CT311998: Oh, yeah. Sorry. I didn't remember of crediting you for Cyclopsis', Spidernok's and Insector's names. It's not usually me to go without crediting someone else's works or characters I've been allowed to use. But I've already fixed that in the second part of the Notes From the Underground, Part 2. And about using the TMNT 2003 video games monsters' designs/models for the extras for the Fallen, the temptation was too great to pass since there were four OC turtles and Angel joining up to the journey in underground.
Guest: Long time for that yet, but I already have some new plans in the end of that episode for poor Finn. I just won't spoil whether good or bad.
Moltenstorm: That's why I put Arcee to scold Mikey for his rudeness towards Stonebiter A. Even if she is a gentle and peaceful doctor of the team she is not above of lashing out at anyone who is unnecessarily mean to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Nicochan11: I can tell this much that when Quarry and the other monsters are turned back to the humans, It will be a little longer than what it was in the original episode.
animegamefanatic: Well, get ready to shiver some more, my friend, 'cause here we get to the first chapter of the third episode. And what comes to Stella, prepare to see in the following chapters.
Near the doors of the Foot Genetics lab, the turtles, Angel and Stella were backing away from nine monsters as they advanced towards them.
"My name is Domenico. And allow me to introduce to you our newest friends."
In the abandoned subway tunnel, Stonebiter A let's out the tremendous roar.
"Meet Stonebiters"
From the edge of the cliff in another cavern, Stonebiter B looks down and growls loudly.
In the Foot Genetics lab, Molemoth roars and stretches out the tentacles from his star-shaped nose.
"Molemoth."
Dogpound comes out through the wall, with the huge chunk of stone in between of his jaws.
"Dogpound."
In the cavern, Scalebreath unfolds his spiky frill around of his neck as he roars.
"Scalebreath."
Razorfist lets out a growl.
"Razorfist."
Pickaxe burrows his way through of the rock with his large claws and screeches.
"Pickaxe."
In the Foot Genetics lab, Quarry A and B let out an aggressive hiss as the acid drools out of their mouths to the floor, melting a hole in it.
"And Quarry A and B."
One by one, Razorfist, Pickaxe, Dogpound, Stonebiters, Scalebreath, molemoth and Quarry A and B enter into the lab, growling and roaring.
"These nine may look like monsters, but these poor souls were once ordinary people 'til the Shredder's immoral scientists performed horrible genetic experiments on them."
The turtles and Angel looked at the Foot's video logs, which showed a scared man, woman and even a girl strapped on the table, surrounded by the Foot scientists, before the green substance was pumped into their arms.
Man: "NO! PLEASE! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH-GGGGRRRRRRRR!"
Woman: "LET US OUT! PLEASE! AAAAAHHHHH-SCREEEECCCCCHHHHH!"
Child: "MOMMY! MOMMY! GGGGRRRRRRRRR!"
Later, Mary, Dom and Leo were looking up at Quarry A and B.
Leo: "What is your name?"
Taken aback, Quarry A tried to think before he clutched to his head in pain and closed his eyes.
"Experiments that will eventually reduce them into mindless beasts like what happened to these other examples of Shredder's inhuman work, called the Fallen."
Several of the aforementioned Fallen: mainly Insector, Omega, Groundroach Rex, Cyclopsis and Richterosaurus bang or slash their fists, claws and tail against the blue force field, unable to scratch or dent it, as it keeps them out of the lab.
Inside of the lab, within the safety of the force field, the turtles, humans and Quarry A's group stand in the control center, looking at the crystal that powers up the force field.
"The only thing keeping Quarry A and his friends safe from being killed by their former comrades is this crystal that powers up the force field."
As the force field expands itself slowly, it forced the Fallen back towards the door and into the tunnel where they came from. However, the crystal ends up being burned out after repelling off the Fallen.
"Unfortunately, the crystal's now all burned out and thus useless, leaving our new friends defenseless against another inevitable attack."
Donnie and Mary jump onto the platform holding the crystal before Donnie picked it up, only for it to shatter into tiny pieces in his hands.
"And according to Quarry A, the only place we can get another one is what he calls Forbidden Zone, because he has previously lost his friends down there to something called Entity."
Quarry A: "Something unspeakable dwells there amidst the crystals. A ghostly Entity. It is a forbidden place!"
"But we have no choice but to head down there anyway."
With Quarry A's lead, the two allied groups walk along the rocks to cross a vast underground lake of hot and acidic sulfur, until they make it in front of the impenetrable hexagon-shaped metal door, which Donnie opens with the crystal.
"But when we finally made it into the Forbidden Zone through a few obstacles, that's when all shell breaks loose."
Donnie: "Hey! This way!"
Suddenly, before anyone could react, three orbs of white lights circling around like a bola, came flying towards Donnie.
Stella: "DONATELLO! LOOK OUT!"
The bola went around Donnie as he turned to the others with confusion on his face. Then there was a bright flash of light before Donnie vanished in the thin air.
WHOOSH!
Raph: "DONNIE!"
Arcee: "DONNIE!"
Angel: "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!"
"Suddenly Donny just vanished! Taken by this mysterious Entity. But we're going to get him back, no matter what!"
The seven remaining turtles, humans and Quarry A's group then turtles to the other end of the tunnel as the Fallen slowly approached them, leaving them trapped between of the Fallen and the Entity. The turtles, Angel and Stella look nervous, worried about Donnie and their own fates.
"That is, if we by some miracle manage to survive the next couple of minutes."
(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!"
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Notes From the Underground Part 3, Part 1=
As the Fallen approached the seven remaining turtles, humans and Quarry A's group, Raph and Arcee ran towards the open doorway where Donnie had stood a moment before mysteriously disappearing.
"DONNIE!" the turtles in red and pink shouted/screamed.
"NO! NO! DONNIE! DONNIE!" Raph shouted into the tunnel with dread and worry. "DONNIE! DONNIE!"
"DONNIE! DONNIE! WHERE ARE YOU?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Arcee screamed panickedly from the top of her lungs. "DOONNNNNNIIIIEEEE!"
"Guys! GET AWAY FROM THERE!" Leo shouted as he, Mary, Dom, Louie, Angel, Mikey and Stella stood with Quarry A's group as the Fallen kept coming closer.
"Yeah! That Entity-guy must be still stalking out there!" Dom warned them.
However, neither Raph or Arcee seemed to be hearing their brothers but kept looking into the tunnel, trying frantically and desperately to find Donnie while trying at the same time to make any sense of what had just happened to Donnie.
Behind them, the Fallen were just about to be upon of them.
"Hold your ground, my friends!" Quarry A told his friends, trying to hide the fact how nervous and fearful he actually was.
Omega stepped forward and roared fiercely down at Pickaxe, who screeched back at the larger and stronger monster before raising all four of his claws in a threatening gesture in the praying mantis' manner, which however had no effect on Omega. Seeing this, Pickaxe tried to attack Omega by slashing his claws at it, but Omega received them with its left scythe-like claw relatively ease before it brutally slashed Pickaxe across his chest with its right claw, leaving there a huge bleeding gash, while also easily sending Pickaxe flying back.
The Earth Raptors growled as they charged at Dogpound one at the time, who roared at them aloud to warn them to stay back. But when they didn't stop and Earth Raptor 1. went straight for the head, Dogpound used his head to knock it away. As the Earth Raptor 2. tried to attack him from another side, aiming at his throat with its claws, Dogpound rose up to his hind legs and whacked the beast away with the shover-like claws of his left fore legs. Then he turned around and whacked the Earth Raptor 3. away with the swing of his tail, sending it flying into Omega, knocking the big monster down.
Scalebreath roared at the Fallen, unfolding his spiky frill around his neck, before he shot the fiery blue blast at the Fallen, aiming at Cyclopsis, who responded to this by grabbing on and ripping a chunk out of the nearby pillar and used it as a shield against the Scalebreath's fiery blast. And due to him being still exhausted after using most of his strength and fiery blast at the door, this blast didn't last long and melted only a half of the ripped portion of the pillar away. Cyclopsis roared at them before he threw the chunk at Molemoth, knocking the monster off his feet.
"TWEEEEET!" Louie whistled at the Groundroach Rex as he waved his swords over his head, gaining the monster's attention. "HEY, G-REX! OVER HERE! COME FOR THE TASTY YUMMY-YUMMY TURTLE!"
Groundroach Red, or G-Rex dubbed by the turtle in black, roared as it came charging right at Louie.
"YEAH! MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELUJAH!" Louie shouted as he charged at the monster.
"Louie, be careful!" Angel called after him.
G-Rex tried to bring its large excavator-like claws down on Louie, but the turtle in black jumped over them and landed the kick in the monster's head. Upon landing to the ground, the turtle in black slashed his Butterfly swords at G-Rex twice before he snap-kicked it in under the chin, knocking its head back, before Louie leaped at it and double-kicked G-Rex in the head.
"Hah! Not so tough now, aren't ya, roachy!" Louie taunted, as the monster reared its head up.
"LOUIE, LOOK OUT!" Dom's voice called in warning.
G-Rex hissed as it spit the purple acid out of its mouth at Louie, which very nearly hit Louie in the chest if Dom hadn't pushed his brother out of the way at the very last minute, causing the purple spit to hit the ground and melt a hole in it.
"Wow!" Louie gulped at the fact that he had almost died as the comeuppance for taunting the monster.
"Like they say in my favorite book: Never laugh at live monster, you shell-for-brain!" the turtle in white snapped at Louie.(1)
G-Rex roared again, making Louie and Dom turn back to it, before the monster spit some more balls of purplish acid at them, forcing Louie to handsprung backwards to avoid them, staying a step ahead of each shot the monster shot at him, with each ball of acid landing right to the spot where Louie had been, melting a hole through the ground.
Dom, meanwhile, had turned around and thrown himself to the ground before one of the acid balls could hit him, before the turtle in white somersaulted sideways back to his feet before turning back to G-Rex and Louie.
However, a loud roar in his right side drew Dom's attention to it, only for the turtle in white to jump back when with the surprised yelp "WOW!" when King Scorpio slammed one of its claws down at him, stricking the ground instead.
Furious of having missed its prey, King Scorpio charged at Dom and tried to strike its claws down on Dom, who jumped back to avoid the first and then the second strike, before King Scorpio thrusted its right claw forward, striking Dom in the chest with its tip and knocking the turtle in white off his feet and onto his shell to the ground. And with the turtle down and defenseless, King Scorpio charged at him again and brought the twin stinger at the end of its tail hard down at Dom before he could reach.
"WOW!" Dom gasped and closed his eyes while gritting his teeth, waiting for the blow to come.
However, because the monster had two stingers side by side rather than on top of each other, the stingers ended up to sink into the ground just narrowly a few inches away from both sides of Dom's neck!
And after missing its prey, again, King Scorpio pulled its tail back up, allong Dom to somersault backwards onto his hands and then handsprung back on his feet and away from the beast.
Afterwards the turtle in white began to frantically touch the both sides of his neck to see if he had received any life-threatening injuries, and only momentarily sighed with relief when he couldn't find one.
Elsewhere, Quarry A and B, Stonebiter B, Scalebreath, Stella, Leo, Mary and Mikey backed away as Spidernok, Earth Crab, Richterosaurus and Driller Worm approached them, with Earth Crab snapping its giant claws and Richterosaurus slamming its flat tail against the ground, making the tunnel quake enough to make the turtles and Quarry A's monsters to wobble and rocks to fall off the ceiling, while the Driller Worm dug itself into the ground.
Scalebreath tried to shoot another blast of blue fire out of his mouth at the Fallen in the defense of his friends, until Spidernok stepped in and shot out of its mouth something purplish goo-like substance that was as sticky as the spider's web, which hit Scalebreath right in the face and around of his muzzle with the SPLASH, sealing it shut and preventing him from opening his mouth!(2)
"AAHH!" Leo, Stella, Mary, Mikey, Quarry A and B and Stonebiter B gasped in alarm.
"Eww! Gross!" Mikey gagged with disgust.
Scalebreath violently shook his head to the sides in an attempt to get the Spidernock's web-like goo off his muzzle, letting out the muffled growls, but it was futile.
And if things didn't go any worse, Driller Worm suddenly emerged from the ground just below of distracted Scalebreath, catching him by surprise and clamped its five flap-like jaws around of his throat before it proceeded to wrap its body around of Scalebreath like constrictor snake! Scalebreath tried to break free from the Driller Worm's tight coils, but it was no use, as in his weakened state he was no match for the larger and stronger monster, who moved its head in front of Scalebreath's and opened its flap-like jaws wide open and roared at him, before it apparently was going to try to force Scalebreath's head into its mouth... to eat him as a whole!
"RAPH! ARCEE! WE COULD USE A LITTLE HELP IN HERE!" the turtle in turquoise called to them.
However, neither Raph and Arcee didn't hear her or they just simply ignored her as they still kept searching the tunnel for Donnie.
Arcee, however, turned to her left and saw something strange coming right towards them from around the corner.
"What is that?" she questioned.
Raph turned to look where Arcee was looking, and gasped in surprise upon seeing four more strange bolas were flying straight towards them.
"MOVE!" Raph said and pushed Arcee off her feet to the ground just as two of the bolas nearly hit her before flying harmlessly over the turtle in pink, before Raph dodged down the third and fourth ones, causing them to fly right over him.
The turtles in red and pink turned to look where the bolas were flying to, as Spidernock, Earth Crab and Richterosaurus - who had curled up into his giant armored ball-like form - charged at Quarry A and B, Stonebiter B, Leo, Mary and Mikey, with Spidernok trying to pounce on Quarry A and the smaller monsters while Earth Crab tried to snatch both Mikey and Mary into its claws and while Richterosaurus tried to flatten both Leo and Stella, with the latter cowering behind the tuetle in blue's shell.
They all shielded themselves as the monsters came at them, until the bolas hit one of Spidernok's fangs, Earth Crab's claws and Richterosaurus' spikes at the last second.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
All three monsters vanished into the thin air before they could even touch anyone they were targeting, leaving everybody confused.
"Huh? Where... where did they go?" Mikey wondered.
"LOOK OUT! ONE MORE INCOMING!" Raph warned as he and Arcee ran away from the door and towards their siblings.
"MARY! LOOK OUT!" Arcee called. "IT'S COMING RIGHT TO YOU!"
Mary turned around and saw that the fourth bola was coming straight at him.
The turtle in turquoise, instead of even trying to dodge the incoming bola, braced herself and readjusted her hold on her Naginata, ready to swing her weapon's blade up at the bola and cut the lines connecting these strange orbs of light to render it harmless.
Seeing what Mary was about to do, Arcee gasped with dread. "NO, MARY! DON'T!" Arcee screamed, panickedly pleading her not to do it.
But Mary already swung her Naginata towards the incoming bola with "YAAA!" cry, looking like she might just succeed in cutting its lines in two.
However, much to Arcee's and the rest of her family's horror, the moment when Mary's Naginata's blade touched the lines in between of the spinning orbs of light...
WHOOSH!
The turtle in turquoise was gone without the trace, just like Donnie was.
"NOOOOOOOO! MARY!" Arcee screamed in horror.
In the devastating disbelief that her belowed big sister was gone, just like Donnie, the turtle in pink soon stopped running and dropped onto her knees, with her arms hanging limply from her shoulders as she stared wide-eyed at the spot where Mary had stood just a moment ago... with the stream of tears escaping from her eyes and running down her cheeks.
"MARY!" Leo gasped upon seeing that Mary had vanished.
"MARY! NOOO!" Raph cried as he reached up to the spot where his sister had just stood and dropped onto his knees next to it, uselessly touching the ground around the spot with his hands and sweeping some dust and small rocks away from it.
"No! No! No! No!" Arcee moaned, shaking her head as even more and more tears flooded from her eyes
"She's gone! Just like Donnie!" Mikey panicked.
Even Stella stared down at Mary's empty spot with the horror-struck look on her face.
Razorfist braced himself as Insector charged at him and attempted to strike a slightly bigger blue monster with his claws, but Insector's attack came much faster and stronger, which knocked Razorfist off his feet and onto the ground, allowing Insector to pin him down. With its bigger arms, Insector then held Razorfist's own claws pinned down while it brutally clawed his chest with its smaller arms' claws, leaving there a deep bleeding gashes and causing Razorfist roar in pain.
Dogpound was facing Earth Raptor 3, barking at it and snapping huge jaws at it to keep the monster at bay, until Earth Raptor 2, using Dogpound's distraction as its advantage, pounced onto his back, where it dug its claws deep into Dogpound's back and sunk its teeth into his neck, causing Dogpound to roar in pain. And even more so when Earth Raptor 1 lunged at Dogpound's right hind leg and savagely mauled it with its claws and teeth, causing Dogpound to fall onto its right side, barely able to stay upright, before Earth Raptor 3 circled around and then lunged at Dogpound's face, knocking him over onto his right side and leaving him at the savage dinosaur-like monsters' mercy.
"MORE INCOMING!" Raph called a warning as he pointed up, making everybody else to look up as well.
Three more bolas came out of nowhere, with one hitting the fighting Razorfist and Insector, the second hitting Dogpound as he was being brutally mauled by all three Earth Raptors, and Scalebreath and Driller Worm as the latter was about to clamp its jaws around of the former's head.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Before anyone could even blink their eyes, Razorfist, Dogpound and Scalebreath, as well as Insector, all Earth Raptors and Driller Worm vanished into the thin air.
"RAZORFIST!" Leo shouted.
"DOGPOUND!" Stella shouted.
"SCALEBREATH!" Raph shouted.
"Leo, what the shell is going on down here?!" Mikey asked, completely shocked and confused that both them and the Fallen were quickly suffering the heavy losses, though not by each other's' hands but by the third invisible participant.
"The Entity!" Arcee realized as the turtle in pink got back up on her feet. "He's behind of all of this!"
Meanwhile, Angel watched with worry as G-Rex and King Scorpio were beating up both Louie and Dom, before the monsters knocked them both onto their shells in her feet, before she squatted down next to both of them.
"Get up, guys!" she pleaded as she touched their shoulders, only to earn the grunts and groans in pain from both of them as they tried to stand up but failed.
"GET UP! GET UP!" she pleaded frantically as she looked up, seeing G-Rex and King Scorpio growling as the two monsters advanced towards her.
But before they could get to her, Stonebiter A bravely stood in between of Angel, the downed turtles and the monsters and roared at them, to which G-Rex and King Scorpio responded in kind before they charged at Stone Biter A.
King Scorpio pounced on Stonebiter A, clamping its claws around of his right arm and left shoulder as it hissed bloodthirsty and snapped its pincers at Stonebiter A's face while he held the monster back with all of his strength, before Stonebiter pushed King Scorpio back and caused the monster to fly onto its back to the ground.
G-Rex then charged at Stonebiter A while he was still recovering with his struggle with King Scorpio, before the monster guickly clamped its sharp teeth around of Stonebiter's left shoulder. And though his rock-hard skin protected him from severe injuries, the monster's bite caused Stonebiter A to let out a tremendous roar in pain.
Stonebiter A then resulted to grab G-Rex by his underbelly before he lifted the monster off the ground and held it up above his head, before he then threw G-Rex away, causing the monster crash against the wall, leaving him stunned.
But before Stonebiter A could even properly recover from both King Scorpio's and G-Rex's attacks, King Nail lunged at him with a roar and, using its great size and mass to his advantage, knocked Stonebiter A off his feet and pinned him to the ground, with Stonebiter A being just barely able to keep the giant monster from mauling his face with its long fangs. King Nail then swung its long tail at Stonebiter A in attempt to strike him in the head, but missed when he just barely managed to move out of its way.
"Stonebiter A!" Quarry As shouted at the sight of him being trouble.
Quarry A tried to run over to help Stonebiter A, but King Nail sensed his coming and whacked him back with its tail, causing Quarry A to land hard next to the turtles, humans, stunned Molemoth and wounded Pickaxe, as they stood back up after having recovered.
With arduous effort, Stonebiter A managed to push King Nail off him so that he could get up from the ground and afterwards kept the monster back. But as King Nail was about to slash Stonebiter A to death with both of its claws, another bola came out of nowhere and hit Stonebiter in the back, causing him to vanish and King Nail to slash the empty air instead.
WHOOSH!
"STONEBITER A! NO!" Raph shouted.
"NO!" Quarry A gasped in horror upon seeing his friend vanishing without the trace.
Stonebiter B and Quarry A wailed miserably upon seeing Stonebiter A gone.
Angered over this, Mikey turned to face King Nail.
"Bring it on, you big ugly troll!" he dared as he spun his Nunchucks. "Show me what you got!"
King Nail stared down at Mikey and Arcee, Raph and Stella on the turtle in orange's left and Louie, Angel, Leo and Dom on his right, before the monster raised its giant claws up and let out the tremendous roar that shook the whole cave.
RRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR! RRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! (3)
"Okay. I'm impressed." Mikey admitted nervously.
King Nail was then joined by the remaining Fallen: Cyclopsis, King Scorpio, Groundroach Rex and Omega, who looked down at the six turtles, Angel and Stella, Quarry A and B, Stonebiter B, Molemoth and Pickaxe.
The remaining members of their groups backed away towards the doorway as the remaining Fallen growled at them.
"Now what do we do?" Mikey asked.
"Well, we're not definitely going to win this one, that's for sure." Angel said, hiding behind Louie's shell.
"Then anybody else in mind of, I don't know, "I'm taking my chances with whatever's beyond that door" thingy?" Dom suggested.
"If that's our only option!" Leo said, putting his Katanas away, before he made a quick decision to heed to Dom's suggestion. "Retreat! Into the tunnel! Whatever's through this door can't be worse than this!"
Putting their weapons away, Raph, Arcee, Mikey, Louie and Dom, along with Angel and Stella, backed away into the tunnel.
"I hope those don't become your famous last words, Leo." Mikey gulped.
Quarry A and B, Stonebiter B, Molemoth and Pickaxe, however, hesitated greatly to follow the turtles and humans into the tunnel due to apparently knowing where it's leading, as well as out of the fear of running into that greatly feared Entity stalking out there, ready to snatch the rest of them like he did with Razorfist, Stonebiter A, Dogpound and Scalebreath.
"Quarry A! Guys! Go!" Leo ordered them.
However, the scared monsters still refused to budge, until the Fallen came charging after them, roaring ferociously and easily indimitating Quarry A's group.
"Ahh! Go! GO!" Quarry A ordered his remaining friends, deciding that staying put and being torn apart by the Fallen wasn't any better than going into the Entity's realm.
Obeying, though reluctantly, Molemoth and Pickaxe, as well as Quarry and Stonebiter Bs turned and ran after the turtles and humans, with Quarry A following after them.
With everybody safely in the tunnel, Leo turned to the approaching Fallen.
"Alright! Let's see how well you guys manage to get through this door!" Leo said, knowing that if they weren't able to get through the door, then neither can the Fallen.
The turtle in blue then reached out and removed their crystal from its holder before running after the others as the metal doors closed behind him.
The Fallen then crashed heavily against the metal door before they began to violently bang right into it; King Nail and King Scorpio with their claws, Cyclopsis with its fists, Omega with its scythe-like claws and G-Rex with both its excavator-like claws and purple spit of acid.
In the other side, the turtles, humans and Quarry A heard the Fallen's frustrated growls and howls from behind the metal doors and felt the entire tunnel shaking violently as they kept pounding into the door.
With the danger at bay, the two groups were finally able to catch their breaths.
"Sheesh!" Angel gasped and wiped some sweat from her forehead. "A little moment longer and we'd have ended up as the monster chow."
"Well, Angel-cake, at least we have a confirmation that they won't be able to get through of this door." Louie pointed out.
"Yes. But we failed to obtain the crystals we needed." Stella reminded her friends.
"We'll get them, Stella, eventually." Leo assured her. "Let's just now keep moving to where this tunnel leads."
The turtles, humans, and Quarry A's group then set off to follow the tunnel, which turned out to be not a very long way to walk. Soon they arrived at a hexagonal doorway at the other end of the tunnel, through of came a light into the tunnel.
But the closer they came to it, the more nervous and restless Quarry A's group got. Molemoth and Pickaxe were at the tail of the group with fearful expressions on their faces, while Quarry B and Stonebiter B huddled closer to Quarry A, trembling with fear. Even Quarry A struggled to stay both strong and brave for the sake of his friends with great deal of difficulty.
"Quarry A and the others are starting to get restless, Leonardo." Stella told to the turtle in blue.
"Then we must be close of our destination." Leo said. "Be ready for anything."
The two groups then came out of the tunnel onto the ledge, before the turtles and humans' eyes went wide and they let out the astonished gasps at the sight before them.
"HOLY SHELL!" Louie and Angel said at the same time.
The tunnel had led them to a gigantic underground cavern with a chasm full of molten lava, and in middle of it stood a strange-looking fog or steam-clad city, which looked from a distance like a giant orange egg in a turquoise cup with the top cracked open, with a tall black tower rising above the city's walls, likely from the center of the city. And above the city shone a gigantic cluster of glowing crystals on the cavern roof... shaped like the moon to enlighten the cavern.
Mikey and Angel gasped at the sight of the city, which they quickly recognized as the one they had seen in their combined dreams, which the two acknowledged by exchanging glances at each other.
However, the sight of the city made Quarry A's group to panic and back away.
"No! Not here! NOT HERE!" Pickaxe panicked, raising his claws up to protect himself from the city itself.
"Want to out of here! WANT TO OUT OF HERE!" Stonebiter B whimpered as he hid behind of Quarry A's legs along with Quarry B.
"We shouldn't be here!" Quarry A sight, frightened down to the core. "This is the Entity's Realm! The Necropolis! The City of the Dead!"
Everybody stood in stunned - or in the monsters' case, a frightened - silence as they kept staring at the city.
"Wait! Did you just say, "the City of the Dead"?" Dom repeated, feeling himself starting to get freaked out by this place.
"As if a whole city full of the living dead?" Louie questioned, though he didn't sound as freaked out as Dom did. "Such as? A live skeleton warriors? Undead? Ghosts? Or just a one big dead city?"
"Or monsters made up of smoke who want to eat you... like last time?" Angel suggested, remembering hers and Mikey's encounter with that creepy smoke monster when they visited this city previously in their strange dreams.
"Huh?" Louie muttered quietly upon overhearing Angel's mention of the "monsters made up of smoke" she'd suggested might be living here. The turtle in black arched his brow and blinked his eyes upon realizing that he had just detected something familiar in Angel words and curiously turned to his girlfriend, who was still staring up at the city intently.
Her words had all of the sudden brought back a memory of a moment at their campsite just before their arrival at the Foot's genetics lab few days ago, where Angel, after having woken up from a nightmare, had been constantly and rather frantically screaming all kinds of things, such as...
"The Lair... Your Lair... the elevator door... glowing symbols... the underground... the underground city... the underground city... the underground city... the black tower... the black tower... smoke... smoke... tentacles... tentacles everywhere... the monster... the monster made up of smoke... the blood-red void!" Angel's voice rang in his mind.
Also, remembering Angel having mentioned something about some underground city back then... and right now, there happened to be an underground city right in front of them that she strangely seemed to recognize somehow... made Louie wonder if Angel had been dreaming about this very place, even been here in person, if only in her dream.
And at the same time, it gave him the idea that Mikey might have somehow had the same dream as Angel, because when she calmed down after her nightmare, Angel had urgently and worriedly asked about Mikey's safety and well-being before finding him sleeping in his bag, though tossing and turning during the nightmare, just like Angel had.
"You know, if there is one thing that creeps me out more than late night monster movies or live monsters, it's the live City of the Dead." Mikey admitted. "And I definitely don't want to know what is in there besides Entities, and the smoke monsters..."
At this sort of "confirmation" that Mikey and Angel have seen and been here before, if only in a dream, Louie was about to turn to confront the two of them about this. However, he was cut off when Pickaxe spoke over his thoughts.
"We have to leave here immediately!" Pickaxe demanded, as he and the rest of Quarry A's group began to withdraw back into the tunnel.
"Pickaxe is right! This is the heart of evil! We cannot stay here, otherwise he'll take us all!" Quarry A ranted.
"NOW HOLD UP JUST A MINUTE!" Leo let out, making Quarry A's group, humans and his siblings to turn to him. "We are not going anywhere! Whatever's haunting this place has made a bad mistake of snatching several of us!"(4)
"Leonardo is right." Stella said, refusing to let the city's creepy exterior to affect her. "Donatello, Marietta, and half of your friends, Quarry A, must be out there somewhere in the city. We cannot just leave them there."
"And leaving the way we came isn't the option either." Louie added, pointing his thumb at the tunnel behind him. "The Fallen are still waiting for us back there."
"So we just need to go forward... I guess." Angel added, though sounding a bit uncertain about the whole thing.
"But... But the Entity?!" Quarry B argued while pointing his claw at the city from behind of Quarry A's legs.
"Entity or no Entity!" Raph said as he walked up towards the edge of the cliff and crouched down, drawing his Sai. "We'll level this whole city just to get them back! All of them!" the turtle in red snarled as he sliced part of the edge off.(4)
"But unless you guys haven't noticed, there is a problem." Dom pointed out, as Leo walked off to scout around. "There is a huge chasm full of magma between of us and the city, and I am not very keen to start swimming there and end up as baked turtle."
"Dom is right." Arcee said, seeing his point. "There got to be a some way to cross the lava. A bridge or something."
Turtles, humans, and monsters looked everywhere, trying to find some way to cross the sea of lava and get to the city to search for their missing ones. But they saw no way across. If there were ever any bridges here that connected the city to their side, they had surely crumbled and collapsed into the lava at some point in time.
Then Leo came back, appearing from around the corner. "Hey, guys!" he called, causing everyone to turn to him. "I found the way across down there."
"Wha...?! You did already?!" Arcee said, raising her brow in surprise.
"Doesn't he always?" Mikey said rhetorically.
Everybody followed the turtle in blue around the corner to see what he had discovered, and found him staring at something that looked like a big gray tram-sized cable car in the gondola lift, which was attached to the cable that was suspended from the rocky cliff above them and which stretched out over the lava and connected to the city.
"I can't believe it! There is a gondola down here?!" Stella said, puzzled, as she slapped her head with her hand.
"Indeed, and our way across the lava." Leo said with the smile. "I guess that the good old turtle luck fin ally kicked us with the jackpot."
However, everybody else were quite uncertain about this.
"I don't know about this, Leo." Dom argued, looking at the cable car and the cable warily. "That doesn't seem very safe to me."
"Dom is right, Leo." Raph added, agreeing with the turtle in white's doubts about the ride being safe. "Maybe we better find a different ride."
"Or a completely different and safer way across." Arcee added.
"Well, you guys are all welcome to go all the way around of the lava to that bridge over there." Louie said sarcastically as the turtle in black pointed his finger to the right side of the city, where he'd spotted apparently still intact and firm stone bridge leading away from the city to the other side of the cavern... and getting there would take even more days, which they could ill afford.
"That's pretty far away, while this thing was just around the corner." Angel remarked.
"So, what are you guys waiting for?" Leo questioned. "Let's hop in and get going."
"But how do we even know that that cable will last the entire trip? This thing probably hasn't been used or maintained in a long time." Dom told him, still skeptical.
"Don't be daft, Dom. It's fine." Leo said, putting his foot on the open gangway that led into the car.
However, that made it to wobble with a loud thud, making Leo to jump back.
"You were saying, bro?" Dom asked, crossing his arms over his chest. "So who's the daft now?"
"Okay, okay..." Leo stuttered, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "Maybe not so fine, but... that's all I got."
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Meanwhile, back in the tunnel, the metal door remained still intact even after all the banging and slashing at it by the Fallen, who now wandered around of the tunnel aimlessly.
However, the door was then approached by a mysterious shadow-clad figure wearing a hooded cloak, along with the shoulder armor and the gloves with the stone-like claws.
Staring at the door from under the hood with his glowing red eyed, the figure lifted up the amulet with the oval shaped crystal around his neck, which lit up and shone brightly in the tunnel.
Upon seeing the light and turning to the figure standing by the door, Cyclopsis, G-Rex, Omega, King Scorpio and King Nail roared and charged at the figure.
The figure then opened the door leading into the tunnel and Underground city before he backed into the shadows before the Fallen arrived.
And as the Fallen arrived to the door, they stopped upon seeing it being left open.
The Fallen stared at the open door for a moment in confusion in their primitive mindsets, before remembering the turtles, humans and Quarry A's group being in the other side of it, the monsters ran into the tunnel, chasing after their meal.
But as the monsters went down into the tunnel, they were unaware that the hooded figure was following them closely.
TO BE CONTINUED...
TRIVIA
1) = The reference to "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo, you fool!" from the Hobbit book, also revealing that Dom is a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books.
2) = I kinda decided to bring up much earlier Spidernok's ability to spit a goo-like webs, instead of waiting to the Return to the Underground.
3) = King Nail's roar after being dared by Mikey was kinda inspired by Spinosaurus' roar from Jurassic Park III after devouring Nash.
4) = In the original episode, both Leo and Raph keep mentioning about missing Donnie - which isn't a bad thing - but keep ignoring the fact that Razorfist and Stonebiter were missing as well, and none of them voiced about the opnion of rescuing them along with Donnie, so I made a change to it in my story.
