Author's Note: Ok, I'm gonna make a poll because I have a few story ideas for the 2012 TMNT and I can't decide which one I want to start on first, so I decided to let you guys vote on which one I should start on; I'll leave the poll up for only a week, but it'll take some time before I actually post the story up because I have to work the plot out, so cast your vote, I can't wait which story you guys vote the most for, I'll have fun writing it!
The turtles and girls were backing up as the mutant monsters were starting to close in on them.
"Uh, I think I speak for all of us when I say, Zoinks!" Mikey exclaimed.
They were all soon backed up back into the lab, then the blue monster spit some kind of green acid from his mouth and it barely missed the turtles, then they drew their weapons and took a stance.
"Ok, you guys take the three on the left" Mikey said.
"There are only three" Raph pointed out.
"There's one for each other you and I'll just be odd turtle out"
"You telling me"
"I'll keep the girls safe while you're busy"
The red mutant used his tail to throw a station at them, but they managed to dodge it. The turtles went into battle with the monsters, but Mikey stayed out of it. Donnie was fighting the red monster, but was having a hard time taking the mutant down, then it grabbed him and threw him across the room. Raph was fighting the big stone monster while Leo fought the blue monster.
The blue monster grabbed Leo, then threw him into a pole; Leo got back up and the blue mutant had acid drooling from his mouth as he got closer. Leo sliced a piece of the pole out and threw it at the blue monster, but he only shot acid at it, melting it in mid-air. The red mutant was cornering Donnie, who was on the ground, but Raph jumped in and kicked him away, but they looked up to see the stone monster climbing up the wall and ceiling. Then he started to chew through the ceiling and the brothers could see where the monster was heading and he was right above Mikey.
"Mikey!" Raph called out, then ran over to him and kicked the stone monster before he landed on Mikey, "Watch your back oddball!"
"You just called me odd, didn't you?" Mikey said, then Raph was tackled by the stone monster, "I'm not odd, I'm eccentric" Donnie was thrown near Mikey's feet and he helped him up, "Raph thinks I'm odd"
"You're just being sensitive" Donnie said, then went back into battle.
"Sensitive? If there's one thing I hate, it's when people call me sensitive!"
"Are you really gonna whine in front of your girlfriend?" Raph whispered to Mikey and they looked over to see the girls peeking over the control panels.
Leo was riding on a gurney and he jumped off it as he aimed it at the blue monster and it crashed into him and knocked him into a control box, shocking him. Leo charged at the monster, but then he spit acid at him and Leo ducked for cover, then the monster continued to spit acid at him and it caught onto the canister.
"You will take no more of us!" the monster growled.
"We're not here to take anybody!" Leo said.
The canister began to crack and break, then it started to fall and the monster was caught in the path. Leo ran and pushed the mutant out of the way.
"Why have you attacked us?" Leo questioned.
The blue mutant looked at him, then the red mutant came in and punched Leo across the room, then he landed on top of Mikey.
"You know something Mikey, they're thinking we're somebody else" Leo informed.
"Ah man, that's just great, we're getting our shells kicked in someone else's fight?" Mikey said.
Winter, Phoebe, Raph and Donnie soon gathered together with Leo and Mikey.
"Then I vote we get the shell out of here" Donnie said.
"Running away? That ain't my style" Raph said.
"Call it a tactical retreat, let's move" Leo said.
"We're leaving" Donnie said and pressed the panel button, opening the door behind them.
They all started to run, but Raph stayed behind for a bit, the monsters growled and started to charge at him.
"Tactical retreat, I can live with that" Raph said and started to chase after his brothers and the girls.
They soon came to a different room and they ran to the next door, but it wouldn't open, leaving them trapped.
"It's sealed tight" Donnie said.
The turtles and girls looked down to see the monsters closing in on them, then they ran for the door and started to close it, then sealed it shut, but the monster started to put dents into it.
"Somebody gonna answer that?" Mikey said.
"I don't think we want guests at the moment" Phoebe said.
The monster continued to bash on the door before it was thrown across the room and the red monster came in. Then the stone monster came out the floor from behind of them and they cornered the turtles and girls.
"No!" the blue monster shouted as he came in.
The blue monster came in and stood in front of the turtles and girls.
"Say the word bro" Raph said.
"Easy guys, it's ok" Leo said.
The blue monster came forward and sniffed Leo, "Who are you?"
"Not who you think we are" Leo said.
"Then why do you carry those?" the blue mutant questioned, pointing to Donnie's bag.
Donnie barely opened his bag to reveal the crystals and the monster started to get worked up.
"Whoa, wait a minute!" Leo said, "We found these crystals in a cavern we're staying, that's all"
"Yeah, and just what business's of yours anyway" Raph said, then Phoebe elbowed him.
"Raph, they're obviously scared by them, so lay off!" Phoebe scolded.
"Those crystals are the embodiment of evil!" the mutant hissed, "Why have you come here?"
"Cause one of you ogres went sniffing around our place looking for trouble, so we're here to-"
Donnie covered Mikey's mouth before he said anything else, "To just look for some answers, that's all"
"I'm Leonardo and these are my brothers and friends, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Winter and Phoebe"
"We were drawn to your habitat when your crystals were activated" the blue mutant said.
"Gee, wonder who could have done that?" Donnie said as he looked at Mikey.
"Their energy is a sign of danger to us, so we could consider you dangerous, though we usually sense them coming from deeper below"
"Below? You mean there are more of these crystals down there?" Donnie questioned.
"Exactly how far does this cavern go?" Winter asked.
"We just want to find out where they came from, that's all and maybe-"
"No, it is a forbidden place!" the blue mutant hissed and Donnie backed up, "Something unspeakable dwells there amidst the crystals, there are some things man were never meant to tamper with"
Mikey tried to make that creep noise, but Donnie covered his mouth.
"How many times are we going to hear this?" Winter whispered to Phoebe.
"He is an odd one" the blue mutant said.
They all soon went back into the lab.
"I don't trust these guys" Mikey whispered to the others.
"Why?" Raph asked.
"Try the fact that they're monsters"
"Yeah, well to some people so are we" Donnie said.
"It's kind of ironic that a mutant is scared of a mutant" Winter said.
"Well, not all of them are peace loving turtles like us" Donnie said, trying to be smooth but his brothers rolled their eyes.
"I can't believe Shredder had you genetically altered as diggers just to search down here for some enemy" Leo said.
"Yes, and he did so without remorse, we were forced against our will to do his bidding!" the blue mutant hissed.
"He just snatched you at random?" Leo asked, "From where?"
"The streets, our offices, our homes, anywhere a shadow can conceal a Foot soldier; we don't know why we were chosen"
"What's your name?"
"I am Quarry of tunnel squad 3, the others are Stonebiter and Razorfist"
"No, not what the Foot called you, your real name"
Quarry tried to say something, but he gripped his head and shook it a little.
"My memory is…the experiments performed on us stripped us of who we are"
"Yes, we saw the video log entries"
"Well don't worry about Shredder, he got his do" Raph said.
"Yeah, he made the mistake of messing with the ninja turtles, there's a lesson to be learned in that, if you know what I mean" Mikey said.
The alarms were suddenly being sounded and a screen popped up, showing some kind of map and a section was beeping.
"Oh no, the others, they tripped the alarm in the east delta tunnel!" Quarry gasped, then turned to the control panel, "Hurry, we must activate the energy shield!" Quarry pressed the buttons on the panel, but the crystal wasn't working. "No, No!" Quarry paniced as he kept trying.
"Don't do a no no, I hate no no's!" Mikey said.
"Well we got a no no" Winter said.
"It's no good, the shield will not activate, we have no power, no force field, and they're heading this way" Quarry said.
"Uh, yeah, we kind of met your force field" Raph said.
"And Raph kind of broke it" Mikey added.
There was a roaring down the corridor.
"What is out there?" Leo asked.
"The others" Quarry said as he looked over the panel.
"Other what?"
"Test subjects, like us, they endlessly prowl the tunnels"
"Why do you have to keep them out?"
"Because they attack us" Quarry said as he ripped open the panel and grabbed some wires, "They're violent, uncontrollable, their minds have deteriorated"
"From the genetic mutation?"
"Yes"
"Then what about you three?"
"Madness looms in our future as well"
There was another roar and it was getting closer; Quarry started to 'hot wire' the controls and the panels started to light up; the crystal was glowing for a few seconds, but then stopped.
"The crystal is completely burned out, it is hopeless"
Another roar emitted and the turtles drew their weapons to prepare to fight.
"Weapons will do no good, without the force field, we won't stand a chance against them" Quarry said, "They'll be on us in minutes"
"You know, you're kind of freaking me out here, are you always such a nay sayer?"
"Is there any way we can hold them off until we can find a way to start up the shield?" Phoebe questioned.
Donnie jumped up to the crystal and removed it, then it crumbled to pieces.
"Is that what the crystals are, power sources?" Donnie asked.
"Yes, but that was our only one, and when we found it in the catacombs, we paid dearly for it" Quarry said.
"Well, what about one of ours?" Leo questioned, pulling out a crystal from the satchel.
"They're too small, it would not last"
"It only has to last until they give up and move on" Donnie said as he placed the crystal in the machine, but it wasn't working, "Come on!"
The roars were getting closer by the second and everyone was getting worried; Razorfist, Stonebiter and Raph ran to the doors and started to pull the doors close.
"There is no spark" Quarry said as he attempted to start the shield up.
Donnie used the second crystal and kept tapping it with the other.
"For some reason it just won't power up, maybe the connections to these contact nods were chard" Donnie said.
"Or maybe you got the thing upside down" Mikey suggested.
"It's not upside down Mikey"
The doors were suddenly being punched and the others were trying their best to hold it off; Donnie removed the crystal and started to re-wire the machine.
"At this point, try anything!" Winter shouted.
"Ok, let's try it again"
The doors were busted down and some more terrifying monsters came in. Donnie was just about to put the crystal in, then he decided to turn it around and put it in; the crystal started to glow bright.
"It's working!" Donnie exclaimed.
The force shield activated and it began to expand, leaving the turtles, girls, Quarry, Stonebiter and Razorfist inside safely. The shield got bigger and it pushed them back and out of the lab.
"Don't think I didn't see that Donnie" Mikey said smugly, "It was upside down"
"It's overloading!" Quarry paniced.
The monsters kept roaring and smashing against the shield, but they soon gave up and started to leave, and just in time as the shield began to vanish.
"That was too close of a call" Phoebe sighed in relief.
"But tomorrow they'll be back, they always come back" Quarry said.
"Then you better have a bigger crystal" Leo said.
"We will not survive another journey to the forbidden zone"
"What makes the place so 'forbidden'?" Mikey asked.
"The ancient catacombs stretch for miles, we were force to explore it, many of us never returned"
"Uh, maybe they got lost"
"Don't try to sugarcoat it Mikey, life is very cruel" Winter said.
"They were taken, by a ghostly entity, there is never any sign of a struggle, they're just gone"
"Look, I understand why you don't want to go down there, but there aren't a lot of options, you need another crystal and fast" Leo said.
"And since we, uh, we're the ones who kind of fried your security system, we'll go with you, right guys" Raph offered.
The turtles and girls agreed, but Mikey was the quiet one again and they looked at him.
"You know, the corner hardware store has a sell on generators that would really get this force field humming, so I'll just go up top and clip the coupon, then-"
Raph grabbed Mikey's arm and started to drag him with the others.
"I can't believe you're being such a chicken in front of you girlfriend, that's not setting a best impression on her" Raph whispered to him.
"Ok, let's keep our wits about us" Leo advised.
"Don't worry Mikey, you can share my wits" Raph said.
"Oh, so now I'm witless?" Mikey questioned, then whispered to Raph, "And I thought you were trying to help me out"
"I can't help it if they come to me"
"And I must be the only one bothered by the fact that we're heading to a place even monsters are afraid of!"
"As Viola would say 'even the strongest of men have their fears'" Phoebe said.
"Are you connected at the brain with her?" Winter questioned.
"No, just a really good observer"
The team soon made it to some kind of slide that the turtles and girls roughly sled down and into some kind of sulfur pit.
"Short cut? In what mutated imagination could that be consider a-"
"Oh, sorry, we forgot that you can't scale rock" Quarry apologized as he and the others climbed down to them.
"It's cool, nothing serious was damaged" Winter said.
"Just a few bumps and bruises, we'll live" Phoebe added.
"Let's try and avoid that mistake in the future, ok" Raph said.
"Whoa, who cut the cheese?" Mikey questioned when the smell caught up to him.
"You're smelling a sulfur pool Mikey" Donnie said.
"Coming from a turtle who grew up in a sewer, trust me when I say this place stinks!"
"Just bear with it for a while, we'll probably be out of here in a few" Phoebe said.
"We must keep moving, the others wander down here, this is their territory" Quarry said as he lead the others on the stepping stones.
As they crossed the sulfur pool, a bubble floated up and in front of Leo, then when it popped, some weird creature was inside and was about to go at Leo, but Quarry used his tongue to snatch and eat it and Leo was a little disgusted by it.
"We learn to eat the live off the land before it lives off us" Quarry said and continued on.
"That was a little cool how he caught that" Phoebe said and everyone gave her a questioned look, but she just shrugged and they continued on.
Once they made it out, Razorfist started to dig through the walls before they came to another cavern, they started to scale the wall; Leo came out and he almost slipped into the sharp ridges below.
"Leo, you ok?" Donnie asked.
"Whoa, that was a little too close for comfort" Leo sighed in relief, "Watch your footing guys"
As they continued to scale along the side of the wall, they followed the others onto a ledge.
"This is it" Quarry said, looking down at the large whirlpool.
The three soon jumped down into whirlpool and the others were a little shocked.
"Following monsters off a cliff may not be the smartest thing we've ever done" Leo said.
"Cannonball!" Phoebe shouted and jumped into the whirlpool.
Winter then went next and dived in; then the other turtles began to follow.
"No, but it's the grossest, that thing looks like a giant toilet!" Mikey said, "Which makes me the tiny bowl turtle"
Mikey soon jumped in screaming 'cowabunga', but when he made it out, he saw sharp rocks up ahead and he tried to swim away, but the current was too strong. But then Stonebiter grabbed onto Mikey's head with his mouth and pulled him out.
"Let go of his head Stonebiter" Quarry said, then he let his head go.
"Do that again and I'll give you a real taste of the turtles dude" Mikey threatened, though it wasn't really that threatening.
"How far away from the crystals are we?" Leo asked.
"They're here in the catacombs, but from this point on, we must keep very quiet" Quarry advised.
They soon made their way up to an opening on top of the hill.
"Hey Mikey, recognize these carvings?" Donnie asked when he noticed the carvings in the wall.
"Whoa, these are just like the carvings in our lair" Mikey said.
"Yeah, same interior decorator" Raph said.
They came through the opening; they didn't have to go that far when Quarry found a crystal in the wall.
"Good, this crystal will do, we needn't travel any deeper into this evil place"
Mikey was still outside when he noticed that a small rock fell from the ceiling, then a hole was made and it was the other 'insane' monsters coming out.
"Guys, guys, guys! We got monsters, right behind me!" Mikey shouted as he ran past everyone.
"Everybody, let's get going!" Leo shouted.
"But, that way leads to-"
"No choice, let's go!"
When they came to a closed door, Razorfist tried to slice the door open, but it wouldn't budge, then Stonebiter tried as well, but it didn't make a dent, then when Quarry spit acid at the door, it didn't even melt. Donnie looked at the crystal and back at the door, then he noticed that there was a shape of a crystal hole in the wall.
"Stand back" Donnie said as he stepped forward and placed the crystal in the hole, but it didn't do anything, "Come on, come on, oh, never mind"
"Get ready boys!" Leo said as he drew his weapon.
Winter came running up just as Donnie was about to draw his weapon.
"Maybe" Winter began.
They exchanged looks, then they both grabbed the crystal and turned it around and put it back in the wall and the door opened. Winter and Donnie laughed excitedly and went to the door opening.
"We did it!" Winter said and hugged Donnie.
When she pulled back, they seemed to had a small connection when they looked at each other, but there was a weird noise and everyone looked down the corridor. Some weird orbs were spinning right at the two and it wrapped around them, then a bright light emitted, blinding everyone, then when it vanished, so did Winter and Donnie.
"Donnie, Winter?" Mikey called out.
"No!" Leo exclaimed.
"Donnie, Winter!" Raph shouted.
"They're gone" Mikey said, then he heard roaring and looked to see the other monsters closing in on them, "And in a couple of minutes, we'll be goners too!"
"And here it ends" Quarry said with no hope.
PS: it's obvious that I'm not going to start the 2012 series with these characters until after I finished this story up, which could possibly be a long while, but be patient and I'll try to hurry up with this story so I can start up the 2012 series.