After a few weeks without any trace of the Foot, Leo, Donnie and Sephie gets into a fight with them. Although the others arrive to help, Sephie gets kidnapped at the end of the battle. Now Mona and the turtles race against time to rescue her before Tyroth turns a rescue-mission into a massacre.

I own only my Oc's and plot.

Warning! May contain disturbing material.

Chapter 16

The Beginning Of The End

Donnie ran as fast as he could through the sewers until he came to the hidden entrance of the lair. He rapidly pressed a number of buttons on the well hidden terminal, opening the door. Once the door was open he ran straight for his lab, grabbing his trusty old bag and filling it with various gadgets.

"What is the matter, my son?" Donnie heard his sensei ask him, as the old rat and the two humans had walked over when they heard Donnie enter the lair.

"Sephie got kidnapped by the Foot!" he answered.

"What?!" Splinter said.

"Oh no!" was all April could say.

"What are we waiting on? Let's get moving!" said Casey.

"No, Casey. We don't have time to bring any of you along, eh... no offense master." Donnie said.

"It is quite alright, my son. But where are the others?"

"They're trying to keep up with Tyroth, who's out for blood. If I don't hurry, this rescue mission will be nothing more than a bloodbath!" Closing the bag, Donnie hurried to the elevator that led to their garage.

"Damn he's fast." Raph complained as the four mutants leaped between the roof tops, trying to keep up with Tyroth.

"What did you expect, bro? He is flying." Mikey said.

"Keep going guys." said Leo.

"I hope that Sephie's alright." Mona said, remembering what had happened to herself last year. Pushing away those memories, Mona heard the familiar sound of the Battle-shell closing in on them. She turned her head.

"Look, Donnie's here!" The four mutants quickly made their way down into an alley, so that Donnie could pick them up.

"Taxi!" Mikey shouted as he waved in Donnie to the alley. "Follow that dragon!"

Sephie awoke with a headache that rivaled the hangover she got when she tried alcohol on her eighteenth birthday. The last thing she remembered was fighting the Foot with her friends, when smoke-grenades were shoot from a helicopter. Then she felt a sting in the back of her neck and everything got very fuzzy followed by darkness. Opening her eyes she found herself in a dimly lit room with various machines and tools that looked like a modern version of Frankenstein's lab. She also noticed that she was trapped in a cage, to small for her to stand up in. And both her wrists and ankles were chained to the wall behind the cage.

Panic started to form and she quickly searched for her weapons but found that the only thing she had left were the clothes that she wore.

"Ah good, you're awake, Monalisa."

Sephie turned her gaze at the voice and saw a man standing at the other end of the room, dressed in a more stylish model of the clothes that the standard Foot-ninja wore, save for the lack of any headwear or mask. The man had black hair in a tight ponytail and an evil smile on his lips.

"Who are you?" Sephie asked defiant.

"You don't remember me? Why, Monalisa, I'm hurt." said the man sarcastically, as he slowly walked closer. "I would have thought that I left a lasting impression, or maybe you were so traumatized that you suffer from amnesia." Hearing this, Sephie put two and two together. She had been told of this man by Mona and the turtles.

"Release me and I'll traumatize you, Arashi!"

"So you do remember me. Excellent. Now let's... Wait. You're not Monalisa."

"No shit Sherlock. Maybe you should get your eyes examined."

"The resemblance is astonishing and you have the same fiery attitude as she, if a bit more cocky. Nonetheless, if you share her features, maybe you share her powers as well."

"I can tell you that I share her disgust of you!"

"Unfortunately, I'm needed elsewhere, so I'll leave you in the hands of my 'partner'. Otherwise, I would have loved to break you." he said and walked to the door.

"You won't be smiling when my mate gets his hands on you."

"Am I supposed to feel threatened?" said Arashi as he turned in the doorway.

"No, you're supposed to be afraid. 'Cause if you hurt me in any way, he will kill you. And no amount of your ninja will be able to stop him."

Tyroth stood on top of one of several warehouses, his eyes fixed on one in particular that was surrounded by a wire fence.

"Tyroth." he heard a voice say from behind him. Turning around he saw the four turtles and Mona, walking up to him. Leo spoke again.

"What are you doing here?"

"The helicopter entered that building through the roof." he said and pointed at the same warehouse he had looked at when they arrived. "I hope that you're not here to stop me."

"Only partially. You have our word that we'll help you rescue Sephie, but we have to do it stealthy." Leo said.

"I know. It took a great amount of self-control not to break down a door and tear the place apart."

"Trust me, big guy, I know the feeling." Raph said "And while I don't always agree with Leo, he does have a point. Last time something like this happened, I didn't focus and it nearly got us killed."

"Then, what's the plan?" Tyroth asked.

"First, we need to get in undetected. The roof might be our best bet." Leo said "We just have to get there undetected as well. Hmm..." The distance to the warehouse was to far for them to jump and there were bound to be some form of surveillance cameras guarding the perimeter.

"How many can you carry and still be able to fly?" he asked Tyroth.

"I know that I can manage two of you. And since Mona is lighter than any of you, I think I can manage her and two of you."

After a few minutes Tyroth had manged to ferry his friends over to the roof. It didn't take long before Donnie found a hatch that they could enter through, he just needed to check for alarms before opening it. Leo looked down through the opening, it led to a hallway that seemed to run the width of the building. After checking that it was empty, he silently jumped down and signaled the others to follow.

"Okay, were to now?" Mona asked.

"How about that way?" Mikey asked in return and pointed to what would be the center of the short side. Another hallway connected to the one they were in, forming a three-way crossing. On the wall facing the other hallway, hanged two signs. The sing pointing to their right said 'Security' while the one pointing to their left said 'Processing Lab'.

After thinking for a short while, Leo spoke up.

"Here's what we'll do. Donnie, Raph and I will head to the security office while Mona, Mikey and Tyroth go to the lab. We'll try and find out what's going on here while you check the lab for clues of Sephie's whereabouts. Agreed?" Everyone nodded.

Arriving at the door of the security office, the three turtles readied their weapons.

"Donnie, the lock." Leo whispered and Donnie nodded in response. The purple-masked turtle pulled out a few tools from his bag and started to systematically dismantle the terminal.

"There is a high risk that they already know that we are here, but we mustn't give them time to sound the alarm, so as soon as we go in we have to take out anyone in there fast." Leo said.

"Okay, done." Donnie said. The three turtles moved into position, Leo placing his hand on the handle.

"On three. One. Two. Three!" Pulling the door open the turtles rushed into the office, catching the four Foot-ninja inside completely of guard. Two well placed hits to the head from Donnie's staff knocked out the two ninja closest two the door, while Leo jumped the one sitting at the computer, quickly pulling him away before he managed to touch anything. Kicking the guy in the face, Leo made sure that he wouldn't raise the alarm. Raph caught the last one, grabbing the guy by the head and slammed it into his knee, breaking the nose and knocking the guy unconscious.

"Donnie, the computers are yours. Raph close the door and help me tie these guys up."

Meanwhile, in the lab, three Foot-scientists were preparing some of the equipment.

"Everything is ready." said one of them.

"Good. Help me sedate the subject and we'll begin procedure immediately."

"What are you going to do to me?" Sephie asked worried.

"If you must know, we're going to drain you of your blood, to begin with." the scientist answered.

"No! I'm not letting you touch me you sick bastards!"

"I'm afraid that you have no choice, freak." said the third man.

Suddenly, the locked door was tugged, and impatient knocks followed.

"Hey, could you open the door in there?" said a male voice from the other side of the door.

"Why do you not use the terminal that you're supposed to?" said the scientist closest to the door

"I tried, but the damn thing ain't working. Can you let me in?"

"Can it wait? We're just about to start working in here." the scientist replied annoyed.

"No, it can't wait. Look , Arashi sent me here to supervise, so if you want to tell him that I couldn't do what he ordered, because you wouldn't open the door for me, then it's your funeral."

"Fine, give me a minute." the man said and walked over to the door, unlocking it. The door opened, revealing Mikey.

"Thanks, genius!" the orange-masked turtle said, punching out the lights for the stunned scientist. Rushing in over the unconscious man, the three mutants quickly intercepted the last two scientists. Mona snatched a syringe on the way and stabbed one of the two in the arm. The sedative made short work of the man who collapsed and started to snore. The last one desperately tried to loosen the grip that Tyroth had around his neck as he hang a meter above the floor, slowly choking until he fell unconscious due to the lack of air.

"Tyroth! Boy, are you a sight for sore eyes! All of you!" Sephie exclaimed with a happy tone.

After searching the pockets of the scientists, the team found the keys to both the cage and the chains, freeing Sephie and locking up the scientists in the cage instead.

"Are you okay, love?" Tyroth asked concerned.

"I'm fine, just a bit tired. Now let's get out of here."

"Wait." said Mona. "There's something on this computer here. Looks like research-data of some sort, but it's encrypted. Wonder if I can copy it to an USB."

"Here's one!" Mikey said from the other desk and flung it to her.

"Thanks." Mona said and inserted the USB into the computer "Let's see... yes! It worked! We'll let Donnie take a look at it later." The four mutants quickly left the lab and headed for the security office.

Inside the office, Donnie sat at a computer and checked the various security cameras, most of which were on the outside of the building. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. The three turtles stiffened. Positioning themselves on either side of the door, Leo and Raph drew their weapons and were ready to attack whoever that was on the other side. Using his staff, Donnie managed to open the door.

As the door slowly slid open, they saw that it were their friends that stood on the other side, allowing the turtles to relax, a bit. Praise was given by Sephie for her friends coming to her rescue so fast and she was given her gear again. Donnie returned to the computer and saw something on one of the monitors, zooming in he immediately recognized the man he was looking at.

"Guy! Check this out!" he said. The eyes of Mona and the three remaining turtles narrowed at the sight of the man.

"Arashi!" Mona hissed.

"So that bastard's here." snarled Raph "I say that we take him down now, while he don't have all of his army here."

"I don't think we'll make it to him in time, look were he's heading." Donnie said and zoomed out the view. Arashi was mere meters away from the helicopter, which was starting its engines.

"There's nothing we can do about him now." Leo said as Arashi entered the vehicle.

Mona, wanting to take her mind of the man who had tortured her a year ago, gave Donnie the USB.

"I found something in the lab but it was encrypted, so..."

"You want me to decrypt it. No problem." he said as he inserted it and started typing on the keyboard, chuckling at the thought of using the Foot's own security computers to decrypt their secrets.

"It seems like this is someones personal research-journal. Here's a name, 'Overlord'. Why does that sound familiar?" Donnie asked himself, rubbing his chin.

"Overlord!?" Tyroth and Sephie exclaimed with wide eyes.

"You know who it is?" Leo asked.

"I hope that I'm wrong, but, yes I do know him." Tyroth answered. "Remember when we told you how we became mutants? About the events the forced us down into the sewers?"

"The assassin." Mona answered as she remembered their story. "He was sent by someone with the same name, right?"

"Yeah." Tyroth said. "Overlord was the crimelord that ordered the hit on me after the incident with my crooked boss. We fought to end his reign of crime for almost a year before we finally had what we thought was our final battle against him."

"Yeah, you mentioned that." said Raph "But you never said what happened to him. Casey said that he had heard that Overlord disappeared."

"We fought him in one of his factories that he used for weapon-production." said Sephie "During the battle, some stray shots from his men hit some gas-tanks and they exploded, causing a chain-reaction among the other tanks."

"We barely got out of there in time before the entire place exploded," Tyroth cut in "and the last thing I saw in there was that Overlord was trapped behind a wall of fire. Just before the explosion. The odds of him surviving are next to zero, so I hope that it's just some other guy using the same name. But considering the 'zomborgs', I'm not so sure."

"We know what you mean, dude." Mikey said placing a hand on Tyroth's shoulder "We felt the same way when Shredder 'came back from the dead' the first two times, but after that it became like a routine. Trust me, you'll get used to it."

"Thanks... I think." Tyroth said with a raised eyebrow.

Donnie returned to decrypting the journal and was able to open a few of the entries.

"Ahh!" he screamed as he quickly and violently turned away from the screen. His face was pale and his expression was that of terror mixed with sickness. He fell to his knees sweating and gasping for air.

"Donnie! What is it?" Leo asked worried as he knelt by his brother. Donnie only pointed to the screen. The mutants looked at the screen and saw the entries Donnie had read. Their eyes widened in horror.

Entry 4

As I suspected, the three cyborgs I sent to deal with the mutants, have been terminated, leaving me with only one left. A minor setback. Thanks to the resources of Arashi I can create more, and I don't have to use old corpses as his ninja are at my disposal so the resulting cyborgs should be superior, if only in the aspect of what remaining organic parts there is. Regardless, I do not expect any of the subjects to survive the procedure, in fact after some calculations, I found that the chance of someone surviving is less than one percent of the chance of wining the highest prize in a lottery. I will therefore classify the procedure as 'fatal'.

Entry 5

Through a fluke accident during the construction of my second cyborg, I discovered a certain combination of chemicals that completely prevents anyone injected with it to loose consciousness, whether it's in the form of sleep or a black-out. It also blocks all forms of sedatives and painkillers that I have tried. In short, the subjects will be completely aware of their surroundings and feel all pain inflicted on their bodies. A most interesting find. I will manufacture more of this mixture for future experiments.

Entry 6

Progress has been good these last five days. I am now in command of a total of twenty cyborgs. I am proud of myself because of my efficiency. Combining the research of the drug I created with the construction of my cyborgs have granted me great insight in just how much pain a man can endure.

Normally one would loose consciousness when the pain gets unbearable, but thanks to the drug that never happened to my subjects. They had to endure the pain of having their bodies cut open, their organs and many other body parts removed and replaced with cybernetics and machines.

I doubt that anyone has ever seen a human die from pain alone before, so in the interest of science I used a slightly different approach in constructing my cyborgs and applied various life-support machines to prolong their lives as much as possible. Most of the subjects didn't last very long, but some lasted surprisingly long. The last one lasted the longest, almost surviving the entire process, even the separation of his head and body. Unfortunately for him I had to disconnect the life-support in order to continue as it was in the way.

This has been a very enlightening experience that I would love to continue, but I have another project that have to take priority.

End of log

Sephie, Mona and Mikey had to fight really hard not to throw up. Leo, Raph and Tyroth weren't unaffected themselves.

"How can anyone find pleasure in this sort of thing?" Leo asked with anger and disgust. "This 'Overlord' has no respect for the lives of others. We must put a stop to this!" The others nodded in agreement.

Things are going to get more intense next time, as our heroes will finally confront Overlord. Don't miss the next chapter or you'll regret it.