Chapter 8: Nano

Pete's P.O.V.

My bros and I had to go and help April set her shop up after we helped her escape from her last job. We had all climbed into the battle shell and met Casey in the alley behind April's shop. As we got there Don and I were gathering the supplies needed to fix her heater. We all climbed out and Mikey knocked on the door.

"Hi April! Green sons movers and shelpers reporting for duty." Mikey said. "Hey guys, thanks for coming. I need all the help I can get. Mike, you can start by moving those big heavy boxes." April said. "Just let me put on my hernia trusts." Mike said with a smile on his face. "Right over there wise guy." she said pointing over to the pile of boxes. Mikey walked over there and then turned back to us. "Plus I have a heater that won't heat." April said. "Hence these." Don said pointing to the pipes and other stuff the both of us were carrying. We walked away but I was still able to hear what April said.

"You two, that whole wall of antiques needs moving…carefully." April said. "Hey, I'm a ninja not a ….." Raph started to say. "Your wish is our command." Leo finished pushing Raph towards the wall. April turned back to the door where Casey just walked in.

"You're not a turtle." she said. "Uh, definitely not." Casey said. I nudged Don and pointed over at April and Casey. "You thinking I'm thinking?" I asked. "I am not the one to be talking about this kind of thing Pete." Don said. "Party pooper." I mumbled and I looked back over at April and Casey. April looked pissed at Casey for something he said.

I turned around in time to see the china in a cabinet almost fall out. With quick reflexes I made a web and caught them all. "Thanks Pete, you're a life saver." April said. "Dude, where did you learn to do that?" Casey asked. "Um, I didn't, I just happened one day." I said. Casey shrugged and went back to helping out around the store.

Later that night my bros and I were in the living room of April's apartment which was above the store. "Thanks for coming over, I've been nervous about these robberies. The jewelry store that was robbed is right on my block, so that's why I asked you here for a sleepover." April said. "Don't worry April, we've got you covered." Raph said. I watched as he got up and walked over to the window. I peeked over his shoulder to see that Casey was standing on a roof top on the other side of the street.

"I feel so much better with you guys here." April said. "It's what we do April. We will watch the place, don't you worry." I said. "Thanks Pete." she said with a smile. I smiled as Mikey laughed. "I'd be careful April, Petey here has a girlfriend. Don't want MJ to be jealous." Mikey said. I slapped him upside the head and turned back to April. "You and MJ would get along great April. Besides I'm taking her to a play this weekend. She wants to act on Broadway." I said. Mikey looked at me with a bewildered expression before I put in a movie which caught his attention.

"Thank you." Donnie whispered to me. I just shrugged before I got up and went and grabbed a soda. I stayed up as the others fell asleep. Around midnight I heard a thump from downstairs which woke Leo up. I looked at him; the look on his face told me that he heard the noise too. He went to wake up Mikey as I went to wake up the others.

Once everyone was up we jumped out of the window when we heard a body crash against a wall. In the alley below there stood a robot of some sorts blocking the entrance of the alley. "Okay, what is that Donnie, Pete?" Leo asked. "Um, insufficient data boss." Donnie said. "I have absolutely no idea." I said.

Next to the robot a man who was hiding behind the robot. "This can't be happening! Martians, just when things were beginning to go my way, we get invaded. Don't let them take me kid!" the man said with fear in his voice. The robot slammed a fist against the ground nearly smashing Mikey. I made my way over to the robot to try and get a hit in. Apparently me and Mikey had the same idea and the robot grabbed both of us and threw us. Mike landed near Don while I nearly landed on top of Raph. Before I hit him I sent a web out to catch myself. That's when it hit me; I started to send webs on the other side of the alley sticking to the wall.

"Um, Pete, what are you doing?" Leo asked coming next to me. "I'm going to trip it." I said simply as I sent another web to the wall. "Good idea little brother. Raph, Mikey, lead it over here!" Leo shouted to the others. Without complaint Raph and Mikey lead it over to me and jumped over the webs I shot over to the other wall. The robot fell over the web as I struggled to keep ahold of them. Donnie came up behind the robot with a blow torch.

"Don't let them aliens get ya kid! Knock em flat!" the guy said from the sidelines. Leo and I turned to the guy and walked to him. "What do you know about this?" Leo yelled at him a sword working its way to the guy's throat. The guy shut up and turned to the robot. "Ah! Help! Kid!" he yelled. "Daaddyy!" the robot said and scooped up the guy and ran off.

April decided that it was a good time to join us outside. "What was that thing?" she asked. Casey moaned and got up from being thrown against the wall. "Casey!" April yelled and ran to him. "Uh, did I win?" Casey asked. "Nope, sorry Case." I said with a smile. Behind me Don picked up a piece that he broke off of the robot.

"Uh, guys, this stuff is moving!" Don said. I turned around and I went to his side. "This stuff is cool, let's analyze it." I said grabbing it and going inside. Don was close on my heels as we found a microscope and put a piece of it under the scope. "Wow, definitely something you don't see every day." Don said. "Let me see." I said. Don moved out of the way and I took a peek. "Cool, nano bots." I said. Mikey pushed me out of the way so he could see. "Ewww, gross. What are nano bots?" he asked.

"Nano bots are microscopic robots all working together." Don said. "Are they dangerous?" Leo asked. "They're moving randomly. Probably when they were cut off from the main group they became mindless, unmotivated." Don said. "Oh, like when Raph goes solo, he becomes mindless, unmotivated." Mikey said. Raph slapped him upside the head.

"Speaking of mindless, did that thing seem kinda lost to you?" Raph asked. "Yeah, like a little kid." Mikey said. "Hey Don, we have a problem." I said as I looked into the scope. The nano bots were reproducing themselves at a fast rate. "Uh-oh, it's reproducing itself. If each nano bot makes a copy of itself and the copies make copies…." Don started. "Then it will become unstoppable." I said.

"Then we stop it now." Leo said. "Yeah, how do we track it?" Mikey asked. "The nanobots have a unique power signature." Don said. "We can track it in the Battle Shell." I said. "Excellent idea Pete." Don said. "And once we find robo boy, then what?" Mikey asked. "We have to destroy it." I said sadly. "As much as it pains me to destroy such amazing technology, it does seem susceptible to extreme heat." Don said. Don took the welding torch to the little bots and destroyed them.

I looked back at Casey who was lying on the couch. He tried to get up but he couldn't because his injuries were hurting him. I really think he was faking it though so he could be with April. Raph being Raph pointed it out to him with a smirk before following us out the door and into the Battle Shell. I set up the tracker and it lead us all the way to the dump.

We got out and immediately I noticed all of the stolen stuff. "Look at all of this stolen stuff." Leo said jumping ahead of us. "Where is that thing? The locator says it should be here." I said. "I know that it's been used before but I've got a baaaaaaaaad feeling about this." Mikey said. Right after Mikey said that Nano jumped out from behind a pile of garbage. We jumped out of the way in time and got into defensive stances. Then it started making itself bigger with all the pieces of metal surrounding us.

"And now I have an even badder feeling about this." Mikey said. "You think?" I asked looking over at him. "Uh guys, anybody wanna tell me how we're going to do this?" Mikey asked. "Like we always do, together. Hit it so fast it can't rebuild itself. NOW!" Leo shouted.

We each went at it stabbing it in various places where we can get to. I took out my kusari gama and sliced at its leg. Leo took off its hand completely. It screamed, I not exactly sure if it was for pain or surprise. But the robot got his hand back on and grabbed the closest one of us to it, Mikey.

"Mikey!" I shouted as I tried to get to my older brother. The robot began to spin around Mikey and it was gradually getting faster. "I'm coming Mikey!" Don yelled. "Make it quick, I'm gonna hurl!" Mikey yelled as he was spinning in the air. When Don got close he was swatted away. I helped him up as I tried to figure out how to get my older brother down from there. "It's fast." Don said. I nodded my head as I watched the spinning. "That's not a good thing Don!" Mikey yelled as he continued to spin.

Before I could come up with something the robot let go and Mikey went flying. He came right at me and landed on me. When we fell we heard a couple of cracks from my ribs. "Pete, are you okay?" Mikey asked as he scrambled off of me. It was hard for me to breathe but I shook my head. Before I could protest he picked me up and jumped out of the way of a giant foot.

"Mike, is Pete okay?" Leo asked from the other side of the robot. "No, I think a few of his ribs are broken!" he yelled back. All I could do was hold my side as I tried to breathe through the pain in my side. Don, Leo and Raph came up next to us breathing heavily. Don started to check my side but I hissed in pain almost as soon as he touched my side.

"Guys, we have to finish this and soon. Plan B?" Don asked. "Plan B." Leo said as we all climbed into the back of the Battle Shell with Mikey at the wheel. It chased after us and I almost screamed when Mikey went over a bump. The robot grabbed ahold of the truck.

"Faster Mikey, it's taking us apart!" Don yelled from next to me. "I'm giving it all she's got captain. She cannot take no morrrrrrrrre!" Mikey yelled rolling the 'r'. "Raph, its shell cycle time." Leo said from next to Mikey. "Sure, I gotta do all the crazy stuff." Raph said as he jumped on the motorcycle. "Keep it busy until we are in position." Leo called out to Raph. Raph lead it to the crusher and we were right behind it.

"Now Mikey, ramming speed." Leo said. Mikey floored it and knocked over to the robot into the crusher and it was turned on. "Looks like that did it." Raph said as he pulled up next to us. "Yeah, he's flat broke." Mikey said. I could tell that he was smiling at his own joke. Then I heard some whirling sounds and I could tell that it was rebuilding itself. "You know, I'm going to stop with the puns, they always come back to bite you." Mike said as Raph zoomed away.

"How fast can you get into position?" Leo asked Don. "Consider me there." Don said leaping out of the truck. "Don't worry Pete; we will finish this as soon as we can get that thing destroyed." Leo said to me. I yelped again as we went over another bump. All I could do was nod as Leo started talking to Raph.

"Leo, I really hope you have a plan C." Raph yelled over the phone. "Plan C at twelve o'clock." Leo said. "Uh, fellas, Plan C? Now?" Raph asked again. The robot was lifted up and over a boiling pool of molten metal and dropped in it.

"Daaaaddddyyyy." the robot said as he sunk down into the pit. Raph got back in the Battle Shell we drove off to go check on April and Casey. "You know, I kinda feel sorry for the little bot." Mikey said. "Little?" Raph asked. "That wasn't little, and neither are you." I said through clenched teeth as we drove over more and more bumps.

"You know, he was kinda like a little kid." Mike said ignoring my comment. "Too bad he had such a rotten parent." Don said as he had me take off my shirt to see the horrible bruising forming over my ribs. "Jeeze Pete, all this because Mikey landed on you." Don said as he gingerly touched my side. I hissed in pain as soon as he touched it. "I promise we won't be long little brother. We just want to tell April we've taken care of the problem." Leo said putting his hand on my shoulder. "Tell Mikey to drive more carefully will ya?" I asked Leo. "Sure thing Pete. MIKE, drive more carefully you're hurting Pete with all of those bumps." Leo yelled at him. "Sorry Pete!" Mikey called behind him.

We pulled into the alley were April's back door into the shop was. The others climbed out leaving the door open so I can hear what was going on. Once one of my brothers opened up the door April and Casey were screaming at each other. "I think they want to be alone." Mikey said as he closed the door and climbed back in the truck. We all headed home without hitting anymore bumps, course that's probably because Leo was driving. Once back at the lair Don had me go into the infirmary and began wrapping my side and had me lie down for a few x-rays.

"Good news Pete, nothing is piercing your lung so you are good on that the bad news is that you now have four broken ribs on your left side. So take it easy for a few days. No lifting, no training, no P.E. and no doing what you've been doing at night with Raph." Don said. "Aww, man you are a kill joy Donnie. But no worries. Do you happen to have any pain killers?" I asked. "Yeah, just a second Pete." Don said opening up the medicine cabinet and taking out some extra strength ibuprofen. He gave me a couple and I downed them before going carefully to my room to sleep the pain away.