Chapter Eighty-Seven

Returning with Triumph

Back at the base, Pandora and Kemeko were sitting on the sofa waiting for the Autobots and their parents to get in touch.

Splinter had gotten tired and had retired to sleep yet he asked the girls to inform him once the Autobots, the Turtles and Monalisa returned.

Kemeko was watching the TV where they were now watching 'Friday 13th'.

Fowler was still sitting on the other end of the sofa snoring and Pandora was standing next to him looking rather mischievous.

Fowler had woken up towards the end of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and was rather bummed he had fallen asleep, but he had tried to stay awake for their next film, trouble was, he again nodded off halfway through the next movie, and Splinter put it down to the fact that he must have been exhausted with all his work.

Pandora had then decided to take the opportunity to be a little bit naughty and she had placed a paper plate on his right hand and sprayed a mound of whipped cream on it.

She then took a piece of her long hair and began to tickle the agent's face.

Her intention was to make Fowler reach up with his hand to bat away what was tickling him, and he would end up with a face full of whipped cream like in the slapstick comedy sketches.

As she was tickling his face, Kemeko looked over and her eyes widened at what her cousin was doing.

"Pandora!" she cried to which the Hybrid looked up but before Kemeko could talk her out of the prank, Ratchet's voice was heard from the Screens at his workstation.

"Ratchet to Base!" Ratchet's voice was heard "We need a Ground-bridge!"

At the sound of his voice, Agent Fowler was jerked awake and combined with Pandora's hair still tickling him he brought his hand up to his face and the cream pie got him with a splat!

Pandora and Kemeko jumped back in surprise as that happened and whilst Kemeko looked horrified, Pandora started laughing hard.

"Haha! Got you!" she cackled.

"What in the name of Uncle Sam!?" Fowler yelled then he looked over at Kemeko and Pandora then he saw the paper plate in his hand then licked the cream on his face.

"Who did that?" he asked then saw Pandora laughing and he narrowed his eyes.

Kemeko looked at Pandora then looked towards the controls of the Ground-Bridge.

"Oh you're for it!" she said before running off to activate the Ground-Bridge to get the Autobots and the Hamato Clan back.

Pandora looked at Fowler and held up her hands.

"Sorry William!" she said sheepishly "It was just a joke!"

Fowler glowered.

"A Joke huh?" he asked, "Where did you get the idea?"

"Uncle Mikey said he did it to my dad once when he was napping on the sofa!" Pandora replied.

Fowler frowned again at Pandora as he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the cream off but then he smirked.

"You know kid." He said, "It does bring back memories from my fraternity days!"

Pandora blinked but before she could ask anymore, the Ground-Bridge roared to life and the Autobots drove through.

"They're back!" Pandora cried to which the Autobots let out their passengers and they autobots transformed and stood up.

"So's Bulkhead!" Kemeko said.

Bulkhead was looking excited and proud of himself, and he sauntered over to the raised platform.

"Hey girls!" he cheered holding out his hands and Pandora and Kemeko climbed into them.

"Did you do it Bulk?" Pandora asked, "What happened out there?"

"Oh Man!" Bulkhead grinned "I did it! After I saved Breakdown and we fought of Mech! I beat him in a re-match! Beat him with his own Hammer!"

"You did?" Pandora asked happily "Awesome dude!"

"He's not kidding you Little Geisha!" Michelangelo shouted up "I got video evidence!"

"Sweet!" Pandora cheered.

"Everyone calm down!" Leonardo shouted, "Where's Agent Fowler?"

"Right here Leonardo!" Fowler made himself known and still wiping the whipped cream off his face he ran down the stairs from the raised platform to see the two hostages in Raphael and Michelangelo's possession.

"Who have you got there?" he asked.

"A couple of guests you'd like to bring back to your superiors!" Raphael called up.

"Really?" Fowler asked as he wiped away the rest of the cream from his face and he saw the unconscious men.

"We have reason to believe that Silas just left these two men behind to be grabbed by the Hamato Clan," Optimus said "and it has worked in our favour."

"Mo Darn tootin!" Ironhide agreed.

"What?" Pandora asked from Bulkhead's palm "That bastard just left two of his loyal men to be lambs to the slaughter?"

"Not much different from Megatron when he left Breakdown to Mech!" Arcee quipped.

"Looks like Silas and Megatron have something in common!" Pandora growled "Dishonour and the fact they ditch they're loyal soldiers!"

"You're not wrong Tigeress!" Raphael called up.

"Amazing job guys!" Agent Fowler smirked "I'll inform my superiors about them, and we'll get to work on asking them a few questions on what they know about Silas and Mech and what their goal is!"

Optimus lowered his hand to Raphael and Michelangelo and the two turtles placed them in his palm and the large Autobot leader lifted them up and placed them on the raised platform.

"I'll get in touch to have them taken in." Fowler said as he took out his phone "I don't have the means in my jet to transport them myself."

As he took out his cell phone, Monalisa noticed the whipped cream on his suit that he hadn't wiped off and pointed it out.

"Did you spill some on yourself?" she asked, and Fowler noticed then grinned "Opps! Must have done! We had some dessert with cream during our horror movie session." He explained, then he turned to Pandora and winked to which the Hybrid smiled at him feeling relieved that the Agent wasn't going to tattle on her, but also that he saw the funny side to her prank.

Bulkhead placed the girls back on the platform as the Hamato Clan and Fowler climbed back up to deal with the prisoners and Michelangelo walked over with his phone to show the girls the footage he had taken.

"Gather round girls!" he said, "I'll show you how Bulkhead kicked Breakdown's butt!"

Pandora grinned and Kemeko smiled yet she looked at Pandora disapprovingly about her prank on Fowler to which the hybrid shrugged.

"Oh Chill will you?" she asked "Fowler saw the funny side!"

Kemeko sighed.

"Fine!" she said, "But next time, it might not work out how you want!"

"Alright! I get it!" Pandora snapped "Can we talk about this later?"

Kemeko frowned but she agreed, and she and Pandora gathered around Michelangelo on the sofa to observe the video footage he had taken when Breakdown and Bulkhead were fighting.

At the same time, the Autobots and the Hamato Clan filled Fowler in on what had happened with Mech and what they had done with Breakdown.

Both from when Optimus and the others had found Breakdown's optic and how they nearly got blown to pieces to when the Hamato Clan had tried to chase Silas before capturing two of his men.

Fowler was horrified to hear what they did to Breakdown despite the fact that their experiment was one of the Decepticons.

His main concern was what Mech's plans were with the cybertronian technology, and after what had happened with the escapade with the Dingus, he dreaded to think what Mech were planning next with the information they had after what they did with Breakdown and what they had learnt from him after taking him apart.

Meanwhile, Mech had managed to get away from the abandoned Russian city to another location not far away where they had manged to back up the data from their discoveries with Breakdown to study it.

As the Hamato Clan knew, the enemies never let any important information go to waste and Silas was now seated before the screens analysing what he had found out from their experiments and dissection on Breakdown.

"The test Subject escaped, but we managed to sanitise the location and transfer most of the newly acquired data to another facility, our diagnostic scans of the subject's vital components were thorough enough for us to initiate project Chimera, the power of the living machines will someday soon, belong to Mech!"

"Sounds like a plan." A voice spoke behind him.

Silas sat up straight as he heard that voice and he looked behind him to see no-one behind him and he couldn't see any of his men.

"Whose there?" he asked gritting his teeth.

Just then a couple of drops of liquid landed on Silas's arm and he looked at them seeing how thick they were, he narrowed his eyes, yet he didn't have a chance to work out what it was before he looked up and saw a row of sharp teeth above him!

Silas cried out in fear and jumped up from his seat as a figure dropped down in front of him, and he saw it to be a humanoid female golden cobra!

"Holy shit!" he shouted.

"Hello there!" she hissed and cackled.

Silas backed away only to bump into another figure and he looked behind him to see a dirty green humanoid lizard behind him who grabbed his shoulders.

"What is this!?" he demanded "Who are you!?"

"Relax." The same voice was heard, and Silas soon saw a figure clothed in black appear before him along with another also in black, yet he wore a white lab coat.

"We don't wish to hurt you; we just want to talk."

Silas glared as he felt a couple of clawed hands on his shoulders.

"What do you want!?" he asked furiously "Why are you here? How did you find us?"

"We have our ways, and we found out has been going on."

Silas glared at the figures before him.

"And trust us when we say, we don't want a fight, but we propose an alliance, and we can both get what we want!"

The figures removed their hoods, and they revealed themselves to be a Japanese man with black hair tied back in a tight ponytail and an American man with brown hair and the left half his face horrifically scarred.

Silas grimaced as he saw the second man's face.

"Who are you?" Silas demanded as he struggled against the lizard who held him tightly.

The Japanese man smirked.

"Call me, Izo Arashi..."

The Autobots and the Hamato Clan have returned to the base with their prisoners, yet at the same time Pandora's been playing pranks with Fowler.

Also...looks like some familiar enemies have managed to find Mech...and I think you guys know who!