcheroo, brah!" Mikey said. "Sorry, kitties. Personal pocket pizza for ya?"
Talia giggled and planted a kiss on Mikey's cheek.
"Good one, Mikey." Talia said with a grin.
"Where is the Seal?" Tiger Claw asked in irritation.
"If they don't have it, then who does?" Tigress wondered.
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Back in the battle against Kavaxas, April and Karai were fighting the Demodragon along with Yami, Kuro, Macey, Norbit, Bruce, Nixie, and Zack while Raph was trying to figure out how to use the seal in his hands.
"Now that we got it, how do we make this thing work?" Raph asked himself.
During the fight, Kavaxas caught a glimpse of Raph holding the seal in his hand.
"The Seal!" Kavaxas cried. "Liberation!"
Kavaxas soared towards Raph, who threw the seal to the red mage kunoichi.
"Camilla!" Raph yelled.
Camilla caught the seal in her hands and placed it behind her back when Kavaxas stood close to her with a smile on his face.
"Remember, Ceto, there's always a place with you at my side." Kavaxas said.
"You and I both know that I can never join the dark forces." Camilla said with narrow eyes.
"Never say never." Kavaxas said, moving his face closer to Camilla's face. "Now, be a dear and hand over the seal to me."
Camilla lifted her hands from her back and the seal wasn't with her, making Kavaxas's eyes widen in shock.
"Sorry, but I don't have it." Camilla said teasingly.
Kavaxas hissed and looked around to see April holding the seal in her hands. He flew for the seal, but April floated the seal away from him with her telekinetic powers that made the Demodragon chase after it.
One of the Fulci twins and Carmen were watching the battle scene from the hotel room.
"What's going on out there?" Don demanded.
"Um, a bunch of mutants, mages, a robot, kids, boys, and girls fighting. Some kind of dragon flying around breathin' fire." One of the Fulci twins replied.
"It doesn't look good at all, Onyx." Carmen added.
"Are you serious right now?" Onyx shouted.
"Oh. Oh, this could be it. A mutant-mage apocalypse." Don said with a panicked look on his face. "Oh, man. Someone bring me a calzone and some antacid! Hurry!"
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In the hotel hallways, Lila, Delilah, and Victoria ran towards Don's guards and Onyx's masked guards while punching them rapidly with her fist-shaped mask tails and finished them with a slash that sent all of the guards flying. They stopped around the corner to check the hallway for more guards.
"Told you there would be more guards." Victoria said.
"Remember, Delilah, keep it together." Lila warned. "We're after the hearts, not revenge."
One of Don's guards appeared from the door next to the Lila, who broke his gun in half with her mask tails and kicked him away.
"In the spirit of multitasking, I'd like to think we have time for both." Delilah retorted.
Another guard and masked guard appeared behind Delilah with a gun. Lila grabbed them with her fist-shaped mask tail and slammed them fiercely on the ground. Lila gave Delilah a warning glare as she turned the corner, leaving Delilah to look down with anger and follow Lila with Victoria.
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Back on top of the moving train, Tiger Claw punched Mikey with his fist that made the mutant turtle dangle from an edge of the train. The tiger mutant spun his sword in his hand as he loomed to raise it over Mikey.
"Your ride ends here, turtle." Tiger Claw said.
"Maybe you're right." Mikey groaned.
Mikey jumped off the train and fell straight into an alley with injures.
"Little fool." Tiger Claw snarled.
Talia dashed forward at Tigress and swung strong blades of orange psychic energy in fast succession that sent the tiger mage mutant flying away past Tiger Claw. She noticed that Mikey wasn't on the moving train and looked at Tiger Claw with a dangerous glare.
"Where's Mikey?" Talia demanded.
"Probably dead in the alley." Tiger Claw replied with a smile.
Talia could feel the pounding of her rhythmic heart beating hard inside her as if time has slowly come to a stop. She suddenly felt something warm and pulsing from coming behind that made her spun around with her eyes widened in shock and surprise. She stared up at a feminine figure standing right in front of her with a surprising face. It was a tall, beautiful woman with a curvaceous figure staring down at her. The woman had deep-dark orange skin, long bright orange tied into two braided pigtails with bangs down her forehead, and baby blue eyes. She wore a long-sleeved orange leotard with a black hooded cloak and orange knee-length boots with black soles.
"Are you Selene?" Talia asked with a soft gasp.
"Yes." Selene spoke. "Unleash your power, Talia. Remember, no fear."
Talia nodded her head and looked back at Tiger Claw, who was looking at the orange mage kunoichi with a confused face.
"Unleash your power! Let go, Talia! Let go!" Selene yelled.
Talia screamed out loudly that caught Tiger Claw's attention, making him back away from her. She was lifted high into the air and glowing orangish-white sparkles began to form around her, changing her into a totally different person. Tigress got back on her feet as she looked at Talia and knew her voice was accompanied by a mature feminine voice, knowing that the spirit of Selene had awakened. Talia's eyes turned bright orange and her blonde hair was tied up in a bun with metallic orange hairsticks. She suddenly wore a short form-fitting orange dress with long spiked black sleeves and knee-length slits at the sides along with black patent leggings and knee-high dark orange boots. She also had a dark orange diamond symbol on the left side of her face.
Tiger Claw and Tigress became simply stunned by Talia's transformation.
"So, the Four Dragoness have truly returned." Tigress murmured in surprise.
Talia created five orange psychic energized dragon emblem in front of her and snapped her fingers that sent them flying forward to hit Tiger Claw multiple times. Tigress quickly ran forward to strike Talia with her burnt orange plasma energized claws, but Talia formed multiple orange spheres of psychic energy and launching them at the Tigress that attacked her in painful explosions. Talia took several deep breaths and flew away to find Mikey lying on the ground with painful injuries in an alley.
With that, Tiger Claw got up on his feet and picked up the groaning Tigress in his arms before flying off the train.
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Kavaxas went forward to reach the seal, but it moved away from him. He looked down to see April moving the seal with her telekinetic powers.
"Arrogant child!" Kavaxas said.
Kavaxas unleashed a powerful stream of green flames at April, but Kuro protected her with a transparent force field of swirling light and dark energy. But the flames broke the force field that pushed him towards April to the ground, breaking the redhead kunoichi's concentration on the seal. Karai, Raph, Camilla, Macey, Norbit, Bruce, Nixie, Zack, Yami, and Kavaxas looked up at the seal in the air.
"I got it!" Karai called out.
Karai jumped out to catch the seal while Raph, Camilla, Zack, and Yami pushed Kavaxas away from her. Karai landed on top of a car and threw the seal to April.
"Now would be a good time to make that thing work." Karai said to April.
Kavaxas held Raph by the neck with his tail. Karai and Kuro jumped up from behind him to restrain the Demodragon. Camilla shot out multiple large waves of red psychic energy towards Kavaxas in rapid succession. Yami started channeling flames made of pure psychic energy around herself in the shape of a giant Chinese dragon and then fired it forward that heavily burned Kavaxas on impact. Next, Yami bombarded Kavaxas with shards of ice made of pure psychic energy. Finally, Yami radiated many streams of psionic electrical energy around herself to attack Kavaxas. Yami's unexpected powers made Camilla and Kuro gasp in shock and surprise, but they continued fighting the Demodragon.
"Come on, come on." April murmured as she was trying to control the Demodragon through the seal. "I command you!"
Kavaxas swung Raph with his tail to knock Karai, Kuro, Camilla, Macey, Norbit, Bruce, Nixie, and Yami away. He then looked at April with a laugh.
"You have more power than these mutants and equally with these mages." Kavaxas said. He threw Raph away and walked over to April. "But you don't have the knowledge, child."
Kavaxas laughed as April closed her eyes while trying to control him with the seal, but it didn't work on the Demodragon.
"Brain with unique power. I will not merely destroy you." Kavaxas said as he stood in front of April and loomed over her with his spread out wings. "I'll swallow your soul!"
April opened her eyes with a smirk and moved away as Raph stood in front of her and held a long pipe in his hands.
"Swallow this!" Raph said.
Raph shoved the long pipe in Kavaxas's mouth, causing him to choke on it and spit it out of his mouth.
Kavaxas unleashed a powerful stream of green flames at Kuro, who flipped away from the Demodragon and slid over a car to avoid the attack.
"Give me...the Seal!" Kavaxas shouted.
Kavaxas went after Kuro, who held the seal in his hands. He tossed the seal to Karai, making the Demodragon chase after her. Karai threw the seal to Yami and jumped away from Kavaxas. The Demodragon unleashed a powerful stream of green flames at Yami, but April conjured up a psychic shield to block the green flames. Yami tossed the seal to Nixie, who grabbed it and ran with Macey and Norbit. Nixie tossed the seal at Zack, who grabbed it in one hand and flew high into the air to avoid the flames. As Kavaxas got close to catch him, Zack threw the seal down to the street with fast speed. Raph caught the seal in the air, but Kavaxas caught the mutant turtle in the green flames.
"No!" April shouted.
Raph tumbled down to the ground, dropping the seal to the ground in the process. Tiger Claw landed Tigress on her feet and picked the seal up from the ground. Bruce kicked both Tiger Claw and Tigress to knock them down and he grabbed the seal. Kavaxas looked to watch Camilla forming large red bat-like wings out of psychic energy and flapping them to blow the fire away. Camilla flew over to check on Raph and glared at Kavaxas with an angry growl. Karai, April, Kuro, Macey, Norbit, Nixie, Zack, and Yami jumped on the Demodragon to attack him, but Kavaxas threw them off of him that made them crash against the wall.
"You arrogant little boy." Tiger Claw growled.
"You're not using evil for anything." Bruce snapped.
"Maybe this boy could be of use to me." Kavaxas thought.
Kavaxas shot a green mist at Bruce, making him scream in pain by the spell. Bruce slowly stopped screaming and his eyes turned black. The mind controlled green haired boy stood straight up and gave the seal back to Tiger Claw.
"Bruce!" Nixie gasped.
Kavaxas turned back at Camilla with a smile on his face.
"At least, you and I can finally getting a chance to talk. I see we have much to discuss about." Kavaxas said.
"Mind if I talk with my hands?" Camilla snapped.
Camilla gathered a massive amount of red psychic energy in her left hand to fire a red ball of psychic energy at Kavaxas and then jumped in the air to spin around at fast speed that she created an illusion of a red psychic energized tornado around herself before diving straight into Kavaxas feet-first. Camilla landed on her feet while Kavaxas backed away from that attack.
"You don't know anything about me!" Camilla shouted angrily.
"On the contrary, Ceto. I know everything about you." Kavaxas said as he approached closely towards Camilla, who took one step back from him. "I've been watching you for some time in the past. I know why you're always protecting the world from evil. But it doesn't have to be this way. I can help you, Ceto. Come with me."
Kavaxas held out one hand in front of Camilla, who was staring at the hand and raised her hand as if she was starting to reach for it. But she looked at the Demodragon with a cunning smile on her face.
"Nice try, but your way of convincing won't work on me." Camilla said.
Camilla shot out a powerful blast of red psychic energy from her hand that hurled Kavaxas down the length of the ground to crash onto his back. Kavaxas flew back up in the air and soared straight towards the red mage kunoichi. Camilla quickly surrounded her entire body in red psychic energy, but it evaporated instantly when Kavaxas locked his right arm around Camilla's right forearm.
"If you won't join me, then I have other ways to convince you." Kavaxas said with a grin. He grabbed Camilla's left forearm when she swung it at him. His eyes slowly glowed in bright green. "Mea est anima tua. Mea est anima tua. Mea est anima tua."
Camilla's eyes widened wide in horror at the spell realization, backing up from Kavaxas's face and voiced a series of tortured screams as dark red light poured from both eyes while the Demodragon kept chanting the spell. Her hair lengthened into long and lustrous in a ponytail held together by two dark red bands. Her bright green eyes went dark red pupiless eyes. She wore a short dark red kimono with a black trim, a tight crimson red wrap belt, a pair of black tights, dark red skull earrings, and a pair of knee-length black boots.
Kavaxas finally released Camilla from his grasp after the spell was completed.
"Enough of these games!" Tiger Claw spoke as he landed down to the ground and placed Tigress down on her feet before holding up the seal in his hands. "Retrieve the hearts at once, Kavaxas. Now!"
With that, Kavaxas and Tiger Claw flew away to the hotel building while Camilla teleported herself out of sight with Tigress and Bruce.
"No!" Raph shouted. "Camilla!"
"Bruce, wait!" Macey called out.
Karai, Kuro, Norbit, Nixie, Zack, and Yami gathered around Raph.
"Ah. That's not good." Karai commented.
"Raph, Talia sent a text. Mikey's hurt pretty bad." April said as she ran up to the others with her chiming T-Phone.
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Lila, Delilah, and Victoria bursted into the room as they kicked Don's guards and Onyx's masked guards away. The Fulci twins pulled out their weapons and charged at the mage mutant fusions. Lila, Delilah, and Victoria easily fought the twins with their mask tails, but they were fighting against the four biker sisters when they powered their mechanical gloves. Don and Onyx watched the fight as they were holding the hearts in their hands. Delilah smacked Marie and Carmen to the wall before grabbing Don out of his chair and Onyx from the ground with her fist-shaped mask tails as she pressed them against the wall with an angry face.
"This is the end for both of you." Delilah growled angrily as she summoned her bo staff in her hands with the glowing purple energy-powered blade coming out at the end.
"Delilah, don't lose sight of who you are!" Lila shouted as she threw Ana and Serena to the wall.
Delilah ignored Lila and continued pointing the glowing purple energy-powered blade at Don and Onyx.
"This is the end!" Delilah exclaimed with a dark smile.
"Delilah, please." Victoria cried with tears rolling down her face.
Delilah gasped sharply as she saw the image of Donnie and Ariana looking at her with fear in the blade. She also saw Victoria in tears and with a frightened look. Delilah came to her senses and knew what she must do.
"Because we're taking the hearts and you two are going to jail!" Delilah said to Don and Onyx.
Delilah dropped Don and Onyx to the ground before taking the hearts from them and tossing it to Lila. Victoria sighed in relief and dried her tears with her hand.
"Nice job, D." Lila said.
Delilah gave Lila a smile and Lila gave her a thumbs up with a grin while Victoria smiled in satisfaction.
Then suddenly, the door was blown up by a powerful stream of green flames that made Lila, Delilah, and Victoria crash straight to the floor with painful groaning. Tiger Claw, Tigress, Camilla, Bruce, and Kavaxas walked into the room. The Demodragon picked up the hearts from the ground as Tiger Claw and Tigress walked up to him.
"And what of the Turtles?" Tiger Claw asked Tigress as he was looking down at Lila, Delilah, and Victoria. "They looked different somehow."
"Fusion." Tigress said simply. "The K-5 have used a fusion spell on the Turtles. Saw it happened when they fought Shredder and Shade."
Kavaxas looked back at the mage mutant fusions and turned to Camilla with an evil grin. Camilla nodded her head and walked over to her former teammates. She released a large red psychic energy explosion from her hand as a close-range attack that blew up the wall of the hotel building and knocked the mage mutant fusions outside onto the street ground but Victoria had noticed and created a bubble shield to protect them from the impact. Lila, Delilah, and Victoria turned back into a mass of light to split back into the three mutant siblings and the two mage siblings.
"So much anger, power, strength!" Kavaxas said with a satisfying smile as he looked at the hearts in his possession.
"You will give the hearts to us, Kavaxas." Tiger Claw ordered as he held his hand out to the Demodragon.
Kavaxas looked at Tiger Claw with a growl over his shoulder, but Camilla put a comforting hand on Kavaxas's shoulder that made him smile a bit at her. He simply handed the hearts to him and Tigress before bowing down at them.
"We have what we came for. Let's go." Tigress said.
Kirana slowly stood up from the ground and helped Leo, Donnie, Ariana, Vee, and Ezra on their feet. They looked up to see Kavaxas, Tiger Claw, Tigress, Bruce, and Camilla flying away from the opening hole of the hotel building.
"The hearts!" Leo said with a groan.
"Camilla!" Kirana cried in shock.
"Bruce!" Vee exclaimed in worry.
Ezra quickly hugged Vee, who hugged her mage boyfriend back in sadness. Donnie looked down for knowing that it was his fault for his sister's friend to be taken but Ariana placed a comforting hand on her mutant boyfriend's shoulder.
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Meanwhile, everyone looked over to watch Don, Onyx, and their remaining accomplices being taken away in the police car for their arrest on the rooftops.
"At least Vizioso and his goons are finished along with Onyx and her squad." Vee commented.
"Guys!" April called.
Everyone gasped when they saw Raph and April helping an injured Mikey on his feet. Talia gently released her mutant boyfriend on the ground.
"Mikey!" Macey exclaimed.
"Mikey!" Leo exclaimed as he ran up to his youngest brother with the others. "Are you okay?"
"I made it out by the skin of my shell, dudes." Mikey replied with a moan.
"We gotta get you back to the lair, pronto." Donnie said as he bent down to his injured brother. "You'll be okay, Mikey."
"Oh my gosh." Kirana said as she, Ariana, and Ezra were looking at their sister with wide eyes. "Talia, you're...you're..."
"Yeah, I know." Talia said with a grin. "You should have seen me fighting Tiger Claw and Tigress. I've never felt so powerful in my life."
"Speaking of powerful, Yami unleashed her magic against Kavaxas earlier." Kuro said. "I gotta admit I was surprisingly impressed."
"That's how the Kraang made me." Yami said with a shrug.
Talia looked around the rooftop to notice that Camilla wasn't with the others.
"Wait a minute, where's Camilla?" Talia asked her siblings.
"That demon Kavaxas took her." Raph replied with rage on his angry face.
"I watched him chanting some spell and sensed that Camilla was under his dark control." April explained.
"Oh no." Kirana gasped in realization. "Kavaxas must have used the brainwashing spell on her. He had been so obsessed with getting Camilla on his side that I've bet Tigress gave him an opportunity to do so."
"That's what happened to Bruce." Nixie explained. "Kavaxas placed a spell on him and now he's in the Demodragon's control. Whatever he did must be what's happening to your sister."
"And it's all my fault." Ariana said sadly. She slowly started to cry with heavy tears flowing from her eyes. "If I haven't gone for revenge, none of this would have happened!"
"Ariana, this is not your fault." Raph said as he placed a comforting hand on Ariana's shoulder.
"Raph's right." Donnie said, placing his comforting hand over Ariana's shoulder. "We will do whatever we can to save your sister."
Ariana looked at Donnie for a few seconds and enveloped him in a hug. Donnie returned the hug to comfort his mage girlfriend. Talia, Ezra, and Kuro also hugged their sister for comfort.
"What do we do?" Karai asked. "Can they really bring back Shredder and Shade?"
"We don't stop fighting, Karai. We take them all down." Leo said determinedly. "Tiger Claw, Tigress, Kavaxas, all of them."
"And save my sister." Kirana said.
"And Bruce." Vee added.
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Back in the underground cavern, Tiger Claw and Tigress stood together at the center of the pentagram. Fishface, Masque, Bebop, Jinx, Rocksteady, Crystallia, Rahzar, and Galva stood behind them on the edge of the pentagram. Camilla, Bruce, and the Shadow Phoenixes stood behind the rising podium towards the mutants. And all of the Foot Cultists have gathered together below.
Everyone looked up to watch Kavaxas flying in front of two golden Japanese coffins with glass top-and-bottom sides. Shredder's body was rested in one coffin and Shade's body was rested in another coffin.
"Kovatala Zavanasa Vakasala!" Kavaxas chanted as he was holding the glowing hearts in his hands.
Shredder's heart and Shade's heart began glowing with green energy. One heart floated down to Shredder's chest while the other heart floated down to Shade's chest. Two glowing hearts then surged glowing bright green veins all over the undead bodies.
"Let the Shredder and Lady Shade rise once more!" Kavaxas declared.
The sound of rattling chains slowly lowered two golden Japanese coffins down to the pentagram in front of the mutants and the mage mutants.
Suddenly, two hands rose in the air from the coffins.