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"Are you sure this is the place? Nothing's happening."
"Patience, Raph. They'll be here. According to the shipment log, they were due to receive something here about two minutes ago. Something should be coming any minute."
The turtles were perched upon the ceiling joists of a small warehouse. They were all looking down at the room below, which had some crates and furniture in it, but a large area in the center was open. There were three garage doors on one wall, and a regular door on the opposite side. The room was dimly lit in yellow lights, which did not do a very good job in revealing the room, but very clearly illuminated the distasteful amount of dust floating in the air.
Donatello fought to keep in a disgusted noise as he shifted positions on the joists, covering himself in the thick coat of dust that had been on the untouched area. It had an unpleasant sandy texture to it, and it was all he could do to stop himself from furiously dusting himself off and creating a lot of unnecessary noise.
Michelangelo seemed unfazed by the grime. He was laid chest-down on the joist and had his elbows propped on it and his head held in his hands. He swung his feet idly in the air, his eyes scanning the room below from what he could see of it in the spaces between the joists. "Ugh, so bored," he muttered.
"You're telling me," Raph replied. Something in the room caught his gaze. "Scratch that."
Two kraangdroids walked through the door and stopped at the edge of the open space.
Raphael, who had been sitting on the front of his feet, stood, drew his sais, and prepared to jump down.
Leo held out a hand to stop him, halfway expecting him to jump anyway, but he looked at Leo, then at the room again, and waited.
The second garage door whirred open, and a van pulled into the open space. It stopped and then its headlights dimmed, signaling that it had been turned off. Two more kraangdroids, these ones in their human forms, stepped out of the driver and passenger seats and circled to the back of the van. They slid the door open, and the dim yellow room was immediately cast in bright green.
Donnie gasped. "That's a lot of mutagen."
Each kraangdroid unloaded as many canisters of mutagen as they could handle and carried them towards the door.
Leo gave the signal for them to move. They all jumped down and chose a different kraangdroid to attack.
The Kraang that Donnie, Raph, and Mikey chose to attack all readied themselves for the fight. The one Leo had gone after, being closest to the door, made a run for it.
Mikey swung his nunchucks wildly around the Kraang, trying to distract it, before sending a hard blow across its metallic face. The robot head shot off at the impact and the droid crumpled to the ground.
Donnie used his bo staff to flick each canister that his Kraang was holding out of its hands before catching them and gently setting them aside. Once the Kraang was out of mutagen, he attacked it harder, and it too was soon on the ground.
Raphael charged at the Kraang he had chosen and punched through it from behind with both sais. The canisters of mutagen tumbled out of its hands and went flying across the room. Time seemed to slow for Raph as he realized where one of the canisters was headed. "Leo, look out!"
Leo, who had been pursuing his own kraangdroid to the door, looked behind him at his brother's cry. One of the canisters landed a few feet away from him and split in two, spewing mutagen everywhere. A splash of it sailed right towards him. His eyes grew wide and he jumped away from the door. The drop of mutagen sailed closer, closer, then missed his foot by a hair. He crashed to the ground with an "Oof!"
The droid that he had been chasing slammed the door, safely out of his reach.
"Nice going, Raph!" Donnie yelled.
Leo lifted himself onto his knees and looked behind him. He stared at the speck of mutagen on the wall. That was so close.
The door opened again and more Kraang poured into the room.
"This is not good!"
"Brilliant observation, Mikey!" Donnie yelled back. Distracted, he didn't catch how Michelangelo's expression darkened when he made this remark.
Bursts of lasers shot at them. They dodged and ducked and made an occasional strike at their opponents, but it didn't seem to be working. More and more Kraang pooled into the room, giving them less and less space to move around.
"How many are there?" Leo asked.
Raph stabbed a robot through its mechanical eye. "How should I know!"
"Oh, not again!" Donnie wailed.
Mikey glanced back to see Donnie holding the smoldering remains of his weapon.
Donnie didn't overlook how Mikey stepped closer to him and started covering him when he saw that he was without his bo staff again.
The kraangdroids just kept coming and coming. The turtles couldn't even attack anymore; it was taking all of their attention just to defend themselves from the oncoming lasers.
"Ninjas, fall back!"
Raph scoffed. "Again?"
"Yes, again! Now let's move, or we'll all be laser-fried turtle kebabs!"
"Hmm. I wonder if cooking something with a laser would give it a different taste, like a grill or-"
Raph found a gap in defending himself from the lasers wide enough to whack Mikey in the back of the head.
"Let's go!" Leo shouted.
They raced for the open garage door. Donnie paused to snatch a canister of mutagen from the back of the truck.
"Come on, Donnie!" Mikey was waiting for him, but Leo and Raph had already found enough time to run outside.
"Let's go!" Donatello grabbed his baby brother's arm and the two of them raced through the garage door.
Raph and Leo slammed it shut the second they were outside, cutting off the torrent of lasers that was following them.
"That… was too close."
