6) Rebirth II
Splashing water. The sound of footsteps in the dank water. The darkened shapes of two turtles. They have just threatened to take a life. This act fills them with many feelings. Feelings of accomplishment, feelings of guilt, and feelings of emptiness. Emptiness. They attacked an enemy that was unworthy of them. And it sickened them.
"Should we tell Splinter?"
"He's our sensei. I think it's out duty to tell of our first battle."
"I agree Leo, but what about-"
"When I threatened the woman?"
"Yes."
"Let's leave that part out Don."
The footsteps continue for a time. Then, the sound of splashing water turns to silence. The turtles face an entrance tunnel. A tunnel covered with a thick curtain. The two enter it, entering a lit chamber. There are other shapes in the chamber. One sits, in deep meditation. Another lays reading. And another sits in a old chair, his shape outlined in the light of an old television set.
"Enter my sons. Train well?"
"Yes master. But there was something else"
"Master! There's something that may interest you on TV."
The shape stands. It is the rat. Dressed in a ragged purple robe. He motions for his students to follow. The three, along with the shape that was reading, and the one that called them, watch the motions on the screen.
(TV)
"We have just received word that a recent hostage situation has been settled. Here with me is the hostage, April O Neil. Miss O Neil, tell us of your escape."
"Well, after my captor had run from the police, he dragged me into the sewers. He threatened me, when someone attacked him in the sewer and told him to leave. The same person ordered me to leave to. The rest you already know."
"Thank you Miss O Neil. Now, a question remains, who was the mystery saviour in the sewer?
The shapes in front of the TV are silent. The rat turns it off and motions for the others to follow him. He lights a small candle. The other shapes can be seen. They are also Turtles. The rat sits again, and the turtles to the same.
"Master, We had to help her. Her captor was going to kill her."
"Were you seen?"
"No master, it was dark. We did not threaten the women. W simply told her to leave"
"Great move guys!"
"Raph's right. Now people know there's something down here."
"Michelangelo! Silence. The outside world merely knows that something was here. That is all they need to know"
"But master, what if others come?"
"Then, my sons, we must hide. And fight."
With that, the candle is blown out. The light is extinguished. And the shapes are left to think of what may pass.
