Note: References to my Fanfic 'Karai's Legacy' appears in this chapter, if you haven't read it already, please do!
Also the character Sephie the Gecko belongs to my writing partner Tyroth Darkstorm.
Chapter Eight
She's out there?
Meanwhile, at the Foot Headquarters, the Shredder sat sipping Sake, with Izo Arashi next to him watching the Ninja train before him.
Some were human ninja, whilst some others were the savage mutated ninja created by Dr William Arden.
As the two men were watching, a buzzing was heard from Arashi's cell phone and with a groan and a glare he answered it.
"Arashi speaking." He said "Report!"
There was silence, then his eyes widened.
"What? Is it true?" he asked, "No way!"
Shredder had been watching the ninja intently but when he heard Arashi's shocked voice, he carefully put down his Sake and turned to his second in command.
"What is this?" he asked.
Arashi listened into the conversation, nodded then glared.
"Keep an eye on them! Don't lose sight of them!" he ordered.
He hung up his phone then turned to the Shredder.
"Master Shredder." He said, "It was seem that Karai's daughter, Kemeko is now in the field as a ninja in training."
Shredder's eyes widened and he glared.
"You tell no lie, Arashi?" he asked.
"I do not!" Arashi replied "Komodo Dragon has informed me via reports from Black Mamba!"
"So…" Shredder mused standing up "Kemeko is in the field with the turtles!" he clenched and unclenched his hand "She has reached the age when she has been allowed to join them, along with that half breed brat that foiled our plans almost two years ago!"
Arashi glared as he remembered.
"Pandora." He said, "The spawn brat of the turtle Raphael and his lizard slut Monalisa!"
Shredder glared and he turned to the training ninja who had ceased training when they saw the demeaner of their masters.
"You are dismissed!" Shredder snarled and at once the ninjas bowed and left the room quickly and in an orderly fashion.
No sooner had the ninja left than Arashi turned to his Master.
"Master Shredder…." Arashi asked yet the Shredder walked over to the window and looked out in the city.
"So many years since I realised that my daughter was pregnant." He said, "And many years I have been denied seeing my granddaughter, and now I find out she is out in the open with the turtles who stole her from me!"
Arashi said nothing as he listened.
He remembered all too well when they had managed to track Karai and her husband Chaplin down and they had punished them by killing Chaplin and then deciding to take Karai prisoner until she gave birth.
But Karai had escaped and fled to the turtles who took her in and protected her, preventing the Shredder from taking the baby as his own and raising her as his new heir.
"What plans do you have Master, now that Kemeko is in the open?" Arashi asked.
Shredder didn't turn around yet kept looking out at the city.
"I have to think hard on this Arashi." He said, "But I plan to have her brought here, and bring her over to my side, even if it means force!"
"Yet…how?" Arashi asked and the man almost jumped out of his skin as he saw Shredder turn to him and glare.
"You doubt me Arashi?" he growled holding up his blades.
"No sir!" Arashi said placing a hand on his katana to block the attack if it came.
But the Shredder didn't move or attempt to attack his second in command, but instead lowered his bladed hand and cleared his throat, his expression calming.
"Then listen to me as I give my orders." He said "When the Ninja and the Venomous Five are to attack the turtles and their allies, Kemeko is not to be harmed! And I don't want the turtles fatally injured, if they must be harmed but not enough to kill, then so be it, but Kemeko is to be unharmed! No matter what!"
Arashi nodded.
"Yes Master." He spoke in a calm voice, yet it wavered slightly.
"And…" Shredder snarled stepping towards Arashi who stood frozen on the stop as he watched his Master get closer.
"…If I find one mark, one scratch on the girl…." He then brought the sharp ends of his blades to Arashi's throat and the Japanese Man's eyes widened with fright as he felt the sharp tips under his chin and close to his Adam's Apple.
"You make your point very clearly, Master." Arashi said in a low voice and Shredder looked him in the eyes before lifting his other hand to brush a loose bit of hair out of Arashi's face yet he never lowered his blades.
"Thank you…" Arashi said in the same low voice and held his breath, though his forehead glistened with sweat as Shredder didn't lower his blades from his throat.
After what seemed like a long time, Shredder lowered his blades and Arashi exhaled.
"Call Dr Arden!" Shredder growled looking at Arashi again "I believe it is time that his latest upgrades are needed in the field!"
Hearing that Arashi smirked and lifted his cell phone again.
"Consider it done Master!" he smirked then called Dr Arden.
Down in his labs, Dr Arden walked around looking at the many machines and the glass water tanks filled with his experiments and abominations observing them and every so often he would place a hand on the tanks and smirk, his burnt half of his face wrinkling horribly.
All held bodies of ninjas and gangster, both human and half mutants, many naked and covered in scales mainly stolen from the DNA of Monalisa, the turtles and their allies as well as from the Venomous Five.
Also in the room were surgical beds and tables on which lay bodies clothed in Foot Ninja uniforms and wearing gas masks.
Some were still human, yet others were half mutated.
Walking over to a table, he observed one ninja that was half human half mutant and stroked his cheek.
"Looking promising." He mused then looked up at a couple of scientists who were checking their vitals.
As he looked at them, they looked back at him.
"So? How are things?"
"Heart rates normal doctor, they should be ready for the field soon."
"Very good." Dr Arden smirked and licked the burnt side of his face "Master Shredder and Master Arashi will be most pleased."
As he spoke, Dr Arden felt his cell phone and he snatched it up, he was irritated that someone was calling him in the middle of his work, but a smirk appeared on his face when he saw it was Arashi's number.
"Arashi…" he said as he leaned against a water tank to listen to his Master's voice.
"Doctor!" Arashi's voice was heard and some of the nearby scientists and medics stopped to listen in.
"The Venomous Five, primarily Black Mamba has observed the turtles are topside, and that Kemeko is amongst them!"
Dr Arden's eyes widened.
"You're serious?!" he exclaimed "The daughter of the traitors Karai and Chaplin is in the field with those turtles, the Lizard whore and the hybrid brat?"
"As serious as a heart attack William!" Arashi replied "She is in the field and more than likely starting her first patrol to fight mediocre Purple Dragons and Petty crime, unlike before when she was merely going topside for pleasure occasionally, she will be more active topside now she has become of age like the Hybrid Brat Pandora!"
Dr Arden glared as he thought of Pandora, the Turtle Lizard hybrid daughter of Raphael and Monalisa.
"It's bad enough there is one Monalisa…now there is a number two! Not counting that gecko slut of the Dragon!" he thought to himself as he remembered the Mutopian Gecko Sephie and the mate and wife of Tyroth the Dragon.
"In light of this news Lord Arashi." Dr Arden asked, "Tell me, what are your orders?"
"As par Lord Shredder's orders…" Arashi said then spoke to him of what Shredder wanted which was to send his newest creations into the field to confront the Hamato Clan.
"And Oruko Saki's orders are as clear as day." Arashi ended "That Kemeko is not to be harmed! Same isn't said for the turtles but they too must be alive when brought to us!"
Dr Arden's eyes flashed with excitement and his smirk got wider when he realised, he had been given permission to use his latest creations.
"I hear and obey your orders Arashi!" he hissed "I shall have them sent out as soon as possible!"
"See that you do William." Arashi voice was heard before the line went dead.
"Hamish." Dr Arden said in a low voice "Are the newly born soldiers ready to go into the field?"
Nearby, a scientist flinched as his name was spoken and he stood up straight.
"Yes Doctor, ready and given the serums and upgrades like you requested." He said quickly and he looked to a couple of other scientists.
"Go! Go get them!" he whispered, and the scientists quickly darted off to do so.
"Excellent, then bring them forward!" Dr Arden said turning to Hamish.
"Yes Doctor!" Hamish said and motioned with his head for Dr Arden to follow him which the scarred Doctor did.
Dr Arden followed Hamish until they arrived at the side of the lab where there was an army of ninja ready to follow orders.
All stood to attention and were clothed in the respected Foot Ninja uniforms.
Dr Arden licked his lips and grinned gleefully.
"Very good," he said, he walked to the front of the group and to the leader and removed the hood.
As he did, he saw the face of himself, a mirror image, yet without the acid burns on the left side of his face he possessed.
"A mirror image of me! Before I was deformed." he mused as he stroked the face of the Ninja solider that stood still and unmoving even as the Doctor touched his face and admired him like he was a trinket.
He then walked to the second solider who stood next to his clone, and he removed the hood to show the spitting image of his Employer and Lord Arashi.
"Perfection!" he said as he studied the features "Such perfection! I outdo myself!"
"All ready to follow any order and do as pleased Doctor." Hamish said making Dr Arden look up.
Dr Arden turned to Hamish and smirked.
"Then we shall let them go and will the Turtles and their Lizard sluts be in for a surprise!" He grinned "Clones of me! And Arashi!"
He then looked at the two clones.
"Listen to me and listen well! Do you respond?"
"Loud and clear, Master!" the clones responded in a monotone voice.
Dr Arden nodded then repeated Shredder and Izo Arashi's orders about finding Kemeko and the Hamato Clan and how Kemeko was not to be harmed.
"Command confirmed." The soldiers said, "Ready to leave and find prey!"
Dr Arden smirked, then he stepped back as the group of Ninja soldiers walked towards the exit of the lab to begin their mission.
He then sent a text to Arashi to inform him that the newest soldiers were on their way to begin in the field.
He soon got a message back from his boss.
'Good work William. Let's see what our enemies make of them'.
"We shall see…" Dr Arden whispered as he watched the soldiers leave "I hope they do not fail…"
So Shredder is now aware his granddaughter is now patrolling with the turtles, and he is keen to bring her to him, and Dr Arden has managed to clone himself and Izo Arashi and create more soliders in his and his Master's images. Disturbing or what?
How will this go? Keep checking in to find out!