The Saint's Hope
Chapter 4 – 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. I do hope everyone had a good weekend. I had to work, so, forgive me for the delay. My dancing concert is getting close and preparation for my Japan is well underway as I will be there in less than a year! Can't wait!
So, what did you guys think of the first chapter? I am taking my time to fix it, update it. A part of me wishes I get it all done in one sitting but…I gotta have balance in my life and it takes up so many hours. Not to mention the inspirations too! And I tend to get so many ideas in my head. Unless I have the right motivation that would get the ball rolling.
Not only we lost Batman himself, but also Aaron Carter. Too young. We all remember the "Candy" singer himself. RIP. We are losing SO many people this year. I do hope 2023 will be a clean slate.
(From the old version - Well! I hope you guys like that one! Sorry I didn't get a chance to upload the last one cause of a lot of things happened over the week. But hopefully, from now on, I will upload them every Monday (weekly or not; depending on the time I have). With the holidays finished, I will get started on the other stories.
From the reviews/PMs that I got, I will answer them:
To erica phoenix 16
It's just as good as I remember.
I see you decided to add a vision to Sally. Personally, I'd save something that like for later chapters. However, the butt kicking skills of the turtles more than made up for it.
Thanks for updating. :)
I know.
Yeah, but after seeing Kung Fu Panda 2, I thought it would be interesting to have a vision early in the series to give it a bit of suspense. And yeah, everything with Turtles kicking butt fixes everything.
And thanks for dream lightning and RATNMR7 for adding me and the story to their favourites. Love to have fans to come around all the time.)
Anyway, I kept you guys waiting long enough. Here comes the second episode!
(The Sewers, Manhattan, NY – unknown time)
It's was another night in the Big Apple. Tonight's weather: Rain. Lots and lots of rain. Not pouring down too hard, just right. On the surface world, the water itself would have created a number of puddles in the streets or water the plants or trees out in the open or filled up someone's water tank. Some are even pouring down into an open manhole and into the sewers. The streets may be wet tonight, but parts of the sewers remain dried.
Not too far from the pool, the sewer rats were just standing around, minding their own little business in their tiny lives. One of them was scratching behind its little ear. There were a few times when nights like this are pretty quiet. Other times, it's not. Like tonight.
A rumble sound has been made. Too close to where the rats are. They perked up to see or sense the source. The rodents did have enough time to react, when the wall behind them exploded!
Well, it didn't explode. More like something or someone made the blast through the wall in a shape of a basketball. And who or what better to do that than something that walks on two legs, small and has powerful jaws that can bite its way through walls.
The robot menace has strike again.
As it pokes it head around and takes a look of its new surrounds, the intelligence turtle decided to take the first say of the day.
It may not look like much, but this tin toy can chop his way through steel and concrete like Michelangelo through a pizza.
The rats who manage to get away from the metal menace, all scamper off. It jumps out of its hole, tries to chop a near-by rat. Not too long ago, the robots itself managed to crawl their way through the sewers where they came across a small area. A small area that was occupied by a human, four giant turtles, and a rat.
Only the rat was the target. Just like the little ones that this robot nearly captured. Once it has sighted its prey, it marches on; screeching and chomping away.
In the other parts in the sewers, five very familiar figures are racing through the sewers. They are on a mission. Just a day ago, their home for fifteen years was taken away by these robots. And now, they are looking for answers.
A bunch of these Mousers robots saw fit to trash our old Lair and nearly turned our Sensei into robo-chow.
The four giant turtles and their human sister have just halted in the intersection of the sewers, unfamiliar to them. They have just lost their target. Just before they can track again, something was made in the distance. A scream.
More like a high-pitched scream. And it was not coming from Mikey.
And it sounds like someone is in danger! In front of his three brothers and human sister, the purple turtle points to the source of the shriek. He runs off with his siblings in pursuit.
The scream was originated from a closed-off sewer tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, five more of what the heroes have called Mousers, have finally trapped their new "prey" who appears to be a woman in her 20's. Red hair all bun-up with her bangs off to the right, wearing a purple crop-top, light brown cargo pants, grey belt and black shoes with grey laces. Right now, her back was up against a bolted door that is covering by planks of wood nailed down. Too tough to rip off. She is now helpless and prepares to meet her doom as the five robots all advance slowly towards her.
I look at these incredible machines, and the techno geek in me can't help thinking, 'Awesome'.
At first, what she was expecting is be is a slow, agonising death; ripped to pieces by the metal menaces. But she will be wrong because what she won't be expecting is five beings coming to her rescue.
Just before these Mousers chomp her down into little bits and pieces, a new presence has just arrived. The robots all looked behind to see their victim's saviour.
Make that five saviours – in the form of four giant turtles and a teenage human; wielding ninja weapons. They all jumped forward, pulling out their weapons and landed near the robots.
But the ninja in me can't help thinking, 'Payback'.
Arming their signature weapons, they were definitely in need of payback and ready to save an innocent lady.
Seeing more targets in their way, the so-called Mousers as what the brainiac called them, all looked turned to face and ready to chomp down anything that gets in their way.
(In the New Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:30pm)
It has been 24 hours since the incident that changed the lives of four giant turtles, a large talking rat, and a human. Forever.
For fifteen years of their lives, living peacefully underground, their former home was destroyed by the smallest, yet, durable metal machines with the strongest jaws that they have ever seen. They teared down their home in the hunt for their rat master. It caused them to be separated from Master Splinter, venture up to the surface (without their parent's supervision or permission), battle many thugs and a number of strange black ninjas that they faced, stole a truck with the money (although they did return it to the police but still took the truck), and finally, reunited with their father, who indeed had a little adventure of his own.
Before reuniting with his children, he was once again hunted down by the same robots. He managed to wipe the floor of them, but made lots of damage to the battleground. But if it wasn't for them, he would not have found something… extraordinary.
A new home for the family of ninjas.
Right now, only the father and the two other turtles are now in their new home while the other two plus the human are nowhere to be seen. It's because their father has sent them out to retrieve most and any supplies that is still lying around in their old home.
For the whole day, the teens have been working non-stop fixing up the new lair. When they found the place, there were broken stones and damaged pipes all over the place. But now, the place is no longer in ruins after what the family has done.
In the new Lair – their new home – the bedrooms have been all set to fit each of the family member's personality, the kitchen and bathroom is now fully operation, the new dojo, just like the former home, is located in the middle of the place and it is up-to-date for any training session, and finally, the living room is all ready for the family to kick back and chill.
And that is where the youngest turtle member of the ninja clan is now at the moment.
Unlike the old Lair, the teens have also managed to set up skate ramp all over the place, ropes are hanging down from the ceiling, fire escapes are also bolted into the pillars so they would have an easier access to the second floor, and there is also a bridge that goes over the lake with stepping stones.
Now, Don and Mikey were just fixing up the last-minute details of their new Lair. The baby brother is almost finishing setting up the entertainment section; the one job that he really like. After finding a number of television; all in different sizes and shapes, lying around in the dumpster that the teens all took a trip to, he manages to stack them one-by-one, which makes it look like they have a huge TV set in the new entertainment centre of the living room with the help of the ladder of course.
Master Splinter was too in the living room on the blue couch. He too was busy sewing up a practise dummy. Once the turtle has finished setting up the TVs, he was then halted for a second. The brainy turtle took notice of that.
"What's the matter, Mikey?"
The youngest turtle looks up to see his older brother; strapped himself to his special harness while holding a welding torch. The smart turtle himself was fusing a certain pipe on the second floor of their large home. He stops welding when noticed his trouble brother.
"Can't decide what to watch?" he asked, removing his goggles from his eyes and switching off his wielding torch by the nozzle. He places his item on his belt and journeys back down the ground level as he abseils down to join his brother and father.
No longer on the ladder, Mikey was kneeling down on the floor, grabbing two power leads. One of them connects to the power outlet and the other connects to the entertainment. Once it has been plugged in, the most important place in the Lair (in Michelangelo's opinion) will be complete.
"I need more powerrrrr, Captain!" he spoke with a Scottish accent, thus hinting a little Star Trek reference in it. Don continues to descend to the bottom. Mikey then reverts back to his normal voice. He just loves to pull off different accents all the time. "The Turtle Cave must be set for maximum entertainment potential."
And with that, he plugs in the two power leads; emitting sparks. He was now bracing for the moment. Once the power has come to the TV, Mikey's life will be complete.
On the surface world, it did cause a problem. When Mikey is plugged in with loads of TVs, the televisions in the shops, the street lights, and even the power for one section of the streets, begins to flicker. After a second, it caused the whole city to have a blackout.
Back in the Lair, with all the outlets plugged in, Mikey grabs hold of the remote. With one click of the on button, the entertainment boxes are all turned on. But thanks to the power from the surface world, this causes the televisions to blast on the orange turtle with blinding lights and loud audio. It was so strong that Mikey had to cover his eyes. Realising its too much, he quickly turns the TVs off to avoid the television to overheat and explode. But this upset the young ninja as he wants to watch his favourite shows.
"Awww!" he whined. Guess he'll have to wait for a bit for the whole system to kick in or something. But if he has to do it again, he has to remember to turn down the sound.
After taking his gear off, he walks over to his younger brother. "Turtle Cave?" Don replied. This causes the rat to stop his sewing and looks up. "That is so lame."
Mikey than points his finger at him. "What would you call our new digs?" he asked his brother as he turns around and places his hands in the air. "The Shellter?"
Even the genius like Don can come up with a better name than that. He looks around to see what would be suited to call their new home. "Uh…" just then, an idea pops into his head, "how about The Sewer of Solitude?"
Mikey faced his brother again. "Terrapin Station?"
Don takes another crack at it. "The School for Gifted Reptiles and Human?"
"The Hall of Ninjustice!" Mikey added.
While they were coming up with name after name, Splinter did resume his stitching for a bit. But he then stops once more, knowing that his sons' game of Naming the Lair seems to have no end to it. Plus, none of them seems to fit.
He looks up to see that both of his sons are glaring at each other. He too has a suggestion and probably the one to finish the game. He puts the unfinished practise dummy on the ground and brings his curled-up paw to his mouth.
"Ahem." The two turtles stop staring at each other and turn to face their father. It seems their little game was starting to bug him. The rat picks up his staff, stands up from his seat and places his object in front of him. "We will call this place…Home."
Although the boys had good names at first, they then realized that their Sensei's suggestion beats out theirs. The boys couldn't help but smile at their father's name for their new Lair.
"Hmm,…catchy," Mikey approves of this as Don nods in agreement. How can something so simple be so perfect? Now that he is realised that the game is over and a name for the Lair has been chosen, Splinter needs to know one thing as there're seem to be missing a few more familiar faces in the room. "Now, what is keeping Leonardo, Raphael and Salvadora?"
When asked, Donatello raced down the small stairs near the living room, cross the bridge and went over to his little table, located in the middle of the Lair. On the table were broken pieces of the robots that almost took care of their father, before he actually dealt them. And since TV time will wait, Mikey decided to make use of his time. He goes over to lift a bundle of pipes that were near-by and carries them over his shoulder while descending down the stairs.
"They just went to get the last of our stuff from the old Lair," Mikey answered as he went over the same bridge and over to another part of the Lair.
"And the way the new Sewer Slider is performing," Don added, picking up one of the leg pieces of the broken robot with his right, then use his left to pick up his screwdriver, "they should be back any minute now."
The purple turtle was going to find out how the robot ticks. He begins to screw on one of the bolts of the component. A few more turns…and sparks fly out; shortening it out!
This gives the smart turtle a surprised look as smoke starts to come out of its leg.
(At the Old Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:32pm)
Everything was still as it was before. A complete mess.
Loads of debris are all over the place, the pillars that are left standing were starting to break and a big portion of the walls that were made by the robots, are now the size of a garage door. With the old Lair is a status like this, it will only be a matter of time before it gives out.
Luckily, there was still enough time for Leo, Raph and Sally to get what they can get or still save any of the belongings that they can bring over to the new Lair. They manage to dig their way through from the other side of the rubble that blocked off from their father which caused them to go to the surface world.
Sally manages to get every single photo that was taken during their time here. After she carefully places a picture of Hamato Yoshi in the box, she then pulls out the last one from the dirty pile of dirt. She brushes it off to see of her and her mutant family; still intact. It was a picture of them on her tenth birthday; all huddled around her with the birthday cake in front of her. Smiling at this, she remembers this day. It was when she got a camera from the whole family and the nice picture frame from Mikey. To make this a memorable moment, they decided to the photo together.
After placing the last photo in the box, she places her hand underneath the cardboard container, lifts it up and carries it all the way to the damage entrance. As she went through, she went over to Raph who was leaning up against the teens' own transportation – the Sewer Slider. The red turtle had his arm crossed over, with a grouchy look on his face. She didn't even need to bother to ask him.
And he didn't even bother to look up. He was too upset to come back here, after what has happened. And he was too angry at the robots that did all this damage. She can tell. It was all over his face. And she too was feeling it.
Leaving the tough turtle alone, she then jumps on to the passage seat of the ride and carefully places the box just behind the seat. After the photos are secure, she looks to her home. A lot of emotions were building up inside of her. So much has happened in this very place, all changed in an instant. The feelings inside of her are a mixture of both grief and excitement.
The feeling of grief is losing her first home. The home that she grew up in for all her life. With her family. The only beings that she knew for all her life.
As for excitement. Well, for a new change and a new beginning. Their new home was the start of it as it is so huge with lots of rooms, compared to the old Lair as it was just the size of a studio room.
She then just noticed her best friend coming back with something in tow. It was the last item left of the old place before they make their way back to their new home. She looks in his grasp and knows exactly what it is. It was a silver canister with a glass cover; now cracked, and the letters TCRI were green bold.
She knows what that certain item is. It was the same canister that mutated the Turtles and Splinter into what they are today. But not Sally. She came into the family after it all happened. No-one knows where it really came from.
With a sorrow look, Leo makes his way out of the place and heads to the back of the vehicle. "Our home for 15 years," he spoke, carefully placing the item into trunk, among the other items that survived the battle, like their very own custom-made sign "Sewer Sweet Sewer", their spare weapons, some of the furniture that was not destroyed, Mikey's DVD collection, Sally's book collection, most of the young kunoichi's clothes and Master Splinter's robes all in a box and the teen's extreme sports gear. Letting out a sign, Leo fixed up the straps to make sure that don't fall out. "And this is all that's left."
The young girl then slumps into her seat and hugs her legs. She tries to be happy about it, but thinking about all the good memories about her home, she was feeling anything but joy. "I really am gonna miss this place," she sadly mumbles.
After securing the items in the back, Leo comes around Sally's side. He looks to see the miserable expression on her face. This event all happened after her birthday. It would have been worse if it did happen on the actual day. He places a comfort hand on her shoulder. Although, anyone would be surprise if someone touch them unexpectedly, but Sally sense Leo coming her way and knew he was going to do that. She faces her best friend. Instead of the sadness look he had before, it was a simple supportive grin. After seeing his face, she brings up a smile. "At least, we had some fun memories, right?" Leo nods in agreement. For many years now, Leo and Sally have not been just brother and sister, but have always been the closest of friends. Always have each other backs in any situation.
They also remember the words that their father said: "change is good" and he was right. They lose something but gain something even better.
After removing himself from the vehicle, Raphael, full of rage as always, approaches a near-by but recent broken stone pillar. Sally and Leo look over to see him.
"When I find out who built those home-wrecking robo-roaches…" he then actually proved his point by delivering a strong punch into the stone pillar. When he made the impact, cracks were started to form. The place around started to shake up and some small stone and dirt fell from the ceiling.
The calm leader walks over to his trouble brother. He understands how angry he is at the moment right now. He's also furious as well. But unlike Raph, Leo always has a level-head. He comes to his brother's side whom looking down with a fuming but forlorn expression. Leo was almost covering himself just in case any more rocks decided to fall out. Thankfully, the place has stopped shaking and the ceiling remains intact.
"Raph, come on. Let's not trash this place any more than it already is," Leo said. They need to move on. They all race back to the Sewer Slider as their human sister still waiting in the passage seat and already buckle up.
"Look on the bright side, you guys. The new Lair is huge, perfect for us ninjas, we have a functionally bathroom, kitchen, a nice living room, and more importantly, we finally getting our own bedroom!" Sally pointed out. They can all agree on that.
Leo hops into the back to make sure that none of their belongings fall out and Raph climbs into the driver's seat. They may not have their driver's license or know how to drive a car yet (minus Donatello), they are skilled of handling a vehicle like the Sewer Slider. Besides that, his sister does have point. He does want a room to himself and some time alone without any of his brothers (mostly Mikey) to bug him.
"Yeah, I guess there is some light to it," he nodded, turning the headlights on and putting his seatbelt on. "Though, I wouldn't mind some payback." He starts up the Slider as he buckles up and moves forward. After getting a running start, the Sewer Slider's special features kick in. If anybody has seen a sci-fi TV-show or movie, they would see this kind of function. Still moving, the machine begins to lift itself off the floor, the wheels smoothly slide in underneath and begins to 'float'. In the air!
The Sewer Slider has a hover feature that yours truly built into it!
"Now, remember, Don said the accelerator hasn't been calibrated yet," Leo advise. Without looking down, Raph and Sally shared a crafty look. Giving him the nod, Sally holds onto her seat. Raph pushes the control forward a bit before placing his right hand on the stick in front of him. What Raph is going to do is to ignore his brother's advice and enjoy the ride, "so take it nice and—"
Raph quickly pulls it down and the Slider went from a 35 to 70 in 0.5 seconds! "SLOW!" he cries out.
They were now speeding through the tunnel as Leo was trying his best to hold on tight. It's either his brother didn't listen to him or it's either his best friend told his brother to do it. He'll find out later.
"YEE-HAW!" Raph cried out in joy. The Slider is now doing a corkscrew move just like on a roller-coaster on Coney Island.
Sally puts her hands in the air; having the time of her life. "WHHAAA-HOOO!"
"WHOA!" the blue turtle yelp. He nearly falls off but manage to get a grip again on the surfboard that he was sitting on.
Still driving, Raph looks up to his older brother. "I call this a successful field test, wouldn't you both agreed?" He faces the front again; still racing. Either Raph didn't listen to him or not, Leo had no choice but to enjoy the ride. Even Sally nods as well as she puts her hands on the dashboard. Raph just gotta love his sister who was just into extreme sports as he is.
"YEE-HAW!" was the only thing echoing through the tunnels of the sewers made the three teens as they continued their thrilling ride all the way home.
(In the New Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:33pm)
Don was looking down on his reflection from the robot's disconnected head. With a struggling look on his face, many questions run through his mind. Just what are these robots? Who built them? What is their purpose?
Well, for he and his family already know is that they can chew their way through any concrete, stone or any material that is too strong for the average human man. The only one who is powerful enough to break thing easily is his older sister. Plus, they only seem to target a certain object, like Master Splinter. But the question is why?
Placing a finger on the surface of its deactivated body part, Master Splinter comes to his side. The rat couldn't be even more disgusted about this. Not only this… thing came out of nowhere and completely destroyed his burrow – his former home – but it also tried destroy him, like The Terminator.
The rat looks up to see his brilliant son in deep thought. "Even though it is inactive," Don faces him as the elder points at it, "that thing still makes me uneasy, Donatello."
The third fourth eldest knows exactly what he meant. Because of these little machines, his father was almost turned into robo-chow yesterday. Not something he wants to remember the rest of his life. Don looks back at the little machine.
"This is state-of-the-art robotics, Sensei," he carefully picks it up to observe it more, "brilliant work. I just gotta know what makes it tick." The rat himself rubs his chin. He understands his son's curious mind. It only makes him more suspicious about the robot, its whereabouts and its creator.
If his son could figure out what makes the robot work, then he has faith in him. But he is concern that if his son activates the robot, it could sic on him again like it happened before.
His trail of thoughts was interrupted by a certain noise approaching the Lair. A light has entered the home as Splinter, Don and Mikey, whom was already in the living room, all looked over at the source. They didn't even bother to hide. Cause they know who is coming a knocking. Now enters the Sewer Slider, in hover mode of course. The vehicle makes it way in the middle of the Lair and comes to a halt. It was ready for a landing. It floats down as it extends its wheels out again and the transportation makes contract with the ground. Raph switches off the engine and the headlights as Leo and Sally all hopped out; carrying a box each. The one that Sal has in her grasp is the box filled with the special photos while Leo has a certain box for a certain turtle.
"Hey, good news, Mikey! Your DVD collection survived." Leo announced, spinning the special box on one finger, before flinging it to his young eager brother. It is one of the things from the old Lair that he has been waiting all day and was still worried that it was lost in the wreck. And now it has been found and undamaged, Mikey can finally relax by watching his favourite shows/movies.
"Awesome!" Mikey cheered, catching the box with one hand while the remote is in the other. He then lifts the box up by flexing his muscle. "Let's throw in something light on story and heavy on gory," he turns to face the TV; aiming the remoter at it, "cause the video monolith is ready to rock and roll!"
He presses the on button of the remote. Instead of blinding everyone with glaring lights and heavy audio, it manages to switch on like what a normal television should be able to do. The first channel that comes up was a new channel named News TV and by the looks of it, there are doing a live report. The video shows of a yellow-clay building that the front and back goes up a diagonal and has the blue windows that goes vertical across. It also has a logo; painted just above the front door of the building, which it a dark orange "S".
"In a press conference today at Stocktronic, Incorporated – New York's leading new technology firm…"
This kind of news report would put anyone on a train to Snoozevile. Especially Mikey. Watching this, he was already bored very quickly.
He puts his hand in front of his mouth; pretending to yawn. "Boring…" He was about to change the channel…
"Wait."
Everyone turns to the purple turtle who was still at his table with the wrecked robot parts. "I want to see this." Looks like he was eager to hear this piece of news. And it's a good thing too. Because what they are going to see, will fix one mystery.
Sally places the box of photos on the table. "Wait, Stocktronic? Isn't that the technology company that is found and owned by the scientist, Baxter Stockman?" she asked.
"Yeah, it is," answered Don. From hearing all the famous scientists and inventor like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton, this Baxter Stockman seem to be the next generation of the greatest minds of all time. Mikey puts a hold on his channel surfing and lets everyone watch the news. Instead of the building, it was a room inside the company where they then saw three more people. One of them appears to be a cameraman and the other two are wearing lab coats. The cameraman gets a close-up of the man right in front of him while standing next to table with a particular thing that is hiding underneath a cloth and a some-what simple maze that seems complicated for a small animal to get loss in.
"Founder and CEO Dr. Baxter Stockman was on hand to unveil his latest innovation."
The camera then changes to a close-up of the scientist himself. He was an African-American man, possibly in his thirties, who has dark brown hair, wears glasses, a white office shirt with a black tie, and a pair of dark grey pants all underneath the lab coat and dark purple business shoes. Before he begins to speak, he takes off his glasses to clean them with a cloth.
"A wise man once said, 'Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.'," He speaks, putting his clean glasses back on his face. He turns towards the camera and resumes speaking. "I say, let the path beating begins! For I, Baxter Stockman, have designed the solution to the city's ever-growing rat problem."
And he wasn't kidding. The sewer is almost overrun by hundreds of thousands of rats and a hundred more in the dumps too. He was standing next to the solution itself, waiting to be reveal. Although, it will help with the rodent problem, it will make certain viewers at home; surprised and stunned.
"Ladies and gentleman, I give you—" he then lifted the fabric as he exposes his invention, which makes the five giant mutants and a human all gasp in shock, especially Donatello, who was holding the robot head. "—the ultimate expression of rodent termination technology: The Stocktronic Mouser!"
To entire population of New York, it was a small robot that stands on two mechanical legs, has a light on its head that acts as it's 'eye' and has its giant jaws that looks strong enough to crush anything that can fit into its metal mouth. It was then activated as its 'eye' lit up.
But to the family of ninjas, it was the same robot that trashed their home and nearly turned their master into a late-night snack!
Leo and Sally both remember that Raph was going to find who built the robots and get even. Well, looks like his wish just came true. And now, he wants some payback.
Don puts his hand on his chin. "I can't believe that the famous Baxter Stockman would try to pass off," the purple turtle talks in disbelief, lifting the head of these so-called Mouser to head level, "these killer robots as a good thing." He has heard of the well-known scientist for many years. And now, he was disappointed to see one of his greatest heroes to use his latest inventions that almost killed their father. Mikey was near him when he grabbed the robot's head out of his grasp and looks at it.
"Heh. And what's up with those glasses?" Mikey wonders. He then puts his hand inside the head of the robot and use it as a puppet for his own entertainment. "Dork city."
There was only one turtle whom is not too happy with Stockman's new toys. Now he knows who is responsible for building those deadly robots, Raphael can write a complaint to. In person.He steps forward and brought his Sais out. With the face of Stockman still on the screen, Raph lets his angry out with a growl and thrust one of his weapons into the small TV screen; destroying it.
He was now ready to leave. "I say we head over to Stocktronics and kick some serious shell," he said as he heads for the exit to pay a little visit to the doctor himself, twirling his Sais around. But the rat master himself halts him in his tracks with his stick at ready.
"Absolutely not," he sternly argues. He then swings the weapon upward and swats his son on the head. The red turtle rubs his head in pain. Guess he had that coming. Not to mention he won't be getting out of the Lair so easily.
Splinter closes his eyes. He knows what his son is feeling. He too wants to get back of what has been taken away from him. The rat has been there once, but his was a lot different from what he has endured. Nevertheless, he can't allow any of his sons go outside again. "Your last venture to the surface was a disaster," his other children all gathered around him. No-one needs to remind him what happened to them from their story. "You can ill afford to be seen by more humans."
If he kept her down here instead of giving his blessing to go out from now on, Sally would be annoyed. She steps forward. "Well, you're still letting me go up the surface world still, right Sensei?" the young human girl asked. It wouldn't hurt to ask, as along the answer doesn't hurt her.
Splinter nods. "Yes, you're the exception, my daughter." This made Sally smiled and Raph scowl. How he dreams of having the rights of going up and getting even with the nerd.
"My lab assistant, Miss April O'Neil,—" the family of ninjas went back to the news report to see another person. From what Stockman said, it was his lab assistant. A young woman in her twenties with green eyes, wears a dark purple crop-top, light brown cargo pants, grey belt and black shoes with grey laces. She too was wearing a white lab coat like her boss. She was holding a box while brushing her red bangs out of her eyes with her hair is all bun up when she her name was announced. "—will release several rats into the simulation chamber."
With the box, as he said, full of a number of rats, she walks over to one side of the constructed maze that was built for this special demonstration. "April, proceed, my dear."
She did what she was told and empties the box of rodents into the maze. The common rats all sniffed in the air, not knowing that danger that is about to be unleashed. They all scamped and sneaked around a small part of the maze as Stockman, with the Mouser in his hands, bends down and places the robot at the entrance. The viewers at home were warned about the graphic that were about to happen.
"Now observe the sheer genius of my Mouser inaction."
Sally had a hunch of the coming event. I don't like where this is going. She was preparing to cover herself for the massacre. The family continue to watch the Mouser roaming the maze. At the same time, a rat was going the same way on the other side of the small wall. As they both come to a clear gate, the robot quickly spotted the rodent. And now, the chase was on. The rodent itself has quickly retreated away from the robot as fast as it can.
But the Mouser was engineer to be very quick. The robot lets out a roar, quickly catches up to the rodent and manages to capture its target – in its jaw.
As it swiftly ending its life, the rat was letting out lots of squeaks as the robot continues to crush its tiny body. The Turtles, Splinter and Sally could only watch in horror as the Mouser is just doing his job and goes on finishing up the other rats. The young kunoichi quickly shields her eyes away from the carnage. She feels so bad for the rats to have their lives end in the most inhuman way as possible. She was against Animal Cruelty since ever.
"Aww, man. I'd sure hate to be a rat in this town," Mikey said out loud. Once he made that comment, all his siblings all looked at him, irritated. Mikey then realized what he said. Feeling regretful, he turns to his father. "Oh, sorry, Sensei."
The only thing left standing in the maze was the Mouser itself…
(Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 7:45pm)
"And the Mouser's search and retrieval functions are all ingeniously controlled by a remote mother computer," he explains, pointing to the computer located across the room.
Although, this was taken a few minutes after the news cameraman left, the young apprentice couldn't help but feel appreciated by watching the same recording over again. Her boss was standing right behind her desk in the laboratory.
April happily points to herself on the screen. "Oh, this is so great!" She looks behind to see her boss leaning on her chair. "My friends, my family, will finally see I really do work with the Baxter Stockman."
The scientist himself was rather pleased with that remark. When she made the comment, he crosses his arms over with a satisfied smile on his face. "You flatter me, Miss O'Neil," he replied, turning to his right. "I like that." At least, someone appreciates me for once. There was also another person who appreciates him as well, but he rather not go into it.
April decided to get back to work when she noticed something…unusual. A beeping sound was made as it caught the attention of both the scientist and his assistant. "Oh, that's strange," April said. Snapping out his daydream, Stockman, placing his hands behind his back, takes a closer look at the screen to see a few Mousers appeared on the screen. The others have…disappeared.
She points to the screen once again. "I was running a routine diagnostic check. Half the Mouser prototypes aren't even transmitting." She places her finger to her chin, speculating theories of their whereabouts. "It's like they just vanished."
She presses a few keys on the keyboard but she didn't pay any attention to the mild anxious look on her boss' face. "Hmm, I-I'm sure it's nothing, April, probably just a computer glitch," Stockman assures his young assistant, best to stay calm under pressure. "I'll have a systems tech go over it in the morning." But April was not buying it at all. She continues to click away on the keyboard.
"But what if the Mousers have been tamped with? We should go over all their transmission backups," April suggested. And she was about to run the program, only if she wasn't halted by the sudden gripping on her shoulder made by her boss's hand. She looks over to her right see his face.
"That's won't be necessary,…April," Stockman calmly snaps at her while leaning in a little closer to her face. Okay…with that tone in his voice and the heated look on his face, it actually sends chills down April's spine. "Now, if you'll excuse me," he carefully removes his hand from her shoulder and walks towards his office, "I'm expecting an important call from a very significant financial backer."
The doors to his office slides open as he enters through and closes up behind him. With the doctor gone, this puts April on suspicion mode, again placing her finger on her chin. Why isn't her boss allowing her to check the transmission back-ups on the Mousers? Is there something that he is not telling her? Something big…
Well, guess it doesn't hurt to find out…
(In the Lair, Manhattan, NY – 7:47pm)
With the teens' mind still preoccupied about the Stocktronics press conference, Master Splinter has order his students to focus on another subject. And what better way to do so is to do some combat training. He just hopes that this will get the topic of the scientist and his robots off their minds.
Held in the middle of the area, near the kitchen, the five teens with their weapons out, have all surrounded their father arming with only his stick. Today's session is to take all turns in fighting their master, whom by far, was not an easy opponent to go up against.
Standing in the middle of the battlefield with two turtles on his left standing on the ledge, two turtles on his right on the ground and the human just kneeling front of him as on the ground, the rat looks from left to right, waiting for the moment to come. Since the teens are all armed and ready, it will be only a matter of time to see who will strike first.
With his father looking away, Donatello decided to go first like last time. He spins his Bo Staff in a circle before leaping forward at Splinter. The rat manages to block the attack and moves to the side. As the turtle was kneeling, he strikes again from below but his attack was blocked again. Splinter then spins around and whacks his son from behind, causing the turtle to stumble forward. As he comes to a stop, he looks back at his father, still armed but knowing that he has lost again.
"Do not lead with your shoulders, Donatello," Splinter advises. One down, four to go.
The blue turtle himself decided to go next since he has won last time. He comes in behind with a silent aerial strike, high in the air with his katanas ready to come down. Only for the rat to be quicker than he is, as he smacks his stick into his eldest son. Leo was sent flying back and lands flat on to his shell.
"Faster on your counterattack, Leonardo," the rat spoke again. Two down, three to go.
Now, it was time for the human. Waiting for the right moment, she quickly sneaks up behind her Sensei. Preparing to slice him in the middle, the rat senses her attack and jumps over her, avoiding the attack and lands right behind her. She quickly turns around to face him. Just as she almost withdraws her other sword, but doesn't get all the way as Splinter delivers a kick into the torso and sends her flying into the stone pillar. She rubs her sore back made from the impact.
"Do not leave yourself open, Salvadora," Splinter informs the young kunoichi. Three down, two to go.
Mikey was the next one to go. He decided to charge forward. But he didn't have the time to strike with his nunchakus when the rat quickly sweeps him off his feet and does a spin, sending the turtle a flip in the air before landing on his back. Splinter arms his weapon once more; ready for the final attacker.
"Mind your footwork, Michelangelo," the elder said. Four down, one to go.
With only one student left, will he be able to hit his master? After what he found out today? Perhaps not. And if the last attacker is a certain hothead, guess so.
Just like what his siblings tried to do, Raphael faces his master head on. But the cool-as-calm rat flips over him, dodging his attack. He then tossed his Sai at the master, one-by-one. But they were blocked each time by the rat's walking stick. After that, Splinter uses his stick to ram his son against a near-by pillar. With the turtle pinned down with the stick across his shoulders, Splinter can tell that Raphael wasn't giving his all in today's session.
"You are distracted, Raphael. You must learn to focus your attacks," Splinter instructed his son; releasing him from his trap. And that's what he was trying to do: focus his attacks on something else like a certain scientist guy. Although it wasn't a successful training session, everyone is still tired from today and what has happened to them over the past two days.
The rat walks away as Raph dusted himself off. "I'd like to focus my attacks on that Stockman guy!" the red turtle replies; shaking his fist in the air. He then chases after his father; whom was heading for his room and halts right in front of him. "We can't we just go topside and show him and little mean and green?" He was hoping to get his approval, so he actually teaches Stockman a little lesson of not trashing other people's homes without their permission.
But Splinter does not approve of this. "Because I forbid it," the rat barks at his roughest child. His respond makes Raph let out an upset groan. Great, Sal gets to go up to the surface, but we CAN'T!
Everyone started to gather around the rat as they watch the Sensei retire to his room. "We will resume your training in the morning." The Shoji eventually slides open automatically, (all thanks to Don who created a little device to do the work for him), walks through, and then closes up behind.
"Huh!" Mikey slumps over and hunches his back just like his father for the second time of the week. "We will resume your training in the morning."
"I heard that!" The teens were surprised to hear their father spoke. Guess he wasn't pleased with his son mocking him like that. In other words, he's in trouble.
"Busted!" Don wagged his finger at his youngest brother. Leo is sitting on the ledge and Sally has her arm resting on the punching bag, both laughed at that remark.
Raph, on the other hand, was not amused from before. He faces his siblings. "I'd like to bust a few heads," he said, punching his right fist into his left hand. As much as he wants to go up top to find Stockman and make him pay for sending his robots to trash their old home, he doesn't want to disrespect his master's wishes. Plus, he gets bored very quickly. Thankfully, Mikey has another better to keep his brother occupied.
"Chill, bro," Mikey said, walking up to the living room. "We don't need no stinking surface world." That comment that Mikey made did not made the human of the group happy at all. She'll have to slap him on the head later because of that comment. He jumps over the couch and lands on it with ease. "We got late movies, top 10 video countdown," he grabs the remote next to him, "BMX vert highlights," he turns the TV on again, but instead of the news, it was a different show which it is not in English, "some really weird Korean-language soap opera." The different language and laughter were on in the background.
Rather than watch some TV, Don is more focus on fixing the robot. He goes over to his work table where the broken pieces of the Mouser are lying around. He puts on his goggles and grabs his wielding torch. "—or you could give me a hand with these Mouser parts," he suggested as he starts up the flame of his torch and gets to work. "If I can get one working, we can trace it back to the source and find out what Stockman's really using them for."
All of a sudden, Raph lets out a big yawn while stretching his arms up. "Nah, I'm beat." He then walks off towards his room. "I'm gonna rack." He waves goodbye to his other siblings for a goodnight sleep.
Okay, both Leo and Sally are now getting a bit suspicion of their brother now. "Since when does Raph turn in so early?" Leo asked. He and Sal both know that their brother wouldn't go to bed early if he had a very good reason.
Sally looks up to her best friend. "Wanna take a wild guess?" She has a pretty good feeling that something will happen tonight…
(Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 7:49pm)
…and another story is going down in here. It seems that April was very suspicion of her boss' motion for the Mousers. It wasn't clear until he refuses to let her check the Mousers' Transmission Backups. It had to do something with that, but what?
Inside the office of the CEO, the scientist's desk was an orange colour crescent moon-shape with a built-in computer with his purple business chair sitting right behind him. A number of arts were lined up on the huge window with the skylight attached to it.
On the right side of the room was a bookcase and above it are a few large TV screens and a number of photos on the left side of the wall. On the left side is the lounge area with the couch the same colour as the desk and a clear glass coffee table.
Right now, Stockman was having an actually conference with his actually financial backer. Although it was hard to see hard to see in the dark, but his voice was another story. Whoever this guy is, he must have hire Stockman into building the robots for a special kind-of-mission, but what?
At the moment, they were arguing about the recent event that has happen in the past few days. "The Mousers will be ready when I decided they're ready," Baxter said. "Our first field test was—"
"—was a complete failure! I do NOT tolerate failure!" the man in the video harshly interrupts the scientist. Guess patience does not compute with Stockman's boss.
Baxter points at his boss on the screen. "Which is why you'd make a lousy scientist," he replies. "The test was supposed to expose any possible design flaws." If paln didn't work, ther is always plan b-z. He then turns around and walks a bit away but still close to the computer. "As a result, I've already upgraded the Mousers for greater durability…"
"…I assure you they will perform flawlessly for the next phase of the plan."
Unbeknownst to Baxter Stockman, April had her ear up against the wall. She had eavesdropped the entire conversation. She was getting too misgiving of her new boss and his true purpose for creating the Mousers. At first, she thought she was using her skills to help the city for a bright future, but instead, she might have been used for something else. Something unspeakable…
She continues to listen through the door. "They had better, Dr. Stockman,…for your sake."
She lets out a quiet gasp. So, Stockman is planning something. But for what? And for whom? The man that he was talking to. Because it sounds like if Stockman fails on whatever he is planning, he will either lose his job, or something a lot more?
Guess she'll either find out or will never know. But the one thing that she needs to know is what Stockman is really up to. And she is going to find out. Just until her boss leaves the building…
(In the Lair, Manhattan, NY – 9:20pm)
A few hours passed since the news report with the Mousers built by Baxter Stockman to fix the rat problems of the city – the same Mousers that destroyed their home a few days ago - and the training session for the teens. Right now, they are all occupied with their downtime; even though it is now late at night.
Mikey has been using his time to watch a Monster Movie marathon. He only manages to watch two when he felled asleep. Don was still working on the savage Mouser that not only targets his father, but also was demolished by his father. Although, the human of the family thinks it was to clean up the overrun of the sewer rats, the others were certain that there is more to it. Raph was already in his room, sleeping away. Or at least that what some of his siblings thought. For Leo, he is nowhere to be seen. Maybe, he was in his room; engaged in a night meditation session. As for Sally…
Well, she is enjoying her downtime in her new room.
For many years, she had dreamed of her very own room. She has spent the first fifteen years sleeping next to two bunkbeds and another single bed – all in the same room. And that was their old home. And now, with a new home, there are new rooms.
Inside one of them, with no sign of huge stone pieces and broken pipes, the young kunoichi has set up her room to what she has always wanted. She was lying down on his dark wooden platform bed, position in the corner of her room away from the main door. The sheets of her new bed are light blue with the picture of pink blossom on a light brown stems.
Hanging on a wooden hat rack on the other side of the door and her bed was the perfect place to hang the girls' gauntlet for her Dual Kodachi, and her backpack. Beside her bed is a dark brown bedside table On top of it is the same photo of her, her brothers and their father on her tenth birthday. This is one of the things that she loves to keep close to her.
In the middle of her room is her own little wooden table; standing on top of a large blue rug. On the table is a small bonsai plant in a small orange painted concrete pot; placed in the middle. It is one of those plants that are kept inside, rather than outside.
At the far-right side of her room were 4 panel Japanese paper screens and larger tallboy where she keeps her clothing including her headbands, her gloves, her undergarments.. The reason is that in her first home, she always has a small space in the Lair where she gets changed. And now, she has more room, but still needs to cover up as well. The only things that weren't broken and brought back from the Old Lair were her wardrobe that was for her clothes; although she doesn't have much. All her books were neatly stacked on the shelf, more photos of her and her family were standing on the middle shelf and all around her room were banners of her favourite Japanese symbols and saying.
Right at this very moment, Sally was in the middle of reading yet another favourite novel from an old time classic: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. She'll have to admit it; she is one of the greatest writers of all time, even though she has only written one book. She has so many authors like Phillip Pullman, James Patterson, and many more.
Sal was just up to when Scout and Jem find Dill, a boy that they knew, was hiding in their house and their father, Atticus, has allow him to stay for the night. This is all before the biggest trial in the story. She looks down on her left to see her diary, resting on the table. Since her birthday, she hasn't written anything then. A lot has happened in the past few days.
Looking at the clock beside her seems like enough time to write a small entry before hitting the hay. She puts her book down, picks up her diary and pen, and opens up a fresh page and begins to write.
Dear Diary.
Hello, my friend. The last time I wrote to you was on my birthday just a few days ago (Happy Birthday to me!). Afterwards, I manage to stop a few bullies from hurting a poor kid. After…teaching them a lesson, I brought the kid back to her family. After finding them, they ask me for lunch as a thanks (well, technically both, since I told them it was my birthday that day!). It was really thoughtful of them! I never had a meal with strangers before. And never with humans in my life. It felt…normal…like a family should be. Well, my family is full of mutants and I have powers, and there is nothing normal about that.
After a splendid lunch, I head for home (with the birthday cake in tow, since I had a feeling that the guys would forgot. And they did) to find the place set up for my party. It was a nice quiet evening before a new day.
But that day was nothing compared to what has happened to yesterday. We were in the middle of a training (and that is when Splinter finally has his blessings to let me go up to the surface at times), when we were attacked! By robots! Thanks to them, our home was caved in and we were separated from our father.
With the main sewer tunnel blocked off, we had no choice but to go topside (Although my best bud Leo was concern about getting him and the others spotted - except for me). I thought the daytime in the city was amazing, but night-time in New York was magical. To be honest, I have never seen a full moon before in my life. Well, from the sewers, but you know what I mean.
While we were on the surface, Raph manages to trap himself in an armoured truck! (Talk about a 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.
It turns out; we weren't the only ninjas in town. Wonder who they are? Guess we'll find out more about them.
During the fight, I manage to swipe this garb off on one of the ninjas. It had a red foot symbol on it. I tell what's weird: I have seen this symbol from somewhere. I don't know where but, I known I have seen this.
And the weirdest thing ever was the painful headaches that I got. One before the Mousers appeared, and the other is when we first fought those ninjas. But in the second one, just when they attacked, I had a vision. It was so strange. I NEVER had a vision before in my life. In this…vision..., I saw a metal man with the red foot symbol on him. And then, a young women appeared. She has white hair – not like mine. Blue eyes – like mine. And tan skin! – although mine is lighter than her. But her face…is uncanny. I think…um, I think you may want to brace for this…I think…she might be my…mom…
It has to be it! She looks exactly like me! No doubt about it! I can tell where I get my looks from.
But she was crying. And then she moved away from me…
Why?
I finally see who my mother is and then, she leaves! Maybe that's what happened…
Maybe…she still alive? Maybe…if I go find her…then , I'll know where she lives or… my mind was rattling so hard, I had to drop it for now, and deal with the fight. Cause we are getting outnumbered by the second. So many of these black ninjas keep showing up, so we have to get out of here.
Since the fight with those ninjas wasn't going to stop, we decided to retreat from the battlefield with the truck 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 LOVE every second of it.
But we had a few more surprised up our sleeves.
On a news report, we found out the robots that attack us were called "Mousers" and that were created by some guy name Dr. Baxter Stockman.
Although, Raph wants to go topside and show business to the guy's face, I think he is actually trying to help with the rat problem in the sewers. Trust me; I have seen a lot of them these days. I manage to find one in my drawers in my old home. And that was only a few weeks ago. And I get Raph's point. I do too want to get even with Stockman – for destroying my home. But what will come out of it? It won't bring it back.
The problem is that Splinter won't let him or the others go up (except for me). Since I'm the only human here and was allowed to go up to the surface world, why can't the guys come to? It wouldn't be the same without them.
If Master Splinter can trust to go up top, I'm sure he can trust his mutant sons? Is that too much to ask?
After writing a long entry, she finally puts the pen down in the middle of the written page. She then turns to the first page that she has written. A lot has happened between the first entries to now.
She raised an eyebrow and looks over to her bag, hanging on the rack. The only thing that she collected that night – other than the cash – is the garb. And it has not left since then.
Maybe it's still there. Maybe it was taken.
To make sure it is still there; Sally pops her diary on her table, hops off her bed and goes over to her backpack. Opening the straps, she digs her hand into the bag. Feeling a loose fabric at the bottom, she pulls it out.
Holding it in her two hands and stretches it out to get a better look at the symbol. That red foot symbol. The same red foot symbol that was on those ninjas that she and her brother fought when they came up to the surface world.
The same questions are still rolling in her mind. Who are those ninjas? Why do they have this symbol? Where has she I seen this before?
That is when the radar in her mind went off. Again.
And no, it was not painful this time. It gives off a sight tingle in the mind, with the hairs on the back of her neck stand up as well.
It was her usual sensors. She has had this ability for many years now. Her powers have come really in handy for the ninja family. It helps her sense anything or anyone's presences. Right now, she senses that someone has risen from his sleep, and will head out the door, scour the rooftops, and find the location of the robots. And the scientist who is behind all this.
And in a few minutes, she will be right.
Resting on his hands after a late-night Monster movie marathon, Mikey was snoring up a storm on the couch with the TV still left on. Although the noise still doesn't interrupt his brother, Don, who is still digging his nose into his little project. Asleep or busy working, they would be aware of a certain being leaving his room upstairs.
He does one scan of the room before doing a jump and a somersault in the air and lands gracefully on the ground. He looks around the area. Mikey was still in Snoozevile, hoping not to wake up and Don is still working on the Mouser. He was not as smart as his brother and he certainly not as dumb as his other brother. And he was certainly not as obey and patience as his older brother – who is by the way, nowhere to be seen. He could be in his room; mediating or whatever. And his sister? She would in this too, but she doesn't seem too eager to join him on his mission. Oh well, her loss. She might be in her room too.
It was time for him to leave. As what he means is to leave the Lair to find Stockman and make him pay for what he has down to his home. And he is doing this – with or without his siblings. As quietly as he can, he makes his way out of the Lair and out through the doorway.
Just when he was given himself the all clear and moves onwards the nearest manhole, he was halted by a familiar figure. Well, two familiar figures. And they were both not in their rooms. Guess they had a feeling that he would sneak out. He screeches to a halt, in front of his siblings.
"Midnight stroll?" the blue turtle asked with his hands on his hips. He knew where he's going. And he was not going to let him pass. Sally must have sense him leaving too, told Leo and bet him to it.
Raph was not having any of this. He does not have time for this. "Out of my way, guys," he snarls. With two of his siblings, he was not getting any closer to his goal.
With her arms crossed over, Sally takes a stand to talk. "Look Raph, I know you're angry about this Stockman guy, but I don't think we should go until we get the whole story..."
"And Master Splinter said we stay put," Leo added. But Raph was not listening to any of this crap.
He gets into a fighting stance. "Look, I'll go through you if I have to!" the red turtle warned. He certainly isn't going down without, is he? Knowing that this could get ugly, Sally takes a few steps back, just to avoid the tussle.
Knowing that words or 'please' won't make him turn around and go back inside, Leo also gets into the same fighting position. "I'd like to see you try, Hothead!" Leo stabbed at the usual nickname for his little brother, which he does not take it so well. He decided to bounce back with another nickname for Leo that he uses most of the time.
"Careful what you wish for, Splinter Jr!" Wasting no time, Raphael tackles Leonardo to the ground. As they brawl, Salvadora rolls her eyes as the battle between brothers continues. For so long, this has always been between Leo and Raph. Ever since Leo was appointed to be the leader of the team, Raph has always been in his shadows as the blue turtle outshine everyone. Especially him. And now, he is sick and tired of it. It was time for a new Leader to step up and take the plate.
The young kunoichi sadly shakes her head. "Every single time." Although her eyes are on the battle, her senses are not. Because something is coming this. Was it Don? Or Mikey? Nope, something smaller?
"Huh?" She looks behind and to her surprise, it was a Mouser. Wait. Was that the same Mouser that her brother, Donatello, was working on? Well, it's now working and it was on the move.
The two eldest have halted their wrestling match when the lone Mouser runs right past them, making pitter-patter noise with every step its makes. Not too far from it, out comes two more turtles. One of them was the one who was working on it and the other who has just woken up from his nap. They were both chasing after the Mouser.
"Hey guys," Three of them looks to them, "I got one working!" Both he and Mikey were trying to keep up with the speedy robot.
"Come on!" Mikey points to the fastest bot that he knows. "He's faster than he looks!" The two youngest all ran pass them – not stopping to ask why they are in that position – and continue to chase it through the tunnel. Let's just hope for the teens that they didn't tell their father about this.
Sally quickly looked at the turtles on the ground. "Well, move your shells, you guys! Let's go!" She then joins the chase with her other brothers to follow the escaped robot. The other two turtles better catch up to them or else, they'll lose them.
Raph knows where this is going because that is exactly what he was going to do. He looks up to his brother. "So, you just gonna let that Mouser roam free?" he cockily asked him who was on top of him. He was right. Knowing how much painful it is. No matter what happens, Leo is the leader and he need to be in charge of his family when Splinter is not present. Guess Leo has no choice but go after the robot. Once this is over, he knows that he is going to get the blame for all this, and not his siblings.
Leo's face becomes an uncomfortable one. "Master Splinter is so going to kill us," he said, getting off his brother and start running after the others. He stops for a second and turns to face his brother who was still on the ground. "Well, you coming or what?" He didn't need an answer right away as he races off again to catch up with the rest of his siblings. He had more of an "Are you happy, now?" look on his face.
Raph was still lying down. Looks like his brother has finally corporate. "If you insist…" and with that, he flips himself up and joins the rest of his siblings.
The Chase of the Runaway Mouser has already begun. They just hope that the robot will be their only lead to Strocktronics…
(Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 9:23pm)
After eavesdropping on the conversation, it was clear that April's boss was definitely up to something with the Mousers. Were they meant to fix up the rat problem, or not? Once the conversation has ended, April quickly went back to her seat and resume her work, making sure that Stockman was not all too suspicion and hopefully, didn't caught her listing into his meeting with his financial backer.
Baxter Stockman then exit out of his office as he is ready to leave for the day. He looks over to see his assistant working hard as any other worker can be. What he doesn't know that April is sticking around for…another project.
"Goodnight, April, dear," he said as she stops working and swings her chair around, facing him. "Try not to work too late." He then leaves the room, trying to fix his tie. "You know I don't like to pay overtime."
Don't worry. I won't be here for long. "Goodnight, Dr. Stockman," she says with a shifty look on her face. Just as soon he enters the elevator, April can get to work. The scientist steps into the open elevator and takes one more look at his assistant as the doors closes on him. Once the light above the doors flashes, indicating that he is going down to ground level, it will take a long time for him to come back up again. April goes out of her seat and rushes into her boss' office.
She sits down on his chair and works 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 mutters to herself. Using the keyboard, she was clicking her way through the files on the plan for the Mousers. So far, it was all about cleaning up the rats in New York City. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Maybe he was trying to fix another cit—
A few more clicks bring her to a flashing red foot symbol. April was definitely suspicion. "I've never seen that icon before." Does it have to do something with whatever Stockman is planning? Maybe the guy he was talking to is somehow connected to this image? Only one way to find out.
Grabbing hold of the mouse, April drags the mouse pointer all the way to the image. A few more clicks were made, caused a beeping sound to make. This caused the young women to gasp. What she is about to witness is nothing she have ever seen before. She rises out of her seat to get a better look.
"What is…"
The bookcase near her began to slide open. It showed something that April would have never guessed in a million years: A hidden elevator. Right in her boss' office!
Normally she has seen these in spy movies, but not in real life. Guess there is a lot more to her boss than meets the eye…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:24pm)
The lone Mouser pops out of the large pipe and begins to walk onto another but smaller pipe, not scared of falling off. Right now, it has ended up in another part of the sewers where the water is flowing out of all different sorts of tunnels and pipes, all ending up in the whirlpool down below. So, one false step could be your very last. There were also a number of pipes that are all big and small that all goes vertical, horizontal or are connected into one pipe and another. And they were all scattered around in the room. Pretty much no human would dare set a foot into the place.
Well. One human plus four giant turtles.
As a robot, it was smart enough to run on a huge pipeline which leads to the other side of the room, without slipping. The teens were next with the human out in front as she managed to overcome her brother in the chase of the robot. Even the teens were actually skilled enough to run across the pipe, thanks to their ninja training.
"Watch your step here, guys," Leo spoke up, who was the fourth in line of the pack. "Don't want to end up as turtle plus human soup." A meal like that would turn their stomach upside-down.
Eventually, they all spot their little robot; cornered at the end of the line. And by means end of the line, means the end of the pipe that is connected to the wall with no way out but the same way it came. Good! The teens have it trapped!
If anyone was trapped on a pipe, their only option was either get captured or fall off the pipe. Well, the robot did…neither!
It looked up, clamped its feet to the wall in front, and simply…starts to scale the wall. The little Mouser not only can chew through walls and eat live rats but it can climb as well. The teens all stopped their chase and all watched it climb the wall was ease. That was something you don't see every day.
Don was up to his wits end. "Resourceful little critters…" He was now absolutely astonished of what the robot is capable of. Since neither of them can't either scale wall like the robot or better yet fly, how are they supposed to get to him now?
Raph was right behind his big brother. "So what do we do now?" he asked. As always, the Fearless Leader has a plan. If the robot can climb, well, so can they.
"Like Master Splinter said," he reaches down in his belt and pulls out his shuko spikes – little bands with spikes on them that go around the person's hand, so they can scale the wall, "a ninja is always prepared." He puts them on as the others do the same thing.
Being second in line, Mikey looks behind to his brother. "I thought that was the Boy Scouts," he wonders.
As the human out in front, Sally has already finished putting on hers. "It applies to ninjas too, Mikey," Sally remarks. "Let's go!"
And with that, she digs her spikes into the wall. Once it is secure into the wall, she digs the other hand into the wall but higher. Once her hands are on the wall, she puts the ball of her right foot and starts climbing; with her brothers in full pursuit.
(Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 9:24pm)
It's not every day you see a hidden elevator in your boss' office. Then again, it's not every day that you sneak into your boss' office, trying to find out what he has been hiding from his employees. That is what April is doing. If she gets caught, she would probably be fired for snooping around.
After finding the secret elevator behind the bookcase, April has left the computer and has made her way to the entrance. She was reluctant to enter, but she has no choice. She needs to know what Stockman is really up to with the Mousers, other than cleaning up the city's rat problem.
Taking a deep breath, she walks inside the elevator. Once she is in, all she sees where the buttons are is one button. Strange. There were a few floors of the entire building and there is only one button. And it looks like the symbol of the company.
With no other option, she presses it.
With knowing, the door closes up behind her. But without warning, the elevator was dropping down at incredible speed. The scared April then grabs hold of the bar with her dear life. As she was going down, she manages to look onto the screen right above the button.
It shows the building's outline with a straight line of the elevator location that goes deep down underground. And it looks like it ain't stopping until it gets down to the bottom.
When she finally gets to the bottom, she will eventually get to the bottom of Stockman's true plan with the Mousers.
(In the Sewers, Manhattan, NY – 9:24pm)
Sally was still ahead of her brothers as she and they climb the wall, with the help of the spikes, of course. The Turtles were halfway through the wall while the young kunoichi was closing in on the robot that, with ease, is nearly to the pipe up ahead. As she was getting close, she can hear her brother's conversation below while still climbing.
"Next time, let's leave the wall-crawling to the dude in the blue-and-red tights," Mikey whined, looking down at his older brother. This one of the traits of being a ninja he does not appreciate. And why did you have to bring Spider-man into this, Mikey? I don't think he would appreciate being a Turtle 24/7! She knew the main character was human on the outside but has superpowers, just like her. She likes to read comic books with her little brother, not to mention manga as well.
"You read way too many comic books," Leo replied back to his little brother. He needs him to get out of his little head and stay in the real world.
The lone Mouser has made it up to the open pipeline and climbs into it. It's a good thing that Sally was ahead of her brother, because she actually sees where the robot is going. Once she has got to the pipe, she lets go of her right hand on the wall and grabs onto the metal pipe. She grabs onto with her other hand, pulls herself up and crawls into it. She then waits for her brothers so she wouldn't leave them behind.
Eventually, all five ninjas are now accounted for as they are off running again. No longer in the wet pipes lines and into the dry tunnels once more. As they continue to chase it, Mikey has something on his mind about their little friend. "Just curious, Don. What's to stop old turbo jaws from munching up another 6.2 on the Richter scale?" he asked as he and Sally were in the lead.
Once again, Don is one step ahead of pretty much anything when it comes to technologies. That's why he has been working on the Mouser. Not just to help them lead to Stockman, but also fix a big issue on their hand. "I shut down its jaw servos," Don replied with a confident smirk. "It couldn't even chew through a stick of gum."
Well, that is what he thought he did.
The Mouser then skidded to a halt. It turned to face three pipes in its right. It takes a few steps towards it, lets out a roar and…starts munching away like before! Steam was coming out of the destroyed pipes while the robot continuous to eat the steel. And looks like it is one step ahead of the intelligent turtle himself.
"…or not," Sally spoke. She was not impressed to see the Mouser still munching the away the steel and concrete.
"You were saying?" Raph replied, with his hands on his hips. Guess his brother was wrong about this. Even the purple turtle couldn't believe it.
"But I…I'm sure I shut it down," he said. He was quite sure about it. Before the chase, he shut down the one software that operates the jaws' function so it wouldn't chew through anything and cause less trouble for the teens. But it didn't work.
Mikey walks up to his trouble brother and place his hand on his shoulder. "Ah, Don's finally lost his techno mojo," Mikey teased at his brother's achievement, shaking his head. He then removed his hand and places them on his hips as he goes back to watching the robot still munching away. "Sad, really."
With her arms crossed over, Sally walks over to Don. "Could it be something else, Donnie," she asked. Maybe there was something else. He places his hand on his chin while the other on his hip, thinking of a theory.
"It must have some kind of security override routine," he theories. That could be the reason why it didn't work. Maybe, once the find Stockman and once the bout is over, he could do more work on the robot. But right now, they need to follow the robot, as it has already disappeared into the hole that it just chewed up. "Come on!"
Don takes off a running start with his siblings not far behind. Just when he was about to enter, Sally manages to yank him back. She has a tentative look on her face. "Uh,…Donnie?" She points up. He too looks up to see what she sees. The damped pipe right above their heads & the recent damaged pipe and it is dipping pretty fast. Analysing the pipe's condition, he was in shock as much as his sister.
"Oh no." Don and Sally could not take their eyes off the pipe as the others all stopped and gathered around them.
"What is it, Don?" Leo asked his brother. What made them stop was the big crack as it continues to grow. Although they don't it yet, they are right now feeling a bit unnerved about what happening next.
"If I'm not mistaken," Don explains while pointing up, "that's a serious water main hanging right over our heads." And right now, the soaking pipe is dripping water at a very fast rate.
"So?" inquired the red turtle. He has no idea what the robot did. Once he finds out, it will be too late.
"So?!" The crack begins to break through as the more water continue to leak through. It will only be a matter of time before it burst! "Our little Mouser friend just ate through the pipe's support!" Don frantically points to the huge gap right beside them. Looks like the Mouser has made a whole lot of trouble for the heroes here.
"So, in other words: without support—" Sally didn't have time to finish the whole sentence. Well, they all know what she was going to say. Because the crack on the pipe grew larger and larger as more water started to burst out. The metal was now making a huge sound which does not sound good.
"INCOMING!" Leo screamed. But the teens didn't have the enough time to move out of the way as the water comes rushing in; sweeping them off their feet. They all dragged away from their original position and far away from their runaway target. Despite trying to fight it, they all screamed and flow with the water down the same tunnel that they went through – all the way to the opening of the large drainage!
As the water pours out of the pipe, so does the ninjas. Looks like Turtle plus Human soup is going to be put on the menu after all as they all continue to fall down toward the whirlpool right below!
Thinking fast as he falls, Don manages to pull out his weapon and hooks it on to a pipe. With him secured, he advises his sibling to do the same thing.
"Grab on!" he yells, while swinging his legs back and forth. Leo was the first one to grab onto his younger brother's ankles. Next was Sally, with Raph after her, and lastly, Mikey.
"Whoa!" Mikey yells once he has grabbed onto Raph's ankles. He looks down to see the watery vortex below him. That was too close. The teens have survived their doom – for now. If Don actually let go of his Bo-Staff, they would all end up in the Whirlpool of Doom. The question is how are the ninjas going to get out of this sticky situation? And they better think of something quick, as Don's arms are about to give out from carrying four of his siblings.
"OW!" Raph cried out. "Watch where you point those shuko spikes, Mike!" Looks like the ninjas forgot to take off their weapons on their hands from the climbing.
Sally was winching in pain. Did she have another headache again? "You're not the only one complaining, Raph! Yours is tearing my skin off!" she screamed. She can feel the spikes poking through her socks by the ankle and piercing her peach skin. She can also see some redness on her sock. Great. I'll have to fix them up later.
As for Mikey, he has a plan to get him and the others out of this. He starts to swing back and forth. Which it is not good. "Awww, keep your shell and headband on, you two! I got an idea!" He was still swinging back and forth. Still not good. But Mikey still has a plan.
"Mike! Wait! What are you—?" Leo didn't have time finish because Mikey has swung so hard, causing them to lose through grip and fall through a waterfall right in front of them. They all screamed as they went through it; not knowing where they'll all end up. Luckily, they managed to grab on to the wall behind the waterfall with the help of the shuko spikes. Good thing they didn't take it off yet.
"Guys, you okay?" Don asked the team. Sally nods to her brother. She looks down to see Raph had his mouth full. He was about to say something, only to spit out some sewer water. Gross. Then again, she grew up in the sewer all her life.
"Peachy…" Raph grumbles.
The teens were right back where they were once before but much farther away. They all start climbing back to the same pipeline. Sally stayed behind a bit when Mikey comes to the same level as she is. Once he is a head level and with the shuko spikes in her grasp, Sally slaps Mikey upside the head. This actually hurts a lot with the spikes on.
"OW!" he yelps. He rubs the sore on his head and looks at his sister. She was not looking too happy.
"Next time you pull a stunt like that, warn US!" she barked before resuming her climbing. Not just the guys (though they don't have to say it) but Sally wasn't too happy about Mikey's surprise. Heeding her warning for next time, Mikey resume his climbing.
(Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 9:25pm)
What felt like forever for the young curious women to be in the elevator; waiting for her destination. Still having her grip on the hand bar and beeping and the loud humming were the only sounds made in the room, it will be only a matter of time before she gets to the last floor. The lift was still going at a fast speed as it continues to shake the whole area.
As the elevator makes it to the last floor, it stops but not causing a little tremor that actually trembles April O'Neil. Letting out a sign, she has conclusively made it to her floor in one piece.
"Oh, finally," she said with a pleased look. The doors open for the traveller as she steps out and finds herself in a new room. Never been here before. Not especially on the tour when she got the job.
She walks down the glass hallway. The sound of a number of machines are running in the background. April looks over to her right and gets a good look through the glass wall. What she is seeing is something that she has never seen before.
Right underneath her workplace was a huge manufacture factory where there are a number of electronic claws placing each of the creation from one place to another, moving machine belts with many of the robots, and a computer station. In this very factory is producing so many Mousers that she could count. There might be hundreds or thousands of them. And it was all happening right here.
Right under her nose!
She cannot believe for one second. But it still doesn't explain what Stockman's true motivate into making so many Mousers.
Her hands were planted up against the glass window while getting a better look at the workshop. "I don't care how bad the city's rodent problem is. This is serious overkill," she said to herself. And she wasn't kidding. It will only take a few dozens to handle the job but with this many, it was a lot more than that. And that is why April is heading over to the computer station - to find out more.
Removing herself from the glass, she walks over to the area that she needs to go to. What she doesn't know that as she was walking, a motion detector was set off as she walks right past. From green light to red; beeping silently. Looks like O'Neil is going to be expected by some company…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:27pm)
The large water pipeline that drove the teens out through the larger tunnel is no longer a threat as it's still pouring out water at a normal speed. Although the steam now is at a bit of a rapid pace. The teens have managed to climb back into the same tunnel after that little interruption. To help them get a bit further into the tunnel, they decided to swing from pipe to pipe that is secure into the concrete wall. Inspecting the damage, this area will be expecting a maintenance worker down here pretty soon. Enough time for the mutants and human to disappear.
Raph was a bit further than his siblings when they all landed on the sidewalk of the tunnel just past the busted pipe. He was still ticked off not only for what the robot did to them, but now that they have lost their only target. Without the Mouser to follow, how are they supposed to find it which would lead them to Stocktronic with no leads?
Raph was the first to stand up as the others were all kneeling down and he was not too happy. "When I get my hands on that metal menace, I'm gonna grind him into little burgers," he vows, pulling off his shuko spikes knowing that he won't need them at the moment and holds them in his fists.
The others are already standing up and taking off their hand-held weapons from their palms. "Easy, Raph. We still gotta keep him in one piece," Don reminded him before he and the others store their spikes away. If for some reason, if it gets damaged or they damaged it, they will never get to Stocktronic.
"What makes you think we'll even find the little blender butt?" Mikey wonders. There has to be another way to track a robot. Well, there is. But just before she gets it bearings, Leo spots something else that will help. A lot.
"I think he left us a few clues," he said, pointing to his left. It was the same broken support pipes that the Mouser had chewed through before the Big Wave that the teens had.
Sally comes closer to the noticeable hole and inspects it. The robot may have the strongest jaws ever, but it sure leaves a big trail behind it. And it was a start for the ninjas. All they have to do is go down through this hole and they will be able to catch up to it. She looks back to the boys. "Alright, you guys. Let's go!" She races into the hole.
"Hey! Wait up, Sal! Don't start a brawl without me!" Raph yelled as he was the next one to enter the hole and goes after his sister. The others all followed in pursuit. Sally wanted to go first so she can sense the robot out and let his brothers know where to go. Thus, the hunt for the Mouser resumes.
(Underneath Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 9:28pm)
April was now at work, clicking away on the keyboard; trying to hack into the system. The automatic claws were moving around the places, but April ignores them as she kept her eyes on the computer screen.
There were so many Mousers that she could count. Only a few would take out a huge number of rats in the city, but not an army. It was for something big. But what?
Still, the files on the Mousers were just how to operate them. Nothing on their true plan. Maybe if she digs a little deeper, she'll be able to find it.
Other than that, Baxter Stockman has a lot of explaining to do.
"Rat problem, my eye. What are you really up to, Stockman?" she wonders for herself. And it seems she is going to get her answer straight away as she was not expecting company.
"Now, now, Miss O'Neil.
April gasps at the sudden voice. She turns to see the devil himself in the lab coat. Baxter Stockman steps out of the open elevator – the same elevator that April took to get here – with his hands behind his back and walks towards her.
Unbeknownst to April, she has set off a motion detector when she came down here. This causes Stockman to come down here in a jiff. He had a sneaky feeling that his new assistant would go behind his back and find out the hard way. April trusted him. And now she's caught – red-handed.
"That would be telling." April takes a few steps back as Stockman comes to a complete stop just only a few meters away from her. He has a sinister look on his face. Why? Well, he was going to show April what he does to people who shouldn't be sticking their noses in where they shouldn't be. And what she doesn't know is that behind his back, in on of his hands, is a small remote. He presses a few buttons before speaking again. "Suffice to say my army of Mousers will make me a very rich and powerful man."
A lone mechanical claw, in control of the doctor, has made its way in front of the glass screen of the computer station – right behind Miss O'Neil!
"But…aren't you already a very rich and powerful man?" April pointed out; unaware of the claw right behind her. Even though she has found out the truth, he has already achieved that part of the plan; even without the help of his Mousers. Stockman pressed another button to roll the glass screen down.
Baxter reaches one hand up to fix his glasses. "Ahh, Miss O'Neil, so brilliant," he closes his eyes and shakes his head, "yet so naïve." He opens them up again, still with the menacing look. "I will truly miss working with you."
April was pretty much shocked about this news. Other than the factory that she just found. "What? You mean I'm fired?"
That's one way to put it. But the doctor has other plans for his…former employee. "In a manner of speaking…" He then presses the main button on his remote. As commanded, the claw from behind come up to the surprised women from behind. April manages to see the claw but she didn't have enough time to get away from it as the claw grabs her in its grasp. It lifts April out of the lab and brings her closer to the ground floor of the factory. Stockman watches his prisoner as he approaches the computer. He was going to make sure that April will be kept quiet – for good.
As she got closer to the ground where a number of inactive Mousers are all lined up, the claw releases her from its grip; shredding her lab coat. She lands just in the middle of the belt with a thumping head. Next time: try landing on my feet. Unfortunately, there won't be a next time after what Stockman is going to do to her.
"I'm afraid," April quickly looks up to see the insane doctor near the computer, "I can't let you live, Miss O'Neil," he explains cracks his knuckles, and wiggles his fingers. "You've seen far too much already, and…" he types in a few commands on the keyboard. "Well…" he fixes up his tie, "let's just say I have trust issues."
And his way to deal with people who break his trust, are ended with a horrible fate. The Mousers have already been activated, chomping away while letting out their roar as they focus their attention on the only thing that is not made of metal in the room.
In other words; the Mousers have a new prey: her.
This could officially be curtains for Miss O'Neil…
(In the Sewer, Manhattan, NY – 9:29pm)
Sally pops her head out through the large exit after she and her brothers travelled through the newly constructed tunnel. Looking from left to right, she gets a view of their new location. It turns out, the teens have found themselves in a subway tunnel. There were about six tracks that goes in both directions. Cautiously as the only person who has the power to sense things within a mile away, Sally had to check if they is anyone around here.
So far, there is nobody.
Taking a step out of the tunnel, she raised her fist in the air. Getting the all clear, she points two fingers forward. One by one, the Turtles all came out, looking around the area. But it didn't take Sally a few second to spot something else in the picture.
"Found it!" she cried out, pointing to a very familiar but annoying little robot in the distance. It was all the way across the tracks.
Now that he has found his target, Raph was once again in his rage mode as he is the first one to jump off the sidewalk and onto the tracks. Quickly followed by his siblings, the red turtle was just about to grind the little cretin into a bot burger as he promised…
"LOOK OUT!" the eldest manages to grab his hothead brother by the shoulder and pulls him away just before a train sped right past the ninjas.
Talk about a close call. If Leo didn't manage to grab his brother the second he steps a foot onto the next tracks, he would have been turtle roadkill! Their bandana whips in the air, thanks to train. And as the monorail is gone in the distance, so does the Mouser.
Was it run over? No, it wouldn't be because it was another track instead. If so, where did it go? The teens were officially gobbed smacked.
"Whoa, robo-Houdini!" Mikey exclaims. They have never seen a robot disappear like that.
"Wrong!" Leo points to the back of the cart. "Robo-hitchhiker!" he corrected.
At the back on the same train, was the same robot who manages to clamp onto the handrail of the speeding cart. Sally was absolutely fuming about the Mouser's latest trick. "That cheeky little…" she muttered, shaking her fists.
Mikey tries to chase after the fast train, but it proves to be too fast even for the orange turtle. "We'll never catch him now!"
Well, Raph thinks of another way. "Two can play that game." He walks to the edge of the same platform, pulling out his weapons. His siblings all gave him a confusing look. What is he planning now?
Just a few seconds after the first train went; another one was coming this way. As the four other siblings moved away from the tracks to avoid getting run over, the tough guy was not moving an inch. Why isn't he moving away from the tracks when the on-coming train is coming this way that could run him over?
The train was coming closer. And Raph was moving closer to it with his Sais in his hand. Once the train got to them, Raph runs up, takes a giant leap onto the roof of the moving cart and stab his Sais into the roof, to make sure that he would fall off. He is now riding the train. Ninja Style!
The others could not believe what they just witness! Anyone would be insane to do a stunt like that.
"What a maniac!" Leo cried out. He knew his brother was crazy, but not that crazy.
Don gives a nod. "Yeah…" he then waves his hand in the air. "Wait for us!" he yelled out for his big brother. One by one. They all ran up to the same moving train, and grabbed onto the handrails and sides with their dear lives. Although it was a dangerous move to do, but at least it will help them get to the robot quicker.
And it did. It was only a few second on the ride as the robot decides to ditch the ride. It rolls itself off the train and continues on its path. It comes up to the wall and start munching away; creating another giant hole.
During his ride, Raph manages to spot the lone robot as it went through its recent created masterpiece. "There's our stop!" Raph yells out loud for his siblings to hear him. He pulls out his Sais from the roof and jumps off the moving train. His sibling all managed to do the same thing and finally catches up with him.
They were pretty shock of what their brother. But right now, they need to catch up to the robot. They all followed the robot through yet another hole that was recent made by the Mouser itself.
(Underneath Stocktronics, Incorporated, Manhattan, NY – 9:29pm)
April was not exactly having the time of her life. And what she means is that she is surrounded by hundreds of Mousers ready to shred her to bits until there is nothing left. The activate killer-robots are all chomping down on their jaws with the young defenceless women in their tracks.
April looks around to see if there is a way out. So far, no dice. With no fighting skills, how was she going to get herself out of this mess? But she is smart. She'll find a way. Looking to her left, in a container was a fire extinguisher. Every workplace has a number of them all over the company, just in case there is a fire. Maybe April can use this to help her escape.
She goes over to grab it out of the case and aims the nozzle at the nearest Mouser who approaches her. April then takes a step back with the spout still in her grasp. "Keep back!" she warned at the steel-munching monster. It simply tilts its head to the side. "I know how to use this?"
The Mouser completely ignores her and lunges at her, screaming. But April manages to stand her ground and clamp down on the switch. She then sprays the carbon dioxide at it. Smoke begins to cloak the area around her. But did her attack work?
The fog then disappears, revealing the same Mouser, along with a lot more behind it. Guess the substance was unaffected against a high-tech robot. It charges itself again at April; screeching.
The young woman was now starting to panic. What will she do now? But in a split second, she slams the fire extinguisher down on the Mouser's head; completely destroying the robot. Sparks were flying out of the dented but lifeless robot.
"Hah!" she laughed, putting her temporarily weapon over her shoulder. The Mousers here may have dangerous jaws and smart but their armour is not durable. But that was with only one. And there are a lot more of them. They all charged towards April; ready to strike. But she is more than ready now that she has her weapon. She decided to whack the next robot away but unfortunately, the robot was too smart as it grabs hold of the bottom of the canister with its jaws. It then bits the end of it, thus, releasing the continence inside but made a little explosion that destroyed the Mouser.
The small blast causes the fog to grow until it has concealed the entire ground floor of the factory. April manages to run a bit further away from the fog. As it was coming up close, she runs on the diagonal strip of the belt and runs all the way to her next target: the emergency exit.
Still in the Main Computer with a menacing smile on his face, the doctor could only stand there and watch the scene from below. He is not at all worried about. He had a feeling that April would try escape. And his Mousers will hunt her down and finish the job. April jumps off the strips and lands in front of the exit.
"You can run, Miss O'Neil," Baxter's voice on the speakers' echoes through the place, "but you cannot hide from my Mousers." In the fog, April looks back for a second before looking to her right to see the emergency level. She pulls it down; opening the door. Looking behind to make sure that the Mousers are not following her. The door slides open, letting all the smoke out as she walks through.
Walking out of her death trap, April could hardly see through the smoke as it is so thick. Oh, where am I now? She takes a few steps forward and falls into a wet puddle into her knees. The fog manages to be lifted up to reveal her new location. She was in the sewers. Well, it makes perfect sense since it was an underground lab.
She was disgusted by the sliming water. But this was no time to gross out. Especially when you are being chased by a mob of killer robots! Right now, she needs to get out of here.
Standing up, she ignores her pants getting all soaked, takes a right and runs off down the sewer tunnel as fast as she can. All she has to do was find an exit out of the sewers and she is home-free. But who knows if Stockman will hunt her down on the surface. In the streets. At her home. She then comes across an intersection. With a few more tunnels and unfamiliar to the sewers, April was now in panic mode. She is in need of a desperate exit route. But with five tunnels in front of her, which one will she choose?
The fog was also starting to fill up the room. "Which way out? Which way out?" she asked herself, while looking at the other tunnels. She has to pick one or else the Mousers will catch up to her. She does a 360 before doing a massive sprint into the tunnel behind her, hoping to find the exit before she is finished.
Coming through the emergency exit, the Mousers are ready to hunt their prey…
(In another part of the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:30pm)
The lone Mouser was roaming in one section of a new part of the sewers. It keeps on walking its path as five teenagers enter the sewer system. They enter from a freshly created tunnel into a built tunnel. As they exit out of the long passageway, they stop to look around. They all managed to see the same robot that they were chasing for a while now, just walking across the stream. Just when they were about resume the chase, another Mouser appears out of nowhere right in front of them. This could be trouble, since they were only following one – not two.
"Whoa!" Mikey speaks before looking back at his siblings and pointing to the new robot. "Who invited him?"
No-one really had the time to answer because their new friend looks over to them and was about was ready to attack. It lets out a mechanic screech; ready to chomp down on the turtle.
"I got it!" Raph was quickly than the eye, pulling out a shuriken and threw at the Mouser's head. When made contact, it slices vertical through the head. It falls down on its side; defeated. That attack was too easy. Raph gives Mikey a high-three to each other. But their victory was cut a little short, because the damaged robot – just got back up. The teenage ninjas were now shocked at this new discovery. It was taken down but came back up again.
Leo looks over to another section to see another problem. "This is not good, guys." And he wasn't talking about the down-but-not-out Mouser who lets out a screech. There was something else heading their way. Everyone gets into position.
"Neither is that!" Don points to the trouble. An army of Mousers were coming up the flight of stairs as they approach the new targets. "These chrome domes are a lot tougher than the last batch." And they are. But hopefully, are easy to be taken out.
The damaged robot lets out another screech as the teens are now back-to-back with each other and have all pulled out their weapons.
"Yeah, and there's a lot more of 'em, too," Raph added. Now completely surrounded by them, something tells them that it is going to be one shell of a fight as the Mousers continue to chomp up and down. "Great, just great…"
Still surrounded by their foes, the teens are all ready for combat. They are just either waiting for the Mousers to make the first move or them. Not waiting any longer, the ninjas all let out a battle cry each and spring into action. Raph does a downward stab in the head. Mikey whacks a few more than he can count. Leo and Sally slashed up like there is no tomorrow. And Don did his best as he stabs his Bo-Staff into one's head and pole vaults over a few more. He manages to hit one whilst in the air, before landing and whacks two more across the room.
Two more approached Raph to do their bidding, but the red ninja sure did his work by doing a flip, takes down one Mouser in the air and stomps on the other one.
Mikey was doing his fair share as he wraps one robot around its neck with his nunchaku and slams it to the ground. A few more advance him as Mikey whacks one away into next week and prepare to do the same with the next one.
After he dealt with his number, Don, on the other hand, couldn't help but feel amazed about their latest upgrade on their opponent. It is a lot more complex than the last one. "These Mousers are incredible!" he pointed out. "The servos mechanics! The circuitry! The articulation…!"
Raph is stabbing a few more downwards as he was near his brainiac brother. He can't take another word of Don's techno babble. "Jeez, Donnie, why don't you just marry one already?" he sarcastically replies before stabbing another attacker.
Pieces of metal were flying all around the area as the fight continues onwards. So far, the ninjas are winning this fight, but there still a lot more Mousers to go.
As two turtles were doing their fair share, Leo, Sally and Mikey have taken higher grounds. They were up a platform, back-to-back, as they are having no trouble separating the Mousers' head from their tiny bodies as they are coming from the stairs.
Sally has stabbed her Kodachi into one if their heads and chops another down. She was getting frustrated now with so many Mousers. They dealt with a few when they felt met them and now, they have to deal with a whole lot more. Plus, she was getting a bit tired. "I can do this all day!" she muttered as she swings her sword around in a circle and does a downward stab on a Mouser's head; destroying it.
Leo manages to slice one away, causing it to crash when it hit the ground. "Guys, the only way to stop them is to slice their heads off!" he orders. But since there were only two ninjas who have swords (plus another with the Sai), the others who don't have bladed weapons were pretty much annoyed.
Mikey was near his Sword Siblings when he heard his big brother. "Well, ain't that great news…for the turtles and human with the blades," he sarcastically replies as he whacks one down to the ground. At least Raph has a plan to speed up the process.
"Drive 'em this way!" he calls out as two Mousers grabbed onto his Sais. "We'll slice and dice!" Using this to his advantage, he throws the robots all the way to the second floor where his other siblings are as Leo and Sally both slices them up in mid-air.
The five ninjas all gathered together at the top of the stairs. They are doing well so far. But the battle is not over yet. Only a few more left and the teenagers can get back to their search. If only they can find the certain Mouser that they were following.
The last batch all climb the stairs, advancing the warriors who have the sweat and bruises from their bout.
Donatello whacks a few more away. Michelangelo takes another wallop to the heads again. Raphael stabs a few more in the metal heads. And Leonardo & Salvadora were both doing a nice job slicing the robots clean until they were all bits and pieces.
This all went on until…the last Mouser hits the ground. Defeated and destroyed.
The teens, still armed with their weapon, are still surrounded by Mousers. The only problem is that before they were biting, standing up straight, and focusing on their targets. Now, they are mountains of scrap metal. All except for one…
"Great job, guys," Don said, after seeing the lone Mouser, it could be the same robot that they have been chasing or it is a different one. If it was destroyed along with the army, they'll have to get another one. "Just make sure we leave one—" Unfortunately still full of rage, Raphael jumps up and drove his Sais into the last remaining Mouser. As the other all gathered around Raph, he then angrily stomps on it, repeatedly with Don looking on is disbelief. "—intact…"
Leo was too in disbelief as he put his swords away. "So much for tracing them back to the source," he said while Don places his hand on his shaking head. And he's right. With no active Mouser around the area, how are the teens supposed to get to Stocktronic now? Feeling rather angry at her hothead brother for what he has done, Sally puts her Kodachis away and slaps her brother upside the head.
"OW!" he yelped, causing him to stop stomping on the robot. Rubbing his head, he glares at his sister whom crossed her arms over.
"So, genius, what are we going to do now?" she sarcastically asked. Tough guy better have a back-up or so help me, I'l—
HELP!
Sally peaks up when she heard a scream. She looks around.
"Did…did you guys heard that?" she asked.
The Turtles all looked at her. Mikey puts his weapons away. "Other than the robots sizzlin',…" he then shakes his head. "…no."
The others also shook their heads. "We didn't hear anything, sis," Don said.
What? They didn't hear that scream? Or maybe…
Only Sally heard it. Was someone calling out for help? In her mind…again?
It was just like what happened back at their old home when Sally was in pain because an unknown force hurt her mind and gave out a loud screech. But this time, there was no strike to the head (well, inside the head) and it sounded like a women screamed. At least she is not in pain this time. It must mean that she was pretty much getting used to it or the pain has died down.
She was still looking around, until she stops turning and looks over to her left. In her direction was a large tunnel. It wasn't the same tunnel that they went through. It was all the way over on the other side. Maybe through there…
Leo walks up his best friend. "What is it, Sal? Do you sense something?"
Before she can say anything, Sally does a massive dash towards the tunnel. The boys couldn't help but be surprise by her actions.
Raph barks at her. "Yo, Sal! What's up wi—"
Salavadora stops running and turns to face her brothers. "There's someone down here and she is in trouble. And it is because those Mousers!" she answered. Guess she did sense something.
The guys were actually taken back by this answer. Never in their lives that they have seen Sally's powers improving. And in the years that she had them, she was never wrong about anything. Sally waves her hand in gesture. "C'mon! We gotta help her!" and without a second, she disappears into the dark tunnel.
So, there's someone down here and the Mousers were giving this person a hard time? Looks like the teens are not the only ones. Not wanting to waste time with questions, the boys decided to follow her into the tunnel as she'll lead them to the source.
Guess they'll have to find out more about her powers sooner or later. But right now, if what Sally said is true, that lady in the sewers, needs their help.
(In another part of the Sewer, Manhattan NY – 9:33pm)
And boy, does she need it.
She been, what, running for a few minutes and has completely no idea where to go. The tunnels down here are just like a maze! No matter which small or large pipe she goes through, she'll end up in a dead-end or the same tunnel from before. She was running out of time. Just how long until those Mousers will find her? Not long if this keeps up.
Coming back into the intersection after a run-in with a dead-end, he goes through yet another tunnel. She trips over something but doesn't have time to check because she was being hunted down. Resuming her footing, the young woman keeps on running.
She looks over her shoulder and sees no Mousers on her tail. Good! She has lost them. But for how long?
For about a few seconds.
She keeps on running while looking over her shoulder. But once she turns her head to look forward…she lets out a scream.
Oh no!
A few more Mousers from before are right in front of her; chomping their jaws at the terrified women as they approach her. April tries to take off in the other direction. But as soon she made a metre in her run, a few more Mousers show up, blocking her path.
As one set of the robots from one side got closer, April takes a few steps back. She looks behind to see the first few still coming up behind her. She is frightened. And trapped. Well, kind of.
To her luck, she was standing in front of a tunnel. So, she wasn't completely doomed. She still has a chance! The robots all screeched at her before she heads down into the tunnel with the five Mousers in tow.
She keeps on running when again, she trips on something in the shallow water, but she falls to the ground this time.
Now completely wet, April doesn't have time to get a towel and dry herself off. She lifts herself and sits up right to see the five Mousers closing in on her. With fear in her eyes and move slowly backwards, she still keeps her eyes on the robot menaces but her back makes contact with something.
April darted her eyes behind to see that she has found herself in a close-off tunnel with planks of wood with a smaller tunnel already hammered into the concrete. It was blocking off the only pass that she needed to go through. It was a dead-end!
The young escapee then tries with all her might to pull off one of the planks. So far, they were not budging. Not even a little. She stops pulling the wood, looks in front of her and lets out a cry. The Mousers were getting closer and closer.
This is it. This is curtains for April.
The young women who had high hopes to make it as a scientist, who has just got a job, who worked with one of the greatest scientists of all time, who just found out that her boss is a psycho, who was fired from the same psycho, who was now being chased by the robots that the same psycho sent for and was going to be killed by them - all in one day.
And looks like there is no-one who will come to her rescue. She'll never get to see her family, her friends, and anyone who knows her ever again. No-one will even know what has happen to her. Helpless and very terrified, April continues to start at jaw-munching metal of mass destruction closing in on her.
Closes her eyes and shielding with her hand, she lets out a blood-curling scream; just waiting for the attack to happen.
But it didn't happen.
The Mouser in front of was hit away by a long stick. The other ones were stab by a Sai, followed by a whack from a Nunchaku and the last two were slashed in mid-air by two different swords.
The young woman was expecting to be ripped to shred by their jaws. But she had her eyes closed and her hands covering her face; afraid to witness her demise. So…why hasn't it happened yet? She opens them up to see all five Mousers, all smashed up, sliced off and scattered. They were nothing more than scrap metal and their circuit crackling.
But the only thing left standing is five figures that are cloaked in the shadows from the women point of view. What April could make out was four large figures with bulky bodies and all at the same height while the fifth member is a lot skinner but at the same height as them.
And they all had different types of weapons in their hands as they put them away. They all then approach her who was now gasping with relief. April O'Neil couldn't believe it. She was saved at the last second. She is eternally grateful to her heroes - whoever they are.
She gives her saviours a weary smile. "Oh. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much." The five figures were now standing in front of her. She was going to get quite a shock to see her saviours' faces once they are in the light. "You saved my-my—"
"Hey." One of them, apparently, leans forward with a goofy smile on his green face with an orange bandana. "How you doin'?" the stranger ask her.
Unfortunately, that innocent question that he asked to the young women was enough to cause her to faint. The strange green creature carefully picks up the unconscious stranger in a bridal style and turned to face the others.
Other than their sister, they were pretty surprised to see a human, who isn't a Purple Dragon, or any of those black ninjas that they came across. She was different. Maybe…maybe she was like the ones that the human ninja herself has met a few days ago. For years, she was hoping for more people to interact like them. Once she wakes up, no doubt she'll have questions as to why those robots were chasing after the woman.
As for the turtle, he has one important question to ask to them.
"Hey…so…can I keep her?"
We have finally introduced April and Stockman. And April has FINALLY met the Turtles and Sally (well, not officially). But some questions lie ahead: Can she be trusted? If so, can she help them stop Dr. Stockman and his crazy Mousers? Guess we'll find out next time on:
The Saint's Hope: Attack of the Mousers
Author's Notes: Hey guys. How's everyone's weekend? We had the cricket finals at the MCG if you guys live in Australia. Congrats on England for winner. I'm not much of a fan but can't argue with football. I don't mind watching it and I do know a bit to get by, unlike most of my family who are HUGE fans.
I have noticed that in my old version, I was going to start more fanfics. But I haven't had a chance to do so causes of my busy life (and writer's block, dammit!). They have been on my mind lately, so once I have the chance to finish these stories, I'll get onto the next!
It has taken me a while to fix these stories, rewrite them, polish them up, and such. When it comes to something that you love, it's hard to strive for perfection. It's a curse, unfortunately. I can't help it.
Anyway, hope you guys like this chapter. Cause we are not done yet!
Until we meet again,
The DragonLord2912
(From the old version – Author's Notes: HEEEYYYY! Finally got it on time again! Hey everybody, what's up?
Well for me, School and Work is back in session for all of us. Except for me… I still have a job but I'm currently not working at the moment. In the meantime, I will be still looking for a job. Hopefully, something in Theatre or Hospitality. Love to work in those areas.
I also went to a dance competition where my school complete. I won't say which dance school I go to (keeping my life on the low down) and I won't say which competition it is. Other than that, it was a blast!
Like I said: this story will be uploaded on every Monday at 10:00pm Eastern Standard Time or EST. And I have a few more stories like:
Bring on the BOOM! – A Sonic Boom FanFic – uploaded on Tuesday at 10:00pm EST (maybe weekly or fortnight but depends on my schedule that I have)
The Legend of Korra and Aurra – A Legend of Korra FanFic – upload on Fridays at 10:00pm EST (maybe weekly or fortnight but depends on my schedule that I have)
The Missing Jasmine – An Avatar: The Last Airbender FanFic – upload on Friday at 10:00pm EST (maybe weekly or fortnight but depends on my schedule that I have)
So, that is what I have at the moment, plus the titles, and they are working in progress as we speak.
Also, I will be working on the sequel to my Kung Fu Hedgehog. Just need a villain for the story. Plus, after seeing Kung Fu Panda 3, it kinda makes my original idea for the second to change a little. And I also need a villain for the third one. Any suggestions?
As for my other Sonic the Hedgehog,…..MAN! I almost forgot about them. It has been hard to come up with stories in that. But I promise you that I will get to the bottom of it if it is the last thing I do.
Plus, with Supernova coming up this weekend in Melbourne, I might be able to go. That would also mean that I won't have enough time to get the next one finished in time. Sorry!
Anyway, don't forget to add me or the story to favourites, follow me, review, PM me or ANYTHING! Love to hear my fans – both old and new. Sayonara!
Until we meet again,
The DragonLord2912)