The Mutant Rescue Opt
Leonardo quickly reminded himself of the consequences of sneaking into Shredder's lair, one..it might be a trap. Two...there might be a mutant army waiting inside it's folds, three...Shredder.(Need I say more?) Still the mutant turtle felt a surge of guilt in his gut and decided to clear these thoughts away and stick to his plans. Don took the map of the undergrounds as Leo drove the Sewer Slider with Raphael and Splinter in the back.
"Take a left here..Shredder's office building's right next to this man hole." Donatello informed pointing towards the next direction.
"Forgive me for intruding on your driving skills..but next time could you not go so fast." Splinter said clutching his stomach.
"Sorry sensei, I'm just anxious on getting there." Leo admitted.
"A calm mind enters battle with a determined body and a steady plan. An impatient mind enters battle with a reckless body and a rash and foolish plan." Master Splinter said wisely.
"In other words stay focussed. We don't need to worry too much about it." Don remarked and turned to Leo. "They'll be okay..somehow."
"Sandra! You came back!" Roxanne shouted from the post she was tied to, towards the skunk.
"Good to see you too sis." the skunk replied stroking her paw down her shirt. "Who's the reptile with the goofy mask."
"Goofy?" Michelangelo asked turning towards Sandra and then towards Roxanne. "Sister?"
"Yep. Sandra Houndell. Genetics specialist. Went to Harvard back in my days when I wasn't a skunk." Sandra replied. "I haven't seen you down in the flats where Saki imprisoned us. What are you?"
"Michelangelo. Ninja Turtle..part time comedian, sometimes do a little stand up before my bros.." Mikey kidded.
"Did they throw tomatoes down at your club or what?" Sandra remarked.
"Ignore her. She's usually like that..bratty little sister couldn't do squat if mother didn't pay her way through grad school." Roxy muttered, Sandra's eyes narrowed.
"Shut up. If it wasn't for ESPN you would haven't come close to finishing your admissions tests!" Sandra hissed.
"Girls! Girls, there's no time for a cat..I mean fox and skunk fight." Michelangelo interrupted. "We need to get out of here!"
"Right." Sandra answered bitting through the ropes and setting them free.
"Scissors would have done just as well." Mikey remarked, Roxanne tugged at his hand to get moving as they ran through the foot's double doors and made a break for it.
"The creatures are escaping!" a foot soldier shouted.
"After them!" another exclaimed as the halls became full of ninjas.
"We're surrounded!" Roxy cried as a group of ninjas jabbed their swords at them. "There's too many of them."
"Not if I can help it!" Sandra hollered turning towards the foot ninjas. "Bring it on tough guys!"
"Are you nuts Sandra!" Roxanne yelled to her sister. "They get super pissed off when you agitate them. And I'm talking from experience."
"Don't worry, I have some tricks up my sleeve." Sandra answered giving a wink to them. "Do you guys want to fight or not?"
"Get her!" shouted the ninja leader and the circle of Foot warriors around them got smaller as they moved in.
"MIKEY! ROXY! Don't Breath in! I'm gonna take'em out!" Sandra declared her rear facing the ninjas.
"What does she mean don't breath in?" Mikey asked, but Roxanne slapped her own muzzle and covered Michelangelo's mouth and nose as Sandra did a handstand and flailed out her tail as the Foot soldiers breathed in the toxic fumes Sandra created. After running out of the halls and into an elevator shaft Mikey coughed and started to breathe fresh air again. "Okay. No offense or anything Sandy but that was disgusting."
"Why thank you." Sandra replied smugly as the trio began their descent to the bottom floors.
"What the shell?" Donatello muttered as looked down when he climbed up the first steps of the man hole.
"What is it down there Don?" Raph asked from half way up the ladder.
"Some kind of a doorway I expect." Don replied jumping off and running towards the odd object. He put his hand on the door and felt around as his brothers gathered around him.
"It seems odd to have a doorway that is connected to the sewers." Leo remarked.
"As if it's not like Shredder to be the type to have an escape route." Raphael said bitterly.
"Stand back. I think this would be the focal point of the door's operation system." Don said as he tapped his bo staff on the sliver that separated both doors. With one swing he bashed a hole in the door, pried the door open and went inside the small chamber and looked up. "Whoa."
"What is it Donny?" Leo asked as he looked inside to see his brother standing in a small box type room with no doors or windows and lots of cables.
"What did you find?" Raphael added going in after him.
"It's an elevator shaft. I can't see where the elevator box is, but it definitely not here." Don said in an echo pointing upwards towards the rows and rows of cables that were hoisted above them.
"If we can't hitch a ride on the elevator..I guess we got to climb up." Raphael said taking up his sai and jabbing it into the wall as Leo strapped on some straps that stuck to the wall so he could climb up walls. Don helped Splinter up on one of the cables and then lifted himself onto one as well.
"Man, this wall crawling is getting me beat." Raph groaned after more than a few floors of climbing. "How many levels are in this joint?"
"My guess is..a lot." Don considered as he pushed on through.
"My sons. We must not lose focus, we must continue on." Splinter interrupted calmly.
"Master Splinter's right. We can't afford to start complaining about being tired." Leo agreed and started going faster.
"Yes. Onward and Upward...Mikey better have a good reason for saving that fuzz tail." Raph muttered furiously, he paused "Hey. What's that noise?"
"What's going on Raph?" Leo remarked.
"I think there's something moving down here." Don responded.
"My sons! Look out!" Splinter shouted as he pointed upwards, there was an elevator cart going down rapidly and was about to hit the turtles.
"JUMP!" Leo shouted letting go of the wall, Raphael stopped climbing up and tried to go down gracefully. Splinter let himself slide down the rope as Donatello attached a chip with a bungee cord to his belt and flung the other end to the bottom of the elevator before releasing the rope. As everyone was on the ground they quickly ran out of the shaft and waited for whatever was in there to come out. A small dinging noise signalled that the elevator was on the ground and as the doors were open the turtles couldn't believe who they saw.
"Well..fancy meeting you here."
"Mikey!" the three turtles said in unison.
"You're back!" Don shouted, waving his hands in the air.
"You bonehead! We were worried about ya." Raphael added giving a playful punch on the cheek.
"For sure. We thought you were dead or something." Leo commented.
"Wow, all this recognition has got me touched." Mikey said playfully, wiping away a fake tear. "It's so sweet."
"Oh wise guy eh? Well you could kiss your shell goodbye for now because you deserve a big bapping." Raphael fumed, Mikey smiled as he went to hug him.
"It's nice to see you too Raph." Mikey replied with a squeeze.
"Eww..don't touch me." Raphael said curtly, and held his nose. "And what is that stink!"
"Sorry..my bad." Sandra the skunk broke in.
"A skunk?" Raph remarked. "Boy Shredder has a bad taste in women as well as animals."
"That's my sister Sandra." Roxy put in. "She was captured in Shredder's trick too."
"Why did you come back Rox?" Sandra asked. "The Shredder was out to get you, he knows of your powers."
"I escaped, but not for long." Roxy answered, "I was caught with Mikey here.."
"What happened with you?" Leo asked. "How did Shredder get you..what does he want?"
"Shredder devised a plan to extract DNA of living creatures and put them into humans to create some super hybrid army." Sandra replied. "He wishes to eradicate the city of unwanted pests. Namely Shredder's enemies."
"He captured his test subjects from TV ads as you know.." Roxy remarked, "And force them onto battle with a full force."
"I was an accountant for the Silvern City Law Firm. My boss Ron Haddon was considered a threat in the markets." Sandra explained, "Saki Enterprises was lower in the Stock Markets than Haddon's dealerships and firms, so he captured most of my staff and coworkers and made them into animals."
"Me and Sandy tried to escape, using this door, but at the sound that there was a break out. I was captured and taken in again, while I went down to the sewers." Roxy added, "When the Shredder heard I left, he must have gotten some toxic chemicals to slow me down. That's when I saw Leonardo in the sewer water."
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen to you." Leo remarked, tears coming out of his mask. "I didn't mean for anything to happen...like this."
"That's okay Leo." Roxy replied, "It wasn't your fault, it was mine."
"I was supposed to take care of you." Leo answered. "I let you use those powers to strengthen us and left you weak. It's not fair to you."
"I appreciate your apology." Roxy insisted. "But don't blame yourself."
"Blame Shredder." Raphael said bitterly. "He wanted to start up this animal army crap and took innocent people from their lives. I say we break 'em out!"
"No Raph. How would you explain a breakout of mutant monsters in the city?" Don answered logically. "And what about the gas the Foot distributed just to stop Roxanne? If the gas we smelt for one creature could make us pass out what would they do if they found out all of them animals are missing..we'd be turtle juice."
"Don's right. The only way is to turn them back to normal." Leo replied. "And we pay our friend Shredder another one of our little visits."
"Sounds like a plan to me!" Mikey said, "Who's going to bring the hors dervs?"
I've ressurected the story..I guess. Probably out of boredom and I had this sitting in it's file for months..plus computer issues, that I can only discuss with my psychiatrist. (FYI don't ask). If you liked it up to now great. I may start this one up again sooner or later. If you want Review..I have nothing else to look forward to..I'm a bit depressed.
Thanks for reading.
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