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Ch.3 – Surprise!

"How's the babe doing?" Mikey asked as soon as he saw Donnie come out of the infirmary. The turtles had returned almost ten minutes ago with the girl. Donnie had taken her straight to the infirmary and had only just now come out.

"I think she'll make it. Splinter, will you check on her bandage every few minutes to make sure she's not still bleeding? If she is, just apply a new layer of bandage over the old one and apply more pressure until it stops bleeding," Donnie instructed.

"Of course, Donatello. I will watch over our guest," Splinter replied.

"Turtles! Let's go!" Leo called out and they once again set out to save their hotheaded brother.

"How much longer, Thomas?" Shredder asked his top scientist. Thomas was mixing some chemicals together in a pot.

"Still got a ways to go, Master," He replied.

"You had better hurry it up. I want to surprise those turtles when I revert back to my old self,"

"Yes, Master Shredder. I still think we should just construct a mechanical body for you. Trying to create an antidote for the ooze is too risky, there's no telling what it could do,"

"I want my old body back. The one I had before those pesky turtles got in my way!"

"I know you do, sir. But even if we were successful, your body would still age and one day die. If you had a mechanical body, you'd never age or die!" Thomas pointed out. He had been working on creating an antidote to the ooze for Shredder over the past year. Before he had tried to convince the Shredder that making an antidote was a bad idea but had failed miserably, until now that is.

"Hmm. You've got a point there. I think I'll sleep on it tonight," Shredder said as he left the room.

Okay, I did what it said. Now I have to wait one minute to see the results. Oh I wonder what it will be. It would be exciting if it's positive. Casey and I have been talking about making our family bigger. My mother would be overjoyed at the news. I wonder how Casey's parents would take it. I'm sure they'd be happy for us. Oh, how much longer must I wait? I guess it would be okay if it's negative. There's still plenty of time for our family to grow. These were April's thoughts as she waited to see the results from the home tests. She had brought three of them and had decided to test them all at once.

After what seemed like an eternity to April, it was finally time to see the results. Picking up the first one, she saw that it was positive. The second one also said positive. Slowly, she picked up the third one and looked at it. It said positive too.

"Yeeeee! Yes! Wooo!" April excitedly shouted as she jumped up and down in joy.

"Well, this is the place," Donnie said to his brothers.

"And there's Raph," Mikey said as he pointed to a mutant turtle in a red mask that was tied up to a beam post.

"Any ideas, Leo?" Donnie asked.

"I don't see many foot here," Leo commented.

"Yea, they probably don't even realize we're here," Mikey added.

"Alright, let's take down the ones we see as quickly and as quietly as we can, and get Raph. Then we go. We don't want a huge fight right now," Leo said. They jumped down from the platform high above the room on top of a few foot members, knocking them out. Donnie ran left, holding out his bo staff, and knocked down the guys in his path. Mikey ran to the right, knocking every guy in his path on the head with his nun chunks. Leo did a somersault forward to knock down the guys in his path. Using his bo staff, Donnie knocked out the remaining foot members on his side. Leo used his fists to take them down. While Mikey ran around hitting them in the head with his nun chunks, sometimes more than once.

After only the turtles remained standing, they rushed over to their helpless brother. Donnie untied his hands; Mikey untied the feet, while Leo removed the tape from his beak. Mikey and Donnie kept their brother standing upright since Raph was unconscious. Leo gently slapped his brother a few times, trying to get him to wake up. After a few moments, Raph started to come to.

"So Raph how does it feel to get taken by the foot, a third time?" Mikey teasingly asked.

"Oh. Ugh. My head. What's going on?" A still groggy Raph asked.

"We'll explain on the way, right now we've got to move, Leo said as he and Donnie helped Raph up. They had almost made it to the doors when suddenly the room got brighter. Foot members jumped down to where they were and also came in from the other rooms to the sides. The turtles glanced at each other and got into their fight stance. A split-second later, Master Tatsu burst through, the very doors the turtles were about to go through earlier, with about thirty foot members behind him. Stepping further into the room, he held up his fist and said, "Ninja. Attack!" And with that the roughly about eighty foot members advanced on the turtles.

Black smoke filled the sky as a small one-story house was being engulfed in flames. It was night and the fire light up the surrounding area. A small crowd was gathered at the front, behind a yellow tape. Several uniformed officers urged the spectators to stay back. Two fire engines were busy trying to put the raging fire out, but had very little success. At the very front of the crowd, there were two pretty young women. Both appeared to be in great pain, though one appeared to be in much greater pain than the other. This one had golden brown hair that flowed straight to the middle of her back. Her eyes were the color of the sky on a clear day. She stood at a height of 5'2" and was pretty slender. On this tragic day, she had chosen to wear faded-blue stretch denim jeans with a nice white long-sleeved buttoned top. She was sobbing and trying to run into the burning house but was held back by the other girl. The other girl appeared to be just a taller version of the first. Anyone could mistake them for being twins. Maybe even sisters. But if one looked close enough they would see the differences between these two girls. The one was holding the first girl had eyes the color of grass. If grass were to sparkle that is. She also had a shorter nose and higher cheek bones. The shorter girl had a pair of dimples in her cheeks that you could only see when she had a big smile on her face.

"My mother! Nooo!" The first girl screamed out.

"Michele, we have to go," The second girl told her.

"It's not fair, Brianna. Why Mom? Why? Who would do such a thing?" Michele asked.

"Who ever they are, they're a monster that's for sure," Brianna said. I'm willing to bet it was them. But, how? The turtles and I destroyed that place. Capt. Carter is dead. I know, I killed him. Lt. Nitwite is also dead. And Dana is lying on a hospital bed in a coma. So who is it? I wish I could tell Michele everything, but I can't. I'd just be putting her in danger. I do owe it to her to find out what really took place this past week. And the only way to do that is to go back.

Down below the streets of New York, a five-ft tall rat in a tattered robe, sat on his favorite chair in what was supposed to be a living room. Anyone could see the worry he had in his eyes for his sons, four large mutant turtles. He knew they could handle the foot, but it didn't stop him from worrying. His sons had left later than originally planned. This was due to the attractive female in the infirmary. She seemed to be getting better. He only had to apply two additional layers of bandage. And that was half an hour ago. He also had been checking on her, and found that about ten minutes ago she had completely stopped bleeding. Her pulse was a little weak but still there. He suspected that she would wake up sometime the next morning.

Ring! Ring! Who could that be? Please don't tell me it's about my sons. Splinter thought as he rose from his chair to answer the phone.

"Hello?" He asked.

"Hey, can I speak to Leonardo? It's Brianna," A female voice belonging to Brianna asked.

"He's not here, right now. Is there anything you'd like me to tell him?"

"Oh, um. No, that's alright. I have to go, but I'll get in touch later,"

"If you wish. I hope you are doing well,"

"Yea, well, I'll talk to you soon, bye,"

"Bye," Splinter said as he hung up the phone. He couldn't help but feel that something was wrong with Brianna and with his sons.

Back at the foot's new headquarters, the turtles had managed to knock out about half of the ones that stood in their way. It looked like the turtles would be able to get out of there soon.

"Man, these guys are dropping like flies," Mikey commented as he took down yet another foot member.

"Yea, so how exactly did they manage to kidnap you, yet again, Raph?" Leo asked while he blocked the moves of two foot members with katanas with his katanas.

"Hey, I was GREATLY outnumbered and they knocked me unconscious. Plus they snuck up on me like sneaky little bastards," Raph answered as he stuck his sai in a guy's gut and pulled it out. The guy clutched his bleeding stomach and slid to the floor. Raph's brothers just laughed and teased him about his excuse.

At long last it seemed like the foot were down. The turtles all gave each other a 'hi-three' and ran out back to the lair before even more foot members decided to join the fight.

AN: incase anyone is confused, the turtles in this story are about 19. In the first one they were about 18 since that story took place about 3 years after their last run-in with Shredder. Brianna is 18 in this story since she was 17 in the last one. Michele is her cousin and she is 17. K, follow that? Good. Major thanks to everyone who reads my story! And major super super thanks to everyone who reviews!

Chibi Rose Angel: Had you hook, line, and sinker, huh? Guess that means I did a good job then. :D So you think you know what I'm planning? Lol. Well I guess we'll see if they're right or not. I hope this is a soon enough update for ya. Thanks for letting me know how I was doing on my story so far:D