Where We Collided || ROTTMNT ||

A Lost Brother

Raphael realized something as they were fighting Sub-Prime. His mech looked suspiciously like Shredder. And not in a good way. The other turtles had told them a little bit about the Shredder they had fought, about how he was an ancient Oni or something. They had called the armor the Kuroi Yoroi. Cassandra seemed to see it, too, and she was obviously pissed.

She jumped over Karai's shoulders and brought her weapon down on the armor. Not a single scratch was made on it, and Sub-Prime laughed loudly, swiping her out of the air. She landed back on her feet. A little creature popped into existence by her side with a Naginata in its mouth. She grabbed it from the dog thing and it poofed away again. Raphael raised a brow in confusion and struck a bot with his Sai, keeping them out of her hair.

Beside Cassandra, the little drone appeared, shooting lasers at the armored Sub-Prime, none having much effect. New April and April ran at it from the other side along with Casey, and New April swung her bat at a leg, swiping it out from under the Krang.

Sub-Prime shouted in surprise and Michelangelo took the opportunity to wrap him up in his chains.

"Keep him down!" Raphael shouted.

"I'm trying," Michelangelo shouted in return, struggling with the weight.

Cassandra ran to him and planted her Naginata into one of the links, securing it to the ground.

"Copy me!" she called to the others.

Raphael threw one of his Sai at Michelangelo, who caught it and also secured a chain to the ground. Karai handed a Kunai to Casey, New April, and April, who also used them to secure a chain to the ground. Sub-Prime wasn't going anywhere for a while.

"You blasted turtles!" he shouted, angrily thrashing around.

"You can't win this, Knight!" Bishops shouted, coming to stand by them after having defeated most of the bots.

The Mutanimals were handling the stragglers, so the turtles and their allies had time to talk to the blob of gum.

"Of course, I can win," Knight snarled, glaring angrily at Bishop.

"Take off that armor and come back to us, brother," Bishop pleaded. "How can you still believe the lies that Krang fed you?"

Knight glared harder. "There were no lies, Bishop. Only power."

Bishop sighed, turning to Raphael. "He is too far gone. We must defeat him."

There was a pain in his voice, and Raphael knew what that felt like, to lose a comrade. They'd lost plenty themselves after all. But there was no way that Knight would come back to the good side. They had to either defeat him and take him captive, or kill him. Honestly, the first option was the only one they normally went for, but Raphael wouldn't mind the last. Sub-Prime had caused them a lot of pain, and now he'd caused pain in different universes as well.

"Let's do it," Raphael said. "Then you can haul him off to your prison or something."

Bishop nodded, turning back to his former comrade with a fierce glare of his own. He was ready to kick some ass.

OOO

Raph stared at the hole in Leo's plastron, confused and befuddled at where it had come from. Nothing had attacked them in here and nobody had come for a while now. Only he, Leonardo, and Donatello were conscious, patching up Raph's shell.

"I think it's an injury from within Donnie's mind," Donatello explained, pressing some gauze to the wound.

Just as he did so, Leo's eyes flew open and he gasped, sitting up so fast he swayed. Leonardo quickly steadied him and shot him a questioning look.