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Alycat3- thanks for the review, I always thought why they didn't help the resistance at the end.
Fandom's white knight- thank you the review and your advice, I understand you are trying to help me and not hinder or upset me, thank you. I know I don't have the best of grammar, I'll re read over all my chapters from now on. You made a point of why the Ultimate Draco is only punishing Donatello. I wrote in the summary at the start that this is an alternative reality where Donnie vanishes and leaves the others. Bit confusing yes but 30 years later Mikey blames Donnie for leaving them. It was the best way of making Donnie disappear for 30 years. I know Mikey is not a bum, just trying to make him seem lazy and as for Raph he was angry at Leonardo. I am sorry also that, yes as you pointed out, the reader can not read my mind. Thank you again for the advice, means a lot.
Chapter 6
April 1st 2005
For the past week the atmosphere turtle's layer was one of solemn and depression, a week had gone without any clues to Donatello's whereabouts. The group were still searching for Donatello, April had hacked into the FBI main frame searching for anything that related to a giant green turtle, but unfortunately had no luck. Although, she did find several files about super soldiers, but that's a different story altogether. The Professor had called on all homeless in the surrounding states to help, one thing about the homeless community was that they all stuck together. Well the fact that they were looking for a giant green turtle was kept a secret, the turtles enemies could easily take advantage of the turtles with a man, ahem, turtle down. The homeless, outside of the professor's trusted that is, were told to keep their ears and eyes open for someone called Donatello who carried a large stick on his back.
The sewers had been thoroughly searched through with the help of Leatherhead, the fact that he made invented several ingenious devices helped a lot. Leatherhead had attached mini cameras to sewer rats, yes that may seem very weird but rats do go everywhere within the sewer system. There isn't a single place that is devoid of rats, hence the cameras. He also had hacked into the camera system of New York, unfortunately he had no luck.
Tensions were running high as everyone, mainly Raph and Leo, were constantly at each others throats blaming one another for Donatello vanishing.
Within the turtle's layer everyone had their own methods of reducing stress, for Splinter it was obvious and he mediated for several hours. Leonardo simply trained using his swords, training with either new or old techniques. Raphael did one of two things, he either beat his poor punching bag into submission or went out with Casey and played beat up the purple dragons game.
Mikey had a very different approach. One of the modifications Donatello had made to the lair their own personal skate park. On several occasions Mikey had almost been spotted by the humans when he decided to go for a skate up top causing Bishop to go after him in force, but that's an entirely different story.
"Cowabunga dude!"
Mikey was currently on the half pipe, enjoying his time alone before Leo and Raph woke up and started bickering. The prankster turtle smiled to himself, after it all it is April fools day, the layer and its inhabitants could use some laughter. A 180 flip was followed by a kick flip, making a hell of a racket in the process waking the others at the same time.
"What on earth is going on?" cried Raph.
The red banded turtle exited his room on the second floor and came out to stand on the ledge looking down at his brother looking very annoyed.
"Hiya Raph," smiled Mikey whilst standing on one of his hands with the board in the air. "How are you doing?"
"Just marvellous," muttered Raph, feeling far too tired to wake up at this time.
Raphael smiled at the thought of last night, beating up members of the purple dragons with Casey. The joys the little things in life bring.
Jumping off the ledge with an expert back flip, and another one to show off and landed with ease on the floor.
"Beating up punks sure builds up an appetite," said Raph to no one in particular.
Walking up to the kitchen area, he grabbed some cereal and opened it to find a big surprise.
BOOOM
The packet exploded sending a blue substance all over the place, most of it ending up on Raph's front. The sound of Mikey's high pitched laughed echoed round the lair as Raph stood there speechless but his anger was building up.
"April fools!" laughed Mikey.
BOOOM
"Michelangelo!" screamed Leo.
From his room Leo entered covered in a red substance, most likely paint. By this point Mikey was rolling on the floor laughing hysterically.
BOOOM
From Splinter's room, the doors opened revealing a giant rat covered in white paint, Splinter looked rather calm considering the situation. Raph's anger got the better of him and charged at Mikey who was still rolling on the floor laughing his head off. Right before reaching Mikey something happened to Raph, one of the most primitive traps caught out Raph. A rope with a loop at the end snared Raph and pulled sending him flying up into the air.
"Get me down from here!" cried Raph, whilst dangling from the ceiling.
"I got you again! April fools dude,"
BANG CLANK
Leonardo made the fatal mistake of coming down onto the lower level with the others. Sitting on the sofa, the pillow exploded sending Leo flying up into the air onto a magnet. Since Leo had his swords on his back the magnet held onto his swords, Leo flailed madly trying to get lose but with no luck.
You can say what you want about Mikey but he can sure put a lot of time and effort into pranks. April fools was his favourite day of the year, besides Christmas that is.
Splinter made the wise choice of staying where he was, he still remembered what happened last year. Let's just say Mikey's prank involved super glue and a lot of feathers. Even though they lived in the sewer Mikey, surprisingly was able to get his hands on lots of resources.
"Michelangelo, get us down from here at once!" ordered Leo.
Unfortunately for Leo and Raph, Mikey was busy rolling on the floor laughing his head off.
"Get me down from here now!" screamed Raph, getting very annoyed.
"Not yet," said Mikey, in between fits of laughter, "I need to get my camera."
Raph's temper got the better of him once more and grabbed one of his sais and sliced through the rope. What he didn't consider was the landing part. Raph dropped onto the tables, effectively smashing it to smithereens, not that actually stopped him.
"Oops," muttered Mikey as Raph approached him.
"You're a dead turtle," snarled Raph, ready to punch the living daylights out of him.
Mikey ran for his life as Raph chased after him, one of his sais was still produced and looked very annoyed.
"Got you!"
Raph tackled him around the legs, the pair went crashing into the TV making it explode into a million pieces. The TV would have to replaced, once again.
"Now you're gonna pay!"
Mikey was on his back looking up at Raph who was about to punch him, unfortunately Raph being so angry he had forgotten that he was holding sai in that hand.
"Raphael!" shouted Leo, grabbing Raph's hand with the sai, just in the nick of time.
Leo had managed to get out of his April fools trap, his swords were still clinging to the magnet, and had rushed over to save Mikey. That was the bad thing about Raph's temper, he always lost sight of important facts that would determine the outcome of events.
Raph stopped trying to attack Mikey, his anger died down as he realised what he was about to do. Leo released his brother's hand as the red banded turtle relaxed.
"Raphael, that was irresponsible of you, you could have killed Mikey."
In a flash the situation turned very hostile as both Raph and Leo were on their feet and at each others throats.
"He deserved it! He's goofing off like there's not a problem. Well I got news for you, our brother is missing."
"Trying to kill your other brother won't make things better!"
"I…"
"Control your anger or you're off the team until you learn to control it,"
Raph's anger came back in a flash, in a few seconds Raph had pushed Leo up to the wall and held his sai up against his neck. Mickey was still on the floor looking very shocked, his plan to cheer everyone up had severely back fired.
"Raphael," came the voice of Splinter.
The old rat glared at his son for his inappropriate behaviour, the glare seemed to dot he trick as Raph looked ashamed of himself.
"I… I'm going for a run," muttered Raph.
Ignoring the fact that he was still covered in blue paint and that it was broad daylight, he took off to the city for roof jumping.
"I'm sorry," muttered Mikey as he accepted a hand up from Leo.
"It's not your fault, I know you're trying to have fun. Just cool it on the jokes." Said Leo as he went in search of food in the kitchen area.
"Don't open the fridge…"
BOOOM
"MICKEY!"
Across the city, within the Shredder's palace the mood was somewhat different than the turtles. The smell of fear was ripe in the air as the inhabitants steered clear of Shredder, Karai and Hun. Everyone naturally evaded the Shredder due to his latest project wasn't on schedule, the man had a fiery temper and had no patience. Who ever crossed the man when annoyed would most likely end up dead. Karai was just as bad as her farther, she wanted what he wanted. And she wanted the project back on track, even if that meant bullying the poor souls in the labs to hurry up. As for Hun, whenever there was a setback, the man was always on the receiving end of the Shredder's punishments. When Hun got punished, he punished his men. Essentially, a loop where every one punished one another in fear of being punished themselves. Not exactly the best environment to be working in.
The project relied heavily upon Baxter Stockman and Dr Chaplin in the labs but it was the others task to bring in resources for them. Unfortunately, for the duo scientist they had not made enough progress to please the Shredder. Their task was to duplicate the micro chip which actually held the most advanced AI system in the world. The chip once belonging to the federation but was acquired after the invasion by Bishop and the earth protection force.
When I say acquired I naturally mean stolen when all hell broke lose where no one was paying attention to the people on earth. In Bishop's mind he did deserve the chip considering the general had promised him the technology, but unfortunately for him the Shredder now had it.
The Shredder wanted a machine with the AI chip to replace his men in the foot clan, he was thoroughly annoyed at the foot's continued failures. Humans make mistakes, machines can not, at least that is the Shredder's logic.
Down in the lower labs of the Shredder's palace, three stories below ground level to precise, two people were still working to perfect one of the machines with not much luck. Unfortunately for the pair earth's technology was far too primitive to duplicate such a powerful chip, but the Shredder wouldn't hear of any excuses.
"This is impossible," muttered Dr Chaplin.
"Well perhaps if you worked as much as you talked, then maybe we could get somewhere with this," replied Stockman.
Out of anybody in the building, Baxter Stockman wanted this project to a success. For one reason he was fed up with losing body parts for failures, if this failed then what was left to take? He was essentially a brain in a jar within a robotic suit. Plus if this succeeded then maybe the Shredder would allow him to pursue his more… personal side projects.
Unknown to the pair, the Shredder was making a surprise inspection. Yes the man was cruel, it is his nature to be so.
Ding
The lift to the labs stopped and the doors opened, Stockman and Dr Chaplin turned their attention to the lift expecting the worst. Oroku Saki was flanked by his daughter Karai and his most loyal servant Hun. Behind the trio were several foot tech ninja, all geared and armoured up as if they were preparing for a fight.
"Master Oroku Saki," said Dr Chaplin, bowing his head.
Stockman stayed silent but acknowledged the Shredders presence. The lab was a complete mess, the entire place was filled with bits of machine parts and blueprints scattered across the place. Several Karai legion bots stood to one side with several others in the stages of being upgraded. At the far end of the lab several machines were in place for one purpose only, duplicating the chip. In the dead centre of the room stood something under a large sheet, most likely a surprise for the Shredder.
"Dr Chaplin, report."
"Duplicating the chip is proving most difficult, we lack the proper technology to do so…"
"I want solutions to my project, not excuses."
The glare from Oroku Saki would make anyone shrivel in fear, the two scientists were used to the man's threats and glares.
"We have made a prototype but have not tested it…" muttered Dr Chaplin.
"Show me."
Stockman stayed where he was as Chaplin walked over to the centre of the room where something was covered by a sheet.
"This is a modified Karai legion bot, upgraded with a duplicate chip."
The good doctor pulled back the sheet revealing the new and improved legion bot, the structure was similar to the older version but with many changes. The legion bot was in the colour of the tech ninjas with the foot symbol on the upper left chest plate. The bot also had a large single katana on its back with a strange device on its right arm. Around the wrist was some sort of Gatling gun with at least nine barrels.
"Not bad," muttered Oroku, staring at the bot up and down.
"It also has some unique features such as this,"
Clicking his fingers, the bot touched its foot symbol and vanished into thin air. Invisibility, the greatest weapon on earth.
"The bot is able to predict and think like any human being, in a fight the bot learns at a tremendous speed meaning the enemy makes the same move twice and he or she is dead. But we are not sure if the duplicate chip can handle this strain, we haven't tested it…"
"So it needs a field test," smiled Oroku, "I have just the thing."
Karai stepped forwards and placed a photo on the desk before the bot and the two scientists. The photo showed a giant green turtle with a red mask leaping across the roof tops of New York City, taken several minute ago.
"Legion bot, destroy him."
The bots eyes glowed red as it smashed its fist down onto the desk destroying the picture along with the desk.
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