Chapter 5
"Are you sure we should be doing this?" Amanda asked, hanging off the ladder in an alley way that the girls were hiding in. "Sensei said no more patrolling."
"Technically we're not patrolling, we're trying to find the ninja turtle vigilantes that I read about and are just a hoax." Bri replied while glaring at a restless Sommer. "But somebody insist that they are real."
"They are real Bri!" Sommer pouted. "And then you're gonna owe me fifty bucks."
Bri rolled her eyes and looked over at Ashton. She was standing towards the front of the alley way watching for any suspicious activity. Bri was confused by this. "What are you doing Ashton?"
"You said they were vigilantes, vigilantes only come out at night. So I'm watching to see if they patrol like we do."
"I don't think we're going to get very far by just sitting around." Amanda jumped off the ladder and headed towards the manhole cover and lifted it up. "Bri's article said they lived in the sewers, this is the place to search."
"May I remind you that the sewer is human waste goes and that there is no possible way anything but rats and bacteria can survive down there?" Bri immediately protested but Sommer and Ashton were already climbing down.
"Come on Bri, don't be such a chicken." Sommer said climbing down. Bri looked over at Amanda who was now standing beside her.
"Think about it, we search the sewers, come up empty, and you get fifty bucks." Amanda pointed out. Bri grimaced in disgust before reluctantly joining her friends down the ladder.
They four walked around for what seemed like hours in nothing but slime and filth. Amanda had insisted that nothing was down here numerous times to Sommer, but Sommer refused to give up and coaxed them to keep looking.
"Look Sommer," Bri finally spoke up. "I know you were really hoping that the ninja things existed and all honesty, I kind of was too. Do you know how cool it would've been to find something like that? But now it's time to admit defeat, go home, and pay up."
Sommer stubbornly shook her head. "No! I know they exist! I can feel it in my gut!"
"Get over yourself Sommer! They're just some silly little thing that someone made up so they could get rich over all the publicity and gain their fifteen minutes of fame." Bri argued back.
"But what if it isn't fake? If we leave now, we'll never know!"
"I want to go home!" Ashton finally chimed in. "My feet hurt and I'm tired of the smell. Just admit that you were wrong so we can all go home!"
The three started arguing amongst themselves while Amanda tried to keep the peace with no avail. Suddenly, the four heard a noise that stopped the fighting immediately. Out of instinct, the all stood quietly in a fighting stance.
It only took minutes for them to hear the noise again, but this time a lot louder and closer. Suddenly a person in a full ninja suit hopped down from the pipes above, making Amanda flinch back a little.
She kept her stance and slowly started talking to him. "Uh, hi, I know we're probably in your territory or whatever but we aren't looking for a fight. You see, my friend Bri here found this article on the web about ninja turtles that probably don't exist, but Sommer," She pointed back towards Sommer. "Is determined to prove that they do, but we're going home now, so we'll be out of the way in whatever you are doing."
The four stood there hoping the strange ninja would move, but it seemed that the mentioning of the ninja turtles only caused more to jump down. Soon, the girls were completely surrounded.
Before any of them could speak, the ninjas started attacking. The girls started to fight back until Amanda called for them to retreat. The four run down the sewer tunnels, only to be chased by the men.
"Why are we running?" Ashton protested. "We can easily take these guys!"
"Sensei said no patrol, if we fight and someone gets hurt again, he'll know we disobeyed him." Amanda replied quickly before noticing a dead end up ahead. "Quick, Bri and Ashton, turn left, Sommer and I will turn right to try and throw them off."
As told, Bri and Ashton turned left and were, as expected, being followed. "I think they're gaining on us." Bri said in a panic.
"Just run faster." Ashton so desperately wanted to fight now that Amanda was gone, but she had made a valid point. She took a quick glance back at the ninjas, but doing so caused her not to see the pipe that was hanging lower than the rest. Unknowing to Bri, Ashton hit her head and lost consciousness.
Bri run up ahead and made a left, and then made an immediate right turn into what looked like an abandoned subway system. She quickly found an opening and hid. She smiled as she watched the ninjas run right past her.
"I think we lost them Ashton." She whispered, thinking Ashton was still beside her. "Ashton?" She looked by her side to see that no one was there.
She came out of her hiding spot and walked down the tracks a little, hoping to find that Ashton had found a hiding spot a little ways ahead. Bri stopped suddenly when she heard a noise.
But this noise wasn't like the one they heard before the ninjas attacked. If you listened carefully, it sounded like chatter.
Cautiously, Bri walked to the turnpikes and peeked around the corner. She was almost in shock when she saw four giant, human like creature sitting around talking with another human girl that looked about their age. She rubbed her eyes and checked to make she wasn't seeing things.
"No way." Bri thought to herself while silently observing the conversation. She was in too much amazement to think of much else.
"Do you hear something?" the turtle wearing blue stood up and the others were immediately alert. He looked over in Bri's direction "Intruder!" he shouted and the others sprung up and ran to the entrance. Bri tried to run again but was grabbed by two of the turtles. She tried to fight back, but the shock became too overwhelming and fainted in their arms.