Chapter 21: Turtle Temper – Part 4

Alora's POV

The Kraang had begun firing at us as Leo, Donnie, and Mikey charged while I flew right towards them at maximum speed. I power punched right into one, knocking it out before doing a flip in midair with a nice touch-and-landing routine. I then turned to another bunch and threw a few magic hits at them, my aura sense acting with another Kraang blasting from behind me, quickly spun while dodging and sent a power-wave roundhouse kick that made its way through its mechanical body slicing it in half. I felt at ease until more Kraang started shooting in my direction, making me yelp in fear as I used my magic-aura of flight to lift me up into the air once more while swerving and dodging the laser bullets. I charged straight down and punched several aura-powered blasts to them that knocked them all out in one full swoop. I landed in a battling stance with my fists up that were enveloped with swirling aural magic as I felt another aura sense right next to me. Looking back only to my relief seeing Leo right beside me with both katanas in hand with a narrowed gaze.

He then glanced at me with a smirk. "Having fun with this?"

I was about to answer when a few Kraang droids with blasters still firing charging at us. I threw more power punches at my end as Leo sliced and diced some with his weapons.

"Well, it's definitely not as easy or as fun like training with Sensei, but – at least it's a good experience on fighting, plus self-defense for both myself and my new-found powers," I replied back with my own smirk.

Leo grinned as he cut down another droid diagonally. We were fighting endlessly and we looked like we were winning this fight when all of a sudden –

We heard a scream. I immediately recognized who it was; it was Vic's scream.

The Kraang droids, Leo, Donnie, Mikey, and I all paused as we turned to the source from where the scream came from. I reminisced about the part where Vic, who was still tied up to a wheel chair, moving around in it just to get his phone that was on the floor sliding everywhere during the fight and gets knocked over by one of the Kraang's lasers. He grabs his phone that was right next to where he laid, along with a little spider to touch it, along with Vic before a laser hit a large tube of mutagen that was above him and spilled all over himself. I felt a fearful pit in the midst of my stomach with a frightful look, knowing what had become of Vic and how deeply in trouble the guys and I were gonna be.

"Kraang, go look at the place where the thing that makes the noise is, and tell us what thing makes that noise in that place," one Kraang ordered to another Kraang.

The Kraang droid started walking right into the pitch-black area under the tube-like machine that held the mutagen and disappeared. Mikey walked up a little to see what the droid would find, only for the mechanical humanoid being whacked out of the darkness, sending it flying through the air, and hitting the floor while spiraling a couple of times before laying there completely lifeless. We looked at it to see the actual alien itself with its tentacles out of its controlling center and pulling the rest of it out with a frightening expression and scurrying away. As it did, we then all heard a monstrous roar coming from behind the tube-held mutagen machine that gained our fearful attention.

"I don't like the sound of that," Mikey said anxiously.

"You're not gonna like what comes out of there either, Mikey," I mentioned fearfully.

Right on que, a giant, reddish-orange, black creature jumped right out of the shadows and landed in front of us with a loud 'THUD'. We all took several steps back in total shock and fear on our faces as we stared at the creature right before us. It was a round-ton, spider-like humanoid with four long legs on its head with mutagenic tips at the end, it had red-orange markings on its upper and lower arms with three-fingered mutagenic clawed hands along with his short legs and the upper end of his long legs, red-orange triangles revealing his six black eyes, along with six more between the shorter legs, with a red letter 'v' in the center of his forehead. It roared at us in fury, showing us his horrifying ugly jagged fangs. That horrible spider monster was none other than Vic, but not the rude, mean, slob man Vic. This was now, the new and improved yet dangerously evil Vic.

"You're right, Dudette. I don't like the look of it either," Mikey replied with fright.

"What did you do to me?! I'm hideous!" The mutated Vic cried out.

"Gee, and you weren't hideous from before?" I muttered in a deadpan sentence.

"Don't worry. The five of us can handle him," Leo reassured with confidence.

"Okay, this might be a bad time to point this out, but you sent one of the five of us – home," Donnie pointed out.

"And right now, I wish it was me," Mikey said in a pleading tone.

"THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I'M GONNA RIP YOUR HEADS OFF!" Mutated Vic yelled angrily.

We all went into battle mode with weapons, except me with magic, in hands and narrowed our gazes at the mutated spider as Leo twirled his katanas and held his left one out forth, saying, "Alright, guys, prepare to dish out the mighty wrath of justice."

I gave a weird look with a raised eyebrow while Donnie dropped his head and arms down on how ridiculous Leo's fighting announcements were.

"Seriously, just yell, "get him"," Donnie deadpanned, turning Leo's attention to us.

"Get – ooh!" Leo started to say but got whack by one of Mutated Vic's long spider legs that sent him crashing into some crates.

"Leo!" I cried out in panic.

Mutated Vic then looked at Donnie, Mikey, and I with a triumphant smirk. Donnie charged right in with Bo-Staff in hand, jumped into the air, and brought his weapon down to strike the Mutant. Instead of hitting his actual target, Vic blocked the attack with his long legs in front of him as a shield and push Donnie back. Mikey took charge and whacked Vic several times with his nunchucks as the Spider Mutant tried to hit him but moved swiftly and out of the way. I then decided it would be my turn, so I called my aura-flight, flew straight in, and shot massive amounts of magical powered punches that sent Vic stumbling a few times. He looked up to me with a angered gaze and sent his long legs out to hit me, which I swerved to avoid and sent a power-wave roundhouse kick that hit him in the face that made him yell out in pain. I looked over to see Leo up and ready for action as he charged head on right into Vic whose back was turned with both katanas out. As Leo was a meter to him, mutant Vic quickly turned around with a roar and strike, only for Leo to flip over him while slicing his back, making Vic cry out painfully. We all stood next to each other, even though I was still in midair, holding our fighting stances with narrowed glares.

"Is that all you got?!" Mikey asked triumphantly.

Just after, he said that, mutated Vic gagged up and then spitted out a giant blob of yellow acid that landed right near us. We avoid it and stared at it in shock as the acid near our feet began to burn a hole right through the floor. Mikey's expression turned for shock to fearfulness as he looked back up to Vic with a sheepish smile.

"The answer I was looking for was – 'yes'."

Vic then glared at us and started to spit out hugely amounts of yellow acid at us. We ran out of the way, trying to avoid being hit by them. Mutant Vic roared as we kept on running from his attacks before the Mutant himself started heading after us. I glanced back to see Vic did a roll with his long legs underneath, pushed them up with himself flipping over us and landing right in front of us with his back turned. We stopped as he turned to us with a ferocious roar and spat out more acid, which made us moved out of the way separately. We kept on dodging and dodging as Vic kept on spitting and spitting more acid, I was starting to get tired of it and charged right to Vic with some power punches. He turned to me and spat out his acid at me as I dodge it when Donnie came from his left and whacked him that gained Vic's attention. Vic did the same thing to him like he did to me; spat out another blob of acid, which Donnie moved out of the way in time. Leo came in next, hitting his swords at Spider Vic only to be blocked by it with his long legs once more, but pushed them away while trying to swing and strike his opponent before backing away and dodging Vic's constant biting. Leo jumped out of harm's way as Vic opened his big mouth, but was caught by a grey canister Mikey threw at to prevent him from vomiting more acid blobs. Mikey held up another grey canister and threw it a Vic square in the face, but Vic then spat out the canister and charged straight at us with anger and fury. We ran the opposite way as Vic was about to strike us, only to miss and is right on our tails as we ran as fast as we could away from him. We panted and grunted at the lack of running from Vic as he was catching up to us, but we were caught at a dead end and turned to Vic in fear. We all heard a sort of squeaking noise as we looked below us to see some acid forming around us and burning right into the floor and opening a hole that we all fell into, screaming. We collapsed with a big 'thud' on the next floor and groaned in pain from the hard impact as we sat up.

"Is everyone alright?" I groaned in questioning.

"[Groans] Yeah, we're good," Leo winced out with his right hand on his head.

"We're no match for Spider Bytez," Mikey exclaimed in panic.

"Spider Bytez?" Leo asked in confusion.

We all got back on our feet while Mikey began explaining about the new name he came up with.

"Well, he's a spider, and he bites, so I thought –"

"We get it," Leo quickly replies, cutting Mikey off.

We heard a loud noise and looked over with widen eyes seeing Spider Bytez landing on the second floor with his body facing the ground with his arms, short legs, and long legs supporting him for balance. He then flipped up with his long legs holding him before he pounced up and landed in front of us with a terrifying roar that caused us all to scream. We started to run over to the left but Spider Bytez cartwheeled with his expandable legs to stop us and he did the same thing again as we tried the other way, which meant that he had us cornered.

"This bug is fast," Leo states as Mikey held his head with swirls of dizziness in his eyes.

"Yeah, spiders aren't actually bugs, they – ow!" Donnie started to explain with his scientific methods, but was grabbed by Spider Bytez's long legs, held him up and threw him over while shouting and hit the side of a huge crate right next to us.

"Playtime's over, frogs and witch," Spider Bytez fumed as he then hurled up and spat out an acid blob right at our feet.

We backed away as the acid sunk into the floor, burning the concrete right through it. We backed up to a bunch of big crates that were behind us and gazed back to Spider Bytez as he began descending towards us with fury and hate. I then decided enough was enough, so I got back up and stood in between my friends and Spider Bytez with both magic-aura filled fists at me sides with a determined glare.

"Alright, Vic! That's enough! If you wanna harm my friends, you're gonna have to fight me first!" I called out while getting into my fighting stance.

"[Chuckles] if that's the way you wanted, sweetheart, than that's fine by me," He replies with his long legs up and ready while approaching me with a devilish grin on his ugly spider-like mug.

I stood my ground as the monstrous Spider Mutant walked closer and closer until –

"Wow."

We stopped and looked up to the voice that spoke up. I could only smile in joy to see the red-banded turtle on top of the first floor looking down through the hole at us, mostly Spider Bytez, with a surprised look.

"I didn't think this guy could get any uglier," He said in disbelief.

"Raph!" Donnie and Mikey both yelled happily while Leo and I smiled.

Raph then jumped into the air with weapons in hand, did a flip and over while landing safely on the second floor before lifting his head at us with a determined gaze.

"Great to see you, Raph, and perfect timing," I complimented.

"Well, I think you've been punished long enough. Come and join us," Leo offered, only for our smiles to fade when Spider Bytez looked at Raph with a sinister grin.

"Oh hey, it's the Kung Fu frog with the salad tongs," He mocked.

"Hey, it's the stupid loudmouth who's about to get his butt kicked," Raph mocked back while twirling his Sais and posing in his battle stance.

Spider Bytez then spat out an acid blob at Raph, who moved out of the way and watched it pass him by. Just then, Spider Bytez got on his long legs again and started circling Leo, Donnie, Mikey, and I with cartwheels and spit-loads of acid blobs on the floor. We all groaned at the sight he was doing, but I knew what he was planning as he spat out the last of his acid blobs, the chemical burned through to make another hole that caused the three turtles and I to fall again. We screamed as we landed on the third and final floor as I got up with a groan and looked around the room that looked a little more different than the first and second. I remembered what this room is that made me gasp while looking down at the floor that was made of glass and showed a pool full of mutagen right under us.

"Um, guys?" I said aloud in worry.

I heard a groan and turned to Donnie who was up while holding his head with his left hand in pain. He then glanced down and noticed the mutagen glass-like floor as well with fear.

"Uh, let's not fall through this floor, okay?" Donnie questioned.

"No arguments here," I quickly replied as I then looked back up to where we fell through since Raph was still up there with Spider Bytez, hoping for sure that Raph won't lose his temper over this fight.

No One's POV

"Dance for me, frog," Spider Bytez ordered as he then spat out more acid blobs right to the Sai-wielding Ninja turtle.

Raph jumped and dodge as much as he could on avoiding the dangerously chemical attack as the acid stuck to the floor while burning through the concrete like butter.

"Watch me turn your friends into frog fries and a sandwitch. I'll serve 'em up with your salad tongs," the giant Spider Mutant informed as he stuck out an acid, vine-like web and jumped into the hole.

Raph muttered a "Huh?" before growling in anger as he grabbed both of his Sais and charging right towards the hole while jumping into it.

He used his right Sai to swing around the vine-like web to slide all the way down to the Spider itself as he then landed on him and cut the web, having both Spider Bytez and himself fall straight to the final floor.

Alora's POV

I saw Spider Bytez and Raph, who was on him, falling right towards us in a full speed.

"INCOMING!" I cried out.

"MOVE!" Leo ordered as he, Donnie, Mikey, and I ran out of the way as the Spider Mutant crashed to the floor.

Raph jumped off Spider Bytez while turning to face him with both Sais out and ready. Spider Bytez then got up and roared out in total anger as Raph held a fight stance.

"Aw, froggy thinks he can stop me. Ribbit, ribbit. What's that, tadpole? Are you too scared to leap off your lily pad and get your forks knocked out of your hands?"

While Spider Bytez was busy taunting Raph, I looked to see Raph's angry expression soften as he breathed in and out slowly, blocking out the insulting comments as the red-clad turtle closed his eyes and said the one, important sentence that brought a smile upon my face.

"Like a River – over stone."

Raph grinned as he reopened his eyes and charged right into Spider Bytez. The Mutant started first by striking his long legs, but Raph dodged them and spun around while giving a roundhouse kick to the face. He did the same kick twice, gave a few punches and side punches before finishing it off with a back kick. Spider Bytez stumbled back with a squeal as he then stroke out his long legs to hit the Ninja Turtle, only for Raph to grab one of the mutagenic tips of it in between his Sais. The Spider Mutant then spat out one of his famous acid blobs at Raph but instead of hitting him, he moved the tip trapped in his Sais as a protective shield and let it hit that, making Spider Bytez yelp and reeled it back while gazing at it in surprise then turning back to Raphael.

"That's some Kung Fu, frog," He said impressed.

Leo, Mikey, Donnie, and I all jumped in and landed next to Raph on both sides as he glanced at us with a determined grin. We got our weapons and skills at the ready as Raph finally announced and reminded one last time:

"We're not Kung Fu frogs. We're Ninja Turtles."

We all jumped in and charged at Spider Bytez as the mutant stretched out his long legs at us, but we blocked or dodged them. Mikey, on the other hand, used his nunchuck around the legs, held them as he slid all the way over and gave off a good push over with his feet that sent Spider Bytez stumbling back. I soon charged in and gave of some magical moves while saying a few angry statements.

"This is for calling me sweetheart!" I started with a right power punch, making him lose his footing and backing up.

I threw my left one next much harder than the first one. "That was for calling me a witch!"

"And this…," I stared at Spider Bytez with such fury that the Spider Mutant looked so terrified at my gaze, "This is for everything else!"

I gave off everything I had by sending the most powerful-wave roundhouse kick that cause the giant creature to send off flying. With Spider Bytez in the air, Raph, Donnie, and I gave off the final showdown and pounded him as he hit the floor hard with a whimper. He laid there in defeat as the guys and I stood next to each other with defense postures and narrowed glares. I glanced to see Vic's phone right next to Raph's foot and without hesitation, Raph picked up his right foot and stomped on it, destroying the system and the video with it.

"Oh! My phone!" Spider Bytez cried out with an outstretch hand right to it.

We then stalked right over to him as Spider Bytez backed up in fear.

"It's over, Spider Bytez. You've lost, so do us a favor and get lost," I demanded with an accusing finger.

He looks back and forth at us before stating angrily, "You guys are gonna regret this."

Spider Bytez then goes on his long legs, jumps on the mutagen machine and starts pouncing on the upper floors. Raph, Leo, Donnie, and Mikey followed after him while I flew from behind as we all ran up to the rooftop and saw Spider Bytez jumping from building to building while disappearing. I gazed at the sight where he vanished; at least, to my happy relief, we won't be seeing him again until seasons 2 and 3.

"I know a nice black widow that would be great for him," Donnie mentioned.

Leo then walked over behind Raph with a smile. "Good job, Raph. I just wanted to say – "

"You don't – have to apologize," Raph informed.

Leo thought for a second and then replied, "I wasn't going to."

"Oh. Good."

I then walked over with a big grin on my face. "You were excellent back there, Raph. I'm really proud of you."

Raph smiled at me before he rubbed the back of his neck in a nervous manner. "Yeah and… I just wanted to say thanks for, you know, what you said to me before. About having Master Splinter helping me with the whole anger management problem."

I nodded with an approval smile. "Anytime, Raph. I'm just really glad you've pulled through."

Raph grin with pride until –

"Yeah, Raph, not bad for a bloated buffalo. [Chuckles]," Mikey congrats in his teasing manner while walking away, making Raph go wide-eyed before glaring at him angrily and me having to lightly face palm myself.

Then Raph held a sinister grin before looking to me while motioning his right hand to Mikey, asking 'Can I?' I crossed my arms before motioning my head in Mikey's direction.

"[Sighs miserably] go ahead. He deserves it," I permitted with a small smile.

Raph grins evilly as he turns to Mikey and pounces on him, making the younger turtle grunt while I flinch at the impact. Raph held Mikey in another headlock while over the edge of the rooftop as Mikey flapped his arms up and down like he was a bird trying to fly.

"Okay! Raph is all-Wise and Powerful," Mikey started with the 'All-Powerful Raphael' phrases.

"And?" Raph questions with a sinister expression.

"And he's better than me in every possible way!" Mikey exclaimed aloud in panic.

I giggled while shaking my head in amusement as Leo and Donnie stood next to me with smiles on their faces. Even though Raph was able to get a firm hold on his temper, he will always be our beloved angry and temperamental turtle that the Hamatos, my home world, and I all know and love.

Alright! I finished episode 2! Raph finally has a grip on his temper tantrum, well, sort of. Anyways, I hoped you've enjoyed that because the next chapter is gonna be another in-between chapter and so is the next after that one. Wanna figure out what happens next? Find out next time!

Stay tuned and thanks for reading!