Hey everyone, Lucian here of course. This chapter's a little shorter than the others but, after this, we have officially reached the end of Season 1! Finally! And now...I have no clue what's going on…oh head rush…uh, I'm gonna go sit for a bit while you read. Enjoy.


The Fifth Turtle

Chapter 11: Can This Get Any Weirder?!

Lucian raced down the hall, following the spikes of energy signatures he had found after getting into the system through his phone. As he ran, Lucian cast his eyes left and right muttering

"Geez, major senses of déjà vu. Everything's the same…how boring." He chucked a right and then ducked back as the elevator doors opened, two people in suits walking out and straight past him. Checking the coast was clear, Lucas dived into the elevator just as the doors closed before looking at the keypad.

"Wow, so many buttons for not so many floors. Let's see…" Typing away on his phone he hacked his way deeper into the system.

"Man, I hope their security programs don't notice me. Um, Access Codes, no…Security Cameras, no…ah, Level Codes." He reached out and tapped five buttons on the number pad, the screen above flashing some off looking symbol before the lift started to move. Slipping the phone back into his waist belt, he looked up as the lift doors opened and he blinked, looking out into what appeared to be a robotics factory. Casting his gaze around, Lucian wrinkled his beak. There were pink…things…within the humanoid robots working on…other humanoid robots…and they looked like octopus shaped brain-like…things!

He leaned back murmuring under his breath

"Can things get any weirder?" He shook his head, hitting another series of buttons at random before sighing as the lift moved again…then he froze when the lift stopped suddenly, the doors sliding open.

"Oh shell!" Ducking to the side and jumping up, he kicked the cover off the lift's roof and slipped out, putting it back in place just as more people entered. He let out a sigh, holding on as the lift started to move once more, going down…and fast.

The moment it stopped, he lifted the cover off again and dropped down, slipping out behind the elevators other occupants before stilling, watching as they walked over to an open in the ground before dropping out of sight. Keeping his movements quiet, he moved closer and peered downwards, watching the two people…who were probably brains in human robots…slid down two of several shoots leading somewhere below. Looking around, he wrinkled his beak again.

"I can already hear what Mikey would say to this sight: it looks like a giant stomach, who knows what down there entrails." He chuckled under his breath before he stepped up to an opening and jumped in, almost immediately regretting it as he slid down the slim lined tunnels.

"Oh ew! That is so nasty! Memo to self: have a very hot shower and scrub self with disinfectant later!" Unable to slow his descendant, he shot out the tube and crashed full force into the wall. Sliding to the ground he rubbed his head muttering

"Ow…" before looking up and around as a voice sounded over what he assumed were loud speakers.

"Attention. This is an intruder alert. All search protocols are in effect. We have a breach. Repeat, we have a breach."

He blinked and then stood as something yelled

"There's one of them! Get him!" Lucian gave them a lopsided grin before taking off without a clue where he was going. Even as he ran and dodged the laser gun shots, he felt a laugh bubbling up in his throat. This is no time to laugh Lucas! Run faster! Swallowing the laugh he did just that, diving headfirst down another tube saying

"I'm so gonna hate this!" And he was right. He shot out the other end again, this time hitting the floor before he was off running again trying to shake the slime now coating his skin yelling

"Ew! Ew! Ew! Total grossness!" He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder and instantly grabbed the wrist, throwing the weight of the person forward and over his shoulder so they slammed back first into the ground. Seeing it was one of the robot things he quickly turned, rolling to the side to avoid a dangerous looking power stick to the stomach. Quickly counting three he jumped up, somersaulting over their heads as he pulled his Chakram's off their hooks and threw them backwards, slicing two of the robots heads off while he kicked the off, catching the weapons as they flew back to him. He stared as the robots continued to move, getting up from the floor even while he returned to his run saying

"They won't stay down…figures!"

He heard explosions coming from down the hall and quickly raced in that direction, barrelling his way through any robot aliens that happened to end up in his way. He skidded to a halt as he entered a large room, his eyes going wide as he took stock of the damage and smoking machinery. Ducking down, he watched as a man, Mr Mortu, ran into the room yelling

"What have you done?!" He wasn't sure how they managed it but each of the robots looked sheepish, casting their faces downwards even while Mortu walked between them asking

"Where are the turtles?" The robot pointed with his hand and immediately Mortu's eyes flew wide, quickly running toward the room and straight past Lucian's hiding spot muttering

"No! No! No!" Realising that his friends were in some kind of trouble, Lucian ditched his hiding place and raced after Mortu into the room, entering it just as he heard Mortu say

"I can't stop it…it's too late." Lucian stared as the platform the guys were on started to glow brightly, the machine powering up.

"Guys! Get off of there!" His eyes met Mikey's panicked ones as the orange banded turtle shouted back

"We can't! Lucian!" Lucian raced toward the platform, arm outstretched towards them even as the guys cried out, their bodies suddenly disintegrating right before his eyes and vanishing right before he reached them. Crashing into the platform, Lucian looked around wildly, the machine steadily quieting down while the turtle fell to his knees murmuring

"No…I was too late…again…" Then his gaze snapped up as Mortu started to move toward him, his amber and blue eyes fixing on the man and narrowing as he said in a dangerously low voice

"What happened to my friends, Mr Mortu?"

TBC


Lucas the author here. Yes I changed my plan. I had an idea after posting and quite like this one a bit more. An insight into what happens while the turtles are up in space. But, what do you reckon? What do you think happens while the turtles are away? I'm curious to here you're thoughts on this. :) So, as always, leave a comment below and we'll see you in the next chapter. :)

Cya

Lucas

PS: And to answer the question of this title: YES IT CAN!