The Red Shadow (TMNT)

The Kraang (Part Two)

"Come on, let's check it out," Raph said reaching for the binoculars to put back in his satchel.

"Are you sure," she asked. "He doesn't look like he would have mutagen in his back pocket."

"Yeah," he said, keeping their chat brief; just the way he likes it.

They climbed off the roof and followed the what seemed to be normal human to a building that had TCRI written in huge capital letters vertically down it.

"This is the place, and that's definitely not a human," said Raph.

"Alright, sweet, but how do we get in?" asked Addy.

"Hang around Donnie all day, and you're bound to learn something," he laughed, pulling out a thick card. "This doohickey will unlock any door."

"Nice!" she said reaching for a high-five, well a high-three for Raph.

Raph kept Addy close beside him and was on high alert for any droids. The great thing about the Kraang though is that they're not exactly the brightest crayons in the box, so sneaking past them wouldn't be too hard as long as they were quiet.

They unlocked one of the back doors and Raph went in first, pulling out his sais, and Addy did the same.

"Let's see if we can't find out what these jokers are up to," he said deeply.

They crept down a long hallway that was completely empty. Raph heard mechanical noises and raised his fist to the air telling her to stop. He pointed to the right and mouthed, "there, let's move."

They crept even lower to the ground, practically crawling, not wanting to get detected. They found a room surrounded by glass windows with a bunch of empty viles, some of them filled with a deep, almost black, purple liquid, and all sorts of pictures on the walls of different animals; one of them being a small turtle.

"Woah," gasped Raph, "this must be their experimentation lab." "Let's shut this place down," he growled.

"You're the boss, lead the way," she said, waving her hand in front of her.

"Hey wait," she said putting her hand on his arm, "what happens if you touch that stuff, would it hurt you; since you're already, you know, a mutant."

"I don't know, and I don't plan on finding out." He said, and Addy let go, but she was still worried for him.

"We need a distraction." "Addy can you grab that pipe there," he said pointing to the ground. "When I say GO I want you to chuck it as hard as you can across the room." "Those idiots will never figure out what it was," he chuckled.

"Sure," and she picked it up.

Raph motioned 1, 2, 3 with his fingers and then said, "GO!"

Addy's softball days came back to her as she threw the pipe clear across the hall; she had quite the arm.

They waited until the two armed droids left the room before entering.

"See, what did I tell ya?" He laughed looking back at her, "clueless."

Without saying anything Addy instinctively followed behind Raph into the room and they shut some of the lights off; working quickly before the droids came back; grabbing up as many filled viles as they could and pictures of animals; stuffing everything into his satchel that would fit and then some. They couldn't do much without the whole team, but it would have to do for now until they could get back home and explain what the Kraang were up to.

"Let's get outta here before they come back," he said motioning to her and the door.

Addy quickly followed him and they stealthily made their way out of the building.

"Woah, this ooze is wicked," said Addy, admiring and googling the container.

"No, it's not," said Raph lowering his head. "We need to find a safe way to dispose of all this trash." "Let's go back to the lair and ask Donnie what to do."

They made their way back to her apartment and Addy grabbed a backpack from upstairs to carry all the mutagen in, and then went behind back to get on Raph's bike.

"Here," he said handing her his helmet, "sorry I don't have a spare, but this will do."

"Aw, you don't have to," she blushed.

"I have a thick skull," he laughed, "I'll be fine," still holding the helmet out for her to take.

"Alright," she smiled, giving him a kiss before strapping on his helmet.

"It looks better on you anyway," he grinned, giving her a thumbs up.

Addy waved him off and they got on.

"Hold on tight," he yelled over the roar of the cycle.

"Oh don't worry, remember the night at the warehouse? I almost broke your arm with my death grip," she laughed.

"Let's ride," he grinned, revving up and taking off, spinning out of the driveway.

They parked in an alleyway and climbed down the nearest manhole and arrived at the lair.

"Hey Donnie!" yelled Raph, "we need your help it's urgent."

Donnie walked in the common room from his lab with a screwdriver in one hand and a blowtorch in the other.

"What is it, I'm kind of busy here," he said with annoyance.

Raph began carefully removing the canisters from his backpack and Addy worked on her supply.

"Woah," was all Donnie could say. "Where and how did you?..."

"Nevermind how I got it," growled Raph, "I need advice on how to get rid of it." "I can't exactly pour it down the drain."

"Well, let me think," Donnie said, putting his tools down and rubbing his chin. "We could just carefully put all of it into one big container and keep it in the back of the room; away from everyone." "We can put a container around the container for extra security."

"Alright, so what are we gonna use?" He asked impatiently.

"I have a large glass vile in my lab, and I think all of this could fit in it. "Then I'll weld some metal together to serve as a fortress. No one will come in contact with it, I'll make sure," and Donnie gave him a firm nod.

Raph and Addy helped Donnie put all of the mutagen in his lab and placed it on his table.

"And what about these," Addy asked holding up the stack of drawings.

"Those I can just burn," he said, putting his arms out to receive the papers, and placed them in a pile on the floor.

"This isn't good," said Donnie. "Those guys must be up to something big. We should all go back up there tomorrow night and have a look around; get rid of any more mutagen we can find."

"Agreed," nodded Raph.

"We should get you back home Addy," he said giving her a hug, "wouldn't want you to be exhausted tomorrow."

"Thanks," she said smiling up at his face. "I am really tired."

"Thanks Donnie, for helping us out," said Addy trying to avoid Donnie's glare from their hugging and she waved goodnight to him.

"Anytime, and goodnight," he waved.

They got back on the stealth cycle and rode back to her apartment.

"Goodnight Raph, see you tomorrow night!" "More adventures!" She exclaimed laughing.

"Yeah, and we'll have the whole team with us next time so we'll be able to destroy some serious droids," he grinned punching his fists together.

They shared a long, tight hug and an even longer kiss.

"Goodnight," he whispered, touching her cheek.

"Night," she whispered and walked inside.

She waited until she could no longer hear his bike rumbling down the street to pull out the last canister of mutagen in her backpack that she withheld from them at the lair...