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Chapter 5: Complications

"YOU DID WHAT?" Oroku Saki demanded as the foot he had sent on a special mission that had been far away stood before him.

The leader muttered "Well, we just thought that..." but Saki intervened.

"YOU SHOULDNEVERASSUME! I GAVE YOU AN ORDER AND YOU HAVE FAILED" he looked at them and turned away. "You must be punished" he said coolly as he sat back down. Another group of foot grabbed them and dragged them away much to their protests.

"Damn those insolent..." he stopped as Baxter Stockman entered the room. He almost jumped up. "Did you find out? Is she..." he stopped and Baxter answered the half question.

"No. Technically speaking at least" he almost tried to cover himself as if he was worried he was wrong. Stockman was uneasy, as he knew what the Shredder did to those who displeased him; he had already been punished which had resulted in him loosing an eye, his left arm and his legs. He now knew he had little chance if he failed the Shredder again.

"WHAT exactly do you mean by that?" Saki demanded.

"Well, I have found no signs of a teenage girl perishing in the area, she has been reported missing but that's about it" he cut himself off. Saki frowned at him as a signal to continue. "The thing is that the scans of the location picked up a strange energy signature, which..."

He stopped again as Saki interrupted, "Which leads to? Your conclusion Dr. Stockman" he scowled again.

"It means that she is still alive, but I can't tell you where or even when" he finished.

"All right Stockman, you may leave now" Saki calmly said to him. Baxter Stockman hurried out as if trying not to push his luck.

As soon as he had left, Saki got changed into his armour. His alternate persona, the Shredder stood there minutes later. He left out a secret elevator at the back of his office to a temple that was rather foggy. It had five symbols around representing fire, wind, water, earth and metal. He summoned the foot mystics, each appearing in their own way. "Find her!" he demanded and the mystics all disappeared. The Shredder laughed to himself as he walked back to the elevator to go back up to his office.

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A girl awoke in a forest full of nature's beauty and calmness. She walked to a river to see herself but jumped back at the sight of herself. It was Violet, she was human again. She gazed into the water again to make sure she was seeing herself properly. She was confused but more upset as she had been getting used to living with the turtles. Had she dreamt it? Where was she?

She looked around, as a flame appeared that took on the form of a small, red armoured guy. She blinked at him in confusion but backed off as she saw the symbol engraved in the armour. Another short guy emerged from the ground whose armour seemed to be made of mud. A gust of wind caught Violet's hair as another appeared in a whirlwind, only in white armour. The river gushed out as a very wet looking blue armoured one appeared. Finally there was a shudder in the ground as another landed from nowhere who was in silver armour.

"We have come for you, Violet!" the red armoured one spoke out as flames engulfed him.

She was desperate for an escape route but there was none. The elements themselves seemed to be after her. A bolt of lightning hit her all of a sudden and she was a turtle again, but wasn't wearing that mysterious pink mask.

"What is going on here?" she shouted out. The five mystics sort of dissolved as they laughed at her. The scenery around her was dissolving too. She was left alone in the darkness.

She began to hear someone, unfamiliar but not scary, maybe a little intimidating though. She felt herself on a cold floor as she began to wake up. She was in another study, but this was very different to the one she had seen before. This was riddled with weapons and many Japanese antiques. In front of her was a desk, which behind it was a man kneeling on a pillow.

"Hello, Violet" he spoke to her.

"Who are you?" she was confused "and for that matter, where am I?" she continued, looking at him suspiciously.

"A little cranky are we?" he asked almost sarcastically. "I am Oroku Saki, and you are in my office, my study" he continued to look unsurprised by any of her actions. She was looking around angrily at the symbol she kept seeing.

"So you're the one that hunted me? From my home, my family!" she held back the tears as she persisted. "You forced me to have to start a new family, then you took me from them! What sort of monster are you?" She was so angry; she stood up and was restrained by several foot ninjas almost immediately.

"Do you know why you're here?" he asked her calmly, ignoring the last comment she had made.

She continued to fight the foot restraining her, "NO!" she shouted out while scowling at him.

"What a shame" he carried on "You're the key to my plans, with you I shall gain the ultimate power!" he laughed at the thought of it. "I am the Shredder! You will help me if you like it or not" he threatened before ordering his foot ninjas to lock her up.

As she was dragged away, she heard the Shredder say something about all turtles being insolent. She was taken downstairs to a small room where her wrists and ankles were chained down. She cursed as she thought to herself 'I need to contact the turtles, somehow...'