Leo skateboards on the ramp, Donnie and Mikey watching him. Emma comes up to her brothers

"Hey guys have you seen Noddles I can't find him anywhere." Emma asked her brothers looking around the room

"Sorry Em haven't seen him." Mikey shook his head

Something suddenly shakes from the garage, Emma jumps up falling but luckily Donnie catches her. "Wha?" Donnie lifts his head up.

"Boom shackalaka!" Mikey exclaims in surprise. "Did that come from the Tank garage?"

"No, no, no, no, there is definitely nothing wrong with my Tank because it for sure doesn't backfire for no reason sometimes," Donnie looks around nervously.

There's another crash and Leo knocks on the garage door, which is closed.

"Woo hoo!" Raph exclaims from inside. "That's the stuff!"

"Raph, is that you?" Mikey asks curiously.

"NO! I mean, yes!" Raph says quickly. "Why would I speak and then it not be me?" He laughs sheepishly, Leo and Mikey glancing to each other.

"Hey Raph is Noodles in there?" Emma presses her ear to the door trying to listen

"Emma!" Raph sounds like he was caught off guard when he hears his sister's voice

Mikey shrugs to Leo, the door opens. Raph lays down on the floor, smiling

"Hey! It's my brothers, and baby sister, who I respect and stick by. What brings you all to the lair?"

"What was all that noise...?" Leo asks slowly

"What noise?" Raph puts on a blank stone face.

"Yeah know all that banging and junk."
Emma looks around the room suspiciously

"Was that just you setting up our sparring session?" Leo looks around the room. There's a blue mat underneath the Turtle Tank, weapons and practice dummies around the room. Five of them are in their likeness, except for Raph's.

"Ssssure," Raph quickly lies as he stands up. "Yeah! It was that, and nothing else."

"Sweet!" Mikey pumps his fists as Leo glances at Raph weirdly. He puts his arm around Leo, suspecting nothing. "I could go for a game of Catching the Bandana."

"Yay! Catching the Bandana!" Emma jumps up and down excited

"Usual rules. First to grab a bandana other than his or her own color is the winner," Donnie grins at them and they spring into action, facing each other as they guard their posts. Raph chuckles nervously

"Uh, I'm not really in the mood to play a game," Raph chuckles nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Then why'd you set it up?" Leo asks him and his eyes widen.

"Oh, that's right!" He sweats nervously."I am in the mood!"

"Raph, what is with you?" Donnie asks, raising a brow.

"Donnie versus Raph!" Mikey blows an airhorn. "Go!"

Donnie smirks and pulls out his staff, rushing towards Raph. "Taste my bandana fury!" He declares, poking Raph in the plastron.

"Whoa!" He falls onto the ground dramatically, hand on his forehead. "Donnie, you are so strong."

"A quadruple threat, my friend," Donnie takes Raph's bandana from his post. "Strong, funny, amusing, and hilarious."

"Kinda looked like Raph took a dive," Leo glances at his younger brother

"Please, Leo, you forget Einstein's Law of Brains...over Brawn," Donnie brags

"Right, that," Raph pushes them out the door as quick as he can. "Uh, okay, good game then."

"Are you sure Noddles isn't in here." Emma tries to look around Raph's giant legs

"Nope! Haven't seen him but if I do I'll let you know!" Raph quickly boops her nose closing the door

"Einstein's Law of Brains over Brawn," Raph rolls his eyes at Donnie's phrase.

"Of course I took a dive," He pushes away a table. "So I could get back to my real bandana game with my favorite sparring partner!"

A large Origami Ninja steps out of the secret hidden compartment.

He has the Foot symbol over his whole face, and his outfit has red and black. He growls at Raph, giggling.

"Piecing a paper ninja back together was genius!" He tries to punch, but the paper ninja blocks him.

He dodges a punch. "I'm not letting you grab a bandana," He blocks incoming punches using his tonfa. "Nope, I'm not. He's as good as new!" He punches his friend in the face, messing up his eye

"Oh, Buddy, your eye. Well, almost new," He looks away nervously. "Uh, I'll fix that later, Buddy."

Buddy pushes his eye back to normal. "Buddy!" The paper ninja smiles liking that name. He then dodges a punch from Raph. He tries to attack, but Raph chuckles, moving past him and running towards Leo's bandana.

"Raph's gonna beat ya!"

Buddy stands in front of the post. "No blue!" He punches Raph and the turtle rolls onto the floor, crashing into the garage door.

Buddy rushes towards Raph's post, but Raph himself tackles him to the wall. "You're not winning that easy!"

Buddy glances up at a button above him. His eyes shine at it. "Now what is the rule?" Raph notices the button. "We only touch red, orange, blue, pink, or purple bandanas! Nothing else!"

The ninja presses the button, causing something from the Turtle Tank to shoot out from the front. It whisks around the room like a pinball, breaking the ninja's leg and knocking Raph to the ground. Buddy hops over to him.

"Buddy!"

"Accidents happen," Raph sits up, showing his sparring partner that he's fine. "It's all good."

Buddy giggles, glad that Raph wasn't seriously hurt

"Whoa!" Raph glances down. "Your foot. Someone needs Raphie's help?" He pulls out some tape, bending down. Buddy holds out his leg and Raph fixes it for him. "I just can't imagine a better sparring partner than you. You're perfect!"

He then sees that the right leg looks all twisted. "Except for the backwards foot thing."

Raph puts the tape down and sees Buddy cuddling Mr Noddles to his cheeks "Hey there Mr Noodles."
Raph reaches out his hand for the bear but Buddy backs up "No Buddy's!"

"Buddy we've talked about this." Raph narrows his brows with his hands on his hips like a father scowling his child "We don't take things that don't belong to us that's my baby sister's bear."

"Baby Wister?" Buddy repeats the word

"Yeah my baby sister and not knowing where he is makes her sad, you don't want to make her sad do you?" Raph raises an eyebrow knowing buddy knew the answer, Buddy groans but hands him the teddy bear.

"Come on, Raph!" Leo calls out. "Aren't you skating?"

Raph ignores him and pushes Buddy towards the closet. "Great game. I gotta go bye bye. We'll tussle again tomorrow."

"Buddy!" The paper ninja holds out his arms for a hug.

"Sorry Buddy, you can't come. I know, I know. I'll miss you too. And remember, keep it down. If my brothers and sister find you, you'll be confetti before you can say uhhh," Raph sticks out his tongue. Buddy repeats the last word.

"Exactly!"

"Buddy..." He holds out a hand longingly. Raph slams the door shut, cutting off the left hand away from Buddy, the left hand moves towards some glue on the table. "Buddy?" He peeks out the door, taking his hand.

"Hey Em look who I found." Raph sings with a smile holding up Noddles in front of Emma

"Noddles! Thanks Raph!" Emma grabs Noddles and hugs him

"No problem little sis." Raph smiles ruffling her hair

"You know what I just remembered?" Mikey questions as the others watch Leo skateboard. "How much I HATE paper ninjas! I must suddenly remember I hate those guys like 20 times a day!"

"Yeah I wanna take my claws and rip em all into confetti!" Emma smiles a fang smile slashing at the air with her claws

"In fact, I've been working on a shredding attachment for the next time we cross paths!" The end of his staff turns into a fan, Donnie laughing evilly.

Raph shouts in horror, backing up a bit

"Sure glad none of our close personal friends are made out of paper," Raph smiles nervously.

As Leo skateboards past Raph, a drop of glue falls down from the ceiling. He glances at it rapidly as Leo skates onto the glue, causing him to trip and fall on his back. His skateboard rolls to a stop. The three turtles cringe

"Leo are you ok?" Emma asked her blue masked brother

Raph looks up to see Buddy walking around, pouring globs of glue onto his arm.

"Huh, there appears to be gunk on the ramp," Donnie rubs his chin, the others joining him. "Perhaps we should crane our necks upwards to see from whence it came."

They slowly look up, about to see Buddy, but Raph quickly pushes their heads down. "Look, it must've come from down here. Definitely not from any place above!"

Buddy's hand falls loose He jumps and catches it, laughing as he hides it behind his back.

"What is with you?" Mikey demands, annoyed. "Why are you crazy?"

"Ha ha! I'm not crazy!" Raph laughs it off. "You're crazy!" Buddy's hand grips his mask tails and he whimpers in pain. "Hey, how about we all hang out in our rooms alone for 3 to 5 minutes?" He tries pushing them away.

"Besides it's Emma's nap time."

"But I'm not tired!"

"Dude, come on!"

"We are skating!" Donnie reminds him. Buddy falls onto the ground behind them.

"Uh, you're right. We should hang right here and never look at what's behind us!" Raph shouts quickly.

"Hey you've been eating expired bologna again?" Emma asked concern

Raph engulfs them into a group hug, Buddy's hand patting the back of Leo's head.

He hears a giggle, looking up to see Buddy sating around and falling. He plays with a stapler and triggers Donnie's staff.

"No! Buddy! Only touch bandanas!" He whisper scolds. "I mean, nobody touch bananas! They're slimey!"

"Okay, dude, what is with you today?" Leo looks up at him.

"It's obvi, Leo. He's wigging cause he's dying to shred some paper dweebs!" Mikey chimes in. Buddy turns around at the mention of it.

"Is that what you're acting weird about?"
Emma asked sweetly

"So you're itching to make paper scarps," Leo grins at his brother smugly. "Huh, Raph?"

"Oh, yeah," Raph lies. "I hate those paper jerks. Any moment I'm not slicing paper jerk into jerk confetti is a wasted jerk moment!"

Buddy's eyes grow big with sadness

"Bunch of jerks!" Raph smiles nervously. "I don't mean you," He whispers to Buddy

Buddy hangs his head, his hand follows him and he cries as he leaves through the ceiling.

Raph's eyes water at his friend leaving.

"Okay, the hug is still going," Leo says awkwardly.

"Room getting dark." Emma start to blue from lack of oxygen considering she was between two of her brothers

"Good times!" He finally releases him once Buddy is gone. "Hey, you know, we should do this again."

"Yeah, see ya," Leo stares after him.

"He's acting weird, and not just Raph weird. Emma weird," Donnie comments, glancing at his little sister. "No offense."

"Meh I'm used to it." Emma shrugs not bothered.

"He is hiding something," Leo says knowingly, raising a brow.

.........................................

A Lou Jitsu movie is playing at the Foot Shack. "Hot soup!" The movie star declares, kicking the air. Foot Lieutenant copies the same moves.

Chaos kicks the door open "Master!"

"What is it blood pudding do you need to go potty?" Foot Lieutenant asked

"N-No! It's not that!" Chaos blushed red embarrassed "There's a-"

Foot Recruit slams the door open knocking Chaos out of the way making her fall flat on her face.

"A pressing development, sensei!"

"Let me guess, you want to smash and/or demolish something," He says knowingly.

"No! I mean, okay if you insist!" She kicks a broom next to her, spinning it. She jabs at it, stepping back as the broom falls down in pieces.

"Show off!" Chaos growls angrily as Folt Recruit smirks at her

Her left eye glints as she gets back to why she interrupted him. "I have spotted one of our origami soldiers loose in the city!"

"You mean I found him you were just dead weight."
Chaos huffs crossing her arms

"I will show what dead weight is you little!-"

"What is he doing out there alone?" Foot Lieutenant asks curiously.

"Attacking! May I join you wiping out peasants one break at a time?!" She holds out a kunai.

"No way! If anyone going with him it's me!" Chaos points a finger in Foot Recruits face

"I have much more training then you."

"Why don't we go down to the fight circle and we'll see how far that training will get ya!" Chaos snarls as the two girls get in each other's face growling like dogs

"Girls Girls! You can both go let's just get to the bottom of this." Foot Lieutenant pushes them away from each other, They were about to leave but Foot Lieutenant stops turning to Chaos "Are you sure you don't have to pouty before we leave?"

"No!" Chaos frowns but Foot Lieutenant raises an eyebrow "Yes." Chaos grumps as she walks to the bathroom

.........................................

"Buddy!" Raph himself is searching for the runaway paper ninja. "Buddy, hey! Where'd you go, buddy?!"

"There you are." His eyes widen as he turns around to Mikey, Leo, Emma, and Donnie. "What's up with the secrecy?"

"Guys! What are you guys doing?"

"Hold that thought. We've got a little situation going." He looks towards the street as screams from the people can be heard. Mikey, Leo, and Emma rush over to see Buddy walking around aimlessly. He steals from a man, slices a wooden statue off by the head, and snatches a bandana from a dog. All of them are red as tears flow down his face.

"A paper ninja?!" Mikey exclaims in shock.

"And he's only attacking people in red bandanas," Leo rubs his chin. "Huh, it's like someone who wears a red bandana really hurt this guy's feelings once. Strange."

Raph sniffles trying not to cry

"I call dibs on shredding him!" Emma shouts as she bolts over the edge

"Hey no fair!" Mikey pouts as he follows her

"Uh, no!" Leo protests, Raph cringing. "We only call dibs on pizza, skate ramps, and Donnie's stuff."

"Hey!" Donnie calls out with Raph following  them

"Maybe we shouldn't shred him at all, you know? That seems fair, right?"

"Raph's out," Mikey lands on him. "Dibs on his share on the confetti, dibs on Donnie's"

"Hey!" Donnie calls out again.

"Hey you can't do that I called dibs first!" Emma flys backwards so she would be in front of Mikey, they quickly do Rock Paper Scissors with Mikey getting paper and Emma getting scissors "Yes!" Emma fist bumps as Mikey pouts in defeat

Joe's Bandanas is Buddy's next stop, giggling as he breaks in. The five siblings land on the roof, sneaking inside. They see him rummaging through the stock.

"Confetti-abunga!" Mikey cheers as they pull out their weapons. Raph tackles them to the ground before they can do anything. "What are you doing?"

"Come on, what is happening?" Donnie glares up at Raph.

"I, uh, changed my mind!" He glances at Buddy. "Uh, I'm calling dibs!" He jumps to Buddy. "Buddy, you gotta get out of here."

"No, not buddy." Buddy shakes his head

"You all really need a hobby," They look up to Foot Lieutenant, who had broken a window.

"Oh, we got one," Leo grins up at him. "Kicking butt, and taking names. And you are?"

Chaos kicks a giant hole beside him "The ones that's gonna rip you out of your shells!"

Foot Recruit smashes through the window below her superior. "Don't make us pulverize your guts into guts bits! Give us back our origami man!"

Raph steps in between him. "Of course he was yours, but now he seems more like a free agent, so you can go home! Thanks, though."

"We will do nothing of the sort! You are so not reading our tone!" She shouts at him.

"Agh we're waiting time talking to these loser Master just let me kick their butts already!" Chaos tried to attack but Foot Lieutenant holds out a hand stopping her

"Certainly, how many pieces would you like him in?" Donnie tries to test out his new weapon. "Arrivederci, paper punk!" He jumps into the air, preparing to shred Buddy.

"No, no, no, no!" Raph slides in front of Buddy, his mystic knuckles appearing. "Not my buddy!" He protects buddy from Donnie.

"Okay, it's official!" Leo calls out as Donnie blinks in confusion. "Raph's gone cuckoo."

"Raph what are you doing he is the enemy." Emma gestured Buddy up and down with a raised eyebrow

"Look," Raph looks up at Buddy. "You're not the jerk. I'm the jerk. I didn't mean that stuff. I just didn't want 'em to shred you. Our weeks of sparring and playing Catch the Bandana have been the best fights of my life! When I fight my siblings, I just think about fighting you and getting rid of them so I can fight you again!"

Buddy tears up at the heartfelt words.

"Whaaaaa?" Donnie and Mikey say in unison.

"Say Whaaaaaaa?" Emma drops her jaw

"You did let Donnie beat you!" Leo replies knowingly.

"We will never know," Donnie shakes his head with a shrug.

"Yeah, I did."

"We will never know," Donnie repeats, silently telling Raph that he was better off not knowing.

"He's my new best friend," Raph pats Buddy on the head. "And if anyone wants to take away my Buddy, they gotta come through me."

Buddy gasps at Raph's gesture, placing his cheek against Raph's shell.

"Touching!" Foot Recruit exclaims in disgust. "And in case you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm!"

"We could never let you keep him. Chaos shred them!"

"Finally!" Chaos smiles as she jumps down to Raph kicking his chest putting him on the ground, she bolts towards Buddy ready to slice him but Emma gets in front of him spinning her staff making a giant brick wall that Chaos face plates into

"Back off! He's one of us! ....... Apparently!" Emma frowns

Buddy giggles picking up Emma in a hug

"Aw it's like having a big little brother." Emma smiles at thought of keeping Buddy "Buddy can you say sister?" Emma talked to him as if she were talking to a baby

"Wister!" Buddy cheers

"Very good!" Emma pats him on the head making him blush "That deserves a cookie." Emma waves her hand making a cookie appear giving it to Buddy which he eats in two bites

"A new best friend?" Mikey smiles at him, holding a green marker. He wipes off the red paint. "Don't need this anymore. You're a Mad Dog, baby!" He draws the same emblem

Buddy giggles at the new look.

"Buddy!"

"That's right! You're on our team! This fight's not about grabbing our bandanas, it's about kicking foot faces!" He points towards the three enemies as they surround Buddy

He sees that Buddy is standing in the wrong direction. "This way, Buddy," He spins the paper ninja around and he blinks before taking on a karate pose.

"Get him!" Foot Lieutenant throws several paper origami, and they turn into paper ninjas. Leo swoops in first, swinging his sword and shredding a ninja.

Foot Recruit yells as she clashes weapons with him and a ninja runs past them.

"There's too many of them! Get to high ground, Buddy!" Raph shouts

Raph jumps to a higher level. One ninja tries to kick him away, another attacking Buddy. He punches, but misses, and the enemy ninja takes off a hand. Buddy grabs it back, using it to grab the ninja in front of him throwing him hard making him hit a button

Emma blocks Chaos's round kicks and punches but gets kicked in the stomach knocking her staff to the floor, Emma tries to reach it but Chaos grabs her by her pants pulling her away, spinning her above her head

"Haha not so tough without your baby's staff are ya glitter butt." Chaos smirks stretching Emma who crosses her eyes in pain from the yo yo wedgie

Buddy turns and sees Emma needing help, he grunts before bolting toward Chaos punching her in the face . He catches Emma before she can hit the ground

"Wister ok?" Buddy asked concern

"Hey I'm ok thanks bud!" Emma gives him a thumbs up going back into the fight tackling Chaos as they roll around like cats

Leo deals with Foot Recruit as she kicks him to bandana felt. He jumps onto it, running. He laughs as it hits her in the face, but she grabs it and ties him up in it. She laughs as she holds up the stuck Leo, throwing him towards the others.

"Time to recycle these goons!" Mikey says, but Leo crashes into him and Raph.

Emma was on top of Chaos as the two girls were pulling on each other's hair but Emma gets caught and tied up with her brothers

"Buddy!" Buddy cries out to them.

"Finish them! And shred the traitor," Foot Lieutenant orders. A paper ninja next to him rushes up to the group, but Buddy's left hand glows pink. His eyes do the same and he punches the ninja into shreds.

His other hand makes a paper tornado, the other two surprised. All the paper inside the room goes to Buddy, making his right arm larger.

"They grow up and turn against you so fast..." Foot Lieutenant says in awe.

Buddy makes the hand into a fist, slamming it onto the ground. This causes a large blast that sends Foot Recruit and Foot Lieutenant, and Chaos flying into the sky

Raph breaks them free. "I'm calling it, guys. Our Buddy's the winner!" Raph and Leo smile, holding up his arms... but then they break. The two tape him back up. "Aw man, I owe you one, guys."

"And we owe you one, too," Leo crosses his arms with a smug grin. "For throwing your fights."

"That cannot be confirmed or denied," Donnie chimes in.

What do you say, Buddy?" Leo nudges him in the chest. "First one to grab the red bandana wins?"

"Buddy!" He cheers and the siblings tackle Raph, laughing.