This fic is the result of watching the first TMNT movie while laid up with a migraine. During that scene where the Foot goes down into the sewers to find the Lair, several of them dive headfirst into a storm drain. When I was watching that scene I wondered "what would happen if one of those Foot soldiers got stuck? wouldn't that be funny?" so I wrote a fic about it. It was supposed to be funny, but it wound up being all introspective and not funny. But it's hard to write funny with a migraine. Go figure.
So, without further ado, a Foot soldier stuck in a storm drain.
"Hey! Is anybody out there?" Ralph hung his head. He was a failure. Stuck in a storm drain. Unbelievable! He was supposed to be on his way to the freaks hideout, helping his clan fight off the menace. But no. He was stuck. Of course, no one stayed to help him. He didn't expect as much. The mission was too important for the loss of one comrade to slow them down. A few had turned to see if he would make it out, but when they saw that he was wedged in tight they just followed the rest down the tunnels. If he got out of this he would be in deep trouble.
"Hey! Is anybody out there! I'm stuck!" He called again. He'd long since given up hope of not being arrested. He only wanted to get out of this alive. He heard a few cars pass by, but they obviously didn't notice the pair of feet sticking out from the gutter.
Then he heard a voice say above his head "Hey. What the heck is this?" and he called out again.
"Help! I'm stuck!" Ralph could almost hear the man shrug.
"Okay. Whatever." He felt someone grab hold of his ankles and start to pull. Miraculously, he slid backwards and up and out of that accursed storm-drain.
"Whoa. The Foot? Well get ready pal, your problems are just beginning." His rescuer took a fighting stance. Ralph did as well. "The Shredder's dead kid, so whatever loyalty you got to him, it's over. You don't gotta do this. You can get a second chance. A ton of your little friends are down at the police station right now, getting theirs."
Impossible. But perhaps… no impossible. But still, he needed to confirm this information.
"What's that!" Ralph yelled, pointing off to the right. The man looked and Ralph was gone.
He had to be lying. The Shredder could not be defeated. The Foot could not be defeated. But if what the man had said was true… then he would find whoever was in charge now and keep going. After all. The Foot were his family. And he had nowhere else to go. He was stuck.
Please R&R.
Yes, the mysterious rescuer is Casey Jones.