Hello everyone, and welcom back, this time to a little different story. This one will focus more on the villains of mine and Bloodrayne666's stories.

Let's see how this turns out.

Coral

Chapter 1

A Plan Takes Shape

A storm had rolled in over New York, the lightning illuminating the dark night. In the dark tower of the Foot, the head scientist William Arden looked out through a window, observing the city. Another flash of lightning illuminated the room, the shadows cast on his scarred face making him look all the more terrifying.

It had been a few weeks since they had discovered the Freeman brothers, Jake and Callum, the younger brothers of Monalisa. Yet, despite their master killing one of the boys, no sign of their sister and the turtles had been found. The Venomous Five had tried to track them down, but ultimately failed to locate them, which brought to mind their many failures in the past.

"The Venomous Five… have failed again… they have failed me, and thus, I have failed master Shredder. Whatever I try, even after all the serums I've given them, they can not defeat the turtles and that lizard whore…"

His hand travelled to the scarred side, cradling it as he remembered how Monalisa threw acid on him.

"But… despite their failures, they are the only ones of my creations that are still alive. The Vampire Bats, Alucard, Akasha, Rayne and Claudia, they managed to capture two of the turtles, yet they escaped and killed the bats.

And then there was miss Jennifer, the dragon's sister, and the prototype for the others. She was able to hold her own against the dragon, even if she was only partially mutated, but then she was able to break through the imprinting and turn against us. At least she perished afterwards, without my treatments she would fall apart in a matter of days.

Though I am curious to why the dragon have not returned to avenge her yet. He has returned to New York several times over the years, and with the powers he possesses… I fear that we wouldn't stand much of a chance should he attack us. We barely survived our first encounter with him."

Arden shook his head to gather his thoughts, feeling that he had gone off track.

"What is it that sets the Venomous Five apart from my other creations? Why is it that they keep failing, yet survives? It can't be their numbers, as they have survived in smaller groups as well, and they are definitely dangerous, so it can't be that the freaks don't see them as a threat. So then what is it? What is it that makes failure equal survival in their case? What am I missing?"

Arden started pacing back and forth as he tried to figure out what could be the reason for the Venomous Five surviving despite their failures.

"What if… the problem isn't physical, but rather mental, something that my current serums can't affect… not necessary disabilities, but rather own will… maybe they aren't telling the full truth about their failures… but if that's the case, then that would mean that they are hiding something from me, their creator. They wouldn't do that, they are loyal to me, I made them so.

Wait, what if the memories of their old lives have started to resurface? They weren't exactly volunteers after all. That would explain a few things, and could prove very troublesome, the last thing we need are more freaks for enemies."

Arden stopped his pacing and thought long and hard.

"Too many questions remain unanswered, but how could I get the answers I seek in this matter? If the Venomous Five are not loyal any more they would still answer the same as if they were, were I to ask them. My truth-serum could give me what I want, but after the Dragon I'm not certain that it will be as effective as with humans, and I don't want to introduce said problem if it doesn't exist yet, even if it is within my rights."

His chain of thoughts was interrupted when he noticed a light being turned on in the corner of his eye. Looking at the source, he saw that it came from the partly open door to one of his laboratories, a place that he knew the lights were turned off when he left it.

Curious, he walked over to investigate, and looking through the doorway he saw the one responsible. A woman with long black hair, one of his medical ninja, taking notes of one of the displays in the lab, just as she was supposed to.

But it wasn't just any display, this one in particular was connected to a large glass tube that contained the body of another woman. That woman was none other than Izo Ren, Arashi's niece, and she had been kept inside the tube, in suspended animation, ever since she was recovered by other ninja after falling in a battle against a mutant viper almost a decade earlier, which left her with a broken neck and in a deep coma.

She had been an exceptionally skilled ninja, and had almost been able to infiltrate the turtles, but after failing in her mission she had basically been declared useless by her uncle. After that, Arden had used her as a living testing ground for various experiments, and her body showed signs of the many tests that she had been subjected to over the years.

"Ah, doctor. I wasn't aware that you were still here." the medical ninja said after noticing Arden standing in the doorway.

"I have a lot on my mind." Arden responded before walking over to the glass tube, placing one hand on it and looking at Ren inside.

"Understandable." the ninja said, looking back at the display and her notes. "While you're here, sir, I've got today's report on Ren's status."

"Let me guess: nothing new."

"That's correct, sir. Just as with the previous experiments, her body is trying to repair the changes as best it can, albeit at a very slow rate."

"While I welcome any chance to test my serums and the like, it feels like such a waste to use one as skilled and loyal as her, especially with how she was able to infiltrate the turtles."

As the words left his mouth, a sense of realisation struck Arden, and his mouth curled into a sinister smirk.

"Infiltrate. Of course!"

"Doctor?" the medical ninja asked, looking at her superior. "Sir?"

"That is how I will get my answers." he said to himself, then turning to the ninja, his wicked smirk never leaving his face. "And you will aid me."

"S-sir?" the female ninja asked, her voice trembling with fear.

"Oh, don't worry, this won't take long."

Okay... where do I even begin with this? There are so many references in a single short chapter that it's crazy, most of which are from Bloodrayne666's fics and the rest are from mine.

First, the attack on Jake and Callum Freeman happened in 'Oh Sister Where Art Thou?'. Next, the Vampire Bats appeared in 'All Hallows Threat!'. Both stories belonging to Bloodrayne666.

After that, the 'dragon's sister' refers to the Dragon mutant Tyroth's sister Jennifer, and her fate in my story 'A Sister's Plight'.

Let's see here... the turth serum not working well on the Dragon is from 'A Dangerous Captive', again by Bloodrayne666.

And to finish it all off, Izo Ren is from my story 'Mikey's Date'.

Phew! I think that's all of them. Hope you've enjoyed this start.