In "How to Make Enemies and Bend People to Your Will", Draxum and the Foot Recruit found out that a Kuroi Yōroi fragment was at the Botanical Gardens. They claimed it after setting up events where the Foot Lieutenant and the Foot Brute would fail. After obtaining the fragment, Draxum declared himself to be the Foot's leader, via exploiting a loophole in the clan's rulings of leadership. However, Draxum was completely oblivious to the fact that the Foot were just manipulating him into reviving their "true" leader, as they needed a being of great mystic power to don and energize the armor in order to resurrect Shredder, and the Baron was never informed of the armor's life-draining abilities when it was first promised to him (the Foot, however, were unaware that Shredder would not regain his sapience upon resurrection).