Ch2 The Thief.
Next day, there was still no word from Splinter. I guess he was still embarrassed from making a mortifying scene of himself in front of his sons.
Although slightly true enough, he was meditating in his room with a bit shame still stinging his face. He has not come out of the room since.
Slowly he fell into deep concentration, the redness in his face lifted away. No sooner had he focused his mind, a sudden disturbance in the air made his whiskers twitch in alert.
Don was busily putting the finishing touches on his water drill. The drill could cut through the hardest concrete.
"Alright, what I need now is my special edition tool kit to do the job!" reaching out for it to his left, the box wasn't there.
"Strange, maybe I left it at the shed," getting up he went into the shed to search for it, but something wasn't right. His tool kit wasn't next to where Leo kept his special Japanese knives set, and the knives weren't there too! Mikey's shurikens were gone, Raph's naginata was gone, and his extra Bo staff was gone! He swore they have been put there last week and hardly even touched. Don ran out to tell his brothers.
Mikey was getting the munchies today, he approached the cabinet where he had been saving snacks he definitely never wanted to share. This cabinet of course was one of a kind; it had combination locks, codes, and other fancy security stuff to prevent anyone from breaking in.
After punching in codes and spinning locks, he finally opened the door with an open mouth.
"Okay my spicy Dorito chips, come to-"he stopped and gasped in utter horror at the sight. The cupboard was completely empty!
"What the…..NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" every ounce of green melted off him as he paled white. The scream alerted Raph in the next room making him rush and barge into the kitchen assassin style.
"What the shell are you screaming about!?" he shouted at him angrily.
Mikey was in hysterics, "M-m-my snacks! Gone! Somebody took them!"
"Aw c'mon Mikey be reasonable, maybe you just ran out of it, you are always getting the munchies every now and then. Who could break into that piece crap anyway?" Raph said.
'If it's a piece of crap, anybody can break into it." Leo said munching on Mimi's cookie.
"Maybe a thief would've done it?" Don suggested from the doorway.
"I knew it!" Mikey leapt to his feet.
"All of our extra weapons are missing in the shed."
"Maybe you put them somewhere else." Leo said.
Raph felt his skin crawl, "Wait, we've never used those weapons, we just got them last week. That was the one place we put them in."
"Then my knives are…oh no!" Leo ran to the shed at full speed, he stopped in front of the racks where he kept them.
"My knives!" he nearly felt himself faint but tried to keep his cool. "Who…what…how?" he stuttered in disbelief.
"I'm telling you, we've just been robbed!" Mikey cried out like a lady in distress.
Raph doubted that, "Okay how could anybody rob us? We're hidden deep in the sewers and I don't think nobody would come down here and steal."
"As logical as that sounds Raphael, I believe there was one." Splinter said as he came into the shed.
"Is it the foot?" Leo asked after snapping out of his phase. Splinter shook his head.
Suddenly his ears perked up, he sniffed the air a few times and growled. "The thief is still here!" he hurried off into his room. The boys ran after him with the same eagerness to catch the robber.
Something in Splinter's gut told him to go to his room as he rushed in, sniffing the air a few times again. This time he noticed that next to Yoshi's picture, the locket was missing!
"Oh no!"
Someone scurried in the living room, Splinter turned around and saw a hooded figure dart quickly outside.
"You won't get away that easy!" He leapt into action and chased after the person.
"CATCH THE THIEF!" The boys yelled chasing after the robber into the dark sewers.
The thief smirked as she sped aw ay faster than them. She easily zipped through the maze of sewer tunnels, she had good sense of where she was going, and she has been running her entire life, which makes her an expert at losing her pursuers. Though the one thing she didn't know was that Splinter had a strong sense of smell.
Turning a corner, she took one tunnel out of five and disappeared into the darkness.
Mikey panted heavily, he was ready to stop at any second, but boy was the thief fast!
"Seriously, whoever that was, must've been a track racer!" Mikey heaved.
As they got around a bend, they stopped dead in their tracks. Five tunnels lay out before them and they looked at each one wondering where the person went.
Splinter sniffed the air, his nose twitched trying to get the faint scent, but it was still detectable.
"There!" he pointed at the left tunnel and zoomed faster than the turtles, they looked at the speedy rat in amazement.
"Whoa, I've never seen sensei run like that before." Leo said.
Raph shrugged, "I guess he's finally getting a real sense of action in him."
The thief ran farther and farther, but Splinter was catching up quickly. He was just twenty feet away.
"Stop thief!" he shouted (like that will work). That thief stole his master's locket, the only object of true value belonging to him. As much as he had always told his sons never to be attached to materialistic things, he seems to have an exception for this one.
Damn! This guy really wants his things back! The thief thought, but thieves always take, never give back.
Hopping over a pipe and running to a ladder, the person began climbing up to the manhole.
Splinter looked ahead to see the thief climbing the way up to freedom. He made one quick sprint towards the ladder.
"GYAH!" Splinter yelled falling face first on a puddle of water. Sadly, he didn't see the pipe that stuck out.
He heard the thief snicker loudly while opening the way out. Splinter got on his feet and continued his pursuit.
Meanwhile, the boys were tiredly catching up to their sensei, which was no more than forty kilometers from them.
"Slow…slow down will ya?" Donny wheezed wearily.
"I don't think they won't!" Leo panted.
The thief and Splinter had already made their way into an alley, and both were getting worn out. Still not one showed any sign of quitting the run.
"Seriously, can you just stop?" Splinter called out almost exhaustedly.
"No! Are you crazy to ask that!?" the thief scurried up a ladder to the roof, there must be some way to lose him, the chase was becoming too incessant. The thief finally made it up on the roof with the rat behind.
She was tired as ever and was slowing down. This gave Splinter an advantage, with a little more strength in him, his paw snatched out to grab the cloak.
With a strong yank, he tore it away to reveal who had stolen from his home. "Don't!" the person shrieked and staggered back.
"I've got you now-….huh?"
His eyes widened at the person. No, it was not a person, it was a rat! A mutant rat like him! Then, just like in his stories, everything went slow-mo as the rat turned around almost elegantly.
Splinter's mouth fell open and gazed awestruck at the beauty before him. The moonlight dazzled upon on her features, her eyes were bicolor, one green and blue like two sparkling jewels, the paws were soft bubblegum pink, the fur was snow white and sleek compared to Splinter's messy grooming, and her long tail swished in grace. What she wore was a red monk like outfit similar to his, one gold earring was on her left ear, and she appeared about the same age as Splinter.
"You're a lady!" he whispered under his breath.
"Of course I am!" the lady rat snapped back with her head high and sack over her shoulder.
"You were expecting maybe a man?"
His eyes wanted to scrutinize her more, but stopped when he saw his beloved Yoshi's locket dangling around her neck.
Mentally slapping himself he gave deep command, "Who are you? What do you want with the locket?"
The rat's whiskers twitched with annoyance from his demeanor, "The name's Yumiko! What I want with the locket is none of your business! Who are you?" she demanded.
"The name is Splinter! Give me back my locket thief!"
"Master Splinter!" Leo called out as he got on the roof sweating and panting like crazy.
"Master did you-…whoa." Raph trailed off as he stared at the mutant rat.
"That's our thief?" He said in surprise.
"Give me back my chips lady and every other snack you stole!" Mikey yelled waving his nunchakus. Yumiko just gave a frown of annoyance and snapped her fingers.
Instantly, several steel bars shot up from a metal circle they had stepped into surrounding the turtles and crisscrossed to form a cage. Don easily recognized this tech.
"Wait, I know this! This is my invention, you stole it from me!" Don shook the bars of the cage in fury, nobody takes his gadgets! Nobody!
"Young boys like you shouldn't get involved." She said. The boys just grumbled they didn't like being patronized.
"My sons!" Splinter cried aghast and lunged at the female rat. She fell to the ground with Splinter tugging at the locket and holding her down by the throat.
"Release them!"
Yumiko screeched out and clawed at Splinter's face with her nails, he let out a yelp of pain and fell back slightly whimpering.
Doing a back flip, she scrambled for her bag and tried to make a break for it. Splinter got up and tried to tackle her again, but her tail supported her from falling. Balancing on it she gave one mighty kick with both feet and sent him flying.
"C'mon sensei, kick some ass!" Leo hollered from the cage, "You got more fight than her!"
Raph joined in, "Take her out ninja style and later destroy her with your excessive lectures!"
Mikey pumped his fists in the air, "Yeah! Show her some real skills!"
Donny though was busy trying to find a way to get out of the trap and was working on a small wire he had taken from the metal rim of the cage. The only way to get out of the trap was with a remote control which Yumiko may or may not have with her .
Jumping over her, Splinter nimbly landed on his feet and grabbed the bag. Both pulled and pulled making straining grunts, suddenly Yumiko let the sack go and pushed him away.
"Okay you can have it."
"What!?" said Splinter confused, did she just give the bag over to him that easily?
"Yeah, you can have it!" with one leap she spun her body in the air and lashed her tail out at his face like a whip.
*THWA-POW!!!!*
Just as the tail made impact, it was nothing he had ever felt before from an extra appendage. The pain was as fierce as hellfire!
"Master Splinter!" the turtles screamed out as they saw him going airborne from the blow.
"Darnit, Donny hurry!" Mikey yelled at him.
"I'm trying! I can't believe I made something so difficult, and this was only by accident!"
Damnit! Splinter cursed as he slowly fell headlong to the ground. He couldn't believe he had been beat so easily.
Tick tick tick. Something was ticking, where was it coming from? He then realized it was coming from the bag.
"Oh no!"
*KA-BOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The bag exploded with heat and thick smoke as he crashed into a pest control products truck. His body tore through the cheap fabric covering and landed on several mousetraps and sticky flypaper latching on to his thick fur. A bottle of bedbug powder fell off the broken shelf and onto his head dusting him half white.
He groaned in pain and looked up to see Yumiko bounding in with a smug look on her face. The real sack of stolen goods was in her hands that she hid someplace, while the one that she had him fighting over was just a decoy.
"Thought you could beat me eh?" she chuckled as she watched him struggling to get up.
"Thieves always have back up plan." Her long tail swished slightly brushing up against his chin feeling its soft velvety touch.
How soft, no! Damn that woman!
Yumiko's whiskers twitched, and with lightning speed she swung around and kicked Leonardo away before he could strike from behind.
"Stay away from our Master!" Raph growled in his threatening tone taking out his sais.
Yumiko just smirked and threw something on the ground; it exploded into a choking blast of smoke filling the entire truck, as it slowly diminished, Yumiko had already vanished.
The boys coughed looking from left to right for her, but they couldn't catch a sight.
Don and Mikey lifted Splinter up to his feet aching from head to toe. He was beginning to feel the pain from the mousetraps. His whole body and his pride were bruised all over.
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