Chapter 27: Return Part 1

Pete's P.O.V.

We returned to the sewers in New York and we were hiding in the shadows just in case we spotted any Foot Soldiers. Leo was taking the lead and we all had our weapons out just in case. I jumped down right behind Raph and we looked around. He looked over at me in a silent question if anyone was down here. I shook my head and we stood up.

"All clear," Raph said. Casey stepped out of the shadows and he kicked a can. "Nice one Casey," Don said. "Why don't you just broadcast it to the Foot Ninjas." Mikey said. "What Foot ninjas? I'm telling you there's nobody down here." Casey said. Master Splinter sniffed the air and moved his head around.

"I believe you may be right Mr. Jones." Master Splinter. "Well, that'll be a first" April said. Don and I walked to the dead end that we were at, but it was only made to look like a dead end. Don and I worked many weekends to get this camouflage right for the entrance of our lair. We began to open the many codes into the lair and then a keypad sprung up and I typed in the code. The wall moved away and the door opened up to show us our lair.

"Welcome home, everybody." Don said. "Just like we left it." Leo said. "Cool," Raph said. "Home sweet home." Mikey said. "Nothing beats like sleeping in your own bed after so long being without it." I said. Don and I immediately went over to our work stations and powered up the computers.

"And you were worried that the Foot would find this place Mikey." Don said. "Heck yeah, I couldn't the thought of them hurting my babies. Hello babies, daddy missed you, yes he did." Mikey said as he was kissing the bags of chips I bought for him months ago. "Um, wouldn't that milk be about three months old?" Casey asked. My face paled and went back to my computer. "That would explain the chunks." Mikey said spitting the old milk out.

"Don't worry Mikey, I'll go shopping after we clean out the fridge." I said. "I don't get it, last time the sewers were crawling with foot goon searching for us. Why would the Shredder send them all home?" Raph asked from his punching bag.

"Maybe he thinks there's no one left to search for?" Leo suggested. "You know, being dead may have its advantages." Raph said. "You know, you're right." I said. "It might just give us the element of surprise." Leo said. "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" Mikey asked coming out of the kitchen with Casey. "I think he's thinking what I think you're thinking." Don said. "If he's thinking what I'm thinking then I think we shouldn't be thinking. What do you think?" Raph said. Casey got a confused look on his face so Master Splinter filled him in.

"Shredder believes us vanquished in the explosion at Miss O'Neil's. Thus leaving our enemy vulnerable to a surprise attack." Master Splinter said. Casey then understood what was going on with a smile.

"Hmm, okay if we're going to do this we need to find out everything we can about Foot Headquarters." Leo said. "I don't know if we can hack into that system." Don said. "It was designed by Dr. Baxter Stockman himself." I said. "Too bad you don't know anybody who used to work for Stockman." April said. Don got up and April sat down in his chair.

While April was sitting at Don's computer the rest were in the middle of the room training. "Remember my sons, the battle you face today will be most arduous, you must go in prepared." Master Splinter said. Raph did three flips and landed with his sais tucked into his side.

"I'm prepared, to kick some shell." Raph said. "I think Master Splinter meant a little something more." Leo said. "I believe the time has come to return the Shredder's sword to its formal owner." Master Splinter said. Raph walked over to the sword and picked up the glove and then grabbed the sword. It shocked him and sent him flying.

"Forget something?" Leo asked. "Uh, maybe you should have the honor of carrying the sword bro. After all you are the sword guy." Raph said. Leo took the glove from Raph and then looked over at the sword. "Are you alright my son?" Master Splinter asked. "I was just remembering the last time I tangled with the Shredder's elite ninja. I don't want to let my brothers down." Leo said. "You must look within and find the strength that it yours and yours alone. You will not let them down; I feel it in my heart." Master Splinter said. Then we heard beeping coming from the computer behind me.

"We're in, we're in." Don exclaimed happily. "We had to use three different dictionary attack programs to crack the encryption algorithm." April said. "Then it was just a simple matter of creating a dummy account and installing a remote access Trojan horse." Don said. They high fived as I read through my emails.

"Thrilling," Mikey said. "But, can you get us inside?" Leo asked. "Never mind that, can you get us to Shredder?" Raph asked. "Getting inside's easy. Getting to Shredder, difficult but doable." April said. "What concerns me is everything in between." Don said. "Bring it on." Raph said. "Do we have to do everything related to violence to make you happy bro?" I asked. He shrugged his shoulders and I had a gut feeling that something bad was going to happen and soon.

"I can coordinate the computer system from this end." April said. "Great, Casey you stay here and protect April just in case. We're going to be a five turtle wrecking crew." Leo said. We all put our hands in the middle then Master Splinter's hand joined ours. "Six." he said. "Let's roll." Raph said.

We all headed back topside and headed towards Foot HQ. We used the Battle Shell as a decoy to make them drive their attention elsewhere as we headed up through the ventilation system. Then our beloved Battle Shell got destroyed just as we climbed out of a pipe.

"Nice remote control work, slick." Raph said. "And they say hours and hours of video games are bad for you." Mikey said. "They are bro; you just don't know it because you're too far gone now." I said. "Hey," Mikey whined. "Poor Battle Shell, I really loved that gadget laden gas guzzler." Don said. "And I'm sure the next one you'll build you'll love just as much. But right now let's stick to the plan." Leo said.

"April, stage on complete." Don said. "Roger that Don. Uploading worm program now." April said. Over the line I could hear Casey talking to April. "So, what are you doing exactly?" Casey asked. "Whipping up a virus to clog their internal communication network." April responded. "Yeah Case, leave the girl alone so she doesn't mess up." I said.

After a couple minutes we were at a door and Don and I were working on opening the door. "Foot com systems are down. What's next?" April asked. "April, we're having trouble getting in." Don said. "Can you dig up an access code?" I asked. "Yeah, but's gonna be tricky, they change the codes hourly." April said. "Allow me." Raph said. Raph stepped back and ran and jumped and then kicked the door down.

"Noisy but effective." Mikey said. We ran into the room and got ready to fight. A whole lot of Foot were inside that room and of course Mikey had to say something. "Now, that's a lot of ninjas." he said. The Foot charged and of course Mikey had something else to say.

"Are we doing this with banter or without?" he asked. "Mikey, I'd say without." I said as we charged forward as well. We started to fight and Mikey was facing against three people who had my weapon as well and I was fighting Foot with sais. They were easy enough to defeat and pretty soon Leo called out.

"Pete, Donnie, do your thing." Leo said. Don and I jumped over the heads of many ninja over to the computer panels. "April, we're hooking up." Don said. "Prepare to download remote access codes." I said. "Creating synergistic interface, now." April said. My sense went off and I forced Don's and my head down as a Foot ninja came flying over our heads, crashing into a computer next to me. Mikey then jumped onto a panel next to us.

"Do you mind?" I asked. "We're working here." Don said. "Sorry." Mikey said. He kicked a chair towards what I assumed was another group of ninja behind us. The chair ended up by Raph and he knocked and ninja out and put him in the chair.

"Up town express coming through." Raph said. He kicked the chair over to Leo who dodged it and added another person in the chair. Master Splinter then jumped on top of the chair and knocked out more on the way over. Soon all of the ninja were unconscious and we regrouped with Master Splinter.

"Well, that was refreshing." Raph said. "No doubt more will be on the way." Sensei said. "April, we need another way out." I said. "Main ventilation shaft, duct is located in the northwest corner." April said. "Got it." Don said. He kicked the cover off and climbed in. We followed our brother up the shaft. They were having some difficulty but I wasn't thanks to the new mutation in my body.

Don's P.O.V.

We soon found ourselves in a room where there was a lot of machines. "It's like I died and went to techno geek heaven." I said. "Then I would be right there with ya bro." Pete said. "Wow, a turtle can kick some serious butt with this stuff." Raph said. "What do you think this one does?" Mikey asked. I turned to see that he had picked up a gun looking thing a pulled the trigger only to have a bunch of smoke in his face.

"Does that answer your question lame-brain?" Leo asked. "Come my sons, we must keep on the move." Master Splinter said. We walked away and soon Pete stopped. "What's wrong Pete?" I asked. "We're being followed." Pete said. We stopped and looked around.

"There's nobody here but us." Mikey said. "Seriously, my spider sense is going crazy." Pete said. "Your brother is right. Something is here, something that can't be seen." Master Splinter said. "Foot Tech Ninjas." I said. We stood there waiting for something to happen. When something did happen Master Splinter got hit and then the rest of us got hit away from each other. Pete was the only one who could block and hit the invisible ninjas. I got knocked into a file cabinet.

"Don't worry guys, I've got just the… My bag!" I said as they grabbed it away from me. Out of nowhere a bunch of web was wrapping up the ninjas and we were all very grateful for it. "Dude, I want to get bit by that spider now." Mikey said. "No you don't. I got sick afterwards, I probably would've died if it didn't match by DNA." Pete said. "You have talked me out of it." Mikey said.

Without warning they got back up and turned invisible again. They knocked us away from each other again. Raph and Leo wound up next to each other. "They're toying with us." Leo said. "Yeah, well it's time to use some toys on them." Raph said. Raph jumped into a flying machine and powered it up. I could tell that he was having a hard time flying it. Our hotheaded brother got control of it and then started firing at places around the room.

"Hang on; I've got your back." Raph shouted. "Way to go Raph!" Pete shouted. "The lasers messing up their cloaking controls." I said. "Yeah bro, now you just got to work on your aim." Mikey said. "I only see two, where is the third ninja?" Master Splinter asked. "There!" Pete shouted. The third ninja had climbed into a tank and was coming right at us. He fired the gun right at Raph but our brother jumped out. The flying machine Raph was riding went wide around the room until it collided with the ceiling and made a hole.

"Always thought this room could use a skylight." Mikey said. The ninja knocked Mikey down and I saw my bag grabbed it and pulled out a throwing star. "Hang on Mikey, I came prepared." I said. It hit and it short circuited the suit. "Electric counter shock shuriken, instant short circuit." I said. "Quick Don, get him before," Leo shouted. He was thrown into a scaffolding and it fell right on top of him.

"Hang on bro, we'll get you out." Raph said. The tank was still coming right for us but we hurried to get Leo out from the debris. "Guys, take cover." Leo said. "And leave you? No way." Raph said. "My sons, where is Peter?" Master Splinter asked as we freed Leo. We frantically looked around until Mikey spotted him.

Pete was on the ceiling watching the tank and then dropped down right on top of the invisible ninja and knocked out the circuiting before throwing the ninja over and turning off the tank.

"Free at last." Leo said. Then we saw the ninja jump back on and tossed Pete aside and turned the tank back on. "Not with the amazing invisible ninjas in the house." Mikey said. It fired and we all got out of the way. Then we all got attacked by more of the invisible ninjas.

"Hey Don, can't you shock them?" Raph asked. "Not if I can't see them." I said. "I'll take care of that." Leo said. He jumped over to where the fire extinguishers were grabbed them and threw them at Raph pretty soon the room filled with the contents of the fire extinguishers which helped us in locating the invisible ninjas. I tossed more of the electro shock shurikens at them and they were out.

"Excellent work, my sons" Master Splinter said. "And we put out all the fires too." Mikey said. "Which way now?" I asked. "Up," Leo said pointing to the hole in the ceiling. Pete took Master Splinter up and they waited for us to join them up there.

"What is this place?" Master Splinter asked. "April, check the building schematics. See if you can tell us where we are." I said. "All I can tell is that you're on the 33rd floor. It won't display any other information." April said. "It looks kinda familiar." Raph said. "It should, it's just like the underground lab." Pete said.

"Are you saying it's just like the lab we found deep under the city?" Leo asked. "Yep," Pete said. "Dun-dun, dun, dum." Mikey said. Raph went over and slapped him. "Knock it off Mikey." Raph said. Then the alarms started going off and we looked around to see why it was going off.

"I didn't touch anything, honest." Mikey said. "It's because you touched something. It's because they're letting something out." Pete said. Then the three tanks we were standing in front of began opening up. Then they jumped out and they kinda looked like the Shredder.

"Is that the Shredder?" Mikey asked. "I don't think so, Mikey." I said. "Though they might be his genetic clones." Pete said. "Might be?" Raph asked. "Hey Donnie, you got anything in your bag of tricks to deal with this?" Mikey asked. And then they lunged at us.