Ch.4: Double April, Double Trouble
" Irma!" yelled Burne Thompson early the next morning " I need those reports right now!"
"Coming Mr. Thompson!" screamed Irma running frantically through the halls, with a stack of papers teetering in her hands.
Limited vision, she tried her best not to bump anything this time, but ended up running into someone anyway.
"Whoa!" yelled Irma, stumbling onto the floor, numerous papers falling on her head.
"Sorry Irma!" shouted April's voice as the reporter quickly hurried past.
"Ooo, April!" said shaking the papers off her head " why don't you watch where... Hey wait a minute, how could that be April? She's right in the middle of news broadcast,"
"Irma!" came a loud shout.
"Oops!" said Irma, quickly gathering up all the papers she could and dashed in hurry " I'm coming!"
The mystery of April being in two places could wait later, right now she had an angry boss to deal with.
" And that's the news" said April, closing the broadcast in the news room " this is April O'Niel signing off,"
"Cut!" yelled a cameraman, and the cameras turned off.
April breathed a sigh of relief once the job was over with, wiping a bit a sweat from her brow.
"I'm glad that's all the chaos I have to deal with today," she said.
No sooner had April had spoken those words than the other April barged in shocking the reporter on sight. The camera people looked bewildered. How in the world could there be two April's?
Ignoring other peoples stares, the second April immediately ran up to her counterpart, and handed a small white envelope over to her.
"There's no time to explian" said the Second April to the first " you have make sure that this note gets to Raphael, or else the Turtles will be doomed!"
With that last word, the Second April vanished completely from sight, leaving the orginal behind, alone and confused. Worried, April now looked down at the strange note she had in her hand, and wondered what could be so important about it.
"Only one way to know for sure" said April " I have to take it to Raphael and find out,"
And with that thought in mind, April made a dash for the sewers.
Meanwhile, off the coast of New York, Crimelord and the other villians he aquired were gathered on a small island, miles away from shore. The island was bare of any human population, only natural beauty could be seen. But one thing ruined the peaceful setting.
The hulking form of dark spaceship, parked dead center on the peaceful isle.
"Welcome" said Crimelord to Shredder and the others " to my evil headquarters,"
"Impressive," said Kraang.
"Bah!" said Shredder " Why are we even here in the first place? We could have finished those turtles off quick if he hadn't had interfered!"
"Maybe Shredder" said Crimelord " but then, I wouldn't get to have my fun,"
"Yes, yes, with Raphael I know," said Shredder, poutingly.
"Why do you hate that turtle anyway?" asked Kraang, curious.
Crimelord laughed.
"That would be telling" said Crimelord, turning to the villians " Rest assured, you'll all get your chance to eliminate the turtles. But it's more entertaining to have fun with them first. Which one of you would like to have more fun?"
"What do you mean?" asked Bebop.
"Hunting the turtles in their lair," said Crimelord.
Inside the turtle lair, Leo, Don, and Mikey were waiting patiently for Raph to get back home with pizza from Vinnie's Pizza Parlor. Raph grunted when he got assigned the job, but it both gave him and his brothers some time to think.
"Something's not right here" said Leo to Don and Mikey " this isn't normal Raph behvaior,"
"Yeah" said Mikey " he would never ally himself with the bad guys,"
"Or anger a supervillian we haven't formally met," said Don.
"But this is just two bizaare" said Leo, confused " what could we be missing?"
"A headstone for your graves," said a sudden voice, surprising the turtles.
"Shredder!" they all said at once.
"And Rocksteady," said the rhino, appearing from behind the bladed human.
"Attack!" said Shredder, and instantly he and the rhino went on the offensive.
Drawing their weapons, the surprised turtles immediately put on a weak defense. Leo battling against Shredder, while Don and Mikey took Rocksteady.
Shredder drew out a sword and began meeting Leo blade for blade. Their swords clashing in ferocious harmony, while Mikey got out a rope and lassoed Rocksteady's legs, sending the rhino sprawling on the floor.
But Rocksteady fought back, doing a quick 180, he turned and smacked Michaelanglo's body right against Donatello's face, making both turtles plummet back.
"Whoa" said Mikey in a daze " they were never this good before,"
"How did you get here Shredder?" commanded Leo.
"Why don't you just ask Raphael?" Shredder bought back. Suddenly, he was kicked down in the side by Splinter.
"You lie!" said Splinter firmly " my son would never do anything to harm his family!"
"Believe what you want to Rat!" said Shredder " Rocksteady, now!"
"You got it boss!" said Rocksteady, and threw a grenade towards Splinter and Leo.
Pushing his son out of the way, Splinter took the full force of the grenade, and ended up seconds later, writhing painfully in a pool of blood.
"Sensei!" yelled Leo, Don, and Mikey in horror, instantly rushing towards their master's side. All of their eyes filled with tears.
"Come Rocksteady!" said Shredder to the rhino " our mission here is accomplished. Oh, and Turtles, be sure to give your brother Raphael a huge load of our thanks,"
With an evil laugh, and a flash of red light, both Shredder and Rocksteady disappeared.
Seconds later, Raph walked in the lair door with a stack of simmering pizza boxes in his hand.
"Lunch time!" he announced, only to be greeted with hateful glares from his brothers and the shock of his Sensei's fate.
"Um" said Raph, trying to ignore the looks " anything I missed?"