Ballad of the Battling Mutants
At the top floor of the Foot Headquarters Oroku Saki looked sharply at his wrecked quarters, where the no good scientist lay frazzled by his miraculous invention of the Gun Blade as an awkward scent tantalized his nostrils. He turned to his broken and battered henchmen who lay on the floor as Hun came along. He sniffed the gas momentarily and held his nose in disgust.
"Eww..what died in here?" Hun grumbled, "The smell is distilling."
"That is the same chemical that we provided number "0325" in it's mutation." Oroku Saki calmly and coldly replied. "The power I was hoping to wipe out most of the sewers and streets where the homeless remain sheltered."
"How could you let them escape master!" Hun remarked exasperated at his boss's behaviour, Oroku Saki looked over at Stockman's body.
"It was this idiot's job to contain my specimens and guard my prisoners..but failed miserably." Saki answered as he saw Stockman's eyelids flutter, the Shredder took the gun blade off the floor and handed it to Hun before waltzing out the door. "Turn it to Maximum Extraction, I don't want to see one molecule of his DNA in my sight. He must be removed.."
"With Pleasure.." Hun hissed viciously, his smile shone brightly from the glow of the gun blade's light. As the doors closed Dr Stockman recovered from his last failure, he stared bewilderedly at Hun as the lumbering man's ecstasy turned into twisted laughter.
"You oaf! What are you laughing at? Don't look at me like that! What are you doing!" Doctor Stockman stammered quickly before Hun lowered the gun blade which made a terrible hiss and plunged it into his skin. With one final shriek the doctor lay in a pile of decrepit liquified cells.
"That's one less inferior mind to deal with." Oroku Saki remarked as he turned away from Hun's extremely pleased expression, to see the doors open abruptly by a tired worn out Foot Soldier who saluted Saki and fell to the floor. Suddenly the alarm rang."What is it now!"
"Intruders..they're coming from the secret exit's elevator down in Pitt and Third Street." Hun replied as he checked the screen of the security base which was behind the black tapestry with the Foot symbol on it.
"The one from the Sewers!" Saki gasped, knowing of the secret location of his escape root, Hun looked gravely at his master and nodded. Saki glared coldly at him and muttered darkly under his breath. "Turtles."
The company of mutants climbed onto the elevator as Sandra pressed the seventh basement where the mutant army was placed. As they went higher each time Leonardo couldn't help feel a bit frightened of what they were up against..an army which Shredder created out of helpless souls turned into wild animals to do his bidding. The turtle could remember different situations which Shredder stooped so low, once where monsters deep underground to find out where his enemies lurked. The leader couldn't ensure what they were getting into was going to be a battle over savage beasts or feeble beings like Roxanne who do not want to fight yet are forced by the Foot and their weapons.
As the bell rang their stop, the Turtles got out of the elevator with Sandra and Roxanne in the lead showing them to a giant storage room with many glass walls and different compartments where Foot technicians were working, on genetic experiments. There were rows of labelled pens where gigantic creatures were kept in, many of which seemed to watch the band who entered from the elevator.
"It's almost time.." Sandra muttered and a couple minutes later a loud fog-horn sound went off. The turtles watched in awe as each compartment's door opened giving off a strange mist, as the creatures mindlessly trudged out the door.
"Be prepared." Leo warned his brothers, reaching to his katana as the mutants began to walk towards them. Roxy met his hand on the sword and motioned to him as the creatures came to a stop a few inches in front of them with expressions of deep sorrow on their faces.
"Let me talk to them..." Roxanne remarked softly to her sister and began towards the group of imprisoned soldiers. Suddenly a ram with a torso of a male and hooves of a ewe paced in front of the herd. "A free period again Adolph?"
"Yes Roxanne. But I fear these free periods are a lot shorter these days." the ram centaur replied solemnly. Roxanne nodded as the ram wisely looked upon the group of turtles in behind her, and sighed. "You gathered new recruits during your escape? How unfortunate.."
"These turtles are not Saki's army." Roxanne answered determinedly. "And we won't let anyone suffer anymore! We've come to set you free!"
"You have been very loyal to me Roxanne, but it's not that simple as running away." The ram replied. "Look at us..our families will never recognize us. Let alone give us shelter. Saki also dispatched a new sector of ninja trainees just to gather you. What would he do if we all have escaped?"
"Either you stay within Saki's control or you could live your lives!" Roxanne shouted. "Don't you want that?"
"Excuse me for interrupting..but there are things which my sons could give service to you." Splinter said calmly towards the two. "We have been faced with the same ordeals which you now face and such perils we have survived. Do not refuse aid which you do so desperately need."
"I..I understand." the ram remarked. "Yet you do not understand half of what we have been through and with that you do not know the whole truth about Saki's scheme."
"I am Adolph. One of the first people that Shredder had mutated." the ram began as he looked around to see a lizard man with a vest who was flicking his tongue as well as small white rats among the thousands of mammals. "My mutation was a great experimental period in Shredder's time. I was the first one imprisoned, and the one to watch it all start.."
"The Shredder's force was extremely brutal. I had been treated like a slave, as well as been tortured, whipped and went through Saki's so called "training." It was as gruelling as anything could possibly be." Adolph continued. "I watched for many months as the mutant army began to grow..watching helpless mothers with crying babies in their arms come through that elevator door surrounded by the ninja captors. Those who couldn't bear the pain during the mutation was lost, and didn't have a chance to say goodbye to their families. I couldn't bear to think of what was in store for those who survived."
"As the mutant recruits began to fill the stalls, Saki ordered great contests to pit everyone against each other. Great tournaments of pain and blood shed, the ones who were the strongest were those who lived. The ones who fought valiantly but enabled to be victorious died..some of us were spared in spite.." Adolph sighed as he looked to his pack. "We haven't eaten in ages. Our starvation is driving us mad. Some of the creatures who are suffering are very vicious, and attack when approached. They derived the pain..and have become savage."
"That is very unfortunate." Splinter remarked solemnly.
"Alas, that is very kind of you." Adolph answered, as the rat bowed to him. "If you are willing to help us that is..we won't know how to repay you. We'll be eternally grateful."
"That is all the thanks we would need." Splinter replied lightly.
"Wait! How are we supposed to help them when he already listed the cons!" Mikey interrupted quickly, Raphael bared his teeth and pulled the backs of Mikey's mask. "What? I'm just confused about what the buck said!"
"I thought you were born confused.." Raphael remarked sarcastically as he walked away.
"If we can get to those rooms where those technicians are working..there's bound to be some genetic material which we could make an antidote for you all." Donatello stated as he fished out some gadgets from his bag. "I have a deioniser if we need it."
"Good thinking Don..and I might have the edge we need to get into those compartments." Leo remarked clinking his swords as he looked up at the glass windows which the Foot Technicians were working.
Suddenly one of the men looked up into the window and saw the turtles. He pounded on the glass and screamed as the other technicians began to file out of their offices carrying gun blades. All of a sudden sirens were starting to blaze as red lights flashed warning messages in the building. One of the doors on the other side of the elevator opened and all kinds of ninjas and technicians flooding into the room. Before the mutants could move the crowds parted to reveal the metal armour of the Shredder.
"We're doomed." Adolph gasped.
"Aw shell!" Leo groaned.
Uh oh..sounds like a face off.. well, I sure hope you guys liked this chapter. Review if you want. I decided to stick with this story after it's been on my computer for decades now. Hopefully we'll all see the end of it soon.
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