Though most of his face was covered, the ponies and turtles could see the glare the ninja was giving them. "Ah, the turtles. And Hamato Yoshi. I have finally found you." he gloated, pointing at his nemesis.
"Why are you here, Saki?" Splinter asked, clemching his fists in anger.
Shredder looked around him. "To lure you out, of course. But it seems that was not necessary. You all are together. Perfect. Now I can end the Hamato Clan once and for all whilw the ponies who belive you to be their saviors watch."
Leonardo looked at the ponies. "Girls. We'll discuss the whole training thing later. For now, we need you to fend for everypony here and get everypony to safety. My brothers and I will handle Chrome-Dome and his goons."
"But Leo-" Fluttershy began.
Raph spoke up. "No buts! We don't want anyone gettin' hurt because of ol' Bucket-Head's attack!"
Applejack nodded. "Right. C'mon girls, we gotta get everypony outta here. The turtles can handle this."
Everypony was relunctant at first. After all, it was their town that was in danger, but as of now none of them stand a chance to fighting any of the Footbots, let alone the Shredder himself. So with slight hesitation, the ponies left the ninjas to fight the battle for now.
Raphael charged first, stabbing a robot with his sai. He yanked his hand out of the robot's chest, allowing it to fall. The red-masked turtle elbowed another robot before slicing the head off with his weapon. Sighing, he grabbed the same one's arm before ripping it out, causing it to short-circuit.
Donatello turned swiftly, knocking a number of Foot soldiers down with his bo-staff, and pressed a small hidden button near the top, revealing a blade that stabbed through each one, disabling them. He poked another bot with the other end of the stick before spinning the staff in his and hitting it on the head with the end that had the blade.
Michaelangelo spun his nunchucks around, hitting a robot charging at him with his head. He moved his hand so that instead of feeling the blunt of his weapon, the robot would get karate-chopped instead. In the blink of an eye, Mikey jumped backwards, landing on a Foot bot's shoulders. "Cowabunga!" he yelled while hitting the Foot bot's back with his nunchucks. He kicked it, and used his weapon to hit the head off by sheer force.
Leonardo held out his katana blades. He sighed, knowing that the robots were outmatched. With a lunge, he stabbed a robot through its chest with relative ease. Another Foot soldier was coming in from behind him. Pulling out his sword, he kicked the oncoming robot away before slicing off its right arm. One appeared, holding a large sword. Leo side-stepped the attack and hit the robot with his blades, removing its head. Panting, he ran to aid his brothers.
Meanwhile, Splinter was fighting Shredder. He blocked his enemy's stab with two fingers. Doing so, he grabbed the gauntlet's blades and pulled Shredder toward him. The rat punched the ninja master in the face, stunning him briefly. Shredder hissed, shoving Splinter with a powerful push.
Splinter coughed, feeling the force of the attack on his chest, "That's it... You shall harm this land no longer!" he declared, scratching Saki's armor hard enough so that the costume was ripped and scratch marks were seen on his helmet, but none of this even dared to scare Shredder.
Shredder growled at the action and countered by hitting Splinter in the gut. Yoshi held his stomach in pain, while Shredder took this moment to counter with his own attack. The ninja tried to grab Splinter's throat using his blades, but Leonardo jumped in and blocked the move with his blades.
He gritted his teeth as his muscles tensed, hoping to cover long enough for the others to do what they need to. Shredder growled, bringing more force to his attack in hopes of weakening the leading turtle to submission. Leo managed to move his arms slightly upwards, bringing back Shredder's arm slightly.
Shredder scowled, and kicked Leonardo in the chest, causing him to lose breath and release his block. Before Shredder could end him, Raphael leaped into the air and kicked the ninja in the head, making him pause. While stunned, Michaelangelo ran to Leonardo and held him up. "Easy, bro." he told him. Leo nodded and exhaled.
"Thanks you two."
Meanwhile, Donatello and Splinter were holding back the Foot Bots coming after them. Donnie held up his staff. He pushed it forward, shoving away some robots. Splinter ducked underneath a soldier's sword swipe and did a sweep-kick, tripping it. Donnie grabbed a small orb and threw it down, releasing smoke. While covered, the two ninjas finished off the remaining robots surrounding them.
"I will enjoy having your heads on a mantle." Shredder said, growling. He held down on Raph's sai. The turtle panted, making sure that Saki does not actually follow on that threat.
"Easy for you to say, Chrome-Dome. Ya gotta get me first."
Before he could move again, Shredder felt something wrap around his right arm, turning around, he saw that Michaelangelo had used his nunchucks to do trap his arm and distract him long enough to be hit by a surprise attack delivered by the red masked turtle. Struggling, the Shredder got to one knee to remove the chain holding him back.
After removing the nunchuck chain from around his arm, Shredder grabbed the other handle and threw it over his head, tossing Michaelangelo in the process, causing the orange masked turtle to land face first into the grass, barely holding onto his nunchucks and his head spinning.
Getting back up, Mikey saw Leo running and he followed. Leonardo blocked Shredder's wrist blades, allowing Mikey to strike with his own punch to Oroku Saki's jaw. "This is it, Shredder!" Leo announced to his enemy. In the process, Michaelangelo managed to regrab his trademark weapon and spin it in his hands.
Shredder growled, slamming his fists on the ground and slapping Leonardo away," You will pay for that, turtle." he spat. Mikey stuck his tounge out in jest, angering the man greatly. Shredder threw a ninja star at Mikey, who barely avoided it stabbing his shoulder.
Raph yelled as he punched Shredder. "I'll show ya what happens when you harm this town and my brothers, Bucket Breath!" he warned, hitting the ninja with the hilt of his weapon. Shredder felt the blunt of the weapon, but got back fast enought to smack the sai out of Raphael's hands, leaving him open to attack.
Shredder grabbed Raphael by the throat. "Do not threaten me, turtle..." he hissed before slamming the red-masked turtle onto the ground. Splinter watched and leaped, ready to face his nemesis once more.
"You dare hurt my sons?"
"Oh, I dare Hamato Yoshi." Shredder gloated.
"Okay girls, I think we got everypony to safety." Twilight said, watching as a large crowd of ponies ran past the six.
"What about the turtles? We can't just leave 'em to fight that Shredder guy!" Applejack shouted. "We got everypony outta here before gettin' hurt, but ah think it's high time we do somethin' to save Ponyville."
Rainbow Dash nodded. "Yeah! We should go back there and give that Shredder guy a piece of our minds!" she said.
The alicorn shook her head. "As much as I want to, remember how much trouble the Foot soldiers gave us?"
"He caught me off guard! This time I'll show them." Dash tried to assure, to no avail.
"That ruffian came here without knowing they were here. What would've happened if we never found the turtles?" Rarity questioned. "Surely we would've had to fight them as much as I hate to admit it."
"I don't know what we would've done... But those... Things are endangering us..." Fluttershy spoke up. "And our friends..."
Twilight sighed, realizing that arguing against this topic was pointless. "Fine. We'll find a way to stop those Foot bots from destroying anymore of Ponyville. Pinkie, get your party cannon." a large smile formed upon Pinkie's face upon hearing this.
"Oh yeah!" Dash cheered.