Chapter 9- The hospital

The building they had tracked the bonneted bot to was several stories tall. The sign in front said hospital in nice lettering. It probably had a name printed above the word, but that had been covered by a large sticker signed 'condemned' in scratchy red letters.

Prying open the once automatic doors was a pain but do-able, that let them in the emergency room.

It was a room full of beat up chairs, vomit reeking garbage bins, and half finished coffee cans on tables.

Karai examed the moldy walls while Donnie kicked around the magazines strewn across the floor.

"So if I were a mad genius trying to build an interdimensional portal where would I put it?" Donnie asked.

" If you knew someone was trying to stop you, you'd put it in the last place anyone would look."

"Probably either the basement or the roof. But he could have stuck it in any random room on a whim or because it had the most electrical power."

"Then we'll check all of them."

They walked through a hall until they came to a door, they kicked it in together and entered.

It was dingy and covered in black mold spots, there were black squares on the floor where there used to be equipment, but other than an abandoned gurney the room seemed to be empty. At first glance. Karai had a weird feeling about it.

"Looks empty." Donatello said, turning slightly as if to leave. She ignored him and entered.

The room was dark, not that she wasn't used to that, she'd need more fingers then she had to count the number of times she'd wanted to tell her father. ' you know, this lighting makes you look kind of evil, maybe get a window.'

No, not her father, the traitor, he'd pretended to be her mother's... That was a lie, he killed her.

She'd been ok with his obsessive drive to avenge her mother when she'd thought the blame lay else where, so why shouldn't she accept the same drive in herself now that she knew where the blame really lay? ... Maybe.. It was easy to think so, but she'd also seen the trouble it had caused first hand, but she'd be different! She wasn't like... Him. Or at least she liked to think she wasn't. She wondered if she was still dangerous to others... She could accept the losses she'd incur fighting this battle as long as they were restricted to hers. She wondered if she maybe shouldn't have brought her brother.

She spotted something and pointed. "What's that."

Donnie kneeled down beside it. "A large metal plate. looks like it's split in the middle, probably so it can open.

"Is that standard in hospitals?"

"No, this is new."

A clicking noise drew her attention to the door, there was a sound approaching from the hall, a 'Sushwooshsushooshsishoosh'

A robot flew through the door, she took a moment to take it in. Really? Was Stockman trying to pay some kind of bizarre homage to her? Or was Shredder really missing her so much that he asked for a metal replica that could stand still and look pretty? The thought sickened her.

She placed a palm on the gurney between them as the bot closed the distance. "Does this thing really think it can compete with the original?" She wondered.

The bot leaped in an attempt to clear the gurney and strike her from above. She pressed down on the gurney, see-sawing the other end up so her doppelganger crashed into it. Placing her foot on the gurney she shoved it back through the door.

There it smashed into two others that were attempting to file into the room behind it.

The one she'd gotten on the gurney smashed into the wall behind and sparked a bit before going limp. The other two pushed the gurney out of the way and approached her.

She impaled the first that came too close. The second tried to clobber her clumsily, she side stepped it and gouged a large gash in its side with her Tanto.

It swung an arm backward and gifted her with a fresh set of stinging cuts.

"Karai!" Donatello called, He tried to leap to her aid. The panel behind him opened up, wires shot out, curling around his ankles and cutting deep into the flesh.

"Donnie." Karai gasped. Her doppelganger crashed into her side, dragged her down with it onto the floor.

Karai!" Donnie called, dragged backward, he scrabbled at the sides of the wall cavity.

"Donnie." She gasped again, this time she flicked her wrist, letting the dagger she kept up her sleeve fall into her palm. She twisted in her doppelganger's hold, and, grasping the dagger with both hands, stabbed downward repeatedly, twisting the machine apart bit by bit until she'd chopped off its head and part of its chest. It finally slacked its hold and she kicked it off.

"Karai." Donnie said one last time before he lost his grip on the side and disappeared into the cavity.

"Donatello!" Karai dived forward to grab him, the panel closed as soon as she reached it and she pummeled it with her fists.

When clawing at it didn't work she tried to pry it open with her tanto, no luck there either.

She put her hands against the panel and called. "If it was dragging you down then it must be taking you to the basement, I'll follow and come down the other way, I'm coming for you Donatello, do you hear me? I'm coming for you!"

(scene break)

"Cheery." Raph quipped.

Leo glanced at him in annoyance, "Did you think the mad scientist's lab would be in the puppy and rainbow district?"

"That'd be the perfect place for a mad scientist lab, I mean, Who'd suspect cute little puppies of building rainbow death-rays!" Mikey exclaimed.

As usual, Leo couldn't tell if he was serious or not, so he ignored him and advanced on the condemned hospital.

" Door's smashed in, we must be late to the party." Raph said, stepping over the broken glass of the once automatic doorway.

"Doesn't anyone know anything about stealth anymore?" Leo wondered. Smashing in the front doors is the best way to trip an alarm. Donnie didn't strike him as the type to miss that so it must have been Karai.

Something told him this was less thoughtlessness and more of a dare.

He and Mikey gave a quick sweep of the waiting room while Raph swept down a hallway.

"Guys!" Raph called. They swept into the hall after him.

There was a smashed Karai bot in front of a doorway. Raph gestured them to approach then pointed to the door. "Pretty sure they went in there."

The door had a slender foot print pasted onto its right side, and a large unmistakably three-toed foot print on its left.

"Kicked the door in." Leo muttered to himself, then glanced into the room, "Impaled a Karai bot- What do you think is the deal with those things anyways?"

"Maybe she posed for the original model before she found out daddy was a bloodthirsty warlord." Raph muttered, "This room is pretty empty, do you think there used to be something in here?"

"Hmm." Mikey got close to the ground, "There are some rings on the ground that are lighter than the other, maybe something was moved."

"I think that was the hospital equipment that was moved out when they closed shop. It's still grimy enough to make me think this stuff was moved a while ago."

"Hey! I think I see a compartment." Mikey exclaimed. Pointing to the metal plates in the wall, he reached for them and was shoved out of the way as Raph elbowed his way over.

"Let me see." Raph demanded, pulling out his Sais, he tried to pry the panels off the walls.

Suddenly the panel opened and chords shot out, wrapping around the bottom half of Raphael's body.

"Raph!" His brothers exclaimed, leaping forward to grab him.

"Nonononono." Raph muttered as he was dragged into the floor cavity.

Leo and Micky gave a mighty heave and pulled Raph a foot out of the cavity. Then the metal coils doubled their strength and recoiled deeper into the cavity, dragging Raph down it and slamming his brothers' faces into the sides of the floor.

"Raph!" Mikey cried, trying to leap down after him, only for the metal panels to slam shut on his arm. He screamed in pain.

Leo grabbed him and tugged as hard as he could, causing Mikey to scream louder until Leo finally worked his arm loose from the panel and the panel slammed shut.

Together they pried at the panel, but not even mutant strength was enough to make it budge.

"Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man. We lost Raph." Leo panicked.

Mikey's panicking skills topped Leo's. "What if they experiment on him!? It's like all of Sensi's warning about being seen by humans have come to life. Raph's literally in some crazy Scientist lab right this second. What if they cut him up?"

Leo sat down and put his hands on his head, "Not helping Mikey, give me a moment to think. If only there was a way we could see into all the rooms at once, then we could find all our siblings at once. I wonder if Donnie had a device for that-"

Leo's eyes opened and his mind went blank.

"Leo? Hey Leo wake up!" Mikey cried," please tell you're meditating on a way out of this mess. Leo? LEO!"

But Leo's mind was someplace else.

(scene break)

"SENSI!"

Leo looked up from his cartoon to see Raph barreling into the lair, the 8-year-old looked terrified.

Raph never looked terrified. "Raph? What's wrong?" Leo asked. Mikey poked his head out of the kitchen to see what the commotion was all about.

"I noticed Donnie sneaking off into the sewers so I decided to follow him, but then I lost him and couldn't figure out where he went. When I turned to go back home I saw a pair of hideous red eyes watching me from the shadows. THERE"S A MONSTER IN THE SEWER AND IT ATE DONNIE!"

Leo and Mikey gasped in fear.

"How did you get away?" Mikey asked, eye's wide.

I threw the blanket I had on over its head then punched it in the nose, then I ran here."

"You led it back to the lair!?" Leo exclaimed. How could Raph be so stupid?

On cue, there was a groaning noise coming from the entrance.

The three turtle tots glanced into the mouth of the lair.

Something ambled into the lair, fighting to unentangle itself from the sheet Raph had thrown over it.

The three tots screamed and ran into a corner to huddle together as the monster ambled towards them.

"Oooh." The monster groaned one last time, and, giving a mighty tug, managed to yank off the sheet Raph had trapped it in.

Donnie peered at his cowering siblings. "Raph, why did you hit me?"

Leo and Mikey went from whimpering in terror to laughing and rolling on the floor.

Raph turned as red as his green complexion would let him and sank under the weight of his embarrassment.

"Well, there you go Raph, looks like you just had a run in with the most terrifying thing in the sewers. Tiny turtle mutants." Leo teased.

"Oh man," Mikey said, tears streaming down his face. "That was funnier than my last three pranks combined, who knew Raph was such a scardy cat."

"I'll show you scared." Raph snapped, chasing his still-laughing brother around the room.

Leo wiped a tear of mirth from his eye and turned his attention to Donnie.

"What were you doing hiding out in the sewers, Donnie?"

"I wasn't hiding, I was setting up my new invention." Donnie held up something that looked like a refurbished baby monitor. "It's a security system, so we can hear anyone trying to come into the sewers. One day I'm going to build a camera to add to it."

"Maybe tell us and Master Splinter next time you going running off to tinker away from the lair OK." Leo chastised.

"Ok." Donnie agreed reluctantly. "I guess I'll go back to trying to make my laptop work."

Leo nodded in approval. "Anything I can do to help?" He asked, It was good to reward improved behavior.

"I don't know, But I think I might be close to cracking it, here let me show you what I mean." Donnie said excitedly, dragging his brother into his lab.

(scene break)

"Dude, you're freaking me out here, "Mikey said, "Don't leave me to figure this out by myself." He begged.

Leo came to. "It happened again... a memory?"

"Leo, you're back! You really had me scared for a minute bro, don't do that." Mikey said.

Leo stood up and scanned the room. He spotted a small hole in the wall he had overlooked before. Marching up to it, he ripped it opened and pulled out a whirring, sparking, video camera.

"That Stockman guy must have rebuilt the security system, complete with cameras, that means there must be a security room somewhere where we can see everything that the cameras do. If we can find that room, we can check every room at once." Leo said.

"Ah yeah! I knew you would come up with a plan. Maybe I should try meditating next time." Mikey whooped.

(Scene break)

The coils had dragged Raphael into a containment pod filled with ooze.

He could hold his breath for a long time, but his lungs were so empty when he was dragged under that he couldn't hold out for very long, he was surprised to find that he could breathe this fluid, but it made him very groggy. Like he had a lung full of tranquilizers.

He struggled a bit at first, but then his arms went slack and he felt his mind dull. He felt himself drifting along on the very edge of consciousness.

"I'm going to pound you, Mikey!" Raph yelled.

"You'll have to catch me first." Mikey teased, Why was that little squirt so fast?

Something made Raph come to a stop. A crackling noise that startled him.

He looked this way then that for the sound until his eyes fell on Donnie's monitor.

It cackled again then spoke in a strange voice.

"Heh, turtles are so icky looking, hey, think we could get it out of its shell? I want to see what it looks like without it."

Raph nearly retreated into his shell himself, didn't they know a shell was part of the turtle's spine? Wait, what turtle were they shelling?

He gasped in horror. "DONNIE!"

He turned and ran out of the lair, "I'll save you, Donnie!"

He bounded through the sewers until he was in a pipe over-looking the tunnel where he had run into Donnie before, He peeked over the edge.

Three human teens were spinning a turtle on its shell. OK, not Donnie. Too small.

"What happened to its head?" One asked.

"It's hiding in its shell." One answered.

"Oh right, I forgot they could do that. Think you could get it out so I can look at it?"

"OK, Little guy, let's get you out of there." The oldest boy said, trying to grab the Turtles head and yank it out of its shell.

"He's hurting him." Raph thought, gritting his teeth. He jumped off out of the pipe and landed on the human. The three teens screamed, and the boy flung Raph off.

"What is that thing!?"

"Oh man. I'd heard of giant alligators in the sewer but not giant turtles. Uh, maybe coming here was a bad idea."

"Don't worry," said the oldest teen, "I'll kill it."

He strutted forward and tried to grab Raph's neck. Raph bit him.

The teen screeched and tried to yank his hand away.

Raph clamped his mouth shut harder out of spite. Eventually, the teen managed to wrench his hand away.

"EEE! That thing has RABIES! Kevin has rabies!"

"What! No I don't."

"Get away from us sicko!" The other two teens ran down the sewer tunnel.

"Wait! I don't have rabies, it's just a scratch." The last teen ran after them.

Raph picked up the small turtle and ran back to the lair with it. He hoped he didn't get in trouble for that. It wasn't like they were smart enough to figure out he was a mutant anyway, so revealing himself couldn't be that bad right?

Donnie was setting up a computer in the living room.

"And... let's turn it on."

The screen blinked to life.

"Woah!" Mikey said.

"Hey Donnie?" Raph asked.

"In a minute, Raph."

"What are you going to do first?" Leo asked.

"I'm going to look up labs, Master Splinter is always warning us about them so I want to see what's in them-Vivisection...? I wonder what that word means."

"Ahh!" The three turtles screamed.

"Woah, dude look! You can see that's monkey's-"

"Turn it off Donnie, you'll give Mikey nightmares."

"Wha- nuh-uh, I won't get nightmares, woah sick! You can see its guts!"

Raph slumped against the back of the couch and slide his carapace down it until he was sitting on the floor clutching the other turtle to his chest. He let out a small sob.

Leo heard this and doubled his admonitions to turn the screen off until Donnie closed the window.

Stupid humans. Why did they need to do stuff like that? They'd pull a turtle out of its shell on what, a whim? No, for scientific curiosity, well. He knew their secret, they were afraid of him. And he was going to milk that for all it was worth. So heaven help any human that tried to drag either him or one of him brothers into a lab. Because they were going to get a scare they'd never forget.

(End flashback)

Raph came to, something about the vision had returned some of his clarity. He pulled his feet in and pressed them against the back of the cage and pressed forward with off his might.

The coils holding him cut into his flesh more and more until one by one they started to snap.

The last cord snapped, sending him flying forward into the front of the cage, hitting it with all his strength and knocking it loose. The cage fell out forward to the ground and smashed on the floor.

Raph put his palms on the floor and pressed himself onto his plastron, snarling.

(scene break.)

They trotted through the long white hallways trying to find the stairway.

The walls had been painted over, a sunny mural covered in trees and animals followed them as they went, something that looked like popped balloons littered the floor. Something told him that they were close to the childrens ward.

"Dude, Why are we even looking for the stairs anyways? We could just climb up the side of the building. Look, the hospital is right in front of the river, if we fell we'd just wind up in the water."

"I didn't bring my Tegaki, Mikey, and it's harder to climb with Katanas then with scythes." Leo said.

Mikey nodded and went back to scanning the hallway. "What's that glass room?"

Leo read the plate. "Containment room. This must be where they put anyone contagious."

Mikey didn't see the newcomer in his peripheral vision until they had already struck Leo and knocked him into the containment chamber.

Leo!" Mikey cried, He turned to face the newcomer.

It was something out a sardine pizza nightmare. A carp as big as a man stood in front of him on large metal legs. An obnoxious orange breathing apparatus was stuck on it's gills.

"AH! Robo-carp!" Mikey screamed.

"Stop giving me annoying nicknames, Fishface was bad enough." The carp snapped.

"Oh, did I already name you? Eh, I guess Fishface works." Mikey said.

Fishface snarled and kicked Mikey into the chamber door, slamming him into Leo just as his brother was about to exit with swords drawn.

Fishface shut the doors behind himself and locked them in.

The fishe's nasty laugh echoed through the chamber as it started to fill with gas.

"Poison?" Leo asked.

"It's my venom made gaseous, it loses it's fatality in gas form, but still retains some of its hallucinogenic properties, should make this an interesting fight for you." The carp sneered.

Leo flung himself at the glass, kicking in repeatedly in the same spot, almost making it crack.

Fishface flew forward, kicking Leo in the chin, sending the young turtle upward.

Leo dropped one of his swords, which embedded itself into the ground.

Leo!" Mirky cried, then coughed as the disgusting fetid air made its way into his lungs.

"Yech, smells like rotten eggs mixed with sulfur. Fishface must have the worst breath of anyone I've ever met."

"Hold your breath, Mikey." Leo said, stooping low to the ground where the gas had yet to settle and taking a huge breath.

"Dude, you couldn't have given me that advice a few minutes ago?" Mikey asked, they had all tried to see who the breath holding turtle champ was before, and Mikey had won at the 44-minute mark. But that didn't really help him now that he'd already tasted the gas. The taste would be stuck in his mouth all day he was sure.

Fishface and Leo began to fight. Mikey took a step forward to join the brawl, but pulled his leg back when he felt fit toes touch slimy flesh, did that part of the floor turn into a large fleshy tongue?

He recoiled from the disgusting sensation. He reached back for his chucks to spin them at the carp but pulled his fingers away from the weapon as the red hot wood burned him.

"What? That doesn't make any sense!" He thought.

Leo ducked under Fishface's punch and responded with an uppercut. Fishface reeled for a second then rallied with a kick that connected with the younger mutants face, Turning Leo's head to the side and filling it with cracks.

Mikey watched in horror as his brother shattered like glass.

"LEO!" Mikey screamed, his knees hit the floor and he covered his mouth his hands, trying to choke back the sobs.

"Would you quit your whining!" Fishface snapped.

Leo reformed on the floor. "hrrmph." Leo sounded, trying to reassure Mikey without breathing out his air.

"What is going on!?" Mikey gasped.

"I said shut up!" Fishface threw a snapped off bit of chair at Mikey's Head, It cracked his skull and turned into a brain worm.

He screamed again, picked it up and threw it as hard as he could behind him. It bounced off the glass and hit him in the head again, hard enough to send him crashing to the floor.

He heard a muffled scream of fury. He opened his eyes.

He could see himself in the reflection of Leo's sword, there was blood trickling down his forehead.

Leo flung himself at Fishface, Fishface managed to grab Leo around the neck with one of his metal feet.

"LEO!"

(Scene break.)

Mikey sniffed and wiped away a tear, He had calmed down enough to turn his attention back to his brothers. Donnie was wrapping bandages around another turtle. How had he not noticed that?

"Ok, Raph, make sure to bring him to me tomorrow so I can check him again and change his bandages."

"Kay." Raph said. Picking up the small turtle and walking away with it.

Mikey popped in at his side.

"Hey Raph, Is that a new pet? Can I name it?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

Raph entered his bedroom and slammed the door shut. "No."

"Aww." Mikey said, dismayed.

He turned back and returned to the living room. His brothers never let him do anything fun.

Maybe he could ask Donnie to find him a computer game on his new computer. Determined to find out, he hastened back to where Donnie was standing, His brother's back was to him."

"Hey Donnie!" No answer.

"Donnie?" His brother said nothing.

"Hey, are you ignoring me?" He asked. He hated being ignored. If this went on any longer he'd have to go blow up a balloon and pop it an inch away from his brother's ear, that'd get his attention.

Even Leo was starting to take notice something was up.

Suddenly Donnie jerked, like something in him had snapped, he picked up a mallet and started to smash his computer to bits.

Mikey leaped back in fright, His brother always got so upset when other people smashed his inventions, Why has he smashing his own invention now?

"Donnie, Stop!" Leo cried, lunging forward to grab Donnie from behind and pull him away from the computer rampage before he could electrocute himself. "Why are you doing this!?"

"Why! Why! Because It doesn't matter! Nothing matters! I'm never going to use it for anything important, humans will never accept us, look at what they said about Raph, they thought he had rabies! We're going to be stuck in these sewers our whole lives, no one will ever even know we exist!"

Leo wrenched the mallet out of his brother's hands and threw it away.

They stared off at each other, Donnie on the verge of tears and Leo looking unsure of what to say.

Mikey thought hard, harder than he'd ever had to think before. He would have to reach down into the farthest depths of himself to figure out a way to cheer his brother up.

Cupcakes? Splinter wasn't sure they could eat human food so he'd have to make an algae substitute cake and for some reason his brothers didn't enjoy those as much as he did.

Kittens? Sneaking one into the sewers would require getting past Splinter, and his Sensi had caught him when he tried before.

A light bulb went off in his head and he smacked his fist into his palm in realization.

"I know!" He exclaimed. Catching his brother attention.

He ran forward and grabbed both of their hands and dragged them behind him into his bedroom.

"I know exactly what we're meant for, and the answer is right… Here!" He presented his evidence proudly.

"A comic book?" Leo asked.

Donnie stepped forward, "Wingbat and Screwloose vs the fear ray. What does anything in here have to do with us?"

"Duh, Comic book heroes all have weird backstories that explain why they can do all of the stuff that other people can't." Mikey explained, wasn't it obvious?

"You think we'll grow up to be heroes?" Leo asked, eye's lighting up.

"I'm not sure Ninjutsu would be enough to beat something like that," Donnie said, examining the comic cover. "How do they beat the fear Ray?"

Mikey looked at him with sparkling eyes. "Love."

"Are you kidding? Love isn't a superpower. What are you supposed to do? Beat your opponent by kissing them."

Mikey started to feel a little offended. Didn't his brother know anything about the intricacies of comic lore?

"Love is too a superpower. It's used in at least three different comic franchises. And that's just the ones that wash up in the sewer."

"I still don't understand how… An emotion can beat a large ray gun like that." Donnie countered.

"Because the gun shoots fear and you have to use love to counteract that, duh." Mikey said, Maybe he should make his brother read the comic so he could understand it better.

"I think I kind of understand how that could work." Leo said.

"You do?" Donnie asked.

"Yeah, Like you feel afraid of something and you have an overpowering need to run away. But If someone you really cared about was stuck there you'd fight it cause you wanted to stay and protect them." Leo said, puffing his chest out, "That's what big brother instinct is all about."

"Yeah, When Screwloose was in danger Wingnut was so scared for Screwloose he forgot to be afraid for himself." Mikey babbled, happy for an opportunity to talk about one of his favorite comics.

"I guess I could kind of see how that works." Donnie admitted.

Mikey wormed his way in between his brother and threw an arm around each of them.

"Just you guys wait, one day, we're all going to grow up."

"And when we do-" Leo said, continuing his thought.

"We'll be Heroes!" Donnie cheered, infected by the good mood of his brothers.

(Scene break)

What was that?" Mikey wondered.

Leo flailed around inside Fishface's grip.

Mikey sat on his knees and screamed. The scream seemed to echo throughout the hall. He half expected it to turn supersonic and shatter the glass.

Fishface kicked Leo in the stomach, dropping him on the floor. Leo twitched, caught between needing another breath of air and not wanting to inhale poison.

Fishface marched over to Mikey and lifted his foot over top Mikey's head.

'I said-"

Mikey leaped up, kicking both of his feet into Fishface's chest and sending him backward.

Mikey gripped his chucks. He ignored the squishy burning sensation as he gripped what felt like a sponge in one hand and ice in his other hand.

He smashed the sponge into Fishface's chest and the other mutant jerked back the same way he would have if hurt by chucks. Emboldened by this, Mikey smashed his other chuck into Fishface's side.

The chuck seemed to shatter on Fishface's apparatus knocking it off the overgrown carp.

Fishface groped around his gills for his apparatus, choking. Realizing he wouldn't be able to breathe, he smashed through the glass, making a break for the window, smashing into the walls as he went past, he slammed into a fire alarm, setting it off before he plunged out of the window.

Mikey collapsed on the ground, listening to the screaming of the alarm. It sounded like a banshee, predicting his death. The room seemed to dissolve into a purple fog that closed on him, threatening to suffocate him. He closed his eyes.

"I know I've never asked the fates for anything, and I've never doubted them. But please, If I really was meant to be a hero… send me a sign." He said, closing his eyes.

The sprinklers turned on.

The rain hit his skin in a way that felt pounding, like he was being stabbed with a thousand tiny needles. Then the sensation started to melt away, the blaring alarm ceased to cause him pain. He opened his eyes. The water was heavy enough to catch the gas in the room, catching it and washing it into a swirling purple puddle that swirled around a drain and started to seep out of the room.

Leo gasped for breath, then shoved himself onto his feet and ran over to Mikey.

"Mikey, are you ok?"

Mikey laughed, a loud booming laugh of disbelief. "Yeah, yeah, I'm ok. Just give me a minute to rest and I'll help find Donnie."

"Ok, but don't take too long, we don't have much time."

Mikey waved him off. "I'll take five, you go find our bros and Karai."

"Are you sure?"

"I'll be fine, go."

(Scene break)

Raph moved around the room, getting more riled up by the second.

Near as he could tell he was stuck in what he guessed used to be a morgue, the stiffs were gone but the smell of death remained. The cage he had been stuck in was attached to a hatch put over what Raph guessed from crime shows to be a drawer for dead bodies. He didn't really looking forward to trying to escape this room through the same way he came in from. The problem was the room was so dark it was hard to figure out where the doors were. He found one of them, but it was steel, and locked tight, he threw himself against it a few times, but it didn't seem inclined to budge.

Glowering he turned back to the cage and sighed, looked like he was going to have to crawl up there, might as well get it over with.

*BUUZZ*

He whipped around to face the door, pulling out his Sia's.

A buzz saw cut into the door circling around the lock until it fell out of the frame.

Karai kicked the door him, still keep a firm hold on her robot likeness, she twisted the buzzsaw arm off and tossed it away before throwing the karai-bot to the ground and dislocating its head with a well-placed heel stomp.

"Raph? What are you doing here? I was looking for Donnie."

"He's not with you?"

"No. He got dragged down here by some kind or trapdoor."

"I got dragged down here by the same thing, but if he didn't get out of here by going up through the trapdoor, and you didn't pass him on your way here then-"

*ding*

They both turned to the far wall, A stream of light filled the room as the previously hidden elevator doors opened.

"Tigerclaw." Karai spat.

"It is nice to see you again, mistress Karai, I had come to collect the turtle, but I will be willing to escort you as well."

"What did you do to Donnie, freak!?" Raph snapped.

"I have taken him to the roof, where you will soon be joining him. don't worry, you won't have to wait long for the reunion."

"I'll take Tigerclaw, you get to the elevator." Karai ordered.

Raph looked at her funny, since when was she the leader? But he held up his Sais.

Tiger claw pulled out his pistols and shot at her.

Karia sprinted out of the way, running along the wall and holding her tanto low to the ground letting it scrape along the ground with a threatening screech while she circled the room to strike Tigerclaw.

He held up his pistol, blocking the blow.

She ran past him, slicing a notch into the pistol, She took a swipe at his feet, and he leaped over it, He fired off a shot at her and she leaped back to avoid it then jumped into the air trying to hit him from above, he blocked the tanto again and she was forced to kick off. Doing a backflip and landing on her feet.

Raph snuck behind him and pressed the door on the elevator, opening it.

Tigerclaw noticed this, watching Raph out of the corner of his eye.

Karia noted where Tiger claw's attention was going and knew she needed to get him to refocus on her.

She threw herself at him, turning into a snake midflight and wrapped herself around his torso.

Raph blinked at them from the inside of the elevator, that wasn't a sight he was expecting to see today.

Tiger claw was forced to keep moving his head back and forth to evade Karai's snapping jaws, he knew he need to stop Raph from getting away from him, so he backed away while jerking out of Karai's target area and backed all the way into the elevator fast enough to squish Raph against the back wall.

Then he spun, causing Karai to spin with him, one of her snake arms slapped into the elevator buttons, highlighting the button for every other floor.

The elevator doors shut them in with each other.

It was going to be a long way to the roof.

(Scene break.)

April!" April jumped, sponge still in hand, and paused tending to Casey to watch the door.

Master Splinter burst through the door looking more distressed than she had ever seen him.

"Master Splinter? What's the matter?"

"I can't find my children, I tried to track them with my nose, then my sixth sense, usually I can get a sense of where they are but- Then I remembered that my sons managed to track Donatello through a phone given to them by your friend. Does he still possess it?"

"The T-phone? I have one of those, I can pull up their locations for you."

April reached for the phone.

"Open me." She paused.

"Let me in there already."

Her hand changed position to hover over the time amulet.

"April?" Splinter asked.

"My psychic sense is going crazy, It's like this thing is talking to me."

April picked up the amulet and opened it.

A large burst of energy flooded the room, swirled around then concentrated into a circle in front of her.

Two hands placed themselves on each side of the circle and began to push. The face of a girl wearing an hourglass headpiece appearing in the "window" And huffed with the effort of parting the sides.

The girl forced a smile. "Hi! I'm Rennet." She forgot her task for a moment and tried to reach out a hand to shake April's, allowing the side of the window to slam into her, she let out a painful "ooomph." And went back to trying to part the window.

"What the-?" April started to ask.

"Can I interrupt? You don't know how long I've been trying to force my way into this timeline and I can't keep this window open long. I need you to find Donnie and get the turtles away from Kairos."

"What? Why?"

"Because he's a fakey fake fake! He flunked his time apprentice exams and tried to get revenge by creating a duplicate Time scepter, Only he got it wrong and it won't work right, so he's trying to force Donnie to fix it for him, Barking up the wrong tree there, he should have tried 120-year-old Donnie that one might have had a chance. umpth!" The window started to swallow her.

"FIND THE TURTLES! GET THE TIME WAND AWAY FROM THAT GOON BEFORE HE CAN DO ANYMORE DAMAGE! DON"T BELIVE ANYTHING THAT FAKER SAYS ABOUT-!" The window shut.

April threw the Time amulet around her neck and snatched up the T-phone.

"Let's move!"

(End chapter)

That was the latest chapter. I think this has been coming together pretty well considering that I wrote this to practice my fight scenes and mostly wrote the plot around them.

I'll be updating next week like always. Have a good day.