Chapter Summaries

Black Noir trained the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the sewers, demonstrating how to exploit an opponent’s weakness. He showed Raphael a sketch of an old man being forced to split wood by a golden dog, then challenged the four brothers to attack him together.

• Black Noir disarmed Michelangelo with a precise strike to his wrist, sending his iron pipe into the drainage ditch.
• Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael laughed at Michelangelo, while Master Splinter admired Black Noir’s practical fighting technique.
• Raphael asked where the cranky old man was and reminded Black Noir about the promised pizzas.
• Black Noir drew the old man struggling to split wood while a golden dog tugged at his sweatshirt pocket, making the turtles laugh.
• Black Noir handed each turtle a wooden training blade and signaled them to attack him together.

Pist dumped Joseph’s body into the Queens sewer to hide his murder and secure his new executive position. The body washed into the underground home of Splinter and the turtles, where Black Noir pulled it from the water.

• Pist drove Joseph’s body to an abandoned sewage station and kicked it into the sewer, believing he had eliminated the evidence.
• Pist left with the executive letter of intent, anticipating that he would become Director Pist by morning.
• Underground, Raphael chased Michelangelo over stolen pizza while Leonardo trained and Splinter rested nearby.
• Black Noir trained the turtles and expected their teamwork to make them dangerous fighters within weeks.
• A body in a rich-looking overcoat slammed into the turtles’ debris barrier, and Black Noir hauled it onto their brick platform.

Joseph survived being thrown down a sewage shaft and woke in the sewer home of Lucifer, Big Rat, and the four turtles. After mistaking the turtles for fantastic beasts, he urgently warned them to flee New York and the United States.

• Joseph coughed up sewage and sludge after Pist's failed attempt to kill him.
• Joseph woke among Lucifer, Big Rat, and the four turtles and wondered if he was in hell.
• Michelangelo explained that Joseph had floated into their sewer home, while Raphael defended their living conditions.
• Joseph mistook the turtles for fantastic beasts and said he had never seen their kind in his years at the Ministry of Magic.
• Joseph grabbed Michelangelo's wrist and begged the turtles to leave New York and the United States before Vought could harm them.

Joseph warned the turtles that Vought International planned to capture and butcher Fantastic Beasts, but learned that Black Noir had left Vought and joined their new household. Benjamin arrived with pizza, leaving Joseph stunned by the turtles’ unlikely protectors and comfortable underground life.

• Joseph warned the turtles that Vought International had signed a huge military contract and would soon hunt Fantastic Beasts across America.
• Raphael dismissed Joseph’s warnings and boasted that the turtles could defend themselves.
• Joseph mistook Black Noir for an assassin sent by Edgar, then shielded the turtles and challenged him to get past his corpse.
• Black Noir gave Joseph a note explaining that he had left Vought International for a better place.
• Benjamin arrived with boxes of double-cheese black pepper beef pizza, and the turtles and Splinter eagerly gathered around him.

Benjamin and Black Noir recognized that Joseph’s warning about Vought International and the military hunting mutants was credible, and they realized the turtles were unprepared to face the hunters. After Black Noir gave the turtles a comic showing a monster caught in a trap, Benjamin told them to train while he went to get reinforcements.

• Michelangelo and Leonardo told Benjamin and Black Noir what Joseph had said about a hunt for mutants and green-skinned monsters.
• Benjamin and Black Noir silently recognized that Vought International was capable of carrying out the hunt, and Benjamin judged the turtles too inexperienced to fight its teams.
• Master Splinter watched Benjamin and Black Noir while the turtles finished eating.
• Black Noir drew the turtles a comic depicting a horned monster falling into a sewer rat trap, and the turtles laughed at it.
• Benjamin ordered the turtles to train after eating, then said he was going back for reinforcements.

Benjamin left the sewer to return to Long Island, dismissing Joseph’s belief that Edgar’s vast operation could not be stopped. He revealed that Homelander was his son and left Joseph stunned, while Black Noir stayed behind to keep the others busy.

• Benjamin told Black Noir to keep the group occupied and watch the manhole cover while he returned to Long Island.
• Joseph warned Benjamin that Edgar’s military-backed operation and thousands of super soldiers could not be defeated by anyone in the United States.
• Benjamin declared that his son would clean up the mess and identified Homelander as his son.
• Joseph recoiled in shock because the Wizarding World feared Homelander as a powerful heretic.
• Benjamin left for the street, eager to get home before dinner, while Black Noir watched the remaining turtles practice.

Benjamin returned from the sewer and told Lynn that Edgar was building thousands of horned super-soldiers and hunting rare creatures for Vought Tower. Lynn revealed that Edgar had abandoned his Manhattan office and ordered Benjamin to bring the turtles to the Long Island Estate.

• Benjamin came home exhausted and reported that Edgar was preparing mass-produced super-soldiers and gathering rare creatures for serum materials.
• Benjamin warned that hundreds of horned soldiers could overwhelm the turtles in the sewer, despite Black Noir’s brief sword training.
• Lynn revealed he had visited Vought Tower and found Edgar, Duke, and Marge gone, concluding that Edgar had fled until his forces were ready.
• Lynn told Benjamin to find Black Noir the next morning and bring all the turtles from the sewer to the Long Island Estate.

At dinner, Lynn told the family that four mutant turtles would arrive from the sewers the next day, and the children reacted with excitement. The household prepared to welcome them, while John privately resolved to protect his favored place beside Lynn.

• Kevin eagerly planned a swimming pool and food for the turtles, while Charlie reacted angrily to the suggestion of sharing his fish food.
• Benjamin explained that the turtles walked upright, trained with Black Noir, and preferred pizza, exciting Reggie and Annie.
• Buddy complained that Long Island Estate was becoming a mutant zoo, and Lynn assigned him to watch the newcomers and keep sewer water off the carpet.
• John decided he would meet the turtles first and explain the house rules, determined to keep his special place beside Lynn.
• Lynn told Reggie and Tommy to prepare a guest room and bake extra bread rolls for the turtles' arrival.

Edgar used a Vought press conference to blame recent attacks on mutated animals and offer bounties and discounted Compound V to hunters. As gangs rushed to join the hunt, the Bigfoot Gang took a major contract and two hundred crates of serum, setting Edgar’s plan to flush Lynn and his allies into motion.

• Edgar recalled Lynn’s silent visit to Vought Tower and stayed hidden until Vought’s military project was complete.
• Edgar watched Vought falsely claim that mutated animals caused the attacks and announce a public bounty and serum deals for security groups.
• A major reported that New York’s underground organizations had overwhelmed the hotlines and signed performance-based agreements.
• The Bigfoot Gang signed the largest hunting contract and received two hundred crates of the new Compound V.
• Edgar expected the serum-hungry gangs to scour New York for Lynn and his allies.

In an abandoned Queens air-raid shelter, Saitō and the Bigfoot Gang injected themselves with Compound V and decided to capture the talking turtles and Big Rat to fulfill Vought International’s contract. The newly empowered gang marched into the sewers, convinced they would seize their targets that night.

• Saitō watched his gang members test their enhanced strength after taking Compound V, which had left the Bigfoot Gang owing Vought International hundreds of thousands.
• When his men asked where to find Fantastic Beasts, Saitō identified the talking turtles and Big Rat who had defeated the gang at the docks as their targets.
• Saitō ordered the gang to bring the turtles to Vought alive or as intact corpses and promised that the bounty would repay their debt.
• More than a hundred empowered Bigfoot Gang members armed themselves and followed Saitō into the Queens sewers to hunt the turtles and Big Rat.

Saitō and the enhanced Bigfoot Gang ambushed the turtles, Splinter, and Black Noir in the sewers, overwhelming them with their strength. Splinter shielded Michelangelo and Joseph, but Saitō shattered his cane and struck him in the chest.

• Saitō led more than a hundred Bigfoot Gang members into the sewer and ordered them to capture the turtles alive.
• Saitō shattered Raphael’s wooden sword with his neck and sent Raphael crashing into a concrete pillar.
• The enhanced gang members overwhelmed Leonardo and Donatello, while Black Noir fought them off but was pinned down by their numbers.
• Saitō charged Michelangelo and Joseph with a fire axe, but Splinter deflected the blow and threw Saitō to the ground with Jujutsu.
• Splinter defended Michelangelo from Saitō’s punch, but the blow broke his cane and struck him in the chest.

Saitō killed Splinter and the Bigfoot Gang overwhelmed the four turtles, but Benjamin arrived and began tearing through the gang in a rage. The fight continued as Benjamin advanced toward Saitō, intent on punishing the gang for harming his family.

• Saitō stabbed Splinter to death while the Bigfoot Gang restrained Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello.
• Black Noir fought through the gang but could not reach Splinter in time.
• Benjamin burst into the sewer and found Splinter dead and the turtles pinned down.
• Benjamin killed a mutated gang member with a single slam and began crushing the gang members in his path toward Saitō.

Benjamin and Black Noir wiped out the Bigfoot Gang in the main sewage tunnel, with Benjamin killing Saitō after rejecting his threat of Vought International. The turtles gathered around the mortally wounded Splinter, grieving as he lay dying.

• Benjamin caught a Bigfoot Gang member’s iron bar, crushed it, and killed him with a punch.
• Black Noir freed himself and killed gang members fleeing through the tunnel, while Benjamin approached Saitō.
• Saitō tried to threaten Benjamin with the gang’s agreement with Vought International, but Benjamin dismissed him and shattered his katana.
• Benjamin strangled Saitō and threw his body into the sewage, and he and Black Noir killed the remaining gang members.
• Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello gathered around Splinter’s fatal chest wound and mourned their master.

Benjamin brought the four turtles and Splinter’s body from the Queens sewer to the Long Island Estate, where Lynn welcomed them and offered them a safe home. The turtles entered the estate grieving, but no longer alone or homeless.

• Benjamin comforted the grieving turtles and told them Splinter had died protecting them.
• Benjamin promised to take the turtles to the Long Island Estate, while Black Noir prepared to carry Splinter’s body.
• Benjamin drove the turtles, Splinter’s body, and Joseph from Queens to the estate.
• Lynn opened the door, welcomed the group inside, and assured the turtles they were safe.

Lynn welcomed the four grieving turtles into the Long Island Estate after they brought a fallen hero home, while John and the household prepared a proper resting place for him. The turtles found comfort in their new family, and Joseph witnessed the Manor’s strange, compassionate household at work.

• Lynn told Leonardo not to worry about the carpet and arranged for Benjamin and Black Noir to prepare a grave and a mahogany chest for the fallen hero.
• Lynn offered the cold, soaked Joseph a coat and hot tea, but Joseph froze when John floated down the stairs and recognized Homelander.
• John welcomed Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello as family and explained that his fireplace cushion was off limits.
• Lynn directed the turtles to bathe and promised them food, while Kevin quietly gave Michelangelo fruit candies and comforted him.
• Lynn served the turtles warm bread and tomato soup as John, Benjamin, and Black Noir buried the fallen hero beneath the old oak.

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael woke at the Long Island Estate and joined Lynn’s family for breakfast, where Kevin tried to cheer them up. Raphael demanded revenge on the Bigfoot Gang, but John stopped him and Lynn warned that a reckless attack would get them killed.

• Michelangelo woke from a troubled sleep, and the four brothers left their guest room after smelling breakfast.
• Kevin greeted the turtles and told them he had prepared a warm pool for them.
• Raphael refused to eat and announced he would return to the sewers to kill Saitō’s men.
• John immobilized Raphael with a glance, and Lynn pressed him back into his chair.
• Lynn reminded Raphael that the Bigfoot Gang’s drug-enhanced fighters could capture and kill them, leaving Raphael to ask whether they should simply hide.

Leonardo and his brothers accepted Lynn’s advice to train under Black Noir before taking revenge on the Bigfoot Gang, while Joseph decided to stay and help. In Brooklyn, Pist seized control of the Magic Security Department as hundreds of Bigfoot Gang members transformed into monsters and rampaged through the sewers.

• Lynn urged Raphael and his brothers to eat, train with Black Noir, and wait until they could withstand ten moves before attacking the Bigfoot Gang.
• Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello turned their grief into resolve and began eating, while Lynn watched over them.
• Joseph watched the household from the porch, gained confidence that Edgar could be opposed, and decided not to flee to London.
• Pist sat in Joseph’s office and claimed that Joseph had retired and left him in charge of the Magic Security Department.
• Thomas warned Pist that hundreds of Bigfoot Gang members had become monsters and were rampaging through the Queens sewers, but Pist presented a forged handover document and declared himself acting minister.

Pist ordered the Aurors to stay out of Vought International’s operations, believing his cooperation would earn him an executive position. Vought instead forced him to provide five hundred magical creature habitat coordinates by midnight, leaving him trapped by the consequences of betraying Joseph.

• Pist ordered the deployed Aurors to withdraw and told Thomas that the department had to obey Vought International.
• Vought’s executive arrived with four bodyguards, who threw Thomas and the veteran Aurors out of Pist’s office.
• The executive told Pist that he was only a resource liaison and demanded five hundred habitat coordinates by midnight.
• Pist protested that the coordinates were protected and that betraying the creatures would turn the Wizarding World against him, but the executive threatened him with Vought’s monsters.
• Pist collapsed as he realized Joseph had been protecting the Wizarding World and that Vought had made him its captive servant.

After a ranger reported that powerful attackers had captured Fantastic Beasts and bypassed the forest’s defenses, acting minister Pist urged the officials to wait while he secretly feared Vought International’s deadline. Thomas arrived wounded and accused Pist of betraying the Wizarding World to Vought and causing Minister Joseph’s death.

• A surviving ranger told the officials that monsters had overwhelmed the rangers, captured Fantastic Beasts, and passed through the forest’s defenses without triggering alarms.
• The ranger said someone inside had sold the attackers the forest’s coordinates and access permissions, prompting officials to demand an investigation and counterattack.
• Pist argued that the officials should avoid rash action, invoke the Statute of Secrecy, and investigate internally before deciding how to respond.
• Thomas entered the conference room wounded and challenged the officials’ search for a traitor.
• Thomas identified the attackers as Vought International’s mutant Supes and accused Pist of colluding with Vought, betraying the Wizarding World, and causing Minister Joseph’s death.

Thomas exposed Pist as a traitor, and Ministry officials bound him after the Vought letter fell from his pocket. They subdued Vought’s bodyguards and, mistaking the diluted Compound V men for the enemy’s full strength, resolved to attack Vought’s base.

• Thomas accused Pist of betraying the Ministry, and officials restrained Pist with magical ropes as evidence of his deal with Vought fell from his coat.
• Four Vought bodyguards stormed the conference room and attacked the officials.
• The wizards overwhelmed the bodyguards with spells, knocking all four unconscious.
• An official berated the frightened forest ranger and claimed the enemy had breached the wards only because Pist had helped them.
• The officials called for an assault on Vought International’s secret base, unaware that the bodyguards had received a heavily diluted version of Compound V and were far weaker than the mutated soldiers in the forest.