The Saint's Hope
Chapter 3 – A Better Mousetrap
Disclaimer: I do not repeat DO NOT own TMNT and crew in any way cause they belong to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (Only knows as the Greatest Guys on Earth!) while other characters like Sally and many more that happen in this fanfic rightfully belongs to me and only ME!
Announcement from our writer: Hey! Only 2 down, more than a hundred to go! Sorry for the delay last time because I was out but I will upload them at the same time next Friday.
From the reviews that I got, I will answer them:
For 16: First off – Thanks! And I'm sorry if my OC was being mean to Mikey. It's just they're brothers and sisters and sometimes the sisters can get a bit cranky and annoyed if a sibling of their tease about something that you're good and later asking for help on that certain thing and then you began to think "Oh! So, she wants my help? After what she did to ME?" So yeah…Just like that. But deep down, they love and care for one another and I definitely will show a flashback of when he mocks her powers for the first time.
And about finding out about the Foot Clan and the Shredder, don't worry, she'll find about them the same time as the Turtles do but if I AM going all Mary-Sue, let me know, ok? Just because she found their insignia, doesn't mean she doesn't know about them.
And YES! I WILL do flashbacks with Splinter, the Turtles and Sally.
From kilppari: Thanks! I will try to make sure that Sally will not steal the show but they are gonna be some episodes that are going to rewritten. And what Shredder has something to do in her past is going to be dramatic and I promise I won't rush their first meeting. She'll find out about the Shredder the same time that the Turtles does.
Onwards for the second episode…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan, NY – unknown time)
Another night in the Big Apple as the rain is pouring down. Most of the water from the sky were pouring into an open manhole cover down and into the sewers.
Nearby, the two rats were just minding the own little business in their little lives when they were interfere with a sudden rumble that so close to hear it. They perked up to see or sense. Suddenly, the wall a small portion has blasted behind the rodents as they have scamper away from the danger.
The robot menace from before has bitten though the walls as it looks around. The robot itself jumps out of the hole and marches on; chomping away.
The intelligence turtle decide to take the first say of the day.
"May not look like much, but this tin toy can chomp his way through steel and concrete like Michelangelo through a pizza."
Five familiar figures were racing through the sewers on a mission.
"A bunch of these Mouser robots saw fit to trash our old lair and nearly turned our sensei into robo chow."
The four turtles and human were halted at an intersection where they have lost track of the target when they heard a distance scream. The purple turtle points to the source of the scream as he and his siblings follow in pursuit. In a closed-off sewer tunnel, five more of these robots that have trapped their "prey": A young women wearing a dark purple top that shows her belly, her red hair in a bun with her bangs going to her right, light brown cargo pants and black shoes with grey laces. The robots advance on the young woman who was at the time, helpless and prepare to meet her doom, but she wasn't prepared to meet her saviours.
"I look at these incredible machines and the techno geek in me can't help thinking 'awesome'."
Just before they chomp her down, one of the robots looked behind to see that help for their victim has arrived. The five figures then jumped in the air, pulled out their weapons and landed right in front of them.
"But the ninja in me can't help thinking 'payback'."
With the ninjas finally armed and ready, so were the robots as the rest looked behind and ready to chomped down on their next target.
(In the new Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:30pm)
It has been a week since the incident that changed the lives of a family of six forever when their former home was destroyed by the smallest, yet strong robots that they have ever seen, quickly got separated from their father, venture up to the surface for the first time, battle many thugs and ninjas that they faced, stole a truck and finally reunited with their father and found themselves a new home; one that's a lot bigger and much better.
Not to mention it all happened on a certain someone's birthday.
Speaking of which, the young kunoichi was out with two of her brothers who were on another mission while the other two were back at the new lair; fixing up the last minute detail of their new home. The new lair itself was no longer in the ruins now; not after what the teens have done to fix up the place. There were no sign of broken pipes or broken pieces of stone. Now, the new lair; their new home, the bedrooms all fixed up, the new kitchen and bathroom now operating, the new dojo section ready for training and the living room is ready for any teen to kick back and chill. The teens has also put up skate ramp all over the lair, ropes were hanging all around as part of their training and also, there is bridge that goes over the lake with stepping stones.
The youngest of them all was setting up numerous of televisions; all different shapes and sizes, that are stacked on by one in the new entertainment centre in the new living room with the help of a ladder, the smart one was busy wielding a certain pipe that was located on the second floor of their home and their rat sensei was busy on the blue couch; sewing up their latest practise dummy. As he finishes setting up the TVs, the orange turtle was halted for a minute.
"What's the matter, Mikey?" The youngest turtle looks up to see his older brother whom attached himself to his special harness as he continues to wield. The purple turtle has already noticed his trouble brother.
"Can't decide what to watch?" he removes his goggles, switch off his handheld Welding Torch by the nozzle, puts the tool in his harness belt and journeys back to the first story of the lair as he grabs the rope next to him and abseil down to meet his brother and master.
"I need more powerrrr captain." Mikey rolled his tongue at the "r" as a Star Trek joke. His older brother continues to descend down as the young ninja picks up two power leads that connect to the entertainment section the power outlet of the lair.
"The Turtle Cave must be set for maximum entertainment potential." With that, he plugs the power leads which sends out sparks. On the surface, thanks to Mikey using up all the energy on his new space, the televisions in the shops and the street lights began to flicker and soon, it caused the entire city to have a blackout.
Back in the sewer, with all the plugs plugged in, the satisfied Mikey grabs the remotes and turns on the TVs. As the entertainment boxes opened up, all that power from the surface cause the televisions to blast on the orange turtle with blinding lights and pumping audio. But immediately closed down, upsetting the young ninja.
"Aww!" Mikey dejectedly whined. Now, he has to do it again, just so they can have regular picture and sound.
"Turtle Cave? That is so lame." Don responded as he freed himself from his harness and comes over to his younger brother. The rat himself was still busy sewing the practice dummy as he was halted by his two sons who are suggesting names for the lair.
Mikey then points to his brother. "What would call our new digs? The Shellter?" the younger turtles asked as he turned and puts his hands in the air. Donnie looks around as he tries to come up with a name for the new place.
"Uh…" As he continues to think, an idea just popped into his head. He turns back to his brother with a delight expression takes over his face. "How 'bout The Sewer of Solitude?"
"The Terrapin Station?" Mikey suggested another one.
"The School for Gifted Reptiles?" Donnie taking another crack at it. The rat had resumed his sewing but with all the names that two of his sons are coming up with, no of them seems to fit in.
"The Hall of NinJustice!" Mikey added. As it was turning out to be a "Naming the new Lair" match with no end to it, the rat master decides to make a suggestion to finish the game. He looks up to see both his sons glaring at each other.
He then puts the unfinished practice dummy on the floor as he brings his paw in front of his mouth. "Ahem." he interrupted his pupils. They turned to see their father who picks up his staff from his side, stands up from his seat and holds his staff in front of him.
"We will call this place...home." he declared. Realising that name actually beats the other names that they come with and fits perfectly, the boys couldn't help but smile at their father's suggestion.
"Hmm, catchy." Mikey approved as Don nods in agreement. Relieved that he managed to come with a name for their home, Splinter was only missing three more children of his as Mikey and Don race off with the next part of constructing the home together.
"Now, what is keeping Leonardo, Salvadora, and Raphael?" he asked his two sons as Mikey grab and lifted a bundle of pipes that were nearby and Don race down the small set of stairs, over the bridge and to his table where the broken robot from before that he picked early.
"They just went to get the last of our stuff from the old lair." Mikey replied as he carries the pipes over his left shoulder and careful walks down the steps, over the bridge and places in another part of the lair.
"And the way the new Sewer Slider is performing, they should be back any minute now." Don concluded as he use his screwdriver on one of the leg pieces of the broken robot to find how this robot ticks. Unfortunately, he shorted it out on him; giving him a surprised look on his face as smokes starts to come out of the robotic leg.
(At the old Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:32pm)
Everything was a complete mess at the old lair. Loads of debris was all over the place, pillars that were holding up the celling were starting break and big portion of the walls that were made by the robots were now the size of a garage door.
Luckily, there was still enough time for Leo, Raph and Sally to pack up the last of their belongings to bring over to the new lair before the place starts to cave in.
On her old bedside, Sally manages to find the photo of her and her family of mutants with her; still intact. It was on her tenth birthday where she got a camera for her birthday from Don and a photo frame that was decorated from Mikey. To make a memorable moment, they decide to take a photo. They were huddle around her with her birthday cake right in front of her.
After carefully placing her photo frame in her bag, Sally zips up the bag, carries it over her shoulder and walks over to the Sewer Slider where she meets Raph who had his arm crossed over with grouchy look on his face. She looks at her former home. She couldn't help feeling sad and disappointed but excited. Sad because the lost over her home and excited that she and her family were getting a new home which has a lot more room. She then sees Leo coming back with something in tow. It was silver canister with a glass cover which it is broken and has the letters TCRI. No-one knows where it has come from but all they know it was the ooze that came from the canister that mutant her brothers and father into what they are today. Leo was approaching them with a sorrow look on his face.
"Our home for fifteen years." he said as he carefully placed the canister in the Sewer Slider and ties down everything else that still survived in the destruction like their own custom sign "Sewer Sweet Sewer", their spare weapons, some of the furniture that were not destroyed, Mikey's DVD collection, Sally's book collection, most of the young kunoichi's clothes and Master Splinter's robes in a box and the teens' extreme sports gear. "And this is all that's left."
Sally understands what both her brothers were going through as she presses her back on the side of the vehicle. "I can't believe this happening to us. I'm really gonna miss this place."
She looks down with miserable expression. Leo looks over to his little sister with the same look. He goes over to her side and comforts her by placing his hand on her shoulder. She looks up to him and the wistful face suddenly disappear and bring up a smile when she took a good look at the one on Leo's face. "At least we had some good memories living here, don't we?" she asked the blue turtle which Leo nods in agreement. Even though they were family to each other for all their life, they were still the best of friends; maybe close perhaps.
Sally and Leo looks over to see the red turtle; full of rage as always, goes over to the recent broken stone pillar.
"When I found out who built those home-wrecking robo roaches…" He actually proves his point by delivering a strong punch into the stone pillar. The pillar starts to crack which shakes the whole place and a few debris fell from the celling which was made from the impact that Raph made. Leo walks over to calm his brother down as Raph looks down with fuming but forlorn expression. Luckily, the shaking has stopped and the ceiling still remained intact.
"Raph! Come on let's not trash this place any more than it already is." Leo commands his brother as they race back to the Sewer Slider where Sally has taken the passage seat.
"Well, look on the bright side, you guys. Our new place is going to be much bigger thanks to all the space AND I'm finally getting my own room!" Sally happily declares to her mutant brothers.
"Looks like your wish that you made nine years ago has finally come true." Leo jovial replied as he hops into the back to make sure none of their belongings falls out and Raph takes up the drivers' seat. Raph and Sally buckles in as the driver switches on the headlight, starts up the Slider and the vehicle begin to move forward. After getting a running start, the Sewer Slider's special features kicks in as it begins to lift itself from the floor, the wheels smoothly slides in from underneath and begins to hover along.
"Now remember, Don said the accelerator hasn't be calibrated yet. So, take nice and…" As Leo continues to talk, Raph and Sally shared a crafty look. She nods at her brother as his hand reaches over to the accelerator knob and pulled it and was now speeding through the sewer. "SLOW!" He screams as they continue to speed through the tunnel.
"YEE-HAW!" Raph cried out in joy as the Slider whipped by and went round around the walls. Leo is trying his best to on so that he wouldn't fall off when the Slider went upside down and Sally puts her hands up in the air; having the time of her life.
"BEST RIDE EVER!" exclaims the human who was enjoying the ride.
Raph looks over to his excited human sister. "You said it, sis!" He looks up to his older brother still trying to hold as he clutches onto the board he was sitting on.
"And I call this a successful field test, wouldn't you two agreed?" He turned back to the front as he continues to drive. Although his younger brother didn't listen, Leo had no choice but to enjoy the ride.
"You betcha', Raph!" Sally excitedly agreed as she puts her hands on the dashboard. Raph just gotta love his sister who loves to have fun to the extreme.
"YEE-HAW!" the three of them screamed as the thrilling ride continues.
(In the new Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:33pm)
Back at the new lair, Don was looking down on the head of the robot as he was busy trying to figure out who would build them. As he was staring at them and placed his finger on the surface of it head, Master Splinter comes to his side. The rat couldn't but be disgusted at it. Not only those things that came and destroyed the old lair but they were also trying to destroy him as well.
The rat looks over to his son whom was deep thought. "Even though it is inactive, that thing still makes me uneasy, Donatello." The rat admits. The brainy turtle looks back at the machine.
"This is state of the art robotics, Sensei." Don replied as he carefully picks up the head to observe it more. "Brilliant work. I just gotta know what makes it tick."
The rat could only rub his chin. If his son could figure out what makes the robot work, then he has faith in him. They were then soon interrupted by a light that is entering the lair. They looked over to the entrance where that light was coming from the Sewer Slider that has entered in hover mode. As the vehicle halted in the middle of the lair and ready for landing, it extended its wheel back out and the Sewer Slider comes to a stop as it made contact with the ground. Raph then turns off the Sewer Slider which switches off the headlight as Leo then jumps out while carrying a certain box for a certain turtle.
"Hey! Good news, Mikey. Your DVD collection survived!" He announce to his younger brother as he spins the box on his before throwing over to Mikey who was waiting eagerly for his stash in the living room. He then catches the box with one hand as he holds the remote in one hand. Finally, after a long wait, Mikey was ready to kick back and chill out with his all-time monster movie marathon.
"Awesome! Let's throw in something on that's light on story and heavy on gory 'cause the video model is ready to rock and roll!" He proclaimed as he turned on the televisions by the remote. This time instead of blacking out, it was switch on like a normal television would and the first channel that comes on is the news channel where it shows a certain building that the front side is on a diagonal with blue windows that goes vertical across. The walls itself is painted with yellow-clay colour. The building itself is important too because of the certain logo which looks like a dark orange "S".
"In a press conference today at Stocktronics Incorporated, New York's leading new technology firm."
As he continues to watch, Mikey was kind of blanked out and got bored really quick. A news report about technology really puts him a train to Snooze Vile.
"Boring!" Mikey exclaimed as he put his hand in front of his mouth like if he was yawning. He about to change the channel…
"Wait!" His brothers and sister looks over to see Don who eager to hear this news piece. "I want to see this." Looks like Mikey has no other choice but to watch the news with his entire news. As they continue to watch, they then saw three people what seems to be the lab of Stocktronics. One of them seems to be the cameraman as he gets a close up on the man right in front of him.
"Founder and CEO, Dr. Baxter Stockman was on hands with to unveil his latest innovation."
The camera goes up close to show an older man, probably in his thirties, was an African American man who has dark brown hair and wears glasses. He was also wearing a white office shirt with a black tie, dark grey pants and dark purple shoes. He also wears his lab coat over the top. He pulls off his glasses as he cleans them while he talks about his latest creation.
"A wise man once said: Build a better mousetrap and the world will lead a path to your door."
He puts his glasses back as he turns towards the camera and resume talking.
"I say: Let the path leading begin! For I, Dr. Baxter Stockman, have designed the solution to the city's ever growing rat problem."
He was standing next to the cloth that covers his latest creation which will make the certain viewers at home; surprised.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you –" he then lifted the cloth as he unravel his invention which actual makes the mutants and human gasp as they continued to watch in shock.
"– the ultimate expression of rodent termination technology: The Stocktronic Mouser."
That robot which made the entire family of ninjas all gasp once more. It was the same robot that destroyed the old lair and tried to eat their father. And now, the answer that they have been looking for about the origin of those robots has been uncovered.
As the family of ninjas continue to watch the report, Don puts his hand to his chin. "I can't believe that the famous Baxter Stockman would try to pass off these killer robots as a good thing." He said in disbelief as he looks at the robot head in his hands. He was disappointed to learn that a great scientist likes him would make something that would set out to destroy their Sensei just because he was a rat. Mikey grabs the robot's head from his smart brother's hand and has a look at it.
"Huh, and what's with those glasses?" Mikey asked while he used the head of the robot as a puppet for his entertainment. "Dork City." he says in a dorky voice while the red turtle growls as he stomped forward, brought out his Sais and thrust one of them into the small TV. Something tells his family that he is not happy with Stockman's new toys.
"I say we head over to Stocktronics and kick some serious shell." he announce as he heads for the exit while twirling his Sais.
Sally followed the turtle. "I'm with ya, Raph. I like to give a little piece of my mind after sending those bots on my birthday." She agreed with her brother as she slammed her right fist into her left hand. Just before they head for the exit and Leo was about to reason with them, their rat master halts them in their tracks.
"Absolutely not!" Splinter sternly argues as he smacked Raphael on the head with his walking stick. He rubs his head in pain as Sally giggles at that remark, only to be hit on the head by the stick as well.
"Ow!" Sally yelps as she rubs her head. Ok, what's his problem?
"Your last venture to the surface was a disaster. You can ill afford to be seen by more humans." He explains to his students about their first time up to the surface. Ok, Sally was now getting annoyed. She was basically the only human that they know and she was allowed to go up to the surface and not be caught or anything but her master; her father would NOT let her go up for any particular reason.
"Well, they can't but I can. Come on, Master Splinter, I'm a human and I live with you guys and there are hundreds of people out there on the surface and I'm stuck down here. I know you won't let the guys go up there again but what about me? Can't you just let me go up there again?" she pleaded to her father for permission to go up but only his stern glare on his face says No. She tried to put on her cutest puppy dog look but no avail.
They were then interrupted again by the same news report but only this time, it shows a young woman who has green eyes and was wearing a dark purple top that shows her belly, her red hair in a bun with her bangs going to her right, light brown cargo pants and black shoes with grey laces. She was also wearing a lab coat over her original clothes. She was fixing her hair up as she was holding a box until her attention was called by the doctor.
"My lab assistant, Miss. April O'Neil, will release several rats into the simulation chamber."
She started walking over to a small maze with a box in her hands.
"April, proceed my dear."
She dumped out of the box into the maze was several common rats all running around. Stockman bent down with his Mouser and placed it at the entrance of the maze.
"Now, observe the shear genius of my Mouser in action."
As they watch, the Mouser dashed through the maze to find it prey. At the same time, a rat was going the same way as the bot but was quickly spotted by the Mouser. The rodent has quickly retreated away from the robot as it comes charging towards it. Unfortunately, the Mouser was too fast for the rat. It quickly catches up to the rodent and captures the little animal in its jaws; swiftly ending its life.
The Turtles, Splinter and Sally couldn't believe what they are seeing. They could only watch in horror as the Mouser is just doing its job as it continues to clean up the other rats.
Sally shield her eyes away from the TV could only look away in disgust. Good thing she was against Animal Cruelty because she actually feels really bad for the rats that they have to end their lives in the inhuman way as possible.
"I'd sure hate to be a rat in this town." Mikey replied. But then he just remembered something as everyone looked at him. He looks back to see his rat father.
"Oh! Sorry, Sensei." he apologize to the rat master.
(Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 7:35pm)
"And the Mouser's search and retrieval function are all ingeniously controlled by a remote mother computer."
Even though this event was only recorded a few hours ago, the young apprentice couldn't help by feel appreciated as she and her boss were in the laboratory watching the news.
April happily points to herself on the screen. "Oh this is so great. My friends, my family will finally see that I really do work with THE Baxter Stockman." April delighted replied as she looks behind to see her boss.
"You flatter me, Miss O'Neil. I like that." Baxter replied. The scientist was rather pleased with that remark as he just simply crossed his arm over with a smile on his face and looks to his right.
"Oh, that's strange." Baxter turns his focus on the screen in front of April where a few Mousers appear on the screen. "I was running a routine diagnostic check. Half of the Mousers prototypes aren't even transmitting. It's like they just vanish." April speculated out loud.
"Hmm, I-I'm sure it's nothing April. Probably just a computer glitch. I'll have the system tech look over it in the morning." Stockman assures his assistant who was at his best to stay calm under pressure but the young scientist was still not buying it as she continued to press more keys on her keyboard.
"But what if the Mousers have been tampered with? We should go over all their transmission backup." April replied. She begins to run the program when she was halted by the touch of her boss's hand; firmly gripping on her right shoulder.
"That WON'T be necessary, April." Stockman calmly snaps at her. Ok, with that tone and reaction, April was actually getting chills down her spine. He carefully removed his hand from the young women's shoulder as he walks away.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm expecting an important call from a significant financial backer." Baxter said as he enters his office. As the doors come to a close, April becomes very suspicious of Stockman. Something tells her that her boss is definitely hiding something. Something big…
(In the Lair, Manhattan NY – 7:36pm)
With their minds are still preoccupied with the Stocktronics press conference, Splinter has order his student to do training and what better to do training than combat training. Hoping this will get them to focus on something else rather than the scientist himself and his menacing robots.
The five teens would all takes turns fighting their Master, whom by far, was not an easy opponent. He stood in the middle of the circle with two of the turtles on his left and the two other turtles on his left but on the stone platform and the human kneeling right in front of him. As the rat looks left to right, he wonders who was going to attack first while the teens are armed and ready.
Waiting for his father to look away, Donatello decided to go first again like last time. He spun around his Bo Staff and charged at Splinter. The rat blocked the attack and moved to the side. From his kneeled position, Don strikes again from below but his attack was blocked again. Splinter spins around and whacks him from behind which makes the turtle stumble forward.
"Do not lead with your shoulders, Donatello." The rat Sensei said.
One down, four to go. The blue turtle decided to go next as he choose to do an aerial struck by jumping high into the air and come down with both his Katanas; aiming for the rat. But Splinter proved to be quicker than him as he attacked his eldest son back by whacking him away with his walking stick which sends the sword turtle flying back and lands flat on his shell.
"Faster on your counterattack, Leonardo." Splinter advises him.
With two turtles down, Sally decided to go next. She waited for Splinter to be distracted as she quietly sneaks up behind her Sensei. She delivers a roundhouse kick with her left foot to the head but the rat simply senses her coming and ducks her attacked. She spins around while she withdraws her Kodachi from her left scabbard. She tries to slash her Sensei in the torso but the rat quickly kicks her away which sends her flying across the room and slams right into the stone pillar. She then rubs her back which it is a bit hurt from the impact.
"Never leave yourself open, Salvadora." The rat informs the young kunoichi.
Mikey decide to charge forward but didn't even have time to make a strike with his nunchakus when the quick rat swept his feet with his walking stick, which sent Mikey onto his back.
"Find your foot work, Michelangelo." The master notifies the orange turtle.
With only one student left, will he be able to strike his master? If the last attacker is a certain hothead, guess not. Just like his siblings, Raph attacked head on but Splinter manages to dodge his attack by flipping over him. Raph tossed his Sais at him one by one but each one was blocked with his walking stick which he charged with horizontally and rammed Raph against a pillar. With the turtle pinned against the pillar with the help of the stick across Raph's shoulders, the rat sees his son is unfocused during the sparring.
"You are distracted, Raphael. You must learn to focus your attacks." Sensei instructs as he let his son go. Not just Raph who is focus but the rest of his children as well. The rat was not pleased with himself. But he totally understands what his children felted. Their first home was taken away by a menacing scientist.
"I'd like to focus my attacks on that Stockman guy!" Raph replied as he dusted himself off and shook his fist in the air. Splinter understands what he meant as he simply walks away and decided to do resume their training another time. The red turtle chased after his father.
"Why can't we just go topside and show 'im a little mean and green?" the red turtle begged for his father's approval. Sally understands what her older brother meant and decided to join in.
"Yeah, Sensei. I wanna teach that Stockman guy a thing or two when he messes with us ninjas. Especially, what he did on my birthday! Beside, I'm bugging to go up topside. Can't you just let us go?" she also pleaded as well.
"Because I forbid it!" Splinter barks at his two roughest children. They both groans as everyone else started to gather while they watched their Sensei retire to his room. The Shoji that leads to his room slide open automatically thanks to Don's invention.
"We will resume your training in the morning." He requested to his children as the Shoji closed behind him.
"Hai, Sensei." Sally replied.
"Ha!" Mikey slumped over an as he hunch over like their father for the second time of the week and mocks her father's words. "We will resume your training in the morning."
"I heard that." Splinter barked form his room.
"Busted!" Don teased as he wagged his finger at Mikey while Sally and Leo laughed at that remark.
Raph, on the other hand was exactly not amused. "I'd like to bust a few heads." He remark as he punch his right fist into his hand.
"You and me both, bro." Sally grouchy agreed with him as she crosses her arms over.
As much as they wanted to go up the surface and take down Stockman for trashing their old home, they wouldn't disrespect their master for any reason. Plus, they usually get bored really quickly but Mikey has another better idea to keep his brother and sister occupied.
"Chill, dude and dudette. We don't need no stinkin' surface world." Mikey replied to his siblings as he walked to the living room and jumps onto the couch. "We've got late night movies, Top Ten Video Countdown, BMX vert highlights…some really weird Korean language soap opera, —" Don walks over to his work table where the broken pieces of the Mousers are lying about.
"Or you could give me a hand with these Mouser parts." Don asked from his work table as he started up the flame of his torch. "If I can get one working, we can trace it back to its source and find out what Stockman's really using them for."
Raph then lets out a big yawned and stretched his arms up. "Nah I'm beat. I'm gonna rack." He announced as he walked to his room and waved goodnight to everyone.
"Since when does Raph turn in so early?" Leo asked Sally while sitting on the ledge of the wall on the ground floor. He was getting suspicion of his brother. He knows he wouldn't go to bed early if he had a reason.
"It's not like he's gonna wake up early or something." Sally replied who was also suspicion of the hothead himself. Instead of going out to fix things up with Stockman, Sally decided to retire and go to her bedroom for some down time.
"Well, I'll be in my room if anyone needs me." Sally announce as she heads for her room
"Sal."
The young kunoichi stops for a second and looks behind to see the blue turtle with a concern look on his face and his arms crossed over.
"Promise me you won't sneak out, ok?" Leo asked her. Sally just simply smiled at the turtle. The blue leader was just only looking out for his best friend which Sally really appreciates very much.
"Don't worry, Leo. I promise I won't but I have a pretty good feeling somebody else will." Sally assures the blue turtle as she jumps up to the second floor. Yep, she definitely has a good feeling somebody will try to escape and so will she…
(Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 7:38pm)
Back at Strocktronics, another story was going down. It seems April was very suspicion of her boss' motivate as the scientist himself was busy in his office. In his office, the scientist's desk was orange and in a shape of a crescent moon with his computer built into it. He was sitting in his purple leather seat as he was having a conference to a mysterious person on his video communicator. Though his face can't been seen but the voice pretty much gives away. It was Oroku Saki. It turns out he has hired Stockman for a special kind-of-mission. They were arguing about the recent events that happen over the week.
"The Mousers will be ready when I decide they're ready. Our first field test was –" Baxter started.
"—was a complete failure! I do NOT tolerate failure!" Saki harshly interrupted the scientist. Look like patience is wearing thin for Stockman's boss.
"Which is why you'd make a lousy scientist," Baxter replied. "The test was supposed to expose any possible design flaws. As a result, I've already upgraded the Mousers for greater durability and I assure you they will performance flawlessly for the next phase of the plan."
Unknowns to him and Saki, April was eavesdropping on the entire conversation as she has her ear placed against the door. She was getting very suspicion of her new boss and his true motivate of the Mousers. She continues to listen as her boss has finally finished talking to Saki.
"They had better, . For your sake!" As the conversation comes to an end, April can only utter a gasp. So, Stockman is planning something big, but what? To find out, she decided to wait until the scientist leaves the building…
(In the Lair, Manhattan NY – 9:30pm)
A few hours has passed since the training and witness the same robots that destroyed their old home. The teens occupied with their downtime; Mikey watching a Monster Movie marathon, Don working on the Mouser that they scavenge, Raph off sleeping away which both Sally and Leo and the blue turtle himself was nowhere to be seen. As for the young kunoichi, she was busy using her downtime in her new room.
With no sign of huge stone pieces and broken pipes, Sally's room was set like what she has always wanted. Her dark wooden platform bed was set up at a corner of her room; away from the door on the left side of the room. Her bed sheets are light blue with a picture of pink blossom with light brown stems. Her swords were hanging up by a hook near the doorway. Beside her was her dresser was candlelight along with her diary and pen and the same picture from before. She also has her own little wooden table right in the centre of the room on a large rug with a bonsai plant that was placed in the middle of the table. The plant itself was planted in a small orange painted concrete pot.
On the right side of her room were 4 panel Japanese screens that she uses to get changed so the boys won't see her getting change. The only things that were brought over from the old lair were her wardrobe that was for her clothes in one draw and her books on bookshelf on top of it as well. All around her room were banners of her favourite Japanese symbols and pictures hanging of her family.
Right at this very moment, Sally was sitting on her bed while reading yet another novel from one of her favourite author: Philip Pullman. She has to admit; he is one of the greatest authors that she has read; mostly for His Dark Materials which she is reading right now. Ever since she was little, Sally always has a habit of reading fantastic novels from the greatest authors on the planet. She has also heard about another of her favourite author, James Patterson, was going to write another book series that it is based on one of his earlier piece that would be for teens. Other than that, Sally could not wait.
Sally was just halfway through the book when the main character, Lyra Belacqua discovers that Mrs Coulter, one of the main antagonists, is the leader of the Gobblers. She looks over to her left to see her diary. She then realized that she hasn't wrote anything in here since her birthday plus losing her home, going up to the surface for the first time, fighting thugs and ninjas for the first time and finding a new home.
She then looked at time on her clock. Look like she has enough time to write a log before she hits the hay. She picks up her diary and pen, opens up a fresh page and begins to write.
Day 8
Dear Diary
I'm so sorry that I didn't get a chance to write to you since last time because – well, where should I start! First off, in my last entry it was my birthday (Happy Birthday to me!). Afterwards, I enjoyed a peaceful (sort of) day with my brothers with a monster movie marathon. At night, we were engaged in the middle of training when we were attacked! By robots! Our home was caved in and we were separated from our father.
With all the sewer tunnels blocked off, we had no other choice but to go TOPSIDE! For years, I have waited for this moment, to go up the surface where I can FINALLY be with other people who just look like me! (Although my best bud Leo was concern about getting him and the others spotted - excerpt for me).
While we were on the surface, Raph manages to trap himself in an armoured truck! (Talk about rookie mistake!) We did manage to get him out but we were then surrounded these thugs who called themselves the "Purple Dragons". They proved not much of a challenge but the night wasn't over when face off against these…ninjas.
During the fight, I manage to swipe the garb off of one of the ninjas that had a little red foot symbol on it. This…this actually shocked me, a lot. I could have sworn I see this symbol somewhere in my life but…where? Maybe it was somehow connected to my hidden past like where did I come from before Splinter and the Turtles found me or who my parents were or why do I have these powers or how I ended up in the sewers. With all these questions circling around my head, I will find the time to get the answers that I need.
Since the fight with those ninjas wasn't going to stop, we decided to retreat from the battlefield and end up meeting our Sensei at the meeting point and he showed something that we wouldn't have believed our eyes – he has found us a new home which I 3 every second of it.
Just today like before, we found out the robots that attack us were called "Mousers" that were created by some guy name Stockman. (If you asked me, he doesn't look like a scientist to me!)
Although both Raph and I really want to go topside and show some business to that guy's face but Splinter would NOT let us go! MAN! Sometimes, I wish Sensei would just let us, mostly me, to go up onto the surface. I have no excuse since I'm the only human down here and there is like hundreds of human up there! Just once, I wish I have the freedom to go up there if Splinter would just let me!
Is that too much to ask?
As she comes to an end, she puts the lid back on her pen and places it on her drawer. She then turns back to the first page. It was the first page that she has written since she has gotten this for her birthday. Not only that but it is where she kept the same garb that she swipe on the day she and her brothers adventurer up to the surface for the first time. She continues to start at it as the question that she mention in her diary were rolling around inside of her head.
"Ya got a minute?"
Though she can sense something or someone within a mile away, Sally literally jumped out of her skin at the sight of him and quickly hides the garb inside her diary and closes it shut. The red turtle himself was standing at the doorway of her room. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over.
Sally lets out a sign after seeing the turtle himself. "Geez Raph! Sneaky around that much?" she asked the hothead.
"Ha, and I remember you said something like you can sense anything coming your way. Am I right?" Raph remind the young kunoichi. He's right. She would have sense him coming but she didn't because she was distracted by the red foot symbol on the garb. She puts her diary in her drawer on her drawer and placed her feet on the ground. Although her best friend is the blue turtle himself, Sally is also pretty close to Raph by the share love of wrestling, fighting, and extreme sports. He hadn't told this to his brothers or father but he usually goes to Sally if he was in a vulnerable state or if he had any problems that were affecting with his life and she did promise not tell anyone else.
"What's up?" she asked her brother.
"Look. You said you wanna a little payback, right?"
"Well, yeah but—," Sally starts but was interrupted by the hothead turtle.
"—If you come and help, we'll go to a book store that you always been dying to go. How's that for a deal."
Sally's eyes widened at the second he mention one of the favourite stores that she has been dying to go ever since she was little. She thinks for a second there be
"Alright…but we have to be back before breakfast, okay?" Sally demands Raph causes she doesn't like to get the "stick" from the rat master.
"Of course we will. Now, are ya comin' or what?" he asked as he leaves her room.
Sally picked her belt gauntlet with her swords, puts it around her waist and clicked the buckle. She joins her brother who was waiting outside of her room for her.
After doing a quick scan of the place, they do flip of the second floor as they gracefully lands on the ground.
She looks over to see Mikey still sleeping on the couch and snoring up like a storm after watching hours of horror movies. Though not a big fan of scary movies, she still watches them with her brothers. She couldn't help but smile at Mikey. She knew a big goofball like him would love to have fun even when the times are tough.
She looks over to see Don still working on the broken Mouser so they tracked down the source. She has to admire her little brother's technologies expertise. It helps with a lot of things around the old and new lair. Although, she not as smart as her brother, she always there to help her brother when needed.
She knew Master Splinter would still be in his room; either sleeping or mediating. So, the only one person left who is not in the living room or anywhere in the dojo would probably be somewhere but she has a good feeling of where. After doing one more scan around the room, they quickly sneaked out of the lair and out through the door.
As she and Raph make their way to the nearest man-hole, they were halted by a familiar figure. Yep, Sally was right. She knew that certain someone was here; waiting for his younger sibling to slip out but he wasn't expecting to see his best friend to join him as well.
"Midnight stroll?" Leo asked his younger siblings.
Before they get into trouble, Sally decided to take the fall since she knows that she would never lied or keep anything away from her best friend. Well, almost anything if you count the garb that she found a week earlier. "Hey, Leo. Listen, about what I said before—"
Leo crossed his arms over. "He bribed you, didn't he?" Sally couldn't help but nod. The blue turtle himself knows her too well. When it comes to her favourite things, Raph will do anything to get Sally on his side but unfortunately
"Yeah but hear me out. To be honest, I'm still ticked off about the whole Mouser-robot-thing as much as he does but –"
Impatient to get away, Raph decided to butt in. "Out of our way, Leo." But his big brother would not just budge as he puts his hands on his hips.
"Look Raph, Master Splinter said we stay put." Leo remained them but Raph continues to not listen to him.
"Look, I'll go through you if I have to." Raph warned him as he gets into position. Looks like Raph isn't going down without a fight as Leo also gets into the same battle position. "I'd like to see you try, hothead!"
"Careful what you wish for, Splinter Jr!" Raph wasted no time as he tackles the Fearless Leader to the ground. Sally simply rolls her eyes as the battle between brothers against brother continues. This has always been a habit between Leo and Raph. They have always been fighting ever since Leo was appointed to be leader of the team and who outshine everyone else which affects mostly the red turtle because it turns out Raph has always been in Leo's shadow for years now and he was sick of tired of it.
"Every single time." Sally said to herself. As she watches, she sense coming up from behind her. She looks behind to see the working Mouser robot that her brainy brother was working on goes right past her.
Raph and Leo have halted their wrestle match when they noticed the robot sprinting past them as it makes pitter patter noise as well. A second later, it was followed by two turtles that were still back at the lair during the brawl.
"Hey guys! I got one working!" Don told them as he and Mikey who were trying to keep up with the speedy robot.
"Come on! He's faster than he looks." Mikey calls out to them as they ran past the three eldest and continue to chase after the Mouser.
Sally quickly looked at the two turtles on the floor. "Well, c'mon, you guys! Move your shell, will ya?" she joins the chase with her brothers after the escaped robot.
"Next stop: Stocktronics!" she bellows as she raised her fist in the air and catches up with her other two brothers. Looks like Sally is going to get some payback after all. Her brothers just hope that she doesn't go too far this time.
"So, ya just gonna let that Mouser roam free?" Raph asked his brother who was on top of him. He was right. Leo was the leader and he needs to be in charge of his siblings when their father is not around. Looks like Leo has got no other choice but he knew he was going to get the blame and not his siblings.
"Master Splinter is so going to kill us." He gets off of his brother and takes a few steps running but he then halted for a second and he looks behind to see his brother.
"Well, are you coming or what?" Leo asked as he races off to catch up to his other younger siblings.
"If you insist…" Raph replied to himself. He then flips up and joins his brother as he and Leo left to followed the others.
The chase of the runaway Mouser has begun and hopefully, it will lead them to Stocktronics…
(Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 9:32pm)
The young women was still on her computer as her boss has exits his office to see his assistant still working as any other hard worker can be.
"Goodnight, April dear," said Baxter as she turns her seat around to face him. "Try not to work too late. You know how I don't like to pay overtime." He reminded to her as he leaves the room while fixing up his tie.
"Goodnight, ." she says with a shifty look on her face. The scientist then heads into an elevator and looks back to his assistant as the door closed on him. Good, it looks like she has enough time out what her boss is planning and get out.
As soon the elevator goes up, April quickly races into his office, sit in his chair and begin to work her magic as she goes into his computer. "Now, let's find out what kind of 'plan' you've been cooking up with those Mousers, Dr. Stockman." She clicks on a number of files that were listed about the Mousers plans when she came across what seems to be a flashing red foot symbol.
April was taken a surprised there. "Never seen that icon before." Curious, she needs to know what it has to do what Stockman is planning. Could it be connected with the guy that he was talking to in his office? Well, only one way to find out. She grabs the mouse on her left as she drags it to the symbol and clicks on it. A beeping sound as the young women gasped when she witnesses something she had never noticed before in her life.
She rises out of her seat to get a better look. "What is—" The bookcase near her began to open up to show something that April would have never guessed in her life: A hidden elevator. Right in her boss' office! Looks like there is a lot more than meets the eye…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:33pm)
The five teens were still on the chase on the Mouser as it leads them to another part of the sewer where water was flowing out of different sorts of tunnels that end up in a whirlpool below. One small mistake could actually be your biggest mistake. There were also pipes all big and small that go vertical, horizontal or connected to one pipe and another and they were scattered around the room.
The Mouser was first to appeared out of the tunnel but was smart enough to run on a huge pipeline that leads to the other side without slipping. It was then followed by the teens. Event these teens were skilled enough to go across as they continue run across the pipe. Any human beings wouldn't dare to walk across. Except for one girl and she is with the ninja turtles.
"Watch your step here, guys. Don't wanna end up as turtle plus human soup." Leo cautions his siblings as they carefully make their way across the pipe.
Coming to the end of the pipe was a dead end for the robot itself. The teens think they have the rogue robot trapped but thought wrong. The robot simply looks up and suddenly, it just clamped its feet to the wall and begins to scale the wall. The five siblings stopped and watched it climbed. Ok, now that's something you don't see every day.
"Resourceful little critters." Don was absolutely astonished by what the robot is capable of. Now, how are they supposed to get to him now?
"So what do we do now?" Raph asked the Fearless Leader who was right in front of him. If the robot here can climb, then so they can.
"Like Master Splinter says: A ninja is always prepared." Leo reminded as he pulls out his shuko spikes and slipped the band over his hand as everyone else does the same thing.
"I thought that was the boy scouts." Mikey replied.
"It applies to ninjas as well, Mikey. Let's go!" Sally remarks him. Since she was behind the orange turtle, she decided to take the lead. She bends her knees and does a big jump over Mikey and manages to grab onto the wall thanks to the help of her shuko spikes. She then starts climbing as her brothers followed her in pursuit.
(Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 9:33pm)
After finding the hidden elevator, April has made her way to the entrance. Reluctant to enter, April feels like she has no other choice. It was the only way to find out what her boss was planning with the Mousers in the first place. She walks inside the elevator and examines that there is only one button rather than the usual dozen or more button. The button itself looks like the symbol of the company's logo.
With no other opinion, she pressed the button, the door close behind her and all of a sudden, the elevator was dropped down at incredible speed as April has to hold on to the bar for her life. While going down, she looks at the screen to see the elevator is passing so many floors and it isn't going to stop until it gets down to the bottom.
When she gets to the bottom, what April is going to find out what Stockman's true motivated of the Mousers…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:34pm)
Sally was still in the lead and nearly catching up to the Mouser while her brothers were halfway up the wall. As the young kunoichi was gaining close to the robot, she could hear her youngest brother complaining down below.
"Next time let's leave the wall crawling to the dude in the blue and red tights." Mikey whined as he looks down; probably taking to his older brother.
"You read way too many comic books." Leo replied back to his little brother.
As they continued to climb, the Mousers have made it up to an open pipeline and climbs into it. It's a good thing Sally was ahead of her brothers to actually see where the Mouser is going.
"In there!" Sally exclaims as the five teens then did the same thing as they climbed to the top and crawled through a pipe. Then, they were off running again.
"Just curious, Don, what's to stop ol' turbo jaws from munching up another 6.2 on the Richter scale?" Mikey asked his brainy brother. But as always, Don was one step ahead of pretty much anything when it comes to technologies.
"I shut down its jaw servos," Don answered with a confident smirk. "It couldn't even chew through a stick of gum."
But he thought wrong when the Mouser skidding to a halt and turned to face three small pipes. It then started munching through them! Look like the robot was one step ahead of the intelligent turtle.
"Or not." Sally said who was not impressed to see that the Mouser still knows how to munch steel and concrete.
"You were saying?" Raph replied as he placed his hands on his hips.
Don couldn't believe it. "But I… I'm sure I shut it down." He quite sure he was able to shut down one piece of software in the Mouser that would cause less trouble but it didn't work. Mikey walks up to his brother and placed his hand on Don's shoulder.
"Oh, Don's finally lost his techno mojo." Mikey teased his brother's achievement. He then places his hands on his hips as he watches the robot that was still chewing through the pipes. "Sad really."
Sally cross her arms over. "Could it have been something else, Donnie?" Sally asked as the purple turtle rub his chin with his hand.
Don places his hand on his chin as he begins to think. "It must have some kind of security override routine." He explained to his sibling about his theory. But it wasn't long until the robot has disappear into the hole.
"Come on!" he said as he takes off running to chase after the robot with his brothers and sister following him in pursuit.
All of a sudden, Sally pulls the turtle back. "Uh, Donnie?" she pointed to the dipping crack pipe that was located above the recent damaged pipe. Analysing her face, the purple turtle follow the direction of where her hand was pointing and once he see what she sees, his face now is absolutely shocked as much as his sister is.
"Oh no." Don gasped.
"What is it, Don?" Leo asked the brainy turtle as he, Mikey and Raph looked at Don and Sally who were still looking up.
"If I'm not mistaken, that's a serious water main hanging right over our heads!" Don replied as he pointed to the soaking pipe. The water is now dripping at a very fast rate.
"So?" the red turtle inquired the purple turtle.
"So, our little Mouser friend just ate through the pipe's support!" Don answered as they looked at the huge gap right beside them and then looked back up to the huge pipe. Look like the Mouser has made a whole lot of trouble for the heroes here.
"So, in other words: Without support—" Sally have time to finish her sentence as the crack on the pipe grew larger and water started to pour out more until it burst out!
"INCOMING!" the blue leader screamed. But the ninjas didn't have time escape the water as it came rushing in, sweeping up the heroes off their feet and away from their original target. They continue to flow with the water through the tunnel and right back to the opening of the large drainage. The water pours out of the entrance of the pipe and gushes not only the water but five teens out as well as they begin to fall. Look like Turtle plus human soup is going to be on the menu after all as the ninjas continued to fall down toward the whirlpool below.
Thinking fast as he falls, Don has pulled out his Bo Staff and manages to hook it onto a pipe. With him secure, he has to advise his siblings to do the next thing.
"GRAB ON!" he hollered out to them and one by one, they all grabbed each other's ankles as they all fall. Leo was the first one to grab his younger brother's ankles; Sally was next, then Raph and lastly, Mikey. Look like the teens ninja have survived their doom. For the time being. But if the smart turtle lets go of his Bo Staff, they end up asRight now, the question on their minds: How are they going to get out of this sticky situation?
"OW! Watch where you point those shuko spikes, Mike!" Raph yelped at his little brother. Guess the ninjas forgot to take off their Shuko Spikes after they scale the wall.
"You're not the only one complaining here, Raph. Yours is tearing my skin off!" Sally baked at him. She can feel the spikes pinching into her skin and can also feel the skin peeling off because of it.
"Aw, keep your shell and headband on, you two. I've got an idea!" he announced as he starts to swing back and forth. Now this would be the perfect time for his siblings to freak out because they have absolutely no idea what the youngest them of is doing at this very moment.
"Mike! Wait, what are you-?" Leo didn't have time to finish because Mikey swung them all hard enough that they all went flying through the waterfalls of sewer water in front of them and manages to grab on to the wall behind it with their Shuko Spikes. Well, it a good thing that they didn't take it off yet.
"Guys, you ok?" Don asked the gang. Sally nods at her brother and looks down to see Raph was about to say something but manages to spit out some sewer water. Gross.
"Peachy…" He grumbled.
As they climbed back to the same pipe, Sally stayed behind a bit when Mikey was at the same level as she is. With the Shuko Spikes on her hand, she slaps Mikey upside the head. This actually hurts the funny turtle a lot with the spikes on.
"Ow! What?" he whined as he rub the sore on his head.
"If you're gonna do that again, warn us!" she barked at the orange turtle as she resume climbing the wall. Guess Sally wasn't too happy about Mikey's surprise. Mikey decided to heed her warning as he resume climbing.
(Underneath Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 9:36pm)
April was still going down on the elevator as she has her grip on the hand bar. As the elevator makes it to the last floor, it stops. The tremor from hitting the ground floor actually shake the young women but she lets out sign; relived to make it to the bottom. "Finally." She pleased as the doors open and she exits out of the elevator. She finds herself walking through a glass hallway when she hears a number of machines running. She goes over to her right and looks through the glass. What she was about to witness was nothing like she has ever seen before.
Right underneath her workplace was a manufacture factory that is producing an army of Mousers that have been made. There could be hundreds. Even thousands. And it was all happening here; right under her nose. April couldn't believe it for one second but she still doesn't know her boss's true motivate is for creating so many robots.
"I don't care how bad the city's rodent problem is. This is serious overkill." April declare to herself. She then decided to head to the main computer to find out Stockman's plan that involves the Mousers.
What she doesn't know that as she was walking to the Main Laboratory, she has set off a motion detector. Looks like Miss O'Neil is about to be expected by certain somebody…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:36pm)
Climbing back up to the same pipe, they manage to avoid the rapid current of water. To help them keep going further into the tunnel, they decided to swing across on the pipes that were firm into the concrete wall. They manage to land onto the sidewalk of the tunnel. Raph actually still ticked off now that they lost their only target. So, how are they supposed to find their Mouser that will lead them to Stocktronics with no leads?
"When I get my hands on that metal menace, I'm gonna grind him into little bot burgers." Raph replies angrily as he pulls off his Shuko Spikes and clutches them in his fists.
"Easy Raph. We still gotta keep him in one piece." Don said as he rest put their Shuko Spikes away.
"What makes you think we'll even find the little blender butt?" Mikey wonders.
"I think he left us a few clues." Leo replies as he points out the broken pipes beside him. The robot may be strong but they sure leave a big trail behind them.
Sally looks closer to hole and scoffs a little. "Well, that's pretty noticeable if you ask me." she sarcastically replied. Of course it was noticeable and that was a start for the ninjas. "Come on, you slowpokes! Let's go!" she teased her brother as she race into the hole.
"Hey, wait up, Sal! Don't start a brawl without me!" Raph yelled as he followed his sister into the hole and the rest followed them through the recent made tunnel and resume their hunt for the rogue Mouser of their.
(Underneath Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 9:37pm)
April has finally made her way to the Main Laboratory where she has manage to hack into the computer that has files on the Mousers.
"Rat problem my eye. What are you really up to, Stockman?" April said to herself as she continues to hack the computer.
"Now, now, Miss O'Neil." April quickly turns her head to see her boss coming out of the same elevator that she was in a few minutes. Look like already knows that she was down here thanks to the motion detector that she didn't know. "That would be telling." Stockman finished as he approaches her. But what she doesn't know that he has a control pad in his hand which it is hidden behind his back. "Suffice to say, my army of Mousers will make me a very rich and powerful man." he finished. With the help of his control pad, he secretly control one of the mechanical claw that he commands as he press another button that rolls down the screen.
"But, aren't you already a very rich and powerful man?" April asked the scientist; unaware of the claw behind her.
"Ahh Miss O'Neil, so brilliant yet so naïve." He closes his eyes as he fixes up his glasses. He then opens his eyes again with a sinister expression. "I will truly miss working with you."
"What?! You mean I'm fired? " April asked with a shock look on her face.
"In a manner of speaking…" He then press the main button on a control pad as a claw reached out and grabbed April which pulls her out of the Main Laboratory. Her lab coat was ripped up from the claw as it drops her down with the Mousers.
April then looks to see the insane scientist has approached the main computer. "I'm afraid I can't let you live, Miss O'Neil. You've seen far too much already and," He types in a few keys as he fixes up his tie. "Well, let's just say I have trust issues." The head scientist has already order the Mousers to hunt a new prey: her! This could actually be curtain for Miss O'Neil…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:37pm)
The teens have come to the end of the tunnel. They then find themselves in the subway tunnel
Cautiously, they looked around to make sure they wouldn't be spotted by anyone as they looked out for a certain Mouser. Thanks to her powers, Sally was able to sense the robot.
"There it is!" She shouted. She points to the annoying little Mouser whom was all the way across the room.
Jumping down onto the tracks, they chased after the Mouser. Raph was ready to grind the little cretin…
"LOOK OUT!" Leo cried out as he grabbed Raph by his shoulder and pulled him way just as the train went by. Talk about close call. If Leo didn't grab his brother the minute he was on the train tracks, he would have been turtle road kill. When the train has finished passing, the Mouser was gone!
Ok, now the teens are gobbed smacked. "Whoa, Robo Houdini." exclaimed Mikey.
"Wrong, Robo hitch-hiker!" Leo said as he points to the train. They saw the Mouser who has bitten down on the handrail on the back of the train.
Sally was absolutely fuming about the Mouser's latest trick. "That cheeky little…" she snarled. Mikey tried chase after the train but it was fast for the orange bandana turtle. "We'll never catch 'im now…"
"Two can play that game." Raph said as he walks to the edge of the platform. They gave him a confused look but caught onto his plan as he jumped on another train. As they four other siblings moved away from the tracks, Raph was not moving which gave them a confused look but caught onto his plan as jumped onto another moving train and slams his Sais down so he would fall off. His siblings could NOT believe what they have witness.
"What a maniac!" Leo cried out.
"Yeah…Wait for us!" Don yelled out to his red banded brother as they too jumped onto another moving train right behind them. Riding for few minutes, the Mouser has rolled itself off the train and continues to it path. It came up to a wall on the other side and started to munch another hole.
Raph stopped the Mouser as it went through the hole. "There's our stop!" Raph called out. He pulled out his Sais as the red bandana turtle and his siblings manage to jump off as well. They followed the Mouser through yet another hole that was recent made by the robot itself.
(Underneath Stocktronics, Manhattan, NY – 9:39pm)
The activate Mousers have surround the young defenceless women in her tracks. April tries to look for a way out but so far, no luck. She then looks to her left to find a fire extinguisher. She quickly grabs it from the case and aims the nozzle at the nearest Mouser. As the robot takes a step forward, April takes a step back while still holding the nozzle in front of it.
"Keep back! I know how to use this." She warned the steel-munching monster. The Mouser simply ignores her and tries to chomp but April manages to jump back and sprayed carbon dioxide at it. Unfortunately, it was unaffected against a high-tech robot. The robot itself again charged forward as it lets out a screech. April puts on a panic look on her face but at a split second, she slams her weapon down into the Mouser's head; destroying the robot.
"Ha!" she laughed as she holds her temporarily weapon behind her. They may be dangerous and smart but not very durable.
More of the other Mousers came and attacked her. She tried to use her weapon again by whacking the robot to the side but one of them chomps down on the bottom of the fire extinguisher. It then bits off the end; thus releasing the fog and destroyed the Mouser. April retreated away from the smoke. Since the exit was on the other side, she use the fog as an advantage made her getaway as she runs on the diagonal strip and runs to the exit.
Up in the Main Laboratory, the doctor could only stand there and watch the scene from below with a menacing smile on his face. "You can run Miss O'Neil, but you cannot hide from my Mousers!" he bellows to his prey as she escapes.
In the fog, April has pulled down the emergency lever which opens the emergency door; letting all the fog out. She looks behind her to make sure the Mousers have lost her track and runs out through the door. As she got out, she tries to see through the smoke but it was so thick that she could hardly see. She takes a couple of steps and falls into water. She realised she is in the sewers. Gross but this is no time to be complaining; especially when you are being chased by a mob of killer robots!
She stands up and runs off into the sewers as fast as she could. She then came up to an intersection as the fog enters from the tunnel behind her. Unfamiliar with the sewers, April is panicking to find the exit route but with five tunnels in front of her, which one will she decide?
"Which way out? WHICH WAY OUT?" she wondered as the fog starts to fill the room up and she begins to freak out. She does a 360 and does a massive sprint into another tunnel hoping for a chance to get of the sewers.
Back at the emergency door, the army of Mousers are ready to hunt their prey…
(In another part of the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:40pm)
As the lone Mouser roams on one side of a section of the sewers, the five teens have finally come out of another long tunnel from the side of the room. They looked around to find their robot when they manage to spot it across the stream. Before they could at it, what seen to be another appeared right in front of them.
"Whoa!" Mikey turned back to his siblings as he pointed at the new Mouser. "Who invited him?" But no-one really had the time to answer that because the Mouser let out mechanic screech on the ninjas were ready to attack.
"I got it!" Raph called out as he pulled out a shuriken and threw it at the Mouser's head which slice the top bit. The Mouser then falls down on its side. Raph and Mikey did their own "high three" but their victory was cut short when the damaged Mouser got right back up. The teens were now shocked at this new discovery.
"This is not good, guys." Leo cautioned his siblings as the Mouser lets out another screech. But that wasn't their only problem.
"Neither is that!" Don points to an army of Mousers that are coming up a flight of stairs as they approach them and letting out a screech cry. "Chrome domes are a lot tougher then the last batch."
"Yeah, and there's a lot more of 'em too." Raph replied. The five teens are now back-to-back with each other as they are now completely surrounded by Mousers. And something tells them that it is going to be one shell of a fight.
"Great, just great…" Raph grumbled as he and his siblings are ready and in position. They all sprang into action when the Mousers attacked. Raph stabs a couple, Mikey whacks more than he can count, Leo and Sally slashing up robots like there is no tomorrow and Don did his best as he stab his Bo Staff into the Mouser's head and pole vault over a couple more. Just before he landed, he hits another with his staff and lands behind two more as he whacks them across the room.
Two robots were approaching Raph but the red bandana turtle jumps in the air and stab one of them with his Sai as he does a flip and stomp the second one.
Mikey does another share of his as he wraps his nunchaku around a Mouser's neck and slams it into the ground; destroying it. Another approaches him but whacks it away from him as possible.
During the fight, the smart turtle couldn't help but feel amazed about the latest upgrade on their recent opponents. "These mousers are incredible! The servo mechanics, the circuitry, the articulation...!"
Raph was stabbing another Mouser as he couldn't take another word from his techno brother. "Geez, Donny, why don't you just marry one already!" he sarcastically comments as he stab another whom was in mid-air.
Pieces of metal were flying everywhere as the brawl continues. As the two turtle were doing their fair share from below, Leo and Sally were up a platform with their backs together as they were having no trouble separating the Mouser's head from their bodies and Mikey was also nearby walloping as many of Mousers as he can hit.
Sally was getting frustrated as she stabs her Kodachi through one of their heads from a kneel poistion. "Man, where are these guys come from? It was bad enough with just one Mouser, now there's a whole freaking' army of 'em!" She criticized as she chops down another one.
Leo simply ignores her as he continues to slice the Mousers off the platform. "Guys, the only way to stop them is to slice their heads off!" he orders the team.
"Well, ain't that great news, for the turtles and human with the blades." Mikey sarcastically complain and hits another one on the head.
"Drive 'em this way, we'll slice and dice!" Raph promoted as he tossed two Mousers to Leo and Sally, both whom sliced up the Mousers. They all gathered around at the top of the stairs to stop the Mousers from getting any further and fought them there.
Don whacks more with his Bo Staff which sends them flying away, Mikey hits their heads off with the help of his nunchakus, Raph stabs a couple more with his Sais, Leo was doing a good job slicing more Mousers with his Katanas and Sally was also slicing and stabbing the robots with her Kodachis.
They continue on with the conflict until when it came to a conclusion where the five teenage ninjas are the ones left standing as pieces of scrap metal were scatted all around the heroes. Now, with that's done, it was time to go back to their original plan. Since their primary target was either gone or destroyed like the others, they have to get another one.
"Great job, guys. Just make sure to leave one—" Unfortunately, Raph jumped up, drove his Sais into the last remaining Mouser, and then angrily stomp on its head; repeatedly. "—intact." Don said in disbelief.
"So much for tracing them back to the source." Leo replied; putting his swords. With no active Mouser around the area, how are the teens supposed to get to Stocktronics now? Sally puts her swords away and slaps Raph upside the head.
"Ow!" Raph yelped as he quickly glares at his sister
"Nice going, tough guy. And now, thanks to you, how are we supposed to fi—" Sally didn't quite finish her sentence when she looked to her left.
"What is it, Sal? You sense something?" the blue turtle asked her. After a long pause, the young kunoichi finally opens her mouth.
"Yeah. I sense something else down here."
The turtles all looked at each other. They were pretty amazed of Sally's powers improving. "What? Is it more Mousers?" Raph asked as he armed his Sais but Sally grabs hold of his wrist and lower them down.
"No. It's…a person." She quietly answered as her eyes went wide.
"A person? Down here? Well, good thing you can sen—" Don didn't have time to finish his sentence when Sally does a massive dash towards another tunnel, located on the other side of the room. The boys couldn't help but be surprised by her actions.
"Hey, Sal! Wait!" Leo yelped as he and his brothers were in pursuit of their sister whom was far ahead of them. The boys were absolutely surprised by this. In fact, this was actually the first time that like this happens to Sally. Could it be that her powers are improving since her birthday? But first they like to find out what their sister has sense at first and find out about her powers later.
(In another part of the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:42pm)
April was running out the same tunnel that she just went through. Why? Because there were a group of Mousers; waiting for her. They were pretty resourceful little machines they are but the young women decided to track back to the intersection and take a different tunnel. She was still looking behind to see if any Mousers were still chasing her.
Unfortunately for her, she turns to the front to find more Mousers; right in front of her. She lets out a little scream as they start chomping at her. April then takes off again in the other direction with the Mousers in pursuit. She looks behind again but was halted again by this time, another group of Mousers. Frighten about this, she takes a couple of steps but with the two groups of Mousers blocking her path, she is trapped. Well, not completely trapped.
To her luck, she looks behind to see another tunnel. The Mousers screeched at her as April takes the third tunnel with no other choice. She keeps running down through the tunnel when she trips forward into the water. She turns around to see the robots closing in on the poor girl as she caution moves back with fear in her eyes. Her back meets what seems to be a close-off tunnel with planks of wood; hammer in the concrete. April tries with all her might to break them off but no avail. She then looks back at the robots as they close in on her. This was it. This was it for April O'Neil who had just got a job, found out her boss was a psycho, was fired because of this and now, going to be killed by his creation. She continues to stare at them; being helpless and terrified as she prepare to meet her doom.
She then lets out a blood curling scream as she covers her eyes with her hand. Just before they chomp her down, the first was jab with a stick, the second one was stab by a Sai, the third whack by a nunchaku and the last two was slashed down by two different swords.
April had her hands covering her eyes this entire time; fearing that she does not want to witness her demise. But why haven't they attacked her yet. She decided to remove her hands to see pieces of scrap metal everywhere but standing in front of her were five figure armed with weapons. Although through her eyes, the shadows is only covering them so she couldn't see who her saviours were but all she could make out was four of them big and large but not the same high as she is and the fifth one looks like a normal person but she was at the same height as the other four. They put the weapons away and advances forward to the young women who were gasping in relief. She looked up at them with a weary smile not being able to fully see them in the shadows.
"Oh, oh thank you, thank you so much. You saved my, my—" She have time to finish when she actullay had a better look at her saviors when one of them leans forward with goofy smile on his face. On his green face with an orange bandana.
"Hey! How ya doin'?" he innocently asked the young women. But that innocent question caused her to faint. He walked up to her and picked her up in a bridal style and he turned to his siblings. They were all surprised to see another human, other than they sister but the only girl of their group was the one who is more surprised plus stunned to actually see another human being other than her in her entire life. She was then brought back to reality when her little brother asked a very importance question.
"Hey… so… can I keep her?"
From that moment on, they all knew that after meeting her would change her life – forever.
The Turtles and Sally have FINALLY met their first human friend in their life but will she be trusted and will they ever stop and his crazy Mousers? Well,find out next time on:
The Saint's Hope: Attack of the Mousers
Author's Notes: Hey! So Sorry for the wait. It's just that it was the first week back for everyone. Parents have to work; Kids have to go to school; I have to stay home, do the housework for Mum, doing hobbies of my own and think of stories to write but I gotta tell ya: writing up this story is a lot hard than I thought it was going to be. But that's not gonna hold me down.
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