Hey guys, usually I don't update this often so this is kinda weird for me. Probably coz I have so many days off and I got to do something with them (they're meant to be used as 'study time' but that's not going to happen). BTW that bite stick thingy is real. I didn't make it up. A friend of mine has some, they use them in the army(I think). Usually they have some kind of pain killer in them. Please forgive me the lousiness previous chapters and any chapters to come. I like to skip between places because I get really bored easily so if that confuses anyone sorry. Don't own the turtles, wish I did coz then I'd be rich and have giant talking turtles.
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He powered through the halls, anyone who got in his way didn't live to apologize. Paths cleared and doors opened for him. Nobody wanted to get on the Shredder's bad side when he was angry. Karai stood on his right, trailing behind him. She was the only one who dared to get that close to the Shredder. Two foot ninja rushed to open the door before he reached them, unfortunately they failed and ended up colliding with the wall as the shredder knocked them out of his way and pushed through the doors.
"Where Are They?!" He yelled in a fit of rage.
Every other scientist in the lab stepped aside to reveal the location of Prof. Perry and Dr. Stockman. The Shredder practically ran towards Prof. Perry and threw him against the wall. He pinned him to the wall, his hands wrapped around the scientist's neck.
"You." Shredder leaned in closer, causing Perry to cower back into the wall. "What is taking you so long?"
"Please, Mister Shredder. You see, this is a very delicate operation we have here. It takes time and patience-"
"Patience! I have run out of patience." He tightened his grip on the mans throat. "I am done waiting. Now tell me, is it ready?"
"...No" He managed to choke out.
"Wrong answer." The shredder raised his hand to strike the cowering man when a voice behind him spoke up.
"Now Shredder, you know these things take time, you can't have a time limit when you're playing God." Baxter Stockman spoke to him as if he were a colleague not a kidnapper. The shredder let go of Prof. Perry, who slide down the wall coughing and spluttering. "Because of the...pressure you've been putting on us, we've made breakthroughs that would usually take years to do, but you can't speed up this process any more than you all ready have."
"You dare tell me what to do?" He walked over to Stockman, who seemed more focused on his work than on the giant metal death threat he was angering.
"No, of course not. I'm just saying do you want this done right or want this done fast?" He lowered his work and stared Shredder in the eye.
"I want it done. And I want it done now."
Dr. Stockman fixed his glasses, giving the Shredder an incredulous look. "Do you remember what happened the last time you tried to rush our work, and the time before that. If you want this done right you have to give us time. You do want to take down those turtles don't you?"
The shredder stared at the doctor for some time before backing off and heading towards the door. "You have one week."
"A week?" Prof. Perry repeated, getting off the floor and going to stand beside his colleague. "But the work we have to do would take a month at the least."
"One week. If your work is not finished by then, you will be." He flung the doors open and walked out without a backwards glance.
"Good luck gentlemen." Karai smiled, closing the door behind them.
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AT THE LAIR:
"And that fluffy kitten played with that piece of string all through the night. Now in other news, police are still baffled by the disappearance of scientists Professor Jordan Perry and Doctor Baxter Stockman. Reports say that police have searched the crime seen several times and found no evidence of the kidnapper. On the subject of the two missing scientists, the police chief had this to say-"
Leonardo switched the TV off before he could hear anymore. "I just don't get it." He told his brother Raph. "How could two well known people just drop off the face of the earth like that?"
"Ya do realize I was watching that?"Raph looked at his brother and knew now wasn't the time to mess with him. "I don't know Leo, they just do. This is New York. weird stuff happens here, you should know that."
"Yes, but the police have been searching for months, we've been searching for months, and neither of us have found anything."
Raph shrugged."Maybe whoever did this didn't want to be found."
"I don't like this Raph." He said, sitting back down on the couch. "I don't like knowing that someones in trouble and there's nothing we can do to help."
"Well" Raphael stood up and faced his brother. "Ya can't win 'em all Leo. I'm hungry. Ya want something to eat?"
"No thanks." his brother said gloomily
Raph walked past him and headed towards the kitchen. That's Leo for ya. He thought. Always trying to save the world. He walked into the kitchen and saw two people sitting at the table. One, of course, was his brother Mikey and the other was their resent addition to their very limited supply of human friends, Mona Lisa. they sat at the table, books and papers spread out in front of them.
"...And an object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by another force. Basically that means that a moving object won't stop until something stops it , i.e. friction or gravity, and motionless object won't move until something moves it, i.e. a push. Oh, hey Raph." She smiled at him as he walked through the door.
"Uh, hey Mona. W-what are ya doing?" His voice was full of confusion as he look back between Mona and Mikey and the massive pile of books between them.
"Teaching Mikey physics." She told him proudly. "He said he wanted to learn some stuff about science and asked if I could teach him."
"Oh yes, science I'm all for it." Mikey as brightly as he could. Raphael knew Mikey better than to think that he actually wanted to learn science. He knew his little brother had some kind of ulterior motive. "Now if you would be so kind as to leave so we could get on with my education. Mona, what was it you were saying about...objects?"
Raph watched his brother grin seductively at Mona. At least, Mikey was trying to. All his attempts to look cool were going completely unnoticed by Mona. Raph, on the other hand, picked up on all the tricks his brother was trying to pull. He let out an annoyed sigh and grabbed Mona by the wrist. "C'mon, I'm taking ya home."
"Why?" She asked as she was pulled out of the kitchen. Raph grabbed her bag off the chair and handed it to her on the way out.
"Coz teaching Science to Mikey is like teaching a parrot to drive."
"OK...um, bye guys" Was all she could say before she was pulled out of the lair.
They walked through the sewers in silence, neither one looking at the other. Raphael stared at the walls and Mona Lisa focused all her attention on her feet. Raph felt like a complete idiot for pulling her out of there so abruptly. He was actually surprised that she hadn't gone off about it yet, usually when he did something stupid like that Mona would stand her ground and give him a piece of her mind. Tonight she was silent.
"Why'd you do it?" She finally said.
"Huh?"Raphael was completely unprepared for talking. Silence he could handle. Yelling, sure. But her just asking him straight out? that took him by surprise.
"Why'd you pull me out of there so fast." She didn't sound angry, just curious.
"Mikey has a crush on you." He finally said.
Mona laughed and shook her head. "You don't think I know that?"
"You do? Then why'd you agree to teach him?"
"Because I wanted to see if I could actually teach him science. If I can teach physics to him, I can teach it to anyone." She said, stretching her arms out in a dramatic fashion. "Plus, it's physics. Who doesn't want to know about physics. Physics is everything. It's how we move, they way we talk, even how you fight. Everything in the universe comes down to physics."
"You are such a nerd." he informed her.
Mona acted offended. "I am not a nerd.....Nerds aren't this pretty." She flicked her hair back to make her point.
He laughed at her. "Good point."
"You think I'm pretty?" She smiled brightly.
"What? No, I didn't say that."
"So you're saying I'm ugly?"
"I didn't say that either."
"Well if I'm not pretty and I'm not ugly then what am I?"
Raph struggled to find words. Why did girls always put guys in awkward positions? "Uhh.....OK?"
"I'm OK? Just OK? Gee, Raph you really know how to flatter a lady."
"Fine, Fine!" Raph threw his hands in the air in defeat. " You're pretty OK? I think you're pretty."
"Aw thanks Doll." Mona hugged him. "Of course it doesn't mean much now that I made you say it."
"ARGH!! Damn Women!" He yelled as Mona skipped off down the sewer.
Mona reached the manhole she now knew led to the alley next to her apartment. She climbed out and waited for Raph on the surface. He took a while due to his mumbling about how he'll ' never understand girls. They're all so weird...'.
"So what do we do now?" She asked him when he finally appeared out of the sewers.
"What do ya mean?" He said, leaning on the fire escape next to her.
"It's a Saturday night. I don't want to be at home by myself on a Saturday night." She said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Don't you got friends?"
"OK, first of all, it's 'don't you have friends' and second of all, yes I do but they're all busy tonight. Why else would I be tutoring Mikey on a Saturday night?"
"If you're always correctin' people like that then it's no wonder you don't have any friends."
"I have friends! They're just busy.....I know, you can hang with me. We'll be gal pals for the night." Mona clapped her hands together excitedly.
Raph shook his head. "I ain't being nobody's gal pal - correct me again and I swear I'll leave right now - and I can't go out, g-"
"Yeah, I know, I know" She cut him off. " 'Giant turtle'." She mimicked his gruff Brooklyn accent. "There has to be something I can do tonight."
A smile flashed across Raph's face. "C'mon."
He grabbed her hand and pulled her up the fire escape and onto the roof. He walked over to an edge and stood there for a while, trying to determine something. Finally he turned and face Mona. "You're a gymnast right?" he asked.
"Yeah and a runner. Why?" Mona seemed skeptical. Whatever Raph was planning didn't sound safe.
He looked from her, to the rooftops, then back again. "How far can you jump?"
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"One, Two, Three!" He called.
They ran towards the edge of the rooftop and jumped off. Raph first, followed closely by Mona. He lead her through the rooftops of the city, to his surprise she was able to keep up pretty well. Of course, Raph had more skill but Mona's athleticism and determination didn't let her down. Raphael made sure the rooftops they traveled on were close. Well, close enough that he didn't need to carry Mona across anyway. She seemed to be doing pretty well, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, landing with the precision and grace of a gymnast. She was fast. Raph could barely match her speed, but since she was knew to rooftop jumping that seemed to slow her down somewhat. He flipped across a rooftop, landing perfectly before running again.
"Show off" Mona called, joining him on the other side. She couldn't pull of any of the fancy tricks Raph could, all she could do was jump and hope to land safely on the other roof.
"Keep up, we're almost there." He called back. Raph saw the final ledge coming up in front of him. He speed up and threw himself off the edge of the building, landing perfectly on the other. "Well, it looks like I won Mona. Mona?"He turned around to see Mona standing on the ledge of the other building looking down. "What are you doing over there?" He yelled out to her.
"Raph, I can't jump this!"
"Yes you can!" he told her. "Just forget everything you know about gravity."
Mona looked at him like he was crazy. "Everything?"
"Everything."
"But I'm a physicist."
"Mona, do you trust me?" She nodded. "Then jump."
She took a deep breath and moved back for a running start. She closed her eyes and lunged towards the edge of the building. Mona flew through the air and didn't open her eyes until she felt her feet against the ground(or in this case, roof). She opened her eyes and beamed at her own accomplishment.
"Very good." Raph nodded. " Now c'mon, we got stuff to do."
He lead he down the side of the building- which turned out to be an old warehouse -and around the corner till he found an old metal door leading inside. The door was locked by one of those computer keypad systems. Raph punched in a code and the door creaked open.
"Close your eyes." He told her.
"What?"
"Just do it." Mona obeyed and Raph led her inside and stood her in the middle of the room. "wait here."
She heard a door close and the sound of a huge machine powering up. All of a sudden she could feel light on her eyelids and hear the gentle hum of machinery.
"Open 'em."
She couldn't believe what she saw. A warehouse full of equipment. Machines, computers, vehicles. All lined up ready to be used, to be fixed, to be experimented with. She walked around the room, taking in the vast array of transportation that was kept there. "This....this is incredible."
Raph scratched the back of his head. "Well, I'd thank ya but Donnie did most of this work."
"Donnie's a genius." She said as if it were some kind of secret. "What is this place?"
"This is just where we keep all our rides and junk. Battleshell. Shellcycle. That kinda stuff."
"You guys just add 'shell' to the front of everything don't you? Kinda like Batman." She mused.
"Yeah, well, I don't name the stuff." He informed her. "Come here, I'll teach ya how to get in so you can come here whenever you want."
Her eyes widened. "I can come here whenever I want? Are you sure your brothers are OK with this, Doll?"
"Course they are. Donnie was thinkin' 'bout showing you this place so you could help him with his work. I just beat him to it."
he headed over to a fuse box over by the door and Mona followed suit. This was by far the coolest place she had ever been and she was not going to miss out on any of it.
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A WEEK LATER:
The doors to the lab flung open and The Shredder, followed by Karai and a small army of foot ninja, burst in.
"Where Is It?!" He yelled.
"These things take time, Shredder. Just give us a few more days please." Prof. Perry begged as the Shredder approached them.
"Is it ready?" He asked menacingly.
"Well, yes and no." Baxter Stockman told him, holding a vile of serum into the light and inspecting it.
"What do you mean?"
Baxter put down the vile and walked over to another work bench. "There are still some kinks, errors, side effects if you will."
"Side effects?" The Shredder looked at Prof. Perry who nodded. "Would still work?"
"Well, theoretically, yes." Perry told him. "But it would be extremely dangerous for the subject in question."
The Shredder looked between the two scientists. "Do it."
"What? Are you crazy?!" Shredder turned and raised his hand at Prof. Perry. "Of course your not crazy. But do you really want to do this. Think of....uh, your foot ninja. You wasted so many lives the last time you tried this experiment on them. Do you really want to risk your best men on an experiment?"
"I can get more me-" The Shredder stopped his tracks as an idea struck him. "No Professor Perry, your right. Experimenting on my own men would be barbaric. I have someone much better in mind."
Perry looked frazzled. "What do you mean? Much better? Who? Shredder, what are you-"
"Silence!" He commanded. "Karai, gather your men. You're going to pay a visit to our old friend at the antique store."
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AHH! What's going to happen? Well, if you ask me it's pretty obvious but that's probably coz I know whats going to happen. If you guys have any ideas for me I'd love to hear them. Sorry this chapter is kinda long. I got slightly carried away with my Raph/Mona moment. The 'Kitten' line in the little news part is from the Simpsons (you gotta love Kent Brockman). Happy Easter my people. I luv you all! xoxo