Mutants against Hazards
It was nighttime in the city of New York. Just another night for our mutant heroes. The turtle brothers and the Four Stars have met up at a large, wide rooftop.
"Man, I am ready to kick some butt with you guys." Said Mikey.
"Shell yeah! I'm so fucking pumped right now!" Raph said.
"You and me both, turtle dude. I'm itching to kick some Purple Dragon or Triad ass!" Said Jet excitingly.
"Understandable, my friend. But we need to plan out our patrol tonight." Said Ben.
"Ben's right, people. We need to be strategic about this." Said Leo. "We need to divide into teams of two."
"Agreed, Leo." Said Ben before turning to everyone. "Jet, you go with Raph. While you stick with Don, Sam."
"Hell yeah! Well picked, my friend!" Said Jet as he and Raph fist bumped.
"Mikey you're with Maggie." Said Leo. "I'm staying with Ben."
"Alright! So what are we waiting for? Let's hunt for some action!" Said Raph.
"That won't be necessary, turtle freak." Said a voice.
The mutants looked over and a large puff of smoke appeared. As it dispersed, seven individuals appeared.
One was a woman with long dark green hair wearing a green sleeveless skintight bodysuit with a belt full of small knives and holding a pair of slightly larger ones in her hands. She also had a small burn mark on her face.
At her side was another woman with shorter lime hair in a yellow outfit consisting of skin tight latex pants and boots. She also wears a yellow latex bra exposing her cleavage and stomach. She had sickly yellowish eyes. She has metal claws on her hands and a blowgun visible on her belt.
Another was a man with short white hair wearing a gray tunic and a gas mask covering his mouth. He was holding a karambit knife.
At his side was a woman with scarlet shoulder length hair with a skimpy outfit consisting of a crimson latex bra exposing her shoulders and wore blood red elbow fingerless gloves and knee boots. She has a sadistic smile with unnaturally red eyes. She held a serrated medium sized blade in her hand.
Next was a man with short spiky black hair and dark brown jeans. He wore no shirt. He had a muscular physique and had tattoos adorning his chest, back and arms. He wasn't holding any weapons but a crossbow was holstered on his back.
Next to him was a bald, sickly looking man wearing a light blue skin tight containment suit with no helmet. He had blank, emotionless eyes. His suit has both a radioactive and infection symbol labeled on his front and back. He had strange mechanical devices on his wrists.
Last was a man with long black hair who didn't even look like a living person. His skin looked severely pale and rotten, as if he's actually a corpse. His eyes were pitch black. He wore a black leather jacket but no shirt underneath, making his husky torso visible. He also wore black leather pants. A hooked chain was dangling down from his gripping hand.
The mutants looked alarmed and took out their weapons.
"Who the Hell are these guys?" Asked Raph.
"We are the Deathly Hazards." Said the green haired woman.
"The deadliest, most lethal forces of nature in all of Asia." Said the man in grey.
"And you eight have a price on your heads, courtesy of Qin Lao." Said the bloodthirsty woman.
"Yet he demands that one of you must be taken alive because you have something he wants." The bald man said looking at the Four Stars.
"Either way, prepare to die slow and painful deaths, cretins of nature!" Said the lady in yellow readying her weapon and the others followed suit.
The turtles and stars readied themselves, preparing for a hell of a fight.
"Be ready for anything, people." Leo ordered. "Stick in pairs, that way we'll have a better chance."
"Agreed, my friend." Ben said as he looked at the enemy with extreme intensity.
A moment passed before the man in gray gave the word.
"Kill them!"
Donnie and Sam fought the girl in yellow and the bald man. Donnie fought the woman, trying to keep her at a distance with his staff, but the lady was surprisingly agile and somersaulted over an attempted staff sweep and scratched him in his right arm leaving a nasty wound then kicked him hard in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Donnie got up and prepared to fight her again but suddenly felt dizzy and weak, then looked at his arm wound then back at the woman in shock.
"What's the matter? A little poison in your system?" The woman mockingly asked.
"Excellent surprise attack, Poison." The bald man congratulated without emotion while fighting Sam.
"Thanks, but focus on your opponent, Pathogen." Replied the woman simply known as Poison.
"Don!" Sam shouted as he saw what happened.
The Tortoise was fighting the bald man known as Pathogen with his spear. But the assassin was dodging every thrust and sweep, and a minute later, he revealed the true purpose of the devices on his wrists. They sprouted small blades as they deflected the next spear thrust allowing Pathogen to get in close and slice Sam in his cheek. Sam decided to split his weapon and decided to fight in in close range. As they clashed weapons, Sam managed to cut Pathogen across the back, making him slightly groan in pain. Then the assassin suddenly kicked Sam's lower spear shaft out of his hand before trying to stab him in the throat and face with his hidden blades but Sam caught the weapons with the spear end of his split weapon while catching the other with his free hand. As they struggled, Pathogen looked intensely at Sam and suddenly widened his eyes, and the tortoise suddenly felt nauseous and vomited at the side, allowing the assassin to knee him in the face knocking him back.
"What are we up against?!" Thought Sam as he looked at Pathogen and Poison, who was slowly gaining the upper hand due to Donnie being poisoned.
Meanwhile, Maggie and Mikey faced the man in gray and woman in green. Mikey and the man charged until the latter teleported in a puff of smoke and kicked Mikey to the ground from behind. Mikey got up and tried to hit the man in gray with his nunchucks but he kept teleporting and cutting with his karambit. After a minute, the man changed tactics and engulfed Mikey in a suffocating cloud of smoke then punch, kick, and cut the turtle while he's blinded. Mikey then realized to take this seriously and calm his mind as well as slow his breathing, something he rarely ever does. He closed his eyes and focused. The second he sensed the next attack, he whacked the man across the face with his nunchucks. Next he swept the assassin off his feet after the latter attempted to strike from behind. Finally he tried to surprise Mikey from the side only for the turtle to intercept and kick him back in the stomach. It was then the smoke dispersed.
"You're good, freak. But no one walks away from Vapor alive." Said the assassin.
Maggie was having some difficulty with her enemy. The woman in green easily dodged her sword techniques and fire blasts. All the while she blocked and countered the sword with her daggers, slashing the Phoenix in the midsection. Maggie responded by breathing out a stream of fire at the assassin, who narrowly dodged the attack by a whisker. The two female warriors clashed blades again and after a while, Maggie managed to palm strike the assassin in the face giving a nose bleed and followed by swinging her sword above her stomach. The Phoenix's eyes widened in shock as the blood on Maggie's sword began to steam and looked at the spilled blood on the roof and saw that they were very slowly melting through! The assassin looked up with a smirk.
"Better be careful where you're cutting, bird brain. Because I live up to my name. I am called Acid." Said the assassin before she launched a small ball of acid at a nearby fan, melting it.
Raph and Jet faced off against the large tattooed man. Despite wielding no weapons and not taking out his crossbow, the man was completely unafraid.
"Look pal, might wanna quit while you can, there's two of us and you're not even holding a weapon." Said Raph.
"I need not weapons to kill you both. My name's Spike, others call me Thorn. But I'm also nicknamed the human porcupine." Said Spike.
"And?" Jet asked, cocking his head.
"I got these names for a good fucking reason." Spike answered with a sinister smile.
The man's body suddenly sprouted thorns and spikes all over his body, including his arms, torso and even his face, shocking the tiger and turtle. The combatants charged. Both Raph and Jet tried to be careful not to get hit by the spikes and not to use any kicks or punches, so they stuck with their weapons. Despite being large and muscular, Spike was surprisingly fast and evaded almost every attack. Jet managed to slash him across the chest with his butterfly knives while Raph stabbed him in his lower left arm. Spike backed away, then smirked as he held out his hand and several spikes shot out his open palm, hitting raph in the shoulder. Jet was caught off guard by this and Spike took advantage of it by launching a spinning backhand across the tiger's stomach. The assassin smirked and aimed his fist for Jet's face or throat, but the latter caught it with his hand. Despite the pain from the thorns, Jet showed no reaction except anger and used his elbow to break Spike's arm, making him scream.
Despite the immense pain, Jet showed no reaction and his wounds quickly healed. He looked at Raph who's holding his shoulder in pain with thorns embedded into it.
"Stay out of this Raph, I'll take it from here." Said Jet.
"Yeah, agreed." Replied Raph.
Lastly, Leo and Ben fought the Crimson woman and pale man back to back. Leo was facing the lady in red. They clashed their blades while getting a few good kicks in, eventually, Leo managed to cut her legs sending her to her knees then deep across the chest and stomach. But strangely, very little blood poured out of the wounds. The lady reared her head up and laughed maniacally. Then quick as a flash, she swung her weapon across the turtle's plastron, making a bloody wound. The woman then tasted Leo's blood on her blade and smiled sadistically. Then her wounds began to heal and she got up from the ground, shocking the turtles.
"Impressive skills, freak. I assume you're the leader of the rest of the turtle ninjas? No matter, I'm gonna enjoy bleeding you dry. And I haven't had turtle soup in years." Said the crimson assassin. "I shall tell you my name before your blood decorates this area. I am Bloodlust!"
Ben faced the rotting man. The apparent corpse threw his hooked chain at the dragon, but the latter caught it with his staff. But then, the wooden weapons began to decay and deteriorate while in the hook's grasp, much to Ben's shock and surprise. The staff quickly turned black and brittle until the pale assassin's chain pulled, shattering it into dust. This angered Ben greatly and decided to use water and ice to take down his enemy. First Ben shot out ice spikes from his hands but the assassin easily deflected them with his chain. The dragon then formed water tendrils to extend his arms. The deathly man swung his chain down on Ben, but the latter caught it with one of his tendrils and formed a sharp ice tip at the end of the other and used it to impale the assassin through the heart. But shockingly, the man showed no reaction nor pain and broke off the frozen tendril from his body and freed his chain from the other tendril.
"Sorry to say, but I'm already dead." Said the man. "You however are about to be. The client however wants something from you. So I would speak if you want your demise to be painless."
"I will never give away anything!" Shouted Ben as he freezes ice gauntlets and boots into his hands and feet.
"Very well. Then I, the Rot, will give you a slow, painful, dishonorable death." Said Rot as he swung around his chain.
Ben charged at the Rot raising his ice gauntlets. The dragon dodged the chain swings while delivering punishing blows to the walking corpse while also evading punches and grabs with his free hand as he believed Rot could decay anything he touched with his bare hands. After a while, Rot swung at the dragon, only for the latter to duck behind him and punch off his arm with his ice covered fists, then got back to the front and punched a large hole in the deadman's midsection, decaying flesh and thick black blood exploding out. Finally, the dragon tornado kicked his head clean off and the corpse finally fell.
Satisfied that his foe is beaten, Ben turned to help his friend, only to be met with a deep cut and a stab in his chest. He looked down to see Bloodlust had stabbed him with her large knife.
"That was a big mistake, dragon freak." Said Bloodlust before pulling out her weapon, making Ben fall to his knees.
The crimson killer sniffed and licked the blood of the dragon. Then turned to him with a malicious smile.
"Who knew dragon blood tastes so good?!" Bloodlust shouted before raising her blade to strike down at Ben's head.
Suddenly, the assassin gasped and doubled over to the side revealing her back is littered with shuriken stars. Ben looked over to see Leo covered in many cuts and bruises panting and kneeling on one of his swords. Ben's wounds were already healing when he got straight up and ran to his friend and set him on the floor.
"Hold still friend, I'll patch you up." Said Ben as he summoned water from his pores and enveloped Leo's wounds with the clear liquid. After a moment, all the wounds have healed.
"Thanks Ben." Said Leo.
"No problem, Leonardo." Replied Ben. "Now let's help our friends."
Sam and Pathogen continued to clash until the tortoise used the blunt part of his split spear to smash his face and stab him in his side. He then looked over and saw Donnie struggling to stand as Poison walked towards him menacingly. Sam immediately threw the spear part of his weapon at Poison's shoulder, incapacitating her. Sam immediately ran to Donnie.
"Shit, Donnie! You've been poisoned!" Sam said as he looked at the poisoned wound on his arm.
Don was mumbling and struggling to speak as well as stay conscious. Ben had an idea. He rolled the brainy turtle to the side and put his paws on the wound. He then closed his eyes and focused. After a few minutes, Donnie began to move more and his breathing became more clear. Don then sat up and saw his poisoned claw mark was gone.
"Where did you learn that?" Asked Don.
"The Guide of Flora was also called the Scroll of Life. It contained an advanced technique which allows me to heal wounds and ailments including toxins and infections. Which was how I was able to keep fighting the one called Pathogen there." Sam explained.
"Cool! I'd like to know more after we finish this fight." Said Donnie.
"Deal." Replied Sam.
Vapor and Acid were the only ones standing. As they continued to fight Maggie and Mikey, they were surrounded by the rest of the mutant warriors. Vapor looked around and saw the rest of the Hazards were beaten and knocked unconscious with Rot in pieces. He looked back at the glaring mutants in fear.
"It's over. Get your asses out of here, or you will all die without honor!" Ordered Leonardo.
Seeing they have indeed lost the battle, Vapor made a decision.
"Acid, help me gather our wounded before we make our retreat!" Commanded Vapor.
Acid nodded and the mutants allowed them to gather their fellow members and their weapons along with Vapor. Meanwhile, Rot's body suddenly twitched and his arm and head flew back to the corpse, reattaching themselves and the zombie rose up. The hole in his body also regenerated in a disgusting way that Mikey gagged and almost barfed.
"You all got lucky this time. But next time I promise it will be our last encounter." The Rot said as he picked up his and Bloodlust's weapons as well as carrying Bloodlust herself.
Once the assassins are gathered, Vapor unleashes a large cloud of smoke that enveloped the killers and were gone once it dispersed.
"Good fucking riddance." Said Raph.
"We might be seeing them again, Raph. And we need to be ready." Leo said seriously.
"Leo is right. These new foes are dangerous and we only narrowly won." Said Ben "I must consult with my uncle. Perhaps he knows who these assassins are."
"I'll ask my auntie as well." Said Maggie.
"I'll talk to my dad about it too." Said Jet.
"Yeah, if our families have any knowledge about these guys, then they need to tell us." Sam said.
"Agreed. But now we have to go home and get some rest after what just happened. And I need to treat Raphs thorns on his shoulder." Donnie said, looking at Raph's wound.
"Yeah, it hurts like shell." Said the hothead.
"Ok, we'll see you around, and plan our next move." Said Jet before he and the rest of the mutants go back to their respective homes.
Meanwhile, looking from afar, the Deathly Hazards were enraged at their failure.
"I can't believe we screwed up so badly! This has never happened to us before!" Whined Spike.
"For sure! We were doing fine at first until it blew up in our faces!" Said Poison.
"Probably because you were playing with your food AND we didn't know who those things were or what they're capable of." Said Acid.
"And Qin Lao will have our heads for our failure!" Said Vapor.
"Not for long." Bloodlust said, making everyone turn to her.
"What makes you say that?" Asked Poison.
"Have you all forgotten that I can track down my quarry after sniffing and tasting their blood like a bloodhound?" Asked Bloodlust.
"It had been a long time since you had to use that ability." Said Rot.
"Yes, Rot. But I have just recently tasted the blood of the Azure Dragon. With his scent I can find where he lives, no matter how old or little the blood is." Explained Bloodlust as she held out her knife with Ben's blood still on it.
"That is brilliant, Bloodlust!" Said Vapor.
"Yes, an excellent strategy, indeed." Said Pathogen.
"He is not gonna know what hit him." Bloodlust said with a smile.
That was a badass fight!
The Deathly Hazards were no joke. And our heroes barely won against them!
But just what kind of assassins are they? How did they get their powers? Well we find out next chapter?
But uh oh, they have a plan to track down Ben to his home and take what they're after! How will that go? Find out next chapter!
This is MergingEmperor7, bowing out.