The lies
"Well? Will you join me?" Saki asked.
Raph's eyes went cold, just like the night when he almost attacked Karai.
The red-clad turtle stepped forward. He was calm. Too calm. "What. The. Fu-"
He was interrupted by Leo clamping his hand over his mouth. Raph was fighting, trying to break free. "Leo, let me go! Didn't you see what he did to Donnie?"
"Yes, I did. But that's not how to try to stop a fight!"
Shredder chuckled. "See? You have a wonderful sense of honor. Join me!"
Raph began to draw his sais, then Leo motioned for him to stop. Leo looked Saki in the eye. "Maybe. First to have to tell us what makes you so great. We've heard stories. Did you really do the things you did?"
The man's expression grew somber. "Yes. I did. But you must understand that Hamato Yoshi killed my brother. He started it all."
"That's justified. I can see that. But you must understand that Nagi tried to kill Yoshi."
"But was it right for Yoshi to kill? Was it right to take my brother's life?" Saki's face was turning red.
"Sir?" Leo was scared. The Shredder suddenly seemed big and menacing again. "Are you okay? Look, we understand that what Splinter did was wrong, and he's sorry, but aren't to going a little bit too far?"
There was a deep laugh coming from within Shredder's helmet. "No. Do you think I'm okay? Do you think that my best friend killing my brother was nothing? Maybe I have gone too far, but you must see it through my eyes. What if I killed your brother? Wouldn't you want vengeance?"
"Then if that's the case, why the hell did you throw Don down the stairs?!" Raph interrupted.
Saki walked between the two and calmly came down the stairs. They watched silently. Whatever he was doing, it couldn't be that bad, right?
He picked on Donatello again. Donnie true kicking and shaking, but unfortunately, couldn't free himself.
"Let go of my big bro!" Mikey yelled as he jumped at Shredder. He stumbled back and fell, but got up unscathed.
"You thought that you could do that so easily?" Donatello was still in Saki's grip. Shredder's hand had moved up in the fall, making the turtle choke. He was scared of moving. What would happen if he moved just the wrong way? He would have blades stuck in his neck.
Saki realized what he was doing and grasped Donnie's belt again.
"Imagine if I kept my hand there. Wouldn't you be mad? Wouldn't you want revenge against me?"
Raph ran down first. "You futhermucker what the hell was that!" he yelled. He was ready to stab Shredder.
Shredder dodged him and grabbed Raph's sai.
"That's how you want to play? Fine. Stay with your criminal master, know that you are the bad guys here!" He spun around and elbowed Raph down.
Raph groaned in pain. "Shiz. What-" he slowly got up "-what the hell was that?"
Shredder glared at him. "You rejected my request, did you not? You never said yes, and your actions seem to say no."
He grabbed Raph by the tails of his bandana and whipped him forward, crashing into Donatello.
Raphael rolled over, off of his younger brother. "You okay bro?"
"Yes? No? I don't know anymore." The purple-clad turtle shakily sat up. Everything about him suddenly seemed so frail. Sure, he never was the strongest, but he just seemed so stricken with fear.
He slowly got to his feet, taking a deep breath that almost seemed to pain him. "I'm okay, at least." Raph looked at him in disbelief but kept going.
Mikey rammed into Saki from behind, attempting to knock him down. While Saki did stumble a little, he found his balance.
He turned around and stared at the short turtle. Mikey gave a large, innocent smile with puppy eyes that seemed to say he could do no wrong. For a moment he faltered as if it really worked, but then he proceeded to push the small thing down.
"You thought that would work on me?" He stepped on Mikey's back and began to pull his head back by the mask. "I will admit, for a moment there you did seem like a mere child, and I thought to myself, 'why fight a creature who can't fight back', but I realized that you aren't." Mikey's neck made a popping noise, making him groan in pain. "Are you a child? Maybe. Quite lethal for a child, however, and the son of my enemy nonetheless. But because you are a child," he got up, holding Mikey's hands to the ground, "I have the upper hand here."
Mikey now dangled from Saki's hand, limp. "Did Yoshi really send you out thinking that anybody would go easy on you because you're kids?"
Michelangelo looked the man in armor in the eye. "No. He never instilled such morals upon us. That kind of thinking is stupid." He swung back, then kicked The Shredder in the chest. His hands were free so he could move freely again. He pulled out his nunchucks and hit Shredder right in the face with them.
"You're being stupid, Oroku Saki!" he yelled. "Because guess what?"
A shuriken flew by Shredder's head, barely missing him. "These kids are gonna kick your ash." Leo finished.
Shredder looked. As all of this happened, the other three had pulled themselves together, holding their weapons tightly.
Baxter Stockman stood in front of Krang's beloved computer. No longer did it show statistics and calculations, now displaying programs to get robots running, and a small window showing a black and white feed of everyone fighting.
"They're away from their home. I can do it. I can retrieve that giant rat that my mouser saw!" He said eagerly.
Krang was in his bubble walker, crossing his little tentacles best he good. "Why do you need him? You could just as well use the Terrapins when Saki kills them."
Baxter shook his head. "The rat seems older. Frail. For you see, with the turtles there is no guarantee that they'll die here. The rodent, on the other hand, seems to be the perfect target."
He picked up a remote and hit a red button, speaking into it.
On the video feed, the Mousers downstairs stopped chomping at gang members. They began to go out the door.
April sat on the couch next to Splinter.
"Why did you let them do that?!" She yelled, slightly panicked.
"Why did Casey do that?" She buried her face in her hand and sighed.
Splinter gave her a pat on the back. "They will be okay. I let them do it because I have faith that they can make it out alive.
April's phone started to ring, interrupting their talk, as she then pulled it out. She saw the name 'Irma' over the number and then gave another sigh, just staring at the phone in her hand.
"Are you not going to answer?" Splinter asked her.
"She's going to want to know what's going on." April started to say as the phone then stopped ringing. "And I'm a terrible liar."
"Does that mean you should become a terrible friend tho?" Splinter asked her while looking over at the phone, which started to ring again.
April closed her eyes, then opened them and answered, starting with a surprised sounding "Hello?"
"Hey, it's me, Irma!" Irma started to say over the phone. "Have you spoken to Casey?" I can't reach him, and I'm getting worried, I mean, he always does this, but.."
"No, I haven't," Apri said, biting her bottom lip as Splinter stood up. "I haven't spoken to him all day."
"Cause someone from school said he saw you two earlier.." Irma started saying with a more stern sounding tone. "And you have that nervous voice when you lie." "So I'm asking you April, as your best friend, what's going on? Where's Casey?! Is he with you?!"
"Irma, I'm real busy right now, I gotta go!" April shouted as Irma pleaded for the truth, and April rudely hung up on her, turning off her phone completely.
Splinter looked at her, saying nothing, but giving a look of disapproval.
"You don't know Irma like I do!" April started saying as she placed her phone back up. "She can't keep a secret, and there's noooo way she'll be able to handle something like this."
"I'm sure she will understand." " She will be fine." Splinter said in a reassuring voice, as then his eyes darted to look down at the floor, unnoticed by April, his body language saying the complete opposite.
You now see Baxter walking over to a vinyl record player in his lab, starting to play a classical song from it. He starts humming to it, the lyrics are sung in French, walking over to a humanoid looking machine. With its back exposed, he places his hands into its robotic gloves, legs into its feet. Starting to sing the correct words, and on key, he places a metal helmet over his head, attached to wires plugged into the ceiling.
"Mega Mouser online," Baxter says to himself, grinning afterward. You now see thru his helmet eyes the same view of a seven-foot-tall metal crunching Mouser robot. Seeing a brick wall in front of himself, Baxter punches with his right fist, Mega Mouser doing the same. The brick wall starts crumbling down from the impact, and Mega Mouser steps out, walking as Baxter in his lab walks. Mega Mouser gets in line behind smaller versions, having been secretly stored in an abandoned building.
"Chomp," Baxter says. Mega Mouser outside does just that, opening, then closing its massive titanium razor-sharp jagged mouth. Baxter laughs a little, starting to run now in his suit. Mega Mouser does the same, running past the other mousers, even stepping on some of them in the way. Baxter then clears his throat to say " people of New York, prepare for the horror of certified genius Dr. Baxter Jullian Stockman!" The Mega Mouser simply flash its eyes red, and says out loud in a robotic voice, "DIE!"
Hun is seen shooting a machine gun, firing right into a cluster of foot soldiers. The sound of the machine gun shooting out a bullet a second, puncturing holes into the machines as they make mechanical sounds and fall to the floor, their wounds showing their inner workings, to the sound of dying wires and cogs.
Casey zooms by on skates, lowering himself to swing his hockey stick hard at the foot soldiers legs, trying to trip them up, yet they just simply whirl their heads to follow his direction all across the room. One jumps on Caseys back, wrapping its arms and legs around Casey like a pretzel. "SOMEBODY BAT ME," Casey yelled. A nearby purple dragon woman, the one named Dolly, gets done plunging a metal baseball bat into the left eye of a foot soldier. Its body was seen squirming, sparking some, before laying motionless, deactivated. Dolly then puts out her bat to the rolling by Casey. Casey grabs the bat, and toss her back the hockey stick, yelling 'Trade!", as Dolly smirks at him.
Casey takes the bat and jabs at the back of his right side, hard, starting to shatter the foot soldiers robotic ribs. Casey swirls around, as the foot soldier on his back swat at the baseball bat. Casey skates backward and slams back first into a wall, and the footsoldier slides down and off of Casey. Casey swirls back around to face him, yelling "GOOMGOMBA!", and starts swinging the bat up and down at the footsoldiers face, smashing it in.
Hun stops firing his gun, still clicking the trigger, but no bullets firing out, a foot soldier rushes to him, and Hun says with a shrug "Bump it!". He takes the back of the gun and starts bashing it into that foot soldiers face, the foot soldiers head swirls around, a good four times. Hun then pulls out two handguns from his waist and starts shooting into that robot, and other foot soldiers, yelling out in rage.
You now see a Caucasian male in a police uniform, in a police car hearing a woman's voice on his intercom while he's driving. "We have numerous calls about a group of metal men parading in the streets, threatening folks, and tearing up city property." The dispatcher started to say. "Sightings report they are armed and dangerous, need any available units.."
"Still requesting backup for the tripped security alarm at the one place." Another man started to say over the intercom, interrupting the woman. "Group of gang members was seen heading to a building nearby, the whole lot of them, sources saying!" "Could be that Purple Dragon gang."
The man in the police car grabs the intercom walkie and starts talking into it. "I'll swing by the costumed pranksters, and then meet up after at the gang sighting." The man said.
"Copy that Jack." The woman dispatcher replied back saying.
"What's those locations?" The man called Jack asked, putting on his police sirens, with them flashing red and blue, and a loud sound blaring out the rest of the conversation.
April and Splinter start walking to the exit, as Splinter place out his left hand and tell April to stop. "Wha?" April asks with a puzzled look on her face, standing still while looking over at Splinter now.
Splinters rat ears start wiggling, his tail swinging from the right to left as he then says "I hear something." "Many."
Splinter grips his right hand around his cane, and Aprils eyes start getting big, as she points to the forward munching, walking horde of small, giant-jawed robots. Mega Mouser walks behind them, looking over at April and Splinter, eyes glowing red and chomping its jaws.
"MOUSERS!" she yelled. "How did they!?" as Splinter interrupts her by yelling out "RUN!" and they both turn around, looking panicked, running.
The transparent bug creature known as Mal crawls quickly on the ceiling, looking down at the turtles and Shredder, still engaged in their talk, and fight. "No more talking!" Shredder is seen saying in front of the four turtles. His blades slide back into his gauntlets, as he then says, "Let's begin."
Leonardo charges at him first, slashing his katana to the left, as Shredder sidesteps out the way on the stairs, and Raph stabs at Shredder with a sai to his neck and stomach, Shredder grabbing Raph's right arm, while blocking the stomach sai with his left armed gauntlet.
Leo jabs his katana at Shredders back, yet Shredder avoids it by simply turning around, and placing Raph in the way, forcing Leo to stop, millimeters away from puncturing into Raphs waist. With the Shredder watching Leo and Raph, Donnie places his bo staff around Shredders neck, like a noose. Shredder backflips, gripping the staff underneath his neck as he does, wiggling free that way and landing behind a surprised Donnie.
Donnie turns around, Leo and Raph charge, all three from his left side, with Mikey swinging his Nunchucks behind Shredder, about to swing them at his helmeted head. Shredder elbow jabs Mikey in the stomach, his back still turned to him, glancing back at him to swing his right arm bladed gauntlet at Mikey's face, making contact as it slashes against him, having him fall down in pain with a yell.
Shredder turns his attention to Donnie, to which he crouches down, and swipes his left foot at Donnie's feet, tripping him up, and then punching him in the face with both fists, twice, stunning him, as Donnie lands on the stairs, hard. Raph jumps at Shredder, yelling in rage, Shredder shifts his body to move out the way of Raph's sais. He then grabbed Raph by his neck in a headlock, flips him upside down, and drops him on his head, before kicking him in the face with his right foot.
He lets go of Raph, his turtle body falling down legs first to the stairs, as Shredder then ducks down, the sound of Leos Katana slicing thru the air, missing Shredders neck. Shredder turns around to face Leo, Leo already jabbing his katana at Shredders gut, Shredder blocking with his right gauntlet, as the sound of the katana hitting the gauntlet echoes on the stairs. Shredder then grabs Leos right arm with his left, quickly twisting it, headbutting, then kicking into Leos right knee, with Leo yelling out, and dropping his katana to the floor.
Shredders blades slide out from his gauntlets, slashing both of them at Leo, as Leo moves out the way, diving to the stairs, and grabbing his katana with a sprained arm, as Shredders blades slice into the right side railing of the stairs. The cuts slice clean through and cause the stairs to collapse. The turtles, and Shredder all fall down with chunks of the stairs, crashing down below into a large electrical room. Everyone lands on the floor, surrounded by generators, computer network stations, and fuse boxes.
Everyone starts getting up, all with injuries except Shredder. Sparks start from the damaged equipment in the room, and Shredder stands on top of the debris. The lights start flickering on and off every few seconds as the turtles stand to their feet, holding their weapons, one turtle in each direction of Shredder. They glance at each other, nodding in silence, while Shredder breathes in and out, sparks going off all over, the lights continuously switching on and off. Leo says out loud, "Ready!"
And everyone except Shredder screams out "FIGHT!" rushing towards him. Shredder yells, and at this point, the lights flicker off, and now all you see, is darkness.