The Saint's Hope
Chapter 8 – The Way of Invisibility
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Episode No: 7. BEGIN!
(Manhattan, NY – unknown time)
One turtle.
All alone.
Probably far away from his home, family and friends.
Raph has opened his eyes and tries to shake the dust out of them. He has woken up to find himself in an unknown place. Not only that, he was strapped down to an operating table that is standing on a diagonal position. Ok, he is definitely not at home.
The red turtle takes up narrating the event that has happened tonight.
"Ever see one of those old movies where the private eye wakes up after being knocked out cold? He always says the same thing."
"Ugh. Where am I?" he asked himself. He then struggles to try and loosen the leather straps around his wrist. But the straps proved to be all buckled up and the turtle is now stuck.
"Okay, so it's not exactly original, but it's true. I have no idea where I am."
The turtle looks around to see if there is anyone here other than him. But there is no-one. Nobody. Only a few tools, a huge buzz saw right above him, wires hanging out from the ceiling and connected to a computer and the room was slightly pitch black and the only light around here was a small, yet barley bright lamp just hanging above him.
"Is this an operating room?"
In a room above him was a certain someone who has something special in stored for him and only him.
"Torture chamber? TV game show? Last thing I remember, I was battling a bunch of street thugs with Casey."
"Hey. Where is Casey?" he also wonders while looking around. But he guesses he won't be getting his answer when he was blinded by a bright light. The turtle flinches away from the sudden lit-up but his eyes manage to adjust the brightness of the lamp.
But the light wasn't exactly the problem. The turtle then heard a buzzing noise and it was getting closer as he lets out a gasp.
"Okay, definitely not the game show."
Appearing right in front of him are buzz-saw and a pair of needles coming straight at him. With the buzz-saw just an inch away from his face, how will this turtle get out of this mess?
(Oroku Saki's building, Manhattan, NY – 6:15pm)
It has been a day since the Sword of Tengu has been missing. The only suspects responsible for this are a team of five warriors – four green creatures and a human girl. They must have taken the sword. At first, Saki doesn't know who these creatures are and this human companion but they proved to be a threat. First, it was the robbery that happened a few months ago. Then, it was ambushed at Dr. Stockman's lab and destroyed most of his Mousers and lastly, taken the Sword of Tengu right from under his nose. For the past few months, he is not very pleased at all. This problem of his needs to be stopped for once and for all.
Saki was sitting at his table with his eyes closed; meditating. His right hand man, Hun was standing right in front of his master whilst looking at the thermal image of the five fighters and a bunch of papers behind it. Hun could tell this is troubling him and feels the same way. Many years ago, Saki found the young Hun; goes by the name Hunter Mason and took him in. For many years now, Hun has always been very faithful to the Japanese Ninja Master ad would never betray him until the very end.
"Gecko warriors. Karate frogs. Turtle costumed freaks." He grumbles; crumbling up the paper in his large muscle hand. But what is interesting to him is the young woman that is with them. Maybe she has something to do with them.
Approaching right behind him is a familiar figure. Dr. Baxter Stockman is back. Back in the flesh. And now, missing an eye. His left lens on his glasses is pitch black that's covering where his eye used to be like a pirate and you could tell there are scars behind it that the eye has been painful been taken out. And probably the only reason that Stockman is still alive rather than destroyed like the previous employee is because Saki thinks that there is something worth using for. He grabs the image from the giant's hand and observes it.
"Hehehe. Is this a field report or a fantasy novel?" he mocks while observing the images.
At that moment, Saki angrily slaps the image out of the doctor's hand. Look like Saki is not too happy about the recent interferences that has happen over the past few months and Stockman thinks this is all some kind of joke.
"Fool! Was it fantasy that destroyed your mouser robots, Doctor Stockman!?" he barked at the scientist whom felled down on his back due to Saki's outburst.
Hun was watching this little show for his own amusement. He loves to see the doctor
But Stockman was not the only one getting yelled at. He wasn't prepared to meet his master's eye as Saki uses his lightning speed to appear right in front of him.
The giant backs up from the master as he continues to snap at him. "Was it fantasy that took back the Sword of Tengu from your Foot soldiers!?"
He then takes a few steps away with his back turned from them. "These…green skinned ninjas and this kunoichi are too skilled to be mere…street thugs." He concluded.
"Maybe they're working for your old enemies." Hun suggested to his master who folds his arms over. Probably…
Stockman was picking up the picture that Saki made him drop after he slapped them from his hand. "More likely a top-secret government experiment."
Quickly using his lightning speed, he goes up to the doctor's face and lifts him up in the air with no problem; causing him to drop the pictures; again. Guess the master is even stronger than he thinks. Look like the Turtles and Sally will have trouble when they come face-to-face with him. Right now, Saki wasn't sure that Stockman was right but he might be pretty sure that they could be working for as what Hun mentions: His old enemies.
Stockman was still dangling in the air by his master strength. "I am not interested in theories!" He then throws the doctor right in front of Hun's feet. "I want answers." He demands as he goes back to his table and sits down. Stockman regains himself and stands up. "You two will work together. Find these creatures and this...girl. Learn their secrets. Destroy them, if necessary." He orders his men a new mission.
Despite being rivals with each other, they will do whatever it takes to destroy the Turtles and Sally and what they have in stores for them.
(The Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:17pm)
A day has gone by since the fight that the teens had with the black ninjas and have brought back home a sword that produces a shockwave and going to need for further study.
But right now, it was training time. In the middle of the Lair, Splinter has lit a candle and blows the match out. He then turns to face his teenage kids whom are balancing on long bamboo shoots as well as the rat. More candles were lit around them. The teens were swaying side to side while trying to keep steady but the rat doesn't have to since he is already mastered it as he begins to lecture his students.
"My children, tonight our training shall focus on combining two essential disciplines: The Way of Balance." And to makes this training a bit challenging for them, he claps once and the main lights of the Lair goes out. They were going to train in the dark. "And the Way of Invisibility."
They all crouch down and keeping their balance as well. Sally decided to make this more challenging by pulling her headband from her forehead and over her eyes. With her eyes shut out, this will improve her sensory powers a lot more.
Mikey turn to his left. "Dude, you put in the clapper?" he asked his brother who was next to him before the lights went out. But the orange turtle didn't have to counter his oncoming father as the rat goes up to his son and whacks him in the hand with his stick.
"Ow!" he yelped and looks up to barley see his father and his walking stick in the air.
"Michelangelo, the Way of Invisibility also includes the Way of Silence." He advises his youngest son. He then turns his attention to his other children. "I suggest you employ both if you wish to avoid my walking stick."
He flips over to another shoot by his paws and help of his stick. He goes up to his eldest son first. He tries to hit him in the leg but Leo manages to flip over the attack and lands his feet on two separate poles near the first one.
He then flips over to where Sally is but lands right behind her. He was trying to see if her sensory has improved so far. He swings the stick at her back but the young kunoichi sense her father coming. Just before the stick hits her back, Sally performs a successfully backflip and lands on a shoot right behind the rat. But instead of landing on her feet, she lands in a push up position by balancing on her hands on two shoots and her legs sticking out. Splinter smiles at his daughter's success.
Don goes next as he jumps in the air and tries to kick his father off the shoot but the rat ducks the leg and the purple turtle lands on another post.
Raph does the same thing. He jumps onto a couple of shoots before performing the aerial kick. But the rat lunges back; thus dodging the attack.
Mikey was the last one as the rat waits for his approach. But the turtle has another idea. He flips over and lands on the other side where his Sensei would be. He then looks around and clap; turning the lights on. The orange turtle get a visual and sees his father who was right in front of him; holding his stick right behind him.
"Peekaboo, I see you." He whispers in a sing-along voice. Splinter then whips out his stick but the turtle manages to grab it. Unfortunately, that was pretty foolish for the orange turtle. Splinter swipes it from his son's hand which throws the turtle off balance and falls forward off his pole but manages grabs the next pole right in front of him. Splinter then jumps away from his son and onto another pole. "Hey, don't I at least get points for creativity?" he asked as he climb up back to the top.
"A creative mind must be balanced by a disciplined body." He respond before he claps once more; turning the lights off while his children continue to keep their balance. "We must learn stillness and alertness, for they are the only defence against the unexpected."
They resume their training only to be interrupted by an unwelcome visitor. The blue elevator doors open up revealing a certain hockey-masked wearing dude with his golf bag at ready. Casey has gotten off the elevator to find the place pitch black. He tries to look around to see if any of his green mutant or human friends was around but could not see. Maybe they are hiding from him or they have fallen asleep or they all have got out for a rooftop run or something. He then began to walk backwards; all the way into the centre of the Lair. Unbeknownst to him, he was about to run into something.
"Hey, guys?" he whisper; hoping for them to hear him but he stumbles into the posts, knocking them down. Sally senses this coming and jumps down before the poles hit hers but it only knocks the Turtles and Splinter's down.
"Uh oh." Casey gulped as Sally removed her headband and place it back on her forehead.
The hockey player then realised that he walked right in the middle of their training with the bamboo shoots all scattered on the ground. But he was not expecting what was going to happen next.
As the Turtles rub their head in pain, Splinter angrily turns around and sees Casey. An intruder! Here in his home! Sally looks at this and becomes very alert. Her father was going to battered him to the ground.
"Sensei, wait!" Sally yells out but it was too late. The rat leaps up and knocks Casey down. He holds the intruder down with his stick up to Casey's neck as he looks on with a furious expression on his face. Who was this man to him and how does he know where he lives?
The Turtles manage to regain themselves from the fall and witness their father who has attacked their friend.
"Master Splinter, no! He's okay!" Leo cried out as he turns the lights back on and along with his siblings raced over to Splinter holding down the hockey-masked dude.
"Sensei, this is Casey. The nutca-uh…-the guy we told you about." Don corrected himself. Sally knew that he was going to call Casey a nutcase but decided to change it at the last second.
"You remember. The igilant-vay?" Mikey told him in Pig Latin. Since when does Mikey speak another language? Scratch that, a language.
"We figured it'd be okay to give him access to the lair. You know, for emergencies and stuff." Raph concluded before the rat with an ashamed look on his face, stands up and bows in respect.
"Please forgive my rash action." He apologise to the young man. Don and Raph help their human friend as Casey removed his mask to get a better look of the rat. He looks different from the Turtles and Sally but he guess ninja must've run in the family.
"No problemo." He acknowledges.
The rat then puts on a harsh look on his face. "Although next time," he points his stick in Casey's face which it was replaced with an afraid expression. "You would be wise to heed the ancient Japanese proverb: Phone first." He then walks away as he prepares to pick up the bamboo shoots.
The red turtle gives him the thumbs up; indicating him that he has gain the rat's trust. But the hocky-masked dude became distracted with his new friends' place.
"Whoa! Raph, your crib's even more awesome than you said." He admires as he walks away the place. While he is walking, he accidentally kicks one of the shoots that the rat was about to pick up. The master stands up while shaking his head in exasperation.
The Turtles and Sally all approached him. "You didn't come all the way down here for the nickel tour. What's the 411 street-side?" Raph asked for tonight's update on the streets.
"Graffiti. It's everywhere." Casey explains the situation; walking away from the group. "All over town."
"And I think I speak for everyone in the room when I say, duh." Mikey said to his siblings.
Sally walks up to the hockey-wielding player. "Really Case? Graffiti? Is that's why you came all the way down here and nearly gave my bros concussions?" she wonders.
"We're New Yorkers, Casey. We've seen graffiti before." Don asserted to his human friend.
"Uh uh." He disagrees; shaking his head. He then turns around and holds up a picture to understand what he meant. "Not this kind."
The Turtles and Sally look at the picture. It's of a tag made by someone of what appears to be of four turtles and a human girl as well; being skewered by a sharp sword with pointing handle.
"I thinks somebody's trying to send you a message." Casey warns to his ninjas pals.
Yep, look like somebody is trying to send a message. Probably, from those black ninjas whom are looking for a little payback.
"Blech! Talk about getting the point!" Mikey jested to his siblings as Casey puts the photo down.
"Do all the tags look like this?" Leo asked while the hockey-masked man looks down on the picture.
"Some are a little more graphic." He replied as the Turtles and Sally all gathered around him; looking at the picture. Casey then looks past them to see something that is very unusual. He was looking at the sword that the teens took from the black ninjas last night. The sword was last left near Don's workplace and no-one has touched it since Master Splinter left it for further research. Casey couldn't help but stare at it. "Hey, cool sword. Looks just like the one in the graffiti."
He decided to get a better look at it as he pushed Mikey and Don and goes up to it. He approaches the sword and proceeds to touch it. The teens' eyes all go wide when he was about to reach for it. Without the metal glove, he was going to get a shocking surprise.
"Casey, no!" Don cried out but it was too late. He grabs the handle of the sword and gets electrocuted. The impact then sends the Vigilante flying back into the bookcase; knocking several books down. Casey moans in pain as he rubs his head.
The brainiac looks at the hothead turtle. "Remind me, who's idea was it to invite him down here?" Don wonders; blaming his older brother as Leo pushed through them while he, Mikey and Sally rushed over to help their poor friend up. Raph and Don joined them a second later. Splinter was already there helping the young man. The rat then pulls him towards the front door; hoping to resume his training with his children.
"I thank you for this information, Mr. Jones, but now we must return to our training." Splinter acknowledges Casey and prepares him to leave the Lair in the most respectful way as possible. But Jones was not done yet. He grabs the picture from the rat's paw and faces his ninja friends.
"Wait, don't you guys wanna put the smack-down on the scum who did this?" Casey asked; hoping for some payback tonight but the teens doesn't seem to be interested.
Mikey takes the pictures out of his hands and observes it. "Well, yeah. But it smells way too much like a set-up."
Don places a hand on his chin. "Someone's just trying to get under our shells." He explains. "Why should we stoop to their level?"
Casey then pulls out his bat and taps it in his palm. "But this is a matter of honour! What about all that bushidodoo stuff you guys always talk about?
"That's Bushido," Leo corrected him while shaking his finger at him. "Which has nothing to do payback for a bunch of nasty wall doodles."
"And besides, it just drawings. It's gonna take a lot more than just that to get some payback." Sally said.
"Sorry, Case. I gotta go with my bros and sis on this one." Raph avowed to his best human friend.
Well, Casey was now pretty bummed. Even his best friend doesn't want to go out and "Oh man!" he whines as he puts his bat. He was preparing to leave when see something else. It was the entertainment section in the Lair which actually caught the hockey-player's eye. A grin comes onto his face as he looks on the box set. He has never seen so many TVs in one room. Then again, it is a big room. Guess he could bunk down here for a few hours.
"Say..." he uttered. As he walks over to the couch, Leo looks at his smart brother while pointing to the distracted dork. Don just gives him a baffled shrug.
Casey then sits on the couch, puts his foot up on the table and picks up a slice of pizza. "So what's on the tune?" he asked; turning on the TV by the remote and takes a bite of the pizza while the Turtles and Sally could only look on with a slight bothered but baffled look while watching their friend kicking back. And whose idea was to invite him down here as well?
Since no-one gave an answer, it was going to be one long night.
(Oroku Saki's building, Manhattan, NY – 9:34pm)
A few hours has passed since the Master has ordered his right-hand man and the eye-patch scientist to work together. They were assigned to find the Turtles and Sally; learn about them and if they are dangerous; with his permission – destroy them.
To easily succeed the mission, Stockman has invent a way to track down the teenager ninjas with the combination of a couple of Foot Ninjas and a little help from a certain artifact.
With his new invention completed in a few hours, the scientist could not wait any longer to reveal it. He was standing in front of Saki while Hun was standing beside Stockman with his arms crossed over.
"While your oversized lackey wastes time and effort with the pointless scribblings of street thugs, I have created something useful to intercept your amphibious pests." he explains. He then gestures behind him his latest creations. "I give you, The Foot Tech Ninjas!"
At the main door were two of the Foot Tech Ninjas that Stockman introduces. Unlike the ninjas, these ninjas are wearing a blue jumpsuit covered from head-to-toe, their blue bandana tails hangs out from the back, their black leg gauntlets covers most of their leg and goes up to their knees, black belt across the waist, black shoulder pads and their two Katanas rest on their backs. For their mask, it is a dark metal plated with orange lens. On their chest plate is a special device with the red foot symbol that Stockman created will proved useful on the mission.
They respectfully bowed to the trio and they jumped away from each other; proceed to test it out. The one on the right jumps in the air and attacks the other ninja. But he was prepare and kicks him away which sends him flying into the metal pillar; making a huge dent into it. The ninja recovers in a second and flips up onto his feet and does a fighting position. He jumps at the ninja again and tries to stop him but the ninja moves at the second. He does a roundhouse kick to the head but the first ninja jumps out of range and jumps at the ninja again.
As they fight, Stockman begins to clarify to Saki. "My brilliantly designed cyber armour enhances their physical abilities, giving them increased strength, speed, and stealth capabilities."
The first ninja tries to do another aerial kick at his opponent but the second ninja hits the symbol which activates the device. Before the ninja delivers the kick, his opponent suddenly disappears. The Foot Tech Ninja are equipped with cloaking devices! This going to be trouble for the creatures. Well, maybe not for Sally.
With his opponent gone, the visible ninja looks around; hoping to sense him out. Not a second too soon, he gets hit in the back. Managed to get the invisible ninja's bearings, he quickly turns around sucker punch him from behind and sends him into a torch; knocking it over. Hun has just reacted to the impact that the torch just made since he sense their bearings.
The doctor was very pleased of his work and he hopes that his boss would be too. He turns to face Saki as he proceeds to walk over to the ancient corpse in the glass case.
"And all thanks to the technology I was able to glean from a tiny sample of this unusual artifact you dragged up from the East River. If you had any sense, you'd allow me to study the entire thing." He stated before Hun came over, painfully grabbed him by the shoulder and carries him back to Saki.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow." The doctor yelps as he was being carried over. He is going to feel that one in the morning
"First thing's first, Dr. Stockman. Bring me the creatures. And maybe the young girl" Saki commands the scientist. Hun then lets him down. Stockman ease the pain from his shoulder
"Just keep this behemoth out of my way, and my Foot Tech Ninjas will deliver the goods. I guarantee it." Stockman assures his master; pointing at his statement.
He guarantees it, eh? Well, Saki better hoped he doesn't. He stands up from his seat, walks over to Stockman and goes up to his face. "You already paid the price for failing me once. Do not fail me a second time." Saki warns the scientist.
Stockman places a hand on his face near where he has lost his eye a while ago. He hope tonight's mission will not cost something big but he promise he will not fail his master this time.
(The Lair, Manhattan, NY – 10:36pm)
Another hour has passed since the family of ninjas' guest decided to kick back and make himself at home and he was starting to get on their nerves. First, he came in unannounced and interrupted their training and now, he is acting like he actually lives here.
Since they can't train right now with him in the Lair, the Turtles and Sally decided to retire and go off to do their downtime. Mikey joins Casey in the living room; watching movie flicks, Raph was doing a few rounds on the his boxing bag in the middle of the Lair, Don was busy working on a new invention at his workstation, Sally was standing near the kitchen's entrance while practising her powers with a couple of small bean bags, Leo was doing a bit of training himself and lastly, Splinter was off in his meditation session
In the living room, Mikey reaches for the last slice of pizza but Casey manages to swipe it at the last second much to the turtle's displeasure. The hockey-player has already eaten most of the ninja's pizza and Mikey hardly got any. Casey munches down the last slice as he does a big stretch standing up. He then sits back down again and puts both of his feet up. Once he gobbles up the pizza, he goes over to his right to see the orange turtle's DVD collection. As he goes through the box, Leo has just finished his training, approaches the living room and turns off the TV by the remote.
The blue turtle then lets out a big yawn. "Woo, sure is getting, uh, late."
But Casey Jones was not tired just yet. He was still looking through the box to find a particular thing to watch but by the look on his face, he wasn't happy with either the amount of the movies that the teens have or that he has seen them already. "These only DVDs you got?" Casey inquired; holding up a couple of movies in his hand.
Hoping this get him out of their home, the orange turtle stands up from his banana lounge. "Yeah. In fact, why don't you borrow some and bring them back?" Mikey proposed picking up the box from Casey's lap. But instead, the young man stands up and walks over to the computer near the TVs where a DVD player is.
"That's okay. I'll just watch them here." He replies. So much for leaving. The two turtles looked at each other while Casey continuous hit the Stop button. "Come on, eject, eject." Ok, now he was getting really angry. If that won't work, he'll try the old fashion way.
"You useless piece of—"he then drop-kicks on top of the player; thus breaking it. This caused Mikey to squeal like a girl. Realising what he just did, Casey nervously looks at the broken machine. Well, so much for that idea. "Uh, think your player's broken." He announced.
Upset, Don looks over to his shoulder. Great, another machine broken and put to his list of fixing-objects-that-have-been-recent-destroyed-by- some-nutcase. He rested his chin on his hand. "Uh…no problem, I'll fix it. In the morning."
Casey ditches the DVD and walks up to him. "Whatcha working on?" he asked as he looks over the purple turtle's shoulder. Don did his best to cover up his work with his arms and back.
"Boring stuff. Really, really boring stuff." He dully replied. He maybe a hothead like his older brother but not exactly smart like him. Casey then looks over to see Sally training her powers with beanbags. The first time he saw her powers is when they were facing against that Nano Monster for the first time. Even though he was nearly knocked out, he did manage to see Sally's Telekinetic at work.
He proceeds to go over to her. Once the three Turtles saw Casey heading towards their sister, fear has taken over their faces. They knew that he was going to bug her; especially during her training session. And this was not going to end well.
"Uh…C-casey. I would stay away from Sal if I were you." Leo warned his friend but the Vigilante ignores him and keeps on walking.
"Ah, c'mon guys. What's she gonna do to me? Slap the crud out of me?" He joked. Sally's hands were glowing bright as two beanbags float around her in the air.
"Hey, Sal. Can ya show me your powers like you did the other night?" he begged. Sally on the other hand, was trying her best not to be perved off and continues to train.
"Not now, Casey. I'm busy training. Maybe later." She replied; resuming her training
"Ah, c'mon. I wanna see your powers." He looks around to see a rock on the ground. He picks it up and aims it at the young kunoichi. Yep, this was definitely not going to end well. "Yo Sal." But she continues to ignore him; rolling her eyes.
"Think FAST!"
Without a second thought, he throws the rock towards her. Instead of activating her Force Field, Sally didn't have time to project when she turns around and the rock hit directly in the face!
The three Turtles gasped at the sight. He shouldn't have done that. He really shouldn't have done that. Now, he was going to face the consequences. The impact of the rock caused her to drop her beanbags and have taken a few steps back. The rock has just bounced off her face and lands on the ground near her foot.
On her face was a nasty scratch and a bit of blood was coming out of the fresh cut. Not only that her face was starting to bruise but her face was now absolutely burning red. She looks up very furious to see the hockey player who was now looking very pale. She was really mad now!
"Uh oh." He gulped. Oh boy! Now, he is in trouble. Frighten by her reaction, Casey begins to walk backward as the angry kunoichi advances towards him; harshly growling at him.
"Hey, whoa,uh…take it easy, Sal. I didn't mean to hit ya with a rock." But Sally simply ignores him and she cracks her knuckles together; preparing to give him a smack down.
To avoid getting assaulted by the young kunoichi, Casey quickly looks over to the middle of the Lair to see his best bud duking it out on the boxing bag. Casey saw this as a chance to get away from Sally and rushed over to him.
"Hey Raph! Let's wrestle!" He runs up to turtle and knocks him over. They began to roll over the place.
"Let go, bonehead!" the red turtle spoke up; struggling to hold back. They knocked over a candle stand over during the tussles. This causes the rat to halt his meditation session, place a hand on his forehead and shakes his head in frustration. How can a rat get some peace and quiet around here? He is ok with his children around but not with their new friend.
"No way, dipstick!" Casey disagrees; continuing the match.
"Pukebrain!" Raph added another. After calming down by her blue friend, Sally joins the three other Turtles as they observe their brother and Casey who were still wrestling. They were acting like a bunch of immature kids. They keep passing on trash-talk names at each other while still wrestling.
"Geek!"
"Weed!"
"Dork!"
Splinter couldn't take another second. First, he interrupting their lesson and now, he has bugged almost everyone in the Lair. That's it. He has got to go.
Before Raph could come up with another one, they stop wrestling when they were then halted by walking stick that was in front of them. They looked up to see a very displeased Splinter looking down on them.
"Raphael! Normally I discourage excursions to the surface, but I think it wise to take our guest for a breath of fresh air." Splinter advises his son and their friend. He also, was beginning to get aggravated by Casey's overdue stay. The three other Turtles and Sally, whom was still rubbing her head in pain, all joined around them as he speaks.
The red turtle then stands up in enthusiasm. "Topside? I'm all over it." Raph agreed; giving the thumbs up.
The Vigilante then shots right up like a rocket. "BOO-YAH!" he bellows; pumping his fist in the air.
Raph takes off running as he and Casey runs up the ramp and heads to the elevator. "Come on, you maniac." The red turtle barked.
"Maniac? Who are you calling a maniac?" Casey asked as he picks up his golf bag, puts his mask on and heads for the elevator with his best friend.
The ninjas then let out a breath of relief. They have finally got Casey to get out of the Lair. "And that's how they defeated: The Thing That Wouldn't Leave." Mikey said in some sort of dramatic tone.
With their guest out of the Lair, the teens can finally get back to training. Just as soon as Sally gets an ice pack and a Band-Aid for her face.
(On the streets, Manhattan, NY – 9:38pm)
The two hotheads have already raced up to the surface and are now flipping across from rooftop to rooftop. They were enjoying the fresh air while resuming their trash-talk brawl.
"Nimrod!" Raph decided to start off first.
"Lightweight!" Casey speaks back; performing a cartwheel.
"Gak-face!" Raph added as they landed on small building. Just before they hop onto another rbuilding, Casey halts for second. He hears something. He turns around to face his mutant friend.
"Spray paint?"
Raph just raised an eyebrow. "Spray paint? What kind of lame trash-talk is that?"
But Casey wasn't joking. He did hear something. And it is nearby. "No, listen."
He points to the source of the sound. They look over to the edge of the building. In the alley, they see three thugs. Two of them were spray painting the wall while the third was keeping watch of any intruders. On the wall, the two thugs were tagging a picture of what looks like a long purple slithering dragon devouring four turtles and a human.
As they continue to do their work, Raph and Casey jumped over to the building on the other side to get a better view. As Raph takes a good look of the thugs and to him, they look very familiar.
The one on watch has blue spikey hair with a purple headband, wearing a long-sleeve grey top with a horizontal line that goes around his chest, a silver earring on his nose, green shorts, purple boots, light green finger-less gloves and a purple necklace. He goes by no name.
The first one who is spray painting the tag has red spiky hair with a goatee who also wears dog tags but wrapped in a chain necklace, a black tattled singlet, metal elbow pads, white bandage that covers his hands and goes up to his elbows, blue pants and yellow shoes with white laces. He also has a dragon tattoo that goes in a spiral shape. It was Spike.
And the second one next to Spike has orange spikey hair with also a goatee who wears a purple headband, a silver earring, an olive green short with a purple collar and a picture of a purple dragon on the front, buck teeth, a black belt with a silver buckle, white bandage that covers his hands and goes up to his elbows, grey shorts that goes over his black pants, olive green boots and white bandages on his hamstring. He also goes by no name.
By the look of the painted dragon on the wall, it's the Purple Dragons. He remembers when he and his siblings first beat-up them when they came to the surface for the first time and when he first met Casey.
The two hotheads decided to drop down and meet the taggers. Raph ninja jumps off the building while Casey slides down the water pipe. The thugs all turned around and were astonished to see the mutant and the hockey Vigilante who have come out to play.
"Hi. We're the Neighborhood Clean and Green. Doing our part to stamp out taggers." Raph introduces himself. The thugs were taken back because of the mutant's appearance but they were prepared. Spike pulls out two baseball bats while the orange spikey hair thug whips out his chain.
The orange spikey hair thug comes at the turtle; swinging his chain at him. Rookie mistake. He does the first swing but Raph ducks the attack and kicks the thug aside. One down, two to go.
Spike goes toe-to-toe with Casey; wielding his two bats at him. Casey pulls out his own bat and was ready to rock n' roll.
"Dude, you're totally stealing my act." He rants as the thug charges at him with his weapons in the air. Nobody steals Casey Jones' act. Not while he's here. He dodges the first swing and the next one.
With the two hotheads distracted, the blue spikey hair thug ducks behind a dumpster, pulls out his phone and dials the number. Look like he's calling for back-up.
The phone then picks up. "We got one." He reported. He then looks to his left and went absolutely pale. The red turtle was spying him after he took down the first thug. He grabs him by the shirt; causing him to drop his phone and throws him against the tagged wall.
Casey was still dealing with Spike as the Vigilante tries to hold down an attack from the thug. But Casey manages to kick him away and lands on top of the blue hair thug. Raph deals with the last one as he spins kicks the sucker and falls onto the other two thugs. The battle was over.
"Piece of cake." Casey states as he and Raph prepared to leave. But the fight was not over yet. Raph looks up to see more trouble.
"Don't be so sure. Phone boy called for backup." He points to the rooftop of the building just across from the road. High above on the rooftops were two ninjas in blue. It was the Foot Tech Ninjas. They have been observing the fight for a while since they got the signal from the thug. They both flipped down from a high level. One of them lands gracefully on the pavement on the other side of the road and other lands far away from him. He walks up and joins his partner. This looks like trouble. Trouble for a certain mutant and human. "And here it comes."
Casey was now awestruck. Witnessing the flip that they just did, this can't be all human-like. "Whoa! Those things aren't human."
The red turtle was spinning one Sai in his hand. "In case you haven't noticed, neither am I." he stated.
With their weapon at ready, the two fighters were ready for Round 2. They charged at the new ninjas but they have got a surprise for them up their sleeves. They hit the red foot icon on their garb and have concealed themselves form the human eye. Raph and Casey came to a stop as they were baffled at this new skill.
"Where'd they go?" Casey wonders as he and Raph look around. But they got their answer right in their faces when the invisible ninjas unexpectedly send them flying to the end of the alley. Well, this proves to be a challenge for them. They regain themselves form the impact.
"They must have some kind of, what do you call it, cloaking device." Raph realised their new skilled.
"Cloaking device? What are they, Klingons?" Casey groaned; rubbing his bruised arm.
Not long after that, one of the invisible ninja walks through a small puddle of water and leaving a trail behind it. Luckily, Raph manages to see it. He jumps at them, but the ninja catches him. The red turtle struggles to get out of his strong grip.
Casey comes to his friend's aid as he spots the spray paint cans from before. He rushed over there, picks it up and aims at the invisible ninja. He activates the nozzle and covers a partial of the ninja; making him a bit visible. With his target in sight, Casey brings out his hockey stick and swings it hard in his face. This caused him to drop the turtle and one of the orange lenses comes off.
The visible ninja decided to take down Casey before he takes down Raph. The ninja approaches him as Casey holds his weapon out. He then swings the stick to the head again but when the ninja blocks the attack, the hockey stick breaks thanks to his sturdy arm gauntlet.
"Uh-oh." He and Raph were tossed into some scaffolding which comes crashing down from the impact; knocking them both out.
As the dust settled, the ninjas pressed the button and become visible once more. They pulled out the out-cold fighters from the rubble and drag them on the ground.
"Target apprehended." He declared. Since their master ordered them to find the creature and kidnap them, which just leaves the human that was with him. Even though there was a human in the photo, he was not the human.
The second one who was painted and was dragging the human with him. He lets go the arm. "What about him?" he asked. The first ninja looks up to see the three thugs have already gain concussion form the fight.
"Just leave him to us." The blue thug told them. The ninjas leave Casey with them and walk away with Raph. "It's payback time." They all surround Casey, raised their weapons and gets ready to knock out his lights. Permanently.
They were about to make their move…
"Psych!" Casey wakes up with the spray cans in his hand spraying paint into the thugs' eyes, blinding them. The pain in their eyes is unbearable as Casey escapes from them.
With his friend kidnapped, Casey has to go back and tell everyone what happened. He quickly sees the orange lens that came off the ninja early. He quickly grabs it before he heads back to the sewers.
(Unknown Laboratory, Manhattan, NY – 10:11pm)
After been knocked out for a while, Raph finally opens his eyes. The bright light shines on him as he looks around.
"Ugh. Where am I?" he wonders. To answer his question, he finds himself in an unknown room; strapped down to a table going at a diagonal position. Right now, he was being poked at a machine with needles as it pokes him in the arms, legs and chest which was starting to tick him off.
"Hey! Watch where you're poking those things!" he barked but it kept on going. Last thing he remembers was battle those ninjas who can turn invisible and he and Casey end up getting knocked. But if he is here, then where is Casey? Was he taken too or worse?
Unbeknownst to him, someone from the side was approaching him. "When I get outta here, I'm gonna—"
"This is some nice steel." Spoke a rough voice who has step into the light. Raph turned to his right to see a huge thug in his black getup, three scars on his cheek and has a long blond ponytail. He goes by the name of Hun and he was holding one of Raph's Sai; admiring the durable materials. He looks to face the mutant.
"How about telling me who gave them to you?" he demanded him.
Raph pulls up a sly grin and utter one thing to the giant. "Yo momma."
Burn! Man, he wishes his siblings were here to hear that. Especially his sister who loves a good o' smack down.
Teaching him a lesson, Hun throws both the Sai on each side of the turtle head. Ok, look like this giant isn't here to play around. Hun approaches the turtle and pulls out the Sais of the table.
"I'm sorry. I didn't quite hear you!" He replies to the turtle; throwing the weapons onto a table. On the table as well is Raph's Shell Cell. He picks it up and puts close to the mutant's face.
"You know, I get a little clumsy when people don't answer my questions." He proved his point as he easily crushes the device with just two fingers and puts it back down on the table.
Although this guy may seems really tough, Raph doesn't seem to be really scared of him. Even his sister wouldn't be scared of him if she was captured instead of him. After Hun put the phone down, Raph noticed the tricked out Dragon tattoo on his arm. This guy might be with the Purple Dragon or perhaps, their leader.
"Hey, nice tat." He said before he begins to mock him. "Purple Dragon or just some big ugly chicken?"
The tough Purple dragon giant suddenly grabs Raph by the head and pulls the light in a little closer. The red turtle growls at his new-founded rival.
"Let's start with: Just exactly what kind of freak are you anyway?" he states before he begins the process.
Look like Raph is in a bit of a pickle. He had better hope that Casey is ok and on his way back to the Lair to warn his family.
(The Lair, Manhattan, NY – 10:12pm)
Nearly an hour has passed since Raph and Casey have left to go topside. The others have resumed their training from before. Sally's sore cheek was beginning to heal thanks to her healing powers that she developed years ago.
The rat was sitting on a bamboo shoot; observing his children whom are doing a number of flips from one pole to another as they train in the dark.
At that moment, the elevator doors and out comes Casey Jones but this time, all battered and bruised. He stumbles into the Lair; still in a dazed from the fight he just had. He journey into the middle of the Lair and accidently knocks the shoots all over the places before he crashes to the ground. As a result of this, his impact knocks the other three Turtles and Splinter off their pole. Excerpt for Sally who has already senses him coming, again and jumps off her pole before it makes contact from the other poles. She then claps and turns on the lights.
"You can almost set your watch by this guy." Mikey complained looking at the fallen man.
Irritated, Sally pulls up her headband from her eyes and gets ready to teach Casey a lesson but the anger swept away from her face when she gets a good look of the Vigilante. He was all bruised from head-to-toe. At first, she wants to pummel him bit now, she wants to help him.
"Casey." She baffled as she goes up to him and at the same time, Leo takes Casey's arm, puts it over his shoulder and helps him up.
"Casey, what happened?" the blue turtle asked him.
"Where is Raphael?" Splinter demands as Casey removed his mask from his face. Not only his body but his face is all bruised too.
"The invisible ninjas took him." He responded
Mikey and Don look at each other. He's joking, right? He got beaten up by invisible ninjas and they have taken their brother?
"Invisible ninjas, huh? This story wouldn't involve Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, by any chance?" Mikey jested to his friend; hoping he was just playing around but Casey wasn't kidding.
Sally was still examining his injures. "Well, by the look of those bruisers, I think he is telling the truth."
"And I got proof!"
Casey pulls out the same orange lens that he picked up during the ambush and shows it to the ninjas. Curious to know, Don takes the item out of the hockey player's hand. He goes over to his desk and studies it through his magnifying glass.
"Oh, some kind of optical device. Heavy duty hardware." He theories to the group.
Leo was on his Shell Cell; trying to contact his brother but so far, he hasn't pick up yet. "Raph's not answering his Shell Cell."
Casey was right. Raph has been kidnapped. The Vigilante couldn't help but ashamed for this. He let his best friend get taken away and feels like he was responsible for losing him. He looks over to find a wooden stool and throws it far in a fit.
"Aah! He then throws a stool away in frustration. When it makes contact with the ground, it breaks into pieces. Splinter just watches with remorse. He understands the human's sympathy when his friend is kidnapped. "This is all my fault!" Casey blames himself. He then proceeds to go over to the sofa but the purple turtle halts him.
"Don't worry. I installed tracking chips in all the Shell Cells. Just in case." Don assure him while looking at his handheld scanner. He looks at the screen to find static. Looks like the signal was either jammed or perhaps broken. "Interesting. Not picking up a signal." Well, so much for tracking their brown down.
Casey then proceeds to resume his rampaged. "Aah!" he exclaims as he use his might to kicks the sofa away. "We'll never find him!"
"We will, Case. Just calm down." The young kunoichi assure him but Casey simply ignores her and goes back to breaking more items that he can lift and throw. Don was still on his handheld scanner; hoping to trace a source to find the red turtle.
"I may be able to calibrate the scanner to trace the comms signal from your…invisible ninjas." The purple turtle explains; tapping into his device.
Casey picks up a chair and slams it against the pillar; breaking it into a as Mikey quickly goes over to his purple brother.
"Better make it fast." He advises him; pointing to the nutcase. "We're running out of furniture."
He was right. A number of furniture was starting to decrease thanks to Casey's temper but they promise that they will find Raph. But they can go until hockey-head has calmed down.
(Unknown Laboratory, Manhattan, NY – 10:15pm)
In the booth from above the laboratory is Dr. Baxter Stockman. He is viewing the process from a safe distance. He was hoping to get a sample of the mutant to see just what kind of creature he is. An alien from another dimension or a successful experiment that has escaped the lab. Whatever the answer is, he will get his answer.
For Hun, he was getting a bit exasperated of the red turtle who is not precisely giving him the answer.
"We've been over this again and again, freak." He demanded as he brings down the light and shines it again into the mutant's face. "I'm only gonna ask you this one more time. Who do you work for? How long have you been on this planet? What is the level of your technology?"
It turns out the mutant here was just playing around. Staling for some time for his siblings and Casey to come and help him. Other than that, it seems that Hun doesn't know that Raph here is a mutant that has been hiding away with his family of ninjas in secret on this planet for the past 15 years. Raph continues to mess with his mind.
"Planet? Technology? Boy, are you barking up the wrong shell." He replied. Hun was up to his limit as he smacks the table hard causing it to rock along with the turtle strap to it.
"ANSWER ME!" Hun roared at the mutant. The rocking then came to stop. For a while now, he has certainly did all he could to stall for some time. But since it has taken a while for his brothers to show up, he will just have to find a way to free himself.
"Uh, come to think of it, who do you work for? I mean, you look way too dumb to be in charge of all this." He questions to the thug. While he was talking, he began to loosen the strap around his right hand. With that in motion, he just needs to keep stalling in order to free himself.
The giant then grabs hold of the active buzz-saw and puts it right front of the mutant's face. He was going to pressure the turtle to make his mind up if he wants to be alive or chop up into little pieces.
"Your choice. You can talk, or you can let your DNA do the talking for you." He sneered at ninja while drawing the saw closer to his face. "Now is there something you want to tell me?"
Good thing Raph wasn't sweating just yet because he manages to free his hand. "Just this!" he yelps; punching the giant in the gut hard which earns a harsh grunt. Raph grabs a gas mask from above him and puts it over Hun's mouth.
"Sweet dreams, lard butt!" he said. The Purple Dragon thug was struggling not to breath the gas. But he couldn't take it. He takes one breath of it and runs back away from the machine; nearly taking him down as he violently coughs and tries to get his breath back
Now was his chance. Raph grabs hold of the buzz-saw and cuts the straps; freeing himself but he wasn't going home empty-handed.
"Don'll kill me if I leave this." he mutters; grabbing his Sais and broken Shell Cell from the table. He gets to the exit, kicks the door open and runs out. Once he got outside, he finds himself on a boat. The floating vehicle was float near the Statue of Liberty as it lets out a booming horn. Good, so he is still in New York. He walks to the ledge and looks down on the water.
"Good thing turtles are amphibious." And how right he was. He jumps off the boat and swims to shore.
Back inside the boat, Stockman has left his booth and entered the room below to see a downed Hun who has just recovered. He was not pleased of him for letting the creature go. "You FOOL! I was this close to obtaining a DNA sample, and you let him escape!" he barked at the dangerous giant who removed a hand from his mouth. He didn't say anything before putting on a sly grin on his face. What has the thug has in mind?
"Precisely. I let him escape. To lead us to the others." Hun replied to him as he continues to explain. "Even as we speak, a squad of Foot Tech Ninjas are trailing the creature."
At the same time, Raph has finally reached the pier, climbs up and runs off. Unbeknownst to him, he was being followed by what Hun said the Foot Tech Ninjas who are in cloaking mode. They have followed the turtle from the boat and proceed to hunt him down.
"So now it's all up to your invisible boys." Hun said as Stockman turns around and looks at the exit that was slightly opened. "Better hope they don't blow it."
Stockman touches his eye patch with his hand. They better not because Stockman's life is on the line.
(The Lair, Manhattan, NY – 10:22pm)
During the passes ten minutes, Sally has finished up healing Casey's bruisers as they and the others have waited patiently for the smart turtle to see if he has a lock on the missing turtle.
Don was still looking at his scanner with a hawk's eye. After a few minutes, an answer has already come to him. A small beeping blip has appeared on the scanner. He has a got a lock on his red hothead brother!
"I'm getting a signal." He excitedly turns to his family and friend. "It's Raph!"
With the red turtle found, the guilt on Casey's shoulder has finally been lifted. His best pal was A-O-K! "WOO-HOO!" he cheered but thanks to the hockey stick in his hand, he accidently ends up smashing into a light bulb in Don's desk lamp.
The orange turtle turns to the rest of his family behind him. "This guy's bad news even when there's good news." Mikey stated to them whom they both agreed which Leo and Sally giving them a face palm to the head and the rat shaking his head.
"It's faint, but at least we got a blip we can follow." Don confirmed. But he spoke too soon when a couple more of the same blips appear on the scanner. "Make that several blips."
"The invisible ninjas' signal?" Leo questions to his brother as Splinter places a hand on his son's shoulder.
"Raphael may not even be aware he is being followed." Splinter told his eldest student.
"And that's definitely bad." Sally said.
"Which means we gotta find him before he brings in some seriously unwanted house guests." He alerts everyone.
They all looks at Unwanted House Guest No: 1 who was still standing beside Don. "We already got one of those." Mikey points out.
But Casey didn't react to it because there was something else on the Viglante's mind that bugs him. He and Raph were beaten by ninjas that can turn invisible. Hopefully, his friends have a way to beat them. "So, uh, how do we stop something we can't see?" Casey wonders.
"Already got that one covered." He declared On his table are the same goggles that he used last night but there are now five more just for his family.
"Turtle Vision Heat Sensor Goggles." Don picks up one and places on his head. "After all, an invisible body is still a warm body." He explains; giving a pair to Casey and then throw three more to his siblings as they slip theirs on. Despite having the ability to sense any living objects, Sally puts the goggles on anyway; just because to stay in contact and she really wants to test them out. Plus, she'll not use the sensor since she will use her powers to sense anything around.
The blue leader puts on his goggles; ready for the mission. "Let's go."
Mikey looks over to his left to see Casey wearing the goggles over his mask. "That's a good look for you." He chuckles. Casey doesn't know if he should be offended or not.
The teens and Casey decided to split up with Mikey and Casey taking the surface in the Battle Shell while Leo, Don and Sally take the sewer in the Sewer Slider. In the streets, anybody who was out on a nice evening would be scared to death if they weren't nearly hit by an oncoming truck. Mikey was still adjusting to the steering despite his driving effort back at the dump a while ago. He was driving from side-to-side when his older brother radio-in.
"We're gonna have to split up. Mikey and Casey?"
Inside the vehicle, Mikey was trying to keep his eyes on the road and his ears on the communicator while Casey who was seated beside him was busy drumming on the dashboard. Mikey slaps the Vigilante on the shoulder to get his attention.
"Quit it." He barked at Casey. He continues to drive while listening to Leo's strategy.
"You cover above ground." He ordered to his little brother.
Down below in the sewers, the three other teens were zooming around in the Sewer Slider with Leo in the driver's seat, Sally in the passage's seat and Don in the back; holding the scanner in his hand. "Me, Sal and Don will cover below."
The small beeping blip on the scanner was rapidly as they get closer. They were getting close to their brother.
Not far from them, Raph has made it to the sewers. Unbeknownst to him, he was still being followed by the Foot Tech Ninjas. The turtle himself was starting to get tired since he didn't stop running when he freed himself. He continues to run at the end of the tunnel and comes to a big halt. He finds himself in a large area that has a big swirling whirlpool in the middle of it. He remembers coming through here this one time. It was the time when he and his siblings were in pursuit of the rouge Mouser that was retreating back to its source.
He was going to take a breather before heading for home. Not far above him are three familiar ninjas whom are watching from afar. Thanks to both Don's tracker and Sally's ability, they were able to find the turtle.
With the Sensor activated in their goggles, they manage to spot the Foot Tech Ninjas with their cloaking devices switched on; sneaking up behind Raph. They sees it; just not their brother who was unaware of their presences.
"I spy with my turtle eye, some goons that needs a good bapping." Don quote
Sally raised her eyebrow at him but the purple turtle couldn't tell from her goggles. "Bapping? Really, Donnie?" she asked.
"What?" he questions. The young kunoichi simply rolls her eyes in exasperated and pulls out her Dual Kodachi. Leo and Don also sheathes their weapons and the three ninjas jumped from the tunnel, onto a long lamp, then a bridge and does a massive leap; heading toward to their brother's aid. The next second, Raph looks up and spread a smile across his face; recognises his family.
"Hey!" he hollered to them but realized that they have their weapons out and he doesn't know why? "Huh?"
"BANZAI!" they all bellowed. They kicked the ninjas that were just right behind Raph and send them flying away. They land near the others and start to kick and whack them away.
To the confused Raph, they were just kicking the air. "Uh, guys what are you—?"
"Ever hear the one about the invisible ninjas?" Don asked his big brother as he, Leo and Sally keep their focus on their invisible foes that are charging straight for them. Once they got them, to the teens' surprised, they picked them up, spun them around and toss them high over their red brother to the ground like they were lightweights.
A second, Casey approached them and kneels down by Leo's head. Where did he come from? "Hey, did I mention that these guys were really strong too?"
The blue turtle groans in pain. "Might've been useful info." They picked themselves up as Mikey who just came out of the nearby tunnel and joins the other ninjas and Vigilante.
They all stood and watch the toughest turtle try to battle it out with the invisible ninjas. He was delivering a punch after a punch; hoping to hit something but the only damage that anyone in this fight is the turtle.
"Come on! Show yourself, you lousy—" All of a sudden, it looked like he was hit in the chin twice which caused him to become dizzy from the hits. He was now rocking from side-to-side like he was in a boxing match. Look like he needs a help from his siblings and Casey.
"Uh…think we should give him a hand?" Mikey suggested. He looks to his siblings who all nodded in agreement. The four ninjas all charged forward to help their brother while Casey stayed behind. He has brought out his golf club and holds it against a portion of grey slop. He thought he lend a helping hand since Raph can't see the ninjas without the goggles.
He lifts his golf club high in the air before making a hit. "Fore!" he shouted. He swings his golf club and hits the slop which sends it flying in the air; heading towards Raph.
The red turtle sees the incoming attack and shield his arm before the slop missed him and was instead was spatted on the invisible ninjas. Raph look left to right as the two muddy ninja tried to wipe the dirt off them. Knowing where his opponents are, Raph can finally fight.
"Ah, much better." He spoke; delivering a split kick in their ribcage; sending them across the room. He dusted off his hands.
For the other ninjas and Casey, they were having no trouble at all. Especially a certain ninja who has the ability to sense living objects. Since she can tell where the ninjas; both visible and invisible, she decided to fight without the help from the goggles.
She takes the goggles off her head, clips it onto her Obi, pulls down her headband to shield her eyes and gets into a fighting position. She sense the first behind her as she deliver a roundhouse kick to the head; sending him to the ground. The second one was coming to her left but manages to use the handle of her Kodachi and jabs it's into chest. With her opponents down, Sally couldn't help but feel…proud and smiles about it. She can't wait to tell her father about it.
Mikey whips out his Nunchakus as he looks through his goggles to see his oncoming foes. "Now you see 'em," he swings his weapon around and whacks two more ninjas in his way. "Now you don't."
For Don and Leo, the purple turtle whacks another before he is joined by his older brother. "Their cloaking controls look to be somewhere around the chest plate." Don clarifies.
Understand the way to make them visible, Leo leaps in the air with his Katana in hand. "You mean…here?" he slashes his swords at the two hidden ninjas' chest plates; causing them to go short circuit. The ninjas have become visible while holding up two Katanas blades. Stunned to find to activate the devices, they turned around and didn't have time react before knocks them down with his Bo Staff and send them into a small puddle of water; electrocuting them.
The three turtles and human looked down on the defeated ninjas. "Can I call them or what?" the purple turtle brags.
"So, I guess that's that?" He asked; pulling out his Twin Sais. But before they could leave, they were then interrupted by a scream. They look up and to their horrors; Casey was floating in the air. Right above the deadly whirlpool!
"Casey!" Sally shouted out for concern of her friend. No-one knows how he was just floating up there. But it turns out that another invisible ninja was hanging him from the bridge before he turns himself back to visible. The ninja must have grab Casey during the fight.
"Drop your weapons and surrender." The ninja warns to the heroes as Casey begins to struggle out of his grip. The teens didn't know what else to do. Their friend was in danger. If they do surrender, he will be ok but if they don't, Casey would be swimming with the fishes. The other ninjas have just recovered from the fight and have now surrounded the teens with their Katanas in hand. They were now trapped and forced to make a decision. "My grip is loosening. I suggest you drop your weapons. Now."
"Don't do it, guys! I'm not worth it!" Casey begged to his friends
Don turns to his siblings. "You know, he's got a point." He admits.
His sibling could only just look at him. "You're starting to sound like Mikey, Don." Leo points it out before he, Don, Rap and Sally drop their weapon. They have to save their friend. Just then, Raph began to realise something.
"Hey, where is Mikey?" he wonders while looking around.
Just before he was about to get an answer, Sally nudges him in the chest and gestures him to look up. He then looks at the same direction as she is and finds his little brother; balancing himself on a water pipe right above the ninja and Casey on a pipe. The others don't seem to notice him up there.
"The Way of Balance, and the Way of Invisibility." He parrots his father's voice and words from the lesson, drops down from above. The FTN looks behind and just when he was preparing to draw his sword, the turtle kicks the ninja off the platform; causing him to drop Casey and they both fall straight for the whirlpool below!
In order to save his friend, Don rush over to his aid but one of the ninja brings out his Katanas and blocks his path with the blade. He tries to slash the turtle's head with the other one but Don ducks it and jumps in the air, lands on the ninja's shoulder, spring off and grabs his Bo Staff from the ground. He flips up; grab one of the poles that were sticking up from the whirlpool and lunges forward with his weapon out. Just then, Casey grabs the stick just in time before he took a dive but the other ninja did as Casey looks down for a sec and looks back up to the turtle and gives him a thumbs up.
The rescue was a complete success. The purple turtle used all his might to swings his staff and flings the Vigilante back onto the ground.
As he landed, Casey pulls out his bat and faces the now-visible ninjas. "Yeah!" he shouts as Mikey drops down from the pipe, Don jumps off from the stick, brought out their weapons and joins him in the brawl.
Leo, Raph and Sally picked up their weapons and joined in the fight. Six FTN vs. five ninjas and Casey. Who will win? The heroes all charged at them and successfully throw them into the whirlpool. No arguments there.
Casey puts his bat, walks to the edge and looks over. The ninjas were gone. One minute, he was about to fall to his watery grave but manages to escape death once again. He pulls off the goggles and his mask and clips them on his tracksuit pants and walks towards to his friends.
"Thanks, guys. I owe you." He acknowledges them as they take off their goggles and puts them away.
"We take cash, personal checks and most major credit cards." Mikey suggested a way for him to reply them. But Sally nudges him in the chest.
"Knock it off, Mikey." She turns her attention to the young man; crossing her arms over. "We're just glad you are ok."
Casey was actually very grateful to have such great friends like them. He wishes there was something he can do in order to repay them. With the dangers that have taken a lot out of him, he came across one thing on his mind.
"Man, I'm beat. Maybe I should just crash at you guys' place tonight." Ok, anything except for that. The teens look on with a horrified expression as Leo steps in quickly.
"NO! I mean, nothing beats the comfort of sleeping in your own bed." He nervously chuckles.
"We'll give you a ride." Don suggested. "Have you home in no time." Both Don and Leo then proceed to pull him to the exit. Mikey joined in desperation.
"Carry you upstairs, tuck you in. Heck, we'll even tell you a bedtime story." Mikey add on as both Raph and Sally followed in pursuit. It took time to convince the Vigilante to go home but the teens were relieved that they finally get some peace from the hockey-psycho.
(Oroku Saki's Tower, Manhattan, NY – 10:40pm)
Thanks to the teens' victory tonight, Saki has failed once again. In the dojo, Saki was pacing himself across the room while Hun and Stockman were in one line and right behind them were the same group of Foot Tech Ninja that have just came back from the failed mission; all rusted and damaged.
Once they gave him the report, Saki was not pleased. Not pleased at all. Every time he makes a plan; the Teenage Ninjas always foiled them without realizing it.
"Another operation marred by the sickening stench of defeat!" He turned to his two operators. "No doubt you are both well aware of my extremely limited tolerance of failure!"
With his back was now facing them, Stockman steps forward. "It was his fault!" the scientist blames the thug as he continues onwards. "This bumbling oaf let the creature escape!"
He was hoping that Hun will be the one to suffer the consequences but he though wrong. Saki turns around and grabs the perplexed doctor by the shirt.
"The plan was sound." He then looks over the scientist's shoulder to see the Foot Tech Ninjas. "And yet your creations failed to, as you put it: Deliver the goods."
Stockman could only shiver in his boss' grasp as the Japanese ninja master tosses the doctor at the foot of two Foot Tech Ninjas. He then gestures them to take Stockman away so his penalty will be ready. They then grabbed him by the arm and dragged him towards the door.
"Wait, where are you taking me?" As he was dragging away, Hun slyly smiles slyly; watching his rival dealing with his consequences. "Take your hands off me! I made you! I am your creator." He argues as the doors close on them.
With the doctor taken away for his punishments, Saki walks up to Hun. "What did you learn from your interrogation?" Saki asked the giant thug.
"I've worked over a lot of tough guys in my day. I'm telling you, these turtles and the human with them never even heard of your enemies, let alone worked for them." He admits his progress to the master.
So, the turtles and this human don't even know or work for them. This is very interesting. For Saki since if they have no clue about whom he is referring to, this could actually make his plan work if they are going to succeed.
He walks away from Hun. "Hmmm. Then perhaps they can be useful to me when the time comes to confront those enemies." He proposed. It was only a matter of time before Saki can make an appearance to the teen ninjas so they can help him search for those that he has been searching for after all these years…
(Unknown place – 10:41pm)
…but Saki was not the one only observing the teens. In a black room with white thin vertical lights that goes across the walls and goes along the floor and all meet up together by forming a black circle that was placed in the middle of the room.
Right in front of it are three purple unusual seats. In those seats are three people.
The one on the left is a thin woman with glasses and is dressed in a white shirt with a purple coat, matching knee-length skirt and high heels; the one in the middle is a thin man who is wearing a hat with a purple button-up long-sleeve top, dark purple pants and business shoes and the one on the right is another male but a bit cubby than the first two. All three have the same hair and eye colour.
Approaching them is another man but he is a lot different from them. He is adark skinned person with dark blue hair tied up in a high ponytail and has big sideburns. He was wearing a large grey trench coat, a blue jumpsuit underneath it and black sunglasses. Around his neck was a gold chain necklace with the engraved picture of a strange head. He appears from the opposite end of the black room and walks into the circle. It appears he has…some news to express to them.
"Masters. It is true. Our enemy has discovered out presence in this city." He explained.
One-by-one, they all speak in the same voice.
The female spoke up. "And what of…"
The middle was next. "…the four…"
The one on the right finished. "…mutant creatures and the human?"
"Still an unknown factor. We need more information." The man in the trench coat replied
The female spoke first again. "Learn all you can about them."
The middle one again for the second time. "If they pose no threat…"
The one on the right speaks up. "…do not engage them."
The female speaks up again. "But if they are in the employ of our enemy…"
The one on the right talks again. "…take the necessary steps."
All three spoke together. "To neutralize them."
The man in the trench coat respectfully bows to them and leaves the chamber. More secrets are beginning to unfold as the time comes closer by the minute.
With just two more chapters to go, we are getting a bit closer to the answers Sally has been waiting for her entire life.
And who are the four people that we just met? Could they be part of not just Saki's life but Sally's too?
Find out next time on:
The Saint's Hope: Fallen Angel
Author's Notes: YEAH! FINALLY! MANAGE TO GET A CHAPTER UP AT THE CERTAIN TIME! I never thought I can do it but I was wrong! WOO-HOO!
*Looks around to feel the awkwardness in the air and coughs slightly.* Sorry about that. Anyway, moving on.
Let's review the chapter, shall we? We get to see Saki and the Foot once again, Hun meeting one of the Turtles for the very first time and Stockman has return once again with only one eye and I doubt he won't be back.
Also, with only two more chapters until the climax where Sally will finally get her answer about her past. Ok, the only clue we knew is the Foot Symbol and that's all know so far. But how does Sally know of this symbol? Well, we'll find out in the future chapter that will come up very soon so hold on to your seats and get ready to be blown away.
Also, it took a bit of time to find a way for Sally to get ticked off of Casey like he did with the other Turtles. I had to find some way. Besides, it has made very clear to Casey of not to mess with Sally ever again.
Also, Sally's abilities was shown again in this chapter. The ability to sense things around her. A nice way to test it out by in a real fight. I don't think it's enough for the Foot to report that to Saki because he is more concern about the Turtles and not Sally cause he thinks she is not important enough.
But…
…that's what he thinks.
Hmm, we'll never know. Might happen in the future.
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Until we meet again,
TheDragonLord2912