Chapter 2

The Stockman brothers

It was about a week after the turtles and Splinter moved into their new lair in the sewers that the news report on the Mouser robots came in, the report was done by April and her friend Irma. The news report was being watched by the turtles and Splinter, they kept a few TVs in their lair so they could watch movies, shows, cartoons and other things.

"And now we turn to reporter April O'Neil and her aide Irma Langinstein for the latest from Stockman labs" Vernon said on the live news broadcast.

"Thank you Vernon, this is April O'Neil live at Stockman labs. I'm here with the genius Dr. Baxter Stockman" April said as she started her report, she then turned to Dr. Stockman. "Dr. Stockman, rumors have been in the papers for about a week now that you've created new robots called Mousers" April said.

"The rumors are true miss O'Neil, I've created robots called Mousers. I made them for the purpose of helping with the cities rat and overall rodent problem" Dr. Baxter Stockman said as he showed his Mousers to the news crew who were getting everything on camera.

"How efficient are these Mousers Dr. Stockman?" Irma asked.

"I'm glad you asked miss Langinstein, my lab assistant miss Perri Grey will run a demonstration in this maze we set up. What the maze is meant to show how good my Mousers are at locking onto their targets and tracking them down" Dr. Stockman said as his assistant Perri Grey put a single Mouser into the maze.

The Mouser then took off in a dash, it tracked down and terminated all of the poor rats set lose in the small maze. Which was quite disturbing "yeash I'd surely hate to be a rat in this town" Raphael said as he watched the news report from the lair, Splinter gave his son a cross look upon the remark "oh...no offence sensei" Raphael said to Splinter once he saw the look on Splinter's face.

Back at Stockman labs, April gulped after seeing how efficient the Mousers were. But she shook off her feeling and said "how soon do you plan to set your Mousers into the city?" and Dr. Stockman answered April's question.

"As soon as the mayor has approved of the Mousers, and signs the Mouser bill. My people will set out Mousers by the hundreds, we expect it to take about a week or two at the least before the Mayor approves and everything else gets in place" Dr. Stockman said with a grin on his face.

"Thank you for your time Dr. Baxter Stockman, well you all heard it from here folks. Within the month we could have Mousers taking care of the cities rodent problem. From channel 6 news live at Stockman labs this is April O'Neil signing off" and with that the news ended and went to commercials.

"And that's a rap" the camera man said as he put the camera away.

"You looked great April" Irma said to her best friend.

Meanwhile as the news crew was getting ready to leave Perri the assistant of Dr. Stockman called him into private "sir I don't know how but some of the Mousers from last weeks test runs didn't return" she said as she pushed a few buttons and showed the Mousers' monitor that kept count on all active units.

"It must've been an earthquake or something? I wouldn't pay to much attention to it" Dr. Stockman said to his assistant.

"But sir...shouldn't we at least try and find out what happened to them?" Perri asked.

"Tell you what Miss Grey, if you can keep an eye on my younger brother Daxter. I'll personally look into the missing Mousers okay" Dr. Stockman said, though he seemed like he was trying to get away from the missing Mousers subject.

"Alright Dr. Stockman" Perri said as she left the lab, though she felt some urge to look into the matter alone and she had a feeling that she might need someone to help her. But before she could do that she'd need to take care of the teenager known as Daxter Stockman.

Most people tend to forget for some reason or another that Dr. Baxter Stockman has a teenage brother called Daxter, Baxter was currently in his thirties and had become one of the best scientific minds of his time especially in the field of robotics. His younger brother was another story though, where Baxter succeed, Daxter failed. Since grade school Daxter had the habit of getting himself into trouble, he was also disliked by most of the kids for his obsessions of experimenting on animals.

From the house cat, to bugs in the back yard to the pigeons nesting in trees. Daxter did all kinds of things, he was deeply interested in biology more than robotics, he hated his older brother for being better at robotics than he ever was. Baxter's fame far overshadowed Daxter's, and Daxter was jealous of his good looking older brother, Daxter had an Afro and mustache and had all kinds of different clothes but a pair of jeans and a pink shirt were his favorite.

Baxter tried to be a good older brother, but Daxter refused his good will and friendship and was sure that Baxter was as bad a person as he was. Baxter was just better at hiding it next to Daxter, at least that's what Daxter claimed, and who knows maybe Daxter was right about his brother?

Late at night Daxter Stockman was angry, he was recently fired from TCRI because of an inhumane experiment he was working on. "I'll get my revenge on those pencil pushing stiffs if its the last thing I do" Daxter said as he was hatching a revenge scheme against TCRI. "I've got it, I'll use those Mousers and that Mouser command suite my brother made, nothing like framing him for my own dirty work" Daxter said to himself as he chuckled evilly.

Meanwhile Perri Grey was busy with April and Irma, she convinced them to help her investigate the missing Mousers among other things. While the girls were busy looking into a mystery the turtles had finished dinner in their lair "I wonder if its true our old lair was just destroyed by a harmless test run of the Mousers" Donatello said to his brothers.

"Who knows Donny, I'd surely like to ask Stockman a thing or two about that" Raphael said as he was punching a boxing bag.

"You know all to well Raph why we can't do that" Leonardo said to his brother.

"Yeah I know Leo, it just makes me mad thinking about those Mousers" Raphael said.

"I know what you mean Raph, I almost lost my entire comic collection. And all my snacks from the old lair are gone forever" Michelangelo said.

"Hmm...aha looks like its ready" Donatello said as he finished putting together a Mouser.

"Care to explain why you put a Mouser back together?" Raphael said as he stopped his exercising and looked at the robot.

"Well I took as many parts as I could from the old Mousers and used them to rebuild this one, I made it so we can see what Stockman is really up to" Donatello explained.

"Sweet, I bet we can make some shaved ice with this little guy later" Michelangelo said.

"Maybe not Mikey" Donatello said.

"I'm not sure that putting one of these Mousers back together is such a wise decision my son" Splinter said to Donatello.

"Relax Splinter, I took out its basic programming to hunt for rats. Its harmless more or less" Donatello said as Michelangelo was teasing the Mouser while eating a slice of pizza.

"This little dude is like one of those guards in London, no matter what I do to him. He doesn't do a thing to me" Mikey said as he stopped teasing the motionless robot.

"So when can we head out?" Raph asked his brothers.

"Hold on a couple of seconds, I need to make sure my remote control is working properly for the Mouser" Donny said as he finished his remote control tests and activated the Mouser to go back to Stockman.

"Alright let's follow that Mouser" Leonardo said.

"Actually guys my plan was to let the Mouser head out, while we wait on the rooftops near Stockman labs to get clear video footage on what's going on" Donatello explained.

"Cleaver plan Don" Leonardo said.

"Be safe my sons" Splinter said as he watched his sons leave the lair.

Within a couple hours the turtles made it to the roof tops of the buildings near Stockman labs, meanwhile the girls Perri, April and Irma were witnessing Daxter Stockman stealing technology to control the Mousers. He then answered a holographic message sent to him from a man wearing a helmet "everything is in place on the Foot Clans end Daxter, do you have what you need from your brother?" the man asked in a strong voice.

"Of course I've got everything I need, controlling these Mousers will be easy" Daxter said.

"Excellent, I'll send Hun to meet you with my Foot ninjas within the hour on the rooftop of the labs, I expect for you to hold up your end of our bargain Stockman" the man said.

"Of course I will, finding a guy hiding in the sewers should be easy with the Mousers. Which is why I'm making sure you get a full shipment of Mousers off the records" Daxter Stockman said.

"Don't you dare make any of this a waste of my time Stockman" the man wearing the helmet said as he ended the call.

"Oh my goodness! We were simply trying to figure out what happened to the Mousers and now Daxter Stockman is making trouble" Perri said in shock.

"Daxter Stockman?" Irma said.

"You mean the troublesome teenage brother of Baxter Stockman?" April asked Perri.

"Exactly...I wonder what he's up to exactly" Perri said, but then Foot ninjas appeared out of the blue and captured the three girls.

While that was going on the Mouser that Donatello sent in was sending a live video feed to the turtles, while they were watching the video a bunch of mysterious ninjas dressed in black appeared, their outfits have yellow eye holes on their masks that were part of their uniforms, they also had a symbol that looked kind of like a three toed foot on their chests. "Um...guys I think we have company" Michelangelo said as he pointed out the Foot ninjas.

"Are these guys ninjas?" Leonardo said as he saw the Foot ninjas surround him and his brothers.

"I thought we were the only ninjas in town?" Donatello said.

"Well their certainly ninja-esque" Michelangelo said.

"Be ready for anything" Leonardo said as he and his brothers got ready to fight the Foot if they needed to.

"I am soooo gonna enjoy this" Raphael said with a grin on his face.

Within minutes the turtles knocked out the ninjas on the roof tops, though they noticed there were more of the ninjas dressed in black. These one's were heading for the roof of Stockman labs, the turtles figured that the ninjas were trying to break into the lab. So they went to stop the ninjas, but as they fought them they heard screaming coming right underneath them as they looked through a window and down into one of the Mouser labs.

"Its really to bad you girls snooped around to much" Daxter Stockman said to April, Irma and Perri as three giant robotic claws held the girls. Daxter was in the Mouser control room for the lab, and used an audio speaker to talk to the three girls.

"Someone help us!" April cried out.

"Unfortunately I can't do that April, you see I have my obligations too. So bad you have to go to Perri, you were the only one who understood me" Daxter said to Perri as he called in Mousers to kill the girls once he pushed the buttons to release the girls.

"Daxter this is madness" Irma said as she saw Mousers making noises and clanking their metallic teeth.

"I'm a bit busy so I've got to go now, I'll be leaving you three now" Daxter said as he left the lab to make it seem like his brother would be behind the murders he had planned out.

"What's going on in there Donny?!" Raphael said.

"It looks like someone called um...Daxter is using Baxter Stockman's Mousers to attack April, Irma and Dr. Stockman's lab assistant" Donatello explained.

"Its risky...but we've got to save them! Let's go guys!" Leonardo said as he led the charge into the building, the turtles broke the window and jumped safely down into the middle of all the Mousers.

They had to avoid a giant saw blade as they smashed, sliced and stabbed the Mousers into pieces. Once it seemed like the Mousers were done for, giant lab doors opened and in the middle of the giant laboratory was a giant among the Mousers. It was dark but then lights turned on to show the prototype Giant Mouser robot, it snapped its two giant heads that were attached to its arms. Its main head seemed to hold a secret of some sort, the turtles were shocked to see such a massive Mouser.

"Um...Don" Leonardo said.

"Insufficient data boss" Donatello said.

"You know what they say the bigger they are, the easier they can crush you" Mikey said.

"Relax Mikey, we've got this big guy yaaaaaa!" Raphael charged at the Giant Mouser but it began to spin its arms around and hit Raphael badly before it sent him flying.

"It looks like a frontal assault is futile, we have to get it from behind" Leonardo said as they struck the back of the Giant Mouser, but it tried to crush them by flipping its back backwards.

The Giant Mouser was getting critically damaged in the fight but it revealed its secret missile launchers hidden in its main head, it fired several missiles causing explosions in the lab. It even tried to get the turtles for good by spinning its arms and firing missiles at the same time, but within moments after that the ninja turtles unleashed their final attack on the Giant Mouser and made its arms fall out of place and cut its robotic legs, it fell apart and exploded.

Donatello then worked fast to make sure the girls were safely set free, Perri was pretty shocked to see the TMNT, April and Irma did their best to calmly explain the turtles to Perri and she did thank the turtles for saving her life and for saving April and Irma. Perri then told the turtles about Daxter Stockman's plans to attack TCRI, thankfully the turtles had a way to catch up to Stockman before he got to TCRI in the Mouser Command Armor he stole. The turtles used their van they called the Shellraiser to disable Stockman's stolen armor, its weapons allowed them to disable the M.C.A and get Daxter out of the armor.

"You are in a lot of trouble for what you did tonight Dax Stockman" Raphael said.

"Please don't hurt me" Daxter said.

"Alright..." Raphael said with a smile as he threw Daxter Stockman into a dumpster.

"I thought his name was Dave?" Mikey jokingly said.

"It was Daxter Stockman, Mikey. Raph just called him Dax for short" Donatello said.

"Ah, I thought that was Joe Stockman's real name" Mikey said as he jokingly called Daxter another name.

Within hours the turtles returned to Stockman labs with Daxter Stockman, the girls waited for them and they explained to Baxter Stockman about the whole thing. Dr. Stockman was shocked by the whole thing, especially the fact talking turtles and his brother were involved. The ninjas dressed in black vanished by the time the turtles returned to find them, the turtles questioned what the deal with the Giant Mouser was. Dr. Baxter Stockman told them that the military wanted him to develop military grade Mouser prototypes to use in the future, he apologized for the damages done by his Giant Mouser prototype.

The next morning in the lair the turtles watched the news, the news was about something that happened last night "...and its amazing how Daxter Stockman the younger brother of the famed Dr. Baxter Stockman went from working at TCRI, to a mad man bent on revenge all overnight. Dr. Stockman do you have anything to say for what happened last night?" April asked Dr. Stockman.

"All I can say is that I'm sorry for my younger brother's behavior, and for any and all damages he did to property public or otherwise in his rage last night. As for the trouble made using my precious Mousers, I'm willing for postpone trying to get the Mouser Bill passed until we can make sure all Mousers are accounted for and that no one else is using them for illegal activities" Dr. Stockman said.

"Thank you Dr. Stockman" April said as she turned back to the camera to finish her news report. "There's still no footage on exactly who saved Perri Grey, my aide Irma or myself last night at Stockman labs. But thank you kind souls for saving us from death at the hands of a mad man, from channel 6 news this is April O'Neil signing off" April said as the news ended.

"Wow thanks April, I like it when she mentions us" Michelangelo said.

"Irma was glad we saved her and the others last night" Donatello said.

"Its good to know that Dr. Stockman's Mousers were just on a test run when they got our lair" Leonardo said.

"...I still think there's something fishy going on with Stockman and the Mousers" Raphael said.

"That's why I'm keeping Mole safe in case we need him to spy on Mouser activity" Donatello said as he finished painting his Mouser he rebuilt and nicknamed Mole.

"True, though I wonder exactly who those ninjas we fought were" Leonardo said.

"I don't know my son, but I have a feeling there's more going on than we realize" Splinter said.

And as the days would go by Leonardo let his brothers in on the note he got from someone called Galileo, and that he wanted to meet them at midnight at a museum. They talked with Splinter on the matter and he told them that he feared it could be a trap, but Splinter allowed his sons to go when the time came so long as they remained in the shadows and stayed out of sight of anyone else.

Stockman labs days later

"You're here sooner then I expected" Dr. Baxter Stockman said as a man entered his personal lab.

"My master wanted to know exactly who's side you're really on Stockman" Hun said as he stood over Stockman.

"I only needed to keep my cover when the turtles showed themselves to me Hun. Daxter took the bait I had anticipated he'd take as soon as he was fired, and now we know what's been messing with our business" Dr. Stockman said as he calmly explained himself to Hun.

"I guess you truly are sneaky after all Baxter, I'm glad your Mousers are being shipped to Foot HQ. and some are being given to the Purple Dragons" Hun said.

"But of course Hun, by the way what is the name of your mysterious master whom my brother contacted?" Dr. Stockman asked.

"He's a man who strikes terror into people no matter where he goes" Hun said with a grin.

"Stockman!" the man wearing a helmet said as he turned on a holographic communicator.

"Oh you must be Hun's master?" Dr. Stockman said.

"Indeed I am, and from this day forth you shall call me The Shredder!" The Shredder said to Dr. Stockman.

"The Shredder hmm...nice to finally meet you Shredder, I hope that my Mousers can help you out with whatever you have planned for them" Dr. Stockman said.

"They had better Stockman" Shredder said as he ended his called.

Some hours later Perri Grey came to Stockman and brought in to him something recovered from RITC, it was a bizarre plant that the people of RITC tried to destroy. Stockman however found the plant interesting and began to run tests on it, little did he know that it was once part of a mutant but upon discovering this he'd be fascinated.

Meanwhile Galileo the ninja made sure his naginata was sharp and kept ready for combat, he knew it was only a matter of days before he'd get to properly meet the turtles and explain to them what he could about what was really going on in the city. Little did he know that the Foot Clan had plans for the museum he was planning to meet the turtles at.

Dr. Baxter Stockman is really evil! The Shredder is working with Stockman! Who is The Shredder exactly and who is Hun? Will Daxter Stockman break out of prison? Is Snakeweed the only mutant threat to the city at large? All these questions and more shall be answered as the turtles fight on!