Guest: I think that Master Splinter is good enough to tell that to the turtles and Abgel once they get back. Also, it has been two years since the operation was shut down and the creatures escaped, so I believe that Shredder has long since dropped the whole thing away while coming up with the new methods to find his enemies.
CT311998: Well, here you see who'll be captured and who'll evade it. Yet you have to wait for the next chapter to see the monsters' human forms.
tmnt101107: I guess that after I finally finished my three part Girl and the Turtle saga's chapters (which took awfully long to finish), my enthusiasm got pretty much fuelled with gasoline put into fire.
animegamefanatic: Indeed. Both Raph and Arcee take the loss of the brother, or in Arcee's case the loss of the only sister, very hardest. I'm also planning for a new OC episode's chapters that will be Mary- and Arcee-themed.
Guest: Kind of. Pretty much nothing but a couple chapters to read, though.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Notes From the Underground Part 3, Part 2=
Meanwhile, back at the cable car, Leo was still trying to convince the others that it was safe.
"I'm telling you, guys. It's perfectly safe." Leo told them. "See it yourselves."
The turtle in blue then began to walk up the gangway to get inside the car in order to prove to them that the ride was going to be fine.
"Leo, don't!" Raph argued.
"Have you lost your shell, bro?" Dom said.
"There's no way I'm getting in that thing." Mikey swore, making it clear that there was nothing that could make him to get into that car.
"I'm not sure about this either, bro." Arcee admitted.
"Pussies!" Louie spat, finding their protests and hesitation rather ridiculous since they were supposed to be a brave ninjas. "And you call yourselves a ninjas!"
"You really can't blame them, Louie." Angel told him soothingly. "Of course, a shaky-looking ride over a sea of lava doesn't appeal to anyone."
Leo then stood by the doorway of the car and, since this time the car didn't even budge under his weight, he turned back to the others, smiling broadly.
"See? This thing can hold us?" the turtle in blue said.
Louie then turned to Angel and, holding his one hand behind his shell, held his other hand out for her while giving her a small bow, causing Angel to look at him and the hand he was offering to her with the puzzled look on her face.
"C'mon, Angel-cake. Let us show those chickening mockery of the ninjas together how it is really done." the turtle in black said, pointing his thump over his shoulder at his three brothers and sister.
"HEY!" Arcee, Mikey, Dom and Raph exclaimed in unison as they frowned/glared at Louie, offended by him calling them chickening mockery of the ninjas.
Angel gave Louie a pointed look for what he had just named his siblings because of their hesitation to follow Leo into the car that didn't look pretty safe ride to the city.
However, Angel neither couldn't help but smirk at her boyfriend for at least being a ninja with the gentleman's manners with the ladies, so with the shaking of her head at him and his antics, Angel accepted Louie's hand by taking it.
"Then lead the way, shell-for-brains." Angel told him.
Standing upright, Louie then led Angel forward as the turtle in black and the purple-haired girl together stepped onto the gangway and walked hand-to-hand into the carway after Leo, leaving the rest of the turtles, Stella and Quarry A's group on the ledge.
Dom in particularly shook his head at Louie. "I know Louie wants to pull all sorts of daring tricks at our expense, but does he really need to always drag other people along just to annoy us?" the turtle in white muttered under his breath.
"Does he always do this, Domenico?" Stella asked as she turned to him.
"You have no idea." Dom said, confirming this.
Leo, Louie, and Angel then walked deeper into the car to explore its interior until the three of them walked up to the front of the car, where they discovered the control table with four crystals in it, along with another holder for their crystal to go in.
"Hmm... It looks like our crystal will power it." Leo assumed.
"Sweet! These crystals are like the Keys to the City if they can power up or open anything." Angel commented, impressed by the many abilities of these crystals.
RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!
The sudden growling sound behind them made Leo, Louie and Angel, as well as everybody else outside to look behind them, until they saw the five Fallen coming around the corner and heading right towards them.
"THE FALLEN?!" Arcee gasped at the sight of them on this side of the door. "HOW DID THEY GOT THROUGH?!"
Nobody really could's answer to that, as they too were surprised and confused that how in earth the Fallen had gotten through of that impenetrable metal door if they neither weren't able to.
"On the second thought, I might as well take my chances with the car, safe or no safe!" Dom said panickedly. "SO WHO'S WITH ME?!"
"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! EVERYBODY INSIDE!" Raph said, urging everybody to go into the car.
"Hurry, Stella!" Arcee urged as she hurriedly led her inside the car.
"GO! GO! GO! GO!" Mikey shouted as he followed after the turtle in pink and Stella.
Raph, Dom, Quarry A, Quarry B and Stonebiter B then hurried inside, while Pickaxe and Molemoth, due to them being too large to fit through the narrow doorway, resulted to climb onto the car's roof to get onboard with the others.
"Everybody are onboard, Leo! Hit it!" Raph told him.
Leo then placed the crystal in the holder, powering up the car, which closed the gangway in the faces of the Fallen, locking them outside. Then the car began to move along the cable towards the city before the Fallen could reach them, leaving the five monsters to the cliff to watch as they moved beyond of their reach.
However, primitively persistent, stubborn and determined not to let their prey escape them for a third time, even with the risk of falling and burning to death in the lava below, the five Fallen resulted to jump off the cliff and land heavily on the car's room.
"AAAHHHH!" Quarry A, Quarry B, Stonebiter B, the turtles, Angel and Stella screamed as the monster's landing shook the car violently.
"HEY! NO HITCHHIKERS! WE ALREADY GOT A FULL CAR HERE!" Louie ranted up to the Fallen.
Cyclopsis responded to this with the roar, which caused the drool to fly out of its huge maw, before the monster began to stomp its foot on the roof, shaking it even more.
"They're going to rip the roof off this thing!" Arcee exclaimed worriedly.
On the roof, Molemoth and Pickaxe tried to make a stand to protect their friends, even though they were outnumbered with five-on-two.
Molemoth went for Cyclopsis and slashed his long claws at the larger monster's rock-like skin, though his claws only left there where he'd clawed the monster a few harmless scratches. Molemoth even stretched out his star-like nose's tentacles and shot them at Cyclopsis head, wrapping the tenteacles around of its horns, over of its single eye and around of its mouth, lower jaw and teeth. However, Cyclopsis soon grabbed to Molemoth's tentacles and ripped them off from its face and then violently off from Molemoth's nose, making Molemoth cry in immense pain in its nose after losing his tentacles. Cyclopsis then proceeded to knock Molemoth off his feet and onto his back to the car's roof, before the bigger monster stomped its foot hard down on Molemoth's chest, pinning him down.
Pickaxe roared at G-Red, who roared back at him and tried to strike Pickaxe first with its right excavator-like claws, then with its left claws, and then it tried to bring both of its claws down on him, but Pickaxe backed away from every swing of G-Rex's claws. However, G-Rex's attacks pushed him dangerously close to the edge of the car's roof that he very nearly lost his balance and fell off down to the molten lava below, but Pickaxe just in time to save himself from falling to his death by anchoring himself to the roof of the car with his biggest claws. This, however, left Pickaxe pretty much defenseless against G-Rex who walked up to him and raised up its claws, preparing to give Pickaxe the death blow that would most certainly both mortally wound him and knock him off the car to his death in lava.
While the other Fallen were keeping Molemoth and Pickaxe busy, King Nail slammed his claw right through the car's roof.
"MIKEY, MOVE IT!" Dom shouted and pushed Mikey back just as King Nail's claw penetraded the roof, with the claw's sharp tip reaching right there where Mikey's head had been a moment ago.
A few second longer and Mikey's head would've taken a deadly blow from King Nail's claws.
"Yikes!" Mikey gulped nervously at the thought.
Omega roared as it slashed its own scythe-like claws down on the roof, cutting through of it easily like the butter with the knife.
"BACK, ANGEL! STELLA!" Louie shouted as he pushed the ladies back as Omega's slashed through the ceiling just above of them, very nearly behading all three of them hadn't they moved out of the way just in time.
"LOOK OUT!" Raph warned as he threw himself at Quarry A, Quarry B and Stonebiter B, knocking all three monsters down just before Omega's claw slashed through the ceiling and at their heads, narrowly missing them and cutting off some of Quarry A's hair.
King Scorpio then roared as he ripped the portion of the roof off the car and looked inside, spotting Leo and roared down at him, before the monster then swung its tail and the twin stingers down inside the car, aiming at Leo's chest, though Leo ducked them timely, causing the stingers to strike the car's table.
As the Fallen kept wrecking the car's roof, the same mysterious hooded figure who had let the Fallen through the door, appeared on the cliff, watching the situation for a second. Then the figure took several more bolas out of his cloak and threw them out towards the monsters, both the Fallen and Molemoth and Pickaxe.
And as they hit them, with one of them hitting both Cyclopsis and Molemoth and the other one G-Rex and Pixkaxe simultaneously...
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
All seven monsters disappeared out in the thin air.
Inside the car, the turtles, humans and Quarry A, Quarry B and Stonebiter B felt all pounding and slashing stopping and they didn't hear anymore the Fallen's or Molemoth's and Pickaxe's roaring and the sounds of the fighting.
"What happened?! Why did they just stop?!" Stella questioned as they looked warily up and through the holes in the ceiling.
"Dom? Gimme a lift, will ya?" Louie asked.
The turtle in white then squatted down, allowing Louie to jump onto his shoulders before Dom pushed himself upright and lifted Louie's up and through of one of the ceiling's holes. Once there, Louie looked around to the roof of the car but saw no sign of the Fallen, nor Molemoth and Pickaxe anywhere.
They had all just disappeared like they were never even there. And it didn't even take a second guess to figure out why, because of course they couldn't jump off the car into anything but lava below.
Louie then hopped off of Dom's shoulders, before he turned to his family and friends to report.
"The Fallen are gone. Vanished. But so are Molemoth and Pickaxe." the turtle in black said grimly.
"The Entity." Quarry A said with dread, as he was hit with the realization that he, Quarry B and Stonebiter B were the only remaining survivors of their group while everybody else were gone.
Then all of them heard another way more dreadful sound coming right from the front.
SNAP!
The cable that kept the car suspended in the air, had all of the sudden snapped half, apparently the combined weight of both the monsters and literally everyone else on board was too much for the old cable to hold.
And then, much to their surprise and shock, the car began to fall down towards the lava below, which the turtles, humans and Quarry A's group felt in their stomachs.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" everybody screamed as they fell
"WHAT THE SHELL JUST HAPPENED?!" Arcee screamed.
"THE CABLE! THE CABLE COULDN'T HOLD US ANY LONGER THAN THIS!" Dom panicked.
"AAAHHHHH! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" Angel panicked.
Raph and Louie ran up to the window of the car and looked down, seeing that they were falling towards one of the giant stalagmite that rose up from the lava near the small piece of land in the feet of the city's walls.
"LEO! WE'RE ABOUT TO HIT TO THAT STALAGMITE RIGHT BELLOW US!" Raph reported.
"WHICH IS STANDING VERY NEAR OF THE SMALL PIECE OF LAND NEAR THE CITY!" Louie added. "WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO REACH IT IF WE JUMP OFF... AND NOW!"
Leo ran up to the window to see it himself.
"THEN EVERYBODY JUMP! NOW" Leo shouted upon seeing that they had little of options.
Leo picked up the crystal from its holder while every other turtle took a human or a monster in a piggyback: Louie took Angel, Arcee took Stella, Dom took Quarry A and Raph took Stonebiter B, before everybody moved towards the windows to jump off the car.
But before they could, the car hit the stalagmite, which pierced through the bottom of the car, knocking everybody off their feet, and it spread fast as the car kept sliding down the stalagmite, threatening to break the whole thing apart and the turtles, humans and the monsters with it.
"JUMP!" Leo repeated, as everybody hurriedly picked themselves and each other up and moved to the windows.
Everybody then jumped off the car as it completely shattered and towards the piece of land to avoid landing in the lava.
Despite the added weight of the piggyback riders, the turtles landed safely yet gracefully to their trademark postures: Mikey with one knee bent and the other extended out. Arcee with her legs spread while holding Tessen in her left hand in front of her and the other Tessen in her right hand behind her. Raph with both knees bent and his Sais crossed over his chest. Louie in three-point-pose while holding his Butterfly sword in his right hand in front of his face. Dom got on one knee with both his Tonfas out in his backwards pointed hands. And Leo in squatted pose while holding his Katanas horizontally out.
And finally, Quarry A landed near the stalagmite, which cracked from the force of the car's impact and began to fall, directly towards where Quarry A was standing, as the other turtles, humans and Quarry and Stonebiter B turned to him.
"AHH!" Quarry A gasped with the dread.
"QUARRY A! LOOK OUT!" Leo shouted, reaching his hand out.
Seeing that Quarry A was in danger, a shocked Stella hurriedly climbed off Arcee's shell and ran towards him as fast as she could.
"QUARRY A! MOVE!" Stella cried as she threw herself at Quarry A and pushed him out of the way, a seconds before the giant mass of rock fell right on top of her with the huge crash, burrying her.
CRASH!
The turtles, Angel, and even Quarry A, Quarry B and Stonebiter B watched in shock of what Stella had just done!
"STELLA! NOOOOO!" Arcee cried in wide-eyed horror, as she reached out her hand towards her patient, even if it was too late to do anything.
The turtle in pink then ran through the dust cloud the stalagmite had caused upon its landing onto Stella, hoping beyond hope that there was still something she could do to save Stella.
"ARCEE!" Leo called after her as he ran after her, followed by Dom, Louie, Angel, Raph and Mikey, as well as Quarry B and Stonebiter B.
As the dust cloud cleared, the turtles, Angel, Quarry B and Stonebiter B found Quarry A staring at the broken rubble of stalagmite, with the shocked look on his face as well. But Stella was nowhere in sight, implying that she had indeed got crushed to death, causing the turtles and monsters gasp with shock, while Angel put her hands over her mouth in horror.
"NO! No! No! No! No! No!" Arcee wailed with tears in her eyes, devastated that Stella had apparently got herself killed while saving Quarry A's life.
Losing her brother, her only sister, and now her patient - whom they had promised to bring back to surface from this underground hell she'd been through for two years - in one day! Arcee couldn't take this anymore! She fell on her knees and, struggling to breath or say a word, she put her hands over her eyes and began to weep bitterly at their failure - HER failure - to fulfil their promise to take Stella back to the surface.
Leo looked down at his little sister with sympathy and, since Mary wasn't there to comfort her little sister as she usually did first before anyone else, knelt down next to her and put the hand over her shoulder to comfort her.
"We failed her, Leo. WE FAILED HER!" Arcee sobbed.
"I'm so sorry, Arcee." Leo told her softly.
Mikey's look of shock soon turned into a confusion as he kept looking at the pillar.
"Uhh... guys? What's Quarry A doing?" the turtle in orange asked, pointing at Quarry A as everybody else, even Arcee, turned to look at the blue monster.
Quarry A appeared to be sniffing the rubble of stone, moving from one spot to another as if trying to find the source of the scent he'd likely just picked. And then, he let out the hiss as he spat acid in the rubble, melting some of it away. After the melting stopped, Quarry A sniffed the air a little more while looking to the spot he'd just melted away, before he spat some more acid into it, melting more of it.
As the turtles and Angel looked on, both Quarry B and Stonebiter B instinctively ran up to help Quarry A. Both the smallest monsters climbed on top of the broken stalagmite before Quarry B began to spit into the pile some more acid while Stonebiter B easily lifted a large chuncks of stone away.
"They know something. They know something." Raph told his siblings and Angel, seeing how determined the three monsters were for some reason.
After the three monsters had melted/removed enough of rocks from the spot where they were digging till they reached to the pile's bottom, they suddenly stopped and looked down, prompting the turtles and Angel to come closer to see what they had found.
All of them then gasped from the shock of utter disbelief of what they were seeing.
STELLA!
The red-haired doctor had curlep up into a ball to the ground, shielding her head with her hands, as she lied partielly buried under a huge boulder that had fallen on top of her... and that boulder could've killed her certainly if it hadn't been for the small rock that kept the boulder from fully falling onto her to crush her.
Quarry A and B had even been so careful not to accidentally harm her with their acid spits.
Cautiously, likely because of not knowing whether she was still alive or dead, Stella slowly took her arms from around her head and looked up at Quarry A and B and Stonebiter B, the turtles and Angel, who were all staring down at her.
She was still alive!
"She's still alive." Angel said, breathing heavily from relief.
This revelation was met with the great amounts of relief amidst the turtles, and it made Arcee to cry the tears of joy and relief that her patient wasn't yet goner.
Stonebiter B then grabbed to the boulder and lifted it up enough so that Quarry A could grab on her arms and pull her from under the boulder and out of the rubble.
"STELLA!" Arcee cried and ran up to her, squatting beside her and holding her upper body up with her left arm wrapped around her back.
"Stella? Are you alright?" the turtle in pink asked urgently.
"I'm..." Stella began softly, staring blankly forward while lightly nodding her head. "I'm fine, I guess."
Going into her doctor mode, Arcee began to quickly examine her body for serious injuries she could treat of. To her great astonishment, Stella hadn't suffered any severe wounds beside of several bruises and scratches. Likely because of the boulder that had landed on her shielded her body from the falling debris.
She only found her to be somewhat of a shock after her near-death experience.
"She's alright. Just in a bit of the shock." Arcee informed to the others. "I think that she needs a moment of rest before me move on."
"How long?" Leo asked.
"Fifteen minutes or maybe more. Half an hour at the most" the turtle in pink told him.
Leo nodded in understantment. "Then half an hour it is. I think that we're all in the need of some rest." the turtle in blue decided, earning a grateful smile from Arcee.
Quarry A looked down at Stella with the frown on his face. "That was a foolish thing to do, Stella!" he chided her lightly.
"Hey! She at least had the guts to save your life!" Raph reminded, standing up for stella.
"Even so, she shouldn't have risked her own life to save mine!" Quarry A protested.
"Yet I had to." Stella said softly, though not feeling the shame of what she did. Rather pride of it. "I had sworn that I will keep you safe. So compared to your life, my own is insignificant." she added, reaffirming her earlier promise in the lab that she will see to it that Quarry A and his friends will be safe while also caring a little about her own life.
"Nonsense! All the life is both precious and significant!" Arcee hissed at her in denial of her claim. "Promise or no promise, you really shouldn't throw away your life so rashly!"
"Well, I have to agree with Arcee here, Stella." Mikey cut in before the turtle in orange gestured towards Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B. "I mean, they can pretty much take care of themselves. After all, they are likely made to handle such adversity."(1)
"Perhaps, Michelangelo." Stella confirmed. "But I wasn't too keen to put that into the test."(1)
Quarry A then gestured towards Quarry B and Stonebiter B as he looked at the rest of the turtles and Angel. "While its true that the Foot designed our durability to have a much more higher standards compared to the humans' own, it still doesn't make us indestructible."(1)
"Yes. We are still vulnerable to many dangers down here that could claim our lives." Quarry B added, to which Stonebiter B nodded his head as a confirmation.
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After they had rested till Stella had recovered enough to stand and walk again, the turtles, humans and Quarry A's group continued onward, trying to find the way into the city.
Soon they found a smooth wall carved into the live rock, where they also found another hexagon-shaped doorway into the city at the end of an alley of round spiral-like statues.
All the while, the turtles paid the look at the symbols etched into the walls around the entrance. The symbols which they found familiar.
"Those same symbols again, just like back in our place." Leo said.
"And by the looks of it all, this city has been down here a very long time." Raph commented as he looked up at the parapets of the wall and the towers high above them.
"Probably many millennia." Dom added. "I may not be a historian like Donnie, but all of this looks way more older than even the pyramids of the ancient Egypt."
"Oh! Then these guys must have much worse live mummies waiting for the chance to curse the unwary who disturb the peace of their resting place." Louie joked, remembering having seen "Mummy" movie once.
"Please, don't even joke about that, Louie." Mikey pleaded as he looked nervously around. "This place is already giving me a creeps."
Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B looked to be even more nervous and restless than what Mikey was, as the three monsters looked warily around of them like the spooked animals, with Quarry and Stonebiter B huddling closer of Quarry A's legs in fear.
Angel then punched Louie a rather hard on his left arm.
"Ow! What?" Louie protested, clutching to his arm as he turned to Angel.
"C'mon, Louie. Don't scare them like that." Angel chided. "You're only making the matters worse to Quarry A and his friends."
"Sovvy, Angel-cake." Louie apologized sarcastically with the shrug.
"You know what, guys." Arcee then spoke up. "This city looked pretty huge from afar, so I think it could take days to level the whole place on foot to find the others. I say we should find some form of transportation if we're wish to cover more ground."
It wasn't long after she had said this when Leo suddenly called to them.
"Hey, guys!"
Everybody turned to Leo and saw that the turtle in blue was standing by some kind of weird-looking devices resembling the scooters - with several more of them lying nearby.
"I think I found some transportation you just mentioned about, Arcee." Leo said with the touch of smugness in his voice.
"What?! Already again?!" Arcee gasped, blinking her eyes in surprise that Leo was once again a step ahead of her.
"Of course, he did, sis." Mikey noted sarcastically.
"And that's not even all he'd discovered. Look." Stella spoke up as she walked up to several crystals lying near the scooters, before she knelt down to pick up one. "There are enough of crystals for us to power up these things."
"Sweet!" Angel said with the eager smirk.
"Yeah. I guess that the good old turtle luck's being positive for us today." Louie commented.
Each turtle then picked up one crystal before each took one scooter for themselves, before they powered them up
Each turtle then picked up one of the crystals before each took one of the scooters for themselves. Then they put the crystals into the scooters' holders, powering them up... and at the same time revealing them to be like some kind of futuristic hover scooters.
"Wow. This place seems to be really ahead of its time if it has its own hover scooters." Angel commented.
"Indeed." Stella agreed with her. "And I thought that this kind of technology wouldn't even exists until possibly after one hundred years in the future."(2)
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Much later, the turtles were riding on their hover scooters along the city's streets, with Quarry A riding on Mikey's shellback, Quarry B on Dom's, Stonebiter B on Rapth, Angel on Louie's and Stella on Arcee's.
And as they go, most of the turtles once again paid the look at the structures of the buildings and bridges, which bore the identical resemblance to the structures of their Lair.
"Okay. Now I'm 100% sure that whoever built this place, they're definitely the same people who built our lair." Leo said.
"Yeah, and if not only our current situation, I think I'd feel like at home down here." Louie admitted.
"Whatever. Let's just focus on finding Don, Mary and Quarry A's pals. We can go sightseeing afterwards." Raph said dismissively.(3)
"He's right, Leonardo. Your brother and sister and Quarry A's friends should be our primary concern." Stella said.
However, as they kept going, they were unaware that they were being watched from abobe by the cloaked figure, who upon of their approach backed into the shadows of the building he was on.
This, however, didn't go unnoticed by Dom.
"Guys! Wait! Wait!" Dom said, stopping his scooter.
Everybody else stopped their own scooters and turned to the turtle in white, who was looking up at the top of the building with the dexagon doorway standing next to them.
"What is it, Dom?" Leo asked.
"I think I saw something." Dom said before pointing up at the ledge on top of the building. "On that ledge of that building."
Everybody else turned to the building Dom was pointing at, but they saw nothing.
However, with his instincts kicked in as if sensing the presence, Leo narrowed his eyes as he stared at the dark doorway.
"Dom. With me. Let's go to check it out." Leo said.
Dom nodded before the turtle in white turned to Quarry B. "You better get off, Quarry B. No point of putting any more in danger's way if this turns out to be an ambush." he said, to which Quarry B nodded and jumped off the turtle in white's shoulder onto Quarry B.
"Ambush?" Raph questioned. "Now, hold up, guys!"
However, Leo and Dom were already a way ahead to hear their brother as they went inside the building to investigate, vanishing from sight.
"Leo! Dom! I don't think it's a good idea to split up!" Arcee called after them.
"Yeah, guys! Wait up!" Mikey called, as everyone stopped their scooters by the door.
"Leo! Dom!" Louie called after them.
However, there was no response from the turtles in blue and white, just an eerie silence that made everybody feel restless.
"Guys? Are you in there?" Angel called to them, but received no answer.
Everybody exchanged looks with each other, confused that why Leo and Dom weren't responding to them, and also fearing for the worse.
"That's it! I'm going in!" Raph said as he hopped off his scooter and was just about to go through the door.
However, he stopped dead in his tracks when a two sudden blinding lights flashed from inside the building, forcing Raph and everybody else to look away from them, till the lights vanished.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Hearing that ominous sound which they have heard before when their friends went missing at the door, everybody turned to look wide-eyed into the building's darkness.
"Oh, no! That sound again!" Stella panicked, fearing the worst.
"LEO! DOM!" Raph shouted and made the mad dash inside.
Louie, Angel, Arcee, Stella and Mikey followed the turtle in red inside the building, where the turtles drew out their respective weapons and prepared themselves.
However, to their horror, they only saw Leo's and Dom's scooters lying over in the ground and the turtles in blue and white gone! Vanished out in the thin air!
"LEO!" Arcee screamed in wide-eyed horror, dropping her Tessens to the ground and touching her head in disbelief.
"DOM!" Louie shouted, shocked to see his brothers gone, even Dom, despite them not always getting along.
"NO!" Angel cried in horror.
Stella put her hands over her mouths in shock and horror.
"LEO! DOM!" Raph cried desperately, with his cries echoing across the city. "LEOOOOOOOO! DOOOOOOOOM! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Raph!" Mikey called, walking up to his despairing brother and touched his shoulder, getting his attention. "Calling out like that is probably not the best idea. They're gone, just like Donnie, Mary and the others.
Raph looked at him as tears threatened to form up in his eyes before he closed them tight, unable to believe that Leo and Dom, just like Donnie and Mary, were gone.
"This is not happening! It can't be happening! IT CAN'T!" Arcee ranted frantically while furiously shaking her head, unable to believe this either.
Louie them furiously stomped his foot down to the ground! "ARGH! The Entity struck again!" the turtle in black roared in such of anger that was uncharacteristic to him.
Louie then turned around and stormed out of the building. "C'MON! Let's find that creep and give him a little piece of our minds!"
No one objected to Louie's suggestion and followed the turtle in black out of the building and into the streets, but when they came out they noticed that Quarry A and B and Stonebiter B had vanished.
"Quarry A?!" Mikey gasped.
"Quarry B?!" Angel gasped as well.
"Stonebiter B?!" Arcee gasped.
"Where did they go?!" Stella asked, looking around for them but saw no sign of them.
"Entity again!" Louie snarled.
The turtles went shell-to-shell around the humans, weapons ready while looking around in case the Entity was nearby.
Then they heard the low growling behind them. "AHH!" they all shouted as they turned around, seeing three shadowy figures, two of them having the pair of glowing yellow eyes and one the pair of glowing red eyes, standing in the shadowy corner in front of them.
"WAIT!" Quarry A's voice called as the said monster stepped out of the shadows, along with Quarry B and Stonebiter B. "It's just us."
"Friendlies! Friendlies!" Stonebiter B begged.
"Guys?" Arcee gasped with the frown.
"WHAT ARE YOU THREE DOING LURKING AROUND LIKE THAT?!" Raph demanded angrily, not really in the mood of such of antics right now.
"We were just hiding. You... you left us alone out here." Quarry A said honestly.
Stella sighed sympathically. "Oh, you poor souls must be really scared out here. With most of your friends gone and the Entity somewhere out there."
"Man! Mutate some backbone, would ya." Mikey sighed.
The turtle in orange was really starting to see himself in Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B in their frightened states, just like how he was on edge when this while adventure started, but he'd never realized how irritable it must have been to his brothers and sisters until now.
"Michelangelo." Stella said, giving the turtle in orange a pointed look.
"LOOK! THERE IT IS!" Quarry A cried, pointing his claw at something in the distance.
"AHH!" Mikey yelped as all of them turned to look where Quarry A was pointing.
They all saw the same cloaked figure standing still in the other side of the fog-clad streets while staring at them in eerie silence.
The figure then backed away and vanished to the mist.
"This guy is mine!" Raph snarled, before the turtle in red jumped onto his scooter and dashed alone after the figure.
"Guys! Wait!" Arcee called after them, but Raph had already vanished in the fog.
Seconds of the eerie silence went, until...
Amidst of the mist, another flash of light went off before it vanished.
WHOOSH!
"Oh, no!" Arcee gasped upon seeing the light, fearing that Raph had just got himself killed in his impulsiveness.
"Raph?!" Mikey called after him, but his hot-tempered brother didn't respond to him. "Raphael?!" Mikey called again but still no answer.
It was an eerie silence again.
"Now where did he go?" Angel said worriedly.
"Well... uhh... I guess we better go look for him." Mikey gulped, scratching the back of his head.
"Then let's go!" Louie said as he and Angel hopped onto their scooter, while Arcee and Stella jumped onto theirs.
"Yo, Quarry A and Co. You coming?" Mikey asked as he turned to their monster friends, only to see that they had vanished again.
"AHH!" he screamed.
The turtle in orange then sighed irritably with the "Seriously?" look on his face. Without even looking, Mikey reached in and pulled trembling Quarry A and the others out of the shadows, realizing they were hiding there again.
Mikey gave them a pointed look. "Hey, you wanna know what you get when you cross the monster and the chicken?" Mikey asked curtly, recaling the joke Raph had told about days earlier. "You."
After Mikey and Quarry A hopped back on their scooter, with Stonebiter B hopping on Louie's and Angel's and Quarry B hopping on Arcee's and Stella's, they raced over to where Raph had gone.
But when they got there, all they saw was Raph's scooter and no sight of Raph anywhere.
"No good! Raph's gone too!" Mikey gasped as he and the others stopped their scooters near of Raph's and got off.
"Alright, everybody! No more split ups from now on!" Arcee demanded, somewhat authoritatively as she got off her scooter. "That's what Entity wants to snatch us off one by one!"
"Then he must be around here, somewhere!" Louie deduced as he looked around. "Keep your eyes open!"
Everybody looked warily around to the fog-clad streets and dark buildings for the Entity, while growing increasingly tensed up that who is going to be the next one to picked off by the Entity. But then when Mikey turned around, he came face-to-face with Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B who had gotten right behind him, silently as a ghost.
"AHH!" Mikey screamed, making everybody to turn around to them.
"Please, stop sneaking around like that!" Mikey pleaded, panting heavily as he clutched to his heart.
"WHAT DOES THAT MATTER?! WE'RE ALREADY DOOMED!" Quarry A said, getting increasingly frantic that was starting to annoy Mikey even more. "I TRIED TO WARN YOU! I WARNED YOU ALL! EVIL DWELLS IN THIS DEAD CITY! WE'LL NEVER GET OUT ALIVE!"
Fed up, Mikey slapped Quarry A across his face, surprising everybody around them.
"Look, if there's gonna be any hysterics around here, I'll have 'em!" Mikey said irritably, before he looked up and saw something above of them. "Like right now... 'cause... I SEE IT!" he said, frightened, and pointed up.
Everybody turned around and looked up, seeing the cloaked figure standing on a ledge of another building high above them, staring down at them with his dark pink eyes.
However, Mikey's initial fear soon turned into an anger upon remembering this guy having kidnapped his brothers and sister as well as most of Quarry A's friends.
"Come on, guys!" Let's see how this creep can handle all of us together!" Mikey said and hopped onto his scooter.
"Shell yeah! Let get his ass!" Louie agreed eagerly and hopped onto his scooter.
"Angel! You stay here with Stella! She's now under your responsibility!" Arcee instructed to Angel as she hopped onto her scooter, knowing that her brothers needed her right now more than what Stella needed her.
"Okay." Angel said, seeing no point of arguing the doctor before she turned to Stella. "C'mon, Stella. Let's find some safe place for us." she said and began to led them away.
Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B looked between the turtles and the humans, a little torn of with whom it could be much safer for them.
"But what about us?" Quarry B asked.
"Hop on!" Mikey demanded, which the three monsters hesitatingly did, with Stonebiter B riding on Louie's shellback, Quarry A with Mikey's and Quarry B with Arcee's. "We're gonna show that creep that we're not afraid of him!"
"But don't worry. We'll keep you guys perfectly safe." Arcee told them sincerely.
The monsters smiled at the turtles, midly reassured.
"Then what are we waiting for?!" Louie said impatiently. "LET'S TURTLEIZE AND MOSTERLEIZE HIM!"
Before Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B could even protest this and even demand to be let off, Mikey, Louie and Arcee raced off as fast as they could straight up the side of a building and towards the figure.
"NO! NO! WAIT! WAAAAIIIIT!" Quarry A exclaimed, but Mikey ignored him, determined to get the figure.
Quarry B and Stonebiter B wailed fearfully, just before Quarry A, overcome by fear, shook his head frantically.
"NO! NO! I-I CAN'T! AAAAHHHHHH!" Quarry A screamed as he let go of Mikey's shell and fell off the scooter.
Quarry B and Stonebiter B also lost their nerves and let go of Louie's and Arcee's shells, falling down after Quarry A.
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING?!" Arcee exclaimed.
The turtle in pink then abandoned their chase after the figure and jumped off her scooter after the falling monsters, while snatching Louie's Manriki-Gusaris from his belt as he flew past the turtles in black and orange, who continued after the figure nonetheless.
As the three monsters fell screaming down towards the elevated walkway below, Arcee unwrapped Louie's chains and whipped them down towards them, catching Stonebiter B first by his waist and then Quarry B by his ankle, before Arcee pulled them both back to her and wrapped one of her arms around them both. With her free hand, Arcee whipped the chain down at Quarry and caught him by the torso, pulling him to her as well before wrapping her free arm around him too. With all three monsters safely in her arms, Arcee spun them around until the monsters were above and she was below, intending to shield the monsters from the hard landing while taking most of the impact of it for herself.
"ARGH!" Arcee groaned as they landed on the walkway, the impact of which left the turtle in pink stunned, not the mention about having the three monsters landing heavily on top of her.
Stunned from the landing, though not as much as Arcee was, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B climbed up onto the parapet of the walkway and looked up, seeing that Louie and Mikey were still flying straight up to where the figure is still standing.
"Whoa! "Uh-oh!" Mikey shouted worriedly, noticing that he had lost the control of his scooter, which them went right past the figure.
Louie, however, jumped off his own scooter just when it was about to fly past the figure and fell down towards him, pulling out his Butterfly swords.
"HAAAAAIIIII! YYYYAAAAAAA!" Louie let out as he extended one of his legs out to deliver the figure the kick that could knock him off the ledge.
However, before he could either reach him or react fast, the figure pulled out another bole from out of his cloak, which he then spun over his head and then threw it at Louie.
"Uh-oh!" Louie gulped, upon seeing the bola coming straight at him. "WHO-!" he shouted, but it was cut off when the bola wrapped itself around of Louie's extended foot's ankle and...
WHOOSH!
With the flash of the light, Louie vanished out in the thin air, which was noticed by both Mikey from above, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B, and Arcee from the walkway - as Quarry B and Stonebiter B were helping her up from the catwalk - and a hiding Stella and Angel from below, as the two women were hiding around the corner in some alley.
Angel in particularly watched in wide-eyed and slack-jawed horror as her boyfriend just went puff and vanished out of the sight in front of her eyes.
"NOOOO! LOU-!" Angel screamed from the top of her lungs as tears formed on her eyes.
However, her scream was cut short hen Stella hurriedly put her hand over Angel's mouth to silence her.
"MMPH!" she screamed through of Stella's hand in protest as she turned to her.
"HUSH, CHILD!" Stella hissed at her. "You want the Entity to realize where we are hiding and capture us too?!"
Understanding, though reluctantly, Angel removed Stella's hand from over her mouth and looked up again to see how Mikey was doing.
However, after Mikey had flew past the figure and witnessing Louie vanishing in the thin air, the turtle in orange looked up and noticed that he was flying straight towards the top of the building.
"AHH!" Mikey gasped, before the turtle in orange hurriedly jumped off the scooter before it hit and exploded upon impact.
"AAAHHHHH!" Mikey screamed as he went down with the free fall from pretty high height, until he crashed against the wall just below the top of the building.
"OOF!" he grunted before the turtle in orange began bouncing, sliding and rolling uncontrollably down the steep roof-like slope of the building. It was a pretty bumpy slide, as he grunted upon of each impact her made, before he was falling down again.
"AAAHHHHH!" he screamed until he crashed pretty hard onto his bottom to the ground and, sliding forward, bumped with his groins into the stone pillar pretty hard!(4)
KLONK!
Mikey was left lying on his shell in the ground, his eyes wide, looking blankly up and twitching, and his lips pursed tightly together and trembling in the immense pain he was feeling right now after his groins took a hit.(4)
Up in the walkway, Arcee, along with Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B looked down at him.
"Ohhh! That gotta hurt." Arcee crinked at the thought of going through what Mikey just went. "Mikey?! You okay, bro?!" she called down to her brother.
Mikey nodded his head weakly. "I am. Though I don't recommend that." he said with the high-pitched voice.
As the turtle in pink, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B looked down, Arcee then caught the movement in the corner of her right eye and turned to look to her right, followed by Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B.
To Arcee's shock, and the monster's horror, they saw the cloaked figure climbing up the stairs onto the walkway.
Gasping frantically, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B backed away from him, while Arcee held her ground as she stood protectively between the monsters and the figure, though she too was breathing rather heavily out of the growing anxiety.
"Who... who are you?! What have you done to my family and friends?!" the turtle in pink asked frantically. "Why can't you just leave us be?! WHAT DO YOU EVEN WANT?!"
The figure, however, didn't asnwer to Arcee's questions. Instead, he moved his gloved hands inside of his cloak and pulled out four more bolas.
Arcee, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B gasped upon seeing them, realizing that they were going to be next.
The figure then began to spin the bolas over his head, preparing to throw them at the turtle in pink and the monsters.
"RUN!" Arcee cried, urging the monsters to run. "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
She didn't need to ask them twice.
"NO! NO! NO!" Quarry A cried as he turned around and ran away. "LEAVE US BE!"
"LET US LIVE! PLEASE!" Quarry B begged as he ran after Quarry A.
"PLEASE! PLEASE! I DO NOT WANT!" Stonebiter B wailed as he ran after Quarry A and B.
Arcee paid a one last glance at the figure before she ran after the monsters.
The figure then threw the bolas at them, and no matter how fast Arcee, Quarry A, B and Stonebiter B ran to get away, the bolas were gaining on them much faster.
"NO! NO! NO! PLEASE! NOOOOOOOO!" Quarry A pleaded frantically, until the bolas wrapped one by one around of Arcee, Quarry B, Stonebiter B and finally Quarry A.
Within seconds, all four of them vanished in the flash of the bright light.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
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Somewhere else in the city, Quarry A immediately reappears on a raised circular podium.
"Where I am?!What is this place?!" Quarry A said as he looked frantically around, but he couldn't see his friends anywhere. "Artemisia?! Quarry B?! Stonebiter B?! Angel?! Stella?! Where are you?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" he called desperately, but received no answer.
Quarry A then looked down, before the weird-looking shields rose up from the podium and encases him inside of the dome-like container.
"NO! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! SOMEBODY! HELP ME!" Quarry A screamed, but his prison muffles his screams, ensuring that no one could hear him.
Quarry A then looked down again, and gasped with horror when ice-cold liquid began to rise up from the bottom of the podium, and it quickly reached the roof of his container.
"NO! HELP ME!" Quarry A panicked until the surface of the raising liquid went over him mouth and completely submerged him.
The liquid was so cold that his whole body began to freeze over, covering him completely in the ice!
Once the process was over, the liquid went back down and the dome-like container vanished, leaving Quarry A completely frozen still on the podium.
Realizing that he was doomed just like the others, Quarry A let out a one last horrified scream.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Quarry A's last scream went through his ice prison and echoed across the dead city.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
In the city, Mikey, Arcee and Stella, the only remaining survivors, looked around as they heard Quarry A's voice.
"Quarry A?!" he called.
"Louie?! Arcee?!" Angel called.
"Quarry B?! Stonebiter B?!" Stella called.
"WHERE IS EVERYBODY?!" Mikey screamed frantically.
The turtle in orange, Angel and Stella went back-to-back with each other, looking anxiously around them in case the Entity comes for them as well!
TO BE CONTINUED...
TRIVIA
1) = I decided to change the whole scene into the contrary to Quarry's claim of "We are designed to handle such adversity." after he survived unharmed from being crushed by the toppling giant stalagmite in the original episode, that even though their durability has higher standards than a humans, it doesn't mean that it will completely protect them from the incidents that could easily kill them.
2) = Ironically, this is somewhat of the reference to the Fast Forward season, where there have been developed the technology to create the hovering vehicles.
3) = Just like in the previous chapter: I changed the fact from the original episode where Quarry's friends are left completely unmentioned when the subject is about finding the missing Donnie, so that Quarry A's friends won't be left so meaningless.
4) = I always wondered that what happened to Mikey to make him to give to the fourth wall such of look that looked like he was in immense pain like he had hit his groins to something.