Turtle Tracks Part 3
"Man, that was some delicioso pizza." Mikey said, as the four walk out of the ninja pizzeria.
"Yeah, but didn't you think there was something off about those ninjas?" Leo said.
"It's just a gag, Leo." Ralph said. "I mean, who ever heard of a bunch of ninjas hanging out in a pizzeria?"
"We're a bunch of ninjas, and we just hung out in a pizzeria. And for that matter, how many of you ever heard of talking turtles?"
"Hey, look over there." Don said. He picks up a wallet off the street. "April's wallet."
"And over there." Leo said. He picks up a card. "April's press-pass."
"Yeah, I know that wad of used chewing gum anywhere." Ralph said, picking up a wad of gum. "You get the feeling April's in trouble?"
"Well, either that or she's got a giant hole in her purse." Mikey said. He looks up to see April's purse hanging off the side of a building. "Oh. Never mind."
"We better put on our ninja stuff. Remember, call each other by your renaissance name. We don't want people to know who we really are." Leo said.
The four boys run into an ally, take off their trench coats, which hid their fatigues, and put on their ninja masks. They go into the building, and climb the stairs up to the roof. On the roof, they find April tied to a chair.
"Careful, Raphael. It could be a trap." Leonardo said. Suddenly, a ninja star nearly hits Raphael.
"Yep. It's a trap." Raphael said. About twenty purple ninjas come out of hiding, and the four take out their ninja weapons. Raphael gives one purple ninja a kick to the stomach, making a clang sound. "CLANG? Did you say 'CLANG'?"
Yes I did. Michelangelo hits another purple ninja with his nunchaku, and sparks start flying. "Check those dudes out." he said.
"Dudes nuts, they're robots." Don said.
"Robots? Let's ROCK!"
The four attack the purple ninjas using their ninja weapons to cut through their metal bodies. One purple ninja takes out a fan, twirls it, and fires a beam at Michelangelo. Luckily, Michelangelo managed to jump out of the way.
"Hey, what the heck!?" he shouted. The robot ninja gets ready for another blast.
"Eat this!" Raphael shouted. He throws his sai at the robot's fan, and takes a perfect. The fan blows up in the robot's mask. "Where are these guys getting their gear? Mars?"
Down underground, the man with the metal face mask and helmet watches the fight from a monitor. "These green ninjas with turtle elbow pads with not...wait...THOSE TURTLES! Hamato Yoshi's turtles! Could it be? Hamato Yoshi still lives? I must fight these four myself!"
Back on the roof, the ninja robots pick up April's chair, and carry her away.
"There they go! After them!" Leonardo shouted. The four chase after the robot ninjas. The robot ninjas jump off the building and land on another one. Leonardo ties one end of a rope to one of his katana's handles, and the other to the side of the building. The four zipline down to the building and follow the ninjas into it. They enter a hallway, that is completely empty. "Where is everybody?"
"Well it's late. They probably went home." Raphael said.
"Hey, look at this." Donatello said. To their right, they find a bunch of computers and monitors. "A communication monitor and special hi-tech computers. This is state of the art technology."
"Whoa. Who's the dude with the metal face?" Michelangelo asked, looking behind him. Behind them is the man with the metal helmet. He rushes towards the four, and delivers a mighty blow to Michelangelo. "Ugh! Whoever he is, he's sure mad!"
"Now's not the time let our guard down!" Leonardo shouted. He rushes towards the man with his swords, but the man blocks the swings with his spiked gauntlets, and delivers another blow to Leonardo. "On second thought, maybe it is time to let our guard down."
The man pulls out a little device and speaks into it, "All units! Return to the Technodrome!" The man runs downstairs.
"Technodrome? Where's that?" Raphael asked.
"It can only be one way: Down!" Leonardo said. "Come on, we gotta save April!"
The four run down the stairs. But halfway down, water begins to flood the building. The four run back up the stairs.
"We've got to get to safety! We'll drown!" Donatello shouted. "Wait - what are we worrying about? We're turtles."
"That got mutated into humans!" Leonardo shouted. "Humans can't breath under water."
"Look on the bright side: At least it's not raining." Raphael said. The four reach the top of the building, grab onto Leonardo's sword, and swing off the building before it gets completely flooded. "Well, the good news is, the ninja crime wave is out of commission. Bad news is, we failed to save April."
"Who's gonna tell Burne?" Leonardo asked.
Next morning, the four are at Channel 6, in their normal clothes, and they tell their boss, Burne Thompson, about April's disappearance. They leave out the fact that they're ninjas and the man with the metal helmet.
"Oh, this is just great." Burne said, "The story of the ninja crime gang is getting hot, and the crime gang capture my second best reporter!"
"April wasn't your second best reporter." said Vernon Fenwick, April's rival reporter.
"Well...third best...maybe."
Back underground, the four are showing Splinter the outfit that the robot ninjas were wearing.
"This is what the robots were wearing, master." Leo said.
"Just as I feared - It is the uniform of the Foot Clan." Splinter said. The four gasp in shock. "My old enemy, Oroku Saki, is somewhere nearby."
"And that man with the metal head that took us down with one blow - That must've been Oroku Saki himself!" Don said.
"And he's got our April!" Ralph said with tears in his eyes.
"And we're gonna do everything we can to get her back." Leo said. "When it comes to ninjas, we don't the meaning of the word defeat."
"That's right. We never bothered to look it up in a dictionary." Mikey said. "Until then, who wants pizza?"
"Mikey, how could you think of pizza at a time like this?" Ralph asked angrily.
"Easy. I brought a microwave down here, and I'm heating up pizza right now." Mikey goes over to the microwave, and pulls out a pizza.
End of chapter. In April 2009 (originally March 2009) Lion's Gate Films with release the 7th (1993) season at that time, in celebration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles's 25th anniversary since starting as a comic books series in 1984. Until next time. Ciao.