Hello, folks! Sorry for the late update, but anyway! Here is the fifth chapter! I hope you all will like! And again, sorry for the late update...
Here's the key:
"hello" = talking
"hello" = thinking
We were just... = Flashback
'I say...' = Thinking in flashback
"Hello" = talk in flashback
Be warned that the key may change through the story or for specific chapters, so I highly recommend to read the key of every chapter
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Plumber between Ninjas, 5ยบ chapter: Turtles and Alien against Squirrelanoids!
It all turned into chaos!
The squirrel had multiplied itself inside that homeless guy's stomach, ran away, one tried to attack Mistress Splinter, the other made its way into Rafh's stomach, multiplied themselves again and now they suddenly turned themselves into some kind of alien, with a tongue that had a mouth of its own and the lights are out! And the worst part: they are trying to eat them alive!
Oh, and of course, Miky keep mentioning facts about her comic book...
The turtles and Mistress Splinter reunited in their living room, where Donna had the idea of sending Metal-Head to a reconnaissance mission across the sewers
"Mistress Splinter, I say there is some kind of lesson here, like, brains over bravery or something" Donna, who was controlling the robot, smugly said to her teacher while they watch the sewers through the television, completely ignoring what their teacher previously told teaching
"I say that pride comes before arrogance. And arrogance comes before the fall" Splinter returned calmly, making Donna pout as she returned her attention back to the TV
Miky, who was constantly looking through her comic and the TV, until it looked like she found something out and closed her eyes "Not gonna say it happens in my comic" Then she opened her eyes, picked up her comic and said in a whispered voice, as if telling a secret "It happens in my comics" However, a piercing squeal is suddenly heard
"What was that?" Raph asked as Donna moved the camera to find the source, when they saw it! One of the mutated squirrels in the corner of one of the sewers' tunnels
The girls approach closer to the TV, even Splinter wanted to see what would happen
Out of the blue, one of the mutated squirrels appeared upside down and then a green flash of light, before they lost the signal and only static stayed on the screen
Leona and Miky show worried looks, Splinter and Raph surprised ones, and Donna looked confused
Miky whispered something from her comic before her face showed a panicked look "Oh man!" She said
Donna walked to the television and touched the screen, before hugging it "Don't worry, little pal! I'll make it all better"
The others turtles looked a little... 'surprised' at their sister's worried over a robot while Splinter got up and, calm as ever, simply said "I do not want to say I was right, but-" She closed her eyes as she held her growing smile down "I was right"
The turtles now had no choice but to... go and search for the squirrels... by themselves!
The four turtles were walking through the tunnels of the sewers. Donna was in the front, trying to find the squirrels using her Mutagen Tracker, behind her was Leona holding a flashlight, Raph behind her looking bored, and last but not least, Miky holding the second flashlight and looking around fearfully, until she ran into Raph, who almost punched her, but instead the red masked turtle just pocked Miky and took the flashlight from her
They arrived and the end of the tunnel, where they looked down at one of the various falls in the sewers
Raph decided to starts a conversation
"What are we suppose to do when we find those Squirrelanoids monsters?"
Miky knew the answer "Don't worry, they will find us"
Raph deadpanned "You always know just the right thing to say..."
"I'm picking up strong reading from both tunnels!" Donna informed her sisters, standing between two tunnels, one to the left, the other to the right
"Then we split up" Leona decided, worrying Miky
"Again?! Didn't you guys get-!""But this time in teams, okay?" Leona interrupted
Miky blinked once... twice before she returned to the conversation "It is still splinting up! We're toast! Game over, girl, game over..." She finished in despair
Leona ignored her sister's despair thought "This way, Donna" The leader said walking away. Donna shrugged and then followed Leona
Raph didn't like the plan very much "Sure, you take the girl with the tracking device!" The red masked turtle said, heading to the other tunnel "Come on, Miky" She growed
With Raph and Miky
The split up team of Miky and Raph went to one of the of the sewers, where they were searching for the, as Raph called them, Squirrelanoids
"So..." Raph, started, calling Miky "How did they defeat the aliens on your comic book?"
"Oh, so now you wanna know?" Miky rhetorically asked "Well, first the aliens pick the crew one by one, sucking their faces off until there is only one... remain... survivor..."
Raph, who was freaked out by that, said with widen eyes "Sorry I asked..."
A noise was heard! It was like... a squirrel!
"Wait!" The two sisters got startled by that "You heard that?" Raph asked they searched the area frantically
With Leona and Donna
Donna's tracking device was beeping like crazy, and that was making the two girls nervous
The Squilonoids must be near
The two sisters started looking around, trying to find the mutants without any surprises
They heard something "Over there!" Leona whispered while Donna checked with her tracker, it was beeping stronger and faster, almost as much as their fear was growing
Leona suddenly turned and looked behind her
Nothing... She sighed in relief
"I don't see anything" Leona said to Donna, unfortunately, none of them looked up, to the ceiling
A Squirrelanoids slowly reaches its claws, ready to catch Donna, who was distracted with her tracker while Leona was checking the sewer's tunnels
Luckly, Donna's Guardian Angel was there to save her, as what could only be described as a whip made entire out of water, hit the mutated squirrel's head, sending it to the ground, far from the turtles
Donna and Leona, scared by the sudden appearance of their enemies, got into a fighting stance and looked behind to see what had saved them
It was red, mollusc-like being with green eyes. It didn't look like it has a mouth, at least not one that moves. Behind its legs and on the top of his arms there are small spikes that are coloured grey. On his shoulder and legs, there are black spots. On his hands there port holes, which are probably from where the water whip came from, as it was outstretched. Its hand had only four clawed fingers and on each one of its feet, there is a grey spike. Its lower torso is grey, with two spikes on the side of them...
And in the middle of its chest, there was the all too familiar green hourglass symbol, which could only mean one thing
"Ben?!" Leona and Donna yelled, albeit for different reasons, the first yelled because of the surprised of finding the hero in the sewers, the later yelled, or in a better term, squealed because of the happiness of seeing Ben again
Ben, in his Water Hazard alien form, waved, since he couldn't smile in this form "Good to see you again" He then looked behind him "Now run! The other one is coming!" He said as he started running, as did the turtles girls, just as the second Squirrelanoid appeared
As they were running, Donna tried to start a conversation with Ben "So... What is the name of this alien?" She asked, trying to stay calm while running for her life
"Well, this one I call Water Hazard, you've already seen why" He joked as Donna chuckle and Leona tried to not giggle at the told in a completely wrong time joke
The blue masked turtle recomposed herself, then said in a forced upset tone "Seriously? You two will be doing this now? Shouldn't we, erm, I don't know, run for our lives or something like that?" She asked sarcastically
Donna was about to return "Well, I think you should be aware that maybe there will not be another ti-" But Ben/Water Hazard interrupted her "Turtles on the way!" He exclaimed as he halted to a stop
Leona and Donna were confused by that as they looked at each other 'What was that suppose to mean?' They thought. When they finally looked to what was in front of them, they understood what Ben meant: Raph and Miky were in their way, and neither Leona nor Donna had time to slow down, and Miky and Raph weren't able to dodge
The result: they crashed and land on the land of earth painfully while Ben flinched 'That must had hurt...' He thought as he jumped to see if the turtles were okay
The four sisters finally recomposed themselves and started to get up "So that was what he meant with 'turtles on the way', ouch..." Leona and Donna said as they finally got on their feet
"Are you all okay?" Ben asked, and he got his answer as Miky appeared in front of him with starts in her eyes and a blush on her face
"I knew you would keep your promise! You showed me the Water Hazard! You're Booyakashaly awesome!" She squealed
Ben chuckle, and would have thanked her if the Squirrelanoids hadn't showed up and surrounded them
Ben, Leona, Raph and Donna got ready for battle. Miky hid behind Ben and said in a squeal "They will crack our shell like nuts... Wait, Water Hazard has a shell or an armour?" Miky asked Ben
"An endoskeleton, to say the truth" Ben answered, making Miky nod in understanding
A blood red tick mark appeared on Raph's forehead
"Does it matter?!" Raph angrily screamed "If we are really going to die then we might as well go down in the flames of glory!"
The turtles screamed as they all went to the attack, so did Ben, only he did it silently
Donna jumped and attacked one of the Squirrelanoids, giving it a horizontal slash and sending it a few feet back. She started to spin her staff as she got ready to attack again
Leona ran towards her enemy and jumped, ready to slash it, had it not evade, but thinking quickly, Leona slashed a pipe and hot vapour hit the Squirrelanoid
Miky was dodging the attacks of the third Squirrelanoid, however, just as one attack was about to hit, a sai pined the claw to the stairs, allowing Miky to get away from the squirrel. Both turtle and squirrel looked to the direction where the sai came from, only to see Raph smirking as she pointed with her thumb to what was right next to her: Water Hazard with his hands pointed to the squirrel, ready to attack
The alien only said, in a threatening voice, one thing "Get away from her" Then he launched high pressurized water at the Squirrelanoid, pressing it against the wall before sending it sky high, keeping it in the ceiling for a few seconds before letting it fall flat on its face on the hard floor
The squirrel did got up, but it was limping a little and trying to get away from Water Hazard
The turtles looked just looked at Ben impressed, while the squirrels looked at him in fear
'That... was a powerful attack... however, you can see he didn't use his full power... Incredible!" Leona thought in awe, together with her sisters
Unfortunately, that only made the Squilanoids angrier as the three of them reunited and seemed ready for a rematch
The heroes decided to reunite too, in the middle of the sewer. Raph took her sai back from the ground before she joined her sisters and Ben. The five formed a defensive formation
Raph looked at Miky "Alright, Miky! I mean, how did the lonely survivor beat the aliens?"
Miky got animated remembering the end of her comic "It was so awesome! He baits the aliens into an air lock and then he-Oh!" But Miky suddenly realized something 'That's how we are going to win this fight!' She out of the blue jumped and exited the area
...
"Did she just bailed on us?" Raph asked
"She must have a plan" Ben said, to which Leona agreed
"For now, let's try to hold them off until Miky returns" Leona said as they all got ready to fight
The mutants turtles had trouble fighting the squirrels because of their greatly speed. Ben could hold his ground pretty help, since he was used to speedy opponents and Water Hazards' endoskeleton was able to easily endure the attacks, but Ben knew that he didn't have much time left, the Ultimatrix could time out at any time
They decided to reunite again in a defensive semicircle, but the Squirrelanoids were slowly getting closer
"Whatever Miky has planned, it better be ready soon!" Raph said, backing away from the Squirrelanoids, when out of the blue, she along with her sisters started to hear a beeping noise
They looked at Ben and saw the green hourglass flashing red
"Yeah, she better get here really soon!" Leona said in worry, seeing as Water Hazard was the only one that could counter the mutants squirrels. Lucky-
"Hey!" Miky's voice caught everyone's attention. Both Ben, the Turtles and Squirrelanoids saw the orange masked ninja holding a sack of popcorn "Hey, Squirrelanoids! You want some?" She asked while eating some of the popcorn "Delicious!" A second later, she was screaming and running from the Squirrelanoids while holding the sack of popcorn
Miky baited the Squirrelanoids to one of the waters terminal of the sewers, where there was only one way in, and one way out... but Miky was about to create a second exit especially for the Squirrelanoids
She looked at the mutants, showing them the snack in her hands "You want it? Go get it!" She exclaimed as she throw the snack into the water, the Squirrelanoids went after it like starved wolves after a prey. Miky quickly started to spin one of the , thus the water started to be sucked, together with the mutants
"Uf!" Miky the swaet out of her forehead and started to walk away, not noticing a tongue coming at her until it caught her and pulled her into the water
Miky struggled with the tongue and managed to get herself free, but she wouldn't be able to out run the water's flow and she was losing air faster then she can breath... If it stays like this, she won't make it...
Until something took a hold of her and pulled her out of the water. Miky looked up to see Raph holding onto her shell while she was being hold by her feet by Donna, who was being hold by Leona
"Got you!" Her sister said
"We all do!" Leona completed
Miky smiled weakly, still recovering from almost drowning. She get a little better when she saw Ben there, still in his Water Hazard form with the beeping symbol, ready to help her sisters pull her out of the hole
Until she saw her sisters' eyes widen and Water Hazard jumping at her, with water coming out of his gauntlet, making another whip and slashing it at her direction
She got worried, but the water never hit her, instead, she heard a piercing squeal of pain. She looked behind her to see a Squirrelanoid falling back into the water, only for a red flash of light appear suddenly, almost blinding her and her sisters
She knew what that meant, both she and her sisters knew...
Miky only had one chance to do what needed to be done...
And one chance was all she needed
"Thanks for the save, girls" Ben said back in his normal self while he was being held upside down by Miky. The Ultimatrix's plate was red, meaning it was recharging
"You're welcome!" The sisters answered and after a little difficult time, they managed to get out of the terminal
Time for them to go back home
But before that
"Hey, Ben?" Donna called the hero and continued when the boy was looking at her "How did you find us? I mean, out of all the tunnels of New York's sewers, you still managed to find us" She asked, making her sisters curious too
"Well, that is kind of simple, to tell the truth..." Ben started "Remember our fight against that gorilla inside that Kraang's ship?" Seeing then nodded, the alien hero continued "At some point during the fight on that ship, The Ultimatrix must have analyzed that... Mutagen thing" Ben exclaimed while pointing the his gauntlet "Now it can locate Mutagen, but for only a limited distance, at least for now. It seems that thing is made of some unknown substance" Ben finished and looked at the turtles, who seemed a little nervous out of the blue "Everything alright?" He asked
The girls shook their heads "Yes, no problem here!" Leona said as Miky walked towards Ben
"Yeah! It's not like the Kraangs are aliens from another dimension that is called Dimension X and are trying to create a Dimension X-2! See no problem here or there!" Miky said, completing ignoring her sisters pleas of shutting up and Ben's surprised and worried facial expression
"They what? How? When? Another Dimension? X? X-2? Why?! Kraang?" Ben asked
"..." Miky looked at Ben "How does he know about-OH!""I did it again, didn't I?" She rhetorically asked, just before Raph caught her and started to drag her "Ben! Please save me! Help! She is going to kill me! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!" And just like that, Miky disappeared
...
"... We better get going... before Raph cause any seriously injure to Miky..." Leona awkward stated "So, later, Ben" She finished as she started to leave together with Donna, but Ben put a hand on her and Donna's shoulders
When she and Donna turned to look at his face, Ben started to talk "Look, Leona And Donna, can I ask you both a little favour? Just to help me out of a little mess?" He kindly asked, and Leona, don't seeing a problem, nodded, Donna was excited to help him... to say the least "Thanks. So... I wanted to know... since the Ultimatrix is recharging... would any of you please show me the way to the Central Park? I'm kindly of lost here, it is only my second time here and on the first I didn't had time to look around for a map..." He nervously asked, making both girls giggle a little
"Well... I guess we can't blame him for doing what he thought was right...""Sure, just follow me. Donna, you make sure Miky stays alive" Leona said, much to the purple masked turtle dismay
"No!" She all but screamed, startling both Leona and Ben, and Making Donna blush in embarrassment "I-I me-mean... You are much better at dealing with Raph than I am! You should go!" She finished in a rush, with her hands on her back and the sweetest smile she could in a time like that... which was a horrible one
"..." Leona stared at her sister "Go, I want to talk to Ben here" Then she walked toward her sister and whispered, making sure that Ben couldn't hear "And I know you left his gift at your lab"
After hearing that, Donna blushed furiously as she timidly walked away "Well... I think I just heard Miky screaming... SEE YOU LATER!" She ran to the nearest tunnel, leaving Leona and Ben alone
The leader of the mutant turtles set her eyes on Ben again "Now, you wanted to go to to Central Park, no?"
Ben nodded as he got out of the way "Lead the way" He said, acting like a gentlemen
Leona giggled, but didn't move, surprising Ben. Seeing his confusing, Leona decided to explain "The way to Central Park is the tunnel behind me" She giggled after seeing Ben almost fall down at his own misadventure
After that, Ben went to the right way and repeat the action, this time for real "Ladies first" He said
Leona giggled "What a gentlemen you are" She said with a joking bow was they both started to walk towards the park
Leona decided to start what she has been planning to do for a while now. She stopped walking, making Ben do the same "What is wrong?" The boy asked the turtle
Leona thought for a few seconds, before she turned to look at Ben in the eyes "Just go straight then turn the second left, and you will be under the Central Park" She said as Ben walked to her
"Thank you. I appreciate the help" Ben started to walk, but Leona got on his way "Is there anything wrong?"
"Tell me, what are you planning to do?" She asked seriously, also making Ben serious
"You mean about what the Plumbers will do about this Mutagen spread around New York?"
Leona narrowed her eyes "Not only that, but about the mutants, about us!" She walked towards Ben "I want to know what you are planning to do! And you better know that I will do anything to protect my family!" Leona said, dangerously reaching for one of her swords
If she wanted to threaten Ben, she needed to do it while he can't transform
But he wasn't scared! In fact, he seemed happy!
"What are you smiling about?!" Leona demanded, now holding both her swords, but not taking them out from theirs sheaths
Ben looked at her "I already knew that!" Ben said, surprising Leona so much that she let go of her swords
"How?" She asked in a whisper, surprise and confusion all over her face
"Because they are your family, and great people always care for their family" He responded
Leona was surprised by that "Great... people?"
Ben nodded "I don't see any big difference between us. Of course our species are different, with you being a turtle and I being a human, but I see you as an equal" Ben exclaimed with a smile, making Leona blush
"Well, I hope to see you again!" Ben said, as he walked towards the Central Park, not before sending Leona a last thing "And about your family... let's Just that they are just like before: no one knows a thing about you" Ben assured Leona, who let out a sigh of relief while she watched Ben leave
But the girl still had one last thing to say
"WAIT!" Leona called out for Ben, making said hero stop and look at her
"Yes?" He asked in a curious tone, waiting for the female mutant turtle to continue
Leona nervously looked at Ben while timidly playing with her fingers "I-I... I hope that..." She gulped and blushed more, but she finally regained her courage and finished her early statement "I hope that we can work together as team someday!" She told Ben, making him smile
Ben returned to walking towards the park, but he sent a last smile to Leona while saying "As do I, Leona, as do I"
Leona blushed and smiled warmly. It seems that, in the end, Donna and Miky were right...
Ben is a cool dude to hang out with
"Donna better give Ben this gift before Miky... or even I do it for her..." She laughed a little, because she was talking seriously
It seems like Ben is getting quite the popularity!
Sorry for the late update! I have been busy, but here is the fifth chapter and I hope you all liked it! Don't forget to fav and review!
See ya all on the next chapter!
Human Soul, out