Supermikeyninjalady: Arcee is still young, though more matured than Mikey to her age (due to her being the doctor of the team), but there is moments when even Arcee can give some slack. Due to her and Michelangelo being the family's youngest, they have a strong bond.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=The Way of Invisibility Part 3=
Back in the lair, after the poles were put back upright in the Dōjō and the lights turned off, Splinter and the turtles had resumed their training on the poles.
Splinter stood perfectly still on one of the poles while observing his sons and daughters progress in balancing.
Mary was skillfully and elegantly balancing upside down on top of her Naginata's blunt end, with its blade's tip placed on top of one of the poles, where it and Mary were slowly and gently spinning around. Keeping her eyes closed as if either meditating or in a deep mental focus, Mary managed to keep her body in upright position and in perfect balance in the air while holding from the Naginata's blunt end's with her right hand.
"Body still... mind calm... everything in and out..." the turtle in turquoise chanted repeatedly.
Donnie was holding himself up and over of one of the poles with his hands, and he had spread his legs straight in both directions and was slowly spinning himself around with his eyes closed, as if he was deeply focused on his task too.
Dom was practicing some kata moves with his eyes closed, focusing entirely on throwing several punches and kicks in the air while switching alternately his footing on the poles standing around him depending on the next move.
Arcee meanwhile was jumping up and down on two-three poles: With the first jump and backward flip, she landed with both feet onto two poles. On the second flip, she landed on her hands to the pole standing in the middle, standing on it upside down for a second. On the third flip, she landed back to her feet on the same pole in the middle. And on the fourth flip, she landed again on her hands to two poles upside.
Mikey was balancing upside down on his hands on the top of one of the poles, with his legs spread wide.
And lastly, Leo hopped off from the outer upper floor ring and landed on the poles. The turtle in blue jumped along some of the poles before he landed on one hand to the one pole before flipping over it and kept going on.
However, as the training seemed to go well with the turtles this time, someone suddenly knocked over some of the poles.
"Huh?" Donnie muttered, snapping out of his focus as he felt the poles falling over around of him.
"Hey!" Mary, snapping out of her own focus, cried in surprise as she felt the pole under of her Naginata started to wobble uncontrollably, which disturbed her balance.
"Whatta?!" Dom let out as the poles started to fall over under his feet.
"Oh, come on!" Mikey groaned as he felt the poles falling of under him.
The falling poles caused the domino effect that knocked over all the poles from under of the turtles' feet, thus causing the turtles and Splinter to lose both their focus and balance and entire mutant family fell down to the floor. The poles also knocked down the candle holder, putting out the fire and the complete darkness fell over the lair.
Right after, someone clapped his/hers hands together and the lights turned back on.
And when the lights were back on, the turtles almost immediately spotted Casey lying among of the fallen posts in the ground.
"You can almost set your watch by this guy." Mikey complained as the turtle in orange stood up.
"Great! Just when the training was starting to go well, he had to ruin it!" Arcee complained.
However, it didn't take long from the turtles to realize that Casey did not deliberately spoil their training this time. One glance at their fallen comrade's condition caused their initial annoyance and frustration turn into a worry for him!
The vigilante looked seriously battered up as he was covered by the various nasty-looking bruises. He lifted his hand over his head, shaking it and moaning like he was still dazed from a really serious wallop.
"Casey?!" Arcee let out, and the turtle in pink instantly switched into a doctor mode to check out Casey's injuries, while Leo and Dom hurriedly rushed to their vigilante-friend's side, lifting his bruised arms over their shoulders and helped him nice and slowly off the ground.
"Casey, what happened?" Leo asked worriedly.
"Oh my gosh!" Arcee gasped in shock as she saw all of Casey's bruises. "Where did you get all these bruises?"
"Who did this to you?" Dom asked.
"Purple Dragons. Six of them." Casey moaned. "Those goons caught me and beat me up like some sort of punching bag. I managed to get away from them... in once piece."
"You got beaten up by the six Purple Dragons?!" Dom exclaimed almost in disbelief. The turtle in white, you see, was fully convinced that Casey was more than just capable to hold his ground against six dim-witted street thugs. Hearing of him getting his butt kicked by six thugs sounded nearly unbelievable. "That sounds almost impossible, especially if you faced them along with Raph and Louie."
"If they just had been alone, they wouldn't have... OW!" Casey winced.
"Casey?" Splinter said, seeing that his sons were not with Casey. "Where is Raphael and Lorenzo?! What happened?!" the old rat master asked frantically.
Casey weakly lifted his left arm from Dom's shoulder and took off his mask to face Splinter.
"We got ambushed by some invisible ninjas. They... they took them." he said.
Donnie, Arcee, Mikey and Mary exchanged the looks with each other in disbelief.
Mikey turned back to Casey, grinning widely. "Invisible ninjas, huh? This story wouldn't involve Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, by any chance?" the turtle in orange joked.
Mikey's joke hinted noticeably to the fact that Casey's short tale of "invisible ninjas" was a little hard to swallow.
"Listen, Casey." Donnie started. "It's common for ninjas to be invisible because we traditionally move with stealth within the shadows to avoid being seen. But if you really meant "literally" invisible ninjas, it is logically impossible."
"I got proof!" Casey claimed as he took out and showed to the turtles the orange eye. "I took this "eye-ball" from one of them when he was about to grab Raph."
The word "eyeball" got turtles, especially Mary and Arcee, to wince in shock and disgust, until they realized that the object what Casey was holding in his hand looked more like the orange protective glass from the eye-hole of the gas mask.
However, Donnie took the eye from Casey's hand and headed to his lab, while Arcee kept tending Casey's injuries with disinfectant.
"Ow!" Casey winced slightly. "No need for that, Arcee. I'm fine. Ow!"
"Sure you are, big guy." Arcee shot back sarcastically. "Look at you, Casey! You look like you just got hit by the car!"
"Been through a worse than this. Ow!" Casey shot back, that was followed by another yelp.
"Do not argue with Arcee, Casey." Leo told him. "She is "No-Buts" kinda doctor when it comes to the heavily bruised patients. Trust me, I know."
In his lab, Donnie placed the eye under of the magnifying glass and started to study it.
The brainy turtle instantly found from it something that really caught his interest.
"Oh, some kind of optical device." the turtle in purple exclaimed in surprise. "Heavy duty hardware."
Casey then opened his mouth to say something more. "And that invisibility-thing ain't nothing yet. We also saw that these guys were carrying in their suits some kind of red three-toed foot print-like symbols. Louie and Raph also mentioned that you guys have met earlier some ninja-dudes carrying the same symbol. Am I correct?"
One mention about the "ninjas carrying the three-toed foot print-like symbols" alarmed the turtles and Master Splinter totally, robbing them of all chances and excuses to call Casey's story as a bluff, even to a small degree.
"You're kidding, right?" Leo said, hoping their vigilante friend was just kidding.
But even so, the turtle in blue pulled out his Shell cell and attempted to call to Raph. Mary alike dug out her own Shell cell and tried to call to Louie.
However, after a few several attempts, the line remained dead.
"Raph's not answering his Shell cell." Leo informed.
"Neither is Louie." Mary said.
"Oh, shell! Now there's definitely no denying that Raph and Louie may have been kidnapped" Dom lamented when the situation began to dawn on them.
"Aah!" Casey cried in frustration as he grabbed to a stool, picked it off the ground and tossed it against the wall, breaking it.
"You were right, guys! Those graffiti were a set-up this whole damn time! And I gave Raph and Louie away like on a plate! This is all my fault!" Casey angrily lamented.
"Keep yourself cool, Casey!" Donnie demanded, as he picked up the scanner from among of his stuff on the table. "I installed tracking chips in all the Shell Cells. Just in case."
Donnie stared at the screen of his scanner, but there was not the signal from Raph's or Louie's Shell cells in the screen... as if they have disappeared like the dust into the air.
"Interesting. Not picking up a signal."
Casey was starting to loose his cool and went into a rampage. Groaning in frustration, he kicked the couch over.
"Aah! We'll never find them!" he exclaimed.
Arcee then turned to Donnie, concerned of this whole situation and its noticeable effect on Casey's current behavior and mood.
"Donnie! Hurry up in picking up their signals! Our vigilante guest is about to go into rampage in our own lair." the turtle in pink urged worriedly, pointing with her thumb at Casey, as the rampaging vigilante kicked the table over, sending everything on it flying to the floor.
"Well, maybe I can try another way to find them. I may be able to calibrate my scanner to trace the com signal from your "invisible ninjas." the brainy turtle said as he began to do his stuff with his scanner.
The turtles stepped aback as Casey kept tossing and breaking their furniture against the walls and columns of the lair in frustration: he trashed one of the entertainment area's arcade games by tossing it over to the ground, kicked the sun lounger aside, picked up a chair and smashed it against the column, he even ripped one of the computers from the table and tossed it against the wall, trashing it literally.
"Better make it fast. We're running out of furniture." Mikey urged as well.
Then there was a loud "CRASH!" heard from the entertainment area, prompting the turtles to turn around to see what Casey had smashed now in his anger.
"Oh, c'mon!" Dom groaned. "Now he totally destroyed the snack vending machine!"
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Elsewhere, back in the room where onto the operating tables restrained Raph and Louie were held as captives, Hun was starting to lose his cool with the turtles, as their interrogation wasn't going well. No matter how many times he asked the question, both Raph and Louie defiantly refused to answer them.
"We've been over this again and again, freaks!" the giant threateningly snarled, before pulling the light even closer at Raph and Louie. "I'm only gonna ask you this one more time. Who do you work for? How long have you been on this planet? Where's your headquarter? What is the level of your technology?"
Both Raph and Louie were puzzled by those questions. None of them had an idea what the blonde mountain of muscle was talking about.
"Planet? Technology? Boy, you are barking up the wrong shell." Raph replied.
"Yeah, dude! You gotta have a few of screws loose. Do we look like some kind of martians or E.T. to you? " Louie asked in the matter of fact.
However, these kind of answers didn't please the blonde man.
"ANSWER ME, DAMMIT!" the blonde man snapped, angrily smacking both the tables, causing them to violently rock back and forth.
When it stopped, a bit dizzy Louie opened his mouth to speak.
"Ugh! L-look b-buddy. H-how we're supposed to answer when we have no clue what you're talking about?" the turtle in black said, like trying to reason with the angry giant. "Besides, we are innocent as pigeons, except that we are reptiles, whatever we're accused for."
"Ugh! Y-yeah. C-come to think of it, who do you work for? I mean, you look way too dumb to be in charge of all this." the turtle in red added, while he started to secretly use the Tanto Jennika had secretly given to him to saw the ties that restrained his left hand.
"Yeah." Louie agreed. "And no matter how twisted that whacko Stockman-guy is, something tells me that even he neither is in charge of this conspiracy."
Hun, in the verge of losing what remains of his patience, grabbed from aside a buzz-saw and brought it into the scene.
"Your choice." Hun said darkly, as he brought the buzz-saw dangerously closer of Raph's faces. "You can either talk, or you can let your DNA do the talking for you."
Raph attempted to back away from the buzz-saw's blade, as Hun held it only a mere inch away from Raph's faces.
"Now is there something you want to tell me?"
Raph kept sawing his left hand's ties near-frantically, until he finally managed to cut it through, freeing his hand.
"Oh, sure I have. JUST THIS!" Raph exclaimed as he suddenly, much to both Hun's and Louie's surprise, stabbed him in the right shoulder with Tanto!
"AHH!" surprised Hun yelled from the pain.
When the blonde mountain of muscle was distracted for a moment, Raph dropped the Tanto from his hand and quickly reached for the oxygen mask with his free hand before placing it over Hun's mouth.
"Sweet dreams, lard butt!" Raph sarcastically wished to the blonde giant.
Hun began to cough frantically in the oxygen mask as he took a a large amount of anesthetizing stuff into his mouth, though not enough to knock him out completely. Hun then turned around and ran off as he began to get dizzy.
With the giant out of the way, Raph quickly grabbed to the buzz-saw and used it to cut the rest of his restraints off, freeing himself from the table. And once free, Raph moved to Louie and cut his restraints too with the buzz-saw.
"Nice work, bro." Louie praised as the turtle in black jumped off the table. "But where did you got that Tanto?"
"No time for explanation, Louie! Let's just get out of here!" Raph said, to which Louie nodded his head in agreement.
But before they left from the room, the turtles went to the table to fetch their weapons and Shell cells.
"Well, Don'll kill us both definitely if we leave these behind." Raph added, grabbing their broken Shell cells off the table.
"Hey!" Louie exclaimed, as he noticed that there was only one Sai and one Butterfly Sword on the table, but the other pair of their weapons was nowhere to be seen. "Where's my other Butterfly sword, and your other Sai?!"
"Some lady took them when he left the room." Raph said, before holding out his Tanto to Louie. "Here! Take it, if it makes you feel better. I can make it with one Sai."
Louie stared at the Tanto in Raph's hand for a moment before the turtle in black eventually took it, not wanting to waste the precious time they needed to escape by questioning his brother about it.
Before they left, Louie turned to Stockman, who was staring down at them in wide-eyed shock and disbelief from the other side of the glass.
"Thanks for your "hospitality", but now we must go. Daddy will kill us if we're late from home. Ciao!" Louie sarcastically thanked Stockman, before he left the room.
"NOOO!" Stockman shouted, banging the panel with his fist, before the disgraced scientist turned to glare down at Hun, who was lying on his knees in the floor while holding from his face with his hand. gritting his teeth angrily.
Once having most their belongings back, the turtles immediately made their way out of the room and into the narrow hallway, in the end of which they found the stairs leading upwards and began to climb them up, heading towards the upper floors to find the way out of here.
"SECURITY!" Stockman's voice could be heard from the megaphones in the hallways. "THE PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED! SECURE THE DECK! DON'T LET THEM TO GET AWAY!"
After climbing the stairs, the turtles found a way to the red door, which they assumed to lead outside of this place. With that thought, Raph and Louie started to make their way towards it and towards the freedom that belonged to them.
However, before they could reach the door, the door was opened and at least six ninjas stepped through of it into the hallway, causing the turtles in red and black to halt dead in the tracks.
Raph recognized immediately one ninja standing in middle and front of two ninjas. It was Jennika, holding in her right hand's one of Raph's Sai and in her left hand Louie's Butterfly sword, while the other ninjas were holding out their own Ninjato-swords.
"Hey! That woman... she got our weapons!" Louie exclaimed when he noticed their weapons in the ninja woman's hands.
"I can see that, bro." Raph replied before the turtle in red took the battle-ready pose, holding his one Sai in his left hand while holding his right hand out and forward. "At least she saved us from the trouble of making the new ones by bringing them back to us."
"Good!" Louie snarled as he too took the battle-ready pose, holding both his one Butterfly sword and Tanto upside down in his hands and in front of his face. "'Cause I ain't leaving here without what's mine!"
The turtles and ninjas stared at each other venomously as they waited for one side to make their first move.
During of the stand-off, Jennika paid a quick glances up to the ceilings and the corners of this hallway, as if checking first were there any security cameras recording this stand-off. While there was none in the corridor in which Raph and Louie were standing, there appeared to be couple of them in the ceilings of the corridors that led to the right and left from the door. However, these one's position looked like it did not enable it to record what was going on behind the corners of the corridor where the turtles were.
With that in mind, Jennika turned back to the turtles with the cold and murderous look on her face.
"Take them on!" she commanded the ninjas behind her and the first two ninjas stepped forward, intending to attack the turtles. The other ninjas then soon followed them and Jennika, moving behind of the corner and out of the security camera's recorded area in front of the door.
However, as the turtles in red and black prepared to face their attackers, something happened that none could expect.
As the first two ninjas in Jennika's both sides raised their swords, ready to attack the turtles, Jennika suddenly turned Louie's Butterfly sword and Raph's Sai upside down in her hands and quickly stabbed the first two ninjas' unprotected stomach/chest with the turtles' own weapons!
"AGH!/UGH!" the ninjas gasped when they were ran through with Raph's Sai and Louie's Butterfly sword.
Raph and Louie, as well as all three remaining ninjas behind of Jennika, watched this in the wide-eyed and slack-jawed shock and confusion. The turtles couldn't believe that one of the ninjas' own had just stabbed two of her own to death. The ninjas too couldn't understand that why Jennika did what she had just done.
Jennika then drew Raph's Sai and Louie's Butterfly sword out of the ninjas, letting their limp lifeless bodies to fall over to the floor of the corridor and causing some blood on the blades of the turtles' weapons to fly against the walls. Before anyone could react, Jennika turned the turtles' weapons upright in her hands before she turned around and lunged at the ninjas. Swinging Louie' Butterfly sword horizontally towards two ninjas in her left, Jennika slashed their throats open, spilling more blood against the corridor's wall, before she struck the third and last ninja with Raph's Sai.
Two ninjas let out the throaty gasp of pain after Jennika had slit their throats with the Butterfly sword, before they dropped their own swords and, coughing blood out of their mouths, collapsed to the floor, holding from their throats with their hands as the blood poured out of the clean wounds. The ninjas tried to desperately make the bleeding stop by pressing their hands over their wounds, but after a moment for of a painful and desperate struggle to stay alive, both ninjas went limp and they fell into their pools of their own blood and never rose up again. The third and last ninja remained to stand limply still for a moment, with Raph's Sai struck into his left eye, from the socket of which the blood poured out and onto the ninja's masked face. After a moment, the ninja fell over to the floor, dead.
Raph and Louie stared at the gruesome bloodbath in front of them in silence and shock, until they turned their eyes on the blood-covered Jennika, who went over to the last Ninja she'd stabbed in the eye with Raph's side. The woman turned his body over and quickly pulled Raph's Sai out of its socket.
The bloodied woman then turned to Louie and Raph, still holding their bloodied weapons in her hands. The turtles in red and black glared at her with distrust and took a new battle-ready poses. Jennika may have caught her own ninjas by surprise by swiftly turning on them before quickly slaughtering all of them, but the turtles were ready for her tricks now, and sure in shell they were not gonna make it easy for her to kill them.
"Bring it on, angel of death!" Raph dared her with the angry growling.
"Show us what you got, snake!" Louie snarled, pointing at Jennika with her own Tanto.
However, Jennika did once again something they didn't expect.
Using Louie's Butterfly sword, Jennika unexpectedly and to the turtles' shock, sliced herself above her left eye, leaving a visible and bleeding wound in the temple, from which the blood poured out and ran along the left side of her face. Jennika then moved to cut herself from her arm right below her right shoulder, allowing the blood run along her right arm. Jennika gritted her teeth in pain, as she moved next to run the short sword's blade horizontally along her skin above her chest, leaving there a longer wound, out of which pouring blood quickly stained her black ninja garb with the dark-shaded color of red. Jennika then finished her job by stabbing herself to her left thigh, sinking only 1/3 of Louie's blade into her flesh before pulling it out of her, leaving there a bleeding stab wound too.
After discarding Louie's bloodied Butterfly sword, blood-covered Jennika then grabbed from Raph Sai with both hands. turned it over in her hands and stabbed herself with it!
"AHH!" Jennika gasped as the blood spilled out of stab wound in her left side.
Both Raph and Louie stared at Jennika in shock and disbelief of her actions: First she killed five of her own, then she mutilated herself in front of them, and now she just stabbed herself with Raph's Sai!
Jennika gritted her teeth in pain as she pulled Raph's Sai out of herself, before she then dropped it to the floor and collapsed against the corridor's wall.
Breathing rapidly, Jennika then reached out with her left hand to her walkie-talkie and brought it close to her mouth. After snapping out of their shock upon realizing that what Jennika was about to do, both Raph and Louie were about to dive at her to stop her, but they were too late as Jennika turned the channel on.
"Guards! The prisoners have made it to the deck! They're trying to get away from the bow deck! I repeat, they're trying to get away from the bow deck!" Jennika spoke to the walkie-talkie, before her hand fell limply to the floor.
As Raph and Louie picked up their bloodied weapons from the floor, the two turtles couldn't turn their eyes away from Jennika's wounded and bloodied form, utterly confused that the ninja woman had informed the other security of their escape to the "bow deck" even though they had not even gotten out of this whole place yet.
Jennika then turned to the turtles, seeing that the two were still staring at her in confusion.
"Go." Jennika whispered.
"Wha...?" Louie muttered, tilting his head and with the raised eyebrow.
"Most of the security are at the front deck looking for you two. The main deck and aft deck are empty at the moment. Go that way but don't delay, as the security won't stay in the bow for long. This is your only chance to get out of here undetected." the wounded ninja woman instructed in haste.
The turtles, without breaking their eye contact with this mysterious woman, walked cautiously and uncertainly past her and over the bodies of the dead ninjas towards the open door. It was obvious that this woman was either helping them escape or she was letting them go, whatever her motives were, but the latter option was suspicious.
Whatever this was, due to past encounters with these ninja-guys, Raph wasn't going to trust this woman at all.
But Louie was a bit more curious about this woman's motives.
"Why are you doing this?" Louie asked.
"GO NOW, WHILE YOU STILL CAN!" Jennika snapped.
While Louie wanted to know more, Raph grabbed his brother from his shoulder and tugged him towards the door. Louie eventually though a bit reluctantly relented and turned around to follow his brother out of the door.
However, once they had got out, the turtles halted almost instantly when they discovered that they were standing on a large yacht (with the same ninja symbol branded onto the main deck), which was floating in the middle of the Hudson River.
"Well, look at that! We have been shanghaied on a pleasure cruise." Louie commented their situation.
"And the pretty lame one." Raph added.
At least Jennika was right that the main deck and aft deck were empty of guards, which gave them free access out of here without any problems. .
Raph and Louie descended the stairs to the main deck and moved to the aft deck's railing to observe their situation. Because they were in middle of the river, there was a long distance between of the city's docks and the boat. And there were no boats or Jet Skis here that they could borrow and get back to shore.
However, that wasn't the problem at all.
"Good thing turtles are amphibious. Don't you think?" Raph asked from Louie.
"Couldn't agree more, bro." he agreed. "It would be very embarrassing to have a aquaphobia and be the turtle at the same time."
"Tell me about it. That would be very shameful to our species." Raph added with the smirk.
And with that, both turtles jumped over the railing and fell into the water. The duo then began swimming away from the ship underwater, just in case if the guards, who would be at this moment heading to the ship's main deck and aft, were looking for them from the water in order to either recapture or even kill them.
The duo swam halfway between the docks and yacht underwater until they finally swam to the surface to breathe. Once on the surface, the turtles turned to look back in the direction of the ship to see if they were being followed... if they even had anything to follow them: like speedboats or Jet Skis. or even helicopters.
Much to their surprise, they didn't see anyone following them.
The coast was clear... for now.
"They gave up from trying to recapture or kill us that easily? What gives?" Louie commented with suspicion.
Jennika letting them escape may have been one thing, but surely the security would have noticed their escape through the other side of the yacht through the surveillance cameras or there would have been small patrol boats stationed a little far from the yacht to guard the area in case of escapees.
"Well, Let's not stay here to find out why. C'mon!" Raph said and turned around to continue swimming towards the shore.
Because they were far away from the yacht, and they were hidden from the unwanted eyes by the darkness of the night, the turtles found it safe enough to swim the rest of the swimming trip on the surface.
After a long and exhausting swim trip, Raph and Louie finally reached to the docks, where they quickly climbed out of the water to the nearest pier.
And once they were on the pier, slightly exhausted and soaking wet turtles ran off to look for a nearby manhole to sneak back into the sewers.
However, what neither Raph or Louie didn't know, was that they were indeed secretly followed. Once they were far enough, dozens of visible wet footprints began to appear out of nowhere to the wet pier, and they headed to the same direction where Raph and Louie just went.
That wasn't the only thing that was secretly following the turtles. The turtles' old scar-faced and bald-headed acquaintance was standing crouched down on the corner of one of the rooftops near the docks, where he was secretly observing via the binoculars equipped with the night vision Raph's and Louie's escape and out of nowhere appearing lines of wet footprints that followed the turtles in red and black.
"That's right, Kappa. Lead us to the rest of your filthy comrades." Tatsu sneered before the scarred Ninja master hopped off the roof to follow.
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Back in the dark room inside of the yacht, Hun was recovering from being both stabbed to the shoulder and neutralized by Raph while holding from his slightly bleeding shoulder. It did not took long for Stockman to appear to the room through the door.
The disgraced scientist had been shortly informed by the security that the creatures had gotten away, but not before having killed several of the guards and wounded Jennika badly in the corridor.
Stockman was furious about the former report... completely ignoring the latter.
"YOU IDIOT!" he barked furiously. "Your one simple task was to obtain a DNA sample from those creatures, and YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!"
Hun, however, turned to Stockman with the sly smirk on his face. "Precisely. I let them escape. To lead us to the other creatures. Even as we speak, a squad of Foot Tech Ninjas under Tatsu's command are trailing the creatures. They will locate the creatures' nest's location and Tatsu will make contact to us immediately when it is discovered."
Stockman got even more angry with Hun. "BUT THIS WAS NOT PART OF THE PLAN!"
Hun, however, hold his ground in front of the angry one-eyed scientist. "The plans change all the time. So it's all now up to Tatsu and your invisible boys. Better hope they don't blow it." the giant added.
Stockman scowled at Hun but didn't say anything. Silently, the disgraced scientist turned around to leave the room. However, he took Hun's last sentence to the heart and touched the scarred area around of his missing eye. Silently, Stockman hoped that his Foot Tech Ninjas wouldn't fail like the Mousers did.
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Meanwhile, back in the lair, Donnie was still trying to track the signals of Raph's and Louie's Shell cells but without results. The screen of his scanner remained empty and it began to take so much time that the rest of the family really started to fear the worst.
"C'mon. Pick up. Pick up. Pick up." the brainy turtle in purple muttered frantically.
Suddenly, a two beeping white blips appeared on the scanner's screen.
"YES!" Donnie exclaimed in relief, before turning to others. "Hey, guys! I'm getting a signals. It's Raph and Louie! And they're heading this way!"
The rest of the family was deeply relieved of these news.
"WE FOUND THEM! WAHOO!" Casey let out as he lifted his arms up, accidentally hitting and breaking one of the table's light bulbs with his hockey stick.
The rest of the turtles and Splinter either shook their heads or facepalmed in annoyance for this.
"This guy's bad news even when there's good news." Mikey commented to the others behind of him.
"Tell me about it, bro. I'm starting to wonder could a wild bull cause even more damage in the glass shop than what he does." Dom said, facepalming.
Arcee let out the sigh. "I think I'll add the light bulbs to the shopping list right away." she said, pulling out of pen and the paper list, in which she had listed all the things to replace the ones Casey had managed to smash in his rampage.
Donnie then turned his attention back to his scanner's screen. After observing the blips on the scanner's screen a bit more closely, he realized that the light of the blips was a quite dim and the beeping itself was slow.
"Their Shell cells have most likely damaged because the signals are faint, but at least we got a blips we can follow to find them."
Then, out of the sudden, even more blips appeared on the screen. Unlike Raph's and Louie's signals, these new blips were brighter and the beeping was more rapid.
"Huh? More blips?" Donnie muttered, puzzled.
Mary and Arcee peeked over Donnie's shoulders and paid a look at the blips on Donnie's scanner's screen.
"If these two weak signals are Raph's and Louie's, then whose signals are the rest?" Arcee questioned.
Donnie shook his head. "I don't know. but the strangest thing is that they're heading exactly the same direction as Raph and Louie... and they're even right on their heels."
"Then why don't they stop and turn to face them? If the sources of those signals are that close to them, they should see them or at least sense their presence." Mary said.
"Yes, they should." Donnie said, nodding in agreement, before the turtle in purple turned to look at Mary with suspicious and worry on his face. "But what if they don't even see them... and I'm not talking about the shadows of the sewers."
The truth quickly dawned on Leo and Splinter.
"The invisible ninjas!" the turtle in blue snarled at this realization.
"Raphael and Lorenzo may not even be aware they're being followed." Splinter said gravely, as he realized that what this means.
Dom realized this as well. "And they're all coming straight here! They're using them as a guide without them even knowing it."
"They're unknowingly giving away our home's location to whoever is behind of all of this!" Arcee added.
"Which means we gotta find them first before they bring in some seriously unwanted house guests." Leo declared.
After Leo mentioned about "Raph bringing in unwanted house guests", the whole mutant family turned to look at Casey.
"Speaking of unwanted house guests, I think we already got one of those" the turtle in orange pointed out, meaning Casey. "Which means that Raph and Louie have already done so."
Casey scowled at Mikey for a brief time, a bit offended of Mikey's statement, though he quickly dropped it for the sake of their main problem.
"So, uh, how do we stop something we can't see?" Casey questioned. "You guys really should've seen how I, Raph and Louie took a serious beating from these guys when we couldn't see them."
"Already got that one covered, Casey. We'll even the odds with them by using these little babies: Turtle vision heat sensor goggles." Donnie explained, as he turned to the bunch of high-tech goggles lying on the table, took one pair of the goggles off the table and put it on his head.
"After all, an invisible body is still a warm body. With the help of these, we can at least see their thermal images. Fascinating, isn't it?" the turtle in purple asked, as he picked up the rest of the goggles off the table and tossed them to everybody, who put them on their heads.
"Indeed, Donnie. You're the King of the Geeks." Arcee said, as she put her own goggles on.
Dom held the goggles in his hands and looked down on them with unsure look on his face, hesitating to putting them on.
"These things better to work, Donnie, otherwise I look stupid with these things on." the turtle in white muttered.
"Well, if you want, you're welcome to cast them aside if you want, Dom." Mary said as she put her own goggles on. "But blame yourself if you end up like Casey here." the turtle in turquoise added, pointing with her thump at Casey to prove her point
One glance at Casey's physical condition: all those nasty-looking bruises all over the vigilante forced Dom to reconsider should or shouldn't he put his goggles on, before he finally albeit grudgingly relented and put his own goggles on.
Leo was the last one to put his own goggles on, before he turned to the others.
"Alright, team! Let's roll!" the turtle in blue declared.
Mikey then paid a look at Casey, who was wearing his pair of goggles over his mask.
"Dude, gotta admit, that's a good look for you." the turtle in orange commented with the smirk.
TO BE CONTINUED...