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Chapter #34
*Late night Saturday June 6th around 11:00p.m. into early morning Sunday June 7th*
It was just a little after 11p.m. when Leo and Donnie had left the lair, and it wasn't much longer after that when Sam and Raph began working together to form a plan on how to retrieve the purple ooze from police headquarters.
"Alright. Before we can do anything, I need to hack into the headquarters database carefully so I can print out a layout of their building. I'm sure there's a specific area for classified items and this will help us try and figure out just where that is."
Raph felt odd seeing Sam working at Donnie's seat and using his tech. For a short moment, a wave of guilt washed over him. He knew that Sam was allowed to use all of his brother's tech at this point in life, but the reason why she was using it left him with an uneasy feeling. He then closed his eyes and remembered why they were going behind his brother's backs and that this would be for a life changing cause, and after that, his head was back in the game.
A few moments later the blue print was ready and the two began searching throughout the maze on the sheet that was the police headquarters building.
"There."
Raph pointed to a spot on the sheet that was labeled 'Evidence Room'.
"This should be our spot. We need to find a way to get April and Casey to this room. Are there any sneak entrances? Or isolated emergency exits?"
The two continued to look.
Sam sighed. "Ironically the closest entrance towards this room is the front entrance itself. So before we can plan anything else, we need to figure out how we're going to get them past the cops at the head desk."
Mikey then suddenly spoke as he was swinging his nunchuks around as he stood on the raised pipe nearby. He didn't really know all that the other two were talking about, but he was listening to bits and pieces.
"Hey, what about the falcon?"
Sam and Raph both looked at each other. Sam looked surprised while Raph just looked disgusted.
"That…could actually work" Sam added with a smile.
"Ugh, how could he possibly cause a distraction? What could he do?" Raph groaned.
"People all throughout the city think that Vern is a hero, and that includes the police. He could go in and say that he came in specifically to visit them, butter them up you know? Then April and Casey could walk straight up to the check in station if Vern distracts the cops in a way so that they're attention is diverted from that station."
Raph pursed his lips in defeat. "*sigh* Fine. If that's our best shot at getting things to work out in our favor, then I guess it's what we have to do."
"Alright, now the next step is worrying about how they get checked in."
"Oh!" Raph said as he looked up and stared at Sam with wide eyes. "Donnie has tech for that! He's used it before so that April could get into other places to find behind the scenes details for her news reports. Oh it's got to be in here somewhere" he said as he rushed into his brother's lab and began looking for the devices that allowed April's fake I.D. to be accepted at different locations. She had multiple fake I.D.'s in case one identity was ever discovered, but in order to use any of them then Raph needed to find the device that activated them.
A couple minutes later, Raph walked out of the lab with a small square flash drive.
"I know he uses this. If we can get Vern to plug this into a computer then April's fake I.D. should automatically be entered into the system" Raph said. He then paused as he noticed Sam rolling her hand in front of him, as if she was waiting for him to continue talking.
"What?" he grunted.
"You do realize you need more than JUST the flash drive, right?" she asked.
Raph shrugged.
Sam smiled as she stood up. "I need one of Donnie's tablets" Now it was her turn to scavenge through the nerd lab.
"Why do we need a tablet? Vern can't take a tablet in with him. Only the flash drive can be used in secret" Raph called out to his friend from the door way of the lab.
Sam continued to look through drawers and shelves as she talked.
"Because the flash drive can set up the system, but the tablet allows us to tell the system what we want it to do. Basically one gets things running and the other guides what the final outcome will be. It's basically a super complex program that hardcore coders, aka your brother, are able to access. It's one of those things where the best of the best can find it and safely download it. I could never do, but once your brother introduced it to me I was able to get the gist of how to use it."
Raph chuckled as he crossed his arms and leaned against the doorway. "I thought you were supposed to be a genius to?" he said with a smirk.
Sam shook her head and smiled as she continued her search. "I'm smart, but I'm not a genius. I can pick things up relatively quickly, but I can't always answer and discover things on my own like Donnie can. I'm just a lab assistant compared to him. Aha! Found it!"
Sam picked up the tablet and then walked over to one of the computers within Donnie's lab.
"Raph, walk over to that drawer over there and toss me one of April's fake I.D.'s."
Raph did as he was told and Sam got to work once the card was in her hand.
Raph walked over and leaned over the girl's shoulder as she typed and clicked away on the computer.
"Sooooooo what are you doing now?" he asked.
"Making sure that the program recognizes this specific card and the information on it. And according to this, everything matches up."
"And this means?"
Sam smiled as she pushed back in the chair and stood up as she lead the two back out of the room and over towards the blue prints by the collage of computers.
"It means that once the flash drive is inserted into a computer at headquarters, then as long as we can get close enough, the I.D. will be accepted. But we need to see if the vents allow us to get close enough. Sadly that's the only downfall to the program. The main device has to be within close range in order for it to connect to whatever device is scanning her I.D. Sadly these are some of the cons of downloading programs like this. They're made in secret and are knock offs of official government tactics which means they can't be used as well as more professional programs."
Raph, who had been looking at the blue prints while Sam talked, now looked up with a smile.
"Well, I guess it's a good thing there's a vent way that cuts across the ceiling of the main entrance" he said as he pointed to the area he was talking about.
Sam scanned the area quickly and nodded.
"Man, the luck that we have right now is insane. This will work. That should be close enough for the program to connect. So we'll have the tablet in the vents and can quickly get the program working to accept April's I.D."
"So then they go in, access the evidence room…wait, there's no way that there won't be cameras or something in that room."
"Wait…" Sam said as she tapped on the screen for a few seconds. "Yup, this tablet has like a ridiculous amount of programs that do different things. One of them being a hacking program. I can easily rewind and alter the cameras so that April and Casey can basically walk right in without anyone ever knowing. Our main issue will be if there's anyone in the room itself."
"In that case, we can always remove a tile from the ceiling and cause some type of distraction. You know, drop a smoke bomb or something to get everyone a bit frantic and away from that area. The three of us are slick enough that we could escape in no time and never get caught."
Sam nodded her head.
"I think we have a pretty solid plan" Sam said, putting her fist up for a fist bump.
Raph sent her an annoyed and questioning look. "Are you serious?"
"Right, I forgot. You're so cool and mature that you can't even fist bump. Wow, so mature. Total adult. Independence detected."
"Oh shut up" Raph mocked as he lifted his hand up to follow through with the gesture.
Sam had already put her hand down. "A fist bump? What are you, 5?" she teased, and then rolled across the table to dodge the light playful punch that Raph had swung her way as pay back for messing with him.
"Oh boy. Why are you rolling across furniture now?" April asked from across the lair near the kitchen, Casey following behind her. It was about 11:15p.m. at this point.
Of course, now was when Mikey suddenly reappeared. "Hey! The Hogosha is back! What up gorgeous?"
He, Raph and Sam all made their way over to the eatery and had a seat. Casey sat in the left seat with April next to him. Then Mikey sat across from her and had Sam sitting next to him and across from Casey. Raph stood along the side of the table as he talked. He explained, in a shockingly calm and nonchalant tone, how Leo and Donnie decided that it was best that the group split up for this next mission.
April nodded her head as Raph explained where the other half had gone. "Okay. So they went to the planetarium to check out the tripped alarm. So what exactly is our mission then?"
Raph fought his best to remain calm as he looked her in the eyes and spoke.
"We need to retrieve the ooze from the evidence room at police headquarters."
April tilted her head in confusion.
"So you wanna break into police headquarters?"
Sam nodded her head, doing her best to support Raph and make it seem like this was all normal and that everything was fine…and mentally praying that this all worked and that April wouldn't call Jay.
Raph also nodded as he spoke.
"Uhhh yeah. Donnie says we need more of the purple ooze to find Bebop and Rocksteady, and we're pretty sure it's locked up in the evidence control room by now."
April continued to look skeptical.
"Okay…and Leo is okay with this plan?"
Raph paused, but then spoke with calmed confidence.
"Actually I'm in charge on this one. Ain't that right Mikey?" he said, turning towards his youngest brother.
"Errrr-RIGHT!" Mikey said with wide eyes that faced a concerned looking April.
Sam rolled her eyes.
"Okay that response doesn't count because he has no idea what's going on when food is in front of him."
"Heyyy!" Mikey said, now facing his friend with sad eyes.
"It's not an insult, just an honest truth" Sam said with a smile, handing her friend a napkin to clean all the food on his face.
Mikey shrugged and took the napkin with a smile as Sam continued to talk.
"Look, we split up into two teams just like Raph said. Leo and Donnie went after the area where Shredder and the mutants and the soldiers went to, and they left us here so that we could retrieve the ooze and keep it somewhere safe."
"And that is?" Casey asked.
"Underground with Professor Perry and the Mutanimals."
"I'm sorry, who and what?"
Sam sighed. "Professor Jordon Perry. He was forced to mutate a bunch of stolen animals using a man-made mutagen he had created 15 years earlier. This mutated all the animals so that Shredder could form a mutant army. All of them are now living safely underground and he and other scientists continued to study and hide all the mutagen that was anonymously sent to Shredder. That is where this new purple ooze belongs as well, and that's why we need to break into police headquarters to get it."
April still seemed concerned about this plan, but her friends sounded serious (besides for Mikey who had literally been eating pizza the entire time) and she decided that this needed to be done.
"Alright. So what's the plan?"
Raph brought over the blue prints of the headquarters building and began explaining the plan to April and Casey about what each person would be doing. Meanwhile, Sam was stealing some of Mikey's pizza slices with a teasing smile.
After hearing the entire plan be explained full way through, Casey formed a frustrated smile as he waved his hand in a means to signal his displeasure in what he had just heard.
"Wait, I can't just walk right into police headquarters."
Raph groaned. "What are you, chicken?"
"Hey!" Casey stated as he stood up from his chair. "Who are you calling chicken? Turtle."
Mikey rolled his eyes…and Sam stole another slice as he was distracted for that literal second.
Raph lowered his voice, but not so low that it reached a menacing point.
"Look. Do you want to find Bebop and Rocksteady, or not?"
Casey paused as he thought this through, and Raph raised his brows as to say 'that's what I thought'.
"So we're breaking into police headquarters" he said as he sat back down. "Oh wait. You're missing something. The access card for the evidence room."
Sam tilted her head to the side. "What's that?"
"You need an access card or else you can't get into the room."
Sam thought about this. "Is this a card that specific people have? Or is this a card that every officer has?"
"Every officer has that card and it has access to every room within the building."
Sam nodded her head and looked up at Raph. "I'll hack into their system again as we head over to get Vern, wherever he is. I'll check their scheduling and see who is heading out. Hopefully they'll be isolated in the locker room and we can snatch a card from them. If that doesn't work" she then turned towards April, "then keep your phone close so I can update you in case we need to improvise."
April nodded.
"Alright. Is that everything?"
Raph and Sam nodded.
"I have all the devices we'll need in my backpack. The only thing we're missing right now is Vern. Can you contact him and-"
"He's at a party at a park nearby" Mikey cut in.
Sam looked over and blinked at him, surprised he had been paying any attention and that he had now provided information to further their plan. "And you know that how?"
Mikey smiled as he turned the phone around and showed that he was looking at Vern's twitter page, and to Sam's amusement, it was her phone he was using.
Sam frantically felt through the pockets of her hoodie. "When? How?"
"Heh, you're not the only one good at stealing things when people aren't looking Sam" he said with a teasing smile.
She nodded. "You're right. I'm also good at taking things bluntly." And with that she stole, yet again, another slice from him.
By 11:30p.m. everyone was now packing up and heading out the nearest exit…except for a confused Michelangelo.
"Are we going somewhere?"
Sam smiled and pulled at his arm for him to stand up.
"Just follow along you dork" she said, her mouth still a bit full as she finished her last bite of the pizza slice.
"How can you eat so much?" Casey asked as Sam switched out her mint green and pink jacket for a black colored one from her backpack.
Mikey jumped in to defend Sam before she could even say anything.
"Dude! She needs to eat, she's already thin as it is!"
"What? She's not that thin" Casey replied.
"*GASP* DID YOU JUST CALL HER FAT?!" Mikey shouted.
"Wait what?! No of course not, but-"
"Not cool man" Raph said as he glared and shook his head at Casey.
"Oh come on! Obviously I didn't mean it like that! I just meant that she's not anorexically thin either! You guys make her out to be a twig!"
"SO NOW YOU'RE SAYING SHE'S WEAK?!" Mikey shouted.
Sam just walked behind the group, the tablet in her hand as she looked up information through the headquarters database, smiling silently as she walked next to April. The two were trying not to laugh and disrupt the interesting conversation that was happening in front of them.
"Okay, okay! Sam is super physically fit and has the right amount of body weight for someone her age, okay?! That still doesn't explain how she can eat as much food as the 6 foot turtle next to her."
"Excuse me sir, but I'm only 5'8!" Mikey announced.
"Not the point! It's still insane that she can eat as much as someone who is larger than her!"
"So now you're calling me fat?!"
"Oh give him a break already" Sam said as she walked by Mikey and playfully shoved him.
"Sam, you realize your shorts are mint green, right?" Mikey asked.
Sam looked down and realized that she had switched to wearing a dark black jacket, but she had forgotten to change her shorts.
"Oops. Thanks man. Here can you hold this?" she asked as she handed Mikey the tablet. She then swung her back pack around and unzipped it to pull out a pair of solid black Adidas shorts that covered the top of her hips and traveled down to cover her thighs, but wouldn't go so far down as to reach her knees.
"Hey Raph hold this."
Raph turned around just in time to catch the backpack that was beamed at his chest, though to him this was like catching a beach ball.
Sam then started stripping her mint green shorts. Everyone was used to this, except for Casey of course.
"Dude, give some warning first or something" Casey said as he covered his eyes.
"What, you have a thing against awesome colored spandex?"
Casey, taking a risk after hearing this, slowly removed his hand from his face and saw that the girl had been wearing a decently long pair of neon colors checkered with black spandex underneath her shorts. Basically she had been stripping, but nothing private was exposed.
Casey just laughed and shook his head.
"I guess this is normal to everyone else?"
"Welcome to the life of living with a tomboy" Raph grumbled as he rolled his eyes. "Hurry up or I'm throwing this bag into a muddy puddle."
"Alright I'm good" Sam said as Raph then tossed the backpack back to her. Mikey handed the tablet back to Sam and after a few more minutes she found the information she was looking for.
"Alright. So there's four guys that will be leaving around the time we'll be getting there. Hopefully we can secretly get a card from one of them. That will make things a lot easier for all of us."
The group reached their destination around 11:35p.m. The manhole they were exiting to get back up to the surface lead to a small alley way that was on a street very close by to the party that Vern was attending.
"I'll go get Vern, you guys stay close" April said. "Oh, and behave when you see him, please. He's not a bad guy, he's just a dork." And with that, April walked out of the alley and headed across the street to go get the last piece to their plan.
Raph suddenly started climbing up to a higher position on the building in the alley.
"Where are you going?" Casey asked.
"It's hard to track her from here. It'll be easier to see her from higher up."
Casey shrugged. "Alright, good call." He also started climbing up the ladders that lead to the roof of the building.
Sam and Mikey decided to join the party and headed to the roof as well. The four continued to talk as they all watched April from afar, making sure that she was alright as she entered the crowded streets of the city.
Mikey and Sam were in the back talking and goofing around while Casey and Raph stood along the edge of the building, watching April. Raph continued to look outward towards the open area as he talked.
"Hey Sam, you updated Jay on what you're doing, right?"
Sam paused and tried to act natural as she spoke.
"What exactly do you mean by update?" she asked nervously.
Mikey's eyes were as wide as Raph's. Raph turned around and now both brothers were staring at her in shocked frustration.
"Sam!" Mikey shouted. "You know we won't do anything unless we know Jay is okay with it!"
"I thought we made it clear that we want to keep his trust!" Raph bellowed.
It was weird to see both of these two upset and gang up on someone over the same thing since usually they were ganging up on each other.
Casey's curiosity cut Sam off before she could say anymore.
"Wait, hold up. So she can't hang out with you guys unless her brother approves?"
Raph looked over at the man while also putting an arm around Sam and putting her in a loose (or at least loose enough) one armed headlock.
"She doesn't have to update him on when she hangs out with us, but she has to let him know when she's joining us on missions like this. And of course, typical Sam is trying to be sneaky by not telling him a damn thing."
Raph ruffled the girl's hair (apparently one of her biggest weaknesses) and released her as she stood up tall to stare him straight in the eye.
"Not cool man, not cool" she said as she pointed in his direction.
"Text him now Sam" Raph said aloud as he turned back around to keep an eye on April.
"Yeah, yeah" she mumbled as she turned around and then saw a moping Michelangelo.
"*groan* ALRIGHT! I'm messaging him now" she replied to Mikey's amusement as he now threw his hands up to show he was happy with her decision.
Only Casey saw that Raph was also smiling after he heard his friend say that she was going to contact her brother.
"So, you can smile, even when you're not bullying other people" Casey mocked.
Raph just rolled his eyes.
"Congratulations, you want a prize for making your discovery?" Raph said in a sarcastic tone.
"You're a tough book to read" Casey said, putting his hands behind his head.
"What?" Raph asked in a rough tone.
"You always act super tough, and I mean I get why, but I don't get why you ALWAYS have to be tough."
"Because he's trying to impersonate Batman" Sam said in a low tone, to which she and Mikey then started imitating a bunch of their favorite fictional characters from different series, and then ranting about them, and then they totally were lost from the original conversation.
Casey chuckled. "And I'm especially surprised you're not as tough after dealing with those two."
Raph sighed. "I've always been the largest and the toughest out of my brothers. I felt like I was the largest for a reason you know. It made working out and getting exercise a lot easier for me. That and generally I've just always been this way. It's just easier to shut others out, you know, being the way we are."
"So, you mean it's easier to push people away because you're mutants?" Casey asked with genuine curiosity since he was now actually really interested in this unexpected open side of Raph.
Raph huffed. "People fear us, at least I'm pretty sure they would. So it's easier to keep people at bay rather than be let everyone in, create peace, all that shit."
"But…you let April in, and then you let Sam and even Jay into your lives."
Raph nodded. "At first I was totally against bringing April to our lair, but I got over it since Sensei wanted to meet her. That's when we learned that she was the reason we look like this now-"
"And that's because?"
"When we were normal turtles, she saved us from a fire at TCRI caused by Eric Sachs. Once we learned this, we all wanted to give her the chance to get to know us, and she's been family ever since. Sam…she's her own unique case."
Casey noticed Raph roll his eyes as he took a deep breath.
"So I guess the way she entered your lives was different from the way April did?"
"Completely different. April found us, literally out of luck, and we handled that immediately. Sam found us because she used spy gear and then we had to chase after her for about a week. Then she fought us some in order to get away from us. Mikey's the main reason she's still around" he said as he turned around to see the two practicing back flips behind them.
"Mikey was the only one that gave her a chance and accepted her apology for sneaking into and stealing from our home."
"She stole from you guys?! Sam did? That girl over their who's basically glued to your brother's side?"
"She's the one" Raph said with raised brows. "She stole a flash drive from Donnie that had literally every piece of information he has about us on it. Of course we got it back and everything was fine, but none of us wanted anything to do with her, except for Mikey who snuck out and met her the next day. The two became friends, we got into a scare when we couldn't reach him during a serious mission one night, Leo decided that the safest way for all of us to keep an eye on the two of them together was if we allowed her into the lair, and the rest is history. She's basically the quintuplet we never had."
"So that's why you all look after her the same way you do to April? Because you see both of them as sisters?"
Raph paused before he finally spoke again. He didn't realize it, but Casey saw that Raph had closed his eyes during this pause.
"We all made regretful decisions when we discovered that Sam was in the Foot clan. We didn't know why she had joined or how long she had been a member, but our instincts lead us to make our decisions the night we found out even though we didn't know or understand anything about her situation. We all made regretful choices that night, especially me. None of us can ever truly forget about it, and we all hate who we were when it all happened. Sometimes the four of us even have nightmares about what happened and sometimes they're about what could have happened as well. So we all do our best to make sure it never happens again. We got to know her pretty well before the Foot fell, but we all became ten times closer afterwards."
"I understand all that, but I still don't get the personality switch. You know, going from 'I'm going to kick your ass' to 'tell your brother where you are cause he'll get worried'."
Raph snickered at the man's comparison.
"To the average person, I'm always the 'I'll kick your ass guy', but only people that truly care will stick around long enough to see that that's not the only side of me. I said I've always grown up as the tough one, but I never said that's the only thing I grew up as. April grew attached to us pretty quickly, and just as fast she started treating us like an older sister would treat her kid brothers. I love her but man she nags about us taking care of ourselves so freaking much. But, it's also nice to have someone who cares so much, you know? Sam was basically the same way. Mikey became her best friend pretty much over night, but the rest of us were tough one her, but she never gave up. She stuck around and took the time to get to know each of us, and we all have things in common with her. They both know how to talk to us in ways when our other brothers can't, and with Sam specifically, there are times where we go to her because we literally can't go to anyone else, that or there have been times where everyone else shoots you down and she makes sure you're not alone when it's known you don't want to be. She can sense things like that."
Casey smiled up at the large turtle.
"So does that mean your brother's know these sides to you as well?"
"Oh yeah. They know not to joke about it though. Heh, they learned that early on when we were kids. But all four of us pretty much know EVERYTHING about the others, but like most guys, we just don't bring light to it. But there are times where each of us may surprise the others. Sam's lead Mikey to reveal some new sides to him we had never seen before."
Casey nodded his head. All of this information was so mind-blowing to him. Just like Raph had said, when you first saw him, you thought that he hated the world and everyone in it, yet here he was watching over April to make sure that she reached Vern safely, and then he was also harping on Sam to make sure that her brother knew of her whereabouts. He just never imagined that someone so rough looking could actually be so caring and genuine. For a second, he also thought it was interesting how Mikey seemed like an overly laid back person who never had any idea what was going on, yet he also became worried and protective when telling Sam to text Jay about what she was doing.
"Well, they do say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Man did I judge these books the wrong way" he thought to himself.
"There's April with Vern" Raph stated, pulling Casey away from his thoughts.
He then saw the devilish grin on Raph's face as April and Vern entered the alley way.
"Alright. We'll get this show on the road right after I talk to our friend the falcon."
Earlier his menacing voice was used more so in a playful way. But not this time, this time he sounded pissed.
Raph began making his way down towards the ground, and as Casey followed, he wondered how much more interesting this night was going to get.
Raph jumped down behind April and a startled Vern.
A cocky and slightly annoyed smile formed on his face. "Well, well, well. If it ain't the prince of the city."
Vern rolled his eyes.
"Oh give me a break Raph. You're the one who told me to take credit for Shredder in the first place. And now in light of the fact that he is who knows where, I'm starting to have profound regrets about this arrangement."
"Well we can always fix that" Sam said as she now leapt down and stood next to Raph.
"Hey Vern."
"Hey Sam and um what do you mean by that exactly?"
Sam smirked at him. "You were chosen because you're one of the few people who knows everything about the Foot, the mutants, EVERYTHING, even though you had nothing to do with the fall of the clan last year, so people put their trust in you that you would cause a distraction so that all the people trying to hide from the Foot could do so. But if you're not doing a good job at convincing the city it was you, we can always find someone else" she said with a confident smile.
"Pshh, I can handle this I'm fine, totally fine" Vern said, not realizing just how timid he sounded.
"Where's Mikey?" Raph asked.
"On his way, once he finishes his push-ups because he lost to me in arm wrestling."
Now it was Casey's turn to talk.
"Soooooo are we just gonna stand around and talk, or?" he asked, his arms crossed over his chest.
Mikey now leapt down and was walking behind Vern.
"Who's this guy?" Vern asked, a slightly annoyed tone coming from him.
Mikey walked up to Casey and then began to back away with his hands up.
"Total loser bro. I mean, nice enough fella, if you like guys who can't even bench press. Boom!" he said, throwing his arm down in front of him.
"Heh, yeah. Or even fill out a t-shirt" Vern added, which also received a chuckle and a fist bump from Mikey.
Usually Sam didn't care when she heard other guys compete like this, and she didn't care if the guys or anyone else showed their interest in April, but she knew that's why these two dorks were making the comments that they were. It never really affected her before, but right now she wasn't in the mood to hear it. So while they tried to impress a beautiful woman, she decided to get her phone and earphones out and started listening to who she deemed as some of the most gorgeous men in the universe, BTS. Everyone was so caught up in the main conversation that no one really noticed her take a few steps back and just chill against the wall nearby.
April continued the main conversation.
"Vern, he's a part of the plan."
"What plan is that?" Vern asked, amused at all that was going on.
"The plan to…break into police headquarters" April said nervously, biting her lip.
"….What?" Vern displayed a 'wtf' face spot on.
"We need to find Shredder."
"We? No, no. We're not doing this." Vern then started to just babble on. "Listen, I'd love to help you guys out but I can't. I got, you know-"
Mikey, who sensed that Vern was just messing around at this point, decided to do the same to him as he leaned in and started touching the key on the chain around the man's neck.
"Whoaaaaa, sweet key bro. Does it go to something?"
Vern swatted his hand away.
"No it's just the key to the city" he said in a low and flustered voice.
"Vern," Casey cut in, "As the resident new guy in this band of freaky misfits, I say you should do yourself a favor, and just roll with it.
Taken aback, Vern attempted to defend himself.
"Hey new guy! All I do is roll with it. I've been rolling with it since you were wearing baby t-shirts because you were a baby-"
Raph stepped up towards Vern so that he was practically in front of his face, or more so Vern was in front of Raph's chest since the turtle towered over the human man.
"Police Headquarters. 30 minutes. Put this flash drive in one of their computers. Do whatever you need so that the cops at the front desk don't pay attention to April and Casey as they walk into the building. Once they're in you can leave. You better be there."
Raph forcefully handed the drive to Vern and then walked away before the man could say another word.
Casey was the next to leave.
"See you there" he said triumphantly.
Mikey was the next to leave. He got close to Vern, and with a tantalizing voice and expression repeated the phrase "see you there."
"He just said that" Vern mumbled.
He turned around to see April standing there with her arms up.
"Don't worry guys! I'll get Sam and make sure she's okay!"
The three walking away stopped, looked around them to see that Sam wasn't there, and then turned back towards April with wide eyes. Raph and Mikey grumbled, Raph more so because Sam was wasting time, and Mikey more so because his friend has just snuck away (not really) and didn't say anything.
Raph was about to storm over and grab her, but April put her hand up to signal that she would get Sam, knowing that if Raph was overly harsh then they would never even get to headquarters.
April carefully maneuvered around a dancing Sam as she danced to DOPE and pulled an earphone from the girl's ear.
Sam faced her and then saw that no one else was there.
"Oh, did we tell Vern that-"
"Everything's been taken care of" April kindly said with a smile.
Sam pursed her lips and nodded. "Alright." She then quickly ran over to Vern and stated in a low voice, "see you there" before running off and catching up with the guys as Mikey and Raph gently shoved her for doing what she did.
"They already…said that, ugh" Vern mumbled in annoyance.
"Good" April said as she walked by the man, "then that means you know where to be."
Everyone started heading towards their spot for the plan, and soon after, the plan was set in motion. It was five minutes after midnight when Vern set the plan in motion as he entered the police station and distracted the cops while the turtles and Sam were in the vents using the tablet to set up the device that would connect to the flash drive Vern just inserted into the computer. April and Casey entered the building mere seconds later, but the group in the vents was able to get everything to connect just in time so that the two down below were given access into the building. April and Casey then made their way throughout the building to where the evidence room was while the three up top moved around the vents to get to the locker room. Raph and Mikey had to awkwardly but successfully maneuver themselves to snatch an access card from an officer who was taking off his gear from work that day, and then not even a minute later Mikey was dropping the card down through a vent opening to April who was standing below it.
Sam was now using the tablet to gain access to the cameras in the evidence room to see if anyone was there and then to adjust them so that no one would ever know that Casey and April had ever been in the room. She sent a message to the two saying that it was clear and that the cameras had been altered, so April swiped the card to enter the room…but that's when two Foot soldiers came rushing out, though they stopped for a second, stunned that someone had found them.
Mikey gasped out loud.
"What's wrong?!" Raph called out.
"Foot soldiers!" Mikey cried out.
"What?! But they're-" Sam cut herself off as her eyes went wide. "There was no proof…"
"What?!" Raph bellowed.
"I assumed they were gearing up to follow Shredder and the mutants to the museum, but they were really heading here instead" she stated in a worried tone, her hands now behind her neck while the three remained in the vents.
"They just got past April and Casey, we need to move!" Mikey called out.
"Sam stop pouting and get down there! Mikey and I will get to the exit and cut them off there" Raph bellowed, his voice even louder in the vents.
"Are you crazy?! We can't be seen!" Mikey shouted in reply.
"That purple ooze is our last chance at being normal, and it's about to walk right out the front door" he sternly said.
"Be careful" Sam stated, though the guys probably didn't hear with how loud they were as they moved quickly through the noisy vents.
Sam pushed down the vent opening and quickly hoisted herself down to the ground. She pulled her hood up and luckily she already had her black surgical mask on, so she was all ready to go.
She saw 3 soldiers running away and she sped throughout the debris left behind from the soldiers to try and catch up to them.
She caught up to the first soldier and whipped out her tonfa as she ran up and leapt from a desk and leapt over the soldier. She lightly hit his head since he had dodged as he heard her coming up from behind him, but she was able to quickly pivot on her left leg and kick him with her right. Now these fights with the Foot weren't going to be as easy since Shredder had much more skilled ninjas working for him now. Sam had to quickly get back into position after she landed her kick because the soldier was already up and swinging at her. The soldier then pulled out his own set of tonfa and the two seemed to fight for what seemed like forever, neither being able to find a weakness in the other and always dodging or blocking the blow coming from the other. Sam thought she needed to change things up and ended up launching a rolling chair at him, and since this wasn't something light or thin enough for the man to cut through, he had to dodge, and this left a split second opportunity for Sam to run up and slide to trip the man and then knee him in the face on his way down.
"Man that took way longer than I expected it to" Sam thought to herself. "I need to hurry up and catch up with the others."
She wasn't sure which direction she was supposed to go in since there were multiple different hallways within the building, but she assumed she was supposed to run in the direction of a huge crash that she had just heard. She had only taken a few steps before she decided to retreat and hide because she saw a bunch of police officers, including Jade and Chief Vincent, run by as well. Sam watched them as she carefully hid behind a toppled over desk. At times like this she was grateful that she was so much smaller than the turtles. The larger group then started running towards another large crash, but this time it sounded like glass shattering.
"Oh shit…" Sam whispered to herself as she put her tonfa back into her bag and then started sprinting towards the crash.
She felt a lump in her throat when she then heard Leo's voice, and then right after that hearing multiple officers yelling at someone to put their hands up and freeze. She heard Raph's voice to, and she knew that all four of them had to be in there. Why Leo and Donnie were here, she had no idea, but that wasn't the point. Her friends were in danger and she needed to do something about it.
"FREEZE"
"DON'T MOVE"
"Wait we're the good guys!"
"GET ON THE GROUND NOW!"
Just as Sam slid in, her hood still up and her mask still on (thank god) the two turtles in the front had just begun to kneel down on the ground.
She stood in front of the two. She was so focused on the terrified expressions of the officers in front of her that couldn't sense the wide eyed looks of the four turtles behind her.
Sam would be a liar if she said she wasn't terrified right now as well. She had no plan, no idea what she was doing, but something in her boggled mind right now told her that standing between the turtles and the officers was the safest move, for her friends that is.
"GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!" an officer yelled at her.
Sam was about to announce her ex Foot code, hoping the situation when encountering the officers on the highway would repeat itself here.
"Get down on the ground!" Jade shouted. Sam looked her right in the eye and she knew Jade recognized her, and the fact that she shouted this meant that no one else here knew about the code, so they all were really screwed right now.
"You're making a mistake-"
"They're monsters, she's working with monsters!" one of the male officers shouted with furry.
"We're not monsters…" Mikey mumbled from behind.
Sam couldn't explain what happened to her next. She never saw Mikey's face, but his voice told her everything she needed to know. This officer hurt her best friend. This officer was scaring her best friend. This is something Mikey wouldn't forget anytime soon, even if he did act like he was alright. This would leave an emotional scar on his heart and would emotionally affect how much he wanted to join the human world while also lowering his own personal morale. And the fact that Mikey was this hurt, this would then kill the rest of the brothers since they would feel like they couldn't protect him. That and they all themselves would have to deal with their own personal struggles once they got back to the lair. Sam heard Raph sigh and knew that he was already beating himself up for allowing this to happen, especially on his watch when he finally had a chance to take charge. She could still lightly hear the sound of Donnie breathing which showed how nervous and scared he truly was as he lived out one of his greatest fears for both him and his entire family. Leo couldn't be heard at all at the moment, but Sam knew that he was fuming on the inside, both for the fact that his brothers and she didn't listen to his orders, but also because he wondered if he had handled things any differently then maybe none of this would be happening.
They couldn't protect Mikey, and none of them could protect themselves at this very moment, so she would. She would keep them safe. She didn't know what was happening to her or why, but she felt an energy build up and she knew that she just had to protect them.
No one could see her smirk as she said in a low voice "monsters huh? I'll show you a monster."
Her eyes went blue and black. Her face and voice revealed a sinister expression and tone that no one in the room had ever seen or hear before, and without her even moving, a huge gust of wind came from her body. All the officers in front of her were slammed against the wall behind them.
"NO!" April and Casey were both shouting as they now ran into the room.
"Guys you need to go now!" April yelled as she stood in front of Sam, who had now ceased the wind after hearing April and Casey's voice.
Leo and Donnie sensed that the officers next to each of them were stunned and frozen after what they had just seen, and they quickly knocked their weapons out of their hands before dashing through the now open window, since they had broken the glass minutes before.
Raph swooped up Sam and practically threw the girl over his shoulder and he and Mikey chased after their other two brothers.
Eventually they reached a spot in the sewer where they placed Sam down to check her out, and her eyes had still been blue. Each of the turtles started saying all types of gibberish to get her to calm down, but when Mikey mumbled something to her, she finally returned to her normal state. Besides for this, nothing else was said until the group got back to the lair. Even after everything they had just seen at headquarters, they knew the real fight had yet to start.
So I'll admit that for the police headquarters scene, I didn't put anywhere near as much detail about this part of the story as I usually do only because I start college classes again on Monday, and it's like 2:30a.m. Sunday morning. I so badly wanted to get through the Out of the Shadows arc over winter break, but sadly I was not able to do that. :/
Don't worry, THIS STORY IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE, but it will be while before I start updating again. If I'm lucky I can update throughout the semester, but it will barely be anything at all. But since this was a scene from the film, I more so quickly summarized it rather than explain in detail and add subplot to it since I wanted to get to more important stuff that happens later on in the chapter. Hopefully that's okay with you guys .
Again I WILL BE BACK I PROMISE. If it means anything to those who might think "oh people say that and then they never return", I said the same thing when the Fall semester started, and yet I came back and got some work uploaded within the month that I was off. I swear on my life when I say that I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much in store for this series, but sadly I must go on a writing break so that I can complete my course work.
For those that leave views/kudos or bookmark the story or leave comments, thank you all so very much. The fact that I can share all these thoughts that swim around in my head with others is such an incredible feeling, and I'd like to give a special shout out to LordoftheNerds97 for all your support. To anyone who has supported me and this story in any way, thank you all so much. It means the world to me to share this with you, so please be looking forward to more chapters in the future. Even if it takes me years to complete this entire series, the chapters will continue to be produced :)