Everyone had gathered back at the lair, spread around the kitchen. Leo hovered over Don's shoulder as he typed diligently at his laptop, Mikey off to his other side. Kris and Casey sat on the other side of the table to Donnie, Casey still grasping his head, while Raph leaned against the fridge. Kris let out a few moans whenever he shifted in his chair, still sore from his collision with Raph. The tough turtle had seemingly recovered from his injuries, or was simply better than the other two at hiding them.
"My head," Casey moaned. "Raph, ice me." Raph turned and opened the freezer door. Ice Cream Kitty greeted him with a warm meow, an ice pack already in one of her stubbly paws. He held out his hands and their mutant pet tossed the ice into them. Raph turned back to the center of the kitchen and threw the bag of ice at his friend, who caught it seamlessly from the air.
"You should have never got involved, Casey," Raph lectured as Casey place the ice on his head. "Slash and Newtralizer are way too powerful!"
"Those two goons are nothing!" Casey retorted. "They lucked out. Won't happen again." He swept his arm through the air to indicate his determination at making certain his claim will stay true. Raph shook his head at Casey's stubbornness. "And what about Krispie? Does he get a lecture?"
"Way to throw me under the bus," Kris mumbled as his eyes began to glow white, reading Casey's mind. "Should I tell the others how scared you really are?"
"Oh! So now the powers come out!" Casey spat back.
"Did you shape shift into a bear!? No? That must have been me then!"
"Let's focus, people," Leo interrupted. His hands were on his hips as he glared sternly at the three teens arguing. "We got two crazy mutants running around blowing up the streets." Raph had his arms crossed over his chest and returned Leo's glare.
"I think we should shadow the Kraang until they show up," he suggested forcefully.
"Easy," Donnie spoke up, drawing the attention to himself. "Since Slash and the Newtralizer are using Plutonium to power their teleportation, we can look for traces of residual radiation." He gestured to his computer screen to show he had already located several areas that fit his description. The others gathered behind Donnie to view his screen, and just as they did, a digital worm crawled through the map and began eating the small, red dots that indicated the radiated locations. "Mikey!" Donnie whined. "Would you stop eating the Kraang locations?"
"Hold on, D," Mikey responded, working the joystick that controlled the worm game on Don's computer. "I'm about to get the high score! Ah!" Donnie ripped the controller out of his younger brother's hands while frowning aggressively at his childish antics. "Aww," Mikey whined as a series of sad beeps emitted from the game, indicating that he had lost.
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The two Kraang-droids walked their post line, guarding the alien base with guns at the ready. Suddenly, Slash and Newtralizer appeared on either side of the Kraang. They attacked quickly, barely leaving the Kraang enough time to shout out "intruders!" before tearing apart their robotic shells. One of the Kraang attempted to flee on tentacles, but only managed to climb out of the suit's chest cavity before Newtralizer was upon him. The Kraang's wrinkled face contorted with fear before Newtralizer struck it and it went flying across the room and over a rail.
"Let's do this," Slash told Newtralizer excitedly, making a determined fist.
"First we find Kraang communications," Newtralizer instructed. "Then we blow this place to raka raka raka raka!" He finished in his alien tongue, lifting his head to the sky in a pre-victory cry.
"Blow this place?" Slash repeated in confusion, before shaking his head. "Too dangerous. What about the humans out on the street?"
Newtralizer snarled, displeased with Slash's response, "Remember the day we met? The vow?" The memory came back to both of them. Slash had been captured by the Kraang and was being led down one of the slick, white hallways of their base, strapped into a set of alien cuffs that restrained his head and both hands. Newtralizer dropped down from above, surprising the Kraang, and took out all the droids. Slash took the opportunity to knock out the two guards on either side of him, using the large cuffs as a weapon. With all the Kraang down, it was just Slash and Newtralizer. The alien newt approached the turtle mutant, and Slash cowered slightly, not knowing what this stranger's intentions were. Newtralizer pulled out a weapon and raised it above his head. Slash closed his eyes and shrunk down further, bracing for what he thought was the end. Newtralizer struck, but only to disable the cuffs. Slash opened his eyes and realized the alien had freed him.
"I owe you one. The name's Slash," he told the Newtralizer. The alien replied with a string of his alien language. "I can't understand you," Slash confessed. The Newtralizer lifted his wrist to adjust his language translator, needing to hit it a few times to get it to click.
"I had to help you," the Newtralizer spoke in English. "These are the most insidious aliens in the ten dimensions. They imprisoned me. They tortured me. I have made a vow never to rest until I annihilate all of them."
Slash put out his hand, "I'm with you brother. Destroy the Kraang at any cost." Newtralizer took his hand, having learned that on this planet it meant friendship, and they shook on the vows they had made that day.
Back in the present, Newtralizer reminded Slash of that vow, "At any cost. Right, brother?" He snarled, as if warning Slash against making the wrong choice. But Slash nodded, and the two of them got back to work.
Outside, the turtle brothers, Casey and Kris leapt down onto the buildings fire escape. "You think this is the place?" Leo asked Don, before a purple glow began seeping from one of the windows. Loud noises were heard coming from inside, such as lasers and clashing metal. A Kraang-droid was thrown through a window, landing in the alley outside. He sat up, picked up his gun and dove back into the building through the window he had just been thrown out of.
"Either that, or there's one bangin' party going on in there," Mikey commented, throwing his arms around like a DJ.
"Come on, guys. Let's do this," Casey spoke up, pulling his mask down over his large grin.
"Whoa, whoa, hold up," Raph said, pulling his friend back. "Who invited you on this stakeout, anyway?"
"Casey Jones invited himself!" Casey replied, pulling away from Raph's loose hold. Kris rolled his eyes. For a human, he was certainly determined to put himself in the most danger possible.
"You sure that was such a good idea?" Kris asked him flatly. "You haven't exactly been succeeding in fights."
"At least I'm actually doing something, instead of watching from the sidelines," Casey spat back.
"Would you get off my back about that!?" Kris all but growled.
"Then get off mine, power boy," Casey hissed.
"Dude. My codename is Mayhem." Kris glared at the human teen, his eyes beginning to glow white in intimidation before Raph placed a hand on both their chests and pushed them apart.
"You both better can it or I'll kick both your butts back to the lair," he spoke roughly.
"How about we all stop talking, so we don't give away our position to the Kraang," Leo suggested angrily, glowering at all three of them. Casey, Kris and Raph averted their eyes from their leader's stare, disappointed in themselves for almost letting an argument as silly as this one take away their element of surprise.