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Chapter 7:
Membership Drive
While the turtles tried their best to move on from the ordeal of losing their canine friends, and the Ninja Tribunal there was a familiar man still pursuing his unending quest. "Incoming communication." A computer voice said within a hidden base causing the leader to face the screen.
"Stockman, what do you want?" The cold man, Bishop, questioned to the cyborg on the screen.
"A new piece of alien wreckage from the invasion has been uncovered. From the report it could be a power core. Most of the space debris has long since been cleared away. This could be the Earth Protection Force's last chance to find something of value." The victim and former employee of the Utrom Shredder said to his latest boss.
"Take a commando unit. Retrieve the piece and report back." The anti-alien antagonist commanded him since he was still wanting to collect more items from the humanoid triceratops creatures.
"Always a pleasure doing business with you, Agent Bishop." Stockman said back before closing the feed from his end. As he followed his orders of retrieval the brain of the four had just finished telling his brother the latest incarnation of the Battle Shell.
"You put what in the trunk?" Leonardo questioned just to make sure he heard the egghead right.
"Jet engines." The builder repeated himself before adding, "Every taxi in New York should have `em." The turtle then used the remote to reveal the items he was talking about. "It's also got retractable armor. I incorporated a lot of Exile's ideas. He would have loved working on this." The turtle said as he showed off its other features.
"We interpreted this program for breaking news. We now go to the scene." The television anchorman said catching the attention of both brothers.
'Guess he really misses them.' Leo thought as he walked over to the set he saw that the hood ornament was that of a capital R. The canines told them that they were a team, and on their uniforms all of them, or at least four of them, wore that letter.
"Rumors that the superhero team known as the Justice Force is expanding has been confirmed. Channel 6 news has just learn that the team has recently added two new members they plan to continue the drive with hopes of inviting several more heroes into their ranks." The woman on the scene said to the camera with the hero's base standing behind her.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" The big brain of the sewer dwellers questioned to the swords-turtle to the left of him.
"I'm thinking it might be a good idea to talk to the Justice Force about the Shredder." The blue warrior stated with a smile on his face and his arms across his chest since he believed the smart one was thinking the same as him.
"I was thinking that Mikey is gonna freak out when he hears this." The purple one said back, and as if on cue the fourth of their fighting force appeared through one of the doorways.
"Behold! The next member of the Justice Force - the new and improved Turtle Titan." The comic reader shouted for all to hear. He now sported a utility belt with two t's on his belt buckle along with crimson boots, cape, and cowl.
"And I was right." Donatello commented while trying to block the image with his left hand while thinking, 'This is one of the rare times that I wish I was wrong.' Leo also didn't like how their little brother took this angle on meeting the heroes.
"Mikey, the Justice Force could be powerful alley's against the Shredder. They're not gonna take us seriously if your goofing around." Leo said to him and prayed seeing Blitz die in his arms would make him more determined to beat this Shredder, but sadly it didn't.
"But come on! How cool would it be - me, a member of the Justice Force." The orange one commenting back while making a classic hero pose. Seeing as how this was about to tern ugly between serious Leonardo and comical Michelangelo the wind master decided to step in.
"I'm finishing up the taxi. Raph is blowing off steam with Casey, but if you guys want to get to Justice Force tower in superhero style I've got just the thing." The brainy one said and gestured for them to follow him.
'What did he do now?' The other two thought as they followed him to a basement area that led straight to the bay.
"Strap down your shells and prepare yourselves for the sewer sled." Donatello said to them as he presented them with a transport with skis on the base. He unlocked the clamp and they were off: enjoying themselves along the way.
"Don't take this the wrong way, Raph, but you seem a little more intense then usual." Casey commented after he and a costumed crusader had left another Purple Dragon hide out by walking in a local park.
"I don't know what your talking about." The one in question answered back.
"Look, the guys told me went down since they know you wouldn't, and you shouldn't.." The vigilante comment, but was stopped when his old friend slammed his fist into a nearby tree.
"Drop it." The red one muttered under your voice while pulling away his fist to reveal an impressive whole in the tree.
'He must have really liked her if he reacted like that.' Casey thought while trailing behind him. 'I love bashing heads as much as Raph, but do I care about anything more than that.' He thought before putting that thought on the back burner for now.
"Agent Bishop will be furious. This is useless. Completely burnt out. What a waste of my time; my talent." Stockman, who was in a black truck that was parked at a familiar amusement park, said as he scanned the piece of alien tech and saw nothing of value until, "Huh? That's odd. This call for further investigation. Let's have a closer look, shall we." He said when the scanners detected something else so he got off his chair, activated the holo projector, and walked outside.
'We all know what he looks like, but that holo device helps out a lot.' One of the soldiers thought as he viewed his field boss through his silver/black helmet.
"Nano-bots?" Stockman questioned after zooming in at a microscopic level and saw several insect shaped silver machines. "Bring out the particle accelerators. We're bringing something back." He said to the troops who did as he said, and as they did that the turtle were close to their destination.
"You think you got what it takes to be a hero?" The elder known as Zippy Lad questioned while sitting before his statue. "Well, think again. You punks got invited for an interview with the Justice Force well whoopty doo." He shouted before wheeling on his wheelchair to the new heroes before him. "You think that toy makes you a hero, arrow boy?" He questioned to the first.
'Well, it's worked for me before.' The warrior holding a crossbow thought while looking at his weapon.
"And you, Moleculo, you shrink. You really think pushing that little button on your belt is gonna help you in a fight, tiny?" He questioned to a man in blue who just hung his head.
'He's right. I should have tried growth instead of shrink.' Moleculo thought while still sulking.
"Stand up straight." Zippy ordered which he did, and that was when he turned to the last of them. "Gauntlet. You think your special because of those power gloves. You think you could slug it out with super villains, tough guy." He questioned to the blond.
"Just give me something to hit. Anything, anyone: I'll show you." He said back in anger since he was not liking how the elder was speaking with him. At that time the turtles have made it to shore, and headed for the front door.
"The Turtle Titan has arrived!" Michelangelo shouted after doing a flip to get to the base of Battling Bernese statue.
"A super villain attack?!" Gauntlet shouted while adjusting his upper body to see the man behind him. "You picked the wrong place at the wrong time." He told the 'intruder' before leaping at him.
"Is it the new costume?" Mikey questioned after making a girly scream, but he was quick enough to get out of the way before the metal fists landed on him. "Seriously if your not digging the new threads I'm open to suggestions." The turtle continued after his dodge.
"Look, there's been a misunderstanding." Leo, who simply walked from where they parked to where his brother stood, said in a calm voice. "We're not here to fight." He informed them, but was ready to use Gunshin if they didn't believe him.
"Oh, Leonardo and Michelangelo, come to sign up have you?" The speed hero said since he knew from their first meeting that these two were worth recruiting.
"No/yes." They said as one, but after looking at one another the leader decided to get down to business.
"We're here to talk to the Justice Force about a serious threat." The swords-turtle said to the elder. He looked at them both and knew that they were telling the truth.
"Well, you young fellas better go on up." Zippy Lad said to the two of them before pointing to the main doors.
"Gee, thanks, ZL." The young one said with a thumbs up while the other the other bowed in respect before leaving to do just that. As soon as they were gone one of the new guys had to voice his feelings.
"I HATE LINE CUTTERS!" Gauntlet shouted with great rage at what he saw.
"Oh, these superheroes today." Zippy said while pinching the brim of his nose since they were giving him a headache. Back at the lab Stockman's men had deposited the strange object into one of their various tubes and the mechanical man went to work.
"Simply amazing. They don't seem to be Triceraton or Federation in origin and the only human brilliant enough to create this technology is me." Stockman said after a couple hours of research not knowing his boss was walking right toward him.
"Are you certain you can reprogram them?" Bishop questioned the doctor after he used a zoom lens feature on the tank so the soldier could see what was so fascinating.
"Puh-leaze. The control ship I am placing on one of the nano bots will send my programming to each and every one of them." Stockman assured his new boss while placing the device on a hover disk, pressed a button, and it did what he said was going to happen. "Millions of nano bots under my control. The possibilities are endless." He said while having a lapse of how he wanted power as much as the mad man he worked for.
"All under my control, doctor. Activate them." Bishop said with a serious tone so the doctor knew that the machines will be working for the EPF, and no one else.
"Uh…of course, Agent Bishop." Baxter said back after realizing that he said something that had practically forced him into the body that he was currently using. Once he did the nano bots became a floating, sentient head.
"Family. Uh, family." The head said to them after being awoken.
"Were you aware that it was intelligent?" Bishop questioned as he looked on at the creature before him.
"No, no I…" He answered but was cut off by the strange floating head.
"Foreign programming detected. Taking over." The head's voice said and then it shifted to a different one all together.
"Error. Weapons protocol." The voice said, and the agent knew that it was the chip Stockman installed.
"No! Must escape." The good voice shouted before breaking free from his tank, and then joined with the wires that were hidden in the metal room.
"What is it doing to my lab, Stockman?" The raven haired fighter question in anger as he saw chunks of metal along with pieces of the wall be drawn to one specific spot.
"Amazing. The nano bots are reconfiguring our technology rebuilding it to…" The scientist explained but was cut off as they saw what he was doing - building a physical body.
"Error." The chip said.
"No, I…" The machine said back.
"Error." The chip shouted before turning his sight on the two in the room.
"This isn't possible. How is it resisting my programming?" Stockman questioned while his boss removed his trench coat which revealed a battle suit since he knew where this was going.
"No. No." The machine said after he threw a console at the man, but the agent evaded it.
"Error." The chip said back and watched as Bishop activated a laser blaster that had barrels all around his wrist. The machine saw this, spun it's arms, and headed for a wall - digging itself out.
"Tell me doctor, is this your idea of control?" He questioned after getting to the hole and saw that it was going up. "I'm beginning to understand why your former employer kept relieving you of body parts." The man commented after hearing his brainiac whimper in fear.
"No, seriously we got these mystical abilities now. I got super speed." Michelangelo said to Metal Head as the three of them were taking the elevator to one of the tallest floors. "Whoa." Mikey said once he got to see the actual conference table and then added, "This place is so cool. Oh, can I sit in the Justice Chair." Leo saw that the Sentry was talking to someone on their screen.
"Nobody. Raptarr. Let me be the first to the Justice Force." Silver Sentry said to the screen and that was when the two appeared on two different screens.
"I'll be there if you need me." Nobody said to them even though that all could see him as a part timer, and nothing more.
"Your invitation honors me, Sentry." The flyer said once his picture appeared. Once that was done the feed for both were cut, and the man in question turned to the guests. "Well, I'll be Turtle Titan, Leonardo. What brings you to the Justice Force?" Silver stated casually even though he had a feeling that it was nothing good…not this time at least.
"Did you come to sign up?" Amanda questioned since she knew that these two are powerful warriors, and would like them on board.
"Well, actually…" Michelangelo started to speak, but was cut off by his brother's hand on his mouth.
"No. We've come to warn you of a creature of great evil and power. It calls itself: the Shredder." Leonardo explained to them, and after seeing their confusion he then went into detail.
"The world waits belated rest as the Justice Force continues deliberation." A news man said to the audience not knowing of the robot semi destroying the city.
"Must get away." The machine said after crushing a bystander's car, but luckily he got out in time.
"Error. Must obey." The chip said before looking at the televisions to his left.
"Justice Force - dedicating their lives to the defense of life. Keeping the world safe from villainy and harm." The news man said as he ended with showing a group photo.
"Safe from villainy and harm. The Justice Force can help me." The blue eyed man said with a smile.
"Error. Error. Stockman. Control. Obey. Error. Weapons protocol. Weapons online. Attack. Error." The red eyed menace said before zooming in his optic on the building that the broadcast also showed. "Processing. Confirm. Destroy Justice Force." He said before walking in that direction.
"So we get to fight, right? I wanna fight!" The strong man commented as and the others were waiting outside for the Justice Force to come out and evaluate them.
"I can handle anything that comes my way." The archer commented; feeling confident of his skills. Their wish for a fight was answered in the form of a robot that rose from the water.
"Destroy, Justice Force." The machine before them said with his sights set on the three before him.
"That's a super villain?" The worrier questioned before activating the special talent of his belt. "I think I forgot to sign some…membership papers." He said after shrinking to his maximum and ran away.
"Must destroy Justice Force." The robot said as he continued to walk forward. The metal man saw that the others weren't moving, so he started to attack. Back inside Leonardo was finishing his tale.
"Then we were transported back to New York. The Demon Shredder could be resurrected at any time. He may be here already." The blue turtle finished his story, and as soon as he was done Silver Sentry rose and spoke.
"The Justice Force will be at your disposal when the time comes." The African American said as he shook the Turtle Titan's hand to show that he was in agreement.
"Wow. So, uh…if you should notice anything weird going on in the city…" The swords-turtle started to speak before he was interrupted with the building shaking a bit.
"I'm noticing something right now." The youngest brother stated as he pointed at the floor. To the two they feared that it was the Shredder already onto their plan not knowing that they were going to receive a blast from the past.
"Come on! Come on! FIGHT!" Gauntlet shouted at the metal beast who simply palm slammed the human, and with one hit he was out of the fight.
"Please, stay back. Must find Justice Force." The blue eyed man said before the red in him took over.
"Error. Error." He said while picking up the defeated one and threy him at a statue. "Must destroy Justice Force." The red eyed wonder said aloud. The archer saw/heard this and tried to stop him.
"You wanna take down the Justice Force? You're gonna hafta get by Bow-Master first." The crossbow owner said before firing four explosive arrows at the machine's chest.
'I must stop this. I must gain control.' The blue eyed one thought as he watched his body stretch out his left arm to grab the bowman and slammed him on the ground. Then the gentle soul watched as he stomped the small human, but was relieved at what he saw after.
"Help! Somebody!" The shrinker shouted in alarm as he ran. The small human had to stop when he came to the side of the building. "Help." He whimpered, but before the machine could claw him Silver Sentry saved him.
'You will be safe in there, little friend.' Sentry thought as he put the small man into a hidden pocket on his cape. The angle-like man, Nobody, Pixie, Tsunami, Metalhead, Battling Bernese II, Leonardo, and Turtle Titan surrounded the machine on all sides.
"Give it up, giant robot, the Justice Force is here." TT shouted while pointing at the metal man. "Ya gotta admit Leo, that sounds pretty cool." The turtle added to the one to his right.
'I can handle this.' Sentry thought as he charged at the machine. Due to his speed the silver themed man came in too hot for the robot to counter causing him to blow up soon after the her was done with his charge. The robot splattered all over the area, but soon was brought back together: in a new body, and was even able to make a clone.
"Attack." The two said as one. Seeing this got the enthusiastic teen a little nervous.
"You know - maybe I'll join the Justice Force some other time." Mikey said as he took a few steps back out of fear.
"Destroy, Justice Force." The twins said while stomping to them, but stopped because the other side was still trying to gain control.
"Justice Force, please help." The machine said with his eyes as a blue, but they quickly turned back to red.
"Error, multiple threats detected. Eliminate threats." The red eyed one said after taking a look at four main threats. As he was scanning so were the green skinned ones, and it was then that the older of the two recognized that white head on the body.
"Oh no. Mikey, that voice. That face." He said to the Turtle Titan before looking at one another and saying as one:
"Nano?" It was then the leader of the sewer dwellers recalled how the machine liked to fight, and knew it was best that the Justice Force did too.
"Everyone stop! We have to get it away from all technology." Leonardo shouted so all could hear before remembering the woman in the mech armor behind him.
"Amanda, get out!" The swords-turtle shouted at the woman. She heard his alarm, but didn't see the problem her systems were still fine.
"Nano's not your run of the mill rampaging robot." Michelangelo added after he saw that she did not get out ASAP. Nano was already one step ahead of the turtles and hacked into the mech suit, and self destructed the eight dome-oids she released from her suit.
"Warning. Warning. Security breach. Firewall failure." The machine within her suit said to her as the screen changed from green to red.
"No, it's…it's taking control of my dome-bot." The daughter of the first Battling Bernese said after trying and failing to regain control of her machine.
"Amanda, get out of there." Sentry said after cutting off the machine's walking path. The suit's response was the shoulder cannons, that deployed from the back to the top of his shoulders, and opened fire. 'So much for talking this out.' He thought after summoning his shield, and charged at the suit.
'At least my ejector seat still worked.' The red head thought as she was able to eject before he threw her suit into the next country. Back on the ground the keeper of Gunshin was still trying to wrap his head around this situation.
"This doesn't make any sense. Why would Nano attack the Justice Force?" Leo said to his brother because as far as he knew the machine only longed for a family, and was never a destructive type of robot.
"Yeah. He always seemed like a well adjusted little rampaging robot." Mikey said, knowing that his brother was right: this wasn't the kind hearted machine's style.
"Target: Metalhead. Eliminate." Nano 1 said after the hero tried to buzz saw his left knee, but it quickly repaired, so the small human tried a spider leg plunge.
'That'll teach you a thing or two, robot.' The hero thought as he saw that his attack went through the head, but Nano was one step ahead. His head split in two revealing that his wires have formed a fist - a fist that held the spike that went through his head. With a swift back and forth motion the robot put Metalhead out of the fight and had resealed his head at the same time.
'My turn.' Nobody thought as he unleashed pellet sized projectiles on to the second machine, but the other one was still coming. 'I'm ready for you.' He thought before firing a cable from each arm, their supports were the statues to either side of him, and once they were secure he attached them together, and back flipped out of the way.
'Okay. That was cool.' Both ninjas thought after seeing the robot being cut in half by the line. The down robot's halves were to either side of Nobody, but before anyone could react the wires on each half came together - taking the hero as a prisoner at the same time.
'No one does that to a fellow Justice Force member.' Pixie thought as she used her power to shatter the robot while sparing the hero inside.
"Now that's a Justice Force rescue." Mikey shouted; enjoying the little show the two did. The debris from the fallen machine began to fly which Leo deflected with Gunshin, but his brother was so awestruck that he got slammed by a piece of steel. "Oh no, not my costume." He shouted in anger before throwing the rest of it aside.
"Aw, my favorite statue." Zippy Lad said as his statue was turned to rubble by a laser blast that was meant for Pixie.
'Time for the second one.' She thought and tried her special touch on the second machine, but he had gotten wise and once some of its pieces were blown off those pieces changed into a fist, punched her in the gut, and sent her into the bay.
'This should work better.' Raptarr thought as he picked up half of Zippy Lad's stone head, and with all his might lifted it off of the ground and into the air. Once in the right spot the bird winged man dropped his item on the new second machine.
'Down you go.' Sentry, who helped Amanda out of her parachute chair, carried her to the ground, and once she was safe he tried to deal with the machine.
"Amanda, you can talk to machines, right? Talk to it. Talk to Nano. We think he's being controlled." Leo said to the female fighter since he knew a mechanical telapath would be the best thing for a situation like this.
"You're right. There's a control chip on one of the nanobots. It's spreading a foreign program through its system. I can sense it, but its blocking me." The second Bernese said to the turtle who didn't seem to like what he heard.
"The chip will have to be destroyed at the source." Leo said to the two with him before unsheathing Gunshin. 'Why do I have a feeling that if Hunter was here he would say one of his lines, "I would not have predicted this."' The turtle shook that thought off and advanced to the machine.
"But it's nano-small. How the shell are we supposed to…to…" Mikey stated but stopped to see Sentry be back handed and his traveling companion fly out of the small pocket. "Wait. Leo, I so have a plan. Trust me." The chucker said after seeing the tiny man grow to normal size.
"It better be a quick one." The eldest said back before seeing the comic reader remove the belt from the man and walk back to the swords-turtle. "I can't believe I'm doing this." He said after hearing his bro's game plan.
"Come on. How hard can it be?" Mikey said back with a lax tone in his voice. Amanda used herself as the bait, so that the two could leap up, press the button, and become one with the machine.
"Alright. We've got to find the nanobot with the control chip." Leo said not knowing that in a past life he and Donatello did something similar to what they were doing now.
"Uh, Leo, I think it might find us." The orange turtle stated once the nanobots appeared around them. "There it is!" He exclaimed as they were being overrun. The turtle tried reaching for it normally, but with it being a couple of inches away the turtle went mystic. While on the outside Nano was still gunning for Battling Bernese II.
"Amanda, look out." Silver said to her with his face showing rage against the machine. All of a sudden the robots eyes turned blue and he slumped in relief. The turtles reappeared in their natural size.
"Got it." Orange said as he opened his hand and saw the device was in the palm of his hand. That was when all the nanobots flew into the air, formed a sphere, and became a human sized golden armored man.
"Now to finish this fiend." Silver said as his friends came to him, battered, slightly drowned (rescued by Tsunami), but still willing to fight. Leo saw this and decided to intervene.
"No. It's okay." Leo said, and when Amanda saw that Silver was still ready to put a beating on the bot she stepped in.
"I've been in communication with him. He doesn't want to fight. He's not evil." She said, and hearing that from a close friend and a ninja Silver relaxed his guard. The Turtle Titan decided to add his view on this situation.
"Yeah. Nano's a good kid. He just fell in with a bad crowd. He's been manipulated his whole life, but you guys…you guys could help him." Mikey said to the Justice Force.
"Thank you Justice Force, and thank you turtle creatures. My programming has evolved much since my previous encounters with you. I apologize for my…lack of maturity." Nano said to the group of good guys along with the two to either side of him before going over to the heroes.
"That was some good thinking there, Mikey. Way to go." The field leader congratulated his brother for a good move.
"It's just your classic good robot under evil control forced to attack superhero scenario. No biggie." The comic book reader replied back with crossed arms before speaking with the JF. "Now, let's talk about my membership." He said to them causing his brother to wait for a while.
"And with the addition of this mysterious Nano the Justice Force completed it's membership drive." The news woman said as Silver Sentry was shaking hands with Nano as Pixie, Tsunami, and Metalhead was behind Silver and Amanda, Razarr, and Nobody stood behind Nano.
"Nano?" Raphael and Donatello questioned after hearing that familiar name.
"Don't ask." Their field leader said back to them since all he wanted to do was relax on the couch he was sitting on, and not think of his day.
"What's a matter, Mikey, didn't make the cut?" Raph said with a smile on his face since he liked how they picked the machine over a ninja.
"In your dreams, you wannabe." Mikey said as he put on the outfit the Justice Force made for him which looked like an actual hero outfit. "The Turtle Titan is an official member of the Justice Force." He exclaimed happily before pacing in front of the TV and explained his active days, "Of course I'm only on duty on every third Wednesday of every fourth month, and February 29th when there is one." Hearing this only made the angered one groan in annoyance.