Things had been pretty slow up topside for the turtles. The Purple Dragons hadn't been doing much, nor the Foot clan. The boys were restless down in the lair. They had decided to do a patrol for some action, but the city was just dead tonight.
It was in the middle of summer so it was plenty warm outside to enjoy the warm night air.
"I wish there would be some action out here!" Raph shouted.
"Me too." Said Mikey.
"For once though, I'd much rather have nothing happen from our normal enemies. I'm tired of having my shell kicked by the Foot. We have been fighting them way too much lately." Don said.
"And now they're doing nothing." Raph said.
"We have been out here for over 2 hours Leo, can't we just go home now?" Mikey whined. "There's nothing going on out here. Besides, I want to get back to playing my new video game."
"Yeah, and soon you'll break it and be ordering me to fix it." Don moaned. He was tired of Mikey breaking his own items and him having to fix them.
Leo, the leader, was scanning alleys and other rooftops at least for signs of the Foot. He didn't see anything. "Alright. Let's go home. I don't think we're going to catch any action tonight. Maybe tomorrow we'll find something."
Leo began to lead his bros home, but since they didn't have any action tonight, they began to turn the way home into a game of tag. It had been awhile. Mike had been last in line, so he was it first. He laughed and began chasing after his bros. They were all laughing and going off in different directions to avoid being tagged by their baby brother.
From a short distance away, a few ninjas were out looking on the streets for signs of the turtles. They had now noticed them. There were only three this time. They were all dressed up in the black suits so you couldn't tell them apart. They were sticking to the shadows.
"Aren't we going to go after them?" One of them asked.
"No. There aren't enough of us to try to take them down and get the leader. Master Shredder really wants him to pay for the last defeat near the docks." The one to right said from the first one.
"He'll get what's coming to him soon." The one on the left said. "And another of the higher ranked ones also wants the turtle in the purple mask too. Master Shredder said he would take it into consideration. He hates them all, but he really wants the one in the blue mask most of all."
"I heard that he did say yes." Right one said.
"So when he gives us and the army our orders, I bet it would be to get the turtles in the blue and purple masks." Front one said.
"Yes. When the boss is ready." Right guy said.
Back at Saki Tower, the Shredder was having his evening meal. "What do you want?" He was speaking to the high ranked ninja that wanted Donatello.
"I think I have my plan all worked out to do the revenge I want on the purple masked turtle Boss. If you let me, I can also carry out the work on the blue one too."
"Very well, but I will also have my own time with Leonardo too." Shredder said. "But do your worst with him first."
"I will." The ninja said and left the room. Shredder had not asked of his plan, but he assured him that it would be good. The ninja wanted to hurt Donny more than anything though on his own part. That one carried the Bo staff and he used it to hit most of his enemies in the stomach a lot and he had been one of them. Way too many times. He wanted to get him back.
But he also thought to himself that it would also be fun to do it to Leonardo too. He was such a good fighter against the Foot that something like he was planning with Donatello would weaken him greatly. He knew his boss wanted that.
The plan to capture them was beginning. He planned on having Leo and Don caught together if it would be just the two of them, but if they were with Raph and Mikey too when they decided to strike, they would have to knock out the other two because they were not wanted. They just wanted Don and Leo. But they would also still get the ones they wanted even if each one was with the ones they didn't want.
He would have their hands tied up at least and have them awake, but if it came to it, he would also have the measures of having them knocked out as well.
The Shredder sometimes did do business with a research facility in Pennsylvania too. This ninja planned to take Leo and Don there. They had far better equipment to hold the turtles. The ninja had arranged a meeting spot to bring Don and Leo once they were caught, and they would be taken to the facility in a transport truck.
Wherever the two of them were caught, their weapons and shell cells were to be left behind because of course the Foot didn't want the other two turtles or their rat to have any chance of tracking them down.
Separate rooms were also ordered for each turtle. Shredder and the ninja wanted Don and Leo to be apart and easier to deal with. The rooms were about 10 doors apart from each other so they wouldn't be able to hear each other's shouts once they were there and in their own rooms.
"Oh come on," Mikey whined, "Aren't there ANY criminals left in this city?"
The blue clad turtle shook his head in disappointment. He knew that the criminals of the city hadn't appeared around any banks, museums, warehouses or even alleyways in the past few weeks and he could feel the absence of the fight eating away at his patience. Being ninja, they were supposed to be active, but lately all the exercise they got was their training and home and their patrols topside.
Don sighed at the inevitable, "Maybe we should just head home."
"No way brainiac, I'm tired of being cooped up in there!" Raph protested, his sais were in his hands as he spun them around, trying to find a way to derail his irritation at the inactivity.
The red clad turtle scanned the alleyways again and scoffed at the empty dark corners that he found. Still irritated at the inactivity, Raph turned back to his brothers. Don was leaning against his bo staff, obviously bored, Mikey was looking down at a huge plasma screen TV that some store had in its display window and Leo was scanning the darkened rooftops for a minute before he sighed in his own way of annoyance and turned to stare at the others.
"Hey Leo, since no one's out-"
"Sure," Leo interrupted with an amused smile and drew his swords.
They both smiled and leapt forward, enjoying the sound of clashing and sliding metal. The purple masked turtle watched this with a slight envy in his gaze. At least they were doing something. The constant inactivity was killing all of them.
Mikey suddenly laughed, making everyone look at him before they realized that the show on the large television below was what made him laugh. Some cartoon character had just hit another in the face with a pie. Raph and Leo turned their attention back to their 'fight,' and Donatello found himself glancing up at the full moon. After five minutes of doing this he sighed for what felt like the 50th time that night and sat down beside his younger brother.
Unbeknownst to the turtles, right underneath the shadows of the building they were standing on, a lone, black clothed figure stood silently in waiting.
It was time for part one...