Michelangelo stepped into the room and as the others filed in, Master Splinter and I got too our feet and faced them.
"These are my sons. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello." He said, gesturing to each one as he said their name. The four of them were watching me closely, as if attempting to look through my disguise.
"And who is he?" The red masked turtle, Raphael, said, distrust in his voice.
My mind raced as I realized that I didn't have a name to provide them with. Picking the first name that came to mind, I answered. "You may call me Shadow."
"Shadow, great. Ultimate cliché time now." I thought to myself as Splinter glanced at me, then began to speak to the four.
"As you have probably realized by now, Shadow is the one you met at the warehouse. He came here in order to find out if he could trust us, for he seeks to aid this city as well." He looked at each turtles face, before continuing.
"Shadow recently witnessed the acquisition of unknown chemicals from a government laboratory. Normally this would not be too much of a cause for concern, except for the extraordinary lengths the Foot Clan went to in order to make sure we did not find out about their mission. We've come to the conclusion that this most certainly has something to do with Shredders' capture."
The turtles glanced at each other at Shredders' name. "What can we do then, Sensei?" The blue masked turtle, Leonardo, asked.
"For now? Nothing." Splinter replied. "We can only wait for the Foot Clan to make their move. Then we must attack swiftly and strike hard."
"…we may not need to wait for them to make the first move." I spoke. All five of them looked at me, waiting for me to speak. I looked at each of them, then began. "The Foot Clan has a headquarters beneath Chinatown. It was there that I found out about the mission to retrieve the chemicals." I paused, and Donatello took my moment of silence to speak up.
"We could sneak in, hack into their database, and discover every one of their plans for the next year."
I nodded. "Exactly, and more specifically, where Shredder is and when they are planning on freeing him."
"Hold on. How exactly are you planning on getting us, four large turtles, into a terrorist facility without being noticed?" Raphael asked, crossing his arms.
I shook my head. "We're not, I'm going alone. You four would just increase our chances of getting caught.
"And what if you are caught? What'll you do then?"
I crossed my arms as I looked the turtle in the eyes. "I won't get caught. And if they do notice my presence, I'll escape. I'm not defenseless."
Only a little bit later, I was making my way down the hallway towards the hidden entrance once more. Despite my assurance that I would do just fine, Master Splinter had still insisted that I wear a tracker in case I was found. That way, if I was captured, I would be able to send out a distress signal and the turtles would come running.
"I'll have to make sure they didn't put a more permanent tracker on me." I thought to myself as I unlocked the door, then shoved it open.
I blinked for a moment in the light before realizing that the room was not empty. A woman sat at the desk right in front of me, and on the other side of the desk stood five armed terrorists, all of which seemed very surprised to see me.
Taking advantage of their surprise, I threw my arms out to the side, causing their guns to fly out of their hands and slide across the ground, then I took two steps and jumped across the table, using my momentum to kick the first soldier in the stomach and throw him into the man on his right. Quickly I dodged a punch from a soldier to the left and kicked his kneecap, bringing a scream from him as his leg broke before grabbing him by the throat and throwing him at the far left soldier. Hearing the click of a gun behind, I turned quickly, grabbed the stapler on the desk, then hurled it at the man's head before he could aim the gun at me.
He toppled to the ground instantly as both men who had been hit by their comrades got to their feet and ran at me. I ducked as they both threw a punch at me, causing them to hit each other's fists. "Nice…" I muttered as they both doubled over in pain. I quickly delivered a fast punch to each of their heads, then turned to face the woman.
Time slowed once more as I realized there was a foot flying at my head. Instead of dodging the attack, I grabbed the leg and threw the woman at the wall.
She cried out in pain as she hit the wall, but quickly got back to her feet and charged me.
"Wow…" I thought to myself as I swiftly blocked her flurry of attacks. "She is so much better at fighting then her soldiers. That must be embarrassing for them."
I sidestepped as she tried to punch me and chopped her windpipe, causing her to gasp for breath, then punched her in the forehead. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head, then she dropped to the ground, out cold.
"Now, time to find Shredder." I said as I stepped through the door into the empty hallway beyond and closed the door behind me. As an extra precaution, I used telekinesis to jam the lock so no one could get in.
Using the absence of people in the hallway to my advantage, I quickly ran to the room in which I had hacked the database before.
"Alright, let's see if he's learned how to sign out yet." I said to myself as I turned the computer monitor on. Still signed in. I mentally facepalmed as I logged on to the database and began to search it for any missions relating to Shredder.
"If anyone ever hires this guy, I will personally send them a letter and tell them that this guy will be the most likely person to accidentally release company secrets to rival companies." I muttered as I scrolled through the list of upcoming jobs. Nothing. There wasn't even a mission about breaking people out of a facility anywhere. The mission must be kept such a secret that the organization didn't even trust it's own database to keep it safe.
"Where would a terrorist group keep it's most secret plans…" I wondered as I pulled up a map of the facility on the computer.
As the map loaded, I realized that the hideout was a whole lot bigger than I originally thought. Below the floor I was on, was a large area called the hangars. It was on this level that there were passages leading up to the surface. Below this, there were 5 more levels of offices before it turned in to a large storage facility.
"I can't possibly search this whole place. There has to be something easier…"
I flinched as an alarm began to blare through the facility. "That was incredibly fast…" I said, surprised, as I went to the door and looked out.
It was the same woman, now with a large purple bruise on her forehead. "We cannot delay any longer." She said to the soldiers standing with her, the fury in her eyes hot enough to start a fire. She seemed pretty pissed about being beat up.
"It's time to initiate the plan. Gather everyone. This ends now." With that, she turned and walked down the stairs, the men right behind her. As soon as the last soldier's head disappeared down the steps, I slipped out of the room and went to the junction of the hallways.
I looked at the office where the woman had come from, then at the stairs. Instinct told me to leave out the secret entrance, but something told me that the plan the woman was speaking about involved Shredder. And I would need to follow them.
Making a quick decision, I turned and went down the stairs. I descended two flights of steps before it opened up onto a small balcony overlooking a huge warehouse like area filled with a ton of different cars ranging from military trucks to semi's and even jeeps.
I turned as I spotted the woman walking towards a raised section of the large area.
"All combat personnel please report to Hangar One." A voice said over a loudspeaker system. Almost immediately, an large amount of soldiers began to walk towards the same raised area.
Realizing this was the perfect opportunity to sneak down to the ground level of the stairs without anyone looking, I quickly ran down the stairs and hid behind a truck. Spotting a lone soldier, I waited for him to turn away from my direction, then stepped out from behind the truck and ran up silently behind him.
I took a quick glance to make sure there was no one around to see, then slammed my fist into the back of his head. He crumpled without a sound, and I grabbed him before he hit the ground and carried him to a nearby storage closet.
After stripping him of his uniform and putting it over mine, I tied his hands and feet and gagged him, before stepping out of the closet with his assault rifle in hand and locked it behind me.
Quickly, I jogged towards the other side of the hangar where I could hear the woman speaking.
"… and we will free Shredder from his captors, and he will restore us to our true glory!" I heard as I stepped up behind two of the other men and watched the woman from the office give her speech.
"She seems just a little crazy." I thought as I watched her, but surprisingly, the men seemed to be really into it. "So… crazy following crazy then. Sounds great."
"For the Foot Clan!" She shouted, and the men followed suit like parrots.
"FOR THE FOOT CLAN!" They all yelled, raising their guns to the ceiling as the cheer filling the space with noise. As the noise died down, the soldiers began to separate as they began heading to vehicles.
Spotting the woman through the crowd, I made my way through the mass of bodies and followed her to a military truck. If I was going to find Shredder, I had a feeling I wanted to be with the one in command.
And now, I was a member of the Foot Clan.