The Fifth Turtle
Chapter 36: Floating City Troubles
If someone had told him when he got up that day he'd find himself cramped in a box with four other turtles while helping the Foot…he would have laughed and dismissed it.
Yet that's exactly where he was.
Karai had drawn them in earlier, trapped them inside a Triceraton carrier and explained that Saki was trying to steal the Anti-Gravity generator holding up the current floating city of Beijing. With a bit of hesitation, the five turtles had agreed to help…
…and then had been packed into a box and loaded onto the Foot blimp like common cargo.
To say meeting Karai had gone well…wouldn't be doing it justice. She was still sore about him leaving the Foot and had practically ignored him the whole time, speaking mainly to Leo and Professor Honeycut…who had downloaded himself onto Don's palmtop; another unexpected turn to the day.
Brought back to the present by the sound of knocking on the wooden box's exterior, he heard Karai say
"Standby, we are approaching Beijing." Lucian let out a sigh of relief.
"Bout time, my feet are going numb." Squashed up between Don and Mikey, the orange banded turtle nodded in agreement but added
"And I really gotta go the little turtles room!" Suddenly a chill raced down his spine, his quick shiver drawing Don's attention.
"You okay?" Lucian looked at him and shook his head.
"Something is about to happen…and we're not going to li-" His sentence was cut short as the box they were in suddenly dropped, all five of them crying out in surprise.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted Karai!" Leo gave Raph a look replying back
"We can argue about that later! Everybody, brace!"
With a swift kick to the box's side panel, all five of them tumbled out, quickly pulling on the cord that deployed their gliders. Lucian reached u[, tugging on the cord before his eyes flew wide.
"Crap it's stuck!" He tugged harder only to have the cord snap, the end falling uselessly to the ground he was quickly approaching. He could barely hear someone yelling at him to deploy over the wind rushing through his ears, eyes locked downwards.
A weight suddenly slammed into his back, an arm wrapping around his waist and halting his descent. His heart beat wildly in his chest and his body remain tensed until a deep voice spoke gruffly in his ear,
"Ya so lucky I'm a nice guy." Lucian twisted his head to see the emerald green face looking straight forward and slowly sighed, giving the turtle a relieved smile,
"Thanks, Raph." Landing alongside the others on the ground, the glider retracted into the backpack as Mikey snapped out
"Hey, what was with the instant skydiving lesson?!" Karai gave him an unfazed look, flicking her hair back replying simply
"It was an unforeseen event but I have my suspicions as to who is responsible." Raph snarled, yanking out his sais.
"You know what you're problem is lady? You can't decide if you wanna help us or if you wanna kill us! make up your mind already!" Lucian just stayed quiet, watching with arms crossed over his plastron. He had a pretty good hunch as to who it was as well and it wasn't Karai.
Leo had stepped between Karai and Raph, trying to diffuse the situation by turning their focus to more important things…like getting to Tiananmen Square where the generator was located. Don looked around, spotting the cycle cart. Jumping in with a smile he said
"How bout this? Low tech but effective." No one gave him a real answer, all moving toward the cart as Leo turned saying
"Hop on Karai…Karai?" The space he was speaking to was empty. Lucian cast his eyes upwards, knowing that Karai was still nearby, watching from the shadows. With one last glance around, he patted Leo on the shoulder murmuring
"Come on, she'll meet us there no doubt." Leo met his eyes and sighed, nodding solemnly, allowing himself to be lead to the cart.
Drawing the short straw, it was Mikey who ended up on pedalling duty so it was he who spotted the generator first as they rounded the corner…not that it was hard to miss. As they drew closer, several mouser like robots turned toward them and Mikey voiced their thoughts by saying
"Funny, Karai never mentioned overgrown mousers!" Lucian cast his eyes toward the blimp, noticing Stockman in the carrier and Hun at the helm. He growled low in his throat, leaping out of the cart alongside the others as Leo said
"Nothing fancy guys, just clear a path for Don and the Professor!" With a grin, they all dove into the fray, leaping over their mousers heads and moving toward the generator. Lucian weaved his way through the fray, close on Don's heels and covering his back. He paused at the base, turning to face the mousers with a smile, Chakrams in hand.
"Bring it on!"
A shudder suddenly rocked the ground, the whole floating piece of land starting to shake before it started to drop. Lucian's eyes flew wide as he rose to float five metres off the ground. Spinning himself around, he grabbed onto the generator and hauled himself up toward the red headed scientist.
"Don! Get the Professor hooked up!" He barely noticed Don nod, continuing his climb up. He was close enough to hear the guy yell
"That's not supposed to happen!" before racing upwards toward the blimp. The speed of their fall helped him to gain ground quickly. The red headed scientist said something into the speaker, climbing up the rope.
Focused on catching up on the escaping scientist, Lucian didn't see Hun standing in the doorway of the carrier, didn't see the gun aimed at him and didn't see the net flying in his direction until it had wrapped around him. Lucian struggled but each move only seemed to make the netting enclose around him tighter, the cord connected to the net yanking him upwards after the blimp and away from the falling land. He turned and watched, grasping the netting in his fingers as the land plummeted toward the Earth at a dangerous rate before suddenly slowing to a safer pace.
Letting of a breath of relief that the Professor had managed to get control of the system, he turned his gaze upwards even as the net was hauled into the carrier, the door sealing shut after him. Anger filled eyes locked on the smug looking man before him. Hun cracked his knuckles, moving toward the restrained turtle.
The next thing Lucian felt was an exploding pain as Hun's fist slammed into his temple. Flying across the ships floor, Lucian cried out as he slammed into the wall before falling to the ground once more. Unable to rise, he could only listen as Hun chuckled above him. The man did speak but none of it could be heard through the ringing in his ears or the pounding in his head. His vision was swimming, edges starting to blacken as Hun knelt down, reaching out to tear the white mask off Lucian's face and sneer at it. That was the last thing he saw before his consciousness finally gave in…
"The master is going to be disappointed in our failure."
Stockman looked at Hun saying
"Not to mention the unfortunate demise of Karai and young Doctor Chaplin. We'll blame it all on them, just follow my lead." The two exited the lift, walking towards where their Master waited, his expression grim as usual. Stopping before Saki, Stockman said
"Master, we have unfortunate news. Karai and Doctor Chaplin are-"
"Wait." Falling quiet, the two watched as Saki moved toward the control panel, hitting a button saying
"Perhaps you would like to share your news with Karai and Doctor Chaplin." shock registered on both faces when the screen flickered on to show an irritated looking Karai and ever-smiling red haired scientist who waved at them.
"Hi Doctor Stockman, everything's okay, we made it!" Looking back at Saki, the anger in his expression was evident enough to cause both men to start backing up, Stockman stuttering out
"Bu-bu-but sir, we can explain…" Saki didn't say a word, moving silently toward them, slipping his signature weapon onto his hand.
"We brought you something we think you'll find interesting!"
Dark eyes turned on the blond man, pausing in his advance as the lift doors opened again, two Foot soldiers dragging in a net.
"This had better be good, Hun, or your punishment will be much more severe." Hun swallowed nervously, moving to the side to allow Saki through. Yanking the net off, Saki's eyes narrowed down at the crouched turtle before him. Using his claws, he raised the turtles face to his, black meeting defiant amber and blue. A small but dark smile appeared on Saki's features.
"Hello, Lucian."
TBC
I'm on time with my update! Barely but on time. This one was a little tricky…I knew what I wanted to happen I just had to figure out how to make it work with the episode. I think it jumps a bit but hopefully not too much and hopefully you all liked it! There's more to come and now Lucian is in Saki's clutches again…we all know this is going to go downhill real fast…
This is set during Season 3 episode 15: Mission of Gravity. I swear I am so close to the big chapter! But this lead up is taking forever! Oh well, it will all tie in soon enough! :D
To those who are still reading, still following or still reviewing…thank you soooo much! I know it's getting super long…longer than I ever thought it would when I started but it's all thanks to you…thanks to your kind words/actions of inspiration that I keep going! And I so hope you are finding it worthwhile ^_^
As some of you may know, I have recently posted a new story on my profile called 'Returning'. It's a co-written story I am doing with the fabulous JustineElla2 staring her OC Ruby (aka Victoria which you are familiar with) and my OC, Alexander. Chapter one is now up and its my turn to write chapter 2 so this will be fun! If you like, pop over an have a read.
As always, don't forget to leave a comment for me as I always love to hear from you! If I ever start to get boring in my chapters or you have an idea you'd like to see happen or can see happening in it PLEASE let me know! It's always fun hearing the thoughts of my readers and I take all suggestions into consideration! ^_^
Anyway, I'll stop babbling away now. Catch you in the next chapter!
-Lucian