Me: hello again, readers! So, just a heads up, this chapter has some gory descrptions. I did say earlier that I would put my own spin into the clash of the 2003 and 2012 cartoons, this will be the first of many.
April 24th 2012, 11:35am… New York City, The New Lair,
It had now been a few days since the incident involving the killer robots, the alien robots and April, and in those few days, the four ninja turtles and their rat master had used this time to renovate the whole of their newest home that included sweeping the floor and walls, removing unused pipes, using said pipes for new plumbing and railings for the second floor balcony walks (as it didn't have any), removing anything from their old home that survived the attack and into their new home as well as going to the surface in order to find useful junk at a nearby junkyard (which was surprisingly useful junk). They already had several items that survived the attack on their previous home which included: the homemade training dummy, Master Splinter's memorial shrine and old family photo (that was in his bedroom at the old Lair), a fridge (carrying that thing took Raph and Leo a while to move out and into their new home), theirs beds and mattresses (minus Raph's), Donnie's lab equipment plus his laptop and tools and the TV- much to Mikey's delight.
Their new home was still far from being fully renovated, but it was a work in progress that all five were putting their best efforts into. Right now, Donnie was near the top of the ceiling thanks to his makeshift pulley that he put together from parts from the junkyard that the four were starting to frequent. He was up there using a torch cutter to remove bits of old unused piping that was sticking out of the ceiling, Master Splinter was down below on the first floor repairing their homemade training dummy, and Mikey was simply sweeping the floors with an old broom he found at the junkyard. However he quickly got bored of that and their TV was still not operational as Donnie found himself too busy with everything else, so this left Mikey groaning in boredom (for the umpteenth time),
"What's the matter Mikey? Can't decide what to watch?" Donnie asked sarcastically as he knew that the TV was what was on Mikey's mind and as finished slicing some old piping off, he lowered himself to ground level where Mikey was currently at.
We need some power to the TV, Donnie! The Turtle Cave must be set for maximum entertainment potential." Mikey said as though he thought the TV was top priority however it was what Mikey decided to call their new home that caught Donnie's attention,
"The 'Turtle Cave'?" Donnie said and at that, Master Splinter stopped repairing the training dummy to listen, "That is so lame."
"What would you call it then?" Mikey asked and from there the naming contest began between the two, beginning with Mikey,
"The 'Shell-ter'?"
"…er… how about the 'Sewer of Solitude'?"
"'Terrapin Station'?"
"The 'School for Gifted Reptiles'?"
"The 'Hall of Nin-justice'!"
"The 'Tunnel of the Lean, Mean and Green'!"
"Ooh! We should put 'extreme in that!"
"Or how about the 'Underground Mutant Base'?"
"No wait! I've got it! The 'Lair of the Nightwatchers'!"
But then the two were abruptly stopped by the sound of Master Splinter clearing his throat which got their attention,
"We should call this place 'Home'." Said Master Splinter. It was a short simple one word for a name but it was one that to Donnie and Mikey had completely overshadowed their previous suggestions,
"Catchy."
"Has a nice ring to it." They said simultaneously as they smiled at the newly named home now called 'Home'.
"Now then, what is keeping Leonardo and Raphael?" Splinter asked as Mikey then went back to sweeping to keep himself occupied with little else to do,
"They went to retrieve the rest of our stuff from the old Lair." Mikey answered.
"And with how we've already mapped out how to get there from here now that the way to it has been cleared, they should be back soon.
11:37am… The Old Lair…
Leo was busy moving some old stuff into a large bag he found at the junkyard they visited a while ago, and these things included: the broken glass canister that contained the substance that mutated them, a pile of magazines and DVDs that Mikey collected, once he finished packing he made his way over to the turnstiles that the crumpled debris somehow missed and to where Raph was standing, waiting for him,
"Our home… our home for fifteen years… and this all that's left now…" Leo said completely downtrodden and saddened. Once he was passed the turnstiles, Raph made his way to the nearest wall,
"When I find out who made those home-wrecking robo-roachers…" it was then that Raph punched the wall as hard as he could, with his current physical strength he smashed a few new cracks in the wall and also made the unstable old home shake a little as more dust and stones fell from the ceilings and walls.
"Come on, Raph. We don't to make this place any worse than it already is." Leo said a little forlorn but understanding Raph's action. After one last solemn look behind them, they silently made their farewells to their old home, and then walked slowly away and toward their new home. Getting there was easier now that they knew where they were going, but at their sad pace, it would have taken a few minutes longer to meet up with the rest.
11:51am… New Lair
The atmosphere that Leo and Raph brought with them to the rest of their family back home could have been cut by Leo's katana. Leo was simply sad but hopeful things would fall back together in their new home, meanwhile Raph was still understandably mad and when he saw Donnie fixing one of the killer robots, he so wanted to smash it into pieces. However Leo lessened the tension by saying something light-hearted,
"Good news Mikey, your DVD and comic book collections survived!" Leo said as he approached Mikey and then handed over the DVDs and comics.
"Sweet! Now if only 'Dr D' over there would fix our TV, we could put something on that would be low on story and heavy on gory!" Mikey said as he pointed his thumb toward the turtle he referred to as 'Dr D'.
Speaking of Donnie, as he tinkered with the broken robot, it looked as though the head was back in one piece which made Master Splinter a bit uncomfortable and Raph more tempted to smash it,
"Donatello, I must say that even though that thing is not working still, I am still feeling a bit on edge." Splinter said and even though Raph didn't completely agree with the statement he still agreed with Splinter,
"Donnie, wouldn't it make more sense to destroy those things rather than repair them? What if that thing attracts some of its buddies?" Raph asked and it was also a possibility that crossed Splinter's mind,
"Actually, I'm hoping for the exact opposite, you see if I can get this thing to work again, I can try to reprogram it so it lead itself back to its buddies rather than the other way around. Plus, I can't help but feel absolutely fascinated by the technology this thing has." Donnie said as he got back to tinkering with the robot.
11:59am… New York City… Roosevelt High School…
Even though it was now lunchbreak for many of the students including April, she still couldn't help but think about her harrowing experience a few nights ago. The alien brains in robot bodies, her Dad being kidnapped by said aliens and also her mutant rescuers, whom she still didn't know the names. Mutant or not, they must have names and during the chaos, she only learned of one of their names: Donatello. To her, he seemed young, and as she remembered his face and voice she couldn't help but feel like he might be slightly geeky. She had given them her name as well. As she walked with her thoughts heavy on her mind, she failed to notice a teen boy directly in her way until she literally walked into his back.
"Hey! Watch it!" said the boy, who then turned around to get a look at whoever it was who bumped into him. He turned and his mood lightened when he saw April.
"…er… sorry…" April apologised but the boy just grinned and showing his teeth, as he did, April noted about three teeth missing, brown eyes, his black hair covered by a bandanna with an odd pattern to it, and his clothes were slightly ragged and were splattered with numerous paints. The only parts that didn't have paint on them were his fingerless gloves and his trainers.
"Hey, don't worry about it, babe!" the boy said and that was what brought April out of her thoughts,
"Babe? Exactly who do you think you are?" April asked as she was irritated by the 'babe' comment.
"Well babe, the names Casey Jones. And seeing as its lunchbreak, how about you and me go get lunch together?" the boy named Casey asked. April pondered this for a moment, in the few days since her experience, she hasn't been very social, she didn't have many friends for some reason or other and those she did call friends, she didn't find herself hanging out much. Perhaps it was time to change things and try to pretend to have a normal life,
"Fine then. But only because you asked nicely." April said and Casey smiled and the two proceeded together but not before Casey said,
"It's a date then. Nice!" Casey said and April looked a bit annoyed at that comment but said nothing against it. The thought of having a normal life despite her near alien abduction would be just the thing she needed,
"What's your name anyway, babe?" Casey asked and April answered,
"My name is April, and please don't call me 'babe'."
2:20pm… New York City…
In another part of New York City stood a beige coloured building that was called 'Stocktronics' and it was inside the building that Dr Stockman was busying himself and his employees in a large underground factory that seemed to be mass producing the same killer robots he called Mousers. The robots numbered in the hundreds and more were still being built. Dr Stockman was overseeing the mass production from a small room that had windows instead of walls and a large console to operate the production. It was on this console that a sound rang out which signalled to Dr Stockman that he was receiving a call, and he answered it by tapping on a button which in turn, had switched on a monitor on another part of the console, and the doctor immediately knew who was calling him. The monitor's image revealed the man he called 'Master Shredder', and it as through the speakers that the two men could communicate,
"Stockman, I trust that your Mouser production has made our deadline?" Shredder asked,
"Of course, Master Shredder, my computers have already registered nine-hundred and ten Mousers ready for deployment." Dr Stockman answered,
"Excellent. This will be more than enough to execute the first phase of the plan. You can stop the production now, and then I want you to tie up… loose ends." Shredder ordered. Dr Stockman had his suspicions that he knew what he meant by 'loose ends' but was compelled to confirm it,
"Loose ends?" said Dr Stockman with a hint of suspicion,
"Do not overestimate your technicians, Stockman. They have lives outside of Stocktronics and therefore have lives outside of my Foot Clan. I do not like loose ends. Kill them." It was at his orders that the screen went black and the sound cut off. Dr Stockman had his orders now. He was going to make sure they weren't going to talk anyway and permission from The Shredder would make him carry out his orders with no remorse. He then turned towards the Mouser's controls on another part of the console and began typing in orders for the Mousers to carry out. His actions would definitely cement him as the mad and cruel type of scientist that he was.
6:54pm… The Lair…
After a few hours of tinkering and repairing, Donnie had finally gotten the killer robot back into one piece from one hour ago. Reason being is because his brothers pulled him away from his work in order to get him to eat. When he heard dinner was ready, he grimaced at the thought eating algae and worms again but then was pleasantly surprised that Raph and Mikey had snuck out to the surface to steal some unguarded pizza from a delivery scooter. He was so busy tinkering away that he didn't even notice that they had snuck out and when Master Splinter inevitably found out, he heavily objected and mentally blew a fuse at their actions, and gave them a lecture on why they don't steal. However having said that, that didn't stop any of the five from chowing on some pizza rather than algae and worms again. Once he was done eating, he went back to the robot and it was then that he wired up to his laptop to start reprogramming it.
The other four ninjas had mixed views on Donnie's project; Master Splinter had said as he did before that he was on edge about that robot. Leo didn't like it either and hoped Donnie wasn't overthinking his idea. Raph liked the idea however, and had commented on how much he wanted payback on whoever it was who had made the robots. And Mikey was just relaxed as if it wasn't happening as he sat on a soft chair that they had also found at the junkyard and was reading one of his beloved comics.
7:11pm…
Whenever it was time to train, it usually meant that the four ninja turtles had to stop what they were doing and begin whatever training exercise that Master Splinter had prepared for them, lest they face Splinter's scorn which they all wanted to avoid. So it here they stood, in the middle of the Lair and the four turtles surrounded Master Splinter. Donnie charged first with his staff, but the moment he swung his staff at Splinter, he simply ducked and countered by smacking Donnie's shell with his cane which made Donnie stumble forwards,
"Do not lead with your shoulders Donatello." Master Splinter said as it was evident in the way that Donnie stumbled. It was at that moment that Leo leapt into the air and poised his twin katana over his head intended to strike Splinter, but as he swung them down at Splinter, he swung his cane horizontally and not only deflected Leo's attack but also set him flying back in the direction he came from, and unable to right himself, he landed on his shell and slid back a few more inches,
"Faster on your counter-attack Leonardo." Splinter said since Leo couldn't right himself fast enough. It was then that Mikey charged next intending catch his Sensei off guard, but Splinter saw it coming and swept Mikey off his feet by using his cane and Mikey couldn't retain his balance and fell shell first onto the floor just like Leo had,
"Find your foot-work Michelangelo." Splinter said as was a little easy to trip up Mikey. It was then that Raph charged in with his twin sai and as he attacked with his weapons, Master Splinter somersaulted over Raph head and when he turned to face Splinter again, Splinter swung his cane at Raph's twin sai one at a time and easily disarmed him. Though Master Splinter knew that Raph would've been much more capable than that and so he shoved Raph shell first against a nearby wall and pinned him there with his cane. But even though his arms weren't pinned as well, he still didn't bother fighting back and Splinter knew why,
"You are distracted Raphael, you must learn to focus your attacks." Master Splinter said but Raph's distraction was lying on a table that Donnie was using to repair it,
"I'd like to focus my attacks on whoever made that thing!" Raph said as Splinter backed away and allowed him to brush himself off. It was clear that the inactive robot that Donnie was repairing was on all four of the turtle's minds, without that, they would've no doubt given off a better performance and they all knew it. Splinter however knew what would happen once Donnie inevitably fixed the robot; they would use it to track down whoever it was that made it in the first place. Realizing this, Splinter turned to his new bedroom and retreated inside,
"We will resume this training in the morning." Master Splinter announced and once he was out of sight, Mikey decided to do an impression of his sensei for whatever reason only for the subject of his impersonation to overhear him and surprise him and the other three turtles with his hearing abilities,
"I heard that, Michelangelo."
"BUSTED!"
But Raph was growing impatient about the lack of progress being made on the robot and growled quietly,
"I'd really like to bust a few heads!" Raph said
"Dude, chill!" Mikey said and Donnie complied,
"Yeah, Raph. Right now, that robot is wired into my laptop, all that needs to be done now is reprogram it. It shouldn't take too long." Said Donnie,
"So come on, Raph, relax. We got comics galore here while we wait!" Mikey said as he walked over to the chair he used a while ago to continue reading his comics.
"Forget it." Raph said as he walked to his room feeling annoyed.
7:36pm…
It had only been over twenty minutes when Donnie began working on reprogramming the robot but now it was finished. The robot was instantly reactivated and instead of attacking Donnie and the other occupants of the Lair, it instead did as Donnie had reprogrammed it to do and it simply turned around and walked out of the Lair, with Donnie right behind it,
"Guys, I got it working! Come on, we have to follow it!" Donnie shouted out to the others and the three ninja turtles wasted no time in running alongside Donnie. Raph was finally grinning from ear to ear at the thought of inflicting some much needed payback, Mikey groaned as Leo pulled him away from his comics while Leo himself was simply ready to lead his brothers to another potential battle. As they ran after the robot and out through the large exit, they were more than surprised when Master Splinter stood beyond the entrance and waiting for them at the hole in the wall that lead up to the surface.
"Sensei?" Leo said as he had not expected to him there. But alas there he was standing with a stern look that made him and his brothers stop running after the robot and stand to attention as that look also told him and his brothers that whatever he said was not up for debate. When the robot ran straight past Master Splinter however and further down the tunnel, Raph forget about it for a moment,
"Master Splinter! We can't let that robot get away!" Raph said but Splinter's stern face did not let up but then Splinter's next words took them all completely by surprise,
"No we cannot." Splinter said and the look of bewilderment on his son's faces told him that they expected him to tell them to turn around and head back home,
"Do not misunderstand, my sons. I am not here to stop you. I am here to accompany you on this mission." Splinter announced and as he turned in the direction the robot was heading he ordered the four turtles to run with him.
The team of five mutant ninjas now continued on to chase the runaway robot, and as they were running through the tunnel, Mikey felt a question in his head that needed to be answered,
"So Master Splinter, not that I'm not grateful for you coming with us, but, why now and not when April's kidnapping happened?" Mikey asked and Splinter answered,
"Because my son, that time the four of you needed to learn how rely and work together. You have done that and I also had faith that you would return home. If I had come with you on your mission then, I fear that you would have forgotten my lessons and rely solely on me and the lessons would have been for nothing. This time however, I have a great sense of dread that I fell that I cannot ignore." Master Splinter said as they ran. Leo understood right away, while Donnie and Mikey looked slightly worried. They knew that whenever Splinter had a feeling of something, his instincts were usually spot on. Raph however still needed to understand the meaning of this,
"But sensei, isn't that just a feeling?" Raph asked as he continued running and Splinter answered once again,
"Ignore your instincts at your own peril, my son." He answered. And as he did, the tunnel they were running through had ended and exited into a sewer pit that was blocked off at the top and below was completely abandoned and out of use for years it seemed. In the middle stood a large pipe that connected the tunnel to the other wall on the opposite side and acted as a bridge to stand on. It also seemed that the robot had no trouble walking across it and as the five ninjas ran across it as well in order to keep up with the robot, Leo had to voice his concerns about the pipe they were using as a bridge,
"Watch your step here guys, a fall from here would definitely kill us." Leo said as they ran across the pipe-bridge. But it was then that the robot had come face to face with the wall, and then proceeded to walk up the wall with its sharp talon-like feet.
"Resourceful little critter." Donnie said,
"So what do we do now?" Raph asked and Leo answered,
"A ninja is always prepared." Leo said and Splinter had a hint of pride flash in his eyes but the four turtles didn't see it and the four retrieved a pair of shuko spikes from their belts and Splinter did the same, retrieving a pair from his robe. They rapped the spikes onto their hands so that the spikes faced out and Mikey then decided to say something witty,
"I thought that was the boy scouts!"
The five then proceeded to use their shuko spikes to climb the wall leaving four holes behind with each time their spikes latched onto a new part of the wall, however Mikey could only complain about the climb,
"Uh… next time, let's leave the wall climbing to the guy in the blue and red tights!" Mikey complained
"You read way too many comics, Mikey." Leo said as he knew that comic book reading was all Mikey was doing in his spare time when he wasn't helping with making the Lair more liveable.
"Focus, my sons. That robot has reached a new tunnel." Master Splinter said and sure enough the robot had stopped walking up the wall and proceeded down the tunnel it had just entered. And within less than a minute, the five ninjas had reached the tunnel as well and resumed chasing after the robot down the new tunnel. It wasn't new per se as it was another abandoned tunnel but it was still yet another new part of the underground that the five mutants had yet to traverse. As they ran, they also took the time remove their shuko spikes from their palms and back into their belts/robe. But as they ran along the tunnel, a new question arose in Mikey's mind that he needed to ask,
"So Donnie, I'm just curious but, what's to stop ol' turbo jaws from munching up another eight out of ten points for destruction?" Mikey asked and Donnie could only answer with pride,
"I shut down its jaw servos while I was reprogramming it. It couldn't even chew through a stick of gum!" Donnie said with pride but Splinter had something to say about that,
"Pride comes before a fall, my son." Splinter said but Donnie had too much pride in his abilities in computers and technology to acknowledge his sensei's words,
"Don't worry sensei. I'm more than confident about this." However, Donnie's pride was about to take a blow, as it was then that the robot had skidded to a halt and turned to the wall on its right and proceeded to bite through it like a knife through butter.
"You were saying?" Raph said nonchalantly as Donnie's pride took a blow,
"But I… I'm sure I disabled the jaws…" Donnie said as he was completely baffled and Mikey walked up to him and placed a hand on Donnie's shoulder and let out a mocking sigh,
"Donnie's finally lost his techno-mojo! Sad, really." Mikey said which did nothing to cushion the blow, but then again the four brothers did have a habit of never cushioning any blow to one another's pride,
"I repeat what I said, my son; pride comes before a fall." Master Splinter said once again and this time Donnie listened,
"Hai, sensei… it must have some sort of security overwrite routine." Donnie had concluded and when he did, the five proceeded to the new hole in the wall that the robot had just finished making. The hole was just large enough for the five to walk through if they crouched. Which they did and proceeded onward through.
"When I get my hands on those robo-friends it has, I'm going to enjoy tearing them apart!" Raph announced but Donnie had to bring down those intentions down,
"Easy Raph, we still need to keep the one we have intact."
They then saw an opening in the short tunnel (no doubt created by the not-so- partially disabled robot), and came upon what seemed to be some old railways but judging by the sound of a train approaching, the railways were still in use. However, the sight of the robot at one of the rails caught their eyes. Just as it was in sight, a train suddenly sped past and blocked robot from the ninja's views temporarily but as soon as the train passed by, the five saw that the robot had vanished,
"Woah, robo-Houdini!" Mikey said but Leo saw something different,
"Wrong! Robo-hitchhiker!" Leo said as he pointed to the train that just passed by and sure enough the robot had used its jaw to latch onto the speeding train.
"We'll never catch it now!" Mikey said as though he thought they had already failed this mission but Master Splinter once again offered wise words of advice,
"Never say never, my son. There is always a way forward." Master Splinter said and Raph felt the need to comply,
"Ya got that right, sensei. Hitchhiker, huh? Well, two can play at that game!" Raph said and as he did at that moment, another train sped by in the same direction as the one that the robot hitched a ride on, Raph then jumped up and used his sai to stab the roof of the speeding train and pulled along with no signs of stopping,
"What a maniac!" Leo shouted but then Splinter followed suit and jumped onto the roof of the same train,
"Yeah… but sensei seems to approve! Wait for us!" Donnie shouted and at that, the other three turtles leapt onto the speeding train in almost the exact same fashion as either Raph or Splinter.
They didn't have to wait long to get off however, as the robot that hitched a ride on the other train had let go and landed on the ground with no damage at all and then proceeded onward once again. Seeing the robot up ahead, Raph and Splinter decided that now was the time to get off,
"There's our stop!" Raph shouted and then he along with the other four ninjas jumped off the moving train with no damage done to them either and then once again gave chase to the robot. There was a small opening in the wall that the robot had no doubt created and had gone through and the five ninjas followed through. Unknown to the turtles, for them it would be the first time their adventures had horrors that needed to be overcome.
As they exited the hole on to the other side of the wall, they came across a working sewer system, a river of sewer water flowing past them as they stood on a dry platform. Further ahead, they saw the runaway robot walking in the opposite direction of the water flow. But now the horrors revealed themselves as another of the robots appeared from one of the tunnel's corners and into their line of sight. What made this robot different however, was that its jaws and talons had blood covering them.
"Woah! Who invited him?" Mikey asked and Raph answered first,
"I got it!" Raph shouted and then threw one of his shuriken that he kept hidden in his belt. The shuriken sliced right through the robots head and as it fell onto its side, Raph and Mikey high-fived each other (or rather high-three-d) but it was not over yet as the now damaged and bloodied robot got back onto its feet,
"This is not good, guys." Leo said and it got worse when a whole legion of the same small robots walked towards them including their own runaway robot that had joined the fray, their runaway robot being the only one that didn't have blood covering it.
"And it keeps getting worse! These things are covered in blood, and it seems they're a lot tougher than the ones before!" Donnie said and soon the five found themselves surrounded by blood and tech.
"Yeah, and there's a lot more of them too." Raph said but by then, the fight had just begun.
The five leapt into the chaos and so too did the snapping robots, even though they built with better armour, it still didn't change the methods or results of how they dealt with them before, and as before, Raph stabbed each robot with his twin sai, Leo sliced through robots with his twin katana, Donnie and Mikey bashed with their blunt weapons, and so too did Master Splinter. The blood soaked robots may have had numbers on their side, but the five ninjas had skill to more than compensate.
Soon, the fight quieted down as the sewer ground became littered with broken and smashed robots, but the fight was truly over when Raph smashed the last remaining robot. The fight now over with, and the robots being completely useless now, the turtles realized they now had no way tracking down whoever it was who made them.
"So much for tracing them back to their source." Leo said as he sheathed his katana. But Splinter had a different way of tracing them, although he grimaced at what he suspected if they did continue to use this method of tracking,
"My sons, there may yet be another way." Master Splinter said which gained the attention of the four turtles,
"Those robots that attacked us were covered in blood and…" Master Splinter then breathed in through his nose, "…it appears to be human blood." Mikey let out an audible gulp at hearing this as he suddenly became nervous and upon seeing this, the other three mentally agreed and Master Splinter continued,
"Those robots have left a literal trail of blood from the direction they came from." Splinter said as he pointed at said trail of blood that was in the direction headed opposite of the sewage flow.
"I have an awful feeling that the trail is going to lead to some horrific scenes. My sons, I will not judge or blame the four of you if you choose to turn back now." Master Splinter said. The four turtles now had a decision to make. Continue onward, or turn back. Leo was reluctant to answer, but when he did, he was clear, even though he was a bit shaky,
"Sensei, as much as would like to turn back now, I feel like I can't. I'm going forward." Leo said and even though he was beginning to get nervous, his words helped steel his resolve, which also helped his brothers as well,
"Heh, guess you've earned the nickname 'Fearless Leader' after all, bro!"
"Leo, you can count me in as well."
"Dude, we're sticking together."
His sons resolve to stay together had given Splinter a small smile on his face, although if what he suspected was true, the thought wiped it off.
"Very well, my sons. We proceed." Master Splinter said rather reluctantly. But the decision was made and they proceeded to follow the trail of blood along the sewer floor.
8:02pm…
After the five had made the reluctant decision to proceed onward through the sewer tunnel, it became apparent that the trail of human blood was getting thicker with each passing step forward.
"Hey… uh… anyone else having second thoughts about this?" Mikey asked as he was getting more and more nervous the more the blood got thicker as they went on.
"Michelangelo, it is alright for you to be having second thoughts. I can smell it, the scent of human blood is getting stronger." Master Splinter said as he took a quick whiff of the air and despite the smell of sewer water, he could also smell the blood getting thicker. Soon however, they came upon a corner and when they turned the corner, the scene made them all stop in horror of what they saw.
The sight of the scene before them from was like something out of a horror movie; just a few paces in front of them were the mutilated bodies of three men in lab coats, all three were spread out along the tunnel, the first one was face-down on the ground and had a large red gap in his back like something took a bite out of it, his left hand was missing causing more blood to steadily seep out. The second dead man was lying on his side and had multiple bite marks and bloody tears on his legs, his ribs and ribcage were showing due to his torso and chest being savagely ripped apart. And the third man was also lying face-down, his left leg was separated from his corpse, his right arm hanging loose from the shoulder and his jaw was hanging off the rest of his skull. All of which coated each of them with their own and quite possibly each other's blood.
This was the first time the turtles had seen death and mutilation in real life, and all four had similar reactions to the scene; Leo stood wide-eyed and he momentarily forgot where he was, the image of this will remain in his memories forever. Raph was stunned and didn't realize he took a few steps back, his mouth opened and closed as if he wanted to say something but no sound came out. Donnie very nearly fainted at the horrific sight and used the wall to support himself. Mikey had seen violent scenes in some of his comics before but here and now he resisted the urge to vomit as he also stood wide-eyed in complete disbelief. Splinter had seen death and misery before but even he had to admit to himself that this was the most horrific thing he had ever seen and he also momentarily forgot that his four sons saw what he was seeing as well and when he realized this, he gave his next order,
"We must press on, my sons." Master Splinter said with his held low and as he said this, the turtles minus Mikey were snapped out of their horror-filled daze and before they proceeded onward, Leo recognized that Mikey was still not out of his daze and gently eased his brother forward and did his best to make sure Mikey did not look at the bodies as they walked past them. Soon however, the five had moved past the bodies and came upon another corner and the bodies were out of sight unless they turned around.
"My sons, I can smell it; death is all around us." Splinter announced, seeing as there was no way to avoid it now.
"Sensei… I…. we-I…." this was the first time Splinter had seen Raph lost for words and encouraged him to say what he wanted to say without scolding him for use of bad language,
"Say what is on your mind, Raphael. I will not scold you if you use bad language." Splinter said as he tried his best to reassure his son(s),
"We got this far… we-I don't want to let it end like this…" Raph said as he was still very much distracted by the scene he left,
"I feel the same way, Raph." Leo said and placed a shaky hand on Raph's shoulder,
"…me… too…" Donnie said hesitantly
"…" everyone turned to Mikey as he didn't say anything and assumed he wanted to go home, which they didn't blame him for,
"Mikey, you don't have to stay if don't want to. We understand if you can't." Leo said and Mikey wanted to say something but could only open close his mouth and shake his head slowly,
"Alright… Donnie why don't you take him home. You can stay with him if you wish." Leo said and Donnie was about to obey but,
"No… no… I want… to stay with you guys… sure I'm… scared but… I'll be more so if you guys aren't with me as well…" Mikey said rather weakly but his decision had been made and nothing was going to stop him.
"Very well, my sons. But I warn you, the scent of death is everywhere, it would not surprise me if we find more scenes like the one we just saw." Master Splinter said as he desperately hoped they would change their minds about going forward but Leo disproved this,
"Sensei, we know you want for us to turn back and head home now, heck, we want to turn back and head home now. But… we… just can't… I'm… not sure if I can put this into words but… want to stick together and whoever has done this, we want to serve them justice." Leo said and even though he himself couldn't describe it, he was determined to carry out this mission to its conclusion, and his brothers nodded in approval even though they were more scared than determined. Seeing this, Splinter gave the order to continue and the five rounded the corner.
The next sight was little less horrific than the first, although the sight of a woman wearing a lab coat lying face-up with her throat and right leg torn out, was still gruesome, but still they walked on, the fear may have settled in for the four turtles but they would not back down, they walked past the blood soaked corpse and down the sewer tunnel. The further they walked, the more another corpse came into sight, this one of a man lying face-down, also wearing a lab coat with his left hand separated from his bloody body and his intestines ripped open and spilled out. But still the five pressed on but not before a quick glance sent in the direction of the unfortunate person. The blood trail continued at the next corner unfortunately, the mutilated female corpse again with a lab coat and lying face-up had her chest ripped outward showing her torn lungs. Next to her body was a remote like device lying on the ground with some blood spatter. The five ninjas pressed on, the four turtles getting more and shakier all the while, but as they continued to follow a blood trail, for the first time, the trail made no sense as it seemingly went behind a wall and not on it.
"Curious." Splinter said as he examined the blood seemingly going behind the wall, and Donnie knelt down to take a closer look. After a moment, he came to a conclusion,
"Guys, I think this wall is fake." Donnie concluded and Splinter agreed.
"So then, how do we get behind it?" Raph asked and immediately something clicked within Donnie's mind. He walked over rather reluctantly to the female corpse,
"Donnie. What are you up to?" Leo asked and Donnie answered as he tried his best to ignore the dead woman lying mutilated on the ground,
"This remote is what I'm after." Donnie said as he picked up the blood spattered remote. He then walked over to the wall and on a whim, he pointed the remote at the wall and pressed the only button on it. In response, the sound of humming could be heard on the other side of the wall. After a moment, the humming stopped and the wall opened like a sliding door to reveal a hidden elevator. The elevator however had a two occupants inside, both covered in blood and lying dead sitting on the floor and leaning on one of the walls. They both had their stomachs and heads bitten and torn in various places. The thought of going into that elevator made all five ninjas grimace and their stomachs churned but their decisions to press on had already been made and so they stepped into the elevator, rather reluctantly and when they all stood inside, Donnie reached over to the elevator controls,
"I suspect we might find answers on the top office level." Donnie said,
"Then let's go." Leo said and with that, Donnie pressed the button that would lead them to the top floor and they all readied themselves for another potential life or death situation.
8:10pm… Stocktronics Top Floor…
The elevator pinged which signalled that they had arrived at the top floor. And not a moment too soon, as the uncomfortable silence was getting more prominent the further up they went. The moment the elevator doors opened, the four turtles quickly steeped out, not wanting to be inside that elevator any longer than they had to, and Splinter followed suit for he felt the same way. The office they steeped into was white everywhere, the walls, the ceiling, the floor and the desk, all in different shades of white, It also had large windows at the side which revealed that they were not that high up as it became apparent that they were on the top floor of a building that had four floors above ground level. However it was the electronic sliding doors that caught their attention the most. Their lying on the ground was another mutilated corpse, this time of a woman in a lab coat lying face-up with her sides bitten into and ripped out, her left leg hanging off only being held on by skin, and her left leg was caught in the sliding door, preventing it from closing.
"It looks as though all those people came from here." Leo said a bit slower than his usual speaking pace.
"But why? What were they doing here? Did they work here? Were those robots here as well? Is that what they were running from?" Donnie asked,
"But again, why?" Leo asked,
"I have a feeling that when we find the answer to that, we may find out who built these things and why." Splinter said and with that, walked over to the door with the corpse's leg caught in it, and being respectful to the dead, he opened the door and removed the leg from the door, and proceeded onwards. His sons followed after, but were a little apprehensive to move so close to the mutilated body, Mikey even more so. But they nonetheless proceeded onward and left the body behind, this time the electronic sliding being allowed to close properly without the body hindering it. The five were given a brief break and let out a sigh of relief, since the new room they walked into had no mutilated bodies, or even a blood trail for that matter. It was just a large white room with a large computer terminal and three doors, one of which led to the office room they had just exited.
When Donnie saw the large terminal, he immediately raced for it, his mind lit-up with the idea to use one for the first time in his life and because he thought it would shed some light on the mystery of these robots,
"Guys, I think this computer can give us an idea about these robots." Donnie said and as he sat at the computer, Raph just had to ask,
"Why would ya think that Donnie?" he asked,
"Well, these things attacked these people for a reason, and I think that reason is because they might have known something about them." Donnie answered as he typing away at the computer in order to try and hack into its files for answers.
"Alright Donnie, you continue to try to get into the computer's files, guys, we need to keep a look out as he does so." Leo ordered his other two brothers and they complied as they spread out to the three doors.
8:13pm…
It had taken only about a minute or so, but eventually Donnie successfully hacked into the computer,
"Guys, I'm in!" Donnie shouted,
"Good work, my son." Splinter praised as he continued to watch one of the doors alongside Mikey, as Raph kept his eye on the door they walked through and Leo had his eyes on the other door. Donnie meanwhile proceeded to speed-read through any file he could find, most were seemingly unimportant like finances going well, plans to build another lab in another part of the country. However one such file made Donnie flinch as he realized what was happening,
"Guys, you have to this…" Donnie said and his brothers and sensei reconvened around him to see what it was that he found,
"What is it Donnie?" Leo asked,
"As I was looking through their files to find some answers, I may have found answers to all of them…" Donnie said and with a quick few taps of the computer, a file of a blueprint popped up onto the screen. The blueprint was of the very same robots they had been fighting, the chilling design of the sharps jaws and talons were unmistakeable.
"This building is where the robots were made." Donnie said and his brothers stood wide eyed at the screen, and Donnie continued to type away, and a new pop-up came up onto the screen and for Donnie, things started to fall into place,
"Guys, I know what is going on!" Donnie said a little panicked,
"What is it, Donatello?" Splinter asked and Donnie answered as he began typing away at the computer again,
"Well, for starters, these robots are called Mousers." Donnie said,
"Mousers?" Leo said, a little confused at why they were called such a thing since they didn't resemble mice in the slightest,
"Mark-One Ultra Shadow Execution Robotic Sentries. M.O.U.S.E.R.S." Donnie clarified. And then turned to explain what else he found,
"I don't know the specific reason as for why whoever it is who is making them, but they're going to use the Mousers' incredible biting power to eat through the supporting foundations of whatever building they come across in the city." Donnie said and Splinter and Leo knew what this meant, Raph had some idea but Mikey was still slightly out of it,
"So if they do what you just said they will do…" Leo said and Donnie finished his sentence,
"Then no matter what, the buildings won't be able to support themselves. Buildings without their supporting foundations will start collapsing left and right! And this place can mass produce these Mousers."
"You mean this place can cripple the entire city?" Raph asked,
"Yeah. But fortunately, the Mousers can only be operated by a mother computer, if we find that and destroy it, the Mousers will automatically shut down." Donnie said,
"But then, why did they destroy our old home?" Mikey asked from out of the blue,
"I don't think that was intentional. At that time, the Mousers were on a test run and it was a coincidence that our old home happened to be there." Donnie explained as he found that information about their previous runs.
"And what's to stop whoever built these things from doing this again?" Leo asked and Donnie contemplated this for a few seconds before he turned back the computer and started typing again,
"Well, from here, I can send these blueprints and plans to the police through an anonymous e-mail and then when they find whoever manufactured the Mousers, he or she won't be able to fix anything whilst in their custody." Donnie said and Splinter agreed,
"Good, you do that, Donatello." Splinter said and then Donnie continued on,
"I'm also going to see if…" just as Donnie said this the computer screen then showed another blueprint of the building and Donnie instantly knew where to go next,
"Here!" Donnie pointed to a large room, larger than the others, "This is where the Mousers are being made, and no doubt the mother computer is there as well. I'm also hacking into the security of this place. I can shut it down from here!" Donnie said as he typed away furiously. When he finished he stood up quickly,
"Come on, I've shut down the security, but it will reboot in less than two minutes." Donnie all but ordered and Leo complied,
"Then let's move." Leo said as he was now determined to end this nightmare they found themselves in. The five then proceeded out the door as Donnie showed them which way to go. As they exited the room and entered the hallway, they were hardly surprised to find two more mutilated bodies of lab workers, lying bloodied on the ground. But they were more concentrated on finding the mother computer and the manufacturer and run past the bodies, though Mikey was having trouble not looking shaky as he ran past them. They soon came across another electronic door that opened when they approached it. The doors revealed a very large dark room but in the dark, Splinter could still see inside, and the other four turtles just barely seeing in the dark,
"This is too quiet." Leo said and the others didn't like things as were as well,
"…um… guys? Anyone feel like this is a trap?" Mikey said and as he did, the lights blazed to life revealing all five of them and the electronic door shut themselves and locked the five inside,
"Intruders? Here to steal my secrets? You'll leave here with nothing! Not even your lives!" a voice sounded over a speaker and the five ninjas recognized it as a man speaking and saw that he was above them in a small room with large glass windows and as the man saw them, he was baffled by their appearances but instead of sounding shocked, he was more curious and meticulous sounding,
"What on earth are you five? Hmm… I suppose I'll have to dissect you to find out." The man said and with that, he used the computer he was standing at to activate what could only be described as gun weapons of some sort and they were pointed at the five mutant ninjas. One of the weapons glowed red at its point and fired a laser streak at the five ninjas. The ninjas scattered and dodged the laser with relative ease. Now the fight was on! All of the weapons were lasers and all fired on whatever target they came across, Leo jumped and ran from one shot, the shot missing its target, Mikey though he still had issues from the corpses still weighing on him, he was still nimble enough to not get hit, even with multiple lasers shooting at him, Raph sprinted across the room as two of the lasers missed their mark, Splinter jumped across the room as whatever laser fired at him never hit its mark, as Raph drew his twin sai from his belt, Leo did the same whilst in the shadows of a pillar he stood behind, he leapt out of the shadows and headed in Raph's direction,
"Raph, heads up!" Leo shouted and when Raph stopped in his tracks, Leo stood before him and raised his katana in defence against a laser that would've hit Raph. The laser hit the twin katana but Leo did not falter, he kept his katana raised and the laser was eventually shot back at itself causing the blaster to explode. Donnie meanwhile had pole-launched himself high and landed on one of the blasters, he then redirected it so it would point at the other lasers instead of his family, the laser shot at the other lasers and in one moment, Donnie had three blasters destroyed. He then opened a hatch from where he stood and tore out the wiring inside and then leapt off to safety on the ground as the blaster he was on sparked and whirled away until it eventually exploded. They five then ran towards the room where the man stood and were fighting against, stunned the man was completely baffled that whatever he was doing wasn't working,
"Impossible…" the man said and continued to fire another laser at one of the mutants which happened to be Raph who back flipped to dodge the laser blast and was now directly underneath the room above,
"Mikey, slingshot!" Raph shouted and Mikey complied, he ran and dodged the lasers and headed straight for Raph who interlocked his fingers to act as a springboard for his brother, and when Mikey hopped onto his brothers hands, Raph launched him up to room and Mikey clung to the glass directly in front of the man who was shocked to see him there. Mikey then pulled out his nunchucks and used them to smash the glass window and easily entered the room as the man inside tumbled back and onto the floor. Leo then leapt up into the room the same way Mikey entered and joined him,
"Whoever you are, your reign of terror is over!" Leo announced and soon the other three joined them and the man became surrounded by the five mutant ninjas,
"What are you?" the man said and the five got a good but Leo look at him, he was an African-American man who looked to be in his thirties and was smartly dressed in a work suit complete with a lab coat. Raph approached him and grabbed him by the collar of his uniform, picked him up and off his feet and then slammed him against the wall behind him,
"We saw what yer Mousers did to those people. Yer not getting away with this!" Raph all but shouted and flipped the man over his shoulder and slammed him into the ground, hard. The man let out a grunt of brief pain, but despite that, the man grinned,
"So you know about by Mousers? Hehe, well, my team of engineers who helped me to make them were expendable and were loose ends." The man all but boasted, but Leo looked irked and pointed one of his swords at the man's face,
"Expendable? The way you had them killed was inhumane! You used your robots to massacre them, even as they ran for their lives! And you think their lives were 'expendable'?" Leo was angry when he heard what the man described them as and he wasn't alone in this since Raph and Donnie were also mad at his choice of words while Mikey stood horrified at his words while Splinter placed a comforting hand on his shoulder,
"It doesn't matter what he thinks. What matters is that when the police arrives, he will face justice for everything he has done, and everything he was going to do." Donnie said, which the man did not like one bit, he brought out a remote he had in his coat pocket and pressed a few buttons on it before Raph snatched it from him and smashed it against the ground,
"That's enough!" Raph shouted but the man just grinned at him,
"Ha! Too late! I've recalled each and every Mouser from their first mission! They'll be here any second, they'll tear you to pieces, or my name isn't Dr Baxter Stockman!" the man who called himself Dr Stockman announced and Leo looked towards Donnie,
"Donnie?" Leo asked and Donnie knew what he wanted for him to do and didn't waste time, he raced to the computer,
"Luckily, this appears to be the mother computer… I can try to shut them down here…" Donnie said as he looked a little nervous,
"Ha! You can't shut them down! You need a password for each and every one of them!" Dr Stockman said as he grinned, "You also can't destroy the terminal either, it is made out of grade five titanium, it would take at least two bombs to destroy it!" said Dr Stockman as he felt bold that he was going to succeed, "You're doomed, listen…" as he said this, the sound of metallic footsteps could be heard, then just a second later, the door behind them opened to reveal a whole armies worth of Mousers approaching them and as they looked out the broken window, they saw the doors they entered through open to reveal another armies worth of Mousers entering the factory. Donnie typed away furiously but the Mousers were still approaching and snapping their jaws at them, ready to strike,
"Donnie… now's the time…" Leo said as they were getting closer and closer but Donnie was having no success and when Raph let go of Dr Stockman to stand with his brothers, Dr Stockman backed away slowly and bolted for the door when he had the opportunity. When he reached for the door, he pressed the electronic lock to shut it,
"You should never have matched wits with me!" Dr Stockman taunted as the door shut,
"He's getting away!" Mikey shouted and tried to run for the door, but the Mousers were in his way and looked to attack if he got too close.
"Let him go, we've got bigger problems…" Raph said and the Mousers were getting closer still, and soon they were surrounded by Mousers, and the sheer number of them meant that no-one, not even the five mutant ninjas would be able to get out unscathed,
"At least we'll go out fighting!" said Raph but Mikey didn't like that idea,
"Actually, I don't want to go out at all!" Mikey said and as he did, Donnie came across something incredibly dangerous to use on the computer and with no time to think, Donnie typed as fast as he could and then finally with the press of the final button, the Mousers suddenly stopped where they stood. Their yellow eye pieces turned red and the other four took it as a sign that he put them on standby. As if to confirm this, Leo gently poked one of the nearby Mousers with the tip of his sword and grinned at the thought that Donnie had shut them down. Leo, Raph and Mikey all cheered at Donnie's accomplishment but Splinter just looked worried at the look that Donnie was giving him,
"Donatello, you have shut down those mechanical monstrosities, why do you look so worried?" Splinter asked and Donnie was all too quick to answer,
"I wasn't able to shut them down sensei! They're still active!" Donnie announced but Raph just picked up a Mouser as if to debunk what Donnie just said,
"They look pretty shut down to me!" Raph said, but Donnie was still worried,
"The only way I could stop them was to initiate a self-destruct sequence!" Donnie said and Raph immediately dropped the Mouser in response and then as if on cue, the Mousers started smoking,
"Which means… LET'S GET OF HERE!" Raph shouted and the other four had no argument and all five leapt out of the broken window and landed on the ground and with no time to spare or think, they raced for the open door and left the factory, and not a moment too soon, as they left the factory, the door shut behind them and just then all of the Mousers exploded, destroying the factory in one blast. The explosion rocked the whole building and the five ninjas realised that the Mousers were all over the inside of the building to do that.
"We must escape now!" Splinter announced and needed no further arguments, the five raced for the office area where they entered. As they ran, the building started to crumble all around them in a much faster pace than their old home, but when they reached the office area, they found the way blocked by debris.
"Great! What do we do now?" Raph asked and when Splinter saw where the debris came from, he gave a solution,
"We go up." Splinter said and all four turtles looked up see a hole on the ceiling that seemed to lead outside.
"LET'S GO!" Leo shouted and using the desk as a foothold, they jumped through the hole in the ceiling and climbed up through it and onto the roof of the building. However the building they were on was now unstable, there was no time to waste, and seeing that there were other rooftops nearby, they wasted no time and quickly leaped across rooftop to rooftop until there were a safe distance away and not a moment too soon, as the building they escaped from suddenly erupted into a pillar of fire that exploded out of all the windows and through the roof. The fire endangered the other buildings as well but the sound of police arriving signalled that the fire would soon be under control eventually.
"Phew! That was cuttin' it close!" Raph said and his brothers also let out sighs of relief but Leo voiced his concerns,
"But now all the evidence is gone… the police won't find anything once the blaze is put out. Even if they find the bodies inside." Leo said but then Donnie spoke up,
"Not necessarily. Whilst I was giving them the blueprints and other files through an anonymous tip, I also gave them tips on where to find the bodies in the sewers. Though with the Mousers exploding, it is likely their murders will go unsolved, since we couldn't stop Dr Stockman." Donnie said and Splinter placed a hand on Donnie's shoulder,
"Do not fret, my son. At least they will be found and identified. It is better than not being found at all and left to rot in a sewer." Said Splinter, "Now, we should go home now." He then said and the four turtles never thought that the sound of home ever sounded so good before, so without further ado, the five raced across the rooftops and headed for home.
8:26pm…
Dr Stockman must have ran far enough, for when he stopped, he was in the middle of a New York alley away, but even then he could still see the destruction of his building, since the blaze lit up the sky as fire crews were desperately trying to contain the blaze.
"It doesn't matter… no-one could've survived that!" Dr Stockman said out loud but then from out of nowhere, a deep gruff voice answered him,
"Are you so sure of that?" the deep voice said and when Dr Stockman turned to see who it was, he was less than impressed with who it was,
"You! What do you want, Hun?" Dr Stockman asked. The man he called Hun was huge. Over six foot and the size of the muscles on his arms probably meant he could have no trouble punching his way through walls. He was blond and had a wolf-tail hairstyle. His face was stoic as he asked,
"Having trouble, Dr Stockman?" the man called Hun said,
"Trouble? No! Everything is proceeding exactly as I planned it!" said Dr Stockman and then Hun proceeded to grab Dr Stockman by his uniform and lifted him up off his feet with more ease than Raph did. He brought up Dr Stockman so that his face was level with his own.
"Then perhaps you would like to explain this 'plan' to the Master." Hun said and when he did, Dr Stockman looked surprised,
"What? But… he isn't scheduled to arrive here for three days yet!" Dr Stockman said,
"Lucky for you then. He has arrived early, ahead of schedule." As Hun said this, Dr Stockman went pale, he thought that in three days he could buy himself some time to hide away from the Shredder but the thought of facing him now made him as white as a sheet. Seeing the fear in his eyes, Hun simply walked into the shadows of the alley with Dr Stockman locked in his grip,
"NO, no! Unhand me at once!" Dr Stockman begged but Hun didn't reply and soon the alley became empty as Hun left Dr Stockman, treating him like a prisoner now.
8:35pm… New York City… The Lair…
For the five ninjas, it had been a long night. However when they entered their home, they felt their bodies got lighter. The reality of what had been happening in one night suddenly made the four turtles want to collapse in exhaustion. Though exhaustion wasn't the right word to describe it.
"My sons, I believe there is something you have to say." Master Splinter said and although they did want to say something, it was difficult for them to put into words. Moments later, it was Mikey who was first to say what was on his mind,
"There… was… so much… blood…" Mikey said as he held his down and looking stunned beyond belief,
"I can't believe it… he was really going to kill so many people…" Donnie said, he always knew that technology has been used to kill before, but seeing the results for the first time and seeing what might have happened if they didn't stop him,
"I don't think I… could've gone through the sight of what we saw in the sewers alone… I wanted to…" even though Leo didn't say, the others knew what he was thinking; he wanted to go home,
"That… ugggghhh… he's still out there… he could do this again…" Raph said, not wanting to see sights of horror again.
"I know, and we've got to find him and bring him to justice." Leo said and although his brothers didn't at first, they nodded in agreement.
"Very well. Since you feel the need to stop this… Dr Stockman, I will not stop you. Though it does mean that you will have another enemy to fight against." Master Splinter said. The others realized this as soon as he said those words and it was true, for it was not only Dr Stockman they decided to make an enemy out of, but also the aliens that they saved April from.
"For now, a good night's rest will do us good." Master Splinter said and with that, the four turtles decided to turn in for he night, albeit slowly.
8:44pm… New York City… Foot HQ…
The Foot HQ was a large skyscraper that could easily be passed off as just another one of the city's many towers and skyscrapers. Easy then to hide your organisation in while the population are none the wiser. Inside at the top of the skyscraper however stood a Japanese style temple made completely out of wood and coloured red and it was inside the temple that Dr Stockman found himself, trying to explain (rather nervously), about the destruction of the Mousers and the complete mission failure to his Master: The Shredder
"… and so… as any fool can see… the whole… thing was simply a… minor setback…" once again, he described the mission failure as a minor setback and it was then that the Shredder had had enough of the words 'minor setback'. He grabbed a gauntlet with two sword-like blades elongated at one end. He put the gauntlet on and pointed the blades at Dr Stockman, who flinched at the sight,
"You must pay the price for failure, Dr Stockman." The Shredder said as coldly as his dark voice would allow. And it was then that Hun, who had been standing next to the Shredder like a bodyguard, had approached Dr Stockman and only stopped to stand behind him, then before Dr Stockman could turn behind to look at him, Hun grabbed his arms and pinned them on his back, preventing him from defending himself. The next thing he knew was that the Shredder was now standing directly in front of him, his bladed gauntlet raised and then a split second later, Dr Stockman felt his blood gushing out of where his left eye had been, the pain caused him to scream in agony as his blood splattered the floor below.
"You are sorely mistaken if you think you got the worst of it. Unfortunately for me, I still need you to accomplish my goal. But make no mistake, for if you fail me again, your next punishment will be much more severe." The Shredder said with stoic face and then Hun proceeded to drag Dr Stockman away and out of the temple, ignoring Dr Stockman's pleas. Once the two left the temple, The Shredder was momentarily left alone as it was then that a lone man all dressed in black from his balaclava down to his boots, had entered from the shadows of the temple and carrying what looked to be a Mouser head, the lone man approached the Shredder and bowed,
"We have the image you requested, Master." The lone man said and then pulled out a remote and pressed a button on it which activated a screen that lowered itself from the roof. The screen activated, showing a heat signature image of five strangely shaped individuals.
"So, the last remaining image the Mouser optics recorded." The Shredder said as he saw the heat signature image. Luckily it didn't show the image in great detail but that didn't matter to Shredder.
"These are the ones responsible!" Shredder said and then leapt forward and sliced through the screen with his bladed gauntlet in a temporary act of anger and when the screen lay shredded and useless, The Shredder acted as if he didn't have a care. Which he didn't.
Me: hey there! So I know Casey's intro was a little lackluster, but he will get the attention he needs in the next chapter. GOONGALA!