Heya readers, I know this fic is coming along rather slowly, but it's still on going, I just hope I can get to a good point by Christmas.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Secret Plans
At the Foot Headquarters, Arashi sat in the throne room sipping some soup as he watched the ninjas spar before him.
He rested back on the throne, smirking as he enjoyed his position as leader of the Foot Clan.
he had missed it, being leader again and given how deep Shredder was in his coma, it looked like he was going to be in this position for a while.
Placing his bowl on the table he reached for some saki that sat nearby and poured some into a small cup.
He was about to bring it to his lips when the doors opened and the sparring ninja ceased fighting and stood to the sides and to attention.
Arashi frowned wondering who was entering, that was until he saw Dr Arden walk in with a group of ninja behind him.
"Lord Arashi." Dr Arden said bowing to his master.
"William." Arashi replied.
"I have come to report on Hanako's progress." the doctor reported.
"Oh yes?" Arashi asked, he tensed up slightly as he thought of his former lover.
"She is improving with her fighting skills and using her new body." Dr Arden said "We've been monitoring her and she is proving to be very promising in our next attack on those mutants!"
"That pleases me." Arashi said then took a gulp of the saki rather than sipping it.
"Are you alright my Lord?" Dr Arden asked.
Arashi sighed then looked at the ninjas in the room.
"Leave us!" he commanded to which the ninja bowed and left the room yet one of the ninjas standing next to Dr Arden whispered to him and the doctor nodded before the ninja followed his comrades out of the throne room.
Once they were alone, Arashi looked up at Dr Arden.
"I saw how she looked at me." he said "She knows I do not see her in the same light again."
"I understand." Dr Arden said "But you have my word I am watching her, or rather, I have people monitoring her every move, and if something were to go wrong, I know how to stop it."
"I'm holding you to it William." Arashi said.
"I have never broken a promise to you my Lord." Dr Arden said "And I have a few plans just in case."
"Oh yes?" Arashi asked.
Dr Arden winked.
"Just trust me." he said.
Arashi nodded then picked up his saki and sipped it again, this time more relaxed.
"And what was it that ninja whispered to you?" he asked.
"Only that they still haven't seen the turtles, the lizard whore or their rat sensei." he said "They still haven't returned to New York."
"You suppose they are still in Chicago?" Arashi asked "With the Dragon and his friends?"
Dr Arden nodded.
"They have been there a while." Arashi said "And after the death of that hybrid brat they must be in mourning."
He smirked again as he thought of Pandora's death.
"if they haven't returned to New York soon." Dr Arden said "What do you propose my Lord?"
"If they haven't returned." Arashi said "Then I think we should seek them out, and use Cyber Hanako to finally put an end to them."
Dr Arden licked his lips.
"Sounds like a plan." he said, then he frowned as he felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket and he reached into his lab coat pocket and fished it out.
"What is it?" Arashi asked, both curious as well as a little nervous that it was from the labs and where Cyber Hanako was.
Dr Arden frowned as he opened his phone and read what was on the screen.
"Well, well, well." he said "This is interesting."
"What?" Arashi asked.
Dr Arden lowered his phone to Arashi and the Asian man looked at it and his eyes widened.
On the screen was a video of a news report and he narrowed his eyes as he watched.
"...and in other news, police are questioning the Neo Nazi's found tied up and attacked in a forest area not ar from the Missouri border, they claim to have been attacked by humanoid animals yet because they were found under the influence of drugs, police are still skeptial, they face trial in a few weeks since they were involved with some violent hate crimes against the Jewish community and if convicted they face some lengthly sentences..."
"Tyroth and his crew?" Dr Arden asked.
Arashi frowned.
"No," he said "I am familer with this, and given how the victims were found, it's that Raven."
"Diablo..." Dr Arden growled "And his Disciples..."
"We've never fully encountered them, but their antics are well known."
He looked again at the video which showed some CCTV footage from the motel that Diablo and his Disciples had gone to and kidnapped the Neo Nazi's before attacking them.
As he did he noticed something on the screen as he saw two of them approching one of the doors.
Dr Arden noticed Arashi's look.
"What is it my Lord?" he asked.
Arashi said nothing but looked at the images then he quickly tapped the phone a few times as if to rewind or fast forward but then he quickly screen shot where he stopped.
Dr Arden was a little confused then Arashi held up the phone to show a couple of images and he saw it was of two figures dressed in street clothes.
Even though the images were fuzzy, both men were drawn to the smaller figure dressed in a leather jacket and sunglasses.
Meanwhile in Dr Arden's laboratory Hanako had been given her own quarters there, and when she wasn't training, she was figuring out her new body as well as planning her own revenge.
She was furious that Arashi had rejected her, and and she was even more insulted to realise as they spoke about her and watched her train that they saw her and a weapon or a machine than what they had valued her for before.
At present she was looking a mirror looking at her new body, feeling a mix of emotions, on one hand she loved her new powerful body, but at the same time, she missed her human body and how beautiful she was before she became this deformed cyborg.
"I was almost at the top." she snarled "Almost at the top, and I was about to get all I wanted, but then that brat killed me, and even though I feel satisfaction I took her to the grave with me, if I could get to her again, I would! And make it really hurt!"
She looked at her clawed hands, seeing how instead of flesh they were metal claws.
"I have a new body, yet I lost my old life." she snarled "And Arashi and William do not see me in the same light, I can see Arashi's fear in his eyes when he looks at me, and he has a right to be afraid."
She flexed her clawed hands then walked away from the mirror as she walked to a door that lead her into one of Dr Arden's Labs.
Upon entering, she saw the many computers and machines, as well as the giant tubes of bodies partly mutated into lizards.
Hanako then went over to a computer and typed into the keyboard before the screen lit up and showed some diagrams and data including some details of the DNA that was taken from Kemeko from when they created the clone to infultraie the turtles lair.
She also saw the DNA taken from her, Arashi and Arden then a smirk formed on Hanako's face as a thought came to her.
"If Arashi and William only see me as a weapon now rather than the equal I once was, then maybe I should make my own plans."
She typed on the keyboard again then narrowed her cybernetic eyes.
"If they admire the Cyborg me as a weapon, then I should think about making more of me, more Cyborg me's!"
She smirked again as the thought came to her.
"If Dr Arden made mutated ninja, then I can make Cyborg soldiers! I just need to grow a few bodies..." she looked at the large water tanks and tubes which still held the mutating bodies.
"I'll need to be careful, especially if I'm being monitored, but if all goes to plan, I wil have my own army created, and I won't need Arashi and Arden...in fact, I might have my own plans..."
A gasp was soon heard from behind her and Hanako turned around to see a scientist had entered the room.
"Hanako?" he asked.
The Cyborg Hanko turned to face the scientist and her eyes narrowed.
"What is this?" she asked "Were you spying?"
The scientist stepped back scared as Hanako strode up to him.
"You know what happens to spies?" Hanako snarled as she grabbed the scientist by the throat before he could move and pushed him against one of the large tubes.
"Dr Arden always hated spies, always hated eavedroppers, and I too hate them! And you know the punishments!"
The scentist gasped for breath and nodded.
"Yes! Yes!" he croaked "Please! Don't! I won't tell Lord Arashi and Dr Arden what I saw!"
Hanako glared.
"And is that a good enough reason for me to let you go?" she asked "I haven't used my new body of a fleshling yet, you just might be my first!"
"No! No! Please!" the scentist pleaded "Look, I just came in here to check in on the mutations! No spying planned! Please!"
Hanako squeezed the scentists throat more yet he kept pleading his case.
"No! No!" he said "Look! If you let me go! I can help you! I heard to musing you wanted to make more of you! I can show you the way!"
Those words seemed to have spared him as Hanako stopped squeezing his throat and he gasped as he let in some well needed air and Hanako even though she didn't let him down decided to listen.
"Oh?" she asked.
The Scentist nodded.
"I was there! I helped Arden find all the pieces and tech needed to put you together! And I know where the notes regarding Overlord's work is located!" he said quickly "If you spare me, I'll tell you anything you wish to know!"
Hanako narrowed her eyes more and she smirked before slowly lowering him to the ground.
"I see, well you've proved your usefulness, please show me what I wish to find."
The scentist, relieved that he had been spared instantly stood up and was about to walk off but Hanako grabbed him and threw him against the tube again.
"One moment..." she said in a dangerous voice and leaned close to him.
"What?" the scentist asked in a terrified voice.
"Just saw we're clear!" Hanako hissed "I want to make sure you are loyal to me, and me alone! I want to make sure I can fully trust you!"
"You can! You can!" the scentist protested "I'll pledge myself to you! Anyone under the employment of the Foot would know better than to betray them!"
Hanako smirked.
"That is very good." she said "But I want to make sure I can fully trust you, and I need you to not only just show me and tell me what I need to do to achieve my plans, but I need you to spy on Arashi and Dr Arden, find out what they truly see me as now."
"M'am...?" the scentist croaked.
"Will you do those things for me?" Hanako asked, once again leaning close to the scentist's face, she was in fact so close, he could see the grooves in her burnt skin side of her face and almost his reflection in her metal side and her soulless red cybernetic eyes bored into his, he didn't dare decline her.
"Yes, Yes m'am!" he said "I promise!"
Hanako smirked.
"Good, then we have a partnership." she said softly as she leaned back and looked at his name tag "Richie..."
Richie the scentist nodded and sweat formed on his forehead.
"Sure thing ma'm!" he said "Please...follow me..." he then lead Hanako into the lab to look for the details she needed.
Hanako smirked again as she followed him then looked upwards where she knew Dr Arden and Lord Arashi were in the throne room.
"You may think of me as nothing but a weapon, but I'll find out how much soon enough, and you're going to rue the day, mark my words..."
Oh boy, looks like Arashi and Dr Arden have discovered something now they're aware of the Disciples attack on the Neo Nazis.
Meanwhile, Hanako's got a few plans of her own, this can't be good!