CT311998 - Thanks. Noted and fixed! And if there's more mistakes, please note to me (through of the Private Messaging if possible).
animegamefanatic - They will, just not yet. I'm now planning the first one for Louie.
In the middle of the night, the Battle Shell, with Mikey at the wheel, drove through of the gates of the junkyard and drove through of the gaps between the mounds of trash... chased by a massive robot made of the metal and technical trash, with the large TV as its head and the angry-looking face on the screen.
"My name is Domenico. And I gotta say, this night is one of the weirdest nights ever since we left from the safety of our sewers. You see, my brother Donatello is usually into building things and hates bitterly the destruction of something he finds fascinating. However, I really wish he doesn't mind about the exception with THIS ONE!"
The giant robot then reaches out to the Battle Shell and manages to grab the hold on the roof of the vehicle, pinning its rear wheels hard down in the dirt. Mikey tried to speed the Battle Shell up, but the robot's grip was too strong.
"This robo-thing is out for blood and wants to bash us into the turtle pancakes! And I mean, "pancakes"!"
The robot then began banging the Battle Shell's left side door with its fists, denting it down and knocking Raph, Donnie, Arcee and Louie onto their shells inside. While the robot keeps banging the side door, Dom rushes to the barred window of the Battle Shell and looks through of its bars up at the giant robot.
"So I don't know about Donnie, but I'd like to take that thing apart, real fast... before it takes us apart!"
The turtle in white's eyes grow wide from shock when he sees the giant robot raising its large fist over its head and then brings it hard down onto the Battle Shell to crush it like the tin can and all of them inside of it.
(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, named Hun, 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 Hun sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards the screen.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"
(A red-haired young woman, named April O'Neil, 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, named Casey Jones, 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 appears Baxter Stockman, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of menacing-looking Mousers. Stockman points at the camera with his finger and the Mousers lunge forward.)
(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=
=Nano Part 1=
A day or couple later after meeting Casey Jones and beating up the gang of Purple Dragons, the turtles were on the road inside their Battle Shell... in middle of the daylight.
This was a completely new experience to the turtles, because they've never before been on the topside in middle of the daylight. Some of them, Dom especially, felt a bit awkward about this, because the streets were this time of the day full of people and cars, which increased the risk of being seen by the humans. And in addition of that, they needed to be extra careful in the traffic due to the Battle Shell's massive size. The last thing they wanted was to cause some serious road accident or car crashes, which could result them to be either halted or chased by the police. So, Donnie drove the Battle Shell along the road with the calm speed, and so far they'd avoided any incident and unwanted attention by the authorities.
And then, they finally arrived to their today's destination: April's place.
April had yesterday asked the turtles to visit by and give her some help. Since she had lost her job nearly two weeks away, April had decided to reopen her father's antique store named "2nd Time Around". However, she had also asked the turtles to visit by in her place for another reason, which she promised to explain to them later.
The turtles drove their truck into the alley and behind of the building, where it could be safe from the curious eyes. Casey was also with the turtles, following right behind of them on his blue motorbike.
Once the Battle Shell and Casey had parked right in front of the backdoor that led into the building, the turtles piled out of their truck and gathered up to the door, with Mikey taking the lead by ringing the doorbell.
It didn't take long from April, whom was holding the duster in her hand, to open the door.
"Hi, April. A green brothers, sisters, movers and shlepers are reporting to duty." the turtle in orange announced jokingly once April opened the door.
April smiled after seeing the turtles once again.
"Hey, guys. Thanks for coming. I need all the help I can get." she told them.
The some of the turtles noticed some sort of relief in April's voice, as if she had been a bit nervous the whole day. That was strange to them, though none of them wasn't willing to voice it out... not at least now.
"Mikey, Louie? You two can start by moving those big heavy boxes." April requested, pointing some heavy boxes in one corner of the shop.
"Just let me to put on my hernia truss." Mikey joked as he cockily stepped inside.
April merely shook her head slightly at Mikey's childish behavior. "Right over there, wise-guy."
"Except that compared to Donnie, he isn't a pretty smart." Louie smirked as he stepped in next, moving after Mikey.
"Hey!" Mikey shouted offended.
Donnie was the next one to step in. The brainy turtle in purple was carrying the sack over his left shoulder and he was holding some pipes in his right hand.
"Speaking of which, I've got a heater that won't heat." April said as she turned to Donnie.
"Hence, these." Donnie said, momentarily showing to April the pipes in his hand before stepping in. "I'll start with that heater, April." he added as he headed to fix the heater.
"Thanks, Donnie." April tanked as he turned to Mary and Arcee as the female turtles stepped in next.
"Mary and Arcee? You see those boxes near the show window. They're full of antiques I want to put on the show. You two can start with that... and, will you two also move that armor close to the show window as well?" April requested.
"I'm pretty surprised that you didn't pick the more muscular and risky turtles to handle the heavy loads, April. Such are, for example, Raph, Leo, Dom and Louie. Compared to them, we two are too feeble to carry the armor." Arcee said, as she and Mary moved towards the boxes to get to work.
"C'mon, Arcee. Even though yours and Mary's muscles are smaller than those of "risky" guys, that doesn't mean you're physically weaker than your brothers. You're really giving us women the bad name." April said back jokingly. "Besides, that armor is not even that heavy as it looks."
"Was that a motivation or the fact?" Arcee asked, turning back to April with the questioning look on her face.
"Just get to work, will ya." April pleaded, not taking anymore complaints from the turtle in pink.
"You heard the lady, Arcee. Now get to work." Mary said as she grabbed Arcee and gently turned her around before gently pushing her towards the show window. But before they got there, Mary turned to Arcee with the slight glare. "But she's correct, Arcee. Do you seriously think that we ladies are too feeble to do any risky work?"
"No! It's just... I hate carrying burdens that are heavier than my first aid kit. That's the thing!" Arcee defended.
April then turned to Leo, Raph and Dom, who came in last.
"You three. I need that whole antique wall to be moved... and extra carefully." April said with a bit stern and warning tone.
Raph, as always, was about to complain. "Hey, I'm a ninja, not a..."
Raph was cut off when Dom put his hand over his mouth to silence him."
"Shut your trap, you ember-brained dope!" Dom whispered strictly to his hotheaded brother, before the turtle in white turned April with somewhat awkward smile. "I think he meant that he is all too ready to do whatever you wish, April, that's all."
"HMMMPH!" Raph mumbled with Dom's hand still over his mouth, as if he wanted to say something contrary, but Dom didn't allow him to say it.
"And your wish... is our command." Leo added, as he and Dom grabbed Raph by his shoulders and pushed him inside.
Casey then stepped last inside... and instantly bumped into April as she was about to close the door, not expecting anyone else but the turtles.
April was surprised to see that the turtles had brought with them a someone new who wasn't even a turtle.
"Oh! You... are not a turtle." April said with an awkward tone in the sight of the new yet handsome guy and blushed slightly.
She wasn't alone. Casey also felt himself so awkward that he couldn't find the right words at the sight of such of beautiful woman in front of him.
"Uh... yeah. Definitely not." was all he could say with his cheeks slightly red.
Both April and Casey remained there, staring at each other.
This instantly caught Louie's attention while he was moving moving the boxes full of antique along with Mikey.
"Well, well, well. This should be good." the turtle in black muttered with the mischievous smirk.
"Oh! I hope that you don't mind if we brought along a new friend of ours." Leo said as he walked towards the adult people. "We met him a couple days back. We thought it might be good for you to meet him, as he's one of the few who knows about our existence, so that you do not need to fear for the promise you made to us." the turtle in blue shortly explained.
"A small warning, April." Louie called from the corner. "He might be a handsome guy from outside, but from inside he's a total wacko."
Some of the turtles in presence, most notably Mikey, Arcee and Raph chuckled in amusement at what Louie just said, while Mary tried to hold it back by covering her mouth with her hand.
"Hey! Watch your mouth there, you travesty of toad!" Casey snapped with the loud tough-guy voice, feeling embarrassed in front of the lady he just met, thanks to Louie, until he realized he was giving a bad picture of himself in front of April, which kinda proved Louie's statement about him to her.
Apparently not minding about this, April lifted up her hand to shake it with Casey in a greeting. "Hello, my name's April O'neil."
Casey politely refused the hand shake, a bit to April's surprise though she somehow accepted it.
"Name's Casey... Casey Jones." Casey introduced himself, before stepping in.
"Hey. Nice junk all over the place." Casey commented as he observed April's antique shop's internal look.
It wasn't quite big shop but there still was more than enough of everything: wall clocks, table lamps, chests, ceiling lamps and stuffed sea creature (shark or dolphin) hanging from the ceiling, stuffed animal heads, various paintings, hanging skeleton, the medieval armor, porcelain vases and dishes, jewelry, some old fashioned clothes and masks, an antique-turned room equipment from 1900s and a few other objects based on American and South American cultures and so on.
"All of this is my dad's. The shop, I meant. I'm reopening it... at least for now... until I figure out what to do with myself." April explained to Casey as she followed him to the middle of the shop, throwing the duster away. "You see, my last job ended kinda... weirdly." she added with a slight shrug.
Casey nodded, though his tone of voice and behavior dramatically switched from polite to... uh... not so civilized. "Oh, I get it. While you're waiting for a real job to come along, you're just hiding in your pop's junk shop."
April was visibly dumbfounded and slightly offended by what Casey had just said.
"It's an antique shop." she corrected with the frown. "And I'm not hiding from anything."
Casey merely shrugged his shoulders as he walked away. "Whatever, babe."
"Babe?!" April snapped, as her cheeks turned in red from embarrassment while glaring at Casey with annoyed look.
"Oh, boy! Here we go." Mikey said with the teasing voice as he witnessed the heated moment between April and Casey.
"Yeah. They've only just met and they're already at each others throats." Louie told him with the chuckle.
Arcee had overheard his boys from the show window but agreed with them.
"Ooh, I'm dying to see how this goes on." the turtle in pink giggled mischievously.
Casey then walked over to Raph, who was with Leo and Dom moving the antique wall clocks and cabinets to another side of the shop. Raph seemed to have some difficulties while trying to move a large wooden antique cabinet from nearby the shop's front door. Not to mention that his use of strength was greatly limited by the fact that the cabinet was full of fragile goods.
"Hey, Raph. That's a two-men job." Casey stated and grabbed from another side of the cabinet.
The turtle in red and Casey managed together to lift the cabinet off the floor and get it to move slightly from the spot, but then they struggled to keep it up
The Red Turtle and Casey managed together to lift the cabinet off the floor but then the duo began to struggle to make it move while keeping it upright. It wasn't an easy job and soon they started pushing it too hard and with the amount of strength that they weren't allowed to use. This caused the cabinet to woggle back and forward in their hands, making April worried.
"Guys, guys, guys. Careful! That's a very rare.." April warned, until the cabinet accidentally slipped from Raph and Casey's hands and was about to fall over. The duo managed to catch the closet before it fell to the floor, but not until some of the stuff inside fell out and smashed instantly when they hit the floor.
"...antique china." April finished with the facepalm.
To avoid getting anything more broken, Raph and Casey carefully put the cabinet back to the floor.
"Hey, relax. We'll clean it up." Casey said with a smirk.
"Argh!" April growled and angrily stormed out of the store to cool off.
"Geez! Is your friend always so... sensitive?" Casey asked while scratching his head in confusion, as if he didn't know what had got April so irritated.
Arcee couldn't help herself but giggle nearly uncontrollably at this. "They've known each other just only a five minutes and she's already mad at him."
Both Louie and Mikey, hilarious about Casey making himself a total blockhead of himself in April's eyes within five minutes since their first meet, burst out laughing too.
"Maybe because you know how the cocky boneheadas like you act with the ladies." Louie told him as he walked past Casey and Raph with the box full of stuff, which he was going to place onto the glassed box in middle of the shop, laughing all the way there.
Casey almost went into a berserk - though playfully - after being called indirectly as a "cocky bonehead" by Louie.
"Why you...!" Casey snarled as he was about to lunge at the turtle in black and tackle him over to the floor, until Raph stopped him by putting his hand onto his shoulder.
"Not here, Casey. I think that April's already got a perfect picture of... uh... "maniacs in the glass shop" thing." Raph said, calming Casey down while pointing with his finger at Casey and then with his tumb at himself, referring them as the as the "maniacs".
Louie then put the box carefully onto the glass box before opening it... and the first things he picked up from the box were the five Italian theater masks. He payed each of them a quick look before he set then one by one to the small stands meant for them.
"Hmm. Maniac." Louie muttered as he put on the stand the first mask with angry-looking face.
"Menacing." Louie said as he put the second mask, which had either shouting or scaring expression, on the next stand.
"Smiling." he said to the third mask with the happy smiling face, before the turtle in black put it on the third stand.
"Frightened." he said to the fourth mask with the sad or worried expression, before putting it on the fourth stand.
"And depressed." Louie said, finishing nicknaming the masks as he put the fifth and last one the last masks with the gloomy face on the stand.
Louie then took a couple steps back to have a look at the masks standing in a row in front of him. The turtle in black frowned as he looked at the masks, one at a time, and found them a little too gloomy for his taste.
"I dare to doubt whether April will make money with these masks or not, or if any kiddo will find some use of them. If you ask me, they give me a little goosebumps." the turtle in black stated as he turned his shell-back to the mask and returned to his work.
Elsewhere in the shop, Mary and Arcee were still putting the antiques from the boxes to the show window.
"Well, look at these." Arcee said, as she picked up the box full of some beautiful golden and pinkie rings.
"Hey, Mary. How would this pink ring look like in my finger?" Arcee asked from her big sister as she picked up a pink ring from the box to show it to Mary.
Mary paused what she was doing, which was putting some antique porcelain vases to the show window, before she paid the look at the ring Arcee held in her hand, before she giggled and shook her head slightly.
"Well, if we take into account the size of our turtle-fingers, compared to the humans' fingers that are two times thinner than ours, and the size of that ring, I'd say that it is your finger that may look a pretty red and swollen with that ring on." turtle in turquoise joked.
Arcee looked at her sister, a bit offended of what she had just said.
"I asked you to look and say your opinion. I didn't ask you to criticize of what I just said." the turtle in pink snarled.
"No offense, sister, but that's the unpleasant truth. Besides, isn't that obvious that our fingers just can't even squeeze through of the too narrow rings by the same ways as they do with the humans." Mary said with the matter of fact, before she went back to what she was doing.
Arcee kept glaring at her sister, still a bit offended. "Well, if that was supposed to mean that my finger is just as fat as sausage, I'm gonna beat the air out of you in next training session with Master Splinter. Mark my words, sister." the turtle in pink threatened.
"What if you just put that ring back to the box and put that box to the show window? And after you're done, will you help me to move that armor close to the show window, please?" Mary asked, ignoring Arcee's threat before she moved towards the armor after she had placed the vases to the show window.
Arcee rolled her eyes in annoyance, before she put the pinkie ring back into the box and put it down to the show window. Then she turned and went to help Mary to carry the armor next to the show window.
Mary grabbed from the armor's legs while Arcee hooked her arms under of the armor's arms.
"Alright, Arcee, get ready to lift this thing off the ground. On three." Mary said, getting ready to lift the armor from the ground. "One... Two... Three!"
The turtle sisters then lifted the armor off the ground and started to carry it from the corner towards the show window.
Contrary to April's words about the armor earlier, to be honest, it was even heavier than what it looked from the first glance. Arcee grunted and gritted her teeth as she held with all strength she got the upper part of the armor, which was a way heavier part of the whole thing, up in the air while carrying it from its original place to its new spot. Even carrying it a small distance from the corner to the show window took a lot of effort.
"That armor is not even that heavy as it looks, she said." Arcee muttered, mimicking April's earlier words with April's voice between of the grunts and huffs while she improved her grip on the armor. "How can she possibly know that if she has never even carried this thing herself?"
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Later at that night, after the job in the antique shop was done, April asked the turtles to come to her home that was upstairs.
April's apartment wasn't quite big, but it was still cozy one-bedroom apartment: There was three windows with red curtains that opened to the street side. Onto the floor had been spread the orange carpet, before which was standing a blue armchair. There was a small table with the table lamp on it and the red couch standing right next to the door. There was a small wall clock hanging on the opposite wall, where was also the door leading to April's bedroom. Beneath of the wall clock was standing against the wall a small wooden cabinet, on which was standing a globe, a small/medium-sized TV and the bookshelf filled with books. At the backside of the apartment was two rooms separated with the wall in the middle, which were linked to the living room. The room in the right was the kitchen room with two windows to the alley side, and in front of the kitchen was standing a red dinner table with several seats. The other room at the left was mostly the empty space, where was at least the door leading into the bathroom. April also had in her apartment a spiral staircase that led from her apartment down into the store.
And once in there, the turtles seated comfortably down to any possible spot as April began to explain the reason why she had asked them to spend a few nights at her place.
"A shops being robbed lately?" Dom exclaimed with a surprised tone.
"Yes, even those with burglar proof security systems, and the police is puzzled about what could have done this without leaving a traces." April explained worriedly.
"That may explain why you were unusually so tense today." Arcee added, recalling April sounding somewhat relieved when they had met her at her back door. And perhaps it was also partially responsible to April's a quite temperamental mood with Casey's antics.
April nodded. "Yeah, I may have been a bit nervy and tense last two days but for the good reason. These burglaries are making me nervous about safety of my dad's shop. The jewelry store that just got robbed last night is right on my block. And who knows if the burglar may find his way to my shop too. That's why I asked you guys here to sleepover tonight."
"Don't worry, April. We got you covered." Raph said comfortingly.
"Yeah, Anybody who messes with our friend, messes with us as well. Besides, we've been lately all up to the idea of a sleepover at your place." Louie admitted, while sitting on one of April's blue pillows.
"Thanks, guys. I feel so much better having you guys in here." April said, sounding more relieved now that the turtles were here.
However, while counting her guests, April noticed something... or someone... missing.
"Uh, where's your new friend, this Casey?" April asked with concern, which was mostly because of her fear that something else might be broken when Casey was "on the loose" somewhere.
"He's at outside, having volunteered himself for the first watch on guard duty over your shop as "payment" for your stuff he accidentally broke, or something like that he requested us to say to you." Louie explained, while pointing with his thump out of the window.
"Anyway, he might be the runaway elephant or bull in the glass or porcelain shop but he's actually a pretty good at catching the bad guys, purse thieves, burglars and street thugs in action and stop them. If there's a one burglar, he is all his. But if there's a many, we'll be his back up." Louie added, while Raph went to one of the windows and opened it to look outside.
April, Raph, and Louie looked out of the open window and spotted Casey - with hockey-mask on his face and hockey-stick and baseball bat in hands - standing against a bright full moon on the roof of a building opposite to April's place. while watching over the streets around of April's antique shop in case of burglars.
Dom rolled his eyes when seeing Casey's heroic-like posture. "Oh, shell! Does he really have to be like some guy in the black bat-mask and cape?"(1)
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The turtles then spent the rest of the night by eating pizza, drinking soda and watching the late night monster movie at April's living room. The movie was about two titanic monsters - a purple Godzilla and a giant green fire-breathing mutant beetle with one eye, ant-like feelers and crab-like claws as hands - fighting ferociously against each other all across the globe, leaving behind a massive destruction and countless casualties, while mankind couldn't do nothing but stand by and watch powerlessly the monsters' struggle to the death. However, the turtles had fallen to sleep in the middle of the movie, missing the current battle scene between the Godzilla and giant mutant beetle.
While Leo slept in the blue armchair, Mikey, Mary, Raph, Dom, Louie and Donnie slept on the floor of the living room with their heads on the blue pillows while Arcee had claimed the couch for herself to sleep on it.
The turtles, even the girls, were noticeably a loud snorers, which in Louie's case was mixture of loud burping after drinking three-four bottles of beer. It was quite wonder if April in her bedroom wasn't yet disturbed by the turtles' choir of snoring.
Suddenly, some a metallic sounding and the ground and building shaking steps, a loud rattle of the trash cans and a familiar sounding "AGHH!" from outside snapped Leo immediately awake.
"Guys?" Leo gasped as he began to shake his brothers' and sisters' shoulders to wake them up, starting from Mikey, though the turtle in orange was usually the turtle who was not easy to shake to awake.
"Can I have another cookie?" Mikey mumbled in sleep, still dreaming after Leo attempted to shake him awake.
Leo then tried a little bit tougher way to wake his sleepy brother by knocking with his knuckles Mikey to the top of his head. First two were somewhat gentler, but the rest were a bit harder, that was enough to snap him awake.
"Ow! What?!" Mikey asked, still in half-sleep and a bit annoyed that his peaceful slumber had been interrupted, while Leo was shaking Mary awake.
"What is it, Leo?" a turtle in turquoise asked sleepily.
However, Leo sharply hushed his brother and sister to keep it down.
"Shh! Noise, downstairs!" Leo whispered.
Before long, all the turtles were awake, and were instantly ready for the action when Leo informed them what he had just heard.
"Could that be that burglar?" Louie asked.
"Probably, though for the burglar, he keeps a quite loud noise while sneaking around." Donnie stated.
"Or maybe there's a more than just one of them." Dom guessed.
"We better to check it out. Let's go!" Leo said.
Within the minutes, the turtles grabbed their weapons and headed towards the kitchen's windows to get to the alley. They jumped out of the windows one by one and used their weapons to slid along the wire that went past the window like a zipline down to the alley. Mary, however, had to share her Naginata's shaft with Arcee, because the turtle in pink's Tessens were not suitable for sliding down along the wire. One by one, the turtles then let go of the wire and landed in front of the expected group of burglars. After landing and regrouping, each turtle took their respective fighting stances and prepared to confront the unwelcome intruders.
However, what they met in the alley was definitely something what they'd never expected!
Instead of the assumed gang of thugs, there was a strange and quite "deformed-looking" red-blue robot, that was as tall as two turtles and had the car tire serving as its head, to which had been attached the five masks that were the same masks that Louie had earlier nicknamed as "Maniac", "Menacing", "Smiling", "Frightened" and "Depressed" while putting them on the stands.
The turtles were immediately puzzled when they realized that what they were up against.
"Okay..." Leo started, puzzled, as he stared at the robot. "What is that thing?!"
The robot "looked" down on Leo with its "Frightened" mask, before it switched it to the "Maniac" mask.
"Donnie?" Leo asked, demanding the answers.
However, Donnie was as puzzled as Leo. "Uh, insufficient data, boss"
"Uh... I guess that's kinda ugly and deformed-looking transformer from Cybertron, I guess." Arcee guessed with the shrug.(2)
"Seriously? You really think so, sister? You've been watching too much that Shapeshifting Robots TV-series." Dom commented with the deadpan look.
"Hey! Three things, Dom. One: It's called Transformers G1, not Shapeshifting Robots. Two: I love that show. And three: That was just a guess." Arcee shot back. "Besides, we do not even know is this robot friendly or hostile. I don't see neither symbol."
"Oh, make the turtle soup out of me." Dom muttered with the facepalm.
The turtles soon noticed that this strange robot wasn't alone. Along with this strange thing was standing a man dressed with a fancy- and thus expensive-looking jacket and brown brimmed hat, and he was also carrying a brown duffel bag with him.
And, like with all the humans so far, the man was instantly shocked and freaked out by the sight and presence of on two legs walking and talking giant humanoid turtles and rushed behind of the robot for protection.
"No! No! This can't be happening! Martians!" the man whimpered in fear.
The turtles exchanged the confused looks with each other, not getting what the man was talking about.
""Martians"? Was he talking about us?" Louie questioned, a bit offended.
The man behind of the robot tried to hide from the turtles in fear.
"Just when things are finally going my way, we get invaded! Don't let them to eat my brains, kid!"
Okay, now the turtles were convinced that the robot was hostile.
The thing instantly raised its robotic arms up and slammed them hard to the ground in attempt to squash the turtles, who, however, jumped back to avoid its robotic fists.
Raph attacked the robot first and began to slash its metallic legs with his Sai many times, though his attacks didn't cause much of the damage. The robot then lifted up its foot and stomped it hard down on Raph in attempt to crush him, but Raph had already jumped back to avoid getting crushed.
Mary then leaped towards the robot, spinning her Naginata over her head briefly before she brought it hard down on the robot, slashing the robot's metallic chest with all her might. The strike managed to slightly damage its chest but not enough to bring it down.
Before the robot could turn on Mary, Leo leaped towards the robot, targeting its neck in attempt to cut off its head with his Katanas. However, the robot spotted him and swung its left thinner arm towards the turtle in blue, knocking him off the air and sending him flying against the wall.
Louie, who had sneaked behind of the robot, attacked next and started to repeatedly slash the robot's unprotected back with his Butterfly swords, because there seemed to be the robot's most important and on the moment vulnerable "innards". However, his attacks turned out to be ineffective against the robot.
Then the robot clenched its right and more bulkier robotic hand into a fist and turned around in attempt to backhand Louie off.
However, the turtle in black jumped over the robot's swing and made a flip over its head, landing on its shoulders. Louie then jumped off the robot's back at the same time as the robotic thing turned around and attempted to punch him with his right fist. The robot narrowly missed the turtle in black by the inch from his scalp and ended up punching the outer side of the wall of the neighboring building, leaving the robot's fist-sized dent into it.
Arcee attacked next and started slashing its feet with her Tessens in attempt to severe at least one of its robotic legs so that she could cripple the this thing. And while Arcee was slashing the robot's legs, Dom attempted to attack the robot from its front side with his Tonfas.
However, the robot thing managed to snatch Don from midair with its right hand, before it lifted the turtle in white up and swung him towards Arcee like the bowling ball.
The turtle in pink saw this incoming towards her, but was too late to do anything to either counter it or dive out of the way. The robot struck her big brother into her and at the same time cupped her up from the ground with its robotic hand, before it threw both turtles in white and pink across the street.
"AHHHHH!" both Dom and Arcee screamed during of their air flight, until Arcee landed her shell first against the parked car's side door, leaving a deep dent into it as she fell onto her butt to the road. Dom, however, flew over both stunned Arcee and the damaged car and through the show window of the store opposite to April's store, smashing it.
And thanks to their usual turtle-luck, both the damaged car's and the store's burglar alarms began ringing loudly, much to the turtles' horror.
Their instincts told them to go and vanish into the shadows before the authorities arrive, but they just couldn't let this strange robot to continue its rampage. So all of them remained where they were standing and kept fighting the robot.
Mikey attempted to attack the robot from behind and sent the kick to its back, but it was an ineffective attempt which instead alerted the robot of Mikey's presence. So the robot turned around and swung its right arm at the turtle in orange, knocking him away.
Mikey, and recovered Dom and Arcee regrouped around of Donnie, who had stayed aside most of the battle, and was at the moment digging something from his own duffel bag.
"We gotta figure out how to beat that thing... and fast." Arcee said to him. "I definitely do not want to be around when the owners of that car come to investigate the situation and freak out after finding out that there's a large and shell-shaped dent in their car's side door."
"Not the mention about having cops around investigating what happened to that store's show window." Dom added. "I just hope there wasn't any security cameras recording the whole incident."
"Yeah. Shouldn't you be having an idea right about now?" Mikey demanded.
"Hold that thought." Donnie replied, as he picked up the blowtorch from his bag. "Keep this thing busy."
"I knew you were gonna say that." Mikey groaned, not liking the idea of getting pummeled by the giant robot and wait 'till Donnie gets some idea.
"I need some time to prepare. Is giving me a little more time too much to ask?" Donnie asked sternly.
"Okay, okay then! Just don't take too long with it!" Mikey pleaded, before he, Dom and Arcee got up and rejoined to the fight with the rest of the turtles that were still engaging the robot, while Donnie ignited his blowtorch.
Together, all the seven turtles cornered the robot and surrounded it from all sides, cutting its escape. They all swung their weapons at the robotic thing alternately and repeatedly in attempt to keep it in place.
Strangely, as the robot looked around at each turtle one at the time, it seemed like and behaved as if it was confused and clueless. At least it briefly looked incapable to decide whom it should go after first.
After a moment, the robot then turned to Leo and slammed its right fist hard down in attempt to squash him, but Leo ducked it and skidded right between its legs.
Ignoring Leo, the robot tried to turn its attention to Mikey, though the turtle in orange had already attacked it before the robot could do anything. Mikey whacked the robot's head with one of his Nunchucks, cracking its "Happy" mask, before leaping back and spinning his Nunchucks under of his arms. The robot then, ignoring this, swung its arm at Mikey, but the turtle in orange jumped over it and towards the robot's head. Spinning around as he flew at the robot, Mikey sent a kick to the robot's "Maniac" mask with his left foot, before Mikey jumped off it with both feet and back-flipped out of the robot's left's hand's reach as it tried to reach to him to snatch the turtle in orange from the air. Mikey then landed onto the robot's bulkier arm and as the robot tried to grab on him again with its left hand, Mikey front-flipped over its head, landing to the ground behind of its back. Frustrated, the robot turned around and moved towards Mikey and Leo.
As the robot did so, Louie attacked him next. The turtle in black took out his pair of Manriki-gusari chains and tossed them at the robot's feet, wrapping the chains around one of its legs before Louie started to pull from them with all his strength in attempt to pull the robot's leg from under him and trip him over. Raph, Dom, Arcee and Mary rushed to aid him by lunging at the robot from behind and performed all together a foursome dive-kick onto the thing's back, which was effective enough to send the robot falling onto its face to the ground.
The robot, now pissed off more than ever, got back up to its feet and was about to advance the turtles with its deadly rampage. However, Donnie then sneaked behind of it with the blowtorch and ignited the robot's unprotected back in fire!
"AHHHHHHHH!" the robot groaned with the painful and even pitiful scream, while its face switched from the "Maniac" to the "Frightened" mask as its back caught fire. Still groaning, the robot started frantically extinguish the fire with its bulkier hand before it could spread any further.
And when the fire was gone, the robot's face switched back to "Maniac" mask as it turned around to see Donnie standing behind of it, still holding the blowtorch. Correctly assuming Donnie being to blame for the fire in its back, the robot angrily swung its thinner left arm at Donnie in retaliation, knocking the turtle in purple against the wall.
"Donnie!" Arcee cried and attempted to run to her brother's aid, only to be swatted away by the robots' thin arm, that sent the turtle in pink fly into Mikey, knocking them both down to the ground.
As Leo and Louie helped Mikey and Arcee up, their attentions were then caught by the man shouting encouragingly to the robot.
"Don't let those alien-freaks get you, kid! Flatten them into a pancakes!" the man encouraged.
All seven turtles instantly turned to confront this strange man.
"Who are you, buddy?!" Dom demanded, pointing his Tonfa's blunt end at the man's face.
"And what do YOU know about this?!" Leo demanded as well.
Raph and Mary took the interest of the man's bag.
"And what do you have in your bag, pal?! Show us!" Mary demanded, holding her Naginata's blade pointed at the man.
"Apparently full and heavy from the after-hour shopping, isn't it, pal?" Raph questioned with the dark tone as he pointed his Sai at the man.
The man gasped and backed away in fear as the turtles approached him, demanding the answers to their questions.
Suddenly...
"DAD-DY!" said the child-like voice from behind the turtles.
Before the turtles could react, the robot suddenly grabbed all seven of them into the metallic bearhug - Dom, Arcee and Raph in its right arm and Leo, Mary, Mikey and Louie in its left one. However, instead of crushing the turtles to the death with its metallic arms, the bot threw the turtles into the walls at either side of the alley before it picked the man in its arm in bridal style and ran off from the alley to the streets.
The turtles looked after the robot as it made its getaway, with somewhat confused looks on their faces. And when the bot was finally gone, the turtles pulled themselves up from the ground and rubbed the bruised places on their arms, shoulders, chests, sides, and heads with their hands.
"What the shell! That thing just spoke!" Mary exclaimed, puzzled of what she had just heard.
"Well, did you really expected the autonomous robot organisms to be mute, sis?" Arcee asked sarcastically before voicing her another theory. "I think that it's likely still learning the Earth's languages through the World Wide Web, that's all."(2)
"Geez! You really have watched too much Shapeshifter Robots, sister." Dom said, facepalming.
"Transfo..." Arcee corrected, until she cut herself off with a loud groan in irritation. "Ugh! You know what?! Never mind!"
"And that... was not exactly what I meant, sis." Mary said to Arcee, silently agreeing with Dom.
"First Stockman's Mouser-robots and now this... I'm totally starting to develop the strong dislike towards anything relating to the robot technology." Raph snarled, scratching his slightly aching right temple with his hand.
This was the moment when April arrived to the scene after having witnessed the whole fight from her backdoor.
"What was that thing?" she asked, though none of the turtles had no idea.
"Beats me. No idea." Mary answered with the shrug and the shaking of her head.
Suddenly, they all heard someone moaning in pain behind of them and all of them turned to see that who it was. It was Casey.
Casey was trying to get back up on his feet, but he was forced to lean on the wall with his right arm while holding from his right side's ribs with his left hand, moaning in pain. He was filled with the bad-looking and bleeding bruises and he also seemed to have some difficulties in both standing up and moving. He had dropped his golf bag to the ground next to his feet and both his hockey-stick and his baseball bat were lying in front of him in the ground. Both of them had broken from the middle.
Such of miserable sight of their friend instantly told to the turtles and April that Casey had most likely got himself into the fight with someone - or more likely with something - and had got himself badly beaten before the back up could've arrived
"Casey!" April gasped, instantly rushing for the wounded vigilante's aid.
"Oh no!" Raph gasped as he rushed with April to Casey's aid, Louie right behind of him.
"Arcee! We got wounded man!" Louie called for Arcee, who instantly rushed to check Casey's condition.
As Arcee started to check Casey's injuries, both the countless bruises and his possible injuries in the right side, April removed his mask from his face to check that had he got any bad hits to his faces.
"S-so... uh... did I win?" Casey asked weakly and a bit awkwardly.
"OW!" Casey winced in pain as Arcee palpated with her hands the area Casey had held with his left arm.
"Sorry." Arcee apologized as she kept palpating.
"More likely, "did anything went broken"?" Raph corrected as he lifted his vigilante friend's right arm over his shoulders while Louie lifted Casey's left arm over his shoulder.
"A lot of bruises and he has a few ribs cracked from the right side... otherwise nothing severe, but we need ice, over-the-counter painkillers and bandages to tend his injuries." Arcee listed after she had finished checking Casey's condition.
"Casey, what the shell happened?" Louie asked, as the turtles began to escort their injured friend back inside the store to recover, with April and Arcee nursing Casey the whole way inside of her building.
"Something very weird I've ever seen in my life beside you, pals. You see, I was about to catch the burglar that ran out of April's store from the back, and then the whole freaking car nearby suddenly came to life." Casey explained in between of the grunts and moans in pain while being escorted inside.
"Car?! Came to life?!" Dom exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yes... just like in those Shapeshifter Robots movies and series, when the car or any vehicle somehow gets its own mind and conscience and decides to turn into a giant robot with the intention of either bashing the heads in from each other and the bad ones in defense of human race or starting to wreck the neighborhoods' buildings and vaporize people around with their killer-laser guns in order to conquer the planet, and...!"
"Casey!" Leo interrupted while holding his hands up, snapping Casey out of his thoughts. "Focus!" the turtle in blue added.
"Oh, yeah!" Casey exclaimed as he realized that he had without notice drifted from the main topic. "Whatta dope!" he added with the smack against his temple.
"So? The car came to life, as you said. Correct?" Mary questioned.
"Yeah! The car came to life on its own and then formed before me into that hideous-looking robotic freak you guys just battled... and that rusty ugly pummeled me good!" Casey added, before wincing in pain again.
"Man! That means payback for those guys who did this to our friend!" Raph growled as he, Louie, Arcee and April brought Casey through the door to inside of the store.
The remaining turtles outside found it hard to not to believe Casey's story, especially after seeing the robot with their very own eyes.
"Well, one of the most strangest nights in our lives, I had to admit it." Mikey admitted.
"But the real question is: What was that robot and where it even came from?" Mary asked, scratching her chin as she wondered the answer for that.
Donnie then spotted something very odd lying in the ground and knelt down to pick it up with his hand.
Much to his surprise and confusion, it was the piece of metal from the robot, that was surrounded by the mysterious glowing and bubbly liquid-like white cloud... and it was even moving on its own like a living organic being!
"Uh, guys... this material is moving!" The brainiac turtle exclaimed in surprise.
To be continue.
TRIVIA
(1) - Reference to Batman.
(2) - References to the Transformers G1. I wanted to make Arcee a big fan of Transformers G1 series, which is also why I based her nickname on the name of the white-pink female Autobot Arcee. It also helped me to pick a color for Arcee's ninja mask.