Guest1: Yes. Doubled number of the turtles means double of fun. I'm also planning to make a new Marietta-themed, Domenico-themed, Lorenzo-themed and Artemisia-themed episodes for each season (especially Ultimate Drako arc), along with the several either one-part or occasionally appearing OC-characters. I'm still considering of adding to my story both Fast Forward and Back to the Sewer seasons, even though I've made some plans for them too.
Ssj shadow: I may consider that, but most likely I won't do that with Lorenzo. Louie is more of "strike it down and move to the next one" kinda guy, meaning that he strikes fast and goes without looking back. However, Artemisia would most likely see this and get suspicious about the Shredder's true identity. Otherwise it seems impossible if even any of my OC turtles can lay any serious harm on the Shredder during of their first battle. But we shall see.
= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE FALLEN ANGEL PART 3 =
Angel told to the turtles that day after their encounter back in that alley, Casey had followed her into the Purple Dragons' fighting club, though she had not a clue that how Casey had managed to get past the guards undetected. She also told to the green ninjas that while she was fighting in the fighting ring, that was part of the initiation before becoming an official member of the Purple Dragons, Casey had revealed his vigilante-identity in middle of the hordes of the Dragons when he rushed in the ring to save her from getting clobbered from behind. Casey had managed to get her out of there, but he was caught himself, got beaten up before he was chained and locked up into the holding cell in the basement of the club. Angel finally told to the turtles that she had overheard about the Dragons' plans to have the event called "a smackdown contest" in their club tonight. Guilt-ridden and almost in tears, Angel had added that the Dragons were keeping Casey alive so that they could offer him "as a grand prize" for the winner of the contest, so that the Dragons can either beat him up badly or maybe even kill him as a payback for his years lasted vigilante-action against them.
Convinced by Angel's story, due to them having earlier feared something like this to be about to happen after Casey went after Angel, and now recognizing her fully as a friend, the turtles had hurried into the Battle Shell and took off to the streets... heading to the Dragons fighting club to rescue their vigilante-friend.
Angel had offered to come along with them, wanting to help Casey from the trouble she herself had got him into. The turtles had initially refused to allow her to come, not wanting her to put herself into harm's way now that she had changed her mind about joining the Purple Dragons and having turned her back on them. However, Angel had insisted to come, pointing out that the Dragons don't know about her defection yet and that the turtles needed her help to get inside of the club undetected.
Louie and Raph were the first turtles to acknowledge Angel's help and helped her to convince most of the other turtles to take Angel with them on the mission despite the risks.
As usually, Dom was the last turtle to reluctantly acknowledge Angel's help. The turtle in white tried firmly and even stubbornly to forbid Angel from coming with them on a mission. Dom had also tried to ask Leo for support in this, but Leo, on the other hand, was convinced of Angel's reasoning and had allowed the teenage girl to come along, albeit on the condition that he stay close to them throughout the mission and not take unnecessary risks... for her own safety.
Grateful for them allowing her to come along, Angel gave them her word, though she added quickly that they did not need to worry about her because she was capable to take care of herself. With that, the other turtles welcomed her on the mission with open arms, but Dom was left in complete dismay over this.
"Oh, make the turtle soup out of me." the turtle in white had groaned in defeat.
Donnie had taken the wheel, as Leo took the passenger's seat. Angel was allowed to sit at the computer desk seat while Arcee was sitting in the opposite chair. The rest of the turtles took the remaining seats and benches from the back.
On their way towards the Dragon's den, the turtles had decided to tell to Angel how they met up with Casey for the first time. The turtles also told Angel how they had successfully helped Casey in his anger problems, taught him the secrets of self-control, and thus prevented him from lowering himself to the same level where the Dragons themselves were.
The turtles had also pointed out to Angel that by turning her back on the life the Dragons lived and by giving up dreams to become one of them, she had just prevented herself from lowering herself to the Dragons' level and instead turned towards the better future. It was the decision the turtles wholeheartedly congratulated her for.
"Okay, I knew Casey hung out with some weird dudes, but you guys are off the charts." Angel commended, having decided to take the turtles' humanoid appearances calmly, especially now when Casey was in urgent need of help.
"What were you expecting then, Angel? A Green Goblins? Louie questioned with the humorous smirk. "Well, don't you worry. We're completely sane and good ones and we won't bite... much." the turtle in black added with the charismatic - and maybe a little in flirting manner.(1)
Angel let out an amused chuckle, knowing full well what Louie was up to.
"More likely a bunch of sidekicks of Casey, that are dressed in the wicked turtle costumes, lover boy." Angel shot back with amusement.
Louie's eyes shot wide open and the turtle in black went speechless, taken aback by Angel's last sentence, which caused his moss green cheeks turn slightly into darker tone of green as if he was blushing. This, however, didn't go unnoticed by the rest of his family.
"OOOOOOOOOOH!" Donnie, Leo, Arcee and Mikey teased their brother.
Angel giggled heartily at the look on Louie's face, his reaction to her sly remark and his following awkward reaction when the others started to tease him for it.
"Hey, look at that! Louie has found himself the girlfriend." Arcee, who was sitting in the opposite seat to Angel's own, teased her brother a little bit more.
Louie started to blush even more furiously due to his sister's teasing remark and facepalmed himself in embarrassment. Angel's cheeks, however, remained largerly unaffectedly and mostly the same, save for the small hidden shade of pink, due to her tougher tomboy-like attitude and knowing that Arcee's remark was mostly targeted at Louie than at her. However, she was still unable to turn her amused smirk away from Louie.
Louie quickly snapped out of it, shaking his head to get rid of the awkward thoughts related to the recent subject and then cleared his throat to regain his composure, not wanting to lose face in front of his family.
"Oh, shut up, you guys! It's not what you think it is. Honestly!" Louie quickly retorted, still slightly embarrassed of the situation he had ended up into.
The turtle in black then turned back to Angel. "Just for you to know, Angel, Casey happens to be OUR sidekick and not the other way around." the turtle in black insisted with the look on his face, which was the mixture of the firm assurance and awkward nervousness... and maybe a little desperation to change the subject.
This only increased Angel's amusement with the turtle in black, making her to smile even widely at him.
Before the awkward conversation between the human and turtle teens could continue, Dom interrupted them with the loud displeased-sounding tone of voice from the back.
"And speaking of dressing up... Angel, is this your plan? We're gonna infiltrate to the Dragon's den by wearing these stuff? Do we really have to lower ourselves to their level by dressing as badly as them?" Dom questioned while taking a displeased look of himself.
While she was speaking with Donnie, Leo, Louie and Arcee, Angel had made Raph, Mary, and Dom to dress up into a street clothes.
Dom was wearing the olive-green shirt with long sleeves, a pair of brown pants, either black or dark-brown thick leather vest, the backside of which was adorned with an image of a flaming skull. Dom was also wearing the dark-green shades and black beanie hat on his head. And finally, Angel had also given to Dom a short fake beard, which Dom had put on his face around of his mouth.
Mary was dressed into a pair of blue torn jeans and the black sleeveless shirt, over which she was wearing a dark purple hoodie with the torn sleeves - similar with Angel's hoodie - which had white skull with the crossed bones branded in front of it. Mary was also wearing on top of her head a shoulder-length black dreadlock wig and a dark blue bandana to keep her wig in place. Mary had put on heavy X-cross chains to hang over her chest and wore the shades of her own, which were red by the color. Moreover, Mary had tied gray bandages around her arms to cover her green skin.
Raph was dressed into a pair of white pants and light brown hoodie, over which he wore a black and red jacket. The turtle in black was wearing on a white beanie hat and he kept his hoodie's hood over his head. Like his brother and sister, Raph too was wearing black shades and he had with the face paint made fake scars on his face, one in his right cheek and another above of his lip in the left side of his mouth to make it look a split lip. This was made with Angel's instructions to create more "bad boy" atmosphere around Raph to make it look convincing to the other Dragons.
However, all three turtles felt quite disturbed or even disgusted by their new appearance in these clothes.
"I'm afraid you guys have to. They won't allow wusses to enter, and least of guys who have dressed in the turtle costumes." Angel confirmed.
"Ugh! I feel indescribably dirty in these clothes. Hrrrrrr!" Mary shivered in disgust.
"What? I think you look cool, sis." Arcee chuckled, admiring her sister's street clothes.
"Speak for yourself when you got to dress up like this, Arcee." Mary shot back to her sister.
"Oh, C'mon, Mary. Arcee's right. Dom here looks like some sort of a hooligan biker, while you look just like some rebellious teenager street girl. I kinda like that look." Louie admitted, before he let out an amused laugh at both his older brother and sister, much to their annoyance.
While this was going on, Raph was making his own comments about his own street attire, and the turtle in red was not pleased with the way he had dressed up. Not at all.
"No way am I going out like this! People don't really dress this way." Raph complained while eyeing his own attire. "Do they?" he asked from Angel hopefully.
Mikey looked at Raph's street clothes with an amused grin on his lips... and the turtle in orange couldn't resist the temptation to tease his brother about his new look.
"Your attire suits you perfectly by both your look and nature, Raphie-boy. Kind of a hip hop, cat burglar, stormtrooper thing." Mikey joked with the amused laugh.
"Don't laugh, green-boy. You're next." Angel said as she put a set of street clothes on Mikey's lap.
The smirk on Mikey's lips dropped immediately as he looked down at the set of clothes on his lap. The look on the turtle in orange's face implied that he neither looked forward to dressing into them. Leaving Mikey with his set of clothes, Angel picked up another set of clothes and turned to Louie.
"You too, lover boy." Angel teased, as she put the set of clothes on surprised Louie's lap. However, unlike Mikey, the turtle in black merely let out the small chuckle.
"Whatever, Angel-cake, though I hope you did at least select for me the coolest clothes, right?"
"You bet I did, shell-for-brains." Angel said with the smirk and wink.
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A bit later, Angel and turtles arrived close to the location of the Dragons' HQ. They decided to take the rest of the trip on foot in order to avoid raising any suspicion amongst the Dragons, so Donnie parked the Battle Shell to the alley that was a safe distance from the place.
They eventually arrived in front of the Dragons HQ surrounded by the fence with the barbed wires.
Angel and the Turtles watched from their hiding spot as dozens of Dragons walked from both sides of the streets and headed towards the gap in the fence, where was two armed Dragons standing on guard. Every Dragon saluted to the Guards by holding three fingers up before they were allowed to enter into the building.
"Okay, let's go." Angel said, taking the lead. "Just be cool, and follow my lead."
One by one, the turtles emerged from their hiding spot on the streets... now all of them dressed up into the street clothes and wearing sunglasses in order to cover their masks and hide their facial identities.
Leo was wearing on a red shirt and the pair of blue pants. He also had a dark blue beanie hat on his head and he was wearing over his red shirt a dark blue trench coat, which he kept open. Leo was also wearing on a dark-blue sunglasses.
Donnie was wearing a white beanie hat on his head and he was dressed into a white shirt and white pants. The brainy turtle was also wearing over his shirt the white hooded trench coat and kept its hood over his head. Donnie was also wearing on a black sunglasses.
Mikey was wearing a pair of blue pants and a white hoodie, over which he had put on an orange jacket. He also had on his head a blue and orange beanie hat and he wore a blue sunglasses. Even though he wore the hoodie, he did not put the hood over his head like Raph and Donnie did.
Louie was only turtle who had left the shirt off, but he was wearing on instead a black thick leather vest with the white skulls in the front and back and he also had a blue baggy jeans. Louie was also wearing a blood-red bandana scarf around his neck, black fingerless gloves in his hands and he had on his head a black open-face-helmet with the white winged skulls branded on both sides. Like Mary, Louie too had tied the black bandanas around of his arms, though he had let their long ends to hang loosely from his arms. And finally, he was wearing on a dark-green sunglasses.
And lastly but not least, Arcee had a medium-length blonde wig and a crimson red rap cap that she wore sideways on her head. Arcee also had a pink mirroring aviator sunglasses that were noticeably larger than what the others' own were. The turtle in pink was dressed into a white tank top shirt over which she wore a black hoodie with white claw marks and blue loose baggy shorts. Arcee also had a golden rap necklace hanging around her neck and she was carrying a boom box on her shoulder blasting tunes.
As Angel walked through the gap and past the guards, she held up the three-fingered salute to gain access inside. Following Angel's lead, the turtles gave the three-fingered salutes to the guards before entering inside of the fenced area and heading towards the doorway of the building.
"Ciao, Dragon dude!" Arcee wished for one guard with flirting and 'cool-sounding' tone of voice when saluting him.
The disguises worked perfectly, for none of the guards even bothered to take note of the turtles' green skin colors peeking from under of their disguises nor even the turtles' noticeable lack of two fingers when saluting.
"Good thing it's only a three fingered salute." Mikey whispered to Raph and Louie, who walked behind the group.
"True, bro. And lucky those punks are too stupid to even take the note of our lack of two fingers." Louie stated with relief.
Angel and the turtles then entered into the Dragons' Den and began searching for a secluded place, where they can draw up a plan to free Casey.
However, even though everything went smoothly so far, they soon realized that freeing Casey was not gonna be easy.
The whole place was swarming with the Purple Dragons. Apparently the every Dragon in the whole city had been gathering in here tonight, as their number reached from a few dozen to hundreds... though not quite to a one thousand. Among of them was also many of those ones who wielded the various weaponry in the form of the baseball bats, pipes, chains, staves, crowbars, sledge hammers, knives, axes and even guns.
"Ugh! So much Dragons! Whatta uncivilized scum of the underworld." Dom muttered in disapproval.
"Works for me, bro. More of these low life cabbage-brains to kick butt." Raph said back to his brother.
The turtles eventually found the perfect secluded place for them and they stopped there.
"Yeesh, it's like we walked into an ugly convention." Mikey whispered to Raph in disgust.
"Hey, then you must feel right at home, Mikey." Raph replied jokingly to Mikey's opinion of the place.
"Knock it off, you guys. We're deep in the Dragon's den. Let's try not to attract attention." Dom snapped to his brothers in whisper.
"You heard him, guys! So keep your voices down. We others are trying to blend here." Donnie added.
Donnie then looked around to see if any of the Dragons nearby had either spotted them or were observing them from aside. However, everybody's attentions seemed to be completely on the current match in the boxing ring, so they didn't care what was going on behind the scenes.
And when the coast was clear, Donnie stood straight with his arms folded together, pretending to look "cool".
All turtles, first Dom, then Mikey and Louie, and finally Raph and Mary followed the brainy turtle's suit and folded their own arms together one by one. Only Leo and Arcee, with the latter still carrying the boom box on her shoulder, didn't fold their arms together, due to the
"Our first time of performance in the disguises within the enemy lines... and so far so good." Louie whispered.
"Yeah, but lowering ourselves to these punks' level by dressing up like them and even pretending to act like them makes me feel sick." Mary whispered in disgust. "The sooner we free Casey and get out of this Hell Hole, and especially out of these disguises, the better."
"Chill out, Mary. If you ask from me, I'll say that we look really cool. Especially when we stand like this! We're like the turtle mafia of the underworld." Mikey boasted jokingly.
"Knock it off, Mikey, because if you really want to look like the Purple Dragon, try it by getting your butt kicked by a Ninja Turtle." Raph threatened.
"Oh, I'd love to see you try, bro." Mikey said with the scoffing laugh before the turtles in red and orange fist bumped with each other.
The turtles remained there while watching how the Dragons pummeled themselves in the ring.
Some of the Dragons were dragging five into poor condition beaten and barely conscious Dragons away from the ring, while being called out by the audience.
One of them had orange hair that parted at his forehead, blue sleeveless shirt with the Dragon symbol branded on it, black-brown pants and heavy boots. This one also has a rings pierced through of his nose and ear, which were then connected with the chain.
Second one was a blonde with a long hair that covered his eyes. He also had a blue bandana tied around of his head, torn sleeveless shirt with the Dragon symbol on its front side and grayish-white pants.
Third one was a woman, who had a blue dyed hair with strands, and her hair was tied into a large ponytail behind of her head. This Dragon-lady had dark-pink torn top tank shirt and amethyst-colored pants.
Fourth one was a young man with the orange hair and eye brows, black armbands, torn dark-blue shirt with the Dragon branded on it and the black sweaters.(2)
And fifth one was thin yet muscular African-American man with the short reddish brown hair, dark green sleeveless shirt with the Dragon symbol branded into it and red pants.(3)
Each one of these five unfortunate Dragons' faces were full of nasty-looking bruises and bleeding cuts from the brutal fights in the boxing ring and their noses and mouths were covered in blood. A couple Dragons' had one eye black and swollen nearly shut from the straight punch in the eye. One of these two also had one arm dislocated from its socket and his nose broken, while other one had split lip and seemed to be missing a lot of teeth from his mouth. And to add insult to the injury, the entire audience was unsympathetically booing at them for their humiliating defeat.
While the beaten Dragons were dragged away, the fighting continued in the Dragon's boxing ring.
Fatso Dragon was circling with a thin Dragon - who had short orange hair, blue vest with the Dragon-symbol in the left side of his chest and dark-brown pants - before Fatso charged at him and knocked with one brutal swing of his baseball bat the Dragon off the ring, even causing him to lose one or two teeth from his mouth in the process.(4)
Cap-headed Dragon got Shortie pinned to the floor of the ring and he began to mercilessly pummel his opponents face into a bloody mess with the bare fists.
Thug with red sunglasses lifted the limp-looking body of the Camouflage cap-headed thug over his head before he threw him roughly to the ground.
Green-shirted African-American Dragon was beating up the Blue-head with the crowbar, leaving the nasty-looking bruises and small cuts to his face.
And Blue-faced Dragon was battling face to face with the Dragon with the Mohawk-styled blonde haircut and chin beard, blue sunglasses, grayish-blue sleeveless shirt with Dragon symbol branded on it and the orange sweat pants. Blue-Face eventually punched the Mohawk-headed blonde to the face so hard that it sent him flying out of the ring, landing pretty roughly on his back to the floor.
"Ouch! They're really beating up themselves to death if they keep this rate." Louie commented with the wince.
Leo then walked in front of the group.
"Okay, guys, let's take note of a few things. We got exits there and there." Leo said, as he pointed at the exists in the left and right, which were heavily guarded by the armed Dragons. "Guards posted around the perimeter. Everyone's pretty heavily armed, so can we please try to avoid a fight?"
"The turtles exchanged the silent looks with each other while considering Leo's request about "trying to avoid the fight" while trying to free Casey. Then they all then turned to look back at Leo with the blank looks on their faces. Each one of them had a one and same thought in mind as an answer to Leo's question.
Rhetorical question, bro. Freeing Casey and trying to avoid the fight at the same time is with 99% impossible.
The turtle in blue read easily the silent message his siblings were giving to him and nodded in understatement.
"Yeah, right." Leo sarcastically scoffed to himself. "What was I thinking."
The turtles attention then turned back to the ring, as the large cage was lowered onto the ring.
Looking around for a moment, Louie happened to spot a very familiar looking really big guy emerging from amongst of the Dragons and walking inside of the cage. The turtle in black elbowed Raph to his left side with his right elbow to get his attention.
"Hey, Raph?" Louie whispered before pointing at the big guy inside the cage with a finger. "Does that Mountain of muscle looks familiar to you?"
Raph looked towards the cage and spotted the very familiar overgrown man himself.
It was HUN!
"Oh, yeah, Bro. Even more than just familiar." Raph snarled with angry tone, recalling the moment when both he and Louie were held captive and nearly dissected by him and Stockman back in that ship nearly three weeks ago.
Leo then leaned closer to his brothers. "Raph? Louie? You two seem to know this guy? Who is he?" the turtle in blue questioned from his brothers.
"Oh, yeah, we do, Leo." Louie snarled as he and Raph kept their vengeful-looking eyes locked in the oversized man.
"He's just some pea-brained Lard-Butt, with whom me and Louie had a unpleasant late-night date three weeks ago, till we broke up at the same night." Raph said... with the hint of his usual sarcasm, of course.
"HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN! HUN!" the Dragons all over the place cheered up at the oversized man by shouting his name over and over again.
When Hun finally got in the middle of the caged box ring, he took the microphone and readied himself to keep a speech to the horde of the Dragons.
And as Hun was holding up his free hand as a greeting to his horde of minions, Casey, uncomfortably strapped to a metal St. Andrew's cross upside down, was lowered down from the hall's ceiling and into the cage next to Hun. Arcee crinkled her nose in uneasiness the moment she saw Casey's physical condition - as if he was ran over by the car again. However, despite all of this, the bruised vigilante showed no fear in his eyes. Casey remained defiant even in the life-threatening situation like this and he scowled at Hun all the time.
"Just like Angel said. He's alive. Bruised and in very uncomfortable position... but alive for now." Mary said with half-relief.
Louie turned to Angel, who looked anxious after seeing Casey like this and grew intensely worried for Casey's life. The turtle in black lifted his hand up and put it gently over Angel's shoulder to ease her worries. Feeling the turtle in black's hand on her shoulder, Angel turned to look at Louie.
"Don't worry, Angel. We'll get him out of this in one piece. I promise" Louie assured her, earning a grateful nod from the teenager.
"I knew this was gonna happen if he walks straight into the Dragon's den. I tried to tell him not to, but he didn't listen to me, and now look at what he ended up into." Dom said in matter of fact, earning an disapproval glare from all of his siblings, including Angel.
"What? I just said it because it is the truth." Dom said defensively with the shrug.
Hun then started to speak into the microphone.
"GOOD EVENING, FELLOW DRAGONS! IT'S AN PLEASURE THAT YOU HAVE ALL ARRIVED HERE TONIGHT, BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE A SPECIAL EVENT NUMBER ONE HERE! TONIGHT'S CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP WILL DETERMINE WHICH TEAM WILL WIN THE HONOR OF RIDDING THE PURPLE DRAGONS OF OUR MOST HATED ENEMY!" Hun declared, referring Casey next to him.
Some Dragons among the audience were totally puzzled of seeing Casey, whom Hun declared as the Purple Dragons' the most hated enemy. The dragons eyed Casey from head to toes, tilting their heads and raising their eyebrows. Majority of them had no clue who Casey was and they voiced their ignorance to one another in whisper.
"Huh? I don't get it. Who's that guy?" one of the Dragons asked from another one, puzzled.
"Beats me. Not a clue." that another Dragon said.
Hun seemed to sense the confusion among the audience, so he pulled out Casey's hockey mask and put it on his face. The whole audience burst into the eager bloodthirsty cheers and contemptuous boos in a moment when they saw Casey with the hockey mask and recognized him immediately.
"IT'S THE VIGILANTE!" they roared.
"KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!" the Dragons chanted.
Raph was both disgusted and enraged of seeing Casey like this, and the Dragons' eagerness to beat the life out of his best buddy.
"Lousy thugs! I've got your most hated enemy right here!" Raph snarled as the turtle in red pulled his twin Sai out of his hoodie pocket in anger.
However, Leo hurried to Raph's side and ordered him to stand down. "Easy, Raph. We're not in the perfect position to blow our cover yet. Let's just wait and see where this is going so that we can determine our course of action."
"LET THE BEST AND VENGEFUL DRAGON WIN!" Hun declared before he walked out from the cage.
The club's announcer then spoke to the microphone somewhere.
"SO, WHO'S READY TO SPILL THE BLOOD, PUNCH THE TEETH IN AND BREAK SOME JAWS FOR A PIECE OF THE VIGILANTE?!"
The Dragons cheered up at this as some of them rushed out of the audience and into the cage, ready to fight for the right of the personal payback against Casey.
"COME ON, COME ON, COME ON! THERE'S GOTTA BE MORE TAKERS THAN THAT! THE HONOR OF THE DRAGONS IS AT STAKE HERE!" the Dragons' announcer said, as Casey was raised up out of the cage and back to the ceiling.
"If he remains in that position for a long time, he may faint from the excess blood pressure in the head, that's sure." Arcee stated.
"So how in the shell are we gonna get him down from there without being spotted?" Donnie questioned, because there was no way to reach to Casey by simply jumping.
Angel then turned to the turtles and opened her mouth to answer to Donnie's question. "Hey? I know how to get to the catwalk."
"Good. Guys. I suggest team division." Leo said to his brothers and sisters. "Don, Mikey, Dom and Arcee. Your four go with Angel. Nothing fancy. Just stick to the shadows, and cut Casey loose."
"On it, Leo." Dom said.
"And what about you, Raph, Louie and Mary? What are you four gonna do meanwhile?" Mikey questioned.
"We're gonna buy you some time..." Leo said, before he turned towards the cage and noticed the two-three spotlights that were moving over the Dragon audience in the three sides of the club. Knowing full well that one of those spotlights could even by coincidence expose their bros, sis and Angel from sneaking to where Casey was being held captive, there was only one choice. "...by making sure that those spotlights, as well as the attention of the audience stays in the cage. Now go."
The turtles nodded before they divided into two teams and headed for their different directions. Angel led Donnie, Mikey, Dom and Arcee towards the catwalks while Leo, Raph, Louie and Mary headed towards the cage to take part of the "championship."
But before they departed, Louie and Angel paid one glance at each other, both giving each other a thumbs up.
"Go get them, tough-guy." Angel wished.
"You wanna me to bring some trophies, babe?" Louie teased with the smirk.
Angel chuckled awkwardly, slightly embarrassed of being called "babe" amongst of the tough guys, though she was also amused by Louie's flirting behavior nonetheless.
"Just go in there and keep them busy! That's enough for me, shell-for-brains!" Angel said sharply, hiding her embarrassment and amusement with her tough-guy talk before she turned around and kept going after the four turtles. However, before she could reach far, she turned back to Louie one more time. "And don't call me "babe." It's quite embarrassing amongst us tough-guys."
Louie couldn't help but chuckle at this, before the turtle in black turned around and followed his brothers and sister towards the cage.
"LAST CHANCE TO RAGE IN THE CAGE! ANY TAKERS?! ANY TAKERS AT ALL?!" the Dragons' announcer said, while already participated Dragons in the cage waited eagerly and impatiently for the contest to begin.
The turtles then arrived and entered into the ring.
"Oh, shell! Leo, I really hate our part of this plan. I hate cage fight contests, and its not because of claustrophobia. It's because we have to fight for these barbaric hooligans' amusement. It's despicable, I'll say!" Mary complained in disgust.
"I kinda agree with Mary, Leo. Normally I'd love to pummel the Dragons for my own pleasure, not for their own." Raph said, agreeing with his sister. "Besides, is this gonna work?"
"If you two have a better idea to buy some time, it's a bit too late to voice it out right now. The opportunity for that was and went already." Leo said to his brother and sister. "Besides, Raph, you need the practice in making good plans... especially with those plans that do not involve butt-kicking all the time." the turtle in blue added as he kept heading toward the cage.
"Look who's talking." Raph muttered with sarcasm, silently pointing out that Leo's current plan indeed involved the butt-kicking, before he followed Leo.
Louie then walked next to Mary and raised his right arm over his sister's shoulder.
"Don't worry, sister. This is going to be fun. Besides, even though we must dress up like them and behave like them, that doesn't mean that we have to fight with their rules. So let them keep their habit. We have our own ways to deal this." Louie said with encouraging tone, before the turtle in black let go of his sister and kept heading towards the cage.
Mary remained behind for a moment, rubbing the back of her head nervously.
"I guess so." she finally relented before following her brothers.
As the turtles entered into the cage, the Dragons' announcer spoke again.
"FOUR NEW INITIATES HAVE ENTERED THE COMPETITION!"
Once the turtles had entered in, the door of the cage was closed behind of them.
The turtles were then instantly confronted by eleven Dragons, the most toughest ones of them all: Pony-tailed thug, Spiky-head with green goggles, madly grinning Tie-thug, Blue-face, Redhead, Fatso, Camouflage cape-headed Dragon, Green-shirted Dragon, Thug with red sunglasses, Hulking African-American thug and Scar-face.
They all glared at the turtles, waving their melee weapons or bare fists, cracking their fingers and punching their palms, ready to kick some butt.
"LET'S SHOW 'EM HOW PURPLE DRAGONS TREAT NEWBIES!" the Dragons' announcer declared.
Meanwhile, as the turtles and the Dragons in the cage were preparing for the serious smackdown, Don, Mikey, Dom, Arcee and Angel had already made it to the catwalk. Taking out their weapons, the four ninja turtles and Angel sneaked towards three guards, who were guarding Casey.
Casey apparently noticed them coming, as he slowly turned his masked head to their direction. In return, Arcee turned to look at Casey before the turtle in pink lifted one of her fingers in front of her lips, signaling their vigilante friend to be quiet. Casey, having got Arcee's message, nodded back.
Then, the turtles and Angel halted on their tracks and positioned themselves to the safe distance from the guards.
"Two guards guarding Casey and the third is a little further away from the others." Dom informed to his brothers and sister.
"Okay. In order to get to Casey, we just gotta take out those three goons without drawing too much attention." Donnie said to the others.
"Any bright ideas?" Mikey questioned.
Donnie lifted his finger beneath his chin as he started to look around while thinking of something.
And after the moment of thinking, the brainy turtle came up with an idea.
"Yeah." Donnie said with the smirk, as the turtle in purple pointed at a spotlight standing on the railing of the catwalk. "A really bright idea."
TO BE CONTINUED...
TRIVIA
1) = Reference to the Spiderman's archenemy: the Green Goblin.
2) = There's no official concept art about this guy, but this guy can be seen next to Casey in the shot, where Casey shakes his head in disgrace and disgust at the Dragons.
3) = There's no official concept art about this guy, but this guy can be seen standing and waving his arms in the air in front of the camera screen after it turns away from Two Ton (fatso Dragon) celebrating his victory.
4) There's no official concept art about this guy, but this guy can be seen standing behind of Dragon Face and Hun when the latter says says "Hey! That's one of those kung fu lizards." But instead of the dragon, he has the Foot-clan symbol in his outfit.