TMNT 2003 S1: Four Turtles More

by Fanficteller

Fifteen years have passed since the accident. Now, eight turtles, six brothers and two sisters, born as mutants in the sewers and trained as ninjas by a rat, are forced to leave their destroyed underground home and take the first step into a surface world where they face many adventures and meet new friends and foes, until they meet their toughest opponent ever, The Shredder.

74. Notes From The Underground, Part 2, P1

Moltenstorm: Well, here goes the new chapter. Enjoy!

Guest: Yeah. I've seen that video several times already.

anaasophia: I'm so happy of your thoughts of my OC turtles and that you enjoy reading my story. That is exactly the sole reason why I have separated the episodes so far into the several chapters so that I would let the readers to explore my OC turtles and their individual traits and personalities, fighting styles with their respective weapons, relationships with each other and the canon turtles and their allies and how and to what extent their presence affects the canonical story of the series much more closely.

CT311998: The smaller versions of Quarry and Stonebiter appear in exactly the same moment where the seven other monsters are introduced for the first time in the first chapter of the first episode, where they inhabit in the same caves where they bigger versions do. And yeah. It's very understandable why Dom and Raph don't want to help Stella, but their unwillingness is outweighted by Arcee's doctor instincts and Leo's drive to see the good from the other people, even if the Stella was the Foot employee.

animegamefanatic: Surely all Dom is worried about is Angel's safety due to her inexperience in underground, even if he expresses it in a pretty negative way, but at least they can't blame Louie for Angel's own choice to come along, which Louie respected. And yeah. No wonder if neither Dom and Raph want to give a helpful hand to Stella after everything they had seen in the video logs and her being part of the Foot's inhuman project. And indeed. Whenever it is about the patient in the need, Arcee will be extremely strict and firm to her devotion in helping the other people and speak sharply against those ones who are not as willing to help as she is.

Guest: It's quite difficult to see that the monsters of the underground, those who still have maintained their humanity and those who have fallen into madness, would even want to stay the way they are because of the power but would rather be a humans again so that they could return to the surface.

Tornado man: There will be some moments of redemption for Stella for the part she played in turning the innocent people into monsters.

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In the Lair, Donnie was studying the crystals Arcee had found, trying to classify them from the books about the minerals and different rock types before looking at one's structure through a microscope, before he was joined by Mikey, Louie and Angel.

"My name is Donatello, and as a turtle of science, I like to investigate things."

Mickey then picks two crystals from Donnie's desk and the microscope and clinks them together, causing them to lit up and echo, surprising the turtles and Angel.

"But I never thought my study of these strange crystals we found in our Lair would awaken mysterious creatures from the underground."

Deep in the underground caverns, nine shadow-clad monsters emerge from the caves, awoken by the echoing sound of the crystals.

Later, one by one the turtles and Angel are climbing down the cliff by the rope, starting from Donnie, then Mary, then Mikey, then Dom, then Louie, then Angel, then Arcee, then Raph and finally Leo.

"Or how it would lead me, my siblings and Angel on a search expedition deep below the Earth."

Later, the turtles and Angel were looking around in an abandoned genetics laboratory full of the wrecked lab equipment, before they stare at the fuzzy monitor screen at the wall where soon appears the sign of the Foot Clan, revealing the turtles who'd ran this place once upon a time.

"Where we discovered this an abandoned Foot Genetic Lab where terrible things were done in the name of the Shredder."

The recorded video on the screen shows, much to the turtles and Angel's shock, horror and disgust, how on the dissection table strapped and scared poor man, a pleading woman and a panicking little girl are injected with some green substance that painfully turns them into the monsters.

Man: "AAAARRRRHHHH! AAAARRRRHHH! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH-GGGGRRRRRRRR!"

Woman: "DON'T DO THIS! WE WON'T TELL ANYONE!" AAAAAHHHHH-SCREEEECCCCCHHHHH!"

Little girl: "MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! GGGGRRRRRRRRR!"

Then the Foot Geneticist appears on the screen, looking worried as his face is drenched with sweat.

Foot Geneticist: "There are some things..."

Mikey quotes his next words along with him.

Michelangelo/Foot Geneticist: "Man was never meant to tamper with./Man was never meant to tamper with."

The other turtles and Angel turn to him as he explain himself with the panic in his voice.

Michelangelo: "That's the one line in a monster movie you don't wanna hear."

The turtles and Angel then find a cowering sole survivor from the lab's closed, a red-haired woman named Stella, wearing the torn scientist lab coat with the Foot sign on it and her left arm in the sling, due to it being injured.

"And just when we were about to leave, we found the sole survivor. This woman, named Stella. And despite her being the Foot employee and part of the inhuman things done here, we decided to be better than that and help her out of here."

Leonardo: "Even though what they did here was inhuman, that doesn't mean we should stoop to their level as well."

Louie and Arcee then stand by Stella's each side to help her as the turtles and Angel are about to leave the lab, but they stop when the wall in front of them begins to shake. And then, from the two holes breached in it comes out two blue near-identical monsters, one big and one small, the yellow dragon-like monster, the red scorpion-like monster, the dinosaur/dog-like turquoise monster, the gray stone monsters, the grayish-white mole-like monster and the emerald praying mantis-like monster.

The nine monsters, blocking the way out of here, approach the turtles and humans as they back away.

"As a turtle of science, you wouldn't think I'm the type to believe in monsters, but you'd be wrong."

The monsters roared/hissed/shrieked at the turtles and humans before they all charged right at them.

"Trust me. You'd be a dead wrong."

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(The screen pulls away from New York City as the light beams ripple above the buildings, illuminating the four towering green letters that form the word TMNT.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen raises up and we see eight turtles standing on the edge of the building. First Leonardo, second Marietta, third Raphael who bent down, fourth Domenico, fifth Artemisia, sixth Lorenzo who was crouching down, seventh Donatello and eight Michelangelo. As the light beam passes them, all eight turtles leap off the edge.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first, Michelangelo is holding his Nunchucks over his head. In the second, Raphael is holding one of his Sais above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third, Donatello is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth, Leonardo has crossed his arms over his chest while wielding his swords.)
(TURTLES!)

(Leonardo is seen fighting two Foot Ninja. He slices their staves in two with his swords before kicking the ninja on his right and then the one on his left away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Donatello is seen driving a speedy vehicle down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple smirks to the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Raphael is seen jumping over the fence, landing on his hands. Then he pushes up and lands on his feet, crouched, before he kicks the screen black with his foot.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning Michelangelo is seen riding on the Battle Shell as it speeds down the street, while spinning his Nucnhaku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(Michelangelo leaps off as the Battle Shell flies across the street. Then its back doors fly open and Raphael and Lorenzo jump out on the red and green bikes before skidding sideways to a stop.)

(In the alleyway, next to the blue truck, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping towards the camera, and Michelangelo kicks the screen black with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen.)
(The upper screen shows Leonardo's narrowed gaze. The lower screen shows all eight turtles standing in front of Master Splinter.)
(Second one.)
(The lower screen shows Donatello's light frown. The upper screen shows Master Splinter swinging his staff down at two attacking Mousers, destroying them.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(Third one)
(The upper screen shows Raphael's deep frown. The lower screen shows Hun leading a silhouetted Purple Dragons from the ablaze background.)
(Fourth one.)
(The lower screen shows Michelangelo's the soft stare. The upper screen shows Hun sneering before he throws a punch at the camera.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(April O'Neil winks at the camera as she pilots a helicopter past the Foot Tower, where Donatello and Domenico are fighting six Foot Ninja on the ledge until they're knocked off. Falling down, Domenico grabs to the rope hanging from the helicopter and catches Donatello's arm and they're both lifted up.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell-to-shell under the spotlight as they're surrounded by a dozens of heavily armed Foot Ninja that emerge from the darkness and leap down from the rooftops. The turtles fearlessly take their respective battle stances and prepare to face the ninjas.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Artemisia jumps from the left with her legs hooked under her, and spinning around, she slashes forward with her Tessenes.)
(Michelangelo then jumps from the right with the flip and smirks at the camera as he falls down, spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)

(Donatello jumps from the left, spinning his Bo-staff in his left hand over his head before he swings it down with both hands.)
(Marietta then jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in the right hand, before turning around and slashes horizontally forward.)

(Domenico jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting first his right and then his left Tonfa forward.)
(Leonardo then jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them aside and kicks his right foot down.)

(Raphael jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais flash.)
(Lorenzo then jumps from the right and slashes his left Butterfly sword horizontally forward and swings his right Butterfly sword down, slicing the air.)

(Angel Bridge then jumps from the left and throws a punch towards the screen with her left fist.)
(Casey Jones then jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Leonardo is seen landing onto one ninja, knocking him down.)
(Donatello is seen whacking with his Bo the second ninja off his feet.)
(Raphael is seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left wrist.)
(Michelangelo is seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist.)
(Marietta is seen kicking the fifth in the chest.)
(Domenico is seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Lorenzo is seen blocking seventh's sword with his crossed swords.)
(Artemisia, surrounded by ninjas, is seen holding her Tessens horizontally open in her crossed arms.)
(Raphael is seen again, this time surrounded by several Foot, but he spins around and knocks them all away.)

(Cut to the wide shot.)
(Seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of blue and purple masked faces above and the line of red and orange masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. Leonardo in the middle, Donatello, Marietta and Domenico on his right and Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia on his left. All seven run towards the camera that moves through them between Leonardo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, Raphael races over the building on the back of the bike and jumps off towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first, Marietta is pointing her Naginata at the camera. In the second, Lorenzo is holding Butterfly Swords upside down in his hand and horizontally in front of him.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third, Domenico is thrusting his Tonfa at the camera. In the fourth, Artemisia is holding one Tessen in front of her face, partially covering it, while other one is closed.)
(TURTLES!)

(Marietta is seen in a dead end, spinning her Naginata before she pulls it behind her shell and holds her left hand out as two arms holding a knife and a fire axe appear in the view.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(Lorenzo is seen crouching on the roof of a moving subway car that brings him closer to the screen. The turtle in black smirk at the camera before his face fills the screen.)
"FROM THE UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Domenico is seen stabbing the practice dummy with his Tonfas before spin-kicking the other dummy with his foot. Then he turns to whack the camera with his Tonfa.)
"BEWARE THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back to show Artemisia roller skating on the roof while being pursued by Foot. She looks at them over her shoulder, smirks, and picks up the pace as camera pans behind her.)
"CAUSE THE TURTLE TIME IS ON!"

(Artemisia skates towards the Large Foot Ninja who tries to strike her with the sword, but is caught by his wrists by the turtle in bink who turns around and flips him over her shoulder, throwing him face-first at the camera.)

(Artemisia then drops off the building as the screen pans down to a boarded doorway before the Battle Shell crashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink land onto its roof.)

(The screen then pans to the back of the truck as it is been pursued by two Foot Ninja on the bikes, until the back doors fly open and Lorenzo jumps out, landing onto his shell to the ground, somersaulting back to his feet and then diving towards the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies towards the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again.)
(The upper screen shows Marietta's light glare, while lower screen shows turtles in the snowy woods, staring at five silhouetted canine-like humanoids with the face paints: dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green.)
(Second one.)
(The lower screen shows Domenico's deep frown, while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with dark purple face-paint, snarling while slashing a single Kama at two hunters, forcing them to back off.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'RE ALWAYS FIGHTING AGAINST EVIL!"

(Third one.)
(The upper screen shows Lorenzo's wide eyes, while the lower screen shows Jennika, with her mask off, standing on the edge of the rooftop, flanked by several Foot Ninja.)
(Fourth one.)
The lower screen shows Artemisia's soft stare, while the upper screen shows Jennika glaring at the camera before she wields two Katana to slice across the screen.)
("SIX!")
"WE'LL STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(In the next shot, Donatello and Marietta are seen running along the roofs, the former jumping and the latter pole-vaulting over a gap. We then see Leonardo leading Raphael, Artemisia and Domenico forward at street level. Michelangelo is then seen zipping along the line and Lorenzo swinging by the chain in Tarzan-style after them.)
("SEVEN!")
"WE'RE ALWAYS THERE TO HAVE EACH OTHERS' SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the spotlight in a dark space with their shells to the camera as it pulls away. They then turn to face the camera, drawing out their weapons and taking their individual stances, ready to face whoever is standing before them.)
("EIGHT!")
"WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(First we see Baxter Stockman surrounded by dozens of Mousers. With the glare, Stockman points at the camera and the Mousers lunge forward, snarling viciously.)

(The camera pans to the right to show Tatsu. Backed up by Foot Ninja, the man pulls out a sword and raises it next to his face, pointing the tip at the camera with a dark glare.)

(Camera pans to the right again to show a strange and ugly goblin-like female creature floating in the air while grinning mischievously at the camera. The creature raises its hands up as the glowing supernatural light began to flow through them, as if magic.)

(Camera pans to the right once more to show William Dandelion with a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several goons, Dandelion takes the cigar out of his mouth and points at the camera with the nasty sneer.)

(The screen pans back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several Mousers away with his staff.)
(Raphael lands onto one, crushing it, and stabs his Sais through the heads of other two Mousers.)
(Domenico strikes one Foot Ninja in the guts with his Tonfa, before turning around to whack the second ninja with his other Tonfa.)
(Artemisia slices the third Foot Ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spin-kicking him away with her foot.)
(The goblin-creature flies over and strikes the turtles with the magical lightning bolts, until Artemisia pole-vaults upwards and kicks the creature away.)
(Three Dandelion mobsters charge at the turtles, but simultaneously first one on the left is kicked away by Michelangelo, the second one on the right is knocked down by Lorenzo, and the third in the middle is kicked away by Leonardo, who spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot. The sever level.)
(The silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running down the pipe: One turtle on foot while another one on the skateboard.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen pans up to the street level.)
(The silhouettes of three turtles are seen moving down the street: One running on foot, the second one riding on the bike and third one hopping along the driving and parked cars.)
(Then two narrower screens appear above and beneath of the street screen, showing the repeating line of turquoise and white masked faces above and the line of pink and black masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen pans up to the rooftop level.)
(The silhouettes of two turtles are running and either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Raphael, Leonardo, Domenico run on the street level, before Artemisia and Michelangelo jump out the manholes and Marietta and Donatello land down from the roofs to join them. All seven then: Raphael, Artemisia, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Marietta, Donatello and Domenico then run towards the camera that goes between Leonardo's legs again.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then pans upwards, showing Lorenzo jumping off the rooftop before throwing his chain away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing Leonardo's shadowy yet calm face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing Michelangelo's shadowy goofy face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing Raphael's shadowy yet fierce face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"

(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy calm face. Sixth then appears next to it from above, showing Domenico's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"

(Seventh appears from beneath, showing Lorenzo's shadowy wildly smirking face. Then eighth appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the Foot Tower. The weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, Marietta, Donatello, Domenico, Raphael, Lorenzo, Michelangelo and Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the tower, above the Foot symbol, the Shredder is seen staring down after them, as his black cape blows in the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves close of his face, before he turns towards the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two sharp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen standing in middle of the rooftop, with the weapons in hand. They briefly demonstrate their skills before taking their individual poses: Donatello stands in the middle, pointing his staff at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo stand on his right, Marietta and Michelangelo on his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo behind them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding/skating on the various human equipment along the tunnel. Donatello is in the lead, wheeling past the camera with the foldaway bike.)
(Leonardo follows on foldaway kick scooter, hopping over the handlebar with his hands.)
(Marietta follows right behind on her roller skis, making the backward flip over the camera.)
(Domenico follows on the road bicycle, while giving the wave at the camera.)
(Raphael and Artemisia roller-skate along the wall of the tunnel with their roller blades and roller-skates.)
(Lorenzo skates after them with his longboard skateboard with the pair of rocket boosters.)
(Last but not least, Michelangelo skates up along the wall with his skateboard, before he jumps off and lands in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(All turtles, first Donatello then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally aftemisia, land onto the roof, weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charge towards the camera, with turtle in blue taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"

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=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Notes From the Underground Part 2, Part 1=

Near the doors of the Foot's abandoned genetics lab, the eight turtles, Angel and Stella backed away from the nine monsters.

"Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Here they come!" Arcee said nervously as she and her siblings and the humans backed into the lab.

"Ah, I think I speak for all of us when I say "Zonks!"." Mikey gulped, as the monsters followed them into the lab.

The turtles and Angel then removed their backpacks from their shell-backs and threw them away as the monsters advanced towards them.

The red scorpion-like monster growled as it brandished its claws at the turtles, followed by the emerald praying mantis-like monster that struck its claws to the floor and let out the shriek. The turquoise dinosaur/dog-like monster opened its mouth wide, baring its teeth and let out the deep growl. The grey rock-like monster reared its head up and growled as its smaller version banged its fists to the floor in front of it. The yellow dragon-like monster opened its blue mouth and roared, with its spiky frill unfurled out around its neck. The grayish-white mole-like monster brandished its own claws at the turtles as it roared at them, and both big and small blue monsters glared at the turtles and humans.

Then, both the blue monsters hissed as they spit the green acid from their mouths at the turtles and humans, at the same time when the dragon-like monster breathed the blue liquid-like fire out of its own mouth at them.

Leo, Raph, Dom and Mary jumped back as the blue monsters' acid hit the floor near their feet, and Louie, Arcee, Stella and Angel did the same as the dragon-like monster's fiery "drool" hit the floor near their feet.

The turtles and humans watched in horror as the acid and the molten rock-like drool melted the hole right through the floor.

"GROSS!" Mikey gagged in disgust.

"Oh, no!" Stella gasped with dread as she hid behind Arcee's shell. "We are doomed!"

"Like shell we are!" Raph snarled as he pulled out his Sai.

Donnie and Mary pulled out their Bo-staff and Naginata out as the scorpion-like and praying mantis-like monsters advanced towards them.

Dom and Louie pulled out their Tonfas and Butterfly sword - along with one of the turtle in black's Manriki-Gusaris - out as the dinosaur/dog-like and dragon-like monsters came towards them.

Mikey pulled out his Nunchucks and spun them under his armpits while Arcee took out her Tessens and unfurled them.

And finally, Leo drew out his Katanas, as the turtles prepared themselves to battle the monsters.

"OK, you guys take the nine on the left." Mikey instructed, earning the looks from Raph, Arcee and Stella

"What are you talking about, Mikey? There's NINE of them right in front of us." Arcee questioned, puzzled.

"Yeah, bro. Can't you count?" the turtle in red asked.

"Sure I can." Mikey defended. "There's a nine monsters and ten of us, so there's one for each for you and I'll be odd turtle out." he pointed out innocently.

The turtle in pink gaped at Mikey with utter disbelief when she realized what her little brother actually meant, before she briefly glanced at Stella over her shoulder and then back at Mikey with the narrowed glare.

"Oh, no, you don't, Mikey!" Arcee snapped, shaking her head furiously at him. "You're not putting my patient in the firing line just because you're having a cold feet!"

"Cold feet?" Mikey questioned, sounding a bit offended and trying to sound more braver and confident to prove her wrong. "I'm not having the cold feet!"

However, it was not working, for his own feet were literally shaking under him, thus proving Arcee's point that he indeed WAS having a cold feet.

"Yeah, right." Raph said sarcastically.

Elsewhere, Louie turned his head slightly to his left and spotted Angel standing there, fearlessly facing the monsters while standing by his side instead of backing away from them.

"You wanna sit this one out, Angel-cake?" he asked as he spun his short swords wildly around. "This is gonna be very nasty."

Angel gaped at the turtle in black with disbelief that he actually wanted to keep her out of this. Though understanding that he was only trying to look after her due to his promise to Master Splinter to keep her safe, Angel shook her head furiously before she removed the cap from her head and tossed it aside.

"No way, Louie!" she said and picked up the couple of pipes lying on the floor near her feet. "I'm not sitting this one out like some damsel in distress! Besides, I've seen a lot of nastier damage from the street fighting than this. I'm standing by your side till the end." he said with determination.

Louie smiled at her with admiration, though couldn't help but tease her a little for it. "Yeah, sure. And I'm supposed to believe that you won't survive every five minutes without needing me to cover your back?"

"More likely you're the one who won't survive every five minutes without needing me to cover your shell, shell-for-brains!" Angel shot back.

"Really?" Louie challenged with the smirk. "The round of pizzas of the next date are on me if you prove yourself right, or on you if I prove myself right. So what's it gonna be, Angel-cake? Scared of the bet?"

"Whatta...?!" Angel was taken aback by Louie's words of her being scared of the bet, before she took the fierce determined look on her face as she glared back at Louie. "Oh, you're on, Lover-boy! Hopefully you're not afraid of losing!"

"We shall see about that." Louie said as he and Angel turned to look back at the monsters.

The scorpion-like monster then whipped its tail at the big monitor desk and sent it flying at the turtles and humans, but they all jumpåed out of the way as the desk crashed to their spot, damaging it severely.

And then, one by one, the turtles landed back to the floor, starting from Mary, Donnie, Leo, Angel, Louie, Raph and Dom, while Arcee landed behind them with Stella.

"LEEEEEEEETS TURTLEIZE THEM!" the turtles let out as they charged at the monsters.

"MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELUJAH!" Louie and Angel let out as the latter charged at the monsters as well.

"Stay here, Stella! Keep out of the sight!" Arcee told to Stella, before she ran over to help her siblings and Angel.

All that left was Mikey, who quietly tip-toed back to from where he jumped but didn't follow his siblings and Angel to fight the monsters. The turtle in orange just stood there watching the fight going on next to Stella, who frowned at him for not even budging to help the others.

"You're not going to help them?" Stella questioned, which made Mikey to turn to her.

"Well, I... uh..." Mikey stammered, chuckling awkwardly as he tried to explain himself. "I guess that I'll be looking after you. You know? My doctor sister's orders."

"I HEARD THAT, MIKEY!" Arcee called. "AND YOU BETTER DO THAT PROPERLY OR ELSE I'LL HAVE YOUR SHELL!"

Donnie jumped at the scorpion-like monster and ducked as it tried to hit him with its left claw before the turtle in purple whacked it in the chest for several times with his Bo but the monster wouldn't even budge. It then raised its right claw and tried to strike Donnie, who jumped out of its way and jumped back when the monster tried to strike him again with its left claw. But as he landed, the monster reached out and grabbed Donnie in its right claw and lifted him up in the air, before the monster threw Donnie away.

"AGH!" Donnie moaned as he hit against the wrecked cages near the door.

The praying mantis-like monster and Mary, who spun her Naginata over her head, charged at each other before the turtle in turquoise slashed her weapon's blade at the monster's big claws. The monster shrieked and tried to swing its right big claw like the scythe at Mary, who ducked it and then jumped to her left when the monster tried to strike her with its left big claw. Mary then raised her Naginata over her head to block the monster's attempt to strike her with two smaller claws from above and groaned as she held them back.

"Uh, oh!" she gulped when she saw the monster pulling its bigger claws back before it shot them straight at her from under her defenses, which knocked her back and sent flying to other side of the lab, over Angel's head.

"Mary!" Angel called before she turned to the monster. "Hey! I'll teach you for tossing my friends around like rag dolls!"

Angel then charged at the monster, who tried to strike her with its left claw, though missed when Angel jumped with the somersault to her right. Angel then stepped to her left to avoid the monster's attempt to strike her with its right claw, before the purple-haired girl jumped through the monster's right claw onto its left claw and then bounced off it towards the monster's head, whacking it twice with her pipes.

Angel then flew over the monster's shoulder and landed on her feet to its other side, before both Angel and the monster turned to face each other, with the monster shrieking angrily down at her.

"Bring it on!" Angel dared, bracing herself for the other round, until she was suddenly tackled from behind by the small version of the rock-like monster, who knocked her off her feet and caused them to roll along the floor.

Raph meanwhile had engaged the bigger version of the rock-monster, with the turtle in red double-punching the beast in its chest, knocking it back, before he kicked it in the guts, knocking it off its feet.

Arcee was handspringing backwards as the mole-like monster swung its huge claws at her time after time, but missed every time which angered it even further, before the turtle in pink landed back on her feet and then jump-kicked it in the head, though the monster's hulking built prevented it from being knocked back but one step.

Dom and the dragon-like monster, meanwhile, were circling each other, with the monster's blue molten rock-like drool fell out of its mouth to the floor. The monster then made the first move as it tried to whack him with its tail, which Dom dodged and the tail ended up to smash through two of the tank tubes. Roaring in anger, the monster charged at Dom and tried to bite him again and again, forcing the turtle in white to back hastily away from the beast to avoid ending up as its chewing toy.

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

"WOW! WOW! HEY! TIME OUT! TIME OUT!" Dom called after dodging each of the monster's bite just narrowly.

The dinosaur/dog-like monster growled with its mouth wide open and its teeth bared, before it got whacked across its face by Louie's Manriki-gusari's weighted chain. The turtle in black kept whacking the monster across its face over and over and over and over again, forcing it back. And when the monster attempted to charge at him, Louie spun his chain in upright pose, forming like the gigantic transparent round shield between him and the monster, making the beast to halt its charge.

"Alright, boy! DOWN!" Louie commanded it like the real dog, and surprisingly, the monster bowed its head down as if in submission. "Good boy! Good monster-boy." the turtle in black praised with satisfaction.

However, the monster suddenly pounced at him, opening its huge mouth wide open enough to consume the turtle in black with just one bite. Though surprised at first, Louie dodged out of the monster's way, but as the result of the monster jumping through his spinning chain-shield, it ended up wrapping around of its neck with the knot, which Louie noticed.

"Uh-oh." Louie gulped, before the monster pulled him off his feet as it began to gallop around the lab, dragging the turtle in black by the chain along the floor. "WHOOOOAAAA!"

Leo meanwhile backed away from the blue monsters as they approached him. Then he gasped as the smaller blue monster hissed and pounced at him, but the turtle in blue backhanded it away with relatively ease. However, he had to flip backwards as the bigger blue monster tried to slash him with its claws, before it grabbed and picked Leo up by his belt and hurled him against the metal pole.

"Ahh!" Leo groaned as he hit it and fell to the floor.

Leo shook his head clear and looked up at the blue monsters as they approached him.

Meanwhile, Angel dodged the small rock-monster's, who was only slightly shorter than her, attempt to strike her with its right fist by leaning her head back, and then side-stepped to her right as it tried to bring its left fist down on her from above, before Angel spin-kicked it in the head and then whacked it in the face with the pipe.

The bigger rock-monster tried to attack Angel, but turned around to see Raph charging at it before the turtle in red jumped and kicked it in the chest, knocking it over.

Mary was slashing her Naginata at the praying mantis-like monster's four claws to keep it at bay while the scorpion-like monster was approaching Donnie as he was lying on the floor near the cages.

Dom whacked the dragon-like monster in the head with his Tonfa, only for the beast to swung its head back and forth, knocking Dom off his feet and sending him flyin back, while Arcee shot the several various kicks in the mole-like monster's chest, though none of them knocked the monster back, only momentarily kept it away.

"DOWN, BOY! DOWN! WHOOOOAAAA!" Louie cried as the dinosaur/dog-like monster kept rampaging around the lab, dragging Louie with it.

And all the while, Mikey, with Stella hiding behind his shell, just stood there and watched as his brothers and sisters were kicking the monsters' butt and vice versa, still doing nothing.

Leo then got up and glared at the blue monsters, who hissed aggressively as the acid drooled out of their mouths to the floor, melting the holes in their feet.

Leo then turned back to the metal pole the bigger monster had flung him into, before with the quick thinking, Leo slashed his swords at the pole, cutting off two pieces off it, before he double-kicked them both at the monsters in upright rotation, only for the monsters to spit the acid at them, melting them completely.

"Huh?!" Leo gasped, seeing that it didn't work.

The dragon-like monster then swung its tail at Dom again, this time hitting it home, and the turtle in white was sent flying back by the brutal force of the blow.

"AGH!" Dom cried as he crashed right through the glass shield of the desk and landed with his shell onto it, before slidding onto the floor behind of the desk.

"Oh! That hurt!" the turtle in white groaned, touching his head, before he gasped with worry and stared in wide-eyed worry and horror as the dragon-like monster's head slowly loomed over the desk and glared down at him, growling softly. "Oohh, boy." he gulped.(1)

Elsewhere, Mary slashed her Naginata at the praying mantis-like monster's right big claw as it tried to strike her with it, and then she slashed its left big claw as it tried to strike her from behind. Mary then blocked the monster's smaller claws with her weapons shaft before she kicked the monster in the guts, knocking it back slightly and then flashkicked the monster under its chin.

But when she landed to the floor to catch her breath, Mary noticed that Dom was in trouble, with the dragon-like monster having got her brother cornered and pinned down to the floor, before it opened its maw wide open and roared down at him, with its steaming hot and burning blue saliva flying on him.(1)

"AAAGHH! IT BURNS!" Dom cried as some of it hit to his arm he was shielding his face with, burning it painfully.

"HANG ON, DOM!" Mary called to him as she turned back to her monster, as it brought its claws, both its bigger two and the smaller two, before the monster brought them heavily down to the turtle in turquoise.

However, using her Naginata which she struck to the floor, Mary pole-vaulted herself upwards and through the gap between the monster's arms, flying over its head and to its other side. But as the monster turned around to her again, Mary struck her Naginata to the floor and began to swing herself around of it over and over and over and over again - with the monster confusedly following her going - until she reaching to her maxium speed, before she flung herself towards the monster and kicked it in the chest with both feet, sending it flying backwards.

The dragon-like monster then reared its head up and backwards, preparing to lunge down on the turtle in blue and kill him with one strike of its teeth. But before it could, Mary's monster came out of nowhere and slammed against the dragon-like monster's left flank, knocking both of them into the wall next to them, stunning them momentarily.(1)

Dom, sighing with relief, climbed back up from behinmd the desk and looked at the monsters for a moment before turning to Mary to give him thumps up as a thanks for her help, to which Mary returned with the nod.

Meanwhile, while Mikey was still staring at the battle, still doing nothing, while Stella cowered behind him, they both failed to notice the series of tentacles slithering towards them from behind. They only got their attention when the tentacles slithered around of Stella's body and arms.

"Huh?" Stella muttered upon feeling them wrapping around her, just before one tentacle wrapped around of her neck and squeezed tight! "URGH!" she gasped as her hands instinctively flew to her throat.

"HELP! HELP ME!" Stella cried with the hoarse voice as the tentacles lifted her off the floor.

"Huh?" Mikey gasped, hearing her hoarse screams, before he turned around and gasped upon seeing the hulking mole-like monster standing there, holding Stella captive in its tentacles producing out of its star-shaped nose. "GROSS!" the turtle in orange recoiled in disgust.

The mole-like monster roared down at him, before it used its huge paw to swat turtle in orange way, who landed on his hands to the floor and sprung back on his feet to the floor.

The monster then turned its attention to Stella, who struggled helplessly in its tentacles, before it moved its mouth close of her and roared loudly in her face, making Stella to recoil both from terror of the monster's sharp teeth and disgust of its awful breath.

"RRRROOOOAAAARRRR!"

"P-PLEASE!" Stella pleaded, but the monster ignored her and began to move her head towards its mouth to bite her head off.

However, before the monster could do anything to her, Arcee's tessens flew in upright rotation towards its tentacles and sliced them in half, making the monster to rear back and howl in pain, while Stella fell to the ground, still wrapped up in the limp tentacles. She quickly pulled the tentacles away from around her neck and began to cough violently.

Arcee then jumped at the monster, punching it in the left cheek with her right fist before, while snatching back her Tessens thet flew back to her, she spun around and butterfly-kicked the monster in the head before landing in three-point-pose to the floor.

"MIKEY!" Arcee called to the turtle in orange in question. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO WATCH AFTER MY PATIENT!"

"Hey, sis! I'm trying my best! I got no eyes in the back of my head, you know?!" Mikey defended.

Stella hurriedly squirmed out of the mess of the monster's severed tentacles and crawled away to safety, while Arcee somersaulted away as the monster slashed its claws down on her, leaving the huge clawmarks into the floor.

As Arcee somersaulted onto her feet and turned to the monster again, the beast roared angrily and waved its tentacles at her, including the ones the turtle in pink had cut off.

However, Arcee then witnessed with great surprise how the new tentacle tips suddenly began to grow out of the stumps, and they were quickly the new ones like she had never even cut them off.

"Wow." she gasped astonished.

However, she quickly snapped out of it when the monster shot its tentacles in the spiraling motion towards her in attempt to seize her and pull her into its clutches, but the turtle in pink jumped up in the air and sliced the couple tentacles off from above with her Tessens, then she flipped over and sliced two more tentacles off from below and then she slashed off two tentacles from both her right and left sides as she llanded to the floor, and then jumped towards the monster, slashing four tentacles more that tried to block her way.

However, before she could reach the monster itself, the tentacles she slashed off quickly grew back and slithered towards her, wrapping around her ankles before pulling her back.

"WHOAAA! UGH!" Arcee cried as the tentacles swung her over the air and slammed her hard against the floor. "WHOAAA! ARGH!" she cried when the tentacles lifted her up and swung her hard against the lab's wall. "WHOAAA! AGH!" the tentacles cried again when the tentacles swung her against the lab's ceiling.

The dinosaur/dog like monster kept rampaging around the lab and past some lab equipment, making Louie, whom the monster was still dragging with it by the chain he was holding, ended up hitting himself over and over again the lab equipment.

"OWW!" Louie whined as he hit the wall. "DOWN, BOY! AGH!" he whined as he hit to the metal pole. "BAD! YEOUCH!" he whined as he got knocked into the desk. " BAD BOY! VERY BAD BOY! AHH!" he cried when he hit to one of the operation tables. "WILL YOU STOP IT, YOU STUPID MUTT?! UGH!" he groaned when he hit to the pannel of the control center.

"WILL YOU STOP DOING THAT! I GOT THE BET TO WIN!" the turtle in black protested, but the monster just kept rampaging.

Nearby, Angel tried to whack the small rock-monster in the face, but the beast clamped its rock jaws around the pipe, denting it to useless from both spots.

"Wow!" Angel cried, surprised, and pulled her hand back, before the rock monster struck her with its fist, sending her flying to the floor with the pained grunt.

But as she got up and looked over her left shoulder, she gasped with dread upon seeing Louie being still dragged along the floor by the dinosaur/dog-like monster.

As Angel was about to get up and go to help, the small rock-monster's roar pulled her attention back to it as the beast charged and pounced on her and tried to reach out to her throat with its stone hands.

But thinking quickly, Angel somersaulted backwards at the moment when the monster was about to clamp its stone fingers around her neck, making it to fly over her, before she placed her legs against its chest and kicked the monster away from her.

The roaring monster flew across the air before making the impact with the dinosaur/dog-like monster, knocking it off its feet and making them to crash onto another control panel, also making the monster to stop dragging Louie around the lab anymore.

With that, Angel got up and ran up to Louie to help him up. "Are you alright, Louie?" she asked with concern.

"Never better." Louie said, shrugging off the fact that he looked pretty battered and bruised. "Thanks for that, Angel-cake."

"You're welcome." Angel said, before chuckling at her boyfriend teasingly. "By the way, I covered your back while you couldn't last even five minutes with that beast. So the score's one to zero from now on."

"Oh, yeah?" Louie said, unyielding. "Well, we'll see about..."

However, he couldn't finish his sentence before the already recovered dinosaur/dog-like monster crashed into him violently and picked the turtle in black up from the floor on top of his head, ignoring Angel who quickly jumped back to avoid the beats. The purple-haired girl then gasped with shock upon seeing where the monster was taking him.

"LOUIE!" she called with dread. "LOOK OUT!"

Hearing her out while clutching to the rampaging monster's face, Louie looked forward and gasped in wide-eyed shock upon noticing that the monster was charging right towards one of the lab's walls.

"Uh-oh!" the turtle in black gulped just before - CRASH! - the monster crashed face-first - or rather turtle in black first - into the wall like a crashing runaway rogue subway train, and the impact caused the wall to shake and crack and crumble slightly.

"AAHHH! LOUIE!" Angel cried and ran up to the monster and Louie.

The dinosaur/dog-like monster backed away from the wall, revealing that he had left there a huge cracked dent, with the turtle in black embedded near-cartoonishly in middle of it.

"Ughhh." Louie groaned dizzily as he moved his head slightly off the wall, feeling like it was spinning uncontrollably and that he was seeing starts.

Meanwhile, the scorpion-like monster growled as he loomed over downed Donnie, who looked up at it worriedly, before it tried to strike him with its claws.

However, before it could harm him, Raph stepped in and blocked the monster's attempted blow on his brother with the slash of his Sais, before Mary landed onto the monster's head before flipping away while Dom landed between the monster and Donnie and knelt down on one knee, allowing Mary to land onto his shell before she flashkicked the monster under its chin while Raph made the finishing move by kicking it in the guts, sending the beast flying away.

"Whew! Thanks guys." Donnie said, relieved.

"You okay, bro?" Mary said as she helped him up to his feet.

"Yeah." Donnie replied with the nod.

The four turtles then looked up upon hearing the growling and saw both the big and small rock-like monsters climbing up to the ceiling, before they crawled along it like the Spider-man, accompanied by the praying mantis-like monster that used both its big claws, small claws and legs to crawl along the ceiling like the spider.

The praying mantis-like monster shrieked before letting go of the ceiling with its small and big claws, but remained hanging upside down from the ceiling by its feet like the bat, while the rock-like monsters bite the hole through the ceiling and burrowed right through of it.

"Wow!" the four turtles gasped in amazement.

The praying mantis-like creature then began to walk alongh the ceiling while looking down for its next victim, while the rock monsters made the rows of small holes in the ceiling, which stopped right above of Mikey, who was spinning his Nunchucks while watching Leo facing the blue monsters - and Stella, who was cowering in Mikey's feet in fear.

The rock monsters then came through the ceiling and looked down on Mikey and Stella, who were unaware of the danger coming from above. And the praying mantis-like monster too stopped next to its fellow monsters and peered down at them as well.

"MIKEY!" Raph called, before he and Mary ran off towards them as the three monsters prepared to drop down on the turtle in orange and Stella.

"RAPH! GRAB ON!" Mary said as she held one end of her Naginata out towards Raph, who put his Sais away and grabbed to it with both hands, before the turtle in turquoise spun around and swung the turtle in red around her and up at the rock monster, before she herself struck her Naginata to the ground and polevaulted herself at the praying mantis-like monster.

The monsters would've landed on both Mikey and Stella if Raph and Mary hadn't kicked them away with both feet, with Raph stopping the smaller rock monster from landing on Mikey and Stella by grabbing from its feet and pulled it away. But while Mary crashed to the floor with the praying mantis-like monster, Raph jumped off the rock monster, slamming the smaller to the floor in the process, before he handsprung off the bigger onto the smaller rock monster's back and then back-flipped onto his feet next to Mikey.

"Watch your back, you oddball!" Raph snarled as he drew out his Sai.

Mikey stopped spinning his Nunchucks and turned to Raph. "Did you just call me "odd", didn't you?!" he asked offended.

Raph turned to him as Mikey turned around and put his hand on his chin, but the turtle in red didn't have time to answer when the rock monsters, both of them, rammed into him and knocked him away from Mikey.

"I'm not odd. I'm eccentric." Mikey told to himself, as Donnie battled the scorpion-like monster and kicked it onto its side, only to be afterwards whacked back by the monster's claw, while Arcee was running away from the mole-like monster who stretched out its tentacles, which wrapped around of the turtle in pink and pulled her back, while Dom backed away from the dragon-like monster, before he kicked it in the face once and then jumped up and double-kicked it in the face again, only to be whacked away by the beast's tail.

Mary was then whacked away by the praying mantis-like monster's claw, causing the turtle in turquoise to land with the groan beside Mikey, prompting the turtle in orange to help his sister up.

"Raph thinks I'm odd. Can you believe that, sister?" Mikey complained.

"Nah! It's just you being sensitive, Mikey." Mary assured him and ran off to resume the fight with the monster.

Mikey stared wide-eyed after her, before frowning angrily.

"Sensitive, you say?" Mikey questioned, offended. "If there's one thing I hate, its when people call me sensitive!"

Stella, who had witnessed the whole thing going on from Mikey's feet, looked up at the turtle in orange. "Are you always like this?" she questioned.

"You have no idea how much I hate being called either odd or sensitive by my siblings!" Mikey told her.

Elsewhere, Leo, with his swords away, was riding a lab table like the surfing board, which he made to crash into the bigger blue monster before back-flipping away, knocking the blue monster into the generator's power box, which electrocuted it and knocked it down.

Seeing its bigger counterpart down, the smaller blue monster hissed furiously at Leo for what he did.

Leo then charged at them, but the smaller blue monster spit the acid at him, which Leo ducked by jumping behind of the computer table, before the small blue monster proceeded to spit even more acid at it, melting half of it away.

But as Leo looked up from behind the table, the small blue monster pounced on him, hissing savagely, and knocked Leo off his feet and onto his shell to the floor.

The blue monster tried to claw his faces off, but Leo grabbed from both of its wrists with his hands and held the beast back. But despite it being much smaller than its bigger counterpart, it was really, really strong, making Leo to let out the strained groans as the monster forced its clawed hands closer of Leo's face and were only inches away from scratching his skin.

Out of desperation, Leo headbutted the monster hard in the forehead, knocking it back, before the turtle in blue pulled his legs from under the monster's spread feet and kicked it in the chest, sending it flying over the destroyed computer table with the shriek, only for the bigger blue monster to take its place, as it jumped onto the table and peered down at Leo with the ferocious hiss, before it spit its acid at him.

"AGH!" Leo gasped, horrified, and rolled out of the way before the acid made the contact with his skin, causing it to hit and melt right through the floor.

Elsewhere, Louie, after shaking his head to get himself clear, tried to pull himself off the wall as the dinosaur/dog-like monster approached him menacingly with its mouth open.

"LOUIE! LOOK OUT!" Angel warned.

Looking over his shoulder, Louie gasped when the monster lunged at him with its mouth wide open, ramming itself even deeper into the wall and causing it to collapse slightly.

But when the monster turned away from the wall, it revealed having chomped a huge part of the wall off and left there a huge bite mark... but Louie was nowhere in sight, indicating that he was inside of the monster's bulgy mouth amongst all the rubble the beast had just gobbled.

Angel gasped in horror as this dawned on her ... and even more so when the monster suddenly swallowed everything in its mouth, and apparently Louie too, down in one gulp.

"AAHHH! LOUIE! NO!" Angel screamed in horror and disbelief, with her hands over her face!

However, the monster heard her screaming and turned to look at her, before it began to advance towards her, growling at her menacingly through its bared and clenched teeth, which made Angel to clutch to her remaining pipe tight and back away from the beast.

But before it could reach her, the monster's head suddenly jolted upwards as if something had just hit it - from inside its mouth, which left the monster confused.

The monster's head then, by the courtesy of something inside its mouth, began jolting alternatively to the left and right, down and up, even forward in different angles, and it kept doing that repeatedly, while it kept the beast too occupied to even remember of intenting to bring harm upon Angel, who was looking this on with the puzzled look on her face.

And after the moment, the monster felt something trying to force its jaws open from within. And while it tried to bite back down to keep its jaws shut, the force that resisted was unyielding and put the great deal of effort to force the jaws wide open so that the causer of it could get out and position itself in between of the monster's huge teeth.

The causer of this was revealed to be Louie, who had miraculously avoided of being swallowed by the monster, much to Angel's joy.

LOUIE!" she gasped with relief to see her boyfriend still alive.

Gritting his teeth with strain, the turtle in black continued to keep his hardest the monster's teeth apart.

"NO... TURTLES... ON... THE... MENU... TODAY, MUTT!" Louie groaned.

With the gap between the monster's teeth wide open enough, Louie saw his chance and jumped out of the monster's mouth. However, the monster was unwilling to let Louie to escape so easily and lunged at him mouth wide open again, clamping its teeth around the turtle in black's shell thus preventing him from escaping.

"Hey, pal! Excesses are unhealthy! Teeth off my shell at once!" Louie demanded as he tried to pull his shell free from the monster's teeth.

The monster ignored him and began to shake its head violently from left and right, and Louie with it in attempt to crush the turtle in black.

"WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!" Louie shouted while being shaken by the monster, with the world spinning around in his eyes.

However, the monster suddenly stopped shaking Louie around when it felt someone climbing onto his back and turned to look behind it.

It was Angel.

Angel climbed onto the monster's back and positioned herself onto its neck, before she began to violently whack the beast it the top of its head with her remaining pipe.

"LET... (Whack!) HIM... (Whack!) GO... (Whack!) YOU... (Whack!) BIG... (Whack!) UGLY... (Whack!) BULLY!" Angel demanded as she kept hitting the beast.

The beast growled at her but didn't release Louie from its jaws, not until Angel hit it right in its right eye.

This made the monster to rear up onto its hind legs and let out the thunderous roar both in in pain and anger, which also made it to release Louie from its jaws, causing him to fall onto his shell to the floor.

RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!

After the monster landed back on its feet, it began to violently shake its head and thrash around like the angry bulls at rodeo in attempt to throw Angel off its back.

"WOW! WOW! WHOA! WHOA! AAHHH! AAHHH!" Angel screamed in surprise and worry, as she instinctively grabbed to the monster's ears and tried to hold on for her dear life.

However, the monster's thrashing made it really difficult for her to maintain her grip, for she herself was being tossed from the monster's neck and from one side of its head to the other and back.

Until finally the monster made one last thrashing jump in the air, causing Angel to lose her grip on its ears and end up being thrown off the beast's back.

"AAAAHHHH! UGH!" Angel groaned upon landing on her back to the floor, and remained to lie there, stunned and the breath knocked out of her by the landing. "Uuhhhh."

Seeing that Angel had flown off its back and was now lying helpless on the floor, the monster turned to her again and pounced on her with its mouth wide open, intending to gobble her down in Louie's place while she was still down.

But before it could harm her, Louie, who had after recovering from the wall grabbed from his Manriki-Gusari that was still around the monster's neck and pulled it hard back, causing the monster to fall halfway through its jump to the floor just a short distance from recovering Angel's feet, before she crawled away from it.

"You're going to the dog pound, boy!" Louie snarled at it as the monster got up and turned around to growl at him.

Forgetting about Angel, the dog monster turned around and charged at the turtle in black, before it jumped up and flew towards the turtle in black with its mouth wide open, intending to eat him again.

Louie, however, with no intentions of being the monster's chewing toy again, jumped over the monster's head just before it was about to get him, causing the beast to crash face-first hard into the wall, bashing the wall in and causing it to partially crumble onto it.

With the monster momentarily distracted, Louie then landed on his feet to the floor and somersaulted onto one knee next to Angel. "Are you alright, Angel-cake?" the turtle in black asked with concern, caring a little of the dire situation he himself was just a moment ago.

Angel, beyond of relief of Louie's survival from the life-threatening experience in the monster's mouth, responded to that by wrapping her arms around his neck and give him and thigh squeeze, to which Louie returned in kind.

"Never better, Lover-boy." Angel told in his ear, before she pulled back with the humble look on her face. "And, it looks like I've already covered your shield twice now and you just once, so that makes two to one, right?"

Louie shook his head at his girlfriend for going about their bet even after what had just happened. But before he was about to respond to it...

RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!

The monster's roar drew both of their attentions back to it, and they gasped with dread upon seeing the monster lunging towards them with its mouth wide open again, intenting to eat them both at once.

"Correction, Angel-cake! It's two to two! NOW MOVE!" Louie exclaimed as he pushed Angel out of the way and then jumped himself out of the way before the monster clamped its mouth to their spot, eating through the floor.

Elsewhere, Mary clashed her Naginata with the praying mantis-like monster's smaller claws which it flailed at the turtle in turquoise like sickles, before the monster swung first its right big claw horizontally at her and then its left claw, twice, though Mary ducked under the first swing, leaned backwards to avoid the second swing and flipped over the third swing.

Once back on her feet, Mary struck with monster in its stomach with the blunt end of her Naginata, though it didn't make the beast to budge. The monster responded to this quickly, and Mary could only look up at it with worry before she was whacked away by the monster's left big claw in the uppercut manner.

Donnie meanwhile whacked his staff repeatedly at the scorpion-like monster who shielded itself with its claws, but the brainy turtle's attacks barely affected it. Donnie then spun his staff over his head and held it up as the monster tried to use the twin stingers in its back to stab Donnie, blocking them. However, this left the brainy turtle's lower defences down, allowing the monster to punch Donnie in the unprotected chest with its left claws, knocking him back, before the monster went after him.

The mole-like monster had once again got Arcee wrapped up with its nose's tentacles, before it slammed the turtle in pink hard against the fall, pinning her there. As the monster advanced towards Arcee while she tried in vain to free herself from the tight hold of the monster's tentacles, the monster roared as it raised its paw over its head and swung its claws down at Arcee, who just barely managed to pull her head inside her shell before her head could be shredded or decapitated by the mole monster's sharp claws, which left in the wall the deep clawmarks.

After pushing her head out, Arcee glanced at the clawmarks in the wall behind her, then at the monster's paw and its huge razor-sharp claws and then the tentacles holding her in place, she came up with an idea.

Just when the monster raised its claws over its head again and brought them down to deliver the killing blow on Arcee, the turtle in pink quickly grabbed to the tentacles with both hands and whipped them upwards in the monster's claws way, causing them to slice all of them off, causing the monster to roar in pain and back off, while the limp tentacles fell off from around Arcee's body.

The turtle in pink took this, as well as the monster's momentary distraction as her advantage, for she placed her legs against the fall and jumped off it and towards the beast, before she flipped over in the air and nailed the kick with both of her feet in the monster's face, knocking it back.

Dom, meanwhile, whacked the dragon-like monster in the face with his left Tonfa, then his right Tonfa, then with his left again, then again with his right. And again with his leftone and one more time with his left one and so on, before the turtle in white corkscrew-kicked it in the nose, making the monster to rear back, before it lunged at Dom and tried to bite him, only for the turtle in white to handsprung back to avoid it.

This time, the dragon monster did not go after the turtle in white. But instead, it reared its head back and inhaled deeply, and as its spiky frill unfurled again around its neck, the monster opened its maw and shot the liquid-like fire at him.

"PWHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!"

"WOW!" Dom gasped and threw himself to the floor as the dragon monster's fire hit with the big blue fireball against the wall between two desks, melting a huge hole in it and also melting much of the desks away, while the blue steaming molten rock like drool quickly solidified into stone on the frames of the hole and on the tables.

The dragon monster growled angrily for having missed and turned to the turtle in white as he was lying on the floor, looking up at it. As the monster prepared to shoot another blast at Dom, the turtle in white rolled hurriedly out of the way before the dragon monster's second blast hit top the exact spot, melting the floor.

"PWHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!"

After narrowly avoiding it and getting back up to his feet, Dom looked back over his shoulder and noticed one of the operation tables standing there, before he turned back to the dragon monster and got an idea. The turtle in white then back-flipped towards the table and landed on the other end of it, sending it flying into the air in a spinning motion.

"HYA!" the turtle in white shouted as he jumped up and kicked the table at the dragon monster, but the beast responded by shooting the third blast of fire at the table, melting it and leaving whatever's left of it covered with its drool's solidified form.

"PWHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!"

"OH, COME ON!" Dom complained after seeing that didn't work.

However, Dom gasped with the dread-filled worry upon noticing the dragon monster preparing to shoot yet fourth blast at him.

"WOW!" the turtle in white yelped and began to run for his life along the side of the lab with the dragon monster's blast of blue fire following after him, while melting much of the wall and several other lab equipments away and covering their remains with the layer of solidified drool.

"PWHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!"

The stone monsters, meanwhile, walked towards Mikey and Stella near the cages. Though Mikey initially spun his Nunchucks at the monsters to keep them at bay to protect Stella, he quickly freaked out by them.

"Yikes!" he whimbered and ran away, with Stella following him close behind.

The monsters tried to go after them, but were thwarted by Raph.

"HI-YAAHHHH!" the turtle in red yelled as he flipped onto the big rock monster's back, distracting them from chasing after Mikey and Stella.

The smaller rock monster growled as he climbed onto the bigger one's back and met Raph there, where the two engaged each other into the hand-wrestle. The monster and the turtle in red then interlocked their hands and started trying to push each other back.

Though the smaller rock monster was clearly way stronger than Raph, for it rather easily pushed Raph back despite the turtle in red's fierce and stubborn resistance and would've won the wrestle by pushing Raph off the bigger monster's back, if Raph hadn't kicked it in the guts with his right leg to both knock it back and to make it bent over in pain, before Raph snap-kicked it again in the face with his left foot, knocking the smaller monster off the bigger one's back.

But as the turtle in red was about to slid off the bigger monster's back, the monster raised its hand over its head and grabbed from Raph right arm, before it pulled him over his head and swung him down and from below above of its head again before throwing him away.

Arcee jumped back as she dodged the mole monster's another slash at her with its claws, until Raph flew into her and knocked both the turtle in pink and himself over to the floor next to Mikey, who stood by the entrance with Stella.

"This isn't really going well for us." Arcee said, taking into note that the monsters had the bigger durality and they were way stronger than they expected.

"Hey, I know these monsters are viscous abominations." Mikey said, as he casually whacked the flying rock away with his Nunchuck. "But guys, we're not holding our own out there." Mikey pointed out as he knocked another flying rock away. "Now lets dig deep!" he finished as he knocked away the third rock.

"Easy for YOU to say when you're doing NOTHING to HELP US HERE!" Arcee snapped, before she and Raph returned to the fight.

"Yes, I am!" Mikey protected, while whacking a couple more rocks away. "I'm trying to provide you guys some support, encouragement, heck, even some confidence-inspiring advices!"

"Uhh... if you ask from me, while you might not be, I think that's not exactly what you're doing here, turtle." Stella pointed out, earning a frown from the turtle in orange.

Elsewhere, the blue monsters were spitting acid after acid at Leo, who put all his effort and skills into doing the series of acrobatics to dodge most of them, which hit to the tank tubes instead.

The blue monsters approached the turtle in blue, while the acid melted through the tanks glass, causing them to leak. And the acid also melted away their pedestals, leaving them hanging from the ceiling without any support from the floor.

As the monsters and Leo stared at each other, the biggest one did something that caught Leo completely off guard.

"You will take no more of us!" the monster hissed angrily.

The ceiling above the tank tubes was starting to give in to the tanks weight and crumble down.

"YOU CAN SPEAK?!" Leo exclaimed in puzzlement, before he pulled it together upon realizing what the monster had just said. "Look! We're not here to take anybody!" he swore.

The monsters, however, were not in the mood of listening the reason and kept advancing the turtle in blue.

However, their showdown was interrupted when the tank tubes finally came loose from the ceiling with the loud crash to the remains of their pedestals.

"AAHHH!" the bigger blue monster gasped as the tanks began to topple on to him.

The smaller blue monster let out the loud shriek upon seeing this, but it was aimed at its bigger version, and it sounded more of worried for him rather than vicious.

Leo, however, without the second thought dashed onward and dived towards the monster as he was about to get crushed.

"LOOK OUT!" he called as he pushed him out of the way.

CRASH!

The tank tubes smashed up upon hitting the floor, with both Leo and the big blue monster lying down next to their remains.

The smaller blue monster hurriedly rushed to the side of the larger blue monster, letting out softer hisses as it checked him over for any serious injuries, but the larger monster shook its head at it, telling it that he was not hurt.

"Why have you guys attacked us?" Leo asked as he stared at the blue monsters.

The bigger blue monster stared back at him in stunned silence. Even the smaller blue monster stared at him with wide-eyed look, stunned by Leo's heroic action to save its bigger counterpart - to whom it appeared to have some sort of affection - rather than letting him getting crushed to death.

However, before they could answer, the larger rock monster came from behind Leo and crushed him under its large hand to the floor.

"RRRROOOOAAAARRRR! NOOOOOOOO!" the beast roared, before he picked Leo up and flung him away, sending the turtle in blue flying across the lab till he hit to the wall above of the closed entrance and then fell down.

"I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU!" Mikey called as he rushed up to catch Leo, only for the turtle in blue to land onto Mikey's shell, knocking them both over.

Stella then ran up to them. "Are you two alright?" she asked worriedly.

"We're fine, thank you." Leo told her, before he looked down at Mikey as the baby brother was lying beneath him. "You know something, Mikey? They're thinking we're somebody else." he explained.

"Ah, man! That's just great! We're getting our shells shllacked and it's someone else's fight?" Mikey complained.

The mole-like monster shot another patch of tentacles at Arcee, who kept flipping backwards while slashing with her Tessens off all those tentacles that kept getting too close of her.

With Sais in hands, Raph backed away from the smaller rock monster and jumped back to avoid the punch from it and jumped back to avoid the another blow with both of its fists.

Mary blocked with her Naginata the praying mantis-like monster's smaller claws, before she swept its legs from under from behind, causing it to fall crashing down on its back.

The dragon monster stood high on its hind legs and looked down at Dom, before it shot another round of blue liquid flames down on him, which knocked the turtle in white back.

Louie and Angel backed away from the dinosaur/dog-like monster as it reared up and tried to crush them both under ot its broad claws, but missed as they backflipped away.

And finally, as the scorpion-like monster tried to attack Donnie, but the brainy turtle poked it in the chest with his Bo, causing the monster to bend over and hold its chest with its claws.

The rest of the turtles and Angel then regrouped around of Leo, Mikey and Stella at the entrance.

"Guys! We're definitely not going to win this one!" Mary told them.

"So why the shell do we even have to continue a fight we can't even win?" Dom questioned.

Arcee looked down at Dom's arm and gasped upon seeing the bad-looking burns on his hand. "Dom, are you alright? Those burns look really awful!" the turtle in pink said, going immediately in the doctor mode.

"I'm fine, Arcee. I'm mostly fine." Dom assured her, though he tried his hardest to hide the insufferable pain he felt from those burns in his arms.

Arcee, however, saw through of his lie. "Yeah, sure. I need to check on those burns." she told him.

"Not here, Arcee!" Donnie protested. "Dom and Mary are right. We're not triumph this one! So I vote we get the shell outta here!"

"Run away?" Raph said, not taking kindly of the idea. "Sorry, but that ain't my style." he declared and brandished his Sais, ready for another round.

"Fine! Call it a tactical retreat then!" Leo told him as he and Stella helped Mikey up to his feet. "Lets move!"

"But where?!" Angel asked as she turned to the turtle in blue. "Those monsters are blocking our only way out of here."

Angel kind of asked the perfect question, because with the only way out of here blocked by monsters, none of the turtles having any idea how to answer this. And so, this was the moment when Stella stepped in.

"I might actually know the way out of here," she said, catching the turtles' attention. "This door behind us leads to a tunnel with an elevator compartment at the other end. If we can get there, we could use the elevator to get back to the surface."

"Are you sure about that?" Dom questioned skeptically. "If there really is a way out of here, why haven't you then left here yourself a long time ago?"

"Because of them!" Stella said, pointing at the monsters who too had regrouped and were staring angrily down on them. "With them hiding around of every corner, lurking in every dark tunnel, and crawling behind of every wall, every floor and every ceiling while watching over this lab and the surrounding tunnels, I've never got any chance to leave here myself."

"Then that's worth of the shot!" Leo decided.

Donnie then backed up to the door. "We're leaving!" he called as he hit the button on the panel next to him with his Bo.

It opened the metal doors behnd them which led into the long tunnel, and then everybody but Raph turned around and ran down it.

"RAPH! COME ON!" Angel called back to him as she and Louie ran at the rear of the group.

Raph looked at his family and friends running away over his shoulder before he turned back to the monsters, who - apart from the blue ones - growled at him, before most of the monsters charged at him, with the blue ones lingering behind.

"Tactical retreat? I can live with that." Raph finally decided, before he put his Sais away, turned around and sprinted down the tunnel after the others.

"THIS WAY!" Stella told them as she led the turtles and Angel through the open doorway into another large and round-shaped room.

There, in the other side of the room was another door that was closed.

Upon reaching to it, Stella grabbed to the round handle of the door with her only good hand and tried to turn it over, but it was a difficult task to do for the person with only one good arm.

"Move!" Donnie said and pushed past Stella to the door. Putting his Bo-staff away, the turtle in purple grabbed to the handle with both hands and tried to turn it over, but it wouldn't budge no matter how hard he tried. "No good! It won't budge!"

Louie, Mary, Leo, Raph and even Angel came to Donnie's aid. They all grabbed to the handle from different angles with both hands and tried together to turn it over. They grunted, groaned, huffed and puffed and pulled from the handle with all of their strength, while Stella, Dom, Arcee and Mikey waited for them to open the door anxiously.

However, even after fourth try, the door won't still budge.

"It's sealed tight!" Donnie said, giving up from trying.

"Great! Trapped like rats!" Louie said sarcastically, before he gulped nervously. "Hopefully Master Splinter's keen sense of hearing doesn't

The turtles cringed when they realized that they were trapped in between of the closed door and the incoming monster invasion, which made Dom to turn to Stella with the furious look on his face.

"Didn't you just say you knew the way out of here, and this is where it was?!" Dom asked, glaring angrily at Stella, thinking that she had led them astray on purpose. "You probably also knew there was no way out here and led us straight to a dead end where we are like on a platter for your monsters!"

"No! I didn't know! I swear!" Stella said, sincerely assuring them that she didn't intentionally mislead them.

"As I said, I haven't had any chance to leave here myself in two years with those monsters lurking around every corner, in every tunnels, and behind of every wall. I had no idea that the surviving workers had purposely sealed this door tightly shut to prevent the monsters from escaping to the surface." Stella explained to them.

"Yeah, right, as if the word of a Foot Clan's employee could be trusted." Dom spat angrily.

"DOM! WE GOT NO TIME FOR THAT!" Angel roared in the turtle in white's face as she stood up for Stella, before she pointed at the door behind them. "WE GOT A LOT OF BIGGER PROBLEMS!"

Turning back to the open door, the turtles and humans saw that the monsters were right on their heels, with the scorpion-like and praying mantis-like monsters in the lead, the mole-like and rock-monsters next, the dragon-like and the dinosaur/dragon-like monsters in the rear, while the blue monsters weren't far behind.

"QUICK! WE HAVE TO SEAL THE DOOR!" Angel said and rushed back to the open door.

"SHE'S RIGHT! COME ON!" Louie said and rushed after Angel to help her.

The other turtles and Stella exchanged glances for a moment before they all, even Stella, rushed after their brother and Angel to the door, gathered behind it, and then began to push it with all their might, letting out the grunts for the door was heavy and could just barely budge.

The scorpion and praying mantis-like monsters got to the door and tried to force their way in the room by pushing the door back, which halted the turtles and humans' efforts to close it on the monsters and threatened to push them back.

"THEY'RE COMING THROUGH! WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!" Stella cried in panic.

"YES, WE ARE! PUSH, GUYS! PUSH! PUT YOUR SHELLS INTO IT!" Angel encouraged them.

"YOU HEARD THE LADY, GUYS! PUSH!" Louie called.

"COME ON, GUYS! PUSH!" Leo encouraged them.

"PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!" Raph, Dom, Arcee, Mikey and Mary shouted in unison.

"PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!" Leo, Louie, Angel, Donnie and Stella shouted in unison.

Together, at long last despite the monsters' efforts, the turtles and humans were finally able to close the door.

KLANK!

"That should keep them at bay for a while." Leo said, panting from exhaustion.

"Whew!" Donnie sighed with relief, wiping the sweat off his forehead.

"We made it!" Mary sighed and leaned with her arms against the door.

"That was a close call." Louie sighed out of breath and leaned his shell against against the door.

"But what are we gonna do now?" Angel asked, pointing out that they were still pretty much stuck down here.

Before anyone could answer, the monsters on the other side began to violently pound on the door, leaving several dents in it. The impact of the blows knocked the turtles and humans away from the door, alarming them, and they backed away from the door as more dents emerged on it.

"Somebody gonna answer that?" Mikey asked nervously.

"Oh, make the turtle soup out of me!" Dom groaned. "Isn't there anything that would keep those creatures away!"

"There apparently ain't any, Dom." Arcee said nervously.

"Great! Now what?!" Raph asked, pointing out that they were trapped in this room and soon about to become the monster chow as soon as the door gives in!

No one answered. They all just stood still staring anxiously at the door as more and more dents appeared on it.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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TRIVIA

1) = Scalebreath looming over downed Dom from behind the desk is actually a reference to the similiar scene in Lord of the Rings: Two Towers were Warg looms over Gimli as he is trapped under another dead Warg.