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Chapter 13: Battle in the Building.
Things had been serious and quiet in the latest days at the tower. The Turtles had been training themselves to use their new weapons, as well as come up with special combination moves, should the need arrive, as well as naming them, so they knew what to do, and the opponent wouldn't know what to expect. The Titans were thinking up plans on what to expect from Slade now that he was teamed up with the Turtles' nemesis, The Shredder. They had to be prepared for anything.
The Turtles had just come back from another training session on the roof, and entered the common room to see all the Titans looking serious, just like Splinter had been lately.
"You think we're prepared yet?" asked Leonardo.
"I think so. The information you gave us on The Shredder was helpful. But we still have to be prepared for the unexpected." replied Robin.
"No problem!" exclaimed Michelangelo. "I'm always ready for anything!" There was a loud THWACK of Donatello's bo hitting on the head. "OW!" he yelled.
"Is that what you call ready, Mikey?" asked Donatello smugly.
"No fair! I didn't mean an attack from one of my brothers!" replied Mikey.
"You said anything." retorted Raph. Mikey groaned, defeated. The Titans laughed, and Raven even cracked a smile. She had been able to express her emotions more freely lately, and it couldn't have come sooner, because with the Turtles presence, they were really starting to grow on her. They were just a lot like her other friends.
Suddenly, as the Titans and Turtles were enjoying themselves, the giant screen in their room beeped and a man wearing a familiar mask with one eyehole appeared on the screen, thought no one noticed, because they all had their backs to the screen.
"How very...touching." he said calmly, watching as they turned around in horror to see him on the screen. "I'm terribly sorry to interrupt your fun. Truly, I am." he said.
"Slade!" yelled Robin. "What are you up to now?"
"Patience is a virtue, Robin. You'll find out...in due time. By the way, I'm sure you're all dying to meet my latest business partner, aren't you?" he said calmly, though he always spoke with a superior undertone. The image panned away from Slade, to reveal a man in silver armor over his body, and covering the lower portions of his face. The gauntlets on his hand had very sharp protrusions coming out of them, right where the knuckles on the hand are.
"The Shredder." said Leo with loathing.
"Greeting, Turtles and assorted comrades!" The Shredder spoke in a deep, somewhat scratchy voice, but one that was very commanding, one that made one think to listen or die. "It seems you were surprised to find me here in this city. I thought we had known each other long enough. You should have known I'd follow you and try to get rid of you, no matter where you go. Has all the magic gone out of our relationship?" he asked sarcastically. He gave a mirthless laugh, one that gave the Titans chills. They were dealing with someone much different then Slade. "It is as Slade said. You shall find out about our plans in due time. Though that time may not be convenient..." he finished evilly. The monitor panned away and back to Slade.
"So, try to fight our plans, if you can. I daresay they will be a difficult trial, even for the new team of heroes." he said, saying the last word with sarcasm in his voice. "By the way, be sure to give our troops your highest regards." he said, and the monitor went blank.
Everyone was quiet for a little while, trying to gather themselves. Then, Donatello spoke up.
"Give his troops our highest regards...what does that mean?" he wondered out loud.
"Dunno, but it can't be good." said Cyborg.
BeastBoy was standing next to the counter, trying to figure it out as well, when his sensitive hearing picked up something. His ears pricked, and he spoke up.
"Dudes, quiet. I hear something." he said. Everyone was quiet and looked at him expectantly. He continued to listen. Movement. Some hard to descern, others stiff and louder. "It's movement. Somethings coming, but I can't tell..." he began. His sentence was cut short as with a great shatter from above and to the side, as the familiar robotic minions of Slade dropped through the roof, and The Shredder's ninja clan descended through the great windowed wall near the screen. There were many of them, and more just kept flooding in.
"Guess we know now!" yelled Raph, and pulled out his Shadow Sais. The rest of the Turtles pulled their weapons out, and the Titans readied themselves for a fight, much like the one that happened when Terra betrayed their security secrets, and an army of robots came through. The battle began.
BeastBoy charged through a number of minions as a rhino, knowcking them into walls where they either broke or passed out, depending on whose minions they were. Cyborg cleared a field of them with a sweeping Sonic Cannon, Robin rendered some robots useless with a disc that released an electric shock, Starfire knocked out some ninjas with starbolts, and Raven had destroyed some robots, and knocked out some ninjas, when she threw the common room couch at them, when they had tried to knock out BeastBoy from behind. Adoration made some comments about that, but Raven had to ignore her, the battle was the priority now.
The Turtles were having an interesting battle. Despite the sheer numbers they had never seen before, their new weapons made the battles much easier. Normally, they probably would have been in great trouble by now, the numbers would have become almost overwhelming, but with the new super-powered weapons, their foes were dropping like flies. After taking down several minions on their own, they decided to use some of their combination moves, to add a little flair to their victory.
"Hey, Leo!" cried Mikey. "Let's give these guys the Crimson Tornado!" he yelled. Leonardo yelled his agreement, and the move began. Mikey span his Tornadochukus around, gathering energy, and launched a tornado at the foes, where Leo then used his Crimson Katans to shoot energy slashes into the tornado, where they were pulled into it, and anything caught in the tornado was spun around while being repeatedly slashed. This brought down quite a few foes.
"Hey, Donny!" yelled Raph. "How about using the Shadow Staff Shot?" he cried. Donny was anxious to try it out on these robots. Using the powers of his Battle Bo, he extended it to where he tripped a whole line of robots, and while they were in the air, Raph threw his sais threw them, and when he threw both he would snap his fingers, and in a puff of black smoke, they would be back in his hands, ready to be thrown again. An dozen robots were finished off this way.
With the teamwork demonstrated by the Titans and Turtles, the minions had fallen, though there was damage to the Tower and themselves. They were just celebrating their victory when the main entrance to the common room opened, and another robot came through. They were about to attack it when it was smacked away by a baseball bat from behind. As the robot fell, everyone saw someone standing behind it.
The man stood a bit taller than the Turtles, and he was very mucular. He wore a hockey mask, and was patting the baseball bat into his open palm.
"Looks like you guys had all the fun for yourselves, huh?" he said.
"Who the heck is that?" asked Cyborg.
"Wayne Gretzky? On steroids?" joked BeastBoy.(A/N That came from the TMNT movie! Anyone seen or remember it?)
"Casey! What are you doing here?" the Turtles asked. Casey laughed beneath the mask.
"Did you honestly think that me and April would just let you guys leave after being chased out of New York? No way! Everyone else there might have hated you for being mutants, but that's what makes you great. Lucky April had a Turtle Tracker on you guys, or we wouldn't have been able to follow you guys to Jump City here." he replied.
"April's here, too?" asked Leonardo. Casey nodded.
"Yeah, she got herself another reporting job, this one without such a scumbag boss, and making a good amount of money with it. We get by pretty easily."
"How'd you know we were here?" asked Donny.
"Well, I came across an old magazine that showed that you guys had moved in with the Titans here, but I never thought I'd end up coming over during some big street brawl!" he said.
"Well, we didn't exactly plan it. But enough about that, it's great to see you! Come on, let's introduce you to the others!" said Leonardo, leading him to the Titans, and introducing them one by one.
Afterwards, the Turtles and Casey caught up on old times, and the Titans listened in on their history in New York. Meanwhile, Raven was having another mental conversation.
'Admit it, you adore him! You want him to be more than youre best friend. Much more!' Adoration was saying.
'Please. And what do you have to back that up?' Raven asked.
'Well, Anger told me she never felt such a surge of power, when those bad guys almost got BeastBoy from behind. And you were a lot rougher on them than usual. Throwing an entire couch and everything...' she replied. Raven had nothing to say to this. It was true, after all. After some deep thought, she caved in.
'All right. Maybe I do want him to be more than a friend. But what are the chances of him actually liking me back like that?' she asked.
'Probably pretty good, considering he pays attention to you so much. Remember, he said we are his best friend. That's a good start, and he could have been hiding deeper feelings.' said Adoration hopefully.
'Whatever. I'm going to meditate about this.' Raven said, ending the conversation, and got up to go to her room, passing BeastBoy who spoke to her.
"You looked great in that fight, Rae." he said. Was it her imagination, or did he seem to have blushed a bit when he said that? She couldn't find out, because he had already turned a corner and was gone. Smiling to herself, Raven went to her room, not noticing her cloak becoming a very light blue wihle she walked.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
Well, I think that chapter came about well. It cleared up the fact of the Turtles being in Jump City, or at least, I hope it did...
Anyway, hope you enjoyed, and please R&R! Later!