Nothing that Splinter had taught him could have prepared him for this. There was nothing he could do for her, he realized numbly, as she pulled free from his grasp and left him with bits of shredded skin on his fingers and falling to his feet. His moment of calm was over, replaced by horror.

They were too late. They were too late, and she was rapidly turning into a monster. Mike was frozen in horror.

It only lasted a moment, however, as Niikura jerked him back and brought him to the present. Now. Something. They had to do something now! Disable. Not kill. Disable. Remove as a threat. Save her.

"Shiina!" Mike called out after Niikura, then grit his teeth. "We gotta knock her out before we can't!"