kungfubrawler77 - Thanks. And trust me. There's gonna be more changes that will help to fit my OC turtles into the show's original story, and there will be more on-screen deaths as the story continues.
Soldado-Bladegunner8 - Thank you.
Nicochan11 - Thank you. And yes. The idea of the turtles having pants (or loincloths or simply just a sport shorts) has been in my head for a while. And seeing them actually wearing pants in IDW comics just inspired my idea even more.
Rosebud66 - Thanks. You're gonna like her even more as the story continues.
It's a heavy rain storm in New York city, with the thunder rumbling in the dark rain clouds that covered the sky. The camera then descends from the sky and stops to the opened manhole on the street, into where across the street running rain water was dripping.
In the sewers, three rats were standing on the edge of the walkway doing their own business. One rat was merely standing still and sniffing the air, another one in the middle of the trio was gnawing something it had found as its food and the third was scratching itself.
My name is Donatello. And now we're gonna have a demonstration of something that leaves me both fascinated and gross out.
Everything seemed to be a peaceful and quiet, until the sudden loud noise coming from other side of the wall alerted the rats.
Before they could move, through of the brick wall popped out the head of the robot similar to those that had destroyed the turtles' old lair. And as it popped its head through the wall with its mouth wide open, it locked its jaws around of the third rat in the middle between of its jaws, capturing it. The robot held the squirming and shrieking rodent in the firm grip in its mouth before it bit down. The rat let out the pained shriek as it was shredded to death by the buzzing saws inside of the robot's mouth, with the poor animal's blood leaking out of between the robot's metal triangle-shaped teeth. The poor animal then fell dead quiet and limp in its killer's mouth, before the robot swung its head backwards a couple-few times, devouring the rodent as whole and leaving the robot's jaws stained with its victim's blood.
After eating the rat, the robot breached through the wall and began to chase the other fleeing rats, snapping ferociously its blood-stained jaws at them as it kept hunting them.
Okay. May not look like much, but this tin toy can chomp his way through steel and concrete like Michelangelo through a pizza. You see, a bunch of these killer robots saw fit to trash our old lair and nearly turned our sensei into robo chow like these poor rats here, twice already.
The robot roars at the fleeing rats as it starts top gain on them, snapping its jaws at their tails. However, before it can bite down to the back of another rat, an arrow flies out of the darkness and hits the robots in its eye, knocking it off its feet and shutting it down.
Then, in the tunnel's shadows hiding figure, whose eyes were glowing in the dark, stretches its three-fingered hand out of the darkness and lowers it to the ground level in front of the rats, allowing the two rodents to jump onto the figure's palm. The rats then began to climb up along the figure's arm until they reached the figure's right shoulder and settled there as if looking for safety. And once the rats were safe of the figure's shoulder, the figure stepped out of the shadows, revealing herself as a mutant ninja turtle with pink ninja mask, holding a Yumi-bow in her hand and having the frown of disapproval and disgust on her face.
It was Artemisia.
My sister Arcee, however, isn't quite approval towards this kind of stuff with these robots.
Arcee stares at the downed robot with disapproval scowl, before the turtle in pink withdrew back into the shadows with the rat.
Then we see all eight turtles running across the sewer tunnels. Donnie and Arcee were in the group's lead and were followed by Leo, Mary, Raph and Louie, while Mikey and Dom were following followed behind of the group. The turtles then arrive to the four-way tunnel system and all of them start to look around and wonder that where they should be going from there.
We're here tracking down these metallic menaces that have been seen roaming free in the sewers, trying to find out their source and the very secret of their whole existence in the first place, until we happened to have one bend on the way.
"AGHHHH!"
The turtles stiffened at hearing the sudden and loud screaming echoing in the tunnels. Then they all turn to the tunnel where the scream came from.
"This way!" Donnie called, pointing at the tunnel entrance the scream came from, before the turtle in purple hurriedly sprinted into the tunnel with the others right behind of him.
Making a turn to the left and into another tunnel, the turtles found out that eight robots more had a red-haired young woman in brown cargo pants, purple short shirt - that showed her midrift - and a torn white lab coat cornered against the boarded up tunnel entrance and were closing in to kill.
As the 'techno geek', like my brothers and sisters use to call me, I can't help but look at these incredible machines and think one word, 'awesome'.
One of the robots gets too close of the woman and is about to bite a chunk of the flesh off her leg, until a chain with the weight in the end of it appears and wraps around of its neck, before the robot is yanked back and away from the woman by the chain. The robots turn around to the entrance of the tunnel while the woman looks up to see her sudden savior.
The robot that is pulled away from the woman lands with the splash in front of the black-masked turtle, Lorenzo, holding from the other end of the chain. The robot tries to get back up, but Louie then crouches down and runs his single Butterfly sword through of its head, destroying it.
And when the camera rises up, we see all seven turtles standing in wedge formation behind of the turtle in black: Donnie in the lead, while Raph, Arcee and Mikey were standing on the brainy turtle's right and Leo, Mary and Dom were standing on his left. All turtles are holding up their individual weapons and fighting-ready poses, while all scowling at the robots threatening the lady in distress.
But when it comes to the all-out-ninja-action, especially when there's a lady in distress, I can't help but think one thing: 'Time for some serious payback'.
The robots turn to the turtles, some of them snarling ferociously while others snapping their jaws menacingly at the soon-to-be heroes.
(The screen pulls away from New York City with couple spot lights waving above of it. Then a four green letters forming the word TMNT towers over the city.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"
(The screen rises to the edge of the roof, on which was standing eight green shadowy humanoid creatures with the turtle-like features. Two of them were crouching down and all of them had by colors individual ninja masks; One had blue, second one had turquoise, third one red, fourth one white, fifth one pink, sixth one black, seventh purple and the last one orange. As the spot lights passes them, all eight turtles then leap off the edge of the roof.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"
(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first one, the turtle in orange (named Michelangelo) is holding his Nunchucks in the air. In the second one, the turtle in red (named Raphael) is holding one Sai above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third one, the turtle in purple (Named Donatello) is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth one, the turtle in blue (Named Leonardo) has crossed his sword-holding arms over his chest.)
(TURTLES!)
(Leonardo seen fighting two people dressed like ninjas and wielding Naginata-spears. The turtle slices both ninjas weapons' staves in two with his swords before kicking both one by one away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)
(Donatello is seen driving a speedy vehicle down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple turns to smirk to the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)
(Raphael is seen making couple of flips; one over the fence and one towards the screen, before he delivers the kick at the screen, blackening it for a second.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)
(Widely grinning Michalengelo is seen standing on top of the large green armored car that's speeding along the street, while spinning his Nucnhacku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"
(As the turtle in orange leaps off, the armored car flies in arc over the street before landing back to the ground. Then its back doors open up and two of the turtles, Raphael and the turtle in black, rocket out of the car in the backs of red and avocado green bikes before skidding them sideways to a stop.)
(In the alleyway, next to the blue armored car, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping to attack towards the camera, with the turtle in orange taking the lead and kicks the screen with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"
(The screen splits into two horizontal screen: the upper screen shows a blue-masked face with into a glare narrowed eyes while lower shows eight turtles standing in line in front of the gray-furred humanoid rat dressed in the brown robe, Master Splinter by name.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a purple-masked face with lightly frowned glare while upper shows Master Splinter swinging his wooden staff down at the couple of attacking robots.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"
(In the third one, upper screen shows a red-masked face with the deep frown, while the lower shows a large and muscular blonde-haired man leading a group of silhouetted street gang members from the ablaze background towards the screen)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a orange-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper one shows a same large and muscular man sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards the screen.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"
(A red-haired young woman is then seen winking at the camera from the cockpit of the helicopter with the rope hanging from its undercarriage, which she flies past of the blue tower with the Japanese palace on top of it. On top of it, two turtles, Donatello and the turtle in white are seeing battling six ninjas on the edge, until they're knocked off the building. Falling down, the turtle in white grabs from the helicopter's rope with one hand and grabs with his free one from Donnie's hand, cutting his falling, and they're both lifted up in the air.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"
(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell to shell in middle of the bright spotlight, while they're surrounded by the dozens and dozens of in the darkness standing and armed ninjas that keep coming from the darkness and rooftops above of the alley. The turtles fearlessly demonstrate their weapon skills with their weapons before taking their respective battle stances.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"
(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Michelangelo jumps from the right, making the flip in the air while spinning his Nunchucks wildly. At the same time from the left jumps the female turtle in pink with her legs bent under, while spinning around and swinging her sharp Tessens around.)
(Then Donatello jumps from the left, spinning his Bo-staff with his left hand while swinging it over his head before grabbing it with both hands and bringing it down hard. At the same time, the female turtle in turquoise jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in her right hand, before spinning around and sending a horizontal slash with her weapon's blade forward.)
(Leonardo then jumps from the left with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them to the sides as he delivers the kick forward with his foot. At the same time, the turtle in white jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting his right Tonfa forward like a stabbing movement.)
(Raphael then jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais to flash. Right after him, the turtle in black jumps from the right, holding his left Butterfly sword in front of him and his right Butterfly sword over his head, before swinging them forward to slash with them the air in front of him.)
(Then a 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, and dressed in a sleeveless, teal hoodie and red baggy jeans jumps from the left after the turtle in black and throws the punch towards the screen with her left fist. Then a tall blue-haired and -eyed man with the hockey mask on his face jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)
(Leo, with swords in hands, is then seen landing onto one ninja's back, knocking him down.)
(Donnie is then seen whacking another ninja off his feet and out with his Bo.)
(Raph is then seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left arm while holding his Sai in his fist.)
(Mikey is then seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist while holding a Nunchuck.)
(Turtle in turquoise is then seen kicking the fifth in the chest while holding her Naginata up.)
(Turtle in white is then seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Turtle in black is then seen blocking seventh's sword with his left hand's sword while thrusting his right towards the ninja as if to stab him in the chest)
(Turtle in pink is then seen with her arms crossed in front of her white holding her opened pink Tessens in her hands.)
(Raph is then seen again, this time surrounded by several ninjas, until he spins himself around with his hands clenched into fist around of his Sais' hilts spread out, knocking all ninjas away from him.)
(Cut to the wide shot, where seven silhouetted turtles are seen jumping and flipping along the rooftops, water towers and chimneys, as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain with one hand like Tarzan. Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in blue's and purple's masked faces above and the line of turtles in red and orange's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"
(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. Leonardo is in the middle, Donatello and the turtles in turquoise and white are in his right side while Michelangelo and the turtles in black and pink are in his left side. All seven then ran towards the camera that moved between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"
(Then, Raphael races over the building in the back of the bike and jumps off it towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"
(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first one, the female turtle in turquoise (named Marietta) is pointing her Naginata's blade at the screen. In the second one, the turtle in black (named Lorenzo) is holding his Butterfly-swords upside down in his arms, while holding the left one horizontally in front of his face and right one over his head.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third one, the turtle in white (named Domenico) is holding his Tonga-holding arms crossed over his chest. In the fourth one, the female turtle in pink (named Artemisia) is holding her right hand's Tessen opened in front of her face, partially covering them behind of her weapon, while pointing with her left closed one at the screen.)
(TURTLES!)
(Marietta is seen standing in the dead end, spinning around while spinning her Naginata with her hands in front of her, before she pulls it behind her shell-back and shoots her left hand forward as two two hands, one holding a knife and one a fire-axe, appears from both sides of the screen
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)
(Lorenzo is seen riding on top of the subway car, with his Butterfly swords sunk to its roof. And as he approaches the camera, the turtle in black jumps forward towards the camera and kicks the screen into black.)
"OUT OF MANHOLE"
(TURTLES!)
(Domenico is then seen stabbing with his left and then right Tonfa at one practice dummy in his right to the head, knocking it back. Then he turns around and spin-kicks the other dummy in his left in the head with his right foot. Then the turns around and whack the camera with his left Tonfa.)
"BEWARE, THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)
(The screen pulls back, showing Artemisia skating with the pair of pink roller skates along the rooftop as she is being by the dozen ninjas with the swords. Four more ninjas appear from the sides of the screen, chasing after the skating turtle in pink. Arcee peeks over her left shoulder at them, smirks and then picks up the pace, skating into the camera.)
"MUTANTS NINJAS ARE ON THE MOVE!"
(Arcee then skates towards a pretty large ninja with the sword held up and ready to strike (with her pursuers' running feet showing in the sides of the screen). However, as the large ninja tries to strike at the turtle in pink horizontally, she grabs from both of his wrists, spins around and throws him over her shoulder at her pursuers. The ninja flies towards the camera face-first.)
(Arcee then turns around and somersaults over the edge of the building. The screen then moves down in front of with the wooden boards boarded doorway, before the same green armored truck - with Domenico in the driver's seat and Marietta in the passenger's seat - smashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink to land onto its roof.)
(Screen then turns to the back-doors of the truck as it is chased by two ninjas on motorbikes, until the back-doors of the truck slam open and Lorenzo jumps out with the barrel-roll, landing on his shell to the street, somersaulting back to his feet and then lunging at the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies face-first at the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"
(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again: the upper screen shows a turquoise-masked face with lightly frowned glare, while lower screen shows Arcee, Leo and Mary in the snowy woods, staring at the five silhouetted canine-like humanoid beings with various colored face-paints (silver, dark blue, light purple, red and dark purple) standing in line. They all hit their fists with their fist before bowing.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a white-masked face with deep frown while upper shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with the light blue face-paint wielding a single Kama in its right had while fighting two hunter-looking men with the hunting rifles: It kicks the one behind of its back in the chest with its left foot, then elbows the second one in the face with its right elbow. It then turns to and snarls at the camera before slicing it half with its Kama.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'LL ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL!"
(In the third one, upper screen shows a black-masked face with the wide eyes, while the lower shows Lorenzo and the same purple-haired and ponytailed teenager human girl standing back to shell-back in middle of the ring of the silhouetted enemies.)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a pink-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper one shows Louie and purple-haired girl turning to each other and taking each other from hands, before the turtle in black swings the girl around him in the air. As the turtle swings the girl towards the camera, the girl kicks the screen with her foot.)
("SIX!")
"WE COME, STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"
(A next shot shows two buildings standing next to each other, until Donatello and Marietta appear from the left side of the screen and jump over the gap between the buildings (with Marietta pole-vaulting over the gap with her Naginata). Then four turtles, led by Leonardo, followed by Raphael and Artemisia and lastly Domenico, are seen rushing forward along the streets, weapons in hands. Michelangelo and Lorenzo are then seen following them right behind: the former by zipping along the rope with his Nunchaku and the latter by swinging by the chain while spinning the other one wildly around with his free hand.
("SEVEN!")
"AS A TEAM, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHER'S SHELLS."
(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the light in the darkness, with their backs turned to the camera as it pulls away from them. As they all turn around to the camera, they draw out their weapons and take their individual battle-stances, ready to face whoever is standing in front of them.)
("EIGHT!")
"AND WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"
(Out of darkness appear a dark-haired African-American scientist-looking man wearing glasses and dressed in the white lab coat, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of the menacing-looking chicken-sized robots with one glowing eye, snapping jaws and sharp teeth. The scientist points at the camera with his finger and the robots lunge at the camera snarling menacingly.)
Camera moves to the right, showing a large pale-skinned, bald-headed and broad-shouldered man in the black ninja-garb, with the left side of his face viciously scarred. Backed up by the group of ninjas behind him, the scarred man draws out a sword from his X-shaped scabbard in his back and raises it with both hands up and next to the scarred side of his faces, pointing its tip at the camera while glaring himself darkly at the camera.)
(Camera moves to the right again, this time showing a strange female creature with the pale skin, red eyes, long elf-like pointy ears, slightly hooked nose and the long-black hair, and who was dressed in a complete black tunic, pants and slippers, including a long black elf-hat like hat. With the mischievous grin on his face, the creature waved its hands over, followed by the flow of glowing various-colored stars in her left hand and the various-colored lightning in her right hand, as if it was the magic.)
(Camera moved to the right once more, this time showing a mobster-like barrel-chested man with the thick eyebrows, mustache, double chin and tidy haircut. He was dressed in the blue shirt and a red black-spotted cravat, over which he wore a mafia-like olive green suit with the golden stripes. He had a same-stylish pants and the shiny black-tipped brown shoes. He wore on his head a grayish-brown fedora hat and he had in his mouth a cigar. Backed up by several tough-looking guys in the mafia-like suits and fedora-hats - all armed with various guns or melee weapons - the man took the cigar out of his mouth and, with the nasty sneer, he pointed with his finger forward.)
(The screen turns back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several Mousers away with his staff while Raphael lands on one, crushing it, while stabbing his Sais through of two other Mousers.)
(Domenico then moves to stab with his left Tonfa in the ninja's guts, before he turns around and whacks with his right one in the second ninja's chest, knocking him away, after which Artemisia slices the next ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spinning around and kicking him in the chest with her left foot.)
(The strange pointy-eared creature then flies over to strike them with with the magical lightnings, only for Marietta to lunge at her from the air and land a kick to her side, knocking the creature off the air.)
(Three mafia thugs then, one in the white shirt, black cravat, turquoise suit and reddish-brown fedora-hat, one in the black shirt, green cravat, the brown suit and with the golden fedora-hat and the large broad-shouldered one with the thick eyebrows, shaven face and dressed in the checkered blue-white shirt, red black-spotted bow tie, dark purple suit and dark blue bowler hat, rush towards the turtles, only for the turquoise-suited thug in the left to be snap-kicked away by Michelangelo, brown-suited thug in the right to be kicked in the guts by Lorenzo and the big thug in front to be kicked away by Leonardo, who spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)
(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot, where two silhouetted turtles are first seen running along the sewer pipe: One turtle is on foot while another turtle is skating along the pipe's rounded walls.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
(Shot moves upwards to the street level, where three silhouetted turtles are running along the streets: One is running on the foot, while other is riding on the bike and third is hopping along both the driving and parked cars' rooftops. Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in turquoise's and white's masked faces above and the line of turtles in black's and pink's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
(Shot moves upwards again, to the roof level, where two silhouetted turtles are either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"
(Three turtles (Raphael in the left, Leonardo in the middle and Domenico in the right) are seen running towards the camera along the streets. Then Artemisia and Michelangelo jumps out of the open manholes into the streets and join the run next to Raph and Dom. Then they're joined by Marietta and Donatello, who land down from the rooftops to Leo's both sides. All seven then ran towards the camera that moved between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"
(Then, Lorenzo jumps off the building towards the camera, spinning the chain wildly above his head before throwing it away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"
(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing Leonardo's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined-looking face.)
"ONE! TWO!"
(Third appears from beneath, showing Michelangelo's shadowy goofy-like face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing Raphael's shadowy yet fierce-looking face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"
(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy yet calm-looking face. sixth then appears next to it from above, showing Domenico's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"
(Seventh appears from beneath, showing Lorenzo's shadowy wildly hilarious-looking face. Then final eights appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined-looking face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)
(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the tall blue tower with the red Japanese palace on top of it, which towers over all the other buildings of the town. With the weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Donatello, then Domenico, then Michelangelo and finally Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)
(In the ledge of the same tower, that is above of the blood-red three-toed symbol in middle of the bright light blue circle, a menacing-looking man in the full Samurai-looking armor and helmet looks down after them, as his black cape floats in the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves closer of his helmet-covering head, before the man turns to the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two sharp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)
(The turtles are then seen standing in middle of the rooftop. With the weapons in hands, they briefly demonstrate their weapons-skills before taking their individual fighting poses: Donatello is seen standing in the middle, pointing his staff's end at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo are standing in his right, Marietta and Michelangelo are standing in his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo are standing behind of them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)
(The turtles are seen riding or skating on the various human equipment along the underground tunnel: Donnie was in the lead, wheeling with his purple-gray foldaway bike as he rode past the camera. Artemisia followed him afterwards on her own turquoise tuned dirt-bike, waving at the camera. She was followed by Leonardo on foldaway kick scooter with the blue board, hopping over the handlebar with his hands. He was then followed by Domenico on the white-tuned road bicycle, who made the high backward flip over the camera. After them, Raphael and Artemisia were roller skating along the wall of the tunnel with their red roller blades and pink roller-skates. Lorenzo then skated after them with his oversized green and black skateboard pair of rocket boosters and he was followed by Michelangelo, who skated along the tunnel's wall with his orange skateboard, going higher and higher along the wall before he jumped off it, landing in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"
(First Donatello, then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally Artemisia landed onto the rooftop with weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charged forward towards the camera, with Leonardo taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"
Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"
= Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 =
= A Better Mousetrap Part 1 =
Few days later.
After half of the week lasting hard work, the turtles and Splinter had finally managed to make their new lair fit for living. The place was properly cleaned off from all the dust and debris and all the damaged sites were either repaired or replaced with new ones.
The turtles were now busy in interior decoration to make their new home cozy.
Donatello had worked hard to get the power to their new lair so that they have both lights, electricity and internet access. He had also created the doorway-shaped door, which is both closed and opened via the mechanical system.
The turtles had also made from the eight-shaped hole in middle of the chamber's floor their own indoor pool, which led to the underwater tunnels beneath the new lair, and over which they had build a wooden bridge.
To get to the upstairs of the chamber, the turtles had attached the fire escape into one of the pillars of the chamber.
In the central circle of the lair's floor, the turtles had placed several skateboard ramps in various spots against the chest-length walls of the outer ring.
One half of the central circle the turtles had turned one corner into their Dōjō by spreading the red and yellow Japanese rugs on the floor of the area, padded the area's pillars and the outer ring's edges, placed a round targets, punching bags and practice dummies all over the place.
A three side-chambers around of the main chambers had also taken in the use. Master Splinter had took one of them as his own room, which he had decorated in Japanese style and kept it enlightened merely with the candles. He or someone of the turtles, presumably Donatello, had also put Japanese paper wall and the sliding doors to the chamber's doorway.
The chamber in the opposite side was turned into the kitchen room, where the turtles had acquired at least two tables with four seats per each in middle of the kitchen room, two refrigerators that were placed next to the doorway, a sink, dishwasher, oven and stove along with various cupboards attached in the long rows to the chamber's walls to keep the food supplies sustainable for the room temperature, dishes and cooking equipment.
The another chamber behind of the kitchen room was turned into bathroom with the showers for each turtle and the washing machine in the corner of that chamber, even though the turtles didn't wear much of the clothing save for their masks and pants. Donnie had also made the home-made faucets and wash-basins for each turtle around of one of the pipes for washing their hands and teeth.
The third chamber next to kitchen room's doorway had been transformed into a workshop, which Donnie had claimed as his territory. He had brought and placed there a much of the car repair shop equipment and gathered there some wrecked vehicles for the spare parts required.
The turtles had also claimed all eight rooms in the upstairs for themselves, each of which decoration was based solely on the personality of the each room's owner.
Donnie had also taken over one of the corners behind of two pillars in between of backdoor and Splinter's room. The turtles had somehow managed to get there an abandoned and partially damaged subway train car, which Donnie had turned into his personal laboratory. There, the brainy turtle kept all his personal laboratory equipment and tools. In the next of the car was standing a wooden table that served as his workbench, with the computer placed on it and it was surrounded by the work lights that served as the table lights. Donnie had also brought there some bookshelves to lean against one of the pillars and the wall behind the table, which were filled with the science books and the folders full of diagrams, designs and so on.
And the opposite corner of Donnie's lab, between of the lair's backdoor and the kitchen room's doorway, was turned into the entertainment zone. The turtles had spread in middle of the place a blue carpet that was surrounded by the blue armchair, blue sofa - in next of which was standing a blue standard lamp - and sun lounger. They had also brought and placed there the jukebox, some snack automaton devices and even some arcade games.
Mikey was on the moment working on with TV connection. The turtle in orange had formed from a fourteen different sized television screens a large three-leveled set against the wall, along with the speakers: Eight small televisions in two smaller sets of the four. Three a medium-sized TV in the bottom along with one set. A single big one TV on the top and in between of one set and one medium-sized TV. And finally, a one big widescreen TV in the middle of the entire set.
In next of the set had been brought also the computer table, on which had been placed the computer setup with a few small satellite dish antennas for the internet access.
"Seriously, Mikey? What's with all these televisions? Isn't this a bit too much?" Dom questioned, as the turtle in white watched the youngest turtle climbing the wooden ladders that was standing next of the TVs while carrying another small television beneath of his arm. Once reaching to the top of the ladders and sitting next to the incomplete set of three other small televisions on the top of the whole set, the turtle in orange placed the TV in his hands into the empty place on the set, completing it.
"Yeah, what's the matter, Mikey?" Donnie asked from above as he was working on some welding in the upstairs of the lair with Arcee.
With the protective goggles on his eyes, Donnie was sealing several pipes close with manhole covers and blowtorch, while Arcee kept the brainy turtle lifted up at one of those pipes by an attachment to a rope she was holding in her hands.
"Can't decide what to watch, huh?"
When the last pipe was sealed, Donnie gave Arcee a signal and the turtle in pink started to slowly lower him down to the bottom of the lair. And once he was safely on his feet in the ground, Arcee hurried to the fire escape to come down and join the others in the downstairs.
Meanwhile, Mikey jumped down from top of the ladders and headed to the two plugs of the electric cables lying on the floor.
"I need more power, captain Donatello. The Turtle Cave must be set for maximum entertainment potential." Mikey explained as he connected the the plugs.
Mikey then took the remote and turned the set's every TV on at once to check that did the televisions finally had the connection.
However, every TV screen was revealed to be still static, but a sudden loud and super-bright feedback - which was dangerously beyond the maximum brightness - shot out from the screens on Mikey's and Dom' faces, nearly blinding them both in the process. The turtles in orange and white quickly closed and covered their eyes with their hands to protect them from the dangerously bright light, before Mikey turned the screens off.
"Aw! It keeps doing that!" the turtle in orange lamented.
Donnie and Arcee then joined Mikey and Dom.
"You gotta be kidding me, Mikey. "A Turtle Cave"?" Arcee commented Mikey's suggested name for their new lair.
"Yeah! That was so lame." Donnie declared.
"Well, what would you two call our new digs? The Shell-ter?" Mikey challenged, a bit offended of Donnie's and Arcee's comments about the name he gave to the lair.
Dom decided to take a part of this game - which was quite rare in nowadays due to his serious and no-nonsense attitude, just like Leo sometimes. In fact, the turtle in white had his own ideas for the name of their new lair as well.
"Hmm... well. Would "Sewer-Sanctuary" be good one? For two reasons why. One: this place is in middle of the labyrinthine sewer network and it's most likely forgotten or even beyond of the surface world's knowledge... thus completely safe." Dom suggested, but the others immediately considered the turtle in white's suggestion for the name of their home to be unfitting, and they were more interested to voice their own suggestions.
Accepting Mikey's challenge, both Donnie and Arcee began to think about the various names that could perfectly fit to their lair.
"Uh...how about Sewer of Solitude?" Donnie suggested.
"Nah! I got a better one. Turtle Castle(1), because these constructions resembled a medieval castle and its inhabited by the turtles... plus one rat."
"Too old-fashioned, Arcee. We shall call this place from now on... "Heart of the Shell"." Dom suggested.
"No! Terrapin Station." Mikey shot back.
"Nah! The School for Gifted Reptiles." Donnie argued.
"Eat my shell, bro!(2) The hall of Nin-Justice." Arcee argued back.
"Nay! Cowabunga Place!" Mikey argued.
"Na-ah! Underground Ninjutsu Academy!" Dom argued.
"I got it! The Nest of the Mutants!" Donnie argued.
"No, no, NO! The Secret Cavern!" Arcee argued.
Suddenly, Splinter, who had been sewing another practice dummy for the Dojo on the couch the whole time, cleared his throat to gain the arguing turtles' attention. Once the turtles had all turned to him, Splinter stood up from the couch.
"We will call this place... home." Splinter declared.
The turtles took a some time to swallow this until they just decided that to be a good name for their lair.
"Hm, catchy." Mikey stated with his thumbs up, as Donnie simply nodded in agreement.
"Simple, but it works." Arcee stated with the smile.
"I think that we can go on with that, Sensei." Dom declared, earning a proud nod from Splinter.
"Now, what is keeping with Leonardo, Marietta, Raphael and Lorenzo?" Splinter asked. The old rat master had not failed to notice the noticeable long-lasted absence of his other four children.
"Oh, they? They just went to fetch the last of our stuff from the old lair." Mikey answered, as he, Dom and Arcee went back in decoration duty, while Donnie rushed to the table in the other side of the pool. And onto the table he had gathered the various salvaged remains and parts of those same robot-cockroaches that wretched their old lair.
"Yeah, and the way a new Sewer Slider is performing, they should be back any minute now." Donnie said as he started to work with the robots parts.
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Meanwhile, Leo, Mary, Raph and Louie had arrived there with the jeep-like vehicle Don had built and called "Sewer Slider" to the ruins of their old place and were searching through the debris and the piles or rubble to salvage anything that had survived the cave in.
However, there wasn't even half left of their personal possessions to be salvaged. That, along with the sight of their old lair in ruins and incapable of living, only increased their already depressed moods even more.
"Our childhood home... for fifteen years." Leo said sadly as he brought from the ruins a broken canister with the letters TCRI and placed it among of the other items loaded and tied up to the Sewer Slider that was waiting next to the breached entrance of their old home. "And this is all what's left."
Soon enough the rest of the turtles exited from the lair with the few items they were able to salvage: Mary brought out the undamaged family album full of memorable pictures of their childhood times along with the camera and Donnie's luckily undamaged bicycle. Raph and Louie carried together the table from their old lair's ruined living room before hurrying back and carrying out the mattresses of the survived bunk bed. The turtles loaded their stuff onto the Sewer Slider's platform, which already contained the undamaged bookcase, a red surfboard, Mikey's skateboard, Leo's spare sword and custom sign that says "Sewer Sweet Sewer".
"Good thing that our family album survived. Without this book and its memorable pictures, there could be nothing left of our old life here." Mary said sadly, as she climbed into the passenger's seat of the Sewer Slider, while holding the family album in her hands.
The turtles then tied their survived belongings firmly so that nothing would fall off from Sewer Slider during their home trip.
"It really aches to leave this place for good, doesn't it, Leo? I thought that there would never be the day when we would leave this place. Never." Louie lamented while tying up their salvaged cargo.
"Neither did I, Louie. But just like they say, "Nothing isn't permanent, and you just need to move on". It's not easy, I know it, but we'll eventually accept it." Leo said.
And after securing the ties and knots, the turtles were ready to leave.
However, Raph wandered off, heading to the nearby stone column.
"When I find out who built those home-wrecking robot-roaches, I'm gonna kill that SON OF A BITCH!" Raph swore, openly voicing his burning desire for revenge, as he punched the column in rage, making it to crack vastly. That was followed by the tunnel starting to shake ominously and some debris fell off the ceiling.
"Whoa! Easy, Raph! Keep doing that and you'll cause the secondary cave-in to fall down on us!" Louie warned.
"Yeah. So let's not trash this place any more than it already is, okay?" Leo asked, not wanting his brother to cause another cave in under of his vengeful rage.
Raph partially turned to his older brother and nodded, replying with the dark tone "Okay."
"C'mon. We're leaving." Leo said and headed to the Sewer Slider, and Raph soon followed him.
Leo and Louie climbed to the Sewer Slider's platform along with their loaded stuff - with Leo riding on the surfboard - while Raph jumped to the driver's seat.
Once they had seat belts on - at least from Raph and Mary while Leo and Louie had to hold tight from the ropes - Raph started the Sewer Slider's engine and they took off on the tunnel. Within minutes, the Sewer Slider was driving at the high pace. Then its tires eventually lifted themselves up and folded to the underside of the Sewer Slider, making the vehicle to hover above of the ground. With this, the Sewer Slider's pace accelerated even more.
"Gotta say, this baby makes me feel like we're in the future." Louie stated.
"Oh, you're totally gonna love it even more when you see what this baby is capable of." Raph stated with the sly grin.
"Do not get too enthusiastic, brothers. Remember, Donnie said the accelerator hasn't been calibrated yet. So take it nice and..." Leo couldn't finish his line properly when Raph, ignoring his brother, switched the accelerator to the full power.
"... slo-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Leo shouted in surprise as the Sewer Slider suddenly and instantly boosted forward, reaching quickly to the incredible speed that caused the water to splash behind them as they flew along the sewer tunnel. The high speed also caused the Sewer Slider to go around in a sideways loop.
"WHOA-AAAAAAAAAA! AHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!" Louie laughed almost like the maniac. He was the only turtle along with Raph whom actually enjoyed this.
"WHOA!" Leo let out as he struggled to keep the balance on the surfboard as the airflow hit him due to the Sewer Slider's speed.
"AGHHHH! RAPH, DID YOU REALLY HAD TO DO THAT?!" Mary screamed while clutching tightly from her seat with her right arm while holding with her left from the family album. The Sewer Slider's sudden speeding up had taken her totally by surprise.
"YEAH! WHAT PART OF "GOING SLOW" DIDN'T YOU GET, RAPH?!" Leo scolded after he had finally maintained his balance.
"OH, COME ON, YOU WIMPS! IT NEEDED THE FIELD-TEST SOONER OR LATER ANYWAY! BESIDES! I'D CALL THIS A SUCCEEDED FIELD-TEST! WOULDN'T YOU, GUYS?!" Raph asked with the grin on his face.
"HAHAHAA, YEAH!" Louie agreed."AND YET THEY DARE TO CALL THE TURTLES SLOW!"
Leo and Mary exchanged the puzzled looks with each others, before simply shrugging their shoulders. Raph indeed got a point as the Sewer Slider kept going through the sewer tunnel without any problems.
With "YEE-HAAAAW!" cry, the turtles continued their "fast" home trip towards their new lair.
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Back in the lair, Dom and Splinter went to Donnie as he was studying one of the killer-robots' beheaded head on the table.
"I'm still wondering one thing, Donnie, that for what you're still keeping that thing here?" Dom asked, looking at the robot's head with disapproval look.
Splinter couldn't agree more with Dom. "Even though it is inactive, that thing still makes me uneasy, Donatello."
However, Donatello's reply sounded like he totally ignored Splinter's and Dom's feeling and comments about the robot's head.
"But this is state-of-the-art robotics, Sensei. A very brilliant work. I just got to know what makes it tick."
Before Splinter or Dom could reply to that, the Sewer Slider suddenly appeared into the lair from the tunnels. The hovering vehicle then came to stop and its tires folded back into upright before it landed next of the pool.
After Raph turned the vehicle's engine off, Leo and Mary jumped off the vehicle and turned to Mikey and Arcee, who were finishing their project with the TV-connection.
"Arcee! Arcee!" Mary called for her sister as she rushed to her. "I got something for you! Your record player and your collection of idol singer's songs. Not all of them survived from the cave-in, but here are at least all your favorite ones." the turtle in turquoise said as she handed over the pink record player and the collection of discs of the songs to overly happy Arcee.
"Wonderful! Still, I need to check them all through to see which ones were lost. I can only hope that amongst of those miss JL's(3) songs that were lost were not anything what I've not yet listened yet. But thanks anyway" Arcee said with the grateful smile, before she started to go through her music collection to see what was missing.
"Hey! I have a good news for you, Michelangelo! Your DVD-collection survived from the cave-in." Leo called for Mikey, before he tossed the box full of DVDs to Mikey, who was as happy as Arcee to have his possession back.
"Awesome! Let's throw something light on story and heavy on gory, cuz the video monolith is ready to ROCK AND ROLL!" Mikey celebrated, as he instantly turned the set's every TV screen on.
And this time, this act wasn't followed by the blindingly bright flash of light shooting out from the screens but a visible single TV-channel instead. The function of the TV-connection varied on the screens. Some of the screens were somewhat blurry, the connection was slightly glitching on some screens and in the others the brightness was in low.
However, Mikey didn't let this bother him. He had got the TV-connection to the lair. That was better than nothing.
"Oh? You got TV-connection to finally work?" Mary exclaimed.
"Oh yeah, he did, Mary. Although after twelve failed attempts." Dom revealed as he joined with Mikey and the girls, along with Leo, Raph, Louie and Splinter.
The first channel on every screen was live news broadcast, showing a large pyramid-shaped building... called Stocktronics.
"In the press conference today at Stocktronics incorporated, New York's new leading technology firm." A female voice of the news reporter said in off-screen.
The turtles, however, were quick to get bored with this.
"Booooooring!" Mikey moaned with fake yawn.
"BLAH! Who even wants to watch this?" Louie asked, bored as well.
"Yeah! Change the channel, will ya?" Arcee pleaded.
"Whatever you say." Mikey replied and was about to change the channel.
"Whoa, hold on a second, guys!" Donnie snapped, just in time before Mikey could press the button. "I actually want to see this."
The screens suddenly turned into a white room with three people standing in there, and in the middle of the room's floor has been placed a wide maze.
"Founder and CEO, Dr. Baxter Stockman is one the hand to unveil his latest innovation." The news reporter said, before the screen turned into the African-American man with the white laboratory coat, glasses and short black hair.
"A wise man once said, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". I say, let the path beating begin." The man called Baxter Stockman said while cleaning his glasses for a moment before continuing. "For I, Dr. Baxter Stockman, have designed the solution to the city's ever-growing rat problem." He added, as he referred at something right next to him that was covered with the white sheet.
"Rat problem?" Arcee murmured with the raised eyebrow.
In the background, Splinter's eyes hardened into a narrow glare.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ultimate expression of the rodent determination technology: the Stocktronics Mouser!" Stockman declared, as he removed the sheet to show his innovation to the world.
All the turtles and Splinter were taken aback in shock and surprise when they saw the thing Stockman had just revealed. It was the robot, which outer look and design matched identically to the same robots that destroyed their old lair a few days ago.
The turtles and Splinter were dead silent from this revelation for a moment.
"That robot... it is just like those ones who attacked and trashed our old lair to the rubble!" Mary shouted out of realization.
"And they're famous enough to appear on TV, eh? Well, what an honor... for having our home destroyed by celebrities." Mikey said with sarcastic tone.
"Yeah! And who the shell is this Stockman-guy?" Arcee questioned.
"Dr. Baxter Stockman. One of the most brilliant and famous scientists in the globe. His high intelligence and achievements are on such of level that he's unequalled, renowned, revered, even worshiped throughout the world." Donnie explained simply.
"How do you know that, Donnie?" Arcee questioned.
"Well, as a scientist, I kinda admire his high intellect, brilliant work and his achievements." Donny admitted.
"Well, how about now, Donnie?" Dom asked with the sarcastic chuckle.
"Well, I don't know... but I can't believe that infamous Baxter Stockman built and would try to pass off these wall-chewing killer-robots as a good thing." Donnie admitted as he lifted the robot's head up to show it to the others, until Mikey took it from his grasp.
Mikey immediately took the head from Donnie's grasp.
"And what's up with those glasses?" Mikey laughed as he put his hand inside of the Mouser's head as if it was a hand puppet and started to move its jaws with his fingers while mimicking mockingly Stockman's voice. "Name's Baxter Strockman from the Planet of the Nerds?"(4)
"Very funny, Mikey." Dom muttered in annoyance.
Raph suddenly draw out his Sai and lunged at one of the smallest TV as Baxter Stockman was on it, smashing the screen.
"RAPH!" Arcee cried, irritated of what her hot-headed brother had just done. "Try to guess how long it took to find that one!"
"I don't care!" Raph replied with the venomous tone. "Now when we know who was behind of those robot-cockroaches in the first place, I say we head over to this Stockcronics and kick some serious shell!" The turtle in red declared and started to head towards the doorway, only to be blocked and prevented from leaving by Master Splinter.
"Absolutely not! None of you aren't going anywhere!" Splinter scolded with the sharp voice, before the old rat master whacked Raph to the head with his staff. The turtle in red winced in pain and dropped his Sais to the floor as he lifted his hands up and put them over of his head, that was aching from Splinter's strike.
"Your last venture to the surface was a total disaster! You can ill-afford to be seen by more humans." Splinter told to his children, reminding all of them of the events that happened during of the armored car incident: From Raph's accidental abduction to the near-lethal encounter with some mysterious ninjas, which was something that really got Splinter restless for a couple of days.
"But Sensei..." Raph was about to protest, only to be interrupted by Louie.
"Keep it down guys, The news broadcast is still on." the turtle in black demanded.
Stockman kept explaining his innovation in TV screens.
"I know that Mouser may look a fierce and dangerous from outside, but I ensure you that there's no reason to be afraid of. Their programming is fully targeted only to the single mission: tracking down and exterminating the rats in sight. So their operation is mainly limited to the places where only the rats dare to inhabit, safely away from people's eyes. The city's rat-filled sewers are the best example. As you can see, we have constructed this maze to simulate under which the Mouser will operative." Stockman said as he referred the maze in middle of the room.
They all turned their attentions back to the set's screens at the moment when the screens turned from Baxter to the beautiful 23-years old woman. She had a slim build, pale skin and a green eyes. He hair was red, with two long hair strands on either side and it was made into a bun in the back. She was wearing a purple belly shirt and baggy khaki pants, and over them she was wearing a white laboratory coat. She was shying away from the camera while carrying the box in her hands.
Louie whistled as she looked at the woman in the screen. "Hey, look at that?"
"Wow! That's one a pretty sight!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Yeah. I like her haircut. It's just so beautiful." Arcee agreed. "Too bad, that as a turtles we don't have a hair. I would have liked to have a similar haircut like hers."
"Then get a wig or something. Hehehehee." Louie suggested snidely, only to earn a sudden and hard punch right in the kisser from Arcee, even without having to turn in the direction of her cheeky brother.
The punch to the mouth caught the turtle in black by surprise, causing him to stumble back a little and instinctively raise his hands over his mouth. The turtle in black felt the iron taste of blood in its tongue, as if he'd accidentally bit in the lip due to Arcee's punch or...
"Ouch! I think I just lost a tooth." Louie moaned through his fingers.
"Keep it down, guys!" Donnie hissed.
Suddenly, Stockman kept speaking in off-screen.
"My lab assistant, Miss April O'Neil, will now release several rats into the simulation chamber." Stockman said, before the screen switched to the next of the maze and the screen was lifted high enough that the turtles could see the every corridor of the maze.
Then Stockman nodded to and gestured April to do something and April moved next to the maze.
"April? Proceed my dear." Stockman pleaded.
April then tipped the box over and released a handful of rats into the maze, where the little rodents quickly spread to everywhere within minutes.
Arcee began to feel a pretty uneasy after witnessing the rats being released into the maze. "What they are going to do with those rats?"
"When its about this Stockman-guy's Mousers, nothing good I guess." Raph replied with the low growl.
Stockman then picked the Mouser up and brought it to the entrance of the maze. And once he had put it down, it single eye started to glow, meaning that the robot had been awaken/activated.
"Now observe the sheer genius of my Mouser in action." Stockman said as he released the Mouser into the maze. The robot instantly started to wander around in the corridors of the maze while searching for the rats, snapping its jaws.
And as it kept going, Stockman kept explaining.
"The Mouser unit is not in itself very intelligent machine. It's internal programming chip is dedicated to control of motive functioning. And the Mousers' search and retrieval functions are all ingeniously controlled by a wireless connection to the remote "mother" computer."
As the mouser wandered along one of the maze's corridors, it suddenly ran into one of the rats released into the maze that came from around the corner. And once catching the rat in sight, the Mouser relentlessly attacked the rodent that squeaked in panic and tried desperately get away from the killer-robot.
However, the poor animal never made it. The Mouser bounced on the rat, cutting off its escape and grabbed the rodent in between of its deadly jaws and bit down hard, making the poor animal to shriek in pain as it was crushed in the robot's jaws, and it's shrieking only increased - though just briefly - as it was shredded by the buzz saws inside of the robot's mouth. The poor rodent then went limp, allowing the robot to swallow the its bloody shredded remains. Afterwards, four other rats shared the first unfortunate rat's gruesome fate within mere three minutes, leaving the Mouser's jaws stained with the rats' fur and blood.
The turtles were shocked to see Mouser relentlessly chasing and brutally slaughtering the rats one by one. Out all of them, Arcee was the most horrified by this.
"This... this... this is an animal cruelty!" The turtle in pink complained, outraged.
"Yuck! I'd seriously hate to be a rat in this city when those things are all around."Mikey admitted, until he quickly remembered that Master Splinter was a rat and that he may have offended his feelings by saying something like that. So Mikey quickly turned to Master Splinter. "Oh! Sorry, Sensei."
"Could this be the reason why these "Mousers" attacked in our old place in the first place?" Louie asked, putting two and two together, that if these robots were meant to hunt down the rats from the sewers, then they were targeting their Sensei, as he was the rat and he lived in the sewers with them.
"Well, I really don't see any other reason or motivation to their invasion than that." Dom admitted, before he and Louie turned to Master Splinter. "No offense, Sensei." The turtle in white apologized, not wanting to hurt her father's feelings with such of topic.
"None taken, my son." Master Splinter said with the nod, understanding full well of their point.
"And when their work is done or when their storage capacities are filled a maximum of five average-sized rats, each Mouser unit returns to a preassigned "drop" point directed by a remote "mother" computer." Stockman added, as the Mouser exited from the maze and headed to towards the wall, until the secret door opened and let the Mouser to enter in, disappearing from the room.
"I have had enough of this cruelty!" Arcee declared before the turtle in pink snatched the remote from Mikey's hand and turned TV screens off, ignoring the other turtles' annoyed complaints for doing so.
Mary then turned to Splinter. "Master, what do you think about this Stockman-guy and those rat-eating Mousers?"
Splinter lifted his finger on his chin and began to ponder everything what they've found out today.
"Hmm, this information is indeed serious information. With such of metallic menaces wandering loose in the sewers, there might be a high risk of facing another similar invasion, or maybe even worse next time." Splinter responded seriously.
"Aw, man! Another invasion! But we just got in here! Doesn't that Stockman-guy realize how long it took from us to complete the cleaning up, preparations for the move and the interior work?!" Mikey complained.
"Mikey? I don't think that he does know about our existence." Mary reasoned.
"Nor about the location of this place." Dom added.
"And I think that the Master Splinter meant with what he said that the next invasion could be lethal for us. Of course, we can find a new home over time if we ever lose this one, but our own lives won't get that second chance if the worst happens." Leo explained.
"Exactly." Master Splinter confirmed. "So I suggest all of us to stay right here for both our own safety and to protect our new home."
All the turtles nodded in agreement. Well, all save for Raphael.
"Then I start working on with our security system. We won't be taken by surprise this time like in our old lair." Donnie replied as he went to work.
To be continued
Trivia
(1) When I had once 2003 play set of the Turtles' lair, me and my little brother liked to call it the "Turtle Castle".
(2) Arcee's "Eat my shell!" is just like Bart Simpson's "Eat my shorts!" catchphrase.
(3) If no one hadn't realized yet what I meant with that "JL", I meant with it Jennifer Lopez, as Arcee idolizes her.
(4) Reference to the Planet of the Apes.