So kind of making up for the fact that the Turtles have kind of barely appeared in what is labeled a TMNT Fanfic, but in this chapter thhis is actually a pretty dark homage to the 80s cartoon and one of the minor villains the mobster Don Turtelli who in the typical fashion of cartoon villains from that era, his method of torture was...Tickling...Obviously this was done specifically to not be scary and because of the absurdity of it, but as has been pointed out in certain stories I've read online and speaking from someone who hates to be tickled, it is quite possible to tickle someone to death.

After getting into the specialists' ship through the missle launchers, the other three Turtles were realeased from their tiny little pods.

"Oof," Raph groaned as he got a crick out of his neck from being still too long

"All right," Leo said "Remember what we were told, these 'Specialists' are some of the most dangerous people in the Wrangler Empire..."

Leo led them through a hallway into what looked like a completely empty room, with no other exit except the way they came in.

"Dead end?" Mikey asked as he looked around as he was trying to get an idea of what this featureless room could be for,

But then the lights went out leaving the Turtles in pitch blackness.

"Shell." Leo said realizing they had already been discovered, the Turtles tried to run but in the darkness several metal clamps caught their wrists and ankles, as the the Turtles tried to break free in the complete darkness the more metal tentacles which was what the clamps were attached to, would wrap around them to further bind them!

The lights went back on, a different metal tentacle, this one with a 'camera eye' at the end was darting around inspecting the Turtles.

"Intruders have been captured." It said in a femminine robotic voice "Subjects appear to be Male Turtles of the Red Earred Slider Breed."

"When we get out of this..." Raph said to whoever was listening "We're gonna put ya in a woodchipper!"

"Your aggression and presumptiveness are unusual for a Humanimal." The robotic voice said as the Camera Eye Tentacle got into Raph's face "The Specialists were able to detect your intrusion almost instantly some have the ability to detect the smell of animals from nearly a hundred miles away."

"Ugh..." Raph groaned "...You're one those who think we're Humanimals huh? Well let me tell you something Sweetheart! We're..."

A different tentacle with a mechanical hand in it, pressed down hard on the sole of Raph's foot, causing him to scream out in pain.

"Your liver is a mess..." The robotic voice said "...You should cut down on your drinking."

That was when clouds of knock-out gas filled the room the Turtles could only cough helplessly as everything went black...

As the Turtles awoke the first thing they could feel was something like cool mist being sprayed along their sides and their armpits, that was the first thing they noticed, the second thing they noticed was they were strapped by their wrists and ankles to upright metal slabs...Memories of being captured by Bishop flooded their brains, their eyes snapped open!

"What the shell are you doing to us?!" Leo tried his best to roar unfortuntly the best he could do was a tired groan.

A short man with a large, bushy red mustache and wild, messy red hair on his head, he looked exactly like the stereotype of a cartoon mad scientist!

"That is my patented sensory enhancment formula!" The Little Man cackled with glee "Makes the nerve endings of the areas of skin sprayed ten times more sensitive!"

Already the Turtles didn't like where this was going...

"So..." Raph said already guessing where this was going "...You plan to torture us? To make us talk?"

The Little Man laughed "What need have I for that? Everyone can already see you're in cahoots with the Federation, though we can see you're not actually Turtle Humanimals...You're...Earth Turtles but some other Breed of Advanced Animal entirely...There will be plenty of time to inspect your corpses once I'm through with you...Disposed of in my signature way...Having you tickled to death!"

For a moment the Turtles were stunned silent

"You're...Serious?" Leo deep down knew already the Man wasn't joking he had already picked up on the pattern that in this Universe even the Wranglers seem to have a proclivity to do things in the most whimsical or absurd way possible!

"It's my specialty as a specialist!" The Little Man sneered "Ever since I was a boy I was fasinated by the possibilities of tickling! And with my sesory enhancment spray I have been able to increase the torturousness of tickling ten fold! After five minutes your ribs will hurt, about half an hour in you will begin to hemmorage internally after an hour you will likely suffocate."

The Turtles were now sweating bullets realizing everything this man said was true, they didn't even need Donny's scintific knowladge to be able to see it.

"I will be able to watch the beautiful symphony of what happens inside your bodies, from my mission control room!" The Little Man cackled with glee as he left the room...

DUN DUN DUN! So wanted to leave on that cliffhanger before we see how the Turtles get out of this one