Giant Rat mans, cute little teenage turtles, kidnappers, robots, brain things, aliens?
Yeah, I've had my fair share of all these things. Piece of cake really. I've been handling everything just fine for these past 15 years.
It helped that I had Splinter by my side and my trusty Photographic memory.
However, none of my training or memories could help me with this.
Unless of course my training involved being able to whip out some weed killer out of nowhere.
"You shall pay!" a voice roared behind me.
"Okay seriously?! You blame me for this?" I demanded, turning around for a mere moment to yell at my opponent. "It wasn't my fault that you got mutated. You can only blame yourself for working for the Kraang in the first place!" I pointed accusingly at him.
Behind me, Snake, now mutated into a giant Weed, growled, throwing himself at me.
"It was an accident!" I dove to the left, quickly jumping to my feet to leap over the side of the railing to the steps below. Rushing down the stairway, I moved towards the open space leading towards the helicopter-landing bay.
"You, are seriously twisted." A familiar voice caught my ears as I rounded the corner.
"Thanks." I heard as I passed a few people that were a mix of green, purple, blue, red, and orange.
"What the- Mom?!" I heard Leonardo gasp.
Oh? Leo?
Pausing, I backtracked a bit to smile at my oldest son. "Oh, hi honey."
"Wha- What are you doing here? I thought you were going to wait outside and warn us if anything was coming."
I nodded. "Yeah, yeah I was." I held up my phone. "I would have called but I have no signal in this place."
My four sons exchanged confused stares of disbelief.
"So I thought, why not just come find you boys? Easier to warn you after all." I chuckled.
"That is a good idea!" Mikey grinned.
Donnie smacked him upside the head, frowning at me. "Warn us of what?" he asked.
"Oh, of Snake."
"That weakling?" Raph scoffed. "He got a new gun with him or somethin'?"
"…Not even close." I sighed with dread.
"NO!" A shrill cry caught out attention. Looking up to the platform above, my eyes widened to see the family from before. "Let me go!" the girl commanded, struggling to break free of the robot's grip.
"You haven't saved them yet?" I blinked at them.
"It's on our 'To do' lists." Leo narrowed his eyes at the robots. "Lets get them."
The boys rushed forward.
"Oh wait! Boys, Snake is-" Just as I called out to warn them, two large weed like legs crashed down in front of them.
Freezing, my sons slowly lifted their heads in horror and shock to stare at Snake.
Eye's wide, Mikey mumbled, "Uh-oh."
I couldn't agree with you more Mikey.
"You did this to me!" Snake growled at the boys. "Now you are going to pay!"
"I've told you already! You can't blame us for the car exploding!" I paused. "Okay no- you can slightly blame us, but that isn't the point!"
"It's… Snake?" Leo turned his head to stare at me, stunned. I nodded quickly.
"He turned into a giant Weed." I concluded. Snake glared at me, squeaking and screeching, as if readying himself for the attack.
Behind me, Mikey frowned. "That's weird." He said to Raphael. "You would think he would mutate into a Snake."
"Yeah you would." Raphael agreed sarcastically, "If you were an idiot!"
"But his name is Snake." Mikey argued.
"So?"
"You don't understand Science." My youngest rolled his eyes.
"Mikey, Raph." I said over my shoulder, hoping it wasn't too obvious that I was trying to hold in my laughter. "Let's focus."
Looking back at Snake, I narrowed my eyes when he began to march towards us.
"I'll crush you Turtles!" he snarled.
"Uh…" Donnie said nervously. "Would it help if I said it was an accident?"
"That's what I said." I nodded.
Growling, Snake lifted his claw like hands to snap at us.
"And… that is how he responded as well." I shrugged.
"So, I'll put you down for a no?" Donnie squeaked.
Pretty much Donnie.
Turning his body, Snake swung one of his large arms at us. Quick to react, Donnie, Leo and me leapt over it, while it swung and hit Raphael and Mikey backward.
Landing on my feet, I grinned at Donnie. "All that jump roping really paid off." I chuckled, thinking back to when we were first waiting for Snake to arrive earlier that night.
Donnie smiled a bit, nodding.
Oh wait, focus Arinna. There is a giant Weed monster.
Turning back around, I cheered when Leo cut off one of Snake's arms.
Reeling back, Snake stared at his arm in horror.
Now, was it just me, or did it sound like a dying balloon after Snake's arm was cut off? Just me? …Okay then.
I guess I would have preferred dying balloon that the purple goo that came flying out of Snake's arm, flying right at us.
"Ew! Ew! Don't let it touch me! Don't let it touch me!' Mikey cried out, crawling back to avoid getting hit by the purple goo. A bit of it hit his leg, and he screamed. "Ah! It touched me!'
Running forward, I grabbed a small handkerchief out of my pocket and whipped the goo off.
"T-Thanks Mom." He sniffled, staring at me with his large baby blue eyes.
"Any time sweet heart." I smiled, helping him to his feet.
Now, you would think that since his arm was just cut off, Snake would get the idea that he just a weed, and that we can easily chop him down, right?
No
Life had to be unfair and let Snake's arm grow right back. I'm not even joking here. It literally grew right back within seconds.
Lifting his hand up curiously, Snake smirked at his newly grown limb.
"It grew back?" Donnie gasped. "No fair!"
Yeah! Completely unfair! Just like how unfair it is that the Helicopter that girl is on is starting up.
Turning to the platform, I grumbled at the sound of the Helicopter coming to life, prepared to leave, along with the girl and her father.
Looking up, I felt my heartbreak at the lost and pleading look the girl was sending us.
She was scared.
"Donnie!" Leo commanded. "Go!" Placing his hands together for my second oldest to use as leverage, Donnie rushed forward. Using all the strength his head, Leonardo threw Donnie up to the platform.
When Donnie was safely up on the next floor level, I paused when Mikey squeaked.
"SnakeWeed is really powerful!"
"SnakeWeed?" Raphael questioned.
"You know, his name is Snake, and now he is a weed-" Mikey began to explain.
"We get it." His brother sighed.
Chuckling I pulled an arrow out and fired it as our enemies leg, hitting him where is knee should be.
If… Weeds had Knees that is.
Crying out in pain, he yanked the arrow out, glaring at me.
I dove out of the way when he swiped at me. Rolling across the ground, I jumped when my back hit against the wall. Looking up it, I grinned at the sight of a mini platform a few feet above.
Jumping up to said platform, I got a clear view of the ground below. Pulling out an arrow, I narrowed my eyes at the approaching Kraang robots. As my sons attacked, as Mikey newly named him, SnakeWeed, I fired at the Kraang.
I aimed straight for their guns and heads.
Whenever one would lift its gun to fire at the boys, I took them out without a second thought.
I did this for a few second, realizing I would eventually run out of arrows if I continued at this pace.
Oh Arrows, why must you be so short in supply? Why?
"Ah!"
I gasped at the sound of Leonardo scream. Standing up, my eyes widened at the sight of Leonardo being tossed around like a rag doll.
"The Power conduits'!" Leonardo gasped out.
"Are we really going to start talking about that again!?" Raphael demanded, unsure of how to save his brother.
I reached for an arrow, but paused when Leonardo called to his brothers.
Reaching up, he opened his mouth and bit down on his sword to hold it in place (Oh well, that is super dangerous) as he made hang signals to his younger brothers. Focusing in on the signals, I looked towards the power conduits'.
Draw SnakeWeed towards the power conduits'?
Roger that Leo.
It was an inspiring sight when Raphael and Michelangelo nodded, understanding their brother without having to use words.
It was amazing how far they had already come from earlier this night.
Raphael and Michelangelo rushed forward to free their brother as I turned back to the Kraang robots that continued to flood out of the building. As more came out, one glanced up at the sky, as if he saw something.
Following his gaze and looking up, my eyes widened when I saw Donnie throw himself at the helicopter, grabbing onto the bottom of it. "Donnie!" I gasped.
And I thought my whole Van adventure was dangerous! He is so grounded when he gets down from there!
The helicopter continued to slowly ascend, carrying Donatello with it. He moved across the bottom of it, hoping to reach the door and make it to the girl and her Father.
Aware that he was on the helicopter, the door opened. Two robots poked their head outs of the door, pointing their guns at him. Donnie gasped, unprepared to dodge.
With a quick set of motions I placed an arrow against my bow and aimed upward. It was high, but if I put enough strength into it…
I fired, hitting one of the robot's guns dead on.
The robot pulled its gun back in surprise.
From below I could see Donnie place a throwing star between his toes before he flipped upward, smashing it against the robot's head. Taken aback, Donnie had enough time to wrap his legs around the two robot's shoulders and yank them both out of the helicopter.
That's my boy.
As the Robot Donnie pulled out of the helicopter fell, it whirled around, pointing its gun back up at my son. It fired, making Donnie scream as the helicopter got knocked side to side.
"Donnie!" I gasped when the robot hit the plan perfectly to cause the whole thing to rock, knocking both him and the girl off and falling towards the ground.
Grabbing the girl, Donatello narrowed his eyes, using several different parts of the building to stop his fall until at last he flipped down to the lowest fall.
"Are you okay?" he asked the girl. Breathing heavily, still in shock to have survived, she looked towards the disappearing helicopter.
"…Dad." She whispered softly.
Frowning, I jumped down to the two. "Are you both alright."
"Mom!" Donnie grinned at the sight of me. "Yeah, we're fine," he helped the girl to her feet.
"Good." I placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. "Come on, it isn't safe here."
She looked at me helplessly.
Giving her a warm smile, I squeezed her shoulder comfortingly. "I'm Arinna."
"…April." She nodded back.
"Nice to meet you April. Come on, we're going to get you out of here."
"Where are the guys?"
"Over by that power generator." I said bluntly, motioning to it. My third eldest son's eyes widened at the scene before him. While Raph and Mikey were running around, trying to draw the Kraang's fire to them, Leonardo was leading SnakeWeed straight towards the Power generator, where our trap would soon be set.
"What are they doing?!" I heard Donnie demanded. "They are leading him straight to that power generator! That is incredible stupid!" he paused. "But brilliant. Or… Or both." He laughed.
April blinked at him, not sure what was going on.
"Definitely both." I sighed.
Tossing the throwing star, Leonardo smirked. "Come and get me Stinkweed!' he taunted, making an odd face at the monster. Growling, SnakeWeed lunged, but missed Leo when he leapt over his head. Landing on Snakeweed's back, Leo taunted the Kraang Robots, hoping they would fire at him and the power generator.
When they began to fire, he jumped out of the way, letting the shots take hit the power generator, igniting it, causing a large BOOM.
Covering my head, I flinched when the thing exploded, taking SnakeWeed and a few of the Kraang with it.
I sort of felt a little bad for SnakeWeed. First he got attacked by teenage mutant ninja turtles (haha), then he got mutated into a giant weed, got electrocuted, and now he just blew up into smithereens.
Even he didn't deserve something as bad as that.
I didn't have much time to think about it when Raphael grabbed my arm, pulling me towards the exit. Glancing over my shoulder at that scattered remains of SnakeWeed, I sighed.
The poor guy.
-0000-
After we escaped the Kraang base, we didn't want to take April home, knowing the Kraang would most likely search for her there.
When we asked if she had anywhere else to say, she thankfully told us that her Aunt also lived in town.
As April went inside, unable to explain what happened to her dad, and simply hopping for a place to stay, she opened her window to talk to us.
"How did it go?" I asked.
"Yeah, are you gonna be alright?" Donnie stepped forward, concerned.
"I guess. My Aunt says I can stay here as long as I'd like." April announced with a sigh. Narrowing her eyes, she pulled her knees close to her chest. "But I'll be a lot better once I track down the creeps that took my Dad."
"Won't the Police help?" Leo questioned.
Oh, sweet, naïve Leo.
Chuckling, April glanced at him. "Funny thing. When you tell them your Dad was kidnapped by aliens brains in robots bodies… they don't take you all that seriously."
"I hear that." Mikey sighed. I reached out, patting his back.
"April.' Donnie spoke up. "I promise you we will not rest until we find him."
"We wont?" Raphael frowned.
Elbowing him, Leo sent his brother a glare. "No, we wont." He insisted.
"Thank you." She said softly. "But it's not your fight." She looked at her knees sadly.
"Yes." Donnie reached forward to place his hand on top of hers. "It is."
Surprised, April looked up to him with a warm and thankful smile.
Blushing, he smiled sheepishly, quickly stepping away.
Nodding to her, the boys began to move up the building to head home. With a smile, Donnie waved to our new human friend, before moving after his brothers.
Watching him go, I paused to look at April. It must have been so hard, for her to lose her Father. I know the feeling well.
"Hey." I nudged her a bit. She looked at me dully. "If it means anything, at all, I understand."
She frowned. "How would you understand loosing your Dad?" she grumbled.
I smiled sadly. The memory of losing my Mother, Brother, and slowly my Dad, rushing through my mind. "You would be surprise how well I know of that feeling." I looked forward towards the city. Lifting her head, April's eyes widened.
I smiled warmly at her, placing my hand on her shoulder. "If you need anything, just call. We will come."
"…Thank you." She stepped back into the room, slowly closing her window. Giving her a grin, I leapt off the side of the balcony, after my family.
-000-
Moving to sit on the couch, I let out a small sigh. What a day.
I was happy though. My boys returned home safely.
However, that girl, April, she still worried me. The Kraang would continue to search for her, meaning she might always be in danger now.
Not to mention, her Father was still being help by the Kraang. How were they ever going to find him?
Rubbing my temple, I glanced at the Dojo where Splinter was currently talking to Leonardo.
It made me smile at how good of a leader Leonardo turned out to be. He would lead his brothers well.
"EVERYBODY! COME HERE!" Mikey suddenly screamed.
Jumping in surprise, I almost fell of the couch. "W-What?" I stammered, gawking at him.
"We made the news!' he cheered.
Leaning forward, my eyes widened at the latest New's Report.
"A report of, get this, Ninja's in New York!" The reporter announced with a smile
Oh no.
"Don't believe me? After residence reported a disturbance, the Police recovered this." There was a pause as the screen changed to a picture of one of our family's signature throwing stars.
Donnie and Mikey grinned at each other.
"Hmm." I mused when Splinter glanced at me. "I wonder who's it is?"
Splinter tilted his head, not sure what I meant.
"Well, the boys were constantly throwing those willy nilly. What is Donnie's from the helicopter? Or was it Leonardo's from the explosion?" I explained.
Don't judge my questions.
"I think it was Donnie's." Raphael folded his arms.
Donnie pumped his fist in the air in victory.
"For Channel 6News, this is Carios Chang O'Brien," He winked, "Gambe, saying, Hi-Ya!"
"This is awesome!" Mikey cackled. "We're going to be famous!" he made some funny faces as he ran to me. "Did you see Mom?!"
"Yes, I saw." I patted his head. Though I wonder, should we truly be celebrating over this?
"You must be more careful." Splinter spoke up, speaking to his sons sternly to get his point across. "A ninja's most powerful weapon is the shadows. Being brought out into the light is a dangerous thing."
"Relax sensei." Raphael said over his shoulder with a smirk. "It's one little news story. What's the worst that can happen?"
"Yeah." I chuckled.
I paused, tilting my head up to the ceiling a bit.
Wait…
What was with this bad feeling I suddenly got?
-000-
Little did the Hamato family known, in Tokyo Japan; a dark figure watched the same New York Video, repeating it over and over.
The man, sitting in a large business chair, smirked.
"So, my old enemy is in New york and training his own army." The man spoke to himself. "At last I can finish what I started so long ago." He paused to look to his right. "Prepare my jet." He commanded.
The darkly dressed soldier nodded, rushing off.
Rising to his feet, the man rose to his feet, placing a metal helmet on his head.
He was, Oroku Saki. Or, better known as… the Shredder.
"I'm going to visit an old friend." The Shredder announced. Turning around, Shredder looked to the side of the room.
A lone figure stood, leaning against the wall casually. He was covered head to toe in the traditional Foot armor, but had an extra red marking on his chest to show his status. He was a Foot elite, Shredder's Third in command.
"Vader." Shredder called to him. "You shall accompany me along with Karai."
Looking to his Master, the so-called 'Vader', nodded. "Of course, Master." He bowed a bit. Slowly lifting his head, he turned back to the window, staring down at the city with darkened eyes.
New York huh? Well, can't say I've ever been there before. This should be fun.
DUN DUN DUN! What is this? A new character named Vader?
Since you know, team Hamato has a new character to their side, Arinna, I thought I would add someone new to Shredder's side as well. Someone Arinna would fight against/ main enemy. :D
Not sure if any of you will like Vader or not though. He will come into the story more when Karai comes in. ^_^
