Season 2 Chapter 5: Triceraton Wars
Pete's P.O.V.
We were standing in front of the Prime Leader facing down dozens of guns and we were trying to figure out a way out of this particular mess. "Drop the hardware or your Prime Leader is prime lizard cutlets." Raph said. He and Leo have switched positions now Raph was the one holding his sai against Zanramon's throat. "Do as he says." Prime Leader said. The guards dropped their weapons and we went and picked them up. All the while the announcers above us were still chatting away the events that were happening.
"So what do we do now fearless leader?" Raph asked. "I don't know, I'm trying to think through all that racket overhead." Leo said. Raph turned and shot the jumbo tron with the gun he had in his hand. "That help?" he asked. "Actually, yes. Okay, let's try this, Professor Honeycutt take us to your lab, Prime Leader you're coming with us. Everyone else, stay put and don't move a muscle." Leo said.
We started to go down the hallway walking backwards and keeping an eye on the guards who have been walking towards their discarded weapons. When we turned the corner they started to fire at us. "I think they need to think things through a little bit more, don't you think?" I asked. "I know right," Donnie said. "Call off your goons, now!" Raph yelled. "Hold your fire and pull back!" Zanramon yelled. The guards stopped firing and they started to back up.
"Which way to the lab?" Leo asked. "Well there are actually several routes, the Triceraton Home World with its interconnected network of asteroid cities its bit of a maze really." Honeycutt said. "Show us the fastest way Spike, now." Raph said. He threatened the Prime Leader with one of the guns we had acquired. "As you wish." Zanramon said. "Pete, let us know if we come onto any traps." Leo said. "Absolutely bro," I said.
We followed the Prime Leader to a wall opposite from us and he opened it up. When it opened the pressure from it was so great that it sucked us right in. Pretty soon we landed in a heap in the lab that the Professor was working in.
"You want fast didn't you?" Zanramon asked. "I got your fast, right here." Raph yelled. "Mikey, give me a hand welding the doors and hatched shut. Don, Pete, help Professor Honeycutt gather up everything he needs to construct his teleportal." Leo said. We agreed and raced off to do what we were told to do. "Raph, you got guard duty." Leo said. "Yeah, whatever." Raph said as he was still pointing the blaster at him.
"Excuse me Leonardo, you don't actually intend for me to build the teleportal, do you?" Honeycutt asked. "It may be the only way to solve the problem." Leo said. "But if I'm captured than the knowledge will surely fall into the wrong hands." Honeycutt said. "You can use it to transport yourself and the devise somewhere where the Federation and the Triceratons can't follow. Like Earth for instance." Leo said.
"If you don't build the teleportal we'll never get home to rescue Master Splinter." Don said. "Yeah, what am I going to tell MJ?" I asked. "Yes, by all means help your friends, build the teleportal." Zanramon said. "You keep out of this." Raph said. "The danger will always exist whether or not you build the teleportal." Leo said. "What's to stop them from ripping apart your robot body and downloading all the data from your brain?" I said.
"Slag! Why didn't I think of that?" Zanramon asked. "Good one Pete," Mikey said. "I'm sorry," I said. "Yes, I see. I'm afraid the only sensible solution is to blast me into scrap metal right now." Honeycutt said as he took Raph's blaster and pointed it at himself. "Wait, Professor, Pete was just saying, he didn't mean." Donnie said. "Please, you're our only hope." Leo said. "Oh, alright, but you must promise me one thing. If all goes wrong, if it looks like we are to be captured, then you must destroy me so my knowledge will never be used for evil and destruction." Honeycutt said. "It won't come to that." Leo said. "But if it does come to that will you swear on your honor to destroy me?" Honeycutt asked. "We swear," all five of us said. I looked over at the prime leader to see him backing away from us. I kept my eye on him while the others kept talking.
"Where's the fastest ship out of here?" Leo asked the Triceraton ruler. "Hmm, now let me think, you four turtles the human and Professor Honeycutt will have to make your escape in my personal ship, it's in my private space dock hanger." The Prime Leader said. We got onto this hover board thing and started to float away from the lab.
"My ship is in the next bay." He said. "Honeycutt stop." I said. "What are you doing keep going!" the leader shouted. "What is it Pete?" Leo asked. "These horn head warned them where we were going." I said. "Right, Pete think you can take care of them?" Leo asked. "Do you know me?" I asked. I shot out a web to the wall and started to go around the corner but not before I made sure the prime leader didn't give anything away.
Donnie's P.O.V.
"You have to admit, things would be a lot tougher if we didn't have him around." Mikey said. We nodded as we watch Zanramon struggled to get the webbing off of his mouth and we watched as Pete was crawling on the wall. Pretty soon we came back to us and told us to get out of there. More troops came our way so we quickly made our way to the ship.
We were being fired at so Raph pushed the leader forward. "Tell your troops to stand down, now!" Raph yelled. "Stand down, I order you to…" Zanramon said. A blast shot the board and it sent our hostage flying down into the ground.
"What about our hostage?" Raph asked. "No time leave him." Leo said. Pete was back with us and was firing his webs at the guards coming at us. Honeycutt lowered us down into the ship we were about to steal. When we were in the ship we took off towards the bridge. Once we got there Mikey jumped into the captain's chair.
"Mr. Sulu, ahead, warp factor…." Mikey said before he got slapped. "Knock it off Mikey." Raph said. We all gathered around Professor Honeycutt as he took control of the ship. "Isn't it fortuitous that my robot body comes equipped with a piloting program?" Honeycutt asked. We shot out of there like a bat out of hell and we all clung to something. Pete had clung onto my shell as I was holding onto the chair Honeycutt was sitting in. "Yes, well perhaps a few upgrades would be in order." Honeycutt said. We were being chased through space buy the Triceratons in a jet pack and they were firing at us.
"Why does it feel like we in a Star Wars remake?" Pete asked. "Looks like someone doesn't want us to leave." Raph said. We kind of ignored Pete's remark even though it did feel that way. Honeycutt fixed the way we were flying so we wouldn't be hit by any of those blasters. We were evading the three pursuers and Mikey was yelling strikes like it was a baseball game every time one of them exploded. We started to fly away from the homeworld and into the direction of a nearby moon.
"Well gentlemen it should be fairly smooth sailing from this point." Honeycutt said. Ahead of us there was a whole armada of Triceraton ships just waiting for us. "Unless of course we happen to run into the entire Triceraton space fleet." Honeycutt said. "How are we going to get out of this one?" Pete asked to no one in particular. Then there were ships flying out of the hangar and coming for us. "By some miracle Pete." I said. The Triceratons sent us a message saying for Honeycutt to return, which meant that they were going to kill us.
"Can't say that I'm happy with our choices." Leo said. He pulled a leaver and started to plow right into the oncoming forces. They began to fire at us and we all looked to Leo to guide us like he always does. "Master Splinter always says there is no greater weapon than the unexpected." Leo said. "Hm, I really must meet this Master Splinter someday." Honeycutt said. We got hit with some blasts that rocked our ship.
I noticed that Raph and Mikey found some guns and climbed in. "We ain't out of the woods yet." Raph said. I jumped into the chair Leo was sitting in and started to hit the buttons in a certain order. "Better get the shields up and running." I said. "Why do I get the feeling that we really are in a Star Wars reject remake?" Pete asked. "I know right." I said.
"Feeling confident in your piloting skills?" Leo asked Honeycutt. "Oh yes rather." he responded. "Good, let's try and loose them in that asteroid field." Leo said. We flew in and Honeycutt began avoiding the asteroids and in the process destroyed one of our pursuers.
Pete's P.O.V.
"Well gentlemen, I say the difficult part is over." Honeycutt said. My senses went off and up ahead something was coming. "I would say it is but I have a feeling something bigger is coming." I said. "I hate it when he says that." Mikey said. Ahead of us the Federation showed armed and ready for a confrontation.
"Oh my," Honeycutt said. "And the really difficult part is just beginning." Leo said. On the small screen to my left it began to show the commander of the Federation and apparently he wanted to speak with us.
"Hello Professor Honeycutt, I believe you have something that belongs to me. Or should I say you are something that belongs to me. Did you really think the Federation would give up their most valuable scientific mind without a fight?" Blanq said. "They want a fight; let's show them where they can find one." Leo said. Honeycutt turned us around and started heading for the Triceratons.
It was a rough ride but we made it back through the asteroid belt with the Federation on our heels. "It seems your plan is working big brother." I said. "Did you have a doubt?" he asked. "Only that we would get blown apart in that asteroid field." I said. Leo smiled at me and we got ready to see what the two enemies would do.
The Triceratons started firing at us again and we were bouncing around from the hits we took. "I think it's time for our friends to get reacquainted." Leo said. We turned and the two started fighting each other. "We can't avoid them forever." Donnie said. "We don't need forever, just enough time for you, Professor Honeycutt and Pete to build that teleportal." Leo said.
"That planetoid should provide an ideal spot to construct the teleportal device." Honeycutt said. We landed on the moon and then got ready the only problem was the lack of oxygen on this small little moon. "You fellows will need atmospheric suits to work outside the ship. Fortunately the Prime Leader's ship is stoked with form fitting suits that can configure to alien anatomy." Honeycutt said.
"Unfortunately, there are only four of them." Mikey said. His suit still had a tail and the four of us laughed at him. We left the ship and began to build the teleportal it was going pretty quickly with four pairs of hands working on it since Leo and Mikey were still inside the ship working on a strategy.
"Guys, I'm picking up massive energy signals on the scanner. Looks like Federation and Triceraton fighters are headed our way." Mikey said through the com link. "We need more time." Honeycutt said. "You have to stall them." Don said. "How?" Leo asked. "Just keep them talking, anything to stall them from attacking." I said.
"Hope this thing has three way calling." Mikey said. We could still hear them, which was a very good thing considering what would happen if the stalling didn't work. Leo began to talk to the two leaders of the armies while we attempted to finish the teleportal. What surprised us was that they agreed to Leo's terms so we tried to hand signal what to say to keep them talking and arguing.
"How are we doing out there Professor, did we buy you enough time?" Leo asked. "I'm gonna say no." Raph said. Overhead we could see the fighters heading in our direction. They began to fire at us and we had to duck for cover. Soon the ship we stole was firing back and I knew that Leo and Mikey had climbed into the firing station to fire back at the enemy.
Soon the fighters landed and the pilots climbed out. "This can't be good. Professor, please tell us that's done and we can go home." I said. "We're ready." Donnie said. "But it hasn't been tested yet." Honeycutt said. "No time like the present." Raph said. "Hurry up, everyone get inside." Leo ordered. Raph and Mikey came jumping in and we closed the door. Now we were trapped in a dome and we were hoping that it worked.
It lit up and then after a second the lights went out and we were still standing there. "I'm guessing it's not supposed to do that." Mikey said. "Gee ya think," Raph said. We got out of the teleportal and we were going to go back to the ship. "Everyone, back to the ship!" Leo ordered. Right as we got out the ship was destroyed by a Triceraton ship. The two sides were still firing at us and there was no other place to go. "Everyone, back inside." Leo ordered. So we went back inside and we were sitting ducks.
The glass was beginning to crack and pretty soon we were going to be captured again. "The capsule won't hold much longer." Donnie said. "Oh dear," Honeycutt said. The glass shattered around us and we couched down to protect our heads. "I'm afraid we have no choice now, you fellows must destroy me and the knowledge I possess. This is an EMP fail safe control. It will overload all my circuitry and wipe out my entire memory core." Honeycutt said. He handed the control to Leo and he just looked at it sadly.
"If you don't destroy me now, a weapon of ultimate destruction will fall into the hands of lunatics who will not hesitate to use it." Honeycutt said. "I can't." Leo said. "You swore on your honor." Honeycutt said. Leo looked at the control and Honeycutt nodded. Leo's thumb was over the red button and time seemed to go in slow motion. Then all of a sudden a blue beam surrounded the six of us and we couldn't move.
"But how could this be, my teleportal didn't work." Honeycutt said. "Well somebodies did." Leo said. The blue beam grew larger and it began to take us apart, a lot like back in the TCRI building. "This feels kinda familiar." Raph said. "Yeah, and I didn't like it the first time." Mikey said. The blue light then took us off into warp speed through space until I couldn't see anymore.