The six turtles were on a rooftop of an apartment building. Cat and Mikey kept messing with annoyed Mari and Raph, while Donnie had a telescope looking out of it, with Leo standing behind him.
"Anything?" Leo asked.
"Nothing yet," Donnie answered.
Mikey kept poking at Raph and giggling. Cat smiled and Mari rolled her eyes, her hand holding Cat's wrist. She was previously doing the same thing, so now Mari was holding her little sister captive.
Mikey went in for another poke, only for Raph to grab his finger and twist it, causing Mikey to yelp in pain and suck in sore finger.
Cat winced in sympathy. She was thankful that Mari hadn't done that to her. But honestly, that was probably just because Mari was too tired for that at the moment.
"Guys," Leo hissed at the four, even though it was just Mikey being louder than he should be, "when ninjas are on surveillance, they are supposed to be silent!"
"Sorry, Leo," Mikey says, holding his hand, "I'll scream quieter."
Mari rolled her eyes. "Why don't you just knock it off, aye?" She glared at Cat. "You too." She then pushed Cat on her butt, causing her to frown. "Stay. There. K?"
Cat nodded. Mari didn't sound like she was in a good mood.
Mikey poked Raph's head again and he silently giggled, but Raph angrily grabbed Mikey's finger and threw him, then leaned over him with gritted teeth.
Ralph pulled Mikey up and pulled him into a headlock. "Say it!" He demanded.
"Raph, be quiet!" Leo whispered angrily.
"Not till Mikey says it." Raph squeezes Mikey's neck.
Mikey sighed and said, "Raphael is all wise and powerful."
"And?" Raph squeezes tighter.
"And he's better than me in every possible way!"
"And?" Raph pushes Mikey down with his elbow.
"And I'm a lowly worm beneath his feet who isn't fit to live on the same planet as him, because he's so amazing and I'm a dirt clod.
Raph licks his finger and dangles it above Mikey's head. "And?"
Mikey's eyes widened. "And in the history of the universe there's never been--"
"Okay, enough!" Leo hissed.
Raph huffed and got off of Mikey, allowing him to breath in relief. Cat helped him up.
"I feel like we're just wasting our time," Mari says, crossing her arms
"Right," Raph says, agreeing with his younger sister. "The kraang aren't going to show up."
"Have a little patience, will you?" Leo said.
"We've been waiting for so long, though!" Cat said. "I'm missing my show!"
"My Little Pony is for babies," Raph tells her with narrowed eyes.
Cat huffs.
"Trust me, guys," Donnie tells his siblings. "They're going to break into that lab tonight. I have reliable intell."
"Intell?" Raph questioned. "You mean April told you."
"You mean your girlfriend?" Mikey teased Donnie, wearing a big grin.
Mari narrowed her eyes, feeling a surge of protectiveness for her little brother. April was okay for a human, sure, but she didn't like the idea of any of her siblings having a crush, much less on a human--even if that human did accept them.
"She's not my girlfriend, Mikey!" Donnie yelled with clenched fist. "She's a girl who's a friend, whose dad got kidnapped by the same aliens who are gonna break into that lab and we're gonna stop them!"
"Or we'll sit out on a cold roof all night for no reason," Raph corrected.
"Right," Mari said, "we should le--"
They hear a door open and then a voice. "What the heck is going on up here?"
The turtles tense and turn to the voice to see a pudgy old man in boxers. Humans weren't supposed to see them. Fuck, Splinter is going to be so pissed.
"What, are you playing dress up?" the man griped.
"No, sir, we were just--" Leo started to say.
Mari elbowed him. "Right, we're just... In costumes..."
"Totally not real turtles," Cat added unhelpfully.
"Which one of you slimy green ham shanks busted my satellite dish?" he asked angrily, glaring at all of them in turn.
"Excuse me, old men what the fuck did you just call us?" Mari asked, ready to beat the guy up, but Leo put his arm in front of her and gave her a warning look to back off of him.
Cat frowned. Why does he have to be so mean?
"Ham shanks?" Raph practically growled.
"I don't even know what that means," Donnie said, scratching his head.
"Me either, but I don't like it." Raph got ready to pull his sais out -- much ready for a fight like Mari wanted to happen -- but Cat grabbed his wrist, like Leo had stopped their sister.
"We should go," Cat suggested. She didn't like the term either, but she also didn't like fighting and would like to avoid it as much as possible.
"For once, I agree with Cat," Leo said. "Let's go guys."
They turned to go, but the guy only egged them -- Raph, mainly -- on.
"That's right, you spineless cream puff!" the guy said victoriously. "Listen to your mommy and daddy!"
Raph pulled out his weapons before anyone could stop him and he pulled one on him with gritted teeth. "Hey, watch it, buddy!"
"Oh no," the man said sarcastically. "I didn't know you had salad tongs."
"Raph, please--" Cat started to say.
"Salad tongs?" Raph demanded, and then tried to charge him, only for Leo to hold him back. "I'm not going to take this from some greasy, pit stained slob with a comb over!"
"You calling me ugly?!"
"I'm sure you're pretty on the inside," Cat said with a kind hearted smile.
"Shut up, Cat," Mari tells her.
"Yeah, no one was asking for some slimy Chub's opinion," the guy snarled.
"Don't talk to my sister that way!" Raph tried to escape Leo's grip, even though now Leo wanted to wrack the guy in the head.
Mari glared at him and tried to charge but Donnie and Mikey pulled her back.
"Slimy?" Cat said sadly.
"Guys, don't!" Leo hissed.
"You want a piece of me?" Raph growled. "When I'm done, a piece of you is all that's gonna be left!"
"Let me go!" Mari hissed at Donnie and Mikey.
"Can we please just go now?" Cat practically begged.
Suddenly, a Lazer shot at Raph and the turtles looked over to see that they were now accompanied by Kraang with guns.
"Kraangnoids," Cat whimpered. "Man, can't we catch a break?"
"Holy Toledo!" the man said in shock.
"Way to blow our position, Raph," Leo said as the six of them pulls out their weapons.
The kraang begins firing at them from every direction so Leo shouts for them to scram. They jump up and dodge the shooting. Thus, the fighting began, but they had no idea that the guy took cover and started filming them from his phone.
After they managed to get the kraang to retreat, the man said, "Keep going, Kung Fu, frogs!" The turtles turned their attention back to the guy, and noticed that he had recorded everything. "This is pure gold!"
"Fuck," Mari muttered to herself.
"We are not frogs, idiot!" Raph said angrily.
"Yeah, and it's not Kung Fu," Donnie said, "it's an ancient Japanese battle art."
"Guys, he got us on video!" Leo said.
Raph growls. "Not for long he doesn't." He runs up to the man, only for him to shut the door to his apartment, causing Raph to smack right into it--which Mari tried not to laugh at.
"I'm gonna make a fortune off of this!" the man says through the door.
"Firetruck's on route," Donnie said, bringing the siren alarms to everyone's attention.
"Let's move," Leo said.
"But he caught us on film," Mari said. "We have to get rid of the evidence."
"We have to find that guy and break his phone!" Raph agreed. "And his face!"
Cat winced, having the image play over in her mind.
But their four siblings started running away, so Raph grabbed Cat's wrist and they followed after them, having to get out of sight before more humans came.
Leo, Raph, Mari, Donnie, Mikey and Cat sat across from their father, who paced back and forth between them. Once again, the turtles had told Splinter what had happened, though Mari still wasn't sure why they tattle on themselves.
"Not only did Raphael alert the kraang," Splinter was saying to his children, "but you got caught... on video."
"Sensei, he was the angriest, nastiest guy you ever met!" Raph said angrily.
"Except for you," Mikey teased, causing Raph to smack Mikey upside the head.
"Why do you insist on egging him on?" Mari sighed, rubbing her forehead. She looked up at Splinter. "But I do agree with Raph, sensei. You should have heard the insults. And the way he spoke to Cat when she was being so nice? Fu--frick that guy. He was infuriating."
"Yeah!" Raph agreed. "His insults were just so... so... INSULTING!"
"Oh, I did not realize he said mean things," Splinter said sarcastically. "Of course, you had no choice but to jeopardize your mission!"
"Burn," Mikey said to Raph, causing him to let out a growl.
"You really need to stop with that growling nonsense," Mari said, rolling her eyes.
"You are ninjas," Splinter told the six turtles as he started pacing back and forth again. "You work in the shadows, in secret. This becomes difficult if there is proof of your existence in high definition."
"Look," Raph said, "we know where this guy lives. All we need to do is find him and shake him until the tape pops out."
"Oh, there's no tape," Donnie corrected, "Video phones use flash memory."
Raph growled in annoyance.
"It doesn't matter, Don," Mari said, rolling her eyes.
"Anger is self destructive," Splinter said.
"I always thought it was others destructive," Raph muttered.
"Stand up," Splinter ordered.
Raph obliged.
"Ooh, Raphie's in trouble," Cat giggled to Mikey.
Raph clenched his fists, but since their father was right in front of them, he didn't attack her--though he wanted to so bad.
Raph stood in the middle while his siblings stood around, holding arrows, directing them right at Raph. "Evade the arrows," Splinter tells Raph.
"No problem," Raph said, going alert, wearing a smirk.
"Hajime!"
They each took turns shooting their arrows, Raph dodging them all with ease.
"Ya me!" Splinter said after catching one of the arrows. "Again, except this time, Marietta, Leonardo, Donatello, Caterina and Michelangelo, insult Raphael."
"Wait, insult him?" Donnie questioned.
"Yes."
"And he can't fight back?" Cat asked.
"No."
"I'm feeling good about this plan," Donnie chuckled, glancing over at Leo.
"Hajime!"
Raph's siblings circled him, Mikey and Cat giggling, and the rest smirking.
"You move like a bloated buffalo," Mikey shot.
Raph dodged and then said, "I do not!"
"And you're always whining," Raph said, "poor me, nobody understands me." He shoots at Raph, as he attempts to argue back and it hits his shell.
"You're ugly!" Cat attempts and shoots at him. It hits his stomach.
"I'm better at you," was all Mari had to say for her arrow to hit Raph on his head.
"And... Oh!" Donnie notched his arrow and said, "you don't keep your back straight when doing omote more gyaku." Then he shot and hit him on the shell, right next to Leo's arrow.
The turtles kept shooting insults like they kept shooting their arrows, laughing while doing so. Raph was just getting angrier and angrier. Fists were clenched, teeth were gritted.
Once Raph fell over in defeat, Mikey sighed happily. "I wish this moment could last forever."
"I hope Raph's okay," Cat said sadly. "I didn't like being mean."
Mari rolled her eyes. "Toughen up, Cat. He's mean to you all the time. He'll be fine. His ego's probably a little bit bruised, though."
"You know what?" Raph stood up and took the arrows off of his head, leaving his shell and stomach. "Forget this, this is stupid!"
"Yep, his ego sure is bruised all right," Mari muttered to Cat.
Raph walked up to Splinter.
"Ninniku seishin is the ability to endure insults with patience and humility," Splinter tells Raph. "You cannot be a true ninja until you master it."
Mikey chuckled. Raph glares at him. Mari was thankful that she didn't lash out earlier, or she could have been the one to have been enduring this humiliation that Raph was currently going through.
"Understood?" Splinter said.
"Hai, sensei," Raph says, even though he really wanted to punch Mikey right at that second.
"You must get that video back," Splinter tells his children, "using reason, not force."
"That's right," the guy was saying on the phone as he walked out of his apartment, "I swear on my mother's grave that these guys are frogs and they know Kung Fu. You can't tell me that's not worth something."
The six turtles - that he referred to as frogs - jumped down and circled him. The guy jumped, startled. "I'll call you back," the guy said, then hung up the phone. He narrowed his eyes at the turtles, clutching his phone in his hand. "Lay one finger on me, frog, and I'm calling the cops." He backed away until he was no longer circled, and the turtles were just in front of him.
"We're not going to hurt you," Raph said through gritted teeth, fists clenched. He was trying to control his temper. He stood in the front, his siblings behind him
"Then what do you want, freak?" the guy demanded.
"We got off on the wrong foot last night," Raph said steadily, "Some things were said and well... we would just like that video back."
Leo elbowed Raph so he reluctantly added a please.
"What are you going to give me for it?" the guy asked.
"Give you for it?" Raph asked incredulously.
"Well," the guy said with a smug grin on his face, "I figure I've got you over a barrel, so you've got to make it worth my while."
"I'll make it worth your while," Raph grinned. A grin his siblings knew all too well. That's when he became aggressive. "I won't take your hand and smash it against the--"
Leo put a hand on Raph's shoulder, causing him to look at him. "Okay, okay," Leo said, before Raph went too far, "thank you, Raphael. I will take over." He turned to the human guy, while Raph fumed. "So what are you looking for?"
"Uhhhh," the guy thought about it for a second, "a cool mil ought to cover it."
Leo nodded in understanding. "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. A cool mil of what?"
"A million dollars."
"We don't have a million dollars," Leo tells him awkwardly.
Mikey pushed Leo aside with a grin. "We do have some Canadian quarters that fell through the gate."
"And some arcade tokens," Cat added sweetly.
The guy held up his phone, the footage playing. "I could make serious money off this thing." He pulled the phone back. "And if you don't want to pay, I'll hold onto it until someone else does."
"That's it!" Raph judo flips the guy over. "Hand over the video or so help me, I'll kick your hairy butt all the way to New Jersey!"
"Um, guys?" Mari said. "The kraang are right over there..." The turtles looked in the direction that their sister was pointing to see the kraang loading up a van. The van started moving toward them.
"Raph!" Leo said. He was still on the ground, ready to punch the guy. "Look out!" He pushed both of them out of the way.
Leo and Raph stood up. "Let's not let this one get away," Leo says.
Raph picks up a trash can and hits the van, causing it to swerve into a garage door. "Well, that was easy," Raph says with a grin.
Then the kraang gets out and starts shooting.
"Oookay," Raph says, before they scattered.
As the six turtles were fighting the kraang, the guy ended up in the van, which Raph noticed. He gritted his teeth. "Oh no you don't!" And left Leo's side in the fight to go over there.
"Raph, what are you doing?" Leo hissed, as he blocked an attack with his katana. "Get back here!"
"We've got unfinished business," Raph says, cornering the man, leaving his siblings. The man backed up and Raph jumped in the van. "you give me that phone right now.
Three of the kraang had noticed the man and Raph and went in after, blocking the exit. Then another kraang began driving the van, with Raph and the human inside.
"Raph's in the van!" Leo yelled out to his siblings.
"Of course he is," Mari muttered.
Then the five remaining turtles starting running after the van to get their hot headed brother.
Inside the van, Raph was fighting the kraang with a few grunts. After he took out all three, he reached for the guy's hand. "Let's get out of here," he says hurridly.
The guy doesn't take Raph's hand. "Forget it!" he griped. "You lizards don't want to buy my video, maybe these guys will."
"Raph! Get out of there!" Donnie says. Raph looks out the van to see all of his siblings trailing the van, Donnie holding out his stick.
"Hurry up, jackass!" Mari demanded.
Raph grits his teeth and grabs the man's arm. "Listen, you idiot," he starts. "Frogs are not lizards. And we're not frogs."
One of the krang's suddenly grabs Raph by the neck. The turtle struggles--he didn't notice the kraang come up from behind him. Then, the kraang throws him out of the van and rolls right into his siblings.
They all stand up. Leo, Donnie and Mari glares at Raph, while Mikey and Cat simply stared at him.
"Nice going,Raph," Leo said sarcastically.
"What did I do?!" Raph demanded.
"What did you do?" Mari questioned incredulously, pushing Leo aside. "You're joking, right? You left your siblings, us, in the middle of the fight, to yell at somebody!"
"That wasn't very nice, Raphie," Cat said sadly.
"We could have stopped them," Leo said. "But thanks to your temper, the guy with the tape--"
"Again, technically," Donnie interrupted, "it's a flash--"
"Not now," Leo hissed. He continues chewing Raph out, as Mari helps, while, Donnie, Mikey and Cat notices something on the ground.
"Look the truck's leaking," Donnie tells his siblings.
"All right!" Leo grins. "We can follow the trail to their hideout."
"And then we'll bash some bots!" Raph grins, clenching his fists. Leo gives him a look. "What?"
"We are going to bash some bots," Leo corrects, gesturing to him, Donnie, Mari, Cat and Mikey, intentionally leaving Raph out of the question. "You are going home."
"Can I go home?" Cat whispered. Mari smacked her for that dumb question, leaving her to rub her aching head.
"What, are you kidding?" Raph demanded. "Come on, guys. Are we going to let Leo power trip like this?"
"I think Leo's right," Donnie said.
Mari nodded. "Me too."
"You gotta control your temper," Leo said. "Until then, we can't trust you."
Cat frowned. She felt bad for her older brother and wanted to hug him, but he would probably hit her if she attempted.
Leo, Mikey, Donnie and Mari turns to walk away, so Cat hesitantly followed, the two youngest muttering apologies as they left Raph standing there.
"We're here," Leo whispered to his siblings. The five turtles stood behind a corner, sneakily. They couldn't draw too much attention to themselves just yet.
"Are we really going to to do this without Raph?" Mikey asked.
"It doesn't feel right," Cat said. "He's our brother."
"He should've thought about that, then," Mari said. "It's on him."
"We need him," Cat insisted.
"We can handle it," Leo tells her and Mikey sternly.
"I don't know," Mikey said. "It just feels like something's missing."
Leo smacks him.
"Ow!" Mikey then ponders it a moment. "No, no... Something is still missing."
Leo smacks Cat.
"Owieeeee."
"Thanks," Mikey says, his head still sore.
"Happy to help," Leo tells him. "Let's go."
They managed to sneak into the building and were now hiding behind boxes. "Spiders," Mikey whimpered, and Cat shuddered and made a 'yuck' face.
When they heard nothing, the turtles began tip toeing in a single file line. Mari smacks Mikey and Cat as she squeezes past them, getting in front of them.
Donnie smirks and smacks them, too. Mikey turns and glares while Cat rubs her head. "You don't have to keep doing that," Mikey said.
"There was a spider on both of you," Donnie lied.
"On both of us?" Cat questioned incredulously with a pout.
"Well, there's a spider on you too!" Mikey says. "Come here, you punk." Then he attacks Donnie.
"Oh--" Cat said. She wasn't prepared for that.
"Knock it off!" Donnie says.
"Hey." Leo goes up to them and tells them to shush.
Then they keep moving.
They hide behind more boxes, as they overheard the kraang talking to the human. "Well, you guys drive a hard bargain," the man was saying. "You know what? I'll drop it to 500,000. And you can keep the phone."
On closer inspection, it was obvious that he was being held captive. He was tied to a chair with a kraang standing in front of him with his phone in his hand. The three kraang turns their back to him, rewatching the footage. "Okay, 400,000."
"This is our fight with the creatures called the turtles," one of the kraang said.
"The usefulness of this will be proven usefully with the more watching of this," another of the kraang said.
"Also," Kraang 1 says, "this is being a good image of kraang."
(That causes Cat to giggle a little, resulting in Mari smacking her and Leo shushing her.)
"We should be showing the image of kraang to kraang," Kraang 2 suggested.
With the kraang distracted, Mikey started pulling the man's chair back. Confused, he looks back to see the turtles pulling him their way.
"We're gonna get you out of here," Leo whispers.
"What about my phone?" the man said rather loudly.
Leo shushed him.
"Don't shush me! I ain't leaving here without my phone."
That caught the attention of the kraang.
"Okayyy," Mari says, rolling her eyes. Their position was exposed. "Can we please just leave him here to rot?"
"Stop the one that needs to be stopped," Kraang 1 said. They pointed their guns at the turtles.
"Remind me why we have to rescue this guy?" Donnie questioned.
The kraang began fighting.
"Another fight?" Mari groaned, as she and her siblings charged.
The man decided to be a dumbass and roll his chair over to reach his phone. In doing so, when the mutegen knocked over, it fell on him and he screamed in agony, unbeknownst to the kraang and turtles.
One of the kraang went over to check what that scream was, only for him to be thrown backwards. A growl came from the shadows.
"I don't like the sound of that," Mikey whimpers.
A huge spider jumped in front of them.
"I don't like the look of it either!" Mikey says.
"Ditto," Cat agrees.
"What did you do to me? I'm hideous!" the spider says.
"Don't worry, the six of us can handle him," Leo tells his scared brothers and sisters.
"Okay, this might be a bad time to point this out, but you sent one of the six of us home.." Donnie tells him.
"And right now, I wish it was me!" Mikey whimpers.
"I asked to go home," Cat said sadly.
"We're totally screwed," Mari says.
"This is your fault!" the spider says. "I'm gonna rip your heads off.
"All right guys," Leo pulls his katanas out, "prepare to dish out the mighty wrath of justice!"
"Seriously?" Mari groaned. "That was hella lame."
"Seriously," Donnie agreed, "Just yell get him."
"Get hi--" Leo starts to demand, only for the spider to push him, causing him to crash into a pile of boxes.
"Leo!" Cat yells worriedly.
Donnie and Mari charges him from opposite sides, only for the spider to push them away too. Cat winced as they both landed.
Mikey charges the spider with his nunchucks, having better luck than Donnie and Mari. So Cat jumped up with a battle cry and joined the fight. They were dodging the spider's attacks but were pushed back.
Leo ran up to the spider with gritted teeth, both of his katana out. Then jumped back and he, Donnie, Mikey, Mari and Cat stood back to back.
"Is that all you got?" Mikey egged on, wearing a grin.
The spider spit out mucus right in front of Leo, causing the floor to vaporize.
"You just had to ask," Mari muttered.
"The answer I was looking for was yes..." Mikey gulped.
The spider kept on spitting so the turtles ran. The spiders chased after them and then jumped in front of them, causing the turtles to stop in their tracks.
The spider spit at them and they dodged.
The turtles took turn attacking, while dodging the spit.
Then Mikey threw a barrel and it landed in his mouth. The spider spit it out then went after the turtles, who started running again.
They stopped running, only to realize that they were trapped. The floor below them fell and they fell to the ground on the first story.
"We're no match for Spider Bytez!" Mikey tells his siblings.
"Spider Bytez?" Leo questioned, rubbing his head.
The turtles stood up as Mikey began to explain his choice of name.
"We get it," Leo interrupted.
But Cat frowned. "I thought I'd get to name the next one..."
"Shut up, Cat," Mari tells her.
The spider jumped down, causing the turtles to widen their eyes. Spider Bytez growled at them and they all screamed.
The turtles tried to run but Spider Bytez kept blocking their path.
"This bug is fast," Leo says.
"Yeah, spiders aren't actually bugs. They--ow!"
Spider Bytez grabbed Donnie and threw him. Cat rushed over and made sure her older brother was okay. Everyone glared at Spider Bytez.
"Play time's over, Frogs," Spider Bytez says. He spits and Leo, Mikey and Mari have to jump back, to where Donnie and Cat were. Spider Bytez walk toward them.
"Wow. I didn't think this guy could get any uglier."
"Raph!" Donnie, Cat and Mikey explained, as everyone looked in the direction the voice came from. Raph stood on a railing, his sais in his hands.
Raph jumped down.
"Well, I think you've been punished long enough," Leo tells him. "Come and join us."
"Hey," Spider Bytez says. "It's the Kung Fu frog with the salad tongs."
"Hey, it's the stupid loud mouth who's about to get his butt kicked," Raph says back.
The spider spits at Raph, but he dodges. But then Spider Bytez spits all around his siblings, causing them to fall once again.
Donnie looks down and notices they were now on glass, and under the glass was mutegen. "Uh, let's not fall through this floor, okay?"
"That's some Kung Fu frog..." Spider Bytez says.
Mikey, Cat, Leo, Donnie and Mari jumps and joins Raph. Raph grins, looking at his siblings. "We're not Kung Fu frogs." Raph held up his sais. "We're ninja turtles."
Then the six of them charged. As a team, they're unstoppable. After they broke Spider Bytez phone, they cornered him.
"You guys are gonna regret this," Spider Bytez tells them. Then jumps away, the turtles following after him.
Spider Bytez ran all the way to the top of the building And then proceeded to jump from building to building.
"I know a nice black widow that'd be great for him," Donnie says.
"So we're not gonna follow him?" Cat asked.
Mari put her arms around Cat and shook her head.
"Good work, Raph," Leo says. "I just want to say..."
"You don't have to apologize," Raph said.
"I wasnt going to."
"Oh. Good."
"Yeah, Raph," Mikey says. "Not bad for a bloated buffalo."
Raph tackles him.
"Okay!" Mikey says through Raph's chokehold. "Raph's the all great and powerful!"
"And?"
"And he's better than me in every possible way!"