Donnie: The new mutants are reimagined one from the '87 series so Myra doesn't own them. As for everything else if you see it on the show then again Myra doesn't own it.
"First things first." Shredder declared as he approached Douglas Steinback, who he had just transformed into a mutant mole. "You have two choices, you can serve me or you can be destroyed."
Douglas looked up at him rather resentfully, much like how Zeck and Steranko had looked at him after the ninja master had forcefully mutated them. He leapt at him with a rage but Shredder brought up foot to catch him in the gut and then back punched him hard to send him sprawling.
"Nice try." Shredder stated. "Now make your choice, mole."
Douglas still glared at him but reluctantly bent to one knee. "I will serve you…master."
"Very well." Shredder said and looked to Chuck, who had become a large brown mutant bull. "Lead Douglas, Bradford, Xever, Steranko, Zeck, Hector and some Foot bots to the sewers and resume that path. Find the turtles and destroy them."
"As you wish master." Chuck declared.
Donnie and April were again hard at work making the retro mutagen while the rest of the team sat around the TV watching Mortal Instruments City of Bones. April kind of wished she could watch it with them but wanted to be around Donnie and he had to make the retro mutagen so it narrowed that one down.
Raph and Jennifer sat together on the couch, his strong arm around his blonde girlfriend while her head was on his shoulder. His hand would occasionally reach over and stroke her hair.
Mikey and Renet sat on the couch together, Renet had her legs under her and the time scepter sitting beside her since Lord Simultaneous would kill her if she lost it.
Casey sat on the couch with Karai sitting just below him on the floor, looking as if she were mediating though was in reality was watching the movie as well.
Leo glanced at the movie as he was going at the punching bag. Aaliyah sat just over the couch watching the movie and was writing in a notebook that April and Casey had brought for her at her request. None of the guys were mean enough to try to read it behind her back, something they never would have done for each other.
Splinter sat under the tree in the dojo, he was trying to meditate as well but he could hear the movie as well. The truth was though that they were all anxious to be able to finish the Rat King and his rat ninjas that he had created with major help from the Kraang.
"It would be so awesome if these people were real." Mikey decided.
"How do you figure?" Raph asked his youngest brother. "We already have enough demons, mutants and aliens running around without adding vampires and werewolves and rogue shadow hunters to the fray."
"Who says we don't already have that?" Renet asked mysteriously.
Aaliyah looked at her oddly but before she could try to pursue the apprentice time mistress on that comment but the perimeter alarms went off again. No one really jumped since it had happened before but they all rose as the lab door opened to reveal the smartest turtle of the team.
"What's going on now Donnie?" Leo asked him.
"We have big trouble." The purple masked turtle answered simply. "We have basically every mutant of Shredder's down in the sewers along with a bull mutant and mole mutant we've never seen before and they're following the same path that the hunter guy took to try to find the lair."
"You've got to be kidding me." Raph grumbled.
"Is that just a coincidence by any chance?" Casey asked.
"Somehow I doubt that one Jones." Karai replied.
"Donatello, you must stay here and complete the retro mutagen; we cannot afford any more delays on that front." Splinter instructed his second youngest son. "April, I believe he could use your help as well." The rat master looked to the rest of his family. "The rest of you must go and stop Shredder's mutants from finding the lair."
"Hai sensei." Leo acknowledged and then looked to his team. "We've got work to do, so let's get out there." The ninjas, the kunoichi's and the vigilante headed out right off the bat. Renet hesitated only an instant but then followed them as she did not want to be left behind.
They weren't quite as stealthy as they had been when first approaching Chuck the hunter but then again there were mutants tromping around out there as well so they weren't being so quiet either and time was of the essence if they wanted to try to keep them from finding the lair.
"Alright." Leo whispered. "I'll take the bull, Aaliyah go for Bradford, Mikey go for the mole, Casey you get Bebop, Karai you handle Rocksteady, Jennifer deal with Fishface and Raph you get Hector. Renet you help whoever you think needs it." Each member of the team nodded in acknowledgement at their orders.
They were almost upon the mutant army but any advantage they had was taken away when Rahzar alerted his team, "I smell reptiles and humans." It was technically accurate since Karai was half snake as well as being human like Renet, Casey and Jennifer.
"Who're your new friends Rahzar?" Mikey asked his former friend as they stepped out of the shadows.
"You should recognize me turtles." The bull said. "I've come to make you pay for wrecking my hunt."
"That must be Chuck." Aaliyah realized.
"Yep, looks like he went all bull on us." Raph said.
"Yep, Taurus Bullba." Mikey declared and then shook his head. "Nah, that ain't right. How about Horn Hunter…nope…" He drifted off in thought.
"I think it's enough talk." Fishface interrupted. "Time to ground us some fresh meat."
"That's it!" Mikey exclaimed. He looked to the bull mutant. "I christen you Groundchuck."
"Maybe we should just be surprised that Mikey knows such a big word as christen." Raph suggested to his friends.
Mikey looked to the mole mutant. "Now what do we call you?" He wondered.
"You've got to be kidding me." Douglas said as he rolled his eyes. "Can we just get rid of these freaks in the already?"
"Freaks?" Leo questioned.
"Yeah, have you lost your mind you freakin' dirtbag?" Raph exclaimed.
"Hah, sounds good to me." Rahzar laughed as he thought about how Tiger Claw had found him in the first place and what the fly had uncovered about him.
"I agree." Mikey said which surprised everyone including the mutant dog even though none of the good guys knew what the bad guys did. "From now on your mutant name is Dirtbag."
"Oh, come on." Douglas, now Dirtbag, whined with exasperation. "I'd say this guy really needs a life if he was going to live past this evening." He then leapt right at Mikey with his teeth bared, and the orange masked turtle let out a little yelp before striking him across the face with his nunchuck.
"I guess it's you and me Groundchuck." Leo said to the mutant bull hunter as he twirled his katana around. "Too bad for you that I'm not wearing red."
Groundchuck shrugged. "That's alright. I never liked the color blue." Her responded and then tried to gore Leo, but the blue masked turtle stepped to the side and delivered a kick to his side.
Aaliyah approached Bradford and started to pace him, just as he did to her. "You don't have to side with them." Bradford tried as a distraction. "Side with us instead. Join the winning team and I'm sure Master Shredder will see to it that you are restored to your human form."
"Like he did with you?" Aaliyah shot back and then shook her head. "You're not the winning team and you're not the good guys. And I won't fight for evil as long as I have that choice." She remembered the threats and shock collars and even some of the torture Fulcanelli, Hector and Gregory had inflicted although it was Candy who got most of the torture. "Never again."
"It's your funeral then." Bradford declared and leapt at the female turtle, snapping his jaws at her. She back flipped out of the way and then delivered a round house kick to his jaw to send him reeling.
"Alright pork rind." Casey said as he took out his bat. "Let's see what you've got."
"You can't handle what I got son." Bebop responded as he went invisible. Casey kept his eyes trained for any sign of movement and he got what he wanted, the thin trickle of water in this area was good enough for him to see the footprints left as the mutant thief walked. Casey turned around and slammed the bat right into his chest.
"Found you." Casey gloated as he pumped his fist in the air.
"Yeah, let's see you do that again." Bebop demanded and tried to reactivate his cloaking field only to see it spark and fail to work. "Um, oh boy." He barely dodged a follow up attack from the vigilante.
"I owe you pain for your last attack girl." Rocksteady declared as he tried to gore Karai, but the kunoichi dodged expertly out of the way.
Karai landed lightly on her feet and laughed. "Yeah right Steranko. You've got to get your hands on me first." She stated. She knew why Leo had assigned her to deal with Rocksteady; she was fast enough to dodge whatever he sent at her regardless of whether it was fist, hammer or horn. "Face it; you're just too slow to catch me."
Rocksteady growled and tried to bring his fist down on Karai but she jumped up and kicked him in the face. The rhino mutant growled and tried again to attack her only for her to roll out of the way and then behind him where she delivered a kick to the back of his knee though that didn't do much more than anger him. The disadvantage here was he could take a lot of her attacks.
Hector gave a malicious grin and leapt for the lithe blonde he was obsessed with but the red masked turtle got in the way with a kick to his face. "I don't think so buddy." Raph said to him. "No way you're going near my girlfriend."
Hector laughed. "Think you can stop me reptile?" He tried to punch Raph in the face but he dodged it and kicked him in the chest hard, then brought his knee up against his opponents jaw.
"You have no idea how much I'm looking forward to taking you out." Raph said. "I owe you so much for all of the pain and misery you've inflicted on Jennifer."
"Is that what she called it?" Hector asked tauntingly. "That certainly isn't how I remember it."
"You're a creep with a jacked up memory anyway." Raph stated and kicked him in the stomach and then gave him an uppercut to the face that split his lip.
Hector didn't seem to be bothered by it. He smiled a little and wiped some of the blood from his lip. "First blood, at least for today." He acknowledged and laughed. "But I beat you to an inch of your life and threw you off a building, you'd still be out if it weren't for my little blonde toy. I think I've got more points in this little feud."
"Yeah, thanks for the reminder." Raph growled and jumped up, his hands grasping a pipe as extra leverage to kick Hector in the face. "I owe you big time for that too." He would never admit in a small way he should be thankful for that incident though as that not only showed Jennifer she could use that for others but it was the major thing for both him and Jennifer to explore their feelings for one another.
"It seems you've broken him." Fishface commented to the blonde mockingly as the fish mutant took out his butterfly knives and advanced on her.
Jennifer had her batons out though she lacked the confidence of her team mates to taunt with her weapons. "That's what you choose to call it." Jennifer replied. "I don't agree, and neither does Splinter. He's able to focus his temper and energy more into what really matters, which in this case involves taking you and all of your allies down."
With a roar of annoyance Fishface swiped his knives at the lithe blonde but she was able to block those with her batons and then got in a quick uppercut to his jaw before pulling back to avoid getting bitten by the mutant fish and infected with his venom.
Dirtbag produced a sledgehammer and swung it at Mikey, who barely dodged the attack and then by using his kusarigama he pulled the weapon away. The mutant mole growled and leapt to attack Mikey but was interrupted with a shot to the face from Renet with the time scepter. If he had been human still, Dirtbag may have had his nose broken from that shot.
Groundchuck had withdrawn a wicked looking hunting knife and was sparring with Leo. The mutant bull had the smaller blade but it was clear he knew how to use it effectively. He got a good punch in the jaw to the blue masked turtle but an attempt to stab him in the gut (Leo was sure it was sharp enough to pierce the plastron) was aptly blocked.
"Well this could be going worse." Casey noted as he took another swing at Bebop, who was quick enough to dodge it.
At that point they heard the sounds of Footbots coming their way and Rahzar chuckled even as he dodged another attack from the female turtle. "Our backup is coming up." He announced. "And this time we have enough Footbots to overwhelm this tunnel and to take you down."
"I think we're running out of time dudes." Mikey announced. "We need to do something like now."
"Any bright ideas genius?" Raph shot back at his youngest brother as he dodged a scythe attack from Hector, who the red masked turtle was starting to notice the mantis attached to that weapon seemed to be a favorite form.
Casey took a step back and as the first few Footbots were coming down the tunnel he let loose with a hockey puck with a cherry bomb ductaped to it into their midst. The explosion took out a few of them but it was clear there were more coming. "We really could have used Red and Donnie after all." The vigilante noted.
Jennifer barely dodged a mechanical foot that Fishface had aimed to her midsection, sure if she hadn't done so she would have a broken rib or two, and though she would heal herself in some small time she knew she didn't have it now. The worst part was that she knew without April here she didn't yet have the psychic strength to take out all of the Footbot on her own as she and the red head had done when May had controlled the empty Kraang droids or even what the two girls had done when Rat King had tried to set the turtles up against his rat mutants that had also resulted in Casey getting hurt.
Hector laughed. "It doesn't really matter where you freaks live, once we overwhelm you and kill you all," He looked to Jennifer and amended with a cruel leer which the blonde caught despite her fight against Fishface, "almost all of you, then your rat master will come looking to avenge his fallen students and then the Shredder shall have him."
"We won't let any of that happen." Raph declared to him with the typical air of menace he felt whenever he was dealing with Hector and he chose to threaten Jennifer.
Renet was just thinking about ways she could get the rest of them out of this harm's way when it seemed as if there was a breeze picking up around the sewers. At first she tried to dismiss it since it was the sewers and a basically open, if cramped area. But the breeze continued to what she almost considered hurricane levels.
The apprentice time mistress was not alone in that observation. "What is this?" Rahzar wondered as he looked around, barely dodging a large metal can that could have smacked him in the face. "What are you trying to do here?"
"It isn't us." Mikey defended as he dodged a few punches from Dirtbag. "Right?"
"No Mikey, it isn't." Leo confirmed as he blocked a knife attack from Groundchuck again. "Got to give you credit, dude. You know how to use that knife."
Groundchuck laughed. "You'll find that out even better when I gut you." The mutant bull gloated.
"If I were you, I'd get out of the way turtles." They heard a somewhat gravelly voice say from behind them in the tunnel as the wind picked up and even more and started blowing trash around as well.
Mikey recognized the voice and took Renet's hand to guide her toward the speaker. Leo backed off after recognizing the voice. Aaliyah and Karai followed the actions of the blue masked turtle though neither girl really knew why. Raph kicked Hector in the face again and then took Jennifer gently by her arm to guide her and Casey followed Raph's lead.
"What the hell are they up to?" Hector demanded as more Footbots came around the corner and was ready to try to overwhelm the team.
With his visor Bebop was the first to notice something and he gulped a bit. "Uh, hey, baby S. We got some company. The trash dude." He said.
"Oh, that is not so good." Rocksteady said.
"What are you two babbling about?" Fishface demanded.
From out of the shadows of the tunnel emerged the large mutant known as Muckman. Where there was no orange jumpsuit was either a green sort of skin that looked like garbage or even what looked to be half exposed parts of his skeleton.
Casey looked kind of shocked, Karai looked stunned herself. Jennifer actually looked a little scared which was weird since she hadn't seemed to even bat an eye at the sight of any of the mutants she had seen prior too. Aaliyah looked pretty much shocked as well but with just the slightest bit of disgust. Renet of course knew who he was.
"Oh yeah. Time for some power courtesy of the Noxious Avenger." Mikey declared.
Muckman continued to gather up the strength of the wind and the garbage, combined with some of the sewer water and was using almost like a hurricane to push back the mutants and the Foot bots.
"Is there anything we can do to help him?" Aaliyah asked.
Leo looked around and saw some of the pipes. These ones he knew sent water throughout the city and he hated to have to cause public destruction but the water pressure might be just the thing they needed to combine with the storm Muckman was driving up in order to send the Foot packing. He looked to Aaliyah and Raph. "Get ready to catch and direct those pipes guys. We're going to turn the pressure up on them and give them a bath." He announced.
Raph nodded. "Ready when you are bro." He replied.
Aaliyah nodded as well. "Ready when you are." She said to him, giving him a smile that for a moment seemed to make Leo's heart beat faster, something he hadn't experienced since his earliest days of sparring with Karai when she was with the foot.
The blue masked leader quickly put that feeling to the back of his mind when he could better consider what it could mean. He leapt up and used his katana blades to cut through the steel pipes. He wasn't sure how long that pressure would last before the water flow would dissipate and could only hope it would be long enough.
Both Raph and Aaliyah seemed to be aware of that time limit to as they followed behind and grabbed the pipes as they fell, adding to temporary massive water pressure to the garbage hurricane Muckman was building up. It almost immediately made the Foot bots short circuit and only Rocksteady and Hector (by taking a shape similar to Rocksteady) were holding their own against the hurricane. Fishface might have been able to as well if not for the garbage that seemed to smack him in the face. Everyone else was losing ground rapidly.
"How long is that pressure gonna hold up?" Casey asked.
"I don't know." Leo said. "But not for more than a few minutes."
"They don't seem to be getting far enough out." Mikey said. "Although of course the Foot bots are toast."
Renet raised the time scepter and focused on opening a massive time door behind the mutant army. It did slowly open but the next part required her to do something she wasn't sure she could even do, and that was to move the time door to overtake the enemies.
Mikey seemed to catch onto what Renet was hoping to do and used his kusarigama to take the piping that had been broken for the steam effect when they were down here last and with a moment of swirling the weapon to gain momentum he tossed it straight at them. It collided with Rocksteady who fell back into Bebop and Rahzar even as the water pressure got to Groundchuck and Fishface.
Casey got a baseball out and threw a rapid pitch that caught Dirtbag in his face just as Renet's strike with the time scepter minutes earlier had done and now the mutant mole lost his hold.
Quickly handing his pipe to Karai, Raph made a leap and kicked Hector in the chest hard, sending him to into the rest of the mutants and they all went through the time door. "Raph!" Jennifer shouted out as she realized at this point that her red masked boyfriend would get sucked in with them. Luckily Mikey's kusarigama chain wrapped around his upper arm and he held on as Aaliyah and the kunoichi dropped their rapidly depressurizing pipe.
Now that the pressure and the hurricane were all but gone Jennifer ran over to him. "Raph." She said and hugged him tightly. "I would prefer you not scare me like that again." She added.
Raph hugged her back tightly and stroked her hair lightly. "I'll try not to but I can't make any promises." He answered softly.
"Nice timing there mucky." Mikey said to the garbage mutant.
Just when Jennifer thought it couldn't get any weirder one of the mutants eyeballs slid out until it landed in the outstretched hand. "Spent a lot of time looking for you guys." Said the little eyeball. "A lot of weird stuff has been going on lately and we wondered what it meant."
"Some demons going on, some gang wars, an alien race and mad scientists making rat mutants to get rid of us." Raph drawled with a shrug. "No biggie there Joe."
"That might be a bit of an exaggeration." Leo replied with a glance at his red masked younger brother. "That's the second time they've come looking for us recently, trying to find our lair."
"It must be somewhere relatively close then." Muckman observed. "That ain't good I guess."
"We should hang out here for a while." Joe said to his…Jennifer wasn't quite sure what to make of this odd pairing. "Keep them at bay for a while. Plus we'll be close if the turtles need us."
"I think that might be a good idea Joe." Muckman agreed. "We could kind of set up shop in one of them smaller tunnels and stay there when we're not on patrol up on the surface."
"I'd ask if the smell down here would bother you." Karai remarked with a raised eyebrow. "But considering you're a pile of garbage with a talking eyeball maybe not so much."
The rest of the team looked at the kunoichi a little surprised but the garbage monster didn't seem to be too worried about the blunt comment. "Nah, we'll be fine kid." He answered. "And if it keeps you and yours a little safer than that's all that matters."
"Well said Muckman." Leo said. "We'll try to help get you set up as best we can. After we find out what Donnie thinks might help us out."
"And with that, we should return to the lair and make sure Master Splinter, Donnie and April know what is going on." Raph noted. "We'll see you around and keep you informed." He added to Muckman with a wave as they started back to the lair.
"Hey, where did you send all of those guys anyway?" Casey asked the apprentice time mistress.
"Honestly, I don't know." Renet answered with a shrug, drawing a snicker from Mikey and Casey and a small groan from both Raph and Leo. "It shouldn't really be placing them lost in time, but for all I know they might have landed on the other side of the world."
They returned to the lair intent on delivering the good news about the mutants failing and Muckman hanging out in that area to help protect them and that they should try to help him get more comfortable but when they went to the lab they found things grim.
"What's wrong?" Jennifer asked them as she came over to place her hand on April's shoulder.
"While you were gone the Kraang communication orb when haywire." April answered.
"What does that mean?" Karai asked.
"They're planning a two pronged attack." Donnie explained to his oldest sister and the rest of his family and friends. "The Rat King intends to challenge us tomorrow afternoon, in 'a fight where either they walk away or we do'," He used two of his three fingers on each hand to emphasize it was a direct quote, probably from the Rat King himself. "Meanwhile the Kraang are going to use that as a distraction to invade the city again, believing they can take out one turtle and group of humans."
"They've got another thing coming then." Karai promised with a glare at the orb.
"Where is Master Splinter?" Aaliyah asked.
"Well that's the two good things." April said as she now shifted to look at the female turtle. "The first piece of news is that two hours of incubation and the retro mutagen will be ready for the guys to use on those mutant rats. The second is that Master Splinter is going to get our backup."
Can they stop the newest Kraang invasion and the mutant rats? Will getting rid of the mutant rats stop the Rat King? Where did Shredder's mutant army end up at? The adventure continues.