Total Turtle Transformation (TMNT Book 4)

Mutagen for the Plan (Naomi POV)

We made it back to the chapel and I went instantly to Reiley and my treasure. She was on her bed, resting calmly with the pale object resting in her arm. Smiling softly, I left her there for now and walked back in.

Karai was getting the robot body she stole from the World Wide Geno Project a few weeks back. I remembered that… Hardly…. I got shocked and that’s just about it. After that, I wake up to the Shell Raiser driving down the railings.

Shredder still had the Kraang and waiting for Karai. We came up at the same time and she laid the body on a table. We all listened to the Kraang’s screeching random things. It sounded like a pig…

“They don’t talk much without their bodies,” Karai said, tapping the metallic robot.

Growling, Shredder slammed the Kraang in the suit, and waited as it booted up. When it did, the robot started jerking around, making me back up a little. It didn’t have any legs or arms, but it still worried me.

Then it understood it wasn’t going anywhere, so it said in its robotic and repetitive voice, “What does the one known as Shredder want with Kraang?”

I didn’t want to be here, but I looked at Shredder with a calm look and then at the machine we’ve been building. He looked back at me and then back to the Kraang. As they talked, I went to Reiley who was still sleeping.

Sadly, I started thinking about Mikito and them and what they were doing. I could search my mind for them, but I had to meditate to go that far and I didn’t want to currently.

This is why I didn’t want to go and fight them because then I would be worried about what they would think of me later. I fought them and won without much difficulty. Mikito would never think of me the same, let alone Raph or the others…

It sucked being apart from them, honestly, but I had to do this. Well, didn’t have to. Just choose to because I didn’t want anything to happen in the future. So I looked at my treasure I had asked Reiley to watch while I was out.

Even though Reiley was asleep, it shocked me how much she reminded me of myself. She didn’t move in her sleep and she kept the same expression. I knew how I slept because Mikito would come in my room in the middle of the night and watch me like some kind of shadow.

Gently, I took the object, and Reiley was still asleep. It’s good she finally got some sleep. She never sleeps. Like Shredder and Karai. Dogpound and Fishface I wasn’t sure about because I never see them. But Reiley sleeping was a slight pressure off my chest. Yeah… If others don’t get their everyday needs, I think it’s a little my fault because I’m not sure if it’s my mind control or no…

After I took my pale treasure back, Reiley growled in her sleep and crossed her arms, rolling over on her side, facing the wall. I chuckled softly then came back out into the large room. Karai was heading out and I watched her carefully before coming over to Shredder and the Kraang.

Shredder looked at the Kraang and added, “We need a favor as well…”

“Anything for the one known as Shredder as long as the one known as Shredder doesn’t hurt Kraang.” the robot spoke for the brain.

“That stuff you mutated the Turtles and my two best fighters with,” Shredder answered.

“Mutagen,” I summed up for him. “But a special kind.”

“A special kind of Mutagen for the one known as Shredder?” the Kraang repeated. “What special kind of Mutagen did the one known as Shredder have in his mind?”

Shredder and I chuckled, looking at the object in my hands. This wouldn’t take very long…