WARNING: Contains content readers may finding upsetting.

Chapter Fifty-One

Carry you home

After a while, the turtles and Mona were gathered outside a dark alleyway outside the Headquarters.

"Okay guys." said Leonardo "Here we are."

"I don't like this..." said Michaelangelo "I really don't like this..."

Leonardo shushed his little brother and looked from the shadows to the HQ.

"Okay, we should split up here."

"What!?" Michaelangelo squeaked.

"Shush!" Raphael growled "You heard Fearless!"

Michelangelo chewed his lip nervously.

"Okay." said Leonardo "I'll take the north and east part of the building, Mona, Donnie, you two head to the West."

"Dr Arden's quarters." Mona snarled.

Leonardo nodded "And Raph, Mikey, you take the South."

"Got it." Said Raphael.

"Keep in touch via Shell-Cell, let me know if you see anything!"

"Right!" everyone agreed.

"Okay, let's move!" Leonardo ordered as he climbed up the building and headed for the north, Mona and Donatello aimed for the West and Michaelangelo and Raphael went for the South.

As Leonardo moved up to the North part of the building, he narrowed his eyes.

"I wonder what sick atrocities you're planning Shredder?!" he snarled "Or rather, what have you already undertook?"


Within the Foot Headquarters, Oroku Saki was sipping his saki and staring at the ninja as they trained hard under the watchful eye of Arashi who was also giving his master updates within the Headquarters.

"I have made sure the ninja are trained hard." Arashi said "And all have been given the right medicines and abilities for battle, generosity of Dr Arden!"

Oroku Saki nodded as he sipped his saki.

"Good..." he said.

"And I had expanded the spies around the city, both night and day, all taking guises of ordinary citizens around the city in case they find out anything useful to us that may involve the turtles, or Karai or their human friends." Arashi continued "our enemies are not alone..."

Oroku Saki nodded again as he listened.

"And Dr Arden?" he asked "How is he doing with the traitor Chaplin's body?"

Arashi smirked as he thought about Dr Arden's experiments with Dr Chaplin's body in the laboratory.

"My good doctor is still hard at work my lord." he said "He never stops at his work, and Dr Chaplin will never rest in peace, not as long as he has the traitors organs in his possession and preserved well."

Oroku Saki licked his lips and smirked.

"Very good..." he hissed bringing the saki to his lips again.


Meanwhile, down in the laboratory, Dr Arden stood by Chaplin's body looking down at the corpse along with the many jars that held his vital organs.

Through the months, Dr Arden had been trying to reanimate Chaplin's body but had no luck, so he had decided to remove Chaplin's organs and reanimate them.

"I remember Stockman continued to live within a Jar, as well as in a robot's body, and I'm sure with the right equipment I will do the same to you!"

The burnt side of Dr Arden's face wrinkled horribly as he smirked.

"It'll be interesting to see what happens when you awaken in a jar or a robot's body, I wonder if I'll be able to pull you from the other side? Not that you'll be resting in peace, not with what I've been doing to you! And with your shell, I'll stuff it and you'll be on display! A warning to what happens to traitors like you!"

He smirked at the jars and stroked the one with the brain in it, then looked over at the jars that held the heart, the lungs other vitals.


Meanwhile, unknown to him, Donatello and Mona had climbed up the side of the building and were looking in through the window.

Both had managed to climb up the building without being seen, although they had had a few close calls where some ninja had walked past the windows and the two reptiles had to hide but so far, they hadn't been detected.

Donatello kept Mona close to him, scared that if the Lizard Lady saw Dr Arden she'd run in thee, her fans open and ready for the kill, but she didn't, yet if looks could kill, the evil Doctor would be writhing in agony.

"Still working hard..." Donatello hissed as he watched "Working hard on whatever abominations he has for Arashi and the Shredder."

Mona nodded, almost too sickened to speak as she remembered all the times Dr Arden had tortured her and experimented on her.


As the two reptiles watched for a while, they soon saw Dr Arden pick up his walkie talkie and speak into it, they weren't sure what he was saying but it seemed to be something that required him to leave the laboratory as he nodded and walked outside.

As soon as he was gone, Mona narrowed her eyes and reached across to open the window they were next to.

She soon succeeded and swung herself in and landed silently on her feet.

Donatello climbed in after her and held up his staff.

Both stood still and silent and looked around, there were no other scientists in the laboratory, and luckily not the Venomous Five.

"Stay close Mona." Donatello whispered to which Mona nodded and they crept through the laboratory to see what they could find, both held their breath and their hearts beat so hard they hurt and it sounded really loud in the silence of the laboratory apart from the slight whirring of the machines.


Mona soon walked over to where Dr Arden had been standing five minutes ago and her eyes soon came across the corpse of Chaplin and his organs in the jars.

Letting out a gagged yelp at the sight Mona covered her mouth and looked away trying to keep herself from throwing up, or screaming.

Donatello as soon as he heard her quickly walked over and he too saw Chaplin.

"Oh my...!" he almost shouted before covering his mouth with one hand and pulled Mona close to him with the other, the sight of Chaplin laying there on a table with his organs in jars was sickening.

"Monsters..." Mona whispered finally finding her voice "Monsters..."

Donatello shakily took his Shell-Cell and quickly called Leonardo and the others.

"Don?" he soon heard Leonardo's voice "You found anything?"

"You better get over here!" Donatello said in a strangled voice "Mona and I did find something in Dr Arden's Lab!"

"What?" asked Leonardo.

"Just get over here!" Donatello demanded "And bring Raph and Mikey too!"

"I'm coming!" said Leonardo "Just stay there!"

Donatello hung up and he and Mona waited for the others to come, as they did, Donatello walked over to analyse Chaplin and the organs.

"Oh my God..." he whispered in a strangled voice "Dr Arden...how...how sick are you?"

He could feel the memories of the evil Doctor's cruelty to him, including the time when he almost forced the purple masked turtle to cut Pandora out of Mona's womb.

It made him shiver all over and still made him sick to the stomach, yet he tried to focus on the task in front of him.


Mona meanwhile watched the window and before long, Leonardo, Raphael and Michaelangelo appeared and climbed in.

"Quickly!" Mona hissed "Dr Arden might return any moment!"

Michaelangelo was looking terrified but he followed Leonardo and Raphael as they walked over to where Mona and Donatello were.

No sooner did they do so when they saw Dr Chaplin and they recoiled in horror.

"Chaplin!?" cried Michaelangelo but Raphael clapped his hands over his little brother's mouth though he himself felt like screaming at the sight.
Leonardo felt weak in the knees and he felt the need to be sick but he took a few deep breaths as he tried to fathom what was in front of him.

"It seems Dr Arden has hollowed out Chaplin like a mummy..." said Donatello struggling to speak "He removed his vital organs, and from what he plans to do...he wishes to reanimate Chaplin by using his vital organs in the jars...like Baxtor Stockman!"

The turtles gasped in horror as they remembered how Baxtor Stockman a long time ago was able to stay alive for so long whether as a robot or with his brain in a jar, it was terrifying and sickening at the same time.

Leonardo looked at the face of Chaplin, it was covered in bruises he could see some stitches in the head through the bloody matted red hair where his skull had been opened up and the brain removed.

"Kemeko's daddy..." he whispered in a strangled voice "How could they do such a cruel barbaric thing to him? All because he was in love? Because he wanted to new life with Karai? All because he wanted to be a father?"

He looked at the jars of organs and then at the others who stood shocked and sickened.
"We gotta get him out of here!" he said "Get him away from this place and give him a proper burial!"

The others looked at him in horror.

"Leo?" cried Donatello "Are you...?"

"We can't leave him here!" Leonardo argued "We can't leave him here as some tool, some lab animal, some...experiment, he's a human being! He deserves a burial! He's Karai's husband! Kemeko's daddy!"

Mona swallowed hard but she understood where Leonardo was coming from.

"You're right." she said "We'll take him back with us!"

"Organs and all!" Leonardo said "We'll take him back to the lair! We'll give him a funeral! Let him rest in peace!"

"But Leo!" cried Raphael "The Shredder...Arashi...Arden...they'll soon find out his body's gone and they'll come looking for us! They'll want our shells for this!"

"Yeah!" cried Michaelangelo in fear.

"They already want our shells!" cried Donatello "And our heads! What makes this any different?"

"Everyone stop talking!" Leonardo hissed "Just help me get Chaplin off here and let's get out of this hell before Dr Arden comes back!"

"With you Leo!" said Mona as she unstrapped the corpse off the table and Leonardo wrapped Chaplin's body in a white cloth.

Donatello meanwhile picked up some paperwork found by the jars and the body and quickly stuffed them in the bag he carried, he then picked up the jar with the brain in it whilst Raphael, Mona an Michaelangelo reluctantly picked up the jars of the other organs.


As soon as everything was gathered, they quickly went for the window.

"We'll zip-line down to the next building and down the first manhole!" said Leonardo "Mona, the line!"

Mona nodded and quickly took out her Japanese longbow and took and arrow with a zip line which she quickly fired at the next building making a connection and Donatello made sure it was secure before all the turtles held their cargo and slid down the zip wire.


As soon as they were clear of the building, Donatello quickly ripped out the zip-line and looked the jars of organs and Chaplin's body.

"Holy shit..." Michaelangelo choked "I never imagined...Dr Arden would...would..."

As he spoke, Mona finally felt the need to be sick and she turned away from the scene and started throwing up out of anger and sickness to which Donatello and Raphael went over to comfort and assist her.

Leonardo meanwhile glared back at the Headquarters and his eyes blazed.

"Fucking Fiends...Monsters." he snarled as he thought of the Shredder, Arashi and Arden, he then looked at Chaplin who was covered with the white cloth "Don't worry Chaplin...you're free from there...we will carry you home...and you'll be in the presence of friends, and your wife and daughter..."

So the turtles and Mona have discovered a mutilated corpse of Chaplin in Dr Arden's Lab! Now they've stolen the body and organs and are bringing him home to Karai to give him a funeral!

What will be the reactions of the Shredder, Arashi and Dr Arden when they discover Chaplin's body is gone? Or better yet, what will be the reactions of Splinter and Karai when the mutants return to the lair with Chaplin?

Find out in the next chapter!