Here's an episode that took a while to figure out how to work in! Also, the return of Casey!
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The Fishening!
It had been a while since Casey had returned to New York. Her body felt heavy, her head was pounding a little as she shivered violently. OF COURSE IT HAD TO BE POURING RIGHT NOW! She had to find somewhere to sleep so she could actually get some energy back.
"Well, hey there little girl. You're a fine little one, aren't you?" Cooed a sleazy looking man with a greasy haircut. He was looking hungrily at her. She growled, giving him a look of disgust. There was laughing and Cassandra found herself surrounded by a bunch of degenerative looking thugs. She took a breath and got into a fighting stance as one reached for her chest only for her to grab his arm and break it with one swift but harsh twist making the man shriek in pain.
"YOU LITTLE BITCH!" snarled another thug rearing back to punch her as she blocked the move and kneed him in the gut. It was then they all jumped her as she dodged out of the way of several diving mean slamming her heel in their backs as she headbutted the leader who was snarling at her. But just them she groaned, getting dizzy from whatever had been ailing her. Her, Fever lack of food?
"Damn it not no-GUH!" a guttural cry passed from her mouth as she suddenly felt a warm liquid begin pool under her left breast. She weakly tried to claw at the man's face, but he already gripped her neck.
"We're doing this whether you like it or-" the man suddenly screamed out in horror as he was cloaked in bright blue crackling light before it stopped Cass could smell smoking meat as the man fell to his side as she sucked in as much as air as she could coughing. She could see white lights lining the Night Watcher's helmet and armor.
"Casey, you okay?" Tiger Claw asked.
"Yes….I am fine." Casey replied almost robotically. She thought about how if Bebop and Rocksteady were with her, they would've immediately verbally bashed them along with physically. Her words were being mixed up in her head. But she was glad to see anyone saving her even if she didn't think they would.
"I smell blood is that you?" Tiger Claw asked.
"Yes, just a flesh wound." Casey replied.
"I don't know if he stabbed you. It needs to be checked out. You're looking a bit wobbly too." Tiger Claw said as Casey held her wound tightly.
"I am fine!" Casey growled.
"No, you are sick, and you need help!" Tiger Claw argued firmly.
"I appreciate your concern, but I am very capable of GOING SOLooooooo," Casey had tried to shout but the exertion caused her to pass out as she fell in Tiger Claw's arm. Immediately he took off with her to Carol's hospital.
X X X
"We got part of that crystal!" Shelldon shouted as he and Donnie ran into the room. Donnie held up the small piece of the very same crystal that had been lost a few days ago.
"You finally got in!?" Raph gasped as he and Mikey rushed over Leo remained in his seat looking down like he didn't want to be involved in the conversation but showed an apathetic face as he ready his Jupiter Jim comic.
"Yeah, and we almost made it out with the Crystal too! But Frida had to jump us and we almost didn't get away with any of it! Totally Bummer." Shelldon sighed as Donnie held up the small golf ball sized piece.
Mikey gasped and looked it over. "This is Orichalcum! You almost never see this stuff!" Leo perked up coming over with interest. "No one even knows how it's made! How did this get here let alone into the city!?"
"Not a clue but we need to do something about it now!" Raph said.
"Or first thing tomorrow morning." Donnie yawned. "I'm exhausted."
"I'm going to sleep through everything while charging!" Shelldon declared rushing off to plug himself in.
"How'd Big Mama look?" Leo asked.
"Nice of you to care Leo." Raph growled as Leo waved him off.
"Still looking pretty beat up." Donnie noted.
"Then we have time she'll want to be well enough before trying anything." Mikey noted. "Besides we need rest too it's really late."
"Yeah, you're right…." Raph sighed as they heard a strange rolling. Klunk was currently messing with an empty fishbowl.
"Look what I found in one of the boxes!" she said giving it to Raph.
"Hey, I remember this Pops was gonna get a fish." Raph muttered nostalgically as he ran his finger along the rim of the bowl. Leo left immediately. "But uhhh," he added nervously. "You guys came before he could and because of Klunk."
"Ooohhh," the two muttered.
"Well, I wouldn't have done it if it meant Mikey could stay. Also, I don't eat pets or anything sapient. (Bobger Trolls notwithstanding,)" Klunk argued.
"And…so as….the Spring…brea…..kers….Sccccrrreaammehhh," they heard Lizzie try to spell out.
"Screaming." Splinter instructed.
"Yeah!" Lizzie replied "Screaming! The….shark…..yawwwwnnn swam all the way home…" Lizzie muttered passing out on the bean bag chair she was sitting on as Splinter looked at her lovingly and kissed her head.
"Good night my daughter!" he said giggling as he motioned for Raph to carry her to bed.
"I guess Splinter really wants to make up for losing some of you guys." Klunk noted from Mikey's shoulder as the latter placed the Fishbowl on a nearby shelf.
"Yeah, I can understand that…." Mikey muttered thinking about his abuse from Draxum.
X X X
Shredder held Karai by the head, his claws breaking into her head as she screamed in agony as blood began dripping down her face. Mikey gasped trying to rush as familiar chains to his horror his own tied him down and forced him to watch as Shredder's hand became a large sword and rushed into Karai's torso.
"I….key….."
Mikey screamed but no sound would come out tears immediately began pouring down his face. Karai was dropped to the floor as Hamato essence from both of them flowed into the Shredder. Karai just looked at him, tears falling.
"Mi….keey!"
"Anata Wa Hitori Janai…." She muttered fading away to Ash as did the bodies of his family as soon as light rested upon them as their essence flowed into Shredder who turned to smile at Mikey.
"I thank you….Young Tur-"
"MIKEY!" shouted Klunk's voice as she pounced on Mikey's face Mikey yelped sitting up with a start and panting wildly. "Mikey it's okay, it's just a dream!" she said rubbing his face with her own.
"Yeah…..Yeah…." Mikey panted as he sighed. "Klunk?" he asked sadly, tears in his eyes. "Do you think all of this is my fault….if I had done something different…"
"Mikey no! We tried so hard to stop what happened. We….just…" Klunk muttered her ears folding against her head. "Weren't good enough…..and it sucks so hard…."
"Yeah…." Mikey muttered as he hugged her tightly. As she nuzzled him, they heard a strange High Pitch giggle.
"Was that Lizzie?" Klunk asked.
"Did sound like her….or the TV…and Dad's been watching nothing but family Drama's, Super Nanny and Dr. Phil lately!"
"BAD!" Klunk squeaked as her tail pointed up to some writing right above them Mikey looked up and gasped.
"I….am….here?!" Mikey yelped as he and Klunk screamed and immediately leapt out of bed and began rushing through several Boxes. "We gotta purge the New Lair it's haunted!"
"BAD, BAD, BAD!" Klunk shouted as she tore through several boxes but gasped diving into a box and her tail coming out after with a copy of Mikey's hand gripping their target very tightly.
"I GOT IT!" she shouted as Mikey rushed over and began drawing a mystic Rune on the ground. He could hear footsteps. "Sorry gotta purge the lair of Ghosts!" he said as Lizzie yawned in her pink nightgown. rubbing her eyes holding a large Alolan Raichu Plushy Splinter had gotten for her yawned. Leo just watched him go with the Chalk.
"Aren't only Hamato Ghosts a thing?" Leo asked drowsily in his pinstripe blue pajamas and matching night cap.
"Maybe but I'm not taking any chances! It's impossible to say there's no such thing as non-Hamato Ghosts when there's such a thing as us!" Mikey said not, looking up from what he was doing as he wrote a couple symbols in the circle down.
"And flying eyeballs." Lizzie declared more awake now.
"Especially flying eyeballs!" Mikey confirmed as he finished the circle for his hand to go. "So better safe than sorry!"
X X X
Casey grunted wildly as she thrashed. In bed vaguely aware of the IV in her skin as she began dreaming, she changed with lime green skin and wearing a dark green space suit with a darker green torso and collar with a yellow diamond patterns on the knees and one on the chest. She also had a peridot on her head.
"What?! What is this!?" she gasped as she looked around.
"Recruit!" She heard a voice and saw the rest of the Foot Elite. Foot Lieutenant with a yellow shirt with a slightly darker top, a large yellow diamond in his chest and a helmet-like bit of hair on his head with two spikes to make hair tufts. He had a yellow duster and yellowish-brown pants and yellowish onyx boots.
Rocksteady had long flowing white hair with an orange tint. His horns were essentially Jasper as he had darker reddish orange stripes on his face, one over his eye a couple on his left forearm as the uniform was sleeveless with one arm orange. He had a reddish-brown uniform with dark orange boots and a brown collar and pants.
Bebop had tiny water bug wings buzzing rapidly that could never hope to lift him. His hair was in a semi-circle over his head but had his usual curls with an actual aquamarine falling from his eye and a blue tone suit shirt and pants.
Foot Brute had a dark brown collar and pants with a large yellow diamond yellow skin and a pale-yellow buzz cut.
"You betrayed us!" they all said. Then Came Shredder glowing a bright white light with his arms out wearing a strange outfit a white dress with grey markings around the neck and navel like a star with silver sleeves that stood way above her.
"YOU TRAITOR!" He shouted his eyes glowing and unleashing bright white light as Cassandra screamed, she then found herself in a familiar place the Valley of the finish something or other. But it had been in that anime she had watched while in New Hampton. She found herself dressed in a blue shirt with a very tall collar. With short sleeves long spiky hair standing on a statue of Karai and adjacent to that was the Shredder on even ground with her. On the other side were Bebop and Rocksteady.
Bebop had his purple hair all spiked out with a large orange jump suit with a white color and blue shoulders. In a red dress with black shorts and bright pink hair crying his eyes out with Coral Blue number three lipstick was Rocksteady.
"COME BACK FOOT RECRUIIIIITTT! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US!" Rocksteady sobbed.
"YOU NEED PINK LIPSTICK!" Recruit spastically yelled as the world exploded around her and she was surrounded by the rest of the foot elite who all pointed at her.
"YOU SUCK!" Growled Rocksteady.
"YOU SUCK!" Shouted Bebop.
"YOU SUCK!" snapped Lieutenant.
"YOU SUCK!" Brute Snapped.
"YOU SUCK!" shouted the Shredder.
"YOU SUCK!" shouted 1987 Krang.
"YOU SUCK!" shouted 1987 Shredder.
"RAGGLE FRAGGLE!" shouted while pointing at her a brown yeti like creature with a bare chest chin and stomach. The world than shattered as Casey screamed and fell.
"AHHHH SOMEBODY HELP ME!" Casey screamed as she face planted on a beach. She turned to see a destroyed city with a red sea and the Shredder's head enlarged floating and looking upward off in the distance.
X X X
Casey woke up with a start. "DIAAAAAAMMOOOOONNNNNNNDDDDDDDD!" she screamed as loud as she could waking the man beside her who yelped with loud yell. She turned and screamed, reaching the side table and lifting it right over her head to smack him with it.
"WAIT!" Tiger Claw shouted holding his hand out as he quickly tapped the pin he was wearing and changed back. "It's Me! It's ME! Human disguise!" he said changing back to it. "Okay?" he asked nervously.
"Okay…" Casey muttered putting the nightstand back down.
"Well at least your doing much better Tiger Claw sighed. Relaxing himself."
"Where am I?" Casey growled.
"Bellevue Hospital Center," Tiger Claw replied. Casey grunted and crossed her arms pouting. He sighed. "What were you doing out there all alone?"
Casey merely laid back down turning away from him. Tiger Claw sighed. "I'm going to call Carol." He huffed in his mind.
X X X
Magic pulsed through the lair Leo watched as flames seemingly cleansed every corner of the lair; soon the magic faded. Mikey smiled as he stood up. "Ahh all better now we can go back to sleep and-
Familiar sounds from the Switch sprang to life. "Click," Elizabeth went as Leo and Mikey yelped in fear.
"I…..AM….HERE!" said the voice Mikey and Klunk had heard before. As they turned the words had popped up in drippy red over the screen as it suddenly showed a large fish-like monster crawling up from the depths of a lake. Immediately Leo, Klunk and Mikey screamed the latter grabbing Lizzie who was ohhing and aweing dragging her along as they ran through the area and crashed into Donnie wearing plan purple Pajamas like Leo's and Raph in a teddy bear onesie with his retainer. Both had just come out of their cars.
Immediately the three crashed into Donnie before slamming against Raph's back. Raph had taken it like a boss undeterred and unmoved by everyone crashing into his shell.
"What?" Raph asked.
"The Lair is haunted! I tried using a cleansing rune but that did nothing!" Mikey cried.
"Maybe you need more power…."
"Good idea Graffiti wall if I can-" Mikey went a pale shade of his usual green when he realized what he just talked too. He turned to see eyeballs on the wall then came large scaly fish lips and then the whole fish face with a hood.
"HELLO!" She jeered loudly as the boys screamed loudly. Donnie, Raph and Leo took on rigid awkward shapes. Mikey retraced into his shell and Klunk poofed back and forth between bristled wildly and rock as they all bounced away leaving Lizzie.
"Hi what's your name?" she asked the fish mutant.
"NOT NOW!" Leo shouted, rushing back in to grab her then turning back into an awkward pose this time holding Lizzie above his head and making weird noises as he bounced away with her. The fish stared intently where the five young turtles and Bakeneko had been.
X X X
"Well now we know why ritual didn't work. That was a mutant." Mikey huffed.
"How does that make the Giant Goldfish less horrifying!?" Donnie shouted.
"It wasn't a demon haunting the lair. Those are almost impossible to get rid of. And their horrible deadly and malicious!" Mikey explained shivering at the thought of a demon.
"And did you see her camouflage power Classeh!" Leo noted.
"Who cares?! we gotta get her out of here!" Raph snapped.
Leo scoffed, "there you go again. Sucking all the fun out of everything." He groaned.
"Leo a Mutant we don't know coming into the lair and finding it is dangerous!" Raph snapped.
"Wait! We gotta warn Shelldon!" Klunk shouted as she ran out matching the colors of the wall.
"Klunk wait!" Mikey shouted, rushing after her. But after only hearing the screams of her and Shelldon she had disappeared. "KLUNK!" she shouted as everyone else rushed out.
"Defend yourself!" Leo shouted as he threw several kitchen stuffs. Lizzie grabbed a large ham on a bone. Mikey grabbed a frying pan. Donnie a spatula and Leo had a Siv on his head with tongs. Raph had a Laddle with a stew pot on his head. They all stood back-to-back.
"Okay Keep your ears peeled we don't know where she is! But as long as we stick together, she can't get-"
"WAAAHHHHHHH!" screamed Splinter's voice making everyone gasped.
"PAPA!" Leo shouted as Raph was suddenly grabbed by a sickle by his Retainer and yanked up.
"Raph is gone now!" Donnie shouted only for him to be grabbed by the Collar with a scream. Lizzie turned to see the Goldfish.
"Uh oh…." She muttered worriedly, getting scared now.
That prompted the remaining boys to turn. The Fish stood menacingly over them. "You're not off the Hook yet!" she warned singsong.
All three remaining Turtles screamed. Leo flipped back almost fainting only to pull himself up by will and grab both the screaming Mikey and Lizzie by the arms and pull them away as the Fish swung at them with a jeering laughter. He dragged them towards the garage and jumped inside the Tank locking it tight as they sat in the seats whimpering in fear.
"We have to go back for the others!" Mikey cried.
"Where are we supposed to look where could that psycho-Fish have taken them!?" Leo groaned.
"Uhh that's what don't know! We don't even know what she wants with them!" Mikey whined; Lizzie then noticed her plush looking at her pleadingly out the window. She gasped.
"Okay uhhh the tank maybe it can find Donnie's trackers!" Leo muttered tapping buttons and getting the computer on to try and figure out how. Lizzie meanwhile was opening the tank door to get her plush.
"LIZZIE NO!" Mikey shrieked grabbing her and pulling her back.
"GOT YA!" the fish yelled only for Leo and Mikey to kick at her, but she kept coming in.
"Out the Floor Hatch fast!" Leo shouted grabbing Mikey who retracted into his shell upon hearing that and figuring out Leo's next move. He went spinning down the Floor hatch like a penny as Lizzie followed suit in her own shell with a cheer. Leo dove out after them crawling as Lizzie followed suit and Mikey rolled in his shell. "NINJA CRAWL JUTSU!" Leo cried in fear as they leapt out from under the Tank only for a Hook to rush at Mikey and Lizzie Leo shoved them out of the way with a shove his whole body. He yelped as he was hooked by the Shell.
"LEO!" Mikey shrieked as his brother tried to fight but was getting overpowered quickly.
"GO ON WITHOUT ME!" he cried as he was yanked into the Darkness.
"NO!" Mikey shouted rushing under the tank he couldn't find Leo or the Fish both were gone. Mikey whimpered flashing back to bad memories Leo being thrown out the window of Big Mama's train. Karai being killed, Tiger Claw Carol and Splinter sacrificing their freedom so they could escape. Klunk being smashed into crystal and bleeding when she was a kitten. Lizzie had only reached for her abandoned plushie when she was hit with a wave of Mikey's thoughts. She gasped tears and intense feelings of dread and sadness filled her mind and body. Immediately began crying, snapping Mikey out of his thoughts. He turned to see his sister sobbing unconsolably and even wailing a bit. He realized what had happened and shook out his thoughts.
"Lizzie!" he shouted, rushing over and hugging her. "I'm sorry….I didn't mean too."
"Why are you so sad?" Lizzie asked quietly.
Mikey sighed he hadn't actually told her the whole story yet. "I promise I'll tell you later, okay?" he asked, looking her right in the eyes as she nodded, calming down quickly. It was then that a bubble began floating above them. Then another and then another. They peeked out the garage to see a trail of them.
"The Evil Fishy!" Lizzie gasped, pointing at the trail of bubbles.
"Yeah, come on!" Mikey declared "Get your weapon!" Mikey instructed as he rushed to get his. Once they met back up they turned to the entrance and rushed after the bubbles. Down a couple of turns until he could see a large open area to flush away storm water. Above it were the others all tied tightly in a net. Splinter, Klunk Shelldon and Donnie were screaming the latter yelling help. Then there was Leo and Raph gagged tightly. They must have started fighting again immediately. In which case fair….
"What did you boys do!?" Splinter shouted desperately.
"It wasn't us this time!" Donnie shouted. As the Fish jumped up above them.
"Once I find Orange and Pinkie, you'll ALLL Suffer as I have suffered!" The Goldfish Mutant Taunted as she hung from the top of the net ball showing off her sharp sickle. "You know what a scream sounds like underwater?" she sneered before answering with a gurgle.
Mikey gulped. Before noticing the mud. And how it matched the wall. "Evil Fishy's not the only one who can hide! Time for a little Ninja knowledge!" Mikey said as he began covering himself in mud. Lizzie oohed before doing the same.
"DUDE! WE DIDN'T EVEN FLUSH YOU THIS ISN'T FAIR!" Shelldon snapped.
"FAIR!?" The fish snarled, turning on her group of captors. "Do you think it's fair that some clumsy oaf dropped me in a toilet and then flushed me away from my home and loving father!?" she snapped. "I was lost and alone and some trash wizard tried to eat me!" she wailed. "But my flavor was too robust, and I escaped! And then I was forced to embrace the sewer circle of life! And eat things that I am not proud of!" she growled remembering how she mutated. "You know what! Maybe I won't wait! I'll flush you and then you'll know what it's like to be flushed and abandoned in the sewers!" the Fish shouted going to swing at the rope only for Mikey to use his Nun chuck to grab her wrist and sickle then yank it back. Sending her into the wall. Mikey jumped up for a kick only for her to disappear. Making him fall and spin with a roll causing the Mud to fly off him.
She then jumped for the net rope making everyone scream. However, Lizzie threw some Makibishi hitting the fish and making her fall towards the drain. "YOU WILLL PAAAYYYYY!" she shrieked as Mikey quickly freed everyone after getting them down. Once Raph and Leo pulled off their gags everyone rushed over to Lizzie who was starring where the fish was as they all group hugged her. Minus Donnie who was pulled in against his will by Raph.
"Lizzie, you did it you saved us!" Mikey cheered.
"Kind of look like she took a dive." Lizzie muttered thoughtfully.
"Well who cares, let's just go back to bed and never speak of this night again." Splinter said happily.
"Yes! A Pact of secrecy the whole family can share!" Leo cheered as they all put their hands together.
"Yada, yada eternal silence, where's my retainer?" Raph asked as he looked around the room exhausted and spent.
X X X
Frida was walking down the sewers close to where the original lair had been. The area had so far been fixed above but just below the surface was much slower work. Frida looked to see bubbles floating above her. Piebald then jumped up and landed in front of her with a bit of a flourish. "Did you get it?" She asked Frida who held the small Orichalcum shard in her clawed fingers.
"It Totally worked! I had fun!" Piebald smiled.
"Good, now let's head back before too long." Frida said as they left the sewers with the Orichalcum shard. And their theft of it left to be discovered by the Hamatos.
"AWWWWW! She took the Orichalcum!" Donnie groaned as they found the small glass dome on the floor with stress cracks and the shard gone. Mikey face planted into the floor releasing his feelings in the most eloquent, polite, calm and sophisticated way possible.
"FUCK THIS NIGHT!"
So Flushed but not forgotten is not an episode I'm quick to come back to along side Mind Meld and Air Turtle. Though I did enjoy how Demon Jam turned out! Speaking of that If I had used either Flushed or Mind Meld they ultimately would've served the same narrative purpose as Air Turtle/Demon Jam. Plus like I said in Prodigy. Splinter might not have trusted Klunk enough to keep a fish around. Piebald had a tiny open air fish bowl while the fish I had with my cat were in a huge tall octagon shaped tank with a lid.
To Be continued…..