Moltenstorm: Here you go. Enjoy!
Guest: That music reminds me more of the Transformers 2007 film's Bumblebee's entrance in his second camaro form. And I think that someone like Shredder, Tatsu, Jennika and the Foot Clan's entrance is going to be dramatically a lots of serious and darker.
Nicochan11: Well, I'm not sure if any of the Underground Monsters is going to be related to Angel in my story.
Skully13: Actually, there is two major appearances of the Rat King, one as Bishop's Slayer and the second one as the Rat King. Even if I haven't reached to the Seasons 3 and 4 yet, which is going to be a long time, I'm planning for a third major appearance for the Rat King, but that's for another time. And as for Dandelion, since he had been already fully prepared to the gang war in the Season 2, but since Louie and Angel ruined his massive arsenal along with his family's mansion, Dandelions aren'r going to be in the top of the food chain as they used to be.
animegamefanatic: Won't spoil anything about how Stella's role or story will end, because I'm already going a various alternate versions, hence I won't even say whether Stella's story will be good or bad.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Notes From the Underground Part 2, Part 3=
After traveling two days, Quarry A had suggested them to take shortcut to get faster to the underground habitat where they had found the previous crystal.
However, unfortunately for the turtles and the humans, the aforementioned "shortcut" turned out to be a rather bumpy rock slide down into a new cavern with a large yellow underground lake.
And soon enough, they realized that it was rather a bad option for them.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" the turtles and humans screamed as they rode down the rocky slide, grunting in pain during the whole ride, until they reached the bottom by landing onto each other near the yellow lake, with Mikey landing on top of Donnie, Angel on top of Louie and Arcee on top of Dom, while Leo, Raph, Mary and Stella lied nearby on their chests or shells/backs.
"Ugh! Whatta ride." Louie groaned sarcastically.
"Sorry about landing on you, Louie." Angel apologized as she got up and helped her boyfriend on his feet.
"That's okay, Angel." the turtle in black said assuredly, before the two proceeded to help Leo and Mary up from the ground.
Arcee then got up from Dom's shell before the turtle in pink helped her brother up, who then proceeded to go to help Raph up from the ground.
Arcee then sprinted to Stella's side to see if her patient was alright.
"Stella? Are you alright?" the turtle in pink asked with concern, as she extended her hand for her to take.
"Ugh! Yeah. I'm alright, Artemisia." she said with the grunt as she lightly clutched to her bad arm with her good one, which was still in a sling because it had not fully recovered from its dislocation, before she accepted the turtle in pink's hand and allowed her to pull her up from the ground.
"You shouldn't put too much strain on your arm if you want it to recover faster." the turtle in pink adviced.
"Well, it's easier said than done with the shortcut like this." Stella admitted as she kept holding from her arm, rubbing it to soothe the pain away.
""Shortcut" you say?! He said "shortcut"?" Mikey exclaimed as he got up from Donnie. "In what mutated imagination can that be considered a shortcut?"
"Yeah! Hey, Quarry A! What gives?!" Raph exclaimed as he looked up at the way they had came from.
Quarry A and B climbed after them along the rock, leading the other monsters after them, starting from Razorfist, Pickaxe, Scalebreath, Stonebiters, Molemoth and Dogpound.
"Uh, sorry." Quarry A apologized. "We forgot you can't scale rock."
"If you had the claws that would bite in the rock, it would've been easier for you to come down." Quarry B pointed out.
"Point taken." Louie commented.
"How about we try to avoid that mistake in the future, okay?" Raph requested as Mikey got off Donnie and helped him up.
"Okay? Now where we are?" Mary asked, looking at their surroundings.
Mikey took a few sniffs of the air of this cavern and immediately grimaced in disgust! "WHEW! Who cut the cheese?!" he asked, waving his hand in front of his face.
"BLAH! What a stench! Much worse than even a foot odor!" Angel gagged, putting her hand on her nose.
"You're smelling a sulfur lake, guys." Donnie said, pointing at the lake of yellow smelly sulfur in front of them.
"Coming from a turtle who grew up in a sewer: Trust me when I say this place stinks!" Mikey said disgustingly.
Razorfist, Pickaxe and Dogpound stared at the turtle in orange with curiosity. Seeing their looks, Mary stepped in to explain.
"What he means, guys, that we turtles grew up in the sewers our whole lives." the turtle in turquoise explained. "And while we have most of the time got used to the smell of the sewers, this is a bit of beyond of that. Phew!"
"We must keep moving!" Quarry A told them. "The Fallen wander down here. This is their territory."
"Wait! You're saying that we're in the Fallen's turf?!" Dom asked, sounding pretty worried that they were in the territory of the Fallen. In other words, a mad monster zone.
Quarry A nodded. "Yes. But if we're lucky, they're currently at the upper levels that's our territory, looking for us. That leaves the passing through of their territory safe for now, but not for long when they realize our absence up there."
"Then let's keep moving." Leo said.
"Then follow me. This way." Quarry A said and began leading them along the rocks in the sulfur pool, with Quarry B climbing onto his shoulder again.
Leo and Dom followed after him, followed by Stonebiters, then Donnie and Mary, followed by Dogpound, then Stella and Arcee, followed by Molemoth and Scalebreath, then Louie, Angel, Raph, Mikey and finally Razorfist and Pickaxe.
"Watch your step, guys." Donnie cautioned. "Judging by the bubbling and steaming of this sulfur lake, its temperature appears to be 89 °C or maybe even more this deep bellow. Not to mention it's highly acidic, just like the Sulfur Caldron at Yellowstone. One wrong move and it means an instant hot bath and a baked turtle."
"Well, thanks for the tip, Donnie." Louie muttered sarcastically. "I'm suddenly all in the mood to take a hot acidic bath."
The turtles, humans and Quarry A's group kept going, reaching the halfway across the lake.
"Ohh!" Arcee gasped when her foot suddenly slipped on the rock she was about to step and was about to fell into the sulfur lake. "WHOA!"
"ARTEMISIA!" Stella gasped and, reacting quickly, caught the turtle in pink's hand before she could hit the lake's surface.
But moving too much on the rock to save Artemisia, with her other arm still recovering and not being able to use for the balance, not to mention of Arcee weighting a little more than a human being as a mutant turtle despite being a rather slender, resulted Stella to lose her balance and fall forward along with Arcee towards the lake.
"AAHHH!" thet screamed.
However, Molemoth was quick enough to stretch out the tentacles from his star-shaped nose, which quickly wrapped around of Stella's and the turtle in pink's waist, cutting their fall and preventing the two from hitting the surface and suffer the most agonizingly hot and acidic bath ever.
Molemoth lifted the two up and put them safely on the rocks before unwrapping his tentacles from around them and pulling them back.
"Whew!" both Arcee and Stella sighed with relief, before the turtle in pink turned to Molemoth. "Thanks, Molemoth."
Molemoth growled in response and nodded its head.
"You guys okay back there?" Mary called from ahead, having heard the commotion behind her and peered back to see what it was and if everything was alright.
"We're fine!" Arcee called back but didn't bother to to describe the details of the near-incident. "Should we keep going?"
The group agreed and proceeded crossing the sulfur lake, which went smoothly without anymore near incidents.
As they were close of reaching the other side of the lake, Leo stopped when the couple of bubbles floated up in front of him.
"Huh?" the turtle in blue muttered as he looked at them, with Dom coming from behind before the tutle in white noticed the bubbles as well.
And then, both Leo and Dom gasped in surprise and alarm when the bubbles bursted and a two tiny sharp-toothed shrimp-like creatures came out of them.
The creatures shrieked at the turtles in blue and white and were about to lunge at them until Quarry A and B, who had turned around, stuck their tongues out and grabbed the creature each, pulling them back into their mouths and swallowing them with one gulp.
"Ewww." Leo said in digust.
"Gross!" Dom said, sticking out his own tongue in disgust. "How can you guys eat something like that?"
"We've learned to eat and live of a land, for it lives off us." Quarry A said before carrying on.
"And sometimes... well... wihen really starved... monster eats monster down here." Quarry B added grimly(1)
Leo and Dom, cringing at the meaning of these words, turned to the others. Everybody else too, save for Quarry A's group, was gritting their teeth with uncomfortable looks on their faces, obviously getting at what Quarry B meant and chose rather not to talk about it.
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A little later, Razorfist, Pickaxe, Molemoth and Dogpound burrowed their way through the rock with their claws - with Dogpound, in between of digging with his large shovel-like claws, bit a huge chunks of rock off with his huge jaws - before knocking out a hole through the hole into another cavern.
And then, with Razorfist's lead, the four monsters began scaling a wall on the other side of the cave above the small ledge. Quarry A and B then followed them out of the hole and began scaling the wall themselves, followed by Scalebreath and Stonebiters.
Then the turtles came out, with Leo in the lead, as the turtle in blue began to move slowly along the ledge with his shell against the wall.
Then, he accidentally slipped and nearly fell off the ledge.
"Aahh!" he gasped.
"CAREFUL THERE!" Dom snapped as he put his hand over Leo's chest and pushed him back against the wall.
"Leo? Are you okay?" Donnie asked as he and Mary came out of the hole.
Leo and Dom looked down and saw a whirlpool in the bottom of the cavern, surrounded by the massive set of tall and sharp-tipped stalactites like the sea of needles. Not to mention that there were dozens of skeletal corpses lying there, pierced by stalactites. Likely the monsters Quarry A mentioned previously who had died in the caverns long ago.
"Wow! That was a little too close for comfort." Leo sighed with relief before carrying on along the ledge, followed by Dom, Donnie, Mary, Stella, Arcee, Louie, Angel, Raph and Mikey. "Watch your foot here, guys."
"Geez! No kidding!" Angel said, cringing at the corpses down in the bottom.
Ahead of them, Razorfist led Quarry A's group along a thin stone bridge. And once they reached to it themselves, the turtles and humans walked along it like on a tightrope - with Arcee watching over Stella's steps, for she was able to do this only with one hand - before the two groups stopped at the end of the bridge and looked down at the whirlpool bellow.
"This is it." Quarry A said.
Razorfist, Pickaxe, Molemoth and Dogpound turned to look at Quarry A, who nodded to them. And then, one by one, the four monsters jumped off the bridge and into the whirlpool.
"Hold on tight." Quarry A told to Quarry B, who clutched tightly to his shoulder, before Quarry A jumped off the bridge and into the whirlpool.
Scalebreath then jumped after him and vanished into the whirlpool.
"Hold... tight." Stonebiter A told to Stonebiter B, who wrapped his arms tightly around of Stonebiter A's shoulder, before the monsters jumped off the bridge into the whirlpool after the others.
The turtles walked to the end of the bridge and looked down at the whirlpool.
"If you guys ask from me, following monsters off the bridge into the whirlpool may be the dumbest thing we've ever done," Dom commented.
"Well' maybe not the most the most wisest thing we've ever done, but no point turning back at this point, I guess." Mary said with the shrug.
"Wrong! It's the most grossest!" Mikey corrected with disgust. "I mean, look at that! That thing looks like a giant toilet!"
"Well, dumbest, wisest or grossest or not. We're going." Leo said and hopped off the bridge and disappeared into the whrilpool.
The turtle in blue was followed by Dom, then Donnie and then Mary.
When their turn came, Arcee turned to Stella. "Grab on me, Stella. This is going to be a quite of roller coaster ride."
Stella nodded and wrapped her good arm tightly around the turtle in pink, before they jumped together off the bridge and into the whirlpool.
As Louie and Angel stepped in next, the two turned to each other. Louie saw that Angel was a bit nervous about jumping into the whirlpool, but the turtle in black wordlessly assured her with the smile and nod that it was going to be okay. Encouraged, Angel smiled back at Louie in affirmation, before the two took from each others' hands and jumped together off the bridge into the whirlpool.
"C'mon, Mikey! Don't fall behind!" Raph told him as he jumped off the bridge.
Mikey walked up to the end of the bridge and watched as Raph vanished into the whirlpool, leaving him alone in the bridge.
"Well, I guess this makes me tidy-bowl turtle." Mikey gulped but followed after the others off the bridge nonetheless.
"COWABUN...!" Mikey let out, but was cut off when he hit the water in the bottom of the whirlpool.
Holding his breath, the vortex's strong currents took Mikey on an underwater roller coaster ride that pulled him deeper and deeper into the pool, until he was sucked into a completely straight and downward tunnel at the bottom, which in turn flushed him to a waterfall at the end of the tunnel.
"Aaahhhh!" Mikey screamed as he fell down the waterfall.
Then he hit the water of the large underground river with the splash, which took him to another new cavern, which this time had some man-made structures, such as pillars made out of the brown and turquoise rock, holding up the ceiling.
"Whoa." Mikey gasped in awe as he floated past the structures, until he looked forward and, to his horror, saw that the current was taking him towards the bunch of spikey crystals at the end of the river.
"Aahhh!" Mikey gasped and tried to swim away from them, but the current was too strong.
"Current too strong!" he panicked and kept helplessly swimming as the current took him even close of crystals. "Somebody help me or I'm gonna end up skewered turtle!"
The current very nearly caused Mikey to hit the needle-sharp crystal, which could've killed him... hadn't it been for the Stonebiter A who leaned his head forward and grabbed him by the head with his mouth, pullinmg him out of the water.
"AAAAHHHHHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!" Mikey screamed both in panic and disgust of his head being in Stonebiter A's mouth as the monster put him safely to the ground.
"Let go of his head, Stonebiter A." Quarry A told him, as he stood with the other monsters, turtles and humans a short distance away.
Stonebiter A did as he was told and let go of Mikey, who touched his head frantically to make sure that it was still intact.
"Mikey! Are you alright?!" Arcee called as he ran up to Mikey's side to check him out.
"You mean aside of being shaken for having my head nearly eaten by the monster?" Mikey asked half sarcastically and half frantically, before the turtle in orange turned angrily to Stonebiter A. "Hey! Nobody eats my head! So do that again and I'll give ya a real taste of the turtle, dude!" the turtle in orange said, shaking his fist at him.(2)
Stonebiter A backed away from Mikey in confusion, and then looked down as if thinking that he did something wrong.(2)
Arcee looked at the rock monster with sympathy, before she scowled down at Mikey for being so unnecessarily rude towards Stonebiter A after the monster saved his life. Then she stood up and, proceeded to slap Mikey hard on top of his head.(2)
SLAP!
"OW!" Mikey yelped before turning to look up at Arcee in confusion, while rubbing his head. "What was that for, sis?"(2)
"For being so rude to Stonebiter A, who just saved your life from those crystals, you shell-for-brains!" the turtle in pink snapped as she menacingly loomed over the turtle in orange while pointing her finger up at the monster.(2)
Mikey was about to protest this by reminding that Stonebiter A did bit him in the head, but Arcee cut him off before he could, this time pointing at the crystals.
"So unless you rather prefer those needle-sharp crystals skewering you over Stonebiter biting you in the head to save you, I suggest you both thank him for saving your shell and apologize for your rude behavior!" Arcee demanded before walking away, leaving Mikey to ponder over her words.(2)
And after a moment of thinking it over, Mikey realized that Arcee was right - once again, as a doctor - that Stonebiter A had indeed saved his life and without biting him in his head, as much as it grossed him, he would've ended up being skewered to death by those crystals... and he only berated him for that as a thanks.
"Uuuggghhhh!" the turtle orange groaned as he reluctantly decided to heed his sister's advice, before he turned to look back at Stonebiter A. "Sorry, dude, and... thanks... for saving my shell."
Pleased that he hadn't done anything wrong after all, Stonebiter A gave him a soft growling sound as he walked past him after Arcee, catching up with the turtle in pink.
"Thanks." Stonebiter A said, thanking her for standing up for him against Mikey's unnecessary rudeness.
"You're welcome, Stonebiter A, and don't mind about him. Mikey thinks usually with his mouth first before with his head. That happens all of time." the turtle in pink assured the monster.
Angel, Stella and the rest of the turtles were meanwhile looking around in the cavern and staring up at the man-made structures in awe.
"Where are we?" Angel asked.
"This is the underground habitat what Quarry A and his squad discovered shortly before the operation was shut down." Stella explained. "We sent an investigation team here to investigate that did Quarry A's team found what we were searching for. And this is also where they discovered the first crystal needed to power up the force field."
"You were part of that investigation team yourself, Stella?" Angel asked.
"Well, not really, but I did get to see the photos the team took as evidence of this place's existence." Stella explained. "But to see them myself with my own eyes. It's... incredible."
"Yeah. But it still wasn't what the Shredder was looking for down here, prompting to shut you guys down and abandoning Quarry A and the others down here for the rest of their days." Raph reminded her as he walked past her.
The turtle in red's comment made Stella to led out the sad sigh, silently acknowledging to herself that this discovery had cost both her and Quarry A and the others everything, though more so to them than to her.
"How far away from the crystals are we?" Leo asked from Quarry A.
"They're here at the catacombs, but from this point on, we must be very quiet." Quarry A as they began to walk uphill towards the doorway in the wall. "This may not be part of the Fallen's territory anymore, but that doesn't make it any less dangerous. This is part of the Entity's realm. So we need to get the crystals and then get out of here."
"Guys. Keep your heads up and eyes open for anything that looks strange." Leo instructed the others, heeding to Quarry A's warning. "And be ready for anything."
Donnie then picked up the crystal from his duffel bag and lit it up to give them some light. And as they followed the monsters, the turtle in purple took a little closer look of the structures around them.
"Hmmm... Hey, Mikey? Arcee? Louie and Angel? Anyone recognizes these carvings and designs?" Donnie asked.
The three turtles in question and Angel looked up at the several pillars with carved symbols in them.
"Yeah." Angel said, spotting something familiar from them. "They do look familiar. Don't they, guys?"
"Whoa! I think Angel is right." Mikey said, amazed when he too saw the familiarity. "These are like the carvings from our Lair."
"And even the design of these pillars look just like the pillars of our Lair." Arcee pointed out.
"Yeah. Same interior decorator." Raph remaked.
"Not to mention about the same architect." Louie added.
"You think that we may have actually found the origins of our Lair?" Mary asked.
"Well, with the similar carvings, designs of the structures and the fact that our crystals likely came from down here, I'd say that the possibilities on that are so far 75%" Donnie calculated.
"Really? And what about the remaining 25%?" Dom questioned.
"Well, to be 100% sure that the origin of our Lair is from here, regardless of this initial evidence, we still need to get confirmation that who build these structures and our place." Donnie said.
"We can worry about that later, Donnie." Leo told him. "Now let's just focus on finding those crystals."
The monsters, humans and turtles then walked through the doorway, which too was hexagon-shaped similar to the doorways in the turtles' Lair.
But before Mikey and Angel, who brought up the rear, could follow the others through, the two of them stopped when the rocks fell down from the ceiling in front of them.
"Huh?/Whatta?" the two muttered as they looked up in the ceiling.
The doorway led them into a large chamber, where there were more pillars standing in rows like in an archway, more hexagonal doorways leading in different directions, and the rock walls were also polished quite smooth here and there, giving the turtles a very homely feeling, even if Quarry A and his friends were looking around them warily and restlessly, fearing that the aforementioned Entity might show up to snatch some more of them once he realizes they were down here again.
"We're here." Quarry A said, raising his clawed had up to halt them.
The turtles and Stella looked around, but they couldn't see the crystals anywhere.
"But I don't see any crystals here." Dom said with the shrug.
"It's this place where we discovered the first one." Quarry A argued. "There must be more."
"Then let's spread out and find them." Stella said. "And we better take with us every crystal we come across. Your guys' survival depends on that."
"Right." Leo agreed. "Search this chamber, but stay on sight."
Stella and Arcee went with Quarry A and B, while Leo went with Dom into different direction with Scalebreath. Raph went with Stonebiters, Donnie with Razorfist, Mary with Pickaxe, Louie with Dogpound and Molemoth.
Almost immediately after their search for the crystals started, Quarry A and B, Stella and Arcee stumbled to the first crystal on a wall. It was pretty large, larger than the turtles' remaining crystal and a bit larger than their previous crystal.
"Good. We found one." Quarry A said, relieved that they found at least one crystal.
"Few more of equally sized ones and your guys' survival is guaranteed." Stella told him.
"Maybe. But if we cannot find more, this one will do just fine." Quarry A said and went to pull it out of the wall. "With it, there's no further need to travel any deeper of this evil place."
Outside of the tunnel, Mikey and Angel kept looking up at the ceiling, as more rocks fell down and the ceiling began to crack.
"What is that?" Angel asked nervously.
"I don't know." Mikey said, shaking his head.
Then, two holes were breached through of the ceiling, before the heads of Spidernok and Earth Crab appeared out of of them, roaring down at the two.
"WOW!/AHH!" the turtle in orange and Angel screamed in alarm.
Then the two heard the savage roaring coming down from one of the doorways on their left, making Mikey and Angel turn to look there, only to see after a few seconds the trio of Earth Raptors galloping out of the tunnel towards them at full speed, roaring hungrily.
Neither Angel or Mikey had time to scream before they heard the crumbling sound coming from behind them, making them turn around and see that the ground was cracking and crumbling as if something was forcing its way through of it. And before long, the head of the Driller Worm rose up from the ground, turning to Mikey and Angel before opening wide its five flap-like jaws, revealing its multiple rounds of teeth, and let out the tremendous roar at the two.
And to top of it all, yet another portion of the ground next to Mikey and Angel began to crack and crumble, before a gigantic King Nail bursted through of it and easily towered over the turtle and the girl, raising its huge claws high in the air and looked down at them, before opening its mouth behind its long fangs and let out a hellish roar.
"AAAHHHHH! WAIT UUUUUUUUP!" the turtle in orange and Angel screamed and ran down into the tunnel after the others as Spidernok and Earth Crab landed heavily in front of the doorway.
"GUYS! GUYS! GUYS! AAHHH! MONSTERS! WE GOT MONSTERS! RIGHT BEHIND ME! AAHHH!" Mikey screamed frantically as he ran past his siblings, Stella and Quarry A's group, making everybody turn to him in alarm.
"THE FALLEN! THE FALLEN ARE HERE! RIGHT BEHIND US! RUN! ALL OF YOU! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Angel screamed as she followed Mikey, but not before grabbing Louie by his arm and dragging him with her down the tunnel.
"RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
The roar echoing just outside of the tunnel made the turtles, Stella and Quarry A's group to turn to the doorway with the alarmed gasps.
"THAT'S OUR WARNING SIGNAL!" Mary let out.
"YOU HEARD THEM MIKEY AND ANGEL! EVERYBODY, LET'S GET TO COVER!" Leo ordered.
The rest of the turtles, Stella and Quarry A's group then began to run down the tunnel after Mikey, Angel and Louie.
"Wait! That way leads to...!" Quarry argued.
"To the Entity's realm! To the Entity's realm!" Stonebiter B finished with the frantic roar from Stonebiter A's back.
"Either the Entity's realm or the Fallen, it's all the same now!" Dom argued back, reasoning that no matter which one they'll choose, they're all going to die nonetheless if they just stood there.
"Dom is right! We got no choice! LET'S GO!" Leo said.
"MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" Raph shouted as another roar echoed in the tunnel behind them.
"RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
The two groups ran to the end of the tunnel, until they stopped when they came to a largest doorway with the large metal hexagon shaped door that blocked their way.
"Razorfist! Pickaxe! Bring down the door!" Quarry A ordered.
Razorfist and Pickaxe stepped forward and both of them tried to break through of the metal door by bashing their claws agaist it over and over again, but neither monster could even leave a scratch into it, making them back away from it in surprise and confusion.
"Stonebiter A! Dogpoud!" Quarry A called.
Both Stonebiter A and Dogpoud backed away to pick up the speed, before the two monsters charged together at the door, slamming against it with all of their strength and weight, but the door didn't even budge. Stonebiter A even tried to pry the door's metal open with bare hands, while Dogpound opened his huge maw and tried to bite into it with his huge teeth. However, Stonebiter A couldn't get a good grip on anything to pry the door open, and neither the Dogpound's teeth sunk into it, forcing the two monsters back away from it, with Dogpound letting out the whines in pain because trying to bite apparently impenetrable door had caused his teeth to hurt.
"Molemoth! With me!" Quarry A called.
Quarry A and Molemoth then stepped forward and both monsters began use their claws to scratch the door, but nothing happened. Even Molemoth couldn't leave even the clawmarks on the door's surface, forcing them too to back away.
Quarry A then hissed as he spit the acid at the door, hoping to melt the hole into it. However, much to Quarry A's shock, the door didn't even melt.
"Impossible!" Stella gasped in shock and disbelief that even Quarry A's blast of acid didn't melt the door.
Hoping against hope, Quarry A turned to Scalebreath. "You are our only hope now, Scalebreath."
Scalebreath nodded and stepped forward towards the door while everybody else, knowing what Scalebreath was going to do, stepped back to give him some room.
Staring at the door, Scalebreath reared up his head and inhaled, before, with his spiky frill unfolding wide around his neck, let out the tremendous roar as he shot the massive blast of blue liquid-like fire out of his mouth at the door, which illuminated the entire tunnel with a bright blue glow, as well as caused some stray heat waves to bounce backwards, forcing everybody to turn their eyes away from the light and shield their faces with their arms.
"RRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!"
"PWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!"
After giving at the door everything he got before reaching to his limits, Scalebreath ceased his blue-fire blast and panted heavily from exhaustion, while everybody else turned to the door.
Much to their shock, while Scalebreath's blue molten rock-like drool was solidified on the doorway's frames, to the feet of the door and on the door itself... the door, however, remained intact like nothing had ever even hit it.
"No..." Quarry A gasped, horrified.
"It cannot be!" Stella gasped, even more shocked and in disbelief than ever. "Quarry A and B's acidic saliva, as well as Scalebreath's fiery blast were designed to melt anything and any rock 100%!"
"What is this door even made of?!" Dom wondered aloud.
"Well, at least not from any ordinary material, I can tell you that." Stella told him.
"So now what?!" Arcee asked, throwing her arms in the air. "We're trapped! Trapped between of this door and the Fallen are right on our tails!"
Then then looked at the door closely and noticed a small empty hole beside it. The hole was the same shaped and exactly the same sized as the crystal he was holding, The brainy turtle looked down at the crystal in his hands and wondered if it could fit in there and open the door.
"Stand back." he said and walked up to the hole.
Donnie then put the crystal in the hole and it fitted in there perfectly, but nothing did happen at all. The door was still closed.
"Come on! Come on!" the turtle in purple groaned frustrately as he tried to adjust it a little bit to make it work but nothing happened. "Ugh! Nevermind!"
Dom, Arcee, Louie, Angel, Raph and Mikey groaned at this, with some of them facepalming themselves in annoyance.
"Ugh! Not again!" Raph moaned.
"At the time like this?! Seriously?!" Louie complained.
"RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
Another roar behind of their shells made Leo and Mary turn around towards the other end of the tunnel, before the turtles in blue and turquoise pulled out their respective swords and Naginata out and prepared themselves.
"Well, we might be outmatched, but the Fallen won't get us that easily!" Mary swore.
"Battle ready, guys!" Leo ordered.
Dom, Arcee, Louie, Raph and Mikey all turned around and pulled out their respective weapons and prepared themselves. Even Angel picked up the fallen stalactite and held it high, ready to fight with the turtles.
Just as Donnie was about to pull out his Bo, one thought entered into his mind.
"You know... I wonder... if that was the case the last time... then maybe..." he wondered before he turned back to the crystal.
The brainy turtle then pulled the crystal out of the hole and, turning it upside down, put it back in, this time causing it to glow.
"Hah!" Donnie laughed with joy and relief. "Tell you what! Maybe it really does matter whether things are right or upside down despite the same-looking ends." he told to himself.
The metal doors then slid open - with the upper half going upwards and the bottom half going downwards - before Donnie ran through of it and turned to the others.
"HEY, GUYS!" Donnie called as he turned to the others. "IT WORKED! THIS WAY!" he called again as the others turned to him.
Though she initially smiled with relief that the doors were finally open, that quickly faded away from her lips when Stella spotted something in the tunnel.
"DONATELLO! LOOK OUT!" she warned, pointing in the tunnel.
"WHAT?" Donnie called and turned to look into the tunnel.
Before he or anyone else could react, three orbs of white lights circling around like a bola, came flying towards Donnie.
"Whatta...?" Leo muttered as he noticed it.
"NO!" Quarry A gasped in wide-eyed horror, recognizing those orbs of light due to having seen them before. "GET AWAY FROM THOSE LIGHTS!" he warned but too late.
The bola went over Donnie's head and descended down to his waist as he turned back to the others with the confused look on his face.
And then WHOOSH! With the bright flash of light that came out of the doorway, Donnie was gone. Vanished in the thin air.
The turtles, Angel and Stella were left staring at the empty spot Donnie had been a moment ago standing in complete shock and horror.
"DONNIE!" Mikey called.
"DON!" Mary cried.
"DONNIE!" Arcee cried even louder in wide-eyed shock.
"NO!" Leo exclaimed.
"DONNIE!" Raph shouted.
"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!" Angel cried in confusion.
"WHERE IS DON?!" Louie shouted, looking around for him but didn't see Donnie anywhere.
"WHERE DID HE GO?!" Dom demanded to know as he turned to Stella.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Stella cried, honest yet confused. "A MOMENT AGO HE WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE, AND THEN HE WAS GONE!"
"The Entity." Quarry A said gravely, making the turtles and Angel to turn to him. "The Entity has taken your brother."
The turtles and humans were left in shock that the Entity Quarry A had been speaking of was in fact real, as those orbs of light couldn't have come out of the tunnel on their own.
"Then he's goner!" Mikey exclaimed.
"RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
Another roar, along with the heavy footsteps made the two groups turn back to the other end of the tunnel.
"An in the couple minutes, WE'LL BE GONERS TOO!" Mikey panicked.
At the other end of the tunnel, Earth Raptors, followed by the Spidernok, Earth Crab, Insector, Groundroach Rex, King Scorpio, Richterosaurus, Driller Worm, King Nail, Cyclopsis and Omega walked though of the doorway and, growling savagely, approached slowly but certainly towards the turtles, humans and Quarry A's group.
"Here it ends." Quarry A said gravely.
With the Entity stalking them in the tunnel behind them and the Fallen approaching them from the front, there was no to escape from this alive.
The seven remaining turtles, along with Angel and Stella, looked nervous, completely worried about Donnie and their own fates.
"Leo? What do we do?" Arcee asked worriedly.
"I don't know, little sister. I truly don't know." Leo said, shaking his head.
THE END
TRIVIA
1) = Quarry B gives a hint here that their group as well as the Fallen have sometimes resulted into the cannibalism in order to survive if their natural underground food resources are scarce.
2) = I kinda felt that Mikey needed a little reprimanting for shouting at poor Stonebiter who just saved his life, and I absolutely loved giving that honor to Arcee.