me: hello readers! Hope you like this chapter. The previous chapter has indeed concluded Casey's story arc, and this chapter is a follow up to it, as Casey is no longer the main focus of the story. Hope you like it!
May 2nd… 11:15pm… 2012… National Park…
It was most likely this exact scenario when Master Splinter was teaching Raph about unwanted consequences. When Raph revealed himself and his brothers to Casey the first time around. He was lucky that those unwanted consequences didn't catch up with him then. But a person can only hold onto that sort of luck for so long, and it was evident by the situation they found themselves in.
Casey, being the vigilante that he is, would have no doubt made himself an enemy of the Purple Dragons and with the four ninja turtles being with him at this very moment, he may have also made them their enemies as well. Though that was most likely Raph's fault. As soon as that gruff voice sounded in the area, Casey and the four turtles found themselves surrounded by a dozen of Purple Dragon criminals.
Unbeknownst to the five as Casey and Raph were fighting, one of the Purple Dragons that was seemingly knocked out earlier had regained consciousness and had called for help whilst he quietly slipped away until said help arrived.
"So, this is what Master Splinter was saying about unwanted consequences…" Raph thought as the Purple Dragons surrounded Casey, himself and his brothers.
"Look at the freaks!"
"What's with the dweeby costumes?"
"This ain't Halloween!"
"You're goin' down, freaks!"
"And this is the last time you mess with the Purple Dragons, vigilante…"
The Purple Dragons were confident (or cocky), as they approached and taunted the turtles and the vigilante, however when the last criminal spoke as he looked at Casey, he recognized him almost immediately,
"Hey, I know you! Yeah, we totally burnt down yer place, along with yer bigshot of a Dad o' yers!" the Purple Dragon said and it was the same Purple Dragon with a dragon tattoo on his face that Casey also recognised during that horrible night. Casey saw red and was going to charge but Raph held him back. When Casey turned his head towards Raph, Raph gave Casey a look that he immediately understood; the five of them were going to fight together. If Raph hadn't done what he did, Casey would've charged ahead and gotten himself killed. That would not be how he would avenge his Dad.
The Turtles and Casey vs The Purple Dragons
The Purple Dragons made the first move and the turtles along with Casey spread out to meet with their opponents, Mikey ducked under the swing of a crowbar and knocked the offending crook with his nunchucks, while Donnie deflected another attack with his staff and smacked his opponent across the head with the staff and the two Purple Dragons were knocked back onto their backs. Casey faced one criminal and when said criminal jumped at his head, Casey swung his bat at him and the airborne Purple Dragon was smacked and sent flying back, whilst at the same time, Raph had another airborne opponent coming at him and knocked his opponent at of the air with a strong hook punch. Leo, meanwhile found himself surrounded by four Purple Dragons, and as two charged at him from either side, Leo jumped up and performed a split kick on the two attackers and them onto their backs. Seeing that the Purple Dragons were going to be no match for them, Leo decided to make a small competition out of it,
"Hey guys, think you can rate my split kick?" Leo asked as he turned to Raph and Casey, who were effortlessly beating back two attackers,
"Sure Leo! Let me see it!" Raph said and Leo seemed happy to oblige as the other two attackers charged at Leo, seemingly oblivious to his capabilities. Leo jumped again and performed another split kick to the attackers and knock them onto their backs as well. Leo landed and held his arms out as if to say "Well?" as he grinned. Just then another Purple Dragon charged at Raph only for Raph to kick his stomach and knock him back without much effort, and then looked back to Leo.
"One more time!" Raph said and as two more Purple Dragons charged at Leo from both sides again, Leo was happy to oblige again and jumped again and performed another split kick against the attackers which knocked them onto their backs again.
"Ha! Saw that one!" Raph said as he grinned and placed his twin sai back into his belt.
"I give yer a ten!" Casey said as he held out his hands to rate Leo's attack a ten, whilst Raph held out his hands the same way but could only rate a six. Leo looked disappointed (sarcastically),
"Raph, only a six?" the moment he said this, a Purple Dragon charged at Leo from behind, and Leo responded by thrusting his elbow into the attackers face without even looking,
"Hey, it's all I got!" Raph said whilst beating back another attacker with another kick to the stomach.
The rest of the fight went without much of an issue; a nunchuck to the face here, a bat and a hockey stick to the head there, and a few more punches and kicks to everywhere else, and only one Purple Dragon was left standing and that was the one with the dragon tattoo on his face. And he was facing Leo and wielding a pipe and Leo was wielding his twin katana. The standoff lasted only a second before the two charged at each other, Leo expertly attacked and blocked with his twin katana while the Purple Dragon was a bit clumsy in his approach to the fight. The fight was over when slashed the pipe in a double vertical swing and when the attack connected to the pipe, the pipe fell apart at the clean slices in it.
"Uh oh." Was all he could say before Leo knocked him flat on his back with a flying kick.
The ninja turtles and Casey win this fight. At the end of the fight, the park ground was littered with bruised and battered thugs. Although Casey had won this fight, he could have very well have easily have been beaten… badly if he didn't have help from the ninja turtles. Raph also saw this and then fully understood what Master Splinter had been teaching him.
"Now do you see what Sensei taught us, Raph? About picking your fights poorly and suffering the unwanted consequences?" Leo asked, but Raph simply looked away from Leo, not wanting to say anything and his three brothers took it as a sign that he did in fact learn his lesson.
"Aaaawwww! Raphie's shy to admit it!" Mikey cooed and there were many things that Raph didn't like, one of them being called shy.
"I AM NOT SHY!"
"Aw, come on, Raph. It's adorable!" Mikey put an emphasis on adorable which really made Raph pissed off. Which was evident when Raph cracked his knuckles.
"Alright Casey, you'll like this show. It's called 'Does Mikey Bend that Way?'" Raph said as he began chasing Mikey around the area as Mikey screamed and laughed at the same time.
"Wow, you guys are totally nuts!" Casey said and Leo and Donnie responded with slight shrug of the shoulders and a "Yup!". But before Raph and Mikey could continue their merry chase, Leo decided to intervene by placing himself between the two just as Raph was about to throw Mikey over his shoulder.
"Perhaps you two should finish this when we're not surrounded by beaten up thugs that could wake up at any time?" Leo suggested and the two turtles agreed. Raph because he wanted to at least throw Mikey a bit, and Mikey because he wanted a head start.
11:44pm… at the corner of Eastman Land…
Perhaps being homeless wasn't going to be as tough as Casey initially thought. Not when his newest friends are mutants. He took this news surprisingly well, even better than April. At least he didn't scream like she did. But there was also a surprise for the turtles when they learned that Casey had taken up residence at the same abandoned warehouse that they were using to reach the Lair. Donnie had calculated that the possibilities of a young teenager being homeless, befriending four mutant turtles using the same warehouse he would be using, said boy being a vigilante and is also basically a human version of Raph, would be astronomically small. And yet it happened. The surprises were not going to stop there however. Although Casey wasn't as skilled at parkour and rooftop jumping like the turtles were, he could still keep up with the turtles… just. But that wasn't the surprise. The surprise would be just as they were about to turn the corner than would have led them to the abandoned warehouse. Down on the street below, a duo of Purple Dragons (male and female) were in the middle of mugging a helpless man (not surprising), and Casey saw this happen and so did the turtles.
"Guys, I'll be back in a second!" Casey said as he jumped from the rooftop and onto the fire escape that would lead him safely to the ground.
"So much for carefully picking your fights." Donnie said nonchalantly,
"It's going to be a work in progress." Raph said as he defended Casey.
Casey wasn't joking when he said it was only going take a second, as the moment he jumped from the fire escape and onto the ground, he quickly pulled his hockey stick from his golf bag and smacked the two muggers over their heads and knocked them down. The victim of the mugging took this chance to run away from the muggers and Casey. (still not the surprise). Once the muggers were down and the victim no longer being victimized, Raph and the other turtles jumped from the rooftop to ground level.
"Hey, I had reason to do what I just did." Casey said as though it were obvious, and the turtles didn't fault him for that. But then the two Purple Dragons had gotten up at that point and tried to make a break for it. Emphasis on tried, they only got as far as the middle of the street when they were stopped in their tracks by Raph and Casey. Raph by appearing out of nowhere in front of the male Purple Dragon and punching him hard in the face and knocking him on his behind, and Casey stopped the female Purple Dragon by hooking the back of her shirt collar with his hockey stick and pulled her back onto her back. It was then that the other three turtles walked in the middle of the street to join Raph and Casey.
"Ya know, I feel like bustin their heads and calling it a night. How about you guys?" Casey asked and Mikey responded first,
"Ooh! How about we just tie 'em up? Leave them here for the police to find?"
"I got no problems with that!" but it was at that moment that Leo spotted something from the other side of the street. Something that would definitely complicate matters and that something had also spotted them as well and it was coming their way inside a white van. The Kraang.
"GUYS, THE KRAANG!" Leo announced as he pointed out to the oncoming coming Kraang.
"The what?" but as soon as Casey was to ask, Raph had dashed from where he was to the side of the street, and then picked up a metal bin and threw it hard at the oncoming van. The projectile smashed through the windshield, and unable to keep control, the Kraang ended up swerving to one side and only stopping when the van crashed into a wall. All were on guard except for Raph, who folded his arms in and grinned at this,
"Well, that was easy!" but then a group of Kraang exited the van with their blasters and fired at everyone who wasn't a Kraang.
"okay…" Raph said as he realised that easy was the wrong word for it, and Donnie let out a slight yelp as he dodged along with the other turtles, the Purple Dragons simply ducked their heads as the laser blasts hit everything else but them and Casey also ducked and dodged to avoid the wildfire blasts. The turtles charged at the Kraang with their weapons drawn, and for whatever reason other than being bad shots, the Kraang were unable to hit their moving targets and the turtles were now within close combat distance from them. Casey meanwhile was trying to make sense of the scene before him from where he stood in the street and the Purple Dragon duo were also just as confused.
Now within close range, the turtles acted, Raph jumped from the side of the wall and stabbed one of the alien's blasters, effectively making it useless now, and then launched a jump spin kick to another's robotic head, he then just as quickly launched another strong kick to the stomach area of another Kraang where the main body was located and then proceeded to throw another over his shoulder. The alien ended up landing right next to the Purple Dragon duo as they flinched at the action. The chaos of the fight almost caused them both to be shot multiple times. Casey meanwhile had had enough of this and proceeded to join the turtles in their fight that he understood nothing about. He pulled out a baseball bat from his golf bag and wielded it alongside his hockey stick and shouted "GOONGALA!" as he charged the Kraang. Whilst one Kraang was busy shooting at Donnie (unsuccessfully), Casey took the opportunity and blindsided the alien by smashing its head with the baseball bat. Donnie now had room to attack another Kraang, he swung his staff at the blaster and disarmed the Kraang and then he did 360 spin attack and smacked the alien with his staff on its head. Mikey meanwhile was having no trouble dodged indirect shots and when he went on the offensive, the Kraang stood no chance as it had its head smashed by Mikey's nunchucks whilst said ninja did a Bruce Lee impersonation.
The Purple Dragon duo tried to take advantage of the chaos to try and quietly slip away, but the moment they reached the back end of the van, a wayward Kraang inadvertently knocked them both inside the van. Meanwhile, Leo and Raph were busy fighting a pair of Kraang but when Raph turned his head towards the van and saw the Purple Dragon duo inside the vehicle he made his move,
"Leo, I know they're criminals, but I don't think they deserve to be in the Kraang's hands." Raph said and whatever it was that the Kraang are planning for, no human should be caught in the middle. At this Leo agreed,
"Agreed. Go! Get them away from here." Leo ordered and Raph listened and headed to the van. Just as he did, another Kraang engaged Leo in combat.
Inside the van would seem like a good place to be safe to be away from the chaos outside of it, and with that in mind, the duo decided to stay in the back of the van. But when Raph entered the van with intent to get them out and away, a trio of Kraang also entered behind him (as ill luck would have it). As if that weren't bad enough, the Kraang driver had at that moment got the van working again, reversed from the wall and started driving forward down the street, with Raph and the Purple Dragon duo still inside it.
"Raph's in the van!" Leo said as he, his other two brothers and Casey dodged out of way of the moving van and when it drove away, they gave chase to it on foot.
Trying to fight off three animated robots with alien brains inside of them, in a small cramped space was hard enough for Raph, but when he got the upper hand and knocked the aliens down (temporarily), he turned towards the Purple Dragon duo,
"Let's get of here!" Raph said but the criminal duo did not listen,
"Forget it, we're not going anywhere with you, freak!" the male criminal said,
"Raph! Get out of there!" Donnie shouted as he ran after the van. The van wasn't going that fast so it was easy for the three other turtles and Casey to keep up with it.
"Listen, you idiots! Would you want to be safe in a prison cell, or be dissected by these guys- "it was then that one of the alien robots got back up and wrapped his arms around Raph's head and shoulders and unceremoniously threw him out of the moving van. Raph's flying body only stopped when he hit his brothers and Casey and all five landed in a pile of tangled limbs in the middle of the street.
With the van now speeding away from the turtles and Casey, with seemingly no way of catching them now, the Purple Dragon dup had to admit that they would rather be in prison than be in the company of whatever the heck these things were about.
Eventually, the tangled mess of limbs had gotten themselves out of the mess they were in and Casey was the first to question the situation,
"Okay, what the hell was that? Who were those people?" Casey said as he demanded an answer and Donnie was first to answer,
"Well, the better question is not WHO they are, but WHAT they are." Donnie said and when Casey just looked confused at this statement, Raph cleared it up for him,
"Those guys are little alien brains inside robot bodies and wearing human suits." Raph said almost nonchalantly and the response from Casey was one you would expect from hearing a statement like that.
"…-_-…"
"…"
"You're totally yanking my chain here." Casey's scepticism was understandable but it didn't change the situation.
"It doesn't matter what you think. Because right now, those guys have two idiot criminals in their hands and will do God only knows what! We have to get them away from the Kraang!" Leo said but as Casey was about to protest, Raph stopped him,
"Casey, prison would be a lot safer for those two right now." Although Casey wasn't comfortable with the idea of helping criminals instead of beating them up, he silently admitted that being kidnapped would definitely lead to something bad. Regardless of who the victim was.
"Still, that doesn't change things. How are we supposed to find them?" Leo asked and it was at that moment that Donnie spotted something on the road. It was a trail of petrol going in the direction that the van went.
"Look! The truck's leaking!" Donnie said as he pointed to the petrol on the road,
"Alright! We can follow the trail to their hideout!" Leo said and Raph grinned as he said,
"And then we'll bash some bots!"
Casey meanwhile thought to himself, "This, I gotta see for myself."
11:54pm… Outside the Kraang Base,
The van stops outside a seemingly run down building, but knowing the Kraang, on the inside the building was most likely very high tech. Not that the Purple Dragon Duo were aware of this, but when the Kraang held them at blaster-point, they were more concerned with getting out alive. The Kraang coerced the criminal duo out of the van, but when the male Purple Dragon exited the van, he somehow lost his footing and landed face first in a patch of weeds. Unbothered by this mishap, the aliens simply pointed their blasters at him and ordered him to get up and forced them inside the building. In their nonchalant and weird English way.
12:22am…
The trail of petrol had led the ninjas and Casey towards the same van outside a seemingly normal building in the middle of New York. On the outside anyway, but on the inside, it was a Kraang base. The five proceeded to climb up the building (the wall for the ninjas and the fire escape for Casey), and then entered the building through the rooftop entrance.
Inside the Building…
It was obvious to the five intruders that the Kraang didn't care much for keeping the place clean, as it was evident by the number of cobwebs surrounding many of the crates along with a few spiders. Donnie and Mikey were sneaking through together with Mikey in front of Donnie. When Mikey stopped for whatever reason, he also unintentionally made Donnie stop as well. So, Donnie decided to playfully smack the back of his head.
"OW! Hey, what was that for?" Mikey demanded and Donnie just smiled playfully as he answered,
"There was a spider on ya!" Donnie said but Mikey thought a bit of payback was in order,
"Well, theres a spider on you too!" Mikey said as he frowned at Donnie,
"No, there isn't- "but as Donnie looked about him to check, Mikey suddenly tackled him to the ground,
"Come here, you punk!". The scene that took place was a bit comical, Donnie lying back on his shell with Mikey straddling him as he continuously smacked the top of Donnie's head,
"Knock it off! OW!" Donnie said without sounding to plead as Mikey just kept up the assault but Leo had already had enough,
"HEY!" at the sound of Leo's voice, Mikey stopped the assault and both turned their heads to him as he shushed them. Mikey then got up from straddling Donnie, who also got up after him but not before Mikey raised his hand up as if to hit Donnie again. But instead he just walked after Leo. Raph and Casey saw all this happen, and Raph approached Donnie from behind and placed a hand on Donnie's shoulder,
"Hey, Donnie. Just so you know, I'm the only one who can hit Mikey." Raph said and Casey felt the need to ask,
"And why's that?"
"Cuz I'm the only one who can do it properly!" Raph said as he smirked. The five vigilantes arrived at the centre of the room and stayed in the shadows and saw that the building had a huge tank of Mutagen in the centre that also connected to other smaller vats of the same Mutagen.
"What is that stuff?" Casey asked as quietly as he could and Raph answered him,
"That would be the same stuff that caused us to mutate when we were just baby turtles." Raph said,
"No way…" was all Casey could say before their attention was drawn to the alien occupants in the room
Being tied down onto hard chairs and surrounded by armed alien robots was definitely a cause for concern. The Purple Dragon duo were currently experiencing this and the Kraang were discussing what to do with them,
"Kraang, Kraang proposes that Kraang should take the humans to the experiment that is the experiment of the Kraang."
"Kraang agrees with Kraang. I am knowledge that these humans are that which is known as 'Purple Dragons', and other humans will not take knowledge of these humans."
"Kraang, is the Mutagen ready for the experiment that is the experiment of the Kraang?"
"Yes, Kraang. The Mutagen is ready to be used in the experiment that is the experiment of the Kraang."
The hostage Purple Dragons didn't really catch on to what the aliens were saying, thanks to their bad English but the words 'mutagen' and 'experiment' made them go a bit pale. And from the shadows, the five vigilantes all decided to charge in with a pre-emptive strike with the element of surprise.
"GOONGALA! /BOOYAKASHA!" Mikey and Casey simultaneously as all five dashed from their hiding spot and charged at the Kraang. The aliens were more than surprised as they only had time to look at the direction the noise came from before the five androids were tackled and bashed away by the five offenders.
"Dude, you weren't kidding! These guys really are aliens!" Casey said as he tackled one of aliens away from the criminal hostages.
"Well, I don't wanna say 'we to you so', but… we told you so!" Donnie said after he smacked the robot on its head and knocking it to the ground.
As the two criminal hostages saw all of this happen, Raph took the opportunity to snap the bindings with his twin sai and the two Purple Dragons didn't need to be told to get up as they did.
"Okay, we did what we came here to do. Now let's get out of here." Leo ordered and the group of seven then proceeded in the direction of the rooftop. However, before they even took five steps, Kraang reinforcements arrived,
"Stop the ones that need to be stopped! Stop!" one of the aliens shouted as nine Kraang pointed their blasters at the group of seven,
"So, how is it that their English is so bad?" when Casey asked, all he got was a shrug of the shoulders from the four turtles.
The Kraang started to fire at the group of seven and Leo ordered the Purple dragon duo to hide behind one of the crates before dodging the laser blasts along with his brothers and Casey. The two criminals didn't need to be told twice as they ducked behind one of the crates. As the female Purple Dragon crouched down, she felt something crawl onto her hand. She was less bothered about the spider crawling onto her and simply brushed it away.
Once again, the Kraang were proving to be bad shots, as the five ran and dodged each laser shot and also getting closer to them. Leo was first to get in close to a Kraang and swung his katana at the robot's head and decapitated it. Donnie was next as he swung his staff at another robot's feet and swept it off and when the alien landed on its back, Donnie swung his staff down onto the squishy Kraang at the centre. Mikey was next, as one Kraang thought it had a good shot at Casey, Mikey used the opportunity took run up from behind it and using the sickle part of his kusarigama chain, he slashed out the throat section and disabled the robot.
Although the Kraang were focused solely on the five vigilantes, Raph had dodged all the laser fire and still somehow found himself standing in front of the very same crate that the two criminals were hiding behind. As soon as one of the aliens fired at him and he dodged. The laser hit the crate, and thinking it wasn't a good place to hide anymore, the male Purple Dragon ran from his hiding spot,
"Snake, wait!" the female Purple Dragon shouted and hearing this, Mikey turned his head to the two criminals,
"His name is Snake?" Mikey didn't have time to question it as he then had to dodge another laser shot.
The Purple Dragon called Snake had moved to another crate and hid behind it. But this crate had a canister of Mutagen on top of it. All were oblivious to this, and when Donnie had to dodge another laser shot, the shot had instead hit the crate that Snake was hiding behind, and the force of the shot had knocked the canister of Mutagen of the top of the crate and it fell right where Snake was crouching. Snake had only a split second to acknowledge the falling canister of Mutagen before it smashed onto his back and spreading its contents across his body.
It all happened quickly. When Snake staggered from his hiding spot and screaming, the fighting stopped abruptly and all eyes were on Snake. The moment they saw him, he Mutation began, his skin turned green and his veins popped outward, vines exploded from his back, his whole body twisted and writhed as he slowly grew to triple the size of a normal human and as he grew, his clothes were ripped into pieces. By the time it was done, he was not human anymore, his face contorted hideously, his eyes turned yellow and budged out the side of his head with a pair of antenna sprouting from between his eyes, his arms were now vie-like with plant-like claws for hands, what looked like his heart had somehow found its way into his throat and was visibly seen and his long legs bulged out to twice the width of a human leg that also didn't appear to have feet but his toes were visible and resembled spikes.
The vigilantes, the Kraang and the female Purple Dragon looked on at the scene and when it was done, the now mutated Purple Dragon looked at his new body and turned towards the vigilantes, enraged,
"You did this to me! Now you're going to pay!" even his voice was contorted into a hideous sound that made it sound like he had voice issues. The female Purple Dragon paled when saw this, while even though they were astonished, the vigilantes still spoke up,
"It's Snake! He mutated into a… giant weed!?" Leo said as he tried to make sense of it, while Mikey just looked at Raph with a confused look,
"That's weird. You'd think he'd get turned into a snake." Mikey said and Raph just shook he head and then said,
"Yeah, you would. If you were an idiot!"
"But his name is 'Snake'." Mikey said as he tried to defend his reasoning,
"So?"
"You don't understand science."
Their little argument was interrupted when Snake then announced his intentions,
"I'll squash you freaks into the ground!" Snake shouted out and Donnie nervously responded,
"…er… would it help if said it was an accident?" he said and when Snake's tentacles thrashed in all directions and his claws snapping at all of them, his intention was clear regardless of what happened,
"So, I'll put you down for a 'no'?" Donnie nervously said, the nerves were justified as Snake then swung his long vine like arm at everyone in front of him, which also included the Kraang. Leo was able to jump over the swinging vine-arm, while Donnie rolled back and underneath the attack and Raph and Mikey ducked down and avoided it, Casey and the Kraang weren't so lucky, as the attack plowed into all of them, resulting in them being thrown to the side. When Leo jumped up and over, he then made a leap towards Snake and swung his katana down onto the offending vine-arm and sliced off part of the vine and the claw. Snake screeched at the pain it caused as the pink coloured blood spewed from the wound at anyone who was around. Most avoided it but…
"Ew! Eeewww! Don't let it touch me! Don't let it touch me!" Mikey squealed as he crawled away on his shell to try and avoid the blood splattering on him. And then some pink blood splattered onto his leg. "Ah! It touched me!"
The others would have probably rolled their eyes at this, had Snake's arm not grown back and reform the claw at the end. Snake marvelled at his newfound regenerative ability.
"It grew back? No fair!" Donnie exclaimed and it was at that point that Casey and some of the Kraang that got knocked down had gotten back onto their feet.
"So, that stuff that spilled onto him. That was the same stuff that affected you guys too?" Casey asked as he walked to the turtles while keeping his eye on Snake.
"Yeah, but it wasn't THIS extreme!" Raph answered and then Snake hissed and screeched again and attacked the five with his multiple vines, Mikey swung his nunchucks to deflect them but he eventually got hit on the side of his shell and was knocked onto it, Leo was able slice off some the vines as they came at him but he too got hit by one of the vines and he too was knocked back onto his shell and the vines grew back, Donnie was also able to deflect some of the vines with his staff, but one vine managed to sneak a hit across his head and sent flying back and onto his shell, Casey smacked some vines away with his bat and hockey stick but then one vine wrapped itself around his waist and threw him to one side. Snake was so occupied with them that he didn't notice Raph run towards him from behind with his shuko-spikes equipped onto his hands and he ripped into Snake's long legs as he ran in between them, getting pink blood all over his hands.
"And… yuck." Raph exclaimed in disgust as he waved the blood off his hands. Snake growled at him and he then swung his vine-arm down at Raph, who then catches the vine and in an amazing show of strength, he used the captured vine to drag, Snake down to his level and once Snake's head was within attacking distance, Raph slammed a kick onto the top of Snake's head and slammed his face into the ground, he then used his foot on the head to spring himself over Snake's body and landed behind him. Snake turned towards Raph with his head still down and pointed his claw at him and opened it and shot a red tentacle out at Raph. The tentacle wrapped itself around his waist and flung him to the opposite side. Fortunately for him, Leo and Mikey were there to catch him.
"Snakeweed is really powerful!" Mikey said and Leo and Raph turned their heads to him,
"Snakeweed?"
"Yeah. His friend called him Snake, and now he's a weed so- "
"We get it." Raph said as he interrupted Mikey. The Kraang then at that point, had decided to complicate things by pointing their blasters at everyone that wasn't a Kraang and fired. Leo, Donnie, Mikey and Casey dodged to the side and engaged the Kraang while Raph faced off against the newly named Snakeweed. Raph jumped up to Snakeweed's head and doubled punched his face and then landed, he then started deflecting all of Snakeweed's vine whip attacks with his shuko-spikes still equipped. Meanwhile the female Purple Dragon felt like she wasn't exactly safe hiding behind a wooden crate amongst all the chaos and ran from her hiding spot and moved behind a pile of crates that would surely provide a bit more protection than one. That was another mistake as she was standing right underneath a vat of sealed Mutagen.
Leo and Mikey were able to bash and slice a few of the remaining and working Kraang, but the moment two had started firing at them, they dodged to the side and so did Raph and the laser fire rained down and pelted Snakeweed relentlessly, this angered him and so he swung his vines at everyone in front of him and no-one was able to react quickly enough and the vine attacks smacked all, including the Kraang onto the ground.
"What's the plan again, Fearless?" Raph asked as he got back up onto his feet along with Mikey,
"I'm working on it!" Leo answered as he and Casey also got up again. They then had to quickly jump and cartwheel away as Snakeweed started attacking them with his vines. It was then that the few remaining Kraang got back up and fired their blasters at the turtles, Casey and Snakeweed. The turtles and Casey were able to dodge away, but Snakeweed once found himself being pelted by the laser fire. It was at that point that a stray laser shot smashed the glass container of Mutagen that the female Purple Dragon was under the contents spilled all over her just as it did with Snakeweed. She screamed the moment the Mutagen splashed her, and when her mutation started as well. Her screams caught the attention of everyone in the room.
"Uh oh… here we go again." Mikey said nervously and even though they couldn't see her mutation happening thanks to the crates blocking their view. But when the screaming stopped, one Kraang ordered another to investigate,
"Kraang, go look at the place where the thing that makes the noise is, and tell us what thing makes that noise in that place."
Big mistake, as soon as it entered the shadowed area, it was then thrown back out like it was a ragdoll. The alien inside robot then popped out of its spot and ran off screeching in terror at what it saw. What followed was the sound of a monstrous sound that sounded like growling.
"I don't like the sound of that." Mikey said nervously and what appeared out the shadows made those nerves intensify. The female Purple Dragon leapt from the shadows behind the crates to reveal her new terrifying mutation. Her legs were replaced by a single large prickly black bulb, she still had her human arms, torso and chest, her head was a different matter, the mutagen had warped her teeth into pointed fangs, her two eyes were accompanied by six more with four on hear forehead and two on both sides of her face, her cheeks had also grown elongated mandibles and finally she had eight new spider legs that resembled spears and were attached to her back. Overall, she was a Spider mutant, with the spear like legs holding her up.
"I don't like the look of it, either!" Mikey exclaimed and he wasn't the only one who thought that.
"What... happened to me?" the new spider mutant said, her voice also mutated a bit as well. Before she sounded like a normal human being, now she sounded like a bloodthirsty killer. Snakeweed and the new spider mutant looked at each other and no surprise, they didn't recognise each other, the memory of what happened reminded them of what they should've looked like. They then turned to the turtles and Casey,
"You did this to us! I will rip your heads off!" the female spider morph said and the mutation must have given her an intense bloodlust because everyone in the room could feel it. The Kraang however didn't seem to care and before they even got the chance to fire their blaster at the mutants, the new spider mutant used her spear like legs and stabbed the two remaining Kraang though the fleshy middle, killing them both. She flung them away and then turned her attention to the turtles and the vigilante. They were in for one heck of a fight, but they will fight.
"Alright guys, prepare to dish out the mighty wrath of justice!" Leo said as he tried to imitate his favourite cartoon character, Casey was puzzled while the other three turtles just groaned,
"Seriously, just yell 'get them'." Donnie said and Leo turned to him while pointing his sword at the two,
"Get- "but Leo's order was interrupted when the spider mutant smacked Leo's plastron with one of her long legs and sent him flying into a nearby crate, when he hit it, the crate was smashed to pieces. When Leo got back onto his feet, the five split up, to fight the two mutants; Leo, Donnie and Casey faced off against Snakeweed while Raph and Mikey squared off against the Spider mutant.
Though Leo, Donnie and Casey were facing against Snakeweed, a question remained in their minds; how to defeat a mutant that can regenerate? They didn't have time to think on it as Snakeweed attacked. He swung his vine-arm in an arc at the three combatants, Leo and Donnie jumped over the attack while Casey ducked underneath it, Leo charged at the mutant slashed at Snakeweed's right leg, cutting through it, and even though it caused Snakeweed a lot of pain, his regenerative ability allowed him to push through it. Snakeweed then attacked the three with his whipping vines, they managed to step and jump to dodge and when Donnie and Casey charged at him with their blunt weapons, Snakeweed had no answer as their blunt weapons bashed against his left upper leg and left lower leg. Snakeweed staggered back but did not fall back. Snakeweed then forced them back by whipping his vines at them whilst also stepping towards them. When the attack finally stopped and they were at a safe enough distance, Donnie voiced the obvious question,
"How do we fight something like that?" Leo gritted his teeth as he tried to come up with an answer but couldn't as Snakeweed attacked again.
Meanwhile, Raph and Mikey were having trouble trying to make sure the spider mutant's spear legs didn't touch them. Though they were agile enough to keep away from them, they knew if they got hit by those spear legs, it would probably mean certain death. She attacked Raph and Mikey separately with her spear legs, but they jumped away from the attack then she tried again with Mikey, he jumped far to her right, he then attacked with the kusarigama chain extension, he flung the hook and chain at the four legs at her right and the attack wrapped around them and he pulled hard. The spider mutant lost balance and gave Raph enough time to attack. Which he did, he leapt at her with a flying kick straight into the left side of her face where one of the mandibles were. She lost more balance as she fell onto her side.
"Is that all you got?" Mikey taunted and in response, the female spider morph opened her razor-sharp mouth and spat an elongated white spider thread at them. The two turtles quickly jumped to the side and dodged it. Mikey just sweat dropped,
"The answer I was looked for was 'yes'…"
The spider continued her assault with her newfound ability and spat more white spider threads and them, they nimbly jumped and dodged each of them and the threads landed on the floor behind them, creating a large pool of threads. Raph was unfortunate enough to not be fast for one instant, and the spider mutants web projectile wrapped around his ankle. The thread was sticky and the thread had also stuck his foot onto the ground.
"Aw, shoot…"
"You'll be my first prey!" the spider mutant said as she charged at Raph who had no choice but to stand there until he would be at her mercy. Which didn't come however as Mikey used her own distraction and blindsided the spider mutant by smacking his nunchucks into her face. Though this dazed her, it only did so for a second as she then charged at Mikey, and grabbed him by the arms, Mikey yelped as she then slammed him shell first into the ground. She loomed on top of him and when he looked up, he saw her lowering her face to his and when she opened her razor-sharp mouth, he screamed as he came to the conclusion that she was going to start eating him. It never happened though as Raph (even though his foot was stuck), threw a hidden shuriken from his belt and the spider mutant. The spider morph only had time to glance at it as the projectile lodged itself into her left shoulder. The pain at the shuriken being imbedded into her caused her to stumble back and onto her side. Mikey took the chance to quickly scramble to Raph's side.
"Mikey, a little help here." Raph said as he motioned to his stuck foot. Mikey assisted and was careful not to cut Raph's foot with the hook of his kusarigama chain extension and even though the substance was sticky, Raph still unstuck himself when Mikey cut the threads.
"You know, Spider Bytez just got a bit more scarier!" Mikey said as he looked very nervous at the moment but Raph looked a bit puzzled,
"Spider Bytez?" Raph asked,
"Well she's a spider and she tried to eat me. So I thought- "
"I get it!" Raph said with an annoyed tone,
Meanwhile at the other fight against Snakeweed, Leo saw the sticky threads and something clicked in his mind,
"Guys, we need to get Snakeweed towards those threads." Leo ordered and when Donnie also saw the threads, he complied as did Casey. Now was the time, the three charged at Snakeweed, and when he swung his vines at them, the three dodged the attack by ducking underneath the swinging attack, then Leo rolled to Snakeweed's left side, he then jumped up and grabbed one of the vines and as he pulled, Donnie and Casey tag teamed against Snakeweed by smacking their weapons into his other side. This combination of pulling and bashing had Snakeweed stagger to his left and when he regained his footing, he also failed to notice he was standing directly in front of the large pool of sticky webbing.
"NOW! Attack together!" Leo ordered and all three jumped at Snakeweed. Leo thrust a mid-air kick to his vulnerable heart-throat while Donnie and Casey attacked the mutant's mid-section. The result was Snakeweed falling onto his back and even though the sticky webbing softened the fall, he was nonetheless trapped on the webbing and couldn't get back up no matter how much he tried to move. That fight went to Leo, Donnie and Casey.
The three victories combatants then joined Raph and Mikey who had also witnessed what just happened to Snakeweed.
"Awesome, dudes!" Mikey shouted,
"Yeah it was awesome. Now let's finish this!" Leo ordered and with five battle hardened warriors against a single new mutant out for their blood, it wasn't going to take long.
And it almost didn't. The five charged at Spider Bytez and although she attacked with her spear-like legs, it was of no practical use at this point seeing as the five had already dodged her initial attacks and by spreading out around her, thus stopping her from attacking at one point of area, which she was doing. Then they attacked all at once, Leo thrust a roundhouse kick to her abdomen, Raph pounded the right side of her face with the hilt of his sai, Donnie thrust his staff into her chest, Mikey shouted "BOOYAKASHA" and attacked the left side of her legs with his nunchucks and Casey shouted "GOONGALA" and attacked the right side of her legs with his hockey stick.
It was over in an instant. Spider Bytez didn't stand a chance against the five warriors, as it was evident from the way she was knocked onto her back and like a normal spider, she was struggling to get back onto her legs again. But eventually, she did but the instant K.O that was delivered to her made her realise that she was not going to win. At least not today.
"You will regret this." She said before she scurried away to the top of the building and exiting through the roof entrance/ exit.
"Booyakasha! Itsy-bitsy spider was no match for lean, mean and green!" Mikey chanted as he danced about, pleased with their victory over the new mutants.
"Great. She got scared off, now what do we do with him?" Raph said as he pointed towards Snakeweed,
"Good question, Raph. We can't free him, he'll either attack us or go after someone else, and because of his regeneration ability, he can't be killed I think. Best not test that theory out." Donnie said though that kill him theory was about to be proven at this point, as Spider Bytez started spearing the roof with her spear-legs repeatedly, the roof slowly getting weaker as a result of her onslaught.
The Roof…
"I said you would regret this. And I will make sure of that." Spider Bytez said as she continued spearing the roof.
Inside the building…
All above them, the turtles and Casey could see dust and small bits of debris falling all around them.
"Dudes, she's going to bring the roof down on us!" Mikey said slightly panicking at the thought of being crushed by falling debris.
"Let's get of here then!" Leo shouted as they then bolted for the front door and leaving Snakeweed stuck to the floor. Fortunately for them, the front garage door was open, and the reason why they didn't use it for infiltration earlier was for fear that the Kraang would have seen them coming. Wasting no time, Raph yanked the door open and all five exited the building. And just in time as well, since at the moment they exited, the roof finally gave way under its own weight and tumbled down into the building. The massive falling chunks of debris smashed and buried whatever they fell upon and that included Snakeweed. Looking back at the now weak building, Leo realised that the mission had failed. They had initially gone there to rescue the Purple Dragon duo from the Kraang, instead they were mutated (accidently), and their mutation caused them to become violent. And as Spider Bytez's shadow scurried away into the city and Snakeweed's survival being unknown, Leo looked downcast, as his brothers and Casey revelled in their survival,
"Guys, we shouldn't be celebrating." Leo said and that caught everyone's attention,
"We 'shouldn't be celebrating'? Leo, we kicked the butts of the Kraang and some new enemies. By my count, now's a good time to celebrate." Raph said as he sounded confused and the others looked just as puzzled,
"Celebrate? Raph don't you see what happened? We came here for a rescue mission. And we failed. They may have been Purple Dragon thugs, but they didn't deserve what happened to them." Leo explained. At the word failed, Mikey and Donnie looks of victory turned into disbelief,
"Did we really… fail?" Mikey asked,
"Actually, Mikey… I think we have…" Donnie said and when that caught Raph and Casey's attention, Donnie explained,
"What if it wasn't those thugs who were mutated? What if it was one of us? Or some other innocent bystander? And to make matters worse, the Kraang most likely have tons of the same Mutagen. And we overheard them talking about experiments. They could very well do this again." Donnie explained and at that explanation, the others looked back at the building, that at least one Kraang base is rendered useless. For now.
"Come on, guys… let's go home. We can continue this fight tomorrow night." Leo said and at that point, home sounded nice. Even staying at the abandoned warehouse sounded appealing to Casey after a night like this. At with that, the group of five walked away from the mess that was a Kraang hideout and towards home.
If they had stayed a couple more minutes, they would've seen Snakeweed rising and smashing his way out of the rubble. He had indeed survived.
12:11am… Foot Tower HQ… New York City…
At the top of the tower and inside the shrine, the hulking figure that is Hun was kneeling before The Shredder who was sat at a Japanese style table.
"Master Shredder, New York City's media has now been focused on all Purple Dragon activity, just as you wished." Hun said as he kept his head down,
"Excellent, Hun. Now that this city has focused its spotlight on the Purple Dragons, we can now begin with Phase One." It was at that point that the Shredder pulled out a remote and pressed a button. A large monitor then slowly descended from the ceiling and activated to reveal Dr Stockman in a lab. Because the Shredder had gauged out his left eye, there was now an eyepatch covering his missing eye but it did not cover the straight scar where his eye was slashed out.
"Yes, Master Shredder?" Dr Stockman said,
"Dr Stockman, I have some tasks for you to fulfil. I trust that these tasks have already been sent to you?" the Shredder said,
"Yes, Master. Though with these tasks, it is going to take some time to complete. At least a week or so." Dr Stockman said,
"Very well. I can afford to wait for now." He then pressed another button on the remote and the monitor switched off and then ascended back into the ceiling.
"In the meantime, Hun, send the order to Chris Bradford to have him and his Foot Ninja units to patrol the city. I want them to report to me about any potential threat." The Shredder ordered,
"It shall be done, Master."
me: hey there! Hope you like it! I decided to give Spider Bytez a re-imagining since I thought he wasn't very threatening in the 2012 cartoon, considering he was a Spider Mutant. I also hope you liked Snakeweed and Spider Bytez's new origin for this story, and I also promise you that you will be seeing more of them. Until the next chapter!