On top of a building across the street from where the Battle Shell sat Leo, Raph, Mike and Splinter stood on top of a building and watched.
"Did you plant that tracking device?" Leo asked Raph.
Raph nodded. "He ain't gonna dissappear on us now."
"Shouldn't we do something?" Mike asked staring down at the Battle Shell.
"No, we're just going to wait and see what he's going to do next. If we confront him now we could just make things worse."Leo said.
Raph snorted. "Look around Leo, things are already way beyond worse here."
Leo shook his head, " No Raph, things aren't worse..at least not yet. We wait until he leaves and then we follow him. If he tries to confront that Foot then we'll be there."
"To help him or to stop him?" Mike asked.
"To help him Mike, somebody has to stop that Foot and he's probably already come up with a way to do it. We just need to keep him from getting himself killed."
"We must be careful tonight my sons, much is at stake and our enemy is strong. Prepare yourselves but do not get over confident." Splinter said.
"Overconfident? I'm having trouble even getting confident. You didn't get pounded into the ground by that guy Sensei he's bad news wrapped up in a shiny metal coating." Mike sighed.
"You get pounded into the ground all the time Mike, shouldn't you be used to it by now?" Raph said with a roll of his eyes.
"Ha, ha, very funny. I wasn't the one who got his shell kicked by Don."
Raph frowned. "I did not get my shell kicked."
"Oh yeah, well it sure looked like it to me when you were flying through the air and slamming against the wall." Mike grinned.
" Just a lucky shot." Raph said with an angry glare. "How about I show you what it's like to really get your shell kicked." He advanced on Mike.
Splinter's walking stick shot out into the air between the red masked turtle and Mike. Then Splinter hit them both on the head.
"Ow Sensei!" Mike said rubbing his head.
"Yeah ow!" Raph agreed his hand going to the now painful spot on the top of his head where Splinter's stick had landed.
" We do not have time for this! If you do not behave I will 'kick your shells' myself!" Splinter barked sternly.
"Guys." Leo said gesturing for them to come to the edge of the building. Still rubbing their heads Mike and Raph ran to the edge with Splinter following. The Battle Shell was pulling out of the alleyway and heading down the street towards the middle of the city. Leo pulled a device from his belt, on the small screen was a small map of the city and a dot moving across it. "We got him. Let's go."
Unbeknownst to the three mutant turtles, a human dressed completely in black and in a black mask had been perched on a fire escape at the back of the building, and had heard every word that they had said. When they three turtles left the figure in black carefully snuck back down the fire escape and leapt to the street below. Once there he slipped into the back of an alley and removed his mask to reveal the face of a handsome young blonde haired, blue eyed man. He quickly got out of his black suit and put on a pair of jogging pants, and a dark blue sweater, completing the ensemble with a pair of sneakers. He put his black suit in a sport bag he slung it around his shoulder and casually walked out onto the street. Now looking like an every day college student on his way back from the gym he nimbly jogged three blocks away and slipped into an apartment building, careful to make sure he hadn't been seen. Ignoring the elevator he climbed four flights to the fourth floor where he stuck a key into a door and looking around to make sure no one else was in the hall slipped inside.
He closed and locked the door behind him tossing his gym bag in the corner and walking into the room.
" You're late Jin." Came a voice from the darkness around them. From the faint light of the window at the other end of the living room another man could be seen leaning against the window frame and staring out into the night.
"Don't get your underwear in a bunch Wick, I stopped to listen to a very interesting conversation." The blonde haired man grinned walking into the kitchen and grabbing a beer came back into the living room and plopped onto the couch.
The man by the window turned, his eyes glowing a greenish light.
"What could be more important than getting me what I need?"
"How about finding out that the turtle we supposedly killed is alive and well and running around the city masquerading as a super hero…and that he's now planning on tracking you down." Jin said taking a large gulp of his beer and raising a blonde eyebrow at his friend.
The man at the window stepped forward and the shadows parted to reveal a man of half Asian half Caucasian origin, with short cropped black hair. He was dressed in the uniform of a Foot Soldier minus the mask- and on his right hand was a shiny metal gauntlet.
"How do you know this?" Wick the metal gauntleted foot asked frowning.
"I was on my way back here from stirring up those gangs like Master Shredder wanted; I was walking down the street when I happened to look up and caught sight of three of those freaks on a rooftop. I was sure we'd killed one of them, so I decided to have a little listen and see what was going on. Turns out we didn't kill him, and he's running around the city. Geeze Wick, how hard can it be to kill one stupid mutant turtle." The blonde haired Foot frowned, an angry look growing on his face and took another gulp of his beer.
Wick clenched his jaw. " I suggest you ask Master Shredder that Jin."
Jin almost choked on his beer, spewing a spray of it all over the floor and the TV. He wiped his mouth and looked up at his friend with wide eyes as if just realizing what he meant.
" Shit, what if he finds out? He's gonna kill us now for sure!"
Wick frowned and leaned his gauntleted arm against the wall, for a second he looked down as if thinking and then idly glanced at his metal bound arm- then he smiled.
" Not if he can't find us." Wick said turning to look at his friend.
Jin looked puzzled, "But he'll call us, and if we don't show up he'll send the others after us…or he'll come after us himself."
Wick shook his head and held up his arm. " We've got something here that's much more powerful than the Shredder. With this we don't have to bow to that egotistical maniac any longer, we can do whatever we want, whenever."
Jin looked unsure. " I don't know Wick.."
"Trust me my brother, if Shredder comes to find us we will be ready for him and I will make him pay for all of the pain and humiliation we have suffered at his hands. I will make him pay dearly." Wick said grinning and clenching his gauntleted fist.
"And what about the plan?" Jin asked still not looking too convinced.
" We will continue to follow Shredder's plan, but we will alter it to fit out own." Wick said shrugging.
"If we mess up Shredder's going to kill us, very, very, painfully." Jin said frowning.
"Then we'll have to make sure we don't mess up. Think about it Jin, we failed to kill that turtle. If we go back to Shredder we're as good as dead men. We don't really have any choice." Wick said.
Jin looked bleak at that prospect and finally after some more thought and another swig of beer he sighed " Dead if we do, dead if we don't." he looked up at his friend who was in turn looking down at him with raised eye-brows. " What about that turtle, what are we going to do about him?"
Wick's smile turned very nasty. " If the turtle is so intent on finding me, then I think we should make sure he does find me. And this time I'll make sure he stays dead."
Jin finished his can of beer and crunched it in his fist, wiping his mouth of with the back of his hand. He tossed the can up into the air and caught it several times, a thoughtful expression on his face. Finally he looked back up at his brother. "Let's do it." He said shrugging.
"Very soon." Wick said, he came to the couch and put a hand on his brother's shoulder. "Only now I must regain my strength, did you get what I asked."
Jin nodded and grabbed his sports bag from the corner and pulled out a large McDonald's bag.
"Three big Macs, three super size fries and one very large Coke. I swear Wick I don't know how you can eat all of that stuff at one time."
"I need energy my brother and this is the fastest way to get it." Wick opened one hamburger and began eating it like a hunger crazed mad man. He took the bag to the kitchen leaving his brother to watch him with concern and a slight measure of disgust.
"Yeah, I noticed that. Since you put that thing on you're always hungry. Dontcha think that's strange?"
Wick didn't answer he was to intent on his food.
"I think it's really fuckin strange." Jin said in a whisper.
Oroku Saki, sans Shredder armor growled and kicked a nearby tray that held a bowl full of incense, scattering the burning sticks all over the floor. Luckily most everything in his tower was made of stone and there was nothing in the area to catch fire, not that he would have noticed in his anger if it had.
"How difficult can it be to kill one mutant turtle!" he said whirling angrily on Hun who had just showed him the news broadcast showing the Dark Turtle. A reporter had managed to catch a few words from the costumed turtle and were now were deep in discussion over him, wondering if he had any connection to Turtle Titan.
Saki had taken one look at the DT on the costumed hero's chest, heard the turtle's voice and had flown into a rage.
"How do you know it is that turtle, there's still three more, it could be one of them." Hun shrugged.
Saki stalked back towards Hun his fists clenching. "I make it my business to know my enemies Hun. It was reported to me that the turtle called Donatello, the- intelligent one- had been killed by two of my foot soldiers. Now I see a turtle masquerading as a hero, with the letters D and T on the front of his suit, who sounds almost exactly like the turtle called Donatello and is very, very intelligent. This is not a coincidence."
Hun frowned. " So those two little weasels Wicked and Jingo lied to us."
"Indeed, and they shall pay for their treachery with their lives."
" But we haven't heard from them in days, they could be anywhere in the city." Hun said.
"Then send out my Foot and have them scour the city from top to bottom. I want those two here by tomorrow night."
Hun bowed. " Yes Master, I shall conduct the search for them myself." He turned to leave and then turned back looking crafty. "And the turtle master?" Shredder's eyes narrowed. " I will take care of him myself." Hun grinned nastily, bowed again and left.