TMNT Half Heart Hero Spiritbound Out of the Shadows

Chapter 3

Deep in the police building, the guards had Shredder into his seat and climbed out of the truck, leaving the doors open. Standing outside the truck were the deputy warden who transported the Shredder into the car. In his lab, Baxter looked at the screens to track down the boss. "Here we go. Shredder's on the move!"

As the van headed down a highway the warden in the front was telling the driver all about a hockey game he'd played in while he is looking at the files. The driver reached over and turned up the volume on the radio, ignoring him. In the back, behind the barrier separating the prisoners from the driver, one of the prisoners, a dark skinned man with purple shades spoke to Shredder. "Hey, Mr. Shredder. Big fan of your work. Especially your early stuff. My name is Bebop. This is Rocksteady. I know it's a crazy name, right, but his ancestors are from Finland," he said.

"Yeah, that's right. I'm Finnish. Because when I start a beatdown, I always "finish" it!' " said the other prisoner, who sports a orange beard. He and his partner laughed. They both fist bump until they were interrupted by a metal bang.

"Hey! Shut up back there," the warden yelled back in front of the truck. "World works in mysterious ways, don't it, Shredder? Now you get to spend the rest of your life behind bars with these two knuckleheads."

"Or not," murmured Shredder, smirking to himself. The man just laughed it off and noticed a motorcycle in the rearview mirror.

At that moment, a dozen Foot Clan soldiers rode up on sleek motorcycles, surrounding the prisoner convoy. The Foot slapped magnetic explosives to the bumper and this happened. In the cab, the warden grabbed a walkie talkie. "We need immediate backup." Outside, Foot soldiers leaped from their motorcycles onto the truck clamping on with magnetic gear. As they began using lasers to cut through the truck's heavy armor, headlights suddenly flooded the scene. The Turtles had arrived.

"There they are!" Donnie cried. "And the Foot Clan is already trying to break Shredder out!"

"We'll see about that," Leo said calmly, hitting a switch on the center console of the Shellraiser. Manhole covers fired from the truck's front grille. They slammed into the Foot Clan's motorcycles, sending them flying. One dropped back needed the truck to deploy a spiked chain. Another button was hit to pull the chain in, but nothing happened. "Donnie!"

"Sorry," Donnie said, reaching under the dash and pulling out a tangle of wires with unconnected ends. "I told you the truck's still a work in progress!"

"But which one should I pick? There's so many of them!" Shira retorted, bluntly.

Donnie manually sparked the wires together before telling her, "Number three!" A Foot soldier on a three wheeler drew closer, pulling out a buzz and aiming for the tires! Donnie hit another button.

The walls of the truck dropped down, revealing a pair of large mechanical arms one on each side. The arms opened up and spun a pair of kusari fundo. Mikey used the joysticks to control the arms while Manako used the other. The kusari fundo swept through the air, slamming into a three wheeler and swatting it off the road like a bug. The arms hit an overhead sign and broke off!

"Good job, Mikey," Tomoka grinned, her eyes gleaming with delight. "Those things are pretty awesome, huh?"

"Yeah, pretty awesome!" Mikey laughed.

"It's like playing a video game!" Manako recalled, laughing.

But the moment didn't last soon because the Foot are turning their attention to them. Above the van, one of them had placed a bomb on the van, causing it to explode. Leo held Shira close and shield her from the shaking.

"I don't like those a-holes," Reika snarled.

"I'm not being used to my full potential here, Leo," Raph huffed, even though he never liked it.