MIKEY- A very wise frog once said it's not easy being green but believe me he didn't know the half of it!
The wall was suddenly blasted and out came several weird looking robots with sharp teeth, Danny changed into his ghost form and his clothes turned into a black and white jumpsuit while his hair turned snow white and he had glowing green eyes instead of his usual sky blue. They all then pulled out their weapons ready to take on those destructive robots.
In the past few days my brothers have been attacked by killer robots…
Before they could do anything else, the rest of the roof fell and crashed to the floor and separated them from Splinter.
Had our home caved in on us…
The ninjas then jumped down from the roof and surrounded them all in a large circle, ready to attack them, showing on their chests of their uniforms a red symbol in the shape of a foot. Mikey, Donnie, Leo, Danny and Raph all stood back to back ready to defend themselves.
And had us a serious but kicking ninja battle with some deadly ninja assassins.
As Donnie drove off Mikey, Leo, Raph and Danny all jumped into the back compartment and shut the doors as the ninjas jumped out of the way avoiding getting hit by Donnie's crazy driving as he was slamming into dumpsters.
We made a shell-raising escape in an armoured car, found a new place to live and we're attacked by even more killer robots!
With a battle cry they all charged and started taking them out, destroying them with strikes of their weapons and Danny blasting some of them with ecto blasts.
April panted heavily as she continued to run through the sewers like mad to get away from the robots. She then ran down another tunnel and tripped over, she turned and started backing up until her back hit the wooden boards closing off another section of the sewer.
She screamed in fright as she realised she was now trapped with nowhere to go, she closed her eyes as the mousers pounced but no attack came as they were suddenly taken out by weapons and blasts. April opened her eyes to see the mousers were destroyed and her saviours were five shadow figures standing in front of her.
Oh and we also managed to perform our very first ninja rescue. This is the closest any of us besides Danny have ever been close to a human being.
Her eyes widened in shock but Mikey smiled and said, "How you doing?"
And it raises one very big question:
Her eyes rolled back and with one last groan she fainted. Mikey picked her up bridal style and asked as he turned around, "Hey so can I keep her?"
ATTACK OF THE MOUSERS
Danny and the Turtles all stood in front of the couch where an unconscious April O'Neil was lying down. Her eyes then opened slowly and she said while sitting up, "Man what a dream! Turtles and some sort of weird floating kid fighting robots. Did I fall asleep watching TV again? That was the…"
She then stopped and her eyes widened in shock as she saw the same Turtles and floating kid from before and finished with slight panic, "Weirdest thing I've ever seen?!"
Her eyes even widened in more shock when Danny changed back into his human form to try and not freak her out but he realised he probably just freaked her out more. Mikey walked forward and said, "Hi"
April screamed in complete fright which caused Mikey to scream. He then said panting as he held his arms out in a calming motion, "Please don't do that! Almost jumped out of my shell!"
"It has three fingers!" April freaked out as she saw Mikey's hands. She then picked up the pillow, covered her face and closed her eyes as she repeatedly said, "I'm asleep! I'm asleep! I'm asleep…."
"This isn't going very well" Donnie said.
"Hey come on! We don't have much practice talking to humans" Mikey said.
"Uh Mikey? Have you forgotten I'm human as well?" Danny pointed out a little offended. Mikey sheepishly smiled and apologised, "Oh right. Sorry Danny but other than you we don't have much practice talking to other humans. It's gonna take a little time"
April raised the pillow again to see if she was dreaming but saw they were still there and then covered her head again and continued, "I am so asleep! I'm asleep! I'm asleep…."
Mikey then yawned tiredly and said, "Man! She's making me sleepy"
"Hey you" Raph then said stopping her as he tapped her on the shoulder. She stopped and removed the pillow from her face as she said, "What?"
"What do you know about those mouser robot things?" Raph asked.
"Well first I thought they were for cleaning up the city's rat problem but then I got suspicious when Dr Stockman said…." April at first answered but then stopped and freaked out again, "Oh no! I'm talking to it"
"What?" Leo asked in confusion.
"I'm talking to it! To you!" April answered still freaked out and thinking it's all a bad dream. "Okay April. You're talking to a giant three fingered turtle and some weird kid who was floating before but now is human. The only logical explanation is that you're dreaming so everything is okay"
She then put on a weird smile and waved to all of them trying to hide her freaking out as she said, "Hello"
"Hello April. How are you doing?" Leo asked slowly unsure how she would react.
"Oh I'm fine! Everything's absolutely great!" April said and laughed nervously at the same time. Her smile then dropped and she yelped as soon as Master Splinter stepped up front and suggested, "Then perhaps you are ready to answer some questions"
"You're….you're a…." April stuttered completely freaked out and then it became all too much for her and she fainted again.
"Oh that went well" Danny said sarcastically. "It was bad enough she freaked out over four giant turtles and me but now Master Splinter"
"You sure have a way with the ladies Master Splinter" Donnie then added. "Now what do we do?"
"Let's nudge her" Leo suggested. Raph cracked his knuckles and said, "I'll snap her out of it"
"Raphael no!" Splinter warned. Mikey grabbed his MP4 and sat down on one of the chairs and called out, "Somebody get me when she wakes up"
He then pressed the button on the device and closed his eyes as he listened to his music.
Meanwhile above ground at a bank, it was quiet and business was as usual. People were lined up to put money in their accounts, creating accounts, getting loans for their business or anything else. Everyone then gasped at the sudden noise coming from the large vault on the wall. The building then began to shake and people started screaming and panicking as they thought it was an earthquake unaware that inside the vault, mouser robots had broken right through the floor.
The bank manager couldn't see anything going inside the vault due to the smoke that was everywhere and before he could see what was attacking them, a roar was heard and the cameras were shut down.
Inside the vault, the mousers were breaking into money boxes and stealing the money that was inside them. Storing them inside their bodies at Baxter Stockman's control who was watching through one of the mousers cameras laughing.
"These security cautions are pitiful. Nothing can stand in the way of unquestioned genius" Stockman said while grinning.
Outside the bank the police arrived and ran inside as people screamed and ran out. The manager ran up to them and shouted in panic, "This way please! Something's happening in the vault!"
They all ran over and then the manager opened the vault with the security code and it opened, they all gasped to see most of the money was stolen and there was nothing there but broken money boxes and a large hole in the floor.
Mikey was still listening to his music when Raph tapped him on the head and called out, "Hey! Earth to Mikey!"
"OW! What?" Mikey asked as he took off his headphones. Raph then answered, "She woke up. Leo made her some tea and she's ready to consider we might be real"
"Awesomely radical dude!" Mikey said with his thumbs up.
Raph chuckled and then teased as he walked over back to the others, "You keep talking like that and she's gonna pass out again"
"Hey" Mikey whined offended.
April drank her tea as Mikey joined the group and he asked, "So are you okay now?"
"Yes thanks" April answered. "I've decided this is either a very long dream that I keep not waking up from or this is the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me"
"Young woman we have something most important to discuss" Master Splinter said with seriousness.
"What?" April asked.
"We have never revealed ourselves to the upper world" Master Splinter explained. "You have placed us all in great danger"
"But Master Splinter she was in trouble and we helped her" Danny pointed out. Raph nodded in agreement and asked, "Yeah aren't you always teaching us to try and do the right thing?"
"As you grow older you will learn there are many ways to do the right thing" Master Splinter answered. He then sighed as he looked back at April, "But there is no going back. I'm afraid we find ourselves at your mercy"
April shook her head and said, "Oh I would never tell anybody. I mean who would believe me?"
"She's got a point" Donatello piped in. Mikey then did a pose and said, "Yeah we're unbelievable!"
Raph shook his head at him and snapped, "Geeze! Where's your off switch?"
"Seriously I promise I won't tell anyone about you guys" April said.
Master Splinter got up from his chair and walked over and kneeled down in front of April. He then started in her eyes and after a few seconds of staring he smiled and said, "I believe you"
"Is this another lesson Master Splinter? How to sense the truth?" Leo asked in amazement. Splinter chuckled and answered, "No. This is called trusting your gut"
"So if I'm keeping your secret what exactly is it?" April asked. "Who are you people….turtles….uh whatever? And how do you change your hair and eyes like that Danny?"
"I'll let Master Splinter start first" Danny said.
Master Splinter nodded and then began, "I have memories. Memories of when I used to be what you would call normal. I remember a day that had started like any other but ended changing the course of many lives. I witnessed an accident, at a street crossing a young boy was carrying a glass jar with four pet infant turtles. An old blind man was crossing the street when he was almost run down by a large truck, another young boy that was standing behind the other boy ran over to help the blind man and accidently caused the boy to drop the jar into the streaming water heading for the sewers. As the truck swerved out of the way, a metal canister bounced out of the back and fell down the sewers along with the four turtles. It smashed open as it hit the ground and released a glowing ooze which covered their bodies. I took pity on them and gathered them up in an old coffee can which also caused me to get covered by the ooze as well. I took them to my borrow and the next morning I had awoke to find the four had doubled in size, the ooze had affected their growth. It changed me also making larger and more intelligent. They followed me everywhere except above ground, I knew the people of the surface would not understand. We are so…different. I was amazed by their dexterity but even so, I was not prepared for what happened one day. They actually spoke! My name! Soon they all were speaking and intelligence followed soon after. A few days later after finding a new home, I found Daniel in an alleyway after his mother had left him there leaving a note saying she had to leave him to keep him safe and that he had become half-ghost due to high forms of ectoplasmic radiation when she was pregnant with him. I took him home and he became a part of our family. Realising that the world above is sometimes a dangerous place, I began teaching them ninjustu; the secret arts of stealth and power and all that I knew of this world. From a battered book on renaissance art I fished out of the storm drain, I chose names for all the turtles"
He then gestured to the Turtles and introduced each one of them, "Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo and together with Daniel they are…."
The five of them then high fived each other and cheered, "Brother's forever!"
"Or something like that we all yet out at once" Mikey said. Raph sat next to April and said with a smirk, "First rule: Ignore Mikey. Your life would be much easier"
"So we have remained in secret and that is our story" Master Splinter finished as he stood up.
"And as Master Splinter explained, when I was two years old my mother had left me in an alleyway with a letter. Splinter took me in and trained me not only in ninjustu but also to control my ghost powers" Danny then said.
"But how did you know martial arts?" April asked Splinter.
"That is a story for another time" Master Splinter answered. They all then Mikey say, "Hey guys! Look at this"
They all stood up and walked over to where Mikey was watching the news on one of the TV's which showed a bank that was robbed.
"And the police are completely bazzled by the bank robbery boldly executed in broad daylight. If anyone has any information the police urge you to call the Crime Stoppers Helpline" The reporter announced on the news.
The images then showed the now almost empty vault and then froze on the large tracks that were imprinted on the floor. Mikey then said, "So anybody want to take a wild guess what did this?"
Nobody answered for they knew what exactly did the robbery. The mousers! April then said, "This must be what I heard Dr Stockman talking about. He's got the mousers robbing banks"
"What do you know about this Stockman guy April?" Danny asked.
"He's a genius and he's also nuts. I used to work for him but when I got suspicious he turned the mousers on me" April answered. "Luckily I ran into you guys"
"He destroyed our old lair" Leo said. April nodded and added, "Must have been one of his mouser test runs"
"But that was our home" Mikey said. Donnie then added, "Now he's graduated to banks!"
"Then what are we waiting for. I say we shut down mouser central permanently" Raph said with determination as he stood up and spun his sais around in his hands.
Mikey chuckled and said, "Oh I just love those action movie lines. You write those yourself?"
"It won't be easy" April said. "StockTronics is rigged with the latest up to the minute security tech"
"Bring it on" Mikey challenged. He then gestured to Donnie and said, "Allow me to introduce you to our very own secret weapon. The techno turtle himself; Donatello! Take a bow Don"
Donnie chuckled in embarrassment and said, "Oh cut it out!"
"Can we go please?" Raph asked with eagerness. Danny then commented, "We better get moving or Raph is gonna blow"
Back at StockTronics the mousers returned in straight lines, all of them dropping their loads of money they had stolen from the bank onto the conveyer belts. Stockman grinned at the sight of the stolen money and said, "Excellent! Excellent! The world as they say is my oyster and aren't the pearls lovely?"
His grin dropped as the communicator suddenly went off. He growled and answered. The voice from his previous call then spoke, "Dr Stockman?"
"Make it quick I'm very busy" Stockman said with his arms crossed. The voice then spoke again, "I am contacting you to verify that you are fulfilling our end of our bargain and that you are on schedule"
"I will not stand for any more of this idiotic interrogation!" Stockman snapped with annoyance. "I've advanced the mousers to the next stage and they are securing the funds from the bank as you requested. Can you grasp that simple concept?"
"Do not presume too much Dr Stockman" The voice warned. "The price for failure will be quite extreme"
Stockman slammed his hands on the bench and then hung up. He then muttered bitterly, "Imbecile"
Under the sewers near StockTronics April, the Turtles and Danny were walking towards the secret entrance. Danny was in his ghost form ready for anything. April then stopped them and gestured them to be quiet as she saw a security alarm. April crawled underneath it to make sure she didn't set it off and then opened it, Donnie then got to work and started twisting some of the wires.
"Alarms in the sewers? In this guy paranoid or what?" Mikey joked quietly. Raph frowned and snapped, "Will you shut it?"
"I'm just saying" Mikey said with a shrug.
"Could April and I have some quiet?" Donnie snapped. "This is very delicate work"
"Ooh. April and I, this is delicate work" Mikey teased. "Give me a break"
Inside the hallway two guards walked past the vent where April, the Turtles and Danny were hiding. The vent door then pushed open and then Raph asked, "Is this the place?"
"There's a computer terminal over in that lab" April said as she pointed to the lab door across the hall. "Get me in and I can create blank spots in the security system to get you guys through to Dr Stockman's main lab"
Raph smirked and then teased Mikey, "Don't look now but we already got a blank spot right here"
"Hey!" Mikey complained offended by Raph's comment.
Danny and Raph came out first and then Danny helped April climb out of the vent. Danny then touched them both by the shoulders and turned them both invisible in case any other guards came walking down the hallway and they walked to the lab door, Raph tried to open the door but it was locked so he pulled out one of his sais and started picking the lock.
In just a few seconds he unlocked the door and the three entered checking to see if there was anyone in the lab first, Danny then turned them all visible and gestured for the others to come in and the coast was clear. The others then entered the lab and then April sat down at the computer terminals and started hacking into the security system.
"Okay I'm in. I'm blanking the cameras along that hallway at ten second intervals" April explained as she continued to type. "You've got to keep moving"
"We'll be right back" Leo said.
April turned to wish them luck but found they were no longer standing there. She looked impressed and said, "Hey these guys are good"
The Turtles and Danny ran like crazy down the hallway, none of them got caught by the security cameras thanks to April blanking them. They continued down and found the entrance to the lab, they pulled out their weapons as the door opened and then entered the dark lab cautiously.
"This is too quiet" Leo whispered.
A few seconds had passed and then Danny said, "Guys I have a bad feeling that we're not alone"
The doors behind them suddenly slammed shut trapping them inside and then all the lights came on and they looked up to see Baxter Stockman up in the control room. He then roared over the speakers, "Intruders?! Here to steal my secrets?! You'll leave here with nothing! Not even you're lives!"
He then saw the infrared images of them all on the camera screen and his eyes widened in surprise and shock as he asked, "What on earth are you?!"
He then grinned and said as he pushed another button on the controls, "I suppose I'll have to dissect you to find out"
Large laser guns came out of the roof and aimed at Danny and the Turtles. They all jumped out of the way just as the machines started firing lasers at them. The five of them kept moving around dodging the lasers, Leo then stepped in front of Raph and deflected the laser with his swords and sent the beam right back at the gun and completely destroyed it.
Donnie then leapt in the air using his staff to give him a boost and grabbed onto the one of the guns, he then managed to push the gun part and allowed two shots to destroy two of the other laser guns. He then opened the panel where the wires were and ripped them out, he then jumped off it just as the laser gun started to go haywire and then it exploded.
Danny then flew in the air and blasted one of the last two laser guns with an ecto blast and then sliced the end off with his katana on the last one causing it to explode. Stockman exclaimed, "Impossible!"
He brought out one more laser gun and started firing at them himself, Raph stood still against the pillar away from the laser and then called out to Mikey, "Mikey! Slingshot!"
Mikey nodded and then ran over dodging the lasers and then leapt onto Raph's foot, Raph then pushed him up and he landed just on the edge of the control room. Stockman gasped in fear as Mikey broke the window with one of his nun chucks and then jumped inside.
Stockman fell over backwards in fear as Leo, Danny, Raph and Donnie entered. Leo then aimed his sword at Stockman and said, "Your reign of terror is over Stockman"
Mikey smiled and asked, "You've been practicing that?"
Leo smiled and asked, "You like it?"
"What are you?" Stockman asked. The door behind him then opened and revealed April and she answered with her hands on her hips, "They're with me"
Stockman turned and gasped in shock to see April standing before him alive. He then exclaimed, "April! You're alive!"
"And kicking. I've got enough evidence to put you away for years Dr Stockman" April said.
Stockman turned around and pressed a button, Raph then pulled him away from the controls by his lab coat and hissed, "That's enough!"
Stockman however merely grinned and said, "Ha! Too late! I've recalled the mousers from their latest mission. They'll be here any second! They'll tear you to pieces!"
"April?" Leo asked hoping she could do something. She walked over to the controls and said as she started hacking, "I'll have to shut the whole system down"
Donnie then walked over to the controls and said, "I'll help"
"You're doomed! Listen" Stockman said and they all could hear the sounds of the mousers coming. The doors opened and the mousers started heading towards the control room.
Danny walked over and saw the mousers starting to climb up the ladder and he pressed, "Uh April! Now would be a really good time to shut down the hungry evil robots!"
"The system isn't responding!" April said in fear.
Stockman started heading out of the room and then pressed the button and said as he closed the elevator doors, "You should never have matched wits with me!"
"He's getting away!" Mikey shouted as he banged on the elevator door. Raph then said, "Let him go. We got bigger problems"
They all turned and saw the mousers were now in the control room and started surrounding them. More mousers roared as they broke through the windows and came out of the elevator and joined the others surrounding them ready to attack.
"At least we'll go out fighting" Raph said. Mikey then said with slight fear, "Actually I don't want to go out at all"
"It's not working!" April exclaimed. Donnie then pressed, "Keep trying!"
"This is it! It's been fun guys" Raph said honestly. Mikey smiled and asked, "Even me Raph?"
Raph nodded and answered, "Even you Mikey. Especially you"
The mousers came closer and then April tried one last thing and typed it in the controls and just when they thought it was the end all the mousers suddenly stopped and their eyes just blinked on and off. Leo tapped one of them with a sword to be sure and when it didn't do anything, they all smiled and sighed in relief and cheered.
"Good job April! I've never seen anything like that" Donnie said with a smile. April however didn't smile as she said, "Uh guys? I wasn't able to shut them down"
"What do you mean April? They look pretty shut down to me" Danny said as Mikey picked one of them up and then Danny tapped it on its head.
April the answered, "The only way I could stop them was by initiating an override sequence"
Alarms started blaring as smoke started coming out of the mousers jaws. Mikey immediately dropped the mouser he was holding and then shouted, "In other words, LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"
They all jumped out of the control room with Donnie carrying April bridal style and ran out of the lab through the hole that led to the sewers just as the mousers started exploding, the fire spread quickly and soon the entire lab exploded.
Stockman was running through the hallways laughing like a madman as he shouted, "I got them! I got them all!"
He suddenly bumped into something and fell on his back. He looked up and frowned in annoyance at the sight of a tall muscular man wearing black pants, shoes and a sleeveless shirt, his blonde hair was tied back in a pony-tail, on the side of his cheek he had three scars and on one arm he had a purple dragon tattoo and on the other he had the same red foot symbol of the icon April clicked on.
"You! What do you want Hun?" Stockman snapped in annoyance.
"Trouble Dr Stockman?" Hun asked. Stockman stood up and lied, "Trouble? No! No. Everything is proceeding exactly as I planned"
Hun continued to look at him sceptically, not believing the lie as he could clearly see the building was shaking and debris was falling off the roof. He then grabbed Stockman by his shirt and started dragging him away as he sneered, "Perhaps you would like to explain this plan to the master"
Stockman struggled trying to get out of his grip as he demanded, "LET ME GO YOU BRAINLESS MUSCLEBOUND IDIOT! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!"
Later that night in the lair Danny, the Turtles and April were drinking sodas from cups as they watched the news that showed the destruction that occurred at StockTronics. The reporter said, "Authorities are completely confused by the destruction of the StockTronics building and the sudden disappearance of Dr Baxter Stockman"
"What will you do now Miss O'Neil?" Splinter asked. "You are most definitely out of a job"
"I'm not exactly sure" April answered. Donnie then said, "We'll help you get back on your feet"
April smiled at them all and said, "You guys well, you've all been great. And by guys I guess I mean four big green talking turtles, a half-ghost teenager and a giant talking rat"
"Here's to the new team!" Leo cheered as he raised his cup in the air. They all then tapped their glassed against each other and cheered for their victory.
Meanwhile back at the same building with the red foot symbol, Baxter Stockman and Hun stood before the same man who attacked the Purple Dragon leader as punishment for failing. Stockman continued to grin as he finished explaining what happened, "So any fool can see the whole thing was simply a minor setback. With your continued funding the research can continue immediately. I'll be back at work Monday morning"
The man placed on a gauntlet on his hand and stood up clearly not happy with Stockman as he said, "You must pay the price for failure Dr Stockman"
Stockman's eyes widened in fear and before he could do anything, Hun grabbed him and started dragging him out of the room with him kicking and shouting, "NO! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?! YOU'LL REGRET THIS! NO!"
A man then walked in the room wearing some sort of high tech gear. He kneeled before the man and said, "We have the image you requested Master"
He stood up and then pressed a button which opened a projector screen. Another man wearing the same gear then walked in the room pushing on a cart a broken mouser's head that was connected to a projector.
"So the last remaining image the mouser's optics recorded" The man said.
The projector turned on and on the screen an infrared image of the Turtles and Danny appeared on the screen. The man then sneered, "These are the ones responsible!"
With a roar of anger he jumped and then sliced the screen with the gauntlet, ripping it to pieces.
THE END