The punch landed and the most it did was knock the monster back slightly but at least that meant they now knew how the robot worked.

Ignoring the buzz of command (people that probably weren't even real), Raph experimentally thew a much harder, more direct punch at the creature's...head-like appendage. It knocked it back into the water.

"Hey, I think the mech does what we do!"

And because they were linked up, they didn't even have to talk to work together on it.

"I don't know how we got here but I've got a feeling we have to go through this thing to get out."

We can do this.

The two of them, together? Of course they could do this.

"But if we're going to, you need to punch a whole lot harder."