Later, at night, in the sewers. Water drops down from the pipes. Leo looks around the corner. He turns to Raph who was climbing a ladder as he jumped down "All clear."
Casey was nearby and he accidentally knocks a can. He smiles sheepishly. "Nice one, Casey." Donnie deadpans as the others emerge from the shadows. "Why don't you broadcast it to the door ninjas?" Mikey asks sarcastically.
"I'm telling ya. There's nobody down here!" Casey argues and they walked behind him. Splinter sniffs the air. He nods at Casey "I believe that you may be right, Mr. Jones."
April places her hands on her hips "Well, that'd be a first."
Donnie turns a pipe and the rest move away from the walls. He opens a panel and types in a code and the wall moves revealing a door. It opens revealing, the Lair. "Welcome home, everybody."
"Ah, just as we left it." Leo comments as they entered.
"Cool!" Raph said "Home sweet home! "
Donnie walks over to his computer station. "And you were worried the foot would find this place, Mikey."
"Heck yeah!" Mikey opens a cabinet. "I couldn't hear the thought of them harming my babies." He pulls out two bags of chips. "Hello, babies. Daddy missed you! Yes, he did!" Mikey misses the bags and Casey shakes his head, rolling his eyes.
Mikey eats a chip the grabs a carton of milk and starts to drink it. "Um, wouldn't that milk be about three months old?" Casey pointed out. Mikey makes a disgusted face and quickly spits it out "That would explain the chunks." He looks to see Casey covered in milk.
"I don't get it. Last time, the sewers were crawling with foot goons searching for us. Why would the Shredder send them all home?" Raph said as he punches his punching bag. Leo grabs it.
"Maybe he thinks there's no one left to search for?" He points out.
"You know, being dead might have it's advantages." Raph murmurs.
"Yeah, it just might give us the element of surprise." Leo answers in thought.
"Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" Mikey asks as he and Casey stepped out of the kitchen.
"He's thinking, what you think he's thinking." Donnie answers.
"If he's thinking what I'm thinking. Then I think we shouldn't be thinking. Wouldn't you think?" Raph replies pointing to Casey, who looks completely confused "Huh?"
"I'm just as confused as you are Casey." Yuuki replies.
"The Shredder believes us vanquished in the explosion at Miss O'Niel's. Thus, leaving our enemy vulnerable to a surprise attack." Shredder explains.
Leo gives a look in thought. "Okay, if we're going to do this. We need to find out about everything we can about foot headquarters."
"I don't know if I can hack the system. It was designed by Doctor Baxter Stockman himself" Donnie answers hesitantly.
"To bad you don't know anybody who used to work with Stockman." April points out and the two smirked at each other. Donnie moves aside and April sat down cracking her hands.
Leo and Raph and Raph and Yuuki grabbed supplies. Splinter watched watched them "Remember, the battle you face today will be most arduous. You must go in prepared." Raph practices with his sai. "I'm prepared...to kick some shell!"
" I think Master Splinter meant a little something more. " Leo suggests. "I believe the time has come to return the sword to its former owner." He glances at the Sword of Tengu. Raph walks over to it. "Now you're talking." However, he was knocked back onto the couch when he touched it. Leo peeks over the couch holding the glove, smirking "Forget something?"
"Uh maybe you should have the honor of carrying the sword, Leo. Since you're the sword guy." Raph said nervously
Leo puts on the glove and takes the sword off the stand. He stares down at it lost in thought. Splinter and Yuuki notices. "Are you alright my son?"
"I...I was just remembering the last time I tangled with Shredder's Elite ninjas. I...I don't want to let anyone down."
"You must look within and find the strength that is yours and yours alone. You will not let them down I feel it in my heart." Splinter tells him. "There is something else we must discuss as well, away from the others."
He looks at Yuuki "Miss Yuuki come here." He features them to follow him to his room. Yuuki tensed up as she stepping in after Leo, sliding the door a bit. Leo noticed her nervousness and took her hand holding it. Yuuki smiles and he leads her over in front of Splinter and now they were both kneeling in front of him. Splinter looks at the two of them "Judging by your closeness to each other I assumed that something has happened?" Leo and Yuuki looked at each other as they blushed. Yuuki nods at him and smiles "Hai, sensei." Leo answers, smiling as well.
Splinter made a small smile." I am happy for the both of you." Splinter replies. Yuuki and Leo both let a sigh in relief but Splinter held out his hand to tell them that he wasn't finished "But...you two must not let your emotions get in the way of the mission."
"Sensei? what do you mean?" Leo asks.
Splinter face makes a stern frown" If the choice came down to your brothers being in mortal danger and Miss Yuuki, whom would you choose?"
Both Yuuki's and Leo's blood ran cold as they processed what the old rat had asked. Yuuki glanced at Leo to see him that he was struggling as he was battling his mind eternally on the decision then looked down to see his hands clenched. She couldn't make him choose her over his brothers. Suddenly, Yuuki sensed something to the side. She glanced over towards the door to see the tips of a tail of a mask move away as she did. It was orange.
"I'll find another way. I'll sacrifice myself, if I have to." Leonardo answered.
Yuuki's eyes widen. Her head quickly shaped towards the blue masked turtle. She grabs the tails of Leo's mask, yanking him towards her making him look at her. She frowned "No, Leo. If it ever comes to that. Save your brothers. Not me. Promise me."
Leo shakes his head "I can't promise that." He whispers out loud.
"Leo!" Yuuki argues.
"NO!" Leo shouted. Yuuki's mouth dropped slightly, shocked. Leo took her hand holding it "It won't come to that! I won't let that happen! We WILL beat the Shredder and EVERYONE is coming back."
Yuuki looks down and shifts her gaze away from him "Leo, don't make promises, that you can't keep." She replies.
"My children, enough."
They looked at Splinter. He lets out a sigh "There comes a time when a important choice might have to be made." He walks over to them then places his hands on their shoulders "Do what your heart tells you to do."
As Mikey asked away he felt sick to his stomach. He didn't want to lose anyone. Not Leo. Not Yuuki. Not any of his brothers or Master Splinter. He closes his eyes in frustration. He punched the brick wall beside him then leaned against it and slid down. What's a turtle to do?
"We're in! We're in!" Donnie shouts. Everyone quickly gathered around.
"We had to use three different dictionary attack programs to crack the encryption algorithm." April explains. "Then it was a simple matter of creating a dummy account and installing the remote access Trojan horse." Donnie and April high fived -threed each other. "Thrilling." Mikey deadpans.
"But, can you get us inside?" Leo points out.
"Never mind that can you get us to the Shredder?" Raph questions.
April points to a map of the foot skyscraper on the com "Getting in is easy. Getting to the Shredder? Difficult, but doable."
Donnie points to the top "What concerns me is everything inbetween." He comments.
"Bring it on!" Raph declares out loud, punching his hands.
"I can coordinate computer systems from this end." April explains.
"Great. Casey you stay here and protect April, just in case." He said while April gave him a look.
"We're going to be a four turtle wrecking crew." Leo replies as the four bring their hands together.
"Five." Splinter places his hand on top of theirs.
"Six." Yuuki places her's in as well.
"Let's roll."
The drive in the Battle Shell towards the Shredder's lair. They barged in past the gate. "This is it" Donnie said. A missile pops out and fires at the door. They enter through the wreckage "We're going in!"
Foot ninjas immediately surrounded the area. They see the Battle Shell and backed away in shock.
In Saki's room, an alarm sounds. "Perimeter alarm." Hun reports. "Fine out what it is and take care of it." Saki orders. "This control. We're under attack. Commence lockdown."
The ninjas block the entrance. The door starts to close. The Battle Shell suddenly moves, charging at ramming speed. " Front armor down." As the doors started to close, a missile pops out. The Battle Shell manages to get inside just as the door closes. The rocket launches going straight at it's target. The ninjas immediately scattered jumping out of the away from the blast. The Battle Shell swerves around before stopping. Weapons comes out from the walls of the room. Lasers were fired but to no effect. The Battle Shell drives around the lasers taking no damage. More missiles came out at the top of the Battle Shell. The lasers continued to fire and Hun appears. "Aw, crud. "
It fires at the lasers, destroying them. Hun exclaims in surprise as a missile launches at him and he quickly jumps out of the way. He pulls a bomb out and throws it under the Battle Shell. It exploded as it took damage. Hun pries open the back "WHAT?!"
He is surprised to see no one inside " Empty...?"
Raph used a laser to make a hold on the pipes and kicks it open "Nice remote control work, slick." He tells Donnie as they stepped out.
"And they said hours of videogames are bad for ya." Mikey chuckles. Donnie gives a slight look of sadness. "Poor Battle Shell. I really loved that oversize gadget gas guzzler." He murmurs.
"And I'm sure the next one you build, you'll love just as much. But, right now. Let's stick with the plan." Leo assures him as he helped pulled Yuuki out. Donnie was wearing a headset.
"April, stage one complete." He reports.
" Rodger that, Don. Uploading worm program now." April tells him. Casey appeared behind her, looking over her shoulder. "So what are you doing exactly?"
"I'm whipping up an virus to clog their communications network."
Hun rips open the door in anger and throws it. The ninjas backed away and his phone beeps. he answers it and Saki's face appears "Hun, report?"
" Sir, the truck was a decoy. " Hun answers.
Shock appears on Saki's face "What?!
"There's something else you should know. I've seen this van before. It belonged to the turtles. If they're alive then Yoshi's brat must be too."
Saki 's face bore a look of displeasure. "Hun, search the building. And put all ninjas on full alert. And find Stockman!" However Hun's phone begins to static as well as Saki's as April's virus took effect.
"I can't hear you master. You're signal is breaking up!" "Security control this is Hun. Can anybody hear me?" He demands trying to get anyone.
The turtles, Yuuki and Splinter are at an elevator. "Comms systems down. What's next?" April reports to Donnie as he tried to get it working.
"April, I'm having trouble getting in. Can you dig up an access code?"
"Yeah, but it's gonna be tricky. They change the codes hourly." She explains.
"Allow me." Raph calls out and he kicked open the door. " Noisy, but effective. " Mikey comments which a shrug.
They enter the control room, to see ninjas everywhere. "That's a lot of ninjas." Mikey comments as they charged at them. "So are we doing this with banter or without?" He asks as they continued. "Definitely without."
Leo ducks from a ninja, as they attacked. He clashes their blades with his from behind. He noticed two ninjas charging at him and he split kicks them away. Donnie hits one from behind with end of his staff then throws his bag at one of them before striking them taking it back. Raph fights with one before disarming two knocking them back. He dodges a weapon coming at him from behind and disarms them kicking them into another ninja. Mikey twirled his nunchucks and chuckles.
One of the ninjas throws a chain and he deflects it. They throw more at him and he easily deflects them back. He taunts them as he jumps over one. One captures his foot as he did. "Uh-Oh!" they throw him off balance and jumped on him only to be kicked back. He chuckles wiping his hands as he stands up.
Yuuki watched in awe until she quickly ducks out of the way as she sees a sword swing at her, nicking off a piece of her hair. She pulls out her Tessen facing them. The ninjas charges at her and she quickly steps to the side then ducks as they turned around slashing their sword. Her eyes widen as she was caught off guard as they kicked her knocking her to the floor. The ninja jumps in to the air with their sword above their head getting ready to bring it down.
She quickly rolls out of the way as they stabbed the floor dodging the blow. She throws her Tessen at them and they moved their head to the side as it flew past. She moves her hand telling the ninja to come get her. They pulled their sword to their side getting ready to charge at the defenseless girl until they was hit in the head and knocked out as her Tessen came back. She walked over and picked up her weapon off of the floor, smiling.
Splinter was surrounded by ninjas. He throws punches and kicks at all of them and they all fell down.
Leo hits one in the stomach and turns his head "Donnie do your thing!"
Donnie runs and propels his staff up to the controls. He knocks out an ninja at the panels and sits in the chair. "April, I'm hooking up. Prepare to download remote access codes!"
"Creating synergistic interface now."
He quickly ducks as a ninja flies over him as they were thrown by Mikey "Do you mind? I'm working here." He said to Mikey. "Sorry. " Mikey shrugs.
Mikey kicks a chair to Raph who sits a ninja in it "Uptown express coming through!" Mikey calls out. He kicks the chair sending them over to Leo. He jumps over it and the chair hits the ninja he was fighting. Splinter jumps on to it and smacks two ninjas with his staff and jumps off. "This is fun!" Yuuki laughs.
"Well, that was refreshing." Raph comments.
"No doubt, more will be on the way." Splinter points out.
"April, we need another way out." Donnie tells April.
"Main ventilation shaft. Duct is located in the northwest corner."
Donnie walks up to "Got it." He kicks it open.
Hun and more ninjas run into the control room to see ninjas, defeated and sprawled out, laying on around and groaning in pain. He growls and walls over to one and grabs them by their shirt lifting them up "Where are the turtles and Yoshi's daughter?"
They pointed as they groaned in pain at the moment vent "Turtles...The girl." Hun drops him to the floor and looks up at the shaft to see a tail and green foot. He turns towards the foot tech ninjas "Find them."
They disappear and Hun growls.
In another room, Donnie kicks open a shaft and they jump out. They looked around to find themselves in an weapon s room of some case. A variety of vehicle and tanks. Donnie whistles "It looks like I've died and went to geek heaven."
"Whoa, a turtle could kick some serious butt with this stuff." Raph comments. Mikey looks at one as he picks up an weapon from a crate "What do you think this one does?" Curious, he sees a button and was about to press it. His hand was slapped away. "Mikey, must you touch every button you see?" Yuuki scolded. Mikey ignores her and presses it anyway. The weapon spits out smoke in their faces, making them cough. Leo pulls him away . "That answer your question lamebrain?" He questions sarcastically. Yuuki shot a warning glare at Mikey. He laughs nervously "Sorry." Mikey answers sheepishly.
Splinter walks past them "Come my children, we must keep on the move." Mikey throws away the toy, smirking at Leo who pushes him. They are walking throughout the room until Splinter suddenly stops "Wait... " He sniffs the air.
"What is it, sensei?" Leo asks concern
" I sense a presence."
They look around but nothing was there. "There's nobody here but us, sensei." Mikey replies, shrugging his hands. The brothers and Yuuki were about to move until Splinter stops them "No, something is here...something that cannot be seen."
Suddenly Yuuki was lifted into the air by an unseen force. She felt something grasping her neck tightly as she gasps and for air.
"Yuuki!"
"Foot tech ninjas!" Donnie confirms. Yuuki raised her legs and kicked the ninja, knocking them off of her. They let go, and she falls to the floor coughing, holding her neck. With no hesitation, Leo rushed towards her as he out his swords. She stood up and pulls out her Tessen "I'm fine." She replies.
They looked around and Splinter is punched and Mikey was knocked back. Leo was punched and Raph was knocked to the floor. Leo is knocked back again and Mikey falls to the floor from a punch. Yuuki tried to throw a punch but she was, instead, knocking her back. Raph was smacked as he falls on top of a table, breaking it. Donnie was hit as he fell back. He knocks his head against an cabinet.
"Don't worry I've came prepared for these creeps." He explains as he digs through his bag. However, it was pulled away from Donnie and thrown away from him and he is kicked to the floor. Yuuki jumps and kicks the ninja away from him "Maybe you shouldn't have said it out loud?" She comments." Yeah, I'll remember that." Donnie replies rubbing his he head. Mikey struggles as he was hit. He manages to reach to a forklift behind him. He pulls the lever and laughs "Ha! I'm your face invisible man! I smoked your transparent butt!" One of the ninjas behind him, clears their throat.
"Aw, shell." Mikey is kicked to the ground below. Splinter gasps and tries to jump to him, check on Mikey, but an ninja stops him. Splinter battles the ninja until they disappear. The rat sniffs the air before he is kicked by one of the ninjas into a pile of boxes. Leo stands in front of Splinter, to try and fight them, but he gets smacked around.
"They're toying with us." Leo whispers to Raph
"Oh, yeah?" Raph asks. He sees a Vehicle and runs over to it and climbed in. "Then it's time to use some toys on them!" Raph worked on the control panel and the vehicle flies up. Splinter is kicked away by a ninja. Leo looks up "What the?" "Hang on! I got your back!" Raph fires a laser and Mikey and Splinter dodges out of the way. The lasers hit the ninjas, making them visible. "Way to go Raph! The lasers messing up their cloaking controls!" Donnie explains as he and Splinter ducked dodging the lasers. "Whoa!" Raph spins around lasers firing. "Hey, bro, now you just gotta work on your aim!" Mikey calls out and Splinter turns towards the ninjas. "I only see two. Where is the third ninja?"
A large tanks emerges revealing the third ninja.
It fired a missile at Raph. "Time to get the shell outta here!" He jumps off and the missile hits the truck instead. Without no pilot, Raph 's vehicle drives out of control and crashes into the ceiling.
Saki felt his room start to shake by the crash "What's happening?" He demanded. "Stockman! Hun! Status report!"
The crash causes a hold on the ceiling. "I always thought this room could use a skylight." Mikey comments.
He is hit by the third ninja. Donnie reaches into his bag "Hang on Mikey. I came prepared." He pulls out a shuriken and throws it, it sparks as he did, at the ninja right on its cloaking device, shocking them. " Electro shock shuriken. Instant short circuit. " Leo struggles with the ninja "Get him before he..." He is thrown away as they ninja turns invisible. Leo crashes into a scaffolding and it falls down on top of him.
"Leo!" Yuuki exclaims in worry as she and Raph, Donnie, Mikey,and Splinter run over to him. " Hang on bro! We'll get ya out!" Raph calls out. Just as they got to Leo. They look in as a tank emerges from the explosion. It was charging towards them. They quickly tried to pull the debris off of the leader. "Guys take cover!" Leo tells them. "And leave you? no way!" Raph answers.
Splinter jumps to the tank and wrestled with the ninja, trying to turn it off. He manages to hit the button in time and the others pulled the rest of the debris off. "Finally, free at last." Leo said in relief. Splinter struggled with the ninja before he was punched. "Oh no, not with the invisible ninjas in the house." Mikey comments. He fires a missile and they jumped over it. They managed to land safely only to be hit by the invisible are smacked around and tries to hit one of them "Yo Donnie, can't you shock 'em?"
"Not if I can't see 'em!" Donnie answers.
"I'll take care of that " Leo replied as he jumps. He lands near a pair of fire extinguishers and takes them "Raph! Think fast!" He shouts as he tosses them. Raph slashes at them with his sais. Smoke filled the room, revealing three ninjas. Raph and Leo and Mikey kicks at them and Donnie pulls out the shurikens and throws them shocking the three ninjas, knocking them out.
"Excellent work my children." Splinter tells them.
"And we put out all the fires too. " Mikey said.
"Which way now?"Donnie questions.
"Up." Leo replies, pointing to the huge hole in the ceiling.
They climbed up the hole to see a lab. " What is this place?" Splinter asks. "April, check the building's schematics. See if you can tell us where we are?" "All I can tell is you're on the 33rd floor. It won't display any information." April explains. They see three mutants floating in containers. "It looks kinda familiar." Raph murmurs.
"It should. It's a Foot genetics lab." Donnie tells him
"Are you saying that this is just like that abandoned lab we've found deep under the city?" Leo asks in disbelief
"Dun Dun Dun Dun!" Mikey exclaims. Raph hits him on the back of his head. "Knock it off Mikey." He scolds.
An alarm blares in the room. Yuuki and Donnie glances at Mikey. "I didn't touch anything, honest."
The containers opened spilling out the liquid. They all stepped back as they saw Shredder climb out "Isn't that, Shredder?"
" I don't think so, Mikey." Donnie answered and two more emerged "I think they might be his genetic clones. "
"One Shredder is bad enough. Now we have these guys?!"
"MIGHT be?!" Raph asked as they backed away in shock
"Hey, Donnie. Got anything in that bag of tricks to deal with this?"