CT311998- Thanks. Kinda felt that this episode needed some Transformers references. But really? Wow. I never even knew about that.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Nano Part 2=
Inside of April's store, Casey was put on the antique couch to rest and recover while April and Arcee were bandaging up his injuries from the fight: both the bruises and the broken ribs. Washing and then bandaging his numerous bruises was one thing but trying to bandage the area of the broken ribs was another thing when Casey just wouldn't stay still.
"OW! OW! WATCH IT! OW! DAMMIT!" Casey cursed as he winced in pain and tried to get up, only to be pinned back on the couch and held still by Arcee.
"Two things, Casey. One: Language! And two: Hold still!" Arcee ordered the vigilante sternly. "These ribs needs a lot of rest to be properly healed, yet you struggle like some kind of the freedom-sick animal." turtle in pink added in annoyance.
"Easy for you to say for that 'animal' part, Arcee!" Casey shot back with sarcasm.
Once Casey was finally bandaged up, Arcee left the vigilante to rest as she walked over to the others, whom had gathered around of Donnie, waiting for the answers.
Donnie had taken a sample from the strangely moving piece of metal and began to study the secret of it with the help of a microscope. And once he took one look at it, he gasped, astonished by what he just saw through microscope's tube.
"Whoa! Definitely something you don't see every day." he said, astonished.
"What did you find?" Mikey demanded to know impatiently.
"Can we have a look, Don?" Arcee asked, curious as well.
Donnie stepped away from the microscope and gestured either Mikey or Arcee to take a look if they wanted.
Mikey allowed Arcee to take the look first with "ladies first" gesture. When Arcee placed one of her eyes onto the microscope's tube to see what her brainy brother had discovered, she saw instantly the massive swarm of white shrimp- or worm-shaped four-legged and red-eyed creatures.
"UGH! EEEWWW! DISGUSTING! And this comes from the turtle that lives in the insect-filled sewers!" Arcee shrieked in utter disgust as the turtle in pink hastily jumped away from the microscope.
Mikey, a bit dumbfounded of Arcee's sudden outburst, walked over the microscope and put his eye on the tube, and saw the very same thing what Arcee just saw.
"EWWW! GROSS!" What are those things?!" Mikey asked with the disgusted tone.
"Nanobots." Donnie explained. "A millions microscopic robots all working together.
Raph then asked the question from the brainy turtle. "Are they dangerous?"
"Well, they're apparently incapable to do anything to the living tissue. At least not in the way they do with the mechanical devices such as cars, according to Casey." Donnie replied, recalling both Casey's description about the car coming into life in the form of self-functional robot and himself holding the Nanobot-infected piece of metal with his bare hand just a moment ago, without any effect in his tissue and comparing them together.
"But these individuals are moving randomly." Donnie continued explaining. "Probably when they were cut off from their main group, they became mindless... unmotivated."
"Oh, like when Raph goes Solo. He becomes mindless, unmotivated..." Mikey joked as he pointed at Raph's beak with his right hand's finger.
"Har, har, Mikey. Very funny." Raph said sarcastically before he slapped Mikey's hand away in annoyance.
"No! Seriously bro! You do tend to sometimes lose your mind and motivation when your pan boils over." Mikey pointed out, making Raph scowl at him.
However, Raph soon voiced out something what he had happened to spot during the fight.
"Speaking of mindless, didn't that thing seem kind of... lost to you?" the turtle in red asked.
"Yeah. Like... like a little kid." Mikey replied in agreement.
Dom nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I did."
Louie was a bit confused of those theories. "What do you two mean by that?"
Dom then started to explain his theory.
"Well, when we cornered that thing, it became somewhat nervous or confused... like it was either afraid or in need of advice or guidance, like the little kid in need of either protection or advice in placing differently-shaped blocks into the corresponding holes." Dom explained.
"And not to mention about how it said "Dad-dy" in the childish-like voice." Mary added.
Donnie then moved to the microscope and placed his eye on the tube to study more. However, what he discovered next only increased his concern.
"Uh-oh!" He gasped with concerned tone.
"What now, Donnie?" Leo asked.
"They're evolving. That particular individual has developed the reproductive capacity and now it's reproducing itself." the brainy turtle in purple replied, as the single Nanobot under of the microscope's tube started to reproduce itself from one individual into dozens Nanobots more like microbes.
"All microbes have such a capacity, Donnie. That can't be so bad as it sounds from your mouth." Arcee, as the medic and knowing this part all too well, said with dismissing tone.
"But this is about the technological microbes, not biological microbes. Arcee. And that is really bad, if not even worse." Donnie snapped. "Because if each Nanobot develops the reproductive capacity and makes copies of itself and the numerous copies makes copies and so on... this can develop such an amount of Nanobots that it will become capable of much worse than what we saw in the alley."
"In what way? By producing more Nanobots, It can form from the several vehicles at once a much larger and stronger body than what we just fought against?" Mary guessed rhetorically.
"In theory, yes." Donnie responded.
Such of shocking confirmation struck to the turtles like the stab to the heart with the ice-cold and sharp sword.
"Oh, boy! Just imagine what this thing will become if it makes its way to the construction area! Or even worse, if it finds its way to the military base. Especially if it has produced enough Nanobots to create a gigantic and super-powerful robot-body from all the construction vehicles and military weapons and equipment of the respective places." Arcee said, imagining in her mind this Nanobot robot in a bigger and far more powerful robotic body made out of the mixture of the various large and small construction vehicles such as dump trucks, excavators, loaders, concrete mixer trucks, road rollers, bulldozers and cranes. made out of the mixture of the military's armored and armed cars, vans, trucks, tanks, aircraft (both planes and helicopters), artillery, launchers and other military equipment and weaponry, like missiles and bombs.
"That would make it kinda a real-life version of Devastator." the turtle in pink added worriedly.(1)
"Precisely!" Donnie exclaimed, as if he got the point in Arcee's words. "And if even more Nanobots gets separated from their main group everywhere where this thing moves, those separated yet still evolving and reproducing individuals can develop new Nanobot colonies and spread through of the mechanic technology to every corner of the country like the virus. If this happens, then this thing will really become nearly unstoppable!" the brainy turtle added with worry.
Leo then stepped forward, having heard enough and growing determined for the direct action.
"Then we stop it now." he declared determinedly. "Is there anyway to trace this thing?"
Donnie started to think the various possibilities to track this thing down.
"The nanobots have a unique power signature." the brainy turtle in purple said, and after a quick thinking, he came up with the solution as he snapped his fingers. "Hey! I bet the tracker in the Battle Shell could get a lock on it."
Mikey was the next one to ask the next question. "And once we find that robo-boy, then what?"
"We need to destroy it, before it causes a global technological biohazard." Dom said with determination, before the turtle in white turned to Donnie. "Any ideas how to do it?"
"Well, I think we've already figured it out. Remember how it reacted when I ignited its back on fire with the blowtorch?" Donnie asked.
Everybody nodded, allowing Donnie to continue.
"I've a theory of its weak spot, but it requires full confirmation." Donnie theorized as he reached out for his blowtorch and turned it on, though not without a lamenting admission. "Even though I have to admit that it pains me to destroy such of amazing technology... but this is for the greater good."
Donnie then brought his blowtorch next to the microscope and held it by the sample, observing the results through of the microscope.
His theory was proved correct when he saw the Nanobots being vaporized into nothingness.
"Hmm... bingo! It does seem to be susceptible to the extreme heat. If we use something extremely hot like fire and lots of it, the Nanobots will disappear into nothingness. We better hope that wherever that thing is, there's something that can provide us the such." Donnie hoped, before he turned his blowtorch off and put it back into his bag.
"So what are we waiting for?" Raph asked rhetorically.
"Yeah! Let's go hunt some robot." Louie added.
The gang then headed out to get into their Battle Shell and go after the robot, leaving Casey under April's care. The downed vigilante wasn't pleased of it at all, especially if he was gonna miss the action because of a few broken ribs.
"Hang on, guys. You aren't going anywhere without me. I got some scores to settle with that walking piece of junk. I just take my golf club and... ARGH! OW! OW!" Casey moaned in pain after attempting to rise from the couch.
"And you're not going anywhere, mister. You wait right here 'till I get ice and more bandages." April said sternly to Casey, before she headed off to get the ice and more bandages for Casey's wounds.
And after April had left, Raph and Louie decided to pay the farewell visit with Casey before leaving with the others.
"Poor Casey Jones. That's what you get when you decide to play a hero to get a woman's attention." Louie teased.
Raph smiled at this before he turned to Casey.
"Yeah. You wouldn't be milking this boo-boo thing, would ya, Case?" Raph asked with the teasing smirk.
"Hey! Show a little concern and compassion, will ya, shell-for-brains!" Casey retorted, not liking a little bit for being teased by the turtles in red and black
"Well, I'm showing some concern that Casey Jones might lose some of his tough-guy traits while being nursed by April." Louie teased him a bit more.
"Raph? Louie? Come on!" Dom called them from the door.
As Raph and Louie were about to leave, Raph winked at Casey as nudged him to the shoulder.
"You owe us one, pal. Especially Arcee 'cause she's the one who patched you up" Raph said as he left with Louie.
"Yeah. Definitely. OWWW!" Casey said back, before he once again winced in pain again.
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After leaving April's, the turtles were on the road inside of their Battle Shell.
Donnie had locked the Battle Shell's tracker into the Nanobots' unique power signature and they followed the signal's location to the place where many wouldn't go.
New York City's Junkyard: A large fenced area with the mountains of junk.
Once they arrived to there, the turtles drove with the turtle-style through of the junkyard's gates, ramming them down, and proceed by following the Nanobot's signal by driving along the open passageways in between of the mounds of junk, that were luckily wide enough for their Battle Shell to drive through.
And eventually, they arrived to the source of the signal, which was at the open area in middle of three large mounds of scrap metal and mechanical equipment, a wasted furniture and other junk. And from there was leading a multiple other passageways to every corner of the whole place.
After the turtles had parked their Battle-Shell to the edge of the open area and piled out to investigate the supposed source of Nanobot's signal, Louie spotted the old red armchair on the side of one of the mounds of junk and went to investigate it out of curiosity.
From there, Louie found the several duffel bags... with each one of them having a very attention-driving contents.
"Hey guys! Come to check on this! I think I found the pirate treasure!" Louie called for the others.
"Louie! We're supposed to be looking for that Nano-robot, not to play the pirates in the treasure hunt, remember?" Dom reminded, rebuking his brother for the supposed lack of focus on their mission.
However, Louie immediately denied this claim.
"Nononono, bro! I mean it! There's several bags with a very interesting contents. And each of them is identical to the one that weird dude, who was with that robot, carried back in April's place." Louie remarked.
Exchanging the quick looks with each other for a moment, Arcee, Leo and Raph went to investigate Louie's discovery while Donnie, Mikey, Mary and Dom remained at the feet of the mound.
They soon realized that Louie's claims were proven true when they found out what was inside the bags.
"Well, hello! What we got in here." Raph said with amazement.
The bags in front of the armchair were full of money - a considerable amount of several dollars - as well as a lot of jewelry like rings and necklaces that have probably been stolen from various jewelry stores recently.
"That's a lot of stolen stuff, I have to say." Leo stated.
"I think that our little Nano-friend led us to his partner-in-crime's little hoard in the process." Louie said.
"Indeed, bro. The junkyard is notably the last place anyone would be looking for the loot." Leo told to Louie.
"That's at least worthy of a small fortune. Then no wonder why that crook was wearing so fancy- and expensive looking clothes. He had probably bought them with this ill-gotten money he had probably got for these jewelry in the black markets." Arcee theorized.
They all then turned their attentions to Donnie when he started to get confused.
"And speaking of our little "Nano-friend", where is that thing? The locator says it should be right here." Donnie said in confusion as he kept checking his locator-device for many times while looking around of them to find Nanobot with his eyes.
"Don't sound like you're ready to give up from the hunt, Donnie. It gotta be here somewhere." Dom said.
"I know it's been used before guys, but I'm gettin' a bad-d-d-d-d feeling about this." Mikey said nervously.
Suddenly, much to the turtles surprise, the Nanobot robot revealed itself by bursting out from the mound of junk. Each turtle jumped back before the robot could land onto their spot and squash them under of its feet. Donnie, Mikey, Mary, and Dom landed on the right side of the robot, while Raph, Leo, Louie, and Arcee landed on its other side. Then they all turned back to the Nanobot and each took their own fighting stances, ready to face the robot.
The robot, with its Menacing-mask on, stepped towards the turtles with couple heavy steps and raised its fists up, as if mimicking the turtles by taking its own fighting stance.
"Ready for the round two, you over-sized piece of junk?!" Louie challenged with daring tone, while spinning his Butterfly swords.
Provoked by this, the robot switched its masks from Menacing to Maniac!
In return, the turtles tightened their grip on their weapons and narrowed their eyes while glaring back at the robot.
However, instead of charging at the turtles right away after switching its masks, the robot spread its arms towards two mounds of junk: the mounds of crap metal and a mechanical equipment, before the robot itself was surrounded by the very same glowing and bubbly liquid-like white cloud when the nanobots inside of the thing began to do their work. Then, both mounds were instantly sucked into the robot. And in the result, it became much, much bigger, more heavily armored and thus much stronger! And finally, it formed from the old large TV-screen the helmet-like head for itself, with the Maniac-mask on the screen.
The turtles looked at the overgrown robotic monster with dumbfounded and puzzled looks on their faces.
"You really had to provoke it, Louie?!" Dom rebuked the turtle in green as the turtles regrouped.
"Yeah! Nice work, Louie. Now I'm getting an even badder feeling about this." Mikey said.
Nanobot let out a roar that sounded much like a childish pitiful cry, before it advanced the turtles.
The battle between the flesh and metal had began.
"We need to do something and fast, before Nanobot gets too big to defeat!" Mary said while holding her Naginata's blade pointed at their robotic enemy.
"And if it gets even bigger than this, we'll never beat it!" Dom stated.
"Then does somebody mind to tell me how we're gonna do this?" Mikey asked from his brothers as he swung his Nunchucks under his arms.
Leo already had the answer to that.
"Like we always do: WITH TEAMWORK! Go and hit it so fast that it can't rebuild itself! ATTACK!"
"LET'S TURTLEIZE IT!" the turtles cried their battle-cry all together as they lunged at the robot all at the same time.
Raph sunk his Sai into Nanobot's robotic neck.
Louie sunk his Butterfly Swords into Nanobot's chest right above of two metal plates that formed the chest armor for it.
Mikey whacked with his Nunchucks Nanobot's robotic left leg, that was made out from the yellow truck's driver's cab.
Arcee swung her Tessens to the same leg's knee, partially slicing some wires from there.
Donnie slammed his Bo-staff with all his might to Nanobot's right thigh's basement, nearly 'dislocating' it.
Dom damaged with his Tonfas Nanobot's TV-head's screen, cracking its left side.
Mary slashed with her Naginata Nanobot's right robotic arm's shoulder, cutting off some wires from there.
And finally, Leo flipped over Nanobot's right robotic arm and sliced its hand clean off with his Katanas.
Nanobot let out another pitiful child-like roar as if it was in pain, as some of that liquid-like bubbly cloud leaked out from its robotic hand's stub like blood.
The turtles regrouped, preparing for the second... or third... round with Nanobot.
However, Nanobot turned instead to its chopped off hand, before he picked it up with his left hand and put it back on its place. The same cloud of nanobots surrounded its wrist for a moment and fixed the damage in its hand, much to the turtles surprise and horror.
After testing if its hand was in function, Nanobot turned angrily back to the turtles. It first swung its left hand downwards and towards the turtles.
"Look out!" Leo warned.
The turtles scattered to duck the Nanobot's robotic hand as it flew through of them. However, the mad robot managed to smack Raph, Arcee and Dom off the ground and sent them flying in the air.
"AAAHHHHHHH!" the turtles in red, pink and white yelled during their flight, before they crashed against the side of one of the mounds of junk.
Nanobot then bent down and reached out for the turtles wit hits repaired hand. The robot then first "flicked" Donnie and Mary, who were standing next to Mikey, off they feet with its fingers before the monster turned to and reached out for Mikey to grabb him.
"AAHHHH!" Mikey screamed, as the robot picked him off the ground and lifted him over its head.
"MICHELANGELO!" Leo cried as he attempted to save his brother from Nanobot's grasp, but he was too late to slice Nanobot's fingers off from around of Mikey.
"NO! MIKEY!" Louie cried after the turtle in black attempted and failed to do the same with his own short swords.
After lifting Mikey up, Nanobot dropped Mikey but quickly grabbed him again by his foot, dangling him upside down in the air.
"WHOA! NOT GOOD! NOT GOOD AT ALL!" Mikey screamed while dangling upside down. And to make it worse for Mikey, Nanobot began to twirl its arm around with the rapid pace, spinning Mikey around along with it.
"GUYS! HEEEE'EEEELP!" Mikey screamed with girly voice while being spun around over and over again.
"HANG ON, MIKEY! I'M COMING!" Donnie called, as he rushed from the Battle Shell the blowtorch in his hand.
"MAKE IT QUICK! I'M GONNA HURL, LITERALLY!" Mikey called back while still being spun around by the robot.
Donnie climbed on one of the mounds of junk and attempted to jump onto Nanobot to give it another taste from his blowtorch and save Mikey, but Nanobot spotted him and punched him off midair, sending him to land pretty roughly onto his shell to the ground.
"DON!" Leo shouted and hurried with Louie to their brainy brother's aid, followed by from Nanobot's earlier attack recovered and with them regrouped Raph, Arcee and Dom.
"It's fast!" Donnie stated as the brainy turtle got up, rubbing his head.
"THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING AT ALL, DONNIE!" Mikey called out, as the robot kept spinning him around.
"Then how about this?!" Arcee said as the turtle in pink stepped forward, holding her Yumi-bow in her left hand with three arrows put into its string.
After recovering from the Nanobot's attack, Arcee had switched her Tessens to her bow and had picked up three of her arrows from her quiver. Taking advantage of Nanobot's biggest weakness, Arcee had tipped the arrowheads with the spare gasoline that was meant for Battle Shell and ignited them on fire.
Arcee then raised her bow up and pulled its string backwards while aiming the flaming arrows at the Nanobot's robotic wrist. Then she remained to wait for a correct moment to release them while keeping the string tight, as she didn't want to even accidentally hit her brother with one of her arrows.
And after the Nanobot had swung Mikey over its wrist, making both her aim and the firing range clear...
"PREPARE FOR THE ROUGH LANDING, MIKEY!" Arcee warned as she released the string and sent the flaming arrows into the flight.
Two of the arrows hit to the Nanobot's wrist. And even though the arrows could not harm the robot's hand, the Nanobots themselves within the robot's body proved to be as flammable as gasoline or gas as the fire began to spread from the arrowheads' marks along the Nanobot's wrist and arm, burning it.
Nanobot screamed pitifully as its arm was ablaze and immediately let go of Mikey's leg, before it attempted to extinguish the fire with its other hand.
After the robot had let go of Mikey, the turtle in orange was absentmindedly thrown away before he landed on the top of the mound of junk. And as rough as the landing was, the rolling all the way down along the side of the mound of junk was even more rougher.
Mikey then landed at the feet of the mound, covered with the dust and bruises, and with the few small cuts in his arms.
"Well, I'm gonna say that that plan didn't go so well." Mikey commented to Donnie as he got back to his feet.
The turtles regrouped again to face Nanobot, who had at this point managed to extinguish the fire from his arm - which looked burned, partially melted and thus disfigured - and was about to engage the turtles once again.
"It's too strong! We cannot beat it with the plan A." Mary noted.
"Any suggestions then?" Dom asked.
"How about switching to the plan B?" Donnie suggested.
"Do we even have a plan B? Please, tell me that we do." Mikey pleaded hopefully.
"Yeah! To the plan B!" Leo agreed. "Back to the Battle Shell!"
Following the plan B, the turtles retreated inside the Battle Shell. And this time without Donnie's objections, Mikey hurried to the driver's seat, started the engine and pressed the gas to the bottom. The Battle Shell managed to drive off just in time before Nanobot could slam its fist down onto the truck to crush it.
With Mikey in the wheel, the Battle Shell drove a quite hastily along the passageways of the junkyard to get away from the rampaging Nanobot, as the giant robotic monster gave the chase, shaking the ground beneath of its every heavy step and punch against the ground as it attempted to crush the Battle Shell.
Eventually, Nanobot reached out to the Battle Shell with its left hand and managed to grab the hold on the roof and pinned its rear wheels hard down into the dirt. Nanobot then started to bang the Battle Shell's right side with its free fist, severely damaging its outer surface and denting inside the right side door, knocking the turtles inside off their feet to the floor.
"HEY! MY BATTLE SHELL ISN'T A DOLL HOUSE!" Donnie cried angrily. The turtle in purple was really pissed off for what Nanobot was doing to the Battle Shell.
"TELL THAT TO HIM!" Raph snapped.
However, the turtles soon heard the ominous screeching sound of the bending or snapping metal coming from the ceiling of the Battle Shell. And along with that, the entire Battle Shell started to shake violently as the ominous sound got even louder, meaning that the turtles' situation had just gotten even worse.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Arcee cried in panic.
Dom hurried to the barred window of the Battle Shell and peeked outside. He saw that Nanobot was surrounded once again by the cloud of nanobots, and that the various pieces of metal were torn off from their bolts in the Battle Shell's outer surface. The pieces of metal bent backwards and towards the Nanobot as if they were under the influence of magnetism before they completely detached off from the Battle Shield with the sharp metallic snap and flew into the Nanobot itself. The turtle in white realized, much to his horror, that Nanobot attempted to tear the Battle Shell open like the tin can, which was further proved when the manhole cover in the ceiling and one of the rocket launcher boxes above of the back doors were torn off.
"FASTER MIKEY! THAT THING IS TEARING US APART!" Dom cried as he turned from the window to Mikey.
"I'M GIVING HER ALL SHE'S GOT BUT SHE CANNOT TAKE THEM ALL!" Mikey cried back as the turtle in orange desperately pressed the accelerator in attempt to get the Battle Shell free from the Nanobot's grasp, but the robot's strength was too much for the Battle Shell as the wheels kept spinning in the dirt and the truck didn't budge forward.
"WE HAVE TO GET OFF FROM ITS GRASP BEFORE IT OPENS THE BATTLE SHELL OR WE LOSE THE BACK TIRES!" Mary remarked, fearing that the durability of at full speed rotating back tires would not last long between the ground and the Nanobot's weight.
Leo, who was sitting on the passenger's seat next to Mikey, turned to Raph and Louie.
"Raph! Louie! You're on! Time for the Shell Cycles!"
The turtles in red and black were more than delighted of hearing that, and instantly hurried to their Shell Cycles waiting in the back.
"Oh yeah! Here we go, baby!" Louie cried as he put his avocado green helmet on his head and jumped on the back of his bike.
"Sure! I always have to do the crazy stuff." Raph muttered as he put his own red helmet on and jumped on the back of his bike, starting its engine.
"KEEP IT BUSY UNTIL WE'RE IN POSITION!" Leo ordered.
"YOU GOT IT, LEO!" Louie said with the thump up before the turtle in black started his own bike's engine.
"Ready, bro?" Raph asked from his brother.
"Ready when you are!" Louie replied.
"THEN LET'S ROCK AND TURTLEIZE!" Raph and Louie cried in unison as the turtle bikers shot themselves out from the back doors of the Battle Shell and ended up to drive upwards along of the Nanobot's giant robotic body to the level of its shoulders and head, catching the robot monster by surprise that it let go of the Battle-Shell, allowing Mikey to drive the damaged but still functional truck out of its reach.
"EAT TIRE, NANO-BOY!" Louie cried as he drove directly at the Nanobot's head, damaging its head's TV-screen even further with his bike's front tire.
After driving over the robot, Raph and Louie landed on the ground and turned around to race towards Nanobot again.
However, instead of engaging the robot, the duo began to drive circles around it over and over, over and over again. The Nanobot let out another pitiful roar as the turtle bikers were driving it into confusion and frustration... and a bit dizzy.
"FOLLOW ME, LOUIE!" Raph called, after seeing the Nanobot frustrated enough to care nothing else beside bashing them out of their shells.
Louie and Raph then drove away and lured angry Nanobot over the concrete suppression pit, on the edge of which the robot attempted to squash them under of its fist, which the duo evaded by driving the other side of the pit. While the robot was distracted by Raph and Louie and lured over the pit, Mikey drove the Battle Shell into the position behind of the unaware robot and waited for the signal.
"It's on the position guys! RAM IT DOWN!" Louie informed to the others back in the Battle Shell via the radio in his helmet.
"Rodger that!" Leo said back before turning to Mikey. "NOW MIKEY! RAMMING SPEED!"
Mikey instantly pressed the accelerator, though not before putting the Battle Shell into the ramming-mode by pressing down the button that caused the buffer in front to stretch forward, and the Battle Shell shot out from its position towards Nanobot at full speed and rammed at the giant robot legs with full force.
"ARGHHHH!" Nanobot screamed as it fell down into the pit, where the robot was instantly crushed and squeezed into a square cube by the pit's moving walls. While being crushed and squeezed, Nanobot let out the pitiful and almost pleading cry before its head's TV-screen blacked out.
Raph and Louie drove beside the Battle Shell at the edge of the pit and all of them stared down at what was left of Nanobot: A smooth and various-colored - though mostly red - square cube standing motionlessly in the bottom of the pit
"Yeouch! Looks like that did it." Raph commented with the smirk.
Mikey then slid the left side door open and jumped out, walking next to his brothers. "Yeah, he's flat broke." he joked as he stared down at the seemingly lifeless metal cube with the smirk on his face.
Louie laughed at Mikey's joke. "Ha ha haa! You said it, bro!"
However, the cube's still visible yet still blackened TV-screen soon came back on - with the Maniac face on it - and the cube was then surrounded by the tentacle-like clouds of nanobots as the robot began to rebuilt itself.
The turtles were puzzled again by this sudden turn of event.
"You know what? I think I'm gonna stop with the puns. Seriously, they always come back to bite you!" Mikey said with the worried tone.
"Like the old saying says: He who digs a pit will fall into it." Louie remarked.
"Yeah! Something like that!" Mikey said as he hurriedly jumped back inside of the Battle Shell and hurried to the driver's seat.
The Battle Shell, Raph and Louie then quickly drove off right at the moment when rebuild - and now even more cranky than ever - Nanobot emerged from the pit and resumed its pursuit after the turtles again.
"We can't keep going on with this forever! Do we have any ideas a left? Plan C?" Arcee desperately demanded to know as they kept escaping from the Nanobot.
Leo tried to come up with the plan C while the turtle in blue looked around through of the windscreen and the cab's side windows for anything useful against the robot, until his eyes laid on the large yellow crane with a giant electromagnet in horizon. It was then when Leo came up an idea.
"At least one left!" Leo replied to his sister, before turned to Donnie.
"Donnie? See that yellow crane with a giant electromagnet?" Leo asked as he pointed at the crane with his finger. "How fast can you get into your position?"
Getting Leo's message, Donnie gave his answer with determination and faith. "In a flash! Once I'm there, somebody tell Raph and Louie to lure that thing there!"
"Mary! Arcee! Dom! You three go with him to provide cover!" Leo ordered, earning the nods from the turtles in turquoise, pink and white.
Opening the left side door, Donnie, Mary, Arcee and Dom jumped out of the Battle Shell and hurried to behind of the mounds of junk as Nanobot ran past them.
"Follow me! To the crane with the a giant electromagnet!" Donnie said, pointing at the yellow crane in distance and the foursome ran towards it.
Meanwhile, Raph and Louie got separated from the Battle Shell as Mikey drove it to the different direction, and Nanobot, completely ignoring the Battle Shell, resumed its chase on Raph and Louie. The robot increased its running pace and was starting to slowly but certainly gain on the turtle bikers.
"IT'S GAINING ON US!" Louie warned, peeking over his shoulder.
Raph hurriedly made the contact to the rest of the group in the Battle Shell via the radio in his helmet. "Leo, tell me you got a plan C?! I'm REALLY hoping you got a plan C!"
"Yep!" Leo replied in the other side of the line. "The plan C is at twelve o'clock of you two!"
Raph and Louie looked in front of them and saw the large yellow crane with a giant electromagnet at twelve o'clock.
They also spotted Donnie climbing into the driver's cab while Dom, Arcee and Mary climbed onto the magnet. And once the turtles in white, pink and turquoise had got in there, they began to wave their hands at Raph and Louie, gesturing them to lead the Nanobot right beneath of the magnet.
Raph and Louie got the message and accelerated their bikes at full speed as they headed towards the crane and magnet. Unaware of the trap it was about to be led in, the Nanobot followed them
However, despite their bikes' speed, the robot was about to have the turtles in red and black on its reach.
"UH, FELLAS?! PLAN C IN THE MOTION! NOW!" Raph yelled in the radio.
"HURRY UP, GUYS! IT'S GONNA FLATTEN US TO THE TURTLE PANCAKES!" Louie shouted, as Nanobot raised its fist up and prepared to bring it down on Raph and Louie to crush them when it was close enough to do that.
"NOW! DONNIE!" Mary cried as Raph and Louie drove under the magnet and the Nanobot itself was about to run right beneath of it.
"HOLD ON, THERE!" Donnie warned as the turtle in purple activated the crane's magnet.
Right at the moment when the Nanobot's fist was about to slam onto Raph and Louie to crush them, the magnet's metal-sucking power halted the robot-monster's fist like to the wall. Then the Nanobot itself began to rise off the ground until it slammed chest-first against the magnet's bottom, shaking it upon the impact that nearly knocked Mary, Arcee and Dom off their feet.
"We got it!" Arcee celebrated, as Donnie moved the magnet from the crane's cab over the open fire pit
"Do not celebrate yet, sis. Look!" Dom exclaimed, as he pointed down. His sister's then looked down at what Dom was pointing at.
"No! Kid! Are you alright?!" the man, the same man who had accompanied Nanobot back in April's, cried at the Nanobot. The robot responded to this with another pitiful cry as it attempted to pull itself off from the magnet, but the power of the magnet was all too powerful for it.
"Hang on, kid! Daddy's coming!" the man cried, as he hurried to the main switch beneath of the crane's driver's cab.
Both Mary, Arcee and Dom instantly realized what the man was going to do.
"He's gonna ruin our plan... our last chance against the Nanobot!" Mary cried.
"Then we better stop him! C'mon!" Dom said as he pulled out his Tonfas and jumped off the magnet and towards the man. Mary and Arcee followed right behind on his tail, with Tessens and Naginata in their hands.
The man was about to grab to the main switch and turn the power off from the crane, until Mary, Arcee and Dom appeared out of nowhere to the scene, cornering him. The man was startled to see the turtles again and backed against the wall, next to the switch.
"Stay away from me, you martians!" the man snapped at the turtles.
"Only if YOU stay away from that switch!" Mary countered. "Do not touch it! Not until we've destroyed that thing!"
"Never! Not after saving my son from you freaks!" the man countered back.
The turtles were totally puzzled of this information.
"Your SON?!" Arcee cried in disbelief, though she did recalled their earlier discussion about the Nanobot's child-like attitude and behavior.
Didn't that thing seem kind of... lost to you? Raph's words rang in the turtle in pink's head.
Yeah. Like... like a little kid. Mikey's voice said next.
When we cornered that thing, it became somewhat nervous or confused... like it was either afraid or in need of advice or guidance, like the little kid in need of either protection or advice in placing differently-shaped blocks into the corresponding holes. Dom's voice said finally.
"Yes! My kid! I adopted him from the streets! All he wanted was a 'daddy', so I agreed to be his daddy! Everything went fine with the two of us, until you aliens came to ruin everything! And now you heartless martians want to take him away from me! Well, I'm gonna save my kid and you murderous martians won't stop me!" the man said angrily, snapping Arcee out of her thoughts.
Taking in everything what the man had just said, and recalling everything they have heard, learned and discovered during this night, Arcee couldn't help but frown disapprovingly and with contempt for this man.
"What gives you the right to call us "heartless" if you yourself fail to see that you're only using an innocent 'little' kid-like robot for your own benefits?! Don't even try that old lame "I do not have an idea what we're talking about" excuse 'cause we already know what you've done... especially after finding your little hoard of the stolen property!" Arcee rebuked, disgusted at how this burglar has been selfishly using the Nanobot's previously discovered and apparent naivety and childish personality in the evil deeds just to satisfy his own miserable life and to ruin another one's innocence totally... even if it was the rampaging killer-robot that they had to destroy.
Dom held his hand up to Arcee to calm down, before he himself took the role of reasoning with the crook.
"Look, buddy, you do not understand!" Dom said, trying the diplomacy once again. "You do not know all about that robot unlike we do! It may not be dangerous in mind, but on the loose, it still poses a dangerous threat because of what it is capable of. And what we're going to do to it, we have to do it for the greater good. If you now turn the power off from the crane and release that robot, you may condemn all mankind to the destruction!"
"BULLSHIT!" the man spat, implying that he didn't either believe anything what Dom just said or he just didn't care.
However, Dom didn't give up.
"You have to listen, buddy! This is for the good of the mankind and..." Dom attempted but the man ignored him.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU INVADING ALIEN-SCUM ARE TALKING ABOUT! But I'm gonna SAVE. MY. KID! And I ain't gonna allow you to ruin our life together!" the man declared as he grabbed from the switch.
"DON'T YOU DARE TO TOUCH THAT!" Mary cried as she tossed her Naginata away and lunged at the man.
"Too late, murderess-freak!" the man taunted as he pulled the switch down and turned the power off from the crane.
"NO!" all three turtles cried, thinking that their last chance to defeat Nanobot was ruined and the game was over.
However, Donnie had timely managed to move Nanobot right above of the fire pit before the power turned off. And without power, the magnet dropped pitifully screaming Nanobot into the pit, where it landed into the molten metal with the big splash that caused some of it to fly out of the pit.
The turtles were relieved that their plan did work after all, despite the crook's attempted interference.
However, the man himself was horrified when he realized what he had done.
"NO! NO!" he cried as he rushed to the fire pit.
Mary, Arcee and Dom didn't bother to go after him. They only remained there standing and watched.
The flames rose high from the pit as Nanobot's burning and badly melted hand rose up from the the pit.
"DA-DDY!" the dying robot yelled from the pit with agonized, pitiful and begging voice. The man wasn't able to do anything but to fall on his knees and watch as Nanobot's hand fell back into the pit, ending its not-deserved twisted life outside of wherever it came from.
This sight, along with Nanobot's agonized, pitiful and begging voice struck into Dom, Mary and Arcee's (especially Arcee's) hearts like an arrow, and the turtles in white, pink and turquoise watched the Nanobot's death with out of nowhere emerged sadness and pity - even with some feel of the guilt.
Donnie, feeling exactly same as his brother and sisters did after witnessing Nanobot's death, sealed the fire pit close with the sad look on his face.
The man rose up to his feet and looked around of him, confused, in anguish and unaware of what to do now. Then he spotted the Nanobot's cracked 'Happy' mask (which Mikey had managed to crack earlier) lying next to the sealed pit. He knelt down to pick it up and looked at it as the tears filled his eyes and poured down on his cheeks.
"I-I can't believe, you-you're go-gone. My one real lucky-break. My boy. My-My son! And I broke ya! I'm-I'm... I'm sorry." the man said in the breaking voice before he broke and began sob deeply.
Despite the man being a crook, Arcee couldn't help but almost feel sorry for the man, as he had apparently realized - though too late - that he had made a big mistake in the way he had "raised" and used the innocent little Nanobot. But still, the turtle in pink felt sorry even more for now-dead Nanobot than what she felt for the crook.
After all, he was the reason why Nanobot became the dangerous threat in the first place.
The turtle in pink tried her best to hold back her tears that were starting to fill her own eyes, but the recent sight was so emotionally heartbreaking that she eventually gave in and closed her eyes, shedding the tears from her eyes, while crying silently.
"Arcee..." Mary said soothingly, landing her arm over her little sister's shoulders to comfort her. "Come here, sis." the turtle in turquoise said softly and pulled her little sister into a hug, which Arcee accepted and embraced her sister, sobbing quietly on her shoulder. "It's okay, sis. It's okay."
"How sad. I really feel bad for that robot, even though I know we did what we had to do" Arcee sobbed softly and wiped few tears from her eyes with her finger.
Even without noticing it, Dom, feeling sorry for both the Nanobot and even for the crook, started to walk slowly towards the sobbing man till he was standing right behind him. Dom then slowly landed his right hand over his shoulder in comforting way.
"I hope that you understand now that what you did to him was wrong, and that he didn't deserve the way of life you gave him. He deserved a better life. Much more better life." Dom said gently to the man, before he turned away as the sirens of the approaching police cars began to sound in the air.
The turtles then vanished from the scene just in time when the cops in three police cars arrived to arrest the man for what he had done.
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After regrouping, the turtles drove their damaged Battle Shell away from the junkyard and headed back to April's place for the well-deserved rest. Donnie had taken the wheel from Mikey, while Mikey was sitting on the benches in the back with Raph, Louie, Dom, Mary, Arcee.
The home trip, however, was dead silent, as each turtle was just sitting on their seats, staring gloomily at the floor and not saying a word.
"You know what, guys... I feel kinda bad for the little bot." Mikey admitted in a low sad voice that wasn't usually like him.
"Little?" Raph, who was sitting on the opposite bench next to Mary, Arcee and Dom, questioned, reminding Mikey that Nanobot wasn't quite little in size.
"Well, yeah, I know. But in spite of that, he was kinda like a little kid." Mikey explained sadly.
And it wasn't just Mikey who felt like this. Every turtle undeniably felt really bad for the Nanobot during the whole trip, hence the sad looks on their faces. Aside of Mikey, Arcee in particular was the only turtle most affected by Nanobot's death (even though it was necessary), as she sat in deep silence on the bench. Her still tearing eyes were closed and her head was hanging down in sadness and guilt for the mentally child-like robot's fate. Mary and Dom, who were sitting in her both sides, were doing their best to comfort their depressed little sister.
"Yeah, Mikey. The kid who deserved much better than what he was given." Mary stated, turning to Mikey.
"True." Donnie said from the driver's seat. "Too bad he ended up to have such a rotten parent."
The mention of that crook, who had corrupted the innocent Nanobot into the life of crime, caused Arcee to open her eyes and frown angrily, even though no one saw it. "And that bastard got what he deserved. A ticket to rot in the jail with the other wretched low-lives and who knows how long. Hopefully for a long time for the child abuse." the turtle in pink muttered in the low yet ice-cold voice.
Louie, Mikey, Raph, Dom and Mary were all taken aback by such of cold words coming from their own little sister, who usually never speaks of anyone in such a cold tone.
The silence then descended on the Battle Shield, but only for a moment.
"Well, I'm not a priest or anything, but if some fact about that robot makes everyone feel even a little better..." Louie began as the black turtle took out one of Nanobot's discarded masks - the "Frightened" one, who had somehow managed to survive from falling into the fire pit - and held it in front of his face, looking it with pity. "... is that the poor bot has gone to the better place."
Though initially surprised and confused of how Louie had managed to get that mask, which the turtle in black refused to reveal to them, they all nodded in approval of Louie's short but still affecting memorial speech and the monument of the Nanobot.
The turtles soon arrived back to the alley behind of April's place and parked the Battle Shell there.
"I'm just glad that the fighting is over." Leo admitted with the relief as the turtles piled out from their vehicle and headed towards the back doors of April's store.
However, once they got inside, they were facing an another fight between April and Casey.
"TAKING CARE OF ME?! I GOT HURT BECAUSE I WAS SAVING YOU!" Casey snapped.
"OH, SO YOU THINK I NEED SAVING, IS THAT IT?!" April shot back in sarcastic tone.
"YOU TWIST AROUND EVERYTHING I SAY! ARGH! WOMEN!" Casey scoffed.
"WHY OF ALL THE MYOPIC MISOGYNISTIC..." April was about to say but Casey cut her off.
"GEEZ! HOW DO WE EVEN TALK WHEN YOU WON'T SPEAK ENGLISH?!" Casey questioned, clearly not understanding what April was talking about, until he accidentally knocked another vase off the table that broke right after it fell to the floor. This annoyed April even more.
"I TOLD YOU TO WATCH MY ANTIQUES, YOU BIG APE!" April snapped.
"THIS WHOLE MESS WAS BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR JUNK SHOP." Casey shot back.
The turtles either folded their arms, shook their heads, rolled their eyes or facepalmed at their fighting friends.
""The fighting is over", huh?" Raph said to Leo with a sarcastic tone. "Well, maybe in our case but not theirs."
"Should we try to break them apart?" Dom questioned.
"I think that we should..." Mikey started until the turtle in orange lost his words and tried afterwards to find the correct words so that he could finish what he was about say a moment ago. "...uh... I think that they want be alone."
The others agreed to the turtle in orange's suggestion almost instantly.
"Yeah. Let the rampaging Casey Kong and pissed off Aprilzilla to sort out this fight with one another without our help. We've already got our share of it and that's enough for one night." Louie declared.(2)
"Mikey and Louie are right. This one ain't our fight. Let's just go back to sleep." Leo decided, turning towards the door that led out of the store to the stairs.
"How do you think we can even sleep in this noise?" Arcee questioned as the turtles left the store and went up the stairs to April's apartment
"You know what, sis? I wonder if April is asking that same question from herself because of our loud snoring." Louie joked, as the turtles stepped into April's apartment to resume their well-deserved sleep, closing the door behind of them and leaving Casey and April to fight with each other.
"NOBODY SAID THAT YOU NEEDED TO COME OVER HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!" April yelled.
"WELL, THAT WASN'T MY IDEA ANYWAY!" Casey retorted.
"OH, YEAH?!" April snapped.
"YEAH!" Casey barked.
"ARGH!" April groaned.
THE END
TRIVIA
1 = Another reference to the Transformers, mainly to the Decepticon Devastator, who can transform from the several construction vehicles into a giant robot.
2 = Louie's comment about arguing Casey and April is a reference to the fight between the two giant monsters: King Kong and Godzilla.