Chapter 5 : Monkey Brains
Since April had to hang out with Irma I decided to show the turtles the article I found about a missing scientist by the name of Dr. Rockwell. I head down to the sewers with my bag and when I get to the turtle's lair I head straight to Donnie's lab.
"Hey guys." I say walking in and settingh my laptop down on Donnie's desk. "You guys have to check this out."
Donnie walks over and stands behind me as I play the video. "So." Raph replies.
"So, what if the Kraang have been kidnapping scientists from all over the city. Including my dad. Maybe that's what happend to this Rockwell guy." I reply.
"Or they might not be connected at all." Leo shoots out.
"Well there's one way to find out. We should go to that lab and look around." I say getting up from Donnie's desk.
"Star's right, we should go check it out." Donnie looks at the guys before saying, "What's that? You guys are busy? So that means it's just the two of us, Star."
He puts his arm on my back as we head out of the lair and up to the surface. We head to Dr. Rockwells lab and Donnie uses his digital lock pick to open the door. "There isn't a digital lock my digital lock pick can't crack."
"Smooth." I reply as we walk in.
I grab my flashlight and we take a look around Rockwells lab. "Wow this place is a wreck."
I shine my flashlight at a broken and bent up cage door. I wonder what Dr. Rockwell was up to. "He must have been experimenting on animals." I say to Donnie in distgust.
"Either someone was up to some top secret research or they were renting space to one freaky dentist." Donnie says as we see a scary looking detist chair.
We head over to Rockwells desk and Donnie opens the bottom desk drawer to find a canister of mutagen. He hands it to me and a guy in lab coat with golf club comes up behind Donnie and was getting ready to swing.
"Donnie look out!" I yell.
Donnie get's out his bo-staff and takes down the guy. I set the mutagen down and quickly find the light switch and say once I see who the attacker is, "Dr. Fellco?"
He screams and asks, "What are you?" to Donnie who has him pinned to the ground.
"Relax, I'm not going to hurt you." Donnie replies.
"You already hurt me." Dr. Fellco says to him.
Donnie get's off him and says, " Well, not anymore."
"We're here to help." I tell Dr. Fellco as Donnie helps him up.
He sits at his desk and says, "I'm sorry I wish I knew something about your father, but I don't."
"So what can you tell us about this?" Donnie asks, holding the canister of mutagen.
"Some shaddy corporate goons payed Dr. Rockwell a lot of money to experiment with it." Fallco replies.
I pull up a picture of the human looking Kraang droid on my phone and ask as I show him the picture, "Is this them?"
"That's him." He says.
Donnie cuts him off by saying, "The Kraang."
"Well I wanted no part of that stuff. Who knows what kind of monstrosities could result from it." He tells us. "No offense."
"Some taken." Donnie replies.
"Is that what was in the cage? One of his mostrosities?" I ask Fallco.
"Can we ease up on the 'M' word, please?"
"That's where he kept the monkey he was experimenting on."
"He sure didn't like being locked up in there."
"Rockwell didn't treat it very well." Falco tells us, a sick expretion on his face.
"Maybe the Kraang didn't take Rockwell, maybe the monkey went berserk and busted out of the cage and dragged it off." I say to Donnie.
We leave Rockwells lab and head down the alley way and I ask Donnie as we walk, "So how do you think we're going to find Rockwell with out any leads?"
"Maybe we'll know more when we take a look at his flash drive." Donnie replies.
"What flash drive?" I ask. I don't remember there being a flash drive any where.
"The one I swiped off his desk." He replies pulling out the flash drive.
"Nice."
Donnie starts to tell me about him being cool under pressure until a giant monkey jumps down in front of us. The monkey looks really angry. Donnie get's his bo-staff out and puts me behind him.
"Careful Donnie that's a dangerous mutant." I tell him.
"That makes two of us." He replies.
He spins his bo-staff in his hand and the monkey hits his chest causing him to fly backwards. The monkey grabs his bo-staff and throws it aside. Donnie gets up and I ask, "Donnie, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good." He says, getting in a fighting stance.
He runs at the monkey but the monkey jumps up on to the metal balcony and tries to jump onto of him. He dodges the mokey with ease and tries to land a few hits on the mokey but none of them do. The monkey starts to beat the crap out of Donnie and when he get's back up to his feet I say his name.
"Don't worry I was just finding it's timing. Now it's going to pay-." He get's cutt off because the monkey hits his chest and basically everywhere else.
The money knocks him back and Donnie smacks his head on the ground. The monkey get's on top of him and starts to hit him over and over again. The monkey grabs him and throws him over by me. I quickly run over to him and he's making a lot of groaning noises. The monkey walks over to me and I back up everytime it get's closer.
It grabs me and start to grunt in at me. Once it realizes I'm not a threat it calms down and I say, "It's okay, everything is going to be okay."
It takes it's hands off me and it seems like it was trying to tell me something. "What? What is it?"
It growls and then takes off up the side of the building. I run back over to Donnie and grab his hand asking, "Donnie, are you hurt?"
He looks up at me and says, "Just my pride." He leans up and groans in pain. "And my internal organs."
He lays his head back in my hand and I help him up to his feet. This is going to be really hard getting him down to the lair. I move the manhole cover and help Donnie to it. He climbs down it and leans on it until I get down there to help him.
I put his arm around my shoulders and help him to the lair. When we get to the entrence I say to him, "Come on, it's just a little further."
He groans out in pain as we walk down the stairs. Once his brothers see him Raph asks, "Woah, what happened?"
"Donnie got beat up by a lab monkey." I tell them.
Leo takes him from me and asks, "Can you get an ice pack from the freezer?"
I nod and quickly run to the freezer and grab an ice pack. Leo puts him on the couch and asks, "Donnie, you going to be okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine." He replies.
"In that case." Leo says and then the three other turtles start to laugh at him. His continue to laugh and I walk over to him and put his head in my lap and put the ice pack on his head.
"Are you laughing at him because he's hurt?" I ask.
"No, we're laughing at him because he was hurt by a monkey." Mikey says and then burst into a laugh fit.
After getting the flash drive from Donnie I start to look though it. "Hey guys, I think I found something."
They sit around me ad I continue, "These notes are hard to follow but I think Rockwell was able to modify the mutagen."
"Why would he want to do that?" Leo asks.
"He thought he could use it to create a nural chemoical that would allow temporarily give someone phsycic abilities."
"You mean that monkey was pshycic." Raph asks.
"It means he was reading our emotions. After all he was only hostile when Donnie was hostile."
"Well next time I'll be sure to think freandly thoughts when I beat the living sunshine out of it." Donnie says.
"Okay, we need to track him down before he attacks someone else. Let's go up to the surface, spread out and search." Leo tells the four of us.
"How are we going to stay in contact with each other." Raph asks.
"I have a little something that can help with that." Donnie says getting up from his spot.
"Gentlemen, and lady. I give you the T-phone." He says pulling out a turtle shapped phone.
He walks over to me and says, "If you give me you and your sisters cell phone numbers I can patch you into out network."
"Sweetie." I say taking the phone from him and punching in mine and April's phone number.
After I'm done we head up to the surface and we split up. After a couple of minutes I hear word of someone seeing the monkey so I call the guys and say, "Guys, I just herd word of someone spotting the monkey on fleacker."
"I think I'm on his trail." I hear Raph say.
We all meet up in front of the Jewlery shop and Raph asks, "Did any one see where he went?"
They all start to say a different direction and I ignore them. I walk off into the alleyway straight to the dumpster, almost like I was being lead there by something. I open the lid of the dumpster and I find the money cowering in fear.
It looks up at me and I friendly hold out my hand to help it. It takes it and I help him out of the dumpster. Right then Mikey's nunchuck wraps around the monkey, causing it to freak out. As the guys talk about the mokey I walk over to it and it's eyes dialate. The monkey is Dr. Rockwell.
"How are we any closer to finding Dr. Rockwell?" I hear Raph.
"We're a lot closer than you think." I say, answering his question.
"What? How?" Donnie asks.
"I think this is Dr. Rockwell."
We take him back to his lab and Dr. Fallco gives him a sedative or something to calm him down. "Poor Dr. Rockwell."
"Is there anyway to turn him back to normal?" I ask Dr. Fallco.
"I wouldn't even know where to begin. But I will try to see if I can give him sort of a normal life." He says petting Dr. Rockwells sleeping head.
So after leaving Dr. Rockwell's lab we head back to the turtles lair. Donnie is on his computer and Mikey is playing a game on his T-phone. Raph comes in and says, "Pizza is here."
Everyone grabs a piece and Mikey has a little delema about not wanting to quit playing. "I'm sorry we didn't get any closer to finding your and April's dad."
"It's okay, everyday we learn something new about the Kraang, we just find one more piece to the puzzle." I tell Leo.
"Yeah, but pshycic research? This is one weird puzzle." Leo says.
Master Splinter walks in with a piece of pizza on a plate and asks, "I am curious Star, how did you know that the monkey was really a human?"
"I don't know, sometimes I just get a feeling about things." I reply.
"A feeling? Interesting." He says walking further into the kitchen.
"Hey Donnie, how come you're not eating?" Leo asks.
"What? I'm not hungry. Something's been bothering me. Felco said that Rockwell was experimenting on a monkey but acording to these notes he never had a monkey in his lab. He was just using samples of monkey DNA." Donnie tells us.
"We're not following."
"If he never had a monkey then what bustes out of that cage?" Donnie asks us.
"Then it must have been Rockwell."
"Then that must mean Fallco is the one who put him there and he's been lying this whole time." Donnie says angrily.
I don't think I've ever seen the turtles this mad before. So guess where they go in the pouring rain? Dr. Rockwells lab. I hope they don't get hurt and they save Dr. Rockwell.
After the turtles left Master Splinter asked me to come to the dojo. Now we're sitting in the ground three feet apart. "Star, it seems you have a rare gift. A sensativity I have trained my entire life to develop"
"Don't worry you'll get it." I reply.
"I did just get it, it took me a long time." Master Splinter says.
"Well that's nothing to be ashamed of."
He lets out a sigh before saying, "What I am trying to say is that I would like to train you to be a kunoich. A female ninja."
"Wow that's quite an honnor. If I do this does that mean I can kick everyones butt?" I ask.
"I don't believe in using our abilities that way." He replies.
"Oh..Yeah me either. But I could right?"
"Yes, but I warn you it will be the hardest thing you've ever done. It will drain you physically and spiritually." He says in a stern tone.
"Can't be worse than high school." I say jokingly.
I get up and before I leave the dojo I ask, "Master Splinter?"
"Yes Star?" He asks.
"I was curious if you could train my sister as well. Since she's kinda involved in this I don't want her to be powerless."
"That will be fine, it is very considarate of you to worry about your sister." He replies.
As I go to leave I see Donnie leaning on the door to his lab and he asks, "Hey Star, you wanna hang out tonight?"
"That sounds great but I have to go get my sister, we're training with Splinter to become kunoiches." I reply.
He looks on his door and then replies, "Well maybe we could train together sometime."
"Sure, that would be great." I reply before heading up to the surface to get April.
This is going to be a very fun night.
A/N
So what did you think about this chapter? I kinda wanted to show more of a Star and Donnie bonding instead of the three of them bonding. So if you have any questions or comments or if there is something you wanna see on a later episode or in the next chapter please leave a review.
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